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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV%20Life%20Channel | CTV Life Channel is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by Bell Media. The channel primarily broadcasts factual and reality programming on lifestyle topics such as cooking, home improvement and real estate, along with scripted drama series.
The channel was originally established in 2013 by Knight Enterprises as the Category B service Gusto TV. In May 2016, Knight licensed Canadian rights to the Gusto brand and associated programming to Bell Media. The company would relaunch the channel on September 1, using a Category A license formerly used by its music and entertainment channel M3 (formerly MuchMoreMusic, which was launched in 1998 by CHUM Limited).
As part of a rebranding of several Bell Media-owned specialty channels, the channel rebranded as CTV Life Channel on September 12, 2019. Gusto TV later relaunched independently in Canada in 2022.
History
As Gusto TV
Under Knight Enterprises
In October 2010, Chris Knight was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to operate "MmmTV", described as "a national, English‑language Category 2 specialty programming service devoted to luxury, from vacations and leisure activities to home furnishings and fashion."
In the summer and fall of 2013, several media outlets began reporting on aspects of the channel, now branded as Gusto TV, and its founder, Chris Knight, owner of Knight Enterprises. In several reports, it indicated the launch of the channel on December 11, 2013. This was confirmed, when on December 5, an official press release was issued by Knight Enterprises.
On August 29, 2015, Gusto TV broadcast Live Feed, a live broadcast of footage from the kitchen of the Beckta Dining and Wine Bar in Ottawa. It was described by the network as an example of slow television.
Bell Media relaunch
On May 4, 2016, Knight Enterprises announced that it had sold Canadian rights to the Gusto TV brand to Bell Media and that the current channel would be shut down and replaced by a new version of the service under Bell Media ownership. The brand's parent company, Gusto Worldwide Media (GWM), will license Gusto TV's current programming to Bell in addition to producing future series for the channel. GWM will continue to own international rights to the Gusto brand and announced plans to launch an internet television service under the brand in 2017. Gusto re-launched on September 1, 2016, replacing Bell Media's entertainment and music network M3 under its existing Category A license and channel allotments.
As CTV Life Channel
On June 7, 2018, during the CTV upfronts, it was announced that Gusto would be re-branded as "CTV Life", as part of a re-branding of several Bell Media specialty channels under the CTV name. The following year, it was revealed the channel would rebrand as CTV Life Channel on September 12, 2019. Bell also announced an output deal with Mike Holmes and his studio, under which CTV Life Channel would air his future pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Szabo | Nicholas Szabo is a computer scientist, legal scholar, and cryptographer known for his research in digital contracts and digital currency. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1989 with a degree in computer science and received a Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University Law School. He holds an honorary professorship at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín.
The phrase and concept of "smart contracts" was developed by Szabo with the goal of bringing what he calls the "highly evolved" practices of contract law and practice to the design of electronic commerce protocols between strangers on the Internet. In 1994, he wrote an introduction to the concept and, in 1996, an exploration of what smart contracts could do. Nick Szabo proposed a digital marketplace built on these automatic, cryptographically secure processes.
Szabo argued that a minimum granularity of micropayments is set by mental transaction costs. At one time Szabo was a proponent of "extropian" life extension techniques.
Bit gold
In 1998, Szabo designed a mechanism for a decentralized digital currency he called "bit gold". Bit gold was never implemented, but has been called "a direct precursor to the Bitcoin architecture."
In Szabo's bit gold structure, a participant would dedicate computer power to solving cryptographic puzzles. In a bit gold network, solved puzzles would be sent to the Byzantine fault-tolerant public registry and assigned to the public key of the solver. Each solution would become part of the next challenge, creating a growing chain of new property. This aspect of the system provided a way for the network to verify and time-stamp new coins, because unless a majority of the parties agreed to accept new solutions, they couldn't start on the next puzzle.
When attempting to design transactions with a digital coin, you run into the "double-spending problem." Once data has been created, reproducing it is a simple matter of copying and pasting. Most digital currencies solve the problem by relinquishing some control to a central authority, which keeps track of each account's balance. This was an unacceptable solution for Szabo. "I was trying to mimic as closely as possible in cyberspace the security and trust characteristics of gold, and chief among those is that it doesn't depend on a trusted central authority," he said.
Satoshi Nakamoto speculation
Szabo was active in pre-Bitcoin "bit gold" technologies and is viewed as a potential Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. Although Szabo has repeatedly denied it, people have speculated that he is Nakamoto. Research by financial author Dominic Frisby provided circumstantial evidence but, as he admits, no proof exists that Satoshi is Szabo. In a July 2014 email to Frisby, Szabo said "I'm afraid you got it wrong doxing me as Satoshi, but I'm used to it."
Nathaniel Popper wrote in The New York Times that "the most convincing evidence pointed to a reclusive American man of Hungarian descent named |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamer%20Network | Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in Brighton. Founded in 1999 by Rupert and Nick Loman, it owns brands—primarily editorial websites—relating to video game journalism and other video game businesses. Its flagship website, Eurogamer, was launched alongside the company. It began the video game trade show EGX in 2008. In 2018, it was acquired by ReedPop, a division of RELX.
History
Gamer Network was founded under the name Eurogamer Network in 1999 by brothers Rupert and Nick Loman. It was formed alongside the opening of its flagship website, Eurogamer, which itself launched on 4 September 1999. Nick Loman left the business in 2004 to pursue a career in medicine and "competitive BBQ".
In February 2011, Eurogamer Network acquired American publishing house Hammersuit, alongside its IndustryGamers.com and Modojo.com websites. On 1 March 2013, in line with the international expansion, Eurogamer Network announced that it had changed its name to Gamer Network. As part of the rebranding, Eurogamer Events was renamed Gamer Events, while Hammersuit also adopted the Gamer Network name. In October, Simon Maxwell was promoted from group publishing director to chief operating officer.
On 26 February 2018, it was announced that ReedPop, the division of Reed Exhibitions that organises pop culture conventions such as PAX, had acquired Gamer Network. While Rupert Loman remained Gamer Network's chief executive officer, Maxwell became the company's managing director and a vice-president for ReedPop's UK operations. Loman left the company in February 2020.
ReedPop implemented a number of layoffs across many of the Gamer Network sites in September 2020. In November 2020, the remaining USgamer staff, which had been reduced from nine to four after the earlier layoffs, reported that ReedPop was shuttering the site by the end of the year.
Owned brands
Editorial websites
Dicebreaker – A board game and tabletop role-playing game news and reviews website and YouTube channel launched in August 2019. Its editor-in-chief is Matt Jarvis.
Eurogamer – Gamer Network's flagship website for video game news; launched in 1999 alongside the company. The Eurogamer brand is licensed to 6 regional sub-outlets, which report in their region's languages. Its editor-in-chief is Tom Phillips.
GamesIndustry.biz – A website focused on the business aspects of the video game industry; launched on Eurogamer in 2002. Its editor-in-chief is James Batchelor.
Outside Xbox – A YouTube channel focusing on Xbox game news; launched in 2012 by Andy Farrant, Mike Channell and Jane Douglas, three editors of other Xbox-focused outlets.
Outside Xtra - A YouTube channel focusing on multi-platform (non-Xbox) news such as PlayStation, Nintendo, VR and PC; launched in 2016 by Outside Xbox and Ellen Rose and Luke Westaway, Writer and Presenter of Xbox On and Senior Editor at CNET respectively.
Rock Paper Shotgun – A website focused on persona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20international%20songs%20of%202012%20%28South%20Korea%29 | The international Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing international songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly, monthly, and year-end charts, as according to the Gaon 국외 (Foreign) Digital Chart. The Digital Chart ranks songs according to their performance on the Gaon Streaming, Download, BGM, and Mobile charts.
Weekly chart
Monthly charts
Year-end chart
References
International 2012
Korea International
2012 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mountain%20West%20Conference%20Football%20Championship%20Game%20announcers | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game.
Television
Radio
Broadcasters
CBS Sports
Mountain West |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Star%20Vijay | Star Vijay, commonly known as Vijay TV, is an Indian Tamil-language general entertainment private broadcast television network owned by Asianet Star Communications, a subsidiary of American multinational mass media corporation The Walt Disney Company.
Current Programming
Non-fiction
Former Programming
Fiction
Non-fiction
60 Nodi! Are You Ready?
Adhu Idhu Yedhu (2009-2019)
Anbudan DD (2017)
Anu Alavum Baiyamillai (2009-2010)
Atcham Thavir (2016)
Ayyappan Sannidhaanam
Azhagi (2006)
Anda Ka Kasam (2022-2023)
Back To School (2014–2015)
Bhakthi Thiruvizha
Bigg Boss Tamil (2017–2023)
Bigg Boss Jodigal (2021-2022)
Boys vs Girls
Cinema Karam Kappi
Cooku With Comali (2019–2022)
Comedy Raja Kalakkal Rani (2021)
Connexion (2013-2017)
Dancing Super Stars
Dhool Dance
Divided (2018)
Doctor Doctor (2014–2015)
Enkitta Mothathe (2018–2019)
Fly Wheel
Gurupeyarchi
Home Sweet Home
Idhu Eppadi Iruku (2005)
Intensive Comedy Unit (2017)
Jodi Number One (2006–2019)
Jothida Darbar
Jothida Thagaval
King Queen Jack (2007)
Kadavul Padhi Mirugam Padhi (2008)
Kalakka Povathu Yaaru (2005-2020)
Kalakka Povathu Yaaru Champions (2017-2022)
Kathai Alla Nijam
Kings of Comedy Juniors (2017-2018)
Kings of Dance
Kitchen Super Star
Koffee with DD (2006-2017)
Little Genius 2.0 (2017)
Lollu Sabha (2003–2008)
Margazhi Vaibhavam
Mettugal Pudhusu
Mr and Mrs Chinnathirai (2019-2022)
Mrs. Chinnathirai (2017-2018)
My Choice (1998)
Naduvula Konjam Disturb Pannuvom (2013-2016)
Nalamudan Vazha
Namma Veetu Kalyanam (2008–2014)
Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi (2012–2016)
Namma Ooru Connexion (2017)
Odavum Mudiyadhu Oliyavum Mudiyadhu (2020)
Oru Varthai Oru Latcham - Tamizhodu Vilaiyadu
Oru Varthai Oru Latcham - Juniors
Paati Vaidhiyam
Pattu Paadava
Raju Vootla Party (2022)
Reel Paadhi Real Paadhi (2008)
Ramar Veedu (2019)
Ready Steady Po
Sagala Vs Ragala
Samayal Samayal with Venkatesh Bhat (2014-2018)
Sigaram Thotta Manithargal (2005–2006)
Sirippu Da (2016–2017)
Speed Get Set Go
Sri Ramanin Padhayil (2013–2014)
Start Music Tamil (2019–2022)
Super Singer (2006-2021)
Super Singer Junior (2007-2022)
Super Daddy (2021-2022)
Tamil Pechu Engal Moochu (2023)
The Wall India (2019–2020)
Time Pass
Vasool Rani (2005)
Vasool Vettai
Vijay Talkies
Villa To Village
Wife Kaila Life
Yes or No
Dubbed series
Adhe Kangal (2018 - 2020)
Adisaya Piraviyum Arpuda Pennum (2020)
Radha Krishna (2018)
Chandira Nandini (2016–2017)
Shivam (2012–2014)
Anbalae Azhagana Veedu (2011–2012)
Uravugal Thodarkathai (2011–2015)
En Kanavan En Thozhan (2012–2017)
En Anbu Thangaikku (2015–2017)
En Vaazhkai (2014–2015)
Endrum Anbudan (2016–2017)
Ennudaya Thoddathil (2016)
Hara Hara Mahadeva (2016)
Kadhala Kadhala (2017–2019)
Karma
Kiranmala (2016)
Mahabharatam (2013–2014)
Mangayin Sabadham (2016)
Maya Mohini (2016)
Nandhavanam (2014–2016)
Radha Krishna (2018-2019)
Ramayanam (2020)
Seedhayin Raman (2016–2017)
Shri Krishna (2020)
Idhu Kadhala(2013)
Hatim (2004–2005)
Karma
Khullja Sim Sim (2005)
Shaka Laka Boom Boom (2004–2005)
Tele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Young%20Chemists%27%20Network | The European Young Chemists' Network (EYCN) is the young division of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS), and aims at promoting chemistry among young people, under the age of 35, that belong to a fellow European society.
History
Founded in 2006, the idea for a European Young Chemists' Network (EYCN) within EuChemS was formed during several young scientist meetings in Europe. On the 31st August 2006, during the 1st European Chemistry Congress (ECC) in Budapest, a paper was written entitled Aims, Tasks and Goals of EYCN, which was seen to be the foundation of the EYCN.
In March 2007, Jens Breffke (Germany) and Csaba Janaky (Hungary) invited all societies to send their young representatives to Berlin in order to set the rules of EYCN. These were later confirmed by the Executive Committee of EuChemS. Meanwhile, EYCN reached out to all young chemists within the European Chemical Society (EuChemS) framework to exchange knowledge, experiences and ideas. Since its establishment, chemical societies from 28 countries have elected young chemists-delegates to represent their young divisions at the EYCN (map).
Organization
The EYCN consists of a Board with three Executive Board members and five complementary teams (Membership Team, Networks Team, Global Connections Team, Science Team and Communication Team) that have their own responsibilities, and each is managed by a Team Leader. The Delegate Assembly (DA), a meeting of the national chemical societies' representatives, takes place annually and the Board members and the Team Leaders are elected biennially. Being one of the most active divisions of EuChemS, the EYCN's main goal is to support and mentor students, early career researchers and professionals through awards (best poster and best oral presentation prizes, the European Young Chemist Award - EYCA), exchange programs (congress fellowships, Young Chemists Crossing Borders - YCCB program) and educational activities (conferences, Career Days, soft-skills symposiums).
The EYCN successfully collaborates with other early-career chemistry networks both within and outside of Europe. It has built a particularly prolific collaboration with the American Chemical Society - Younger Chemists Committee (ACS-YCC) since 2010 and is actively cooperating with the International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN).
In addition to the financial support from EuChemS, the EYCN is also supported by the EVONIK Industries.
Projects and Events
In order to bring science closer to a broader audience, the EYCN organizes the photography contest Photochimica since 2016, in collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the video contest Chemistry Rediscovered.
The EYCN organizes also a variety of different events, including the biennial international conference European Young Chemists’ Meeting (EYCheM), a symposium at the biennial ECC and the annual DA. There have been 15 DAs so far since the first in 2006 in Budapest, Hungary.
EYCN Board compositions
From |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Stars%20in%20Their%20Eyes%20episodes | The following is a list of Stars in Their Eyes episodes from the British talent show, which originally aired on television network ITV from 1990 to 2006, and was briefly revived in 2015.
Episode list
Colour key:
Indicates that the contestant won the episode and qualified for the grand final
Indicates the "wildcard" contestant that series
Indicates the winning contestant or series champion (1st)
Indicates the runner-up contestant (2nd)
Original series
1990
Series 1
Episode 1 (21 July 1990)
Episode 2 (28 July 1990)
Episode 3 (4 August 1990)
Episode 4 (11 August 1990)
Episode 5 (18 August 1990)
Grand Final (25 August 1990)
1991
Series 2
Episode 1 (8 June 1991)
Episode 2 (15 June 1991)
Episode 3 (22 June 1991)
Episode 4 (29 June 1991)
Episode 5 (6 July 1991)
Grand Final (13 July 1991)
With special guest Maxine Barrie as Shirley Bassey performing "This is My Life"
Christmas Special (28 December 1991)
1992
Series 3
Episode 1 (22 February 1992)
Episode 2 (29 February 1992)
Episode 3 (7 March 1992)
Episode 4 (14 March 1992)
Episode 5 (21 March 1992)
Grand Final (28 March 1992)
With special guest Bernard Wenton as Nat King Cole performing "Unforgettable"
1993
Elvis Special (2 January 1993)
Series 4
Episode 1 (22 May 1993)
Episode 2 (29 May 1993)
Episode 3 (5 June 1993)
Episode 4 (12 June 1993)
Episode 5 (19 June 1993)
Episode 6 (26 June 1993)
Episode 7 (3 July 1993)
Episode 8 (10 July 1993)
Episode 9 (17 July 1993)
Live Grand Final (24 July 1993)
With special guest Amanda Normansell as Patsy Cline performing "Sweet Dreams"
2 Performed twice on Stars in Their Eyes. The first was in the fifth episode of the first series.
NOTE: The finalists started in the order of the episode they won.
Christmas Special (1 January 1994)
NOTE: The only 1993 finalist not to return was Pat Cairns as Kenny Rogers, possibly because he was unavailable.
1994
Stars in Their Eyes Special (7 May 1994)
Series 5
Episode 1 (14 May 1994)
Episode 2 (21 May 1994)
Episode 3 (28 May 1994)
Episode 4 (4 June 1994)
Episode 5 (11 June 1994)
Episode 6 (18 June 1994)
Episode 7 (25 June 1994)
2 Performed twice on Stars in Their Eyes. The first was in the second episode of the first series.
Episode 8 (2 July 1994)
Episode 9 (9 July 1994)
2 Performed twice on Stars in Their Eyes. The first was in the second episode of the second series.
Live Grand Final (16 July 1994)
With special guest Jacqui Cann as Alison Moyet performing "Whispering Your Name"
Winners Special (24 December 1994)
1995
Series 6
Episode 1 (6 May 1995)
Episode 2 (13 May 1995)
Episode 3 (20 May 1995)
Episode 4 (27 May 1995)
Episode 5 (3 June 1995)
Episode 6 (10 June 1995)
Episode 7 (17 June 1995)
Episode 8 (24 June 1995)
Episode 9 (1 July 1995)
Live Grand Final (8 July 1995)
With special guest John Finch as Marti Pellow performing "Love Is All Around"
NOTE: After the grand total for Obi Anyanwu as James Ingram (winner of Episode 6) was announced, Matthew K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%C3%89%20Radio%20Centre | The Radio Centre is Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann's main production and control centre for their national radio networks. The building is located on the RTÉ campus at Donnybrook in Dublin. Construction of the building commenced in June 1969 and was completed in April 1971.
History
Since 1928 Irish radio, (Radio Éireann), had been housed in the GPO on O'Connell Street, in the centre of Dublin, in cramped and unsuitable accommodation. With the imminent arrival of television, a site was acquired in 1960 for the building of a television production centre in South Dublin. (see RTÉ Television Centre) From the beginning it was the intention that the radio service should also join television on a broadcasting campus at Donnybrook. However it was not until the late 1960s that the detailed planning and construction began that would accommodate on-site a new centre for radio production. Once construction of the building had finished in April 1971 the phased move from the GPO began, but it was not until September 1973 that the first live broadcast was made from the Radio Centre. By May 1974 all broadcasting from the GPO had ceased, and RTÉ radio had become firmly ensconced in its new purpose-built home at Donnybrook.
Building
The building is on two floors, above ground are the various programme offices, and below ground covering a greater area are the studios, thirteen in all. The studios have been built underground for greater soundproofing. The largest, Studio 1, is 340sq metres and at 10m high it reaches to the top of building. This studio was designed for live orchestral performances and other large productions, and incorporates an elevated audience seating area. The other twelve studios are grouped around studio 1 and a small courtyard which extends up through the building giving daylight to the below ground corridors and control rooms. The courtyard contains a bust of Seán Ó Riada a former assistant director of Radio Éireann. As well as the studios and their respective control rooms the subterranean floor of the building contains a Master Control Room, switching racks, computer servers, and tape archives.
From this building emanates most of RTÉ's radio output on two national channels RTÉ Radio 1, and RTÉ 2fm, as well as a number of digital radio channels available online. RTÉ's two other national radio channels are broadcast from outside Dublin. Classical music station RTÉ Lyric FM is based in Limerick city, and Irish language station RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta is based in Casla, County Galway.
