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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataDirect%20Networks | DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a privately-held data storage company, and is headquartered in Chatsworth, California, USA.
Summary
DDN provides storage systems for unstructured data and big data, like AI, analytics and high performance computing (HPC) environments, in enterprise, government and academia sectors.
Although privately-held, DDN announced that it had achieved annual revenue of $400 million and its highest profitability in 2020. With more than 11,000 customers and a network of resellers and distributors, DDN delivered 52 percent in revenue growth from 2018 to 2020. 2020 was also the fifth consecutive year of customer expansion, and revenue and profitability growth for DDN.
DDN provides storage for applications such as cloud storage services, supercomputing, life sciences and genomics, seismic processing, financial service trade and risk analysis, film production, live television broadcast, manufacturing, and video surveillance.
History
DataDirect Networks, Inc, was formed in 1998 from the merger of two earlier companies, MegaDrive and ImpactData. Alex Bouzari is the company's CEO, chairman and co-founder. Paul Bloch is president and co-founder.
DDN concentrated on building high speed disk storage systems for customers like NASA, eventually delivering storage to five of their systems - Columbia, Schirra, RTJones, Hyperwall-2 and Pleiades by 2008. With the explosion of “Big Data,” Alex Bouzari and Paul Bloch realised that a wider "transformative" event was happening in IT, and that HPC-class storage would be needed for high-end analytics and data processing, with lightning-fast IO, and the ability to scale to much higher capacities. Rather than follow a larger market served by mainstream system and storage vendors, Bouzari and Bloch decided to focus exclusively on fast access and high-capacity storage, particularly for unstructured data.
DDN completed a $9.9 million round of venture capital financing in October 2001 with ClearLight Partners LLC and Digital Coast Ventures. In 2002, the company ended its relationship with its venture capital financiers.
DDN created DataDirect Networks Federal, LLC, in 2005 - formalizing a team which holds the necessary clearances to support the company's focus on the U.S. government and intelligence community.
In 2008, DDN reported that it had exceeded $100 million in annual revenue and claimed to provide storage systems for 48 of the top 100 supercomputers – with customers including Argonne National Laboratory and the NASA Ames Research Center. In 2011, DDN reported that it had exceeded the $200M annual revenue mark, and was reported to be the world's largest privately held storage company, based on 2009 revenues.
In 2013, the company built the storage system for Titan supercomputer.
DDN announced in 2016 that it powered 70 percent of the top 500 supercomputers, up from 67 percent in 2015. In 2017, DDN earned the unicorn status.
In June 2018, DDN acquired the Lustre filesystem storage team f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime%20Emmy%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Writing%20for%20a%20Children%27s%20Series | The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Children's Series was an Emmy award honoring writing in children's television programming. Since the award's inception, writing in children's series and specials competed in the same category. However, starting in 1985, separate categories were created for series and specials. In November 2021, it was announced that all Daytime Emmy categories honoring children's programming will be retired in favor of a separate Children's & Family Emmy Awards ceremony that will be held starting in 2022.
Winners and nominees
Winners in bold. For "Individual Achievement" categories, only nominees relevant to this page are listed.
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming
1970s
1975
Charles M. Schulz - Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (CBS)
1978
David Wolf - The Magic Hat (syndicated)
Jan Hartman - ABC Afterschool Special ("Hewitt's Just Different") (ABC)
1980s
1980
Jan Hartman - ABC Afterschool Special ("The Late Great Me! Story of a Teenage Alcoholic") (ABC)
Team - Hot Hero Sandwich (NBC)
Mary Batten - 3-2-1 Contact ("Forces" and "Friday") (PBS)
John O'Toole - Once Upon a Classic ("Leatherstocking Tales") (PBS)
1981
Clare Elfman - CBS Afternoon Playhouse ("I Think I'm Having a Baby") (CBS)
Robert E. Fuisz - The Body Human ("Facts for Girls") (CBS)
Mary Munisteri - Mandy's Grandmother (syndicated)
Paul W. Cooper - ABC Afterschool Special ("A Matter of Time") (ABC)
John Herzfeld - ABC Afterschool Special ("Stoned") (ABC)
Bob Brush - Captain Kangaroo ("December 26, 1980") (CBS)
Team - Sesame Street ("#1494") (PBS)
Outstanding Writing for Children's Programming
1980s
1982
Paul W. Cooper - ABC Afterschool Special ("She Drinks a Little") (ABC)
Robert E. Fuisz - The Body Human ("Becoming a Woman") (CBS)
Team - Sesame Street ("November 23, 1981") (PBS)
1983
Arthur Heinemann - ABC Afterschool Special ("The Woman Who Willed a Miracle") (ABC)
Team - Captain Kangaroo (CBS)
Daryl Warner and Carolyn Miller - ABC Afterschool Special ("Sometimes I Don't Love My Mother") (ABC)
Team - Sesame Street (PBS)
1984
Team - Sesame Street (PBS)
Rod Baker and Glen Olson - ABC Weekend Special ("All the Money in the World") (ABC)
Virginia L. Carter, Fern Field, and Michael McGreevey - ABC Afterschool Special ("The Celebrity and the Arcade Kid") (ABC)
Outstanding Writing in a Children's Special
1980s
1985
Charles Purpura - CBS Schoolbreak Special ("The Day the Senior Class Got Married") (CBS)
Franklin Thompson (story) and Arthur Heinemann - ABC Afterschool Special ("Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia") (ABC)
Joanna Lee - CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Hear Me Cry") (CBS)
1986
Kathryn Montgomery and Jeffrey Auerbach - CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Babies Having Babies") (CBS)
Jeanne Betancourt - ABC Afterschool Special ("Don't Touch") (ABC)
Judy Engles - ABC Afterschool Special ("Can a Guy Say No?") (ABC)
Ann Elder, Cynthia Chenault, Kyle Morris, and Diane Silver - ABC Weekend Specials ("The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s%20Print%20Studio | Disney's Print Studio is a series of crafts/design computer games released by Disney Interactive, which allows players to print various types of documents in the themes of its licensed property. The 1994 Aladdin game was the precursor to the Print Studio games to follow, and set in motion the template of how those games would work.
List of games
Reception
References
Video game franchises
Disney Interactive
Disney Interactive franchises
Disney video games
Video games based on animated films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthenosoma | Asthenosoma is a genus of sea urchins in the family Echinothuriidae. Their spines are covered with harmful venom capsules.
Taxonomy
The World Echinoidea Database recognises the following species:
Asthenosoma dilatatum Mortensen, 1934
Asthenosoma ijimai Yoshiwara, 1897
Asthenosoma intermedium H.L. Clark, 1938
Asthenosoma marisrubri Weinberg & de Ridder, 1998 – "Red sea fire urchin"
Asthenosoma periculosum Endean, 1964
Asthenosoma striatissimum Ravn, 1928 †
Asthenosoma varium Grube, 1868 – "fire sea urchin".
"†" means an extinct taxon.
References
Extant Middle Jurassic first appearances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Leadership%20Network | European Leadership Network (ELN) is a pan-European think-tank focusing on European foreign, defence and security issues based in London, United Kingdom. The ELN's Director is Sir Adam Thomson, former UK Permanent Representative to NATO.
History and Organisation
The ELN was founded as part of a project by the Nuclear Security Project in an effort to "help create the political space for dialogue, education and action on the vision and steps toward a world without nuclear weapons". At the end of 2013 the ELN broadened its focus and remit of work to address a much wider range of foreign and security policy challenges facing Europe.
The ELN is currently chaired by former UK Defence Secretary Des Browne and is directed by Sir Adam Thomson. In March 2015, Lord Browne and former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, both won the prestigious Nunn-Lugar Award for Promoting Nuclear Security, in part for their work with the European Leadership Network.
The ELN specialises on security issues.
On 27 March 2015, the Carnegie Corporation of New York announced that it was funding the European Leadership Network for 24 months, as part of its philanthropic efforts.
Activities
The ELN operates through a network of former European political, military, and diplomatic leaders and supports this network with in-house research and events. The network itself contains members not just from the EU but also Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Georgia, Albania, Norway, and Serbia. Such a scope has as its basis a conception of a Greater Europe similar to that of the OSCE.
In 2014 the European Leadership Network has expanded to tackle broader European and global security issues, including the Ebola crisis, near-misses between Russian and Western militaries, and the expanding Russo-Chinese relationship
A report published by the European Leadership Network in 2015, title Dangerous Brinkmanship: closer military encounters between Russia and the West in 2015 generated considerable attention around the world. At the 2015 Munich Security Conference in February 2015, conference chairman Wolfgang Ischinger, also a member of the European Leadership Network, publicly questioned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the findings of the ELN report. In May 2015, 68 members of the European Leadership Members signed a global statement in support of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ahead of its Review Conference in New York. The statement was also signed by senior figures from Latin America, the United States and Asia-Pacific.
The European Leadership Network administers the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (TLG)
Partners
Top Level Group
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Supporters
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Ploughshares Fund
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT)
Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation (PPCF)
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
References
External links
ELN webs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberchase%3A%20Carnival%20Chaos | Cyberchase: Carnival Chaos is a 2003 computer game developed by Canadian studio Basis Applied Technology and published by The Learning Company, based on the edutainment TV series Cyberchase.
Gameplay
Similarly to Cyberchase: Castleblanca Quest, the game features: eight activities, video footage and full screen animation, tracking feature lets parents monitor progress, adventure and practice modes, and three levels of difficulty.
Critical reception
Common Sense Media gave the game a rating of 4/5 stars. The site wrote "Kid-testers were impressed by how the program turned everyday carnival games into fun, logical challenges. Because the games are easy to play but hard to win, kids jumped right in". USA Today wrote "Cyberchase: Castleblanca Quest isn't nearly as good as Cyberchase: Carnival Chaos".
References
Children's educational video games
Video games based on television series
Video games developed in Canada
2003 video games
MacOS games
Windows games
The Learning Company games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberchase%3A%20Castleblanca%20Quest | Cyberchase: Castleblanca Quest is a computer game developed by Canadian studio Basis Applied Technology and published by The Learning Company and based on the Cyberchase edutainment TV series. The game was released in 2003.
Summary
The game's features include: eight activities, video footage and full screen animation, a "tracking feature" that lets parents monitor progress, adventure and practice modes, and three levels of difficulty.
Critical reception
USA Today wrote "Cyberchase Castleblanca Quest isn't nearly as good as Cyberchase Carnival Chaos", adding "The story line in Cyberchase Castleblanca Quest is difficult to follow. It is presented in a very grainy video that is too brief". Common Sense Media gave the game a rating of 2/5 stars, writing "Parents need to know that a hard-to-follow storyline and inadequate directions make this software difficult to play". Techwithkids gave the game 3/5 stars, writing "If you have Cyberchase fans, play Cyberchase Carnival Chaos and skip this one".
References
Children's educational video games
Video games based on television series
Video games developed in Canada
2003 video games
MacOS games
Windows games
The Learning Company games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Gallen%20S-Bahn | The St. Gallen S-Bahn () is an S-Bahn-style commuter rail in Eastern Switzerland and neighbouring areas. The network connects stations in the Swiss cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Glarus, Grisons, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, and Thurgau, as well as a few stations in Austria (Bregenz, Vorarlberg) and Germany (Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg and Lindau, Bavaria).
Services are operated by Appenzeller Bahnen (AB), Südostbahn (SOB), and THURBO within the Ostwind transit district.
Lines
, the network consists of 21 lines, numbered 1‒2, 4‒7, 9‒10, 12, 14‒15, 20‒26, 44 and 81‒82, using the "S" prefix typical for most S-Bahn systems. Only lines S1, S2, S4, S5, S20, S21, S22, S81 and S82 pass through or terminate in St. Gallen. The S27 service (nicknamed March shuttle), operated by Südostbahn (SOB) between and during peak hour, is neither part of the St. Gallen S-Bahn nor the Zürich S-Bahn network. The S3 service (‒) belongs to the Vorarlberg S-Bahn network (operated by ÖBB). Three S-Bahn services, designated "S" without number, between Schaffhausen and their respective German termini in Erzingen, Jestetten, and Singen (Hohentwiel), belong to the Ostwind transit district but are part of (operated by THURBO/SBB GmbH).
Unless stated otherwise, the lines are adhesion railways.
RegioExpress
A RegioExpress (RE) between Herisau and Konstanz (Germany), nicknamed der Konstanzer, supports the S-Bahn network. The S-Bahn network is further complemented by InterRegio (IR) services, such as the IR Voralpen-Express (operated by Südostbahn between St. Gallen and ) and IR 13 of Swiss Federal Railways (––St. Gallen––), which stop at all major stations.
Previous services
S3: – (until 2021, merged with the former S5 into the current S5 of St. Gallen S-Bahn)
S8: –– (until 2021, merged with the former S1 into the current S1 of St. Gallen S-Bahn)
S11: –– (until 2018, operated only during peak hour)
S55: ––– (until 2018, operated only during peak hour)
See also
Transport in St. Gallen
References
External links
Tarifverbund Ostwind
S-Bahn in Switzerland
S-Bahn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Consumer%20Protection%20and%20Enforcement%20Network | The International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN), formerly the International Marketing Supervision Network (IMSN), is a global network of consumer protection authorities which engages in dispute resolution and encourages cooperation between law enforcement agencies for disputes arising from commerce across international borders. Many members are also members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
History
Delegates from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States established the Network in 1992, with participation from representatives of the OECD and the EU. Greece, Italy, and Luxembourg joined the network later that year.
The ICPEN partners includes organizations from Angola, Suriname, Peru (2013), Kenya and Kosovo (2014).
Participating nations
The following nations are represented in the network:
External links
https://econsumer.gov/
Who We Are: ICPEN
References
International trade associations
International trade organizations
International law organizations
Organizations established in 1992
Consumer protection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini%20Award%20for%20Best%20Children%27s%20or%20Youth%20Program%20or%20Series | The Gemini Awards for Best Children's or Youth Program or Series was presented by the Gemini Awards to honour English children's television programming produced in Canada.
Prior to 1998, a single award was presented for children's programming, regardless of age bracket and inclusive of both fiction and non-fiction programming. In that year, a new award was created for Best Pre-School Program or Series, separating programming for toddlers and young children from programming for older children and teenagers. In 2002, the award was split into separate awards for Best Fiction Program or Series and Best Non-Fiction Program or Series, and the single award was no longer presented.
Winners and Nominees
Winners in bold.
Best Children's Program
1980s
1986
The Kids of Degrassi Street: "Griff Gets a Hand" (CBC)
A Whole New Ball Game
1987
Down at Fraggle Rock: Behind the Scenes (CBC)
Stone Fox (NBC)
The Conserving Kingdom (TVOntario)
1988
They Look A Lot Like Us: A China Odyssey (CBC)
Best Children's Series
1980s
1986
Fraggle Rock (CBC)
OWL/TV (CBC)
Today's Special (TVOntario)
Wonderstruck (CBC)
1987
Degrassi Junior High (CBC)
Fraggle Rock (CBC)
Spirit Bay (CBC and TVOntario)
What's New (CBC)
1988
Ramona (CBC)
Mr. Dressup (CBC)
Today's Special (TVOntario)
What's New (CBC)
Wonderstruck (CBC)
Best Children's Program or Series
1980s
1989
Mr. Dressup (CBC)
Bob Schneider & The Rainbow Kids in concert
Happy Castle (Global)
1990s
1990
Raffi in Concert with the Rise and Shine Band (CBC)
Dear Aunt Agnes (TVOntario)
Fred Penner's Place (CBC)
Under the Umbrella Tree (CBC)
1992
The Garden (CTV)
Join In! (TVOntario)
Take Off (The Family Channel)
1993
Shining Time Station (PBS)
Alligator Pie (CBC)
Curse of the Viking Grave (Disney Channel)
OWL/TV (CBC)
1994
Lamb Chop's Play-Along (YTV)
Join In! (TVOntario)
The Big Comfy Couch (YTV)
Under the Umbrella Tree Special (CBC)
1995
The Big Comfy Couch (YTV)
Candles, Snow & Mistletoe (CBC)
Fred Penner's Place (CBC)
The Biggest Little Ticket (CTV)
Wild Side Show (Nickelodeon)
1996
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (YTV)
Jim Henson's Dog City (Global)
Mighty Machines (TVOntario)
The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon (TVOntario)
The Composer's Specials (HBO)
Theodore Tugboat (CBC)
1997
The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon (TVOntario)
Goosebumps (YTV)
Groundling Marsh (YTV)
On My Mind (TVOntario)
Shining Time Station ("Second Chances") (PBS)
Best Youth Program or Series
1980s
1989
Wonderstruck (CBC)
Skin
What's New (CBC)
YTV Hits (YTV)
1990s
1990
Talkin' About AIDS
The Party's Over
YTV Rocks (YTV)
1992
Lost in the Barrens (Disney Channel)
Diary of a Teenage Smoker (CBC)
The NewMusic ("Rock 'n' Roll 'n' Reading") (CityTV)
Too Close...For Comfort
1993
The Jellybean Odyssey (CBC)
Degrassi Talks (CBC)
Road Movies (CBC)
Wonderstruck (CBC)
1994
Street Cents (CBC)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (YTV)
Minoru: Memory of Exile
Spirit Rider (CBC)
The Odyssey (CBC) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekender%20%28TV%20series%29 | Weekender is a Queensland-based lifestyle program screening on Sundays at 5:30pm.
Production
Queensland Weekender began in 2003 on the Seven Network on Saturdays at 5:30pm. It was produced by 7 Productions Queensland and often aired alongside similarly themed Queensland lifestyle programs, Creek To Coast and The Great South East.
In November 2019, the Seven Network announced the show had been axed with the final episodes screening in early 2020. In January 2020, Seven announced Weekender, an amalgamated version of Queensland Weekender and The Great Day Out, would begin from February 9, 2020 on Sundays at 5:30pm.
