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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieres%2C%20Girona | Mieres is a village and municipality in the comarca of Garrotxa, in the province of Girona, in Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Municipal website
Government data pages
Municipalities in Garrotxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Xcover%202 | The Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 (GT-S7710) is a water and dust proof IP67 smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the Android operating system. Announced and released by Samsung in March 2013, the Galaxy Xcover 2 is the successor to the Xcover. Xcover 2 itself was replaced by Xcover 3.
Features
The Galaxy Xcover 2 is a 3G smartphone with quad band GSM. It sports a display of a 4.0 inch PLS TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours WVGA (480x800) resolution. It has a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash with a VGA front-facing camera. It comes with a 1700 mAh Li-Ion battery that can be replaced after unlocking the battery cover using a screwdriver.
The Galaxy Xcover 2 comes with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. Bundled with Music Hub 3.0, Game Hub 2.0, Chat-On and Samsung Apps.
See also
List of Android devices
Samsung Galaxy
Samsung Rugby Smart
References
Samsung mobile phones
Samsung Galaxy
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2013
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Xcover | The Samsung Galaxy Xcover (GT-S5690) is a water and dust proof IP67 rated smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the Android operating system. It was announced and released by Samsung in August 2011. The Galaxy Xcover is succeeded by the Xcover 2.
The Galaxy Xcover 3G smartphone, with quad band GSM. It sports a display of a 3.65 inch LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours (320x480) resolution. It has a 3.15-megapixel camera with LED flash. It comes with a 1500 mAh hotswappable Li-Ion battery.
The Galaxy Xcover comes with Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread.
See also
List of Android devices
Samsung Galaxy
Samsung Rugby Smart
References
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2011
Samsung mobile phones
Samsung Galaxy
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Vaio%20SVT%20series | The Sony Vaio SVT series was a series of tablet PCs that Sony Corporation sold during 2013 till the selling of their PC business to Japan Industrial Partners.
Models
References
SVT
Computer-related introductions in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified%20District%20Information%20System%20for%20Education | The Unified District Information System for Education or UDISE is a database about schools in India. The database was developed at the Department of School Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India and Maintained by National Informatics Centre, Government of India.
It records information such as the level of dropouts and the condition of school toilets.
References
External links
Databases in India
Education in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%20of%20the%20Dragon%20Racers | Dawn of the Dragon Racers is a 2014 computer-animated short film by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Elaine Bogan and John Sanford. Based on the How to Train Your Dragon film series, the short features the voices of Jay Baruchel and America Ferrera along with the cast from the television series.
The short film takes place three years before the events of the sequel, in between the events of Defenders of Berk and Race to the Edge. In the short, a hunt for a lost sheep turns into a competition between Hiccup and his friends for the first title of Dragon Racing Champion of Berk.
Plot
Hiccup and Snotlout compete and practice catching sheep for the annual Dragon Race, the new and official dragon sport event on Berk. Afterwards, Tuffnut has just finished his new creepy-looking face paint which shocks Astrid, Hiccup and Toothless. Tuffnut says that at least his doesn't look like a target, mocking the new pattern Fishlegs has applied; Fishlegs explains that it's actually the Ingerman family crest.
Snotlout arrives cheering that his new Sheep Launcher finally worked, which Astrid points out that it took him thirty-two tries to get it right. It then cuts to a sequence of sheep launches, which makes it seem that the sheep, wearing a helmet that Snotlout put on it, is invulnerable to pain as it lands on several different locations. Snotlout decides that the sheep launcher is ready for the Dragon Race. Astrid complains and asks since when did he get to make such a decision; Snotlout states it's because he created the sport. Hiccup and Astrid quickly deny that claim, saying that's not how they remember it. Astrid tries to recall the events of how and who invented Dragon Racing.
It cuts to a flashback, shortly after the events of the second season where the Riders are still in their early teens. Berk is getting ready for the traditional annual boat race called the Regatta which starts in a few days, when suddenly a herd of sheep run throughout the village, causing minor trouble. Hiccup asks Gobber what's happening, and Gobber explains that after Silent (now dubbed Not So Silent) Sven broke his silence, his sheep ran out of their pens because they're afraid of his new voice. Stoick and Gobber struggle to gather the sheep, so Stoick orders Hiccup and the gang to round up the sheep as he gets ready for the Regatta; if he has to hear Sven scream any more, he'll put a hook through his own head just to end the torture.
While in the process of catching the sheep, the Riders end up turning it in to an impromptu competition against each other in getting as many sheep as possible; they all arrive back at the pen and discover they all got three sheep each. Astrid points out that there is no winner in this 'competition'. Sven then cries out, alarmed that his prized black sheep is still missing and hoping that it didn't fall down the well again. At the mention of this, the Riders declare the black sheep as a tiebreaker. Hiccup states that it isn't a competition, b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic-Con%20Russia | Comic-Con Russia is a speculative fiction entertainment annual exhibition and fan convention of computer and video games, TV series and comic movies in Russia, organized by the committee of the Russian Game Developers Conference and Bubble Comics. First convention was held alongside the 2014 IgroMir.
From the beginning the showcasing primarily comic books and science fiction/fantasy related film, television, and similar popular arts, the convention includes a larger range of pop culture and entertainment elements across virtually all genres, including horror, animation, anime, manga, toys, collectible card games, video games, webcomics, and fantasy novels in the country.
See also
San Diego Comic-Con International
East European Comic Con
Russian Game Developers Conference
IgroMir
References
External links
Comic-Con Russia
Festivals in Moscow
Video game trade shows
Video gaming in Russia
Multigenre conventions
Comics conventions
Recurring events established in 2014
2014 establishments in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement%20Cruttwell | Clement Cruttwell (1743 – 5 August 1808) was an English compiler of religious works and gazetteers.
Biography
Cruttwell was born at Wokingham, Berkshire in 1743. He enrolled at St Mary Hall, Oxford on 14 December 1780. He commenced his career as a surgeon at Bath, where he published his ‘Advice to Lying-in Women’ in 1779. He soon afterwards took orders. He published Bishop Thomas Wilson's Bible and an autobiography in 1785. He then began his ‘Concordance of the Parallel Texts of Scripture’ (1790), which he printed in his own house, and on its completion his health was so broken down that he went to the baths of Saint-Amand for a cure. His ‘Gazetteer of France’ (1793) and ‘Gazetteer of the Netherlands’ (1794) were succeeded by his ‘Universal Gazetteer’ (1798), an enormous compilation, of which the entire edition was quickly sold out. He was engaged on a second edition of this great work, which was to contain thirty thousand fresh articles, when he died suddenly while on the way to his native town, at Froxfield in Wiltshire, on 5 August 1808.
Works
v.1. (A-Fus); v.2; v.3 (Q-Z)
References
Attribution
External links
1743 births
1808 deaths
18th-century English people
People from Wokingham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20SuperVia%20stations | The SuperVia network in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is made up of 102 stations across eight rail lines and one cable car line.
Current stations
Current system map
References
SuperVia stations
SuperVia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish%20Studies%20Network | The Kurdish Studies Network (KSN) is "a global research network" for scholars working within the field of Kurdish studies. It was established in 2009 by Welat Zeydanlıoğlu, a Kurdish researcher and academic based in Sweden.
History
The Kurdish Studies Network was established following the Kurdish Studies Conference, held at the University of Exeter in 2009. In an interview with the Rudaw news agency, Welat Zeydanlıoğlu, the KSN founder, noted that the network came about, "because there was no real communication and connection between scholars and researchers who study the Kurds, the Kurdish question, Kurdish society and the peoples of Kurdistan..." The KSN began life as a mailing list for academics and journalists from a variety of background who shared an interest in the field of Kurdish studies. However, the network expanded its work to include a website, which provides a database of both scholars working on the Kurdish question and a bibliography of works published in the English language pertaining to the field of Kurdish studies. In 2013, plans, initiated by members of the KSN, to publish a peer-reviewed academic journal were announced and the first issue of Kurdish Studies was published in October 2013. The KSN has been credited with both helping to increase scholarly interest in the field of Kurdish studies and bringing together scholars from Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
Membership
Unlike regular scholarly associations, the KSN does not have a formal system of membership or paid subscription. The size of the organization is based on the number of subscribers to its mailing list, which, according to the KSN website, numbers over 1000.
Journal
Kurdish Studies is published by Transnational Press London on behalf of KSN. Kurdish Studies seeks to align "itself with KSN's mission to revitalize and reorient research, scholarship and debates in the field of Kurdish studies..." and publishes articles on or about the Kurds from a variety of academic disciplines. The editor-in-chief is Martin van Bruinessen. It is published biannually.
References
External links
Kurdish Studies
Kurdish studies
Research institutes in Sweden
Cultural journals
Middle Eastern studies journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste%20Atlas | Waste Atlas is an interactive waste management map that visualises global solid waste management data for comparison and benchmarking purposes.
Waste Atlas partnership is a non-commercial initiative supported by significant global range non-profit organizations, including D-Waste, ISWA, WtERT, SWEEP-Net, SWAPI, and University of Leeds [1].
Currently, Waste Atlas hosts waste data for 164 countries; more than 1,800 cities from all over the world and approximately 2,500 waste management facilities (1,626 sanitary landfills, 716 WtE, 129 MBT, 78 BT and 89 of the world’s biggest dumpsites).
Global Correlation Charts and Global Waste Maps
Global Correlation Charts is a set of global charts which correlate waste indicators such as waste generation per capita and collection coverage with socio-economic indicators such as income indicators and human development index.
Global Waste Maps is a set of global maps that visualise waste management indicators such as waste collection coverage, waste generation per capita, etc.
