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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danz%20CM | Danielle "Danz" Johnson (born February 20, 1989), known professionally as Danz CM and formerly Computer Magic, is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, singer, and the founder of the indie record label Channel 9 Records and the media brand Synth History.
From 2010 until mid 2020, Danz used the moniker Computer Magic, a name derived from a quote by Viv Savage in This Is Spinal Tap: "quite exciting this computer magic!". In August 2020, she announced that she changed her moniker to Danz CM.
Danz writes, produces, records and releases her own music, which Allmusic describes as "spacy, sci-fi influenced synth pop". She has released 4 studio albums (Davos in 2015, Danz in 2018, the The Absurdity of Human Existence in 2021, and Berlin Tokyo Shopping Mall Elevator in 2023), 2 compilations (Super Rare in 2017, Covers, Vol. 1 in 2020), a string of EPs and singles, plus Japan edition albums.
Life and career
Early life and beginnings
Danz was born and raised in the Catskill Mountains area in upstate New York, in both Rock Hill and Woodridge. She attended Monticello Public High School. Her mother a social worker, father a handyman and stepfather a mechanic, music and the arts had an unexplained appeal for her at an early age. At 15 she started music blogging and as a teenager she would collect vinyls with money she earned as a pizza counter person. She maintained a music blog named Mewzick from November 2006 until January 2009. From July 2009 until July 2016 she blogged on her site zDanz.
At the age of 18, she moved to New York City to attend Hunter College as an affordable alternative to art school. According to Danz, she was a "pretty terrible student", trying to afford rent and the expensive city living by working late nights at restaurants and DJing. She was withdrawn from all her classes because of too many absences.
Career as Computer Magic (2010–2020)
In 2010 at the age of 21, Danz moved in with her mother who had relocated to Florida. Unsure what she wanted to do career-wise, she applied for many jobs at restaurants but couldn't get one despite having experience at many New York City restaurants. In her downtime, she downloaded the DAW Ableton Live. She discovered she was able to make music by ear and learned on her own how to produce music. One of the first songs she completed was "Running", done in a closet on a laptop with a cheap microphone. She reminisced about her first attempts at making music: "I remember showing my mom the music I made and she was like 'How did you do this?' I just thought everyone could write music. I didn't know anything I did was special. It was kind of hard for me to believe. It was like a lightbulb went off after that. I would just make one song after the next and put it up online. And I realized – geez, maybe this is what I was meant to do all along."
She picked the moniker Computer Magic, a name derived from a quote by Viv Savage in This Is Spinal Tap: "quite exciting this computer magic!". Tal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus%20Shahabi | Cyrus Shahabi is an Iranian-American computer scientist and a 2003 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Biography
Shahabi received his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in 1989, followed by a master's degree and PhD in computer science from the University of Southern California (USC) in May 1993 and August 1996 respectively. He currently serves as director of the Integrated Media Systems Center and the Information Laboratory at USC.
Shahabi received an Okawa Foundation Research Grant for Information and Telecommunications in 2001, a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2002, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2003, and the Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Scientist award in 2009. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is the author or co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed articles.
Research
Shahabi’s research is in the area of information management. He is mainly known for his contributions to the field of geospatial information management. Under this area, he has made contributions in several subareas, notably: spatial indexing, geospatial information integration, participatory sensing, geo-social environments, location privacy and ride-sharing. Moreover, he pioneered fundamental concepts such as road-network queries, spatial skyline queries and spatial crowdsourcing. He chaired the founding nomination committee of ACM SIGSPATIAL for its first term (2011-2014 term). He is the chair of the ACM SIGSPATIAL (2017-2020 term).
In addition, Shahabi is responsible (along with Xiaoming Tian and Wugang Zhao) for introducing a new type of tree structure named TSA-tree, based on wavelets. His other work includes the Clustered AGgregation (CAG) algorithm, and the Spatial Skyline Query.
References
Living people
20th-century births
American computer scientists
Sharif University of Technology alumni
University of Southern California alumni
University of Southern California faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro%20Universit%C3%A1rio%20da%20FEI | Centro Universitário da FEI is a higher education facility in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, offering undergraduate degrees in engineering, business administration, and computer sciences as well as master's degrees in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and administration; specialization courses are also offered. It is often ranked among the best Brazilian private engineering colleges and best overall in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science.
FEI is an abbreviation for Fundação Educacional Inaciana (Portuguese for Educational Foundation of Ignatius), but had meant in the past Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial (Portuguese for Faculty of Industrial Engineering).
History
Rev. Sabóia de Medeiros, S.J., founded colleges of business and engineering in São Paulo for the fast-growing industrial sector in Brazil. The Superior School of Business Administration (Escola Superior de Administração de Negócios - ESAN) came in 1941 and was then the only business school in Latin America, influenced by the Harvard Business School model. The Faculty of Industrial Engineering (Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial - FEI) offering a Chemical Engineering undergraduate degree came in 1946. In 1946 also these two colleges joined the Catholic University of São Paulo, later Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, but remained affiliated only until 1971.
In 1963, the Faculty of Industrial Engineering was founded in São Bernardo do Campo, provisionally sharing the city's Industrial Technical School facilities (nowadays ETEC Lauro Gomes). The ceremony was attended by the President of Brazil João Goulart.
In 1965, the São Bernardo do Campo campus was inaugurated with a building, and plans for a total site area. At that time, FEI offered undergraduate courses in Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical Engineering, as well as associate degrees in Automotive, HVAC, machine tools, Textile, Metallurgy, Electronics, and Electrotechnics Operational Engineering.
In 1969, FEI sought an agreement with the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo and the Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia to improve its admission test (known as vestibular in Brazil), called MAPOFEI, by using essay rather than multiple choice questions. The partnership ended in 1977 when the University of São Paulo decided to merge all admission tests of its many colleges in a single exam conducted by FUVEST, a foundation established for that purpose.
FCI, the IT branch, was founded in 1999.
Nowadays, the campus at São Bernardo do Campo has 18 buildings on a 24 hectare (60 acres) site and the campus in São Paulo occupies about one hectare (2 acres).
Elevation to University Center
In 2001, the Brazilian Government established a new rule on higher education, allowing for the foundation of universities which, unlike faculties, could initiate and terminate courses.
FEI, ESAN, and FCI formed a new university center in 2002, at first called UniFEI. The "Uni" was added a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheed | Pheed was a mobile pay-per-view technology and social networking service founded by O.D. Kobo, Tony DeNiro, and Phil Haus. In March 2014, 18 months from launch, a subsidiary of América Móvil acquired the service for $40 million in cash and stock.
History
Pheed began development in Los Angeles as a web platform by Internet entrepreneur Phil Haus and music producer Tony DeNiro. Realizing that mobile was the future of social media, Haus and DeNiro refocused their service to a mobile app, introducing at the time the first pay-per-view live stream technology at the App Store. Pheed launched in November 2012 and was aimed at a creative and younger audience than Facebook's demographic. Pheed combined text, video, images and audio, and included a live broadcast option. Pheed was the first app on the App Store to offer pay-per-view live streaming, covering both individual elements (such as a video or audio event), or subscriptions to a full feed that can be scheduled for a specific time or day with a specific cost, and mobile applications through the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Pheeds could also be shared by Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail, and could be copyrighted, making them the user's property. They could also be kept on the user's wall without any other users seeing it. A user's friends could be invited through Facebook, Twitter, or Gmail.
Acquisition
Pheed was acquired by Móvil Media a subsidiary of América Móvil, companies majority owned by Carlos Slim Helú, in March 2014 for $40 million. In April 2016, Pheed was shut down and the technology integrated to América Móvil platforms.
References
External links
Pheed
Internet properties established in 2012
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNWT | KNWT (89.1 FM) is a U.S. radio station broadcasting an adult album alternative format from the Wyoming Sounds network of Wyoming Public Radio. It is licensed to Cody, Wyoming, United States, and serves the entire Bighorn Basin area. The station is currently owned by the University of Wyoming.
The call sign reflects its original owner and history, having been built and operated by Northwest College in Powell. After the closure of the college's broadcasting program and a tower lease dispute, the license was transferred to Wyoming Public Radio.
History
On July 6, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit to Northwest College for a new noncommercial educational radio station. Programming began on November 17, 2010, after obtaining FCC approval; studios were located in the Nelson Performing Arts Center on the campus, while the transmitter was on Cedar Mountain near the city of license, Cody. In conjunction with the opening of the station, renovations were made to the college's recording studios, including one located just off the auditorium that enabled KNWT to broadcast performances held there. Known as Trapper Radio, the station aired a college radio format with programming and news produced by local students.
In 2016, due to budget cuts, Northwest College ended its radio/TV broadcasting program. However, KNWT continued to operate. In 2017, a dispute erupted between Northwest College and Legend Towers, Inc., a sister company to the local Legend Communications radio stations which owned the Cedar Mountain tower on which KNWT's antenna was located. Legend alleged its lease required the college to pay annually, whereas the college desired to pay monthly. Legend wrote the college a letter, stating it was out of compliance with the terms of its lease, and demanded it pay the three remaining years of its lease up front. When administrators asked for more detail, Legend responded by disconnecting the power, taking KNWT off the air on July 17, 2017.
As Northwest College no longer had a tower lease or an active program to run KNWT, it entered into negotiations to donate the facility to Wyoming Public Radio. In February 2018, the license donation was consummated, with most of the sound equipment installed in the college's studios transferred to the music program. WPR relocated the facility to its existing site in the McCullough Peaks and returned KNWT to operation in July 2018 with its Wyoming Sounds service.
References
External links
Radio stations established in 2010
2010 establishments in Wyoming
Adult album alternative radio stations in the United States
NWT
Cody, Wyoming
University of Wyoming
College radio stations in Wyoming
Public radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Ashkenas | Jeremy Ashkenas is a computer programmer known for the creation and co-creation of the CoffeeScript and LiveScript programming languages respectively, the Backbone.js JavaScript framework and the Underscore.js JavaScript library. While working in the graphics department at The New York Times, he shared the 2015 Gerald Loeb Award for Images/Graphics/Interactives. After working at the Times, he was an employee of Observable, Inc. As of 2020, he works at Substack Inc. Jeremy returned to The New York Times in June 2022 as Director of Graphics for Opinion.
References
External links
CoffeeScript website
Backbone.js website
Underscore.js website
Living people
Web developers
American computer programmers
Free software programmers
Programming language designers
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Images, Graphics, Interactives, and Visuals
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milionari%20de%20weekend | Milionari de weekend (Weekend Millionaires) is a 2004 Romanian comedy film directed by Cătălin Saizescu.
Cast
Tudor Chirilă - Godzi
Maria Dinulescu - Miki
Andi Vasluianu - computerist Zetu
Mihai Bendeac - barman Alex
George Alexandru - Merțanu
Nicodim Ungureanu - Chioru
Bogdan Dumitrescu - Paulică
Awards
Milionari de weekend won the UARF Award for best debut feature film (2005).
References
External links
2004 comedy films
2004 films
Romanian comedy films
2000s Romanian-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20file%20system%20for%20cloud | A distributed file system for cloud is a file system that allows many clients to have access to data and supports operations (create, delete, modify, read, write) on that data. Each data file may be partitioned into several parts called chunks. Each chunk may be stored on different remote machines, facilitating the parallel execution of applications. Typically, data is stored in files in a hierarchical tree, where the nodes represent directories. There are several ways to share files in a distributed architecture: each solution must be suitable for a certain type of application, depending on how complex the application is. Meanwhile, the security of the system must be ensured. Confidentiality, availability and integrity are the main keys for a secure system.
Users can share computing resources through the Internet thanks to cloud computing which is typically characterized by scalable and elastic resources – such as physical servers, applications and any services that are virtualized and allocated dynamically. Synchronization is required to make sure that all devices are up-to-date.
Distributed file systems enable many big, medium, and small enterprises to store and access their remote data as they do local data, facilitating the use of variable resources.
Overview
History
Today, there are many implementations of distributed file systems. The first file servers were developed by researchers in the 1970s. Sun Microsystem's Network File System became available in the 1980s. Before that, people who wanted to share files used the sneakernet method, physically transporting files on storage media from place to place. Once computer networks started to proliferate, it became obvious that the existing file systems had many limitations and were unsuitable for multi-user environments. Users initially used FTP to share files. FTP first ran on the PDP-10 at the end of 1973. Even with FTP, files needed to be copied from the source computer onto a server and then from the server onto the destination computer. Users were required to know the physical addresses of all computers involved with the file sharing.
Supporting techniques
Modern data centers must support large, heterogenous environments, consisting of large numbers of computers of varying capacities. Cloud computing coordinates the operation of all such systems, with techniques such as data center networking (DCN), the MapReduce framework, which supports data-intensive computing applications in parallel and distributed systems, and virtualization techniques that provide dynamic resource allocation, allowing multiple operating systems to coexist on the same physical server.
Applications
Cloud computing provides large-scale computing thanks to its ability to provide the needed CPU and storage resources to the user with complete transparency. This makes cloud computing particularly suited to support different types of applications that require large-scale distributed processing. This data-intensive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Kimber | Edward Kimber (1719–1769) was an English novelist, journalist and compiler of reference works.
Life
He was son of Isaac Kimber; and in early life apprentice to a bookseller, John Noon of Cheapside. He made a living by compilation and editorial work for booksellers.
Kimber spent the years 1742 to 1744 in British North America, and drew on his travels in subsequent writing. In 1745–6 he published a series of Itinerant Observations in America in The London Magazine, at that point edited by his father.
Works
Kimber wrote:
A Relation, or Journal, of a Late Expedition to the Gates of St. Augustine, on Florida (1744). Kimber had served in the militia of James Oglethorpe, and participated in a raid in 1743 that was a sequel to the 1740 siege of St. Augustine, Florida.
The Life and Adventures of Joe Thompson, a Narrative founded on fact, written by himself [anon.], 2 vols., London, 1750; other editions, 1751, 1775, 1783. A French translation appeared in 1762. A "ramble novel", it sold well at the time, and was then condemned to neglect.
The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson (1754). A sentimental novel, it was based on a real-life narrative Kimber had heard in Georgia. Kimber denounced slavery, but is now found to be equivocal on the related issue, in the American context, of white supremacy.
The Life and Adventures of James Ramble (1754)
The Juvenile Adventures of David Ranger (1756)
The Life, Extraordinary Adventures, Voyages, and Surprizing Escapes of Capt. Neville Frowde, of Cork (1758)
The Happy Orphans (1759), translation from the French. The French original of 1754 was itself imitated from the Fortunate Foundlings of Eliza Haywood.
Maria: The Genuine Memoirs of an Admired Lady of Rank and Fortune (1764)
The Generous Briton: or, the Authentic Memoirs of William Goldsmith (1765)
The Peerage of England, London, 1766; 2nd edit. 1769.
The Peerage of Scotland, London, 1767.
The Peerage of Ireland, London, 1768.
The Extinct Peerage of England, London, 1769.
He also wrote memoirs of his father, together with a poem to his memory, prefixed to Isaac Kimber's Sermons, 1756. With Richard Johnson he edited and continued Thomas Wooton's Baronetage of England, 3 vols., London, 1771.
Notes
Attribution
1719 births
1769 deaths
18th-century English novelists
English male journalists
English genealogists
English male novelists
18th-century English male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20India%20Peoples%20Science%20Network | All India Peoples Science Network (AIPSN) is a national network of Peoples Science Movements of India. It was established in the first All India Peoples Science Congress, organised in 1988 at Kannur in Kerala State. The attempt to establish a national platform for science organisations in India started in the late 1960s. By that time, there were Science organisations in West Bengal, Assam, Orissa, Kerala and Maharashtra. In many other states, there were committed scientists who were interested to work with people for a social cause.
The first common platform of scientists was organised by working scientists of BARC in Mumbai. It was named the Federation of Indian Literary Scientists Association. They supported different groups of scientists in different language speaking states with science writings in the vernacular. In 1973 and 1978, regional conferences of scientists were organised in Bangalore and Thiruvananthapuram. As a result, organisations were formed in few other states also. By the 1970s, there was Assam Science Society in Assam, Bangeeya Vigyan Parishad in West Bengal, Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad in Kerala and Karnataka Rajya Vijnan Parishad in Karnataka. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984 created a situation for these groups to work together against abuse of science and technology and lot of such activities were organised. In 1987, five national kala jathas were organised in the name Bharat Jan Vijnana Jatha which culminated in Bhopal. Following this, organisations sprouted in various states which created a conducive atmosphere for the establishment of the All India Peoples Science Network.
When All India Peoples Science Network was established in February 1988, there were 28 member organisations and presently, it has 35 members. It functions as a common platform for interaction on science and technology issues and learning. It organises All India Peoples Sciences Congress every two years to discuss various experiences in science and technology. The organisational conference of the network is held along with the congress.
Members
Major activities
1) Science Communication and Publication
2) Health
3) Education
4) Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development
5) Agriculture
6) Rural Technology
7) Decentralization
8) Samata
9) Cultural Communication
See also
Children's Indradanush
References
External links
"Secularism and People's Science Movement in India" and "Towards a People's Science Movement" from Economic and Political Weekly
"People's Science Movement" from Science, technology, imperialism, and war
"The People's Science Movements" from Knowing Nature
"Science for social change"
Scientific organisations based in India
Social movements in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%20Tech | Reed Technology and Information Services Inc. is a company that provides electronic content management services, engaging in data capture and conversion, preservation, analysis, e-submission and publication for corporate, legal and government clients. The company was founded in 1961 and is based in Horsham, Pennsylvania, with an additional office in Alexandria, Virginia.
History
The company was incorporated in 1966 as International Computaprint Corporation (ICC). In 1969, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) contracted ICC to develop and operate a computer system for use in the patent publishing process. As part of the company's core business in managing and converting data, the company launched the ReedFax service in 1992, making copies of U.S. and foreign patent and trademark documents available to law firms, corporate legal departments and patent practitioners.
In 1995, the company changed its name to Reed Technology and Information Services Inc.
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated that all prescription drug labeling information must be submitted in Structured Product Labeling Extensible Markup Language (SPL XML) format in 2005, Reed Tech created an SPL XML submission solution for the pharmaceutical sciences and other life sciences industries, for which the company won a 2010 CIO100 Award. The company also achieved Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification for its data center operations in 2006.
In 2012, Reed Technology achieved SOC2 SSAE-16 accreditation from the AICPA.
Products and services
As a LexisNexis company, Reed Tech specializes in the field of content management and intellectual property services in the areas of life sciences, patent prosecution, research and analysis.
Intellectual property
The Reed Tech Intellectual Property products span a range of capabilities, including data capture and conversion, preservation, analysis, e-submission and publication for corporate, legal and government clients. In 2013, Reed Tech, in collaboration with PatentCore, announced the launch of the PatentAdvisor service, designed to deliver searchable and actionable data for patent attorneys and IP-driven companies focused on the prosecution and management of patents by providing searchable, filterable access to historical behavior data for nearly every U.S. patent examiner and art unit. In addition, document retrieval, translations, and research and analysis of U.S. and international patent documents are offered through the company's IP Services (formerly ReedFax).