See also
Sydney Weekender
Melbourne Weekender
WA Weekender
SA Weekender
References
External links
Official website
Seven Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
Australian travel television series
2003 Australian television series debuts
Television shows set in Queensland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARY%20Film%20Award%20for%20Best%20Film%20Jury | The ARY Film Award for Best Film Jury is one of the ARY Film Awards of Merit presented annually by the ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel to producers working in the film industry and is the only category in which every member is eligible to submit a nomination. Best Film Jury is considered the most important of the ARY Film Awards, as it represents all the directing, acting, music composing, writing, editing and other efforts put forth into a drama. This award is one of the two Best Film awards in ceremony which is awarded to relevant film only on the decision of ceremony Jury, while other being awarded on Viewers Voting's.
History
The best film jury category originates with the 1st ARY Film Awards ceremony since 2014. This category has been given to the best film of previous year to the ceremony held by Jury selection. Since ARY Film Awards has been just started, this category has not a brief history. The name of the category officially termed by the channel is:
2013 → present: ARY Film Award for Best Film Jury
Winners and nominees
For Best Film Jury there were no Nomination made as of first ceremony, Since this Category awarded to Best Film of the Year by Jury, so it has to be only one win and one nominee. Following years may have nominations but as per of first ceremony only solo win and solo nomination was being made. The year shown is the one in which the film first released; normally this is also the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited theatrically during 2005 was eligible for consideration for the 2005 Best Film ARY Awards, awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article on that ceremony/ Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. Till from 2013, the Best Drama Serial award has given to producer rather than to Production company.
As of the first ceremony, only one winner was announced during the ceremony which was Jury decision based winner. This category is among four Jury Awards in ARY Film Awards that has only one win and one nomination.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st ARY Film Awards presented on May 35, 2015, to recognized films that were released between January, 2013, and December, 2013, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the film year in which they were releases, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the films of its previous year.
2010s
References
External links
ARY Film Awards Official website
ARY Film Award winners
ARY Film Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babelfy | Babelfy is a software algorithm for the disambiguation of text written in any language.
Specifically, Babelfy performs the tasks of multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation (i.e., the disambiguation of common nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) and Entity Linking (i.e. the disambiguation of mentions to encyclopedic entities like people, companies, places, etc.).
Overivew
Babelfy is based on the BabelNet multilingual semantic network and performs disambiguation and entity linking in three steps:
It associates with each vertex of the BabelNet semantic network, i.e., either concept or named entity, a semantic signature, that is, a set of related vertices. This is a preliminary step which needs to be performed only once, independently of the input text.
Given an input text, it extracts all the linkable fragments from this text and, for each of them, lists the possible meanings according to the semantic network.
It creates a graph-based semantic interpretation of the whole text by linking the candidate meanings of the extracted fragments using the previously-computed semantic signatures. It then extracts a dense subgraph of this representation and selects the best candidate meaning for each fragment.
As a result, the text, written in any of the 271 languages supported by BabelNet, is output with possibly overlapping semantic annotations.
See also
BabelNet
vidby
Entity linking
Multilinguality
Word sense disambiguation
References
External links
Lexical semantics
Semantics
Knowledge representation
Computational linguistics
Artificial intelligence
Multilingualism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosslyn%20Analytics | Rosslyn Data Technologies (aka Rosslyn Analytics) is a software company providing procurement and master data management solutions. Its procurement portfolio includes software solutions for Spend Analytics, Supplier Information Management, Supplier Performance Management and Supplier Contract Management. Master Data Management solutions include Data Extraction, Data Cleansing and Data Enrichment; available via a cloud-based data platform.
The company is listed on AIM, a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, and is headquartered in London with offices in New York City and Chicago, Illinois.
History
Rosslyn Analytics was founded in 2007 by Charles Clark and Hugh Cox. The company was named after Rosslyn Chapel in Midlothian, Scotland, which is famous for its mysterious carvings, believed to contain a message or even music that has never been verifiably decoded. In 2009, the company launched its first cloud-based business intelligence product - a self-service spend analytics app for its RAPid data platform. The RAPid platform won several awards for innovation and excellence, including the Technology Excellence Award for “Best New Product”.
In April 2011, as a public service to help the UK Government reduce the deficit by getting better control of its purchasing, Rosslyn Analytics offered to provide free spend analytics to the government in just 30 days. The government refused the offer.
In January 2012, Rosslyn Analytics entered the United States, establishing offices in New York City and Denver, Colorado.
Rosslyn Analytics was the first technology company to bring QlikView into the cloud in 2012.
In 2013, Rosslyn Analytics was featured in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites.
In February 2014, the company filed its first patent with the UK Intellectual Property Office on machine-learning. In April, Rosslyn Analytics went public on AIM under the name of Rosslyn Data Technologies Group plc. In May 2014, Rosslyn Analytics joined the UK government’s G-Cloud 5 Framework for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers.
Recognition
In January 2011, JMP Securities recognized Rosslyn Analytics as one of its “Hot 100” software companies to watch.
In March 2013, Bessemer named Rosslyn Analytics as one of the top Business Intelligence / Analytics cloud companies.
In December 2015, Rosslyn Analytics was named a strong performer in the Forrester Research report, “The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2015.”
In May 2016, Rosslyn Analytics recognized as finalist for the 2016 Microsoft Data Platform Partner of the Year award
In March 2017, Rosslyn Data Technologies was shortlisted for analytics product of the year in the UK Cloud Awards.
Products
The company’s flagship product is its cloud-based data platform called RAPid. RAPid provides self-service data integration, cleansing, enrichment, analysis and visualization capabilities via a single platform. Business users access the benefits of the pla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc%20Moreau | Luc Moreau is a Professor of Computer Science and Head of the department of Informatics, at King's College London. Before joining King's, Luc was Head of the Web and Internet Science, in the department of Electronics and Computer Science, at the University of Southampton, UK. He is best known for his work in provenance and was co-chair of the W3C provenance working group.
Editorships
Professor Moreau has been the editor for the journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, and associate editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.
Education
Moreau's received his Undergraduate Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Liège in 1989 and his Docteur en Sciences Appliquées (Doctor of Applied Sciences) from the same institution for his work "Sound evaluation of parallel functional programs with first class continuations".
Research
Moreau is best known for his work in the area of digital provenance. With the UK PASOA and FP6 Provenance projects, he delivered the first open specification for provenance and a secure, reference implementation. He initiated the Provenance Challenge: an international activity, to understand inter-operability issues arising when exchanging provenance information. This activity resulted in a novel data model for provenance, known as OPM (Open Provenance Model). The OPM effort led by Moreau and involving over a dozen of co-authors, was developed according to an open source-like governance approach and underwent multiple revisions.
References
Living people
University of Liège alumni
Academics of the University of Southampton
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Mann | Samuel Mann is a New Zealand computer scientist, with interests in computer science education and sustainability. He is a full Professor at Otago Polytechnic. He has published widely on sustainable practice, both in computing and more generally to apply to any discipline. Mann was educated at the University of Otago where he studied botany and geography, before completing a PhD in Information Science.
Sustainable Practitioner
Mann developed the term "sustainable practitioner". In 2007 under Mann's guidance, Otago Polytechnic committed to the strategy that "every graduate may think and act as a sustainable practitioner". Initiatives have included a Living Campus, and Sustainable Community Enterprise.
Mann is building an oral archive of conversations with sustainable practitioners. This is also broadcast on Otago Access Radio and podcast as Sustainable Lens. The goal is to create a searchable archive of conversations with people from many different fields who are applying their skills to a sustainable future.
CITRENZ
Since 2011 Mann has served as Chair of Computing and Information Technology Information and Education and Research NZ (CITRENZ). In that role he oversaw the development of a new suite of computing programmes for all New Zealand polytechnics.
Awards
In 2009 Mann was awarded the Beeby Fellowship. The Beeby Fellowship is a joint initiative between the New Zealand Council for Educational Research and the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO.
Books authored
The Green Graduate: Educating Every Student as a Sustainable Practitioner (2011) sets out a framework for integrating sustainability into every course of study.
Sustainable Lens: a visual guide (2011) traces the development of sustainability through its representation in diagrams. It presents a model for seeing the world through a sustainability-driven perspective.
References
External links
Official website
Institutional listing
Living people
Academic staff of Otago Polytechnic
New Zealand computer scientists
University of Otago alumni
Sustainability advocates
Association of Community Access Broadcasters
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadUSB | BadUSB is a computer security attack using USB devices that are programmed with malicious software. For example, USB flash drives can contain a programmable Intel 8051 microcontroller, which can be reprogrammed, turning a USB flash drive into a malicious device. This attack works by programming the fake USB flash drive to emulate a keyboard, which once plugged into a computer, is automatically recognized and allowed to interact with the computer, and can then initiate a series of keystrokes which open a command window and issue commands to download malware.
The BadUSB attack was first revealed during a Black Hat talk in 2014 by Karsten Nohl, Sascha Krißler and Jakob Lell. Two months after the talk, other researchers published code that can be used to exploit the vulnerability. In 2017, version 1.0 of the USG dongle, which acts like a hardware firewall, was released, which is designed to prevent BadUSB style attacks.
Criminal usage
In March 2020, the FBI issued a warning that members of the FIN7 cybercrime group have been targeting companies in the retail, restaurant, and hotel industries with BadUSB attacks designed to deliver REvil or BlackMatter ransomware. Packages have been sent to employees in IT, executive management, and human resources departments. One intended target was sent a package in the mail which contained a fake gift card from Best Buy as well as a USB flash drive with a letter stating that the recipient should plug the drive into their computer to access a list of items that could be purchased with the gift card. When tested, the USB drive emulated a keyboard, and then initiated a series of keystrokes which opened a PowerShell window and issued commands to download malware to the test computer, and then contacted servers in Russia.
In January 2022, the FBI issued another warning that members FIN7 were targeting transportation and insurance companies (since August 2021), and defense companies (since November 2021), with BadUSB attacks designed to deliver REvil or BlackMatter ransomware. These targets were sent USB drives in packages claiming to be from Amazon or the United States Department of Health and Human Services, with letters talking about free gift cards or COVID-19 protocols that were purportedly further explained by information on the USB drive. As above, when plugged in, the USB drives emulate a keyboard, and then initiate a series of keystrokes which open a PowerShell window and issue commands to download malware.
See also
Juice jacking
Further reading
References
Further reading
USB
Computer security exploits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Night%20They%20Took%20Miss%20Beautiful | The Night They Took Miss Beautiful is a 1977 American made-for-television drama film appearing on the NBC network that was produced by Don Kirshner. The film features a large number of stars in a story about "skyjacking beauty queens" on a Consolidated PBY Catalina. The passengers include five beauty pageant contestants, their entourage, and a secret agent carrying a vial of a secret and highly fatal biological warfare toxin that if opened can cause a pandemic.
Plot
Following a Miss Universe-style contest in Miami, Florida, the five semi-finalists are flown to Nassau, Bahamas in a flying boat along with the American contestant's stage mother; the group's escort, Kate Malloy (Stella Stevens); Miss Beautiful Master of Ceremonies Marv Barker (Phil Silvers) and a deadheading pilot, Paul Fabiani (Gary Collins).
At the airport, no one notices two men in flight mechanic's coveralls board the aircraft and conceal themselves. The two, members of a Symbionese Liberation Army-type revolutionary terrorist group, hijack the aircraft, killing the co-pilot when he attempts to send a warning over the radio. The surviving pilot lowers the aircraft to 200 feet to avoid radar and lands on a small uninhabited island that has World War II-vintage buildings. What the two terrorists do not know is that a deadly contagious nerve agent is aboard.
Awaiting the kidnapped passengers is Layla Burden (Sheree North), de facto leader of the terrorists who will kill the captives one by one until a $5 million ransom is paid.
Back at the small Miami airport the flying boat left from, security manager Mike O'Toole (Chuck Connors) meets two government agents, who are not from the Federal Bureau of Investigation but from an unnamed government agency with higher authority. The two agents are accompanied by several soldiers wearing American combat uniforms without insignia carrying automatic weapons.
Mike is shocked that the government agents not only have no intention of paying the ransom, but will instead get a fix on their position from the next radio transmission of their demands and launch an airstrike to kill the lot of them, including the hostages. Mike concludes that the captive's only hope rests with him.
Cast
Chuck Connors as Mike O'Toole
Gary Collins as Paul Fabiani
Henry Gibson as Rolly Royce
Peter Haskell as Damon Faulkner
Karen Lamm as Cindy Lou Barrett
Sheree North as Layla Burden
Victoria Principal as Reba Bar Lev, Miss Israel
Gregory Sierra as Omar Welk
Phil Silvers as Marv Barker
Stella Stevens as Kate Malloy
Rosanne Katon as April Garland, Miss Virgin Islands
Jonathan Banks as Buck
William Bassett as Smitty
Marcia Lewis as Mrs. Barrett
Burke Byrnes as Barney Jessup
Paul Kent as Director
Production
The Night They Took Miss Beautiful featured a Consolidated PBY Catalina, a flying boat that dates back to the 1930s and 1940s. It was used as a patrol, reconnaissance and night bomber during World War II.
Reception
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenovela%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Telenovela (), also stylized TeleNovela, is South Korean cable and satellite specialty channel.
The network transmits in SD (Standard-definition) until 2019 and in HD (High-definition) with approximately 7 million subscribers by December 2010.
Both channels' programming includes scripted television series (Brazilian telenovelas produced by Rede Globo), miniseries, films, documentaries, specials and other programs. All are subtitles in Korean to adapt to the local culture and then in Portuguese and Tetun to East Timor.
See also
Media of South Korea
Telecommunications in South Korea
References
External links
Television channels in South Korea
Television networks in South Korea
Korean-language television stations
Mass media companies of South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Aging%20Research | The Network Aging Research (NAR) / Netzwerk AltersfoRschung of the Heidelberg University is a research network on the topic of aging in the Rhein-Neckar-Region, Germany. The NAR was founded on 1 June 2006, and inaugurated on 19 July 2007. The founding director is Prof. Dr. h.c. Konrad Beyreuther.
It succeeds the “Deutsches Zentrum fuer Alternsforschung" (DZFA), which closed on 31 December 2005 due to a lack of funding from the federal and state governments.
The NAR is a permanent research network, financed by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg.
About
Cooperation Partners
The NAR officially cooperates with the following institutions: Heidelberg University, consisting of the two medical faculties in Mannheim and Heidelberg; the German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, the University of Mannheim, and the Central Institute of Mental Health ZI, Mannheim.
The goal of the NAR is to utilize existing networks, strengthen ties between cooperating institutions, and bring together varied disciplines that focus on aging.
Organization
The Network Aging Research is led by the board of directors, consisting of a spokesperson for each research area:
Konrad Beyreuther (Founding Director)
Hermann Brenner (Associate Director)
Hans-Werner Wahl (Associate Director)
The steering committee votes on strategic and financial issues, and consists of the following members:
The Protector of Research of the Heidelberg University
The Deans of both of the medical faculties for the Heidelberg University
The Scientific Foundation Board of Directors of the DKFZ
The Director of the Institute of Mental Health (ZI) Mannheim
The Director of the Center of Molecular Biology of the Heidelberg University (ZMBH)
The Director of the NAR
History
The Network Aging Research was established in 2006. Founding director is Prof. Dr. h.c. Konrad Beyreuther. This Network was laid out for permanency and started its work with the opening ceremony in July 2007.
Research
Research Focus
The Network Aging Research is an interdisciplinary institute, supporting researchers in multiple fields of aging, including humanists, natural, and medical scientists.
The NAR is focused on:
Bringing together research in all fields that are represented in the network
Promotion of young researchers
Dialogue beyond the borders of disciplines
Public relations
NAR-Kolleg
The NAR-Kolleg consists of Ph.D .students and post-doctorates from various disciplines and is funded by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung.
Postgraduate Program Dementia
12 Ph.D. students of various disciplines deal with the topic of Dementia. This postgraduate program is supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
External links
Homepage of the NAR
2006 establishments in Germany
Gerontology organizations
Heidelberg University
Medical research institutes in Germany
Medical and health organisations based in Baden-Württemberg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%20Walczak | Diana Walczak is an American sculptor, computer graphics pioneer and filmmaker. She is most famous for creating the original Michael Jackson's HIStory Statue which she sculpted in 1994. She also created the digital representation of the statue for Michael Jackson's album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I.
Early life and education
Diana Walczak began her visual arts education in the shops of her father and master printer, Jim Walczak. Diana studied engineering and sculpture at Boston University. She also assisted a medical illustrator and worked as a graphic artist for the Harvard Medical School while in college.
Career
In 1986, Diana was hired by Omnibus Computer Graphics to help create a superhero figure for Marvel Comics.
In 1987, she partnered up with Jeff Kleiser to form Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company. This company is now called Synthespian Studios. They developed some of the first computer-generated humans. They created the first digital stunt doubles for the feature film, Judge Dredd starring Sylvester Stallone. They also created the first face replacements in a feature film in The One starring Jet Li. Some additional feature films in which her work can be seen include Stargate, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Surrogates and she worked on the Computer animated Columbia Pictures film logo.
Diana has directed an advertising campaign for Sun Maid Raisins and has directed commercials starring Kobe Bryant and Hakeem Olajuwon. Diana and Jeff contributed to the digital magic behind many well-known projects including The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman, Monsters of Grace with Philip Glass, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!, and Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular. In 1994, she created a sculpture of Michael Jackson which became the basis for the cover of his 1995 album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I and the international marketing campaign for the album and the HIStory World Tour.
For the U.S. Department of Commerce, Diana authored a paper called Encompassing Education. This is about her vision of the future of education and the technology that goes into it. She has served on the board of directors of the Norman Rockwell Museum and currently serves on the board of directors of Images Cinema and Greylock ABC. Diana has directed numerous live-action short films under the name Harmless Little Bunny Productions including a short shot in Kenya, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and most recently, Morocco, for World Connect.
Personal life
Diana Walczak loves improvising in visual arts, music, yoga and fitness, and food preparation.
Awards
1994 – Created the original Michael Jackson HIStory statue
1995 – Created the image for Michael Jackson's album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I cover
1997 – Annecy International Animation Festival France
1999 – Clio award for Trophomotion commercial for Stardox
1999 – EDDY Award for “The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman”
2002 – Best Short NY International children's film Fes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR5%20SDRAM | Double Data Rate 5 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR5 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory. Compared to its predecessor DDR4 SDRAM, DDR5 was planned to reduce power consumption, while doubling bandwidth. The standard, originally targeted for 2018, was released on July 14, 2020.