All news bulletins on radio still come from a studio in the Television Centre where the main newsroom is situated, this allows for convenient access to both the radio and television news studios.
Future development
In 2009 RTÉ announced its long-term plans for the redevelopment of the entire Donnybrook site, including the Television Centre and the Radio Centre. The project envisages the gradual replacement over a ten to fifteen-year period of mos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial%20College%20of%20Business%20Studies | Imperial University is a higher education institute in Lahore, Pakistan that offers programs in disciplines including Engineering, Management Sciences, Computing, Information Technology, Applied Technology, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Commerce, Medicine, Architecture and Fashion Designing.
History
The university was established in 1991 by the Pakistan Benevolence & Social Management Trust. The initial development of IU was supported by academic collaboration with the University of Hull, UK. In 2002, ICBS was chartered by the Govt. of Punjab as independent degree awarding institution (Imperial University Ordinance, 2013).
Academics
School of Business, Economics and Management Sciences
School of Computing and Information Sciences
School of Engineering and Technology
School of Architecture, Art and Design
Faculty of Health & Allied Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature
See also
List of universities in Pakistan
References
External links
Imperial University - official Website
Private universities and colleges in Punjab, Pakistan
Educational institutions established in 1991
Universities and colleges in Lahore
Business schools in Pakistan
1991 establishments in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282014%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that appeared in 2014, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced by the serial's executive producer Lucy Addario. The 27th season of Home and Away began airing from 27 January 2014. The following month saw the characters Sean Green and Denny Miller introduced. Linda Somerset began appearing from April. Sophie Taylor arrived in June, while Martin Ashford made his debut in October. Jolene Anderson was introduced as Neive Devlin in November.
Sean Green
Sean Green, played by Khan Chittenden, made his first screen appearance on 6 February 2014. The character and Chittenden's casting was announced during the 1–7 February 2014 issue of TV Week. Sean is a part of established character Andy Barrett's (Tai Hara) "dark" past. Sean turns up in Summer Bay and trashes the gym, shortly after Andy begins working there. Andy is then blamed for the damage and shortly afterwards, he runs into Sean. Hara commented "Andy's shocked because Sean's the last person he'd expected to see in Summer Bay. Andy thought he was in jail." Sean wants Andy to go to the police and change his story about a deal they were both involved in. Sean then threatens Andy's younger brother, Josh (Jackson Gallagher) and his girlfriend Maddy Osborne (Kassandra Clementi),
Sean takes Maddy hostage, but lets her go when Kyle Braxton (Nic Westaway) tells him to. Kyle tries to give Sean some money, but he refuses to take it and attempts to punch Kyle. Kyle dodges the punch and beats Sean up. Sean tries to find a doctor and ends up at Irene Roberts's (Lynne McGranger) house. When Irene tells him that he needs help, he threatens her, Chris Harrington (Johnny Ruffo), Spencer Harrington (Andrew James Morley) and Sasha Bezmel (Demi Harman) with a kitchen knife. Sean attempts to take Sasha hostage, but Chris overpowers him and throws him into a chair. Sean is knocked unconscious and stops breathing, so Spencer performs CPR on him. Irene calls an ambulance and Sean is taken to hospital.
Denny Miller
Denise "Denny" Miller, played by Jessica Grace Smith, made her first screen appearance on 12 February 2014. The character and casting was announced on 28 January 2014. Smith won the role in 2013, a week before she planned to move to Los Angeles. The actress commented "It was crazy! My bags were almost packed for LA. I was so stoked to be a part of the show and have full time work. It's an actor's dream." Denny is a tomboy and Smith described her as being honest and "pretty straight up". Smith branded Denny "not your typical girl" and adding that she would work in the bait shop with Alf Stewart (Ray Meagher).
Linda Somerset
Linda Somerset, played by Hannah Britland, made her first screen appearance on 1 April 2014. Britland appears as Linda in five or six episodes as part of a storyline which sees several show regulars come to London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminex | Luminex may refer to:
Luminex Corporation, a biotech company based in Austin, Texas
Luminex Software, a data storage company based in Riverside, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyJack | SkyJack is an unmanned aerial vehicle created by Samy Kamkar which specifically seeks out other Parrot drones and hijacks them through their wireless network, giving the SkyJack pilot the ability to control and view the camera sources of the affected drone.
Background
Parrot AR.Drone is a radio controlled flying quadcopter helicopter built by the French company Parrot. The drone is designed to be controlled by mobile or tablet operating systems such as the supported iOS or Android. No authentication or encryption is used by the Parrot to secure the connection with the pilot.
Description
Samy Kamkar released the SkyJack hardware and software specification on December 2, 2013, as open source and detailed the creation on his website.
According to the project's website:
SkyJack is a drone engineered to autonomously seek out, hack, and wirelessly take over other drones within wifi distance, creating an army of zombie drones under your control.
Using a Parrot AR.Drone 2, a Raspberry Pi, a USB battery, an Alfa AWUS036H wireless transmitter, aircrack-ng, node-ar-drone, node.js, and my SkyJack software, I developed a drone that flies around, seeks the wireless signal of any other drone in the area, forcefully disconnects the wireless connection of the true owner of the target drone, then authenticates with the target drone pretending to be its owner, then feeds commands to it and all other possessed zombie drones at my will.
The SkyJack software seeks out other Parrot drones wirelessly by their organizationally unique identifier without requiring any previous knowledge of the targeted drones. The only security currently in the Parrot drones prevents a second pilot from taking over, however SkyJack uses Aircrack-ng to perform a "deauthentication attack" against the pilot, exploiting a mechanism in wireless security. The SkyJack software then takes over the drone as the primary pilot and provides full control and camera access to the SkyJack pilot.
See also
Unmanned aerial vehicle
References
Radio-controlled helicopters
Unmanned helicopters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-Mode%20Driver%20Framework | User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) is a device-driver development platform first introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, and is also available for Windows XP. It facilitates the creation of drivers for certain classes of devices.
Overview
Standard device drivers can be difficult to write because they must handle a very wide range of system and device states, particularly in a multithreaded software environment. Badly written device drivers can cause severe damage to a system (e.g., BSoD or data corruption) since all standard drivers have high privileges when accessing the kernel directly. The User-Mode Driver Framework insulates the kernel from the problems of direct driver access, instead providing a new class of driver with a dedicated application programming interface at the user level of interrupts and memory management. If an error occurs, the new framework allows for an immediate driver restart without impacting the system. This is particularly useful for devices that are intermittently connected to the system or support hot swapping via a bus technology such as USB or FireWire.
According to Microsoft, UMDF drivers are simpler to write and debug than kernel-mode drivers. However, UMDF would not be used for performance-intensive or highly stateful devices.
The first version of the UMDF was shipped as part of Windows Media Player version 10 on 2004-10-12. Code-named "Crescent", it was designed to support the Media Transfer Protocol driver, and no public interfaces or documentation were provided for it. Later, Microsoft decided to turn UMDF into a device driver development platform.
Version history
User-Mode Driver Framework 1.5-1.9, supports Windows XP and newer.
User-Mode Driver Framework 1.11, supports Windows Vista and later, and Windows Server 2008 and later.
User-Mode Driver Framework 2.0, which supports Windows 8.1 and newer.
Architecture
A UMDF Driver is a DLL based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM). However, UMDF does not use COM for loading, unloading, or controlling concurrency; it only uses COM as a programming pattern, for example exploiting COM's IUnknown interface. At startup, UMDF calls DllGetClassObject to get a pointer to an IClassFactory interface in the driver and then uses the CreateInstance method of the IClassFactory interface to create an instance of the driver callback object.
The driver object is an instance of the framework-provided IWDFDriver interface. The driver provides a set of callbacks via the IDriverEntry COM interface, which is the main entry point for driver customization.
See also
Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF)
Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF)
References
External links
Peter Wieland's blog – developer lead on the UMDF team at Microsoft
Device drivers
Free and open-source software
Microsoft application programming interfaces
Microsoft free software
Software using the MIT license
Windows-only free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad%20Industries%20Limited | HIL Limited, formerly known as Hyderabad Industries Limited, is an Indian company with business interests in construction materials, machinery, industrial supplies and components; logistics network It is a group company of CK Birla Group. It has two brands - Charminar and Birla Aerocon.
History
It was established in the Princely state of Hyderabad on 17 June 1946 as Hyderabad Asbestos. It was primarily into cement sheets. But was renamed as Hyderabad Industries later.
References
CK Birla Group
Hyderabad State
1946 establishments in India
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20optical%20quantum%20computing | Linear optical quantum computing or linear optics quantum computation (LOQC) is a paradigm of quantum computation, allowing (under certain conditions, described below) universal quantum computation. LOQC uses photons as information carriers, mainly uses linear optical elements, or optical instruments (including reciprocal mirrors and waveplates) to process quantum information, and uses photon detectors and quantum memories to detect and store quantum information.
Overview
Although there are many other implementations for quantum information processing (QIP) and quantum computation, optical quantum systems are prominent candidates, since they link quantum computation and quantum communication in the same framework. In optical systems for quantum information processing, the unit of light in a given mode—or photon—is used to represent a qubit. Superpositions of quantum states can be easily represented, encrypted, transmitted and detected using photons. Besides, linear optical elements of optical systems may be the simplest building blocks to realize quantum operations and quantum gates. Each linear optical element equivalently applies a unitary transformation on a finite number of qubits. The system of finite linear optical elements constructs a network of linear optics, which can realize any quantum circuit diagram or quantum network based on the quantum circuit model. Quantum computing with continuous variables is also possible under the linear optics scheme.
The universality of 1- and 2-bit gates to implement arbitrary quantum computation has been proven. Up to unitary matrix operations () can be realized by only using mirrors, beam splitters and phase shifters (this is also a starting point of boson sampling and of computational complexity analysis for LOQC). It points out that each operator with inputs and outputs can be constructed via linear optical elements. Based on the reason of universality and complexity, LOQC usually only uses mirrors, beam splitters, phase shifters and their combinations such as Mach–Zehnder interferometers with phase shifts to implement arbitrary quantum operators. If using a non-deterministic scheme, this fact also implies that LOQC could be resource-inefficient in terms of the number of optical elements and time steps needed to implement a certain quantum gate or circuit, which is a major drawback of LOQC.
Operations via linear optical elements (beam splitters, mirrors and phase shifters, in this case) preserve the photon statistics of input light. For example, a coherent (classical) light input produces a coherent light output; a superposition of quantum states input yields a quantum light state output. Due to this reason, people usually use single photon source case to analyze the effect of linear optical elements and operators. Multi-photon cases can be implied through some statistical transformations.
An intrinsic problem in using photons as information carriers is that photons hardly interact with e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa%20%28Frozen%29 | Elsa of Arendelle is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios' computer-animated fantasy film Frozen (2013) and its sequel Frozen II (2019). She is voiced mainly by Idina Menzel, with Eva Bella as a young child and by Spencer Ganus as a teenager in Frozen. In Frozen II, young Elsa is voiced by Mattea Conforti (at the start of the film) and Eva Bella (archive audio).
Created by co-writers and directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, Elsa is loosely based on the title character of "The Snow Queen", a Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. In the Disney film adaptation, she is introduced as a princess in the fictional Scandinavian Kingdom of Arendelle, heiress to the throne and the elder sister of Anna (Kristen Bell). Elsa has the magical ability to create and manipulate ice and snow. She inadvertently sends Arendelle into an eternal winter on the evening of her coronation. Throughout the film, she struggles first with controlling and concealing her abilities and then with liberating herself from her fears of unintentionally harming others, especially her younger sister.
The Snow Queen character, neutral but cold-hearted in the original fairytale and villain in numerous adaptations of the character, proved difficult to adapt to film due to her transparent depiction. Several film executives, including Walt Disney, attempted to build on the character, and a number of scheduled film adaptations were shelved when they could not work out the character. Buck and his co-director, Jennifer Lee, were ultimately able to solve the dilemma by depicting Elsa and Anna as sisters. As much as Anna's struggle is external, Elsa's is internal. This led to Elsa being gradually rewritten as a sympathetic, misunderstood character.
Elsa has received largely positive reception from reviewers, who praised her complex characterization and vulnerability. Menzel was also widely praised for her vocal performance of Elsa, especially that of her performance of the song "Let It Go".
Development
Origins and concept
Attempts were made as early as 1937 by Walt Disney to adapt Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, "The Snow Queen", into a film. The tale focuses on two children, one named Gerda, who served as the basis for Princess Anna, and the other named Kai, who is "cursed with negativity" after his eyes are pierced with shards of glass from an enchanted mirror and is later kidnapped by the Snow Queen. However, Disney struggled with creating a believable, multi-dimensional adaption of the fairy tale's title character, who was intended to be a villain. In the story, she is described as "a woman, dressed in garments of white gauze, which looked like millions of starry snow-flakes linked together. She was fair and beautiful, but made of ice—shining and glittering ice. Still she was alive and her eyes sparkled like bright stars, but there was neither peace nor rest in their glance." Disney was unable to find a way to make the Snow Queen more real an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Pinto%20%28mathematician%29 | Alberto Adrego Pinto is a full professor at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto (Portugal). He is a researcher of the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering LIAAD, INESC TEC. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Dynamics and Games, published by the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). He is the President of the Portuguese International Center for Mathematics (CIM). Currently, he is also a Special Visiting Researcher from CNPq at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Education
Pinto was an undergraduate student in applied mathematics at University of Porto (1986). He did his MSc with distinction (1998) and his PhD (1991) in mathematics at University of Warwick, UK. He did his Aggregation in Applied Mathematics (2002), passing with unanimous vote, at University of Porto.
Career
Pinto worked with David Rand on his master's thesis (1989) that studied the work of Mitchell Feigenbaum and Dennis Sullivan on scaling functions and he went on to a PhD (1991) on the universality features of other classes of maps that form the boundary between order and chaos.
During this time Pinto met a number of the leaders in dynamical systems, notably Dennis Sullivan and Maurício Peixoto, and this had a great impact on his career. As a result, he and his collaborators have made many important contributions to the study of the fine-scale structure of dynamical systems and this has appeared in leading journals and in his book "Fine Structures of Hyperbolic Diffeomorphisms" (2010) coauthored with Flávio Ferreira and David Rand.
While a postdoc with Dennis Sullivan at the CUNY Graduate Center at City University of New York he met Edson de Faria and through Maurício Peixoto he got in contact with Welington de Melo. With de Melo he proved the rigidity of smooth unimodal maps in the boundary between chaos and order extending the work of Curtis T. McMullen. Furthermore, de Faria, de Melo and Pinto proved the conjecture raised in 1978 in the work of Feigenbaum and Coullet-Tresser which the characterizes the period-doubling boundary between chaos and order for unimodal maps. This appeared in the research article "Global Hyperbolicity of Renormalization for Smooth Unimodal Mappings" published at the journal Annals of Mathematics (2006) and was based in particular in the previous works of Sandy Davie, Dennis Sullivan, Curtis T. McMullen and Mikhail Lyubich.
Since then Pinto has branched out into more applied areas. He has contributed across a remarkably broad area of science including optics, game theory and mathematical economics, finance, immunology, epidemiology, and climate and energy. In these applied areas, he has published widely overpassing more than one hundred scientific articles. He edited two volumes, with Maurício Peixoto and David Rand, entitled "Dynamics and Games I and II" (2011). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202000 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2000, there were 20 singles that topped the 53 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "She's Got Issues" by American pop punk band The Offspring, which spent the last week of 1999 and the first week of 2000 at number one. The final number-one single of the year was "Thank You for Loving Me" by Bon Jovi, which spent three weeks in December at number one.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2000 was "Take a Look Around" by American nu metal band Limp Bizkit, which spent ten weeks at number one. The band also topped the chart for one week with "My Generation". Blink-182 spent nine weeks at number one with "All the Small Things" and one week with "What's My Age Again?" Korn spent six weeks at number one, with "Falling Away from Me" and "Make Me Bad" each topping the chart for three weeks, while Green Day spent five weeks at number one with "Minority" (four weeks) and "Warning" (one week). Creed's "Higher" was number one for four weeks; Coldplay's "Trouble" and Bon Jovi's "Thank You for Loving Me" were both number one for three weeks; and Slipknot's "Wait and Bleed" and Iron Maiden's "The Wicker Man" were number one for two weeks.
Chart history
See also
2000 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2000
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2000 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter%20Sz%C5%91r | Péter Szőr (17 July 1970 – 12 November 2013) was a Hungarian computer virus and security researcher, entrepreneur and author.
Born in Balatonfüred, Veszprém County, Szőr began an interest in computer viruses in 1990. A University of Pannonia graduate, he authored several virus-related books, and was renowned for his work. From 2011 until his death, he worked for a McAfee antivirus firm working on a new solution to stop viruses.
Péter Szőr died on 12 November 2013, aged 43.
In May 2014, Virus Bulletin introduced the Péter Szőr Award to be given annually in recognition of the best piece of technical security research done that year.
References
1970 births
2013 deaths
People from Veszprém County
Hungarian expatriates in Finland
People associated with computer security
Hungarian businesspeople
20th-century Hungarian male writers
21st-century Hungarian male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Karlsruhe | The Karlsruhe tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Karlsruhe, a city in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Opened in 1877, the network has been operated since 1997 by Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe GmbH (VBK), a company owned by the city of Karlsruhe. The city itself was the tram network's operator between 1903 and 1997.
History
Horse and steam
During the Industrial Revolution, in the 19th century, the city of Karlsruhe grew well beyond its then city limits. In 1850–1890 alone, the population quadrupled to nearly 100,000 inhabitants, making it necessary to create a better transportation system. A horse-drawn tramway was first proposed unsuccessfully in 1869. On 21 January 1877, the first horse-drawn tramway was opened from Gottesauer Platz to Mühlburger Tor in an east–west direction through the city of Karlsruhe. In the same year, this was followed by a branch line to the old railway station and an approximately extension from Mühlburger Tor west to Mühlburg. The track was built to standard gauge.
On 16 July 1881, an approximately line was opened to the east from in Karlsruhe to the town of Durlach. Because of the greater distance, this line was not horse-hauled, but operated as a steam tramway. After 1881, the extent of the tram system remained unchanged for 19 years.
The horse and steam trams had no great commercial success. Although passenger numbers grew steadily from 1.6 million passengers in 1882 to 2.5 million in 1893 and 3.6 million in 1899, the financial situation of the company was poor. So the ownership of the tramway changed several times in the early years of its existence, until a permanent solution was found with the founding of the Vereinigte Karlsruher, Mühlburger und Durlacher Pferde- und Dampfbahngesellschaft (United Karlsruhe, Mühlburg and Durlach Horse and Steam Railway Company). In 1893, the company owned five steam locomotives for the line to Durlach, 46 horses and 32 carriages, including 15 for steam operations.
Electrification and acquisition of the tramway
In 1894, AEG took over the Karlsruhe horse and steam tramways and founded the Karlsruher Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft (Karlsruhe Tram Company) with the intention of converting it into an electric tramway. This project was initially delayed by concerns that the electrical overhead lines would ruin the inner city and that the electric trams would disturb the instruments of the Technical University. The tram network was not electrified until 1900, but a compromise meant that overhead lines were not built through the centre of Karlsruhe and instead were operated with accumulator cars.
The first electric tram service was opened on the former steam tram route between Durlacher Tor and Durlach on 10 February 1900; the last horse tram service was operated on 19 March prior to the conversion. 46 two-axle electric cars were obtained for electrical operations, of which 19 could operate only on the outskirts to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20in%20Custody%20Reporting%20Act%20of%202013 | The Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2013 () is a bill that would require the United States Department of Justice to collect data from U.S. states and territories about the deaths of prisoners in their custody. States and territories would face monetary penalties for noncompliance. The bill would also require federal agencies to report on the deaths of prisoners in their custody. The Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2013 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.