Waste Atlas Report
1st Annual report
2013 Waste Atlas report is dedicated to global solid waste management assessment and is based on data from 162 countries and 1,773 cities. According to the outcomes of the report, current annual municipal solid waste generation is assessed to about 1.9 billion tonnes with almost 30% of it to remain uncollected. More than half of the world’s population does not have access to a regular refuse collection services, as for the waste collected, 70% of it is led for disposal to landfills and dumpsites, 14.5% is recycled or recovered in formal systems and 11% is led to thermal treatment facilities. It is assessed that 3.5 billion people lack access to even the most elementary form of waste management.
2nd Annual report
2014 Waste Atlas report is dedicated to unsound waste disposal, particularly in dumpsites. The 50 biggest dumpsites around the world are listed with the most important information relating to their operation visualized in a unified way. Data relating to the amount and the type of waste disposed in place, the size, the waste concentration, the number of informal waste pickers, the population and the natural resources within a radius of 10 km and the distance of the nearest settlements are presented. The research relied on crowd-sourcing 59,000 files from 25 countries. The results of the report highlight the health and environmental impacts of dumpsites and show that the 50 biggest active dumpsites affect daily, the lives of 64 million people, a figure almost equal to the population of France, their total waste volume is 0.6-0.8 m3 almost 200-300 times the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The statistical analysis showed that a typical waste dumpsite covers an area of 24 ha equal to around 29 big international football fields.
References
External links
Environmental websites
Waste management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80%20character%20set | The ZX80 character set is the character encoding used by the Sinclair Research ZX80 microcomputer with its original 4K BASIC ROM. The encoding uses one byte per character for 256 code points. It has no relationship with previously established ones like ASCII or EBCDIC, but it is related though not identical to the character set of the successor ZX81.
Printable characters
The character set has 64 unique glyphs present at code points 0–63. With the most significant bit set the character is generated in inverse video; corresponding to code points 128–191. These 128 values are the only displayable ones allowed in the video memory (known as the display file). The remaining code points (64–127 and 192–255) are used as control characters or Sinclair BASIC keywords, while some are unused.
The small effective range of only 64 unique glyphs precludes support for Latin lower case letters, and many symbols used widely in computing such as the exclamation point or the at sign.
There are 11 block graphics characters, counting code point 0 which also doubles as space. Together with the 11 inverse video versions these 22 code points provide every combination of the character cell divided into 2×2 black-and-white block pixels for low-resolution 64×48 pixel graphics, or into 1×2 black, white or dithered gray wide block pixels for a 32×48 resolution. The 2×2 versions of these are also present in the Block Elements Unicode block.
Code point 1 is the double-quote (") character when used in the display file, but uniquely to the ZX80 it is used internally as the string terminator character so the BASIC function CHR$(1) returns a null string; CHR$(212) translates to the printable " character.
Changes in the ZX81
The 8K BASIC ROM of the follow-up ZX81 model was also available as an upgrade for the ZX80, replacing its integer-only 4K BASIC ROM. It introduced the modified ZX81 character set which has mostly the same code points, e.g. for A-Z and 0-9, but the code points are different for the block graphics characters, the symbols ", -, +, *, /, =, >, <, and the BASIC keyword tokens (with many new added). There are also changes to the control characters and code point 1 is no longer an unprintable string terminator.
In the later ZX Spectrum the entire character encoding was replaced with the ZX Spectrum character set, which is a derivative of ASCII and includes lower case letters and more.
System font
The ZX80 system font uses an 8×8 pixel-per-character grid where most glyphs fit in 7×6 pixels leaving one pixel horizontal space between them. This font was modified in the ZX81's ROM to slightly narrower 6×6 pixel glyphs with two pixels horizontal space between them, which improved the look of single inverted characters by showing inverted pixels on both sides. Some glyphs also received a different design in the ZX81 system font, noticeable on the *, the slashed and less rounded 0, and the less rounded $, C, G and J.
Character set
The following table shows the ZX80 c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branson%20Famous | Branson Famous is an American reality series that premiered on truTV on December 29, 2014 as part of the network's latest programming revamp. It was billed as the first ever "reality musical" show.
Synopsis
Branson Famous followed the Mabe Family, stars and owners of the Baldknobbers Jamboree show, the longest running show in Branson, Missouri, a city world-famous for its live entertainment shows.
The youngest of the Mabe siblings, Breanna, runs a gift shop, but wants to make her breakthrough into show business. And to add insult to injury, there's a "new sexy singer in town", Heather Gentry. In one of the more bizarre elements, the cast & crew break out in song during their confessionals.
Meanwhile, the Baldknobbers Jamboree is struggling in regards to finance, and the Mabe Family struggles to find a permanent solution to the issue. Some in the Mabe Family believe that this "sexy singer" will add life to the show, and possibly, allow them to make more money.
Broadcast
The series debuted on TruTV in the United Kingdom and Ireland on April 9, 2015.
As of May 2015 the series was not renewed for a second season.
In May 2015, shortly after the series wasn't renewed, a petition was drawn up in effort to have the series renewed. The petition has since been discontinued. In September 2015, Brandon Mabe stated via Facebook when asked about a possible second season rumor that the family is "still looking for a network."
As of January 2016 the show is confirmed as "permanently finished".
References
External links
Branson Famous show information on truTV.com
Baldknobbers Jamboree
2010s American comedy-drama television series
2010s American musical comedy television series
2014 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series about show business
TruTV original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Pachet | François Pachet (born 10 January 1964) is a French scientist, composer and director of the Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab. Before joining Spotify he led Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. He is one of the pioneers of computer music closely linked to artificial intelligence, especially in the field of machine improvisation and style modelling. He has been elected ECCAI Fellow in 2014.
Education
Pachet graduated from École des ponts ParisTech in Civil Engineering, and Computer Science in 1987, majoring Applied Mathematics. He spent 18 months as lecturer at Kuala Lumpur at the University of Malaya in 1987–1988. He obtained a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University
in Computer Science, (His thesis was "Knowledge representation with objects and rules: the NéOpus system", supervised by Jean-François Perrot).
He spent 1 year as post-doc in Montréal at Université du Québec à Montréal, where he worked on the Cyc project Common sense representation, Douglas Lenat, MCC), with the help of Hafedh Mili professor at UQAM.
In 1997, he got his habilitation diploma on the subject: "Object-oriented languages and knowledge representation" at University Pierre et Marie Curie.
He was auditeur at the 58th national session of Institut des Hautes Etudes en Défense Nationale, in 2006, and was appointed Colonel in 2007 in the "réserve citoyenne" (French Air Force).
Experiences
In 1993, he was appointed Assistant Professor (in French, "Maitre de conférences"), at Pierre and Marie Curie University until 1997 in Computer Science, Research and Teaching.
In 1997, Pachet moved to Sony-CSL (Computer Science Laboratory) Paris. He started a research activity on music and artificial intelligence. His team has authored and pioneered many technologies (about 35 patents) about electronic music distribution, audio feature extraction and music interaction.
He was appointed director of Sony Computer Science Laboratories in 2014. The CSL (the branch of Sony-CSL Tokyo) is dedicated to basic research in computer science; it was created by Luc Steels and Mario Tokoro in 1996.
Since 2017, he is director of Spotify's Creator Research Technology Lab in Paris, where he develops tools for assisting music creation.
Achievements
The Music team at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris was founded in 1997 by Pachet, where he developed the vision that metadata can greatly enhance the musical experience, from listening to performance.
The Flow Composer is his second achievement, a system to compose lead sheets in the style of arbitrary composers. It was followed by LSDB, the first collecting lead sheets in electronic format with a large-scale effort (Over 11,000 lead sheets collected); and Virtuoso, a solo jazz detector. The "Popular Music Browser" project, which started in 1998, at Sony Computer Science Laboratories This research project covers all areas of the music‐to‐listener chain, from music description, descriptor extraction from the music signal, or data mining t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Baddeley | Adrian John Baddeley (born May 25, 1955) is a statistical scientist working in the fields of spatial statistics, statistical computing, stereology and stochastic geometry.
Life and career
Baddeley was born in Melbourne, Australia and educated at Eltham High School there, and studied mathematics and statistics at the Australian National University (honours supervisor: Roger Miles) and the University of Cambridge (PhD supervisor: David George Kendall). He was elected a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge in the second year of his PhD. Subsequently, he worked for the University of Bath (1982–85), the CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney (1985–88), the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1988–94), the University of Western Australia (where he was Professor of Statistics from 1994 to 2010), CSIRO Division of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Perth (2010-2012), and the Centre for Exploration Targeting at the University of Western Australia (2013-2014). He is now Professor of Computational Statistics at Curtin University.
Research
Stereology
Classical methods of stereology were limited by the requirement that the cutting plane be randomly oriented. Baddeley developed an alternative technique in which the cutting plane is "vertical" (parallel to a fixed axis, or perpendicular to a fixed surface) making it possible to apply quantitative microscopy to cylindrical core samples, samples of flat materials, and longitudinal sections.
Baddeley is a leading advocate of statistical ideas in stereology. With Cruz-Orive he demonstrated the role of the Horvitz-Thompson weighting principle and the Rao-Blackwell theorem in stereological sampling.
Spatial statistics
Baddeley is one of the world leading specialists in point pattern analysis, a connection of stochastics and geometry applied to the analysis of (mainly) 2D point distributions in euclidean space. He has developed statistical methodologies for analyzing the structure of spatial patterns of points, including methods based on survival analysis, nonparametrics, new point process models, model-fitting principles (i.e. 'regression analysis' for point patterns) and algorithms and open-source software.