A new feature called Decision Feedback Equalization (DFE) enables I/O speed scalability for higher bandwidth and performance improvement. DDR5 supports more bandwidth than its predecessor, DDR4, with 4.8 gigabits per second possible, but not shipping at launch. DDR5 has about the same latency as DDR4 and DDR3. DDR5 octuples the maximum DIMM capacity from 64 GB to 512 GB. DDR5 also has higher frequencies than DDR4.
Rambus announced a working DDR5 DIMM in September 2017. On November 15, 2018, SK Hynix announced completion of its first DDR5 RAM chip; running at 5200 MT/s at 1.1 V. In February 2019, SK Hynix announced a 6400 MT/s chip, the highest speed specified by the preliminary DDR5 standard. Some companies were planning to bring the first products to market by the end of 2019. The world's first DDR5 DRAM chip was officially launched by SK Hynix on October 6, 2020.
The separate JEDEC standard LPDDR5 (Low Power Double Data Rate 5), intended for laptops and smartphones, was released in February 2019.
Compared to DDR4, DDR5 further reduces memory voltage to 1.1 V, thus reducing power consumption. DDR5 modules incorporate on-board voltage regulators in order to reach higher speeds. DDR5 supports a speed of 51.2 GB/s per module and two memory channels per module.
There is a general expectation that most use-cases that currently use DDR4 will eventually migrate to DDR5.
Features
Unlike DDR4, all DDR5 chips have on-die ECC, where errors are detected and corrected before sending data to the CPU. This, however, is not the same as true ECC memory with extra data correction chips on the memory module. DDR5's on-die error correction is to improve reliability and to allow denser RAM chips which lowers the per-chip defect rate. There still exist non-ECC and ECC DDR5 DIMM variants; the ECC variants have extra data lines to the CPU to send error-detection data, letting the CPU detect and correct errors occurring in transit.
Each DDR5 DIMM has two independent channels. Earlier DIMM generations featured only a single channel and one CA (Command/Address) bus controlling the whole memory module with its 64 (for non-ECC) or 72 (for ECC) data lines. Both subchannels on a DDR5 DIMM each have their own CA bus, controlling 32 bits for non-ECC memory and either 36 or 40 data lines for ECC memory, resulting in a total number of either 64, 72 or 80 data lines. The reduced bus width is compensated by a doubled minimum burst length of 16, which preserves the minimum access size of 64 bytes, which matches the cache line size used by modern x86 microprocessors.
Memory modules
For use in personal computers and servers, multiple DDR5 memory chips are usually
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raylectron | Raylectron is a rendering engine used as an extension for Trimble SketchUp, a 3D computer graphics software. Developed by SoftByte Labs, Inc., Raylectron brings powerful rendering capabilities to SketchUp, enabling users to create stunning photorealistic renderings and animations.
Overview
Raylectron utilizes advanced rendering techniques based on the path tracing algorithm, which has been extensively optimized for speed while maintaining high levels of photo-realism. Unlike many conventional rendering engines, Raylectron does not rely on approximation or emulation, offering a unique approach to achieving both speed and realism.
The software offers a range of features, including the ability to render animations of scenes created directly in Raylectron or within SketchUp itself. Raylectron also provides an instancing capability, allowing the efficient handling of large models with minimal memory usage. This feature is particularly useful for landscape design, as it enables users to create instances of objects like trees and bushes that can be individually rotated and scaled, resulting in diverse and realistic scenes.
In addition to CPU rendering, Raylectron also supports real-time GPU rendering using OpenCL, making it compatible with Nvidia and AMD video cards.
History
Raylectron was developed by SoftByte Labs, Inc., a software development company based in Manitoba, Canada. The company, founded by Michael Purkhardt in 1993, initially focused on providing medical software for hospitals and physicians. Over time, the company transitioned to the software industry and, eventually, to 3D visualization, leading to the creation of Raylectron. Michael Purkhardt, an engineer in electronics, mechanics, and an architect, played a key role in the development of the software, utilizing his expertise in computer science and software development.
Usage and Applications
Raylectron finds application in various fields, including architecture, interior design, and 3D modeling. Architects and interior designers use Raylectron to create photorealistic renderings of their designs, enhancing presentations, client communication, and marketing materials. 3D artists leverage Raylectron to bring their models to life through stunning visualizations and animations, which can be used for advertisements, animations, and more.
Reception
Raylectron has garnered positive reviews from professionals and enthusiasts in the field. Its powerful rendering capabilities, user-friendly interface, and affordability have made it a popular choice for SketchUp users. The software has received praise for its ability to produce high-quality, photorealistic renders, as well as its interactive rendering feature and customization options.
See also
Trimble SketchUp
Rendering engine
References
External links
Official website
Youtube
3D graphics software
Rendering systems
Global illumination software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%20Demonstration%20of%20Smallsat%20Networks | Edison Demonstration of Smallsat Networks (EDSN) was a failed (launch failure) CubeSat constellation by NASA Ames, developed as a technology demonstration of satellite networking. The constellation would have consisted of 8 identical satellites. The satellites followed the CubeSat specifications for a 1.5U CubeSat.
EDSN was funded through the Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP). Additionally, NASA Ames has partnered with NASA Marshall, Montana State University, and Santa Clara University. All 8 CubeSats were destroyed during a launch failure of the Super Strypi rocket on November 3, 2015.
Mission
The eight identical spacecraft used absolute timing obtained from GPS satellites to maintain a schedule. Each day, one satellite would have acted as a Captain and the rest would have acted as Lieutenants. Each spacecraft was able to act as a Captain, and the role of Captain would have rotated through the constellation each 25-hour period. Lieutenants would only communicate with the Captain, and the Captain would have been responsible for downlinking to an Earth station.
Lifetime
NASA had estimated a 60-day mission lifetime, at which time the satellites would have drifted apart beyond the 100–120 km estimated range of the cross link and would have no longer been able to network.
Orbit
The constellation was planned for a 500 km altitude.
Design
EDSN was using Triangular Advanced Solar Cells (TASC) for power generation. Intersatellite communications would have been on UHF via a tapespring antenna. Ground communications would have been via an S-band patch antenna. The spacecraft would have used magnetometers and gyroscopes as attitude determination instruments and reaction wheels and torque coils for attitude control.
Cross link would have occurred via the UHF transceiver and on a UHF monopole with an estimated maximum range of 100–120 km. The link would have been initiated when the captain pings the specific Lieutenant's ID. The specified Lieutenant would have then responded with data to be downlinked. Downlink would have occurred on S-Band between the current captain and ground station.
The flight computer was a Samsung Nexus S smartphone.
See also
2015 in spaceflight
References
External links
CubeSats
NASA programs
Spacecraft launched in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram%20na%20Alaala | (International title: Memories of Love / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Dennis Trillo, Kris Bernal, Lauren Young and Rocco Nacino. It premiered on September 22, 2014 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real. The series concluded on January 9, 2015 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Second Chances in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dennis Trillo as Ivan Legazpi
Kris Bernal as Andrea "Andeng" Dizon-Legazpi
Lauren Young as Bethany Sandoval-Alcantara
Rocco Nacino as Joseph "Otep" Corpuz
Supporting cast
Jackie Lou Blanco as Regina Legazpi
Allan Paule as Alexander "Xander" Dizon
Lotlot de Leon as Annabelle Sta. Cruz-Dizon
Nina Ricci Alagao as Martina Sandoval
Shyr Valdez as Araceli Corpuz
Dexter Doria as Yolanda "Ola" Dizon
Antonio Aquitania as Benedict Corpuz
Julia Lee as Gelai
Kenneth Paul Cruz as Christian "Chris" Corpuz
Jenny Rose as Krissy Corpuz
Rap Fernandez as Bruno
Guest cast
Hershey Garcia as young Andeng
Carl Acosta as young Ivan
Timothy Chan as young Otep
Kiel Rodriguez as Rod
Sheena Halili as Yasmin Perez-Corpuz
Benjamin Alves as Kevin Luna
Bettina Carlos
Mike Tan
Edwin Reyes
Rez Cortez
Madelaine Nicolas
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 19.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 20.2% rating. The series had its highest rating on November 13, 2014 with a 21.8% rating.
References
External links
2014 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WA%20Weekender | WA Weekender is a travel and lifestyle show featuring destinations throughout Western Australia. The series ran from 1 August 2014 to 11 June 2017 and aired on Sundays at 5:30pm on the Seven Network in that state. The program visited various locations in Western Australia and looks at accommodation, dining and entertainment.
The Digital Imagineers Company managing director and executive producer, Stephen Aspinall said "The idea behind WA Weekender is to educate and inspire all West Australians to look up from their phone or get off the couch and have some genuine and authentic experiences." It was created by The Digital Imagineers Company for Channel 7 Perth.
Presenters
Dan Paris
Haley Thompson
Jessie James
Sarah Danze
Mat Dwyer
See also
Sydney Weekender
Melbourne Weekender
Queensland Weekender
SA Weekender
References
Seven Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
Australian travel television series
2014 Australian television series debuts
2017 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S25%20%28ZVV%29 | The S25 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network, and is one of the network's lines connecting the cantons of Zürich with Schwyz, Glarus and St. Gallen. The line was introduced in July 2014, and replaces the less frequent Glarner Sprinter train.
History
Between 1918 and 2004, there was no direct connection from the canton of Glarus to the city of Zürich. In 2004, the through Glarner Sprinter train was introduced, but financial and technical limitations meant this train only ran every two hours on weekdays, and twice a day on weekends and holidays. It also only reached Linthal, the terminus of the line in Glarus, on weekends and holidays. In July 2014, these limitations were finally overcome, and the Glarner Sprinter was replaced by the hourly S25 service to Linthal.
Route
The line links Zürich Hauptbahnhof with the canton of Glarus, terminating at the village of Linthal and the head of the valley of the Linth river. From the Hauptbahnhof, the line uses the Lake Zürich left-bank railway line to Ziegelbrücke, stopping only at a few selected stations. It then takes the Weesen-Linthal railway line to Linthal, stopping at all stations (except Nieder- und Oberurnen) including those for Glarus Town and Schwanden.
On its route, the line stops at the following stations:
Ziegelbrücke
Näfels-Mollis
Netstal
Glarus
Ennenda
Mitlödi
Schwanden
Linthal Braunwaldbahn
Linthal
Scheduling
Trains run hourly, covering the distance from Zürich Hauptbahnhof to Ziegelbrücke in 43 minutes, to Glarus in 60 minutes, and to Linthal in 94 minutes. Despite being classified as an S-Bahn train, the S25 actually covers the distance between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Ziegelbrücke in a shorter time than the parallel RegioExpress service to Chur. This mirrors the performance of its predecessor, the Glarner Sprinter named train, which was itself classified as a RegioExpress service.
For its journey along the Lake Zürich left-bank line, the S25 is paralleled by other Zürich S-Bahn lines that provide more frequent, but slower, service. Principally amongst these, the S2 runs every 30 minutes as far as Ziegelbrücke, whilst the S8 runs every 30 minutes as far as Pfäffikon SZ. Between Ziegelbrücke and Schwanden, the S25 is paralleled by the hourly St. Gallen S-Bahn service S6, thus providing a half-hourly service.
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
Trams in Zürich
References
External links
ZVV official website: Routes & zones
Zürich S-Bahn lines
Canton of Glarus
Canton of Schwyz
Transport in the canton of St. Gallen
Transport in the canton of Zürich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqu%C3%AD%20y%20Ahora%20%28TV%20program%29 | Aquí y Ahora (Here and Now) is a Spanish-language newsmagazine that is broadcast on the Univision television network in the United States on Sundays at 10:00 pm ET/ 9:00 CT. The show was launched in 1998 and is presented by Ilia Calderón. Aquí y Ahora presents stories that document the Latino experience in the United States. The program's memorable stories are compelling, surprising and revealing while providing context, perspective and balance. A team of dedicated and experienced story tellers will take you places where news is breaking, and also bring human-interest dramas, mystery and in-depth investigations. In 2012, the show achieved national attention as it aired an investigation on the Fast and Furious scandal, for which it later received a Peabody Award.
Broadcast history
The show aired originally as a quarterly special edition and began weekly broadcasts on March 30, 2000, with Teresa Rodríguez, and María Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos as co-anchors. It originally aired on Thursdays at 10:00 PM Eastern Time and Pacific Time/9:00 PM Central Time. In 2009 or 2010, the timeslot changed to Tuesdays at 10:00 PM Eastern and Pacific Time/9:00 PM Central Time. In 2012, Univision announced the show would air on Sundays at 7:00 PM Eastern and Pacific Time/6:00 PM Central Time.
Special editions
Rápido y Furioso: Armando al enemigo
In-depth investigation on failed Operation Fast and Furious that revealed how the guns that crossed the border as part of a government undercover operation, caused dozens of deaths in Mexico.
El Chapo Guzmán, el eterno fugitivo
Recounts the story of one of the world’s most wanted fugitives Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán at the juncture of his latest capture by the Mexican authorities in February 2014. The special set a record breaking weekly performance with over 1.6 million viewers.
Journalism awards
2005 GLAAD Award, Mejor Segmento Televisivo de Revista periodística en Español, Muxes
2007 NAHJ, National Association of Hispanic Journalists Award
2008 GLAAD Award, Mejor Segmento Televisivo de Revista periodística en Español, La historia de Angie Zapata
2013 Peabody Award, Operation fast and Furious (Univision Investiga)
2013 The Gracie Awards – Alliance for Women in Media, TV Outstanding Magazine, The Woman in the Mirror
2013 GLAAD Award, Mejor Segmento Televisivo de Revista periodística en Español, La vida en rosa
2014 GLAAD Award, Mejor Segmento Televisivo de Revista periodística en Español, Rompiendo Estereotipos
2015 GLAAD Award, Mejor Segmento Televisivo de Revista periodística en Español, En Cuerpo Ajeno
2014 Emmy Award Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in Spanish, La Masacre de Iguala
2014 Emmy Award Outstanding Investigative Journalism in Spanish, Los Nuevos Narcotesoros (Univision Investiga)
2015 Emmy Award Outstanding Investigative Journalism in Spanish, El Chapo: El Eterno Fugitivo
2017 Emmy Award Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in Spanish, La Recaptura de El Chapo
2018 Emmy Award Ou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylloge | Sylloge, from the Ancient Greek συλλογή ("collection"), is a compilation of documents or data. In particular the term may refer to:
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, a project publishing collections of ancient Greek coins
Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, a similar project for British coinage of the Anglo-Saxons and Normans
Lombard syllogae, Anglo-Saxon compilations of inscriptions from Lombard Italy
Syllogae minores, compilations of ancient Greek poetry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20TelevisaUnivision%20telenovelas | Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company (or television network) founded in 1951 by Emilio Azcárraga Jean. Previously known as Televisión Independiente de México, Telesistema Mexicano and Televisa, has four stations: FORO, Canal 5, Nueve and Las Estrellas. The latter is responsible for the transmission of television drama productions since 1958.
'Senda prohibida', directed by Rafael Banquells, was the first telenovela produced by the network, which has 30 chapters and won a great success. Thus, investing in original serials and, with the beginning of 1960, decided to write more than twenty telenovelas in just one year. The indices marked by 'share' were satisfactory and continued with the project. With the advent of color television, 'El amor tiene cara de mujer' was written in 1971 and had 760 chapters, the telenovela longest of the network. Still, Televisa has partnered with broadcasters in other countries, such as Venevisión, which allowed the adaptation of Venezuelans serials, the Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão, which exhibited some works and prepared under Brazilian remakes Mexican texts, and also the Rede Record, which co-funded the plots 'Bela, a Feia' and 'Rebelde' with the chain.
In 1980, the network gave priority to Venezuelans and Cubans roadmaps Inés Rodena and Caridad Bravo Adams. Later, the infant soaps began to be produced, such as Carrusel, Alcanzar una estrella and Azul. The singer Thalía, also starred in the Trilogía de las Marías, originally from Rodena, which includes María Mercedes, Marimar and María la del Barrio. The latter is the biggest selling novel in the world and has been adapted in the Philippines. Thus, Televisa again invested in texts for children and adolescents with Luz Clarita, Gotita de amor, El niño que vino del mar, El diario de Daniela, Serafín, ¡Vivan los niños!, Alegrijes y rebujos, Primer amor... a mil por hora, De pocas, pocas pulgas, Clase 406, Amy, la niña de la mochila azul and Rebelde.
From the 2000s, the radio network began producing remakes of his earlier serials, as well as Argentine and Colombian texts, such as in Cuidado con el ángel, Sortilegio, Lola, érase una vez and Corazón salvaje. Then, in 2006, began using the system HD in 'La Fea más Bella'. Currently, there are six transmission ranges of telenovelas: 12h intended to productions with foreign networks; at 16h, 18h and 19h, the juvenile and the public at 20h and 21h at the adult audience.
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
References
External links
Televisa
Televisa telenovelas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan%20Samet | Hanan Samet is a Computer Science researcher and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland's Computer Science Department, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He completed his PhD at Stanford University in 1975.
Samet is a pioneer in research on quadtrees and other multidimensional spatial data structures for sorting spatial information, as well as having written several well-received books. He has profoundly influenced the theory and application of these areas of research and his impact can be seen in many real-world applications including Google Earth, the world’s most widely used graphics application.
Awards
2020 Distinguished Career in Computer Science, Washington Academy of Sciences
2013 University of Maryland Distinguished University Professor
2012 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
1996 Fellow Association for Computing Machinery
1996 Fellow International Association for Pattern Recognition
1991 Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
External links
References
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
Stanford University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Fellows of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20for%20Pattern%20Recognition | The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), founded in 1978 by Purdue University computer scientist King-Sun Fu, is an international association of non-profit, scientific, or professional organizations (being national, multi-national, or international in scope) concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing in a broad sense. Normally, only one organization is admitted from any one country, and individuals interested in taking part in IAPR's activities may do so by joining their national organization.
