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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Phone%208.1 | Windows Phone 8.1 is the third generation of Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system, succeeding Windows Phone 8. Rolled out at Microsoft's Build Conference in San Francisco, California, on April 2, 2014, it was released in final form to Windows Phone developers on April 14, 2014 and reached general availability on August 4, 2014. All Windows Phones running Windows Phone 8 can be upgraded to Windows Phone 8.1, with release dependent on carrier rollout dates.
Windows Phone 8.1 is also the last version that uses the Windows Phone brand name as it was succeeded by Windows 10 Mobile. Some Windows Phone 8.1 devices are capable of being upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile. Microsoft delayed the upgrade and reduced the supported device list from their initial promise. Support has ended for Windows Phone 8.1 on July 11, 2017.
History
Windows Phone 8.1 was first rumored to be Windows Phone Blue, a series of updates to Microsoft's mobile operating system that would coincide with the release of Windows 8.1. Although Microsoft had originally planned to release WP8.1 in late 2013, shortly after the release of its PC counterpart, general distribution of the new operating system was pushed back until early 2014.
Instead of waiting over a year to add new features to Windows Phone 8, Microsoft opted to release three incremental updates to its existing mobile OS. These updates are delivered with corresponding firmware updates for the specific devices. The updates included GDR2 (Lumia Amber), which introduced features such as "Data Sense", and GDR3 (Lumia Black), which brought support for quad-core processors, 1080p high-definition screens of up to six inches, the addition of a "Driving Mode," and extra rows of live tiles for larger "phablet" devices.
The updated operating system's final name was leaked to the public when Microsoft released the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK to developers on February 10, 2014, but it wasn't until Microsoft's Build conference keynote on April 2, 2014 when Windows Phone 8.1 was officially announced, alongside the Windows 8.1 Update. The final shipping code was released to registered users of the "Preview for Developers" program on April 14, 2014, and to the general public in subsequent months, the actual release date being determined by the devices' wireless carriers and accompanied with firmware updates, including Lumia Cyan.
Preview for Developers
The "Preview for Developers" program was initiated in October 2013 with the release of Windows Phone 8 Update 3. The program was intended for developers and enthusiasts to gain immediate access to OS updates as they become available from Microsoft, bypassing wireless carriers and OEMs who test changes before including device-specific firmware updates. Users of the "Preview for Developers" program do not void their warranty in most cases and can install any future firmware that is included with their carrier's official rollout of Windows Phone 8.1.
The Windows Phone software updates deli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zemor%27s%20decoding%20algorithm | In coding theory, Zemor's algorithm, designed and developed by Gilles Zemor, is a recursive low-complexity approach to code construction. It is an improvement over the algorithm of Sipser and Spielman.
Zemor considered a typical class of Sipser–Spielman construction of expander codes, where the underlying graph is bipartite graph. Sipser and Spielman introduced a constructive family of asymptotically good linear-error codes together with a simple parallel algorithm that will always remove a constant fraction of errors. The article is based on Dr. Venkatesan Guruswami's course notes
Code construction
Zemor's algorithm is based on a type of expander graphs called Tanner graph. The construction of code was first proposed by Tanner. The codes are based on double cover , regular expander , which is a bipartite graph. =, where is the set of vertices and is the set of edges and = and = , where and denotes sets of vertices. Let be the number of vertices in each group, i.e, . The edge set be of size = and every edge in has one endpoint in both and . denotes the set of edges containing .
Assume an ordering on , therefore ordering will be done on every edges of for every . Let finite field , and for a word in , let the subword of the word will be indexed by . Let that word be denoted by . The subset of vertices and induces every word a partition into non-overlapping sub-words , where ranges over the elements of .
For constructing a code , consider a linear subcode , which is a code, where , the size of the alphabet is . For any vertex , let be some ordering of the vertices of adjacent to . In this code, each bit is linked with an edge of .
We can define the code to be the set of binary vectors of such that, for every vertex of , is a code word of . In this case, we can consider a special case when every edge of is adjacent to exactly vertices of . It means that and make up, respectively, the vertex set and edge set of regular graph .
Let us call the code constructed in this way as code. For a given graph and a given code , there are several codes as there are different ways of ordering edges incident to a given vertex , i.e., . In fact our code consist of all codewords such that for all . The code is linear in as it is generated from a subcode , which is linear. The code is defined as for every .
In this figure, . It shows the graph and code .
In matrix , let is equal to the second largest eigenvalue of adjacency matrix of . Here the largest eigenvalue is .
Two important claims are made:
Claim 1
. Let be the rate of a linear code constructed from a bipartite graph whose digit nodes have degree and whose subcode nodes have degree . If a single linear code with parameters and rate is associated with each of the subcode nodes, then .
Proof
Let be the rate of the linear code, which is equal to
Let there are subcode nodes in the graph. If the degree of the subcode is , then the code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav%20Ko%C5%BEe%C5%A1n%C3%ADk | Jaroslav Kožešník (8 June 1907 in Kněžice – 26 June 1985 in Prague) was a Czech and Czechoslovak scientist, mathematician, an expert in mechanics and automation (cybernetics), chairman of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1969–1970, 1970–1977, 1977–1980), a Communist Party functionary in Communist Czechoslovakia and a member of the parliament during the Normalization period, recipient of several state awards, editor-in-chief of the Kybernetika journal.
Books
1983: Teorie podobnosti a modelování
1979: Kmitání mechanických soustav
1965: Základy teorie přístrojů (Principles of the Theory of Machines)
1960: Dynamika strojů (Dynamics of Machines), translated into English, German, Russian, Polish
1960: Mechanika elektrických strojů točivých (The Mechanics of Electrical Rotating Machines), translated into several languages
1947: Fysikální podobnost a stavba modelů
Awards
Honorary title of the Hero of Socialist Labor of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the Order of the Republic, the Order of the Victorious February, Order of Labour, A. Zápotockého medal with ribbon, the Soviet Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of Friendship of Peoples (awarded by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union), Star friendship Nations in gold (awarded by the State Council of the GDR). For scientific merit is twice laureate of the Klement Gottwald State Prize, received the highest scientific honors the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Lomonosov Gold Medal, two honorary gold plaques of the SCAS "For Merits of science and humanity" and a plaque of Zdeněk Nejedlý.
References
1907 births
1985 deaths
20th-century Czech mathematicians
People from Jihlava District
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia politicians
Czech Technical University in Prague alumni
Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Recipients of the Lomonosov Gold Medal
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Czech mathematicians
Czechoslovak mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%20and%20the%20Secret%20Door | Barbie and the Secret Door is a 2014 computer-animated musical fantasy film. It was released to DVD on September 16, 2014, and made its television debut on Nickelodeon on November 23, 2014.
This film is the 28th entry in the Barbie film series. It was directed by Karen Lloyd and features the voice of Kelly Sheridan as Princess Alexa, a shy princess who discovers a secret door in her kingdom and enters a whimsical land filled with magical creatures.
Plot
Set in a modern-day kingdom, Alexa is a shy, book-reading princess who avoids doing the duties expected of her due to her rank. In order to encourage her, Alexa's grandmother gives her a storybook about a princess who discovers she has magic. While reading the book, Alexa discovers a mysterious door in the royal gardens. She enters the door and finds herself in a fantasy land.
Alexa meets Nori, a fairy missing her wings, and Romy, a mermaid with legs instead of her tail. Nori and Romy are thrilled because as a princess, Alexa can perform magic with a wand. Their realm is under threat by the mean, mischievous Princess Malucia, a spoiled child princess who was born without magic and has been taking it by force from all the creatures she can capture. Alexa is brought to the glade where fairies, mermaids and unicorns are hiding from Malucia. There, Alexa slowly learns to use her wand. However, she cannot return Nori and Romy to their original forms, because their magic is trapped in Malucia's scepter.
The group learn that Malucia is trying to find the Queen Unicorn, who is the most magical creature in the realm. Alexa, Nori, and Romy travel to the Queen Unicorn, hoping to protect her, only to unintentionally lead Malucia and her minions right to her. Malucia captures the Queen Unicorn, while Nori and Romy provide a distraction so that Alexa can escape. While fleeing, Alexa discovers the doorway back to her world but decides to stay and help.
Alexa, Nori, and Romy go to Malucia's palace, where they witness Malucia draining all the unicorns' magic into her scepter. Alexa confronts Malucia, declaring that she is a princess, too, which provokes Malucia into a magical battle to "prove" who is the better princess. During the fight, Alexa realizes that Malucia's scepter is cracking under its magical content. Alexa willingly lets Malucia steal all her magic, which causes Malucia's scepter to explode, releasing all its magic. Malucia is harmless once again, and Alexa, who can now perform magic without a wand, returns all the magic to their rightful owners.
After promising to visit again soon, Alexa returns to her kingdom more confident, and more willing to participate in her princess duties. As for Malucia, her parents return from their holiday and scold her for trying to take over the kingdom again.
Voice cast
Voice cast as listed in the closing credits:
Soundtrack
A soundtrack for the film was released on August 25, 2014, a week after the film's release on video. The soundtrack's track list is as fol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust%20geometric%20computation | In mathematics, specifically in computational geometry, geometric nonrobustness is a problem wherein branching decisions in computational geometry algorithms are based on approximate numerical computations, leading to various forms of unreliability including ill-formed output and software failure through crashing or infinite loops.
For instance, algorithms for problems like the construction of a convex hull rely on testing whether certain "numerical predicates" have values that are positive, negative, or zero. If an inexact floating-point computation causes a value that is near zero to have a different sign than its exact value, the resulting inconsistencies can propagate through the algorithm causing it to produce output that is far from the correct output, or even to crash.
One method for avoiding this problem involves using integers rather than floating point numbers for all coordinates and other quantities represented by the algorithm, and determining the precision required for all calculations to avoid integer overflow conditions. For instance, two-dimensional convex hulls can be computed using predicates that test the sign of quadratic polynomials, and therefore may require twice as many bits of precision within these calculations as the input numbers. When integer arithmetic cannot be used (for instance, when the result of a calculation is an algebraic number rather than an integer or rational number), a second method is to use symbolic algebra to perform all computations with exactly represented algebraic numbers rather than numerical approximations to them. A third method, sometimes called a "floating point filter", is to compute numerical predicates first using an inexact method based on floating-point arithmetic, but to maintain bounds on how accurate the result is, and repeat the calculation using slower symbolic algebra methods or numerically with additional precision when these bounds do not separate the calculated value from zero.
References
Computational geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nando%20de%20Freitas | Nando de Freitas is a researcher in the field of machine learning, and in particular in the subfields of neural networks, Bayesian inference and Bayesian optimization, and deep learning.
Biography
De Freitas was born in Zimbabwe. He did his undergraduate studies (1991–94) and MSc (1994–96) at the University of the Witwatersrand, and his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge (1996-2000). From 2001, he was a professor at the University of British Columbia, before joining the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford from 2013 to 2017. He now works for Google's DeepMind.
Awards and recognition
De Freitas has been recognised for his contributions to machine learning through the following awards:
Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (2016)
Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Learning Representations (2016)
Google Faculty Research Award (2014)
Distinguished Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2013)
Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research (2012)
Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems Young Researcher Award (2010)
References
External links
Nando de Freitas home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Zimbabwean scientists
University of the Witwatersrand alumni
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Fellows of Linacre College, Oxford
Machine learning researchers
Artificial intelligence researchers
Google employees
British computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lmctfy | lmctfy ("Let Me Contain That For You", pronounced "l-m-c-t-fi") is an implementation of an operating system–level virtualization, which is based on the Linux kernel's cgroups functionality.
It provides similar functionality to other container-related Linux tools such as Docker and LXC. Lmctfy is the release of Google's container tools and is free and open-source software subject to the terms of Apache License version 2.0.
The maintainers in May 2015 stated their effort to merge their concepts and abstractions into Docker's underlying library libcontainer and thus stopped active development of lmctfy.
References
External links
Presentation slides from initial release announcement
Project website
Project "README" file providing overview
Google Groups post providing in depth comparison with the LXC tools
Linux-only free software
Virtualization software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-DAC%20Ahmedabad | The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an institution established in March 1988 as a Scientific Society of the Department of Information Technology (formerly Dept. of Electronics) Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. C-DAC is India's National Initiative in advanced computing. C-DAC runs its Multi-Lingual Computing popularly known as the GIST Technology. C-DAC is governed by a Member Governing Council by the Hon’ble Minister for Communication and Information Technology.
The PACE program was developed to impart training in basic & high-end computing using the Indian languages as the medium. This initiative was started in January 1996. This training program has been named Program for Advancing Computer Education – PACE (CDAC PACE).
PACE ATC (Authorized Training Centers) Under the PACE banner, training centers are called C-DAC GIST PACE Authorized Training Centers.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Ahmedabad PACE Affiliated Training Centre (ATC) of C-DAC, (C-DAC) is an organization of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT) to carry out research and development in IT, electronics, and associated skills education and development.
Since 1997, C-DAC ACTS Ahmedabad, with its own campus in Ahmedabad, has provided Art and Design education with a focus on providing creative as well as technical education.
References
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
Research institutes in Ahmedabad
Research institutes in Gujarat
1988 establishments in Gujarat
Research institutes established in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delete%20%28miniseries%29 | Delete is a two-episode miniseries about a reporter and a young hacker who uncovers an elusive artificial intelligence/multi-agent system dwelling in his smartphone, which has suddenly become fully autonomous and sentient as it is malevolent.
Premise
A disaster in our all-too-fragile virtual world, where World Wide Web, becomes dangerously autonomous and self-aware with one systematic purpose: To protect and perfect itself and enslave humanity as it sees fit.
Faced with possible extinction, there is only one way out: To create a second artificial intelligence of goodness and understanding that is just as intelligent as it is dangerous, as the only possible solution able to combat it. But with governments in a mass panic and the real world in escalating chaos, are they even able to match this unprecedented foe?
Cast
Keir Gilchrist as Daniel
Erin Karpluk as Jesse White
Ryan Robbins as Agent Max Hollis
Gil Bellows as Lt. General Michael Overson
Matt Frewer as National Security Advisor Arthur Bowden
Janet Kidder as Deputy Director Elizabeth Hardington
Theresa Russell as Fiona
Blu Mankuma as General Cassius Giles, USAF
Andrew Airlie as Director Marcus Tremaine
Seth Green as Lucifer
Jaylee Hamidi as Keiko Watanabe (1 episode, 2013)
Mike Azevedo as Pierre Garaneuf (1 episode, 2013)
Mehdi Darvish as Plant Technician (1 episode, 2013)
Graeme Duffy as Desmond Smith (1 episode, 2013)
John Stewart as Train Conductor (1 episode, 2013)
Alexander von Roon as Financial Reporter (1 episode, 2013
Production details
Written and distributed by Sonar Entertainment of New York City, the series consists of two feature-length episodes. It was shot on location in Vancouver and produced by Vancouver-based Brightlight Pictures.
Reception
The series won two Leo Awards, from the Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of British Columbia, for Best Picture Editing and Best Television Movie.
See also
Code Lyoko
Code Lyoko: Evolution
Delete, Korean Netflix eight-episode miniseries
References
2010s American drama television miniseries
2010s American science fiction television series
2012 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
Television series about artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Karow | Peter Karow (born 11 November 1940) is a German entrepreneur, inventor and software developer. He holds several patents in the field of desktop publishing and is known for his work on computer fonts. He contributed with several books and patents to the development of operating systems for computers. He is recognized as the inventor of outline computer fonts.
Career
Born in Stargard, Pomerania, after graduating from high school in 1960 in Schöningen near Braunschweig, he enrolled at the University of Hamburg to study physics. He married in 1969 and has two children. After receiving his PhD in 1971, he co-founded the company URW Software & Type GmbH in Hamburg. In 1975, his Ikarus (typography software) was introduced to members of Association Typographique Internationale in Warsaw. Afterwards, Ikarus was used all over the world for the digitization of fonts. Between 1975 and 1995, URW digitized a large amount of fonts for companies such as IBM, Siemens, Microsoft, Apple Inc., Adobe, Linotype, Monotype, Rudolf Hell and numerous Japanese companies.
Contributions
Digitization of outlines for typefaces (1972) with Ikarus
Printouts of single characters in a height of approximately 10 cm were digitized on a digitizer tablet of Aristo along their outlines, marking various points of support (beginning, corner, tangent and curve) with an accuracy of 1/100 mm. This invention together with a newly developed structure for storing and encoding single characters inside a font made characters, but also any other graphical signs freely scalable for the computer and available for other mathematical operations.
Calculation of the first typeface variations (1973)
After the output for plotters was programmed successfully - to make possible comparing digital output and original -, more software was developed to calculate first variations of fonts, for example italic, outlined and shaded typefaces.
Interpolation of typefaces (1973)
Software that enables to calculate interpolations and extrapolations between one light and one bold font version was than added and made it possible to create fonts such as ultra-light, semi-bold and extra bold variations. This invention drastically reduced time and effort for font manufacturers to create these intermediate fonts and was frequently used, particularly in Japan.
Text embroidery (1975)
In 1975, Peter Karow invented a software program for the company Gunold in Stockstadt, Germany, that made automatic stitching of embroidered text possible worldwide for the first time.
Calculation of bitmap fonts (rasterizing 1975)
In order to display characters by means of electronic devices such as electronic typesetters, dot matrix or laser printers and particularly computer monitors, a fast calculation of bitmaps in any size (resolution) is crucial. In 1965, Dr. Rudolf Hell invented the Digiset, the first electronic typesetter. In 1970, Xerox put into operation the first small laser printer, and three years later the first PC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Bessen | James Bessen (born 1950) is an economist who has been a Lecturer at Boston University School of Law since 2004,. He is presently best known for his data-led research concerning software and innovation. He has also demonstrated the diverse impacts of automation on employment and wages. In more recent work, he has established links between investment in software and market dominance in a number of sectors. Before entering academia professionally, Bessen was previously a software developer and CEO of Bestinfo, a software company. Bessen was also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Bessen researches the economics of innovation, including patents and economic history. He has written about software patents with Eric Maskin, arguing that they might inhibit innovation rather than stimulate progress. With Michael J. Meurer, he wrote Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk as well as papers on patent trolls. His book Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth argues that major new technologies require new skills and knowledge that are slow and difficult to develop, affecting jobs and wages.
Bessen developed the first WYSIWYG desktop publishing program at a community newspaper in Philadelphia in 1983. He established and ran a company, Bestinfo, to sell that program commercially. In 1993, Bestinfo was sold to Intergraph.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1972.
References
External links
1958 births
Living people
21st-century American economists
Boston University School of Law faculty
American technology chief executives
Harvard University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Linn%20Public%20Library | The West Linn Public Library serves the community of West Linn, Oregon. The library is part of the Library Information Network of Clackamas County (LINCC), a consortium of 13 public libraries in Clackamas County.
History
The library opened on March 1, 1939, with a collection of 300 books. It was located on the second floor of the city hall building (which has since become the police station). Lucille Warren and Neva Teague were hired through the National Youth Administration to run the library.
In 1965 city officials made plans for a new 7,000-square-foot $120,000 library building on city-owned property at West A Street and Willamette Falls Drive. Phillip R. Balsiger of Wilsonville was retained as architect. To supplement a $40,000 federal grant issued through the state library board, an $85,000 general obligation bond issue was put on the March 30 ballot. It included $5,000 for the purchase of books and periodicals for the new library. It was voted down by a vote of 152-108 out of approximately 2,500 eligible voters. The City Council put it back on the ballot for the May 28 election that same year, but it was voted down 434–247.
In 1977 the library's collection consisted of 12,800 books and magazines and the second floor of City Hall was too small to accommodate the collection. 25 volunteers packed up 14,000 books on October 28, 1978, and the library moved into the community room of the Bolton Fire Station.
By 1987 the library had outgrown the 1,500-square-foot space at the fire station. Since the library had moved to the fire station the collection had more than tripled and there were five times as many card holders. Boxes of books were stored in the attic. Many library programs had to be held in the engine bay with the fire trucks moved outside.
On March 31, 1987, voters approved a $1.2 million bond proposal to finance construction of a dedicated library building. The library also received a $95,543 federal Library Services Construction Act grant. A list of 22 possible sites was narrowed down to three until the West Linn City Council approved a resolution authorizing the purchase of a 1.5-acre piece of land on Burns Street in April 1988. The new 10,000 square foot library, which was designed by SRG Partnership, opened on Burns Street in December 1989.
In 1999 a $3.9 million bond measure to remodel and expand the library did not pass on the November 2 ballot because voter turnout was less than 50%. The following year on the May 16 ballot the bond measure passed. In June 2001 the library moved into temporary quarters at Bolton Primary School and construction began on the library expansion, which was again designed by SRG Partnership. In June 2002 the newly expanded 28,000 square foot building re-opened to the public.