Honours and awards
Georges Matheron Lecturer (2008)
Pitman Medal (2004)
Hannan Medal (2001)
Centenary Medal (2001)
Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (elected 2000)
Australian Mathematical Society Medal (1995)
Prize Research Fellowship, Trinity College, Cambridge (1979)
Smith-Knight Prize, University of Cambridge (1979)
University Medal, Australian National University (1976)
Statistical Society of Australia Prize, Australian National University (1976)
Hanna Neumann Prize for Pure Mathematics, Australian National University (1976 and 1975)
References
External links
Adrian Baddeley
Adrian Baddeley's former home page
1955 births
Living people
People from Melbourne
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
Spatial statisticians
Austral |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20the%20Robot%20%28TV%20series%29 | Rob the Robot is a preschool computer-animated television series. The series is a co-production between Amberwood Entertainment and Singapore's One Animation and was commissioned by Canada's TVOntario, British Columbia's Knowledge Network, CBC's Radio Canada Television, and Access. It also airs on Australia's Seven Network and ABC Me in Brisbane (BTQ-7 Brisbane), and is currently on America's Vme Kids. The series debuted in 2010.
Plot
The series revolves around four young friends flying around the Robot Galaxy in a spaceship to different planets to solve various tasks.
Characters
The main characters are:
Rob (voiced by Stacey DePass), a curious and adventurous metal robot. In the French version, he is named Robin.
Ema (voiced by Camden Angelis), is a cute and smart linguist and the only one of the group who is an alien.
TK (voiced by Jordi Mand), is a kind robot. She always has a smile.
Orbit (voiced by Jake Beale), an artist robot with two bandages taped to the back of his head.
Mission Control (voiced by John Stocker)
Episodes
References
2010s Canadian animated television series
2010 Canadian television series debuts
2017 Canadian television series endings
Canadian computer-animated television series
Canadian children's animated comic science fiction television series
Canadian children's animated space adventure television series
Canadian children's animated science fantasy television series
Canadian preschool education television series
English-language television shows
Animated television series about robots
Animated television series about extraterrestrial life
TVO original programming
Amberwood Entertainment
Animated preschool education television series
2010s preschool education television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20in%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings | The year 2004 is the tenth year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2004 Fighting Network Rings held 4 events beginning with, Rings Holland: World's Greatest.
Events list
Rings Holland: World's Greatest
Rings Holland: World's Greatest was an event held on April 4, 2004 at the Alytus Sports Hall in Alytus, Alytus County, Lithuania.
Results
Rings Holland: Two Heroes, One Winner
Rings Holland: Two Heroes, One Winner was an event held on October 3, 2004 at the Alytus Sports Hall in Alytus, Alytus County, Lithuania.
Results
Rings Holland: Local Heroes 2
Rings Holland: Local Heroes 2 was an event held on October 30, 2004 at the Alytus Sports Hall in Alytus, Alytus County, Lithuania.
Results
Rings Holland: Born Invincible
Rings Holland: Born Invincible was an event held on December 12, 2004 at the Alytus Sports Hall in Alytus, Alytus County, Lithuania.
Results
See also
Fighting Network Rings
List of Fighting Network Rings events
References
Fighting Network Rings events
2004 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20program%20transformation%20systems | This article lists notable program transformation systems by alphabetical order:
ATC
CIL (for C)
Coccinelle (for C)
DMS
JetBrains MPS
Nemerle
Rascal Metaprogramming Language
Spoon (for Java)
TXL
References
The Program transformation Wiki
Transformation Technology Bibliography
Program transformation
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTEROP-VLab | The INTEROP V-Lab (International Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability) is a network of organizations, which links scientists, research centers, representatives of industry, and small and medium-sized enterprises. The members come from several European countries as well as China and represent 250 scientists and 70 organizations.
INTEROP-VLab was founded in 2007 and is the continuation of the INTEROP Network of Excellence (Interoperability research for networked enterprise applications and software), a research initiative of the European Union founded early 2000s, which developed the Model Driven Interoperability (MDI) Framework.
In 2012 Guy Doumeingts was appointed general manager of INTEROP-VLab.
Overview
INTEROP-VLab is an initiative that is working within the context of interoperability, in particular the so-called Enterprise Interoperability (EI). It aims to link together in a network researchers and research institutions and industry representatives, engaged in developing approaches and integrative solutions to connect heterogeneous industrial systems, public administrations or organizations.
The basic objective of INTEROP-VLab is the defragmentation of the European research and scientific landscape and support the cooperation of other regions of the world:
through support of research, teaching and innovation in the field of Enterprise Interoperability
through the work of a center of excellence in the field of Enterprise Interoperability world
Activities
The activities of INTEROP-VLab consist of research, teaching and training services and standardization consultancy.
The independent research within INTEROP-VLabs is based on the following three key components:
Information and communication technology as a technological foundation of interoperable systems
Modeling of processes, organizations and organizational units to develop and implement appropriate structures for interoperable companies and public organizations
The development and specification of ontologies to ensure semantic consistency within organizations affiliated with the following priorities:
Theoretical groundwork
Investigation and development of key technologies
Development of exemplary applications
Within INTEROP-VLab developed solutions include:
IV kmap (INTEROP-VLab Knowledge Map ), a competence management system within the EI range that is based on an ontology-based search engine and allows to find relevant documents and content relating to a particular knowledge domain.
The IV e-learning platform, with 50 web-courses and seminars in the field of EI, modeling, ontologies offers and Architecture & Platforms
Members
The members of the INTEROP-VLab are organize in poles of geographic regions within a State or group of States. Activities of each organization are coordinated at European level. The members of the INTEROP-VLab are:
INTEROP-VLab poles France Grand Sud-Ouest (PGSO)
DFI (German Forum for interoperability eV)
INTEROP-VLab UK Pole
I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorit | Dorit is a given name, the Hebrew version of Doris, and may refer to:
Dorit Aharonov (born 1970), Israeli computer scientist specializing in quantum computing
Dorit Bar Or (born 1975), Israeli actress and fashion designer
Dorit Beinisch (born 1942), 9th president of the Supreme Court of Israel
Dorit Chrysler (born 1966), Austrian electronic musician
Dorit Cypis (born 1951), Israeli American artist and mediator
Dorit Jellinek, Miss Israel 1978
Dorit Kemsley, television personality on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss (born 1972-73), immunization advocate
See also
Dorrit, a given name
German feminine given names
Feminine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20MBC%20Drama%20Awards | The 2010 MBC Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the outstanding achievement in television on the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) network for the year of 2010. It was held on December 30, 2010 and hosted by Kim Young-man and actress Lee So-yeon.
Nominations and winners
(Winners denoted in bold)
References
External links
http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/ent/event/2010mbc/
MBC Drama Awards
MBC Drama Awards
MBC Drama Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational%20data%20stream%20management%20system | A relational data stream management system (RDSMS) is a distributed, in-memory data stream management system (DSMS) that is designed to use standards-compliant SQL queries to process unstructured and structured data streams in real-time. Unlike SQL queries executed in a traditional RDBMS, which return a result and exit, SQL queries executed in a RDSMS do not exit, generating results continuously as new data become available. Continuous SQL queries in a RDSMS use the SQL Window function to analyze, join and aggregate data streams over fixed or sliding windows. Windows can be specified as time-based or row-based.
RDSMS SQL Query Examples
Continuous SQL queries in a RDSMS conform to the ANSI SQL standards. The most common RDSMS SQL query is performed with the declarative SELECT statement. A continuous SQL SELECT operates on data across one or more data streams, with optional keywords and clauses that include FROM with an optional JOIN subclause to specify the rules for joining multiple data streams, the WHERE clause and comparison predicate to restrict the records returned by the query, GROUP BY to project streams with common values into a smaller set, HAVING to filter records resulting from a GROUP BY, and ORDER BY to sort the results.
The following is an example of a continuous data stream aggregation using a SELECT query that aggregates a sensor stream from a weather monitoring station. The SELECTquery aggregates the minimum, maximum and average temperature values over a one-second time period, returning a continuous stream of aggregated results at one second intervals.
SELECT STREAM
FLOOR(WEATHERSTREAM.ROWTIME to SECOND) AS FLOOR_SECOND,
MIN(TEMP) AS MIN_TEMP,
MAX(TEMP) AS MAX_TEMP,
AVG(TEMP) AS AVG_TEMP
FROM WEATHERSTREAM
GROUP BY FLOOR(WEATHERSTREAM.ROWTIME TO SECOND);
RDSMS SQL queries also operate on data streams over time or row-based windows. The following example shows a second continuous SQL query using the WINDOW clause with a one-second duration. The WINDOW clause changes the behavior of the query, to output a result for each new record as it arrives. Hence the output is a stream of incrementally updated results with zero result latency.
SELECT STREAM
ROWTIME,
MIN(TEMP) OVER W1 AS WMIN_TEMP,
MAX(TEMP) OVER W1 AS WMAX_TEMP,
AVG(TEMP) OVER W1 AS WAVG_TEMP
FROM WEATHERSTREAM
WINDOW W1 AS ( RANGE INTERVAL '1' SECOND PRECEDING );
See also
NoSQL
NewSQL
External links
IBM System S
1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics, by Paul McJones (ed.): transcript of a reunion meeting devoted to the personal history of relational databases, SQL System R.
Data management
Relational model |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavaliers%20AudioVerse | The Cavaliers AudioVerse is an American radio network composed of 19 radio stations which carry English-language coverage of the Cleveland Cavaliers, a professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Cleveland sister stations WTAM () and WMMS () serve as the network's two flagships; WTAM also relays its signal over a low-power FM translator. The network also includes seventeen affiliates in the U.S. state of Ohio: twelve AM stations, nine of which supplement their signals with low-power FM translators and one with an HD Radio subchannel; and six full-power FM stations.
Tim Alcorn is the current play-by-play announcer, while Jim Chones serves as color analyst. In addition to traditional over-the-air AM and FM broadcasts, network programming airs on SiriusXM satellite radio; and streams online via SiriusXM Internet Radio, TuneIn Premium, and NBA League Pass Audio.