Publications
The IAPR publishes four main academic publications of record:
The IAPR Newsletter is published quarterly
Pattern Recognition Letters is published monthly by Elsevier (ISSN 0167-8655)
Machine Vision and Applications is published bimonthly by Springer Verlag
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition is published quarterly by Springer Verlag
Conferences
IAPR Conferences:
The International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2014—Stockholm, Sweden
2016—Santiago, Chile
2018—Beijing, China
2020—Milan, Italy
2022—Montreal, Canada
The International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
The International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
2013—Washington, DC, USA
2015—Nancy, France
2017—Kyoto, Japan
2019—Sydney, Australia
The IAPR Fellow Award has been awarded biennially since 1994 to recognize distinguished contributions to the field of pattern recognition.
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Information technology organizations
International organizations based in the United States
International learned societies
Organizations established in 1976
Computer science-related professional associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing%20gradient%20problem | In machine learning, the vanishing gradient problem is encountered when training artificial neural networks with gradient-based learning methods and backpropagation. In such methods, during each iteration of training each of the neural networks weights receives an update proportional to the partial derivative of the error function with respect to the current weight. The problem is that in some cases, the gradient will be vanishingly small, effectively preventing the weight from changing its value. In the worst case, this may completely stop the neural network from further training. As one example of the problem cause, traditional activation functions such as the hyperbolic tangent function have gradients in the range , and backpropagation computes gradients by the chain rule. This has the effect of multiplying of these small numbers to compute gradients of the early layers in an -layer network, meaning that the gradient (error signal) decreases exponentially with while the early layers train very slowly.
Back-propagation allowed researchers to train supervised deep artificial neural networks from scratch, initially with little success. Hochreiter's diplom thesis of 1991 formally identified the reason for this failure in the "vanishing gradient problem", which not only affects many-layered feedforward networks, but also recurrent networks. The latter are trained by unfolding them into very deep feedforward networks, where a new layer is created for each time step of an input sequence processed by the network. (The combination of unfolding and backpropagation is termed backpropagation through time.)
When activation functions are used whose derivatives can take on larger values, one risks encountering the related exploding gradient problem.
Prototypical models
This section is based on the paper On the difficulty of training Recurrent Neural Networks by Pascanu, Mikolov, and Bengio.
Recurrent network model
A generic recurrent network has hidden states inputs , and outputs . Let it be parametrized by , so that the system evolves asOften, the output is a function of , as some . The vanishing gradient problem already presents itself clearly when , so we simplify our notation to the special case with: Now, take its differential:Training the network requires us to define a loss function to be minimized. Let it be , then minimizing it by gradient descent giveswhere is the learning rate.
The vanishing/exploding gradient problem appears because there are repeated multiplications, of the form
Example: recurrent network with sigmoid activation
For a concrete example, consider a typical recurrent network defined by
where is the network parameter, is the sigmoid activation function, applied to each vector coordinate separately, and is the bias vector.
Then, , and so Since , the operator norm of the above multiplication is bounded above by . So if the spectral radius of is , then at large , the above multiplication has operator norm bounded ab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%20Vita%20Pets | PlayStation Vita Pets is a pet simulation video game with puzzle and adventure game elements developed by Spiral House in conjunction with XDev and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Vita. The player raises a virtual dog while also adventuring with them in a fictional realm. It received mixed reviews from critics and currently has a 63% from Metacritic.
Gameplay
Using the touchscreen and microphone, the player can play with and manage a virtual dog. The gameplay's main focus is an adventure set in a region called Castlewood Island, where the player completes basic puzzles and works with their dog to complete challenges. The dogs in the game speak and have a full vocabulary, and respond to player voice commands. The dogs talk with the player and plead with them to adventure with them. The game's camera allows the pet to recognize their owner's face.
The game includes RPG elements and locks content until certain levels have been reached. A spin-off game, PlayStation Vita Pets: Puppy Parlour, was released for iOS and Android on June 3, 2014.
Reception
PlayStation Vita Pets received mixed reviews; the game currently has a 63% approval rating on Metacritic.
The Guardians Andy Robertson said that the minigames present in the game "lets Vita Pets deliver a much more involving experience than first appears to be the case." Destructoid's Brittany Vincent criticized the level grinding required to access some content but felt that it was still a stronger game than its competition nonetheless. Forbess Andy Robertson felt that the game marked the "arrival of Sony's handheld for the younger members of the family" and noted that the children he shared the game with loved it.
Reaction to the dog's voices were mixed. Pocket Gamers Matt Suckley said that the dog's voices "steal away the game's charm" and heavily criticized the decision to give them full human vocabularies. Destructoid's Brittany Vincent disagreed, noting that the voices were "positively "aww"-inducing from the get-go".
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External links
Official website
2014 video games
PlayStation Vita games
PlayStation Vita-only games
Single-player video games
Spiral House games
Video games about dogs
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Virtual pet video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFN%20Bremerhaven | AFN Bremerhaven was originally an "Armed Forces Radio and Television Service" (AFRTS) station. (AFRTS, worldwide, is now also known as "American Forces Network" or "AFN"). The Bremerhaven affiliate station was located in northern Germany. At the time, it was part of the "American Forces Network - Europe." AFN Bremerhaven began broadcasting in 1945, originally as AFN Bremen.
The station began operating just after World War II ended in Europe. It was originally established in the north German city of Bremen in allied-occupied Germany as a small AM radio station with an AM repeater transmitter also broadcasting the station's signal in Bremerhaven, Germany, a port city on the Weser River near the entrance to the North Sea located just north of Bremen.
Military mission
The radio station's mission was to provide information and entertainment to members of the American forces who were based in that part of northern Germany. After World War II, the small north German US occupied area was originally known as the "Bremen Enclave", and it was an "American island" located in the portion of the newly formed West Germany that was originally occupied and controlled by British forces, (The British Occupation Zone of West Germany).
History
Just after World War II, the port city of Bremerhaven was one of the major ports from where American forces embarked for return to the United States after fighting in the Second World War; later, the port brought US military personnel, their families, military equipment, as well as food and goods for the rebuilding of Europe to Germany via ships from the US. Many of these shipments were, in part, in support of the Marshall Plan designed to assist and re-build war-torn Europe. Later, in the 1960s, and thereafter, most personnel movement was done via air travel. AFN Bremerhaven entertained the troops and their families based in that area, providing "a touch of home" to them through the station's radio broadcasts and later with the addition of TV broadcasts. The station could also be heard in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire 24 hours a day. On medium wave radio,
AFN Bremen's very first radio broadcast occurred on Saturday, 28 July 1945. In 1949, the station moved from the city of Bremen north to the port city of Bremerhaven and was one of many American units based on Bremerhaven Army Airfield, renamed Carl Schurz Kaserne in 1973, and went from being radio-only "AFN Bremen" to becoming "AFN Bremerhaven" with AM and later with FM radio and TV operations. For nearly 48 years the station broadcast to US personnel; it also entertained many German and other listeners in nearby nations who were also able to hear the station's radio signal from one of its half-dozen repeater transmitters located throughout northern Germany. In addition to AM and FM frequencies in Bremerhaven, the signal was repeated via transmitters located in Garlstedt (Bremen) (FM), Soegel-Ahlhorn (FM), Hessisch Oldendorf (FM), Flensburg (FM), Schleswig-Neub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfriended | Unfriended is a 2014 screenlife supernatural horror film directed by Levan Gabriadze and produced by Timur Bekmambetov. Set on a computer screen, it is produced in the so-called Screenlife format. The film stars Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, and Courtney Halverson as six high school students in a Skype conversation which is haunted by a student, played by Heather Sossaman, who was bullied by them and committed suicide. The film is told almost entirely through a screencast of a MacBook.
The film premiered at the Fantasia Festival on July 20, 2014, and was theatrically released by Universal Pictures in the United States on April 17, 2015. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a massive box-office success, grossing $62 million against a $1 million budget. A stand-alone sequel, Unfriended: Dark Web, was released in 2018.
Plot
In Fresno, CA, high school student Laura Barns commits suicide by gunshot after an anonymous user uploads a video of her passing out and defecating at an unsupervised party, making it go viral. One year later, her former childhood best friend Blaire Lily is chatting with her boyfriend Mitch Roussel on Skype, during which they agree to lose their virginities to each other on prom night. Soon after they are joined by their friends and classmates Jess Felton, Ken Smith, and Adam Sewell, and an unknown user known as "billie227."
The group of friends tries various ways to get rid of the intruder but are unsuccessful each time. Blaire looks up the account and realizes that it belonged to Laura Barns, revealing "billie227" as Laura even though the friends are still incredulous about this possibility. The group suspects that a classmate, Val Rommel, is pranking them. After they invite Val to their chat, Jess' Facebook page is updated with embarrassing photos of Val at a party. Jess denies uploading the photos and deletes them from her account, but the pictures instantly reappear on Adam's account. Val receives a message of a picture not visible to the others, but which she considers a threat. Angry, she calls 911 to report that she is being harassed, and abruptly leaves the chat. The group receives a photo of Val and Laura's Facebook messages from before Laura's death, with Val telling Laura to kill herself. Val reappears on the chat, sitting motionless and silent next to a bottle of bleach before collapsing. Police officers arrive shortly after; the friends eavesdrop and learn that Val died from a presumed suicide. Laura then sends each of the friends a personalized message proving intimate knowledge of their secrets; in Blaire's case, which is the one visible to the audience, this turns out to be several pictures revealing that she had an affair with Adam. Ken distributes a program to remove Laura from the chat, and then Adam attempts to call the police. However, the 911 operator turns out to be the intruder and re-enters the chat, revealing a camera view from the other side o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPX%20%28disambiguation%29 | VPX is a computer bus standard.
VPX may also refer to:
Vpx, Viral Protein X, a protein
VPX Sports, and VPX, brand names of Vital Pharmaceuticals
Victorian Power Exchange, established by the Government of Victoria, Australia
VPX, video technology by NewBlue
Vodafone VPx, see HTC Blue Angel
See also
OpenVPX, an Industry Working Group of defense contractors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenobiodes%20abietiella | Coenobiodes abietiella is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Fujian, Guangdong), Japan and Russia.
The wingspan is 11.5-12.5 mm.
The larvae feed on Taxus cuspidata.
References
Moths described in 1931
Eucosmini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20painting | Brain painting is a non-invasive P300-based brain-computer interface (BCI) that allows painting without the use of muscular activity. The technology combines electroencephalography, signal processing algorithms and visual stimulation on a monitor to detect where the user focuses his attention, allowing him to voluntarily trigger commands to a painting software. The research project aims at assisting people afflicted with the Locked-in syndrome due to neurological or neuromuscular disease (e.g. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS), who are severely restricted in communication with their environment, and therefore cut off from the possibility of creative expression.
History
Brain painting was co-developed by Andrea Kübler from the University of Würzburg (Germany) and Adi Hoesle. After development and testing, Brain Painting first appeared in 2010 to general press and to scientific press with a report of evaluation on healthy and locked-in participants
Supported since 2012 by the EU project "BackHome" (FP7-ICT-288566), the BCI has been adapted for independent home use, and installed at locked-in artist's home: Heide Pfützner in 2012 and Jürgen Thiele in 2013. Long-term evaluation by a locked-in end user showed good satisfaction towards the system.
After successful crowdfunding support, the artist Heide Pfüztner had an exhibition in summer 2013 in Easdale, Scotland, and from July to December 2014 in Würzburg (Germany)
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Brain–computer interfacing
Human–computer interaction
Painting techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unis%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Unis is a Canadian French language specialty channel. The channel broadcasts general entertainment programming, with a particular focus on highlighting francophone communities outside Quebec.
The channel shares a broadcasting licence with its sister channel, TV5 Québec Canada (TV5), which focuses on international and Quebec francophone programming.
History
After the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) call for applications regarding services who wish to be regulated to be distributed on the basic package of all television service providers in Canada, TV5's application was made public in January 2013. Within this application, TV5 proposed an additional service, Unis, which would operate under TV5's existing broadcast licence as a secondary feed, and would "offer programming focused primarily on reflecting the diversity of the Canadian Francophonie," while TV5 would continue to focus on offering programming primarily reflecting the international Francophonie.
The application was approved on August 8, 2013.
The channel launched on September 1, 2014.
Programming
Programmes airing on the channel include Couleurs locales, a cultural newsmagazine series; Balade à Toronto, a music series showcasing live performances by francophone artists; Vu de l’intérieur, a documentary series on homes and interior design; J’habite ici, a documentary series showcasing towns and cities through the eyes of local francophone residents; Qu’est-ce qu’on sauve?, a series profiling people committed to protecting animals or safeguarding historical buildings in Ontario; Ma caravane au Canada; Canada plus grand que nature; 5e élément and Pense vite!.
In 2015, the channel announced that it had commissioned its first original dramatic series, St. Nickel. The series, filmed in Sudbury, Ontario by Carte Blanche Films, debuted on Unis in 2016.
Acquired programming
Alfred Hitchcock présente
Angela, 15 ans
Les années coup de cœur
Chair de poule
Cochon dingue
Dans une galaxie près de chez vous
Dead Zone
Degrassi : nouvelle génération
La famille Addams
Le loup-garou du campus
Malcolm
La quatrième dimension
Radio Enfer
Ramdam
Tactik
Twin Peaks
Watatatow
Non-animated kids' shows
Canot Cocasse
Cornemuse
Ouache!
Xavier et Mamie
Comme dans l'espace
Cartoons
The channel also airs cartoons, including:
Anatane : Les Enfants D'Okura
Angelo la Débrouille
Ariol
Arthur
Atomic Betty
Bali
Blaise le blasé
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations / Naruto Spin-Off: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals (Anime)
Boule et Bill
Brico club
Bruno et les Bananamis
Caillou
Le chat dans le chapeau est un futé rigolo
Chop suey trio
Chronokids
Colis de la Planète X
Le diabolique Monsieur Kat
Dimitri
La Famille pirate
Franny et les chaussures magiques
Galaxie academie
Garderie Waf Waf
Grabouillon
Harry et ses dinosaures
Il était une fois... les découvreurs
Il était une fois... les explorateurs
Il était une fois... l'Homme
Il était une fois... notre Terre
Inspecteur Gadget
Iris, le gentil profes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASABI%20%28software%29 | WASABI is a simulation software that aims to simulate emotions for computer systems, esp. embodied agents and social robots. Its development is motivated by the ideas behind Affective Computing in that it tries to simulate human affect. It provides a graphical user interface based on Qt. It is free software under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
References
Science software that uses Qt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-J%C3%B6rg%20Kreowski | Hans-Jörg Kreowski (born 10 August 1949) is a professor for computer science at the University of Bremen in North West Germany. His primary research area is theoretical computer science with an emphasis on graph transformation, algebraic specification, and syntactic picture processing. He is also a member of the (FIfF).
Education and career
Hans-Jörg Kreowski studied mathematics from 1969 to 1974 at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany with a scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. From 1974 to 1978 he was a research assistant at the computer science department of the Technical University of Berlin where he wrote his doctoral thesis on manipulations of graph transformations and then held an assistant professorship. He obtained his habilitation in 1982 and was appointed professor of theoretical computer science at the University of Bremen in Germany in the same year. There, along with colleagues such as Frieder Nake, Wolfgang Coy, Klaus-Peter Löhr and Hermann Gehring, he significantly shaped the development of the computer science department.
In 1985 Kreowski was a guest researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights (N.Y, USA). He founded the IFIP Working Group 1.3 (Foundations of Systems Specifications) in 1992 and was its first chairman until 1997. He is also a member of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Gesellschaft für Informatik , and the Forum of Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility which he chaired from 2003 to 2009. In 1996 he was conferred the Outstanding Service Award by the International Federation of Information Processing and in 2001 he was awarded the IFIP Silver Core.
Since 2013 Hans Jörg Kreowski is also a member of the Leibniz Scientific Society.
Research
Kreowski has authored over 160 scientific publications with fundamental contributions to the theory and applications of graph transformation, syntactic picture generation, and algebraic specification.
He co-edited over 15 books, among them two handbooks on graph transformation. The edited books span his main research areas and such diverse topics as computer science and society, logistics, and formal methods in software and systems modeling.
For many years he was the editor for the Educational Matters Column within the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
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Forum of Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (in German)
1949 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Technical University of Berlin alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bremen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend4Web | Blend4Web is a free and open source framework for creating and displaying interactive 3D computer graphics in web browsers.
Overview
The Blend4Web framework leverages Blender to edit 3D scenes. Content rendering relies on WebGL, Web Audio, WebVR, and other web standards, without the use of plug-ins.
It is dual-licensed and is distributed under the free and open source GPLv3 and a non-free license; the source code is hosted on GitHub.
A 3D scene can be prepared in Blender and then exported as a pair of JSON and binary files to load in a web application. It can also be exported as a single, self-contained HTML file, in which exported data, the web player GUI and the engine itself are packed. The HTML option is considered to be the simplest way. The resulting file, which has a minimum size of 1 MB, can be embedded in a web page using a standard iframe HTML element. Blend4Web-powered web applications can be deployed on social networking websites such as Facebook.
The Blend4Web toolchain consists of JavaScript libraries, the Blender add-on, and a set of tools for tweaking 3D scene parameters, debugging, and optimization.
Developed by Moscow-based company Triumph in 2010, Blend4Web was publicly released on March 28, 2014.
At the end of 2017, the project founders Yuri and Alex Kovelenov quit Triumph to start the development of a new WebGL framework Verge3D.
In October 2019, an "Absolutely new Blend4Web" was announced, planned to make developing 3D apps easier and to add a new marketplace where people can offer their 3D models.
Features
The framework has a number of components typically found in game engines, including a positional audio system, physics engine (a fork of Bullet ported to JavaScript), animation system, and an abstraction layer for game logic programming.
Up to 8 different types of animations can be assigned to a single object, including skeletal and per-vertex animation. The speed and the direction of animation (forward/backward play), as well as particle system parameters (size, initial velocity, and count), can be changed through the API.
Among other supported features are scene data dynamic loading and unloading, subsurface scattering simulation, and image-based lighting.
Some out-of-box options exist for rendering extended outdoor environments, including foliage-wind interaction, water, atmosphere, and sunlight simulation. One example demonstrating these effects is "The Farm" tech demo, which also features multiple animated NPCs and the ability to walk, interact with objects and drive a vehicle in first-person mode.