Life sciences
The company's Life Sciences products focus on electronic data conversion and submissions to regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a solution for the FDA’s Structured Product Labeling (SPL) format and the XEVMPD format for the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Since the inception of SPL in 2005, Reed Tech has worked closely with the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA, and is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swell%20Radio | Swell Radio was a mobile radio streaming application that learned user listening preferences based on listening behavior, community filtering, and a proprietary algorithm. Originally designed for use while commuting to and from work, the service focused on delivering spoken-word audio content to users. Major streaming partners included ABC News Radio, NPR, PRI, and TED
According to the company website, the app was available on iOS devices worldwide but content was customized to the United States and Canada. The application was “ad-free” and the company was not monetizing.
In July 2014, Apple acquired the Swell app for $30 million. As part of the deal, the app was removed from the iOS App Store and became a part of Apple.
History
Concept.io, creator of Swell Radio, raised $5.4 million in Series A Funding led by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The application originally launched the application on the iOS platform in Canada in early 2013 and officially launched in the United States on June 27, 2013.
References
Further reading
6 Apps That Turn Your Phone into a Radio
Swell's iPhone App Aims to Take the Pain Out of Podcasts
A Swell App for Discovering Podcasts
Swell App Makes Podcasts Work For Smartphone Generation
Streaming media systems
IOS software
Podcasting software
2013 software
Apple Inc. acquisitions
2014 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct online companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20313001%E2%80%93314000 |
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|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313001 || || — || October 29, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.94" | 940 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 313002 || || — || October 31, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.4 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 313003 || || — || October 6, 1999 || Socorro || LINEAR || EOS || align=right | 2.5 km ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313004 || || — || October 29, 1999 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || — || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313005 || || — || October 30, 1999 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || — || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 313006 || || — || November 2, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 3.9 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313007 || || — || November 2, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.85" | 850 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313008 || || — || November 8, 1999 || Višnjan Observatory || K. Korlević || — || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313009 || || — || November 4, 1999 || Socorro || LINEAR || MAS || align=right | 1.00 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 313010 || || — || November 9, 1999 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 4.3 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 313011 || || — || November 9, 1999 || Socorro || LINEAR || HYG || align=right | 3.7 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 313012 || || — || November 9, 1999 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 4.1 km ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313013 || || — || November 9, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.92" | 920 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 313014 || || — || November 15, 1999 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 4.2 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313015 || || — || November 5, 1999 || Socorro || LINEAR || MAS || align=right | 1.00 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313016 || || — || November 5, 1999 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313017 || || — || November 28, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.81" | 810 m ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313018 || || — || November 28, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.91" | 910 m ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313019 || || — || November 16, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.97" | 970 m ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 313020 || || — || December 6, 1999 || Gnosca || S. Sposetti || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.87" | 870 m ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 313021 || || — || December 12, 1999 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 3.5 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#C2FFFF
| 313022 || || — || December 27, 1999 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || L4 || align=right | 8.8 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 313023 || || — || January 5, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 3.0 km ||
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings%20of%20minor%20planet%20names%3A%204001%E2%80%935000 |
4001–4100
|-
| 4001 Ptolemaeus || 1949 PV || Ptolemy (c. AD 100–170), Greek astronomer ||
|-id=002
| 4002 Shinagawa || 1950 JB || Seishi Shinagawa (born 1944), first to use electronic computers for orbit computation in Japan ||
|-id=003
| 4003 Schumann || 1964 ED || Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer ||
|-id=004
| 4004 Listʹev || || Vladislav Listyev (1956–1995), a Russian television journalist who was murdered ||
|-id=005
| 4005 Dyagilev || || Sergei Diaghilev (1872–1929), Russian impresario ||
|-id=006
| 4006 Sandler || 1972 YR || Grigori Sandler (1912–1994), a Russian musician ||
|-id=007
| 4007 Euryalos || 1973 SR || Euryalos, mythical Greek warrior ||
|-id=008
| 4008 Corbin || 1977 BY || Thomas E. Corbin, American astronomer, and his wife Brenda Corbin, Librarian, both at the US Naval Observatory ||
|-id=009
| 4009 Drobyshevskij || || Edward Drobyshevski (1936–2012), Russian astro- and plasma physicist at Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg ||
|-id=010
| 4010 Nikolʹskij || || Gennady Nikolsky (1929–1982), Soviet solar astronomer ||
|-id=011
| 4011 Bakharev || || Anatoly Bakharev (1918–1979), observer and researcher on comets and meteors. He is one of the co-discoverers of near-parabolic comet C/1955 N1 (Bakharev-Macfarlane-Krienke) ||
|-id=012
| 4012 Geballe || || Tom Geballe (born 1944), American astronomer ||
|-id=013
| 4013 Ogiria || || Maiya Borisovna Ogir' (1933–1991), Russian solar physicist ||
|-id=014
| 4014 Heizman || || Leonie and Charles Heizman from San Juan Capistrano, California, who hosted the discoverer Nikolai Chernykh during the conference on Near Earth Asteroids in 1991 ||
|-id=015
| 4015 Wilson-Harrington || 1979 VA || American co-discoverers Albert G. Wilson (1918–2012) and Robert G. Harrington (1904–1987) ||
|-id=016
| 4016 Sambre || 1979 XK || The Sambre River, France and Belgium ||
|-id=017
| 4017 Disneya || || Walt Disney (1901–1966), American animator ||
|-id=018
| 4018 Bratislava || 1980 YM || Bratislava, capital city of Slovakia ||
|-id=019
| 4019 Klavetter || || James Jay Klavetter (1960–1997), professor of physics at California State University, Sacramento ||
|-id=020
| 4020 Dominique || || Dominique Bockelée-Morvan (born 1957), researcher at the Paris Observatory, France ||
|-id=021
| 4021 Dancey || || Roy Dancey and Bruce D. Dancey, father and son, both Canadian designers of telescope mirrors ||
|-id=022
| 4022 Nonna || || Nonna Mordyukova (1925–2008), Soviet actress ||
|-id=023
| 4023 Jarník || 1981 UN || Vojtěch Jarník (1897–1970), Czech mathematician ||
|-id=024
| 4024 Ronan || 1981 WQ || Colin Ronan (1920–1995), author and writer on astronomy ||
|-id=025
| 4025 Ridley || 1981 WU || Harold B. Ridley, British astrophotographer ||
|-id=026
| 4026 Beet || || Ernest Agar Beet, teacher and amateur astronomer ||
|-id=027
| 4027 Mitton || 1982 DN || Simon Mitton (born 1946), British astronomer and author ||
|-id=028
| 4028 Pancratz || || Chris Pancratz (1950– |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Texas%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Texas Bowl throughout the years. In 2011 and 2012, the game was called the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas.
TV broadcasters
Radio broadcasters
References
Texas Bowl
Broadcasters
Texas Bowl
Texas Bowl
Texas Bowl
Texas sports-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%20Lindsey | Kelly Ann Lindsey (born September 3, 1979) is an American soccer coach and former defender who played for the United States women's national soccer team and the San Jose CyberRays of Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA).
Playing career
College
Lindsey attended and played college soccer for the University of Notre Dame. A tough defender with the Fighting Irish, Lindsey backstopped the team to a runners-up finish in the 1999 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship.
Club
From 2001 to 2003, Lindsey played for the San Jose CyberRays of the professional Women's United Soccer Association. She was the number one pick in the 2001 WUSA Supplemental Draft. In 2001 the CyberRays won the championship game, beating Atlanta Beat on a penalty shootout. Soccer America magazine named Lindsey the 2001 Rookie of the Year.
After the 2003 season, Lindsey reluctantly retired from professional soccer at the age of 23, due to persistent knee injuries.
International
Lindsey's first appearance on the United States women's national soccer team was on January 7, 2000, in an 8–1 win over Czech Republic in Melbourne, Australia. She collected a total of four caps over the following two years, but was not included in the US squads for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, or the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Managing career
In 2003, Lindsey coached the University of Colorado to their first ever NCAA tournament selection. Then she trained the University of Texas and Saint Mary's (2006–2008). In 2009, she took the lead of Sky Blue FC, part of the newly formed Women's Professional Soccer League after Head Coach Ian Sawyers was terminated. Lindsay resigned with two weeks left in the regular season without explanation and Sky Blue FC went on to win the Championship.
Lindsey has also coached the USA U21 women's team as well as on the USA U14 national development program.
In 2016, she took the role of Head Coach for the Afghanistan women's national football team.
In February 2019, she was appointed as CONIFA's first ever director of women's football.
In 2020, she was named as the Royal Moroccan Football Federation women's football director and head coach of the Morocco women's national football team. She also worked as director for the national team with the hiring of coach Reynald Pedros.
Lindsey later became the head coach of Lewes F.C. for two years, before joining Saudi Women's Premier League club Al-Ittihad in July 2023.
Personal life
Lindsey was nicknamed Boof by players and supporters, owing to her hairstyle.
References
External links
Profile at Women's United Soccer Association
Living people
1979 births
American women's soccer players
Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's soccer players
United States women's international soccer players
Women's United Soccer Association players
Soccer players from Nebraska
San Jose CyberRays players
Women's association football defenders
Women's Professional Soccer coaches
American women's soccer coaches
Saint Mary's Gaels women's socc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Workingmen%27s%20Association%20in%20America | The International Workingmen's Association (IWA; 1864–1872) in the United States of America took the form of a loose network of about 35 frequently discordant local "sections," each professing allegiance to the London-based IWA, commonly known as the "First International." These sections were divided geographically and by the language spoken by their members, frequently new immigrants to America, including those who spoke German, French, Czech, as well as Irish and "American" English-language groups.
The peak membership of the various sections of the International Workingmen's Association in the United States has been variously estimated in the vicinity of 4,000 to 5,000.
Organizational history
Background
The International Workingmen's Association (IWA), commonly known as the First International, was established in London in 1864. The organization was initially strictly European in composition, including prominently English, French, German, Polish, and Italian labor leaders and political activists.
The International made its way to American soil in 1866 when Italian socialist Cesare Orsini, brother of an attempted assassin of Napoleon III, arrived in the United States in 1866 and attempted to organize an American section. Orsini managed to win the support of a number of a handful of émigré socialists in New York City, in addition to gaining a sympathetic hearing from several prominent political figures, including newspaper editor Horace Greeley, abolitionist orator Wendell Phillips, and radical Republican Senator Charles Sumner.
At the time of its establishment, the International was far from a revolutionary organization, seeking rather to advance the cause of labor through international cooperation of organized workers around a general program based upon the notions of liberty and justice. This somewhat tender trade unionist perspective was not universal among its members, however, as from the outset it gained the participation of German émigrés Karl Marx and Frederick Engels and many of their co-thinkers, for whom the purpose of the IWA were not the modest goals of raising wages, lowering working hours, and liberalizing election law through international cooperation, but rather the construction of an international organization as a tool for the winning of state power from the bourgeoisie.
In this era of imperfect transatlantic communications the message of the IWA was spread through personal communication, with parallel networks emerging between Karl Marx and his associates on the one hand and the official "American Corresponding Secretary" of the General Council of the IWA in London. In effect these parallel channels of communication replicated the factional divisions of the European organization. The tension between labor-reformist and revolutionary visions of the IWA would find reflection in the factional warfare within the organization in America. Andrew Cameron was a delegate of the National Labor Union who attended the Basle Congre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasura%20saginaea | Gymnasura saginaea is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1899. It is found in Queensland, Australia.
Adults are pale yellow, with a network of dark lines across the forewings.
References
Nudariina
Moths described in 1899
Moths of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Thayer | Andy Thayer (born May 1, 1960) is an American socialist, LGBTQ rights and anti-war activist. He is co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network, one of the largest LGBTQ direction-action groups in Chicago. He is also the co-founder of Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism.
Early life
Thayer was born in the state of New York. He and his family lived in Holland, New York. His father designed missile parts, and his mother was an activist who helped draft dodgers of the Vietnam War escape to Canada.
At the age of 17, Thayer wrote articles against corruption in his high school newspaper at Holland Central High School. His articles led to the school shutting down the school newspaper. Thayer later studied journalism at Northwestern University in 1978.
Gay Liberation Network
Thayer founded the Gay Liberation Network in September 1998 under the original name "Chicago Anti-Bashing Network" which was changed to the Gay Liberation Network in 2004. The group is one of the largest and most-active LGBTQ direct-action groups in the area of Chicago.
Anti-war activism
Thayer organized heavily against the Iraq War and the use of drones. In 2003, Thayer was an organizer of the March 2003 Iraq protest and march that ended up with the arrests of 500-700 people on Lake Shore drive. Thayer was among those arrested.
On March 18, 2006, Thayer organized another march against the Iraq war down Michigan Avenue. Despite having permits, Thayer was directed by police to have the march earlier; Thayer refused to change the time, and started the march at 7pm, the original time he planned for and had on the permit.
In 2012, Thayer was one of the lead organizers of the NATO protests in Chicago. Thayer commented that the march was more than against the wars that NATO causes, but the use of taxpayer money for war that could be used elsewhere such as healthcare and education. He stated that "NATO has an indirect effect on the life and death issues of many people; take for example, health care, where millions go without, but when aligned with NATO the effect is devastating."
March 20th, 2003 demonstration and arrest
On March 20, 2003, Thayer as one of the leaders of the Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism held a demonstration against the Iraq War that drew an estimated 10,000 – 15,000 people. Thayer was among those who were arrested.
The demonstration led to the arrest of anywhere from 500-700 people on Lake Shore Drive. Some of whom were demonstrators others who may have been bystanders.
A class action suit (Vodak v. City of Chicago) was filed approved by the city. In 2012, $6.2 million were awarded to those arrested in a settlement
Also See 20 March 2003 anti-war protest.
March 19th, 2005 demonstration and arrest
On March 19, 2005 Thayer, as head of the Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism, organized a demonstration against the Iraq war which attracted over 1000 demonstrators. The demonstration was scheduled for March 19, but Thayer was denied a permit to demonst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupolybothrus%20cavernicolus | Eupolybothrus cavernicolus is a species of centipede so far only found in two caves near the village of Kistanje, in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia.
It has been dubbed the cyber-centipede as it is the first eukaryotic species for which, in addition to the traditional morphological description, scientists have provided a transcriptomic profile, DNA barcoding data, detailed anatomical X-ray microtomography (micro-CT), and a movie of the living specimen.
It was discovered in by 2013 by biospeciesologists Komerički and Stoev.
References
Lithobiomorpha
Myriapods of Europe
Animals described in 2013
Cave arthropods
Endemic fauna of Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASCIA%20%28database%29 | FASCIA is a database created and used by the U.S. National Security Agency that contains trillions of device-location records that are collected from a variety of sources. Its existence was revealed during the 2013 global surveillance disclosure by Edward Snowden.
Scope of surveillance
The FASCIA database stores various types of information, including Location Area Codes (LACs), Cell Tower IDs (CeLLIDs), Visitor Location Registers (VLRs), International Mobile Station Equipment Identity (IMEIs) and MSISDNs (Mobile Subscriber Integrated Services Digital Network-Numbers).
Over a period of about seven months, more than 27 terabytes of location data were collected and stored in the database.
Gallery
See also
Dishfire
References
National Security Agency
American secret government programs
Intelligence agency programmes revealed by Edward Snowden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202014%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2014, fourteen singles claimed the top spot. Eight acts achieved their first number-one single in Australia: A Great Big World, 5 Seconds of Summer, Sheppard, Ed Sheeran, The Madden Brothers, Paloma Faith, Meghan Trainor and Mark Ronson. 5 Seconds of Summer, Sheppard, Justice Crew and The Veronicas were the only Australian artists that achieved a number-one single in 2014.
Sheeran had two number-one singles during the year for "Sing" and "Thinking Out Loud". Taylor Swift also earned two number-one singles during the year for "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space". Pharrell Williams' "Happy" was the longest-running number-one single of 2014, having topped the ARIA Singles Chart for twelve weeks. Justice Crew's "Que Sera" was the second longest-running number-one single, with nine consecutive weeks at the top spot. Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" stayed at number one for five consecutive weeks, while Trainor's "All About That Bass" topped the chart for four weeks. Sheppard's "Geronimo", Swift's "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space", The Veronicas' "You Ruin Me" and Ronson's "Uptown Funk" each spent three consecutive weeks at the number one spot.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2014 in music
List of number-one dance singles of 2014 (Australia)
List of number-one albums of 2014 (Australia)
List of top 25 singles for 2014 in Australia
List of top 10 singles in 2014 (Australia)
References
Australia Singles
Number-one singles
2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20albums%20of%202014%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each album and EP's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2014, thirty-one albums claimed the top spot, including Michael Bublé's Christmas, which started its peak position in 2011. Ten acts achieved their first number-one album in Australia: Beyoncé, Avicii, MKTO, Pharrell Williams, Chet Faker, The Black Keys, Sia, Vance Joy, The Madden Brothers and Barbra Streisand.
INXS' The Very Best was the longest-running number-one album of 2014, having topped the ARIA Albums Chart for seven weeks. Ed Sheeran's x was the second longest-running number-one album, with six weeks at the top spot. Taylor Swift's 1989 spent four weeks atop the chart, while Beyoncé's self-titled album and Coldplay's Ghost Stories both topped the chart for three consecutive weeks. Faker's Built on Glass and Hilltop Hoods's Walking Under Stars both spent two consecutive weeks at number one.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2014 in music
List of number-one singles of 2014 (Australia)
List of Top 25 albums for 2014 in Australia
References
2014
Australia Albums
2014 in Australian music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20Almaguer | Miguel Almaguer (born March 11, 1977) is an American journalist. He is a correspondent for NBC News, reporting for all divisions of the network and based at its Los Angeles bureau.
Early life and education
Almaguer was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Berkeley, California. He attended Berkeley High School. He was a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, but left after his sophomore year and subsequently attended a community college in his hometown. While there, his aunt, a news anchor in the San Francisco Bay Area, recommended that he look into taking a class being taught by her co-anchor at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Almaguer enrolled at the school and years later said he "fell in love with the broadcasting department, my classes, and my local news internship... I still remember being a college intern... sitting in a local newsroom and watching the buzz and energy in the room." He graduated with high honors from SFSU with a degree in broadcast communications.
Career
Almaguer began his television career with KSBW in Salinas, California, in 2000. In 2003, he became a reporter for KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California. He then joined WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., in 2006 as a general assignment reporter covering breaking news. On April 2, 2009, Almaguer was hired as a Burbank, California-based correspondent with NBC News to report for all of the network's divisions, including NBC Nightly News, Today, and MSNBC.
In 2004, Almaguer won an Edward R. Murrow Award for Spot News. He earned an Emmy Award for his reporting on the 2007 San Diego wildfires. He also received awards from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
During the November 4, 2022, broadcast for Today, Almaguer reported on the assault on Paul Pelosi, stating from an anonymous source that Pelosi had told San Francisco police there was no indication he was in danger when he answered the door. The report was seen as inaccurate as the police stated Pelosi was struggling with the intruder, David DePape when they had arrived at his home. However, the NBC affiliate KNTV in San Francisco reported from one source that Pelosi had opened the door after watching police body camera footage. Hours later, NBC News removed the video report from the Today website, stating it "did not meet NBC News reporting standards". On November 14, The Daily Beast reported that Almaguer had been placed on suspension from NBC News. During the December 12 broadcast for NBC Nightly News, Almaguer returned from a four-week absence to report on the mid-December blizzard affecting parts of the United States.