History
In 2008, longtime flagship WTAM signed a five-year contract extension with the Cavaliers through the 2013–14 season; in 2011, a Cavs spokesman stated there were "multiple years" remaining on the team's contract with WTAM, without specifying an end date. In 2014, WTAM owner iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel) announced a new "multi-year" contract with the team; this new arrangement also established simulcasts on WTAM sister station WMMS. Additional affiliates were added in the Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati markets, coinciding with LeBron James' heavily publicized return to the team.
John Michael took over as the team's lead play-by-play announcer starting in the 2011–12 season following the retirement of longtime radio voice Joe Tait. After the death of lead TV play-by-play announcer Fred McLeod prior to the start of the 2019–20 season, Michael was reassigned to that position, with Tim Alcorn—lead sports announcer and station manager at Cavaliers radio affiliate WEOL in Elyria—being hired as Michael's successor.
The radio network was rebranded as the "Cavaliers AudioVerse" beginning with the 2022–23 season.
Announcers
Station list
Asterisk (*) indicates HD Radio broadcast.
Blue background indicates low-power FM translator.
Network map
References
External links
Cavaliers Radio Network
SiriusXM.com: Cleveland Cavaliers
TuneIn.com: Cleveland Cavaliers
NBA League Pass Audio
National Basketball Association on the radio
Radio in Cleveland
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20Transformer%20Pad%20TF701T | The Asus Transformer Pad TF701T is an Android tablet computer made by Asus, successor to the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity. The Transformer design includes a docking keyboard. The Asus Transformer Pad TF701T was released in the UK in October 2013 and in the U.S. in November 2013.
The tablet includes a Tegra 4 T114 processor clocked at 1.9 GHz, and an upgraded 2560×1600 pixel resolution screen, increasing the pixel density to 300 PPI and a mobile dock. Asus Transformer Pad TF701T had powerful hardware for its time according to the reviewers and after being discontinued, the users could perform an unofficial system update using CyanogenMod 12.1 which enabled the user to install Android Lollipop 5.1.1.
Reception for the Asus Transformer Pad TF701T was generally mixed.
History
The Asus Transformer Pad TF701T was announced in June 2013. It's the successor to the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity. Asus released the Asus Transformer Pad TF701T on 5 November 2013 (US) taking orders for $449 ($599 for a tablet and keyboard bundle) with 32GB memory model.
Specifications
Accessories
The Asus Transformer Pad TF701T could be purchased with a mobile dock that featured a laptop-like keyboard. Its mobile dock's keyboard offers the user quick access to features such as "Back" button, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Track pad ON/OFF, Auto-Brightness, Screenshot, Web-browser, Music track options, Volume control, Screen-lock. The tablet has a proprietary charger port which is also used to connect the tablet to the mobile dock.
Hardware
The Asus Transformer Pad TF701T features a quad–core 1.9 GHz Cortex-A15 processor with 2GB of memory. It is available in 32 or 64 GB storage variants, with expandable microSD card support for up to 64GB. It has Bluetooth 3.0 support and a claimed battery life of 17 hours (with the dock). The tablets body dimensions are 263 x 180.8 x 8.9 mm (10.35 x 7.12 x 0.35 in). It weighs 585 g (1.29 lb) and has a Super IPS+ LCD, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors display with the size of 10.1 inches, 295.8 cm2 (~62.2% screen-to-body ratio) and a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels, 16:10 ratio (~299 ppi density) The display uses Gorilla Glass 2. The main camera has 5 Megapixels and features HDR and can capture video at 1080p@30fps, while its selfie camera has 1.2 Megapixels and can capture video at 720p. The tablet has proprietary charging port which means that tablet cannot be charged with micro USB. The port is also used to connect the tablet to its mobile dock. The mobile dock has a single USB 3.0 port which enables the use of USB flash drives.
Software
The Asus Transformer Pad TF701T was released with the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system By default the tablet has "ASUS Quick Settings" enabled that changes the default settings dropdown list. The Asus Transformer Pad TF701T has an application that is used to monitor the battery percentage of both the tablet itself and the mobile dock. The very last software update it received was on 12 February |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OverlayFS | In computing, OverlayFS is a union mount filesystem implementation for Linux. It combines multiple different underlying mount points into one, resulting in single directory structure that contains underlying files and sub-directories from all sources. Common applications overlay a read/write partition over a read-only partition, such as with LiveCDs and IoT devices with limited flash memory write cycles.
History
The need and specification of a kernel mode Linux union mount filesystem was identified in late 2009. The initial RFC patchset of OverlayFS was submitted by Miklos Szeredi in 2010. By 2011, OpenWrt had already adopted it for their use.
It was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in 2014, in kernel version 3.18. It was improved in version 4.0, bringing improvements necessary for e.g. the storage driver in Docker.
While most Live CD linux distributions used Aufs as of November 2016, Slackware used overlayfs for its live CD.
Implementation
The main mechanics of OverlayFS relate to the merging of directory access when both filesystems present a directory for the same name. Otherwise, OverlayFS presents the object, if any, yielded by one or the other, with the "upper" filesystem taking precedence. Unlike some other overlay filesystems, the directory subtrees being merged by OverlayFS do not necessarily have to be from distinct filesystems.
OverlayFS supports whiteouts and opaque directories in the upper filesystem to allow file and directory deletion.
OverlayFS does not support renaming files without performing a full copy-up of the file; however, renaming directories in an upper filesystem has limited support.
OverlayFS does not support merging changes from an upper filesystem to a lower filesystem.
See also
Aufs
UnionFS, an older union mount project
References
External links
OverlayFS documentation
Free special-purpose file systems
Linux kernel features
Special-purpose file systems supported by the Linux kernel
Union file systems
Unix file system technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homology-derived%20Secondary%20Structure%20of%20Proteins | HSSP (Homology-derived Secondary Structure of Proteins) is a database that combines structural and sequence information about proteins. This database has the information of the alignment of all available homologs of proteins from the PDB database As a result of this, HSSP is also a database of homology-based implied protein structures.
See also
Protein Data Bank (PDB)
STING
References
External links
HSSP
Biological databases
Protein structure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoscape%20Europe | Geoscape Europe provides actionable business and geographic marketing intelligence via data, technology and analytical services to help multinationals access high-growth opportunities. Geoscape Europe BV is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and is an affiliate of Geoscape in the U.S., based in Miami, FL. Geoscape has developed the Geoscape Intelligence System (GIS) a web-based marketing intelligence platform offered as software as service (SaaS).
History
Geoscape International, Inc. was founded in 1995 by César M Melgoza with an emphasis on international and Latin American markets. In 2001, Geoscape began focusing more intently on the multicultural American business environment and in June 2007 engaged the investment firm Goldman Sachs. Geoscape serves clients nationwide from offices in Miami and employees distributed throughout the U.S. Geoscape Europe BV was founded in 2002 and is based in Amsterdam and serves the EMEA and Pacific rim markets.
Operations
In addition to the Geoscape Intelligence System, Geoscape’s principal lines of business are Worldwide Market Data & Map sales and consultancy services. The company provides retailers and other multinationals with marketing information & services to support business strategy to focus on growth opportunities.
The company makes micro-level portraits of the market potential by region, neighbourhood or by store location. This information can be used for: benchmarking, predictive modelling, customer profiling, retail network planning, category/brand management, distribution logistics, advertising, direct marketing and database marketing.
References
External links
Youtube.com
Ready2scale.com
Companies based in Amsterdam
Companies established in 1995
1995 establishments in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Media%20Network | The Pacific Media Network is a New Zealand radio network and pan-Pasifika national broadcasting network, currently owned and operated by the National Pacific Radio Trust and partly funded by the Government. It includes the PMN 531 radio network, PMN News and Auckland-only broadcast station PMN NIU combined are accessible to an estimated 92 percent of the country's Pacific population. The network targets both first-generation Pacific migrants and New Zealand-born people with Pacific heritage. As of 2009, it was the only specifically pan-Pacific broadcaster in New Zealand.
The National Pacific Radio Trust receives a $3.9 million annual grant from the Government, managed by NZ On Air and overseen by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. It broadcasts in English, Cook Islands Māori, Niuean, Tongan, Samoan, Tuvaluan, Kiribati Gilbertese, Fijian, Solomon Islands Pijin and Tokelauan — 11 of the 40 languages NZ On Air supports. This is supplemented by commercial income which is another $800k per annum.
Since August 2017, the Trust is chaired by Tiumalu Peter Fa'afiu. Patrick Lino was the CEO from July 2017 to June 2019. An Interim CEO is currently in place.
History
1993–2002
Radio 531pi was set up by the Auckland Pacific Island Community Radio Trust (APICRT) in Otahuhu in 1993 as a station for Auckland's Pacific Island community. According to Massey University sociologist Paul Spoonley the station reached Pacific communities who were not served by commercial radio, and helped establish a pan-Pacific identity. The station initially sustained on $1.25 million of Government funding each year with limited staff salaries, but by the 2001–02 and 2002-03 financial years it was earning more than $1 million a year in advertising income.
The trust's directors during this time included Samoan businessman Arthur Anae, Tongan AUT University lecturer James Prescott and former Federated Farmers president Brian Chamberlin. Tuaratini, a Radio 531pi announcer during its early years, said her role was to continue the oral traditions of Pacific culture. Faaolo Utumapu, the first totally blind student to gain a Bachelor of Communication Studies at AUT University, became a Radio 531pi host in 2000.