Being based on the cross-browser WebGL API, Blend4Web runs in the majority of web browsers, including mobile ones. There are some caveats for browsers with experimental WebGL support, such as Internet Explorer. There are also applications developed to run on Tizen-powered devices such as the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch.
Other features include draw call batching, hidden surface determination, threaded physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Makowsky | Johann (János) A. Makowsky (born March 12, 1948) is a Hungarian-born naturalised Swiss mathematician who works in mathematical logic and the logical foundations of computer science and combinatorics. He studied at ETH Zurich from 1967–73. He was a student in Zürich of Ernst Specker and Hans Läuchli in mathematical logic, (Diploma in Mathematics and Physics 1971, Dr. math.sc. in 1974), of Beno Eckmann (Topology and Geometry) and Volker Strassen (Algorithmics), and in Warsaw of Andrzej Mostowski and Witek Marek, where he spent 1972 as an exchange student. Makowsky held visiting positions at the Banach Center in Warsaw (Poland), Stanford University (USA), Simon Fraser University (Canada), University of Florence (Italy), MIT (USA), Lausanne University and ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He held regular positions at the Free University of Berlin and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel) where he was a full professor.
Among his various contributions are:
In model theory, the solution of two open problems in categoricity theory and his study of logics with various interpolation and compactness properties (partially with Saharon Shelah and Jonathan Stavi).
In database theory, the first undecidability result of the consequence problem for database dependencies (with Ashok Chandra and Harry Lewis), his work unifying the entity–relationship model and the relational model of databases (with Victor Markowitz), and his work on Boyce–Codd normal form (with E.V. Ravve).
In logic programming, his fundamental studies of Horn formulas and their complexity (partially with B. Mahr and A. Itai)
In graph algorithms, his unifying approach to tree-width and clique-width via model theory, leading to a general theory of graph polynomials and their definability in various logical formalisms (partially with I. Averbouch, Bruno Courcelle, B. Godlin, T. Kotek, U. Rotics and Boris Zilber).
Makowsky was a founding member of the European Association of Computer Science Logic in 1992, its vice-president (2002–2004) and president (2004–2009), and was a member of EACSL's executive council till 2014. During his presidency he established the EACSL Ackermann Award for outstanding PhD theses in computer science logic. In 2008, an event dedicated to Makowsky on his 60th birthday was co-located with the annual meeting of the EACSL.
Since 2016, he is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion, and continues his research and teaching and supervising graduate students
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1948 births
Living people
Swiss people of Hungarian descent
Swiss mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices | In software engineering, a microservice architecture is a variant of the service-oriented architecture structural style. It is an architectural pattern that arranges an application as a collection of loosely coupled, fine-grained services, communicating through lightweight protocols. One of its goals is that teams can develop and deploy their services independently of others. This is achieved by the reduction of several dependencies in the code base, allowing developers to evolve their services with limited restrictions from users, and for additional complexity to be hidden from users. As a consequence, organizations are able to develop software with fast growth and size, as well as use off-the-shelf services more easily. Communication requirements are reduced. These benefits come at a cost to maintaining the decoupling. Interfaces need to be designed carefully and treated as a public API. One technique that is used is having multiple interfaces on the same service, or multiple versions of the same service, so as to not disrupt existing users of the code.
Introduction
There is no single definition for microservices. A consensus view has evolved over time in the industry. Some of the defining characteristics that are frequently cited include:
Services in a microservice architecture are often processes that communicate over a network to fulfill a goal using technology-agnostic protocols such as HTTP.
Services are organized around business capabilities.
Services can be implemented using different programming languages, databases, hardware and software environments, depending on what fits best.
Services are small in size, messaging-enabled, bounded by contexts, autonomously developed, independently deployable, decentralized and built and released with automated processes.
A microservice is not a layer within a monolithic application (for example, the web controller or the backend-for-frontend). Rather, it is a self-contained piece of business functionality with clear interfaces, and may, through its own internal components, implement a layered architecture. From a strategic perspective, microservice architecture essentially follows the Unix philosophy of "Do one thing and do it well". Martin Fowler describes a microservices-based architecture as having the following properties:
Lends itself to a continuous delivery software development process. A change to a small part of the application only requires rebuilding and redeploying only one or a small number of services.
Adheres to principles such as fine-grained interfaces (to independently deployable services), business-driven development (e.g. domain-driven design).
It is common for microservices architectures to be adopted for cloud-native applications, serverless computing, and applications using lightweight container deployment. According to Fowler, because of the large number (when compared to monolithic application implementations) of services, decentralized continuous delivery and D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%2C%20Inc. | Personal (also referred to as Personal.com or Personal, Inc.) was a consumer personal data service and identity management system for individuals to aggregate, manage and reuse their own data. It merged with digi.me in August 2017, a business in Europe that has the same business model. The combined company is called digi.me. One of its product lines, a collaborative data management and information security solution for the workplace called TeamData, was spun off as a new company as a result of the merger.
History
Personal was founded in 2009 in Washington, DC by the management team that built The Map Network, a location data and mapping platform that was acquired by Nokia/NAVTEQ in 2006. Personal was the first online consumer-facing company to be named an Ambassador for Privacy by Design for its technical, business and legal commitments to providing users with control over the data they store in Personal's service. Called a “life management platform” by The Economist and a “personal encrypted cloud service” by TIME for its user-centric approach to data, the company has been associated with both the Infomediary model originated in 1999 by John Hagel III and Mark Singer, as well as the vendor relationship management (VRM) model developed by Doc Searls. Personal raised $30m in funding to develop its platform and products from such leading investors as Steve Case's Revolution Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Allen & Company, Ted Leonsis, Neil Ashe, Jonathan Miller, Bill Miller of Legg Mason, Esther Dyson of EDventures, and Eric C. Anderson.
The company received recognition for its user agreement, called the Owner Data Agreement, which acted like a reverse license agreement when data was shared between registered parties and emphasized that data ownership resides with the user. Doc Searls wrote in The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge that the Owner Data Agreement “had no precedent and modeled a new legal position, both for vendors and for intermediaries.” Personal was early to embrace “small data,” which it defines as “big data for the benefit of individuals.” The term “small data” may have been originally coined by Jeremie Miller of Sing.ly, who mentioned it in a talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in November 2011 and is cited in The Intention Economy. In 2011, Personal was a part of the first group of companies to join the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium's Startup Circle. A Small Data Meetup group has also formed in New York City, bringing together technology, legal and business experts to exchange ideas about user-centric and user-driven models for internet products and services. Personal has been included in case studies by Ctrl-Shift and Forrester regarding Personal Data Stores and Personal Identity Management.
In 2011, Personal received the Innovator Spotlight Award at Privacy Identity Innovation Conference (pii2011) and participated in the Technology Showcase at pii2012. In 2012, TechHive named Personal as one of the top five apps or web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Gobioff | Howard Gobioff (1971 – 2008) was a computer scientist. He graduated magna cum laude with a double major in computer science and mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park. At Carnegie Mellon University, he worked on the network attached secure disks project, before he went on to earn his PhD in computer science. He died suddenly from lymphoma at the age of 36.
Career
In 1999, Gobioff went to work for Google, which was then just a 40-person startup. As a software engineer, he worked on the advertising system and the crawling and indexing system. In 2004, as a Google engineering director, he launched and led their Tokyo research and development center.
Google File System
Gobioff was one of the architects of the Google File System, a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google for its own use. In "The Google File System," the seminal paper about the software, Gobioff and his co-authors outlined their design, reported measurements, and presented real world use of the system.
Apache Hadoop's MapReduce and Hadoop Distributed File System components were originally derived respectively from Google's MapReduce and Google File System papers. Using the Google File System and MapReduce, or the Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, a project can perform a computation over 300 Tbytes of data using 1,000 nodes, which previously would have been unachievable for most projects.
Gobioff Foundation
The Gobioff Foundation was founded by Howard Gobioff in 2007, months before his sudden death in March 2008. His directive was to "make the world a better place." The Foundation funds the same causes that Gobioff himself supported and awards grants and microgrants in the fields of arts and human rights.
Among other initiatives, the Gobioff Foundation supported the Think Small to Think Big arts microgrant program in Tampa, Florida, which funded nearly 50 projects in the fields of dance, theater, installation, performance, sculpture, painting, jazz, punk rock, film, and digital art between 2011 and 2014.
In 2014, the Gobioff Foundation joined a team of Florida grantmakers led by the Florida Philanthropic Network on Capitol Hill to meet with Florida's congressional delegation to discuss local philanthropic efforts and related legislative and public policy issues. These meetings were part of the annual Foundations on the Hill event organized by the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, in partnership with the Council on Foundations and the Alliance for Charitable Reform.
U.S. patents
Gobioff was registered as co-inventor on 11 U.S. patents during his lifetime and post-mortem.
United States Patent 7065618 – Ghemawat, Gobioff, & Leung (2006). Leasing scheme for data-modifying operations.
United States Patent 7107419 – Ghemawat, Gobioff, Leung, & Desjardins (2006). Systems and methods for performing record append operations.
United States Patent 7222119 – Ghemawat, Gobioff, & Leung (2007). Namespace locking scheme.
United Sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal%20Rabin | Tal Rabin (Hebrew: טל רבין, born 1962) is a computer scientist and Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She was previously the head of research at the Algorand Foundation and the head of the cryptography research group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Biography
Rabin was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. As a child, she enjoyed solving riddles and playing strategic games. Her father, Michael Rabin, is a celebrated computer scientist who is responsible for many breakthroughs in the fields of computability and cryptography. She and her father have co-authored a paper together. She is the mother of two daughters.
Career
In 1986, she received her BSc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She continued her studies there for her MSc (1988) and PhD (1994) degrees under the supervision of Professor Michael Ben Or. Between 1994 and 1996, she was an National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at MIT. She later joined the cryptography group at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and became head of the group in 1997. In 2020, she joined the University of Pennsylvania as the Rachleff Family Professor of Computer and Information Science.
Rabin's research focuses on cryptography and network security, specifically the design of efficient and secure encryption algorithms. In addition, she studies secure distributed protocols and the theoretical foundations of cryptography, as well as number theory and the theory of algorithms and distributed systems. She has co-authored over 100 papers. She has also registered five patents in the US.
Her research focuses on making communications over the Internet more secure. Her most cited works in this field focus on the design of digital signature schemes, which are widely used, among other applications, in protocols for secure web communication. Another focus is on a different scheme of encrypted communications called secret sharing. A sizable part of her work on these subjects is done in collaboration with Rosario Gennaro and Hugo Krawczyk.
Rabin has been on the committees of many leading cryptography conferences, including TCC, Crypto, PKC and Eurocrypt. She was a council member of the Computing Community Consortium (2013–2016), a member of the executive committee of SIGACT (2012–2015), and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cryptology. She is a founder and organizer of the Women in Theory Workshop, a biennial event for graduate students in theoretical computer science. She is also involved in activities to make the field of encryption more accessible to the general public. In 2011, she took part in the World Science Festival, a popular science event held in New York City. In 2014, she took part in a similar event, the WNYC Science Fair.
Awards
2014: One of the 22 most powerful women engineers in the world by Business Insider
2014: Woman of Vision for innovation by the Anita Borg Institute
2015: IACR Fellow (Internation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhika%20Nagpal | Radhika Nagpal is an Indian-American computer scientist and researcher in the fields of self-organising computer systems, biologically-inspired robotics, and biological multi-agent systems. She is the Augustine Professor in Engineering in the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton University. Formerly, she was the Fred Kavli Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In 2017, Nagpal co-founded a robotics company under the name of Root Robotics. This educational company works to create many different opportunities for those unable to code to learn how.
Education and academic career
Nagpal received an S.B. and S.M. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2001. Her dissertation, "Programmable Self-Assembly using Biologically-Inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics", was supervised by Gerald Sussman and Harold Abelson. In it, she presented a language for instructing a sheet of identically-programmed agents to self-assemble into a desired shape making use only of local interactions, and in a manner robust to irregularities, communication failure, and agent malfunction.
From 2001 to 2003, she served as a postdoctoral lecturer at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, as a member of the Amorphous Computing Group. From 2004 to 2009, she served as an assistant professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; from 2009 to 2012, she served as the Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard SEAS. From 2012 to 2019, she served as the Fred Kavli Professor of Computer Science at Harvard SEAS, where she headed the Self-Organizing Systems Research Group. In 2022, she moved her SSR lab to Princeton Robotics with joint appointments between the departments of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the department of computer science.
Academic research
Her research group focuses on biologically-inspired multi-agent systems: collective algorithms, programming paradigms, modular and swarm robotics, and on biological multi-agent systems: models of multicellular morphogenesis, collective insect behavior. This work lies at the intersection of computer science (AI/robotics) and biology. It studies bio-inspired algorithms, programming paradigms, and hardware designs for swarm/modular robotic systems and smart materials, drawing inspiration mainly from social insects and multicellular biology. It also investigates models of self-organization in biology, specifically how cells cooperate during the development of multicellular organisms.
Programming paradigms for robust collective behavior
Her primary research interest is developing programming paradigms for robust collective behavior, inspired by biology. Ultimately, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Pigeon | Google Pigeon is the code name given to one of Google's local search algorithm updates. This update was released on July 24, 2014. It is aimed to increase the ranking of local listings in a search.
The changes will also affect the search results shown in Google Maps along with the regular Google search results.
As of the initial release date, it was released in US English and was intended to shortly be released in other languages and locations. This update provides the results based on the user location and the listing available in the local directory.
Effect on search results
The purpose of Pigeon is to provide preference to local search results. On the day of release, it received mixed responses from webmasters. Some complained about the ranking being decreased whereas others reported improvement in the search rankings. As per the webmasters' understanding, this update has location and distance as key parts of the search strategy. The local directory listings are getting preferences in web results.
What's new
To improve the quality of local searches and provide more relevant results to the user, Google relies on factors such as location and distance. This update alters the local listings in the search results; along with this, the local directory sites are given preference.
See also
Google Hummingbird
Google Panda
Google Penguin
PageRank
Timeline of Google Search
References
External links
Search Engine Land Names new Google Local search update.
“Pigeon” Algorithm Update Released Thursday 7/24/14.
SMX on Pigeon from SEO Land.
Google On Pigeon Fluctuations: We Won’t Detail All Changes In The Future
Google Pigeon Update: Local Results Updated Again
Discussion on Webmaster World about Pigeon Update.
Google’s Local Search Engine Algorithm Spreads Its Wings
Impactful Google Algorithm Updates with Explanations
Search engine optimization
Link analysis
Pigeon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%201978 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 1978.
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart
References
1978 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Life%20of%20Us%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the television drama series The Secret Life of Us aired from 16 July to 26 November 2001 on Network Ten in Australia. The series traces the often tumultuous life of a group of friends in their mid-twenties who live in a St Kilda apartment building.
Production
After airing the telemovie and subsequently receiving a great reception, Ten took a multimillion-dollar gamble and commissioned The Secret Life of Us to a series. Another gamble the network took was airing the series at 9:30pm, due partly to stop the breaching of censorship laws. Of the timeslot, Herald Sun journalist, Robert Fidgeon wrote, "Not that The Secret Life of Us is a tits-and-bums, obscenity-filled raunchfest. It is a quality series about the relationships of a group of twentysomethings. As such, it deserves to succeed. It is far and away the most accurate, honest and intelligent Australian drama series ever pitched at younger viewers."
Plot
The series traces the often tumultuous life of a group of friends in their mid-twenties who live in a St Kilda apartment building and are all looking for the same thing – love, sex, romance and success. The problem is they haven't worked out how to get it yet – so they make it up as they go along. Exploring sympathetic themes and establishing a recognised trifecta of homelife, lovelife and worklife, their experiences become a salient reminder that despite the struggle, juggle and balance of these things – friendship is what matters. Alex Christensen is an ambitious doctor who is riddled with insecurities and shares a flat with would-be-writer Evan Wylde who is in need of motivation and Kelly Lewis, a vivacious real estate agent who quits her job because of the affair she was having with her boss. Miranda Lang has her sighs set on stardom and together with her actor boyfriend Richie Blake, they share a flat with the no-nonsense Will McGill. Simon Trader works as a bartender at the local pub and is a source of wisdom and love. Jason Kennedy and Gabrielle Kovitch are about to get married for the wrong reasons – who will be the first to realise their mistake?
Cast
Main
Claudia Karvan as Alex Christensen
Deborah Mailman as Kelly Lewis
Samuel Johnson as Evan Wylde
Abi Tucker as Miranda Lang
Joel Edgerton as Will McGill
Spencer McLaren as Richie Blake
Sibylla Budd as Gabrielle Kovitch
Damian De Montemas as Jason Kennedy
David Tredinnick as Simon Trader
Recurring
Jessica Gower as Sam (15 episodes)
Benjamin McNair as Joseph (5 episodes)
Tasma Walton as Leah (5 episodes)
Oscar Redding as Eric (8 episodes)
Catherine McClements as Carmen (9 episodes)
Guest
Leverne McDonnell as Kelly's Boss (6 episodes)
Todd MacDonald as Nathan Leiberman (4 episodes)
Damian Walshe-Howling as Mac (7 episodes)
Steve Mouzakis as Paolo (5 episodes)
Kenneth Ransom as Brad (6 episodes)
Episodes
DVD release
References
External links
2001 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Cyber-shot%20DSC-RX10 | The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX10 is a digital superzoom bridge camera made by Sony. It was announced on October 16, 2013.
It has 20 Megapixels and supports video recording with 1080p at up 60 fps. Its single-axis articulating screen can tilt upwards-facing. The lens is labelled with focal length markers. It can be connected to a smartphone through NFC and WiFi Direct.
In comparison to its main competitor, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 released the following year, it is equipped with an ND filter, is weather-sealed, the 2.8 aperture remains constant throughout its 8.3× optical zoom, and the unit is equipped with two rotary knobs around the lens, a numerical and backlit top display for quick review of photography parameters including exposure and ISO and battery level, and an additional mode dial-like knob for exposure value, and 3.5mm headphone connector, whereas the FZ1000 is equipped with twice the optical zoom, 2160p (4K) video, slow motion video with 100fps at 1080p, faster launching and autofocus and burst shot, a two-axis articulating screen, and five function buttons.