Personal life
Almaguer lives in Studio City, Los Angeles.
References
External links
Miguel Almaguer on Facebook
Miguel Almaguer on Twitter
1977 births
American male journalists
American television reporters and correspondents
Journalists from Los Angeles
Journalists from the San Francisco Bay Area
Living people
NBC News people
People from Berkeley, California
People from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20perceptron | In machine learning, the kernel perceptron is a variant of the popular perceptron learning algorithm that can learn kernel machines, i.e. non-linear classifiers that employ a kernel function to compute the similarity of unseen samples to training samples. The algorithm was invented in 1964, making it the first kernel classification learner.
Preliminaries
The perceptron algorithm
The perceptron algorithm is an online learning algorithm that operates by a principle called "error-driven learning". It iteratively improves a model by running it on training samples, then updating the model whenever it finds it has made an incorrect classification with respect to a supervised signal. The model learned by the standard perceptron algorithm is a linear binary classifier: a vector of weights (and optionally an intercept term , omitted here for simplicity) that is used to classify a sample vector as class "one" or class "minus one" according to
where a zero is arbitrarily mapped to one or minus one. (The "hat" on denotes an estimated value.)
In pseudocode, the perceptron algorithm is given by:
Initialize to an all-zero vector of length , the number of predictors (features).
For some fixed number of iterations, or until some stopping criterion is met:
For each training example with ground truth label }:
Let .
If , update .
Kernel Methods
By contrast with the linear models learned by the perceptron, a kernel method is a classifier that stores a subset of its training examples , associates with each a weight , and makes decisions for new samples by evaluating
.
Here, is some kernel function. Formally, a kernel function is a non-negative semidefinite kernel (see Mercer's condition), representing an inner product between samples in a high-dimensional space, as if the samples had been expanded to include additional features by a function : . Intuitively, it can be thought of as a similarity function between samples, so the kernel machine establishes the class of a new sample by weighted comparison to the training set. Each function serves as a basis function in the classification.
Algorithm
To derive a kernelized version of the perceptron algorithm, we must first formulate it in dual form, starting from the observation that the weight vector can be expressed as a linear combination of the training samples. The equation for the weight vector is
where is the number of times was misclassified, forcing an update . Using this result, we can formulate the dual perceptron algorithm, which loops through the samples as before, making predictions, but instead of storing and updating a weight vector , it updates a "mistake counter" vector .
We must also rewrite the prediction formula to get rid of :
Plugging these two equations into the training loop turn it into the dual perceptron algorithm.
Finally, we can replace the dot product in the dual perceptron by an arbitrary kernel function, to get the effect of a feature map without computing explici |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCKV-LD | WCKV-LD (channel 22) is a low-power television station in Clarksville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with the religious network The Walk TV. The station is owned by TN Media Group, Inc. WCKV-LD's transmitter is located at the corner of Franklin and Second Streets in downtown Clarksville. On cable, the station is available on CDE Lightband channel 12 and Charter Spectrum channel 6.
History
The station began broadcasting on May 28, 1998, on UHF analog channel 69 under the callsign W69EC. In 2000, the call letters were changed to WCKV-LP, and the station moved to UHF channel 49. WCKV-LP launched their digital signal on W30DE-D, which started broadcasting on UHF digital channel 30 in 2010, with their analog signal being closed down in a flash-cut procedure days later. The station changed their call letters to the current WCKV-LD in 2013.
Programming
Aside from programming from The Walk TV, WCKV offers an array of local programming, like Clarksville's Top Spots, Tennessee's Wild Side, and many more. The Walk TV's programming includes a mixture of family, healthy-lifestyle, and religious programming, similar to those of CTN and Doctor TV. One hour of children's programming is broadcast Monday through Saturday from 3 to 4 p.m. CT, making a total of six hours of children's educational programming. Some public domain movies and episodes of Bonanza are also aired.
In March 2015, WCKV-LD began carrying Doctor TV programming on DT2, and classic programming on DT3, with DT4 carrying the NRB Network.
In 2018, Doctor TV was dropped from DT2 and was replaced with a simulcast of DT1. Two years later on June 15, 2020, The DT1 simulcast was replaced with Right Now TV. (A channel that is focused towards a male audience.)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Coverage area
The station now broadcasts from a tower mast at the corner of Franklin and Second Streets in downtown Clarksville. With its 10,000 watts of power, its over-the-air signal can cover all of Montgomery County, reach into parts of Dickson, Cheatham, Houston, Robertson, and Stewart counties of northwestern Middle Tennessee. Thanks to the city's proximity to the Kentucky state line, the signal can also penetrate some parts of Christian, Todd, and Trigg counties of western Kentucky. At least Grade B coverage of WCKV is available as far north as Hopkinsville and Elkton.
References
CKV
1998 establishments in Tennessee
Clarksville, Tennessee
Television channels and stations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20Super | Rede Super (Super Network) is a Brazilian evangelical Christian-based religious broadcast television network that is owned by the Lagoinha Church, founded by Márcio Valadão in 2000. Rede Super is headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
History
In May 1997, journalists Alberico de Sousa Cruz and Lauro Diniz founded the Rede de Televisão Comunitária of the journalistic genre, broadcast by channel 21 UHF. In 2000, the sale of the Rede de Televisão Comunitária to the Lagoinha Church was carried out, being transformed into Rede Super. After the sale, the first broadcasts of the channel on pay TV was by NET and later came with the satellite signal covering greater coverage. On July 17, 2002, the church acquired the local cable channel and began broadcasting 24 hours of evangelical programming.
Since 2001, the Rede Super transmits all the general rehearsals of Diante do Trono, worship services and events of Lagoinha, as well as the congresses that the church and the band organize in Belo Horizonte, beginning with the general rehearsal of the recording of the album Preciso de Ti. That year the station inaugurates its first branch in Juiz de Fora.
In 2008, Rede Super began to be managed by the group Diante do Trono, the largest praise group in Brazil and Latin America. During that period, the station adopted the slogan "Rede Super: restoring lives" and later, "Rede Super: a TV before the Throne".
On February 22, 2010, pastor André Valadão assumed the presidency of the Rede Super. With the new management, Alex Passos, who since 2002 presents the program Balaio, took over the executive board of the station. In November of the following year, the station gained its own headquarters. The facilities moved from the Lourdes neighborhood in Belo Horizonte to the São Luiz neighborhood in the Pampulha region.
In February 2015, the Rede Super started to broadcast its programming on channel 32 UHF. That year Rede Super also stopped having Via Brasil TV as an affiliate. On August 2, the station is no longer broadcast on channel 21.
Controversies
There were rumors that the Rede Super would switch channels with the Novo Tempo TV, which would be transmitted by channel 32 UHF and the Rede Super would return to channel 21 UHF to enter the digital signal.
ANATEL gave a deadline until February 2016 for the Rede Super to enter the digital signal or else it would be disconnected along with the analog signal, although it is being generated in Belo Horizonte. The deadline was extended to November 2017. As a result, on March 28, 2017, Rede Super, through Lagoinha, began the campaign "The Rede Super can not Stop", in which R$3 million was sought for digitalization of the network signal and disconnection of the analogic signal in Belo Horizonte, under the closing sentence of the broadcaster. On the same night of launch, at least R$60,000 in donations were collected. Before the deadline, the amount of R$3 million was collected and the Rede Super transmits today normally in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durango%20F-85 | The Durango F-85 was an early personal computer introduced in September 1978 by Durango Systems Corporation, a company started in 1977 by George E. Comstock, John M. Scandalios and Charles L. Waggoner, all formerly of Diablo Systems. The F-85 could run its own multitasking operating system called DX-85M, which included an integral Indexed Sequential (ISAM) file system and per-task file locking, or alternatively CP/M-80. DX-85M utilized a text configuration file named CONFIG.SYS five years before this filename was used for a similar purpose under MS-DOS/PC DOS 2.0 in 1983.
The F-85 used single-sided 5¼-inch 100 tpi diskette drives providing 480 KB utilizing a high-density 4/5 group coded encoding. The machine was using a Western Digital FD1781 floppy-disk controller with 77-track Micropolis drives. In later models this was expanded to a double-sided option for 960 KB (946/947 KB formatted) per diskette.
Durango later dropped the "F-85" model name and adopted a user model system, with 700 being the entry model and 950 being the full-featured model.
Still later, they designed a 80186-/80286-based 16-bit system, the Durango "Poppy"; MS-DOS was selected as the entry operating system.
See also
Group coded recording
Notes
References
Further reading
https://books.google.com/books?id=XPDvkYPCkWgC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86
https://books.google.com/books?id=Alpvxl7sBqIC&pg=RA1-PA63&lpg=RA1-PA63
https://books.google.com/books?id=qZiwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185
External links
Personal computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20maintenance%20system | An intelligent maintenance system (IMS) is a system that utilizes collected data from machinery in order to predict and prevent potential failures in them. The occurrence of failures in machinery can be costly and even catastrophic. In order to avoid failures, there needs to be a system which analyzes the behavior of the machine and provides alarms and instructions for preventive maintenance. Analyzing the behavior of the machines has become possible by means of advanced sensors, data collection systems, data storage/transfer capabilities and data analysis tools. These are the same set of tools developed for prognostics. The aggregation of data collection, storage, transformation, analysis and decision making for smart maintenance is called an intelligent maintenance system (IMS).
Definition
An intelligent maintenance system is a system that utilizes data analysis and decision support tools to predict and prevent the potential failure of machines. The recent advancement in information technology, computers, and electronics have facilitated the design and implementation of such systems.
The key research elements of intelligent maintenance systems consist of:
Transformation of data to information to knowledge and synchronization of the decisions with remote systems
Intelligent, embedded prognostic algorithms for assessing degradation and predicting the performance in future
Software and hardware platforms to run online models
Embedded product services and life cycle information for closed-loop product designs
E-manufacturing and e-maintenance
With evolving applications of tether-free communication technologies (e.g. Internet) e-intelligence is having a larger impact on industries. Such impact has become a driving force for companies to shift the manufacturing operations from traditional factory integration practices towards an e-factory and e-supply chain philosophy. Such change is transforming the companies from local factory automation to global business automation. The goal of e-manufacturing is, from the plant floor assets, to predict the deviation of the quality of the products and possible loss of any equipment. This brings about the predictive maintenance capability of the machines.
The major functions and objectives of e-manufacturing are: “(a) provide a transparent, seamless and automated information exchange process to enable an only handle information once (OHIO) environment; (b) improve the utilization of plant floor assets using a holistic approach combining the tools of predictive maintenance techniques; (c) links entire supply chain management (SCM) operation and asset optimization; and (d) deliver customer services using the latest predictive intelligence methods and tether-free technologies”.
The e-Maintenance infrastructure consists of several information sectors:
Control systems and production schedulers
Engineering product data management systems
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
Condition monitoring syst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline%20Vaissi%C3%A8re | Jacqueline Vaissière (born 24 August 1946 in Mont-Saint-Martin, France) is a French phonetician.
Career
Vaissière studied computing and automatic language translation under the supervision of Bernard Vauquois, at Centre d’Études et de Traduction Automatique, University of Grenoble, where she earned her PhD in 1971. She joined the Speech Communication Group at MIT (headed by Pr. Ken Stevens), where she acquired a specialization in acoustic phonetics.
When the speech processing community moved towards black box models for recognition and synthesis, Jacqueline Vaissière left the Centre National d'études des Télécommunications and chose to become a professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, where she succeeded René Gsell in 1990. Together with Annie Rialland, Jacqueline Vaissière headed the Phonetics and Phonology Laboratory at Paris 3/CNRS: Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie until 2013.
From 2011–2014 she coordinated the 10-year project " Laboratoire d’Excellence " Empirical Foundations of Linguistics."
In 2010, she was elected "Membre de L'Institut Universitaire de France".
Distinctions
Vaissière was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in 2009, at the joint suggestion of its Human and Social Sciences department (InSHS) and its computing/engineering department (InS2I).
Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (2011)
Officiel de l'Ordre National du Mérite (2015)
Who's who? since 2010
She was elected as ISCA fellow in 2014: "For her pioneering works in clinical phonetics and her immense role at the interface between phonetics, phonology and speech engineering".
Selected publications
Vaissière, Jacqueline. 1971. Contribution à la synthèse par règles du français. PhD dissertation. Grenoble.
Vaissière, Jacqueline. 1975. Further note on French prosody. Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Quarterly Progress Report 115. 251–262.
Vaissière, Jacqueline. 1983. Language-independent prosodic features. In Anne Cutler & Robert Ladd (eds.), Prosody: Models and Measurements, 53–66. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
Vaissière, Jacqueline. 1985. The use of prosodic parameters in automatic speech recognition. Computer, Speech and language. Prentice-Hall International.
Vaissière, Jacqueline. 1986. Variance and Invariance at the Word Level. In Joseph S. Perkell & Dennis Klatt (eds.), Invariance and Variability in Speech Process, 534–539. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Vaissière, Jacqueline. 1988. Prediction of velum movement from phonological specifications. Phonetica 45. 122–139.
Vaissière, Jacqueline. 1995. Phonetic explanations for cross-linguistic similarities. Phonetica 52. 123–130.
Vaissière, Jacqueline. 2004. The Perception of Intonation. In David B. Pisoni & Robert E. Remez (eds.), Handbook of Speech Perception, 236–263. (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics). Oxford, U.K. & Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell.
Vaissière, Jacqueline. 2006, La Phonétique, Presses Universitaires de France (translated in Japanese and Arabic))
References
Linguists from France
Academ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mruby | mruby is an interpreter for the Ruby programming language with the intention of being lightweight and easily embeddable. The project is headed by Yukihiro Matsumoto, with over 100 contributors currently working on the project.
Features
mruby 1.0 supports the Ruby 2.1 core API, but none of the standard library. As well as being able to execute most basic Ruby code, mruby also features a bytecode compiler and virtual machine, as well as the ability to be easily embedded and integrated into C or C++ code, in a similar manner to Lua or Tcl.
mruby 2.0.0 adds support for several Ruby 2.x methods beyond Ruby 2.1. v2.0.0 also changed to variable length bytecode instructions format.
mruby bytecode can be embedded in C code, and thus, can be compiled into a standalone executable.
mruby also aims to be compliant with the ISO/IEC 30170:2012 standard.
Examples
Calling mruby from C
#include <stdio.h>
#include <mruby.h>
#include <mruby/compile.h>
int main(void) {
mrb_state *mrb = mrb_open();
char code[] = "5.times { puts 'mruby is awesome!' }";
printf("Executing Ruby code with mruby:\n");
mrb_load_string(mrb, code);
mrb_close(mrb);
return 0;
}
Assuming that the mruby library and headers are installed, the program can be compiled and executed by running the following commands from the terminal:
$ cc example.c -lmruby -lm -o example
$ ./example
Precompiled Bytecode
mruby includes a minimalistic virtual machine used to execute mruby bytecode, nicknamed ritevm:
$ mrbc test.rb
$ mruby -b test.mrb
The first command compiles Ruby code to mruby bytecode, creating a file called "test.mrb", which can then be executed by appending the "-b" flag to the normal interpreter arguments.
References
Interpreters (computing)
Ruby (programming language)
Software using the MIT license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20former%20Spanish%20Morocco | There have been narrow-gauge railways which used , and gauges.
The older rail network was in Melilla–Nador area, only later to join with another, the Ceuta–Tetuan railway line and short harbour construction lines at the Larache Harbour on the Atlantic seaboard.
After the Treaty of Algeciras signed in April 1906, where the northern part of Morocco was placed under Spanish administration, the Spanish started to develop this mineral-rich area. The Spanish Line (Compañía Transatlántica Española) had been formed in Spain as early as in 1881 by Spanish businessman Antonio López y López. The main idea was to develop the harbours in northern Morocco to carry more Spanish–Moroccan trade via harbours of Larache, Tanger, Ceuta and Melilla.
Melilla area
Junta de Obras del Puerto de Melilla
At Melilla the Junta de Obras del Puerto de Melilla started at ones extensive building of harbour to carry mineral traffic overseas, mainly to Spain. With new harbour installations the company built also gauge local 4.1 km harbour line from Melilla Harbour to Sidi-Musa, later extended to the total length of 7 km as demanded by Spanish military.
The Junta de Obras and the Compañía Transatlántica were merged to form a new company, the Junta de Fomento de Melilla in December 1911.
Compañía Española de Minas del Rif
The Compañía Española de Minas del Rif was founded in July 1908. It had obtained mining rights at Idem, Beni-Sidel and Mazuza areas. The company built an extensive railway network in the Melilla area. The gauge main line Melilla–Beni Ensar–Tizi Tavessart–Atalayon–Nador–Segangan–San Juan de las Minas–Minas de Jebel Uisai (Ulad Canem) 31,5 km was the first common carrier railway in Spanish Morocco between Melilla and San Juan de las Minas.
In spring 1914 the Compañía Española de Minas del Rif operated three daily passenger trains to Nador of which two continued to San Juan de las Minas with corresponding return workings to Melilla.
Ferrocarril Nador–Tistutin
Another company, the Ferrocarril Nador–Tistutin, built a gauge 36 km Nador–Tinequemart–Zeluan–Monte Arruit–Tistutin–El Batel line.
There was continuous unrest in the area and the Rif Cabyle rebellionists attacked against the railways. The Spanish Army concentrated nearly 100.000 soldiers to pacify the Rif area and built extensions westward from:
El Batel to Laababda and Zoco el Had
El Batel to Ben Tiep
Laababda to Dar Tafersit
The lines were operated by locotractors which could haul 200 tons with three locotractors.
Later, it had been decided to be built to standard gauge field railways and the Spanish Army bought a number of surplus former German built World War I locomotives and rolling stock from Germany. The following lines were constructed:
El Batel–Dar Driuch 23.5 km
El Batel–Ulad Candussi–Dar Quebdani 23 km
Dar Driuch–Tafersit 12 km
When the area was finally pacified in 1926 the lines were lifted and the rolling stock transferred elsewhere.
Compañía del Norte Africano and the Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20former%20French%20Morocco | French Morocco had from 1912 to 1935 one of the largest gauge network in Africa with a total length of more than . After the treaty of Algeciras where the representatives of Great Powers agreed not to build any standard-gauge railway in Morocco until the standard-gauge Tangier–Fes railway being completed, the French begun to build military gauge lines in their part of Morocco French Morocco.
The 948 km Marrakech–Casablanca–Kenitra–Fes–Oujda line became known as Chemins de fer stratégiques du Maroc and the branch lines diverting from the line as Chemins de fer de pénétration du Maroc. These lines were mostly built during the period of 1921–1925, With the exception of Guercif–Outat Oulad el Hadj–Midelt, which was started in 1916 and completed in 1920.
Casablanca–Boussekoura–Berrechid line
The first French-built narrow-gauge railway was the Casablanca–Bouskoura–Berrechid line, built with portable railway track from Decauville, which also delivered the rolling stock to the line. Construction started in May 1908 and the 52 km line was completed in late July 1908. The trains reached a maximum speed of 20 km/h averaging only 12 km/h between Casablanca and Berrechid.
