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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20%28supercomputer%29 | Trinity (or ATS-1) is a United States supercomputer built by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC). The aim of the ASC program is to simulate, test, and maintain the United States nuclear stockpile.
History
December 2013, The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and The Alliance for Computing at Extreme Scale (ACES) releases a joint RFP with technical requirements for Trinity.
July 2014, Cray announces that they were awarded the $174 Million contract by the National Nuclear Security Administration to provide a next generation supercomputer to Los Alamos National Laboratory.
June 2015, Haswell Partition installation begins.
November 2015, Trinity appears on the Supercomputing Top500 list at #6.
June 2016, Knights Landing Partition installation begins.
November 2016, Trinity falls to #10 on the Top500 list.
July 2017, The Haswell and KNL partitions are merged.
November 2018, Trinity regains #6 spot on the Top500 list.
Trinity technical specifications
Compute Tier
Trinity was built in 2 stages. The first stage incorporated the Intel Xeon Haswell processor while the second stage added a significant performance increase using the Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing Processor.
There are 301,952 Haswell and 678,912 Knights Landing processors in the combined system, yielding a total peak performance of over 40 PF/s (petaflops)
Storage Tiers
There are 5 primary storage tiers; Memory, Burst Buffer, Parallel File System, Campaign Storage, and Archive.
Memory
2 PiB of DDR4 DRAM provide physical memory for the machine. Each processor also has DRAM built on to the tile, providing additional memory capacity. The data in this tier is highly transient and is typically in residence for only a few seconds, being overwritten continuously.
Burst Buffer
Cray supplies the three hundred XC40 Data Warp blades that each contain 2 Burst Buffer nodes and 4 SSD drives. There is a total of 3.78 PB of storage in this tier, capable of moving data at a rate of up to 2 TB/s. In this tier, data is typically resident for a few hours, with data being overwritten in approximately that same time frame.
Parallel File System
Trinity uses a Sonexion based Lustre file system with a total capacity of 78 PB. Throughput on this tier is about 1.8 TB/s (1.6 TiB/s). It is used to stage data in preparation for HPC operations.
Data residence in this tier is typically several weeks.
Campaign Storage
The MarFS Filesystem fits into the Campaign Storage tier and combines properties of POSIX and Object storage models.
The capacity of this tier is growing at a rate of about 30 PB/year, with a current capacity of over 100 PB.
In testing, LANL scientists were able to create 968 billion files in a single directory at a rate of 835 million file creations per second.
This storage is designed to be more robust than typical object storage, while sacrificing some of the end user functionality that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20P.%20Goldberg | Robert P. Goldberg (December 4, 1944 – February 25, 1994) was an American computer scientist, known for his research on operating systems and virtualization.
With Gerald J. Popek he proposed the Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements, a set of conditions necessary for a computer architecture to support system virtualization.
In his Ph.D. thesis "Architectural Principles for Virtual Computer Systems" he also invented the classification for Hypervisors which is now widely adopted in the area of virtual computer systems and computer science in general.
Biography
Dr. Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1944. He received the B.S. degree in Mathematics from MIT in 1965 and the MA and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, in 1969 and 1973, respectively.
In his Ph.D. thesis "Architectural Principles for Virtual Computer Systems" published 1974 he invented the classification for Hypervisors which is now widely adopted in the area of virtual computer systems and computer science in general.
In 1974 with Gerald J. Popek he proposed the Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements, a set of conditions necessary for a computer architecture to support system virtualization.
From 1966 to 1972 he was a member of the research staff at MIT, first at Lincoln Laboratories and then at Project MAC. From 1971 to 1972, Goldberg served as a consultant to the director of engineering at Honeywell's Boston Computer Operations.
His teaching experience included lectureships at Brandeis University and Northeastern University.
Dr. Goldberg was a member of ACM. He was the organizer of the Virtual Machine session at the 1973 National Computer Conference, was the program chairman and proceedings editor for the ACM SIGARCH-SIGOPS Workshop on Virtual Computer Systems, 1973 and has written and lectured extensively on many different aspects of virtual machine systems.
Goldberg was a member of the Honeywell Information Systems Technical Office in Waltham, MA and also a lecturer on Computer Science at Harvard University. His research interest included computer architectures, operating system design and evaluation, and data management systems at that time.
1978 Dr. Goldberg filed a patent under the name "Hardware virtualizer for supporting recursive virtual computer systems on a host computer system" (Patent Nr. 4253145) which was accepted 1981 and is held by Honeywell Information Systems Inc.
In 1975 Dr. Goldberg together with Dr. Jeffrey Buzen and Dr. Harold Schwenk (whose last names are represented in the initials of the company) founded a company called "BGS Systems, Inc." in the basement of Buzen's Lexington, Mass. home. Over the next fifteen years, it moved five times, but always within Waltham, Mass.
The company set out to develop products that provided centralized capacity management and planning capabilities for all major computing platforms. In addition BGS created products that managed and evaluated computing systems su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov%20Dori | Dov Dori (born 2 September 1953) is an Israeli-American computer scientist, and Professor of Information Systems Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, known for the development of Object Process Methodology (OPM). The ideas underlying OPM were published for the first time in 1995.
Biography
Born in Haifa, Israel, Dori received his BS in Industrial Engineering and Management in 1975 at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In 1981 he received his MS at the Tel Aviv University, Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, and in 1988 his PhD in Operations Research from the Weizmann Institute of Science under supervision of Amir Pnueli and Shimon Ullman.
Dori started his academic career in the United States as Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Kansas in 1987. At the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management he was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1991, Associate Professor in 1999, and Professor in 2008. Since 2010 At the Technion he also heads the Enterprise Systems Modeling Laboratory. Between 2000 and 2020 he was intermittently Visiting Associate Professor and later Visiting Professor and Scholar at Sloan Business School and the School of Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dori is known for the development of Object Process Methodology, for which he received the Technion Klein Research Award and the Hershel Rich Innovation Award. He is IEEE Fellow since 2017 "For contributions to model-based systems engineering and document analysis recognition" and IEEE Life Fellow since 2021. He is Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) since 2000, Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) since 2021, and ACM Senior Member since 2006. In 2023 he received the INCOSE Pioneer Award "For his seminal work as a researcher and educator, and most successfully transitioning research to practice." He has published in the fields of conceptual modeling of complex systems, systems architecture and design, and systems biology.
Selected publications
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
References
External links
1953 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Tel Aviv University alumni
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Priest%20%28American%20football%29 | Timothy A. Priest (born March 10, 1949) is an American attorney, broadcaster and former football player. He served as the football color analyst for the University of Tennessee's Vol Radio Network from 1999 to 2021, working alongside play-by-play commentator Bob Kesling. Priest played for Tennessee from 1968 to 1970, and holds the school's career interceptions record, with 18. He was captain of the 1970 squad, which featured one of the most heralded defensive backfields in school history.
Priest has practiced law in the Knoxville area since the late 1970s. He served as municipal court judge for the town of Farragut, Tennessee, from 1998 to 2005.
Early life
Priest was born in Humboldt, Tennessee, the son of Marshall and Eleanor (Harris) Priest. His mother was a graduate of the University of Tennessee and worked as a piano teacher. Priest attended Huntingdon High School in Huntingdon, Tennessee. He played quarterback at Huntingdon from 1964 to 1966, winning All-State honors his senior year.
College
Priest joined Tennessee's football team, at the time coached by Doug Dickey, in 1967, though freshmen were ineligible to play varsity before the 1970s. During spring practice prior to his sophomore year in 1968, Priest beat out two veterans for a starting slot in the defensive backfield. In Tennessee's game against Vanderbilt in November of that year, Priest intercepted a pass at the Tennessee 27 yard line late in the fourth quarter to thwart a Commodore drive and secure a 10–7 victory. He was named to the Sophomore All-SEC team at the end of the season.
As a member of the stellar 1969 defensive unit that included Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds, Steve Kiner, and Jackie Walker, Priest registered an SEC-leading seven interceptions. In Tennessee's 29–14 win over South Carolina, Priest intercepted a pass from quarterback Randy Yoakum in the fourth quarter to set up the Vols' final touchdown to help seal the win. In Tennessee's 45–19 win over Auburn, he intercepted a pass from Auburn quarterback Rick Eisenacher and returned it 38 yards for a touchdown.
Prior to the 1970 season, Priest was elected team captain. Tennessee's new head coach, Bill Battle, hired two talented assistants, Larry Jones and Buddy Bennett, who encouraged a more aggressive style of play. Tennessee's 1970 defense registered an SEC-record 36 team interceptions. Tennessee safety Bobby Majors and Priest were first and second in the NCAA in interceptions that year, with ten and nine, respectively. During the third quarter of the Vols' 17–6 win over Georgia Tech, Priest intercepted a pass from Eddie McAshan at the Tennessee one yard line to snuff out a long drive. In Tennessee's 24–0 win over Alabama, Priest intercepted a pass from Tide quarterback Neb Hayden to set up the Vols' first touchdown, and finished the game with a school record three interceptions (part of a school team record eight interceptions). In Tennessee's 45–0 rout of Kentucky, Priest intercepted a pass from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Carne | Mark Carne is a British businessman who served as executive vice-president for Shell in the Middle East and North Africa and was chief executive of Network Rail.
Early life and education
Carne was born in Helensburgh, Scotland. He holds a BSc in engineering science from the University of Exeter and a Chartered Diploma in accounting and finance from the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology.
Career
Early in Carne's career at Shell, he oversaw the company's response to the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster. After rising to oversee the company's operation in the North Sea he became managing director of Brunei Shell Petroleum (a Shell subsidiary). After 21 years, he moved to BG Group, where he became BG's managing director for Europe and Central Asia. Moving back to Shell, he became executive vice-president for the Middle East and North Africa, right through the Arab Spring years. In 2013, he was appointed chief executive of Network Rail.
Network Rail
Carne was appointed chief executive of Network Rail in September 2013, and joined the company in January 2014 succeeding David Higgins. Carne's salary on appointment was £675,000—an increase on Higgins', though the overall remuneration package was smaller—which prompted criticism from unions, including the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (one of the main unions for Network Rail staff), Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (the train drivers' union) and the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers. Network Rail stated that the salary "was determined following an exhaustive and independent process which compared the salaries of chief executives in both the public and private sectors given Network Rail's unique position as a not-for-dividend, independent company". In an interview, Carne stated that his immediate focus would be on "safety, reliability, capacity, and cost", while also attempting to reduce spending.
Shortly after his appointment, Network Rail was reclassified as a public body in September 2014, which put the company's debt of £34 billion on the government balance sheet. This fundamental change meant that Network Rail could no longer borrow additional money to pay for cost increases as the scope of infrastructure projects matured, which had been the process assumed in the regulatory structure. As a result, cost increases in one project, led to others being controversially postponed or cancelled. This led to National Audit Office reports and Carne being questioned by the Public Accounts Committee, who concluded that "The 2014–2019 rail investment programme could not have been delivered within the budget which the Department, Network Rail and the Office of Rail & Road agreed". The investment programme was then replanned on the basis of available funds and realistic cost estimates. To also partially resolve the funding crisis, Carne proposed selling Network Rail's commercial estate, which was completed in September 2018 for £1.46 billion.
Carne reformed man |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplana%20dimorpha | Mycoplana dimorpha is a gram-negative bacteria from the genus of Mycoplana.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycoplana dimorpha at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhizobiaceae
Bacteria described in 1928 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V | RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five",) is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. Unlike most other ISA designs, RISC-V is provided under royalty-free open-source licenses. A number of companies are offering or have announced RISC-V hardware; open source operating systems with RISC-V support are available, and the instruction set is supported in several popular software toolchains.
As a RISC architecture, the RISC-V ISA is a load–store architecture. Its floating-point instructions use IEEE 754 floating-point. Notable features of the RISC-V ISA include: instruction bit field locations chosen to simplify the use of multiplexers in a CPU, a design that is architecturally neutral, and a fixed location for the sign bit of immediate values to speed up sign extension.
The instruction set is designed for a wide range of uses. The base instruction set has a fixed length of 32-bit naturally aligned instructions, and the ISA supports variable length extensions where each instruction can be any number of 16-bit parcels in length. Subsets support small embedded systems, personal computers, supercomputers with vector processors, and warehouse-scale 19 inch rack-mounted parallel computers.
The instruction set specification defines 32-bit and 64-bit address space variants. The specification includes a description of a 128-bit flat address space variant, as an extrapolation of 32 and 64 bit variants, but the 128-bit ISA remains "not frozen" intentionally, because there is yet so little practical experience with such large memory systems.
Unlike other academic designs which are typically optimized only for simplicity of exposition, the designers intended that the RISC-V instruction set be usable for practical computers. As of June 2019, version 2.2 of the user-space ISA and version 1.11 of the privileged ISA are frozen, permitting software and hardware development to proceed. The user-space ISA, now renamed the Unprivileged ISA, was updated, ratified and frozen as version 20191213. An external debug specification is available as a draft, version 0.13.2.
The project began in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley, but many current contributors are volunteers not affiliated with the university. With members in over 70 countries contributing and collaborating to define RISC-V open specifications, RISC-V International is currently headquartered in Switzerland.
Rationale
CPU design requires design expertise in several specialties: electronic digital logic, compilers, and operating systems. To cover the costs of such a team, commercial vendors of processor intellectual property (IP), such as Arm Ltd. and MIPS Technologies, charge royalties for the use of their designs, patents and copyrights. They also often require non-disclosure agreements before releasing documents that describe their designs' detailed advantages. In many cases, they never describe the reasons for their desi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France%20tramway%20Line%205 | Île-de-France tramway Line 5 (usually called simply T5) is part of the modern tram network of the Île-de-France region of France. Line T5 connects the centre of Saint-Denis (Marché de Saint-Denis) and Garges - Sarcelles station, in the Northern suburbs of Paris. Line T5 was Île-de-France's first rubber-tyred tramway line. The line has a length of and 16 stations. It opened to the public on 29 July 2013.
First envisioned during the 1990s as a means of providing better public transportation through Paris's northern suburbs, particularly the expanding districts of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine and Lochères in Sarcelles, actual planning activity for the line started during 1999. During February 2005, the defined Line 5 project was publicly announced by the Syndicat des Transports (STIF). Transit operator RATP was appointed as the principal contractor for performing the construction of the new line. During the latter part of 2009, work commenced upon Line 5's civil engineering works; construction commenced upon the track infrastructure and stations almost one year later.
Line T5 is operated by the Régie autonome des transports parisiens (RATP) under the authority of Île-de-France Mobilités.
Development
Background
Line T5 was designed with the stated aim of providing superior public transportation services in the northern suburbs of Paris, France, specifically the two neighborhoods of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine and Lochères in Sarcelles, which have been identified as possessing an expanding population during the years running up to the turn of the century. It was built to serve in excess of 86,000 neighbouring residents spread across five different communities, these being Saint-Denis, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Sarcelles, Garges-les-Gonesse and Montmagny. Key interchanges include St.Denis Market on the Line T1, Saint-Denis Basilica on Metro line 13 and at Garges-Sarcelles on Réseau Express Régional (RER) Line D.
Notably, Line 5 is unlike any previous tramways in the region in that it was designed to be a rubber-tyred tramway; as such, the completed line holds the distinction of being the first tyre-based tramway to be established in the Île-de-France region. Between 1999 and 2004, planning and surveying of the intended line was performed while the project was quietly defined by planning authorities. During February 2005, the Line 5 project was publicly announced by the Syndicat des Transports (STIF), the transport authority for the IIe-de-France region.
During November 2006, STIF issued its approval of the route's preliminary draft. During the first half of 2007, it was announced that an agreement concerning financing had been signed between the project's major stakeholders. Transit operator RATP became the principal contractor for the Line 5's construction, which included multiple stations and a maintenance depot. The regional councils of Val d’Oise and Seine-Saint-Denis were assigned responsibility for the civil works relating to the highway and associated pu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybermentors | CyberMentors was an online peer mentoring service for children and young people aged 11–18, delivered through a social networking site at cybermentors.org.uk. CyberMentors was delivered by the UK charity Beatbullying.
CyberMentors was rebranded to be known as BeatBullying Mentors however the service now seems to have disappeared all together with the beatbullying domain now redirecting to a premium online therapy company.
The old CyberMentors website can be viewed via the Wayback Machine snapshot from 02/01/2013
History and Scope
CyberMentors was launched in March 2009 by the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In 2009 Beatbullying won the Third Sector Excellence Award for best use of digital media for CyberMentors.
Activities
CyberMentors offers advice and guidance for young people who are affected by both cyber and offline bullying, by allowing them to connect online with trained “CyberMentors,” who are 11–18, “Senior CyberMentors” who are 18–25, and fully trained online counsellors.
According to Beatbullying, as of November 2009 there were 1815 CyberMentors, 40 volunteer counsellors, 15 full-time and three part-time staff on CyberMentors, and the site had 217,157 unique users.
Training
Beatbullying also offers training in schools to those that wish to become CyberMentors. The training is qualified at an ASDAN level, and covers topics such as Child Protection and Self Harming.
Referral Sites
Many schools across the UK have set up "Referral Sites" whereby students can access CyberMentors services from anywhere. Two of the most successful examples of this are Horbury School's CyberMentors and SWCC CyberMentors.
References
External links
http://cybermentors.org.uk
http://beatbullying.org
http://cybermentors.horbury.wakefield.sch.uk
http://samwhitcybermentors.org.uk/
Mentorships
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Maryland%20Inter-County%20Broadband%20Network | The One Maryland Inter-County Broadband Network also known as ICBN is Municipal Computer Network.
Overview
The ICBN was funded through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. Howard County Maryland Chief Information Officer Ira Levy spearheaded the first and second application for federal funds. As a result, Howard county became the central managing agency for the project, which included Baltimore City, Annapolis, Harford, Carroll, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Frederick, Montgomery, Howard and Prince George’s counties. $115 million was funded as a stimulus grant, with jurisdictions required to fund $43 in matching funds.
Implementation
The project scope was defined to 713 schools using 1,300 miles of underground fiber optic cable installations. In 2011 a new facility was opened for operations in Elkridge, Maryland managed by IPX International of Rockville. AboveNet, T.W. Telecom, and Freedom Wireless signed contracts to link commercial properties to the network. The ICBN was developed using Maryland-based Ciena’s converged packet optical portfolio and packet networking solutions. KCI Technologies, Inc provided the design and outside plant implementation. In September 2013, Levy transitioned to Columbia-based Far Corner subsidiary Torrential Systems. County Executive Ken Ulman replaced him with his former republican opponent Christopher Merdon.
The Maryland Broadband Cooperative non-profit corporation was formed to manage networks outside of the jurisdictions.
In 2013, Frederick County withdrew from the program.
On 10 October 2013, Howard County executive Ken Ulman announced the completion of the $160 million fiber optic network to connect 1000 schools.
In August 2014 Ken Ulman announced that the ICBN was the lowest bidder to provide service to the Howard County Public School System, with a cost reduction of $560,000 a year over a five-year contract. The network increased capacity from 100mps to 1gbs for 33 out of 41 elementary schools, 8 facilities, and one out of 20 middle schools.