Background
In 2000, Congress passed the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 (; Public Law 106-297) which created a program requiring states to report on the deaths and circumstances of those deaths of any prisoners in their custody. The Bureau of Justice Statistics continued to collect this information even after the law expired in 2006. This bill would continue that program and extend it to federal prisoners. It would also require the Attorney General to analyze the data and try to find a way to reduce those deaths, then report on it to Congress.
In 2011, 885 prisoners died in local custody, mostly due to natural causes such as cancer or heart disease. This was the lowest number of deaths over the twelve years that they were counted in this program.
Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.
The Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2013 would require states that receive certain criminal justice assistance grants to report to the Attorney General on a quarterly basis certain information regarding the death of any person who is detained, arrested, en route to incarceration, or incarcerated in state or local facilities or a boot camp prison. The bill would impose penalties on states that fail to comply with such reporting requirements.
The Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2013 would require the head of each federal law enforcement agency to report to the Attorney General annually certain information regarding the death of any person who: (1) is detained or arrested by any officer of such agency (or by any state or local law enforcement officer for purposes of a federal law enforcement operation); or (2) is en route to be incarcerated or detained, or is incarcerated or detained, at any federal correctional facility or federal pretrial detention facility located within the United States or any other facility pursuant to a contract with or used by such agency.
The bill would require the Attorney General to study such information and report on means by which it can be used to reduce the number of such deaths.
The information states would be required to provide includes mostly demographic data. States would need to indicate the prisoner's name, gender, race, ethnicity, and age. The circumstances surrounding the prisoner's death would also have to be reported.
Procedural history
The Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2013 was int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahia | Jahia is a software company offering enterprise products, services, and technical support for its open-source digital experience platform. Jahia’s platform provides content and customer data management. The company’s head optional content management system and digital experience platform is designed to support various digital enterprise initiatives, such as websites, progressive web applications, mobile apps, intranets and portals.
Products
Products
jContent – A hybrid content management system (CMS)
jExperience – A digital experience (DX) solution combining customer data with content management for personalized customer experiences
jCustomer – An open source Customer Data Platform (CDP) built with Apache Unomi
Architecture
Java based
API-first platform
Head optional / hybrid CMS
Cloud or on premises
History
2002: The company was founded in Geneva, Switzerland. As of 2020, it has offices in Switzerland, the United States, France and Canada.
2015: Jahia completed a $22.5 million round of financing from Invus
2018: Jahia donated its open source CDP to The Apache Software Foundation.
2019: Graduation of Apache Unomi as a Top-Level Project (TLP) of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
References
External links
Portal software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LF-routes | LF-Routes (, Dutch for countrywide cycling routes) are long-distance cycling routes that form a network in the Netherlands and Belgium. The routes, criss-crossing both countries, are primarily intended for recreational multi-day bike tours, such as cycling holidays. Some routes are also part of a wider international network.
Most of the LF routes have been signposted in two directions, inscribing one direction with the letter "a", the other with the letter "b": the North Sea Route LF1 southbound from Den Helder to French Boulogne-sur-Mer is called LF1a, while in the other direction it is called LF1b.
History
In 1987, Dutch cyclists' organisations founded a "countrywide cycling platform" to create a network of long-distance cycling routes throughout the Netherlands. This platform published maps and guides and started signposting its routes in 1990.
Belgium introduced its first long-distance route, not yet called "LF" by that time, in 1964: it connected youth hostels and was therefore called Jeugdherbergenroute, which later became the LF50. Belgium signposted its first LF-route in 1990 as well (the LF1 North Sea Route) and two years later, the GR organisation took over the planning of Belgian LF-routes.
At the maximum extent, both countries had created a network of 36 routes, of which 5 were only in Belgium, 15 in the Netherlands and 16 in both. Some routes also extend into France and Germany. However, due to the expansion of the numbered-node cycle network, Belgium reduced its official network in 2012 (routes marked ) and the Netherlands is doing the same between 2017 and 2021 (routes marked ).
Routes
Tours from combined LF-Routes
Although a network like the Belgo-Dutch LF routes enable almost endless combinations of sections, a few themed routes have been officially established:
See also
Numbered-node cycle network, a second parallel signage system, allowing users to select arbitrary routes
EuroVelo
German Cycling Network, the national cycling route network of Germany
National Cycle Network, the national cycling route network of the United Kingdom
Notes
References
External links
Long-distance cycle routes on Nederland Fietsland website
National LF network on Holland-Cycling.com
Cycleways in Belgium
Cycleways in the Netherlands
National cycling route networks
Long-distance cycling routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Business%20Register | The Danish Central Business Register (aka CVR — , ) is the central government register containing primary data on all businesses in Denmark (in Greenland with the effect from 1 January 2018), regardless of economic and organizational structure, except personally owned companies with an annual turnover of less than 50,000 Danish krones.
Information provided
The CVR contains detailed information on all Danish and Greenlandic limited companies, including fiscal reports, management information, beneficial owners and status.
Optional protection from solicitation
Entities that opt not to receive advertising inquiries, including unsolicited emails and canvassing, are identified as "Reklamebeskyttelse: Dette P-nummer/CVR-nummer er reklamebeskyttet," which translates to "Advertising Protection: This P-number/CVR-number is advertising protected."
Advertisers are required to identify themselves in such a way that is easily recognizable and accessible by the recipient. The name and address of the advertiser must be stated in the offer. Recipient of advertisements who state in writing that they do not want to receive advertising, the advertiser must abide, unconditionally, post haste, but no later than 3 months of receipt of the request.
Types of Danish entities
Types of businesses, or organizational structure, include public limited liability companies, limited liability companies, partnerships, sole proprietorships, non-profit entities, and municipal entities.
Information provided and access
All CVR entities have a tax ID, a number equivalent to the Social Security number of Danes and Greenlanders. Other information provided includes (i) entity legal structure, (ii) production (called "P-units"). For certain types of entities, including limited liabilities, the CVR provides financial information, mission information, company filings, information about management, and corporate governance. No payment is required for information on company registration numbers, registered offices or trade names.
See also
List of company registers
References
External links
CVR website
Business in Denmark
Government databases in Denmark
Government agencies of Denmark
Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik%20%28programming%20language%29 | Beatnik is a simple stack-oriented esoteric programming language, by Cliff L. Biffle. A Beatnik program consists of any sequence of English words. Each word is assigned the score one would get for it in a Scrabble game. The value of the score determines what function is performed. Functions include pushing the score of the next word onto the stack, testing the stack and skipping forward or backward in the program and other stack operations.
Overview
Markup
The interpreter reads the words in the poem, ignoring punctuation and whitespace and newlines. Some functions are one word, other functions have an argument (they are two-word functions). Two-word functions are described below in the form "5,n". This means both the word whose value is 5 and the next word (whose value is 'n') are read.
Here are the scrabble letter values, for reference.
Examples
Hello World
A "Hello World" example in the Beatnik language.
Soars, larkspurs, rains.
Indistinctness.
Mario snarl (nurses, natures, rules...) sensuously retries goal.
Agribusinesses' costs par lain ropes (mopes) autos' cores.
Tuner ambitiousness.
Flit.
Dour entombment.
Legals' saner kinking lapse.
Nests glint.
Dread, tied futures, dourer usual tumor grunts alter atonal
garb tries shouldered coins.
Taste a vast lustiness.
Stile stuns gad subgroup gram lanes.
Draftee insurer road: cuckold blunt, strut sunnier.
Rely enure pantheism: arty gain groups (genies, pan) titters, tattles, nears.
Bluffer tapes? Idle diatom stooge!
Feted antes anklets ague? Remit goiter gout!
Doubtless teared toed alohas will dull gangs' aerials' tails' sluices;
Gusset ends! Gawkier halo!
Enter abstruse rested loser beer guy louts.
Curtain roams lasso weir lupus stunt.
Truant bears animate talon. Entire torte originally timer.
Redo stilt gobs.
Utter centaurs;
Urgent stars;
Usurers (dilute);
Noses;
Bones;
Brig sonar graders;
Utensil silts;
Lazies.
Fret arson veterinary rows.
Atlas grunted: "Pates, slues, sulfuric manor liaising tines,
trailers, rep... unfair! Instant snots!"
Sled rested until eatery fail.
Ergs fortitude
Indent spotter
Euros enter egg.
Curious tenures.
Torus cutlasses.
Sarong torso earns cruel lags it reeled.
Engineer: "Erase handbag -- unite ratification!"
oaring oaten donkeys unsold, surer rapid saltest tags
BUTTERED TIBIA LUGS REWIRING TOILETS
anion festers raring edit epilogues.
DIRGE ROTOR.
linnet oaring.
GORE BOOTIES.
Ironed goon lists tallest sublets --
Riots,
Raucous onset.
Ignobly, runners' diet anguishes sunrise loner.
Erode mob, slier switcher!
Loaners stilt drudge pearl atoll, risking hats' ends.
Rebind sitters.
Toga epistles -- crud lard. (Pager purse dons souls.)
glob title a curio hired rites shed suds lade grease strut arctic revs toad
unless idlers rind stilt region land GERMICIDES SULTANA GUTS gill siting leans
nice spurs
tests gloves
roused asp
Holes! Moles! (Sores!)
Hygienists! Scars! (Asses! |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket%20Liquidator | Ticket Liquidator is an online marketplace for live entertainment tickets. It is a division of Ticket Software LLC (also known as TicketNetwork), a technology company based in South Windsor, Connecticut.
Operations
Ticket Liquidator functions under a model similar to eBay; independent sellers list their tickets on the marketplace where consumers can buy them. Buyers are charged the price of the tickets (set by the seller), a service fee (assessed by Ticket Liquidator), and a delivery fee. When the tickets are available, the seller ships them directly to the buyer. The site lists tickets for many different kinds of events, including concerts and sporting competitions, mostly from professional resale brokers, and offers a buyer guarantee.
History
In 2011, Ticket Liquidator launched a blog called Live Toast, which includes news in the live entertainment world, reviews of music and theatre shows, opinion pieces, and other content. Its mascot, Toastie, is a talking, anthropomorphic piece of toast. In 2012, when Hurricane Sandy benefit concert tickets were being resold on the secondary market, Ticket Liquidator was one of the sites that refused to list the tickets.
See also
Ticket resale
References
External links
Official Website
Live Toast blog
Ticket sales companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz%20Bacon | Liz Bacon (born 27 September 1963) is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Abertay University, Dundee.
Background
Liz Bacon grew up in Kenley, Surrey. She studied for an undergraduate degree in computer science at Thames Polytechnic, spending her third year on an industrial placement at CERN, graduating in 1986. She studied for her PhD in the field of artificial intelligence at the University of Greenwich, and was awarded her doctorate in 1993.
Bacon is currently the past President of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT , and has had many serious roles, including the Chair of the BCS Academy, a BCS Council member and Trustee of the BCS. She has been a Council Member of PITCOM, the Parliamentary IT Committee, responsible for communications, Past President of EQANIE (European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education), the National HE STEM Programme and an ICT thought leader for the University of Cambridge International Examinations. Bacon has been involved in software engineering and e-learning research for more than 10 years
She was one of the 30 women identified in the BCS Women in IT Campaign in 2014 source
and was then featured in the e-book of these 30 women in IT, "Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation" produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, as a free download e-book, from various sources.
In 2015, Bacon became a Principal Fellow of the HEA and was identified as the 35th Most Influential Women in UK IT 2015, by Computer Weekly.
Academia
Professor of computer science and previous Deputy Vice-Chancellor (academic) at Abertay University, Scotland, previously professor of software engineering and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Greenwich, England.
Past President and Trustee of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT., and was elected president of BCS for one year from March 2014.
Inaugural Chair of the BCS Academy of Computing, the first Learned Society in the UK for Computing,
Previously president and trustee of the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
Past Chair of the CPHC, past Member of Council and Communications Officer for PITCOM (Parliamentary IT Committee)
University representative for PICTFOR (The Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum).
Past President of EQANIE, the European Quality Assurance Network for Information Education
Research/scholarly interests
e-learning, serious games, software engineering, crisis management, affective computing, cybersecurity, e-Health, personalisation.
Personal life
Bacon is married to Stuart Kabler. Her hobbies are horse jumping, skiing and scuba diving.
References
1963 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Abertay Dundee
Alumni of the University of Greenwich
Fellows of the British Computer Society
English computer scientists
Presidents of the British Computer Society
People associated with CERN
British women computer scientists
Academics from Surrey
Principal Fellows of the Higher Education Academy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRRD%20%28FM%29 | WRRD (89.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Greensboro, Georgia. The station is part of the Rejoice Radio network owned by Pensacola Christian College.
Formerly easy listening WEEZ, original owner Community Public Radio sold WEEZ and its associated translator in Milledgeville to Pensacola Christian College effective April 23, 2021 for $142,500. The station changed its call sign to WRRD on April 26.
Translators
References
External links
RRD (FM)
Radio stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara.io | Clara.io is web-based freemium 3D computer graphics software developed by Exocortex, a Canadian software company. The free or "Basic" component of their freemium offering, however, places severe restrictions, such as on saving models and importing texture maps, which are undisclosed in the company's own descriptions of their plans. Clara.io was announced in July 2013 and first presented as part of the official SIGGRAPH 2013 program later that month. By November 2013 when the open beta period started, Clara.io had 14,000 registered users. Clara.io claimed to have 26,000 registered users in January 2014, which grew to 85,000 by December 2014. Clara.io was permanently shut down on December 31, 2022, but the site is currently still partially functional to logged-in users.
Features
Polygonal modeling
Constructive solid geometry
Key frame animation
Skeletal animation
Hierarchical scene graph
Texture mapping
Photorealistic rendering (streaming cloud rendering using V-Ray Cloud)
Scene publishing via HTML iframe embedding
FBX, Collada, OBJ, STL and Three.js import/export
Collaborative real-time editing
Revision control (versioning & history)
Scripting, Plugins & REST APIs
3D model library
Unlisted and Private scenes (paid subscriptions only).
Technology
Clara.io is developed using HTML5, JavaScript, WebGL and Three.js. Clara.io does not rely on any browser plugins and thus runs on any platform that has a modern standards compliant browser.
Screenshots
See also
3D modeling
Sketchfab
SketchUp
References
External links
2013 software
3D animation software
3D graphics software
3D publishing
Internet properties established in 2013
Video game development software
Web applications
WebGL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruel%20%28computer%20worm%29 | Gruel (also referred to by F-Secure as Fakerr) is a worm first surfaced in 2003 targeting Microsoft Windows platforms (such as Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP). It spreads via email and file sharing networks.
Symptoms
Arrival and initial launch
The worm arrives as an attachment with various names in emails claiming to be a security update from either Microsoft or Symantec, depending on the variant. When run, the worm installs itself to the system and displays a fake Windows Error Reporting dialog box, which the user cannot move or close and contains two buttons: "Send Error" and "Send and Close", if the user clicks on the "Send Error" button, the worm mass-mails itself to all the user's contacts and displays fictitious "technical details" about the supposed error report, which contains a Back button and a Close button. Clicking the Back button will return to the original error reporting box, whereas the Close button does not do anything. When the user presses "Send and Close", the worm will disable or terminate Windows Explorer, eject the CD/DVD drive, open many Control Panel options, and then display a dialogue box that cannot be closed, which contains two buttons, "Retry" and "Cancel".
The text of the error message is as follows:
Secondary Payload
After carrying out the above payload, the virus hangs the operating system, requiring users to perform a Hard boot by forcibly shutting the machine down by cutting the power, then turning the machine back on. Afterwards, the PC is completely unusable, as all .bat, .com, .exe, .ht, .hta, .pif and .scr files have been hooked to the virus itself – by attempting to run any of the programs, the worm is simply activated again and will release its primary payload once more.
See also
List of computer worms
References
Computer worms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNS3 | VNS3 is a software-only virtual appliance that allows users to control access and network topology and secure data in motion across public and private clouds. VNS3 is a virtual router, switch, firewall, protocol re-distributor, and SSL/IPSec VPN concentrator. The Network Virtualization Software creates a customer-controlled overlay network over top of the underlying network backbone.
Uses
VNS3 is a network routing and security virtual appliance that lets extend networks into public, private, and hybrid clouds VNS3 lets enterprise data center administrators "create encrypted LAN between virtual machines in a private cloud, as well as encrypted WAN across multiple public clouds."
History
Developers Cohesive Networks first named their multi-sourced infrastructure concept "v-cube-v." The software ran in internal production starting in 2007. The company named the early commercial version of VNS3 "VPN3" or "VPN-Cubed" and later renamed the software to VNS3 in 2012.
Amazon Web Services users first began downloading VPN-Cubed from the partner directory on 5 December 2008. VNS3 gained popularity (as VPN-Cubed) as part of the Amazon Web Services public cloud ecosystem and with independent reviews from ZDNet, High Scalability, InfoQ, Chris Hoff, and CloudAve.
In 2012, developers Cohesive Networks released a major version update. The release updated the software to 3.0 and rebranded it as VNS3 (VNS-Cubed). 451 Research analyst William Fellows wrote "VNS[3] is not only for VPNs – hence the name change – since overlays can be within a cloud, between clouds, between a private datacenter and a cloud (or clouds), or between multiple datacenters."
In 2013, Cohesive Networks released a 3.0.1 version of the product, as well as a free edition of VNS3 in Amazon Web Services. VNS3 was recognized in the 6th Annual International Datacenters Awards as the winner of the Public Cloud Services & Infrastructure award In early 2014 VNS3 3.5 was released with major software updates and a new integration with Docker Docker's open-source virtualization platform added the ability to run other networking applications as containers inside VNS3 virtual machines. Users can create an overlay network "as a substrate for layer 4-7 network application services – things like proxy, reverse proxy, SSL termination, content caching and network intrusion detection" William Fellows writes.
In early 2015 the company renamed to Cohesive Networks to emphasize the networking capabilities of VNS3 and to spin off the less successful part of the business. The company later announced a new line of VNS3-based products, including VNS3:turret application segmentation controller, the VNS3:ms network management platform, and the VNS3:ha - high availability add on.
After 2008, VNS3 became available in more public cloud providers and geographic regions, including Amazon Web Services EC2, GoGrid, Flexiant, IBM SoftLayer, Google Compute Engine, HP Cloud Services, Mircorsoft Azure, and CenturyLink |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regularization%20by%20spectral%20filtering | Spectral regularization is any of a class of regularization techniques used in machine learning to control the impact of noise and prevent overfitting. Spectral regularization can be used in a broad range of applications, from deblurring images to classifying emails into a spam folder and a non-spam folder. For instance, in the email classification example, spectral regularization can be used to reduce the impact of noise and prevent overfitting when a machine learning system is being trained on a labeled set of emails to learn how to tell a spam and a non-spam email apart.
Spectral regularization algorithms rely on methods that were originally defined and studied in the theory of ill-posed inverse problems (for instance, see) focusing on the inversion of a linear operator (or a matrix) that possibly has a bad condition number or an unbounded inverse. In this context, regularization amounts to substituting the original operator by a bounded operator called the "regularization operator" that has a condition number controlled by a regularization parameter, a classical example being Tikhonov regularization. To ensure stability, this regularization parameter is tuned based on the level of noise. The main idea behind spectral regularization is that each regularization operator can be described using spectral calculus as an appropriate filter on the eigenvalues of the operator that defines the problem, and the role of the filter is to "suppress the oscillatory behavior corresponding to small eigenvalues". Therefore, each algorithm in the class of spectral regularization algorithms is defined by a suitable filter function (which needs to be derived for that particular algorithm). Three of the most commonly used regularization algorithms for which spectral filtering is well-studied are Tikhonov regularization, Landweber iteration, and truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD). As for choosing the regularization parameter, examples of candidate methods to compute this parameter include the discrepancy principle, generalized cross validation, and the L-curve criterion.