The locomotives which worked the 500 mm gauge line have not been yet been fully identified. Sources claim:
3 Decauville, / , Bt-n2, built in 1905, delivered new to Touzet, Senegal.
3 Decauville, / , B1t-n2, built in 1907, delivered to Raguet et Heurtematte, Paris.
Chemins de fer stratégiques du Maroc
Casablanca–Marrakech
This gauge line had a short life. It was completed around 1920, activities ceased in 1928.
Casablanca–Boussekoura–Berrechid
This line formed the northern part of the Casablanca–Marrakech narrow-gauge line.
In 1913 the French regauged the Casablanca–Berrechid section from to track gauge and was opened to public service in March 1916.
Berrechid–Dar Caïd Tounsi
The Berrechid–Dar Caïd Tounsi (junction) section was completed in 1915 (109 km south of Casablanca).
Dar Caïd Tounsi–Marrakech
The Dar Caïd Tounsi to Ben Guerir section was completed in September 1919. The final section from Ben Guerir to Marrakech was opened in September 1920.
Dar Caïd Tounsi–Mazagan branch
Later also a branch line was built running from Dar Caïd Tounsi, which became a railway junction, to Mazagan (Harbour). This line was opened in early 1928.
Casablanca–Kenitra–Fes
The French started also to build gauge railway north of Casablanca. Rabat 89 km and Port Lyautey -now Kenitra- 128 km was reached in 1913. The opening dates of this line were:
Casablanca–Fedala, March 1912, narrow gauge closed in April 1925.
Fedala–Rabat, December 1912, narrow gauge closed in April 1925.
Rabat–Kenitra, April 1913, narrow gauge closed in April 1923.
Kenitra–Meknes, June 1914, narrow gauge closed in May 1923.
Meknes–Fes, July 1915, narrow gauge closed in September 1923.
Oujda–Fes
At Kenitra (Port Lyautey) the "main line" turned towards east, the main target for the French military was a ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATANET-30 | The DATANET-30, or DN-30 for short, was a computer manufactured by General Electric designed in 1961-1963 to be used as a communications computer. It was later used as a front-end processor for data communications. It became the first front end communications computer. The names on the patent were Don Birmingham, Bob McKenzie, Bud Pine, and Bill Hill.
The first freestanding installations beginning in 1963 were Chrysler Corporation message switching systems, replacing Teletype punched tape systems. In 1964, acting as a front end processor along with an interface to the GE-225 computer, a professor at Dartmouth College developed the BASIC programming language. Multiple teletype units were attached to be the first time-sharing system.
The DATANET-30 used magnetic-core memory with a cycle time of 6.94 μs. The word size was 18 bits and memory was available in sizes of 4K, 8K, or 16K words. The system could attach up to 128 asynchronous terminals, nominally at speeds of up to "3000 bits per second" (bps), but usually limited to the 300 bps supported by standard common-carrier facilities of the time, such as Bell 103 modem.
The DATANET-30 could also operate in synchronous mode at speeds up to 2400 bps.
A Computer Interface Unit allowed the DATANET-30 to communicate with a GE-200 series computer using direct memory access (DMA). It could also attach to the I/O channel of a GE-400 series, or GE-600 series system.
An optional attachment allowed the DATANET-30 to attach GE-200 series peripherals such as disk storage, magnetic tape, or a line printer.
The system was also a general purpose computer, with a number of special-purpose hardware registers. The instruction set contained 78 instructions.
Assemblers were provided for the DATANET-30, one of which could run on the DATANET itself and one on the GE-225.
References
External links
Photo of DATANET-30 at Computer History Museum
Photos of historic GE computers
General Electric mainframe computers
Transistorized computers
Networking hardware
Computer-related introductions in 1965 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.11af | IEEE 802.11af, also referred to as White-Fi and Super Wi-Fi, is a wireless computer networking standard in the 802.11 family, that allows wireless local area network (WLAN) operation in TV white space spectrum in the VHF and UHF bands between 54 and 790 MHz. The standard was approved in February 2014. Cognitive radio technology is used to transmit on unused portions of TV channel band allocations, with the standard taking measures to limit interference for primary users, such as analog TV, digital TV, and wireless microphones.
Physical layer
The physical (PHY) layer in 802.11af is based on the orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme specified in 802.11ac. The propagation path loss as well as the attenuation by materials such as brick and concrete is lower in the UHF and VHF bands than in the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, which increases the possible range compared to 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac. The frequency channels are 6 to 8 MHz wide, depending on the regulatory domain. Up to four channels may be bonded in either one or two contiguous blocks. MIMO operation is possible with up to four streams used for either space–time block code (STBC) or multi-user (MU-MIMO) operation.
Data rates
The achievable data rate per spatial stream is 26.7 Mbit/s for 6 and 7 MHz channels and 35.6 Mbit/s for 8 MHz channels. With four spatial streams and four bonded channels, the maximum data rate is 426.7 Mbit/s in 6 and 7 MHz channels and 568.9 Mbit/s for 8 MHz channels. GI (Guard Interval) : Timing between symbols
Spectrum regulation
Access points and stations determine their position using a satellite positioning system such as GPS and use the Internet to query a geolocation database (GDB) provided by a regional regulatory agency to discover which frequency channels are available for use at a given time and position.
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permits TV white space operation in 6 MHz channels between 54 and 698 MHz in TV channels 2, 5, 6, 14–35, and 38–51, with the geolocation database granting use for up to 48 hours. For mobile stations, allowed transmit power is fixed to 100 mW per 6 MHz channel, or 40 mW if an adjacent channel is in use by a primary user.
In the European Union, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and Ofcom permit TV white space operation in 8 MHz channels between 490 and 790 MHz, with the GDB granting use for up to 2 hours. The allowed transmit power is dynamically set on a per-station basis, based on factors including the geographical distance to the next primary user in the given frequency. This closed-loop scheme requires each station to report its position after a timer has expired or it has moved 50 m or more, and to stop transmitting within 5 s when instructed to do so. Compared to the open-loop scheme used by the FCC, the closed-loop scheme used by the ETSI and Ofcom is more granular and allows for a more efficient spectrum utilization.
Comparison with 802.11ah
IEEE 802.1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Cook%20%28soccer%29 | Rosalie Ann Cook (born October 25, 1974) is an American soccer coach and former player. A versatile defender or midfielder, she played for the San Jose CyberRays and Washington Freedom of Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) and won a single cap for the senior United States women's national soccer team.
Playing career
College
Cook attended the College of William & Mary and played college soccer. She graduated in 1997 with degrees in kinesiology and religion. With the Tribe, Cook was named all-Colonial Athletic Association in all four of her seasons and was selected as an all-American in 1993, 1995 and 1997. She was a finalist for the Hermann Trophy in 1995 and 1997. She redshirted in 1996 due to injury.
Club
Following her collegiate career, Cook played in the pro–am W-League for the Chicago Cobras. The Cobras won the W-League national championship in 2000, with Cook as Most Valuable Player (MVP). They had been national runners-up in 1999.
Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the first official professional women's soccer league in the United States, began in 2001. Cook was a fourth-round draft pick (25th overall in the global draft) by the Bay Area CyberRays. In 2001 versatile Cook started five of her 14 regular season appearances. In the championship game she substituted in for the injured playmaker Sissi as the CyberRays beat Atlanta Beat on a penalty shootout.
In December 2001 the CyberRays traded her to Washington Freedom for Michelle French. She started ten of 18 regular season appearances and posted one assist as the Freedom finished third. She featured in her second consecutive championship game but the Freedom lost 3–2 to Carolina Courage.
Ahead of the 2003 season, Cook attended the CyberRays' training camp as a free agent after she was waived by Washington Freedom. The team, now known as the San Jose CyberRays, gave Cook a contract after assessing her in training. She played 11 times, with three starts, posting one assist. In mid-season Cook had been waived again, to accommodate Amanda Cromwell's elevation to the active roster, only to be re-signed by the CyberRays as a reserve player. After the 2003 season, the CyberRays' Tisha Venturini, Kelly Lindsey and Cook all announced their retirement from soccer.
International
In 1993 and 1994 Cook was a member of the United States women's national under-20 soccer team squad.
Cook's only appearance on the senior United States women's national soccer team was on December 16, 1998, in a 2–1 win over Ukraine at University of California, Los Angeles. Although a behind closed doors match with an experimental United States line-up, it was nevertheless considered a full international fixture by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF). Cook provided an assist for Justi Baumgardt's winning goal.
The cap proved to be Cook's first and last, she could not break into the squad which reclaimed the FIFA Women's World Cup on home soil in 1999.
Coaching career
After her retir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20D.%20Green | Matthew Daniel Green (born 1976) is an American cryptographer and security technologist. Green is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute. He specializes in applied cryptography, privacy-enhanced information storage systems, anonymous cryptocurrencies, elliptic curve crypto-systems, and satellite television piracy. He is a member of the teams that developed the Zerocoin anonymous cryptocurrency and Zerocash. He has also been influential in the development of the Zcash system. He has been involved in the groups that exposed vulnerabilities in RSA BSAFE, Speedpass and E-ZPass. Green lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife, 2 children and 2 miniature dachshunds.
Education
Green received a B.S. from Oberlin College (Computer Science), a B.M. from Oberlin College (Electronic Music), a Master's from Johns Hopkins University (Computer Science), and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University (Computer Science). His dissertation was titled "Cryptography for Secure and Private Databases: Enabling Practical Data Access without Compromising Privacy".
Blog
Green is the author of the blog, "A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering". In September 2013, a blog post by Green summarizing and speculating on NSA's programs to weaken cryptography, titled "On the NSA", was controversially taken down by Green's academic dean at Johns Hopkins for "contain[ing] a link or links to classified material and also [using] the NSA logo". As Ars Technica notes, this was "a strange request on its face", as this use of the NSA logo by Green was not "reasonably calculated to convey the impression that such use is approved, endorsed, or authorized by the National Security Agency", and linking classified information published by news organizations is legally entirely uncontroversial. The university later apologized to Green, and the blog post was restored (sans NSA logo), with a Johns Hopkins spokesman saying that "I'm not saying that there was a great deal of legal analysis done" as explanation for the legally unmotivated takedown.
In addition to general blog posts about NSA, encryption, and security, Green's blog entries on NSA's backdoor in Dual_EC_DRBG, and RSA Security's usage of the backdoored cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG), have been widely cited in the mainstream news media.
Work
Green currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute. He teaches courses pertaining to practical cryptography.
Green is part of the group which developed Zerocoin, an anonymous cryptocurrency protocol. Zerocoin is a proposed extension to the Bitcoin protocol that would add anonymity to Bitcoin transactions. Zerocoin provides anonymity by the introduction of a separate zerocoin cryptocurrency that is stored in the Bitcoin block chain. Though originally proposed for use with the Bitcoin network, zerocoin could be integrated into any cryptocurrency. His research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PetSynth | PetSynth is an open-source music software for the Commodore PET computer, created in 2007 by Chiron Bramberger. It is noteworthy for being the only keyboard playable synthesizer for the Commodore PET that supports MIDI, stereo sound, and is released under a GPL license. It has been featured in print and web publications such as Return Magazin, TPUG Magazine, Commodore Free Magazine, Retrothing, and MatrixSynth.
History
Having been unable to find any software that allows the Commodore PET to be played like an instrument, and after having found similar software for other computers systems in his collection, such as the Apple II, Apple IIGS, VIC-20, and Commodore 64, creator Chiron Bramberger decided to create his own software. The first version of PetSynth was released in 2007. Since then, there have been several revisions, with the third version demonstrated at the TPUG World of Commodore in 2013.
Features
The original version of the software allowed a user to play on the keyboard layout as if it were a musical piano keyboard. It included several effects that allowed the player to change the sounds in interesting ways as they played. The third version, as of 2013, included support for a MIDI adapter, and a second voice feature never before realized. This allowed for stereo sound on a Commodore PET for the first time.
See also
List of music software
References
External links
http://www.petsynth.org/
Music software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20credit%20card | A Universal Card was a concept in the early 2010s for an electronic card with the same form factor as a magnetic stripe card that was capable of emulating any magnetic stripe data card. Data would be stored either in the card, or on a smart phone that communicates with it. It would allow consumer to consolidating their credit, debit, membership, loyalty, gift cards and other forms of magnetic stripe data cards into one card. Certain universal card products also added an extra layer of security to protect their cards against theft.
As the payment industry moved away from magnetic stripe cards with EMV and contactless payments the concept became less useful for consumers. Several startups attempted to launch such a card but it failed to take off.
History
The universal card movement began when near field communication-based mobile wallet solutions initially failed to gain ground and presented numerous difficulties, the two biggest being the cost of replacing hardware at the merchants point of sale and customers needing a near field communication-capable phone. Since financial blunder with their Geode card in mid-2012, a number of companies tried to perfect and capitalize on a universal card type product.
Escardgot Inc was founded in October 2011, and quietly build a prototype in the background. They were notable for having a working prototype that was demonstrated in front of a live audience at FinovateSpring 2013. While other notable players in the field were still patent-pending, Escardgot's HELIX card already had patents on its technology (US Patent: 8,313,037; US Patent: 8,376,239).
The Coin card entered into the market with hype and targeted ads, immediately opening up their own crowd sourcing page for customers to sign up to pre-order a card ahead of its release in 2014. Another company, Protean, also created a lot of buzz for their product, before its release date, following the path of Geode.
As the financial industry moved away from magnet stripe cards it became less useful and the concept failed to take off.
Operation
The main distinguishing feature of the universal card was its capability of reprogramming its magnetic stripe internally, to mimic the data stored on another card. The handful of start ups with a universal card type product found different ways of achieving this, leading to different complexities and capabilities of the universal card.
Universal cards either stored data within the form factor, or within a device such as a smart phone that communicates with the card via Bluetooth. Escardgot's Helix, Protean's Echo, and Omne all had respective apps for smart phones that stores a potentially limitless number of the user's cards. Coin stores up to eight cards in a microchip inside the card itself. To scan the user's data, all of them either require manual input into a smartphone app or a use of a mini card scanner that plugged into the phone's headphone jack.
See also
Digital wallet
References
Storage media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Zwickau | The Zwickau tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Zwickau, a city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.
Opened in 1894, the network has been operated since 1991 by (SVZ), and is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen (VMS).
Between Stadhalle and Zwickau Zentrum stations, Die Länderbahn operates mainline diesel services alongside trams, sharing two intermediate stations. This concept has been dubbed the "Zwickau Model".
Rolling stock
As of 2019, Zwickau operates a fleet of GT6M and Tatra KT4 trams. 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
UrbanRail.net
Zwickau
Transport in Saxony
Zwickau
Metre gauge railways in Germany
600 V DC railway electrification
Zwickau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oussama%20Khatib | Oussama Khatib () is a roboticist and a professor of computer science at Stanford University, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is credited with seminal work in areas ranging from robot motion planning and control, human-friendly robot design, to haptic interaction and human motion synthesis. His work's emphasis has been to develop theories, algorithms, and technologies, that control robot systems by using models of their physical dynamics. These dynamic models are used to derive optimal controllers for complex robots that interact with the environment in real-time.
Life
Khatib received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Sup’Aero, Toulouse, France, in 1980. He then joined the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and has been a member of the faculty there ever since. He is presently the director of the Stanford Robotics Laboratory, and a member of the Stanford University Bio-X Initiative.
Work
Academic work
Khatib's first seminal contribution was the artificial potential field method, which avoids the complex robot motion planning problem by projecting controlling robots with potential fields in task space. First introduced in 1978, the method was motivated by the pressing need to enable reactive robot operation in unstructured environments, and it has since been adopted and extended by a growing number of researchers in a wide range of areas and applications in robotics, graphics, vision, and animation. Khatib, with Sean Quinlan, later proposed the elastic band model, which provided a robot planner with the ability to adjust and modify its planned motions during execution while efficiently detecting potential collisions using a sphere hierarchy.
Khatib's next contribution was the operational space formulation in 1980, which avoids controlling robots joint-by-joint and instead formulates the robot dynamics, performance analysis, and control in the very space where the task is specified. When used with an accurate inertial dynamic model, this method solves the problem of joint motion coordination in a kinetic energy optimal manner.
Since the 1980s, Khatib and his lab have made fundamental advances in macro-mini robots (serial structures), cooperative robots (parallel structures), dexterous dynamic coordination, virtual linkages to model internal forces in cooperative manipulation, posture and whole body control, dynamic task decoupling, optimal control, human-robot compliant interaction, elastic strips for real-time path planning, human motion synthesis, and human-friendly robot design.
Khatib's contributions also span the field of haptic interaction and dynamic simulation. His work with Diego Ruspini in haptic rendering established some of the basic foundations for haptic explorations of virtual environments—the virtual proxy for haptics rendering, haptic shading, texture, and collision detection. This founding work was pursued with Francois Conti to address the display of deformable objects, the expansion of workspace for span |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabi%20Siboni | Gabriel "Gabi" Siboni is a colonel (Aluf Mishne) in the Israel Defense Forces Reserve service, and a senior research fellow and the director of the Military and Strategic Affairs and Cyber Security programs at the Institute for National Security Studies. Additionally, he serves as editor of the tri-yearly published, Military and Strategic Affairs academic journal at INSS. Siboni is a senior expert on national security, military strategy and operations, military technology, cyber warfare, and force buildup. Siboni is as a professor at the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid.
Biography
Siboni grew up in Safed, Israel. After enlisting to the IDF Siboni was assigned to the Golani Brigade, and served as a soldier and as an infantry officer. He served in the Litani Operation as a platoon leader, First Lebanon War as a company commander and commanded the brigade’s reconnaissance unit (Sayeret Golani), the brigade's reconnaissance unit in counter-guerrilla operations in South Lebanon. Within the scope of his Reserve service he served as chief of staff of the Golani Brigade. Siboni served as the chief of staff of a division during the Second Lebanon War and he presently serves as a senior planner for the IDF.
Siboni is a national security specialist and the director of the Military and Strategic Affairs Program as well as of the Cyber Security Program at the Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Siboni is also the editor of the Military and Strategic Affairs Journal (to be named Cyber, Intelligence and Security Journal as of September 2016). He serves as a senior consultant to the IDF and other Israeli security organizations.
In addition, Siboni is the deputy and chief methodologist of the IDF's Research Center for Force Deployment and Buildup. In this scope he develops strategic & operational warfare concepts for various domains, including: integrated combat in complex and densely populated areas, cyber defense and cyber warfare, cognitive and influence warfare and more. He also develops methodologies for computerized simulation for various needs, including for military operations.
Siboni holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in engineering from Tel Aviv University and a doctorate in geographic information systems (GIS) from Ben-Gurion University., and is as a professor at the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid, where he serves as deputy director of the Cyber Security Management program and as head of Academic and Technological Research.
Cybersecurity
Siboni is a consultant in a wide range of fields, including: Cybersecurity (including ICS and SCADA Security), Information Technology, ICT Risk Management, and Strategic Planning. He has extensive proven experience in decision support systems (DSS) related to cyber security investment, and security & safety control systems.