The Columbia Association HOA for the Howard Hughes development committed to the project for an undisclosed amount to its members. Columbia based nTech Solutions joined, in October 2014, becoming the first company to link to the network.
References
External links
Official Website
YouTube of Columbia Association use of the ICBN
See also
Municipal wireless network
Local government in Maryland
Internet service providers of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrascale | Infrascale is a DRaaS (disaster-recovery-as-a-service) and data protection company based in El Segundo, California.
History
Founded in 2011 by Ken Shaw, the company is headquartered in El Segundo, California, and has offices in Australia, India, and the Ukraine. It has 16 datacenters around the world including the United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, India, Ukraine, and South Africa.
In 2014, the company acquired Eversync Solutions, Inc to offer cloud and on-premises backup, archiving, and disaster recovery solutions.
The program received awards from various analyst firms and publications. In 2017, Redmond Channel Partners named Infrascale the Best Ransomware Solution. Also in 2017, Gartner named Infrascale a Leader in the DRaaS Magic Quadrant. In 2016, Gartner named Infrascale a Visionary in the disaster recovery Magic Quadrant and in 2015, a business continuity Cool Vendor. CRN named Infrascale one of the "20 Coolest Cloud Storage Vendors of the 2016 Cloud 100".
Features
Features include failover, continuous data protection, unlimited versioning, archiving, integrated local backup, remote wipe & geo-locate, and military-grade security. It is available as a direct-to-cloud offering or with a local, on-premises appliance.
On January 17, 2017, they announced a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform to deliver faster failover.
Product editions
Infrascale comes in two versions:
Cloud Backup- Direct-to-cloud backup for mobile, laptops, and remote offices without appliances.
Disaster Recovery- Instantly run your systems in our cloud when they go down due to hardware failure or natural disaster.
Infrascale is 100% channel focused and concentrates heavily on selling through IT resellers and managed service providers.
The Infrascale products include several features targeted at protecting data such as:
Exchange Backup and Granular Recovery
Windows Server Backup and Recovery
Sharepoint Server Backup and Recovery
SQL Server Backup and Recovery
Linux Backup and Recovery
Unix Backup and Recovery
Novell NetWare Backup and Recovery
Solaris Backup and Recovery
See also
Ransomware Mitigation
Malware Protection
Off-site data protection
Disaster recovery
On-Demand Failover
Comparison of online backup services
References
External links
As a service
Cloud applications
Software industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUPS | In computational neuroscience, SUPS (for Synaptic Updates Per Second) or formerly CUPS (Connections Updates Per Second) is a measure of a neuronal network performance, useful in fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and computer science.
Computing
For a processor or computer designed to simulate a neural network SUPS is measured as the product of simulated neurons and average connectivity (synapses) per neuron per second:
Depending on the type of simulation it is usually equal to the total number of synapses simulated.
In an "asynchronous" dynamic simulation if a neuron spikes at Hz, the average rate of synaptic updates provoked by the activity of that neuron is . In a synchronous simulation with step the number of synaptic updates per second would be . As has to be chosen much smaller than the average interval between two successive afferent spikes, which implies , giving an average of synaptic updates equal to . Therefore, spike-driven synaptic dynamics leads to a linear scaling of computational complexity O(N) per neuron, compared with the O(N2) in the "synchronous" case.
Records
Developed in the 1980s Adaptive Solutions' CNAPS-1064 Digital Parallel Processor chip is a full neural network (NNW). It was designed as a coprocessor to a host and has 64 sub-processors arranged in a 1D array and operating in a SIMD mode. Each sub-processor can emulate one or more neurons and multiple chips can be grouped together. At 25 MHz it is capable of 1.28 GMAC.
After the presentation of the RN-100 (12 MHz) single neuron chip at Seattle 1991 Ricoh developed the multi-neuron chip RN-200. It had 16 neurons and 16 synapses per neuron. The chip has on-chip learning ability using a proprietary backdrop algorithm. It came in a 257-pin PGA encapsulation and drew 3.0 W at a maximum. It was capable of 3 GCPS (1 GCPS at 32 MHz).
In 1991-97, Siemens developed the MA-16 chip, SYNAPSE-1 and SYNAPSE-3 Neurocomputer. The MA-16 was a fast matrix-matrix multiplier that can be combined to form systolic arrays. It could process 4 patterns of 16 elements each (16-bit), with 16 neuron values (16-bit) at a rate of 800 MMAC or 400 MCPS at 50 MHz. The SYNAPSE3-PC PCI card contained 2 MA-16 with a peak performance of 2560 MOPS (1.28 GMAC); 7160 MOPS (3.58 GMAC) when using three boards.
In 2013, the K computer was used to simulate a neural network of 1.73 billion neurons with a total of 10.4 trillion synapses (1% of the human brain). The simulation ran for 40 minutes to simulate 1 s of brain activity at a normal activity level (4.4 on average). The simulation required 1 Petabyte of storage.
See also
FLOP
SPECint
SPECfp
Multiply–accumulate operation
Orders of magnitude (computing)
SyNAPSE
References
Benchmarks (computing)
Units of frequency
Artificial intelligence
Computational neuroscience
Neurotechnology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raef%20%28singer%29 | Raef Haggag (; born August 8, 1982) is an Egyptian-American singer.
Beginnings
Raef picked up playing guitar during his time at the University of Maryland, College Park where he studied computer science.
After graduation, Raef worked briefly as a software engineer before leaving to teach high school for eight years. As he says:
"I decided to switch careers from a software eng. to a high school teacher because I wanted to help others in a more direct way (and because it was pretty boring sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours a day)". Raef taught computer programming in Montgomery County Public Schools.
Music career
Teaching gave Raef more time to focus on songwriting, often performing at local coffee shops and busking at metro stations. He was introduced to the national stage after his trio rock band "Great Seneca" toured the United States of America as part of the "Voices for Change" initiative. Raef also joined the "Poetic Vision Tour"; a band of traveling musicians and poets catering to the American Muslim community. Raef did several Muslim-themed covers of popular mainstream songs, attracting young listeners wanting a modern take on religious music
Raef signed with Awakening Records and released his debut album The Path in 2014. In the summer of 2019 he released his second album Mercy with a notable shift towards rock and country music.
Success in Indonesia
Since the release of his debut album The Path, Raef has made several trips to Indonesia to promote his music and perform at live concerts. Appearing on Indonesian national television and invited by Bandung mayor Ridwan Kamil to perform at the Bandung Conference brought Raef and his music to millions of Indonesians. Raef was also the star host on 30 episodes of The Journey of a Backpacker, a Ramadan TV series that aired on Kompas TV (later Trans7) across Indonesia and TV Alhijrah in Malaysia. In August 2015, Raef was awarded the "Platinum Award" for record sales in Indonesia. Following the blueprint of Season 1 of "The Journey of a Backpacker", Raef hosted Season 2, airing on Trans7, in which he traveled across Java, visiting 30 historic and iconic mosques.
"We Are Home" music video project
Using Detroit-based crowdfunding platform LaunchGood, over $22,000 via online donations were raised to fund the music video for "Home," directed by Los-Angeles based director, Lena Khan. The video shows Raef walking through American history observing contributions made by various immigrants to the United States. The video also features contributions made by Native Americans.
"Dear America" music video project
In his second crowdfunded music video project, Raef raised over $15,000 to fund the music video for "Dear America," directed by Washington DC based film director, Anas Tolba. The video shows clips of Americans across the spectrum experiencing a shared pain, highlighting "the reality of persistent injustices and divisions that are ripping our country apart". "Dear America" won seve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cook%27s%20Oracle | The Cook's Oracle may refer to:
A cookbook published in 1817 by William Kitchiner
A searchable database of cookbooks created by Barbara Ketcham Wheaton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%202007 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the weekly Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data is compiled by Oricon based on each singles' weekly physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 2007.
Chart history
References
2007 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Lists of number-one songs in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP%20Stealth | In computer networking, TCP Stealth is a proposed modification of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to hide open ports of some TCP services from the public, in order to impede port scans. It is somewhat similar to the port knocking technique. it is an IETF Internet Draft specification.
The proposal modifies the TCP three-way handshake by only accepting connections from clients that transmit a proof of knowledge of a shared secret. If the connection attempt does not use TCP Stealth, or if authentication fails, the server acts as if no service was listening on the port number.
The project and initial Internet Draft specification was announced on 15 August 2014, following the revelations about the GCHQ project HACIENDA, which uses port scanning to find vulnerable systems for Five Eyes intelligence agencies. The draft was written by researchers from the Technische Universität München, Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project and Holger Kenn from Microsoft.
References
External links
Knock - patches for adding TCP Stealth to Linux and FreeBSD kernels and various applications
Master's thesis about TCP Stealth
TCP extensions
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICore%20Networks | iCore Networks is an American network as a service provider with headquarters in McLean, Virginia. It specializes in platforms for VoIP networks. Founded in 2001, the company is known as the largest hosted unified applications and communications company as well as being listed as an Inc. 5000 company. iCore agreed to be purchased by Vonage for $92 million in August 2015.
History
iCore Networks was founded in 2001 by Stephen Canton, a business executive who worked for Excel Communications prior to founding iCore Networks. He launched the company in 2003 with a $7 million personal investment and the company signed its first customer in 2004. The company's services included managing VoPI networks, similar to VoIP networks. As opposed to using private point to point circuits like VoIP, iCore Networks uses a managed and hosted end-to-end system to eliminate poor call quality. The company raised an additional $6.4 million in capital in 2006 that the company used to upgrade its network facilities. It also partnered with Global Telecom & Technology in 2008 in order to strengthen its infrastructure. By 2009 the company reported revenues of approximate $25 million per year.
As of 2010, iCore Networks has boasted of having more than 75 employees and a 98% approval rating from approximately 27,000 users. The same year, it expanded operations in 2010 by adding an office in Columbia, Maryland. Two years later in 2012, iCore Networks relocated the Columbia office to a larger facility in the same town. Its customer base doubled in the two years prior to the relocation, with the company adding 40 employees. In 2012 iCore Networks acquired cloud communications provider, Always On Call. With the acquisition, iCore Networks expanded its cloud solutions to include Unified Communications (UC), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Microsoft Application Collaboration, and Desktop Virtualization.
Awards and recognition
iCore Networks has received multiple awards and recognition throughout its industry since its inception, including being named one of Top 25 Best Technology Firms in Washington D.C. as well being ranked #10 Fastest Growing Companies in Washington by the Washington Business Journal. It has been listed as an Inc. 5000 company, as well as being ranked as high as #29 on the Inc. 500 list.
References
External links
iCore Networks official website
Companies established in 2001
Companies based in McLean, Virginia
Vonage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowgorithm | Flowgorithm is a graphical authoring tool which allows users to write and execute programs using flowcharts. The approach is designed to emphasize the algorithm rather than the syntax of a specific programming language. The flowchart can be converted to several major programming languages. Flowgorithm was created at Sacramento State University.
Origin of name
The name is a portmanteau of "flowchart" and "algorithm".
Supported programming languages
Flowgorithm can interactively translate flowchart programs into source code written in other programming languages. As the user steps through their flowchart, the related code in the translated program is automatically highlighted. The following programming languages are supported:
Multilingual support
Besides English, Flowgorithm supports other spoken languages. These are:
Graphical shapes
Flowgorithm combines the classic flowchart symbols and those used by SDL diagrams. The color of each shape is shared by the associated generated code and the console window. The colors can be changed to several built-in themes.
As of version 2.22.1 Flowgorithm lacks break and continue statements making it impossible to create more complex algorithms.
Example
The image below has the solution for 99 Bottles of Beer. A function is used to return a string that either contains the singular "bottle" or plural "bottles" depending on the value of the parameter.
See also
Other educational programming languages include:
Alice
DRAKON
LARP
Microsoft Small Basic
Raptor
Scratch
Blockly, interface used by Scratch to make the code blocks
Visual Logic
References
External links
Visual programming languages
Educational programming languages
Educational software
Freeware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh%20Radio%20%28Canada%29 | Fresh Radio (formerly Fresh FM) is a branding of hot adult contemporary radio stations broadcasting in Ontario, Canada, owned by Corus Entertainment.
The network was rebranded to Fresh Radio in February 2015 and was expanded to include two stations in Kingston and Peterborough.
Stations
References
External links
Official Network Website
Corus Entertainment radio stations
Hot adult contemporary radio stations in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meehania | Meehania is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1894. It is native to China, Japan, and the eastern United States.
Species
Meehania cordata (Nutt.) Britton - Appalachian Mountains of eastern United States (Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio)
Meehania faberi (Hemsl.) C.Y.Wu - Gansu, Sichuan
Meehania fargesii (H.Lév.) C.Y.Wu - Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
Meehania henryi (Hemsl.) Y.Z.Sun ex C.Y.Wu - Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan
Meehania montis-koyae Ohwi - Honshu, Fujian, Zhejiang
Meehania pinfaensis (H.Lév.) Y.Z.Sun ex C.Y.Wu - Guizhou
Meehania urticifolia (Miq.) Makino - Japan, Korea, Russian Far East, Jilin, Liaoning
References
Lamiaceae
Lamiaceae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johor%20Bahru%E2%80%93Singapore%20Rapid%20Transit%20System | [
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Both stations will consist of co-located customs, immigration and quarantine facilities of both countries. When built, the RTS Link will be the second rail link between the two countries after the KTM Intercity's Shuttle Tebrau, between JB Sentral and Woodlands Train Checkpoint. However, the RTS Link is expected to replace this shuttle once it is completed.
A joint operating company between Singapore's SMRT Corporation and Malaysia's Prasarana will be the operator of the link. Construction started on the Malaysian section on 22 November 2020 and on the Singaporean section on 22 January 2021.
Background
Planning and development
The idea of a Mass Rapid Transit system between Northern Singapore and Johor Bahru was first suggested in 1991 when Singapore's communications minister Mah Bow Tan said that the Woodlands Extension, now part of the North South line, would be designed to accommodate such an extension. The idea was endorsed and agreed to in principle by both countries.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NowCast%20%28air%20quality%20index%29 | The PM NowCast is a weighted average of hourly air monitoring data used by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for real-time reporting of the Air Quality Index (AQI) for PM (PM10 or PM2.5).
The PM NowCast is computed from the most recent 12 hours of PM monitoring data, but the NowCast weights the most recent hours of data more heavily than an ordinary 12-hour average when pollutant levels are changing. The PM NowCast is used in lieu of a 24-hour average PM concentration in the calculation of the AQI until an entire calendar day of hourly concentrations has been monitored.
The Ozone NowCast is an algorithm developed by the USEPA to predict the 8-hour ozone average centered on the current hour from the current 1-hr average ozone data. At each ozone monitoring site, partial least squares regression is used to develop a predictive relationship between the 1-hr and 8-hr averages using the previous 2 weeks of ozone data. USEPA uses the Ozone Nowcast for real time public reporting of the ozone AQI.
Calculation of the PM NowCast
Let represent the hourly PM concentrations for the most recent 12-hour period, with the most recent hourly value, and let and represent the minimum and maximum hourly concentration for the 12-hour period.
Define:
and let
With these definitions the PM NowCast is given by:
For the special case where there is no variability in the hourly values, , and the NowCast reduces to the twelve-hour average:
For the special case where w=1/2:
But 1/(1-x)=1 + x + x2+ ... , x < 1, so to a good approximation, when w = 1/2:
Because the most recent hours of data are weighted so heavily in the NowCast when PM levels are changing, EPA does not report the NowCast when data is missing for c1 or c2.
Consider a day when the hourly average PM2.5 concentration is zero for all hours of the day, except for a single hour from noon to 1 pm, where a monitor records a concentration pulse of 71 micrograms per cubic meter (µg/m3). According to the equation above, the Nowcast is 71/2 µg/m3=35.5 µg/m3 the hour after the pulse, two hours later it is 71/4 µg/m3=17.8 µg/m3 and three hours later it is 71/8 µg/m3= 8.9 µg/m3. To calculate the corresponding AQI values, each NowCast concentration is substituted into the AQI equation in place of the 24-hour average PM2.5 concentration:
where:
= the AQI,
= the 24-hour average PM2.5 pollutant concentration,
= the concentration breakpoint that is ≤ ,
= the concentration breakpoint that is ≥ ,
= the index breakpoint corresponding to ,
= the index breakpoint corresponding to .
and:
Thus, the three NowCast concentrations correspond to air quality indices of 101, (AQI Color Code Orange, Air Quality: Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups), 63 (AQI Color Code Yellow, Air Quality: Moderate ), and 37 (AQI Color Code Green, Air Quality: Good) respectively.
After the day is over and all of the hourly data is available, the AQI for the day is calculated from the 24-hr average; 71/24 µg/ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20learning%20network | A social learning network (SLN) is a type of social network that results from interaction between learners, teachers, and modules of learning. The modules and actors who form the SLN are defined by the specific social learning process taking place.
The set of learners and the set of teachers in an SLN cannot be disjoint. Rather, an SLN is an evolving peer learning process in which learners acquire, master, and then themselves disseminate knowledge to others over time. At any given time, an actor in an SLN is a teacher of concepts she has mastered, and a learner of those she is not yet familiar with.
Collaborative learning has been identified as an important part of SLN formation, because actors can work together and combine their respective skills to solve problems.
Applications
A number of learning scenarios that give rise to social learning networks have been identified. Some of these have a designated teacher and/or teaching staff, while others rely entirely on peer-based instruction:
Massive open online courses (MOOCs), where learning content is created by a designated instructor and/or teaching staff, and the primary means of interaction between students are discussion forums. Since the student bodies of MOOC can reach hundreds of thousands in size, the teacher-to-student ratios are typically fractions of one percent. As a result of this, peer-based learning has been found to be critical to the scalability of the learning process.
Flipped classrooms (FLIP), where class time is primarily used for discussion of course material, rather than as a traditional lecture period. Compared with MOOC, the SLN for FLIP will be at least partially formed through face-to-face communication.
Training and development initiatives in which the instructor puts particular emphasis on social learning. For example, corporations will sometimes encourage enterprise social networking among employees and supply an internal networking service for this purpose.
Question and answer sites (Q&A), where there is typically a common forum on which users can post questions, answer questions, comment on answers, and up/down-vote posts. The SLN on Q&A sites is formed entirely through social interaction on these forums.
Review sites, where contributors learn from one another through a collective sharing of knowledge about experiences with items.
Graph types
The structure and dynamics of a social learning network can be represented through a graph. Different combinations of node types and link/weight definitions will yield different properties about the network. Dynamic functionalities on top of these graphs, meaning how they evolve over time in terms of the number of nodes, links, and weights, can be captured too.
At least four graph types have been identified:
Undirected graph of learners, where the nodes in the graph are learners, and the (possibly weighted) links are used to indicate the presence or absence of some characteristic(s) between them. These properties |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993%20NBL%20season | The 1993 NBL season was the 15th season of National Basketball League competition since its establishment in 1979. A total of 14 teams contested the league, It was broadcast on Network Ten at midnight due to low ratings of live coverage until 1997, Townsville Suns made their debut this season.