Facilities and services
The library features two public meeting rooms, an art gallery, public computer lab, and wi-fi throughout the building. The library collection includes print and online resources, including over 100,000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%208.x | Windows 8.x refers to the following versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server operating systems:
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Windows RT
Windows Server 2012/R2
See also
Windows Phone 8.x
8. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Notebook%209 | The Samsung Notebook 9, formerly marketed as Samsung Series 9 and Samsung Ativ Book 9, is a line of laptop computers from Samsung Electronics Inc. The Series 9 was the flagship laptop product of Samsung when first launched in 2011, designed with performance and portability in mind and notable for its "ultrathin" thickness. The thinnest model of being thickness, it was among the thinnest laptops in the world. Notebook 9 has been continously updated with new generations but has been superseded as flagship by Samsung Galaxy Book, with Notebook 9 marketed for portability. Several different versions have been made including Spin (a convertible) and Pen (with digitizer for pen computing).
History
First generation (2011)
The Series9 (known as Sens Series 9 in South Korea) at January 6, 2011 at the Consumer Electronics Show(CES) on and won the Best of CES award in the Laptop category. It featured world's first enclosure that is made out of aerospace grade duralumin with thickness and in weight. The first model had Sandy Bridge Intel Core i5 processor, 128GB solid-state drive(SSD) and a 13.3" HD (1366 x 768) display with 300 nit of brightness.
On May 4, 2011, Samsung Electronics also introduced 11.6" display version of the Series9 in Korea market. It had same design identity, specification and exterior material as the 13.3" model except the display size and CPU of Intel Core i3-380UM. The thickness remained the same but the weight was lighter at . Two months later, an updated CPU version with Intel Core i5-2537M was introduced to the Korean market to test the market perception of a smaller screen laptop. The original intention was to compete against MacBook Air line up with same screen size models, but due to sluggish demand of smaller screen size model, the 11-inch model was ceased by the end of the year and consequently, the global release was canceled as well. Newly developed 15-inch model superseded the 11-inch model in order to meet the larger-screen preference of the Korean market and later, it was introduced worldwide.
Second generation (2012)
The second generation of Series9 was announced to the public at the CE Show on January 8, 2012. The new model had same display size of 13.3" but the resolution was stepped up from HD (1366 x 768) to HD+ (1600 x 900) and the brightness was increased from 300 nit to 400 nit. Design was refined and the material of the enclosure was changed from duralumin to aluminium single-shell body. Subsequently, the weight was reduced from to and the thickness was reduced from to .
The user was offered a choice of 128GB SSD as well as larger 256GB SSD for the storage. It was introduced with Sandy Bridge Intel Core i5 processor at the CE Show but 3 months later, it was upgraded to the Ivy Bridge Intel Core i5 processor before the hitting the market. Magnesium enclosure version with exact same design was also released in August 2012. Although the second generation Series9 didn't win the Best of CE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query-level%20feature | A query-level feature or QLF is a ranking feature utilized in a machine-learned ranking algorithm.
Example QLFs:
How many times has this query been run in the last month?
How many words are in the query?
What is the sum/average/min/max/median of the BM25F values for the query?
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapo%20De%20Carlo | Lapo de Carlo (born 4 December 1968) is an Italian sports journalist and presenter. He is the radio director of Radio Nerazzurra. He also worked for Radio CNR, Radio Italia Network, Radio Donna and Radio Via Montenapoleone.
Since 2008, he has been a consultant in public speaking at the University of Milan Bicocca at the Faculty of Psychology.
He also works in the television program, Qui studio a voi stadio, since 2013.
He is the son of the writer Adriano de Carlo.
References
External links
1968 births
Journalists from Milan
Italian male journalists
Living people
Mass media people from Milan
Academic staff of the University of Milano-Bicocca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%20JTC%201/SC%2024 | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 Computer graphics, image processing and environmental data representation is a standardization subcommittee of the joint subcommittee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), which develops and facilitates standards within the field of computer graphics, image processing, and environmental data representation. The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 is the British Standards Institute (BSI) located in the United Kingdom.
History
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 was formed in 1987 from ISO/TC 97 as a result of Resolution 21 at the ISO/IEC JTC 1 plenary. The group's origins began in computer graphics, the standardization of which was originally under ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21/WG 2. However, when ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 was created, the standardization activity of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21/WG 2 was carried over to the new subcommittee. The initial five working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 were titled, “Architecture,” “Application programming interfaces,” “Metafiles and interfaces,” “Language bindings,” and “Validation, testing and registration.” The work of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 began with the Graphical Kernel System (GKS), which was adopted from ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21/WG 2. However, since GKS only addressed 2D functionality, attention turned to the standardization of 3D functionality. This resulted in two standards being published: GKS-3D in 1988 and PHIGS in 1989, both of which addressed 3D functionality. Since 1991, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 has held plenaries in a number of countries, including the Netherlands, Germany, United States, France, Canada, Japan, Sweden, Korea, United Kingdom, Australia, and Czech Republic.
Scope
The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 is the “Standardization of interfaces for information technology based applications relating to”:
Computer graphics
Image processing
Environmental data representation
Support for the Mixed and Augmented Reality (MAR)
Interaction with, and visual representation of, information
Included are the following related areas:
Modeling and simulation and related reference models
Virtual reality with accompanying augmented reality/augmented virtuality aspects and related reference models
Application program interfaces
Functional specifications
Representation models
Interchange formats, encodings and their specifications, including metafiles
Device interfaces
Testing methods
Registration procedures
Presentation and support for creation of multimedia, hypermedia, and mixed reality documents
Excluded are the following areas:
Character and image coding
Coding of multimedia, hypermedia, and mixed reality document interchange formats
JTC 1 work in user system interfaces and document presentation
ISO/TC 207 work on ISO 14000 environment management, ISO/TC 211 work on geographic information and geomatics
Software environments as described by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22
Structure
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 is made up of fou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%20JTC%201/WG%207 | ''Note: This working group has been disbanded.
ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 7 Sensor Networks (WGSN) was a standardization working group of the joint technical committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), which develops and facilitates standards within the field of sensor networks. The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 7 is the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS), located in the Republic of Korea.
Maintenance of the standards was transferred to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41.
History
ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 7 was established in October 2009 via Resolution 34 of the 24th JTC 1 Plenary in Tel Aviv. The group was established with the intention of creating an ISO/IEC JTC 1 working group that would develop and facilitate the development of international standards for sensor networks. The working group is the successor of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SGSN, Study Group on Sensor Networks, which was established in 2007, at the 22nd JTC 1 Plenary. All standardization activities and members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SGSN were transferred to ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 7 after its establishment.
Terms of reference
The terms of reference for ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 7 are:
In the area of generic solutions for sensor networks, undertake standardization activities that support and can be applied to the technical work of all relevant JTC 1 entities and to other standards organizations. This includes activities in sensor networks such as the following:”
Standardization of terminology
Development of a taxonomy
Standardization of reference architectures
Development of guidelines for interoperability
Standardization of specific aspects of sensor networks
In the area of application – oriented sensor networks, identify gaps and commonalities that may impact standardization activities within the scope of JTC 1. Further, share this information with relevant entities within and outside of JTC 1. Unless better pursued within another JTC 1 entity, the following standardization activities may be pursued as projects by this Working Group:
Addressing the technology gaps within the scope of JTC 1 entities
Exploiting technology opportunities where it is desirable to provide common approaches to the use of sensor networks across application domains
Addressing emerging areas related to M2M and IoT
In order to foster communication and sharing of information between groups working in the field of sensor networks:
Seek liaison relationships with all relevant SCs/WGs
Seek liaison relationships with other organizations outside JTC 1
Consider the possibility of conducting joint products with relevant ITU-T SGs
Seek input from relevant research projects and consortia
Collaborations
ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 7 works in close collaboration with a number of other organizations or subcommittees, both internal and external to ISO or IEC, in order to avoid conflicting or duplicative work. Organizations internal to ISO or IEC that co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Sunshine%20for%20Japan | Project Sunshine for Japan (motto “Your colours can brighten the land of the rising sun again!”) is a worldwide campaign by Mansoureh (Mana) Rahnama in Dortmund, Germany. Rahnama started the networking project in April 2011 in the form of a poster competition in support of the survivors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Japan in March 2011.
History
Around 400 international designers from 40 countries participated in the competition. A jury (Pamela Campagna + Thomas A. Scheiderbauer (Italy), Holger Jacobs (Great Britain), Wilfried Korfmacher (Germany), Uwe Loesch (Germany), Luba Lukova (USA), John Moore (Venezuela), Woody Pirtle (USA), Christopher Scott (Ireland), and Shinoske Sugisaki (Japan)) selected the 100 best posters. Six posters received recognition and awards (Mark Andersen (USA), Kristina Jovanovic (Serbia), Scott Laserow (USA), Zafar Lehimle (Turkey), Yossi Lemel (Israel), and Tristan Schmitz (Germany). The posters were presented in several exhibitions all over the world.
The Book
Project Sunshine for Japan. Posters, Stories and poems about Fukushima (published in March 2013) presents the award-winning posters and literary articles by authors from 15 countries in 13 languages. Participating authors are Yuri Andrukhovych (Ukraine), Rolf Bertram (Germany), Andrea Biscaro (Italy), Biyú Suárez Céspedes (Bolivia), Kevin Chen (Taiwan), Thomas Dersee (Germany), Anton Eisenhauer (Germany), Rainer Frentzel-Beyme (Germany), (Germany), Günter Grass (Germany), Angelica Guzmán (Bolivia), Günther Hager (Austria), Ohm Jung Ho (Korea), Taro Igarashi (Japan), Mustafa Ijaz (Turkey), Koji Ikeda (Japan), Tokiko Kiyota (Japan), Prof. Dr. Masayuki Komatsu (Japan), Wilfried Korfmacher (Japan), Josef Lutz (Germany), Michiko Mae (Germany/Japan), Sarita Mansilla (Bolivia), Stephan Moldzio (Germany), Shinji Nakagawa (Japan), Akmal Nasery Basral (Indonesia), Sixto Paz Wells (Peru), Peace Boat (Japan), Michael Pilath (Germany), Mansoureh Rahnama (Germany/Iran), Sapna Rangaswamy (India), Naemi Reymann (Germany), RICOH Deutschland GmbH (Germany), Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japan), Prima Santika (Indonesia), Elisabeth Scherer (Germany), Gert Scobel (Germany), Shinnoske Sugisaki (Japan), Shinpei Takeda (Japan), Dejan Vukelic (Serbia), Izumi Yamaguchi (Japan), Peter Zec (Germany), Dirk Zimmermann (Germany), and Rui Zink (Rui Zink). The German poster designer Uwe Loesch created the book cover and exhibition posters.
Exhibitions (selection)
Fachhochschule Düsseldorf (University of Applied Science Düsseldorf) 2011
Trade Fair Tokyo 2012
Japanese Cultural Institute in Cologne 2012
ATC Gallery at The Osaka Design Center 2012
Peace Boat in Nagoya and Kobe Ports 2012
Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World 2 in Tokyo 2012
Kulturort Depot (Cultural Centre Depot) 2013
Frankfurt Book Fair October 13, 2013
House of Artists in Teheran 2013
Vesal e Shiraz in Souratgar Gallery in Shiraz 2013
Creative Network Center Mebic Ogimachi in Osaka 2014
Publication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataRank | DataRank was an American company based in Fayetteville, Arkansas which specializes in providing businesses with tools for analyzing conversations about their brands and competitors. DataRank was founded in 2011 and graduated from the Y Combinator seed accelerator in 2013.
Background
University of Arkansas graduates Ryan Frazier, Chuong Nguyen, Britt Cagnina, and Kenny Cason launched DataRank, originally known as TTAGG, in October 2011 out of a rental house near the university's campus. After rebranding itself as DataRank in 2013, the company launched its consumer insights blog. In 2013 the company was admitted into Y Combinator.
In 2014 DataRank raised $1.4 million in seed funding from New Road Ventures, FundersClub, and individual business angels.
Enterprise customers
Notable companies that use DataRank's Consumer Insights Dashboard include Clorox, and ConAgra Foods.
How it works
DataRank's analytics dashboard allows brand managers to monitor and analyze conversations from a wide variety of sources such as social media, blogs, discussion forums, and e-commerce stores. Additional data sources and internal information can be uploaded directly to DataRank.
Upon registration, the service compiles one year of company data and establishes the company's areas of focus. These might include competitive subject matter as well as the product categories or particular brands to be monitored. The areas of interest are ranked according to several insights including commenter and comment influence, demographic metadata, relevancy, machine-learned patterns, and recency. DataRank then pulls in conversations and comments from across the web, using a proprietary algorithm to sort results according to relevance. Users can navigate the dashboard by scrolling through sorted data or drilling down to view the volume of conversation, demographics, or total reach, with the option to delve into more detailed metrics about the customers who use the products or interact with the brands. The service also allows companies to compare their performance and various product features against those of competitors.
DataRank is different from similar social listening and social analytics services in the way that it organizes the unstructured data and conversations that it brings in. The resulting analytics enable companies to make decisions based on highly relevant information.
Visualizations
In addition to DataRank's content stream and search options, the dashboard also includes an annotated volume graph of comments, a sentiment graph, and a map of sentiment by state.
References
External links
Companies established in 2011
Companies based in Arkansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Amazon%20Prime%20Video%20original%20programming | In 2013, Amazon.com began distributing original television shows through its Amazon Prime Video service, some of which are developed in-house by Amazon Studios (now Amazon MGM Studios).
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Non-English language scripted
French
German
Hindi
Italian
Japanese
Portuguese
Spanish
Tamil
Other
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Co-productions
These shows have been commissioned by Amazon in cooperation with a partner network.
Regional original programming
Drama
Comedy
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Co-productions
Continuations
Upcoming original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Kids & family
Adult animation
Non-English language scripted
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Other
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Co-productions
In development
Pilots not picked up to series
Notes
References
Amazon
Amazon
Amazon (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Object | In computing, a Research Object is a method for the identification, aggregation and exchange of scholarly information on the Web. The primary goal of the research object approach is to provide a mechanism to associate related resources about a scientific investigation so that they can be shared using a single identifier. As such, research objects are an advanced form of Enhanced publication.
Current implementations build upon existing Web technologies and methods including Linked Data, HTTP, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) and the Open Annotation model, as well as existing approaches for identification and knowledge representation in the scientific domain including Digital Object Identifiers for documents, ORCID identifiers for people, and the Investigation, Study, and Assay (ISA) data model.
Principles and motivation
The research object approach is primarily motivated by a desire to improve reproducibility of scientific investigations. Central to the proposal is need to share research artifacts commonly distributed across specialist repositories on the Web including supporting data, software executables, source code, presentation slides, presentation videos. Research Objects are not one specific technology but are instead guided by a set of principles. Specifically research objects are guided by three principles of identity, aggregation and annotation
Digital identity - Use unique identifiers as names for things, such as DOIs for publications or data, and ORCID ids for researchers.
Data aggregation - Use some form of aggregation to associated related things together that are part of the broader study, investigation etc. so that others may more readily discover those related resources.
Annotation - Provide additional metadata about those things, how they relate to each other, their provenance, how they were produced etc.
A number of communities are developing the research object concept.
ROSC W3C activity
A W3C community group entitled the Research Objects for Scholarly Communication (ROSC) Community Group was started in April 2013. The community charter states that the goals of the ROSC activity are: "to exchange requirements and expectations for supporting a new form of scholarly communication"
The Community Group aims to produce the following types of deliverables:
Use cases for the representation, publishing, and exchange of research objects on the Web
Requirements and desiderata distilled from the use cases.
A survey of related work on supporting the representation, publishing, and exchange of research objects.
Various best practices and guidelines towards a community-wide practice of sharing, citing, and exchanging of research objects
FAIR digital objects
The FAIR digital object forum is a community that brings together experts from the FAIR data movement, semantic web, and digital publishing of scholarly work. The first conference on FAIR digital object |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umtech | Umtech Incorporated, also known as VideoBrain Computer Company, was an early entrant in the personal computer market that developed, manufactured, and marketed the first computer, VideoBrain, sold in department stores. Although VideoBrain generated major excitement and strong orders when it was introduced at the January 1978 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), consumers did not adopt it as readily as hoped. The company halted manufacturing in the spring of 1979 and was folded into the structure of its largest financial backer, the Cha Group.
History
Umtech was founded in 1976 by Dr. Albert Yu, an integrated circuit engineering manager at Intel who became Umtech’s President, and Dr. David Chung who led development of the F8 processor for Fairchild Semiconductor. It was based in Sunnyvale, California. The company was backed financially by Dr. Yu’s father-in-law, Cha Chi Ming, the principal of the Cha Group headquartered in Hong Kong. Some employees of the company later became minor shareholders through the exercise of employee stock options.
The company created the name VideoBrain for the computer it developed and then used the name VideoBrain Computer Company in marketing.
Technology
Integrated circuits
The company developed two chips to facilitate displaying the computer’s output on a standard color television set. The UM1 chip controlled sixteen rectangular objects on the screen that could be manipulated in size and shape, placement on the screen, and image within the rectangle. Software could designate the color of the image and of the remaining space within the rectangle, usually the background color of the display which was also software selectable. The UM1 was in turn controlled by an F8 processor. The UM1 fed a stream of pixels into a FIFO buffer which passed them along to be converted into signals that were delivered to the RF antenna input of a television set. Because the UM1 delivered the pixels needed for every line on the raster scan of the TV, rather than using the same pixel stream for every two or more adjacent lines as in then current video games, the VideoBrain produced finer display resolution than most television sets could support. The UM1 chip (Patent #4,232,374) was designed by John Cosley and Len Chen under the direction of Dr. Chung.
A second chip, the UM2, was developed to serve as a clock for the entire system and to produce the NTSC (USA) and PAL (Europe) scanning video frames for the TV set. The PAL version of the UM2 was never manufactured or brought to market. Though a much simpler chip than the UM1, getting the UM2 into manufacturing was difficult because any flaw in timing, even once in millions of cycles, could bring the entire system down.
The masks used to create the proprietary chips were drawn by hand. The company tested its chips using its own stepper and chip tester.
Hardware and system design
Like the later Apple MacIntosh, the VideoBrain did not allow the user to open the case and insert |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kambal%20Sirena | (International title: Footsteps of a Mermaid / ) is a 2014 Philippine television drama fantasy romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by DonDon Santos, it stars Louise delos Reyes in the title role and Aljur Abrenica. It premiered on March 10, 2014 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Adarna. The series concluded on June 27, 2014 with a total of 78 episodes. It was replaced by My Destiny in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Twins Alona and Perlas are born with unusual features — one is born with gills and the other with a mermaid's tail. Worried by how would their neighbors react, their mother decides to move along with them to an isolated island. The twins have to live separately. Living with her mother, Perlas works in an ocean park. While Alona lives as a princess within the confines of the water, the kingdom of Sirenadia. Eventually the twins will fall in love with Kevin.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Louise delos Reyes as Alona Natividad-Ramos / Perlas "Pearl" Natividad-Villanueva
Aljur Abrenica as Kevin Villanueva
Supporting cast
Mike Tan as Jun Ramos
Chanda Romero as Victorina Villanueva
Nova Villa as Ligaya Natividad
Tessie Tomas as Margarita "Rita" Natividad
Mickey Ferriols as Marissa Natividad
Lotlot de Leon as Susanna Villanueva
Angelika Dela Cruz as Arowana
Gladys Reyes as Barakuda
Rich Asuncion as Betilya
Polo Ravales as Ataba
Wynwyn Marquez as Macy Montero
Pancho Magno as Homer Villanueva
Guest cast
Ryan Eigenmann as Enrique Villanueva
Yul Servo as Damos
Hershey Garcia as young Perlas and young Alona
Archie Adamos as Ramon Ramos
Juan Rodrigo as Manolo Montero
Jaclyn Jose as Benita Samaniego
Thea Tolentino as Gindara
Andrea del Rosario as Desiree Antonio
Miggs Cuaderno as young Jun
Francis Magundayao as young Kevin
Erika Padilla as Gigi
Milkcah Wynne Nacion as Didang Ramos
Betong Sumaya as voice of Barakuda's pet
Tess Bomb as Chubita
Marina Benipayo
Arianne Bautista as Annie
Arthur Solinap
Bing Davao
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 23.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 23.7 rating. The series had its highest rating on March 13, 2014 with a 25.1% rating.
References
External links
2014 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Mermaids in television
Philippine fantasy television series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%20%28software%29 | A driver in software provides a programming interface to control and manage specific lower-level interfaces that are often linked to a specific type of hardware, or other low-level service. In the case of hardware, the specific subclass of drivers controlling physical or virtual hardware devices are known as device drivers.
Example
A client library for connecting to a database is often known as a driver, for example, the MySQL native driver for PHP.
References
Computing terminology
Application programming interfaces
Computer libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunistic%20mobile%20social%20network | Opportunistic mobile social networks are a form of mobile ad hoc networks that exploit the human social characteristics, such as similarities, daily routines, mobility patterns, and interests to perform the message routing and data sharing. In such networks, the users with mobile devices are able to form on-the-fly social networks to communicate with each other and share data objects.