2002–2003
In early 2002, the APICRT secured a Government contract to operate nationwide network Niu FM over three years, using a similar operational model to Radio 531pi. The network was a three-year pilot with $8 million of funding from NZ On Air. It was intended to complement the existing services offered by Radio 531pi, Capital Samoa Radio and the Access Radio Network, but target a younger New Zealand-born Pacific demographic. Sina Wendt-Moore was the network's first chief executive. The Government also set up the National Pacific Radio Trust (NPRT) to oversee the Niu FM project, and ensure it reflected the diversity of Pacific peoples and communities and shaped New Zealand's national identity, by broadcasting and producing programmes in English, Samoan, Tongan, Cook |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix%20automaton | In computer science, a suffix automaton is an efficient data structure for representing the substring index of a given string which allows the storage, processing, and retrieval of compressed information about all its substrings. The suffix automaton of a string is the smallest directed acyclic graph with a dedicated initial vertex and a set of "final" vertices, such that paths from the initial vertex to final vertices represent the suffixes of the string.
In terms of automata theory, a suffix automaton is the minimal partial deterministic finite automaton that recognizes the set of suffixes of a given string . The state graph of a suffix automaton is called a directed acyclic word graph (DAWG), a term that is also sometimes used for any deterministic acyclic finite state automaton.
Suffix automata were introduced in 1983 by a group of scientists from the University of Denver and the University of Colorado Boulder. They suggested a linear time online algorithm for its construction and showed that the suffix automaton of a string having length at least two characters has at most states and at most transitions. Further works have shown a close connection between suffix automata and suffix trees, and have outlined several generalizations of suffix automata, such as compacted suffix automaton obtained by compression of nodes with a single outgoing arc.
Suffix automata provide efficient solutions to problems such as substring search and computation of the largest common substring of two and more strings.
History
The concept of suffix automaton was introduced in 1983 by a group of scientists from University of Denver and University of Colorado Boulder consisting of Anselm Blumer, Janet Blumer, Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, David Haussler and Ross McConnell, although similar concepts had earlier been studied alongside suffix trees in the works of Peter Weiner, Vaughan Pratt and Anatol Slissenko. In their initial work, Blumer et al. showed a suffix automaton built for the string of length greater than has at most states and at most transitions, and suggested a linear algorithm for automaton construction.
In 1983, Mu-Tian Chen and Joel Seiferas independently showed that Weiner's 1973 suffix-tree construction algorithm while building a suffix tree of the string constructs a suffix automaton of the reversed string as an auxiliary structure. In 1987, Blumer et al. applied the compressing technique used in suffix trees to a suffix automaton and invented the compacted suffix automaton, which is also called the compacted directed acyclic word graph (CDAWG). In 1997, Maxime Crochemore and Renaud Vérin developed a linear algorithm for direct CDAWG construction. In 2001, Shunsuke Inenaga et al. developed an algorithm for construction of CDAWG for a set of words given by a trie.
Definitions
Usually when speaking about suffix automata and related concepts, some notions from formal language theory and automata theory are used, in particular:
"Alphabet" i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Lothe%20Opdahl | Andreas Lothe Opdahl (born 1964) is a Norwegian computer scientist and Professor of Information Systems Development at the University of Bergen, known for his theory about Security requirements engineering, and for with Guttorm Sindre coining the term Misuse case.
Life and work
Born in 1964, Opdahl received his M.Sc. in Computer science in 1988 from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU), where in 1992 he also received his PhD in computer science with the thesis, entitled "Performance engineering during information system development."
In 1985 Opdahl had started working as systems developer. He was lecturer at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1988 to 1992. In 1992 he was appointed Professor of Information Systems Development at the University of Bergen in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies. There he also directs the research group for Semantic and Social Information Systems (SSIS).
Selected publications
Books:
Lindland, Odd Ivar, and Andreas Lothe Opdahl. Representation of Diagrammatic Systems Specifications in Temporal Logic. University of Trondheim, 1987.
Opdahl, Andreas Lothe. Performance engineering during information system development. Institutt for Datateknikk of Telematikk, 1992.
John Krogstie, Andreas Lothe Opdahl and Sjaak Brinkkemper eds. Conceptual modelling in information systems engineering. Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.
Articles, a selection:
Sindre, Guttorm, and Andreas L. Opdahl. "Templates for misuse case description." Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering, Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'2001), Switzerland. 2001.
Opdahl, Andreas L., and Brian Henderson-Sellers. "Ontological evaluation of the UML using the Bunge–Wand–Weber model." Software and systems modeling 1.1 (2002): 43-67.
Krogstie, J., Lyytinen, K., Opdahl, A. L., Pernici, B., Siau, K., & Smolander, K. (2004). "Research areas and challenges for mobile information systems." International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2(3), 220-234.
Sindre, Guttorm, and Andreas L. Opdahl. "Eliciting security requirements with misuse cases." Requirements engineering 10.1 (2005): 34-44.
References
External links
Andreas Lothe Opdahl homepage
Homepage at the University of Bergen
1964 births
Living people
Norwegian computer scientists
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bergen
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Puthuyugam%20TV | Original programming currently and formerly broadcast by Puthuyugam TV:
Currently broadcast
Alayangal Adpudhangal
Neram Nalla neram
Rasipalanl
Rusikalam Vanga
Formerly broadcast
Comedy series
Arasiyalla Ithellam Saatharanamappaa (அரசியல்ல இதெல்லாம் சாதாரணமப்பா)
Krishna Lattu thinna Asaiya (கிருஷ்ணா லட்டு தின்ன ஆசையா)
Mythology series
Nayanmargal (நாயன்மார்கள்)
Soap operas
Agni Paravai (அக்னி பறவை)
Arangetram (அரங்கேற்றம்)
Kadamai Kanniyam Kattupaadu (கடமை கண்ணியம் கட்டுப்பாடு)
Kayitham (காயிதம்)
Malli (மல்லி)
Sare Gama Gama Gama (சரி கம கம கம)
Unarvugal (உணர்வுகள்)
Korean dramas
K-Series
The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince
Boys Over Flowers
The Greatest Love
The Heirs
Iris
Master's Sun
Moon Embracing the Sun
My Love from the Star
Pasta
Playful Kiss
Secret Garden
To the Beautiful You
You're Beautiful
Dubbed soap operas
Anamika
Asoakavanam
Azhagiya Tamil Magal
Indru Poi Naalai Vaa?
Kalloori Paravaikal
Pattu Selai
Reporters
Sippikul Muthu
Snegithiyae
Sri Krishna Avatharam
Sri Saneeswara Mahimai
Thik Thik Thikil
Vikramathithan Simmasanam
Vizhiye Kathai Eluthu
Reality/non-scripted shows
6 Doctorgal 1008 Kelvigal
6 Suvai 100 Vagai
Arindhathum Ariyathathum
Azhake Ayiram
Bicycle Dairy
Celebrity Kitchen
Doctor On Call
Dosth Bada Dosth
Guru Sishyan
Hello Doctor
Ippadi Panreengale Ma
K2K.com Rasikka Rusikka
Kadhalil Sodhapathathu Eppadi
Kalvi 360
Karuppu Vellai
Kelvi Paathi Kindal Paathi
Madhan Movie Matinee
Manam Thirumbuthe
Manithanum Marmangalum
Melam Kottu Thali Kattu (Season: 1&2)
Natchathira Jannal (Season: 1&2)
Odi Vilayadu Mummy
Oru Nimidam Please
Padatha Patellam
Red Carpet
Rishimoolam
Star Junction
Stars Day Out
Thiramai Pongum Thamizhagam
Town Galatta
Ungal Kitchen Engal Chef
Uravai Thedi
Veedu Thandi Varuvaya
Vina Vidai Vettai
Vina Vidai Vettai Juniors
Vina Vidai Vettai Juniors (season 2)
Yaavarum Kelir
Yuppies Ku Mattum Alla
List of movies
Madurai Mappillai (2007)
Kozhi Koovuthu (2012)
Karutha Kannan C/O Rekla Race (2012)
Pannaiyarum Padminiyum (2013)
Summa Nachunu Irukku (2013)
Mathapoo (2013)
Sutta Kadhai (2013)
Ego (2013)
Inji Murappa (2015)
References
Puthuyugam TV
Puthuyugam TV
Puthuyugam TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peebinga%20railway%20line | The Peebinga railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. It opened on 28 December 1914 from a junction with the Barmera line at Karoonda and ran generally eastward through the Murray Mallee terminating at Peebinga, two kilometres from the Victorian state border. It closed on 7 December 1990.
Route
The railway ran easterly from Karoonda then north-easterly, serving to open up for agriculture the lands between the Pinnaroo line which had opened in 1906 and the Barmera line which was still under construction when approval was granted for the Peebinga line. The Peebinga line was long and construction estimated to cost £207,000 plus £56,690 for rolling stock. The net operating loss was forecast as £11,804 per annum however this was considered acceptable for making agriculture possible on of previously undeveloped land.
Towns were established along the route with railway stations and schools however none of these have survived as towns.
Nunkeri
Yurgo
Marama (1930 hall remains on Karoonda-Lameroo road)
Kulkami (bulk grain silos on Karoonda-Lameroo road)
Mulpata
Wirha (adjacent to Billiat Road)
Gurrai (bulk grain silos)
Karte
Kringin (adjacent to Peebinga Conservation Park)
Mootatunga (adjacent to Peebinga Conservation Park, west of Browns Well Highway)
Peebinga (bulk grain silos 5 km east of Browns Well Highway)
Possible extension
Consideration was given in 1927/28 to a suggestion of extending the line from Peebinga across the state border into Victoria and northward to Morkalla to connect with what became the Victorian Railways' Morkalla line which at that time terminated at Meringur.
References
Murray Mallee
Closed railway lines in South Australia
Railway lines opened in 1914
Railway lines closed in 1990
1914 establishments in Australia
5 ft 3 in gauge railways in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Organizational%20Research%20and%20Education | The Center for Organizational Research and Education (CORE), formerly the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) and prior to that the Guest Choice Network, is an American non-profit entity founded by Richard Berman. It describes itself as "dedicated to protecting consumer choices and promoting common sense."
Projects and campaigns of CORE include Humane Watch, a watchdog of the Humane Society of the United States; the Environmental Policy Alliance, which criticizes environmental activists; and Activist Facts, a site dedicated to tracking tax-exempt nonprofits.