Clubs
Regular season
The 1993 regular season took place over 23 rounds between 16 April 1993 and 26 September 1993.
Round 1
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked%20Data%20Platform | Linked Data Platform (LDP) is a linked data specification defining a set of integration patterns for building RESTful HTTP services that are capable of read/write of RDF data.
The Linked Data Platform allows use of RESTful HTTP to consume, create, update and delete both RDF and non-RDF resources. In addition, it defines a set of "container" constructs – buckets into which documents can be added with a relationship between the bucket and the object similar to the relationship between a blog and its constituent blog posts.
History
LDP evolved from work at IBM's Rational Product Group for application integration. Starting in 2010, IBM looked at linked data for application lifecycle management and sought what was an alternative means for read–write linked data.
IBM joined with the W3C in June 2012 to form a W3C working group, which operated until July 2015.
On 26 February 2015, the W3C Linked Data Platform 1.0 was approved as a W3C Recommendation.
Implementation
Read–write linked data was previously described using WebDAV and
SPARUL by Tim Berners-Lee in his design issues that built upon
his four principles for linked data.
The Linked Data Platform includes Tim Berners-Lee's four principles, and focuses on the
following concepts.
LDP resources (LDPR)
HTTP and RDF techniques to read and write linked data
Resources can be created, modified, deleted and read using standard HTTP methods (i.e., POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, GET)
Cover "RDF sources" as well as "binary resources"
LDP containers (LDPC)
An LDPR to which you POST to create new things, GET to find existing things
Similar to what AtomPub does for XML
Available in three flavors: BasicContainer, DirectContainer, and IndirectContainer
Paging and ordering
A mechanism to get the content of a LDPC in chunks and specify the order in which the content is sorted
LDP and WebDAV relationship
LDP is not a file system, but it uses linked data to produce the kind of information that can be used to create a modern file system abstraction for interacting with HTTP-accessible resources (colloquially referred to as "Web resources").
In contrast, WebDAV is a "set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers".
However, LDP can be used with WebDAV. For example, there are live LDP containers in the wild, identified by linked data URIs, that can also function as WebDAV endpoints (i.e., mountable by any WebDAV compliant user agent).
See also
Apache Marmotta
Fedora Commons
References
External links
Linked Data Platform 1.0, W3C
Linked Data Platform 1.0 Primer, W3C
Linked Data Platform Use Cases and Requirements, W3C
LDP Implementations, W3C Wiki
Semantic Web
Resource Description Framework
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amor%20sin%20fronteras | Amor Sin Fronteras is a 1992 telenovela produced by Venezuelan television network Venevisión. Luly Bossa and Mariano Álvarez starred as the main protagonists. The telenovela was written by José Manuel Peláez and lasted 96 episodes.
Plot
Amor sin Fronteras is the story of Victoria Mayo, a beautiful woman who is the heiress to the Victoria Corporation. Her husband Carlos Ruiz starts becoming distant towards her due to her ever-increasing jealousy. This situation leads Carlos to meet Natalia Arenales, a woman he later falls in love with. His relationship with Natalia makes him forget that he is married. This leads to a series of confrontations that later lead to the mysterious disappearance of Victoria. But Victoria much alive and will use a woman named Teresa Rios help her get revenge against her husband.
Cast
Luly Bossa as Victoria Mayo
Mariano Álvarez as Carlos Ruiz
Lucy Mendoza
Rosita Alonso
Lourdes Colon
References
External links
Amor sin fronteras at the Internet Movie Database
1992 telenovelas
Venevisión telenovelas
1992 Venezuelan television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networks%20and%20States | Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance is a 2010 book by Professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies Milton L. Muller. This book shows an influence of networks on the government.
Synopsis
Chapter I, Networks and Governance
Chapter II, Transnational Institutions
Chapter III, Drivers of Internet Governance
Sources
Internet governance
Books about the Internet
2010 non-fiction books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declara | Declara is a social learning and collaboration technology company based in Palo Alto, California.
Product
Declara's platform is called the Cognitive Graph. It analyses how users interact with data to create a personalized, cognitive learning map based on a user's data, history, and interests. Declara's customers include governments, companies, educational institutions, non-profits and research organizations that use its platform to collaborate, learn, and solve problems more effectively.
History
Declara was founded in 2012 by Ramona Pierson and Nelson Gonzalez. The inspiration for Declara, Pierson has said, came from her recovery from a 1984 car accident that tore apart her body and put her in a coma for 18 months. When Pierson awoke, she was blind and was forced to relearn how to walk, breathe, and smile. She regained partial sight in her left eye after a successful corneal transplant operation. The process of having to relearn such basic skills for her highlighted the importance of being a lifelong learner, which ultimately led to her co-founding Declara.
Nelson and Pierson started a company that served as a software simulation of Pierson's mind. With the help of algorithms developed by Pierson and others, including engineers from Google and Microsoft, Declara's system learns how people interact, what types of questions they're looking to answer, and who can provide the best answers.
Declara secured $5 million in early investments, which included the backing of Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal.
In April 2014, Declara raised $16 million in Series A funding, led by GSV Capital, with participation from Data Collective, Founders Fund, and Catamount Ventures. In June 2014, the company secured $9 million in funding from Linden Venture Fund and EDBI, bringing its total Series A funding to $25 million. Declara announced its expansion into Singapore.
Customers
Education Services Australia (ESA), a national, not-for-profit company owned by Australian education ministers, began using the Declara platform in 2013.
In April 2014, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE) — the largest teachers' union in Mexico and Latin America — selected Declara as the technology platform for professional development of its 1.6 million teachers and administrators.
Declara's customers include Genentech, The University of Pennsylvania in the United States and Bécalos, an organization of Mexico's Televisa Foundation.
Awards
Pierson was named to the Business Insider's Silicon Valley 100: The Coolest People in Tech Right Now in March 2014.
References
External links
Companies based in Palo Alto, California
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
2012 establishments in California
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openpass | OpenPass is a method for data recording on RFID card in an integrated access control system, with proprietary software by different providers.
OpenPass is released under the GPL license.
The OpenPass system
The OpenPass system consist of:
contactless smartcard ISO 15693, without proprietary restrictions;
ticket counters and gates compatible with the standard
central server and open platform for data collection
web service connection and data transmission real-time or [batch].
To allow the exchange of information between heterogeneous access control systems, OpenPass defines an interchange format through the use of metalanguage XML. Access credentials are stored on the smartcard and organized through the use of markers, represented in XML. The XML representations are made public by the server OpenPass.
With a single RFID card, the user access to all sites in the system: each company is able to issue the ticket yourself and the card is recognized by every member of the system independently.
The OpenPass standard defines a distributed network of data centers, that are web service connected with the server. The information collected by data centers regarding sales and passages to the gates and they are sent to the central server. The exchange format between server and collection centers is XML.
The OpenPass server receives the data and stores them in a centralized SQL database, where each data item is related to a UID and any personal details of the customer.
Highlights of OpenPass
The methodology OpenPass is characterized by:
data accessible and understandable by users;
fast and "hands-free" passage to the gates;
online recharge and presale pass;
safety of access credentials are encrypted in emission;
multifunctionality;
management division of the profits from sales of tickets valid for multiple domains;
possibility of batch operation of control system, in hostile contexts where the connection is not continuous;
reducing the cost of cards and equipment since it is not bound to proprietary software.
OpenPass projects
For now, OpenPass is applied to control systems access to the ski lifts, in Italy and France:
Italy: Skipass Lombardia
Skipass Lombardia was the first example in Europe of open standard for integrated access control systems with heterogeneous and proprietary software. OpenPass has created an integrated system for all companies of skilifts in the Lombardy Region: 310 ski lifts, 46 companies in 30 ski areas.
France: Nordic Pass Rhône Alpes
The Federation of Nordic skiing in the French region of Rhône-Alpes(FRAN) has promoted the Nordic Pass Rhône Alpes: a project of integrated access to 5000 km of ski runs in 83 stations of Nordic skiing, with OpenPass standard.
Italy: SkiArea VCO
In the Alps of Piedmont, Neveazzurra ski resort has implemented SkiArea VCO: a project of integrated access to the stations of Neveazzurra resort: Alpe Devero, Antrona Cheggio, Ceppo Morelli, Domobianca (Domodossola), Druogno, Formazza, Macugn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplana%20ramosa | Mycoplana ramosa is a gram-negative bacteria from the genus of Mycoplana.
References
External links
Type strain of Mycoplana ramosa at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhizobiaceae
Bacteria described in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian-South-East%20Asian%20Academic%20University%20Network | The ASEAN European Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET) is a network of universities, consisting of European and south-east Asian universities. It was founded in 1994 by universities from Austria, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam with the goal of promoting the continuous internationalisation of education and research. Today ASEA-UNINET consists of 83 universities from 17 different countries.
The Beginnings & Aims
The foundations for this university network were laid by informal contacts between the University of Innsbruck and various Thai Universities, which date back to the late 1970s. Official visits followed and in the 1980s first partnerships between individual universities were concluded. This included partnership agreements between the University of Innsbruck and the Universities Chulalongkorn and Mahidol in Bangkok, as well as between the Universities of Vienna and Chiang Mai, and between the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna and the University of Kasetsart in Bangkok. Another partnership agreement was concluded with Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta in 1990. In 1992 the Universities of Innsbruck, Chulalongkorn, Vienna and Chiang Mai signed a joined partnership agreement to include one another in their cooperations. University relations also developed substantially with Vietnam. Furthermore interconnections were established between Austria's partner institutions in Thailand and other countries in the region and thus the idea of ASEA-UNINET was born.
With the aim to unify all these bilateral partnership agreements in one multilateral partnership, the initiator, Prof. Bernd Michael Rode, invited interested universities in Austria, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam to participate in the 1st Plenary Meeting in Ho Chi Minh City in December 1994. During this meeting the infrastructure and organization of the newly founded network, was laid down jointly by the participants and the following aims were agreed upon:
facilitate and encourage cooperation between academic institutions in the fields of teaching, research, staff and student (e.g. joint research projects, staff and student exchange possibilities, Graduate programmes (mainly Ph.D. studies) and postgraduate education, specialized training courses).
promotion of scientific, cultural and human relations and personal contacts.
promotion and initiation of projects of mutual interest and benefit for faculties, staff and students.
Support and assist in forming coalitions of resources for academic activities between member institutions.
facilitate collaboration and cooperation in education between universities, governmental and non-governmental organisations and economic operators engaged in projects related to education, science, technology and art in countries with member universities.
act as a forum of continuous discussions on the progress of these projects, and serving as a network of excellence providing expertise and initiatives for entities seeking European-S.E.A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Flame%20Research%20Foundation | The International Flame Research Foundation – IFRF is a non-profit research association and network created in 1948 in IJmuiden (Netherlands), established in Livorno (Italy) between 2005 and 2016 (Fondazione Internazionale per la Ricerca Sulla Combustione – ONLUS), and in Sheffield (UK) since 2017. Meredith Thring was one of the founders.
The IFRF Membership Network unites some 1000 combustion researchers from 130 industrial companies and academic institutions worldwide, around a common interest in efficient and environmentally responsible industrial combustion, with a focus on flame studies.
History
The IFRF can be traced to a proposal written in 1948 by Meredith Thring, head of the Physics Department in the newly formed British Iron and Steel Research Association (BISRA). Entitled Proposals for the Establishment of an International Research Project on Luminous Radiation, the document resulted in the formation of the International Flame Radiation Research Committee with representatives of the steel, fuel and appliance making industries in France, Holland and England - specifically the British Iron and Steel Research Association (BISRA), the Iron and Steel Research Association of France (IRSID) and the Royal Dutch Iron and Steel Company (KNHS).
Publications
The IFRF is the publisher of technical reports and regular publications:
The Industrial Combustion Journal () since 1999, named IFRF Combustion Journal between Sept. 1999 and Aug. 2009 (),
The Monday Night Mail - MNM - () since 1999, in 1998 a few numbers of the IFRF Newsletter were also published,
The Combustion Handbook () since 2001.
Theses publications are freely available on-line.
Events
The IFRF organises events to disseminate knowledge on combustion.
Topic Oriented Technical Meetings (TOTeM)
TOTeMs are organized since 1989, once or twice a year:
IFRF Conferences
IFRF Conferences (formerly Members Conference) are organized approximately every two or three years:
Other events
The IFRF organises events with other scientific associations such as the Combustion Institute and special flame days with other national committees.
Structure
The IFRF is organised in 9 national committee plus the Associate Member Group (AMG) where no national committee exists.
Committees
American Flame Research Committee - AFRC
British Flame Research Committee - BFRC
Chinese Flame Research Committee - CFRC
Finnish Flame Research Committee - FFRC
French Flame (Comité français) - CF
German Flame (Deutsche Vereinigung für Verbrennungsforschung e.V.) - DVV
Italian Flame (Comitato Italiano) - CI
Dutch Flame (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Vlamonderzoek) - NVV
Swedish Flame Research Committee - SFRC
Governance
The IFRF in managed by a Council and an Executive Committee.
Locations
From 1948 to 2005 the IFRF facilities were located in the CORUS R&D centre at IJmuiden (Netherlands).
In 2005, the research station was relocated at ENEL facilities in Livorno (Italy), the measurement programme was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Jetta | Kurt Jetta (born 21 July 1961) is a consumer researcher who studies data about multinational corporations through his firm, TABS Analytics, which is based in Shelton, Connecticut. The corporations Jetta has analyzed include Amazon, Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, Walmart, Apple. In addition, Jetta has also studied the organic food industry, the vitamin industry, and the online grocery industry. Other investigations led by Jetta include sociological research that pertains to the purchasing habits of various ethnic groups. In the area of trade promotion, Jetta has developed an alternative methodology to current industry baseline models. Jetta also analyzes rewards programs. He was a 2017 Republican candidate in Florida’s 21st Congressional District.
Career
Between 1996 and 1998 he held a position as Chief Executive Officer of Binky-Griptight, Inc. Binky-Griptight is a supplier of infant products. Prior to Binky-Griptight, Jetta spent seven years at Playtex Products.
In 1998, Jetta founded TABS Group, where he is the Chief Executive Officer and Lead Product Developer. TABS Group provides marketing analysis for clients in the Consumer Products industry. Additionally, he serves as an independent Director for JM Global Holding, Co. Work by Jetta and TABS has been quoted in The New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, and other national media.
Consumer trends
Between 2009 and 2012, Jetta sampled 1,000 individuals who were aged 18–75 in order to study "their buying habits when it comes to organic products." Kurt Jetta's research, with regard to the organic food industry, suggests that the "percentage of people who buy organic products has stayed virtually the same for the past few years," at the 38-39% range. The study found that "Fresh Fruits continues to be the highest penetration category for Organics with 27% of consumers. This is followed by Fresh Vegetables (26%), Eggs (17%), Milk (16%), Chicken (13%), Skincare (7%), Red Meat (6%), Frozen Vegetables (6%), Haircare (5%), Frozen Fruit (4%), Ice Cream (4%), and Cosmetics (3%). Skincare and Haircare are the only two categories that registered consecutive years of annual gains, while Milk and Ice Cream showed declines in consecutive years." Jetta and his firm have also found that due to negative studies concerning multivitamins, the vitamin industry saw an "overall lethargy" in 2014.
Jetta has stated that "The most important thing that data is used for is to determine which products consumers prefer, and to make sure what's on the shelf is what they want to buy...For example, we're doing one project for a retail chain where we found that in areas with high African-American populations, not only do they buy African-American hair care products and cosmetics specifically, but they buy grooming products in general at a very high level. With that kind of information, the retailer can make sure all those products are stocked and available for them."
In early 2016, Jetta criticized the consumer packaged goods i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean-field%20particle%20methods | Mean-field particle methods are a broad class of interacting type Monte Carlo algorithms for simulating from a sequence of probability distributions satisfying a nonlinear evolution equation. These flows of probability measures can always be interpreted as the distributions of the random states of a Markov process whose transition probabilities depends on the distributions of the current random states. A natural way to simulate these sophisticated nonlinear Markov processes is to sample a large number of copies of the process, replacing in the evolution equation the unknown distributions of the random states by the sampled empirical measures. In contrast with traditional Monte Carlo and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods these mean-field particle techniques rely on sequential interacting samples. The terminology mean-field reflects the fact that each of the samples (a.k.a. particles, individuals, walkers, agents, creatures, or phenotypes) interacts with the empirical measures of the process. When the size of the system tends to infinity, these random empirical measures converge to the deterministic distribution of the random states of the nonlinear Markov chain, so that the statistical interaction between particles vanishes. In other words, starting with a chaotic configuration based on independent copies of initial state of the nonlinear Markov chain model, the chaos propagates at any time horizon as the size the system tends to infinity; that is, finite blocks of particles reduces to independent copies of the nonlinear Markov process. This result is called the propagation of chaos property. The terminology "propagation of chaos" originated with the work of Mark Kac in 1976 on a colliding mean-field kinetic gas model.
History
The theory of mean-field interacting particle models had certainly started by the mid-1960s, with the work of Henry P. McKean Jr. on Markov interpretations of a class of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations arising in fluid mechanics. The mathematical foundations of these classes of models were developed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s by several mathematicians, including Werner Braun, Klaus Hepp, Karl Oelschläger, Gérard Ben Arous and Marc Brunaud, Donald Dawson, Jean Vaillancourt and Jürgen Gärtner, Christian Léonard, Sylvie Méléard, Sylvie Roelly, Alain-Sol Sznitman and Hiroshi Tanaka for diffusion type models; F. Alberto Grünbaum, Tokuzo Shiga, Hiroshi Tanaka,
Sylvie Méléard and Carl Graham for general classes of interacting jump-diffusion processes.
We also quote an earlier pioneering article by Theodore E. Harris and Herman Kahn, published in 1951, using mean-field but heuristic-like genetic methods for estimating particle transmission energies. Mean-field genetic type particle methods are also used as heuristic natural search algorithms (a.k.a. metaheuristic) in evolutionary computing. The origins of these mean-field computational techniques can be traced to 1950 and 1954 with the work of Alan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20women%20in%20computing | This is a timeline of women in computing. It covers the time when women worked as "human computers" and then as programmers of physical computers. Eventually, women programmers went on to write software, develop Internet technologies and other types of programming. Women have also been involved in computer science, various related types of engineering and computer hardware.
18th century
1757
Nicole-Reine Etable de la Brière Lepaute worked on a team of human computers to determine the next visit of Halley's Comet. The methods they developed have been used by successive human computing teams.
19th century
1842
Ada Lovelace was an analyst of Charles Babbage's analytical engine and is considered by many the "first computer programmer".
1849
Maria Mitchell is hired by the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office to work as a computer on tables for the planet Venus.
1875
Anna Winlock joined the Harvard computers, a group of women engaged in the production of astronomical data at Harvard.
1893
Henrietta Swan Leavitt joined the Harvard "computers". She was instrumental in discovery of the cepheid variable stars, which are evidence for the expansion of the universe.
20th century
1916
Beatrice Cave-Brown-Cave went to work as a human computer for the Ministry of Munitions.