Definition
In recent years, opportunistic mobile social networks emerged as a new mechanism of communications in wireless networks. Unlike mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) that require end-to-end communication paths for message exchange, the communication in opportunistic mobile social networks takes place on the establishment of opportunistic contacts among mobile nodes, without availability of end-to-end message routing paths. As the mobile devices can make contact only when humans come into contact, such networks are tightly coupled with human social networks. Therefore, the opportunistic mobile social networks exploit the human behaviors and social relationships to build more efficient and trustworthy message dissemination schemes.
Opportunism in social networks
The GSMA estimates that as of January 2019, more than 5 billion people worldwide use mobile phones. That is more than half of the world's population. Most of the mobile phones in the current era are equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cameras, sensors, and numerous other components. Moreover, most of the modern vehicles are also installed with communication interfaces and sensory equipment. Such a widespread use and availability of mobile communication devices create a huge number of contact opportunities among humans, and are key to the establishment of opportunistic mobile social networks. The human mobility is the key factor in opportunistic communications, and there could be delays in message transfers as long as the humans carrying mobile devices do not come into each other's transmission range. Therefore, several research projects are conducted in various parts of the world to analyze the human mobility and social interaction patterns, and on the basis of that to build efficient message routing models that incur minimum message delays.
Social metrics
The most common social metrics that are widely utilized to build message communications by exploiting social networks are betweenness centrality, degree centrality, and closeness centrality. The betweenness centrality measures the extent a node appears on the shortest communication paths (taken by messages) among the other mobile devices. In specific terms, betweenness centrality quantifies the extent of information flow through the current node on the behalf of other nodes. In contrast, degree centrality gives a measurement of the direct interactions of a node with other nodes in an opportunistic mobile social network. The closeness centrality is regarded as a measure of information spread time from a given node to the other nodes in the network. Bub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Verner | Bruno Verner (born 1971 in Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian composer, poet, electronic musician, performance artist and compiler, best known for his work as the other half of Brazilian tropical punk funk duo Tetine which he formed with Eliete Mejorado in São Paulo in 1995.
Early life
Verner was born in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. His mother worked as a primary school teacher and his father was a pianist. He studied music at Fundação de Educação Artística (FEA) in Belo Horizonte where he developed an avid interest in contemporary music and the avant-garde, becoming a young composer of electronic music at the age of 17. His piece "Casamento" for 2 sequencers, synthesiser and a sculpture was performed at Ciclo de Música Contemporânea in a programme dedicated to emerging young composers.
1980s
Verner was an active member of Belo Horizonte's post punk and industrial scene from the mid 1980s as a musician, poet, performer and producer, having played alongside a number of pioneering post punk acts. Over a period spanning from 1985-1990, he sang, played keyboards and bass guitar and programmed drum machines in Brazilian post punk bands such R. Mutt, Divergencia Socialista, Ida & e Os Voltas, O Grito Mudo, and Albania Berg - electronic and experimental groups from his hometown.
His early work is compiled in cassette tapes and compilations such as Lilith Lunaire, Divergencia Socialista, R. Mutt (R. Mutt), Mulata Urbana (O Grito Mudo), Jovens Raptados (Ida & Os Voltas) Substance (Marcelo Dolabela & Divergencia Socialista)'s. Verner early tracks with Divergencia Socialista, Tetine, and O Grito Mudo are also included in the compilation Uncorrupted Tropical Wave, 1984-2011 (Slum Dunk 2011).
1990 – 2000
In 1990 Bruno Verner moved to São Paulo to study Linguistics at Universidade de São Paulo (USP)and music at Universidade Livre de Musica (ULM). In the early 1990s he founded the performance group Um Ou Nao.
As a poet and musician, he also conceived and wrote a number of experimental performances involving an unorthodox use of text, sound, improvisation and visuals from 1991 to 1994. From this period pieces such as I Dada Happening Interdisciplinar, Pressupostos A Uma Sintaxe Sensorial, and O UM were presented in art spaces, underground clubs, bookshops and small cinemas around São Paulo. In 1991 he won the literary prize Projeto Nascente from Universidade de Sao Paulo, and later published a book of poetry called O UM on Atelier Editorial.
In 1994 Verner met Eliete Mejorado while producing the soundtrack for the performance piece Roberto Zucco at Teatro Oficina. Eliete and Bruno soon found themselves creating a radical blend of atonalism, industrial goth, punk and noise improvising with a drum machine, an old piano, altered voices, a VCR and slide projectors. Both artists approach to sound, voice and improvisation were very similar resulting in the creation of a one-off art performance that they later called Tetine.
In 1995 Tetine was offi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20%26%20Gledhill | Allen & Gledhill LLP is a Singapore law firm with a regional network of associate firms and offices. It is the largest law firm in Singapore, and is a regional market leader in many practices, particularly banking, finance, capital markets, corporate law, M&A law, and other transactional and advisory matters. The firm provides legal services to local companies and MNCs, financial institutions, and individual clients.
History
Allen & Gledhill is one of Singapore's oldest law firms, founded by Rowland Allen and Joseph Gledhill in 1902. In 1959, it set up an office in Malaysia, which became independent in 1972. The Malaysian firm later merged with the firm Lee Hishammuddin to form Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill.
In November 2011, UK international law firm Allen & Overy indicated that it was exploring the possibility of a merger with the firm. The merger talks ended in March 2012.
Allen & Gledhill was reported by Asian Legal Business in 2021 to be the largest law firm in Singapore by headcount and the 44th largest domestic law firm in Asia.
Accolades
Over the years, the firm has received numerous awards, including:
International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia-Pacific Awards 2022 Regional Law Firm of the Year and National Law Firm of the Year (Singapore)
Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards 2022 Singapore Corporate & Finance Domestic Law Advisers award
The Legal 500 Southeast Asia Legal Awards 20/21 Regional Law Firm of the Year
Asian Legal Business SE Asia Law Awards 2021 SE Asia Law Firm of the Year, Singapore Law Firm of the Year, Banking and Financial Services Firm of the Year, Labour and Employment Firm of the Year, Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, Restructuring Law Firm of the Year, Singapore Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year, Tax and Trusts Law Firm of the Year, and Rising Law Firm of the Year (for its Myanmar office)
The firm was ranked as a leading law firm by Chambers & Partners in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022 for
Singapore in the areas of
Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Competition/Antitrust, Construction, Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption, Corporate/M&A, Employment, Intellectual Property, Investment Funds, Projects & Energy, Real Estate, Restructuring/Insolvency, Shipping, Startups & Emerging Companies, Tax and Technology, Media, Telecoms.
Myanmar in the area of
General Business Law
Indonesia in the area of
Corporate & Finance (International Firms)
Notable people
Allen & Gledhill is home to three Senior Counsel. Several Singapore politicians have worked there , including K. Shanmugam, the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law, and Edwin Tong, the Minister for Community, Culture, and Youth. Former Managing Partner, Lee Kim Shin, was appointed Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court in 2013. Former partner, Ang Cheng Hock, made a Judge of the Supreme Court in 2018. Former chairman and senior partner Lucien Wong, who was the only Singapore lawyer to be named as one of Asia’s top 25 M&A lawy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald%20Dragon | is a role-playing video game developed by Glodia that was released for multiple platforms in Japan. It was released for NEC Corporation's PC-8801 and PC-9801 home computers on December 22, 1989, followed by conversions for the X68000 (released on December 6, 1990), MSX2 (released on December 26 of the same year) and FM Towns (released on May 28, 1992). Developer Alfa System later produced console versions of the game for the PC Engine in Super CD-ROM² format (released on January 28, 1994) and the Super Famicom (released on July 28, 1995). The game features characters and locations based on Zoroastrian mythology.
Gameplay
The game utilises a top-down overhead perspective, where players move the controllable character in two dimensions. As players move around in a world map, they may encounter battles, which are turn-based with a time point system: both movements and attacks sap a bar on the top of the screen, and the character's turn ends when the bar is depleted. Experience points, which are used to level up playable characters, are collected for defeating enemies.
Stronger attacks for the main protagonist, Atorushan, are made available through collecting key items called the Emerald Graces. These transform him into a dragon to unleash a powerful attack, at the cost of reducing his HP when used.
Plot
A long time ago, dragons and humans lived in peace in the land of Ishbahn. Lord Tiridates, believing the existence of dragons among humans defiles Ishbahn, places a curse that kills dragons in the area. Some of the dragons (now collectively called the Dragon Tribe) manage to escape and find refuge in Draguria, where a dimensional rift prevents humans from crossing it.
At the start of the game, a ship wrecks on the coast of Draguria. The protagonist, a Dragon Tribe youth named Atorushan seeks the friendship of the sole survivor, a human girl named Tamryn by the White Dragon, leader of the tribe. The girl is nurtured by the dragons of the land, but 12 years later she leaves as she wants to find happiness with those of her own kind. Atorushan breaks off his left horn and gives it to her as a means of summoning him should she need assistance.
Three years after this incident, Atorushan is called by the White Dragon as the aforementioned horn was blown. Granting him a silver scale to keep him from perishing under the curse of Ishbahn, the White Dragon sends him there to tend to Tamryn.
Upon arriving, Atorushan learns that the entirety of Ishbahn is under attack by evil armies controlled by Tiridates. To stop him and remove the land's curse, he needs to find the five Emerald Graces, dragon-based treasures scattered around the land, and resurrect the Emerald Dragon, the greatest of all dragons destined to bring about a miracle.
Reception
Emerald Dragon maintains a score of 3.62/5 from 56 votes on the gamefaqs website as of April 2020. Youtubers who have reviewed the game have given it a positive rating , the youtuber SNES drunk has said of the game " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20center%20network%20architectures | A data center is a pool of resources (computational, storage, network) interconnected using a communication network. A data center network (DCN) holds a pivotal role in a data center, as it interconnects all of the data center resources together. DCNs need to be scalable and efficient to connect tens or even hundreds of thousands of servers to handle the growing demands of cloud computing. Today's data centers are constrained by the interconnection network.
Types of data center network topologies
Data center networks can be divided into multiple separate categories.
Fixed topology
Tree-based
Basic tree
Clos network
VL2
Fat-tree
Al-Fares et al.
Portland
Hedera
Recursive
DCell
BCube
MDCube
FiConn
Flexible topology
Fully optical
OSA (Optical switching architecture)
Hybrid
c-Through
Helios
Types of data center network architectures
Three-tier
The legacy three-tier DCN architecture follows a multi-rooted tree based network topology composed of three layers of network switches, namely access, aggregate, and core layers. The servers in the lowest layers are connected directly to one of the edge layer switches. The aggregate layer switches interconnect together multiple access layer switches. All of the aggregate layer switches are connected to each other by core layer switches. Core layer switches are also responsible for connecting the data center to the Internet. The three-tier is the common network architecture used in data centers. However, three-tier architecture is unable to handle the growing demand of cloud computing. The higher layers of the three-tier DCN are highly oversubscribed. Moreover, scalability is another major issue in three-tier DCN. Major problems faced by the three-tier architecture include, scalability, fault tolerance, energy efficiency, and cross-sectional bandwidth. The three-tier architecture uses enterprise-level network devices at the higher layers of topology that are very expensive and power hungry.
Fat tree
The fat tree DCN architecture reduces the oversubscription and cross section bandwidth problem faced by the legacy three-tier DCN architecture. Fat tree DCN employs commodity network switches based architecture using Clos topology. The network elements in fat tree topology also follows hierarchical organization of network switches in access, aggregate, and core layers. However, the number of network switches is much larger than the three-tier DCN. The architecture is composed of k pods, where each pod contains, (k/2)2 servers, k/2 access layer switches, and k/2 aggregate layer switches in the topology. The core layers contain (k/2)2 core switches where each of the core switches is connected to one aggregate layer switch in each of the pods. The fat tree topology can offer up to 1:1 oversubscription ratio and full bisection bandwidth, depending on each rack's total bandwidth versus the bandwidth available at the tree's highest levels. Higher tree branches are typically oversubscribed to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20magazines%20in%20Albania | Following the collapse of the communist regime in Albania in 1991, the number of magazines increased. It was 71 in 2001 based on the data of the Albanian Media Institute in Tirana. In the following year it was 70. In terms of frequency, the magazines were mostly weekly, bimonthly and quarterly.
The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct magazines published in Albania. They may be published in Albanian or in other languages.
A
AKS
Albania
Albanian Journal of Natural and Technical Sciences
Albanian Observer
Albania Today
Aleph
D
Drita
F
Fiamuri Arbërit
Fjala e Tokësorit
G
Gjuha Jonë
Gazeta e Pavarur
H
Hosteni
Hylli i Dritës
K
Klan
Kritika
Kultura Popullore
L
Les lettres albanaises
M
Mapo
Mehr Licht
Monitor
O
OK! Albania
P
Përpjekja
Përpjekja shqiptare
S
Spekter
Studia Albanica
Studime Filologjike
Studime Historike
See also
List of newspapers in Albania
References
Magazines
Albania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20%28Hungarian%20TV%20channel%29 | Fox was a basic cable television channel broadcasting in Hungary, operated by Fox Networks Group and launched on 4 February 2014.
History
The launch of Fox in Hungary was announced in October 2013 together with Fox Life and Fox Crime. At the time sister channels National Geographic Channel, NatGeo Wild, and Baby TV were available in Hungary, while Fox was available in several other territories including Austria, the UK, the U.S., Italy, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Germany, North Africa, and Latin America, Fox Life and Fox Crime also being available in territories like Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Croatia. Rodrigo Crespo was chosen as the official voice of the channel. The official YouTube channel of the Hungarian Fox was created in December 2013, while its Facebook page and official site were created in January 2014.
The channel was launched on 4 February 2014 exclusively on the digital platforms of Magyar Telekom, ten days before the Hungarian version of Paramount Channel. Its advertising airtime was sold by Atmedia from 1 March 2014.
On February 1, 2018, Fox announced to launch Fox+, a video on demand service for the Hungarian Fox.
Fox Hungary was shut down on 1 May 2018, After the channel showed a Fox+ Commercial, then played an ident, and froze, The channel ceased operations then.
Fox+ was eventually discontinued a few months before the launch of Disney+ in Hungary, with its content migrating towards the streaming service when it launched on June 14, 2022.
Programs
Primetime
Reality show/Documentary
Man Up
Hook It Cook It
Tales from the Bush Larder
Top Tables, Top Cities
The Wine Quest: Spain
World's Best Chefs
References
External links
Television networks in Hungary
Defunct television channels in Hungary
Television channels and stations established in 2014
2014 establishments in Hungary
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
Mass media in Budapest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor%20Control%20Region | Processor Control Region (PCR) is a Windows kernel mode data structure that contains information about the current processor. It can be accessed via the fs segment register on x86 versions, or the gs segment register on x64 versions respectively.
Structure
In Windows, the PCR is known as KPCR. It contains information about the current processor.
Processor Control Block
The PCR contains a substructure called Processor Control Block (KPRCB), which contains information such as CPU step and a pointer to the thread object of the current thread.
See also
Process Environment Block
Process control block
References
http://www.nirsoft.net/kernel_struct/vista/KPCR.html
http://www.nirsoft.net/kernel_struct/vista/KPRCB.html
Windows NT kernel
Data structures by computing platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20Collection | is a Japanese social network game created by Konami that was released on the GREE social networking platform in 2010. A manga adaptation titled Dragon Collection: Ryū o Suberu Mono was serialized from 2011 to 2012 in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine. It was collected in six tankōbon volumes. A trading card arcade game was released in 2013. An anime television series adaptation aired on April 7, 2014, alongside Monster Retsuden Oreca Battle, another Konami video game adaptation. The series ended on March 23, 2015, but a bonus episode showing events after Hiro leaves Dragon Earth aired March 30, 2015.
This show, along with Oreca Battle, lacks an ending theme, a hallmark of anime that premiered on TV Asahi.
Synopsis
A young boy named Hiro wishes to play the eponymous video game with his father. Arriving early to the arcade, he begins a game, finds himself whisked away to the Dragon Collection universe. Trapped within the game's plot, Hiro must become a Dragon Master to escape the game and return home. Hiro embarks on a quest to gather allies, conquer monsters, and prevent a terrible evil from being freed on Dragon Earth.
Opening theme
"Dragon Collection ~Yūki no Tsubasa~" by Nagareda Project
Episodes
References
External links
Official anime website
2010 video games
2013 video games
Japanese children's animated television series
Android (operating system) games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Digital collectible card games
IOS games
Japan-exclusive video games
Kodansha manga
Konami franchises
Konami games
Mobile games
OLM, Inc.
Card games in anime and manga
Shōnen manga
Gacha games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous%2C%20Rich%20and%20Hungry | Famous, Rich and Hungry is a British factual television series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 12 March 2014. The two-part series is part of the Sport Relief 2014 season of programming. It shows Cheryl Fergison, Rachel Johnson, Jamie Laing and Theo Paphitis experiencing food poverty in the United Kingdom. The series has been called the celebrity version of Benefits Street.
Production
The series is produced by Love Productions and the executive producers are Richard McKerrow and Kieran Smith.
References
External links
2014 British television series debuts
2014 British television series endings
Television shows set in the United Kingdom
BBC television documentaries
English-language television shows
Comic Relief |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castilleja%20caudata | Castilleja caudata, common name Port Clarence Indian paintbrush or pale Indian paintbrush, is a plant species native to Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the northeastern part of Asiatic Russia. The first common name refers to Port Clarence, on the north coast of the Bering Sea just south of Nome.
Castilleja caudata is an herb with a short taproot. The plant appears to be a facultative parasite, capable of surviving without draining nutrients from other plants but growing more healthy if it can draw sustenance from other plants. Stems can reach a height of 40 cm (16 inches). Leaves and stems tend to be hairless toward the bottom, finely hairy above, and bristly in the inflorescence. Leaves are narrowly lanceolate, tapering gradually toward the tip. The inflorescence has 5-12 flowers, the flowers greenish-yellow each with a greenish-yellow to cream-colored bract below.
References
Castilleja
Flora of Russia
Flora of Alaska
Flora of Yukon
Flora of the Northwest Territories
Flora of Nunavut
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan%20Regional%20Information%20System%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20American%20Home%20Realty%20Network%2C%20Inc. | , was a United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit case in which a court held two issues:
The copyright owner of a collective work, such as an automated database, was not required by a pre-suit copyright registration requirement to identify names of creators and titles of individual work.
By clicking yes to the term of use and uploading photograph, is sufficient to writing component in assignment of right under
Background
Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. ("MRIS") operates an online multiple listing service which provides property listings and related information to its subscribers, real estate broker and agent. In order to upload their real estate to MRIS database, subscribers have to click "yes" to MRIS Terms of Use Agreement ("TOU") that assigns copyright in each photographs to MRIS.
MRIS registers the database every quarter with the U.S. Copyright Office pursuant to the rules for an automated database. As the basis for each quarterly application, MRIS typically describes the material as "daily updated and revised text and images and new text and images," but does not name or describe individual photos.
American Home Realty Network ("AHRN") operates NeighborCity.com, a national real estate search engine and referral business. The site gets its information, among others, by scraping information from the MRIS Database.
After failure to make a licensing agreement, MRIS field suit against AHRN and its CEO for copyright infringement and sought for a preliminary injunction. The district court granted a preliminary injunction in the use of MRIS's photographs. AHRN appealed based on two reasons:
MRIS failed to register its copyright in the individual photographs;
By clicking "yes" to TOU, subscribers did not transfer their copyright in the photographs to MRIS.
Opinion of Court
On the copyright registration of a collective work
For the first issue, AHRN asserted that MRIS failed to identify names of creators and titles of individual works as required by Therefore, MRIS did not register its interest in the individual photographs. The court stated that allows a groups registration of related works, such as automated database. As articulated in Craigslist v. 3Taps, the court recognized collective work registration as sufficient if the registrant owns the rights to the component work, because "it would be ... [absurd and] inefficient to require the registrant to list each author for an extremely large number of component works to which the registrant has acquired an exclusive license." In addition, it would add impediments to automated database authors' attempts to register their own component works and would conflict with the general purpose of Section 409, which is encouraging prompt registration. Thus thwarting the specific goal embodied in Section 408 of easing the burden on group registrations. Here, MRIS owned each photographs transferred by the subscriber. Therefore, MRIS satisfied the pre-suit registration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuttha%20Medai%20All%20Stars | Yuttha Medai All Stars is a Tamil language reality dance show from Malaysia. This show was aired in Astro Vinmeen HD.
Episodes
References
Astro Vinmeen original programming
Tamil-language television shows in Malaysia
Tamil-language reality television series
2016 Tamil-language television series debuts
Tamil-language television shows
Tamil-language dance television shows
2017 Tamil-language television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%20Factor%20Malaysia | Fear Factor Malaysia is a Malaysian adaptation of the American TV show Fear Factor. The original network to carry this format originally is NTV7 on 27 August 2005. The series was first launched as Fear Factor Malaysia on NTV7 in 2005. However, the channel discontinued the series after 7 years. The series was relaunched as Fear Factor Selebriti Malaysia on 29 December 2012.