The organization defends the alcohol, meat, and tobacco industries and has been critical of organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Humane Society of the United States, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Experts on non-profit law have questioned the validity of the group's non-profit status in The Chronicle of Philanthropy and other publications, while others, including political commentator Rachel Maddow and author Michael Pollan, have treated the group as an entity that specializes in astroturfing.
History and background
CORE was founded in 1995 as the Guest Choice Network by Richard Berman, owner of the public affairs firm Berman and Company, with $600,000 from the Philip Morris tobacco company to fight smoking limitations in restaurants. In 2005, Berman told The Washington Post that the organization was funded by a coalition of restaurant and food companies as well as some individuals. , according to the group's website it is supported by companies, foundations and individual consumers. Sponsors were reported to include Brinker International, RTM Restaurant Group (the owner of Arby's), Tyson Foods, HMSHost Corp, and Wendy's.
Guest Choice Network
The forerunner to the CCF was the Guest Choice Network, organized in 1995 by Berman with money from Philip Morris, "to unite the restaurant and hospitality industries in a campaign to defend their consumers and marketing programs against attacks from anti-smoking, anti-drinking, anti-meat, etc. activists..." According to Berman, the mission was to encourage operators of "restaurants, hotels, casinos, bowling alleys, taverns, stadiums, and university hospitality educators" to "support [the] mentality of 'smokers rights' by encouraging responsibility to protect 'guest choice.'"
In November 2001, the group launched a website, ActivistFacts.com, which selected information gathered from IRS documents and media reports, describing the funding and activities of groups it opposed, listing key activists and celebrity connections.
In January 2002, the Guest Choice Network became the Center for Consumer Freedom, a change of name the group said reflected that "the anti-consumer forces [were] expanding their reach beyond restaurants and taverns [and] going into your communities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoxSets%20%28TV%20channel%29 | BoxSets is an Australian pay television channel, screening boxsets of hit drama and comedy programming. The channel launched on Foxtel on 3 November 2014.
History
On 4 September 2014, Foxtel announced that on 3 November 2014 they would launch a new channel (BoxSets) which would feature boxsets of successful and popular TV series. The channel would be available as both a linear channel and a video on demand service (available through internet-connected Foxtel set top boxes and through Foxtel's streaming app Foxtel Go). The news comes as Foxtel has increased competition from IPTV services (namely Netflix) and the increasing prevalence of binge-watching among viewers.
Later that month it was announced Joanna Lumley had been signed to produce advertisements for BoxSets. The ad design is the same as the one used by sister company Sky (UK and Ireland) for their On Demand service which has a similar premise as BoxSets.
Following the success of BoxSets, Foxtel launched a second whole seasons channel Binge in October 2016. BoxSets will be moved to channel 115 with Binge launching on channel 116.
Programming
Note: Programming availability may vary between the linear channel and video on demand service.
Absolutely Fabulous (seasons 1-5)
Angels in America
Band of Brothers
Big Love (seasons 1-5)
Boardwalk Empire (seasons 1-5)
Devil's Playground
Entourage (seasons 1-5)
Game of Thrones (seasons 1-4)
Getting On
Girls (season 1-3)
Looking (season 1)
Luck (season 1)
Morden (season 1)
The Newsroom (seasons 1-2)
The Pacific
Rome (seasons 1-2)
The Sopranos (seasons 1-6)
True Blood (seasons 1-7)
Wentworth (seasons 1-2)
References
Television networks in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2014
2014 establishments in Australia
Foxtel
Commercial-free television networks in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20MBC%20Drama%20Awards | The 2009 MBC Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the outstanding achievement in television on the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) network for the year of 2009. It was held on December 30, 2009 and hosted by actor Lee Hwi-jae and actress Park Ye-jin.
Nominations and winners
(Winners denoted in bold)
References
External links
http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/ent/event/2009mbc/
MBC Drama Awards
MBC Drama Awards
MBC Drama Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel%20van%20Lamsweerde | Axel van Lamsweerde (born 1947) is a Belgian computer scientist and Professor of Computing Science at the Universite catholique de Louvain, known for his work on requirements engineering and the development of the KAOS goal-oriented modeling language.
Biography
Van Lamsweerde received his MS in Mathematics from the Université catholique de Louvain and his PhD in computing science from the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Van Lamsweerde started his career as research associate at Philips Research Labs in 1970. In 1980 he was appointed Professor at the Université de Namur, and later also professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and research fellow at the University of Oregon and Stanford. From 1988 to 1990 he directed the ESPRIT ICARUS project. Late 1990s he was appointed Professor of Computing Science at the Universite catholique de Louvain, where he also directed the Software Engineering group in the "Departement d'Ingenierie Informatique".
Van Lamsweerde chaired several international software engineering conferences, such as ESEC'91 and ICSE'94, was Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions in Software Engineering and Methodology, and founding member of the IFIP WG2.9 Working Group on Requirements Engineering. In 2000 Van Lamsweerde was elected ACM Fellow, in 2000 he was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award, and in 2008 the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award.
Work
The research interests of Van Lamsweerde are in the fields of "precise techniques for requirements engineering, system modeling, high assurance systems, lightweight formal methods, process modeling and analysis, medical safety, and knowledge-based software development environments." Since the 1990s he has been developing modeling language for goal modeling, named the KAOS goal-oriented modeling language.
Selected publications
Books:
Axel Lamsweerde, Pierre Dufour. Current issues in expert systems. 1987.
Axel van Lamsweerde, Alfonso Fuggetta (eds.) ESEC '91: 3rd European Software Engineering Conference, ESEC '91, Milan, Italy, October 21–24, 1991. Proceedings. Springer Science & Business Media, 9 okt. 1991.
Axel van Lamsweerde. Requirements Engineering: From System Goals to UML Models to Software Specifications. Wiley, 9 feb. 2009
Articles a selection:
Dardenne, Anne, Axel Van Lamsweerde, and Stephen Fickas. "Goal-directed requirements acquisition." Science of computer programming 20.1 (1993): 3-50.
Van Lamsweerde, Axel. "Requirements engineering in the year 00: A research perspective." Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering. ACM, 2000.
Van Lamsweerde, Axel. "http://courses.cs.ut.ee/2010/sem/uploads/Main/04RE-reading-goals.pdf Goal-oriented requirements engineering: A guided tour." Requirements Engineering, 2001. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE International Symposium on. IEEE, 2001.
References
External links
Axel van Lamsweerde at INGI
1947 births
Living people
Belgian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino%20Dusi%C4%87 | Marino Dusić is a Croatian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.
He studied Computer science at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Along with astronomer Korado Korlević, he discovered two asteroids, 11706 Rijeka and 12512 Split, at the Višnjan Observatory, Croatia, in 1998.
References
External links
Marino Dusić at the Višnjan Observatory, official website
20th-century astronomers
20th-century Croatian people
Croatian astronomers
Discoverers of asteroids
Living people
University of Ljubljana alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript%20%28programming%20language%29 | Telescript is an agent-oriented programming language written by General Magic as part of the overall Magic Cap system. Telescript programs used a modified C-like syntax known as High Telescript and were compiled to a stack-based language called Low Telescript for execution. Low Telescript ran within virtual machine interpreters, or "Telescript engines", on host computers.
The basic model of Telescript is similar to Java, and differs primarily in where the applications would run. Java was modelled to make it possible to download Java applications onto any platform and run them locally. Telescript essentially reversed this, allowing end-user equipment with limited capabilities to upload Telescript programs to servers to allow them to take advantage of the server's capabilities. Telescript could even migrate a running program; the language included features to marshal a program's code and serialized state, transfer it to another Telescript engine (on a device or a server) to continue execution, and finally return to the originating client or server device to deliver its output.
General Magic had originally developed as a team within Apple Inc., and were spun off in 1990. When they began to generate some press buzz in 1992, Apple decided to enter the same market with their Newton tablet computer. General Magic were unable to find a niche within the market, and Telescript services were soon deprecated in favor of new products unrelated to mobile computing.
History
In 1990, Marc Porat convinced then-Apple-CEO John Sculley that the future of computing lay not in desktop personal computers, but much smaller portable devices combining computing power, communications systems, and data located on network-accessible servers. He noted that portable computers would always have less power than the machines they would connect to, and suggested that this be part of the design - instead of trying to build a portable computer that could perform the tasks of a desktop system, the portable device should invisibly use the computational power of the servers to produce a similar result.
Sculley agreed to allow Porat to begin researching the concepts under the code-name "Pocket Crystal". Key members of the early team were Porat, and famous Macintosh developers Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld. The team quickly found themselves ignored by upper management and left continually struggling for resources. They approached Sculley again with the idea of spinning off Pocket Crystal as a separate company. Sculley agreed to this, as well as the idea of inviting in new partners on the hardware side. The new company, General Magic (GM), was created in May 1990 with Apple, Sony and Motorola each holding a 10% stake. The company ranks soon filled out with other Macintosh alumni, including Joanna Hoffman, Susan Kare, Dan Winkler, Bruce Leak and Phil Goldman.
By 1992 GM had signed development agreements with a number companies to work with the Magic Cap environment, including Sony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers%20are%20social%20actors | Computers are social actors (CASA) is a paradigm which states that humans unthinkingly apply the same social heuristics used for human interactions to computers, because they call to mind similar social attributes as humans.
History and context
Clifford Nass and Youngme Moon's article, "Machines and Mindlessness: Social Responses to Computers", published in 2000, is the origin for CASA. It states that CASA is the concept that people mindlessly apply social rules and expectations to computers, even though they know that these machines do not have feelings, intentions or human motivations.