1918
Women were hired to do ballistics calculations as human computers in Washington, D.C. The "chief computer" of the group was Elizabeth Webb Wilson.
1920
Mary Clem leads the computing lab at Iowa State College.
1921
Edith Clarke files a patent for a graphical calculator for problem solving electric power line transmission problems.
1926
Grete Hermann published the foundational paper for computerized algebra. It was her doctoral thesis, titled "The Question of Finitely Many Steps in Polynomial Ideal Theory", and published in Mathematische Annalen.
1935
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) which became NASA, hired a group of five women to work in their computer pool analyzing data from wind tunnels and flight tests.
1939
The Austrian Johanna Piesch published two pioneering papers on switching algebra.
1940
American women were recruited to do ballistics calculations and program computers during WWII. Around 1943–1945, these women "computers" used a differential analyzer in the basement of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering to speed up their calculations, though the machine required a mechanic to be totally accurate and the women often rechecked the calculations by hand. Phyllis Fox ran a differential analyzer single-handedly, with differential equations as her program specification.
1941
Mavis Batey broke the Italian Naval code while working at Bletchley Park.
The United States begins recruiting African-American college graduates to work at Langley Air Force Base as human computers.
1942
On 11 August, Hedy Lamarr and co-inventor, George Antheil, received their patent for frequency hopping.
1943
Women worked as WREN Colossus operators during WW2 a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telrad%20Networks | Telrad Networks Ltd. is a South African owned company focused on 4G telecommunications.
Founded in 1951, the company is a developer of advanced WiMAX and 4G LTE base stations, Customer-Premises Equipment, and network management. Since its acquisition of Alvarion’s Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Division in 2013, The company provides also AAA servers, PCRF and Billing for LTE and for Wimax with its partner Aradial Tech.
Telrad 4G products are deployed in more than 100 countries by telecom carriers, Internet Service Providers, utilities, and governmental organizations. With the extended reach of its parent company Liquid Technologies, Telrad has significantly increased opportunities for international growth beyond its current global footprint. Telrad has two subsidiaries. Magalcom is a market leader in building data centers, IT infrastructure, control rooms and homeland security. The second subsidiary, Oasis Communications, is a system integrator specializing in consulting, design and delivery of highly complex communication systems.
On August 17, 2022, Telrad Networks was acquired by Liquid Intelligent Technologies.
History
1951 to 1985
Telrad Networks was founded in 1951 under the name The Consolidated Telephone & Radio Company. Over the course of several decades, the company grew to become one of Israel’s largest telecom equipment manufacturers and a major supplier to Bezeq, the national phone company. During its early growth stages, Telrad expanded to support two manufacturing plants, devoted to five product lines, with a focus on digital exchanges, remote switches and peripheral equipment.
As broadband technology became more pervasive in the early 2000s, Telrad began to invest in broadband-related start-ups such as Aptonix, Be-Connected and Firebit.net, ultimately selling off controlling interests in these firms. By 2013, Telrad acquired the broadband wireless access (BWA) division of Alvarion Ltd., thereby inheriting a full 4G infrastructure product portfolio, including the BreezeMax and BreezeCOMPACT product lines.
1986 to 1995
By the mid-90s, the company was ranked 16th by Dun & Bradstreet, amongst Israel’s leading Industrial Enterprises. At that time, Telrad was organized into four main product divisions:
Public Networks – Digital exchanges, remote switches and peripheral equipment
Business Systems – Multi-line PBXs, telephones and peripheral equipment
Data Communication Systems – Data communication systems peripheral equipment
Nortel Solutions – Large-scale turnkey telecom for Nortel Networks
1996 to 2022
In 1996, Nortel Networks acquired 20% stake in Telrad, with a focus on expanding the Nortel Solution Division globally. In March 2000, Nortel partnered with Koor Industries Ltd., a leading investment company, to establish Nortel Networks Israel. As part of the agreement, they acquired Telrad Networks’ Nortel division. The company retained its proprietary product lines involving telephony systems production and integration.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20Industry%20Network | Sex Industry Network (also known as SIN) is a peer-based, not for profit organisation, funded by SA Health, a South Australia government organisation. Its aim is to maintain low rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), blood borne viruses (BBVs) and HIV among sex workers and their clients in South Australia.
SIN provides safer sex supplies such as condoms and lube and delivers outreach to brothels, parlours, private and street based sex workers.
History
SIN was formed out of the Prostitutes Association of South Australia (PASA), a group formed in 1986 by sex workers.
During this time community groups from priority populations (sex workers, men who have sex with men and injecting drug users) were being funded to deliver HIV prevention information and education within communities as part of Australia's partnership approach to HIV/AIDS. In 1987, PASA received a grant from the SA Health Commission to conduct a three-month HIV/AIDS education project with sex workers called the 'Travelling Parlour Show'. Several sex workers received training to become 'peer educators' and joined with a nurse from the sexually transmitted infections clinic and took their education and information sessions to the workplaces of sex workers across the metropolitan area of Adelaide.
In 1989, PASA and the AIDS council of South Australia (ACSA) joined forces to develop an ongoing HIV/AIDS education project with the sex workers of South Australia. This project has had several name changes including 'the PASA project' and 'SWIPE' but has been known as the SA Sex Industry Network or SIN since 1994.
SIN was a founding member and continues to be an active member of Scarlet Alliance. In 2013, ACSA became insolvent and SIN was temporarily closed. Scarlet Alliance supported a group of volunteer sex workers in South Australia to keep limited services going while new arrangements were negotiated with the funding bodies. The SA health department agreed to fund Scarlet Alliance to complete ACSA's original contract.
Political advocacy
SIN has supported Labor MP Steph Key's attempts to decriminalise prostitution in South Australia. In 2012, the decriminalisation bill was defeated by one vote.
In 2017, an improved bill which had support of sex workers, the working women's centre and unions was introduced into the upper house. The decriminalisation of sex work bill passed the upper house 13 votes to 8. In August 2017, the lower house was set to debate the bill; however, time ran out, resulting in a further delay to progress.
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Green Left
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20influence%20metric | In graph theory and network analysis, node influence metrics are measures that rank or quantify the influence of every node (also called vertex) within a graph. They are related to centrality indices. Applications include measuring the influence of each person in a social network, understanding the role of infrastructure nodes in transportation networks, the Internet, or urban networks, and the participation of a given node in disease dynamics.
Origin and development
The traditional approach to understanding node importance is via centrality indicators. Centrality indices are designed to produce a ranking which accurately identifies the most influential nodes. Since the mid 2000s, however, social scientists and network physicists have begun to question the suitability of centrality indices for understanding node influence. Centralities may indicate the most influential nodes, but they are rather less informative for the vast majority of nodes which are not highly influential.
Borgatti and Everett's 2006 review article
showed that the accuracy of centrality indices is highly dependent on network topology.
This finding has been repeatedly observed since then. (e.g.).
In 2012, Bauer and colleagues reminded us that centrality indices only rank nodes but do not quantify the difference between them.
In 2013, Sikic and colleagues presented strong evidence that centrality indices considerably underestimate the power of non-hub nodes.
The reason is quite clear. The accuracy of a centrality measure depends on network topology, but complex networks have heterogeneous topology. Hence a centrality measure which is appropriate for identifying highly influential nodes will most likely be inappropriate for the remainder of the network.
This has inspired the development of novel methods designed to measure the influence of all network nodes. The most general of these are
the accessibility, which uses the diversity of random walks to measure how accessible the rest of the network is from a given start node,
and the expected force, derived from the expected value of the force of infection generated by a node.
Both of these measures can be meaningfully computed from the structure of the network alone.
Accessibility
The Accessibility is derived from the theory of random walks. It measures the diversity of self-avoiding walks which start from a given node. A walk on a network is a sequence of adjacent vertices; a self-avoiding walk visits (lists) each vertex at most once.
The original work used simulated walks of length 60 to characterize the network of urban streets in a Brazilian city.
It was later formalized as a modified form of hierarchical degree which controls for both transmission probabilities and the diversity of walks of a given fixed length.
Definition
The hierarchical degree measures the number of nodes reachable from a start node by performing walks of length . For a fixed and walk type, each of these neighbors is reached with a (potential |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-HUMINT | CyberHumint refers to the set of skills used by hackers, within Cyberspace, in order to obtain private information while attacking the human factor, using various psychological deceptions.
CyberHumint includes the use of traditional human espionage methodologies, such as agent recruitment, information gathering through deception, traditionally known as Humint, combined with deception technologies known as Social engineering.
Background
Intelligence gathering involves a range of specialized approaches - from Signals intelligence (SIGINT), Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), and Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), to Open-source intelligence (OSINT). In many cases, information collected from human sources is still considered highly reliable by intelligence analysts, especially while transforming a collection of disparate data strands into an actionable prevention plan. Mark Lowenthal, a leading intelligence thinker, argues that traditional HUMINT is still considered a crucial element in intelligence, that can significantly tilt the balance of power.
CyberHumint methodology was first coined by Ed Alcantara AFX DBI in Feb 2010. Amit Steinhart argued that the cooperation between skilled HUMINT experts trained with specific HUMINT capabilities, and computer security specialists, who apply "social engineering" techniques, is one of the main advantages of CyberHumint. Steinhart offered a new model of information security strategy that imports concepts from HUMINT espionage, and combines it with social engineering strategies, such as the usage of avatars for agents operating in cyberspace, or information and disinformation spreading through cyberspace.
HUMINT experts often argue that in comparison to the relatively young social engineering concept, HUMINT practices, which had been developed for many years by professionals working at national intelligence services, hold the higher ground in terms of experience, technologies, and practices. New form of cyber capability was created when the technical capabilities of computer experts were combined with the intelligence experience of HUMINT experts.
CyberHumint strategy orientation
CyberHumint is aimed to effectively defend organizations against APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attacks. In the beginning of the 2010s, organizations such as the American NSA and British GCHQ have started to invest significant resources into acquiring technological and intelligence capabilities, to help identify cyber aggressors and assess their abilities and tactical skills.
Recently, information security has shifted from building firewalls to build systems, in order to provide real-time intelligence. Most near-future scenarios suggest that organizations who fail to adapt to the systematic cyber approach will find themselves in a critical situation.
In 2011, Andress and Winterfeld drew the attention to the fact that while cyber security experts can deliver extensive reports on Inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Processing%20Technology | Distributed Processing Technology (DPT) was founded in 1977, in Maitland, Florida. DPT was an early pioneer in computer storage technology, popularizing the use of disk caching in the 1980s and 1990s. DPT was the first company to design, manufacture and sell microprocessor-based intelligent caching disk controllers to the OEM computer market. Prior to DPT, disk caching technology had been implemented in proprietary hardware in mainframe computing to improve the speed of disk access.
DPT's products popularized the use of disk caching in the 1980s. According to Bill Brothers, Unix product manager at the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), a computer operating system vendor, "The kind of performance those guys (DPT) produce is phenomenal. It's unlike any other product on the market."
DPT was founded by Steve Goldman, who served as the President and Chief Executive Officer until DPT was acquired by Adaptec in November 1999.
External links
Floppy controller speeds access with cache
Caching Disk Controller Relieves System Bottlenecks
Disk Controller Unburdens Real Time Applications
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Computer companies disestablished in 1999
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
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1999 disestablishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser-based%20computing | Browser-based computing is the use of the web browsers to perform computing tasks. Opportunities for computing on the Web have been noted as far back as 1997. Computing over the web was described in 2000. Applications include distributed computing for web workers as illustrated by James (formerly CrowdProcess) and HASH, the use of the browser's stack in QMachine, the embedding of web applications as semantic hypermedia components and the Signaling Server in Peer-to-peer networks set via WebRTC. Browser-based computing complements cloud computing, because they reduce server-side computational load, often using cloud-hosted, RESTful web services.
References
Distributed computing architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Epic%20Times | Epic Times was a news website network started by Jerry Doyle. EpicTimes featured contributors such as former deputy undersecretary of defense in the George W. Bush administration Jed Babbin, and actress and author Anita Finlay.
References
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Radio stations established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puntland%20TV%20and%20Radio | Puntland TV and Radio is the public broadcasting network of the autonomous Puntland region of Somalia. Its headquarters are at the regional capital of Garowe. The service also maintains an office in London. Founded in April 2013, Puntland TV and Radio broadcasts locally in Somali via terrestrial service. It also airs programs globally through satellite. Radio Puntland broadcasts internationally via shortwave, with its transmission reaching as far as Finland. Its standard programming includes general news, focusing on regional developments, sports and entertainment.
See also
Horn Cable Television
Somali National Television
Universal Television Somalia
Eastern Television Network ETN TV
References
External links
Official Website
Organisations based in Puntland
Television channels in Somalia
Television channels and stations established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot%20Hill%20Systems | Dot Hill Systems Corp was a manufacturer of computer storage area network arrays. Providing computer hardware and software products for small and large computer data storage systems. Dot Hill came into being when Box Hill Systems Corp (based in New York) acquired Artecon, Inc. based in Carlsbad, California. BoxHill was already traded on the NYSE as BHSC. After the combined company changed its name to Dot Hill Systems Corp, the symbol changed to HILL. Box Hill sold hardware products with names including the word Box as well as backup software and renamed OEM tape libraries from manufacturers like ATL Odetics and StorageTek. Artecon sold its own selection of drive array products with the additional selling point of being NEBS certified. Around 1998 or 1999, Box Hill had found itself in a difficult position. Its flagship fibre channel product was unable to deliver the features originally intended and had to rely on software raid instead. It performed well mirroring, but fell short otherwise. After the acquisition by Dot Hill, the inevitable merging of products and talent led to the eventual migration of the headquarters to Carlsbad and a shift away from backup and tape products. The resulting changes lead to a large change in workforce as the former Artecon management team took the lead.
In 2004 Dot Hill acquired Chaparral Network Storage in Longmont, Colorado. Chaparral Network Storage was started in 2000 and also manufactured storage systems. In 2010 Dot Hill start moving almost all Carlsbad operations to Longmont. Dot Hill continued to be listed on the NASDAQ as HILL.
Dot Hill products have interfaces supporting Fibre Channel (FC), Ethernet-based Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI), and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).
Products include hard drives and solid-state drives (SSDs). Dot Hill's storage arrays support RAID data protection of various types (RAID 1/10/5/50/6/60). Data center storage management applications run on Windows, Linux (RHEL)-(SUSE), Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Oracle's Solaris, XenServer and VMware ESX servers. With host interfaces to: SSD, SAS and SATA drive technologies.
Seagate Technology finalized the acquisition of the company in October 2015.
References
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Seagate Enterprise Storage
Box Hill and Artecon Set Date for Shareholder Vote on Merger
2015 mergers and acquisitions
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
Computer companies established in 1997
Computer companies disestablished in 2015
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Shared disk file systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%20West%20%28General%20Hospital%29 | Nathan West is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network, portrayed by Ryan Paevey. Created by head writer Ron Carlivati, Nathan was introduced in late 2013 by Frank Valentini as a love interest for Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms). In January 2018, Paevey announced he had opted to leave the serial of his own decision.
Paevey's casting was very well received. The character of Nathan becomes quite popular rather quickly among viewers and critics, becoming known as the show's resident heroic "good guy" as he tries to support his mess of a family. At the same time, Nathan's pairing with Maxie becomes a fan favorite pairing and their "slow burn" romance was praised by critics.
Storylines
Detective Nathan West arrives in Port Charles, and meets Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms) when he sublets her apartment. Maxie leaves on a vacation, while Nathan settles in Port Charles. He starts investigating Dr. Silas Clay (Michael Easton) in regards to the overdose of Silas' wife, Nina Reeves (Michelle Stafford), suspecting Silas is responsible. It's later revealed Nathan is actually Nina's brother. Nathan's mother Madeline Reeves (Donna Mills) claims Nina has died after Silas has relinquished his rights to Nina's vast estate. Nathan is shocked when Madeline falls into the trap to catch the killer, and confesses she drugged Nina to kill her unborn child. He arrests Madeline, and simultaneously reveals his identity. Maxie returns with her new manipulative boyfriend Levi Dunkleman (Zachary Garred), who Nathan immediately clashes with.
Nathan meets Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) at the same time it's revealed Nathan is the biological son of Liesl Obrecht (Kathleen Gati), Madeline's sister, and Britt is actually his sister. Madeline confesses to Nathan when he mentions almost sleeping with Britt. Nathan is shocked when Madeline reveals Nina is alive as she is carted off to prison. Maxie is trying to regain custody of her daughter Georgie, but is discouraged about going to her hearing. Nathan encourages Maxie to fight for Georgie, then covers for her, lying he threw her summons away by mistake. When the judge discovers Nathan lied for Maxie and she loses custody of her daughter, Nathan suspects Levi tipped off the judge, and tries to prove it. Meanwhile, Nathan is reunited with Nina, who arrives in Port Charles. Levi later frames Nathan for tipping off immigration about Levi's expired visa, leading to Maxie throwing Nathan out of the apartment. As Maxie is set to marry Levi, Nathan discovers Levi has stolen a family heirloom from Maxie's mother Felicia Scorpio (Kristina Wagner). With the help of his partner Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna), Nathan crashes the wedding, only for Levi to escape with Maxie and Dante's wife, Lulu (Emme Rylan), at gunpoint. Nathan tracks down Maxie, but is kidnapped by Victor Cassadine (Thaao Penghlis). Nathan is about to kill Victor until Obrecht says they are father and son. Nathan rescues M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundemonium%20Collection | Gundemonium Collection is a set of three shoot'em ups created by indie developer Platine Dispositif. English language versions were released on Steam and the PlayStation Network by publisher Rockin' Android on August 4, 2010. Destructoid explains "All the games have Trophies to collect and include a feature that allows uploading your play sessions to YouTube." According to Metro, "There is a back story that links all three games".
Individual games
Hitogata Happa
Metro said "The final game is a vertically-scrolling shooter, one that chooses to ignore the lessons learned from GundeadliGne and is in fact the hardest of the bunch. The sadistic streak is a shame, because in many ways it's the most inventive of the lot with a number of different playable characters with different abilities."
GundeadliGne
The NSFW second game in the series, although the English localizations offer limited censorship.
Metro explains "The middle game in the trilogy is also a horizontal shooter and probably the best of the three, not least because it's the only one with a two-player co-operative mode. The basics are the same as the first game, but you can now flip your character to face both left and right...The real reason this is the best of the bunch though is simply that it's a lot easier."
Gundemonium Recollection
A "horizontally scrolling shooter", Metro explains "This is the newest of the three games, but as the name suggests it's a remake of the original Gundemonium title from 2003." The site explains "the game is punishingly hard in a way that even we've barely experienced before. The quite wrongly named novice mode is enough to send most gamers screaming from the room and that's just on the first level". In December 2017 Plastine announced a new game called Gundemoniums which will be based on the 2003-released PC game Gundemonium and the 2007-released remake Gundemonium Recollection. The official website describe Gundemonium as "A rebuilt version of the side-scrolling shoot 'em' up.