It is of note that the notion of spectral filtering studied in the context of machine learning is closely connected to the literature on function approximation (in signal processing).
Notation
The training set is defined as , where is the input matrix and is the output vector. Where applicable, the kernel function is denoted by , and the kernel matrix is denoted by which has entries and denotes the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) with kernel . The regularization parameter is denoted by .
(Note: For and , with and being Hilbert spaces, given a linear, continuous operator , assume that holds. In this setting, the direct problem would be to solve for given and the inverse problem would be to solve for given . If the solution exists, is unique and stable, the inverse problem (i.e. the problem of solving for ) is well-posed; otherwise, it is ill-posed.)
Relation to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Miller-Kirkpatrick | John Miller-Kirkpatrick (August 1946 – December 1978) was a British computer scientist.
Works
The Scrumpi, a crude computer sold in kit form (1976).
References
1946 births
1978 deaths
British computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seremban%20Line | {
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The Seremban Line () or Seremban Komuter Line () is one of the three KTM Komuter Central Sector lines provided by Keretapi Tanah Melayu. Its electric trains run between and , with some services terminating in . Prior to 15 December 2015, the northern terminus of this line was .
KTM Komuter is an electrified commuter train service first introduced in 1995, catering especially to commuters in Kuala Lumpur and the surrounding suburban areas. It is a popular mode of transportation for commuters working in Kuala Lumpur, as they can travel to the city without the hassle of traffic congestion. Coaches are modern and air-conditioned. For those who drive to the stations/halts, 'Park & Ride' facility is provided at a nominal charge.
The system is one of the components of the Klang Valley Integrated Transit System. The line is numbered 1 and coloured blue on official transit maps. It is named after its former terminus, Seremban station.
Line information
History
The line began as part of the Selangor Government Railway which opened in 1886. The modern-day Seremban Line began as a spur line, opened in 1895, from the Kuala Lumpur-Klang railway line beginning from Resident station, through the Sultan Street station, Pudu station and Sungai Besi, before reaching Kajang in 1897.
The line was later re-routed through Seputeh, with the Sultan Street-Pudu stretch being demolished and incorporated into the Ampang Line. The Rawang-Seremban stretch and the Sentul-Port Klang stretch were electrified in the early 1990s.
Another branch line from Seremban-Port Dickson opened in 1891. The line is also known as a "ZIg Zag Line" until 1970s. when the few station has closed. In 2008, the line has closed in 2008 with the branch line undergoing dismantling in 2022.
An infill station, the Kajang 2 station, is constructed between Kajang station and UKM station. It commenced operations on Monday, 13 March 2023, with the official launch of the station done a month later on 14 April 2023 by the Minister of Transport, Anthony Loke.
Stations
Future expansion
A station serving the police headquarters at Bukit Aman is being planned, to be built between the old Kuala Lumpur station and Bank Negara station.
Former Seremban-Gemas Shuttle Service
On 1 October 2015 KTMB announced the introduction of the Seremban-Gemas Shuttle Service for - stretch. It was operated by KTM Class 83 trains running the electrified double tracks at speeds up to . Spanning over , it served at Seremban, , , , , and ends at .
The service offered 59 services daily - 55 services between Seremban and Pulau Sebang and 4 services from Seremban to Gemas. Trains start at 5 am and ends at 11 pm, with a 30-minute frequency. Travel time from Seremban to Pulau Sebang was about 38 minutes while a trip from Seremban to Gemas took approximately 65 minutes.
The service had bee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim%20School%20of%20Computer%20Science%20and%20Mathematics | The Mannheim School of Computer Science and Mathematics (MSCM) is among the younger of the five schools comprising the University of Mannheim, located in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The School of Computer Science and Mathematics, established in 1967, covers the fields of Computer Science, Business Informatics and Mathematics. The Department of Computer Science at the University of Mannheim is considered as a leading public institution for computer science/business informatics in Germany. It has been consistently ranked among the top computer science programs in recent years.
In the past 15 years, researchers from University of Mannheim Department of Computer Science have made developments in the fields of algorithms, computer networks, distributed systems, parallel processing, programming languages, robotics, language technologies, human-computer interaction and software engineering.
Department of Computer Science
The Institute of Computer Science and Business Informatics consists of eleven Chairs and Professorships dedicated to Data Management, Software Development, Dependable Distributed Systems, Web Technologies, Cryptography, Process Modelling, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile and Visual Media. Their common point of interest is the management of complex data material for society and economy. The institute is mainly located in the building A 5,6. Together with the business informatics group that are part of the Business School, the Institute of Computer Science recently founded the Center for Business Informatics to ensure that research and teaching standards in this area remain at the highest level. The department has exchange agreements with renowned universities like the Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, the Seoul National University in South Korea or the National University of Singapore and maintains a highly international student body with more than 27% of students coming from abroad.
Department of Mathematics
The Institute of Mathematics consists of eleven Chairs and 22 Professorships that focus on classical mathematical disciplines as well as on economic and practical-oriented fields of mathematics. The main areas of research include Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Stochastics and Mathematical Statistics as well as Mathematics in Finance and Insurance.
Through its successful focus on business mathematics in research and teaching, the Institute of Mathematics is constantly expanding its close cooperation with the University's Department of Economics and the Business School.
See also
University of Mannheim
Mannheim Business School
Education in Germany
List of universities in Germany
References
External links
Department of Computer Science
Department of Mathematics
Institute for Technical Informatics and IT Security
University of Mannheim
Mannheim
Educational institutions established in 1967
1967 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Magical%20Delights%20of%20Stevie%20Nicks | "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks" is the tenth episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on January 8, 2014, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by James Wong and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. In this episode, Fiona (Jessica Lange) tries to out the next Supreme with a visit by Stevie Nicks and Madison (Emma Roberts) tries to eliminate her competition for the Supremacy. This episode marks Nicks' acting debut. She agreed to do the show based on her love of Glee, another show from the same creative team. Angela Bassett, Danny Huston and Patti LuPone guest star as Marie Laveau, the Axeman, and Joan Ramsey, respectively. This episode is rated TV-MA (LV).
Plot
Misty Day is overwhelmed when presented to Stevie Nicks, who gives away her trademark shawl to Misty as a lucky charm for the Seven Wonders trial.
Marie Laveau reveals to Fiona the source of her immortality: "to sell the soul to Papa Legba and obey his commands no matter what once a year", which in Marie's case is to get him an innocent life starting with her own baby centuries ago.
Madison tries to sabotage Zoe and the other witches in the race for the Supremacy.
Cordelia breaks down, feeling useless and responsible for the impending war and begins destroying the greenhouse. Shortly after, the Delphi Trust, losing half of their finances in less than 10 minutes, suspects witchcraft influence and starts planning the extermination of the Coven. Fiona summons Papa Legba, offering her soul in exchange for eternal youth and willing to do any request for it, but the spirit turns down the deal as he claims she has "no soul to give". After this, she becomes determined to kill all of the Coven in order to murder the new Supreme.
Marie and Fiona decide to get rid of Nan, considering her too dangerous after she finds the stolen newborn for Papa Legba and starts claiming she would be a better and kinder Supreme. They offer her as a sacrifice to Papa Legba, drowning her in the bathtub. He accepts the substitute for the newborn and warns Laveau and Fiona of being "trouble" together.
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes reports a 77% approval rating, based on 13 reviews. The critical consensus reads, "The titular rock star provides grounding for "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks", an enjoyably odd episode that becomes bolder as it progresses, even if the characters and storylines grow more difficult to track." Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club gave the episode an A− rating, saying, ""The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks" is by far the best episode of this season of American Horror Story. Freed from the constraints of its endless circling and with an actual villain to face off with, the show's characters start actually doing stuff, and the series' momentum grows exponentially." However, she added: "It's also a completely ridiculous episode of television." Matt Fowler from IGN gave the episode a 7.3/10 rating, saying, "While offer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymmetricDS | SymmetricDS is open source software for database and file synchronization with Multi-master replication, filtered synchronization, and transformation capabilities. It is designed to scale for a large number of nodes, work across low-bandwidth connections, and withstand periods of network outage. Data synchronization occurs asynchronously from a scheduled job, with data changes being sent over a push or pull operation. It uses standard web protocols (HTTP) and database technologies (JDBC) in order to support a wide range of platforms and maximize its interoperability. It includes support for Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Greenplum, SQL Server, SQL Server Azure, HSQLDB, H2, Derby, DB2, Firebird, Informix, Interbase, SQLite, Sybase ASE, Sybase ASA, MongoDB, Amazon_Redshift, and VoltDB databases.
Functionality
SymmetricDS runs either as a standalone server (using a built-in Jetty), within an application server (such as Apache Tomcat), or embedded into an application. Configuration is done through properties files and a collection of configuration tables at a central node. Both database tables and filesystems can be synchronized across a network of nodes. Configuration allows for selection of tables, columns (vertical filtering), and subsets of rows (horizontal filtering) to synchronize in one direction or both directions. Files are selected by base directory and whether to recurse into directories. Wildcard characters are used to match multiple tables and files. Tables can be grouped into channels that sync based on priority. Groups of nodes are linked together and assigned a transport method of push or pull. A push will connect to the node and send changes when they are ready, while a pull will periodically connect with a node to check if changes are available. Several network topologies are possible by linking node groups, including fan-in/out, multi-master, star, and multi-tier tree. A node can be prepared with an initial load of data to populate its database. Changes are grouped into batches and assigned for delivery to nodes using Routers. Routers can be configured or scripted to filter data and make decisions on which nodes should receive data. Batches are delivered during synchronization and tracked using a sequence number and status, with periodic retries designed to automatically recover from errors. Administration tools for command line and a web-based JMX console are included to manage nodes from a central location. Programming interfaces for Java and REST are included to extend and customize behavior.
Prominent users
OpenMRS - open source medical record system
Openboxes - supply chain management software
See also
Multi-master replication
Comparison of file synchronization software
Replication (computer science)
References
External links
SymmetricDS community website
SymmetricDS source code
Data synchronization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20M%C3%BClheim/Oberhausen | The Mülheim/Oberhausen tramway network is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system focused on Mülheim an der Ruhr and Oberhausen, two cities in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Opened in 1897, the network is operated by and Stadtwerke Oberhausen (STOAG), and integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR).
Lines
, the network had the following lines:
The former line 110 (Styrum, Friesenstr. – Hauptfriedhof) was replaced by bus line 128 on October 4, 2015.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Ruhrbahn – official site
STOAG – official site
Mülheim
Oberhausen
Mulheim Oberhausen
Transport in North Rhine-Westphalia
Metre gauge railways in Germany
750 V DC railway electrification
Mulheim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwikdesk | KwikDesk is a computer platform that supports the discreet and secure movement of data. The founder, Kevin Abosch, a visual artist, created Kwikdesk as a conceptual art-project to facilitate the anonymous exchange of information through a website, and as a response to trends among existing social media platforms. KwikDesk requires no login or password to use. KwikDesk doesn't use cookies and doesn't track IP addresses. Users set a date their submitted kwiks will self-destruct; either 24 hours, or 10 days. The Chinese version of KwikDesk was launched with the participation of human-rights activist and Tiananmen protest leader Wu'erkaixi.
References
External links
Official KwikDesk Website
KwikDesk Chinese Website
Internet properties established in 2013
Irish websites
Text messaging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20Business%20Network | Canada Business Network (CBN) () is a collaborative arrangement among Canadian federal government departments and agencies, provincial and territorial governments, and not-for-profit entities1. Its aim is to provide small and medium Canadian businesses and enterprising organizations with the resources they need to grow and prosper in a global economy, free of charge.
Management and Governance
Governance of the CBN is outlined in a combination of inter-jurisdictional agreements and collaborative arrangements defining roles and responsibilities at the federal and regional level.
Federally, CBN is managed in the following configuration:
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)
National Office
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland and Labrador
Prince Edward Island
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Quebec
Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
Yukon
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Ontario
Prairies Economic Development Canada
Alberta
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Pacific Economic Development Canada
British Columbia
Services
CBN promotes entrepreneurship and innovation, and aims to reduce the complexity for entrepreneurs in dealing with multiple levels of government. On the Network's website entrepreneurs can learn how to register a business and get information on planning and managing their operations including doing market research and protecting their intellectual property. Business owners can also search for government financing programs as well as federal, provincial/territorial, and municipal permits and licences.
Connect with the CBN through a toll-free phone number: 1-888-576-4444 or TTY: 1-800-457-8466, and receive support from regional service centres.
Services available to businesses and enterprising non-profits include (but are not limited to) seminars, business education, networking events, business advisory services, and business research services by geographic location and business sector.
Social Media Engagement
CBN uses social media as an extension of its presence on the Web. In addition to weekly blogs on a variety of business topics, CBN has a presence on Twitter , Facebook , and YouTube .
Media Mentions
CBN has been mentioned in the following Canadian newspaper and magazine articles:
10 Best Websites for Small-Business Owners, Connected for Business magazine, June 2013
Den Dragons offer business advice, Metro News, November 2012
'Walking the talk' and going green pays off for Oxfam, The Globe and Mail, March 2012
Notes
Departmental Performance Report for the period ending March 31, 2013, Industry Canada
External links
CanadaBusiness.gc.ca
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Business organizations based in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Bouton | Christopher Bouton is the founder and CEO of Entagen, a software company in the Boston, Massachusetts area, which develops Big Data integration and analytics solutions. Entagen's technologies were named "Innovative Technology of the Year in Big Data" in 2012 by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and Entagen was named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" in the Life Sciences in 2013.
Entagen was acquired by Thomson Reuters in October, 2013 for an undisclosed amount.
Early life and education
Bouton's mother, Barbara Bouton, worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and his father, Marshall Bouton, is a political scientist who most recently ran the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Bouton was born in 1973 in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved from Chicago to Brooklyn, New York, New Delhi, India, Washington, DC and then back to Brooklyn.
Bouton attended Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn) for high school. While at Saint Ann's he was awarded sixth place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search in 1992 for research that he performed at the Jackson Laboratory. He then attended Amherst College for his undergraduate education and Johns Hopkins University for his Ph.D.
While at Johns Hopkins, Bouton worked in the laboratory of Jonathan Pevsner who appeared as a Leonardo da Vinci expert and researcher on the show Doing DaVinci. While in Pevsner's lab, Bouton developed and released the "Database Referencing of Array Genes ONline" (DRAGON) database and DRAGON View analytics systems in 2002, which remains in wide use currently. During his doctoral research, Bouton also demonstrated that Synaptotagmin I, an important member of the molecular machinery which governs neurotransmitter release at the synaptic terminal, is a molecular target of lead which may in part contribute to the effects of lead poisoning. Bouton also published on the effects of lead on gene expression and the involvement of presenilins in Alzheimer's Disease.
Career
Following graduation from Johns Hopkins University, Neuroscience Graduate Program, Bouton worked at LION Bioscience Research, Inc. (a subsidiary of LION bioscience AG)) and Aveo Pharmaceuticals (formerly GenPath Pharmaceuticals).
Bouton was recruited in 2004 to the position of Head of Integrative Data Mining at the Pfizer Research Technology Center in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Pfizer, Bouton is credited with having developed the Pfizerpedia, an organizational knowledge base.
In 2008, Bouton founded Entagen. Entagen developed a range of technologies that combined Linked Data and Big Data approaches including Extera and TripleMap. Entagen also participated in the hack/reduce community in the Cambridge, MA area from 2011 - 2014. Entagen's technologies were named "Innovative Technology of the Year in Big Data" in 2012 by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and Entagen was named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" in the Life Sciences in 2013.
Bouton has published a number of papers about Big Data and data integration ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assaf%20Schuster | Assaf Schuster is an Israeli entrepreneur and professor of computer science whose works have been published in such journals as Computer Aided Verification and Journal of Systems and Software.
Biography
Schuster was born in 1958 in the Israeli kibbutz Givat Brenner to Tzipora and Yochanan Schuster. His family is of Ashkenazi-Jewish origin.
Schuster began his academic studies at the Hebrew University in 1981, and graduated in 1984, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science. In 1986, he graduated with a master's degree in computer science. After receiving his degree, Schuster worked as a teacher at Ort College in Givat Ram, Jerusalem. In 1991 Schuster received a doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in computer science. His PhD topic dealt with the dynamic configuration of communication networks for parallel computation, under the guidance of Eli Shamir. He then started working at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In 2000, he became an associate professor and in 2007, he became a professor.
In 2015 he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to cloud computing.
In 2016, Schuster co-founded a startup called Cy-oT (Cyber of Things), along with Natan Bandler and Daniel Moscovici. Schuster served as the CTO until the company was sold to Verint in 2019.
References
Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Computer Science & Engineering alumni
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Living people
20th-century births
Israeli computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20Data%20Generator | The Wind Data Generator (WDG) is a wind energy software tool capable of running WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting Model) model to create a wind atlas and to generate wind data at any location, any height of interest for any resolution from 3 km to 10 km.
Before investing in the installation of a meteorological measurement mast tower, wind engineers use the WDG software to generate Virtual Met Masts (VMM) at any area of interest and get 30+ years of hourly wind data (speed and direction). These data can be used to run pre-feasibility analyses and generate conceptual layouts for any wind turbine types. Doing so, site selection & ranking decision-making is based on optimized installed capacity (MW) and capacity factor numbers (MWh/year) even before having on-site mast data. The software has other interesting features (Micrositing, MCP, extreme wind speed analyses...) that can be used to build more profitable wind farms (by reducing uncertainties) over the long-term (IEC standards).
The WDG is used worldwide to bring confidence on the project feasibility at the very early stages of project development in terms of both “quantity” (wind speed) and “quality” (shear, turbulence, inflow angles) of the wind.
Model
The WRF model integrated in the WDG is a fully compressible and non-hydrostatic model. Its vertical coordinate is a terrain-following hydro-static pressure coordinate. The grid staggering is the Arakawa C-grid. The model uses the Runge-Kutta 2nd and 3rd order time integration schemes and 2nd to 6th order advection schemes in both horizontal and vertical directions. It uses a time-split small step for acoustic and gravity-wave modes. The dynamics conserves scalar variables.
Innovation award
On April 9, 2014 in Paris, French-based MeteoPole was awarded an innovation award from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the disruptive Wind Data Generator software, becoming the first wind power industry technology to be awarded by the MIT.
The company’s CEO, Karim Fahssis, was also named by the MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s top 35 innovators of the year for introducing the path-breaking software to the wind industry. MIT’s TR35 has awarded several of today’s global influencers in its initial editions, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
References
Wind power |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20cycling%20route%20network | A national cycling route network is a nationwide network of designated long-distance cycling routes found in various countries around the world for the purposes of bicycle tourism. They are often created and maintained by the government of the country, or at least with the backing or co-operation of the government of the country. Some of the routes in these national networks can be part of international long-distance cycling routes, such as the EuroVelo network of European cycling routes.
Examples of these national networks are the Dutch LF-routes, the routes of the British National Cycle Network, and the USA's United States Bicycle Route System.