In their 2000 article, Nass and Moon attribute their observation of anthropocentric reactions to computers and previous research on mindlessness as factors that lead them to study the phenomenon of computers as social actors. Specifically, they observed consistent anthropocentric treatment of computers by individuals in natural and lab settings, even though these individuals agreed that computers are not human and shouldn't be treated as such.
Additionally, Nass and Moon found a similarity between this behavior and research by Harvard psychology professor Ellen Langer on mindlessness. Langer states that mindlessness is when a specific context triggers an individual to rely on categories, associations, and habits of thought from the past with little to no conscious awareness. When these contexts are triggered, the individual becomes oblivious to novel or alternative aspects of the situation. In this respect, mindlessness is similar to habits and routines, but different in that with only one exposure to information, a person will create a cognitive commitment to the information and freeze its potential meaning. With mindlessness, alternative meanings or uses of the information become unavailable for active cognitive use.
Social attributes that computers have which are similar to humans include:
Words for output
Interactivity (the computer 'responds' when a button is touched)
Ability to perform traditional human tasks
According to CASA, the above attributes trigger scripts for human-human interaction, which leads an individual to ignore cues revealing the asocial nature of a computer. Although individuals using computers exhibit a mindless social response to the computer, individuals who are sensitive to the situation can observe the inappropriateness of the cued social behaviors. CASA has been extended to include robots and AI. However, recently, there have been challenges to the CASA paradigm. To account for the advances in technology, MASA has been forwarded as a significant extension of CASA.
Attributes
Cued social behaviors observed in research settings include some of the following:
Gender stereotyping: When voice outputs are used on computers, this triggers gender stereotype scripts, expectations, and attributions from individuals. For example, a 1997 study revealed that female-voiced tutor computers were rated as more informative about love and rela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Brenner%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Walter Hermann Brenner (born 21 June 1958) is a Swiss academic, Professor of Information Management and Executive Director of the Institute for computer science of the University of St. Gallen.
Biography
Brenner studied Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen, where he subsequently became research assistant to Hubert Österle and in 1985 received his PhD.
From 1985 to 1989A Brenner was employed at Alusuisse Lonza AG, where he ended up as director of application development. From 1989 to 1993 he was director of the research program "Information Management in 2000" at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen. From 1993 to 1999 he was Professor of Business Administration and Information Management at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. Subsequently, in 1999 he was Professor of Business informatics and Business Administration at the University of Essen. Since 2001 he is Professor of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen (School of Management), where from 2011 to 2013 he was Dean of the Economics faculty.
The research focus of Walter Brenner includes industrialization of information management, management of IT service providers, customer relationship management, use of new technologies and design thinking.
Selected publications
Brenner has published several books and numerous articles. Books:
Walter Brenner, Rupert Stadler, Andreas Herrmann. Erfolg im digitalen Zeitalter: Strategien von 17 Spitzenmanagern. FAZ, Frankfurt 2012.
Walter Brenner, Christoph Witte. Business Innovation: CIOs im Wettbewerb der Ideen. FAZ, Frankfurt 2011.
Walter Brenner, Andreas Resch, Veit Schulz. Die Zukunft der IT in Unternehmen: Managing IT as a Business. FAZ, Frankfurt 2010.
Walter Brenner, Christoph Witte.'Erfolgsrezepte für CIOs: Was gute Informationsmanager ausmacht. Hanser, München 2006.
Walter Brenner, Hubert Österle, Konrad Hilbers. Unternehmensführung und Informationssystem: Der Ansatz des St. Galler Informationssystem-Managements. Teubner, Stuttgart 1991. 2. Auflage 1992.
Walter Brenner, Thomas Hess. Wirtschaftsinformatik in Wissenschaft und Praxis – Festschrift für Hubert Österle. Business Engineering. Springer, Berlin 2014.
References
External links
Prof. Dr. Walter Brenner at University of St. Gallen.
1958 births
Living people
Swiss computer scientists
Information systems researchers
Swiss business theorists
Enterprise modelling experts
Academic staff of the University of St. Gallen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Brenner%20%28disambiguation%29 | Walter Brenner may refer to:
Walter Brenner (1923–2017), American chemist, professor, and inventor
Walter Brenner (computer scientist) (born 1958), Swiss academic and Professor of Information Management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.5 | 1.5 (one and one half, three halves, or sesquialterum) may refer to:
1.5 °C is the preferred limit of global warming signed in the Paris Agreement
1.5, an album by Big Data
Superparticular ratio: 3/2 or 1
Perfect fifth (3/2), a musical interval |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Morgan%20%28historian%29 | Joseph Morgan (fl. 1739) was a British historical compiler.
Works
Morgan edited a periodical Phoenix Britannicus, being a miscellaneous Collection of scarce and curious Tracts… interspersed with choice pieces from original MSS., from January 1732. It ran for six numbers, republished in one volume, with dedication to Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond. Other works included:
Mahometism Fully Explained (1723)
Mahometism Explained (1725). These two were in part based on a manuscript of 1603 by Muhammad Rabadan of Aragon.
The History of Algiers (1728–9)
The Lives and Memorable Actions of many Illustrious Persons of the Eastern Nations (1739), based partly on papers of George Sale.
He also made some translations from French and Dutch.
Notes
Attribution
18th-century British historians
British historians
British translators
British magazine editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20computer | A table computer, or a table PC, or a tabletop is a device class of a full-featured large-display portable all-in-one computer with an internal battery. It can either be used on a table's top, hence the name, or carried around the house.
Table computers feature an 18-inch or larger multi-touch touchscreen display, a battery capable of at least 2 hours of autonomous work and a full-featured desktop operating system, such as Windows 10. They are typically shipped with pre-installed multi-user touch-enabled casual games and apps, and typically marketed as family entertainment devices. Manufacturers of some table computers provide a specialized graphical user interface to simplify a simultaneous interaction of multiple users, one example is Aura interface, which is installed in Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon tabletop.
A number of manufacturers released their own versions of tabletops, some prominent examples are HP Envy Rove 20, Dell XPS 18 and Sony VAIO Tap 20.
See also
Surface computer
References
Classes of computers
Portable computers
All-in-one desktop computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hextet | In computing, a hextet, or a chomp, is a sixteen-bit aggregation, or four nibbles. As a nibble typically is notated in hexadecimal format, a hextet consists of 4 hexadecimal digits. A hextet is the unofficial name for each of the 8 blocks in an IPv6 address.
History
Bob Bemer suggested the use of hextet for 16-bit groups in 2000. In 2011 an Internet Draft explored various alternatives for hextet such as quibble, short for "quad nibble". In response to this draft, author Trefor Davies suggested the use of the word chomp because it is in line with the current denominations bit, nibble, byte.
Hextet would more properly describe a 6-bit aggregation, whereas the exact term for 16 bits should be hexadectet, directly related to the term octet (for 8 bits). However, because it is harder to pronounce, the short form hextet is used—in analogy to how hex is commonly used as an abbreviation for hexadecimal in computing. This usage of hex to mean 16 is also in line with the similar IEEE 1754 term hexlet indicating 16 octets.
Although the word hextet is not officially recognized in the IETF documents, the word is used in technical literature on IPv6 published after the Internet Draft. Official IETF documents simply refer to them as pieces.
Cisco sources generally use the term quartet as does IPv6.com, a reference either to the four digit grouping or to the fact that it represents four nibbles; however, this term is also used by some to refer to a four-bit aggregation.
See also
Sextet (group of 6 bits)
Doublet (2 octets)
References
Units of information |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-Net | MS-Net, sometimes stylized as MS-NET, was a network operating system sold by Microsoft in the 1980s, the earliest days of local area networking.
Overview
MS-Net was not a complete networking system of its own; Microsoft licensed it to vendors who used it as the basis for server programs that ran on MS-DOS, porting it to their own underlying networking hardware and adding services on top. Version 1.0 was announced on 14 August 1984 and released along with the PC/AT on 2 April 1985. A number of MS-Net products were sold during the late 1980s, before it was replaced by LAN Manager in 1990.
MS-Net's network interface was based on IBM's NetBIOS protocol definition, which allowed it to be ported to different networking systems with relative ease. It did not implement the entire NetBIOS protocol, however, only the small number of features required for the server role. One key feature that was not implemented was NetBIOS's name management routines, a feature third parties often added back in. The system also supplied the program REDIR.EXE, which allowed transparent file access from DOS machines to any MS-Net based server.
Several products from the mid-to-late-1980s were based on the MS-Net system. IBM's PC-Net was a slightly modified version of the MS-Net system typically used with Token Ring. MS partnered with 3Com to produce the more widely used 3+Share system running on a 3Com networking stack based on the XNS protocol on Ethernet. Other well-known systems, including Banyan VINES and Novell NetWare, did not use MS-Net as their basis, using Unix and a custom OS, respectively. They did, however, allow access to their own files via the REDIR.EXE.
MS-Net was sold only for a short period of time. MS and 3Com collaborated on a replacement known as LAN Manager running on OS/2, using the new Server Message Block standard for file transfer. 3Com's version of the product retained their XNS-based protocol, but 3Com abandoned the server market not long after. MS's version remained based on NetBIOS and supported a number of underlying protocols and hardware. LAN Manager was itself replaced in 1993 by Windows NT 3.1.
See also
Timeline of DOS operating systems
net (command)
References
"IBM PC and PC-Compatible NOSs Compared", U-M Computing News, Volume 2, Number 13 (1987), pp. 4–11.
Discontinued Microsoft operating systems
Network operating systems
Proprietary operating systems
Assembly language software
1985 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Reilly%20%28American%20football%29 | Kevin Reilly is an American former professional football player with the Philadelphia Eagles, author, motivational speaker, amputee and former broadcaster for the Philadelphia Eagles Network.
NFL career
Reilly was originally drafted from Villanova by the Miami Dolphins in 1973 in the seventh round, although later that year he returned to his Wilmington, Delaware home and joined the Philadelphia Eagles, serving as captain of the squad's special teams for two seasons before ending his career with the New England Patriots.