Reception
Metro summed up its review of the collection by saying "They don't call it bullet hell for nothing and although these three games are all good examples of the genre the high difficulty level will prove far too much for the uninitiated. Pros: The action is well orchestrated, with attractive visuals. Excellent value for money and an impressive range of PlayStation 3 specific options. Cons: Frustratingly hard on a scale even hardened veterans of the genre will be unprepared for. Gundemonium and GundeadliGne are visually almost identical", rating it a 7/10. PSN Stores liked the "frenzied "bullet hell" shmup action", constant framerate, easy snapshot, YouTube functionality, and multiple gameplay modes. The site disliked the confusing HUD and hit detection, the fact that only one of the titles had 2 player co-op, and that "some of the modes are ludicrously difficult".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BabyX | BabyX is an interactive lifelike virtual infant created through the use of artificial intelligence by Mark Sagar, Creator and Director of the Laboratory for Animate Technologies located at the University of Auckland's Bioengineering Institute.
Created in 2013, BabyX is a virtual animated baby that learns and reacts like a human baby and was designed after the likeness of Sagar’s own daughter when she was 18 months old. BabyX has a virtual brain built with detailed likeness to the human brain and work through an operating system called Brain Language, invented by Sagar and his team of researchers. Stimulated neurochemical reactions help BabyX decide how she will react.
BabyX is a project of Auckland's Bioengineering Institute Laboratory for Animate Technologies, to make a virtual animated baby that learns and reacts like a human baby. It uses the computer's cameras for "seeing" and microphones to "listen" as the inputs. The computer uses artificial intelligence algorithms for BabyX's "learning" and interpretation of the inputs (voice and image) to understand the situation. The result is a virtual toddler that can learn to read, recognize objects and "understand." The output is the baby's face that can "speak" and express its mood by facial expressions (such as smiling).
Previously, Sagar worked in computer-generated imagery (CGI) working on movies such as Avatar, King Kong, and others. In 2016, Sagar built upon BabyX's technology to launch Soul Machines, human-like avatars that use artificial intelligence to respond to human emotion.
See also
The Age of A.I.
References
AI companies
Robots of New Zealand
Technology companies of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marci%20Gonzalez | Marci Renee Gonzalez (born November 25, 1982) is a reporter for CBS News formerly of ABC News, she appears on various programs for the CBS network.
Early life and education
Marci Renee Gonzalez was born on November 25, 1982, in Denville, New Jersey to Cathi (née Addeo) and Francisco Gonzalez. Her father immigrated to the United States from Montevideo, Uruguay when he was a teenager. Marci has a younger sister, Christina Isabelle (born March 6, 1985) and a younger brother, Richard Frances (born September 20, 1992).
Gonzalez grew up in Port Orange, Florida and attended Atlantic High School. She went on to graduate from the University of Central Florida in 2005 with a B.A. in political science and journalism.
On May 28, 2020, Marci gave birth to her first child, Brooks Henry Rand.
Career
In 2005, Gonzalez launched her journalism career at News 12 Networks in The Bronx where she was an anchor and reporter. She returned to Florida to be a reporter and weekend anchor for WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida. During her time at WPTV-TV Gonzalez covered the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake and returned for subsequent in-depth reports. Based on those stories and her daily live-skills, WABC-TV in New York City hired Gonzalez as a reporter in 2011. Her national career took off when she joined ABC News in 2013. She now reports and anchors for various programs on the network including Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, World News Now and America This Morning. Some of the biggest stories Gonzalez has covered include the 2013 Paris attacks, the final days of Nelson Mandela's life in South Africa, Fidel Castro's death in Cuba and the Boston Marathon bombing.
References
External links
ABC Medianet biography
1982 births
ABC News personalities
American television news anchors
University of Central Florida alumni
Journalists from New Jersey
Living people
American people of Uruguayan descent
American women television journalists
21st-century American women
21st-century American journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioJS | BioJS is an open-source project for bioinformatics data on the web. Its goal is to develop an open-source library of JavaScript components to visualise biological data. BioJS develops and maintains small building blocks (components) which can be reused by others. For a discovery of available components, BioJS maintains a registry .
History
The first version of BioJS was released in 2012 by John Gomez. It was developed as a JavaScript library of web components to represent biological data in web applications. Version 2.0 included a complete redesign of the library and was released in 2014 as a Google Summer of Code project led by Manuel Corpas and developed by David Dao and Sebastian Wilzbach. Since then over 100 people contributed to the project. Currently more than 150 components are available in the BioJS registry.
Selected list of published components
DAG Viewer
DNA Content Viewer
FeatureViewer
HeatMapViewer
Intermine analysis
Intermine endpoints
KEGGViewer
PPI-Interactions
PsicquicGraph
Sequence
wigExplorer
treeWidget
Institutions using BioJS
EBI
ELife
InterMine
Berkeley Lab
OpenPHACTS
Rostlab
TGAC
See also
BioJava, Biopython, BioRuby, BioPHP, BioPerl, Bioconductor
Open Bioinformatics Foundation
References
External links
Free bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearables | Nearables (also nearable technology) are a type of smart object. They are everyday items that have small, wireless computing devices attached to them. These devices can be equipped with a variety of sensors and work as transmitters to broadcast digital data through a variety of methods, but they usually use the Bluetooth Smart protocol. Due to this, these objects are able to provide mobile devices in range with information about their location, state and immediate surroundings. The word 'nearables' is a reference to wearable technology electronic devices worn as part of clothing or jewellery.
The term 'nearables' was first introduced by Estimote Inc. in 2014 as part of a marketing campaign associated with a product launch of the next generation of Bluetooth Smart beacons.
Using the language of Estimote, 'nearables' were an implementation of the iBeacon standard that additionally provided orientation, temperature, and motion information enabling new functionality for Internet of Things applications.
History
Nearables are a further development of the Internet of Things (also referred to as Internet of Everything). It's a vision of a wide, global network of interconnected devices, using the existing Internet infrastructure to provide advanced services beyond standard machine-to-machine communications. Although the term Internet of Things was coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999, the idea can be traced to the late 1980s, when Mark Weiser introduced the idea of ubiquitous computing.
In 1990s location-based services started emerging, thanks to the wide adoption of mobile phones and development of location and proximity-based technologies, such as GPS and RFID. This, in turn, led to first attempts at wireless proximity marketing in 2000s with early versions of Bluetooth, NFC and Wi-Fi standards as predominant technologies. However, it was not until 2013, when Apple Inc. announced the iBeacon protocol for Bluetooth Smart-enabled devices, that the idea of creating smart objects by attaching wireless beacons to them really started gaining traction.
In August 2014 Estimote Inc. launched Estimote Stickers: a new generation of small Bluetooth Smart-based beacons. The term ‘nearables’ was inspired by wearable computers which were gaining increasing popularity throughout 2013 and 2014 thanks to products like Pebble smartwatch and Google Glass. Originally, the nearables were described as smart, connected objects that broadcast data about their location, motion and temperature.
Technology
In its first interpretation, Nearables are not devices themselves. Any object (or a live being, like a human or animal) can become a nearable after a wireless, electronic sensor is attached to it and starts broadcasting data to nearby mobile devices. Due to the continued miniaturization of sensor technology, a single transmitter could be equipped with a whole set of these, for example: accelerometer, thermometer, ambient light sensor, humidity sensor or magnetometer. In the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Gutman | Matt Gutman (born December 5, 1977) is an American author and reporter for ABC News. As the network's Chief National Correspondent, he appears on various programs for the network and has been recognized with multiple awards from organizations including The Emmys, RTDNA and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the author of the books No Time to Panic: How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks (2023) and The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand (2018) about the international rescue of a boys soccer team from a cave in Thailand in July 2018.He was the host of the U.S. weekly TV series Sea Rescue when it ended in September 2018 and won an Emmy for Outstanding Children's Series in 2016.
Early life and education
Matthew A. Gutman was born on December 5, 1977 in Princeton, New Jersey. On September 25, 1990 Gutman's father, Paul, was killed in a small plane crash in Georgia when Gutman was 12 years old. Gutman attended Newark Academy, where he was honored as a scholar-athlete football player. He graduated from Williams College in 2000.
Career
Gutman started as a freelance print reporter in Argentina in late 2000. His first published article was for the now-defunct English-language Buenos Aires Daily.
Middle East
In mid 2001, Gutman moved to Tel Aviv during the peak of the Palestinian uprising known as the Second Intifada and worked for the Jerusalem Post based in Israel from 2001 to 2005 covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also worked for USA Today before joining ABC News Radio in 2006. Gutman lived in the Middle East for nearly eight years, covering most major conflicts, including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Lebanon, filing dispatches from nearly every country in the region.
ABC News
In 2008, Gutman moved to Miami, Florida for ABC News and began appearing on various programs and platforms for the network including ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, Nightline and the network's magazine show 20/20. Since 2010, he has filed reports from more than 50 countries for ABC News. In 2014, he took over the hosting duties for Sea Rescue and hosted about 120 episodes of the show. In late 2016, while reporting on the collapsing health care system of Venezuela, he was detained for five days by Venezuelan police and intelligence services. He was named ABC News' Chief National Correspondent in January 2018.
Books
His first book, The Boys in the Cave, tells the story of the rescue of 13 Thai boys and their coach from the Tham Luang cave in July 2018. It was published in November 2018. It has been translated into six languages.
His second book, No Time to Panic chronicles Gutman's undisclosed 20 year battle with panic attacks. Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House, describes it as " the author's personal journey into the science and treatment of panic attacks. Gutman would talk to the world’s foremost scholars on panic and anxiety—they would show him tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datawatch%20Corporation | Datawatch Corporation (now part of Altair) was an American software company that creates and sells self-service data preparation solutions. The entire platform included Datawatch Monarch Complete, Monarch Server and Monarch Swarm.
History
Datawatch began as a Business Intelligence (BI) tool, which is defined as the gathering, analysis and dissemination of information in the proper format for accurate and timely decision making.
1985-1991:
Datawatch established as a private company.
In the beginning, Datawatch designed, manufactured, and marketed computer workstations and peripherals that conformed to the U.S. government’s TEMPEST security standard for processing classified information. This security standard was designed to prevent unauthorized access to information in computing devices by limiting their electrical emissions.
1991:
Datawatch acquired Personics Corporation, a producer of network data access and translation software and video enhancement software. Personics’ principal product was Monarch, a software program that provided data access, translation, and reporting capabilities to users of networked PCs.
1992:
Datawatch went public with an IPO.
2013:
Datawatch acquired Panopticon Software AB, a Swedish software company whose primary product was Panopticon Designer, a visual data discovery application that can create visualizations of streaming real-time data.
2016:
Datawatch was going back to focus on their principle Monarch software to address the need of self-service data preparation market for data visualization tool and release the new Monarch Data Prep Studio in the 13.0 release.
2018:
Datawatch acquired Angoss, a Canada-based provider of predictive analytics software and services. Datawatch was acquired by Altair Engineering for $13.10 a share at $176 Million.
Technology overview
Datawatch's technology relies on in-memory OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) cubes, which are displayed through a series of visualizations including treemaps. This allows the user to load data, select variables and hierarchical structures, and navigate through the resultant visualization, filtering, zooming and drilling (sometimes called slicing and dicing), to identify outliers, correlations and trends.
Its streaming OLAP implementation takes an in-memory OLAP cube and allows data to be streamed through it. This combination makes the company's products attractive to industry verticals that require live streaming data, such as financial market data, utility grid monitoring and telecommunications network traffic analysis. This is very different than the vast majority of OLAP implementations in which cubes are rebuilt periodically for new batches of data.
This support for streaming data with its products has allowed financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Citadel, and BlackRock to implement the Datawatch software within their real-time trading and risk applications. Euromoney has stated that it provides the trader community wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MateCat | MateCat is a web-based computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool. MateCat is released as open source software under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) from the Free Software Foundation.
The project
MateCat, acronym of Machine Translation Enhanced Computer Assisted Translation, is a 3-year research project (11/2011 10/2014) funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 287688. It has received over €2,500,000 of European funds.
The project consortium is led by FBK (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), an international research center based in Trento, Italy.
CAT tools
The objective of MateCat is to create a tool to edit machine translation results and manage localization workflow. The system is able to learn from mistakes, automatically improve over time and specialize in field-specific language (for example, legal terminology) to provide the user accurate translation suggestions in an automatic and transparent manner.
CAT tools provide access to translation memories (TMs), terminology databases, concordance tools and, more recently, to machine translation (MT) engines. A TM is a repository of translated segments. During translation, the CAT tool queries the TM to search for exact or fuzzy matches of the current source segment. These matches are proposed to the user as translation suggestions. Once a segment is translated, its source and target texts are added to the TM for future queries. The integration of suggestions from an MT engine as a complement to TM matches is motivated by recent studies, which have shown that post-editing MT suggestions substantially improves the level of accuracy in translations.
Technology
Statistical MT
The MateCat tool runs as a web-server accessible through Chrome. The CAT web-server connects with other services via open APIs: the TM server MyMemory, the commercial Google Translate (GT) MT server, and a list of Moses-based servers specified in a configuration file. While MyMemory’s and GT’s servers are always running and available, customized Moses servers have to be first installed and set-up. Communication with the Moses servers extends the GT API in order to support self-tuning, user-adaptive and informative MT functions. XLIFF is the file format natively supported by the open source version of the MateCat tool; however external file converters can be added in the MateCat configuration file. The tool supports Unicode (UTF-8) encoding, including non-Latin alphabets and right-to-left languages, and handles texts embedding mark-up tags.
MateCat leverages the growing interest and expectations in statistical MT along three directions: Self-tuning MT, User adaptive MT, Informative MT.
Research along these three directions has converged into a new generation CAT software, which is both an enterprise level translation workbench as well as an advanced research platform for integrating new MT functions, running post-edi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramachandra%20Datatraya%20Lele | Ramachandra Dattatraya Lele (16 January 1928 – 24 June 2022) was a physician from India.
He established the department of Nuclear Medicine at Jaslok Hospital.
Over the years he has worked in medical education, practice, research and hospital administration. He held the roles of Professor and Department Head at Mumbai's Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Group of Hospitals. His autobiography, 'Pursuit of Excellence' was published in 2017.
Achievements
In 1968 – together with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)'s health division – Lele established a shadow–shield type whole body counter, illustrating its clinical usage for measuring how well iron and Vitamin B12 are absorbed, as well as the amount of gastrointestinal blood loss and protein loss. This process did not require blood, urine or stool sample collections.
In 1973 Lele became Honorary Chief Physician and Chief of Nuclear Medicine at Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, where he set up the first full-fledged hospital based Nuclear Medicine Department in Mumbai. Featuring radio-immunoassay of 75 ligands of clinical interest, he also guided the use of intravenous Technetium-99 m based radio pharmaceuticals in India.
Awards
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, third highest civilian honour of India by the President of India, in 1992.
1990: Distinguished Community Service Award (from the Rotary Club).
1991: 1st recipient of Gifted Teacher Award (from the Association of Physicians of India)
1992: Padma Bhushan Award (from the President of India)
1997: Dhanvantari Award (from the Governor of Maharashtra State)
2000: Honorary Doctor of Science degree (from the NTR University of Health Sciences and Andhra Pradesh)
2008: Homi Bhabha Lifetime Achievement Award (from the Indian Nuclear Society)
2011: Prof. M. Viswanathan National Award for Medical Teaching and Medical Care
References
2022 deaths
1928 births
Marathi people
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in medicine
20th-century Indian medical doctors
Indian nuclear medicine physicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi%20Opie%21 | Hi Opie! is a Canadian preschool show that premiered on September 1, 2014 on TVOKids and also airs on Knowledge Network and City Saskatchewan.
The series was renewed in 2015 for a second season. Season 2 began airing September 7, 2015 on TVO and City. It premiered on Knowledge Network on September 28, 2015.
The first season was formerly available on Netflix in North America. The series is currently available on Peacock as of May 2023.
Plot
Hi Opie! is a live-action preschool series that follows the social, emotional and intellectual escapades of 5-year-old Opie, a puppet who is the "new kid" in a kindergarten class. Each story contains a simple lesson about personal growth, with a focus on the process of learning through play. In March 2016, it was announced that a sequel series entitled Opie's Home began production in the summer of 2016 and was released in 2017.
Awards
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
References
External links
Television shows filmed in Toronto
TVO original programming
2014 Canadian television series debuts
2016 Canadian television series endings
Canadian television shows featuring puppetry
Television series by The Jim Henson Company
2010s Canadian children's television series
Canadian preschool education television series
2010s preschool education television series
Television series about children
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Martin%20and%20Lewis%20Show | The Martin and Lewis Show is a radio comedy-variety program in the United States starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. It was broadcast on the NBC Radio Network beginning April 3, 1949, and ending July 14, 1953.
Background
After losing The Jack Benny Program and Amos 'n' Andy from its Sunday night lineup to what had been called "the CBS talent raids" of 1948–49, NBC turned to the young comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, a pair "virtually unknown to a radio audience." Reinehr and Swartz commented in their old-time radio reference book, "the program ... was never as successful as the network had hoped, because much of Martin and Lewis's comedy was visual.
Work on the program began early in 1949, after NBC "decided to build a show around Martin and Lewis." Billboard magazine reported that the network spent approximately $400,000 over five months getting the show ready. Preparation was worked around the duo's performances in night clubs and in the movie My Friend Irma. The basis for NBC's investment was a five-year radio contract signed in December 1948. The deal guaranteed the pair $150,000 per year and "a choice time slot." The program was scheduled to begin Jan. 16, 1949, but it did not go on the air until April.
Negative reviews
Reviews of the program's first broadcast indicated that the episode left much room for improvement. A Billboard reviewer wrote, "Off the initial outing, the lads will have to do considerable improving to live up to all the web's hopes." However, he offered some optimism by writing, "[I]f the scripters can come up with material as fresh as their style and talent, Martin and Lewis still may earn all the accolades which were tossed their way before they ever faced a mike." Meanwhile, media critic John Crosby wrote in his newspaper column, "The general attitude was one of friendly skepticism."
In January 1950, Billboard reported that CBS "was making a determined effort to sign, among others, the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis." The story added that at that point the program still had no sponsors and was "costing NBC close to $10,000 per week."
By the end of 1950, Jerry Lewis recruited comedy writers Norman Lear and Ed Simmons to become the regular writers for Martin and Lewis.
Gains
Things eventually improved economically for The Martin and Lewis Show. It went on to have sponsorship from Chesterfield cigarettes and Anacin. It gained popularity with listeners, too, as it was named Favorite Radio Comedy Show in Radio-TV Mirror magazine's 1952 poll. However, at least one newspaper writer still was not favorably impressed by the program. In 1952, Hal Humphrey wrote that The Martin and Lewis Show and Red Skelton's radio program were lacking in comparison to their television counterparts. He commented, "With rare exceptions their jokes and situations were stale and grisly with age, and on radio they had no chance to save themselves with mugging or pratfalls."
Format
Martin was the singer of the pair, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOL%20Network | BOL Network () is a Pakistani TV network. It is formerly owned by Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh. The company's head office is located in Karachi and called Bolistan, and it has regional headquarters in Lahore, Peshawar and Islamabad.