Host
The first season of Fear Factor Malaysia was hosted by Shamser Sidhu in 2005. After it was relaunched in 2012, Fear Factor Celebrity Malaysia was hosted by actor Aaron Aziz.
Season 1
The first season was launched in 2005 featuring host Shamser Sidhu. The show was filmed in the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Six contestants was chosen for the first season to compete for the prize of RM10,000.
Contestants
Six contestants were chosen. Note that the ages displayed were taken during the show's taping in 2005.
Elimination chart
Season 2 (Celebrity Edition)
The Fear Factor Malaysia is back for the second time after six years of disappearance. The Fear Factor Selebriti Malaysia was hosted by actor, Aaron Aziz. The Fear Factor Selebriti Malaysia was won by team Dazrin & Hairul.
Format
The name Fear Factor Malaysia was changed to Fear Factor Selebriti Malaysia which features 30 celebrities from different occupation and was later paired into a team of two which later make 15 teams.
Prize
The winner of Fear Factor Selebriti Malaysia will receive a cash prize of RM200,000. An additional RM10,000 will be given each week to the best overall performer of the week.
Location
The second season was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa.
Challenge
The 15 teams will be facing 25 challenges during the whole season. The weakest team will be sent home.
Contestants
The contestants consisted of celebrities. Note that the ages displayed were taken during the show's taping in 2012.
Partners
The contestants were later paired up with their chosen partners.
Elimination Chart
Gold background and WINNER means the partners won Fear Factor Selebriti Malaysia.
Silver background and RUNNER-UP means the partners was the runner-up on Fear Factor Selebriti Malaysia.
Green background and WIN means the partners was the best overall performance and won RM10,000 for that week.
Purple background and WIN means the partners was the winner in the Fear Factor challenge.
Blue background and HIGH means the partners was on the top chart in that week.
Orange background and LOW mean the partners worst challenge but safe.
Dark Yellow background and WDR mean partners withdrew due to injuries.
Pink background and SAFE mean the partners were originally eliminated but was saved.
Red background and ELIM means the partners lost and was eliminated of the competition.
Season 3 (Celebrity Edition S2)
The second season of Fear Factor Selebriti Malaysia is back in 2014. The show was once again hosted by fellow actor, Aaron Aziz.
Format
This season features 32 contestants with 16 celebrities and 16 fans from ar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Coffman | Edward Coffman may refer to:
Edward M. Coffman, military historian
Edward G. Coffman Jr. (born 1934), computer scientist
Edward N. Coffman (1942–2014), American accounting scholar and professor of accounting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20overcommitment | Memory overcommitment is a concept in computing that covers the assignment of more memory to virtual computing devices (or processes) than the physical machine they are hosted, or running on, actually has. This is possible because virtual machines (or processes) do not necessarily use as much memory at any one point as they are assigned, creating a buffer. If four virtual machines each have 1 GB of memory on a physical machine with 4 GB of memory, but those virtual machines are only using 500 MB, it is possible to create additional virtual machines that take advantage of the 500 MB each existing machine is leaving free. Memory swapping is then used to handle spikes in memory usage. The disadvantage of this approach is that memory swap files are slower to read from than 'actual' memory, which can lead to performance drops.
While memory overcommitment is usually talked about in the context of virtualization, it is actually a generalised concept; Windows NT contained overcommitment features, as do most modern generalised operating systems, including the Linux kernel.
See also
Memory ballooning
References
Virtual machines
Hardware virtualization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Springer%20%28mathematician%29 | George Springer (September 3, 1924 – February 18, 2019) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was professor emeritus of computer science at Indiana University Bloomington.
Springer is perhaps best known as the coauthor with Daniel P. Friedman of the widely used textbook Scheme and the Art of Computer Programming. Scheme is one of the two main dialects of LISP. Three of the pioneering books for Scheme are The Scheme Programming Language (1982) by R. Kent Dybvig, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1985) by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman, and Scheme and the Art of Computer Programming (1989) by Springer and Friedman.
Career
Springer earned his bachelor's degree in 1945 from Case Western Reserve University (then named "Case Institute of Technology") and his master's degree in 1946 from Brown University. He earned his PhD in 1949 from Harvard University with thesis The Coefficient Problem for Univalent Mappings of the Exterior of the Unit Circle under Lars Ahlfors.
From 1949 to 1951 Springer was a C.L.E. Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1951 to 1954 he was an assistant professor at Northwestern University. In the academic year 1954/1955 as a Fulbright Lecturer and visiting professor at the University of Münster he worked with Heinrich Behnke. In the autumn of 1955 Springer became an associate professor and subsequently a professor at the University of Kansas. In the academic year 1961/1962 he was a Fulbright Lecturer and visiting professor at the University of Würzburg. From 1964 he was a professor of mathematics and from 1987 also a professor of computer science at Indiana University Bloomington. In the academic year 1971/1972 he was a visiting professor at Imperial College in London.
Springer began his career working in function theory (of one and several complex variables) and wrote a textbook on Riemann surfaces. In the 1980s he turned more toward computer science, working on programming languages.
Personal life and death
Springer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1924, to a family of Jewish immigrants from Poland. He met his wife Annemarie (née Keiner) while at Harvard University. They were married from 1950 until her death in 2011, and had three children. Springer died on February 18, 2019, aged 94.
Works
from Springer's lectures with notes prepared by Günter Scheja, Arnold Oberschelp, and Hans Rüdiger Wiehle: Einführung in die Topologie, Münster, Aschendorff 1955
Introduction to Riemann Surfaces, Addison-Wesley 1957; 2nd edition, Chelsea 1981; 3rd edition, American Mathematical Society, 2001
with Daniel P. Friedman: Scheme and the Art of Programming, MIT Press 1989, 9th printing 1997
References
External links
Homepage, Indiana University Bloomington
1924 births
2019 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American people of Czech-Jewish descent
Brown University alumni
Case Western Reserve Universit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forfiles | forfiles is a computer software utility for Microsoft Windows, which selects files and runs a command on them. File selection criteria include name and last modified date. The command specifier supports some special syntax options. It can be used directly on the command line, or in batch files or other scripts.
The forfiles command was originally provided as an add-on, in the Windows 98, Windows NT and Windows 2000 Resource Kits. It became a standard utility with Windows Vista, as part of the new management features.
Usage
The forfiles command has several command-line switches. If no switches or parameters given, it outputs the name of every file in the current directory.
Switches
Command syntax
The command string is executed as given, except as noted below.
Sequences of the form , where "0x" is literal, and "FF" represents any two-digit hexadecimal number, are replaced with the corresponding single-byte value. This can be used to embed non-printing ASCII characters, or extended ASCII characters.
The sequence is replaced with a literal quotation mark . Using the 0x sequence form described previously, can also be used, which additionally hides the from the command interpreter.
Several variables are provided, to be used in the command as placeholders for the values from each file. Variables are technically not required, but must be used if the command is to vary for each file.
Date syntax
The date switch (/D) selects files based on their last modified date, given a date argument.
The date argument can be given as a literal date, in MM/DD/YYYY format (other date formats are not accepted). Alternatively, the date argument can be given as a number, in which case it is taken to mean an age in days (i.e., the day date days before the present date).
If the date argument begins with a minus (-), only files modified on or before the given date are selected (older file / modified earlier). Otherwise, only files modified on or after the given date are selected (younger files / modified later). An explicit plus (+) may be given, but is the default. Note that both modes select files on the given date. There is no way to select files only on a given date (without also either before or after).
Examples
The following command selects all log files (*.LOG) in the Windows directory 30 days or older, and lists them with their date.
C:\>FORFILES /P C:\Windows /M *.LOG /D -30 /C "CMD /C ECHO @FDATE @FILE"
6/12/2015 "iis7.log"
5/28/2015 "msxml4-KB954430-enu.LOG"
5/28/2015 "msxml4-KB973688-enu.LOG"
5/26/2015 "setuperr.log"
The following command would delete the same files.
C:\>FORFILES /P C:\Windows /M *.LOG /D -30 /C "CMD /C DEL @PATH"
The use of is required in the above examples, as both and are internal to the command processor, rather than external utility programs.
See also
cmd.exe – The program implementing the Windows command-line interpreter
Foreach loop – The FOR and FORFILES commands both implement a for-each loop
find (Un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcazar%3A%20The%20Forgotten%20Fortress | Alcazar: The Forgotten Fortress is a dungeon action-adventure game, similar to Dungeon Master and The Legend of Zelda. It was released in 1985 for the Coleco Adam computer along with a port for the ColecoVision. It was created by Tom Loughry from Activision, graphics by Keri (Janssen) Longaway. The game was also ported to the Commodore 64 later.
Plot
The plot of Alcazar is to get to the main castle "Alcazar", by going through multiple enemy castles, to retrieve the stolen Crown.
Gameplay
The game starts on a world map, which contains 22 castles. The player's main goal is to move the character through the various castles to ultimately arrive at the main castle fortress on the right side of the map. Each castle has multiple rooms, traps and floors. The map and routes change every time a new game is started. The game has four difficulty levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and expert. Various items may also be obtained in the game, such as a pistol used for attacking or a "hook" that can be used to cross gaps. You also have a map in the bottom left corner, that can help prevent you from being lost in the castle dungeons.
There are also many traps or enemies present for the player to either fight or evade. If the player incurs too much damage, they lose a life, and losing all lives ends the game, though extra lives may also be obtained as well. The game has no "continues", and only the "Adam" version of the game supports saving.
The game is one of the earliest adventure games to have a demo mode that shows you a demonstration of game play. Wait at the title screen for 30 seconds and the game will go into this mode.
Reception
Ahoy! praised Alcazars "beautifully written theme song", but stated that its graphics were insufficiently detailed. The magazine concluded that the game was "an enticing blend of mental and physical stimulation ... an electronic passport to hours of entertainment".
Legacy
The game, specifically the MSX port, would later serve as an inspiration for the PlayStation title Resident Evil, with its mechanics of limited ammo per room.
References
1985 video games
Action games
Action-adventure games
Activision games
Adventure games
Apple II games
ColecoVision games
Commodore 64 games
MSX games
Video games developed in the United States
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolk%20v.%20Kodak%20Imaging%20Network%2C%20Inc. | Wolk v. Kodak Imaging Network, Inc., 840 F. Supp. 2d 724 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 3, 2012), was a United States district court case in which the visual artist Sheila Wolk brought suit against Kodak Imaging Network, Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, and Photobucket.com, Inc. for copyright infringement. Users uploaded Wolk's work to Photobucket, a user-generated content provider, which had a revenue sharing agreement with Kodak that permitted users to use Kodak Gallery to commercially print (photofinish) images from Photobucket's site—including unauthorized copies of Wolk's artwork.
The court held that Kodak was not liable for direct copyright infringement because its photofinishing system relied on an automated process, and liability requires volitional conduct beyond "mere ownership of a machine used by others to make illegal copies." The court also held that Photobucket was protected under the safe-harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This case is one of the few to analyze the forms of injunctive relief available to plaintiffs suing online service providers protected from copyright liability by DMCA safe-harbor provisions.
Facts
Prior to filing suit, Wolk sent fifteen takedown notices to Photobucket relating to nine of Wolk's works which Photobucket users had uploaded. Eleven of these notices did not comply with § 512(c)(3) of the DMCA () because they neglected to include the URLs for the infringing posts.
Photobucket promptly removed the infringing content in response to all of Wolk's DMCA-compliant notices and some of her non-compliant notices. However, Wolk also wanted Photobucket to proactively remove future posts containing the material she identified without the need for her to send additional notices.
Photobucket's agreement with Kodak relied on an automated system which transferred images from the Photobucket website to the Kodak Gallery, where "prints and other items incorporating the photographs" would be available for purchase from Kodak. Wolk described ten incidents in which Kodak "allegedly made, sold and shipped products using Wolk's copyrighted images without obtaining Wolk's permission or a valid license."
Court opinion
Preliminary injunction
Wolk moved for a preliminary injunction to prevent Photobucket from infringing her copyrights. To obtain a preliminary injunction, a plaintiff must prove either "a likelihood of success on the merits" or "irreparable harm, that the balance of hardships falls in her favor, or that public policy supports her sought-after relief."
The court held that Wolk's claims were unlikely to succeed on the merits because Photobucket qualified for safe-harbor protections under the DMCA. Specifically, Photobucket qualified for the safe-harbor protections of because (1) Photobucket fell within the statutory definition of "service provider," (2) it implemented a policy to deal with repeat infringers, (3) it did not interfere with "standard technical measures," and (4) under the circu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%2C%20Lazy%20and%20Driving%20Us%20Crazy | Young, Lazy and Driving Us Crazy is an Australian reality television series that premiered on the Seven Network on 20 February 2014. It is based on the British series Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum.
Premise
Ten pampered young adults, who refuse to grow up or leave home and ranging in ages from 18 to 23 must live together in a house and fend for themselves. Each week they must compete in different work challenges, set by their parents, to test various factors of maturity, from teamwork and responsibility to good old fashioned hard work. The parents watch exactly what the kids have been up to and vote out the one who have made the least effort. At the end of the series the one who can cut it in the world of adulthood will take away the prize of a $20,000 trust fund.
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald called the series "the worst show of 2014". The show debuted to disappointing ratings.
References
External links
Official website
Seven Network original programming
2014 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian reality television series
Television series by Matchbox Pictures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20of%20Us%3A%20Left%20Behind | The Last of Us: Left Behind is a 2014 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is a downloadable expansion pack to the 2013 game The Last of Us. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the game switches between two stories: the first, set three weeks before the events of The Last of Us, follows Ellie as she spends time with her best friend Riley in an abandoned mall in Boston; the second takes place between the Fall and Winter chapters of The Last of Us and focuses on Ellie's attempts to scour an abandoned mall in Colorado for medical supplies to heal Joel while dealing with enemies.
The game is played from a third-person perspective; players use firearms, improvised weapons, and stealth to defend against hostile humans and zombie-like creatures infected by a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus. Players can use "Listen Mode" to locate enemies through a heightened sense of hearing and spatial awareness. The game also features a crafting system, allowing players to customize weapons through the upgrades. Left Behind was released worldwide on February 14, 2014 for the PlayStation 3; it was later bundled with The Last of Us Remastered, an updated version of the game released for the PlayStation 4 on July 29, 2014, and then released as a stand-alone expansion pack for both consoles on May 12, 2015. It was included in The Last of Us Part I, a remake of the game released on PlayStation 5 in September 2022 and Windows in March 2023.
The Last of Us: Left Behind was highly anticipated due to the critical acclaim received by The Last of Us. It received generally favorable reviews by critics, with particular praise for its story, characterization, and depiction of female and LGBT characters (including a kiss between Ellie and Riley deemed by critics as a "breakthrough moment" for video games), while some criticism was aimed at a battle sequence late in the game that was considered by some to be "unnatural" and "forced". Like its parent game, it received several awards and nominations. The story of Left Behind was adapted in the seventh episode of the television series The Last of Us in February 2023.
Gameplay
The gameplay of The Last of Us: Left Behind is similar to the basic gameplay of The Last of Us. It is an action-adventure game that uses a third-person perspective. The game involves gunfights, melee combat, and a cover system. Players control Ellie. An added feature in combat is the ability to focus the attention of the Infected towards human enemies, by throwing objects to distract them. This results in a lower number of enemies to encounter, giving players a tactical advantage. Throughout the flashback section, players encounter locations and activities around the mall, such as a carousel, photo booth, video arcade, mask store, and water guns. All of these locations and activities have some level of interactivity, allowing players to use them in different ways; for example, the photo booth allows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist%20Tactics%2C%20Techniques%2C%20and%20Procedures | Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) is an essential concept in terrorism and cyber security studies. The role of TTPs in terrorism analysis is to identify individual patterns of behavior of a particular terrorist activity, or a particular terrorist organisation, and to examine and categorize more general tactics and weapons used by a particular terrorist activity, or a particular terrorist organisation.
Requirement to identify individual terrorism TTPs
The current approach to terrorism analysis involves an examination of individual terrorist, or terrorist organisations use of particular weapons, used in specific ways, and different tactics and strategies being exhibited. Broadly, a wide range of TTPs have been exhibited historically by individual terrorist, or terrorist organisations worldwide.
Key concepts
Evolution of TTPs
All terrorists, or terrorist organisations, worldwide historically have exhibited an evolution in TTPs. This can be as a result of:
changing circumstances;
resource availability; or,
changing ideologies, or 'war-focus'.
In the case of the Taliban, their tactics have consisted primarily of guerrilla-style improvised explosive device (IED) attacks and small-arms ambushes against international and state-level security forces and interests, such as police checkpoints and military supply convoys. However, more recently Taliban TTPs have expanded to include mass casualty attacks by suicide bombers and other suicide attacks in order to undermine the current government.
Kill-chain model
The kill-chain model (KCM) is a conceptual tool used in terrorism analysis and studies. All terrorists' or terrorist organisations' TTPs form part of understanding the terrorist kill chain, which is the pattern of transactional activities, link together in order for a terrorist act to take place. Broadly, this involves describing the 'hierarchy of tasks and sub-tasks that may be involved in the execution', or in making a terrorist act happen. These can include the arrangement and sequence of activities a terrorist or terrorist organisation uses in planning, organizing, mobilizing, training, equipping and staging resources and operatives. These activities make up the terrorist or terrorist organisations' modus operandi or 'attack system'.
Four sets of steps make-up the full KCM:
The first set of activities are the 'attack preparation steps'. In terms of terrorism analysis, individual transactions, such as acquiring finances, acquiring expertise, acquiring materiel, munitions or capability, recruiting members, conducting reconnaissance, mission rehearsal, conducting an attack, have signatures that identify them as terrorist or criminal acts or are consistent with the operations of a specific individual, cell or group.
The second set of activities are called the 'execution timeline'. This identifies the timeline, along which the terrorist, or terrorist organisations various activities, leading up to an attack process flows time-wise.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset%20Recovery%20Interagency%20Network%20Asia%20Pacific | Asset Recovery Interagency Network - Asia Pacific (ARIN-AP) is an informal network of experts and practitioners in the field of asset tracing, freezing and confiscation which intends to serve as a cooperative group in all aspects of tackling the proceeds of crime in the Asia-Pacific region.
ARIN-AP was officially launched at the inaugural meeting held in Seoul between 19–20 November 2013. The meeting brought together 28 law enforcement or prosecutorial agencies from 21 jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific and 6 international organizations. As of 3 March 2021, there were 28 member jurisdictions of ARIN-AP and nine observers. ARIN-AP is modeled on Camden Assets Recovery Interagency Network (CARIN). The Secretariat of ARIN-AP is located in the Supreme Prosecutors' Office of the Republic of Korea.
Organization
ARIN-AP is made up of national contact points designated by member countries in Asia and the Pacific and those contact points are inter-connected through the Secretariat. The Secretariat is located in the South Korean Supreme Prosecutors' Office.
Through promoting informal direct communication among contact points for efficient asset recovery prior to or during formal mutual legal assistance, ARIN-AP establishes itself as a center of information and expertise and promotes the exchange of information and best practices. ARIN-AP works for the mutual benefit of countries in the region as well as for inter-regional cooperation with other regional Asset Recovery Interagency Networks.
Members
As of 3 March 2021, there were 28 member jurisdictions of ARIN-AP, as follows:
Observers
As of 3 March 2021, there were 10 international organizations as observers of ARIN-AP:
ARIN-CARIB
ARINSA
ARIN-WCA
Camden Assets Recovery Interagency Network (CARIN)
Interpol
Korean Institute of Criminology (KIC)
Pacific Transnational Crime Network (PTCN)
Ukraine
UNODC
World Bank
Presidency and AGM
The list of Presidency of ARIN-AP and history of Annual General Meetings:
2014 AGM
Indonesia held the 2014 Presidency and hosted the AGM in Yogyakarta on 25-26 August 2014. The AGM was organized by the Indonesian Attorney General's Office. The theme of the AGM was "Cleaning up Dirty Assets." Representatives from 14 jurisdictions and 5 international organizations attended the Meeting.
2015 AGM
Australia held the 2015 Presidency and hosted the AGM in Sydney on 3-5 November 2015. The AGM was organized by Australian Federal Police Force. It was attended by over 80 delegates from 28 jurisdictions and 4 international organizations.
2016 AGM
The Republic of Korea held the 2016 Presidency and hosted the AGM in Seoul on 26-27 October 2016. The AGM was organized by the Korean Supreme Prosecutors' Office. The theme of the AGM was "Consolidating Knowledge for Asset Recovery". Representatives from 20 jurisdictions and 6 international organizations attended the Meeting.
2017 AGM
Japan held the 2017 Presidency and hosted the AGM in Tokyo on 27-28 September 2017. The Meeting was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Supercomputer%20Centre%20in%20Sweden | The National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden (NSC) is located in Linköping and operates the Triolith supercomputer which achieved 407.2 Teraflops on the LINPACK benchmark which rendered it place 79 on the November 2013 issue of the Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world.