His consulting firm, G. Bina, provides security and cyber-security advisory services across the top tier of the Israel private sector, including it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Summer%20of%20Logic | The Vienna Summer of Logic was a scientific event in the summer of 2014, combining 12 major conferences and several workshops from the fields of mathematical logic, logic in computer science, and logic in artificial intelligence. The meetings took place from July 9 to 24, 2014, and attracted more than 2000 scientists and researchers.
The event was organized by the Kurt Gödel Society at Vienna University of Technology. Participating meetings include:
In the Logic in Computer Science stream (representing the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC)):
International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV)
IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF)
International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP)
International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR)
Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP)
Joint meeting of the EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL) and the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)
International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA) joint with the International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA)
International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT)
more than 70 FLoC workshops
FLoC Olympic Games (system competitions)
SAT/SMT Summer School
In the Mathematical Logic stream:
Logic Colloquium 2014 (LC)
Logic, Algebra and Truth Degrees 2014 (LATD)
Workshop on Compositional Meaning in Logic (GeTFun 2.0)
The Infinity Workshop (INFINITY)
Workshop on Logic and Games (LG)
Workshop on Nonclassical Proofs: Theory, Applications and Tools (NCPROOFS)
Kurt Gödel Fellowship Competition
In the Logic in Artificial Intelligence stream:
International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)
International Workshop on Description Logics (DL)
International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR)
International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care 2014 (KR4HC)
References
External links
Vienna Summer of Logic
Science events in Austria
2014 conferences
Logic organizations
2010s in Vienna
2014 in Austria
2014 in science
July 2014 events in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamaze | Alamaze is a computer-moderated, fantasy, turn-based game. It was published in 1986 by Pegasus Productions as a play-by-mail game. Reality Simulations later took over game moderation. The game itself has been played with multiple versions. The initial design, released in 1986, was replaced by the "Second Cycle" in 1991, offering changes to the kingdoms and game's history. The 3rd Cycle—"The Choosing"—emerged in 2015, doubling the available kingdoms while providing modifications to them. The publisher made additional changes to the player–game interface by 2017. In February 2019, Alamaze.co published the 4th Cycle, the world of Maelstrom, after two years of development. The game is currently run by Alamaze.co as a closed-end, play-by-email (PBEM) game in a turn-based format.
In the latest game cycles, twelve players per game choose from eighteen possible kingdoms, employ various available characters, and strive for victory. Winning players achieve dominance of the map, meet the victory conditions of their respective kingdom, or have the greatest number of status points.
Alamaze received multiple reviews in the 1980s and 1990s. These were mainly positive, with some noting challenges with the publication company in the period, which were noted largely resolved. Alamaze has also received a number of awards, to include the Origins Award for "Best Play-by-Mail Game of 1987", and high marks in the Best PBM Game category in Paper Mayhem magazine in 1987 and 1989.
Publication history
Alamaze was a computer-moderated play-by-mail game designed by Rick McDowell. It was born in 1983 as an idea for a fantasy game. An initial playtest involved six "local gaming aficianados" and resulted in a computer-moderated game using two megabytes of RAM. The first "official" playtest began in 1985. 15 PBM professionals and experienced gamers participated, resulting in adjustments, another playtest, and a final publication version.
In the May & June 1986 issue of Paper Mayhem magazine, Pegasus Productions announced that their first several games were filled and they were going "full speed ahead" with play.
In The November–December 1991 issue of Paper Mayhem magazine, David Pitzer reviewed the game's "Second Cycle of Magic"—the newest scenario at the time. He offered two advantages to this version: (1) all players would be experienced, and (2) updates to the world's history and changes to the various kingdoms.
In 2013–2015 the game underwent another redesign, this time to "The 3rd Cycle: The Choosing." This redesign adjusted aspects of the kingdoms and doubled their number to 24. The publisher also made changes to the formatting of the game interface, order entry forms, and turn results, as well as introducing a mini-dueling game within the broader Alamaze game.
By 2017, Alamaze was no longer a purely play-by-mail game; Rick McDowell described it as both a "fantasy adventure war-game" and a "turn based, multi-player campaign styled game ... in the grand tradition of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Dessau | The Dessau tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Dessau-Roßlau, a city in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Opened in 1894, the network has been operated since 1990 by . Since 2016 only two lines in operation, lines 1 and 3.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Dessau
Dessau
Transport in Saxony-Anhalt
Dessau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheTVDB | TheTVDB.com is a community driven database of television shows. All content and images on the site have been contributed by the site's users; the site uses moderated editing to maintain its own standards.
Purpose
The stated aim to be the most complete and accurate source of information on TV series from many languages and countries. It provides a repository of series, season and episode images that can be used in various types of Home theater PC software to make the visual interface experience more appealing.
Applications
The site has a full JSON API that allows other software and websites to use this information. The API is currently being used by the myTV add-in for Windows Media Center, Jellyfin, Zappiti, Kodi (formerly XBMC); Plex; the meeTVshows and TVNight plugins for Meedio (a digital recorder acquired by Yahoo.com); the MP-TVSeries plugin for MediaPortal, Numote (iPhone/Android app and set-top device), and more.
History
In 2019, TheTVDB was acquired by TV Time, who used TheTVDB's database as a source for all the TV shows and episode descriptions in it.
As of 2020, the API now requires a license subscription from either application developers or end users.
References
External links
– official site
Online databases
Television websites
Internet properties established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del%20Tierro | Del Tierro () is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Jackie Lou Blanco, it premiered on September 15, 1997 replacing Valiente. The series concluded on May 14, 1999 with a total of 426 episodes and was replaced by Di Ba't Ikaw.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jackie Lou Blanco as Chanda
Supporting cast
Kaiser Gonzalez as Tristan
Eddie Gutierrez as Juan del Tierro
Tonton Gutierrez as Juancho
Marjorie Barretto as Lourdes
Glydel Mercado as Guada
Amy Austria as Dolor
Mike Magat as Roldan
Gary Estrada
Tirso Cruz III as Rigor
LJ Moreno as Eliza
Bella Flores as Lucy
References
1997 Philippine television series debuts
1999 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series by TAPE Inc.
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustre%20%28treaty%29 | Lustre is the codename of a secret treaty signed by France and the Five Eyes (FVEY) for cooperation in signals intelligence and for mutual data exchange between their respective intelligence agencies. Its existence was revealed during the 2013 global surveillance disclosure based on documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Historical background
The Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) of France maintains a close relationship with both the NSA and the GCHQ after discussions for increased cooperation began in November 2006. By the early 2010s, the extent of cooperation in the joint interception of digital data by the DGSE and the NSA was noted to have increased dramatically.
In 2011, a formal memorandum for data exchange was signed by the DGSE and the NSA, which facilitated the transfer of millions of metadata records from the DGSE to the NSA. In 2013, the existence of the Lustre treaty was revealed in documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Signatories
France
Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) of France
Five Eyes
Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) of Australia
Communications Security Establishment of Canada (CSEC)
Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) of the United Kingdom
National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States
Scale of surveillance
The French telecommunications corporation Orange S.A. shares customer call data with the French intelligence agency DGSE, and the intercepted data is handed over to GCHQ.
From December 2012 to 8 January 2013, over 70 million metadata records were handed over to the NSA by French intelligence agencies.
See also
UKUSA Agreement
References
Secret treaties
Global surveillance
Treaties of France
2011 in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20Kenya%20and%20Tanzania | The Rough Guide to the Music of Kenya and Tanzania is a world music compilation album originally released in 1996. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, it focuses on the music of Kenya and Tanzania, two countries which share Swahili as a common language. The release was compiled by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. Artwork was designed by Impetus.
Chris Nickson of AllMusic gave the album four stars, stating that while it may not be perfectly all-inclusive, it serves as an "excellent introduction" to the region's music. Michaelangelo Matos, writing for the Chicago Reader, named it as his favourite of the early Rough Guide albums, describing the record as "close to perfect."
Track listing
References
External links
1996 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums
World music albums by Kenyan artists
World music albums by Tanzanian artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALFA%20International | ALFA International The Global Legal Network Inc., commonly known as ALFA International, is a global legal network consisting of 140 independent law firms, including 80 U.S. law firms and 60 member firms in other countries.
As with other types of professional services networks, the organization serves as a business referral and resource pooling network between member law firms.
History
The organization, which was originally named the American Law Firm Association, was founded in 1980. It is the oldest U.S.-based law firm network
At its creation, it consisted of 12 U.S. law firms that performed insurance defense work for insurance companies with nationwide operations.
During the 1980s, ALFA expanded to include more than 60 law firms in the United States. The membership included firms that handled other types of litigation, not just insurance defense, as well as transactional legal work.
During the 1990s, ALFA membership grew to include 80 law firms in the United States and 25 law firms in Europe, Latin American, and the Pacific Rim.
During the 2000s, ALFA expanded its international membership to include 60 member firms.
Membership
As of 2019, the ALFA International network comprises approximately 140 law firms and approximately 10,000 lawyers in 300 offices worldwide.
ALFA International membership is exclusive to one law firm in each metropolitan area, state, or country. Member law firms are full-service corporate firms and, on average, each firm consists of approximately 75 attorneys. Firms must undergo a rigorous application process prior to being admitted to the organization. Member firms are then regularly audited, and underperforming firms may be removed from membership.
Member law firms have no legal ties to one another.
See also
Umbrella organization
Business networking
Professional services networks
Multidisciplinary professional services networks
Law firm network
References
External links
IRS Form 990 filings for 2009–2011
Professional networks
Business and industry organizations based in Chicago
Legal organizations in Chicago
Organizations established in 1980
1980 establishments in Illinois
501(c)(6) nonprofit organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Tropical%20Female%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical Salsa Female Artist of the Year (or Tropical Female Artist of the Year) is an honor presented annually by American network Univision. The Lo Nuestro Awards were first awarded in 1989 and has been given annually since to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef. This category originally was awarded as Tropical Salsa Artist of the Year (1989-1992), and from 1993 onwards was separated as Female Artist of the Year and Male Artist of the Year.
The award was first presented to Dominican singer Angela Carrasco in 1993. Puerto-Rican American performer Olga Tañón holds the record for the most awards with 13, out of seventeen nominations. Tañón also has become the most awarded in Lo Nuestro Awards history, with 25 accolades. Cuban singers Celia Cruz and Gloria Estefan, awarded three and two times, respectively, are the only multiple winners beside Tañón. Puerto-Rican singer India is the most nominated performer without a win, with 12 unsuccessful nominations.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award and the nominees for each year.
See also
List of music awards honoring women
References
Tropical Female Artist of the Year
Music awards honoring women
Tropical musicians
Awards established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber%20Security%20Hall%20of%20Fame | The National Cyber Security Hall of Fame, founded by Larry Letow and Rick Geritz, was established in 2012 to recognize the contributions of key individuals in the field of cyber security; its mission statement is, Respect the Past - Protect the Future. According to its website, it is designed to honor the innovative individuals and organizations which had the vision and leadership to create the fundamental building blocks for the cybersecurity Industry. The organization also highlights major milestones in the industry's 40-year history through a timeline representation, which includes inductees and their corresponding accomplishments.
Nominations
Nominations into the Cyber Security Hall of Fame are submitted in the following categories, then reviewed by the Advisory Committee, chaired in 2013 by Mike Jacobs.
Technology
Policy
Public Awareness
Education
Business
Founders
Larry Letow, Operations Partner for Interprise Partners, and Rick Gertiz, CEO of SwingAI
Advisory board
As of 2019, the members of the Cyber Security Hall of Fame advisory board are:
Mike Jacobs - Chairman of the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame
Jim Bidzos - Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of VeriSign, Inc.
Donna F. Dodson - Chief Cyber Security Advisor for the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Cynthia E. Irvine - Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School
Charles Kolodgy - Senior Security Strategist for IBM
Gordon W. Romney - Professor of Cyber Security at the University of San Diego
John Serafini - venture capital investor
Eugene H. Spafford - Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University
Hall of Fame Class of 2012
F. Lynn McNulty - an early champion of information security in the U.S. Government
Martin Hellman - Professor Emeritus at Stanford University
Ralph Merkle - developed the earliest public key cryptography system with Diffie and Hellman
Whitfield Diffie - developed the world's earliest public key cryptographic system along with Merkle and Hellman
Dorothy Denning - one of the world's leading experts in information security
Roger R. Schell - President of ESec, providing platforms for secure e-business on the Internet
Peter G. Neumann - Principal Scientist at SRI International
Carl Landwehr - Lead Research Scientist at the Cyber Security and Policy Institute of George Washington University
Ronald Rivest - Professor of Computer Science at MIT's EECS Department
Adi Shamir - Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute
Leonard Adleman - Professor of Computer Science and Molecular Biology at the University of Southern California
Hall of Fame Class of 2013
David Elliott Bell- coauthor of the Bell–LaPadula model of computer security
Jim Bidzos - Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of VeriSign, Inc
Eugene H. Spafford - Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University
James P. Anderson - started the field of intrusion detection and organized the CIA group known as "The Brain Trust"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20countries%20by%20monthly%20average%20wage | This is the map and list of American countries by monthly net (after taxes) average wage. The chart below reflects the average (mean) wage as reported by various data providers. The salary distribution is right-skewed, therefore more than 50% of people earn less than the average net salary. These figures have been shrunk after the application of the income tax. In certain countries, actual incomes may exceed those listed in the table due to the existence of grey economies. In some countries, social security, contributions for pensions, public schools, and health are included in these taxes.
Map
The countries in purple on the map have net average salary in excess of and in blue –in the range of to , in green - in the range of to , in yellow - in the range of to , and in red below .
American countries by monthly average wage
USA's net wage is calculated without state's taxes
See also
List of countries by average wage
List of European countries by average wage
List of Asian countries by average wage
List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
List of countries by GDP (nominal)
List of countries by GDP (PPP)
References
Average wage
Average wage
Countries
Lists of salaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Halberstadt | The Halberstadt tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Halberstadt, a city in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Opened in 1887, the network has been operated since 1992 by (HVG), which also operates the city's six bus lines.
History
The first tramway in Halberstadt opened in 1887, in the form of a horse-drawn system operated by Halberstädter Pferdebahn AG. This was taken over by the city of Halberstadt on 1 July 1902, and electric tram operation began on 2 May 1903 with the construction of a new tram depot on Gröperstrasse.
On 8 April 1945, during the second world war, the system suffered severe damage to both facilities and vehicles due to aerial bombing, and the tram service was temporary suspended. Services resumed on 18 August 1945.
On 1 January 1982, the Halberstadt tram undertaking was incorporated into the VE Verkehrskombinat Magdeburg. However in 1990 it was returned to city control, and the city owned HVG was founded to own and operate the system.
On 3-4 June 2023, the city celebrated 120 years of electric tramway operation by running a special service using its historic fleet. This service also served Germany's annual model tramway exhibition, the Kleine Bahn Ganz Gross, which visited the city that year.
Operation
Route network
The tramway currently operates two routes, both of which start at the Hauptbahnhof. Service starts at 05:00, and ceases at 20:00 on weekdays and at 18:30 on weekends and public holidays.
Main Fleet
5 low-floor articulated , numbers 1 to 5
3 articulated bi-directional GT4, numbers 164 (formerly Freiburg 106), 167 (formerly Nordhausen 91, formerly Freiburg 110), 168 (formerly Nordhausen 92, formerly Freiburg 111)
1 articulated uni-directional GT4, number 156 (formerly Stuttgart 550)
Historical trams and special cars
1 Historical Lindner tram built in 1939, number 31
1 Historical LOWA ET 54 tram built in 1956, number 36
1 ET 57 tram with EB 62 trailer, numbers 39 and 61 respectively
1 ET 62 tram, number 30
1 Reko tram, number 29
1 articulated bi-directional GT4 "HAKIBA" (Halberstäder Kinderbahn), number 166 (formerly Freiburg 104)
1 articulated bi-directional GT4 maintenance tram, number 161 (formerly Freiburg 105)
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
Bibliography
External links
Halberstadt
Halberstadt
Transport in Saxony-Anhalt
Metre gauge railways in Germany
Halberstadt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Highway%2091%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | State Highway 91 (SH 91) was part of the New Zealand state highway network before briefly becoming part of SH 92 in 1990–91. It ran for 13 kilometres through South Otago in the southern South Island. SH 92 itself had its status revoked a year later.
Route
Former SH 91 leaves SH 1 at Balclutha immediately to the north of the Balclutha Road Bridge. The route travels southeast, following the course of the Clutha River downstream. At the start of the river's delta, the route roughly follows the course of the northern delta branch, the Matau, but running straight rather than following the river's meanders. Two smaller roads leave the former highway to cross bridges onto the island of Inch Clutha; these are the principal road connections to the island. The former highway continues past the southern end of the township of Stirling, from here swinging round one meander of the Matau before heading south southeast towards Kaitangata. Close to this town, the route turns east, becoming Clyde Terrace.
Though no longer a State Highway, the route is still officially designated the "Kaitangata Highway" as far as postal addresses are concerned.
See also
List of New Zealand state highways
References
91
Clutha District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20Engagement%20Capability | Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) is a sensor network with integrated fire control capability that is intended to significantly improve battle force air and missile defense capabilities by combining data from multiple battle force air search sensors on CEC-equipped units into a single, real-time, composite track picture (network-centric warfare). This will greatly enhance fleet air defense by making jamming more difficult and allocating defensive missiles on a battle group basis.
Development
Origins of the US Navy program
The CEC concept was conceived by Johns Hopkins applied physics laboratory in the early 1970s. The concept was originally called Battle Group Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) Coordination. The first critical at-sea experiment with a system prototype occurred in 1990. The CEC became a Navy acquisition program in 1992.
United States
NIFC-CA
In the future, CEC will form a key pillar of the Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA) capability, which will allow stealthy sensor platforms such as the F-35C Lightning II to act as forward observers with their observations channeled through the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye to less stealthy platforms such as the UCLASS or Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.
In a combat situation where the United States Navy would need to penetrate an anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environment, a carrier air wing would launch all of its aircraft. The F-35C would use its stealth to fly deep into enemy airspace and use its sensors to gather intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data. The EA-18G Growler would use the Next Generation Jammer to provide stand-off jamming or at least degradation of early warning radars. When targets are detected by the F-35C, they would transmit weapons-quality track to the E-2D and pass that information on to Super Hornets or other F-35Cs. The F/A-18E/F fighters would penetrate as far as they could into heavily contested airspace, which is still further than an ordinary fourth-generation jet fighter, then launch stand-off weapons. The UCLASS would use aerial refueling capabilities to extend the range of the strike force and use its own ISR sensors.
NIFC-CA relies on the use of data-links to provide every aircraft and ship with a picture of the entire battlespace. Aircraft deploying weapons may not need to control missiles after releasing them, as an E-2D would guide them by a data-stream to the target. Other aircraft are also capable of guiding missiles from other aircraft to any target that is identified as long as they are in range; work on weapons that are more survivable and longer-ranged is underway to increase their effectiveness in the data-link-centric battle strategy. This can allow forward-deployed Super Hornets or Lightning IIs to receive data and launch weapons without needing to even have their own radars active. E-2Ds act as the central node of NIFC-CA to connect the strike group with the carrier, but every aircraft is connected to all ot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeni%20Tennison | Jenifer Fays Alys Tennison (born 1972) is a British software engineer and consultant who co-chairs the data governance working group within the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI). She also serves on the board of directors of Creative Commons, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) and the information law and policy centre of the School of Advanced Study (SAS) at the University of London. She was previously Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Open Data Institute (ODI).