Europe
Belgium: RAVeL network in Wallonie && LF-routes in Flanders
Denmark: the 11 Danish National Cycle Routes
Germany: the German Cycling Network consisting of 12 so-called D-Routes
Italy: (a proposed network, BicItalia)
France: (a proposed network, Les Véloroutes et Voies Vertes de France)
The Netherlands: the 26 Dutch National Cycle Routes, the so-called LF-routes
Norway: the 10 routes of the Norwegian National Cycle Routes network
Sweden: The 15 main routes of the Sverigeleden (Sweden Route) and their branch routes
Switzerland: A network of 9 routes, the Swiss National Bike Routes
United Kingdom: the National Cycle Network, of 10 primary routes and scores of secondary routes
North America
United States Bicycle Route System
See also
Organizing bodies:
Adventure Cycling Association
National Association of City Transportation Officials
Muli-modal road safety:
Assured clear distance ahead
Cycling infrastructure
Contrasting international system:
Numbered-node cycle network (encourages users to take arbitrary routes)
References
External links
National Cycle Network
U.S. Bicycle Route System (USBRS) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelcast | In computing, Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform based on Java that combines a fast data store with stream processing. It is also the name of the company developing the product. The Hazelcast company is funded by venture capital and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
In a Hazelcast grid, data is evenly distributed among the nodes of a computer cluster, allowing for horizontal scaling of processing and available storage. Backups are also distributed among nodes to protect against failure of any single node. Hazelcast provides central, predictable scaling of applications through in-memory access to frequently used data and across an elastically scalable data grid. These techniques reduce the query load on databases and improve speed.
Hazelcast can run on-premises, in the cloud (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift), virtually (VMware), and in Docker containers. Hazelcast offers technology integrations for multiple cloud configuration and deployment technologies, including Apache jclouds, Consul, etcd, Eureka, Kubernetes, and Zookeeper. The Hazelcast Cloud Discovery Service Provider Interface (SPI) enables cloud-based or on-premises nodes to auto-discover each other.
The Hazelcast platform can manage memory for many different types of applications. It offers an Open Binary Client Protocol to support APIs for any binary programming language. The Hazelcast and open source community members have created client APIs for programming languages that include Java, .NET, C++, Python, Node.js and Go.
Usage
Typical use-cases for Hazelcast include:
Application scaling
Cache-as-a-service
Cross-JVM communication and shared storage
Distributed cache, often in front of a database
In-memory processing and Analytics
In-memory computing
Internet of Things infrastructure
Key-value database
Memcached alternative with a protocol compatible interface
Microservices infrastructure
NoSQL data store
Spring Cache
Web Session clustering
Vert.x utilizes it for shared storage.
Hazelcast is also used in academia and research as a framework for distributed execution and storage.
Cloud2Sim leverages Hazelcast as a distributed execution framework for CloudSim cloud simulations.
ElastiCon distributed SDN controller uses Hazelcast as its distributed data store.
∂u∂u exploits Hazelcast as its distributed execution framework for near duplicate detection in enterprise data solutions.
See also
Complex event processing
Distributed data store
Distributed transaction processing
Infinispan
Oracle Coherence
Ehcache
Couchbase Server
Apache Ignite
Redis
References
External links
Transaction processing
Storage software
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Cycling%20Network | The German Cycling Network (German: Radnetz Deutschland) is the national cycling route network of Germany. There are currently 12 such long-distance cycling routes, called D-Routes (the "D" stands for "Deutschland’" i.e. Germany) criss-crossing the German nation and these were established mainly to promote bicycle tourism.
Part of the German Nationaler Radverkehrsplan (National Cycling Plan), the project to establish the German Cycling Network ran over a 10 year period, from 2002 to 2012.
D-Routes
Future expansion
In the summer of 2012, in the Nationale Radverkehrsplan 2020 (National Cycling Plan 2020), it was decided that the German sections of the Iron Curtain Trail (which is also cycling route, known as EuroVelo 13) would be included as part of the German Cycling Network. Other than this there are currently no further plans for expansion.
See also
EuroVelo
LF-routes, the national cycling route network of the Netherlands.
National Cycle Network, the national cycling route network of the United Kingdom.
References
External links
Bon Voyage on the German Cycle Network
National cycling route networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGVE | KGVE 99.3 FM is a radio station licensed to Grove, Oklahoma. The station broadcasts a country music format and is owned by Mark Linn, through licensee Taylor Made Broadcasting Network, LLC.
References
External links
KGVE's webpage
GVE
Country radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Labor%20Defense | The International Labor Defense (ILD) (1925–1947) was a legal advocacy organization established in 1925 in the United States as the American section of the Comintern's International Red Aid network. The ILD defended Sacco and Vanzetti, was active in the anti-lynching, movements for civil rights, and prominently participated in the defense and legal appeals in the cause célèbre of the Scottsboro Boys in the early 1930s. Its work contributed to the appeal of the Communist Party among African Americans in the South. In addition to fundraising for defense and assisting in defense strategies, from January 1926 it published Labor Defender, a monthly illustrated magazine that achieved wide circulation. In 1946 the ILD was merged with the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties to form the Civil Rights Congress, which served as the new legal defense organization of the Communist Party USA. It intended to expand its appeal, especially to African Americans in the South. In several prominent cases in which blacks had been sentenced to death in the South, the CRC campaigned on behalf of black defendants. It had some conflict with former allies, such as the NAACP, and became increasingly isolated. Because of federal government pressure against organizations it considered subversive, such as the CRC, it became less useful in representing defendants in criminal justice cases. The CRC was dissolved in 1956. At the same time, in this period, black leaders were expanding the activities and reach of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1954, in a case managed by the NAACP, the US Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional.
History
Pre-Communist forerunners
Ever since the birth of the organized labor movement, economic disputes have been contested in the legal system. In some cases, an employer or government has gone to court to achieve termination of strike actions, or to seek prosecution for alleged malefactors for physical violence or property damage resulting from such turmoil. The use of the injunction by employers to prohibit specific actions and its enforcement by the courts occasionally resulted in groups of defendants being embroiled in the costly legal system for union activities. The Pullman Strike of 1894, which brought about the trial and imprisonment of the officers of the American Railway Union, is but one example.
The syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World was subject to particularly intense legal pressure, framed at times as "free speech" actions, and in other situations less ambiguously as legal actions against union organizers and activists for their economic activities. To defend its core activists and their activities from what was systematic legal attack, the IWW established a legal advocacy organization called the General Defense Committee (GDC). It raised funds and coordinated the union's legal defense efforts.
Government efforts to silence and jail conscientious objec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%20National%20Bike%20Routes | The Swiss National Bike Routes (, , ) are the national cycling route network of Switzerland. There are currently 9 such long-distance cycling routes criss-crossing the Swiss nation and these were established mainly to promote bicycle tourism.
The routes are signposted with red signposts. National routes are characterized by single-digit numbers to tell them apart from the Swiss regional routes. Each national route is published in a guidebook in German and French with map sections at 1:100 000 scale with technical and tourist information.
Nine national and many regional routes were established. The nine national routes are:
Rhone Route : Andermatt - Geneva, 309 km (26 km unpaved road ), 4360 meters of altitude
Rhine Route : Andermatt - Oberalp Pass - Chur - Schaffhausen - Basel, 424 km
North -South Route : Basel - Chiasso, 363 km
Alpine Panorama Route : St.Margrethen - Aigle, 483 km
Mittelland Route : Roman Horn - Lausanne, 369 km
Graubünden Route : Chur - Bellinzona, 260 km
Jura Route : Basel - Nyon, 275 km
Aare Route : Upper Forest - Koblenz, 305 km
Lakes Route : Montreux - Rorschach, 497 km
Note that, these routes often follow paved roads and paths, but they also contain sections that are not yet paved. Only the Route 4 (Alpine Panorama Route) is paved throughout.
See also
EuroVelo
LF-routes, the national cycling route network of the Netherlands.
National Cycle Network, the national cycling route network of the United Kingdom.
References
External links
National routes Schweiz Mobil - Veloland
Cycling in Switzerland
National cycling route networks
Tourism in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang%20Radio%20and%20Television%20Group | Zhejiang Media Group formerly known as Zhejiang Radio and Television Group (ZRTG) (), is China's fourth-biggest television network after China Central Television (CCTV), Hunan Broadcasting System (HBS), and Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation (JSBC). The television network is owned by the Zhejiang provincial government. The network is based in Hangzhou in Zhejiang.
History
Before the establishment of Zhejiang Radio and Television Group the local television stations first aired in Hangzhou and northern Zhejiang in the 1960s. ZRTG was established in 8 November 2001 to compete with other major Television networks and expanded its network through nationwide satellite television on 1994.
Television Channels
Zhejiang Television (Satellite television)
Qianjiang Channel
Zhejiang Economic Channel
Zhejiang Education Technology Channel
Joy Television (Zhejiang Drama and Television Entertainment Channel)
Channel 6
Zhejiang Public and News Channel
Zhejiang Children Channel
Channel Tunnel
Zhejiang International Channel
Best One home shopping channel
The age of Digital
Radio stations
The voice of Zhejiang(FM88 FM101.6 AM810)
Economic radio(FM95)
Traffic radio(FM 93)
Music radio(FM96.8)
Livelihood FM 99.6
Hostess Radio(FM104.5 AM603)
City Radio(FM 107)
News Radio (FM98.8 AM1530)
Production
ZRTG have broadcast notable programming such as The Voice of China, often referred to as the Chinese version of the Dutch's reality talent show The Voice of Holland.
The Voice of China
Chinese Dream Show
Splash!
Do You Remember
Fall in Love
My Oscar
Break Away
Mr. Zhou Live Show
Star Know My Heart
References
Television networks in China
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Mass media in Hangzhou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLMI | OpenLMI (abbreviated from Open Linux Management Infrastructure) provides a common management infrastructure for Linux systems. Available operations include configuration of various operating system parameters and services, hardware components configuration, and monitoring of system resources. Services provided by OpenLMI can be accessed both locally and remotely, using multiple programming languages and standardized APIs.
Project's source code is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and Simplified BSD License.
Overview
OpenLMI distinguishes agents, controllers and client applications:
OpenLMI agents perform the actual operations; they are installed and run on managed Linux systems.
OpenLMI controllers manage the OpenLMI agents.
Client applications talk to the OpenLMI controllers through well-defined interfaces and language bindings, which are based on open industry standards for the management of remote systems.
Thus, instead of delivering a complete management solution, OpenLMI provides low-level functions and APIs that can be used by, or integrated into, various management platforms, applications or configuration scripts.
OpenLMI extends the already existing Linux infrastructure by providing management agents which also perform system configuration tasks, in addition to monitoring and reporting functions. By exporting those operations through standard-based interfaces, and by providing agents performing the actual operations, OpenLMI creates a management framework that various applications can use both for system configuration, and for monitoring resources and performance. Usage targets for OpenLMI include bare-metal production servers, on which it can perform initial configurations through a set of predefined "recipes".
, implemented agents primarily perform operations related to storage, networking and local user accounts. Plans exist to expand the variety of implemented agents, aiming at providing complete coverage of Linux management and configuration tasks.
The OpenLMI's source code is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and Simplified BSD License (also known as the FreeBSD License).
Architecture
Based on their placement and usage role, OpenLMI architecture contains two major components: management modules (also known as agents), and management tools. A set of management modules is installed and running on each of the managed systems, performing the configuration and monitoring tasks. Management tools are running on a management system, performing aggregation of the collected monitoring data, and dispatching the requests to management modules. The agents are talking to the outside world through an OpenLMI Object Broker, which is also known as a controller. This object request broker provides a standard-based communications protocol, handles the security and access control, and provides deployment methods for the agents.
Each agent implements an object model that speci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeriousFun%20Children%27s%20Network | SeriousFun Children's Network is a global community of 30 camps and programs for seriously ill children. All camps and programs offer free recreational experiences to children with serious illnesses and their family members. The first SeriousFun camp was launched in 1988 by founder Paul Newman.
SeriousFun camps and programs serve children living with over 50 medical conditions, including those with cancer, HIV/AIDS, sickle cell disease, endocrine disorders, orthopedic conditions and severe asthma. Since 1988, SeriousFun camps and programs have served over 1.3 million children and their family members from more than 40 countries.
History
The organization was founded by Paul Newman, who wished to establish a place where children living with serious illnesses could enjoy their childhood.
In 1988, the first SeriousFun camp, The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, was opened. By 1994, two more camps opened, expanding the network to Europe.
In 2008, SeriousFun's Global Partnership Program was begun. The program provides camp experiences to children with serious illnesses throughout Africa, Asia and the Caribbean by partnering with locally operated, internationally trusted organizations.
In 2012, SeriousFun Children's Network unveiled its new brand name and logo (formerly known as The Association of Hole in the Wall Camps). The title "SeriousFun" was said to acknowledge Newman's playful humor and the impact that fun can have on the lives of children with serious medical conditions.
Camps and programs
All SeriousFun camps and programs deliver a recreational camp experience, adapted to meet medical needs and intentionally programmed to foster psychological and social development. Programs include Residential Camp, Hospital and Community Outreach, Family Weekends, Sibling Camp, Bereavement Sessions and Winter Adaptive Camp. SeriousFun camps and programs serve children living with over 50 medical conditions. These include, but are not limited, to cancer; rheumatologic, blood, endocrine, gastrointestinal, genetic, immunologic, metabolic, neurological and vascular disorders; orthopedic, cardiology, pulmonary and skin conditions; and ventilator dependencies. The organization aims to make its services universally accessible and inclusive.
Asia
Japan – Solaputi Kids' Camp
Israel – Jordan River Village
Europe
France – L'Envol
Hungary – Bátor Tábor
Ireland – Barretstown
Italy – Dynamo Camp
United Kingdom – Over the Wall
United States
California – The Painted Turtle
Colorado – Roundup River Ranch
Connecticut – The Hole in The Wall Gang Camp
Florida – Camp Boggy Creek
Michigan – North Star Reach
New York – Double H Ranch
North Carolina – Victory Junction
Ohio - Flying Horse Farms
Washington – Camp Korey
Global Partnership Program
The Global Partnership Program (GPP) offers camp experiences to children living with serious illnesses in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. SeriousFun Children's Network collaborates with international organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomPlus | Achieve (formerly known as FreedomPlus) is a lender that mainly focuses on underwriting loans to prime consumers. Achieve is the consumer brand of Freedom Financial Network, LLC, which is headquartered in San Mateo, California. Achieve developed a proprietary underwriting process that delivers low-cost loans to borrowers and low-risk access to consumer loan portfolios for accredited investors.
In December 2013, the Freedom Financial Network announced it received a venture capital commitment of $125 million from Vulcan Capital, which is Vulcan Inc.'s investment company. Freedom Financial Network will use the capital to grow its lending operations and to launch FreedomPlus, an online lending platform. FreedomPlus is open to accredited investors to invest in pools of loans, but it is not a peer to peer lending company.
FreedomPlus was previously led by Joseph Toms (President J.G. Wentworth), the former managing director at LC Advisors, Lending Club’s registered investment advisor subsidiary, and Chief Investment Officer at Prosper Marketplace. Both are peer-to-peer lenders.
FreedomPlus will focus on “emerging prime” borrowers with FICO scores between 620 and 749, of which there are 80 million in the US. The maximum loan amount will be $40,000 and the maximum interest rate will be less than 29.99%, with flexible loan terms of two, three, four or five years.
The company will use traditional underwriting tools, such as credit scores, when underwriting loans. It will also use a significant human component and talk with borrowers to verify information and understand the goals they wish to accomplish with the loan, to try to find loans that fits borrowers' specific needs.
History
Inception
The parent company of FreedomPlus, Freedom Financial Network, started a pilot program in 2008 that made unsecured loans to consumers struggling with their existing debt. The company lent $25 million to people who had average FICO scores of 576. Average loan balances were greater than $15,000, and annual default rates were less than 2%. Interest rates are 3.75% above prime consumer debt rates.
Name Change
In November 2022, FreedomPlus changed its name to Achieve.
Leadership
Andrew Housser, Co-CEO and Co-Founder
Bradford Stroh, Co-CEO and Co-Founder
See also
Alternative financial services
Non-bank financial institution
References
External links
Companies based in San Mateo, California
American companies established in 2013
Credit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melomics109 | Melomics109 is a computer cluster located at Universidad de Málaga used to create digital music. It is part of the Spanish Supercomputing Network, and has been designed to increase the computational power provided by Iamus. Powered by Melomics' technology, the composing module of Melomics109 is able to create and synthesize music in a variety of musical styles. This music has been made freely accessible to everyone. The cluster consists of three cabinets with customized front panels.
Album
0music is the first album composed and interpreted by Melomics109. It was launched in July 2014, and was released in audio (MP3) and editable format (MIDI), under CC0 (public domain) licensing.
External links
Melomics home page
Melomics page at University of Malaga (Spain)
References
Cluster computing
Music technology
Artificial intelligence art
One-of-a-kind computers
Spanish Supercomputing Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20licence%20%28French%29 | The Licence Ouverte / Open Licence is a French open license published on October 18, 2011 by for open data from the State of France. The license was designed to be compatible with Creative Commons Licenses, Open Government License, and the Open Data Commons Attribution License. Information released under the Open License may be re-used with attribution, such as a URL or other identification of the producer. The Open License is used by the city of Bordeaux, France to release data sets.
References
External links
License Ouverte by Etalab
Open data
Licensing
2012 introductions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif%20Kobbelt | Leif Kobbelt (born 12 December 1966 in Cologne) is a German university professor for Computer Science with a specialization in Computer Graphics. Since 2001 he is the head of the Institute for Computer Graphics and Multimedia at RWTH Aachen university.
Life and career
After receiving his diploma in 1992 and his PhD in 1994 in Computer Science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology he worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and the Max Planck Institute of Computer Science before he moved to RWTH Aachen University in 2001. Here he built up an internationally renowned research group which eventually led to the foundation of the Visual Computing Institute at RWTH in 2015.
His research interests include 3D reconstruction, efficient geometry processing, realtime rendering, digital fabrication and multi-media applications. Kobbelt published a substantial number of influential papers in international top-conferences and journals. He also acts as a consultant, reviewer, and editor for international companies, research organizations and journals, respectively.
For his research he was awarded with the Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz award in 2000, the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contribution Award 2004, two Günther Enderle Awards (in 1999 and 2012), an ERC Advanced Grant 2013 and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2014. He was nominated as a Fellow of the Eurographics Association (2008) and as a Distinguished Professor of RWTH Aachen University (2013). In 2015 he became a member of the Academia Europaea and in 2016 a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
Besides university teaching, Leif Kobbelt is very active in communicating scientific topics to the general public ().
References
External links
DFG Press Release, Leibniz-Preis 2014
Institute for Computergraphics and Multimedia at RWTH Aachen
Visual Computing Institute at RWTH Aachen
Members of the NRW Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
1966 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20National%20Cycle%20Routes | The Norwegian National Cycle Routes (Nasjonale sykkelrute) form the national cycling route network of Norway. There are currently 10 such long-distance cycling routes, criss-crossing Norway and these were established mainly to promote bicycle tourism.
Routes
the list of Norwegian National Cycle Routes is as follows:
Svinesund to Kirkenes
Porsgrunn to Stavanger
Kristiansand, Setesdal and Hardanger
Bergen, Finse, Oslo
Larvik, Kongsberg, Geilo
Røros to Hardanger
Halden, Oslo, Nidaros
Oppdal to Molde
Halden to Trondheim
Northcape to Lindesnes
See also
EuroVelo
LF-routes, the national cycling route network of the Netherlands.
National Cycle Network, the national cycling route network of the United Kingdom.
References
External links
Syklist Velkommen – tips til sykkelferien: National cycle routes (Link not working as of 12 Apr 2022)
National cycling route networks
Cycling in Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Sims | Oliver Sims (born 1943, died in 2015) was a British computer scientist, former IBM employee, and enterprise architecture consultant, known for his work on business objects Object-oriented programming, and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Biography
After attending George Watson's College and Neath Grammar School, Sims studied Economics and Statistics at the Swansea University, where he received his BSc (Econ) with honours in 1969.