When Axact was revealed to be a diploma mill, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) temporarily revoked the license that it had awarded Bol.
In September 2023, Bol Network was acquired by AsiaPak Investments, a private investment firm, for an undisclosed sum, and Sameer Chishty was appointed as the new chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Bol Network.
History
The BOL Network was started by Pakistani businessman Shoaib Ahmed Sheikh in June 2013, and according to him, it was meant to create an independent media house to portray a soft image of Pakistan and several notable journalists joined the network at that time. After a number of delays, the network was launched December 1, 2016.
It claims to have offered insurance of up to Rs. 10 million to cable operators. In 2014, BOL Network advertised on more than 20,000 public transport vehicles in Pakistan. The company also announced a television set brand by the name of BG.
In 2017, Bol was accused of defaming politician Ishaq Dar.
In September 2022, PEMRA again revoked the network's license due to the channel failing to acquire security clearance.
Axact scandal
Involvement
When the offices of Axact were raided by the authorities, Bol Network provided digital satellite news gathering vehicles to block journalists from accessing to the building. In the course of the investigation, Bol was accused of using illegally imported equiment.
Aftermath
Many journalists and other senior staff, including the editor-in-chief Kamran Khan, resigned in the course of the scandal.
ARY Digital HD Network Group
In August 2015, ARY Digital HD Network Group announced that they would take over the business and incorporate into their network, but these plans eventually failed.
BOL Network Channels List
BOL Entertainment HD Urdu Entertainment Channel.
BOL News HD Urdu News Channel.
See also
List of news channels in Pakistan
Faysal Aziz Khan
List of 4K channels in Pakistan
References
External links
Mass media companies of Pakistan
Axact
Television stations in Karachi
Television channels and stations established in 2013
24-hour television news channels in Pakistan
Television stations in Pakistan
2013 establishments in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-surface%20method | The multi-surface method (MSM) is a form of decision making using the concept of piecewise-linear separability of datasets to categorize data.
Introduction
Two datasets are linearly separable if their convex hulls do not intersect. The method may be formulated as a feedforward neural network with weights that are trained via linear programming. Comparisons between neural networks trained with the MSM versus backpropagation show MSM is better able to classify data. The decision problem associated linear program for the MSM is NP-Complete.
Mathematical formulation
Given two finite disjoint point sets , find a discriminant, such that . If the intersection of convex hulls of the two sets is the empty set, then it is possible to use a single linear program to obtain a linear discriminant of the form, . Usually, in real applications, the sets' convex hulls do intersect, and a (often non-convex) piecewise-linear discriminant can be used, through the use of several linear programs.
See also
Backpropagation
Linear Programming
References
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSEL | NSEL may refer to:
NSEL (networking), part of a Network Service Access Point address used in Open Systems Interconnection networking
National Spot Exchange, a commodities exchange in India
NSEL case, a legal investigation
Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
See also
NSL (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20KBS%20Drama%20Awards | The 2013 KBS Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the outstanding achievement in television on the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) network for the year of 2013. It was held on December 31, 2013 and hosted by actors Lee Mi-sook, Shin Hyun-joon, Joo Sang-wook, and Im Yoona.
Nominations and winners
(Winners denoted in bold)
References
External links
KBS Drama Awards
KBS Drama Awards
KBS Drama Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah%20Bhitaie%20Town%20%28Karachi%29 | Shah Town is one of the neighbourhoods of Steel Town And Data Nagar BinQasim in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
There are mostly Sindhi and Urdu speaking inhabitants in Shah Town, including Urdu speakers, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochs, Brahuis, Memons, Bohras, Christians and Ismailis. Shah Town is a (3,000 ha) residential area located opposite Steel Town and consists of two parts, Phase 1 and Phase 2. Serial numbers for houses are managed as "SR".l
References
External links
Karachi Website
Neighbourhoods of Karachi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ucell | Ucell is a mobile network brand in Uzbekistan, owned and operated by the Uzbek company COSCOM, itself owned by State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Assistance to Privatized Enterprises and Development of Competition (a governmental authority of Uzbekistan).
The Ucell network offers mobile telephony and mobile internet services in Uzbekistan using GSM, UMTS, HSPA and LTE technologies.
Ucell was established in 1996 under the brand Coscom. Telia Company became the majority owner in 2007 and the company changed its name into Ucell in 2008.
December 5 2018, Telia Company sold its interest in Ucell to the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Assistance to Privatized Enterprises and Development of Competition, a governmental authority of Uzbekistan, for a price corresponding to $215 million on a debt free basis. On this date company has roughly 1,250 employees and 7.1 million subscribers. Ucell's 2G network covers approximately 97% of Uzbekistan and its 3G network covers roughly 60% of the country.
References
External links
All news of Ucell
Mobile phone companies of Uzbekistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20B%C3%BCchi%20automaton | In computer science and automata theory, a Weak Büchi automaton is a formalism which represents a set of infinite words. A Weak Büchi automaton is a modification of Büchi automaton such that for all pair of states and belonging to the same strongly connected component, is accepting if and only if is accepting.
A Büchi automaton accepts a word if there exists a run, such that at least one state occurring infinitely often in the final state set . For Weak Büchi automata, this condition is equivalent to the existence of a run which ultimately stays in the set of accepting states.
Weak Büchi automata are strictly less-expressive than Büchi automata and than Co-Büchi automata.
Properties
The deterministic Weak Büchi automata can be minimized in time .
The languages accepted by Weak Büchi automata are closed under union and intersection but not under complementation. For example, can be recognised by a Weak Büchi automaton but its complement cannot.
Non-deterministic Weak Büchi automata are more expressive than Weak Büchi automata. As an example, the language can be decided by a Weak Büchi automaton but by no deterministic Büchi automaton.
References
Automata (computation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop%E2%80%93tablet%20convergence | Laptop–tablet convergence describes the tendency in recent years for laptops and tablet computers to converge technologically.
In 2011, Canonical announced Ubuntu Touch, an attempt to bring Ubuntu to mobile devices such as phones and tablets. It is still under development.
In 2012, Windows 8 was released, which included the Metro UI, a touch-style UI framework for desktop applications. Microsoft encouraged application developers to develop Metro versions of their applications.
In 2014, Google announced that by late 2014, ChromeOS would allow Android apps to be run, meaning that Chromebooks and Chromeboxes would be able to access ordinary web applications, packaged ChromeOS apps, and also Android apps.
See also
Laplet
Convertible tablet
References
Mobile computers
Laptops
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SandCraft | SandCraft, Inc., was a Silicon Valley based fabless semiconductor design company designer of microprocessors that were used as computing engines in electronics products utilizing the MIPS architecture and a series of RISC CPU chips. The markets targeted were consumer electronics, office automation, and communications applications, including Nintendo game consoles.
On 29 July 2003, SandCraft, Inc. was acquired by Raza Microelectronics Inc, which, in turn, was acquired by NetLogic Microsystems in 2008, which itself was acquired by Broadcom in 2012.
Name
SandCraft was named as such because sand represented silicon, the critical substrate in microprocessors, and craft to denote a design house.
History
Norman Yeung founded SandCraft, along with Mayank Gupta as chief architect in 1996. Microprocessors with Floating point units were designed verified and contracted out to Asian manufacturing based on MIPS IV, with 64 bit instruction sets, and a later processor called SR71000, which was at the time the world's highest performance MIPS processor. They incorporated superscalar, multi-staged pipeline design, and big/little endian support modes.
References
https://old.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc10/2_Mon/HC10.S2/HC10.2.2.pdf
1996 establishments in California
2003 disestablishments in California
American companies established in 1996
American companies disestablished in 2003
Computer companies established in 1996
Computer companies disestablished in 2003
Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct technology companies based in California
MIPS architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%20Am%20I%20%282014%20film%29 | Who Am I (; English: "Who Am I: No System Is Safe") is a 2014 German techno-thriller film directed by Baran bo Odar. It is centered on a computer hacker group in Berlin geared towards global fame. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was shot in Berlin and Rostock. Because of its storyline and some elements, the film is often compared to Fight Club and Mr. Robot.
Plot
Benjamin Engel, a hacker from Berlin, sits in an interrogation room. The officer in charge tells Hanne Lindberg, Head of the Cyber Division of Europol, that Benjamin asked to conduct the interrogation. Benjamin says that he has information regarding FR13NDS (), a notorious hacking group of four members connected to the Russian cyber mafia, and MRX, an infamous hacker known on Darknet; he tells her that he could give them both to Hanne if she listens to him. Having no choice, Hanne sits down.
Benjamin tells Hanne that he is like a superhero: like many heroes, he, too, has no parents; he never met his father as he abandoned the family when Benjamin was born, and his mother committed suicide when he was 8. He lives alone with his ailing grandmother. He regards his "superpower" as invisibility, as he was never noticed by most people during his childhood, due to him being socially awkward. He says he learned programming and hacked his first system when he was 14. Though he felt like a loser in real life, he felt a sense of belonging on the Internet. While spending most of his time on Darknet, he met his hacking hero, MRX, whose identity no one knows and who can hack into any system. Benjamin aspires to be like him.
However, as he was unable to attend university, he worked as a pizza delivery boy to pay the bills. He tells Hanne that, one night while he delivered pizzas to a group of students, he saw Marie, a girl with whom he was in love since his school days. Hearing her having trouble with examinations, he decided to help her and be a 'superhero'. He went to the University, hacked into its servers to download the exam questions—but he was caught by a security guard and arrested. Having no prior criminal record, he was forced to perform community service as a punishment.
He tells Hanne that while working on cleaning the streets as punishment, he met Max, a fellow hacker, who Benjamin feels is the opposite of himself; a charismatic, cocky and confident individual. Later, Max had introduced him to his colleagues Stephan and Paul. After Benjamin proved himself as a hacker, Max explained to him that the concept of social engineering is the greatest form of hacking. They decide to form a hacking group, called "Clowns Laughing At You", nicknamed CLAY, and they use Benjamin's house as a base of operations, since Benjamin was forced to send his grandmother to a nursing home due to her Alzheimer's disease. They cause general mayhem around Berlin in a form of pranking, becoming popular around social media. However, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20neural%20network | A recursive neural network is a kind of deep neural network created by applying the same set of weights recursively over a structured input, to produce a structured prediction over variable-size input structures, or a scalar prediction on it, by traversing a given structure in topological order. Recursive neural networks, sometimes abbreviated as RvNNs, have been successful, for instance, in learning sequence and tree structures in natural language processing, mainly phrase and sentence continuous representations based on word embedding. RvNNs have first been introduced to learn distributed representations of structure, such as logical terms.
Models and general frameworks have been developed in further works since the 1990s.
Architectures
Basic
In the most simple architecture, nodes are combined into parents using a weight matrix that is shared across the whole network, and a non-linearity such as tanh. If c1 and c2 are n-dimensional vector representation of nodes, their parent will also be an n-dimensional vector, calculated as
Where W is a learned weight matrix.
This architecture, with a few improvements, has been used for successfully parsing natural scenes, syntactic parsing of natural language sentences, and recursive autoencoding and generative modeling of 3D shape structures in the form of cuboid abstractions.
Recursive cascade correlation (RecCC)
RecCC is a constructive neural network approach to deal with tree domains with pioneering applications to chemistry and extension to directed acyclic graphs.
Unsupervised RNN
A framework for unsupervised RNN has been introduced in 2004.
Tensor
Recursive neural tensor networks use one, tensor-based composition function for all nodes in the tree.
Training
Stochastic gradient descent
Typically, stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is used to train the network. The gradient is computed using backpropagation through structure (BPTS), a variant of backpropagation through time used for recurrent neural networks.
Properties
Universal approximation capability of RNN over trees has been proved in literature.
Related models
Recurrent neural networks
Recurrent neural networks are recursive artificial neural networks with a certain structure: that of a linear chain. Whereas recursive neural networks operate on any hierarchical structure, combining child representations into parent representations, recurrent neural networks operate on the linear progression of time, combining the previous time step and a hidden representation into the representation for the current time step.
Tree Echo State Networks
An efficient approach to implement recursive neural networks is given by the Tree Echo State Network within the reservoir computing paradigm.
Extension to graphs
Extensions to graphs include graph neural network (GNN), Neural Network for Graphs (NN4G), and more recently convolutional neural networks for graphs.
References
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Computer%20Techniques | Advanced Computer Techniques (ACT) was a computer software company most active from the early 1960s through the early 1990s that made software products, especially language compilers and related tools. It also engaged in information technology consulting, hosted service bureaus, and provided applications and services for behavioral health providers. ACT had two subsidiaries of note, InterACT and Creative Socio-Medics.
Both writer Katharine Davis Fishman, in her 1981 book The Computer Establishment, and computer science historian Martin Campbell-Kelly, in his 2003 volume From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry, have considered ACT an exemplar of the independent, middle-sized software development firms of its era, and the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota has also viewed the company's history as important.
Founding and early history
Advanced Computer Techniques was founded in New York City in April 1962 by Charles P. Lecht. It had an initial capitalization of $800, one contract, and one employee. Lecht, in his late twenties at the time, was a mathematician and entrepreneur whose involvement with the computer industry dated back to the early 1950s, including stints at IBM and the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
The new firm's first job was fixing a language compiler on the UNIVAC LARC computer, which was being used by the United States Navy. UNIVAC awarded a $100,000 contract for the work; Lecht hired some programmers and the company's first office was in former servant quarters atop the Plaza Hotel. The firm was one of 40–50 software companies started in the early 1960s, many of which would go on to be forgotten.
Creating compilers became a key part of the company's early efforts; its first compiler, for the FORTRAN language, was developed in the mid-1960s. This was followed by a COBOL compiler later in that decade, then a FORTRAN 77 compiler and a Pascal compiler both in the late 1970s. As the 1960s went on, ACT built a customer list of established companies and developed a reputation for delivering quality work on schedule. In September 1964 the company leased regular office space, the first of several locations it would have during its lifetime, all of which were within greater Midtown Manhattan on or near Madison Avenue. In addition to UNIVAC, early customers for the firm's compiler work included IBM as well as Honeywell.
With few trained computer programmers available at the time, Lecht hired those with musical, linguistic, or mathematical backgrounds, finding them to be successful at this new activity. The firm also did other system software as well as scientific programming projects, including some for the defense industry, and then started doing commercial applications development for large companies such as Union Carbide, United Airlines, Hoffman-LaRoche, and Shell Oil. Lecht fostered a relaxed working environment where dress was informal and hours flexible. He in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry%20Lane | Strawberry Lane is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Bea Binene, Joyce Ching, Kim Rodriguez and Jhoana Marie Tan. It premiered on September 15, 2014 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Niño. The series concluded on January 2, 2015 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Once Upon a Kiss in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The story focuses on the lives of Clarissa, Jack, Dorina and Lupe who are in Bagong Bahay Pangarap, a reformation center for girls. Despite having different personalities, they share the same hope of fulfilling their dreams.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bea Binene as Clarissa Tolentino Morales-Valentino
Kim Rodriguez as Jacqueline "Jack" Perez-Dizon
Joyce Ching as Dorina Tolentino Morales / Amelia "Amy" Tolentino Morales / Dory Peralta
Jhoana Marie Tan as Guadalupe "Lupe" Delgado-Bustamante
Supporting cast
Jake Vargas as Gabriel "Gabo" Valentino
Kiko Estrada as Paulino "Paul" Dizon
Jeric Gonzales as George Bustamante
Rita De Guzman as Lavinia Tolentino Bernarte
Sunshine Dizon as Elena "Elaine" Tolentino-Morales
Sheryl Cruz as Monique Tolentino-Bernarte
Christian Bautista as Richard "Rich" Tolentino
TJ Trinidad as Jonathan "Jun" Morales
Chanda Romero as Digna Castro
Boots Anson-Roa as Stella Tolentino
Recurring cast
Marky Lopez as Carlyn
Shelly Hipolito as April Jaymalin
Tessie Tomas as Margaret Jaymalin
Nicole Dulalia as Chloe
Sherilyn Reyes-Tan as Marga Valentino
Diego Castro as Mario
Djanin Cruz as Loisa
Ar Angel Aviles as Kachuchay
Guest cast
Lani Mercado as Maring Javier
Tanya Garcia as Myrna Javier / Sarah Jaymalin
Raymond Bagatsing as Hector Rosales
Tina Paner as Salve "Marcela" Rosales
Jan Marini as Rebecca "Bebs" Rosales
Dang Cruz as Esther
Weng Fernando as Syl
Rosemarie Sarita as Luiza
Ashley Cabrera as young Dorina
Milkcah Wynne Nacion as young Clarissa
James Wright as Gil Villa
Jenine Desiderio as Madame Villa
Jay Manalo as Christopher "Chris" Bernarte
Aicelle Santos as Lani Delgado
Gino Padilla as Mr. Bustamante
Caprice Cayetano as Dorina's sister
Carme Sanchez as Dorina's grandmother
Ynez Veneracion as Dolores
Art Acuña as Delphin
Katya Santos as Helena
Charee Pineda as Marieta
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Strawberry Lane earned a 28.2% rating which is the series' highest rating. While the final episode scored a 22.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2014 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%201983 | 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 1983.
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart
References
1983 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androula%20Henriques | Androula Christofidou Henriques (Greek: Ανδρούλα Ενρίκες; born 1936) is a Cypriot activist who campaigns against human trafficking.
Life
She created her own anti-human trafficking network, Cyprus Stop Trafficking. She was the president of the organization from 2012 until she resigned in 2018. She also lobbied the government of Cyprus to stop human trafficking. Her network organized an anti-trafficking conference in Cyprus in 2008 which included speakers from the United States and the EU, as well as representatives of the National Police, the House of Representatives, the Attorney General's Office, the Turkish-Cypriot community, several NGOs, and many journalists. She has also helped trafficked women by letting them stay in her home as they prepared to testify in court against those who held them as sex slaves.
She received a 2010 International Women of Courage award. In 2012 she was appointed to the rank of Commander in the National Order of Merit by France's Ambassador to Cyprus, Jean-Luc Florent.
References
Living people
Cypriot women
Cypriot activists
1936 births
Recipients of the International Women of Courage Award |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Sustainability%20Alliance | The International Sustainability Alliance (ISA) is a global network of corporate occupiers, property investors, developers and owners of commercial buildings, who share best practice in the sustainable management of their property portfolios. ISA is dedicated to achieving a more sustainable built environment through the better measurement, benchmarking and understanding of building performance.
Purpose
With 40% of carbon emissions coming from the built environment, real estate owners, occupiers, developers and funders around the world are facing ever increasing demands concerning the need for greater sustainability in the use of existing buildings.
ISA is a response to the growing legislative and economic pressure across the world to address building sustainability. It helps members to develop a common understanding of how their buildings perform, what measures can be taken to improve them and what this means in terms of value and return on their investment.
ISA has a database of commercial building assets comprising information gathered from members with retail, office and other commercial buildings in more than 50 countries. The diversity and breadth of data acquired from members – and in turn available to them – provides a unique resource on which to base decisions on investing in their buildings.