Notes
External links
National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden (NSC)
Supercomputer sites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaborn%20Networks | Seaborn Networks is a developer, owner, and operator of submarine communications cables. Seaborn is the owner and operator of the Seabras-1 "submarine communications cable" between Brazil and the United States. Seabras-1 is fully operational (2017) and provides the first direct route between Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the United States. The system has branching units installed on certain of its fiber pairs that point towards Virginia Beach (US), Miami (US), St. Croix (US), Fortaleza (Brazil), Cape Town (South Africa), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil South. Seaborn's ARBR subsea system (RFS Q2 2020) is a fully funded 4-fiber pair, 48Tbit/s system. ARBR will directly connect São Paulo, Brazil to Buenos Aires, Argentina. ARBR will connect to Seabras-1 in Seaborn's Praia Grande CLS enabling the most direct, lower latency connection between Argentina and the USA. Partners Group (symbol: PGHN) is providing full project equity capital for Seabras-1 and development capital was provided by Seaborn. Seabras-1 is owned jointly by Seaborn Networks and Partners Group. The US$520 million project funding for Seabras-1 has been completed. The project funding also includes a total project debt commitment of up to US$267 million provided by Natixis, Banco Santander, Commerzbank, and Intesa Sanpaolo, which debt is backed by COFACE, the French Export Credit Agency. Seabras-1 is the first direct point-to-point submarine cable system between the financial centers of the US and Brazil.
References
Submarine cables |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaltech%20%28band%29 | Metaltech (met'l tek) are a three piece Scottish metal/techno/rock/industrial dance music band from Edinburgh. They consist of Erik Tricity (Erik Grieve) performing vocals, rhythm guitar, programming and production, Lord Thrapston Flagellator, pronounced fla-jella-tor (Emmett Christie) playing bass guitar and the Insidious Doktor Mayhem (Rory Alsop) providing lead guitar and pyrotechnics.
Their music is an amalgamation of rock/metal guitars, funk/slap bass, synthesizers, techno inspired programmed drums and tongue-in-cheek lyrics.
Metaltech are renowned for their theatrical performances and over the top behaviour, with band members donning masks, Kabuki style make up and eccentric costumes, all themed in neon orange, black and white. Their stage show involves frequent audience interaction with items such as glo-sticks and party poppers being thrown into the crowd, as well as the use of bubble guns, confetti cannons and fireworks.
History: Band formation
Metaltech formed in January 2009 and played their first gig at the Ark in Edinburgh on 1 February 2009. After a few small gigs, the band was then offered a support slot with Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot that resulted in increased recognition. After using their strong image to stand out in a nationwide television advertising campaign for T-Mobile, they landed gigs at Rockness, The Wickerman Festival and Belladrum, three Scottish music festivals.
In 2011, they came second in the running in the Best Metal category at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards, and were nominated and played live at the Scottish New Music Awards. Having released two EPs and working around Scotland including a mini tour with Japanese band Psydoll, the band went on to perform in London at the fetish venue, Club Antichrist. This performance introduced additional performers in the shape of the Kamikaze Girls, who, dressed as latex sex dolls pole danced during the song Sex on the Dancefloor. Metaltech then provided support for Angelspit at The Classic Grand in Glasgow. Later supporting KMFDM, Metaltech were also the opening act at the Infest (festival) in 2013. The beginning of 2014 saw the band tour Scotland with Psydoll for a second time.
Recordings
Metaltech released their first EP, Alkomatic, on 10 July 2010 on Alex Tronic Records. Their second Alex Tronic Records EP, Sex on the Dancefloor, was released on 3 September 2010 and featured remixes by other artists on the Alex Tronic label (Erik Tricity Electro Sex Mix, Vout Congo Helium Mix, Alex Tronic Tantric Trance Mix, and Neu Gestalt Mix).
In August 2010, Bannerman's Bar in Edinburgh released volume 6 of their Under the Bridge compilation album series. Track 6 is Metaltech's "This Kiss"
In September 2011, United Noise Records released Remix Theory digital download 11 track album, with Metaltech's Burn Your Fucking Planet remixed by K-Nitrate (as the K-Nitrate Kyohen Network Remix), and by System:FX as the Ignite Mix)
On 15 August 2011, Metaltech released the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Screen%20TV%20Awards | Golden Screen TV Awards is a yearly awards night that recognizes the outstanding programs and personalities from different TV networks in the Philippines including ABS-CBN, TV5, GMA Network, among others.
It was created in 2004 by the Entertainment Press Society (ENPRESS), a group of entertainment writers from newspapers. Before the awards night (usually held in March), the ENPRESS members are taking reviews and deliberations of the nominees for three months.
List of Awards
Outstanding Educational Program & Program Host
Outstanding Lifestyle Program & Program Host
Outstanding Magazine Program & Program Host^
Outstanding Public Affairs Program & Program Host^
Outstanding Public Service Program & Program Host^
Outstanding Game/Talent Program & Program Host
Outstanding Celebrity Talk Program & Program Host
Outstanding Documentary Program & Program Host^
Outstanding News Program^
Outstanding Male/Female News Presenter^
Outstanding Showbiz Talk Program
Outstanding Male/Female Showbiz Talk Program Host
Outstanding Adapted Reality/Competition Program & Program Host
Outstanding Natural History/Wildlife Program & Program Host
Outstanding Crime/Investigative Program & Program Host
Outstanding News Magazine Program^
Outstanding Comedy Program
Outstanding Gag Program
Outstanding Musical Program
Outstanding Variety Program
Outstanding Male/Female Host in a Musical or Program
Outstanding Adapted Drama Program
Outstanding Original Drama Program
Outstanding Single Drama/Telemovie Program
Outstanding Breakthrough Performance by an Actor/Actress
Outstanding Supporting Actor/Actress in a Gag or Comedy Show
Gawad Dolphy Lifetime Achievement Awards
(^only added in 2011)
Helen Vela Lifetime Achievement Awards
Named after the actress, radio announcer and drama anthology host Helen Vela, the Helen Vela Lifetime Achievement Awards has been honored the distinguished achievements of personalities in Philippine television. It has 3 categories that will be presented this year, Drama, Comedy and News Broadcast.
See also
List of Asian television awards
PMPC Star Awards for Television
References
Philippine television awards
Awards established in 2004
2004 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Coleco%20Adam%20games | The Coleco Adam is a personal computer developed by Coleco from October 1983 to January 1985.
Coleco released the computer as a separate unit and as Expansion Module #3 for its ColecoVision, which would upgrade the console to make it fully compatible with the Adam. Earlier in its lifetime, the Adam suffered major defects leading to as many as 60 percent of the first batch of machines being returned. The negative publicity of the defects, along with a sluggish production rate after a late 1983 approval from the Federal Communications Commission, guaranteed dismal sales, including one missed figure in Christmas 1983 (only about 95,000 units shipped against the expected 500,000), and software developers were hesitant to support the computer. After failing to rectify its marred reputation despite repairing most of the defects, aggressive price cuts, and even a $500 scholarship program, Coleco discontinued the computer more than a year after its launch.
One advantage of the Coleco Adam is that it is inherently fully compatible with all ColecoVision titles through its cartridge slot. This list only contains games that natively support the computer and its features, which were usually released on proprietary Digital Data Pack cassette tapes. For a separate list for ColecoVision, see list of ColecoVision games. Long after its support was dropped, a community of enthusiasts continues to provide hardware and software for the machine, including homebrew games. Therefore, only games that have been noted by a publication are counted for inclusion.
Games
See also
List of ColecoVision games
References
Further reading
Coleco Afam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2064%3A%20Read%20Only%20Memories | 2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk adventure game developed by MidBoss. It was directed by John "JJSignal" James, written by Valerie Amelia Thompson and Philip Jones, and features an original soundtrack by 2 Mello.
It was originally released on computer platforms as Read Only Memories in October 2015, and the title was later updated coinciding with its PlayStation 4 release in January 2017.
The game was heavily inspired by Snatcher, Rise of the Dragon, Gabriel Knight, and other 1980s and 1990s adventure games.
Plot
The game's plot is set during the Christmas season in 2064 in Neo-San Francisco, California. Parallax has created a line of products called "Relationship and Organizational Managers" (ROMs), a line of personal assistant robots that have overtaken smartphones and computers. The player takes on the role of a journalist trying to track down their kidnapped friend and Parallax engineer Hayden Webber. They are aided by Turing, who is Hayden's creation and the world's first sapient machine, a self-modifying robot that can learn and grow emotionally.
In the early morning of December 21, Turing (Melissa Hutchison) breaks into the journalist's apartment and reveals that Hayden has been kidnapped by unknown assailants. The two embark on a search and are assisted by locals TOMCAT (a hacker and associate of Hayden's), Lexi Rivers (a police detective), and Jess Meas (an attorney). Turing and the journalist are assaulted during a search of Hayden's apartment, and end up meeting Doctor Yannick Fairlight (Adam Harrington), who is the disgruntled former CEO of Parallax. After his lead to activist group The Human Revolution turns up empty, TOMCAT performs a search on Parallax's network and uncovers encrypted security camera footage showing Hayden being murdered.
Turing is shaken but declares to dispense justice and uncover who is responsible. The story then splits depending on which lead the player follows. In the Media arc, suspicious tampering with news articles leads to a string of connected murders in journalism. In the Flower arc, more information about Hayden is delivered by Vincent Mensah (Xavier Woods), a Parallax engineer fleeing the country. It is learned that the news tampering was being done by the rogue Baby Blue program, an AI created by Parallax that would feed on every user's personal data through their ROMs and tailor search results for them. Parallax intended to shut down Baby Blue, but it is hiding on the integrated meshnet that all ROMs use, and Vincent reveals that a larger and more sinister AI called Big Blue is about to launch on Christmas Day.
Rather than intervene to solely shut down the AI, Turing, the journalist, and TOMCAT plot to upload Turing's original source code, written by Hayden and adapted by Turing's processes, to the meshnet using the Big Blue program, essentially granting the self-modifying sapience to all ROMs worldwide. During the mission into Parallax's server farm (carried out by the journalist, Turi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptogorgia%20exigua | Leptogorgia exigua is a coral species first described by Addison Emery Verrill in 1870. Verrill initially considered this species a diminutive variant of L. cuspidata, but ultimately decided to consider L. exigua a separate species. It is native to the Pacific Ocean.
References
Gorgoniidae
Cnidarians of the Pacific Ocean
Animals described in 1870
Taxa named by Addison Emery Verrill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Sensor%20Networks | The International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on distributed, wired, and wireless sensor networks. It is published by Inderscience Publishers. The journal was established in 2006.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology, Scopus, Academic OneFile, and the ACM Digital Library.
References
External links
Engineering journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 2006
Quarterly journals
Inderscience Publishers academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Jr.%20%28Russian%20TV%20channel%29 | Nick Jr. () is a children's cable/satellite television channel which launched in November 2011.
History
In November 2011, MTV Networks Europe launched Nick Jr. in Russia and the CIS countries, Before its launch as a full-time channel Nick Jr. had a block on Nickelodeon. The channel broadcast on the pan-European feed of Nick Jr., so no Russian-language text appeared on channel promos, info or bumpers. In April 2023, a Kazakh audio track was added.
References
External links
Russia
Russian animation
Defunct television channels in Russia
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in Russia
Television stations in Georgia (country)
Television stations in Belarus
Television stations in Ukraine
Television channels in Moldova
Television stations in Tajikistan
Television stations in Kyrgyzstan
Television stations in Azerbaijan
Television stations in Turkmenistan
Television stations in Kazakhstan
Television stations in Armenia
Russian-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocify | Velocify, Inc. is a cloud computing company, headquartered in El Segundo, California, that provides cloud-based intelligent sales automation software designed for fast-paced sales environments.
History
Velocify was co-founded in 2004 by Jeff Solomon, Charles Chase and Tony Christopoulos as a company specializing in software as a service (SaaS). The company raised $3.25M in Series A funding in October 2007 with Rustic Canyon Partners as the initial investor.
In May 2011, Velocify named Nick Hedges President & Chief Executive Officer. In 2011 and 2012 Nick Hedges was named one of the “50 Most Influential in Sales Lead Management” by the Sales Lead Management Association. In February 2012, Velocify completed a $15 million Series B fundraising round led by Volition Capital with participation from existing investor Rustic Canyon Partners. In November 2012, Velocify established a partnership with Marketo. The company announced it changed its name to Velocify from Leads360 on June 19, 2013, to reflect the company's vision for the future. In October 2017, Velocify was acquired, for an undisclosed amount, by Ellie Mae, Inc. the leading cloud-based platform for the mortgage finance industry.
In August 2020, Intercontinental Exchange acquired Ellie Mae.
Awards
Ranked 2023 (2013), 1851 (2014), & 2500 (2017) on the Inc. 5000 annual list.
Velocify was ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Ranked in Los Angeles Business Journal's “Best Places to Work” in Southern California in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Stevie Award for Sales Technology Partner of the Year in 2013
Products
Velocify offers two products, a sales automation platform, LeadManager, and an integrated cloud-based dialing platform, Dial-IQ. Dial-IQ was launched in 2013. In August 2014, the company released Velocify for Salesforce, which offers sales automation and dialing within the cloud-based CRM platform. In 2016, Velocify launched LoanEngage, a CRM platform for mortgage marketing and sales.
References
External links
Velocify, Inc.
Cloud applications
Software distribution
Marketing companies of the United States
As a service
Defunct software companies of the United States
Information technology companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torquaratoridae | Torquaratoridae (Latin for "neck plow") is a family of acorn worms (Hemichordata) that lives in deep waters between 350 and 4000 meters (the species Tergivelum baldwinae has been found 4100 meters below the surface). They can grow up to three feet (about one meter) in length and have semitransparent gelatinous bodies, often brightly colored.
Cilia on their underside are used to glide over the ocean floor at about three inches (eight centimeters) per hour, while detritus is sucked into their gut, leaving behind a constant trail of feces. When deciding to move to new feeding locations, they empty their gut and drift over the bottom, aided by an excreted balloon of mucus, before they let themselves down somewhere else.
One species (Coleodesmium karaensis) has been shown to care for the offspring by bearing about a dozen embryos surrounded by a thin membrane in shallow depressions on the surface of the mother's pharyngeal region.
The proboscis skeleton is reduced to a small medial plate in one genus, while it is absent in the remaining species, and the stomochord reduced in adults. Terminstomo arcticus have lost the heart, blood sinus and proboscis skeleton, and has a stomochord that extends from the posterior end of the proboscis through the entire length of the collar. Their large eggs, which measure almost 2 millimetres across, suggest that there is direct development without larvae.
Their genitals are unusual by being located outside the body. On each side of the worm, a flap of the skin runs the entire length of the trunk. Located on the inner surfaces of these flaps, the numerous ovaries and testicles bulge outwards in an epidermal pouch attached to the rest of the body by a slender stalk. The ovaries' eggs are protected by just a single layer of cells. One species, Yoda purpurata, is also the first known hermaphroditic hemichordate. It is assumed that these modifications are an adaptation to life in their deep sea habitats.
Only one known species (Allapasus aurantiacus) is muscular and robust enough to burrow into substrates. The other species have a very reduced body musculature and are too gelatinous and fragile to do so. Instead they live directly on the seafloor. The extra-wide-lipped species shows the most obvious adaptations to the free living lifestyle, and they are found almost exclusively on rocks of deep-sea lava formations. Some Antarctic species have been found to make tubes in sediments that can last for days, resembling some Cambrian species as Spartobranchus tenuis.
At depths between 1500 and 3700m, these animals are often the most numerous, along with echinoderms, molluscs, crustaceans and fish.
Genera
Allapasus Holland, Kuhnz & Osborn, 2012
Coleodesmium Osborn, Gebruk, Rogacheva & Holland, 2013
Tergivelum Holland, Jones, Ellena, Ruhl & Smith, 2009
Torquarator Holland, Clague, Gordon, Gebruk, Pawson & Vecchione, 2005
Yoda Priede, Osborn, Gebruk, Jones, Shale, Rogacheva & Holland, 2012
References
Enteropneusta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis%20operator | In certain computer programming languages, the Elvis operator, often written ?:, is a binary operator that returns its first operand if that operand evaluates to a true value, and otherwise evaluates and returns its second operand. This is identical to a short-circuit or with "last value" semantics. The notation of the Elvis operator was inspired by the ternary conditional operator, ? :, since the Elvis operator expression A ?: B is approximately equivalent to the ternary conditional A ? A : B.
The name "Elvis operator" refers to the fact that when its common notation, ?:, is viewed sideways, it resembles an emoticon of Elvis Presley with his signature hairstyle.
A similar operator is the null coalescing operator, where the boolean truth check is replaced with a check for non-null instead. This is usually written ??, and can be seen in languages like C#.
Alternative syntaxes
In several languages, such as Common Lisp, Clojure, Lua, Object Pascal, Perl, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript, the OR operator (typically || or or) has the same behavior as the above: returning its first operand if it would evaluate to true in a boolean environment, and otherwise evaluating and returning its second operand. When the left-hand side is true, the right-hand side is not even evaluated; it is "short-circuited". This is different than the behavior in other languages such as C/C++, where the result of || will always be a boolean.
Example
Boolean variant
In a language that supports the Elvis operator, something like this:
x = f() ?: g()
will set x equal to the result of f() if that result is a true value, and to the result of g() otherwise.
It is equivalent to this example, using the conditional ternary operator:
x = f() ? f() : g()
except that it does not evaluate the f() twice if it is true.
Object reference variant
This code will result in a reference to an object that is guaranteed to not be null. Function f() returns an object reference instead of a boolean, and may return null:
x = f() ?: "default value"
Languages supporting the Elvis operator
Perl since version v5.10 provides the Logical Defined Or operator: //, equivalent to defined $a ? $a : $b
In GNU C and C++ (that is: in C and C++ with GCC extensions), the second operand of the ternary operator is optional. This has been the case since at least GCC 2.95.3 (March 2001), and seems to be the original elvis operator.
In Apache Groovy, the "Elvis operator" ?: is documented as a distinct operator; this feature was added in Groovy 1.5 (December 2007). Groovy, unlike GNU C and PHP, does not simply allow the second operand of ternary ?: to be omitted; rather, binary ?: must be written as a single operator, with no whitespace in between.
In PHP, it is possible to leave out the middle part of the ternary operator since PHP 5.3. (June 2009).
The Fantom programming language has the ?: binary operator that compares its first operand with null.
In Kotlin, the Elvis operator returns its left-hand sid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Yves%20Oudeyer | Dr. Pierre-Yves Oudeyer is Research Director at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria) and head of the Inria and Ensta-ParisTech FLOWERS team. Before, he has been a permanent researcher in Sony Computer Science Laboratory for 8 years (1999-2007). He studied theoretical computer science at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, and received his Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from the University Paris VI, France. After working on computational models of language evolution, he is now working on developmental and social robotics, focusing on sensorimotor development, language acquisition and lifelong learning in robots. Strongly inspired by infant development, the mechanisms he studies include artificial curiosity, intrinsic motivation, the role of morphology in learning motor control, human-robot interfaces, joint attention and joint intentional understanding, and imitation learning. He has published a book, more than 80 papers in international journals and conferences, holds 8 patents, gave several invited keynote lectures in international conferences, and received several prizes for his work in developmental robotics and on the origins of language. In particular, he is laureate of the ERC Starting Grant EXPLORERS. He is editor of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development, and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, and of the International Journal of Social Robotics. He is also working actively for the diffusion of science towards the general public, through the writing of popular science articles and participation to radio and TV programs as well as science exhibitions.
Oudeyer is inventor or co-inventor of over 15 patents covering 5 different technological issues. He received a number of awards for his thesis and certain publications.
References
External links
http://flowers.inria.fr
1970 births
French roboticists
Artificial intelligence researchers
French computer scientists
French cognitive scientists
Researchers of artificial life
Living people
École Normale Supérieure alumni
21st-century French scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Valley%20Without%20Wind | A Valley Without Wind is an indie and action-adventure video game developed by Arcen Games. The game was released on April 24, 2012 for the operating systems Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on Steam. Players play as a random survivor in an unforgiving world that is shaped by the choices the player makes. The setting of the game is a post-ice-age world in the distant future. On February 18, 2013, a sequel to A Valley Without Wind was released called A Valley Without Wind 2.
Gameplay
A Valley Without Wind is 2-D sidescroller that lets players explore a vast procedurally generated world. Unlike other procedurally generated games the difficulty has a logical progression and there are a checklist and tips to assist the player. The main goal is to defeat the Overlord and save the continent. The player can choose how they want to prepare for the Overlord. They can do missions to gain new spells and roam the environment to find secret missions and stashes of magical crafting loot. The player can customize their character with different enchants and spells to fit their play style. Also the player can rescue people and make them part of the player's settlement, which allows the player to send them on dispatch missions. Once the player saves a continent from the Overlord a new bigger continent appears. The game adapts to how the player plays, such as the monsters and missions upgrading accordingly to the user's proficiencies. Death of a character in this game is permanent, but all of the inventory, enchants, and general progress are saved.