See also
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 series
List of large sensor fixed-lens cameras
List of bridge cameras
References
RX10
Bridge digital cameras
Point-and-shoot cameras
Cameras introduced in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%20Puso%20ni%20Dok | (International title: Village Doctor / ) is a 2014 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Adolf Alix Jr., it stars Dennis Trillo and Bela Padilla. It premiered on August 24, 2014 on network's Sunday Grande line up. The series concluded on September 28, 2014 with a total of 6 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dennis Trillo as Dennis
Bela Padilla as Gab
Supporting cast
Menggie Cobarrubias as Dr. Dela Cruz
Milkcah Wynne Nacion as Baby
Maey Bautista as Veronica
Gigi Locsin as Loring
Stephanie Sol as Carla
AJ Dee as Jomar
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 15% rating. While the final episode scored a 12.9% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2014 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine medical television series
Television shows set in Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisa%20Tabriz | Parisa Tabriz is an Iranian-American computer security expert who works for Google as a Vice President of engineering. She chose the title "Security Princess" on her business card.
Early life
Parisa Tabriz was born to an Iranian father, a doctor, and an American mother, a nurse, of Polish-American descent. She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and is the older sister of two brothers. Tabriz was not exposed to coding and computer science until her first year at university.
Education
Tabriz initially enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign to study computer engineering, but soon became interested in computer science instead. She completed a bachelor of science and master of science degree at the university and did research in wireless security and attacks on privacy-enhancing technologies, co-authoring papers with her advisor Nikita Borisov. She was an active member of a student club interested in computer security, which she joined because her own website was hacked.
Career
Tabriz was offered a summer internship with Google's security team while at college, and joined the company a few months after her graduation in 2007. While preparing to attend a conference in Tokyo with Google, she decided to use the job title "Security Princess" on her business card rather than the conventional "information security engineer" since it sounded less boring and considered it ironic. Tabriz trained Google staff interested in learning more about security and worked with youth at DEFCON and Girl Scouts of the USA to expose a more diverse set of people to the field of computer security.
In 2013, Tabriz took over responsibility for the security of Google Chrome.
In 2013, Tabriz conducted the talk "Got SSL?" at the Chrome Dev Summit.
In 2014, Tabriz started an effort to drive adoption of the HTTPS protocol. In 2015, less than 50% of traffic seen by Chrome was over HTTPS, and by 2019, the percentage of HTTPS traffic had increased to 73-95% across all platforms. Tabriz has spoken out against government interception of HTTPS connections on the public Internet.
In 2014 Tabriz conducted the talk "Do Know Evil" at the Chrome Developers Conference.
In 2016, Tabriz took over responsibility for Project Zero, an offensive security research group.
In 2016 Tabriz was the keynote speaker at the Python Conference (PyCon) in Portland, Oregon.
In 2018, Tabriz was the keynote speaker at Black Hat Conference.
In 2018, in response to the RSA Conference having only one non-male keynote speaker in a line-up of 20 keynotes, Tabriz co-founded the Our Security Advocates conference, OURSA. In only five days, Tabriz and organizers pulled together a speaker line-up consisting of expert speakers from under-represented backgrounds, 14 speakers of which were women.
In 2020, Tabriz became head of product, Engineering, & UX, Chrome.
Recognition
In 2012, Forbes included her in their "Top 30 People Under 30 To Watch in the Technology Industry" list.
In 2017, Wired inc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny%20McNab | Lenny McNab is an American chef who is best known as the winner of the tenth season of the Food Network television series Food Network Star. He defeated runner-up Luca Della Casa on August 10, 2014. Food Network executive Bob Tuschman said that "Lenny's magnetic personality, culinary chops and cowboy swagger made him stand out in this very talented crowd from the beginning."
McNab wears cowboy attire and specializes in "elevated chuck wagon fare". A native of New Hampshire, McNab got his culinary training in Bad Kissingen, Germany. He is a former executive head chef at the Kessler Canyon hunting lodge in De Beque, Colorado.
In 2013, McNab participated in "The Ol' Switcheroo" episode of Guy's Grocery Games, losing in the final. He also performs as a country singer under the name The Black Mamba.
Controversy
Although McNab was declared the winner of the tenth season of Food Network Star, a series for him never materialized. Days after he was crowned the winner, news outlets reported blog posts featuring racist, homophobic and misogynistic comments made by him, with several comments targeted at fellow Food Network chef Ree Drummond.
References
External links
1970s births
American television chefs
American male chefs
Date of birth missing (living people)
Food Network chefs
Food Network Star winners
Living people
People from Bristol, New Hampshire
Chefs from New Hampshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20Talk | Pure Talk Holdings, Inc. is an American mobile virtual network operator headquartered in Covington, Georgia, United States with two other offices located in Fort Lee, New Jersey and Atlanta, Georgia. It provides wireless service over the AT&T Mobility network.
Marketing
PureTalk is promoted primarily towards senior citizens, as well as U.S. military veterans (the latter citing the company having been founded by a veteran).
PureTalk has marketed itself through paid endorsements by conservative radio hosts and internet personalities such as Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, Ben Shapiro, and Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Levin has promoted Pure Talk as an alternative to AT&T due to it being a "woke" company, despite the fact that PureTalk uses the AT&T network.
See also
Consumer Cellular
References
External links
Official website
Mobile virtual network operators
Telecommunications companies established in 2011
2011 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyvern%20%28programming%20language%29 | Wyvern is a computer programming language created by Jonathan Aldrich and Alex Potanin for the development of web and mobile applications with security and assurance being number one priority. Wyvern supports object capabilities, it is structurally typed, and aims to make secure way of programming easier than insecure. One of the early available features that make Wyvern special is a way to safely use multiple programming languages within the same program so programmers can use the language most appropriate for each function while at the same time increasing the program's security.
It is currently in a prototype stage and distributed under a GPLv2 license.
Hello World
A 'Hello World' program in Wyvern looks as follows:
require stdout
stdout.print("Hello World")
Further reading
Cyrus Omar, Darya Kurilova, Ligia Nistor, Benjamin Chung, Alex Potanin, and Jonathan Aldrich,Safely Composable Type-Specific Languages, Proc. European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming.
Ligia Nistor, Darya Kurilova, Stephanie Balzer, Benjamin Chung, Alex Potanin, and Jonathan Aldrich,Wyvern: A Simple, Typed, and Pure Object-Oriented Language., In Mechanisms for Specialization, Generalization, and Inheritance (MASPEGHI), 2013.
Carnegie Mellon News,Carnegie Mellon Developing Programming Language That Accommodates Multiple Languages in Same Program, Carnegie Mellon University
External links
Wyvern on GitHub
References
Programming languages created in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cyber%20Games%202002 | The World Cyber Games 2002 was held in Daejeon, South Korea from the October 28th to the November 3rd. Total prize money was $300,000.
Official games
First-person shooter (FPS)
Half-Life: Counter-Strike
Quake III: Arena
Unreal Tournament
Halo
Real-Time Strategy (RTS)
Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
StarCraft: Brood War
Sport
2002 FIFA World Cup
Results
World Cyber Games events
2002 in esports
2002 in South Korean sport
Esports in South Korea
Sport in Daejeon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Tropp | Joel Aaron Tropp (born July 1977 in Austin, Texas) is the Steele Family Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for work on sparse approximation, numerical linear algebra, and random matrix theory.
Academic biography
Tropp studied at the University of Texas, where he completed the BS degree in Mathematics and the BA degree in Plan II Honors in 1999 and the MS and PhD degrees in Computational & Applied Mathematics in 2001 and 2004.
His dissertation was titled Topics in Sparse Approximation, and his advisers were Inderjit Dhillon and Anna C. Gilbert.
He taught at the University of Michigan from 2004 to 2007.
He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 2007.
Research
In his early research, Tropp developed performance guarantees for algorithms for sparse approximation and compressed sensing.
In 2011, he published a paper
on randomized algorithms for computing a truncated singular value decomposition.
He has also worked in random matrix theory, where he has established a family of results,
collectively called matrix concentration inequalities, that includes the matrix Chernoff bound.
Awards and honors
Tropp was a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2008.
In 2010, he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics,
and he received the Sixth Vasil A. Popov Prize in approximation theory for his work on Matching Pursuit algorithms.
He won the Eighth Monroe H. Martin Prize in applied mathematics in 2011 for work on sparse optimization.
He was recognized as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016.
In 2019 he was named a SIAM Fellow "for contributions to signal processing, data analysis, and randomized linear algebra".
References
External links
Joel A. Tropp professional home page
1977 births
Living people
University of Texas alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
20th-century American mathematicians
Sloan Research Fellows
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Mathematicians from Texas
21st-century American mathematicians
University of Michigan faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML%20%28disambiguation%29 | QML is a user interface markup language, used with Qt Quick.
QML or qml may also refer to:
Computing
Questions Markup Language, a markup language, the predecessor of QTI (IMS Question and Test Interoperability specification)
QML, a Haskell like functional quantum programming language
Quantum machine learning, the integration of quantum algorithms within machine learning programs
.qml, file extension for stylesheets for the QGIS geographic information system
Other uses
Queen Mary University of London
Queensland Medical Laboratory
Quake Movie Library, a collection of Machinima
Quantified modal logic, a modal logic originally developed by Ruth Barcan Marcus
Qualified Manufacturer List, term used by the United States Department of Defense
ISO 639:qml, an ISO 639-3 language code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina%20Ligett | Katrina Ligett is an American computer scientist. She is Associate Professor of computer science and economics at the Hebrew University and Visiting Associate at California Institute of Technology. She is known for work on algorithmic game theory and privacy.
Education
Ligett studied at Brown University, where she completed her BS degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2004. She then earned her MS and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Her PhD was supervised by Avrim Blum. She has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 2011. Currently she is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Member of Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality at Hebrew University, as well as Visiting Associate in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech.
Research
Ligett's work has made notable contributions to two fields: privacy and algorithmic game theory. For example, in the field of data privacy, her work provided a foundation for the field by proving the possibility of answering exponentially many queries about a database while maintaining privacy for individuals. In the field of algorithmic game theory, her work showed that efficiency guarantees proven for Nash equilibrium (so called Price of Anarchy bounds) can be extended to weaker equilibria concepts.
Awards and honors
Ligett received a Microsoft Faculty Research Fellowship in 2013. In the same year, she received an NSF CAREER award and a Google Faculty Research Award
References
External links
Katrina Ligett professional home page
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Brown University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
Theoretical computer scientists
Game theorists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Hou | Thomas Yizhao Hou (born 1962) is the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work in numerical analysis and mathematical analysis.
Academic biography
Hou studied at the South China University of Technology, where he received a B.S. in Mathematics in 1982.
He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1987
under the supervision of Björn Engquist.
His dissertation was titled Convergence of Particle Methods for Euler and Boltzmann Equations with Oscillatory Solutions.
From 1989 to 1993, he taught at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
at New York University. He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1993. He became the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics in 2004.
Research
Hou is known for his research on multiscale analysis and singularity formation of the three-dimensional incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. He is an author of the monograph Multiscale finite element methods. The multiscale finite element method developed by Hou and his former postdoc, Xiao-Hui Wu, was one of the earliest multiscale methods and has found many applications from the engineering community. A variant of his method has been adopted by several major oil companies in their new generation of flow simulators. Hou has worked extensively on computational and analytical aspects of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. In 2014, Hou and his former postdoc, Guo Luo, presented convincing numerical evidence that the axisymmetric Euler equations develop finite time singularity from smooth initial data. In 2022, Hou and his former Ph.D. student, Jiajie Chen, made a breakthrough by proving the finite time singularity of the axisymmetric Euler equations with smooth data and boundary (the so-called Hou-Luo blowup scenario). Hou’s recent work on the potentially singular behavior of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations has also generated a lot of interests.
Hou is also known for his work in computational fluid dynamics. His early work on the convergence of the point vortex method for incompressible Euler equations was very surprising and considered as a breakthrough. The level set method developed by Hou and co-workers was the first level set method for multiphase flows and has found many applications. The Small-Scale Decomposition method developed by Hou-Lowengrub-Shelley was considered a tour de force for fluid interface problems and has been used widely in computational fluid dynamics, materials science, and biology.
Hou was cofounder of SIAM Journal on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, and he served as the editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2007. He was also cofounder of Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis.
Awards and honors
Hou has won several major awards. He received an Alfred P. Sloan Research F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RX1 | RX1 may refer to:
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1 digital compact camera
RX1, FIA rallycross racing category |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Bruno | Oscar P. Bruno is Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for research on numerical analysis.
Academic biography
Bruno received the Licenciado degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 1982, and he completed the PhD in mathematics at New York University in 1989.
His adviser was Robert V. Kohn, and his dissertation was titled The Effective Conductivity of an Infinitely Interchangeable Mixture.
He taught at the University of Minnesota from 1989 to 1991, and he was at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1991 to 1995.
He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1995.
Awards and honors
In 1994, Bruno was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
He was inducted as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2013.
References
External links
Oscar P. Bruno professional home page
Living people
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Argentine mathematicians
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
University of Buenos Aires alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Schulman | Leonard J. Y. Schulman (born September 14, 1963) is professor of computer science in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for work on algorithms, information theory, coding theory, and quantum computation.
Personal biography
Schulman is the son of theoretical physicist Lawrence Schulman.
Academic biography
Schulman studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he completed a BS degree in mathematics in 1988 and a PhD degree in applied mathematics in 1992.
He was a faculty member in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1995 to 2000 before joining the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. From 2003-2017, he served as the director of the Center for Mathematics of Information at Caltech. He also participates in the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter. In 2017-2018, he was a EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Research
Schulman's research centers broadly around algorithms and information. He has made notable contributions to varied areas within this space including clustering, derandomization, quantum information theory, and coding theory. In coding theory he proved the Interactive Coding Theorem (a generalization of the Shannon Coding Theorem.) In clustering, his work on quantifying the effectiveness of Lloyd-type methods for the k-means problem, was named a Computing Reviews "Notable Paper" in 2012. In quantum computation, he is known for his work on the non-abelian hidden subgroup problem, and for his work on noise thresholds for ensemble quantum computing.
Awards and honors
Schulman received the MIT Bucsela Prize in 1988, an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1992 and an NSF CAREER award in 1999. His work received the IEEE S.A. Schelkunoff Prize in 2005. Schulman was also recognized for the ACM Notable Paper in 2012. In 2022 he was awarded the FOCS Test of Time Award for his work on error correction in the setting of interactive communication. He was the editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Computing for two terms (2013-2018.) He was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, in the 2022 Class of SIAM Fellows, "for seminal contributions to coding theory, quantum computing and matrix analysis, and outstanding service".
References
External links
Leonard Schulman professional home page
American computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
California Institute of Technology faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Living people
Theoretical computer scientists
1963 births
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaser%20Abu-Mostafa | Yaser Said Abu-Mostafa (Arabic: ياسر سعيد أبو مصطفى) is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology, Chairman of Paraconic Technologies Ltd, and Chairman of Machine Learning Consultants LLC. He is known for his research and educational activities in the area of machine learning.
Academic biography
Abu-Mostafa studied at Cairo University, where he earned the BSc degree in 1979. He earned the MS degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981 and the PhD degree at the California Institute of Technology in 1983. He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1983.
In 1987, Abu-Mostafa cofounded the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), a major machine learning meeting.
He is known for his recent textbook on machine learning.
He has also developed an online course about machine learning.
References
External links
Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa professional home page
1957 births
Living people
American people of Egyptian descent
Egyptian emigrants to the United States
Georgia Tech alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro%20Perona | Pietro Perona (born 3 September 1961) is an Italian-American educator and computer scientist. He is the Allan E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology and director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Neuromorphic Systems Engineering. He is known for his research in computer vision and is the director of the Caltech Computational Vision Group.
Academic biography
Perona obtained his D.Eng. in electrical engineering cum laude from the University of Padua in 1985 and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.
His dissertation was titled Finding Texture and Brightness Boundaries in Images, and his adviser was Jitendra Malik.
In 1990, Perona was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley.
From 1990 to 1991, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.
He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1991, and he was named Allan E. Puckett Professor in 2008.
Research
Perona’s research focuses on the computational aspects of vision and learning.
He developed the anisotropic diffusion equation, a partial differential equation that reduces noise in images while enhancing region boundaries.
He is currently interested in visual recognition and in visual analysis of behavior.
Perona and Serge Belongie lead the Visipedia project, which facilitates research on visual knowledge representation, visual search, and human-in-the-loop machine learning systems.
Perona pioneered the study of visual categorization (including the publication of the Caltech 101 dataset) for which he was awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2013.
He is also the recipient of the 2010 Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision, the 2003 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition best paper award, and a 1996 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.
Media coverage
Perona has been quoted or had his research featured in various national media outlets, including the New York Times, Science Friday, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times.
In 2003, Perona and Stephen Nowlin organized the NEURO art exhibition, which brought together contemporary artists and scientists to explore neuromorphic engineering.
References
External links
Pietro Perona professional home page
Living people
University of Padua alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
Italian computer scientists
American computer scientists
Computer vision researchers
Machine learning researchers
1961 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orocrambus%20punctellus | Orocrambus punctellus is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.
Taxonomy
It was described by George Vernon Hudson in 1950 using a specimen collected by George Howes at Portobello in Dunedin and named Crambus punctellus. In 1975 D. E. Gaskin transferred this species to the genus Orocrambus. The holotype specimen is held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Description
Hudson described the species as follows:
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. It has only been recorded from the type locality at Otago Peninsula.
Biology and behaviour
Very little is known of the biology of this species. The host species for the larvae of this moth is unknown. Adults have been recorded on wing in March.
Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
References
External links
Image of holotype
Crambinae
Moths described in 1950
Moths of New Zealand
Taxa named by George Hudson
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orocrambus%20sophronellus | Orocrambus sophronellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. This species is endemic to New Zealand. This species has been classified as Data Deficient by the Department of Conservation.