A key purpose of ISA is the provision of robust benchmarking services based on a very extensive and detailed body of data. ISA also promotes research on sustainability in the built environment.
Activities
Production of an Annual Report for each Founding and General Member, containing an assessment of the property data placed in the ISA database by members, which can help them to reduce emissions, preserve water resources and make well informed investment decisions.
KPI Benchmarking – the Annual Report contains an analysis of current ISA key performance indicators (KPIs), which include energy, , waste and water – at site, building and asset level – by country and sector. This enables members to benchmark their property portfolio within their organisation and against other companies that have provided data.
Reporting – the KPIs are aligned to the Global Reporting Index Commercial Real Estate Sustainability Supplement (GRI CRESS) and the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) standards. This enables ISA members to incorporate their results into both their Annual Reports and Corporate Social Responsibility reports in a standardised way.
Certification – ISA provides a gateway for access to certification of the environmental performance of buildings in use through schemes such as BREEAM In-Use.
Research – ISA promotes scientifically based research into sustainability in the built environment for the benefit of members and the wider community.
Organisation
ISA is hosted by BRE Global Limited. The day-to-day running of the organisation is coordinated by BRE with Task Teams, drawn from the Membership, established to carry out specific act |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20Flowers%20Media | Metal Flowers Media, Inc is a casting company for unscripted programming and reality television based in Hollywood, California with a branch office in Boulder, Colorado.
History
Early history
The company was founded by Kristi Russell in 2008 from the former Rocket Science Laboratories.
The company provides unscripted characters for television shows such as the Colony, Naked and Afraid, Bar Rescue, Catch A Contractor, Storage Wars, and Ultimate Survivor Alaska. Earlier hits include My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Trading Spouses, and America's Toughest Jobs.
References
Casting companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20causality | Information causality is a physical principle suggested in 2009. Information Causality states that information gain that a receiver (Bob) can reach about data, previously unknown to him, from a sender (Alice), by using all his local resources and classical bits communicated by the sender, is at most bits.
The principle assumes classical communication: if quantum bits were allowed to be transmitted the information gain could be higher as demonstrated in the quantum superdense coding protocol [this is debatable as superdense coding requires sending as many qubits - including auxiliary channels - as there are classical bits to transfer]. The principle is respected by all correlations accessible with quantum physics, while it excludes all correlations which violate the quantum Tsirelson bound for the CHSH inequality. However, it does not exclude beyond-quantum correlations in multipartite situations.
See also
Tsirelson's bound
Quantum nonlocality
References
Quantum information science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CW%2013 | CW 13 may refer to:
Television stations in the United States affiliated with the CW network
WHAM-TV Rochester, New York (subchannel)
WSCG (TV) Savannah, Georgia
WTVG-TV Toledo, Ohio (subchannel) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Zantema | Hans Zantema (1956) is a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, and professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, known for his work on termination analysis.
Biography
Born in Goingarijp, The Netherlands, Zantema received his PhD in algebraic number theory in 1983 at the University of Amsterdam under supervision of Hendrik Lenstra Jr. for the thesis, entitled "Integer Valued Polynomials in Algebraic Number Theory."
After graduation Zantema spent a few years of employment in the industry before he switched to computer science: from 1987 to 2000 at Utrecht University and since 2000 at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Since 2007 he is a part-time full professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen. His main achievements are in term rewriting systems, in particular in automatically proving termination of term rewriting. His name is attached to
Zantema's problem, namely does the string rewrite system 0011 -> 111000 terminate.
Selected publications
Zantema, Hans. 1983. Integer Valued Polynomials in Algebraic Number Theory. PhD thesis
Zantema, Hans. 2007 De achterkant van Sudoku. Oplossen, programmeren en ontwerpen. Aramith Hersengymnastiek.
Articles, a selection:
Zantema, Hans. "Termination of term rewriting: interpretation and type elimination." Journal of Symbolic Computation 17.1 (1994): 23–50.
Zantema, Hans. "Termination of term rewriting by semantic labelling." Fundamenta Informaticae 24.1 (1995): 89-105.
Endrullis, Jörg, Johannes Waldmann, and Hans Zantema. "Matrix interpretations for proving termination of term rewriting." Journal of Automated Reasoning 40.2-3 (2008): 195–220.
References
External links
Hans Zantema's homepage at tue.nl
Dutch computer scientists
Dutch mathematicians
1956 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen
University of Groningen alumni
People from Skarsterlân
20th-century Dutch scientists
21st-century Dutch scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20Romanian%20encoding | Mac OS Romanian is a character encoding used on Apple Macintosh computers to represent the Romanian language. It is a derivative of Mac OS Roman.
IBM uses code page 1285 (CCSID 1285) for Mac OS Romanian.
Character set
Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as ASCII.
References
Character sets
Romanian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabrodsky | Zabrodsky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hagit Zabrodsky, Israeli computer scientist
Oldřich Zábrodský (1926–2015), Czech ice hockey player
Stanislav Zabrodsky (born 1962), Ukrainian archer
Vladimír Zábrodský (1923–2020), Czech ice hockey player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20Croatian%20encoding | Mac OS Croatian is a character encoding used on Apple Macintosh computers to represent Gaj's Latin alphabet. It is a derivative of Mac OS Roman. The three digraphs, Dž, Lj, and Nj, are not encoded.
IBM uses code page 1284 (CCSID 1284) for Mac OS Croatian, while Microsoft uses code page 10082.
The Croatian letters are added at the same positions as in ISO 8859-2. Despite having several added letters in common with Mac OS Central European, these are not encoded in the same positions.
Layout
Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point and its decimal code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as ASCII.
References
Character sets
Croatian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades%20Radio%20Network | Everglades Radio Network was a network of travelers' information stations serving the Alligator Alley segment of Interstate 75 in the Everglades region of Florida. Owned by the Florida Department of Transportation and jointly programmed by the FDOT and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the network was based at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. It consisted of two low-power FM radio stations, WFLP-LP 98.7 FM, licensed to the Collier County Rest Area (near Mile Marker 63) and WFLU-LP 107.9 FM in Miles City (Exit 80, State Road 29). The coverage area of the two transmitters covered most of Alligator Alley within Collier County.
The FDOT surrendered the licenses for both stations to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on January 9, 2017; the availability of cellular and internet service was provided as the rationale for the service provided by the stations no longer being needed. The FCC cancelled the licenses for both stations on February 6, 2017.
Stations
References
External links
Everglades Radio Network
Florida Gulf Coast University
Interstate 75
2017 disestablishments in Florida
Radio stations established in 2003
Radio stations disestablished in 2017
2003 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20Nation | The Smart Nation is an initiative by the Government of Singapore to harness infocomm technologies, networks and big data to create tech-enabled solutions.
Overview
The Smart Nation was an initiative launched by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on 24 November 2014. In financial year 2017, the government had set aside $2.4 billion to support the initiative, which involves the government purchasing services from technology startups rather than offering grants to support them. To support development, open data is made available at government portals such as Data.gov.sg.
Some areas of focus include enhancing public transport networks, enabling successful aging and ensuring a secure but open data marketplace. The Smart Nation Sensor Platform (SNSP) tracks and analyses data related to housing, amenities and public infrastructure. Former civil servant, Peter Ong, explained that this “encompasses hardware like lamp-posts and public cameras, as well as software that enables sensor data exchange and data and video analytics”. An interconnected network of 110,000 lampposts with wireless sensors will collate data that will be used for urban and operational planning, maintenance and incident response.
The Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO) and Government Technology Agency (GovTech) under the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) lead the development of a National Digital Identity framework for online transactions between citizens and businesses, building on the current SingPass system.
Recognition
Singapore emerged top in the 2017 Global Smart City Performance Index by Juniper Research and Intel. The ranking is based on the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and connected services, and which the nation came out tops in all four of the key areas measured—mobility, healthcare, public safety and productivity.
Ministerial committee
The initiative is coordinated by the SNDGO and supported by other government agencies. GovTech is also placed under the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) as the implementing agency of SNDGO. Collectively, the SNDGO and GovTech form the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group (SNDGG).
The SNDGG is overseen by a Ministerial Committee chaired by Teo Chee Hean. The other members of the Ministerial Committee are Josephine Teo, Vivian Balakrishnan, Chan Chun Sing, S. Iswaran and Janil Puthucheary and will also coordinate GovTech's strategy with Info-communications Media Development Authority's (IMDA) industry development efforts.
Ministerial Committee
Smart Nation Initiative
As part of the Smart Nation initiative, the Government of Singapore has been introducing cashless payments on a large scale. Various efforts have been made to incorporate the use of cashless payment into citizens' lives.
Land Transport Authority Initiative
In March 2017, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) began an account-based ticketing pilot that allowed Mastercard users to use their debit and credit cards to pay for public transportatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarStruck%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of StarStruck, is a 2015 Philippine television reality talent competition show, was broadcast on GMA Network. Hosted by Dingdong Dantes and Megan Young, it premiered on September 7, 2015. The segment hosts are StarStruck graduates Mark Herras, Miguel Tanfelix, Kris Bernal, and Rocco Nacino, and they serve as journey hosts, who are tasked to join the hopefuls as they go through every phase of the competition. The council was composed of Joey de Leon, Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, Jennylyn Mercado and Dantes is also part of the council. The season ended with 76 episodes on December 19, 2015, having Migo Adecer and as the Ultimate Survivors.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Overview
Auditions
In the last quarter of 2014, GMA Network announced that the distribution of the application form will be on September 6 and 7 and would be distributed nationwide through various malls. For this season, the age limit is set from 15 to 20 years old. There was a live coverage of the said event during Startalk on September 6 and at Sunday All Stars on September 7. The said event was called as The StarStruck Weekend. The first 500 registrants in Metro Manila were accommodated on September 7 for the auditions kick off and was shown the previews in Sunday All Stars. Much of the auditions were held at the GMA Network Center and at SM Supermalls throughout the Philippines.
The following dates and key cities for the auditions are as follows:
This season was directed by Rico Gutierrez. Like the first two seasons, StarStruck is shown only weekdays having Mondays to Thursdays will be tests and Fridays would be the elimination night. The show held its the Final Judgment on December 19, 2015 at the GMA Network Studio Annex (Studio 7 and Studio 8).
Selection process
In the sixth year of the reality-talent search, Out of numerous who auditioned nationwide, the initial cut of the Top 35 hopefuls were reduced to The Door (the Destinator), after the eliminations of the seven hopefuls the Top 28 hopefuls was created into by the two groups the first group they call the 14 Dreamers and the second group they call the 14 Believers. The Top 28 finalists were reduced to Top 22 finalists, and the last reduced to Top 18 finalists, until they formed the new final fourteen titled, the ultimate final fourteen finalists,
The Ultimate Final 14 underwent various workshops and trainings in order to develop their personalities, talents, and charisma. But, the twist is that every week, one or two from the ultimate final fourteen may have to say goodbye until only four remain. Those who were eliminated were dubbed as StarStruck Avengers.
The Ultimate Final 4 vied for the coveted the Ultimate Survivors titles, the Ultimate Male Survivor and Ultimate Female Survivor, both of them received P1,000,000 pesos each plus and five year an exclusive management contract from GMA Network a house and lot from Camella Homes worth P2,000,000 pesos each.
The First Prince and First |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinsons%20Cybergate | Robinsons Cybergate, also known as Robinsons Cybergate Complex and Cybergate City, is a mixed-use development located along EDSA corner Pioneer Street in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. Owned by Robinsons Land Corporation, the development is anchored by four office buildings named Robinsons Cybergate Center Towers 1, 2, 3 and Robinsons Cybergate Plaza which has a Go Hotel.
The site is an economic zone, as declared by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA). It sits on a 6-hectare site in close proximity to public transportation along EDSA and the Boni station of the MRT Line 3. The development is also home to the Office of the Vice President of the Philippines (OVP). The OVP moved to Cybergate Plaza in 2022, under the tenure of Sara Duterte.
There is also a Robinsons Cybergate in Cebu which started development in 2010. It is located in near Chung Hua in Osmeña Boulevard, Cebu City.
Structures
Office buildings
Robinsons Cybergate Center Tower 1
Robinsons Cybergate Center Tower 2
Robinsons Cybergate Center Tower 3
Robinsons Cybergate Plaza
Residential buildings
Axis Residences
Gateway Garden Ridge
Gateway Garden Heights
Go Hotel at Robinsons Cybergate Plaza
One Gateway Place
Gateway Regency
Shopping center
Forum Robinsons (closed; Robinsons Place Pioneer from 2004-2009)
Offices
Office of the Vice President of the Philippines
Accenture
ConnectOS (former tenant)
Jobstreet Philippines
Sitel
Summit Media
Teletech
Vertiv
Avalon Edunet Plus, Inc.
Retails
Starbucks
Ready2GO
Ministop
Sandwich Guy
Subway
GOSalads
Big Belly's
Pan De Manila
See also
Robinsons Cyberscape
Ortigas Center
Mandaluyong
References
Mixed-use developments in Metro Manila
Buildings and structures in Mandaluyong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy | Hy is a dialect of the Lisp programming language designed to interact with Python by translating s-expressions into Python's abstract syntax tree (AST). Hy was introduced at Python Conference (PyCon) 2013 by Paul Tagliamonte. Lisp allows operating on code as data (metaprogramming), thus Hy can be used to write domain-specific languages.
Similar to Kawa's and Clojure's mappings onto the Java virtual machine (JVM), Hy is meant to operate as a transparent Lisp front-end for Python. It allows Python libraries, including the standard library, to be imported and accessed alongside Hy code with a compiling step where both languages are converted into Python's AST.
Example code
From the language documentation:
=> (print "Hy!")
Hy!
=> (defn salutationsnm [name] (print (+ "Hy " name "!")))
=> (salutationsnm "YourName")
Hy YourName!
See also
Common Lisp
Clojure
Kawa (Scheme implementation)
CLPython
Notes
References
External links
Documentation
Video of 2014 PyCon talk
Lisp (programming language)
Cross-platform free software
Lisp programming language family
Programming languages created in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarnegar | Zarnegar (Persian: ) may refer to:
Computing
Zarnegar (word processor)
Places
Zarnegar Park, in Afghanistan
People with the Surname
Bijan Zarnegar (1940–2017), Iranian fencer
Esfandiar Zarnegar (born 1942), Iranian fencer
Shahpour Zarnegar (born 1929), Iranian fencer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL-6 | PL-6 is a discontinued system programming language based on PL/I. PL-6 was developed by Honeywell, Inc. in the late 1970s as part of the project to develop the CP-6 operating system, a follow-on to Xerox CP-V to run on Honeywell Series 60 and DPS-8 systems.
Description
Data types
PL-6 has no provision for floating point data.
Aggregates
Arrays are one dimensional and zero-based, with the zero specified explicitly. For example, DCL x (0:4) SBIN; declares an array of five signed 36-bit integers. The elements are numbered x(0), x(1),...,x(4).
Structures are also supported. For example:
DCL 1 struct,
2 a,
3 b CHAR(3),
3 * CHAR(1),
2 c CHAR(4);
declares a structure named struct consisting to two elements: a minor structure a consisting of a three-character field b and an unnamed one-character element ("*" indicates the element is unnamed), and a four-character element c.
The top level of the structure must be 1, and the remaining levels 2–10, if used, have to be specified in order with no levels skipped.
References
External links
Systems programming languages
Procedural programming languages
Programming languages created in the 1970s
Honeywell mainframe computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Requirements%20Engineering%20Conference | The International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences. It has an 'A' rating from the Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences and an 'A1' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education.
The RE conference originally started as two alternating biennial conferences.
The first of these was the International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE), starting in 1993.
The second was the International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE), starting in 1994. In 2002, these two conference series merged under the name Joint International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'02).
Also starting in 2002, the conference venue began rotating between three general locations: Europe, North America, and a non-European, non-North American location. Since 2003, the conference series has been known as the International Requirements Engineering Conference.
List of Conferences
Past and future RE conferences include:
Most Influential Paper Award
Beginning with the 11th RE in 2003, an award was given for the paper deemed to be the most influential paper published from the conference held 10 years earlier. The judging for this award is done by the program committee for the current conference. If more than one award is given, the papers receiving the awards are categorized.
References
Software engineering conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zech%20%28name%29 | Zech is both a given name and a German surname. Most commonly found in Germany, from 2014 data there were approximately 13,000 people with the surname, with about 2,000 in the United States.
Origin
Nickname from Middle High German zæhe, zæch ‘tenacious’.
Early Origins
The surname Zech was first found in Silesia, where the name was closely identified in early medieval times with the feudal society which would become prominent throughout European history. The name would later be associated with noble family with great influence, having many distinguished branches, and become noted for its involvement in social, economic and political affairs.
Zech Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
Jacob Zech, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1751
Notable people with the name include
Harry Zech (born 1969), Liechtenstein footballer
Julius August Christoph Zech (1821–1864), German astronomer
Reinhold Zech (born 1948), German footballer
Rosel Zech (1942–2011), German actress
Tobias Josef Zech (born 1981), German politician
Zech/Zach Strumsky (born 1999), American Musician and internet personality
Zech Pluister (born 1994), vocalist of American pop punk band Sleep On It.
References
German-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20albums%20of%201991 | The highest-selling albums in Japan are ranked in the weekly Oricon Albums Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each albums' weekly physical sales. This list includes the albums that reached the number one place on that chart in 1991. In 1991, 32 albums occupied the peak position on the chart.
Yumi Matsutoya's twenty-second studio album The Gates of Heaven became the best-selling album of 1991 despite not reaching number one during the year. The album achieved two weeks atop the chart in 1990.
Chart history
References
1991 record charts
Lists of number-one albums in Japan
1991 in Japanese music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan%20railway%20line | The Morgan railway line or North-West Bend railway was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network.
History
The first section of the line opened from Gawler. It was built to service the copper mining at Kapunda, opened on 13 August 1860. It was extended to Morgan on 23 September 1878 to provide a more efficient freight and passenger connection between the Murray paddle steamers and both the city of Adelaide and Port Adelaide for ocean transport.
The Eudunda to Morgan section closed on 2 November 1969, and Morgan residents requested that the line was preserved to Mount Mary, though this was rejected, with the line being removed not long after. In 1975, the remaining line to Eudunda and the Robertstown branch came under the ownership of Australian National as part of the SAR's sale to the Federal Government. The Kapunda to Eudunda section was closed on 11 March 1994 by AN, with the deterioration of the River Light bridge at Hansborough being cited as a reason for closure. This section was pulled up the following year. The remaining Gawler to Kapunda section was leased by the South Australian Government to Australian Southern Railroad (later known as ORA) in 1997 as part of AN's SA freight asset sale to Genesee and Wyoming. The line's last documented use was on 21 May 2003 by Australian Railroad Group locomotive CK4, though grain services had ceased years before. One Rail Australia continues to clear vegetation on the line to help meet the lease agreement with the SA Government, although the track itself has not been maintained since the last train passed.