Education
Tennison was born in Cambridge, England and educated at the University of Nottingham gaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 1994 and a PhD in collaborative ontology development in 1999, supervised by Nigel Shadbolt.
Career
Tennison has been the technical architect and lead developer for legislation.gov.uk and previously worked on the linked data aspects of data.gov.uk. Previously, she was self-employed as a consultant.
Tennison has authored or co-authored papers on XSLT, XML, structured data and knowledge bases. She has authored books including Beginning XSLT 2.0, XSLT and XPath on the Edge and Professional XML Schemas. Tennison was an invited expert on the XSL and XML processing working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and was appointed to the W3C's Technical Architecture Group (TAG) in 2011. She has previously worked for the Open Knowledge Foundation and Epistemics Ltd.
Tennison is the co-creator of the open data board game Datopolis.
Tennison founded Connected by Data (incorporated in February 2022) and leads a team with the mission of "we want communities to have a powerful say in decisions about data so that it is used to create a just, equitable and sustainable world".
Awards and honours
Tennison was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to Technology and Open Data.
References
Semantic Web people
XML Guild
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Living people
1972 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20174 | The National Cycle Route 174 is part of the National Cycle Network in the United Kingdom. Part of it is known as The Sheerness Way.
When the route was first planned on Sheppey, passenger ferry services was still running to Vlissingen in the Netherlands. The ferry was popular with
cyclists and the expectation was that large numbers of European visitors would start their cycling journey at Sheerness. As a section of the National Cycle Route 1 runs from Sittingbourne to Rainham, and a link route also ran north (from Kemsley) up to the village of Iwade and on to Minster and Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey.
The ferry stopped running in 1994. But the council and Sustrans still carried on with the new cycle route.
Construction on the circular route (the Sheppey Way) was started in July 2010 and planning permission was granted in October 2010. It was funded by Kent County Council and Sustrans.
It was funded by Kent County Council and Sustrans.
The route was then launched in June 2011 as a 5.6 mile, 9 km flat route around Sheerness, which has been designed especially for family usage. 13% of the route is on-road and 87% is off-road.
The route also links to a second route on the island leading to Leysdown-on-Sea, 'the Isle of Harty Trail'.
Route of Sheerness Way
Starts from Barton's Point Coastal Park, on Marine Parade then heads west along the Queenborough Lines (former 19th century Naval Fortification) towards the western end of Sheerness and then it heads up via various housing suburb roads (which includes a toucan crossing, before following the Fleet (river) towards Blue Town via Festival Field. Then it heads along the railway towards Sheerness-on-Sea railway station and then up to the beachfront (passing the large Tesco Superstore). Then the route follows the sea wall promenade east, back to Barton's Point.
References
External links
Sheerness Way
Promoting Cycling in Medway
Swale Cycling plan
Transport in Kent
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPods | JPods is a personal rapid transit concept which uses distributed collaborative computer networks to route transit in a manner similar to the data trafficking of the Internet. Developed by JPods LLC, the vehicles consist of ultra-light pods controlled by on-board computers.
Transport Characteristics
In the demonstration JPod, people get in, select a destination on a touch screen and the vehicle navigates to that address. In production models people and/or cargo will set destination and travel non-stop from origin to destination.
System details
vehicles weigh approximately with a gross carrying capacity of
vehicles travel suspended below an overhead guideway that encases the bogies
bogies are the mechanisms that propel vehicles and from which the vehicle chassis is suspended. Bogies are composed of generally of motors, controllers, wheels, gearboxes, sensors, and switches.
switch control is managed by the vehicle and/or by the network
solar powered
travel between
The computer network is managed in three tiers:
devices such as pods, switches, structures
negotiators collaborate with devices and load managers to set routes
load managers log time-based demand to create a terrain map that allows appropriate routes to be identified and scheduled
References
External links
JPods.com
Personal rapid transit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Halle | The Halle (Saale) tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Halle (Saale), a city in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Opened in 1882, the network has been operated since 1990 by (HAVAG), and is integrated in the Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund (MDV).
Network
(As of 20. July 2015)
Rolling stock
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Halle (Saale)
Transport in Halle (Saale)
Metre gauge railways in Germany
750 V DC railway electrification
Halle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Magdeburg | The Magdeburg tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Magdeburg, the capital city of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Opened in 1877, the network has been operated since 1999 by (MVB), and is integrated in the (marego).
Rolling stock
The fleet of the Magdeburg tram network consists of 83 LHB low-floor trams, 8 Tatra KT4Dmod trams, 4 Tatra T6A2M trams and 13 B6A2M trailers. A tender for 35 new trams is planned, with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2022.
For assistance in case of a derailment, for rerailing and for hauling defective trams, the MVB uses a modified Unimog road–rail vehicle with a lengthened wheelbase of 4,500mm and a power output of 240 PS.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
Magdeburg
Magdeburg
Rail transport in Magdeburg
Transport in Magdeburg
Magdeburg
600 V DC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20India%20and%20Pakistan | The Rough Guide to the Music of India and Pakistan is a world music compilation album originally released in 1996. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, it focuses on the music of India and Pakistan, ranging from Hindi film songs to Hindustani classical music to Qawwali to folk. The release was compiled by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. Artwork was designed by Impetus and Anthony Cassidy.
Adam Greenberg of AllMusic gave the album three stars, recommending it to new listeners, while criticizing the truncating of the classical pieces. Michaelangelo Matos, writing for the Chicago Reader, described the release as "consistent" but "repetitious".
Track listing
References
External links
1996 compilation albums
Hindustani classical music albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums
Classical albums by Pakistani artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallotus%20eriocarpus | Mallotus eriocarpus is a species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
References
http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/taxon_search.php?mode=details&id=30776
http://mapping.fbb.utm.my/phyknome/node/15005
eriocarpus
Endemic flora of Sri Lanka
Vulnerable flora of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C | USB-C, or USB Type-C, is a connector (not a protocol) that supersedes previous USB connectors and can carry audio and/or video data, e.g. to drive multiple displays, or transfer data, e.g. to store a backup to an external drive, and providing/receiving power, such as to power a laptop or a mobile phone. It is not only applied by the USB technology, but is also used by other protocols including Thunderbolt, PCIe, HDMI, DisplayPort, and others. It is extensible to support future standards.
USB-C is reversible and has 24 pins. The designation "C" is to distinguish it from the many various former USB connectors it replaced, all termed either Type-A or Type-B. Whereas earlier every USB cable had a host end A and a peripheral device end B, USB-C replaces both; a USB-C cable connects either way, and for older equipment a legacy cable has a Type-C plug at one end and either a Type-A (host) or a Type-B (peripheral device) plug at the other. The designation "C" refers only to the connector's physical configuration, or form factor, not to be confused with the connector's specific capabilities, such as Thunderbolt 3, DisplayPort 2.0, or USB 3.2 Gen 2x2. Based on the supported protocols by both devices, host and peripheral device, a USB-C connection normally provides (much) higher signaling and therefore data rates than the superseded connectors. Unlike its predecessors, the USB-C connector has rotational symmetry: a plug may be inserted into a receptacle in either of two orientations.
The USB Type-C Specification 1.0 was published by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) and was finalized in August 2014. It was developed at roughly the same time as the USB 3.1 specification. In July 2016, it was adopted by the IEC as "IEC 62680-1-3".
A device with a Type-C connector does not necessarily implement any USB transfer protocol, USB Power Delivery, or any of the Alternate Modes: the Type-C connector is common to several technologies while mandating only a few of them.
USB 3.2, released in September 2017, fully replaced the USB 3.1 specification. It preserves previously called USB 3.1 SuperSpeed and SuperSpeed+ data transfer modes and introduces two additional data transfer modes by newly applying two-lane operations, with signaling rates of 10 Gbit/s (SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps; nominal data rate: 1.212 GB/s) and 20 Gbit/s (SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps; nominal data rate: 2.422 GB/s). They are only applicable with Full-Featured USB-C Fabrics (connectors and cables) on both ends.
USB4, released in 2019, is the first USB transfer protocol standard that is only available exclusively via USB-C Fabrics.
Overview
USB-C cables interconnect hosts and peripheral devices, replacing various other electrical cables and connectors, including all earlier (legacy) USB connectors, HDMI connectors, DisplayPort ports, and 3.5 mm audio jacks.
Name
USB Type-C and USB-C are trademarks of the USB Implementers Forum.
Connectors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism%20%28video%20game%29 | Neocolonialism is a strategic computer game in which players take over different regions all over the world. It is turn-based, and allows three to six players at once. It is produced by American indie studio Subaltern Games, and designed by Esther Alter.
As in Risk, the world is divided into a number of different regions that player try to dominate. Unlike Risk, however, the goal is not to occupy as many regions as possible, but to liquidate the votes you have purchased in regions in order to put as much money as possible in a Swiss Bank account. The game lasts for twelve turns. At the end of the twelfth turn, the player who has the most money in their Swiss Bank account is the winner. Also, Neocolonialism differs from Risk in that the map of the world is rotated 180° in relation to the most common world map orientation, putting the north at the bottom.
In the introductory tutorial, the learner is player is told, "You will learn the basics of how to ruin the world." Later the player is warned, "Neocolonialism is a game about finance bankers attempting to extract as much wealth from the world as possible."
Gameplay
The game is played using the mouse alone; the keyboard is not used except when chatting with other players in multi-player mode.
Three to six people can play at once. The world is divided into eleven regions: Australia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, India, Russia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, South America, Central America, and North America. Each region has ten "units" of voters that the players can purchase.
Each player starts with fifteen units of currency, symbolized by the character "¤". There are three phases to each turn: investment, policy, and IMF (International Monetary Fund).
Investment Phase – the players take turns buying and selling government votes. On bottom center of the page there are options to buy, sell, or pass. Each region has ten "units" of voters that can be purchased. The price for a voting unit of each region is listed in the bottom-right panel. This price can fluctuate; the price of region's voting unit is determined by the mines, factories, and free trade agreements that currently make that region profitable (or unprofitable).
Policy Phase – the players manipulate regional parliaments. A player can tell their voting units whom to vote for in an election; propose to build mines or factories, or to establish Free Trade Agreements; or vote on the proposals made by the other players. When three or more voting units have been purchased in a single region, the region elects a prime minister. The prime minister of a region can propose a policy, but the policy cannot go into effect until it is ratified in the next turn (and sometimes the other voters of the region will vote against it). A policy will not generate money for players until it has been ratified. A Prime Minister also has the option of liquidating their own votes and sending the money to a secret Swiss Bank account. A Prime Minister has a three-te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Tropical%20Male%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical Salsa Male Artist of the Year (or Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical Male Artist of the Year) is an honor presented annually by American network Univision. The Lo Nuestro Awards were first awarded in 1989 and has been given annually since to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef. This category originally was awarded as Tropical Salsa Artist of the Year (1989-1992), and from 1993 onwards was separated as Female Artist of the Year and Male Artist of the Year.
The award was first presented to Puerto-Rican American singer Jerry Rivera in 1993. American performer Marc Anthony holds the record for the most awards with eight, out of fourteen nominations. Anthony has also received the Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Male Artist of the Year (2001). Puerto-Rican singer singers Rivera, Prince Royce, and Elvis Crespo, awarded three, four, and two times, respectively, are the only multiple winners beside Anthony. Performers Fonseca, Frankie Negrón, Romeo Santos and Tito El Bambino are the most nominated performers without a win, with three unsuccessful nominations each.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees for the majority of the years awarded.
References
Tropical Male Artist of the Year
Tropical musicians
Awards established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schur%20algorithm | In mathematics, the Schur algorithm may be:
The Schur algorithm for expanding a function in the Schur class as a continued fraction
The Lehmer–Schur algorithm for finding complex roots of a polynomial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataLink%20University%20College | DataLink Institute is a non-profit tertiary institution founded in 1993 by Ernest Ansah as a charitable education institute. It was fully transformed into a leading university college that offers programs leading to degrees, university access programs and certificates in other disciplines.
The institute has five campuses: Main Campus, Tema, at 5th Avenue, community Ten, Accra, Ho, Pre-university College. Takoradi, Kpando.??
Datalink Institute is affiliated with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, the University of Northampton (United Kingdom).
It currently has schools of Computer Science, Business Administration and Graduate Studies.
References
External links
http://www.datalink.edu.gh/
Educational institutions established in 1993
Universities in Ghana
1993 establishments in Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Love%20Thy%20Neighbor%20%28American%20TV%20series%29%20episodes | Love Thy Neighbor is an American sitcom television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network that debuted on May 29, 2013 at 9/8c. Love Thy Neighbor is a half-hour sitcom revolving around diner owner Hattie Mae Love and her middle-class family's daily triumphs and struggles. The focal point of the show is a location known as the Love Train Diner, an old locomotive car converted to a diner that serves up all of Hattie Mae's old recipes. It is the neighborhood hang out spot that, along with great food, serves up a lot of fun and offers advice to its customers in all walks of life. The series is written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2014)
Season 3 (2015)
Season 4 (2016)
Season 5 (2017)
References
External links
Lists of American sitcom episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew%20Bacon | Mathew Bacon was the compiler of the first three volumes, and part of the fourth volume, of the work New Abridgement of the Law known as Bacon's Abridgement. This became the standard encyclopedia of common law on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in the 18th century.
References
British legal writers
Members of the Inner Temple
Members of the Middle Temple |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cem%20Ersoy | Cem Ersoy is a professor at the department of computer engineering at Boğaziçi University, and the President of the IEEE Communications Society Turkish Chapter. Following his election as the head of society, IEEE COMSOC Turkey Section received the Region 8 achievement award for its activities. Also, he is representing Turkey in the European Union ICT COST Action WiNeMO: Wireless Networks for Moving Objects.
Early life and education
Cem Ersoy received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, in 1984 and 1986, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York in 1992.
Career
Ersoy joined Boğaziçi University as a faculty member in 1992. He initiated the IEEE student branch of Boğaziçi University as its counsellor and also initiated a series of IEEE Student Summer Conferences. He established the first computer networks research laboratory (NETLAB) in Turkey together with M. Ufuk Caglayan.
He was in the organizing committee of IEEE International Symposium on Computer Communications 2003 and IEEE International Symposium on Computer Networks 2006. He was TPC member for many national and international scientific meetings such as Symposium on European Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2012), Wireless Personal Mobile Computing (WPMC 2012), International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST’2011), Learning Intelligent Optimization (LION 2007).
References
External links
Google Scholar report for Cem Ersoy
Cem Ersoy, personal page at Boğaziçi University
https://web.archive.org/web/20120109114136/http://ieee.boun.edu.tr/tarihceboun.html
Academic staff of Boğaziçi University
Living people
Presidents of the IEEE
Turkish computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20the%20Andes | The Rough Guide to the Music of the Andes is a world music compilation album originally released in 1996. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album features the music of the Andes Mountains of South America, focusing especially on the music of Bolivia, whose musicians contributed eleven tracks. Also featured is Peru (three tracks) and Chile (two tracks). The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network.
Adam Greenberg of AllMusic gave the album four stars, calling it a "good starting point", containing "every style the producers can find" from the region. Michaelangelo Matos, writing for the Chicago Reader, described the release as "folkie" and "pretty", but that it should be listened to in small doses by anyone but "panpipe addicts".
Track listing
References
1996 compilation albums
World Music Network Rough Guide albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20323001%E2%80%93324000 |
323001–323100
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| 323001 || || — || August 8, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.91" | 910 m ||
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| 323002 || || — || August 9, 2002 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 3.4 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323003 || || — || August 6, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.72" | 720 m ||
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| 323004 || || — || August 12, 2002 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 3.7 km ||
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| 323005 || || — || August 12, 2002 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 3.4 km ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323006 || || — || August 13, 2002 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323007 || || — || August 14, 2002 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323008 || || — || August 14, 2002 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323009 || || — || August 6, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 323010 || || — || August 14, 2002 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 4.2 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 323011 || || — || August 12, 2002 || Cerro Tololo || M. W. Buie || — || align=right | 3.7 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323012 || || — || August 8, 2002 || Palomar || S. F. Hönig || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.71" | 710 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 323013 || || — || August 8, 2002 || Palomar || S. F. Hönig || — || align=right | 2.7 km ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 323014 || || — || August 8, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 323015 || || — || August 8, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right | 3.6 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323016 || || — || August 8, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.77" | 770 m ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323017 || || — || August 8, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.54" | 540 m ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323018 || || — || August 11, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.89" | 890 m ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323019 || || — || August 11, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.82" | 820 m ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323020 || || — || January 11, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.82" | 820 m ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 323021 || || — || August 15, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || SYL7:4 || align=right | 4.4 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323022 || || — || August 16, 2002 || Haleakala || NEAT || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.92" | 920 m ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 323023 || || — || August 27, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.99" | 990 m ||
|-id=024 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 323024 || || — || August 28, 2002 || Palom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20335001%E2%80%93336000 |
335001–335100
|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335001 || || — || April 13, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.82" | 820 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 335002 || || — || April 13, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 3.7 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335003 || || — || April 13, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.61" | 610 m ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335004 || || — || April 13, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.71" | 710 m ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335005 || || — || April 16, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335006 || || — || April 16, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335007 || || — || April 19, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.97" | 970 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335008 || || — || April 16, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335009 || || — || April 20, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.76" | 760 m ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335010 || || — || April 21, 2004 || Catalina || CSS || — || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335011 || || — || April 23, 2004 || Siding Spring || SSS || — || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335012 || || — || April 25, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335013 || || — || April 26, 2004 || Mauna Kea || P. A. Wiegert || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335014 || 2004 JJ || — || May 8, 2004 || Wrightwood || J. W. Young || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335015 || || — || May 15, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#FA8072
| 335016 || || — || May 17, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 335017 || || — || June 11, 2004 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || — || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335018 || || — || July 11, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335019 || || — || July 11, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || H || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335020 || || — || June 12, 2004 || Siding Spring || SSS || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.85" | 850 m ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 335021 || || — || July 16, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335022 || || — || July 21, 2004 || Siding Spring || SSS || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.81" | 810 m ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 335023 || || — || August 3, 2004 || Siding Spring || SSS || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.90" | 900 m ||
|-id=024 bgcolor=#FA8072
| 335024 || || — || August 9, 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20356001%E2%80%93357000 |
356001–356100
|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 356001 || || — || January 20, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.86" | 860 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356002 || || — || January 18, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.94" | 940 m ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356003 || || — || January 20, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 356004 || || — || January 25, 2009 || Catalina || CSS || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356005 || || — || January 28, 2009 || Dauban || F. Kugel || — || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 356006 || || — || January 24, 2009 || Purple Mountain || PMO NEO || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.66" | 660 m ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 356007 || || — || January 26, 2009 || Catalina || CSS || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.89" | 890 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 356008 || || — || January 30, 2009 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 356009 || || — || January 26, 2009 || Catalina || CSS || V || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356010 || || — || January 29, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || ADE || align=right | 2.6 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356011 || || — || January 25, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356012 || || — || January 29, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.73" | 730 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356013 || || — || January 29, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.87" | 870 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356014 || || — || January 31, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.92" | 920 m ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356015 || || — || January 26, 2009 || Purple Mountain || PMO NEO || — || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 356016 || || — || January 28, 2009 || Catalina || CSS || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356017 || || — || January 31, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 2.5 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356018 || || — || January 31, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.88" | 880 m ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356019 || || — || January 29, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356020 || || — || January 31, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 356021 || || — || January 29, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 356022 || || — || January 29, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 356023 || || — || January |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lullusglocke | The Lullusglocke is the oldest datable cast bell in Germany. The inscription indicates it was cast on 24 June 1038. It hangs in the Catherine Tower (German: Katharinenturm) in the ruins of the monastery of Bad Hersfeld in Hesse.