Reception
A Valley Without Wind received mixed reviews. On IGN it received a 5.5 out of 10 and was called "mediocre". Leif Johnson, a reviewer from IGN, states, "The appeal of its randomly generated settings wears off quickly, the procedural level generation voids much sense of having an impact on the world, and the absence of any kind of compelling story or brilliantly designed levels eventually renders exploration a slog". However, Johnson praised the sheer number of spells and customizations the user has. Tom McShea, a reviewer at GameSpot, had similar complaints about the map design. He called the map design confusing and poorly designed, which made it easy to get lost.
References
External links
Official soundtrack at Bandcamp
Indie games
2012 video games
Action-adventure games
Linux games
MacOS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games using procedural generation
Windows games
Post-apocalyptic video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive%20lambda%20calculus | Deductive lambda calculus considers what happens when lambda terms are regarded as mathematical expressions. One interpretation of the untyped lambda calculus is as a programming language where evaluation proceeds by performing reductions on an expression until it is in normal form. In this interpretation, if the expression never reduces to normal form then the program never terminates, and the value is undefined. Considered as a mathematical deductive system, each reduction would not alter the value of the expression. The expression would equal the reduction of the expression.
History
Alonzo Church invented the lambda calculus in the 1930s, originally to provide a new and simpler basis for mathematics. However soon after inventing it major logic problems were identified with the definition of the lambda abstraction: The Kleene–Rosser paradox is an implementation of Richard's paradox in the lambda calculus. Haskell Curry found that the key step in this paradox could be used to implement the simpler Curry's paradox. The existence of these paradoxes meant that the lambda calculus could not be both consistent and complete as a deductive system.
Haskell Curry studied of illative (deductive) combinatory logic in 1941. Combinatory logic is closely related to lambda calculus, and the same paradoxes exist in each.
Later the lambda calculus was resurrected as a definition of a programming language.
Introduction
Lambda calculus is the model and inspiration for the development of functional programming languages. These languages implement the lambda abstraction, and use it in conjunction with application of functions, and types.
The use of lambda abstractions, which are then embedded into other mathematical systems, and used as a deductive system, leads to a number of problems, such as Curry's paradox. The problems are related to the definition of the lambda abstraction and the definition and use of functions as the basic type in lambda calculus. This article describes these problems and how they arise.
This is not a criticism of pure lambda calculus, and lambda calculus as a pure system is not the primary topic here. The problems arise with the interaction of lambda calculus with other mathematical systems. Being aware of the problems allows them to be avoided in some cases.
Terminology
For this discussion, the lambda abstraction is added as an extra operator in mathematics. The usual domains, such as Boolean and real will be available. Mathematical equality will be applied to these domains. The purpose is to see what problems arise from this definition.
Function application will be represented using the lambda calculus syntax. So multiplication will be represented by a dot. Also, for some examples, the let expression will be used.
The following table summarizes;
Interpretation of lambda calculus as mathematics
In the mathematical interpretation, lambda terms represent values. Eta and beta reductions are deductive steps that do no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred%20Wonders%20of%20Britain | Sacred Wonders of Britain is a British television documentary series that was first broadcast on BBC Two on 30 December 2013. The three-part series was presented by Neil Oliver. Computer-generated imagery was produced by Carbon Digital at MediaCityUK for the series, including the title sequence.
Episode list
Reception
Ratings
According to overnight figures, the first episode had 2.36 million viewers with 9.79% of the audience share. The second and third episodes had audience shares of 7.3%.
Critical reception
Lucy Mangan of The Guardian said the programme was "equally unafraid to be informative and meditative, which made it rather wonderful". The Daily Mirror called it a "towering spectacle of non-information" and was unconvinced by the series.
References
External links
2013 British television series debuts
2014 British television series endings
Television shows set in the United Kingdom
BBC high definition shows
BBC television documentaries
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligrated | Intelligrated, Inc. (a portmanteau of intelligent and integrated) was a material handling automation and software engineering company based in Mason, Ohio. In 2016, it was acquired by Honeywell, who made it a subsidiary and renamed it to Honeywell Intelligrated. 2017, Honeywell Intelligrated reported revenue of $1 billion. Honeywell Intelligrated has production and service locations in the United States, Canada, India, Mexico, Brazil, and China.
History
Intelligrated was founded in 2001 by Chris Cole and Jim McCarthy, and has its headquarters in Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.
In 2002, Intelligrated acquired the Versa Conveyor product line from Conveyors Ltd. Later that same year, the company opened a new manufacturing facility in London, Ohio. By the end of 2008, Intelligrated employed more than 500 associates, with field operations throughout the U.S.
In 2009, after purchasing the North and South American operations of FKI Logistex, Intelligrated grew to more than 1,500 associates and expanded its product line to include Alvey palletizers, Real Time Solutions order fulfillment systems, as well as tilt-tray and cross-belt sorters.
Following the FKI Logistex acquisition, Intelligrated continued its international growth by expanding its operations in both Canada and Mexico. In 2012, Intelligrated began operations in São Paulo, Brazil.
In August 2012, Intelligrated was acquired by Permira.
In late 2012, Intelligrated completed the acquisition of supply chain software company Knighted and followed that with the March 2013 purchase of Datria Systems, Inc., a provider of voice-enabled solutions for distribution and logistics organizations. The company acquired United Sortation Solutions, Inc. in February 2016, adding vertical conveyor, tote stacking and de-stacking, and other sortation solutions to the growing Intelligrated portfolio.
In August 2016, Honeywell completed its acquisition of Intelligrated in a transaction valued at $1.5 billion, with the company joining Honeywell's Safety and Productivity Solutions business group. To support the integrated path forward as part of Honeywell, Intelligrated was rebranded as Honeywell Intelligrated — capitalizing on the global reach and brand recognition of Honeywell, while leveraging the legacy and reputation of Intelligrated.
Industries served
Honeywell Intelligrated provides solutions for retail, wholesale, e-commerce, food, beverage, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical and medical supply, third-party logistics, and postal and parcel industries.
Honeywell Intelligrated designs, builds and installs automated material handling solutions including case and pallet conveyors, IntelliSort sortation systems, Alvey palletizers, robotic systems, order fulfillment systems and advanced machine controls. Honeywell Intelligrated Software offers warehouse execution systems, labor management software, voice and light order fulfillment technologies, and mobility and wireless solutions. The company's Lif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit%20Acceptance | Credit Acceptance Corporation is an auto finance company providing automobile loans and other related financial products. The company operates its financial program through a national network of dealer-partners, the automobile dealers participating in the programs. The company operates two programs: the "Portfolio Program" and the "Purchase Program". Through these programs, the company can advance money to automobile dealers in exchange for the right to service the underlying consumer loans and can buy the consumer loans from automobile dealers. Credit Acceptance reported annual revenue of $1.49B for 2019.
History
In 1972, Credit Acceptance Corporation was founded by Donald Foss, one of the largest used car dealers in the world at that time.
In 1992, Credit Acceptance Corporation completed its initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange, where it trades under the symbol "CACC."
Criticism
On December 12, 2019 NPR aired a segment of Morning Edition called "The Big Business Of Subprime Auto Loans", by Anjali Kamat, which described "the murky world of subprime auto finance," and called it "eerily similar to the subprime mortgage lending that touched off the last financial crisis." Aaron Greenspan, a short-seller and transparency expert who published a detailed report about the company, said: "It's a very strange set of circumstances where, like, high finance has been married with this kind of seedy underbelly of the auto industry."
Credit Acceptance has been investigated by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission for questionable practices related to subprime lending. Credit Acceptance repossesses 35 percent of the cars it finances.
The company has also been criticized for its opaque accounting. According to an article by Aaron Back for the Wall Street Journal, "The problem is that the company’s unique accounting practices make it difficult to see how its loans are really doing. Credit Acceptance uses a form of 'level yield accounting' that is normally applied to purchases of already impaired loans. This means Credit Acceptance doesn’t disclose what portion of loans are delinquent or have defaulted."
References
External links
Financial services companies of the United States
Companies based in Southfield, Michigan
Financial services companies established in 1972
1972 establishments in Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20road%20traffic%20accidents%20deaths%20in%20the%20Republic%20of%20Ireland%20by%20year | Official road traffic accident statistics in the Republic of Ireland are compiled by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) using data supplied by the Garda Síochána (police). While related data is collected by other organisations, including the National Roads Authority, local authorities, and the Health Service Executive, these are not factored into RSA statistics.
Footnotes
References
Sources
Citations
Road traffic accidents by year
Ireland, Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CxProcess | CxProcess is the trademark of an image processing technology used in Minolta and Konica Minolta digital cameras.
Image processing in a camera converts the raw image data from a CCD image sensor into the format that is stored on the memory card. This processing is one of the bottlenecks in the speed of digital cameras.
Between 2001 and 2006, CxProcess was used in various Minolta and Konica Minolta digital compact cameras, bridge cameras and DSLRs. In order to distinguish the image processing algorithms from the image processor, the image processor was named SUPHEED (for superior image and speed) since 2003. It can be seen as the predecessor of Sony's Bionz image processor since their taking-over of Konica Minolta's camera business in 2006.
CxProcess was originally introduced with the Minolta Dimage 5 in 2001. SUPHEED was introduced with the Minolta Dimage A1 in 2003, which was also the first to implement CxProcess II.
Cameras such as the Minolta Dimage 7 series (Dimage 7, 7i, 7Hi), A1 and Konica Minolta Dimage A2 were using a MegaChips (MCL) DSC-2 MA07163 series of 32-bit RISC processors with MIPS R3000 core.
The cameras were running under Integrated Systems' (ISI) operating system pSOSystem/MIPS (pSOS+/MIPS V2.5.4, pREPC+/MIPS V2.5.2, pHILE+/MIPS FA V4.0.2, pNA+/MIPS V4.0.5).
The CxProcess III was implemented in the Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D (2004) and 5D (2005) utilizing SUPHEED II, a MegaChips DSC-3H MA07168 running under MiSPO's NORTi/MIPS, an RTOS following the µITRON standard.
While no longer named CxProcess III on SUPHEED II, this was also implemented in the Sony Alpha 100 (2006), utilizing a MegaChips MA07169.
Sony introduced their Bionz image processor in 2007 that was originally based on this same technology.
See also
Expeed – Nikon
DIGIC – Canon
References
Minolta
Konica Minolta
Camera firmware
Image processors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mem%20%28computing%29 | In computational complexity theory, computing efficiency, combinatorial optimization, supercomputing, computational cost (algorithmic efficiency) and other computational metrics, the mem is a measurement unit for the number of memory accesses used or needed by a process, function, instruction set, algorithm or data structure.
Example usage, when discussing processing time of a search tree node, for finding 10 × 10 Latin squares: "A typical node of the search tree probably requires about 75 mems (memory accesses) for processing, to check validity. Therefore the total running time on a modern computer would be roughly the time needed to perform mems." (Donald Knuth, 2011, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A, p. 6).
Reducing mems as a speed and efficiency enhancement is not a linear benefit, as it trades off increases in ordinary operations costs.
PFOR compression
This optimization technique also is called PForDelta
Although lossless compression methods like Rice, Golomb and PFOR are most often associated with signal processing codecs, the ability to optimize binary integers also adds relevance in reducing MEMS tradeoffs vs. operations. (See Golomb coding for details).
See also
CAS latency
Clock signal
Clock rate
Computer performance
Instructions per second
Memoization
References
Breaking the Wall of the Quantum Computing Hype - MemComputing, Inc.
Analysis of algorithms
Computer performance
Software optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Hahn | Alan William Hahn (born June 19, 1971) is a sports talk radio host on ESPN Radio and a studio analyst on the MSG Network.
Early life and education
Hahn earned a basketball scholarship at LIU Post under NCAA Division II coach Tom Galeazzi. At LIU Post, Hahn wrote for the school newspaper The Pioneer, where he met current Newsday sportswriter Tom Rock. Hahn earned a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism at LIU Post.
Sportswriting career
Hahn started his journalism career at Newsday in 1995 as a part-time sports department clerk. He went from answering phones to covering high school games over the next year. In 1999, Hahn was promoted to full-time and was assigned to the New York Islanders beat. He earned the paper's prestigious "Publisher's Award" in 2000 for Sports Writing. He covered the Islanders until 2006, when he was moved to the New York Knicks beat. He developed a following for his coverage of the Knicks and for his blog, The Knicks Fix.
In 15 years at Newsday, Hahn covered every professional team in the Metropolitan New York area, including two Stanley Cup runs by the New Jersey Devils hockey team and two seasons as the backup writer for the New York Jets football team.
Broadcasting career
Hahn appeared as a regular guest on Knicks Night Live on the MSG Network in the summer of 2010 and was used as an occasional analyst on Knicks game broadcasts on MSG Network during the 2010-11 season. Following the 2011 NBA lockout, Hahn left Newsday and was hired by MSG Network to serve as studio analyst on all Knicks home and away games, where he works with fellow Long Islander, and former NBA All-Star, Wally Szczerbiak.
In 2012, Hahn was named host of The Mike Woodson Show, which airs weekly during the season on the MSG Network. Hahn also hosts a pregame segment, The Knicks Fix, which appears before every home game broadcast.
Also that year, Hahn started appearing as a regular fill-in host on ESPN Radio in New York. In 2014, he teamed up with former New York Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro to form the "Hahn & Humpty Show", which began weeknights. The popular show was quickly moved up into a mid-day time slot and added former Super Bowl champion Chris Canty to form "Hahn, Humpty & Canty." The show was simulcast on MSG Network in the summer of 2016 and 2017. In August 2017, Hahn left the show to host his own daily show, "The Alan Hahn Show" which aired evenings on ESPN.
In January 2020, Hahn moved back to the mid-day schedule to team up with former NFL linebacker Bart Scott for the "Bart & Hahn Show" which airs weekdays from 12-3 p.m. on ESPN Radio. The show was moved to ESPN Radio's national format on Jan. 5, 2021. Hahn frequently fills in as host of "Keyshawn, JWill, and Max".
Other sports media
Hahn has written five sports books over his career, including 100 Things Knicks Fans Must Know and Do Before They Die (Triumph, 2012), The New York Knicks: An Illustrated History (MVP Books, 2012), Bruin Redemption: The Stanley Cup Returns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVP%20ABC | TVP ABC is a Polish free-to-air television channel offered by Telewizja Polska. The programming is aimed at children aged 4–12, their parents, and their teachers.
Programs
Bolek and Lolek
Kuba and Sruba
Margo the Mouse
Reksio
Imported programs
Postman Pat (Season 3-5)
Pat and Mat
References
External links
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2013
Children's television networks
TVP television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius%20XM%20Hits%201 | Sirius XM Hits 1 is a Top 40 radio station on Sirius XM Radio channel 2 and Dish Network channels 6002 and 099-02 (099-02 is only for Hopper users). Like most Sirius XM stations, it plays no commercials. The channel was formerly known as US-1 until 2004. The name is a take-off of VH1, whose name was originally an abbreviation of "Video Hits 1". Vh1 Satellite Radio once existed on XM but the channel was discontinued prior to the merger.
Following the merger, SiriusXM Hits 1 programming simulcasted on XM 20 On 20 from 9p.m. to noon Eastern for 2 years, where it was announced as Sirius XM Hits 1 On 20 on 20.
On May 4, 2011, at 12:01am EST, Hits 1 moved to channel 2 for Sirius radios, XM radios, and on SiriusXM Online. On Dish Network, SiriusXM Hits 1 is carried on channels 6002 and 099-02.
The Weekend Countdown
Every week, Hits 1 counts down their top 45 songs, usually ranked by airplay. Songs can stay on the Countdown anywhere from one week to over twenty weeks. However, in May 2020, The Weekend Countdown switched to 30 songs.
Year End Countdown
Most years, Hits 1 counts down their year end countdown, usually ranked by spins throughout the year. The countdowns usually have the same amount of songs as the weekend countdowns, but at times can be different. In 2012, Hits 1 only ranked the 14 songs that hit #1 that year. In 2010, and throughout 2013 to 2019, the year end was 45 songs to match the weekend countdown. From 2020 to 2022, the countdown was 30 songs, just like the weekend countdown. There are instances where Hits 1 doesn't even do a year end countdown, such as in 2011.
Year End Number Ones
HitBound
HitBound is a weekly program airing on Saturday at 9am and Sunday at noon highlighting new music on SiriusXM Hits 1. HitBound is primarily hosted by Mikey Piff but will occasionally feature guest hosts (usually artists with music featured on the show).
Songs that debut on SiriusXM Hits 1 primarily start airing on HitBound before "graduating" to The Weekend Countdown.
On occasion, popular celebrities or artists will guest host The Weekend Countdown and HitBound (promoted as a "Weekend Takeover"). Notable HitBound guest hosts include Timeflies, Jason Derulo and Britney Spears (as a "Weekend Takeover").
List of 2014 HitBound guest hosts
List of 2013 HitBound guest hosts
Core artists
Ed Sheeran
Justin Timberlake
Lady Gaga
Katy Perry
Taylor Swift
Maroon 5
Bruno Mars
P!nk
Harry Styles
Dua Lipa
Lizzo
Jonas Brothers
The Weeknd
Olivia Rodrigo
Lil Nas X
Imagine Dragons
Halsey
Justin Bieber
Ariana Grande
Doja Cat
Sam Smith
Miley Cyrus
See also
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
References
External links
Hit-Bound Songs list
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
XM Satellite Radio channels
Sirius XM Radio channels
Radio stations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20annotation | Temporal annotation is the study of how to automatically add semantic information regarding time to natural language documents. It plays a role in natural language processing and computational linguistics.
About
Temporal annotation involves the application of a semantic annotation to a document. Significant temporal annotation standards include TimeML, ISO-TimeML and TIDES. These standards typically include annotations for some or all of temporal expressions (or timexes), events, temporal relations, temporal signals, and temporal relation types.
In natural language texts, events may be associated with times; e.g., they may start or end at a given at a time. Events are also associated with other events, like occurring before or after them. We call these relations temporal relations. Temporal relation typing classifies the relation between two arguments, and is an important and difficult sub-task of figuring out all the temporal information in a document. Allen's interval algebra is one scheme for types of temporal relations. Rule-engineering and machine learning approaches to temporal annotation have both been successful, though achieving high performance in temporal relation typing remains a difficult task.
Applications
Successful temporal annotation enables systems to find out when facts asserted in texts are true, to build timelines, to extract plans, and to discover mentions of change. This has had applications in many domains, such as information extraction, digital history, processing social media, and clinical text mining.
Evaluation
The TempEval task series sets a shared temporal annotation task, and has run at SemEval three times, attracting system entries from around the world. The task originally centred on determining the types of temporal relations only. In TempEval-2 and -3, this expanded to include event and timex annotation. In addition, the i2b2 clinical evaluation shared task was a temporal annotation exercise in 2012, which attracted a great deal of interest.
See also
Computational semantics
Natural language processing
SemEval
TimeML
Further reading
Boguraev, B. and Ando, R.K. (2005), TimeML-Compliant Text Analysis for Temporal Reasoning. Proceedings of IJCAI.
Derczynski, L. (2013), Determining the Types of Temporal Relations in Discourse, PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
Pustejovsky et al. (2003), The TimeBank Corpus, Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference.
Pustejovsky et al. (2005), The specification language TimeML, in 'The Language of Time'. .
UzZaman, N. and Allen, J. (2010), Event and Temporal Expression extraction from raw text: first step towards a temporally aware system, International Journal of Semantic Computing 4(4).
References
External links
TimeML.org
THYME project
Pheme project
Computational linguistics
Natural language processing
Semantics
Lexical semantics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel-O-Zone | Nickel-O-Zone was a one-hour programming block on the American cable television network Nickelodeon, geared toward older (preteen to teen) audiences, that ran from August 31, 1998 – 2000. It was aired on Sunday-Friday 8p and ended at 9p. ET.
Nickel-O-Zone line-ups
The following in the section below are the shows aired during Nickel-O-Zone for the year listed. Although these are the standard shows aired, some days would see variation in the Nickel-O-Zone line-up.
Programming
This is a list of all programming on Nickel-O-Zone and their time slots that were aired around August 31, 1998 - 2000.
1998-1999
Sundays
8 p.m. The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
8:30 p.m. Nick News
Mondays
8 p.m. Hey Arnold!
8:30 p.m. The Journey of Allen Strange
Tuesdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. Cousin Skeeter
Wednesdays
8 p.m. Hey Arnold!
8:30 p.m. The Journey of Allen Strange
Thursdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. Cousin Skeeter
Fridays
8 p.m. KaBlam!
8:30 p.m. Animorphs
Early to Spring 1999
Sundays
8 p.m. Animorphs
8:30 p.m. Nick News
Mondays
8 p.m. Hey Arnold!
8:30 p.m. CatDog
Tuesdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. CatDog
Wednesdays
8 p.m. Hey Arnold!
8:30 p.m. CatDog
Thursdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. CatDog
Fridays
8 p.m. KaBlam!