Taxonomy
This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885, from a specimen given to him by Richard William Fereday. Meyrick named the species Crambus sophronellus. Meyrick gave a more detailed description of the species later that year. In 1928 George Vernon Hudson also described and illustrated the species. In 1975 David E. Gaskin placed the species in the genus Orocrambus. Gaskin argues that Hudsons illustration in his 1928 book is actually of the species O. cyclopicus. The type locality of the specimen is uncertain but is possibly Canterbury. The type specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.
Description
Meyrick described the species as follows:
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. It has been recorded in Taparewa near Nelson, the Mackenzie Basin, and Central Otago. It is possibly also present in Canterbury.
Life cycle and behaviour
Adult moths have been recorded on wing in March. The species is attracted to light.
Habitat
O. sophronellus is thought to occur in short tussock grasslands.
Host species
O. sophronellus is associated with Carex muelleri.
Conservation status
This moth is classified under the New Zealand Threat Classification system as being Data Deficient.
References
External links
Image of female holotype specimen
Image of male and female species
Specimen held by Auckland War Memorial Museum
Crambinae
Moths described in 1885
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Endangered biota of New Zealand
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20401001%E2%80%93402000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cyber%20Games%202001 | The World Cyber Games 2001 was held in Seoul, South Korea from the December 5th to the 9th. Total prize money was $245,000.
Official games
First-person shooter (FPS)
Half-Life: Counter-Strike
Quake III: Arena
Unreal Tournament
Real-Time Strategy (RTS)
Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
StarCraft: Brood War
Sport
FIFA 2001
Results
World Cyber Games events
2001 in esports
2001 in South Korean sport
Esports in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cyber%20Games%20Challenge | The World Cyber Games Challenge was held in Yongin, South Korea from the October 7th to the 15th in 2000. Total prize money was $200,000.
Official games
First-person shooter (FPS)
Quake III Arena
Real-Time Strategy (RTS)
Age of Empires II
StarCraft: Brood War
Sport
FIFA 2000
Results
References
2000 in esports
2000 in South Korean sport
World Cyber Games events
Esports in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9c%C3%A9ly%20card | The Técély card (TCL card) is the smartcard of TCL, the public transport network in Lyon, France, launched on 1 July 2002. Unlike other smartcards, where a topup amount is required at the start and is deducted each time a passenger makes a trip, the TCL card has a €5 fee, and the option to put on either a weekly or monthly pass on top of this. This must be renewed every week or month keep the card usable. The card expires five years after its purchase date.
References
Contactless smart cards
Fare collection systems in France
Transport in Lyon
2005 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set%20constraint | In mathematics and theoretical computer science, a set constraint is an equation or an inequation between sets of terms.
Similar to systems of (in)equations between numbers, methods are studied for solving systems of set constraints.
Different approaches admit different operators (like "∪", "∩", "\", and function application) on sets and different (in)equation relations (like "=", "⊆", and "⊈") between set expressions.
Systems of set constraints are useful to describe (in particular infinite) sets of ground terms.
They arise in program analysis, abstract interpretation, and type inference.
Relation to regular tree grammars
Each regular tree grammar can be systematically transformed into a system of set inclusions such that its minimal solution corresponds to the tree language of the grammar.
For example, the grammar (terminal and nonterminal symbols indicated by lower and upper case initials, respectively) with the rules
{|
|-
| BoolG || → false
|-
| BoolG || → true
|-
| BListG || → nil
|-
| BListG || → cons(BoolG,BListG)
|-
| BList1G || → cons(true,BListG)
|-
| BList1G || → cons(false,BList1G)
|}
is transformed to the set inclusion system (constants and variables indicated by lower and upper case initials, respectively):
{|
|-
| BoolS || ⊇ false
|-
| BoolS || ⊇ true
|-
| BListS || ⊇ nil
|-
| BListS || ⊇ cons(BoolS,BListS)
|-
| BList1S || ⊇ cons(true,BListS)
|-
| BList1S || ⊇ cons(false,BList1S)
|}
This system has a minimal solution, viz. ("L(N)" denoting the tree language corresponding to the nonterminal N in the above tree grammar):
{|
|-
| BoolS || = L(BoolG) || = { false, true }
|-
| BListS || = L(BListG) || = { nil, cons(false,nil), cons(true,nil), cons(false,cons(false,nil)), ... }
|-
| BList1S || = L(BList1G) || = { nil, cons(true,nil), cons(true,cons(false,nil)),... }
|}
The maximal solution of the system is trivial; it assigns the set of all terms to every variable.
Literature
Literature on negative constraints
Notes
Formal languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbeo | Numbeo is a Serbian crowd-sourced online database of perceived consumer prices, real property prices, and quality of life metrics. The website was founded in April 2009 by former Google employee Mladen Adamović, to enable users to share and compare information about the cost of living between countries and cities. Since 2012, the website has been operated by NUMBEO DOO Beograd-Palilula, a Serbian private limited company run by Adamović. According to Adamović, the website earns money through advertising and the sale of subscriptions to its API.
Numbeo's crowd-sourced data can be inserted or altered by anyone accessing the website, and is not peer-reviewed. Data is also manually gathered by the operator, from sources such as company and governmental websites, which is done in half-year intervals; it is then combined with user-generated data by giving it extra weight in the final score calculation, according to the company. As of 2017, it was the largest database of user generated data about cities in the world. As of 2020, this possibly applied to (user generated) data on housing prices as well. The quality of life index is a combination of eight sub-indexes: purchasing power, safety, healthcare, cost of living, property price to income ratio, traffic commute time, pollution, and climate.
The website's "Crime Index", intended to serve as an overall crime level estimate, is compiled from answers to user surveys, which have been processed by a Java-programmed backend to produce country- or city-level ratings on a 100-point scale, with higher values indicating worse crime. There is also a "Safety Index", with higher scores indicating a safer city. Numbeo's data points on crime have been criticized by academics and by the media as unreliable and, at times, misleading.
In 2017, a Swedish man manipulated the crime stats of the Lund, Sweden by repeatedly submitting negative ratings in this category, at a time when the relevant data set was very small. In less than a day, he succeeded in making it show up as the most dangerous city in the world on the website's "Crime Index Rate" page. He commented: "Numbeo should hardly be considered stats, it’s more like reviews. Anyone, anywhere in the world can change the data, as many times as they want. Completely anonymously."
In 2022, a Numbeo claim that Bradford, England was "Europe's most dangerous city" went viral on social media and was reported on in British press. Another English city, Coventry, was ranked second in this statistic, which was disputed by a local newspaper journalist—citing higher official crime rates in various other English cities/counties.
In 2022, David Weinberger expressed criticism of the site's methodology of measuring crime rate, saying: "It is misleading to claim to have derived from this a representation of the highest-crime rate cities: what is presented are cities which are perceived as those with the most crime, by a certain number of Internet users. But for studies in the so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20National%20Rail%20ticket%20features | In 2014, a new design was introduced for train tickets issued on the National Rail network in Great Britain. The pre-2014 design was similar to the APTIS design introduced in 1986 by British Rail.
The 2014 design was intended to give passengers more information.
History
The first computerised ticket issuing system on the British railway network was INTIS, introduced by British Rail on a small scale in 1981 as an interim stage before the mid-1980s launch of the All Purpose Ticket Issuing System (APTIS). INTIS produced credit card-sized tickets on which the data was laid out in a particular pattern consisting of fields of a set length printed on four horizontal lines across the ticket. Class of travel and a ticket type description were on the top line; below this came the date of travel, ticket number and information about discounts or concessions; then came the origin station, validity information and fare paid; and on the bottom line was printed the destination station and any route restriction that applied. The APTIS system continued with a slightly adjusted version of this layout; and when it was superseded in the mid-2000s by "New Generation" systems such as Shere SMART and Cubic FasTIS, these continued to issue tickets in the same format.
Department for Transport reports
In March 2012, the Department for Transport (the government department responsible for transport matters in England) released a report, Rail Fares and Ticketing Review. Its remit was to analyse the market for rail travel, the setting of fares and the ways in which tickets were booked and issued. From this it sought to make recommendations about finding alternatives to printed tickets and improving the "complex and confusing" fares and ticketing structure. A three-month consultation period followed. Passengers, interest groups such as Passenger Focus, the rail industry itself and other parties were asked about their priorities and ideas. The result was a second report (Rail Fares and Ticketing: The Next Steps), published in October 2013. Its wide-ranging set of strategic aims included a proposal to undertake a "fundamental redesign" of rail tickets.
The report noted that although "passengers [were] comfortable with the familiar format" of the 30-year-old design, it had significant disadvantages. Passengers wanted the most important data—station names, ticket descriptions, permitted routes, time restrictions and validity information—presented more clearly, in larger print, without jargon and with as little abbreviation as possible. In particular, there was a desire for Advance tickets (cheap tickets valid only on a specific train) to show their restrictions and accompanying reservation details more clearly on the same ticket rather than on a separate reservation coupon. The report stated that although the Department for Transport's long-term intention was for printed tickets to be replaced with smart cards, the rail industry would soon launch a "cleaner, fresher |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20SBS%20Drama%20Awards | The 2008 SBS Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the best performances in television on the SBS network for the year 2008. It was held on December 31, 2008, at the SBS Open Hall in Deungchon-dong, Seoul, and was hosted by Ryu Si-won and Han Ye-seul.
Nominations and winners
Complete list of nominees and winners:
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Moon Geun-young - Painter of the Wind as Shin Yun-bok| valign="top" |Moon Young-nam - First Wives' Club
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Lee Joon-gi - Iljimae as Lee Gyeom/IljimaeKim Rae-won - Gourmet as Lee Sung-chan
Lee Beom-soo - On Air as Jang Ki-joon
Park Shin-yang - Painter of the Wind as Kim Hong-do
| valign="top" |Kim Ha-neul - On Air as Oh Seung-ahSong Yun-ah - On Air as Seo Young-eunKim Hae-sook - First Wives' Club as Ahn Yang-soon
Moon Geun-young - Painter of the Wind as Shin Yun-bok
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| valign="top" |Park Yong-ha - On Air as Lee Kyung-minBong Tae-gyu - Working Mom as Park Jae-sung
Ji Hyun-woo - My Sweet Seoul as Yoon Tae-oh
Lee Sun-kyun - My Sweet Seoul as Kim Young-soo
Song Chang-eui - The Scales of Providence as Jang Joon-ha
| valign="top" |Choi Kang-hee - My Sweet Seoul as Oh Eun-sooLee Da-hae - Robber as Jin Dal-rae
Lee Young-ah - Iljimae as Bong-soon
Yum Jung-ah - Working Mom as Choi Ga-young
|-
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| valign="top" |Jang Hyuk - Tazza as Kim GoniKim Joo-hyuk - Terroir as Kang Tae-min
Kim Min-jun - Tazza as Young-min
Kim Rae-won - Gourmet as Lee Sung-chan
| valign="top" |Han Ye-seul - Tazza as Go Eun-sungHan Hye-jin - Terroir as Lee Woo-joo
Kim Sa-rang - Tokyo Sun Shower as Lee Soo-jin
Nam Sang-mi - Gourmet as Kim Jin-soo
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| valign="top" |Ahn Nae-sang - First Wives' Club as Han Won-sooLee Hoon - I Am Happy as Jun-su
Lee Jin-wook - Glass Castle as Kim Joon-sung
Park Si-hoo - Family's Honor as Lee Kang-suk
| valign="top" |Kim Hye-sun - First Wives' Club as Han Bok-sooOh Hyun-kyung - First Wives' Club as Na Hwa-shinYoon Jung-hee - Family's Honor as Ha Dan-ah
Yoon So-yi - Glass Castle as Jung Min-joo
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| valign="top" |Lee Moon-sik - Iljimae as Soe-dolAhn Gil-kang - Iljimae as Kongkal Aje
Lee Hyung-chul - On Air as Jin Sang-woo
Ryu Seung-ryong - Painter of the Wind as Kim Jo-nyun
| valign="top" |Kim Ja-ok - Working Mom as Kim Bok-silHong Ji-min - On Air as Lee Hye-kyung
Kim Sung-ryung - Iljimae as Dani
Moon Jung-hee - My Sweet Seoul as Nam Yoo-hee
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| valign="top" |Son Hyun-joo - Tazza as Go Kwang-ryeolJin Goo - Tokyo Sun Shower as Park Sang-kil
Kim Kap-soo - Tazza as Agwi
Won Ki-joon - Gourmet as Gong Min-woo
| valign="top" |Kim So-yeon - Gourmet as Yoon Joo-heeJo Mi-ryung - I Love You as Na Jin-hee
Kang Sung-yeon - Tazza as Madam Jeong
Kim Ae-kyung - Gourmet as Madam Jo
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| valign="top" |Lee Han-wi - Glass Castle as Son Dong-sikLee Kye-in - I Am Happy as Lee Cheol-kon
Lee Sang-woo - First Wives' Club as Koo Se-joo
Yoon Young-joon - Daughter-in-Law as Park Min-hyuk
| valign="top" |Kim Hee-jung - First Wives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature%20%28disambiguation%29 | Curvature refers to mathematical concepts in different areas of geometry.
Curvature may also refer to:
Curvature LLC, a network hardware company
Human vertebral column, curvature of the spine
Curvatures of the stomach, curvatures of the stomach
Figure of the Earth, curvature of the Earth
Degree of curvature, degree of curvature used in civil engineering
Curvature (film) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20H.%20Low | Steven H. Low is a Professor of the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department and the Electrical Engineering Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work on the theory and mathematical modeling of Internet congestion control, algorithms, and optimization in power systems.
Academic biography
Low received his BS in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1987, and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Pravin Varaiya in 1992. He was with AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, from 1992 to 1996, the University of Melbourne, Australia, from 1996 to 2000, and joined Caltech in 2000.
Research
Low pioneered a mathematical theory of large-scale networks under end-to-end congestion control such as the Internet, with implications on resource allocation, routing, and network architecture. He and his research team designed a new congestion control algorithm called FAST TCP based on this mathematical theory, built a unique testbed WAN-in-Lab and worked with high-energy physicists (HEP) at Caltech, CERN and around the
world to break world records on data transfer. His work is instrumental in changing the focus of congestion control research and land speed record contests from parameter tuning to algorithm design and analysis.
Through a startup called FastSoft, his team actively pursued the deployment of their research which has been accelerating the world's largest content distribution and social networks as well as other Fortune 500 companies.
Upon returning to Caltech after Fastsoft, his research began to focus on the control and optimization of distributed energy resources for future smart grids.
Awards and honors
Low is an IEEE Fellow, a co-recipient of an R&D 100 Award, and IEEE prize papers awards. He has been a Chair/Honorary/Guest/Adjunct Professor with Zhejiang University, China, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, and Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
References
Living people
California Institute of Technology faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American computer scientists
Cornell University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Umans | Christopher Umans is a professor of Computer Science in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for work on algorithms, computational complexity, algebraic complexity, and hardness of approximation.
Academic biography
Umans studied at Williams College, where he completed a BA degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1996. He then received a PhD in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 2000 under Christos Papadimitriou. Following his PhD, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research until joining Caltech in 2002.
Research
Umans' research centers broadly around algorithms and complexity. He has made notable contributions to varied areas within this space including random number generation, expanders, and algorithms for matrix multiplication. A notable example is his work on developing a group theoretic approach for matrix multiplication.
In 2008, Umans and his student Dave Buchfuhrer settled a 1979 conjecture on the complexity of unbounded Boolean formula minimization; the result won a best paper award at ICALP.
Awards and honors
Umans received an NSF CAREER award in 2004 and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2005. Additionally, his work has received "Best Paper" awards at the International Conference on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) and the IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC).
References
External links
Chris Umans professional home page
Living people
California Institute of Technology faculty
Theoretical computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda%20architecture | Lambda architecture is a data-processing architecture designed to handle massive quantities of data by taking advantage of both batch and stream-processing methods. This approach to architecture attempts to balance latency, throughput, and fault-tolerance by using batch processing to provide comprehensive and accurate views of batch data, while simultaneously using real-time stream processing to provide views of online data. The two view outputs may be joined before presentation. The rise of lambda architecture is correlated with the growth of big data, real-time analytics, and the drive to mitigate the latencies of map-reduce.
Lambda architecture depends on a data model with an append-only, immutable data source that serves as a system of record. It is intended for ingesting and processing timestamped events that are appended to existing events rather than overwriting them. State is determined from the natural time-based ordering of the data.
Overview
Lambda architecture describes a system consisting of three layers: batch processing, speed (or real-time) processing, and a serving layer for responding to queries. The processing layers ingest from an immutable master copy of the entire data set. This paradigm was first described by Nathan Marz in a blog post titled "How to beat the CAP theorem" in which he originally termed it the "batch/realtime architecture".
Batch layer
The batch layer precomputes results using a distributed processing system that can handle very large quantities of data. The batch layer aims at perfect accuracy by being able to process all available data when generating views. This means it can fix any errors by recomputing based on the complete data set, then updating existing views. Output is typically stored in a read-only database, with updates completely replacing existing precomputed views.
By 2014, Apache Hadoop was estimated to be a leading batch-processing system. Later, other, relational databases like Snowflake, Redshift, Synapse and Big Query were also used in this role.
Speed layer
The speed layer processes data streams in real time and without the requirements of fix-ups or completeness. This layer sacrifices throughput as it aims to minimize latency by providing real-time views into the most recent data. Essentially, the speed layer is responsible for filling the "gap" caused by the batch layer's lag in providing views based on the most recent data. This layer's views may not be as accurate or complete as the ones eventually produced by the batch layer, but they are available almost immediately after data is received, and can be replaced when the batch layer's views for the same data become available.
Stream-processing technologies typically used in this layer include Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Storm, SQLstream, Apache Samza, Apache Spark, Azure Stream Analytics. Output is typically stored on fast NoSQL databases., or as a commit log.
Serving layer
Output from the batch and speed layers are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venkat%20Chandrasekaran | Venkat Chandrasekaran is a Professor in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for work on mathematical optimization and its application to the information sciences.
Academic biography
Chandrasekaran studied at Rice University, where he completed the BA degree in Mathematics and the BS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2005. He then received a PhD degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley for one year before joining Caltech as an Assistant Professor in 2012.