In 2002 the bell tower was repaired by the Friends of the Stiftsruine (monastery ruins). As part of the works the old clapper was removed and hung in the Stadtsmuseum. A new clapper has been fitted and the bell can now be rung. The bell is suspended from a new yoke and is rung by pulling on ropes.
History
For centuries the Lullus bell was rung at the beginning of Lullusfest, a folk festival held in Hersfield. The festival commemorates Saint Lullus (born about 710 in Wessex, England) who was the first Abbot of Hersfeld Abbey, Germany and the first archbishop of Mainz. He died 16 October 786 in Hersfeld. Eventually the bell acquired its name from the festival. Until the renovation of 2002, the bell was also rung only once a year, at the start of the festival. Since then however, it has been rung on special occasions. It is rung at Christmas, Easter, Whitsun and the Lullus festival.
Description
The bell is high (excluding the crown) and in diameter. The weight is approximately . The sound is principally two notes beating together: B0 and C1.
The bell is approximately tubular with vertical sides and a very small sound bow. The top of the bell is domed. Around the shoulder are three ridges, between the outermost two is an inscription. A further string is cast in just above the sound bow. The bell is suspended from cannons (cast in hoops).
The cannons are attached to a beam, the headstock. Fixed to the top of the beak are two poles, one of which can be seen in the attached photograph. A rope hangs from the outboard end of each pole and runs through a hole in the floor to the ringers below. The ringers pull on the ropes alternately to swing the bell to and fro.
Inscription
The inscription is not completely clear. It is based on Latin, but with conventional abbreviations. There is no marked start of the inscription. In one area changes to the mould prior to casting have erased the text. The visible text reads:
There is some dispute over the interpretation of the text. The "SD" in "SDANE" is thought to be an "M". Reconstructed the text appears to be three hexameters:
The second year of Abbot Meginhar was 1038 and the bell would appear to have been poured on the feast day of John the Baptist (24 June).
References
Footnotes
Citations
Bibliography
Note: YouTube clip. Shows how the bell is swung and the attachment of the poles to the yoke.
Individual bells
Hesse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Cottbus | The Cottbus tramway (, ) is a network of tramways forming the backbone of the public transport system in Cottbus, a city in the federal state of Brandenburg, Germany.
Opened in 1903, the network has been operated since 1953 by the company now known as , and is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB).
Rolling stock
A fleet of 21 KTNF6 trams, built from 1981 until 1988, is operated in Cottbus, which are due to be replaced in the future.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Cottbus
Cottbus
Transport in Brandenburg
Metre gauge railways in Germany
600 V DC railway electrification
Cottbus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs.%20Jones%20Entertains | Mrs. Jones Entertains is a 1909 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. The Internet Movie Database lists Mary Pickford as appearing in this short. However, Pickford did not begin with Biograph until the end of April 1909.
Plot
Dear little Mrs. Jones once gave a tea party to her temperance friends, at which Mr. Jones unfortunately got intoxicated. So his presence was objected to when the ladies met again. As luck would have it the waiter who was to serve the repast could not come, and so Jones, poor fellow, consented to disguise himself and act as waiter to his own wife's guests. These prim and virtuous ladies duly arrived; the meal was served and all proceeded happily until Jones, who received the dishes from a pert maid in the kitchen, was seized by a desire to try an experiment before the meal was finished. Discovering a bottle which appeared to contain a spirituous liquid, he poured some into each of the guests' cups. The effect of the experiment was soon apparent. The ladies got more communicative towards each; they warmed and melted: they clamored for more "tea"; they got quite boisterous and just slightly indecorous, and finally so abusive and intoxicated that Mrs. Jones had to clear them off, and then husband and wife were reconciled, presumably with a promise on his part to behave himself in future.
Cast
John R. Cumpson as Mr. Jones
Florence Lawrence as Mrs. Jones
Jeanie MacPherson as The Maid
Linda Arvidson
Flora Finch as A Guest
Anthony O'Sullivan
Mary Pickford as Dorothy Nicholson
Mack Sennett
Harry Solter as Delivery Man
References
External links
scene in the film with l to r: Jeanie McPherson, Florence Lawrence, John Cumpson, Anthony O'Sullivan
1909 films
1909 comedy films
1909 short films
Silent American comedy films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by D. W. Griffith
American comedy short films
Films with screenplays by Frank E. Woods
1900s American films
1900s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20data | Small data is data that is 'small' enough for human comprehension. It is data in a volume and format that makes it accessible, informative and actionable.
The term "big data" is about machines and "small data" is about people. This is to say that eyewitness observations or five pieces of related data could be small data. Small data is what we used to think of as data. The only way to comprehend Big data is to reduce the data into small, visually-appealing objects representing various aspects of large data sets (such as
histogram, charts, and scatter plots). Big Data is all about finding correlations, but Small Data is all about finding the causation, the reason why.
A formal definition of small data has been proposed by Allen Bonde, former vice-president of Innovation at Actuate - now part of OpenText: "Small data connects people with timely, meaningful insights (derived from big data and/or “local” sources), organized and packaged – often visually – to be accessible, understandable, and actionable for everyday tasks."
Another definition of small data is:
The small set of specific attributes produced by the Internet of Things. These are typically a small set of sensor data such as temperature, wind speed, vibration and status.
It was estimated (2016) that “If one takes the top 100 biggest innovations of our time, perhaps around 60% to 65% percent are really based on Small Data.” as Martin Lindstrom puts it. Small data includes everything from Snapchat to simple objects such as the post-it note. Lindstrom believes we become so focused on Big-Data that we tend to forget about more basic concepts and creativity. Lindstrom defines Small Data "as seemingly insignificant observations you identify in consumers’ homes, is everything from how you place your shoes on how you hang your paintings". He thus considers that one should perfectly master the basic (Small Data) in order to mine and find correlations.
Uses in business
Marketing
Bonde has written about the topic for Forbes, Direct Marketing News, CMO.com and other publications.
According to Martin Lindstrom, in his book, Small Data: "{In customer research, small data is} Seemingly insignificant behavioural observations containing very specific attributes pointing towards an unmet customer need. Small data is the foundation for breakthrough ideas or completely new ways to turnaround brands."
His approach is based on the combination of the observation of small samples with intuition. Marketers can obtain market insights from gathering Small Data by engaging with and observing people in their own environments. In comparison to Big Data, Small Data has the power to trigger emotions and to provide insights into the reasons behind the behaviours of customers. It may uncover detailed information on a person's extroversion or introversion, self-confidence, whether one is having problems in his/her relationship, etc. According to Lindstrom, relationships among people and customer segments are organi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202014 | The Billboard Tropical Airplay chart ranks the best-performing tropical songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
References
United States Tropical Songs
2014
2014 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntennaPod | AntennaPod is a free and open-source podcast aggregator app for the Android operating system.
History
AntennaPod was originally released on July 22, 2012, as Version 0.8 and is licensed under the MIT license. The app is a free and open-source software that aggregates podcasts. The app was featured on the crowdsourced BoringPhone - a phone intended to eliminate distractions that is an alternative to the mainstream Android phones.
Properties
Automatic update, download and streaming of episodes
Variable playback speed
Atom and RSS Feeds (password protected)
Feed import/export with OPML
Integration of Flattr
Searching for podcasts and synchronizing with gpodder service
Support of MP3, Podlove and VorbisComment chapters
Support for paged feeds
Dark theme
Reception
In October 2013, Justin Pot at Make Use Of praised the app for being a simple podcast client which was also free of ads. Since that time it has remained free of ads and open source.
In December 2015, Android Police named AntennaPod one of their favorite and most used apps in 2015, saying "... AntennaPod is a capable option that looks great and has all of [the] must-have features...".
In November 2019, Dan Price of Make Use of included AntennaPod as the only open-source player in a list of 8 best podcast applications for Android. He said although it was less well known, it has many good features, including "great memory management tools."
In June 2020, Manuel Vonau of AndroidPolice said open source AntennaPod from F-Droid is a "fine alternative to many proprietary solutions" but its player design could be improved.
In July 2020, Netzwelt listed AntennaPod as their top choice for podcast apps.
According to Jan Spoenle of Weka Media, AntennaPod works as well as its commercial competitors with the only downside of the app being that it doesn't provide an individual playlist function.
Leonardo Banchi of AndroidWorld recommended the application as a free alternative to other podcast apps.
In April 2023, Jon Gilbert and John Bradbury of Android. Police recommended AntennaPod as one of the 17 best free open source apps on Android in 2023
References
External links
AntennaPod project on GitHub
AntennaPod Support Forum
Podcasting software
Year of introduction missing
Free and open-source Android software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%202014%20%28Denmark%29 | Tracklisten is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles and tracks of the Denmark. Its data, published by IFPI Denmark and compiled by Nielsen Music Control, is based collectively on each single's weekly digital sales.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one albums from the 2010s (Denmark)
2014 in music
References
Number-one hits
Denmark
2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyebuydirect | Eyebuydirect, Inc. is an online retailer of prescription glasses, based in Austin, Texas. The company also sells prescription and non-prescription sunglasses, sport sunglasses, and computer glasses designed to reduce glare. Eyebuydirect was founded in 2005 by Roy Hessel, who was succeeded by Sunny Jiang, chief executive officer since 2017. The company has operations in the United States and China, and sells its products worldwide.
History
Eyebuydirect was founded in 2005 by Roy Hessel, a former venture capitalist. The company launched Eyebuydirect.com in March 2006.
In 2007, Eyebuydirect added EyeTry, a "try-on" function, to its site. The function allows users to upload photos and then superimpose Eyebuydirect's glasses overtop their photos to "try on" the glasses. The company later launched the "Wall of Frame", a social network that allows customers to share their created pictures and interact with other site users.
In February 2010, Eyebuydirect began incorporating facial recognition technology to its site to give users the ability to measure their pupillary distance using user-submitted photographs.
In 2013, French lens manufacturer Essilor purchased a majority stake in Eyebuydirect. Essilor had previously purchased Framesdirect.com in 2010. Hessel was retained as Eyebuydirect CEO.
Eyebuydirect redesigned and relaunched its website in April 2014.
Eyebuydirect introduced EyeZen digital screen protection lenses from Essilor as an option to customers in 2016. The company still sells EBD Blue lenses.
Eyebuydirect sells only EBD Blue Lenses as of 2022.
Operations
Eyebuydirect is an online-only retailer and designs and custom-makes most of its glasses in-house. They carry primarily affordable eyeglasses, but also offer three premium brands. Ray-Ban, Oakley, ARNETTE and Vogue Eyewear are their outside premium brand offerings, while RFLKT is their in house premium brand. According to the company, 50 percent of its revenue came from repeat customers in 2013.
Customers must have a valid prescription prior to purchasing prescription eyeglasses from Eyebuydirect. The company sells multiple types of lenses, including bifocal, progressive, and Transitions lenses. As of January 2020, Eyebuydirect has launched their 2-day delivery within the United States.
References
External links
Eyebuydirect Canada
Eyebuydirect France
Essilor
Eyewear retailers of the United States
American companies established in 2005
Retail companies established in 2005
Internet properties established in 2005
Online retailers of the United States
2005 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fascinating%20Mrs.%20Francis | The Fascinating Mrs. Francis is a 1909 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. The Internet Movie Database lists Mary Pickford as appearing in this short. However, Pickford did not begin with Biograph until the end of April 1909.
Cast
Marion Leonard as Mrs. Francis
Barry O'Moore as Young Man (as Herbert Yost)
Anita Hendrie as Young Man's Mother
Harry Solter as Young Man's Father
Gertrude Robinson as The Maid / Party Guest
Linda Arvidson
John R. Cumpson as Party Guest
George Gebhardt as Party Guest
Guy Hedlund as Party Guest
Charles Inslee as Party Guest
Arthur V. Johnson as Party Guest
Florence Lawrence as Visitor
Mack Sennett as Party Guest
Charles West
References
External links
1909 films
1909 comedy films
Silent American comedy films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by D. W. Griffith
1909 short films
American comedy short films
1900s American films
1900s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed%20rail%20in%20Thailand | Although Thailand has no operational high-speed rail lines, the country has a plan for a large high speed rail network connecting its major cities. The first line of the network is under construction from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima, with a planned maximum operational speed of .
History
In October 2010, the Thai Parliament approved initial proposals for a high-speed rail (HSR) network. Five lines capable of handling speeds would radiate from Bangkok.
In March 2013, the transport minister revealed that only one company would be selected to run all high-speed train routes, scheduled to be operational between 2018 and 2019. The first section from Krung Thep Aphiwat to Ayuthaya was planned to be tendered in late-2013. However, a seven-month political crisis involving the dissolution of parliament and an annulled February 2014 election culminated in a military coup in May 2014. In July 2014 the new military junta deferred all HSR plans until a civilian government is installed.
Following the military coup of May 2014 and his elevation to the office of prime minister, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha proposed connecting Bangkok to two popular resort cities, Pattaya and Hua Hin, by high-speed rail. The Transport Ministry's Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning had earlier conducted studies on both routes. They assumed that, for the Bangkok-Pattaya line, trains would run through Chachoengsao, Chonburi, and Pattaya, terminating in Rayong, a distance of . Construction costs were estimated at 152 billion baht with an economic internal rate of return (EIRR) of 13%. Construction would take about 54 months. The route to Hua Hin would be in length with an investment cost of about 98 billion baht and EIRR of 8.1%. The office concluded that these routes would be of little interest to private investors due to the high investment required coupled with a low rate of return. Four HSR lines were included in fiscal year 2017 plans.
Proposed high-speed routes
Northeastern HSR: Bangkok–Nakhon Ratchasima–Nong Khai (Sino-Thai railway project)
In November 2014, Thailand and China signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to construct the Thai portion of the transnational railway running from Kunming, China to the Gulf of Thailand. In November 2015, both parties agreed to a division of labour. Under the framework, a joint venture would be set up to run the project. China would conduct feasibility studies, design the system, construct tunnels and bridges, and lay track. The MoU stipulates that Thailand is responsible for 100% investment in the project and operates the construction itself, including conducting social and environmental impact studies, expropriating land for construction, handling general civil engineering and power supply, and supplying construction materials.
Once built, China will operate and maintain the system for the first three years of operation. Between the third and the seventh years, both countries would share responsibility. Later Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Elgan | Mike Elgan (born December 3, 1961) is an American journalist, blogger, columnist and podcaster. He is a columnist for publications including Computerworld, Cult of Android, Cult of Mac, Forbes, Datamation, eWeek and Baseline.
Career
Elgan was chief editor for the technology publication Windows Magazine. He has written opinion columns for several publications, and in February 2013 had 2 million "followers" on Google+. He has been featured or quoted by the BBC, CNN, FOX News, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR.
He began hosting the podcast Tech News Today in 2014. Elgan left Tech News Today in late 2015. His last episode on December 7, 2015. Elgan announced his departure on his Google+ account.
References
External links
Tech News Today on the TWiT.tv Network
American male journalists
American columnists
American male bloggers
American bloggers
1961 births
Living people
21st-century American non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyCycle%20%28proposed%20transport%20project%29 | SkyCycle was a proposed transport infrastructure project for London of a network of elevated cycle paths above train tracks. The routes would have had a width of up to , and be accessed by over 200 ramps throughout the city, subject to a toll of £1. The developers of the project estimated that the cycle paths would accommodate 400,000 riders during rush hour and shave 30 minutes off current travel time. If the project became a reality, its construction was estimated to take over 20 years. The project was the creation of landscape architects Exterior Architecture and Space Syntax, with whom Norman Foster of Foster and Partners had been working since 2012. The proposals were welcomed by Network Rail.
History
The idea for the project originated in 2011 with Sam Martin, the director of Exterior Architecture, and his employee Oli Clark. Clark had proposed a network of elevated cycle routes around Battersea Power Station for his student dissertation. Following email communication with the office of the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, Clark and Martin had a meeting with Isabel Dedring, the Deputy Mayor for Transport, incidentally encountering Johnson himself on their way to it, who was enthusiastic upon being told about the project. Dedring then arranged meetings with Dave Ward, the executive director of Network Rail. Dedring and Ward suggested that the group design an initial phase of the network, following the route of the Great Eastern Main Line between Stratford station and Liverpool Street station. Martin approached Foster and Partners for planning assistance. The group estimated the cost of the first phase as £220 million, and the cost of the entire project between £7 and 8 billion. In October 2012, the proposal was rejected by Johnson, following a meeting of representatives of Network Rail and Transport for London, who had expressed concerns that estimated costs for the project had not been fully worked out and that London did not have sufficient railway capacity to build on. In 2014 the developers were said to be seeking funds for a feasibility study.
Reception
The cycling charity CTC expressed concern over the wind exposure that riders would face when using SkyCycle, as well as the steepness of the ramps. Wired called the project "amazing". ArchDaily said the project would divert resources away from more important projects and have some negative consequences. BBC News called it a "radical solution to protect cyclists".
See also
Cycling in London
List of cycle routes in London
References
External links
SkyCycle at Space Syntax
Cycling in London
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
Unbuilt buildings and structures in the United Kingdom
Proposed transport infrastructure in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%20Nisbett | Grant Wallace Nisbett (born 26 December 1950) is a New Zealand sports broadcaster and former TAB media liaison. He is the lead rugby commentator for SKY Network Television and called his 300th test match between the All Blacks and France at Westpac Stadium on 16 June 2018. His career spans over 40 plus years.
Nisbett was educated at Rongotai College in Wellington and captained the 1st XV in 1968. He played No.8 then moved in to prop while playing for his club Poneke in his later years. Nisbett played one first-class match for the Wellington Colts against Horowhenua in 1970. Nisbett also played club cricket to a 'modest level'. His radio career started in 1968 when he chose the NZBC over a physical education degree at Otago University. He frequently tells stories about playing sport on a Saturday, then rushing back to the radio studio to broadcast the weekend's results.
Nisbett only played four years of senior rugby before a clash with Saturday sports reporting became too much with his radio career and decided to give his playing days away.