8:30 p.m. CatDog
Spring to Summer 1999
Sundays
8 p.m. Animorphs
8:30 p.m. Nick News
Mondays
8 p.m. Hey Arnold!
8:30 p.m. Hey Arnold!
Tuesdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
Wednesdays
8 p.m. Hey Arnold!
8:30 p.m. Hey Arnold!
Thursdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
Fridays
8 p.m. Cousin Skeeter
8:30 p.m. Cousin Skeeter
Summer 1999
Sundays
8 p.m. Animorphs
8:30 p.m. Nick News
Mondays
8 p.m. Hey Arnold!
8:30 p.m. CatDog
Tuesdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. Cousin Skeeter
Wednesdays
8 p.m. Hey Arnold!
8:30 p.m. The Journey of Allen Strange
Thursdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. Cousin Skeeter
Fridays
8 p.m. KaBlam!
8:30 p.m. Oh Yeah! Cartoons
Summer to Fall 1999
Sundays
8 p.m. Animorphs
8:30 p.m. Nick News
Mondays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. Rocket Power
Tuesdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. Cousin Skeeter
Wednesdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. Rocket Power
Thursdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys
8:30 p.m. Cousin Skeeter
Fridays
8 p.m. SpongeBob SquarePants
8:30 p.m. CatDog
Smell-O-Vision
Mondays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys: Show Me the Bunny
8:30 p.m. Rocket Power: D" is for Dad / Banned on the Run
Tuesdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys: Reef Grief
8:30 p.m. Cousin Skeeter: N/A
Wednesdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys: Thornberry Island
8:30 p.m. Rocket Power: Super McVarial 900 / Loss of Squid
Thursdays
8 p.m. The Wild Thornberrys: Clash of the Teutons
8:30 p.m. Cousin Skeeter: Unchained
Fridays
8 p.m. SpongeBob SquarePants: Sandy's Rocket / Squeaky Boots (Premiere)
8:30 p.m. CatDog : Send In The CatDog / Fishing for Trouble / Fetch
N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol%20Dependence%20Data%20Questionnaire | The Alcohol Dependence Data Questionnaire (SADD) is a treatment evaluation instrument is used to measure an individual's current level of alcohol dependence. The evaluation was created by Raistrick D. S., Dunbar G., and Davidson R. J. in 1983. The evaluation is aimed at adults who have a mild to moderate dependence on alcohol and are seeking help.
The SADD was designed to be quick, with it being a 15 item questionnaire that may be self administered or administered through a structured interview. The items on the evaluation ask about the drinking habits of the patient as well as the physical and mental effects of their drinking. Each item is scored on a scale of 0 to 3, giving the evaluation a range of 0 to 45. A score of 1-9 is indicative of a low dependence on alcohol, a score of 10-19 is indicative of a moderate dependence on alcohol, and a score of 20 or greater is indicative of a high dependence on alcohol.
References
Alcohol abuse screening and assessment tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae%20Robu | Nicolae Robu (born May 28, 1955) is a Romanian politician, engineer, computer science professor.
He was mayor of Timișoara from 2012 until 2020 and the former president of PNL Timiș. He served as rector of the Politehnica University of Timișoara from 2004 to 2012 and prorector from 1990 to 2000 and sat in the Senate for Timiș County from 2008 to 2012. He is a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL).
Born in Bocsig, Arad County, he attended the Politehnica University of Timișoara from 1975 to 1980, earning a doctorate from the same institution in 1995, in the field of automatic control systems. He worked as an engineer in Timișoara from 1980 to 1985 before becoming a scientific researcher with the Institute for Automatic Research in the city. In 1986, he began teaching at his alma mater, becoming a university professor in 1997. He was assistant rector of the university from 1990 to 2004, serving as rector from 2004 to 2012.
In 2008, he was elected to the Romanian Senate for Timiș County; he sat on the education committee. He resigned his seat in June 2012. That month, at the local election, he won the race to be mayor of Timișoara while running on the lists of the Social Liberal Union. He took 49.8% of the vote, with his nearest rival winning 23.4%. Within his party, he has headed the president of the Timiș County chapter since 2009, and has sat on the central political bureau since 2011.
Robu is married and has two children, Andreea Robu and Raul Robu.
Notes
Living people
1955 births
People from Arad County
Politehnica University of Timișoara alumni
Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Timișoara
Rectors of Politehnica University of Timișoara
Romanian engineers
National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians
Members of the Senate of Romania
Mayors of Timișoara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-channel%20architecture | In computer networking, single-channel architecture (SCA) is the design of a wireless network in such a way that the wireless client sees a single point of access to the network. This design utilizes a centralized controller to decide which access point (AP) will be used to communicate with a client device. This method allows the network to maintain a higher level of control over the communication medium than does multiple-channel architecture, which allows client devices to determine which APs to communicate with.
Principles
Single-channel architecture is based on a principle of "virtual cells". All APs joined to a virtual cell use the same wireless channel and identify themselves with the same basic service set identifier (BSSID, i.e. a MAC address). The APs in a cell are managed by a centralized Wireless LAN controller (WLC) that coordinates the APs such that APs/transmissions do not interfere with one another. From a client's point of view, a virtual cell appears as a single AP.
Multiple virtual cells can co-exist, with each virtual cell having its own BSSID and channel. This topology effectively simulates a multiple-channel architecture and can be used to reduce channel congestion in environments with high AP density and overlapping signal range. For example, in a classroom with two cells, clients can be directed to associate with one or the other cell, leaving more bandwidth available to the clients on each channel.
Benefits
The biggest advantage of a single-channel architecture is that there is a zero handoff time for roaming clients. In multiple-channel architecture, as a client device travels around the physical location of the network, it will change which AP it is associated with. Since each AP in a multiple-channel architecture has its own BSSID, a client needs to re-authenticate itself every time it associates with a new AP. In comparison, in a single-channel architecture, since the client only sees one AP, it is up to the central controller to decide when to communicate with the client using a different AP. This means that the handoff can occur behind the scenes and is completely invisible to the client. With a zero handoff time, there is no interruption to the client, which is ideal when a client is utilizing voice or video applications and does not have bandwidth in reserve to deal with the re-authentication process.
When implemented properly, single-channel architecture eliminates most, if not all, shared-channel interference by carefully regulating which APs are transmitting and preventing APs which would interfere with each other from transmitting at the same time. By knowing the transmit power of each radio, the central controller can make a good estimation of which APs would and would not interfere with each other, and regulate them when a possible interference scenario occurs.
Another potential advantage of single-channel architecture is the reduced planning required. Since every AP will use the same channel, there is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-channel%20architecture | In computer networking, multiple-channel architecture (MCA) is the design of a wireless network in such a way that the client sees multiple points of access to the wireless network. MCA allows wireless clients to choose which access points (APs) to communicate with for access to the network, in contrast to single-channel architecture, which gives more control to the centralized network devices such as the wireless LAN controller.
MCA is the most commonly used network architecture, as it is the most intuitive way to solve the problem of co-channel interference (although it does not eliminate the problem).
See also
Single-channel architecture (SCA)
References
Wireless networking standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Clarence%20episodes | Clarence is an American animated television series created by Skyler Page for Cartoon Network. Page, a former Cartoon Network storyboard artist for the series Adventure Time and storyboard revisionist for Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, developed the series at Cartoon Network Studios in 2012 as part of their animated short development initiative. The series revolves around a young boy named Clarence, who is optimistic about everything. The network initially commissioned twelve 15-minute episodes, and aired the pilot following the 2014 Hall of Game Awards show on February 17, 2014.
On July 25, 2014, Cartoon Network announced they had ordered 26 more episodes of Clarence, bringing the first season to a total of 51 episodes.
In July 2015, the series was picked up for a second season by Cartoon Network which premiered on January 18, 2016 and ended on February 3, 2017.
The third and final season premiered on February 10, 2017 and ended on June 24, 2018.
During the course of the series, 130 episodes of Clarence aired over three seasons.
Series overview
Episodes
Pilot (2013)
Season 1 (2014–15)
Season 2 (2016–17)
Season 3 (2017–18)
Shorts
Notes
References
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes
you
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
2010s-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixels | Mixels is an American animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network and was co-produced by The Lego Group and Cartoon Network Studios. The series first aired on February 12, 2014, with a new episode of Teen Titans Go!. The series revolves around the Mixels, small creatures that can mix and combine with one another. The Mixels are opposed by the evil Nixels, small, discolored and evil creatures led by King Nixel.
Although previous Lego series, such as Lego Ninjago and Lego Legends of Chima, use CGI animation, Mixels made use of Toon Boom Harmony software, animated at Atomic Cartoons, Inc., before later being animated traditionally at Digital eMation, Inc., Big Star Entertainment, Inc., and Saerom Animation, Inc. A mobile app was released for the series on March 4, 2014, named Calling All Mixels, and even earlier two websites, one on the LEGO website and another owned by Cartoon Network, were launched where fans can learn about the Mixels. Nine series of collectible Lego building toys were also released, based on the characters. On February 19, 2014, the series had begun airing as an interstitial program on Boomerang, and still currently airs as such.
The TV series wrapped up production in July 2016, and the series finale aired on October 1, 2016, marking the end of the franchise, with bar references in Uncle Grandpa and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.
Premise
Mixels consists of 24 tribes who each have a different color scheme and inhabit a fantasy landscape. These creatures can Mix (a two-Mixel combination), Max (a three-Mixel combination and the tribe's own one), and Murp (a failed Mix) in all kinds of situations, using items called cubits, which inhabit the Mixels.
Characters
Mixels
Mixels consists of many different, fun-loving tribes who each have a different color scheme. It is noted that American voice actors play Gox (Chris Cox), Camillot (Jeff Bennett), Jinky (Jeff Bennett), Mixadel (Richard Steven Horvitz), and King Mixelot (Dave Fennoy), who are all British-accented characters.
Series 1
Infernites
Based on fire, the Infernites are the red primary tribe of Series 1. They live in the ‘Magma Wastelands’ near the center of ‘Mixel Land’.
Flain (voiced by Tom Kenny) − Flain is the leader of the tribe called the ‘Infernites’, along with the other Mixels. Flain is adventurous and smart because he is known to his friends as ‘the smart one’. His head is on fire. When he thinks deeply or gets angry, his head runs the risk of catching on fire, so he tries to stay calm.
Vulk (voiced by Jess Harnell) − Vulk is a one-eyed Mixel who is dimwitted but liked by his friends. Among his looks is how he is one of many cyclopses. His superheated hands can melt through solid rocks and the ‘Nixels’, however he may inadvertently hurt other Mixels with those hands, which make another Mixels not want to have high-fives or anything else with him.
Zorch (voiced by David P. Smith) − Zorch is an Infernite who has fiery jets that let him "run aro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nav%C3%A8s%2C%20Lleida | Navès is a municipality of the comarca of the Solsonès in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Official website
Government data pages
Municipalities in Solsonès
Populated places in Solsonès |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talavera%2C%20Lleida | Talavera is a municipality of the comarca of the Segarra in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Official website
Government data pages
Municipalities in Segarra
Populated places in Segarra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Identity%20Manager | In computing, Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) enables enterprises to manage the entire user life-cycle across all enterprise resources both within and beyond a firewall. Within Oracle Identity Management it provides a mechanism for implementing the user-management aspects of a corporate policy. It can also audit users and their access privileges.
Versions
OIM has evolved based on the needs of enterprise users. It was earlier a Thor Technologies product - after Oracle Corporation acquired Thor (2005), OIM 9i was released. OIM 9i was based on the Struts framework.
Later Oracle Corporation released OIM 11olg R1 based on Oracle Application Developmental Framework. In July 2012 Oracle released OIM 11g R2
Components
IT Resource Type Def: used to define the connection details of a target system.
IT Resource: stores actual connection data. (Password is always encrypted.)
Resource Object: the logical representation of the target system.
Process Definition: defines the flow of actual tasks.
Process Form: table within OIM database to hold data for a given resource object.
Process Task: different task associated with a target system.
There are five different types of adapters used for different tasks as listed below:
Process Task Adapter
Pre Populate Adapter
Task Assignment Adapter
Rule Generator Adapter
Entity Adapter
References
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast%20Metabolome%20Database | The Yeast Metabolome Database (YMDB) is a comprehensive, high-quality, freely accessible, online database of small molecule metabolites found in or produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Baker’s yeast). The YMDB was designed to facilitate yeast metabolomics research, specifically in the areas of general fermentation as well as wine, beer and fermented food analysis. YMDB supports the identification and characterization of yeast metabolites using NMR spectroscopy, GC-MS spectrometry and Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS spectrometry). The YMDB contains two kinds of data: 1) chemical data and 2) molecular biology/biochemistry data. The chemical data includes 2027 metabolite structures with detailed metabolite descriptions along with nearly 4000 NMR, GC-MS and LC/MS spectra.
The biochemical data includes 1104 protein (and DNA) sequences and more than 900 biochemical reactions (Fig. 1) that are linked to these metabolite entries. Each metabolite entry in the YMDB contains more than 80 data fields with 2/3 of the information being devoted to chemical data and the other 1/3 devoted to enzymatic or biochemical data. Many data fields are hyperlinked to other databases (KEGG, PubChem, MetaCyc, ChEBI, Protein Data Bank, UniProt, and GenBank) and a variety of structure and pathway viewing applets. The YMDB database supports extensive text, sequence, spectral, chemical structure and relational query searches.
Scope and access
All data in YMDB is non-proprietary or is derived from a non-proprietary source. It is freely accessible and available to anyone. In addition, nearly every data item is fully traceable and explicitly referenced to the original source. YMDB data is available through a public web interface and downloads.
Users may search through the YMDB using a variety of database-specific tools. The simple text query supports general text queries of the textual component of the database. By selecting either metabolites or proteins in the “search for” field it is possible to restrict the search and the returned results to only those data associated with metabolites or with proteins. YMDB’s browse tool generates a tabular synopsis of YMDB's content (Fig. 2). This browser view allows users to casually scroll through the database or re-sort its contents. Clicking on a given MetaboCard button brings up the full data content for the corresponding metabolite (Fig. 3). Under the Search link users will find a number of search options listed in a pull-down menu. The Chem Query option allows users to draw (using MarvinSketch applet or a ChemSketch applet) or to type (SMILES string) a chemical compound and to search the YMDB for chemicals similar or identical to the query compound. The Advanced Search option supports a more sophisticated text search of the text portion of YMDB. The Sequence Search button allows users to conduct BLAST (protein) sequence searches of all sequences contained in YMDB. Both single and multiple sequence (i.e. whole prot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize%20for%20Innovation%20in%20Distributed%20Computing | The Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing (also called SIROCCO award) is an award presented annually at the conference International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO) to a living individual (or individuals) who have made a major contribution to understanding "the relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized computing", which is main area of interest for this conference. The award recognizes innovation, in particular, it recognizes inventors of new ideas that were unorthodox and outside the mainstream at the time of their introduction. There are two restrictions for being eligible for this award: (1) The original contribution must have appeared in a publication at least five years before the year of the award, (2) One of the articles related to this contribution and authored by this candidate must have appeared in the proceedings of SIROCCO.
The award was presented for the first time in 2009.
Winners
See also
List of computer science awards
References
External links
SIROCCO Website
Academic awards
Computer science awards
Distributed computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne%20PC%20prototype | The Osborne PC prototype was a failed prototype personal computer developed in 1983 by Osborne Computer Corporation.
History
In the early summer of 1983 an effort was launched to produce a version of the Osborne Executive that would be compatible with the IBM PC. Although venture partners had contributed $9 million of funding in April and another $11 million in June, Osborne was unable to raise an additional $20 million considered necessary to get the IBM-compatible product to market. A "tiger team" was formed, primarily to create a prototype DOS compatible printed circuit board and front bezel to accommodate the changes in connectors. The design used many of the parts of the Executive, including the disc drives, display, chassis, power supply and keyboard. It was completed in six weeks and shown to a number of potential investors, but was unable to generate sufficient interest to save the company from bankruptcy.
Production shutdown
On 2 August, the New Jersey plant was shut down and 89 workers were laid off. A few days later 200 workers were let go from the Hayward, CA, facility. In early September, banks seized the company's accounts receivable. On 9 September an additional 270 more workers were fired and all production ceased, leaving 80 employees on the California payroll. Three days later, on 12 September, Porter Hurt filed suit for $4.5 million owed his firms for PC boards. On 13 September 1983, OCC filed for Chapter 11 protection in Oakland, CA, federal bankruptcy court, listing assets of $40 million, liabilities of $45 million, and 600 creditors.
References
Portable computers
IBM PC compatibles
Prototypes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Kugell | Stan Kugell is an American investor, entrepreneur, inventor, and computer scientist. He is current or former director of over a dozen corporate and non-profit boards. He remains active advising technology entrepreneurs privately and as a Mentor at the Harvard i-Lab. He was a research scientist at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, where he invented Dired. At the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center he and Ed McCreight built the first voicemail system. He co-founded Javelin Software and was primary designer of its user interface. He is inventor or co-inventor of seven U.S. and international patents and applications.
He co-hosted Kugell & McLaughlin, a nationally syndicated political talk radio program, and served as a commentator on the public radio show Marketplace and on the Pacifica Radio Network.
Notes
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Harvard Law School alumni
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Stanford University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Koum | Jan Koum (; born Yan Borysovych Kum, , on February 24, 1976) is a Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion. According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of US$15.2 billion as of October 2023, making him one of the richest people in the world. Koum was ranked 44th on the Forbes' list of richest Americans in 2023 with a net worth of $15.1 billion.
Early life
Yan Borysovych Koum was born in Kyiv, then in the Ukrainian SSR, on February 24, 1976. He grew up in Fastiv. In 1992, at the age of 16, he moved with his mother and grandmother to Mountain View, California. A social support program helped the family get a small two-bedroom apartment there. His father had intended to join the family later, but he never left Ukraine and died in 1997. Koum and his mother remained in touch with his father until his death. At first, his mother worked as a babysitter while he worked as a cleaner at a grocery store. His mother died in 2000 after a long battle with cancer.
Career
By the age of 18, Koum had become interested in computer programming. He enrolled at San Jose State University and simultaneously worked at Ernst & Young as a security tester. He also joined w00w00, a computer security think tank started in 1996, where he met future Napster creators Shawn Fanning and Jordan Ritter.
In 1997, Koum met Brian Acton while working at Ernst & Young. Later that year, he was hired by Yahoo! as an infrastructure engineer. He quit school shortly thereafter. Over the next nine years, Koum and Acton worked at Yahoo! together. In September 2007, they left and took a year off, traveling around South America and playing ultimate frisbee. Both applied to work at Facebook but were rejected.
In January 2009, Koum bought an iPhone and realized that the then seven-month-old App Store was about to spawn a whole new industry of apps. He visited his friend Alex Fishman, and they talked for hours about Koum's idea for an app. Koum almost immediately chose the name WhatsApp because it sounded like "what's up". A week later, on his 33rd birthday, he incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in California.
WhatsApp was initially unpopular, but its fortunes began to turn after Apple added push notification ability to apps in June 2009. Koum changed WhatsApp to "ping" users when they received a message, and soon afterward he and Fishman's Russian friends in the area began to use WhatsApp as a messaging tool, in place of SMS. The app gained a large user base, and Koum convinced Acton, then unemployed, to join the company. Koum granted Acton co-founder status after Acton managed to bring in $250,000 in seed funding.
On February 9, 2014, Zuckerberg asked Koum to have dinner at his home, and formally proposed Koum a deal to join the Facebook board. Ten days later Facebook announced that it was acquiring WhatsApp for US$19 billion. Over the f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20Story%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29 | Inside Story was an Australian current affairs television program airing weekly on the Nine Network. The program is hosted by Leila McKinnon and commenced on 26 February 2014. It screens Wednesday evenings normally at 8.45pm (Series 1) and Thursdays at 8:40 (Series 2) and 7:30 (Series 3).
The series investigates major crimes and related stories in Australia and elsewhere with a view to unveiling previously unreported/under-reported stories. Reporters include Alicia Loxley, Tom Steinfort, Peter Stefanovic, Deborah Knight, Jayne Azzopardi and Brett McLeod
On 31 March 2014, the show was renewed for a second season.
In response to Gerard Baden-Clay being found guilty of murdering his wife Allison, a special edition of the program titled Inside Story: Baden-Clay aired live-to-air on 15 July 2014 hosted by Tracy Grimshaw and Karl Stefanovic. In December 2015 the charge against Baden-Clay was downgraded to manslaughter.
Episodes
Series 1 - True Crimes (2014)
Specials
Series 2 (2015)
Series 3 (2016)
+Melbourne, Adelaide & Perth
References
External links
Nine News
Australian television news shows
2014 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20text%20mining%20software | Text mining computer programs are available from many commercial and open source companies and sources.
Commercial
Angoss – Angoss Text Analytics provides entity and theme extraction, topic categorization, sentiment analysis and document summarization capabilities via the embedded
AUTINDEX – is a commercial text mining software package based on sophisticated linguistics by IAI (Institute for Applied Information Sciences), Saarbrücken.