In 1969 Sims started his 24-year career at IBM, where he started as a trainee Systems Engineer. He held positions in software development, technical management and, in his last three years, in consultancy. He worked on a range of software products from operating systems, middleware, database management systems (DBMS) and application packages to the development of in-house customer applications. in 1993 he became Chief Architect and Principal Consultant for Integrated Objects Ltd in Newbury, UK, and also became member of the Object Management Group. He has held a number of other positions in software and consultancy ever since.
He described his goal as "to contribute to the transformation of software development, and IT's management of their assets, to much higher levels of productivity, responsiveness, and flexibility. Achieving this goal is now possible through a synergistic combination of architectural design, traceability concepts, product line, middleware improvement, MDA, and agile processes."
Selected publications
Books
Sims, Oliver. Business objects]. McGraw-Hill, 1994.
Eeles, Peter; Oliver Sims (1998). Building Business Objects. John Wiley & Sons. .
Herzum, Peter, and Oliver Sims. Business Components Factory: A Comprehensive Overview of Component-Based Development for the Enterprise. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.
Sims, Oliver, Ashish Jain, and Mark Little. Enterprise service oriented architectures: concepts, challenges, recommendations. Springer, 2006.
Articles, a selection:
Herzum, Peter, and Oliver Sims. "The business component approach." Business Object Design and Implementation II. Springer London, 1998. 46–58.
Tyndale-Biscoe, Sandy, et al. "Business modelling for component systems with UML." Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2002. EDOC'02. Proceedings. Sixth International. IEEE, 2002.
See also
Newi
Object-oriented programming
References
External links
Oliver Sims at Open-it
Oliver Sims, the "father" of business objects
1942 births
Living people
Alumni of Swansea University
British computer scientists
IBM employees
People educated at George Watson's College
People educated at Neath Grammar School for Boys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%20Moviez | UFO Moviez India Limited is an Indian digital cinema distribution network and an in-cinema advertising platform. It operates a satellite-based digital cinema distribution network using its UFO-M4 platform and D-Cinema network. UFO Moviez is a company in the business of electronic delivery of digitized full-length feature films and content in theatres via satellite. UFO has also contributed to the revival of single screen cinemas in India and its secure technology has substantially reduced Piracy. UFO has ensured that audiences have ‘day of release’ access to films everywhere. UFO Moviez claimed to have released more than 11,000 films in 22 languages, on its UFO M4-Platform & DCI Network and has conducted over 21 million shows.
History
Founded in 2005, UFO Moviez has been promoted by Valuable Group led by Sanjay Gaikwad & Narendra Hete and Apollo International Limited led by Kanwar Raaja. Valuable Group is, amongst other businesses, engaged in the digital cinema space, film distribution business and delivers, stores and plays movies in private theatres. Apollo International has different business segments such as international trading of tyres, various commodities, products and services, manufacturing and export of leather garments and logistics. In 2007, 3i Private Equity invested US$22mn. with an aim of funding the company's expansion plans. In 2011, Providence Equity Partners provided growth capital by investing US$60mn. in primary and secondary capital. In 2011, UFO acquired controlling stake in South India based Southern Digital Solutions (SDS) and the only DCI System Integrator in India – Scrabble Entertainment. These acquisitions made UFO Moviez a pan India lead player in Digital Cinema business catering to both – e-Cinema and D-Cinema technologies. In 2015, UFO Moviez made a stellar debut on Indian Bourses.
Products
Digital Cinema System
UFO-M4 is UFO's satellite-based, E-Cinema movie delivery platform.
References
Film distributors of India
Technology companies of India
Film production companies based in Mumbai
Mass media companies established in 2004
2004 establishments in Maharashtra
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polimer%20TV | Polimer TV (also known as Polimer) is an Indian Tamil language entertainment channel that was owned by Polimer TV Network. The channel shows dubbed series from other television channels and some original shows. It was earlier launched as a local Television channel by starting their headquarters at Salem and it aired only at Salem, Namakkal, Erode, Coimbatore, Madurai, Dharmapuri. However, It was later converted into a Tamil Entertainment channel by expanding the whole coverage in Tamilnadu by moving their headquarters at Chennai.
Current shows
Engal Sai
Former shows
Original series
Yamini B.A.B.L.
Aayiram Jenmangal
Rajamannar Vagaiyara
Ithu Namma Veedu
Original reality/non-scripted programming
Makkalukkaga
Polimer Junior Super Dancer
Something Something with Stars
Dubbed soap operas
24 Season 1
Alaadin (150 Episodes)
Aval Oru Thodarkadhai
Chanakya Sabadham (140 Episodes)
Devi
Ennarguil Nee Irundhal
En Kanmani
En Kanmani 2 (270 Episodes)
En Vazhkai En Kaiyil (175 Episodes)
Inai Kodugal
Ini Ellam Vasanthamey
Iru Malargal (326 Episodes)
Kadhal Parisu
Karthika Deepam
Karnan - Suriyaputhiran
Karuppu Vettai
Kalyana Kanavugal (327 Episodes)
Madhubala - Konjam Ishtam Konjam Kastam
Magalir Mattum (150 Episodes)
Mahaveer Hanuman
Mouna Ragam
Malgudi Days
Maaya
Mayakkam Enna
Moondru Mudichu (Longest Running Dubbed serial aired on 30 January 2012 - 29 January 2020 ending "2086" Episodes)
Nee Varuvai Ena
Nenjam Pesuthey
Nimirindhu Nil
Ninaithale InikkumPavithra (150 Episodes)Priyamudan NaaginiPudhu Pudhu ArthangalSaavalSaami Potta MudichuSakthi Pola YarumillaShakti (274 Episodes) Sree Rama Bhaktha Hanuman (52 Episodes) SundarakandamThillu Mullu (225 Episodes)Ullam Kollai PoguthadaUllam Kollai Poguthada 2 (99 Episodes)Uravae UyiraeVaa Arugil VaaVidhi Reality/non-scripted programming India's Got Talent''
References
External links
Official Website
Television stations in Chennai
Tamil-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2009
2009 establishments in Tamil Nadu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Hardware%20Error%20Architecture | Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) is an operating system hardware error handling mechanism introduced with Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 as a successor to Machine Check Architecture (MCA) on previous versions of Windows. The architecture consists of several software components that interact with the hardware and firmware of a given platform to handle and notify regarding hardware error conditions. Collectively, these components provide: a generic means of discovering errors, a common error report format for those errors, a way of preserving error records, and an error event model based up on Event Tracing for Windows (ETW).
WHEA "builds on the PCI Express Advanced Reporting to provide more detailed information about system errors and a common reporting structure."
WHEA allows third-party software to interact with the operating system and react to certain hardware events. For example, when a new CPU is added to a running system—a Windows Server feature known as Dynamic Hardware Partitioning—the hardware error component stack is notified that a new processor was installed.
In contrast, Linux supports the ACPI Platform Error Interface (APEI) which is introduced in ACPI 5.0.
See also
Machine-check exception (MCE)
Reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS)
RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability and safety)
High availability (HA)
Blue screen of death
References
Windows components
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008
Computer errors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing%20Bing%20Kang | Sing Bing Kang is a computer scientist known for his work in image-based modeling and rendering. He is a distinguished scientist at Zillow.
Kang has a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, completed in 1994. His dissertation, Robot Instruction by Human Demonstration, was supervised by Katsushi Ikeuchi. He worked for Microsoft Research before moving to Zillow.
He is the author of books including:
Image-Based Rendering (with Heung-Yeung Shum and Shing-Chow Chan, Springer, 2008)
Image-based Modeling of Plants and Trees (with Long Quan, Morgan & Claypool, 2010)
External links
Home page
References
Living people
20th-century births
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Microsoft Research people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20virtual%20network%20enabler | A mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) is a company that provides network infrastructure and related services, such as business support systems, administration, and operations support systems to a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). This enables MVNOs to offer services to their own customers with their own brands. The MVNE does not have a relationship with consumers, but rather is a provider of network enablement platforms and services.
MVNEs specialize in planning, implementation, and management of mobile services. Typically this includes SIM provisioning and configuration, customer billing, customer relationship management, and value-added service platforms. In effect, they enable an MVNO to outsource both the initial integration with the MNO, and the ongoing business and technical operations management. A related type of company is a mobile virtual network aggregator (MVNA). MVNE is a telecom solution, whereas MVNA is a business model which includes wholesale of an operator's airtime and routing of traffic over the MVNE's own switches.
The benefits of using an MVNE include a reduction in the upfront capital expenses of an MVNO, financing arrangements offered by MVNEs to cover start-up costs, and reduced wholesale airtime costs achieved through economies of scale of hosting multiple MVNOs on a single MVNE platform. Other potential benefits include reduced operational expenses via outsourcing management of business and technical operations, smoother launch processes, and benefiting from previous experience of the MVNE as a negotiating channel for smaller MVNOs to reach a wholesale agreement with the MNO.
Using an MVNE may not be appropriate for all MVNOs. The considerations for this decision are manifold; however, some of the key reasons for an MVNO to not use an MVNE would be:
The MVNO is large enough to achieve volume efficiency when going direct to the host operator (usually several hundred thousand subscribers).
The brand and distribution channels are sufficiently strong to negotiate a joint-venture or direct relationship and obtain better margins.
The MVNO has access to existing telecom infrastructure, for example switches, international capacity, fixed infrastructure, and billing platforms.
List of Mobile Virtual Network Enablers
Pareteum MVNE
1&1 Drillisch
Bouygues Telecom Business – Distribution (BTBD, formerly called Euro-Information Telecom)
Isoton
Kajeet (previously dba Arterra Mobility)
Medion AG
Transatel
PLINTRON
Plum MVNA
Helix Wireless
See also
Business Process Framework (eTOM)
Mobile network operator
Mobile virtual network operator
Operations, administration and management (OAM)
References
Business software
Telecommunications systems
Mobile technology
Telecommunications infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Hot%20100%20singles%20of%202013 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. Throughout a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2013, the list was published on December 13, calculated with data from December 1, 2012, to November 30, 2013.
"Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz topped the Year-End Hot 100 chart, with a total of 7,208,000 copies sold in the US. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's single "Can't Hold Us" featuring Ray Dalton also appeared in the list at number five, making the duo the fourth act to have two singles in the top five of the Year-End Hot 100 list. The second best-selling single of 2013 was "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell, having sold 6,380,000 copies in the country. Meanwhile, "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons and "Harlem Shake" by Baauer was listed on the list at number three and four, respectively.
List
See also
2013 in American music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2013
List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2013
References
United States Hot 100 Year-End
Lists of Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand%20by%20Me%20Doraemon | is a 2014 Japanese 3D computer-animated science fiction comedy drama film based on the Doraemon manga series and directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki. It was released on 8 August 2014. It is the highest-grossing film of the Doraemon franchise. Bang Zoom! Entertainment premiered an English-dubbed version of the film at the Tokyo International Film Festival on 24 October 2014. The English version features the cast of the Disney XD show Doraemon: Gadget Cat From the Future. A different English version with local actors was distributed by Multivision Pictures Entertainment and VIVA International Pictures for a Filipino audience in 2015. It is therefore the first of 2 Doraemon films to be dubbed in English.
Stand by Me Doraemon was commercially successful in Japan. It was number-one on the box office charts for five consecutive weeks and was the second highest-grossing Japanese anime film of 2014 in Japan, with a box office total of $183.4 million, behind Disney's Frozen. In February 2015, the film won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year at the 38th Japan Academy Prize.
A sequel was released on 20 November 2020 in Japan.
Plot
Nobita Nobi is a fourth grader who constantly gets failing grades in his subjects due to his laziness and is always bullied by his classmates Suneo Honekawa and Takeshi 'Gian' Goda. His great-great-grandson from the 22nd century, Sewashi, who watches him every day, travels to Nobita's timeline while bringing along his robotic cat Doraemon. Sewashi reveals that if Nobita keeps up his act, he will have a disastrous future: he will marry Gian's sister Jaiko, have his private company burned down, and will be left with great debt. To circumvent this, he orders Doraemon to help Nobita, modifying Doraemon's nose to prevent him from returning to the future unless Nobita gains a better future.
Being reluctant until the threat, Doraemon introduces his gadgets to help Nobita which helps him immensely. Though Doraemon warns Nobita not to be too dependent on his gadgets, Nobita asks Doraemon to help him woo his crush, Shizuka Minamoto whom Doraemon reveals is the one Nobita will marry if his future is corrected. However, all his efforts end up making Shizuka become closer to ace student, Hidetoshi Dekisugi. Nobita's attempt to be equal with Dekisugi by studying harder is futile, and he decides to let go of Shizuka to make her happier. He does this by flipping Shizuka's skirt to reveal her underwear (but not looking at it), resulting in Shizuka screaming and holding her skirt down in embarrassment before slapping him and running away in tears. After a while, Shizuka realizes that Nobita had his eyes shut when he did this to her. This makes her start worrying about Nobita. She overhears Gian and Suneo's conversation about Nobita's self-esteem getting crushed by Sensei for recently failing another test, causing her to believe he is planning to commit suicide, Shizuka arrives at the Nobi residence and resists Nobita's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Prime | Cisco Prime (Cisco Works prior to 2011, CiscoWorks before that) is a network management software suite consisting of different software applications by Cisco Systems. Most applications are geared towards either Enterprise or Service Provider networks. There is Cisco Network Registrar among those.
Cisco claims Cisco Prime applications have the same look and feel. At least some applications packaged as both a traditional software package and also as a VMware image.
Applications
Cisco Prime for IT Product
• Offers comprehensive management of wired/wireless access, campus, and branch networks, rich visibility into end-user connectivity, and application performance assurance
• A self-service portal where users can order and manage any type of IT service, from data center to desktop. Whether end users order a mobile device, a virtual desktop, or an entire application-development environment in a private cloud, Cisco Prime Service Catalog helps streamline the service request and delivery process.
• Provides deep application-aware network visibility and granular performance analytics that empower network administrators to rapidly isolate and remediate problems and improve the user experience.
• Provides integrated, high-performance, reliable Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and IP Address Management (IPAM) services for the enterprise network
Voice and Video Collaboration Management
Cisco Prime Collaboration
Data Center Management
• (NAM) Provides deep application-aware network visibility and granular performance analytics that empower network administrators to rapidly isolate and remediate problems and improve the user experience.
• (NGA) Generates, unifies, and exports flow data in high-performance data centers, empowering network operations, engineering, and security teams to achieve operational efficiencies, improve services delivery, and harden network security
• Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager: (DCNM) Combines management of Ethernet and storage networks into a single dashboard to help network and storage administrators troubleshoot health and performance across the whole range of Cisco NX-OS platforms, including the Cisco Nexus and MDS 9000 Families, regardless of protocol type
Service Provider Product Portfolio
• Analytics Provide scalable, real-time, network-centric analytics that allows for adaptation to customer environments and use cases.
• Carrier Management Simplify the lifecycle management of carrier-grade networks and services by automating service design, fulfillment, assurance, and analysis tasks.
• Cloud Automation Enable efficient delivery of cloud services by automating lifecycle management processes including provisioning, operations and resource management.
• Operational Systems Software Efficiently coordinate business and operational processes for rapid design, creation, and delivery of services.
• Endpoint Management Deploy scalable, flexible DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tsotsos | John Tsotsos (born September 3, 1952) is a Canadian Computer Scientist whose research spans the fields of Computer Vision, Human Vision, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence. He is best known for his work in visual attention, specifically for establishing the need for visual attention in both biological and computational systems through an argument based on the computational complexity of visual information processing and subsequently developing a computational framework for visual attention known as the Selective Tuning model. He is also acknowledged as a pioneer in the area of Active Vision, his students and he being first to propose strategies for active object recognition and object visual search by a robot. He has made many contributions to machine vision (particularly motion interpretation, colour processing, binocular vision, active robotic head design, shape analysis as well as to human vision, robotics and applied areas such as cardiology or dentistry and assistive robotics.
Education
Tsotsos received his Honours BASc in Engineering Science (1974), MSc in Computer Science (1976) and Ph.D. in Computer Science (1980), all from the University of Toronto with John Mylopoulos as the primary supervisor throughout. For his doctorate research, he developed the first computer system to interpret visual motion depicted in digital image sequences, with application to heart motion analysis. That work led to a postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiology, funded by the Ontario Heart Foundation at Toronto General Hospital, and supervised by the unit's Chief, E. Douglas Wigle.
Academic career
Tsotsos first taught computer science at Atkinson College, York University, in 1978-79. On completing his Ph.D., he joined the University of Toronto on faculty in both Departments of Computer Science and of Medicine. In 1980 he founded the highly respected Computer Vision Group at the University of Toronto, which he led for 20 years. He received a Canadian Heart Foundation Scholarship for the years 1981-84. During the years at the University of Toronto, he was named a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) (1985–90) and awarded a CP-Unitel Fellowship (1990–95) in CIFAR's Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Society Program.
He was recruited to move to York University in 2000 as Director of the Centre for Vision Research. Under his directorship, the centre was ranked in the top six interdisciplinary vision research organizations in the world. At York, he was awarded the NSERC Tier I Canada Research Chair in Computational Vision which he has held for three consecutive terms (2003-2024). In 2014, he founded York's Centre for Innovation in Computing at Lassonde (IC@L) which he led during 2014–present. Other appointments include: Adjunct Professorships in Computer Science and in Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto (2000–present); Visiting Professor University of Hamburg, Germany, 1981; Visiting Professor, Polytechn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Virus%20Named%20TOM | A Virus Named TOM is a puzzle game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and PlayStation Vita, though it was planned for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. It was developed by the independent American game developer Misfits Attic, and the PC versions were released worldwide on August 1, 2012. The PlayStation Vita version was released on April 5, 2016 as a part of the Instant Game Collection titles for PlayStation Plus.
Development
Planning and development of A Virus Named TOM took place over several years. A playable demo of the game was sent to Indiecade in June 2010, and an alpha build was submitted to Independent Games Festival in November 2010. The game garnered press attention in August 2011 after being demoed at Game Developers Conference Europe. By February 2012, the game had entered beta and was available for pre-order. The game was finally released on Steam and Desura on August 1, 2012.
The development for other platforms was originally planned and considered, but they never came to fruition. Development for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC was announced by the developers, but the releases for the former two platforms never occurred.
In February 2013, Misfits Attic announced that the game was being ported to PlayStation Vita and would be released during the coming summer. The game did not release that summer, but the developer indicated that the port had reached a beta stage via Facebook in January 2014. Misfits Attic confirmed the port was still in development as of June 2014. It was released on April 5, 2016 as part of the Instant Game Collection titles for PlayStation Plus.
References
External links
2012 video games
Linux games
Windows games
MacOS games
Puzzle video games
PlayStation Vita games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Morning%20Today | Good Morning Today is a computer-animated television show on Fusion that was created by David Javerbaum and produced by The Jim Henson Company under its Henson Alternative banner and ShadowMachine Films. The show uses The Jim Henson Company's real time motion capture Digital Puppet Studio.
Plot
The plot details an alternate universe's favorite morning news show in New York City which is run by Rilcardo Gomez, Cathy Smiith, Flo Qwan, and Krish Goldstein. In addition, episodes features live-action celebrity interviews where they improvise the variations of their own lives.
Characters
Rilcardo Gomez (motion captured by Tony Sabin Prince, voiced by Allan Trautman) - He is the anchorman on Good Morning Today.
Cathy Smith (motion captured by John Munro Cameron, voiced by Donna Kimball) - She is the anchorwoman on Good Morning Today.
Flo Qwan (motion captured by John Munro Cameron, voiced by Kristin Charney) - She is the senior reporter on Good Morning Today.
Krish Goldstein (motion captured by Tony Sabin Prince, voiced by Allan Trautman) - He is the roving junior reporter on Good Morning Today. He is the host of the segment "Can You Geographically Situate Krish Goldstein" where Cathy and Flo had to guess where Krish is situated.