He continued his radio work and his first television commentary was a match between the All Blacks and France at Lancaster Park, Christchurch on 16 June 1984 and the shift to television then signaled a tricky period in his career as the doyen, Keith Quinn, was still on the scene, and in the early 1990s John McBeth also made the switch from radio. Three into one didn't go, even if TVNZ initially tried a two-commentator routine, when Quinn and Nisbett called the 1991 World Cup final. Quinn and Nisbett shared matches as the years went on with McBeth more going into a presenting role along with calling a handful of provincial matches.
Nisbett became the lead commentator for rugby and cricket coverage when TVNZ had broadcast rights. When Sky Network Television claimed rights for both sports (rugby in 1996 and cricket in 1998), he then moved to Sky to continue his broadcasting and has been with them ever since. Nisbett is now a weekly commentator for Super Rugby and Mitre 10 Cup matches, All Blacks tests along with domestic and international cricket matches and occasionally softball, bowls and golf over the summer months. He commentated boxing at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and 1980 Moscow Olympics from London.
Nisbett was the lead commentator for Sky Sport during the 2011 Rugby World Cup and called the final with former All Black Grant Fox and former New Zealand cricketer Ian Smith, who was on the sideline. He was one of the Sky Sport commentators at the 2015 Rugby World Cup calling matches for New Zealand viewers along with Smith and former All Blacks Justin Marshall, Jeff Wilson and Andrew Mehrtens. In the 2023 Rugby World Cup he was the lead commentator for Sky Television in New Zealand with Mils Muliaina and Jeff Wilson. He has been to five Rugby World Cups as a broadcaster.
He also attends the All Black End of Year Tours and provides commentary for New Zealand audiences along with Justin Marshall, Tony J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NADDIS | The Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Information System, or NADDIS, is a data index and collection system operated by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Comprising millions of DEA reports and records on individuals, NADDIS is a system by which intelligence analysts, investigators and others in law enforcement retrieve reports from the DEA's Investigative Filing and Reporting System (IFRS). NADDIS is thought to have become the most widely used, if least known, tool in drug law enforcement.
The database has been described by DEA as a "pointer index" by which records on millions of individuals, many with no criminal history, can be reviewed quickly to locate complete reports on a subject of interest, their address or phone number.
NADDIS checks and individuals
A NADDIS check is the first step in any criminal drug inquiry and reveals the existence of any prior reports of investigation or mention in any file of an individual, business, airfield, plane, vessel or phone number. The existence of a NADDIS record on an individual has been employed to provide probable cause for airport searches, surveillance and home entries. By contrast, the absence of a NADDIS record has been grounds for permitting bond for criminal defendants.
NADDIS also is routinely used by DEA and other agencies to conduct background checks on prospective employees, contractors and informants, with a NADDIS check in one instance revealing a DEA database contractor's prior involvement in drug trafficking.
The NADDIS access log
NADDIS logs the access of NADDIS by any authorized DEA employee and records the time, date, location and identity of the employee who requested access to a particular file. These access logs or "detail reports" have been utilized by DEA Headquarters to identify DEA employees who provided NADDIS records to criminal organizations or who have improperly accessed NADDIS21. Agencies' access logs have also been considered by district courts in resolving legal issues over the timing of agents' and prosecutors' awareness of investigative records on a subject. Thus, the use of NADDIS detail reports to detect government improprieties is similar to the use of other law enforcement database access logs in demonstrating police misconduct. For example, in Kansas the FBI's Interstate Identification Index (III) access log confirmed improper access by a sheriff who conducted criminal history checks against political opponents.
Lack of public information
Efforts through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain a sample NADDIS record have often been rejected by DEA. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has indicated its concerns about the "scanty" secondary literature on NADDIS, further noting that although it would be helpful "to know something about NADDIS", "the government has successfully opposed efforts to obtain discovery aimed at determining the character and reliability" of the system. There are few news articles discussing NADDIS, and only on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Bus%20Architecture | The Simple Bus Architecture (SBA) is a form of computer architecture. It is made up software tools and intellectual property cores (IP Core) interconnected by buses using simple and clear rules, that allow the implementation of an embedded system (SoC). Basic templates are provided to accelerate design. The VHDL code that implements this architecture is portable.
Master core
The master core is a finite state machine (FSM) and performs basic data flow and processing, similar to a microprocessor, but with lower consumption of logic resources.
Wishbone
SBA is an application and a simplified version of the Wishbone specification. SBA implements the minimum essential subset of the Wishbone signals interface. It can be connected with simple Wishbone IP Cores. SBA defines three types of cores: masters, slaves, and auxiliaries. Several slave IP Cores were developed following the SBA architecture, many to implement virtual instruments.
References
Computer buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Coast%20Computer%20Project | The North Coast Computer Project (NCCP) is an Australian independent not-for-profit social enterprise established in 2003. NCCP focuses on helping aboriginal communities and other organisations and communities access the same level of technology taken for granted by many.
NCCP was originally started as the Clarence Valley Computer Project and has evolved to provide cheap computers, technical repairs and support, and local networking opportunities for lower income and Indigenous persons of the Clarence Valley and North Coast of New South Wales. Some projects have also been carried out in the Philippines. NCCP is a Microsoft Registered Refurbisher and the computers it provides are loaded with registered Microsoft software
Grants and awards
, NCCP had won two national grants for an Indigenous Engagement Project.
In May 2007 the NCCP was awarded the Community ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Innovator of the Year Award sponsored by Microsoft and Cisco.
E-hubs
E-Hubs are groups of computers, usually 2 to 10, installed, networked, connected to the internet by NCCP at community locations. These computers are protected with software to allow safe access by children. All of the computers are loaded with legitimate Microsoft software, and in some cases, the cost of the computers is covered by North Coast Technical and Further Education (TAFE) financing as part of a TAFE course.
The computers are provided for use at the community’s discretion, and the E-Hubs are often used for homework centres, as training rooms and classrooms, and for internet access for the general public.
, NCCP had set up Community E-Hubs at the following locations in New South Wales in the Philippines:
New South Wales
Ngaru Village, Yamba
Hillcrest, Maclean
Macksville NCCP Seniors Kiosk
Bowraville
Muurrbay, Bellwood in Nambucca
South Kempsey
Greenhills, Kempsey
Treelands Drive Community Centre
Muli Muli
Box Ridge (Coraki)
Buyinbin, Casino
Cabbage Tree Island
Jubullum (Tabulam)
Indigenous Rising, South Grafton
Coffs Harbour Showgrounds
Townsend Men's Shed
Iluka Men's Shed
Philippines
Zamboanga
Barobo Surigao del Sur
Gibon, Nabas, Aklan
See also
WorkVentures
References
External links
NCCP website
yarrawali.net - personal website of Bernie Francis, founder of NCCP.
Non-profit organisations based in New South Wales
Social enterprises
Defunct organisations serving Indigenous Australians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR%20L%20class | The NZR L class were a series of ten small tank engines built in England for the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) during the early years of the development of New Zealand's railway network.
Origin and design
The L class were designed to provide improved performance over the successful F class on faster passenger services and were built by the Avonside Engine Co. All entered service in 1878 and were used on important passenger trains on the Auckland and Wellington Sections. Although the G class, designed with a similar purpose in mind suffered from poor adhesion, the L was more successful in terms of performance. They were used intensively and provided solid service, although they were not used on passenger services for long due to their small size.
Modifications
NZR began an intensive programme of rebuilding older tank locomotives to attempt to extract improved performance. Parts from seven locomotives were used in this programme, being initially fitted with a leading bogie turning them into LA Class s then later with larger coal bunkers to s. The remaining three unmodified locomotives were sold to the Public Works Department (PWD) in the early 1900s.
Sales and disposals
While all of the rebuilt L class had been officially withdrawn by 1939, the three unmodified locomotives sold to the PWD went on to have much longer careers. No. 507 (formerly 207 in NZR service) was sold to the Taranaki Harbour Board in 1931, and numbers 508 and 509 (formerly 208 and 219) were sold to Wilson's Portland Cement, an industrial plant south of Whangarei. All three ended up working at Portland until the 1970s, when they were around 95 years old. They were then all donated for preservation where all three remain operational.
Preserved locomotives
Three L Class locomotives have been preserved:
L 207 - Museum of Transport and Technology Operational, took part in North Island Main Trunk centennial celebrations in 2008
L 208 - ShantyTown Operational, named Gertie
L 219 - Silver Stream Railway Operational, took part in North Island Main Trunk centennial celebrations in 2008
See also
NZR F class
NZR FA / FB
NZR G class (1874)
NZR LA class
Locomotives of New Zealand
References
Citations
Bibliography
W.G.Lloyd (2002), Register of New Zealand Railways Steam Locomotives 1863 - 1971, Otago Railway & Locomotive Society/Triple M Publications
Steam locomotives of New Zealand
2-4-0T locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1877
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayan%20Nair | Vijayan (Vijay) N. Nair is currently Head of the Statistical Learning and Advanced Computing Group in Corporate Model Risk at Wells Fargo. He was Donald A. Darling Collegiate Professor of Statistics and Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 1993 to 2017. He served as Chair of the Statistics Department at Michigan from 1998 to 2010 (sabbatical in 2003–04). Vijay was instrumental in launching the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by MIDAS. Prior to joining Michigan, he spent 15 years as a research scientist in the Mathematical Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey.
Vijay received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Malaya, Malaysia and his PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has published on a wide range of topics in statistical methodology and inference, engineering statistics, network tomography, reliability, design and analysis of experiments, behavioral intervention, and quality Improvement. His current research interests include risk modeling and machine learning.
Professional recognition
Vijay served as President of the International Statistical Institute from 2013 to 2015 and President of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics during 2011–2013. He has been elected as Fellow of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, American Society for Quality and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was co-editor-in-chief of the International Statistical Review from 2010 to 2015 and 1994 to 1998. He was also editor of Technometrics from 1990 to 1992. He was the Gosset Lecturer at the World Statistics Congress in Marrakech in 2017, the Deming Lecturer at the Joint Statistical Meetings in 2013, the Isabel Loutit Lecturer at the Statistical Society of Canada Meetings in 2008, and the Youden Memorial Lecturer at the Fall Technical Conference in 2007. Vijay served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences from 2004 to 2008. The conference "From Industrial Statistics to Data Science" was held during October 1–3, 2015 in Ann Arbor to recognize his contributions.
References
Vijay Nair's home page
University of Michigan Faculty
International Statistical Institute
International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics
Vijay Nair on Mathematics Genealogy Project
University of Michigan faculty
American statisticians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
University of Malaya alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Presidents of the International Statistical Institute
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
21st-century American mathematicians
Scientists at Bell Labs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressways%20of%20Jiangsu | The Chinese eastern coastal province of Jiangsu has an expansive network of national and provincial-level expressways. At the end of 2010, the province had of expressways, including of national expressways and of provincial expressways, and by 2020, the province expects to have of national and provincial-level expressways.
Numbering
Expressways in Jiangsu province (and the rest of China) are designated with a letter prefix, which represents whether it is a provincial or national-level expressway, followed by a two-to-four character alphanumeric designation. The letter prefix G, which stands for Guodao (), literally meaning national road, is used for national expressways, and the letter prefix S, which stands for Shengdao (), literally meaning provincial road, is used for provincial expressways. National expressways are numbered according to the National Trunk Highway System numbering rules. In Jiangsu, the provincial-level expressways are assigned numbers as follows:
North-south expressways are given odd numbers less than 70.
East-west expressways are given even numbers less than 70.
Branch and port expressways are given numbers larger than 70. Currently the highest designation is 96.
List of routes
There are 36 provincial expressways currently completed, under construction, or in the planning stages as part of the provincial expressway plan. These include 13 north-south expressways, 9 east-west expressways, and 14 branch lines, given numbers greater than 70. In addition, there are 14 national-level expressways that are entirely in or will pass through the province. In 2013, some of the provincial-level expressways have also been upgraded as national expressways and given national-level expressway numbers.
National-level expressways
Provincial-level expressways
References
Transport in Jiangsu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemonia%20rotundata | Hemonia rotundata is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Snellen in 1879. It is found on Java, Bali, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, the Philippines and Sulawesi. The habitat consists of primary and secondary forests.
The larvae may possibly feed on the leaves of Acacia mangium.
References
Nudariina
Moths described in 1879 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20S.%20Roberts | Eric S. Roberts is an American computer scientist noted for his contributions to computer science education through textbook authorship and his leadership in computing curriculum development. He is a co-chair of the ACM Education Council, former co-chair of the ACM Education Board, and a former member of the SIGCSE Board. He led the Java task force in 1994. He was a Professor emeritus at Stanford University. He currently teaches at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
Education
Roberts received an A. B. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1973. He received an S. M. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in June 1974
and a Ph.D in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1980.
Career and research
He joined the Department of Computer Science at Wellesley College as an assistant professor in 1980. In 1984–1985 he was a visiting lecturer in Computer Science at Harvard University. In 1990 he was an associate professor at Stanford University and promoted to professor (teaching) of Computer Science in 1990. In 2018, he joined Reed College as a visiting professor of computer science. In 2020, he joined Willamette University as the Mark and Melody Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Professor.
While at Stanford he has also held several other positions such as associate chair and director of undergraduate studies from 1997 to 2002, and senior associate dean for student affairs from 2001 to 2003.
Roberts has written several introductory computer science textbooks, including
Thinking Recursively
The Art and Science of C
Programming Abstractions in C
Thinking Recursively with Java
The Art and Science of Java
Awards
Roberts has several notable awards in computer science.
SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to Computer Science Education
ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 2012.
IEEE Computer Society’s 2012 Taylor L. Booth Education Award.
Elected ACM Fellow in 2007.
References
American computer scientists
Computer science educators
Stanford University Department of Computer Science faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
Wellesley College faculty
People from Durham, North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20Southeastern%20Conference%20football%20season | The 2014 Southeastern Conference football season began on August 28 with Texas A&M visiting South Carolina on the new SEC Network. This season will feature new inter-division rivalry games: Texas A&M-South Carolina and Arkansas-Missouri.
Preseason
Preseason All-SEC
Rankings
Regular season
All times Eastern time. SEC teams in bold.
Rankings reflect those of the AP poll for that week until week 10 when CFP rankings are used.
Week One
The game between Florida and Idaho did not kickoff until 9:50 p.m due to inclement weather. The game was again delayed due to lightning after 10 seconds of play during which Florida returned the Idaho kickoff to the Idaho 14-yard line. The game was called as "suspended" 40 minutes after the second delay. Both schools' athletic directors decided on September 3 not to reschedule the game, thus declaring it a "no contest". Florida did agree to pay Idaho its promised fee of $975,000 and the schools agreed to schedule a game for the 2017 season.
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| October 4 || 7:30 p.m. || South Carolina || Kentucky || Commonwealth Stadium • Lexington, Kentucky || SECN || UK 45–38 || 62,135 ||
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SEC Championship Game
SEC vs Power Conference matchupsThis is a list of the power conference teams (ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-12) the SEC plays in the non-conference (Rankings from the AP Poll):
Bowl games
(Rankings from final CFP Poll)
Awards and honors
All-SEC Teams
The Southeastern Conference coaches voted for the All-SEC teams after the regular season concluded. Prior to the 2014 SEC Championship Game the teams were released. Alabama and Missouri placed the most representatives on the 2014 All-Southeastern Conference Coaches’ Football Te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20J.%20Eggers | Susan J. Eggers is an American computer scientist noted for her research on computer architecture
and compilers.
"Eggers is best known for her foundational work in developing and helping to commercialize simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors, one of the most important advancements in computer architecture in the past 30 years. In the mid-1990s, Moore's Law was in full swing and, while computer engineers were finding ways to fit up to 1 billion transistors on a computer chip, the increase in logic and memory alone did not result in significant performance gains. Eggers was among those who argued that increasing parallelism, or a computer's ability to perform many calculations or processes concurrently, was the best way to realize performance gains."(IEEE Computer Society Eckert-Mauchly Award Announcement)
In 2006, Eggers was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the design and evaluation of advanced processor architectures.
Biography
Eggers received a B.A. from Connecticut College in 1965. She received a
Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.
She then joined the Department of Computer Science at University of Washington in 1989 and is now an Emeritus Professor there.
Awards
Eggers has several notable awards including:
Computer architecture community's most prestigious award, the Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2018 for outstanding contribution to simultaneous multi thread processor architectures and multiprocessor sharing and coherency. Eggers is the first woman to win this award.
ACM Fellow in 2002 "for contributions to the design and analysis of multithreaded and shared memory multiprocessors and compiler technology."
IEEE Fellow in 2003
ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award in 2009
AAAS Fellow in 2006
She was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006
She won 2011 and 2010 ISCA Influential Paper Awards for her 1996 and 1995 co-authored papers presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture.
References
External links
University of Washington: Susan J. Eggers, Department of Computer Science
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
University of Washington faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Connecticut College alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousterhout | Ousterhout is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Douglas Ousterhout (born 1935), American surgeon
John Ousterhout (born 1954), American computer scientist
See also
Osterhout
Oosterhout (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELI%20%28programming%20language%29 | ELI is an interactive array programming language system based on the programming language APL. It has most of the functions of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) APL standard ISO/IEC 13751:2001, and also list for non-homogeneous or non-rectangular data, complex numbers, symbols, temporal data, and control structures. A scripting file facility is available to organize programs in a fashion similar to using #include in C, which also provides convenient data input/output. ELI has dictionaries, tables, and a basic set of SQL-like statements. For performance, it has a compiler restricted to flat array programs.
By replacing each APL character with one or two ASCII characters, ELI retains APL's succinct and expressive way of array programming compared with MATLAB or Python, ELI encourages a dataflow programming style, where the output of one operation feeds the input of another.
ELI is available without charge, as freeware, on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Version 0.3
ELI version 0.3, described as a stable release, was released on August 10, 2015. It integrates with a cross-platform IDE, ELI Studio, which provides a code editor with specialized functions to write and load ELI code. Three added widgets are used to monitor functions, variables, libraries and command history.
Version 0.3 adds several new features.
Like: string match
Match
[]PP: printing precision control
)time: performance measure
[]: standard input
Date and time attributes
File handle: []open, []close, []write, and []get
Semicolon (;)
Example code
A line of ELI executes from right to left as a chain of operations; anything to the right of ‘//’ is a comment.
Exclamation point (!) is an interval function. It can generate a vector of n integer from 1 to n.
!10
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
The execution order of ELI is from right to left, and all primitive functions have equal precedence.
5 * 2 + 10 // from right to left, 5 * (2 + 10)
60
In the next example a function add is declared in a short function form. The arguments of the function can be either a scalar or a vector.
{add: x+y} // short function form
add
1 add 2 // 1+2
3
1 add !10 // 1+(1..10)
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
The $ rotation operator returns the reverse order of a vector.
$!10 // reverse
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
A 2-by-3 matrix (or higher dimension array, e.g., 2 3 4#!24) can be generated by # with left argument 2 3.
2 3#!6 // 2 dimension array (matrix)
1 2 3
4 5 6
In first line below the x is assigned with a vector from 1 to 20. Then, 1 = 2|x returns odd number True and even number False. The / is a primitive function for compression which picks up the value in x corresponding to the True values in its left argument.
x <- !20 // 1..20
x
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
(1 = 2|x) / x // get odd numbers from x
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19
File extensions
Two file extensions are used in ELI for exchanging and sharing co |
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