Route
The Kapunda railway was the first extension of the line from Adelaide to Gawler. It passed through Roseworthy from where the Peterborough line later branched. The line headed northeast from Roseworthy to reach Freeling, then the line crossed the River Light just south of Kapunda. The extension continued through Hansborough, running across the River Light once again and Pine Creek before reaching Hampden, then turning south and going through a steep descent into Eudunda. From there, the line curved northwards towards the junction for the Robertstown line, then heading west across the plains adjacent to what is now the Thiele Highway to Morgan. The Robertstown line branch opened in 1914 from Eudunda to Robertstown, passing through Point Pass along the way.
Possible extension
There were proposals to extend the line to connect to Wentworth, New South Wales, and even to Hay to provide a more direct rail route to Sydney.
References
External links
Gallery
Closed railway lines in South Australia
Railway lines opened in 1860 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trad%20Jazz%20%28TV%20series%29 | Trad Jazz is an Australian television series which aired in 1962 on ATN-7 in Sydney, HSV-7 in Melbourne, and possibly other stations (note: this was before the "official" creation of the Seven Network). Hosted by Graeme Bell, it was a music series with trad jazz music. In 1963, it aired for an additional season as Just Jazz, with the format expanded to include other kinds of jazz music.
It was a half-hour series.
Previously, Graeme Bell had hosted The Graeme Bell Show for ABC during 1958.
Despite having aired during an era where wiping of music shows was common, four episodes are held by National Film and Sound Archive.
See also
Other jazz music TV series included:
Look Who's Dropped In
Sweet and Low
Australian All Star Jazz Band
Jazz Meets Folk
References
External links
Trad Jazz on IMDb
1962 Australian television series debuts
1963 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
Australian music television series
English-language television shows
Seven Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%201999 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 1999, there were 14 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one of the year was Resurrection, an extended play by American industrial metal band Fear Factory, which spent the last two weeks of 1998 and the first week of 1999 at number one. The final number-one single of the year was "She's Got Issues" by American pop punk band The Offspring.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 1999 was "Why Don't You Get a Job?" by The Offspring, which spent a total of eleven weeks at number one. The band also topped the chart for four weeks with "She's Got Issues". "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" by Travis spent ten weeks at number one, while "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses was number one for six weeks over two three-week spells. Def Leppard were number one for five weeks in 1999 with "Promises" (three weeks) and "Goodbye" (two weeks); Skunk Anansie's "Charlie Big Potato" and Rage Against the Machine's "Guerrilla Radio" spent four weeks each at number one; Bon Jovi's "Real Life" was number one for three weeks; and Metallica spent three weeks at number one with "The Unforgiven II" (one week) and "Whiskey in the Jar" (two weeks).
Chart history
See also
1999 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 1999
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
1999 in British music
United Kingdom Rock und Metal Singles
1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybertill | Cybertill is a cloud-based retail software provider, which incorporates ecommerce, stock control, CRM, Merchandising and Warehousing modules. Cybertill’s headquarters are in Knowsley, near Liverpool, in the UK. The company is privately owned and funded by Merseyside Investment Fund (MSIF). and employs over 100 people.
History
Cybertill was founded by current CEO Ian Tomlinson in 2001.
Its software offering consisted of EPoS, ecommerce and mail order systems delivered over an internet connection (referred to as cloud-based software). In late 2001 Cybertill secured funding from Merseyside Investment Fund (MSIF). Cybertill claims to be the world’s first cloud based EPoS and ecommerce system.
Cybertill’s first customer was a bike shop in York in 2001. By 2014, according to the company’s website, there are over 650 retailers using its system.
The company says it is currently migrating users to its latest iteration of its software entitled Retail Store.
In 2014 Cybertill announced it was developing new supply chain modules. These are merchandising and warehousing.
In 2020, Cybertill has collaborated with the Bicycle Association's Market Data Service. This builds on the already developed direct relationships with EPos till the suppliers Abacus, Ascend, Citrus-Lime and Seanic Retail.
Features
Cybertill is a cloud based retail system which incorporates EPoS, ecommerce and mail order applications. These modules allow retailers to carry out the following tasks such as stock control, ordering, managing promotions and loyalty programmes.
Cybertill also supplies a charity retail system, this includes an additional module for gift aid software. This enables charity retailers to claim gift aid on donated goods.
As well as having its own proprietary ecommerce platform, Cybertill claims that it can integrate with a variety of third party ecommerce platforms such as Magento. Several Magento companies such as Juno and Limesharp promote the fact that they work with Cybertill customers.
Reception
Cybertill has been featured by national newspapers such as The Guardian and The Financial Times as well as retail trade publications such as Retail Week, Drapers, and Retail Technology, and online news sites including professionaljeweller.com, retailgazette.co.uk, and theintegratedretailer.com
In recent times Cybertill has been included in TechMarketView’s British Battlers Tech Media Invest Top 100 and London Stock Exchange Group’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain in 2013
Services
IT advice, project management, service delivery management, personalised training bundles, and API & integration.
References
2001 establishments in the United Kingdom
Software companies of the United Kingdom
Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley
Point of sale companies
Companies based in Knowsley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Wyler | Gregory Thane Wyler (born 12 November 1969) is an American tech entrepreneur, engineer, and inventor. He was the founder and executive chairman of OneWeb and the founder of O3b Networks.
Business ventures
Wyler spent four years developing telecommunications in Africa in rural locations. In 2003, he built a local team and connected over 200 schools to the Internet, providing the first 3G and fiber connections to residences on the continent. In 2006 his company Terracom acquired 99% control of Rwandatel, although the government of Rwanda then bought Rwandtel back in 2007.
In 2007, he founded O3b Networks, Ltd. The idea was first conceived in 2005 while working on a project to provide a nationwide telephone service in rural Rwanda, attempting to wire the post-war and economically shattered country. O3b has launched 12 satellites, and the system provides the highest capacity and lowest latency combination of any satellites built to date.
In 2012, Wyler founded OneWeb with the mission of "enabling Internet access for everyone".
On 1 August 2016, satellite operator SES S.A. completed the acquisition of O3b Networks.
In March 2020. OneWeb entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy after failing to raise enough capital to complete the build and deployment of its satellite constellation. OneWeb exited bankruptcy with new investment, but Wyler was no longer involved with the company.
Wyler founded satellite communications company E-Space in 2022, to create a network of satellites providing services targeting governments and businesses.
Awards and recognition
In 2015, Wyler received the Arthur C. Clarke award for Innovation and the 2B AHEAD Innovators Award. In 2017, Wyler was voted the Top Rising Star in Wireless by Fierce Wireless and later that year, The Most Powerful Person in Telecommunications. In 2018, he was inducted into the French Legion of Honour.
References
1969 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Linux%20games | This is a list of specific PC titles. For a list of all PC titles, see List of PC games.
The following is a list of games released on the Linux operating system. Games do not have to be exclusive to Linux, but they do have to be natively playable on Linux to be listed here.
List
The following list has 27 segments in total, a numerical section followed by sections ranging from A to Z.
0–9
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
See also
List of PC games
List of freeware
Lists of video games
List of Linux games on Steam
Lists with Steam games that are confirmed to work on Linux and those with only hints of Linux support
References
Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar%20%28payment%20network%29 | Stellar, or Stellar Lumens, is an open-source, decentralized protocol for digital currency to fiat money low-cost transfers which allows cross-border transactions between any pair of currencies. The Stellar protocol is supported by a Delaware nonprofit corporation, the Stellar Development Foundation, though this organization does not enjoy 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status with the IRS.
History
In 2014, Jed McCaleb, founder of Mt. Gox and co-founder of Ripple, launched the network system Stellar with former lawyer Joyce Kim. Before the official launch, McCaleb formed a website called "Secret Bitcoin Project" seeking alpha testers. The nonprofit Stellar Development Foundation was created in collaboration with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and the project officially launched that July. Stellar received $3 million in seed funding from Stripe. Stellar was released as a decentralized payment network and protocol with a native currency, stellar. At its launch, the network had 100 billion stellars. 25 percent of those would be given to other non-profits working toward financial inclusion. Stripe received 2 percent or 2 billion of the initial stellar in return for its seed investment. The cryptocurrency, originally known as stellar, was later called Lumens or XLM. In August 2014, Mercado Bitcoin, the first Brazilian bitcoin exchange, announced it would be using the Stellar network. By January 2015, Stellar had approximately 3 million registered user accounts on its platform and its market cap was almost $15 million.
The Stellar Development Foundation released an upgraded protocol with a new consensus algorithm in April 2015 which went live in November 2015. The new algorithm used SCP, a cryptocurrency protocol created by Stanford professor David Mazières.
Lightyear.io, a for-profit entity of Stellar, was launched in May 2017 as the commercial arm of the company. In September 2017, Stellar announced a benefits program, part of its Stellar Partnership Grant Program, which would award partners up to $2 million worth of Lumens for project development. In September 2018, Lightyear Corporation acquired Chain, Inc and the combined company was named Interstellar.
In 2021, Franklin Templeton launched the first “tokenised” US mutual fund using Stellar.
Usage
In 2015, it was announced that Stellar was releasing an integration into Vumi, the open-sourced messaging platform of the Praekelt Foundation in South Africa. Vumi uses cellphone talk time as currency using the Stellar protocol. Stellar partnered with cloud-based banking software company Oradian in April 2015 to integrate Stellar into Oradian's banking platform to add microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Nigeria.
Deloitte announced its integration with Stellar in 2016 to build a cross-border payments application, Deloitte Digital Bank. In December 2016, it was announced that Stellar's payment network had expanded to include Coins.ph, a mobile payments startup in the Philippines, ICICI Bank in India, African m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Lumia%20830 | The Nokia Lumia 830 is a smartphone developed by Microsoft Mobile and branded as "Nokia" that runs Microsoft's Windows Phone 8.1 operating system. It was announced on September 4, 2014 at Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin and released in October 2014. It is a successor to the 2012 Nokia Lumia 820 and marketed as an "affordable flagship".
Hardware
The Lumia 830 has a metal frame with a removable polycarbonate back. It is available in multiple colours - white, orange, green and black.
Internals
The Lumia 830 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8926 SoC with a 1.2 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU and a Qualcomm Adreno 305 GPU. There is 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage; the latter can be expanded with MicroSD cards up to 128 GB in size.
Display
The Lumia 830 has a IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1280x720 and an aspect ratio of 16:9. The display features Nokia's ClearBlack polarisation filters and is protected by curved Gorilla Glass 3.
Camera
The Lumia 830 has a 10 MP PureView-branded rear camera, sporting a 1/3.4-inch BSI sensor with 1.12 μm pixels, and an optically stabilised Carl Zeiss 6-element lens with an f/2.2 aperture. The camera supports 1080p video capture and is complemented by an LED flash and a two-stage shutter button. The front camera has a 0.9 MP sensor with a wide-angle f/2.4 lens, and supports 720p video recording.
Connectivity
The Lumia 830 supports 4G LTE technology with maximum transfer speeds of 150 Mbit/s. Other wireless connectivity options include dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, and wireless screen projection via Miracast. Physical connectors include a Micro-USB 2.0 connector for charging and data transfer, as well as a 3.5 mm audio jack.
Other
The Lumia 830 supports wireless inductive charging using the Qi standard. The AT&T version additionally supports the PMA standard.
The Lumia 830 includes a variety of sensors, including proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, magnetometer, gyroscope and accelerometer, as well as Microsoft's Motion Data activity tracker based on Qualcomm's SensorCore technology. Due to chipset limitations, however, it does not support passive voice activation for the Cortana digital assistant.
The Lumia 830 supports video recording in Dolby Digital Plus and captures 5.1 surround sound from its dedicated microphones.
The handset is also capable of decoding 5.1 Dolby Digital content and playing it back through virtual surround. For stereo content, the mobile can convert it into virtual 5.1 using the Dolby Digital Plus feature for audio playback through HRTF.
Software
The Lumia 830 ships with Microsoft's Windows Phone 8.1 operating system coupled with the Lumia Denim firmware update.
The new Lumia Camera app in the Denim firmware update adds support for Rich Capture (HDR imaging), DNG capture and Moment Capture (high-quality 2 MP stills extraction from 1080p video).
The Lumia 830 can be upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile.
Reception
The Lumia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Crowdfunding%20Network | The European Crowdfunding Network AISBL (ECN), is a professional network promoting adequate transparency, (self) regulation and governance while offering a combined voice in policy discussion and public opinion building. ECN was founded in 2011 as an interest group and formally incorporated as an international not-for-profit organisation in Brussels, Belgium in 2013. It aims at innovating, representing, promoting and protecting the European crowdfunding industry as a key aspect of innovation within alternative finance and financial technology, as a funding mechanism for small and medium-sized enterprises and innovative projects. The Founding Chairman was Oliver Gajda.
Purpose
The ECN has three main areas of activity: Raising professional standards, networking opportunities and industry research and promotion.
Mission
Promote crowdfunding as a viable offering of job creation, social innovation and boost to entrepreneurship to the European public, policy makers and stakeholders
Providing resources, professional support and a forum for collaborative action regarding crowdfunding
Publicize community successes, impacts and scale of ambitions, as well as promote innovative financial solutions for funding social & business projects
Create and influence the political discourse regarding crowdfunding within the European Union
Solutions
Joint platform for self-regulation, transparency and governance issues
Combined voice in policy discussion and public opinion building
Increased network through peer-to-peer interaction
Knowledge exchange and information for stakeholders
Professional image of crowdfunding due to economies of scale
Value Proposition
Raising professional standards – The ECN is engaging in a discourse with policy makers and industry regarding professional standards, best practice and data provision
Networking opportunities – The ECN is providing opportunities for members from across Europe to meet together, exchange information and ideas, and discuss the latest industry trends and issues.
Industry research and promotion – The ECN is promoting, conducting or commissioning a wide variety of research on crowdfunding and its impact on economy and society
Board of directors
The non-Executive Board is elected by the Assembly of Members every two years. On behalf of the ECN, it assumes the task guiding the Secretariat and ensuring Strategy is executed, as well as looking into joint problems, preparing reports and taking part in conferences; it elects a Chair to represent the interests of its members before any public or private authority and undertakes any other initiative with the aim of furthering these objectives. The non-Executive Board advises on management and administration and the annual subscription due by members. The ECN Board of non-Executive Directors 2021-2023 was elected on 17th June 2021.
Chair, Christin Friedrich, Innovestment, Germany,
Vice Chair, Nuno Brito Jorge, GoParity, Portugal
Vice Chair, Jeff Lynn, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S5%20%28ZVV%29 | The S5 is a regional railway service of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network. The S5 is one of the network's services connecting the cantons of Zürich, St. Gallen, Schwyz and Zug.
Route
The S5 service links the city of Zug and Pfäffikon SZ, on the south shore of Lake Zürich in the canton of Schwyz. Trains use the Zürich–Affoltern am Albis–Zug line between Zug and . From there, they use the Zürich–Baden line to reach Zürich Hauptbahnhof and then the Zürich–Winterthur line to reach . East of Stadelhofen, trains take the Wallisellen–Uster–Rapperswil line, which diverges south, to . Finally, trains cross the Seedamm on the Rapperswil–Pfäffikon line to reach Pfäffikon. The following stations are served:
Zug
Steinhausen Rigiblick
Steinhausen
Knonau
Mettmenstetten
Affoltern am Albis
Hedingen
Bonstetten-Wettswil
Birmensdorf
Urdorf Weihermatt
Urdorf
Zürich Altstetten
Zürich Hardbrücke
Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Rolling stock
Before the timetable revision of late 2015 the S5 services were operated by RABe 514 class on the weekdays and RABe 511 class on weekends. , all services are operated by RABe 511 EMUs.
Scheduling
The S5 has a normal frequency of one train every 30 minutes. The through journey time is just over one hour 30 minutes. Combined with the S15, the S5 provides quarter-hourly services at stations between Hardbrücke and Rapperswil.
History
Prior to the timetable revision of late 2015, the section of the S5 between Zürich and Pfäffikon operated much as today, except that S5 also served Hurden. However west of Zürich, the trains operated to Oberglatt, where alternating trains continued to either Niederweningen or Rafz. The core of the line ran to a frequency of every half hour, thus providing hourly services to Niederweningen and Rafz. The section between Oberglatt and Niederweningen was also served by an hourly shuttle service numbered S55, that were connected at Oberglatt with the S5 trains which ran to and from Rafz.
The sections of line no longer covered by the S5 and S55 are now served by the S9 (to Rafz) and S15 (to Niederweningen).
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
Trams in Zürich
References
External links
ZVV
Transport in the canton of Schwyz
Transport in the canton of St. Gallen
Transport in the canton of Zürich
Transport in the canton of Zug
Zürich S-Bahn lines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervalis | Cervalis was a colocation, cloud computing, and managed services company headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. Founded in 2000, the company has four data centers throughout the New York Metropolitan Area located in Wappingers Falls, New York; Totowa, New Jersey; Stamford, Connecticut and Norwalk, Connecticut.
Cervalis' Norwalk facility is notable for being the largest data center in the State of Connecticut. All of Cervalis' data centers are Tier III compliant.
History
Cervalis was officially founded on April 4, 2000 by Michael A. Boccardi, Robert Carlson, and Robert Crespi. The name Cervalis was chosen as a portmanteau for "Serve All Information Systems", stylized with a C rather than an S.
Cervalis' first location was in Cheshire, Connecticut, where it was headquartered for a six-month period before moving to Bedford Street in Stamford, Connecticut.
Its first data center was opened in a former IBM facility on May 30, 2001, in Wappingers Falls, New York. Governor George Pataki was in attendance at the opening and helped cut the ribbon to the facility, which he touted as a prime example of how his tax incentives helped to grow the tech industry: "New York State is proud to welcome Cervalis to one of the fastest growing regional economies in the nation - the Hudson Valley Region. As a result of the $100 billion in tax cuts we've enacted and our aggressive efforts to foster the growth of technology-based firms, more and more companies like Cervalis are making the smart decision to invest and grow right here in New York.”
In 2007, Cervalis had two major changes: Its second data center, totaling 40,000 square feet, was opened in Stamford, Connecticut; the company subsequently moved from Bedford Street in Stamford to Armstrong Road in Shelton, Connecticut, in a business park formerly occupied by Black & Decker.
In 2010, the company opened up its third facility, totaling 182,000 square feet, in Totowa, New Jersey, in a strategic location less than 20 miles from New York City and easily accessible by both Interstate 80 and the NJ Transit Montclair-Boonton Line.
In December 2013, the company opened its fourth data-center, located in Norwalk, Connecticut. The new facility totals over 168,000 square feet, making it the largest data center in the State of Connecticut. In 2014, the Cervalis headquarters moved from its Shelton location to offices in this facility to obtain a more centralized location to each of its four facilities, and to better accommodate clientele in the New York Metropolitan Area, easily accessed using the Connecticut Turnpike and the Metro-North New Haven Line.
The new facility was built on a site in Norwalk with unique attributes: Besides being located above the 500 year flood plain (an attribute present in all Cervalis facilities), the site straddles the electrical jurisdiction of both Connecticut Light and Power and the Norwalk Third Taxing District Electrical Department, allowing the facility to be dual-powered by two ind |
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