Episodes
Episode 1 (October 28, 2013) - Chris Hardwick is interviewed about the Twitter Tech. Internet videos are made of insects. Riots occur in Norway revolving around the release of Thor: The Dark World.
Episode 2 (November 28, 2013) - The team covers the 87th Annual Gimble's Thanksgiving Day Parade as they talk with the parade's balloon master Danny Trejo and children's television host Conan O'Brien.
Episode 3 (December 13, 2013) - Minnesota becomes the 12th state to legalize lesbian marriage much to the objection of the Northboro Baptist Church. Diablo Cody is interviewed by Flo Qwan about writing the new Star Wars movie. Krish visits Pyongyang, North Korea.
Episode 4 (December 20, 2013) - Barack Obama searches for the perfect pen which took eight hours and had accidentally signs a bill that allows child slavery. Rilcardo Gomez interviews the Daniel Stutzman about the "Bay of Pigs" liberation battle during the invasion on Cuba which toppled Fidel Castro in the 1960s. The movie Captain Phillips is criticized by Captain Phillips' crew and the Somali pirate's Cap'n Agbaal (whose interview transmission to Rilcardo is an undisclosed location) for not depicting the Somali Pirate's side of the story. Teenagers have been enlisting in the war video game The Invasion of Syria.
Episode 5 (December 27, 2013) - Wall Street investors take interest in "Cats 4 Cats" (which enables people to adopt homeless cat). Krish Goldstein reports at O'Hare International Airport where an airplane called Flight 468 is running 30 minutes late and suspects that terrorism is involved. The 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address is celebrated. Cathy Smiith and Tevon Hadley do Celebrity Gossip revolving around Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RevFM | RevFM is a network of Christian radio stations in Pennsylvania, broadcasting contemporary Christian music and Christian adult contemporary.
RevFM is currently heard on five full powered stations and a few low powered translators.
Stations
Notes:
References
External links
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
American radio networks
Radio stations in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunma%20Television | , also known as GTV, is a television network headquartered in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. It is a member of the Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations (JAITS). The government of Gunma Prefecture is the biggest shareholder of GTV, and they broadcast its promotion program on GTV.
Gunma TV is the first independent television station in Kantō region, it was started broadcast in 1971. On September 1, 2006, GTV started digital terrestrial television broadcasting.
is GTV's flagship news program. is one of GTV's main variety program, also it is a promotion program for the Gunma prefecture government.
References
External links
Official website
Television stations in Japan
Independent television stations in Japan
1970 establishments in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1970 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crone%20Woods | Crone Woods, also Crone Forest, is located in the northeastern section of the Wicklow Mountains, just below the summit of Maulin , in County Wicklow, Ireland. Crone Woods have an extensive network of forest trails and hikes which can be accessed from the village of Enniskerry.
Description
The woods were once part of the Powerscourt Estate with records from the 13th-century showing the area was set aside as a royal hunting ground. Use of the woods for cover during the 1798 Rebellion led to the creation of the military road through northern Wicklow Mountains with several barracks to open up the region. The forest is owned and operated by Coillte, the Irish state forestry agency.
Trails in the wood include several to 'Ride Rock', from which there are views down into Powerscourt Waterfall. Other trails lead to the summit of Maulin.
Crone Woods is an access point to the Wicklow Way, the oldest long-distance trail in the Republic of Ireland, which extends for from its starting point in Marlay Park in South Dublin to Clonegal Village in County Carlow. The wood is also used by hill-walkers completing the 16-kilometre loop of Maulin, Tonduff , War Hill and Djouce , which is sometimes called the 'Circuit of Glensoulan'.
Gallery
See also
List of forests in Ireland
Lists of long-distance trails in the Republic of Ireland
References
External links
Crone Woods Map and Trails Coillte (July 2019)
Forests and woodlands of the Republic of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KABA%20%28FM%29 | KABA 90.3 FM is a radio station licensed to Louise, Texas. The station broadcasts a Spanish Religious format and is owned by Aleluya Broadcasting Network.
References
External links
KABA's official website
ABA
ABA (FM)
Wharton County, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTYR | KTYR (89.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Trinity, Texas. The station broadcasts a Spanish Religious format and is owned by Aleluya Broadcasting Network.
References
External links
KTYR's official website
TYR
Trinity County, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goemon%3A%20Shin%20Sedai%20Sh%C5%ABmei%21 | Goemon: Shin Sedai Shūmei! is an action platforming game in the Ganbare Goemon series released for the PlayStation on December 20, 2001 in Japan. Developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and Now Production, it is a futuristic spin-off of the original Ganbare Goemon series starring new characters who inherit the namesakes of the original cast in a more modern setting.
In February 2002, a companion game -- Goemon: New Age Shutsudō! -- was released for the Game Boy Advance. While this game shares the same general story and aesthetics as the original, it features a rewritten script, new level layouts, and various modifications from the Playstation game.
Notes
References
PlayStation (console) games
Game Boy Advance games
2001 video games
Ganbare Goemon games
Japan-exclusive video games
Video games developed in Japan
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjeev%20Khanna | Sanjeev Khanna is an Indian-American computer scientist. He is currently a Henry Salvatori professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, combinatorial optimization, and sublinear algorithms.
Career
Khanna received his undergraduate degrees in computer science and economics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1990, his M.S. degree in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992, and his doctoral degree in computer science from Stanford University, California, US in 1996. He joined University of Pennsylvania in 1999 after spending three years as a member of the Mathematical Sciences Research center at Bell Laboratories.
Research contribution and awards
Khanna's primary research contributions are to the fields of approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, combinatorial optimization, and sublinear algorithms. His doctoral work at Stanford University, "A Structural View of Approximation", received the 1996 Arthur Samuel prize for the best PhD dissertation in the Computer Science Department. He is a Guggenheim Fellow (2007) and a Sloan Fellow (2000). He is also a recipient of S. Reid Warren, Jr. and Lindback awards for distinguished teaching at University of Pennsylvania.
He serves on the Editorial board of Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science, and has previously served on the editorial boards of SICOMP, ACM TALG, Algorithmica, JCSS, and as an area editor for Encyclopaedia of Algorithms.
In 2018, the Association for Computing Machinery named him an ACM Fellow for his contributions to approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, and sublinear algorithms.
External links
Sanjeev Khanna's Home Page
DBLP: Sanjeev Khanna
References
American computer scientists
Living people
20th-century births
Sloan Research Fellows
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Sitaray | Hum Sitaray is a Pakistani entertainment channel launched by Hum Network Limited on 14 December 2013. It is a major entertainment channel in Pakistan.
History
The channel launched on December 14, 2013 with original programming - this had become a trend for Pakistani entertainment to have 2 channels under 1 company (ex. Geo Kahani, ARY Zindagi) but due to bad ratings, the channel turned to air reruns from 2015 onwards with little original programming and since 2016 it has been airing only reruns from Hum TV. Hum Sitaray dubbed the entire Season 1 of the Turkish Historical Drama Dilliris Ertuğrul.
Current programs
Former programs
Sitaray Ki Subha
Tonight With HSY
References
External links
Hum Network Limited
Television channels and stations established in 2013
Television stations in Pakistan
Television stations in Karachi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warbirds | Warbirds may refer to:
Warbird, any vintage military aircraft now operated by civilian organizations and individuals or historic arms of military forces
Warbirds (video game), a 1991 computer game for the Atari Lynx
WarBirds, a 1995 online computer game by Interactive Creations
Warbirds (EP), a 2009 EP by This Is Hell
Romulan Warbird, a class of ship in the Star Trek universe
Seattle Warbirds, a team in the Women's Football Alliance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Preston%20tram%20depot | East Preston tram depot was a depot on the Yarra Trams network in Melbourne. Located on Plenty Road, East Preston, it opened in 1955 to coincide with the reintroduction of trams to Bourke Street. It closed in April 2016.
History
The Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board made plans in 1938 for a depot in Preston, on the site later occupied by the now closed Preston & Northcote Community Hospital, but these were dropped due to congestion concerns. The current site was identified in the early 1950s, and opened on 26 June 1955, replacing the old Preston depot (also referred to as Thornbury depot). Its opening coincided with the reintroduction of tram services to Bourke Street; the former Bourke Street cable lines, Melbourne's last, had been converted to bus operations on 26 October 1940.
When the Public Transport Corporation was privatised in August 1999, East Preston depot passed to Yarra Trams. In 2000 a paint shop and refurbishment bay was established. Between 2000 and 2004 these facilities were used to apply all over advertising liveries.
In 2006, East Preston depot became Yarra Trams' first 'Green Depot'. A variety of initiatives were implemented aimed at lowering the environmental footprint of the depot, including, three rainwater tanks with a combined capacity of 18,000 litres, water efficient appliances within the depot, 60 solar panels, and more efficient lighting and cooling technology. Energy consumption dropped 40% while 424,800 litres of water was saved in the 2005–06-year.
During August 2012, track renewal took place, affecting roads one to ten.
In April 2016, East Preston tram depot closed with operations transferred to Preston Workshops. It is now used for storing trams.
The refurbishments are being undertaken for life extension at the East Preston Depot.
Layout
The depot consists of 13 roads, 10 of which are covered.
Routes
When it closed in April 2016, the following routes operated from East Preston depot:
11: West Preston to Victoria Harbour Docklands
86: Bundoora RMIT to Waterfront City Docklands
References
Tram depots in Melbourne
Transport infrastructure completed in 1955
1955 establishments in Australia
2016 disestablishments in Australia
Buildings and structures in the City of Darebin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20embedding%20of%20distributions | In machine learning, the kernel embedding of distributions (also called the kernel mean or mean map) comprises a class of nonparametric methods in which a probability distribution is represented as an element of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). A generalization of the individual data-point feature mapping done in classical kernel methods, the embedding of distributions into infinite-dimensional feature spaces can preserve all of the statistical features of arbitrary distributions, while allowing one to compare and manipulate distributions using Hilbert space operations such as inner products, distances, projections, linear transformations, and spectral analysis. This learning framework is very general and can be applied to distributions over any space on which a sensible kernel function (measuring similarity between elements of ) may be defined. For example, various kernels have been proposed for learning from data which are: vectors in , discrete classes/categories, strings, graphs/networks, images, time series, manifolds, dynamical systems, and other structured objects. The theory behind kernel embeddings of distributions has been primarily developed by Alex Smola, Le Song , Arthur Gretton, and Bernhard Schölkopf. A review of recent works on kernel embedding of distributions can be found in.
The analysis of distributions is fundamental in machine learning and statistics, and many algorithms in these fields rely on information theoretic approaches such as entropy, mutual information, or Kullback–Leibler divergence. However, to estimate these quantities, one must first either perform density estimation, or employ sophisticated space-partitioning/bias-correction strategies which are typically infeasible for high-dimensional data. Commonly, methods for modeling complex distributions rely on parametric assumptions that may be unfounded or computationally challenging (e.g. Gaussian mixture models), while nonparametric methods like kernel density estimation (Note: the smoothing kernels in this context have a different interpretation than the kernels discussed here) or characteristic function representation (via the Fourier transform of the distribution) break down in high-dimensional settings.
Methods based on the kernel embedding of distributions sidestep these problems and also possess the following advantages:
Data may be modeled without restrictive assumptions about the form of the distributions and relationships between variables
Intermediate density estimation is not needed
Practitioners may specify the properties of a distribution most relevant for their problem (incorporating prior knowledge via choice of the kernel)
If a characteristic kernel is used, then the embedding can uniquely preserve all information about a distribution, while thanks to the kernel trick, computations on the potentially infinite-dimensional RKHS can be implemented in practice as simple Gram matrix operations
Dimensionality-independent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNTSY%20Sports%20Network | FNTSY Sports Network is a multinational over-the-top internet television service owned by Sportsgrid Inc.
The channel primarily syndicates sports talk programming pertaining to fantasy sports, including sports radio-styled programs and vodcasts. It operates as streaming video and internet radio services.
History
Original owners, Anthem Sports and Entertainment, made plans to launch a fantasy sports-related television channel in 2012, when it applied for a Canadian broadcast licence for a channel tentatively named "The League – Fantasy Sports TV," with intentions to launch the channel in both Canada and the United States, however, under separate operations.
In February 2013, Anthem acquired two fantasy sports analysis websites—RotoExperts and SportsGrid—to bolster content for the network. In March 2013, Anthem CEO Leonard Asper told the Toronto Star that the channel was expected to launch that September. He defended the network's concept by noting that "people thought 'How can there be an entire channel devoted to golf?' But now the Golf Channel is in 82 million homes", and that advertisers "leapt out of their chairs" when they learned that the network could appeal to both the traditional "baby boomer" demographic associated with fantasy sports, and the young male demographic that had also increasingly shown interest in fantasy.
In December 2013, it was reported that the channel, now named FNTSY Sports Network, was expected to launch in Canada and the United States in March 2014. On January 14, 2014, Anthem Media announced the launch date for the channel as March 4, 2014 for the United States, with a Canadian launch later in the year. However, only the Canadian channel launched in March 2014, while the American channel would launch later in the summer of 2014 on Cablevision's Optimum TV service.
The channel would subsequently gain wider distribution through obtaining carriage agreements with additional American television service providers, in addition to international providers such as Roku.
In 2018, following its acquisition of e-sports data provider NXTAKE, it was announced that FNTSY Sports Network had merged with the company under the new company SportsGrid, Inc., leaving Anthem with no remaining stake in the company. With the merger, it left FNTSY Sports Network with no remaining distribution on traditional cable, satellite, and IPTV providers in the U.S., as Anthem retained ownership of that distribution network. However, the FNTSY Sports Network channel remained on American television service provider lineups in both Canada and the U.S. through a licensing agreement with Sportsgrid until April 1, 2019, when Anthem rebranded FNTSY Sports Network as Game+ in both America and Canada.
Programming
In March 2018, Craig Carton, who had resigned from WFAN New York's Boomer and Carton morning show in September 2017 after being arrested for charges of securities fraud, joined FNTSY Sports Network to host its new morning show Carton & Friends |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farshad%20Fotouhi | Farshad Fotouhi is the dean of Wayne State University's college of engineering. Farshad Fotouhi joined Wayne State University in 1988 as faculty in the Department of Computer Science. From 2000 to 2004, he was associate chair of the department, and from 2004 to 2010 he was chair.
Life and career
Schooling and research
He holds a bachelor's in Computer Science from Western Michigan University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at Michigan State University.
Fotouhi's research includes biomedical informatics, multimedia systems and the Semantic Web. He has published more than 190 papers in academic journals and conference proceedings. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, Michigan Life Sciences Corridor, as well as Ford Motor Company and other companies.
He has been a program committee member for various conferences related to his research interests and is a member of the editorial board of IEEE Multimedia Magazine, chair of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems. In recent years, Dr. Fotouhi has organized several workshops including the Workshop on Privacy in Information Society, the IEEE Workshop on Scientific Workflow, and the ACM workshop on the Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics.
He was appointed dean of Wayne State University's college of engineering in March 2011.
See also
Wayne State University
List of Wayne State University people
References
External links
Fotouhi's official website at Wayne State University
Wayne State University faculty
American computer scientists
Database researchers
Western Michigan University alumni
Michigan State University alumni
Living people
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji%20Matsumoto | is a Japanese and American professor of information science who works at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology and also specializes in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. He has almost 450 peer-reviewed articles with the highest ranked one being Applying conditional random fields to Japanese morphological analysis, which was cited over 1100 times.
Biography
In 1979 he got bachelor's degree in information science at Kyoto University and received master's at the same place two year later which ended with Ph.D. by 1990. From 1984 to 1985 he became a visiting professor at the Imperial College of Science and Technology department of the University of London. From 1985 to 1987 he was Deputy Chief at the Institute of New Generation Computer Technology and from 1988 to 1989 he served as an associated professor at the Data Processing Center, a division of Kyoto University. Next year, he, under the same position and at the same place, worked at the Department of Electrical Engineering and when it was over by 1993, he became professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
Awards
In 1988 he became Takahashi Incentive Award recipient and in 1989 was awarded with Motooka Commemorative Award. In 1994 he received ASTEM Software Award and three years later became a recipient of Best Paper Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan, following by the Best Author Award from the same place in 2000 and an acceptance of fellowship in 2006. From 2002 to 2004 he was annually awarded for the best presentation by the Association for Natural Language Processing and in 2005 was awarded Best Paper Award from the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence and received the same one next year from the DEWS while two year later JSAI awarded him with the Achievement Award. In 2011, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
References
Information scientists
Kyoto University alumni
Living people
Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Computational linguistics researchers
Natural language processing researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadzoox | Gadzoox Networks, Inc. produced hardware and software for the entry-level storage area network market. In 2000, at the peak of the dot-com bubble, the company was valued at $2 billion; however, after filing bankruptcy in 2002, its assets were acquired by Broadcom in 2003 for $5.8 million.
History
The company was founded in 1996.
In March 2000, the company acquired SmartSAN for $23.5 million.
In June 2000, the company launched Axxess.
In July 2000, during the dot-com bubble, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. Shares were priced at $21 each but soared as high as $87 each on the first day of trading, giving the company a market capitalization of $1.97 billion.
In August 2000, Bill Sickler, the CEO of the company, and Christine E. Munson, the CFO of the company, resigned after announcing a financial restatement.
In January 2002, the company raised $8.9 million in funding.
In August 2002, the company filed bankruptcy.
In March 2003, Broadcom acquired the assets of the company for $5.3 million.
References
1996 establishments in California
2003 disestablishments in California
2000 initial public offerings
2003 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1996
American companies disestablished in 2003
Broadcom
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002
Computer companies established in 1996
Computer companies disestablished in 2003
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Dot-com bubble |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20stream | A node stream is a method of transferring large amounts of data on mobile devices or websites (such as uploading detailed photographs) by breaking the file or data down into manageable chunks. The chunks of data do not use as much computer memory, so they are less likely to slow down the device, allowing the user to do other things on it whilst waiting for the file transfer to complete.
In technical terms, in Node.js a node stream is a readable or writable continuous flow of data that can be manipulated asynchronously as data comes in (or out).
This API can be used in data intensive web applications where scalability is an issue.
A node stream can be many different things: a file stream, a parser, an HTTP request, a child process, etc.
References
External links
Interactive exercises to help you understand node streams
Streaming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ServerWorks | ServerWorks Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that manufactured chipsets for server computers and workstations running IA-32 microprocessors. Founded as Reliance Computer Corporation in 1994, it filed its initial public offering in the beginning of 2000 and was acquired by Broadcom for nearly US$1 billion.
History
1994–2000: Foundation and growth
ServerWorks was founded as PRQ—shortly thereafter Reliance Computer Corporation—in 1994 in Santa Clara, California. The company was founded by Raju Vegesna and two friends of his. Vegesna was named CEO and president; prior to founding Reliance, Vegesna had been employed by Ross Technology, where he was the lead architect behind the hyperSPARC microprocessor. The company was largely funded through Vegesna's personal savings and in its first year only employed 12 people, most of whom bore several disparate job titles. Reliance's first client was Compaq, who employed the company's Champion 1.0 chipset in their Professional Workstation 5100 in 1997. The same chipset was reused by Compaq for three of their ProLiant servers—the 5500, the 3000, and the 1600.
Reliance, which was described as little-known and operating in semi-secrecy to that point, was 60-percent owned by the Fujitsu Corporation of Japan in 1998, after Fujitsu had used Reliance's Champion in their Fujitsu–ICL Teamserver in 1997. Fujitsu shortly after gave Vegesna the contacts to Intel's executives and bankrolled their signing of an agreement for Intel to license out their PCI bus patents to ServerWorks in 1998. By 1999, Reliance had gained NEC, Acer, Dell, IBM, Intergraph, and Siemens as key clients, and in the beginning of 2000, the company changed its name to ServerWorks Corporation.