DigitalMR – social media listening & text+image analytics tool for market research.
DiscoverText - online tools for archiving, searching and sorting web-based text from sources, including social media and public comments from a wide range of sources.
FICO Score – leading provider of analytics.
General Sentiment – Social Intelligence platform that uses natural language processing to discover affinities between the fans of brands with the fans of traditional television shows in social media. Stand alone text analytics to capture social knowledge base on billions of topics stored to 2004.
IBM LanguageWare – the IBM suite for text analytics (tools and Runtime).
IBM SPSS – provider of Modeler Premium (previously called IBM SPSS Modeler and IBM SPSS Text Analytics), which contains advanced NLP-based text analysis capabilities (multi-lingual sentiment, event and fact extraction), that can be used in conjunction with Predictive Modeling. Text Analytics for Surveys provides the ability to categorize survey responses using NLP-based capabilities for further analysis or reporting.
Inxight – provider of text analytics, search, and unstructured visualization technologies. (Inxight was bought by Business Objects that was bought by SAP AG in 2008).
Language Computer Corporation – text extraction and analysis tools, available in multiple languages.
Lexalytics – provider of a text analytics engine used in Social Media Monitoring, Voice of Customer, Survey Analysis, and other applications. Salience Engine. The software provides the unique capability of merging the output of unstructured, text-based analysis with structured data to provide additional predictive variables for improved predictive models and association analysis.
Linguamatics – provider of natural language processing (NLP) based enterprise text mining and text analytics software, I2E, for high-value knowledge discovery and decision support.
Mathematica – provides built in tools for text alignment, pattern matching, clustering and semantic analysis. See Wolfram Language, the programming language of Mathematica.
MATLAB offers Text Analytics Toolbox for importing text data, converting it to numeric form for use in machine and deep learning, sentiment analysis and classification tasks.
Medallia – offers one system of record for survey, social, text, written and online feedback.
NetOwl – suite of multilingual text and entity analytics products, including entity extraction, link and event extraction, sentiment analysis, geotagging, name translation, name m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Acton | Brian Acton (born 1972) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. Acton is the executive chairman of the Signal Technology Foundation, which he co-founded with Moxie Marlinspike in 2018. , Acton also serves as interim CEO of Signal Messenger LLC.
He was formerly employed at Yahoo!, and co-founded WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for US$19 billion, with Jan Koum. Acton left WhatsApp in September 2017 to start the Signal Foundation. According to Forbes (2020), Acton is the 836th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.
Early life and education
Acton grew up in Michigan, later moving to Central Florida, where he graduated from Lake Howell High School. Acton received a full scholarship to study engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, but left after a year to study at Stanford. He graduated from Stanford University in 1994 with a degree in computer science.
Career
In 1992, he became a systems administrator for Rockwell International, before becoming a product tester at Apple Inc. and Adobe Systems. In 1996, he joined Yahoo Inc.
Yahoo!
In 1998, Jan Koum was hired by Yahoo! as an infrastructure engineer shortly after he met Acton while working at Ernst & Young as a security tester. Over the next nine years, they worked at Yahoo!. Acton invested in the dotcom boom and lost millions in the dot-com bubble of 2000. In September 2007, Koum and Acton left Yahoo! and took a year off, travelling around South America. Each applied unsuccessfully to work at Facebook. In January 2009, Koum bought an iPhone and realized that the then seven-month-old App Store was about to spawn a whole new industry of apps. He visited his friend Alex Fishman and talked about developing an app. Koum almost immediately chose the name WhatsApp because it sounded like "what's up", and a week later on his birthday, Feb. 24, 2009, he incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in California.
WhatsApp
In 2014, Koum and Acton sold WhatsApp to Facebook for approximately US$19 billion in cash and stock. Forbes estimated that Acton held over 20% stake in the company, making his net worth around $3.8 billion.
In 2016, Acton led a funding round for Trak N Tell and raised $3.5 million along with two other investors.
In September 2017, Acton left WhatsApp. Acton told Forbes that he left over a dispute with Facebook regarding monetization of WhatsApp, and voluntarily left $850 million in unvested options on the table by leaving a few months before vesting was completed. He also said that he was coached by Facebook executives to mislead European regulators regarding Facebook's intention to merge Facebook and WhatsApp user data.
Signal
Acton left WhatsApp in September 2017 to start a new foundation, the Signal Foundation, which is dedicated to helping people have access to private communication through an encrypted messaging app. Signal is widely used by journalists and human rights activists.
In Februa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%208%29 | The eighth season of Australian reality television series The Block, titled The Block: Fans v Faves, premiered on Monday, 27 January 2014 at 7:00 pm on the Nine Network. Scott Cam (host) and Shelley Craft (Challenge Master) returned from the previous season, as did the three judges: Neale Whitaker, Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer. Production for the series in Melbourne, which was the location for the previous season, in the suburb of
Albert Park. Steve & Chantelle were the eventual winners of The Block with a $636,000 profit on a sale price of $2,470,000 plus an additional $100,000 bonus for winning The Block.
Contestants
This season introduces 2 new couples (dubbed "Fans") and 2 returning couples (dubbed "Favourites"/"Faves"). The couples selected were as follows:
Notes
Score history
Results
Room Reveals
Judges' Scores
The prize for this week was $10,000 cash, towards the couple's winnings. They were told to redo the room that the judges disliked the most:-
Chantelle and Steve - Guest Bedroom 1
Kyal and Kara - Drying Terrace
Alisa and Lysandra - Main Bathroom
Brad and Dale - Kitchen
The prize for reveal 2 was to receive money off their reserves. There were two teams:
• Brad & Dale + Kyal & Kara (House 2)• Alisa & Lysandra + Chantelle & Steve (House 1)The teams split the money they won as a team
Auction
Ratings
Ratings data is from OzTAM and represents the live and same day average viewership from the 5 largest Australian metropolitan centres (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide).
References
2014 Australian television seasons
8 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AXIS%20Capital | AXIS Capital Holdings Limited is the holding company for AXIS group of companies. It offers various risk transfer products and services through subsidiaries and branch networks in Bermuda, the United States, Canada, Europe and Singapore. The company offers insurance services including property, professional lines, terrorism, marine, energy, environmental and other insurance. The reinsurance services include property, professional lines, credit and bond, and others.
History
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited was founded in Pembroke, Bermuda in 2001.
In February 2004, the company formed a healthcare unit providing professional liability insurance.
In June 2015, AXIS and PartnerRe Ltd started a public campaign to convince shareholders of the positive aspects of a potential $13 billion merger between the two companies, with competition seen from Exor SpA, which bid $6.8 billion.
In 2017 Axis Capital has completed its acquisition of Novae Group P.L.C and Aviabel S.A.
In February 2020, AXIS Capital Holdings chairman of the board and co-founder Michael Butt announced his retirement after five decades in the insurance business. AXIS board member and lead independent director Henry B. Smith has been appointed as successor to the chairmanship post.
Offices
Axis Capital has offices in New York, Alpharetta (US), Toronto, Halifax, Chicago, Champaign (IL, US), Bermuda, Dublin, Zurich, Paris, London (UK) and Singapore.
Managers
President & CEO - Albert A. Benchimol
References
External links
Financial services companies established in 2001
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Holding companies of Bermuda
Insurance companies of Bermuda
Holding companies established in 2001
2001 establishments in Antigua and Barbuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberith%20Virtualizer | The Virtualizer (or Cyberith Virtualizer) is a series of omnidirectional treadmills for virtual reality applications. The treadmills have integrated sensors for motion detection of the user. The products are being developed, manufactured and sold by the Austrian company Cyberith GmbH.
History
The idea was born in 2012 by Tuncay Cakmak. During his studies at the Technical University of Vienna he started testing and developing the first prototypes. In 2013 he founded Cyberith and formed a team for further development of the device. He demonstrated the device at different exhibitions in Europe and shared the progress with the community through the Cyberith YouTube channel. A kickstarter campaign started on 23. of July 2014 and in the first 24 hours they made more than 50% of their pledged goal of 250 000 $.
The campaign was successfully funded, ending at 361 452 $ from 577 backers, however the delivery of the Kickstarter rewards has been delayed beyond the initial estimate without the company providing an updated estimated delivery date.
After the initial crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the company started focusing on commercial use of the Virtualizer products and launched the first generation Virtualizer VR Treadmill in 2016 exclusively to commercial customers.
According to unconfirmed rumors, the company has been sued by one of its Kickstarter backers. These rumors suggest that the claim of the backer has been rejected by the court.
The second generation Virtualizer was launched for business customers in March 2019 with an implemented motion platform.
Functional principle
The Virtualizer enables motion by the principle of low friction. The body is fixed in a rotatable ring that can be moved vertically. In combination with a head-mounted display it allows to move, run, jump or crouch in virtual worlds. The products don't require to wear any special kind of shoes. Instead, textile overshoes are used, that are worn above regular shoes.
The second generation Virtualizer uses a 2 DOF (Degrees of Freedom) motion platform to actively support the walking movement of a user. For walking forwards, the platform inclines in front of the user, so that the feet glide back more easily due to the support of gravity. When a user rotates or starts to walk backwards, the inclination of the platform follows these movements to continuously support gliding of the feet through gravity. The company claims this motorized system would improve the gait and make walking easier.
See also
Haptic suit
Virtuix Omni
Wizdish ROVR
External links
References
Kickstarter-funded products
Multimodal interaction
Game controllers
Virtual reality accessories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaql | Jaql (pronounced "jackal") is a functional data processing and query language most commonly used for JSON query processing on big data.
It started as an open source project at Google but the latest release was on 2010-07-12. IBM took it over as primary data processing language for their Hadoop software package BigInsights.
Although having been developed for JSON it supports a variety of other data sources like CSV, TSV, XML.
A comparison to other BigData query languages like PIG Latin and Hive QL illustrates performance and usability aspects of these technologies.
Jaql supports lazy evaluation, so expressions are only materialized when needed.
Syntax
The basic concept of Jaql is
source -> operator(parameter) -> sink ;
where a sink can be a source for a downstream operator. So typically a Jaql program has to following structure, expressing a data processing graph:
source -> operator1(parameter) -> operator2(parameter) -> operator2(parameter) -> operator3(parameter) -> operator4(parameter) -> sink ;
Most commonly for readability reasons Jaql programs are linebreaked after the arrow, as is also a common idiom in Twitter Scalding:
source -> operator1(parameter)
-> operator2(parameter)
-> operator2(parameter)
-> operator3(parameter)
-> operator4(parameter)
-> sink ;
Core operators
Expand
Use the EXPAND expression to flatten nested arrays. This expression takes as input an array of nested arrays [ [ T ] ] and produces an output array [ T ], by promoting the elements of each nested array to the top-level output array.
Filter
Use the FILTER operator to filter away elements from the specified input array. This operator takes as input an array of elements of type T and outputs an array of the same type, retaining those elements for which a predicate evaluates to true. It is the Jaql equivalent of the SQL WHERE clause.
Example:
data = [
{name: "Jon Doe", income: 20000, manager: false},
{name: "Vince Wayne", income: 32500, manager: false},
{name: "Jane Dean", income: 72000, manager: true},
{name: "Alex Smith", income: 25000, manager: false}
];
data -> filter $.manager;
[
{
"income": 72000,
"manager": true,
"name": "Jane Dean"
}
]
data -> filter $.income < 30000;
[
{
"income": 20000,
"manager": false,
"name": "Jon Doe"
},
{
"income": 25000,
"manager": false,
"name": "Alex Smith"
}
]
Group
Use the GROUP expression to group one or more input arrays on a grouping key and applies an aggregate function per group.
Join
Use the JOIN operator to express a join between two or more input arrays. This operator supports multiple types of joins, including natural, left-outer, right-outer, and outer joins.
Sort
Use the SORT operator to sort an input by one or more fields.
Top
The TOP expression selects the first k elements of its input. If a comparator is provided, the output is semantically equivalent to sorting the input, then selecting the first elements.
Transform
Use the TRANSFORM operator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Litto | Maria Litto (1919–1996) was a German ballet dancer, choreographer and film actress. In 1970, she pioneered dance programming on German television.
Early life
Born in Ovenhausen, Höxter, on 9 September 1919, Litto attended the town's primary and secondary schools. From the age of 16, she received training in ballet at the Tanzschule Carus in Holzminden and, when 18, at the Folkwangschule in Essen. She completed her training at the Wuppertal Municipal Theatre.
Career
She joined the Berlin Opera ballet in 1941, first becoming a solo dancer and then, in 1944, prima ballerina. In 1948, she performed in Werner Egk's ballet Abraxas. Thereafter she danced in various films including Third from the Right, Melody of Fate, Maya of the Seven Veils and, taking the lead role, in Queen of the Arena. In 1953, she starred in the musical Die Blume von Hawaii (The Flower of Hawaii) where she played Priness Lia a fictionalised version of Liliuokalani.
In November 1954, she was contracted by the Hamburg Opera. After performing in Hamlet, in 1955 she starred as the snake in Werner Egk's Irische Legende at the Salzburg Festival. Among her subsequent successes were Der Engel von Montparnasse and Formender Willie. She also performed in the musical Fanny at Hamburg's Thalia Theater.
In the 1960s, she devoted more time to choreography together with her husband Heinz Schmiedel. In 1970 she played the lead in the television series Tournee – Ein Ballett tanzt um die Welt, pioneering dance programming on German television. The couple continued to appear in television productions until her husband's sudden death in December 1978. Completely devastated, she withdrew from further appearances. Maria Litto died in Hamburg on 25 October 1996.
Film and television
From 1942 to 1971, Maria Litto appeared in a considerable number of films and television productions. She was also active as a television choreographer until 1979.
Selected filmography
Love Me (1942)
Love Premiere (1943)
Beloved Darling (1943)
Nora (1944)
Third from the Right (1950)
Melody of Fate (1950)
Professor Nachtfalter (1951)
Maya of the Seven Veils (1951)
Queen of the Arena (1952)
Dunja (1955)
Three Days Confined to Barracks (1955)
Three Birch Trees on the Heath (1956)
(1957)
I Learned That in Paris (1960)
The Gorilla of Soho (1968)
The Man with the Glass Eye (1969)
References
1919 births
German ballerinas
People from Höxter
German women choreographers
German choreographers
Prima ballerinas
1996 deaths
20th-century German ballet dancers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VetBact | The VetBact database contains information about bacteria that are of interest in veterinary medicine. The database was developed at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the National Veterinary Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.
VetBact is primarily intended as a tool for veterinary students and their teachers, but has also proved useful for veterinary practitioners and students attending other academic courses in bacteriology.
History
The first version of the database appeared in Swedish on the website of the National Veterinary Institute in 2006. The database received a major update and was re-launched as 'VetBakt 1.0' under its own domain name, vetbakt.se, in the following year. In 2010, a bilingual (English/Swedish) version known as 'VetBact 2.0' was released and the domain name was changed to vetbact.org. In 2011, three additional modules (VetBactBlog, VetBactQuiz and VetBactLab) were added to the VetBact website.
Contents of the database
This database contains information about over 200 species (and subspecies) of bacteria. These species belong to more than 80 genera and represent 9 of the 29 bacterial phyla. The information about each species comprises etymology, taxonomy, morphology, metabolism, biochemical reactions, host, disease, phylogeny etc. There are more than 300 images for which non-commercial use is permitted under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.
The modules VetBactBlog, VetBactQuiz and VetBactLab
These course-oriented modules can be found under the heading 'Course material' on VetBact.
VetBactBlog is, as the name suggests, a blog. It offers an RSS feed and provides space for discussions.
VetBactQuiz contains a number of questions for veterinary students. Automatic feed-back is given as soon as an answer has been submitted.
VetBactLab is intended to complement, but not replace, experiments in the laboratory. The purpose of these experiments in silico, or virtual experiments, is to teach students how to identify bacteria that cause various diseases in animals.
The VetBact database, and its modules, is based on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and is now an integral part of the curriculum at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
References
External links
Veterinary medicine
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Weirich | James Nolan Weirich (November 18, 1956 – February 19, 2014) was a software developer, speaker, teacher, and contributor to the Ruby programming language community. He was active in the Ruby community worldwide, speaking at events in Asia, South America, Europe, and the United States.
Among his many contributions he created the popular Rake build tool for Ruby.
Work
Weirich was the Chief Scientist at Neo Innovation, working at Neo's Cincinnati office. He also built and maintained many open source tools, the most popular being Rake and Builder with 74 and 54 million downloads, respectively.
Rake is a build tool for automating tasks in Ruby. It is one of the most widely downloaded Ruby Gems, downloaded more than 481 million times and has been included with Apple OS X since at least version 10.7.
Builder is a tool for creating structured XML data through Ruby.
RubyGems is package management tool for Ruby programs and libraries. Ryan Leavengood is credited with creating the very first RubyGems project in 2001, but it did not gain enough momentum to take off. In November 2003 with the need for a proper package manager growing, Richard Kilmer, Chad Fowler, David Black, Paul Brannan, and Jim Weirich got together at RubyConf 2003 in Austin and built today's RubyGems, which shares a name, but not the original codebase.
Ruby Koans is a learning tool to teach people the Ruby Programming Language through a series of small exercises.
rspec-given is an extension to the popular Ruby testing framework RSpec that enables given/when/then notation when writing specs.
Git Immersion is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it.
Argus A Ruby API for controlling a Parrot AR Drone.
Presentations
Weirich was a popular conference speaker known for making very difficult topics understandable. An archive of 29 more recent talks is available on the Confreaks site; some notable talks are linked below:
The Grand Unified Theory of Software - Rails Underground 2009
SOLID Ruby - RubyNation 2010
Power Rake - Steel City Ruby 2012
Y Not? Adventures in Functional Programming - Ruby Conference 2012
Kata and Analysis - BostonRB Monthly Meeting - February 2013
Why Aren't You Using Ruby - RubyConf Uruguay 2013
RubyMotion - CincyCocoaDev April 2013
Decoupling from Rails - CincyRB October 2013
Ruby, threads, events... and Flying Robots! - CincyRB May 2013
Personal life
Weirich grew up in Shipshewana, Indiana, graduating from Westview Junior - Senior High School in 1975. He went on to graduate from Indiana University in 1979 with a degree in physics. He lived in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Weirich was active in the Ruby community worldwide, and especially in Cincinnati, participating in the local agile development, Ruby, and functional programming user groups. At meetings, he often gave talks and was widely acclaimed for the clarity and quality of his presentations.
News of Weirich's death was met wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Casebook%20of%20Gregory%20Hood | The Casebook of Gregory Hood was a radio detective
program in the United States. It existed in several versions - with different stars on different networks in different years. Hood was an importer in San Francisco who dealt in rare items. John Dunning summarized the show's premise as follows: "With his sidekick Sanderson ('Sandy') Taylor, Hood traveled the world seeking artifacts for his import house. Each item found by Hood had an intriguing history and was inevitably linked to some present-day mystery." The character of Hood was based on real-life importer Richard Gump, who lived in San Francisco. Gump also was a consultant for the program.
Hood was a character with a multi-faceted personality. One website devoted to old-time radio wrote about him as follows:Gregory Hood was also an accomplished pianist and composer, a self-taught forensics expert, spoke several languages fluently, was an expert in ancient and modern armament, had a military intelligence background, was a wine expert with an extensive rare wine cellar, and was an acknowledged expert in oriental tapestry. He lived in a penthouse on San Francisco's Nob Hill and employed a Chinese valet, Fong.
On June 3, 1946, The Casebook of Gregory Hood began on the Mutual Broadcasting System, replacing The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for the summer. Although intended to be just a summer replacement, it continued in the fall, sponsored by Petri Wine. Jeffrey Marks, in his biography of co-creator Anthony Boucher, explained, "The show had originally been planned as a summer replacement for The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1946, but continued for the next year when the radio network had difficulty in reaching an agreement with the Conan Doyle estate." The program had another full-season run on ABC in 1949-50 and also "resurfaced periodically in summer slots."
The show was written by Boucher and Denis Green, who also teamed to write the Holmes show. Marks provided this background: Boucher and Green did such a good job for the Holmes show that they were asked about writing an original series for Mutual Radio. Radio shows relied on new episodes. Just as TV airs re-runs during the summer, radio shows gave their actors a summer hiatus of 13 weeks. Networks frequently ran original short-run programming during the summer.
Boucher and Green came up with "The Casebook of Gregory Hood" a San Francisco-based antiquities expert who seemed to find current day crimes in the artifacts that he dealt with. The Casebook of Gregory Hood was nearly identical to The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in its opening: same sponsor, same announcement, same narrator frame for storytelling, and the same music. The narrator stopped by to visit Gregory either in his office or home, and the story was told by Hood. Hood's own Watson, Sandy Taylor, accompanied him. Taylor was Hood's lawyer and friend.
Book reviewer Bertil Falk noted that the technique Boucher and Green used had deep roots in storytelling. He wrot |
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