Research and honors
Chandrasekaran's research focuses on mathematical optimization and, specifically, developing an understanding of the power and limitations of convex optimization. His thesis work studied convex optimization in the context of questions related to statistical modeling, and received the Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize for the best PhD thesis in electrical engineering at MIT. Additionally, he received the Young Researcher Prize in Continuous Optimization for his work on matrix decomposition.
References
External links
Venkat Chandrasekaran professional home page
Living people
California Institute of Technology faculty
Rice University alumni
20th-century American mathematicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
21st-century American mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit%20%28TV%20network%29 | Grit is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network features classic westerns, both TV series and films.
The network is available in many media markets via the digital subchannels of free-to-air television stations and on the digital tiers of select cable providers through a local affiliate of the network.
Originally, Katz sold the network to affiliated TV stations via ad split, but by October 2015 had moved to paying carriage fees in exchange for distributing the network's ad inventory.1 Grit used direct response advertising as a meter of viewers before switching to Nielsen rating C-3.3 It is available on Dish Network, DirecTV Stream, Sling TV, and U-verse TV.
History
Grit was announced by Katz Broadcasting along with a sister network Escape on April 3, 2014, with a formal launch scheduled for that summer with initial affiliates announced at this time being Univision Communications owned stations. On August 11, 2014, Katz announced that the two networks would launch simultaneously on August 18, 2014. Grit launched at Noon Eastern Time on that date, with the 1952 film High Noon as the network's inaugural broadcast, leading off a week-long festival of John Wayne films.
Katz estimated, based on direct response advertising business by September 2015, the network had over 250,000 prime time viewer and available in 91 million homes and 81% of the country. At that time, Grit along with its sister network, Escape, were signing up for national ratings from Nielsen. Previously handling the network's direct response advertising, Marathon Ventures would continue after the change over with advertising and sponsorship sales.
Following Scripps' acquisition of Ion Media on January 7, 2021, a previous agreement for the network to air on the subchannels of Univision Communications-owned-and-operated stations, was nullified. The network then moved to the stations of Ion Media and Inyo Broadcast Holdings (which acquired stations Scripps could not) as a subchannel, doing so by March 1, 2021 replacing the Ion Plus, Shop Ion and Qubo channels.
Programming
Grit's program schedule features westerns such as Death Valley Days, Laramie, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, and Tales of Wells Fargo, along with various western films.
Katz Broadcasting president and CEO Jonathan Katz based the demographic-targeted concept of Escape and Grit after Bounce TV, a network Katz co-founded with Martin Luther King III and Andrew Young in 2011 that is targeted at African-American audiences. Katz stated Grit and Escape are "the country’s first ever male-centric and female-centric broadcast networks," featuring different programming from other classic television multicast networks that Katz referred to as "generic brands with generic names, created by studios to serve the studios."
Movies
Grit's program schedule features an extensive library of films through multi-year program licensing agreements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20Mystery | Ion Mystery (formerly Escape and Court TV Mystery, stylized as ESCAPE and MYSTERY; formerly branded on-air as Mystery) is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. It focuses primarily on mystery, true crime, and police/legal procedural programs.
It is available in several media markets via the digital subchannels of terrestrial television stations and on the digital tiers of select cable providers through a local affiliate of the network.
History
Katz Broadcasting announced the formation of Escape and sister network Grit on April 3, 2014, with a formal launch scheduled for that summer. When the network was first announced, Katz Broadcasting entered into an affiliation agreement with Univision Communications, which planned to launch Grit in 22 markets served by a station owned by the group or operated through local marketing agreements with Entravision Communications – giving Grit affiliates in 17 of the 20 largest U.S. television markets (including markets such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas-Fort Worth). The network immediately sought carriage on the digital subchannels of television stations owned by other broadcasting companies.
On August 11, 2014, Katz announced that the two networks would launch simultaneously on August 18. Escape launched at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on that date, with the 1981 film Body Heat as the network's inaugural broadcast.
On August 1, 2017, in an expansion of the company's existing interest, the E. W. Scripps Company announced it would purchase a 95% majority stake in Katz Broadcasting's assets (Escape, Grit, and Laff as well as the managerial rights for Bounce TV parent Bounce Media, LLC) for $292 million. Although Scripps assumed ownership of the group upon the purchase's completion on October 2, Katz will remain headquartered in Marietta, Georgia as an autonomous division of its new corporate parent.
On September 30, 2019, Escape was rebranded as Court TV Mystery, serving as an extension to the Court TV brand.
Following Scripps' acquisition of Ion Media in 2021, many of its digital subchannels, including Court TV and Court TV Mystery, were moved over to Ion-owned affiliates and on Scripps stations, were separated from stations also carrying Court TV, causing viewer confusion regarding the channel positions and carriage status of the two networks. The network was subsequently rebranded to Ion Mystery on February 24, 2022, with the "Ion" brand now more established regarding procedural dramas in general, including Ion Mystery's overall programming, whereas Court TV is more associated with its news division.
Programming on Ion Mystery
Current programming
Bones
Cheaters
Corrupt Crimes
Crime 360
Crime Stories
CSI
CSI: Miami
Da Vinci's Inquest
Forensic Files
I Killed My BFF
Leverage
Leverage: Redemption
Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force
Murderous Affairs
NCIS: New Orleans
Scorpion
Swift Justice with Nancy Gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGNAM | WGN may refer to:
WGN (AM), a radio station (720 AM) licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States
WGN America, a cable television network that used this initialism within electronic guide listings prior to becoming NewsNation.
Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMCW-LP | KMCW-LP (channel 14) was a low-power television station in Medford, Oregon, United States. It was owned by Northwest Broadcasting alongside Fox affiliate KMVU (channel 26) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KFBI-LD (channel 48).
History
KMCW-LP signed on the air on April 22, 2003. It was acquired by Modesto, California-based Sainte Partners II, L.P. (owned by Chester Smith) in 2006 and its new sister station KFBI would begin airing its programming in July 2006. KMCW began carrying NBC-owned Spanish-language network Telemundo and aired via internet link from Sainte's headquarters in Chico, California.
Ownership changes
In November 2007, it was announced that KMCW and sister station KFBI were up for sale, but they were never purchased. It remained Sainte property from then on.
In April 2012, station owners Sainte Television Group (aka Sainte Partners II) entered into a local marketing agreement with Bonten Media Group, a New York-based private equity group which owns Northern California ABC and MeTV affiliates KRCR-TV in Redding, California, and KAEF-TV in Eureka, California. KMCW and sister station KFBI were not included in the package and were sold to Northwest Broadcasting, owner of KMVU in Medford. KMCW replaced This TV (which aired briefly on KOBI-TV sub-channel 5.2) with Telemundo on sub-channel 48.2 while still airing on channel 14. KMCW had later changed its affiliation from Telemundo to MundoMax, and later to the religious network Sonlife.
In March of 2016, the station's license was cancelled and it has since gone dark.
Cable and satellite coverage
KMCW became available on local cable TV via Charter Communications on channel 3 in Medford and Klamath Falls as of September 5, 2006.
The station was not carried on either Dish Network or DirecTV.
MCW-LP
Religious television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2003
2003 establishments in Oregon
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2016
2016 disestablishments in Oregon
Defunct television stations in the United States
MCW-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%201979 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 1979.
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart
References
1979 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Radio%20Hacker%27s%20Codebook | The Radio Hacker's Codebook is a book for computer enthusiasts written by George Sassoon. The book explains how to receive international radioteletype signals, convert them with a circuit and then decode them on a microcomputer. In the case of this book the computer is the superseded Research Machines 380Z. Programs to do these functions are given, written in machine code and BASIC. However legal and moral issues relating to intercepting messages are not included. Other radioteletype subject included are the FEC and automatic repeat request used in maritime radiocommunications.
The book also include an exposition of encryption, including the public key RSA cipher and presciently expounds on the lack of privacy in the cashless society. Code examples are also given using the Sharp PC-320I to encode and decode the German Enigma machine. The books claims that the Enigma was kept secret for long periods because understanding it could compromise the American M-209 cipher machine, and that it was still being sold to other countries. Other encryption topics covered include Data Encryption Standard, Vernam cipher (one-time pad), pseudo random number generators, transposition ciphers, and substitution ciphers
The Radio Hacker's Codebook is idiosyncratic revealing a personal quest by Sassoon to decrypt military signals on the radio spectrum. However he would have had no chance to decode modern encryption as described in the book.
The Radio Hacker's Codebook broke ground in having a low price for a technical computing book being sold for £6.95 well below the typical £10+ price for computing books at the time. It was published by Duckworth and had 239 pages.
References
Cryptanalytic software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E422 | European route E 422 is part of the international E-road network.
Route
Trier — Saarbrücken
E44 Trier
E29, E50 Saarbrücken
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
422
E422 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9TV | 9TV (formerly branded as Solar News Channel) was a major commercial television network in the Philippines. It was owned by Nine Media Corporation, Nine Media had an airtime agreement as the main content provider of Radio Philippines Network. 9TV was the replacement of the Solar News Channel who have been retired the "Solar" branding. Broadcast 18 hours daily from 6:00 AM to 12:00 MN on free TV, while 24 hours a day on cable and satellite TV providers and thru live streaming.
Its flagship television station was DZKB-TV channel 9 in Mega Manila and other regional originating and relay stations in the Philippines.
Most of its live programming of the network are from the main studios located at Upper Ground Floor of the Worldwide Corporate Center, Shaw Boulevard corner Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Mandaluyong with transmitter at No. 97, Panay Avenue, Brgy. South Triangle, Quezon City.
The channel ceased broadcasting on March 15, 2015, and was replaced by CNN Philippines on March 16, 2015.
History
9TV was launched on August 23, 2014, at 12:00am as a replacement for Solar News Channel. Its first show as 9TV was the replay of Nightly News. Solar News, the network's news arm was rebranded as 9News. The rebranding of the network came after Antonio Cabangon Chua's acquisition of Tieng's share of both STVNI (which turned into Nine Media Corporation) and RPN to ALC Group of Companies due to the Tieng's loss of revenue after investing on RPN.
The newscasts, current affairs programs and public service programs carried from the SNC format and the personnel was retained. It is also beefed up their weekend programming including cartoons, infotainment programs, reality, and infomercials to cater more viewers.
Rebranding stage took almost 7 months until 9TV will be rebranded into CNN Philippines that launched on March 16, 2015. 9News inked a partnership deal with international news network CNN.
As part of transition to CNN Philippines, 9TV temporarily used green screen as their news studio while their main newsroom and studio is under renovation in December 2014 and 9TV newscasts and current affairs programs began adopting CNN-themed graphics a week later (January 15, 2015). Some non-CNN programming (NBC and CBS shows), as well as Home Shopping Network (now Shop TV) and Kids Weekend (now currently CNN Philippines Junior) block were axed in the coming months.
Affiliate
References
External links
9TV official website
9News official website
Radio Philippines Network
Television networks in the Philippines
Defunct television networks in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 2014
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2015
24-hour television news channels in the Philippines
English-language television stations in the Philippines
Filipino-language television stations
ceb:9TV
ilo:9TV
tl:9TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E429 | European route E 429 is part of the international E-road network.
Route
E403 Tournai
Ath
Enghien
Halle
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
429
E429 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E441 | European route E 441 is part of the international E-road network.
Route
E40 Chemnitz
E49 Plauen
E51 Hof
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
441
441 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E442 | European route E 442 is part of the international E-road network.
Route
E48, E49 Karlovy Vary
E55 Teplice
E65 Turnov
E67 Hradec Králové
E462 Olomouc
E50, E75 Žilina
External links
Map of E-road
International E-road network
442
E442
E442 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreditech | Kreditech (a trading name of Kreditech Holding SSL GmbH) is a German online lender which offers loans to individuals based on their creditworthiness which is analyzed using their online data instead of using traditional credit rating information. Founded in 2012 by Sebastian Diemer and Alexander Graubner-Müller, Kreditech is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany; it particularly focuses its efforts on emerging markets.
Technology
Kreditech uses a self-learning algorithm which analyzes big data. It calculates an individual's credit score in seconds using up to 20,000 data points. Kreditech uses location-based information (GPS), social networking information (likes, friends, locations and posts), hardware data (operating system, browser, etc.), online shopping behavior and general online behavior in order to determine a loan applicant’s creditworthiness.
Operations
Kreditech operates in Poland, Spain, Russia, Romania, and India. The company currently employs 500 people, with the headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. Kreditech currently runs its operations via multiple online lending platforms such as Kredito24.
Funding
In 2014 Kreditech closed a US$40 million Series B round. Värde Partners led the deal together with current shareholder Blumberg Capital. Point Nine Capital and other shareholders also participated in the round. This funding round was the largest ever for a German financial services tech firm, and is one of the largest rounds in Germany in 2014. From 2012 to 2014, Kreditech raised a total of $65M. In January 2015 the company raised a further $200M in credit line from Victory Park Capital. The company will use the newly obtained funds to further develop its existing product portfolio and expand its operations to new markets. In April 2015 Kreditech was included in Forbes Magazine's list "The Next Billion-Dollar Startups", effectively being the only German company to make the list. In September 2015, Kreditech raised EUR€82.5 million in a Series C financing round led by J.C. Flowers & Co.
Acquisitions
On January 14, 2015, Kreditech has acquired 100% of Kontomierz.pl Sp. z o. o. (Kontomierz) for a seven digit amount plus Kreditech shares. Kontomierz makes software named Kontomatik to verify client identity (KYC) and gain read-only access to bank accounts. Kreditech stated it will support the expansion of Kontomierz in global markets such as Brazil, Mexico, Russia and Spain.
Criticism
Kreditech Holding SSL GmbH started in February 2012 as kredito OFS GmbH and launched its first platform kredito.de in March 2012.
Kredito.de offered short-term micro loans to customers of up to €400. After launch of the service, Kredito.de was criticized heavily for trying to circumvent German legislation
against usury as customers had to pay for a mandatory "credit-worthiness certificate" which cost €49.90, was valid for 30 days and whose cost was not reflected by the displayed effective interest rate. By German law an effective interest has to be communica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeni%20%28company%29 | Indeni is an Israeli software developing company which develops Network automation and cloud security software. They offer scripts to validate firewall, router, switch and load balancer configurations and performance to help reduce and/or avoid network downtime. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital.
Overview
The company provides a way, using crowd-sourcing and an open development process, to collect data on device behavior in enormous amounts. Their technology supports many products including Cisco switches, Check Point firewalls, F5 BIG-IP, Fortinet, Fireeye, Gigamon, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks, Radware and other devices. The software that they provide identifies issues that are not caught with SNMP monitoring.
History
Indeni was founded in 2009 by Yonadav Leitersdorf. It was created by a team of networking, cyber security experts and software technicians. They are currently supported by venture capital funds, Sequoia Capital.
References
Software companies of Israel
Network management
Israeli brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MassMatrix | MassMatrix is a mass spectrometry data analysis software that uses a statistical model to achieve increased mass accuracy over other database search algorithms. This search engine is set apart from others dues to its ability to provide extremely efficient judgement between true and false positives for high mass accuracy data that has been obtained from present day mass spectrometer instruments. It is useful for identifying disulphide bonds in tandem mass spectrometry data. This search engine is set apart from others due to its ability to provide extremely efficient judgement between true and false positives for high mass accuracy data that has been obtained from present day mass spectrometer instruments.
References
Mass spectrometry software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fossiliferous%20stratigraphic%20units%20in%20Angola | This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Angola.
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units
Itombe formation was considered Turonian in age, but new data suggests to be Coniacian.
See also
Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Namibia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Zambia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Zimbabwe
Geology of Angola
References
Further reading
M. T. Antunes, J. G. Maisey, M. M. Marques, B. Schaeffer, and K. S. Thomson. 1990. Triassic Fishes from the Cassange Depression (R. P. De Angola). Ciências da Terra (UNL), Número Especial 1-64
M. T. Antunes. 1977. Late Neogene fish faunas from Angola, their age and significance. Journal of the Paleontological Society of India 20:224-229
D. B. Blake, G. Breton, and S. Gofas. 1996. A new genus ans [sic] species of Asteriidae (Asteroidea; Echinodermata) from the Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian) of Angola, Africa. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 70(1/2):181-187
K. E. Caster. 1938. Macroscopic fauna of the Quimbriz (Eocene) Formation on the Lucolo River, Angola. Separata do tômo XX das Communições dos Serviços Geológicos de Portugal
J. Graf, L. Jacobs, M. Polcyn, O. Mateus, and A. Schulp. 2011. New fossil whales from Angola. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts:119
A. K. Miller. 1951. Tertiary nautiloids of west-coastal Africa. Annales du Museé du Congo Belge Tervuren, Sciences Géologiques 8:1-88
R. C. Wood. 1973. Fossil marine turtle remains from the Paleocene of the Congo. Annales du Musee Royal d'Afrique Centrale, Sciences Geologiques 75:1-28
Angola
Angola geography-related lists
Fossil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E531 | The E531 is a B-class road of the trans-European International E-road network in Germany, connecting the cities of Offenburg and Donaueschingen.
Route and E-road junctions
(via shared signage B33a then B33)
Offenburg: E35
Villingen-Schwenningen
Bad Dürrheim
Donaueschingen
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
531 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th%20and%20Loud | 4th and Loud is an American reality television series that debuted August 12, 2014, on the AMC cable network. The series chronicles Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley (of the rock band Kiss) as they establish their new Arena Football League franchise, the Los Angeles Kiss, and try to bring their vision to the sport. The AMC network announced that it would not renew the series for a second season, as the network was planning to move away from reality shows to focus more on its scripted programming.
Cast
Gene Simmons – Co-owner
Paul Stanley – Co-owner
Doc McGhee – Kiss manager
Brett Bouchy – Co-owner
Schuyler Hoversten – Team president
Bob McMillen – Head coach
Bruno Silva – Head Athletic Trainer
Colt Brennan – Quarterback
Scott Bailey – Director of player personnel
J. J. Raterink – Quarterback
Beau Bell – Linebacker
B. J. Bell – Defensive linemen
Russell Shaw – Assistant coach
Grady Tucker, Jr. – Assistant coach
Walt Housman – Defensive coordinator
Episodes
References
External links
2014 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
2010s American reality television series
AMC (TV channel) original programming
English-language television shows
American sports television series
Cultural depictions of Kiss (band) |
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