2000–2003: IPO and acquisition
ServerWorks in 2000 employed 85 people; due to its smaller stature, the company was hesitant to consider developing for Intel's forthcoming 64-bit Itanium until the second generation (Itanium 2) had been released. Instead the company would focus squarely on server and workstation chipsets designed around 32-bit x86 (IA-32) microprocessors by Intel, with which ServerWorks signed a 10-year license in 1998 to license Intel's PCI architecture. As Intel itself was a vendor of server chipsets (at the time, the 840 and the 450NX), ServerWorks was described by the technology press as having a cooperatively competitive relationship to Intel. Of this relationship, Kimball Brown, ServerWorks' president, spoke: "our main competitor is Intel ... but our best customer is Intel, too, and we're helping them sell lots of CPUs". As opposed to Intel's emphasis on raw processing speed, ServerWorks' design philosophy centered on I/O capability.
By the end of 2000, the company employed nearly 100 people, had gone public, sold millions of chips, and reached an annual revenue of roughly $200 million. In January 2001, Broadcom Corporation of Irvine, California, announced its intent to acquire S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayana%20Health | Narayana Health (formerly known as Narayana Hrudyalaya) is an Indian for-profit private hospital network headquartered in Bangalore. It was founded by Dr. Devi Shetty in the year 2000.
Narayana Health operates several hospitals and heart centres across major Indian cities Bangalore, Delhi, Gurugram, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Raipur, Jaipur, Mumbai, Mysore etc. with an international subsidiary in the Cayman Islands. The facilities offer medical care in over 30 medical specialties and three of its hospitals – Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bangalore, and Health City Cayman Islands – are JCI (Joint Commission International) accredited.
History
Devi Shetty founded Narayana Hrudalaya (NH) in the year 2000 with a 280-bed heart hospital in Bangalore.
In 2013, Narayana Hrudyalaya officially changed its identity to Narayana Health. Since 2014, the group operates Health City Cayman Islands in Grand Caymen. Emmanuel Rupert was made the MD & Group CEO in place of Ashutosh Raghuvansha following the latter's resignation in January 2019. From 2016 onwards, NH has increased its presence in New Delhi, Gurgaon and Mumbai, by opening premium multi specialty hospitals, in order to boost margins. In 2022, NH announced that it is looking to set up a 1000-bed advanced specialty hospital in Kolkata.
Listing
Narayana Hrudyalaya was listed on the BSE and the NSE on 6 January 2016. Upon debut, the company was valued at over US$1 billion.
Current facilities
India
North India
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Super Speciality Hospital, Jammu, J&K
Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Gurugram
Dharamshila Cancer Hospital and Research Centre Delhi
West India
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Ahmedabad
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Jaipur
SRCC Children's Hospital, Mumbai
South India
Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, Bangalore
MS Ramaiah Narayana Heart Centre, Bangalore
Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bangalore
Narayana Medical Centre, Langford Town, Bangalore
Narayana Multispeciality Clinic, Jayanagar, Bangalore
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, HSR Layout, Bangalore
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Whitefield, Bangalore
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Mysore
NH Jindal Sanjeevani Multispeciality Hospital, Bellary
RL Jalappa Narayana Heart Centre, Kolar
Sahyadri Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Shimoga
SDM Narayana Heart Centre, Dharwad
SS Narayana Heart Centre, Davengere
East India
Brahmananda Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Jamshedpur
MMI Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Raipur
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Barasat, Kolkata
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Howrah
Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Guwahati
Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Howrah
Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata
Rabindranath Tagore Surgical Centre, Kolkata
Cayman Islands
Health City Cayman Islands, Cayman Islands
References
External links
Official blog
Hospitals established in 2000
Hospita |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackpot%20%281992%20film%29 | Jackpot (also known as Cyber Eden) is a 1992 Italian sci-fi-adventure film directed by Mario Orfini.
The film was a box office bomb, grossing just 158 million lire at the Italian box office against a budget of 18 billions lire.
Plot
In Italy an old female billionaire has created a multinational company called Financial Youth Foundation, which has taken seven prodigies children who work with new computers. The purpose of the foundation is to restore youth to old with artificial products. The gardener of the villa of the old billionaire, Furio, discovers that this effect of youth, apparently beneficial, is a plan to exploit people with technology. So Furio is opposed to this system, so that the seven children and the younger generation can savor the beauty of nature, fighting the false and malicious technology.
Cast
Adriano Celentano as Furio
Kate Vernon as Prudunce
Salvatore Cascio as Cosimo
Carroll Baker as Madame
Scott Magensen as Vladimir
Christopher Lee as Cedric
Johnny Melville as Synthetic man
See also
List of Italian films of 1992
References
External links
Italian science fiction adventure films
1990s science fiction adventure films
1990s Italian-language films
English-language Italian films
1990s English-language films
Films scored by Giorgio Moroder
Films scored by Anthony Marinelli
1992 multilingual films
Italian multilingual films
1990s Italian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCCTV | CCCTV is a Canadian Chinese-language specialty channel broadcasts programming in Cantonese and Mandarin and airs content from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as local Canadian programming.
CCCTV is a general entertainment service and features a wide array of programming including news, sports, dramas, traditional operas, cultural programmes and much more. It also airs extensive local programming includes news, traffic and weather reports as well as sports shows and business shows.
External links
CCCTV
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Chinese-language mass media in Canada
Companies based in Markham, Ontario
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2013
2013 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Missing%20Scarf | The Missing Scarf is a 2013 computer-animated, dark comedy-related, adventure, Irish short film directed by Eoin Duffy, produced by Jamie Hogan and narrated by George Takei. The film was shortlisted for the 86th Academy Awards. The project was created in conjunction with Irish Film Board, Raidió Teilifís Éireann and Arts Council of Ireland, the short film is made in Blender3D, making the first Blender3D-made short film to be shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2014.
Plot
Albert the Squirrel makes a startling discovery ... an empty space where once his favourite scarf lay. He heads off into the forest only to find everyone else is preoccupied with worries of their own. He helps who he can before moving on but never seems to get any closer to his goal. It is meant to explore life's many fears.
Cast
George Takei as Narrator
Accolades
References
External links
2013 films
2013 3D films
2013 animated films
Irish animated short films
2010s animated short films
3D animated short films
2010s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect%20the%20Coven | "Protect the Coven" is the eleventh episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on January 15, 2014, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Jennifer Salt and directed by Bradley Buecker.
In this episode, Fiona (Jessica Lange) and Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett) face off with The corporation while Cordelia (Sarah Paulson) makes a desperate sacrifice to protect the coven. Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, and Danny Huston guest star as Marie Laveau, Queenie and the Axeman, respectively. This episode is rated TV-MA (LV).
Plot
A bleeding black gardener reminds Delphine about what used to feed her soul, and she tortures him while he is bound and gagged. Spalding's ghost appears to Delphine as she wraps the dead body of the gardener. He suggests that she can regain her sense of purpose by killing Marie and offers to help. He gives her a package of Benadryl, telling her to dissolve a few tablets in Marie's drink.
The Axeman plays as Fiona dresses in his apartment. He suggests they go live at his family's farm after killing the new Supreme. She agrees but asks him to do her one small favor.
In the greenhouse, Cordelia pierces each eye with a pair of gardening shears. Myrtle tells Fiona that Cordelia sacrificed her eyes to regain the Sight and protect the Coven. She dares Fiona to have Cordelia read and expose her secrets.
The Delphi Trust men agree to make reparations to Marie and a 100-year truce in exchange for an end to the magical siege. Fiona counters with a demand for the dissolution of the witch hunters, a house, and a private jet. They refuse. The waiter reveals himself to be the Axeman and, in retaliation for their refusal, kills all the men except Harrison. Fiona hacks Harrison's throat with the Axeman's axe.
Delphine tries and fails to kill Marie with a Benadryl-laced French 75. Spalding steps out and hits Marie in the head with his doll, knocking her down the stairs. He tells Delphine she was the only one he could trick into helping him and suggests that she bury Marie in a way that she cannot ever escape, as Marie is immortal and cannot be killed. He goes back to play with Marie's stolen baby.
Zoe and Kyle escape the coven and catch a bus to Orlando, Florida.
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes reports a 79% approval rating, based on 14 reviews. The critical consensus reads, ""Protect the Coven" satisfyingly sets the table for the season finale with a suitably gross installment whose extra plot point makes its hard-to-follow storyline even more confusing." Dennis Perkins of The A.V. Club rated the episode a B+, stating, "Broadcast television could stand to be a good measure weirder and more outrageous, especially when affording some of the country's greatest actresses (actresses 'of a certain age' no less) a chance to really go for it in prime time." Matt Fowler from IGN gave the episode a rating of 7.2/10, stating, ""Protect the Coven" already had its fair share of take-back |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocativ | Vocativ is an American media and technology company founded in 2013 by Mati Kochavi. Vocativ uses proprietary data-mining technology to explore the deep web in order to discover stories and generate original content. In 2017, the company announced it would focus exclusively on video content and stop publishing written stories.
Operations and management
Vocativ was launched in 2013, with a team of approximately 60 news writers, editors and producers recruited from organizations like NBC News, the Guardian US, The Daily Beast, Storyful, Salon, NPR, CNN and Reuters.
In 2015, Vocativ introduced a decentralized leadership structure with authority divided between the chief operating officer and chief content officer. These leaders are advised by and report to an executive committee. In 2015, Vocativ hired Vivian Schiller to chair its executive committee, reorganize its staff and refine its content and distribution strategies.
As part of its reorganization, Vocativ announced it would focus on several core coverage areas: national security and technology, culture and identity, real-time news and criminal justice. Each beat, led by a senior editor, includes an interdisciplinary team of writers, video producers, data analysts, audience development experts and editors. These teams also create content specifically for social media platforms and video partners, including MSNBC. As of February 2015, Vocativ planned to expand its staff by 25 to 30 percent during the next year. Chief Content Officer Gregory Gittrich, a former executive and editor at NBC News Digital, oversees the company's content, product and data teams.
Vocativ has an office on New York's Seventh Avenue near Penn Station with a fully equipped digital television studio. As of 2013, it had about 60 employees in New York and roughly 20 in Tel Aviv.
Vocativ was planning to leverage its technology, data expertise and original storytelling to monetize content via television deals, content licensing and syndication. The company says it will not sell or license its news-gathering software. As of January 2015, the Vocativ website did not include display advertising.
In June 2017, Vocativ dismissed its entire editorial team, announcing a “strategic shift to focus exclusively on video content" which would be distributed "via social channels and platforms, as well as through partnerships with television networks, OTT players and others".
Technology
Verne
Vocativ journalists and analysts work in teams to search and analyze the “deep web” for potential stories using a proprietary data tool adapted from 3i-MIND's OpenMind technology called, "Verne." Vocativ's technology was originally designed for business and then redesigned for the sole purpose of news-gathering. Verne is used by researchers and developers to look through public forums, databases, documents, public records, social media networks, chat rooms, e-commerce sites and more. Similar technology has been used for intelligence gathering. Ver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meterana%20tetrachroa | Meterana tetrachroa is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.
Taxonomy
It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931 from a female specimen collected by George Hudson at Waimarino National Park on 6 January 1930 and named Melanchra tetrachroa. Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under that name in his 1939 Supplement to the Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. In 1971 John S. Dugdale transferred species in the genus Melanchra to Graphania. The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.
In 2017 it was explained that Graphania tetrachroa (Meyrick, 1931) may possibly be composed of two separate species. These are the described species G. tetrachora, known only from the type specimen mentioned above, and a species, currently undescribed but known as "Graphania" cf. tetrachroa, classified as Nationally Vulnerable by the New Zealand Threat Classification System. The reasoning given for this separation were the differences in wing pattern between the two entitles as well as the lack of variability in the known series of G. cf. tetrachroa. It was also argued that both entities belong in the genus Meterana. It is possible that further taxonomic work may show that these two entities belong to the same species.
In 2019 a paper published by Robert J. B. Hoare specifically addressed the genus placement of Graphania tetrachroa, known only from the type specimen. Hoare, having dissected the holotype specimen and studying the female genitalia, placed that species within the genus Meterana. The challenge of resolving the possible undescribed species currently known as "Graphania" cf. tetrachroa was left for a future date.
Description
Meyrick originally described the adult female of the species as follows:
Distribution
The species is endemic to New Zealand and has only been collected at Waimarino National Park.
Biology and behaviour
The adult female of this species was on the wing in January. This species was collected using a sugar trap.
Conservation status
In 2017 this species was classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. In that document the species was treated as two separate entitles. The species now known as Meterana tetrachroa was classified as "Data Deficient" and "Graphania" cf. tetrachroa was classified as "Nationally vulnerable".
References
Moths described in 1931
Hadeninae
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20357001%E2%80%93358000 |
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| 357024 || || — || December 31, 1999 || Ander |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married%20to%20the%20Blob | "Married to the Blob" is the tenth episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons and the 540th episode of the series. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on January 12, 2014. The episode was written by Tim Long and directed by Chris Clements.
The episode received positive reviews from critics and was watched by 4.83 million viewers and an 18-49 rating of 2.2.
Coincidentally, the title for this episode has been previously used in a segment for "Treehouse of Horror XVII".
Plot
Bart, Milhouse and Homer line up at Comic Book Guy's store to purchase the first issue of a Radioactive Man reboot comic. Comic Book Guy finds out that his competitor Milo (the owner of Coolsville) is now married to his girlfriend, Strawberry. Comic Book Guy cries and sings a song about him being lonely his entire life. Suddenly, an imaginary Stan Lee appears to Comic Book Guy and tells him that he has another chance in love. A Japanese girl named Kumiko Nakamura enters the store, and Stan Lee advises Comic Book Guy not to waste the opportunity. Kumiko is in the US to do research about the country's saddest cities for her autobiographical manga. Comic Book Guy asks her out for a date, and then asks Homer for dating advice, since Homer is the only fat man in real life who is married to an attractive woman. During the date, Marge advises Comic Book Guy to not be himself, but Kumiko actually likes Comic Book Guy's real personality.
Comic Book Guy continues to date Kumiko, and they both decide to move in together. While dropping off a gift for Kumiko and Comic Book Guy, Homer meets Kumiko's father in front of the store. Homer tells him about Comic Book Guy being an obese nerd, which prompts Mr. Nakamura to object to their relationship and take Kumiko away. Marge tells Homer to fix things up, so Homer takes Mr. Nakamura to a Japanese bar. They both drink Habushu (Snake Rice Wine), an incredibly strong form of rice wine (and Homer drinks what he thinks was fish wine when actually it was the restaurant aquarium) and stumble home intoxicated, where the city turns into a wonderland based on Studio Ghibli's films (specifically Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Porco Rosso). Mr. Nakamura learns that by forbidding the relationship, he is taking away Kumiko's life.
Comic Book Guy tries to impress Mr. Nakamura by getting a real job using his hitherto unmentioned chemical engineering degree. Mr. Nakamura tells him that he does not have to get a real job since he already likes Comic Book Guy the way he is. The episode ends with Comic Book Guy and Kumiko getting married by Stan Lee in Comic Book Guy's store.
Production
Animator Bill Plympton created his third couch gag for this episode. The producers included a scene as a tribute to animator Hayao Miyazaki, who announced his retirement a few months earlier at the 70th Venice International Film Fest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20G%C3%B6rlitz | The Görlitz tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Görlitz, a city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.
Opened in 1882, the network has been operated since 1996 by the Verkehrsgesellschaft Görlitz (VGG), since 2019 by the Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe, and is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien (ZVON).
Lines
, the network had the following lines:
Rolling stock
The current fleet consists of 14 KT4D trams built from 1979 until 1990. The procurement of new trams is in preparation.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Görlitz
Gorlitz
Transport in Saxony
Metre gauge railways in Germany
Görlitz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Nieh | Jason Nieh is a professor of Computer Science and co-director of the Software Systems Laboratory at Columbia University. He is most well known for his work on virtualization. He was one of the early pioneers of operating-system-level virtualization, introducing key concepts such as process namespaces and file system layers which led to the development of Linux containers and Docker. He was an early proponent of desktop virtualization, conducting many of the early studies demonstrating the feasibility of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. He developed and influenced many key technologies for Arm virtualization, including the Linux ARM hypervisor, KVM ARM, and Arm architecture features to support virtualization host extensions, nested virtualization, and confidential computing. He was also the first to introduce virtual machines and virtual appliances to teach hands-on computer science courses such as operating systems, which has now become common practice at many universities.
Nieh was the technical advisor to nine States regarding the Microsoft antitrust settlement and has been an expert witness before the United States International Trade Commission. He was Chief Scientist of Desktone, which was purchased by VMware, and currently holds the same position at CertiK.
Recognition
He won the Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award, seven IBM Awards, and various best paper awards including the 2004 International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Best Paper Award, the 2011 Symposium on Operating Systems Principles Best Paper Award, the 2012 SIGCSE Best Paper Award, and the 2021 Jay Lepreau Award.
He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to operating systems, virtualization, and computer science education". and an IEEE Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to virtualization, scheduling, and mobile computing". He was the only computer scientist to receive a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship.
References
External links
Jason Nieh
Living people
20th-century births
American computer scientists
Columbia University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Flying%20Doctors%20episodes | The Flying Doctors is an Australian television medical drama series. Produced by Crawford Productions, it was first broadcast on the Nine Network on 26 May 1986. The series centres around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was preceded by a three-part miniseries in 1985, and 221 episodes were produced. The Flying Doctors aired until 6 October 1992. In January 1993, the series was renamed R.F.D.S. (The Royal Flying Doctor Service) and revamped with new characters and a new setting. The following list represents the order in which the episodes were originally broadcast rather than the DVD release order.
Series overview
The Flying Doctors (1985)
The show began with a three-part miniseries broadcast on the Nine Network on 29 April 1985. It starred Andrew McFarlane and Lorna Patterson as Dr Tom Callaghan and Liz Drever. The series was filmed over three months at locations in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia.
Episodes
Series 1 (1986)
Series 2 (1987)
Series 3 (1988)
Series 4 (1989)
Series 5 (1990)
Series 6 (1991–92)
References
External links
List of The Flying Doctors episodes at the Australian Television Information Archive
Flying Doctors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMPL | OMPL (Open Motion Planning Library) is a software package for computing motion plans using sampling-based algorithms. The content of the library is limited to motion planning algorithms, which means there is no environment specification, no collision detection or visualization. This is intentional as the library is designed to be easily integrated into systems that already provide the additional needed components. For example, OMPL is integrated with ROS and MoveIt!.
In 2012 OMPL won the Grand Prize at the Open Source Software World Challenge.
Implementation
OMPL is written in C++ but also offers Python bindings.
The library includes implementations for a large number of planning algorithms, all of these being implemented on top of the same base functionality. The base functionality OMPL provides for planners is thread safe. Adding new motion planning algorithms to OMPL is easy, thus facilitating comparisons between existing algorithms and evaluations of new ideas.
Target audience
Teaching
One of the design goals for OMPL is clarity of concepts used. This equates to having C++ classes that correspond to concepts found in the literature. Such a design facilitates using OMPL for education. Furthermore, the authors provide free course materials and assignments for use in conjunction with OMPL.
Industrial use
The first use for OMPL was actually at Willow Garage, where the library was started, to do motion planning for the PR2 arms. As such, the library was hardened to run reliably and efficiently. Afterwards OMPL started to be used (via ROS and MoveIt!) for hundreds of different types of robots
.
Research
OMPL includes tools for benchmarking, providing a common platform for easily developing and testing new algorithms.
References
External links
Computer libraries
Robot kinematics
Free software
Software using the BSD license
Robotics software
C++ software |
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