Cancer
In 1976, shortly after beginning his NFL career, Reilly was diagnosed with a rare scar tissue tumor known as desmoid tumor. This effectively ended his career in football. He then underwent multiple surgeries that were unsuccessful in curing the tumor, ultimately undergoing an 11 1/2 hour surgery in 1979 at Memorial Sloan Kettering to remove his left arm, shoulder, and five ribs. Recovery from surgery as an amputee was difficult and Reilly suffered significant depression but was able to overcome it at least in part due to the support of another NFL player who overcame similar physical trauma from injury in the Vietnam War, Rocky Bleier.
Post cancer life
After surgery, Reilly worked hard at rehabilitation to overcome the limitations the experts said he would have. He learned to tie a necktie with one hand, to play golf with one hand, and ran five half marathons and in the Marine Corps Marathon.
He went on to a 30-year career with Xerox and, having retired from corporate America, is a sports radio broadcaster, appearing on Eagles' pregame and postgame shows. He is also a motivational speaker, sharing his story with corporate audiences, business leaders, cancer patients, recuperating soldiers, and special needs students. Reilly also counseled victims of the Boston Marathon Bombings.
In 2015, Reilly was announced as the color analyst for the Villanova Wildcats football radio team on WTEL (AM).
In 2018, Kevin Reilly, along with John Riley, wrote the book Tackling Life: How Faith, Family and Fortitude Kept an NFL Linebacker in the Game.
References
External links
Kevin Reilly – Motivational Speaker, Former NFL Player, Amputee & Cancer Survivor
1951 births
Living people
American football linebackers
Villanova Wildcats football players
Philadelphia Eagles players
New England Patriots players
Players of American football from Wilmington, Delaware
Salesianum School alumni
People with rare diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain | A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree, where data nodes are represented by leaves). Since each block contains information about the previous block, they effectively form a chain (compare linked list data structure), with each additional block linking to the ones before it. Consequently, blockchain transactions are irreversible in that, once they are recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without altering all subsequent blocks.
Blockchains are typically managed by a peer-to-peer (P2P) computer network for use as a public distributed ledger, where nodes collectively adhere to a consensus algorithm protocol to add and validate new transaction blocks. Although blockchain records are not unalterable, since blockchain forks are possible, blockchains may be considered secure by design and exemplify a distributed computing system with high Byzantine fault tolerance.
A blockchain was created by a person (or group of people) using the name (or pseudonym) Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 to serve as the public distributed ledger for bitcoin cryptocurrency transactions, based on previous work by Stuart Haber, W. Scott Stornetta, and Dave Bayer. The implementation of the blockchain within bitcoin made it the first digital currency to solve the double-spending problem without the need of a trusted authority or central server. The bitcoin design has inspired other applications and blockchains that are readable by the public and are widely used by cryptocurrencies. The blockchain may be considered a type of payment rail.
Private blockchains have been proposed for business use. Computerworld called the marketing of such privatized blockchains without a proper security model "snake oil"; however, others have argued that permissioned blockchains, if carefully designed, may be more decentralized and therefore more secure in practice than permissionless ones.
History
Cryptographer David Chaum first proposed a blockchain-like protocol in his 1982 dissertation "Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups." Further work on a cryptographically secured chain of blocks was described in 1991 by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta. They wanted to implement a system wherein document timestamps could not be tampered with. In 1992, Haber, Stornetta, and Dave Bayer incorporated Merkle trees into the design, which improved its efficiency by allowing several document certificates to be collected into one block. Under their company Surety, their document certificate hashes have been published in The New York Times every week since 1995.
The first decentralized blockchain was conceptualized by a person (or group of people) known as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Nakamoto improved the des |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20security%20certifications | In the computer security or Information security fields, there are a number of tracks a professional can take to demonstrate qualifications. Four sources categorizing these, and many other credentials, licenses, and certifications, are:
Schools and universities
Vendor-sponsored credentials (e.g. Microsoft, Cisco)
Association- and organization-sponsored credentials
Governmental (or quasi-governmental) licenses, certifications, and credentials
Quality and acceptance vary worldwide for IT security credentials, from well-known and high-quality examples like a master's degree in the field from an accredited school, CISSP, and Microsoft certification, to a controversial list of many dozens of lesser-known credentials and organizations.
In addition to certification obtained by taking courses and/or passing exams (and in the case of CISSP and others noted below, demonstrating experience and/or being recommended or given a reference from an existing credential holder), award certificates also are given for winning government, university or industry-sponsored competitions, including team competitions and contests.
Certifying organizations
Vendor-neutral
Altered Security
ASIS International
APMG International
Blockchain Council
Blockchain Training Alliance
CCC
CertNexus
CompTIA
CREST
Crypto Consortium
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
CWNP
CyberDefenders
Cyber Struggle
EC Council
EITCA/IS
eLearnSecurity
EXIN
GAQM
GIAC
HISPI
InfoSec Institute
IBITGQ
TCM Security
The IIA
IAPP
ISACA
ISECOM
ISC2
Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
Lunarline
McAfee Institute
Mile2
Offensive Security
The Open Group
SECO-Institute
SABSA
Star Certification
Zero-Point Security
EC First
Vendor-specific
Alibaba (Cloud)
AWS
Cisco
Check Point
Fortinet
Google
IBM
Jamf
Juniper
Microsoft
Kali
OpenText
Palo Alto
Red Hat
Symantec (since 2012 NortonLifeLock)
List of certifications
Vendor-neutral
Vendor-specific
Microsoft 1 year * : you have to do a free refresh exam within 180 days before expiration. if not done, the certificate expire otherwise it extends by 1 year.
See also
Computer security
Information security
Notes
References
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computer security certifications
computer security certifications
computer security certifications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20General%20Motors%20Hour | The General Motors Hour was an Australian radio and television drama series.
Radio
The radio series was a regular one hour drama broadcast over the Macquarie Radio Network at 8 pm on Thursdays. It is believed to have commenced in the late 1940s and lasted into the early 1960s. Producers included Robert Peach and Harry Dearth. The announcer was John Dease. 15 episodes are available on the RadioEchoes website.
Television
The television version of The General Motors Hour was a loosely scheduled occasional series which aired on Australian television from 1960 to 1962. The series aired on ATN-7 in Sydney and GTV-9 in Melbourne, as well as on other affiliated stations across Australia. The presentations ranged from adaptations of overseas stage plays and anthology episodes, to locally-written drama and a documentary.
Its first show was a production of The Grey Nurse Said Nothing.
Three of the TV episodes - Suspect, Candida, and Shadow Of The Vine - had been produced by English producer Peter Cotes for HSV-7 in 1961, but were shelved due to lack of sponsorship. Sponsorship was provided by GM-H in 1962, and plays were run on HSV-7 and TCN-9 under the "General Motors Hour" title.
List of known TV episodes
The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960, drama)
This Is Television (1960, variety, documentary)
Thunder on Sycamore Street (1960, drama)
You, Too, Can Have a Body (1960, drama)
Shadow of a Pale Horse (1960, drama)
The Concert (1961, drama)
Long Distance (1961)
Suspect (1961, drama)
Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1962, melodrama)
The One Day of the Year (1962, drama)
Candida (1961, comedy)
Manhaul (1962, drama)
Shadow of the Vine (1962, drama)
See also
Shell Presents - 1959-1960 occasional series
Killer in Close-Up - 1957-1958 anthology of four half-hour plays on ABC
References
External links
Australian radio dramas
English-language radio programs
1960 Australian television series debuts
1962 Australian television series endings
Australian anthology television series
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babatunde%20Adetokunbo%20Sofoluwe | Babatunde Adetokunbo Sofoluwe (15 April 1950 – 12 May 2012) was a Nigerian professor of Computer science, educational administrator and former vice chancellor of the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He was appointed vice chancellor of the University of Lagos on 31 January 2010, to succeed professor Tolu Olukayode Odugbemi.
Education
He obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in mathematics from the University of Lagos in 1973. He obtained the Commonwealth Scholarship award to study at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland where he graduated with a Master of Science (MSc) degree in 1975 and a doctorate in 1981.
Life and career
Sofoluwe began his career in 1976 as a Graduate Assistant in the University of Lagos where he later became a full Professor in October 1996. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Science for two consecutive terms. Before he became the vice chancellor of the University of Lagos, he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the university. He had also served as the Director of Academics Planning Unit of the University of Lagos before his appointment as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Management). He has authored and co-authored numerous academic books and articles in several reputable local and international journals before his death in 2012.
Membership of professional bodies
He was a member of several professional bodies, few of which includes:
Fellow of the Computer Association of Nigeria (COAN).
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Application (IMA)
Fellow of the Computer Professionals of Nigeria (CPN)
Member of the Society for Individual and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Fellow of the Academy of Science
Selected works
A reliable protection architecture for mobile agents in open network systems. International Journal of Computer Applications, 17(7), 6-14.
The 1st Annual Memorial Lecture in Honour Late 10th Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe, FAS.
Towards a Granular Computing framework for Program Analysis.
Beyond Calculations.
A Reliable Protection Architecture for Mobile Agents in Open Network Systems.
Studies of a structural form for underwater structures.
See also
List of vice chancellors in Nigeria
University of Lagos
Tolu Olukayode Odugbemi
References
1950 births
2012 deaths
University of Lagos alumni
Academic staff of the University of Lagos
Yoruba academics
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Nigerian computer scientists
Yoruba scientists
Vice-Chancellors of the University of Lagos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding%20Giants | Finding Giants is a documentary series aired on NFL Network that documents the lives of New York Giants scouts, in the quest to find the next NFL star. The show offers, "an in-depth look at scouting and team building in today’s NFL and shows what it takes to find and draft the best players to fit an organization. Finding Giants will also give fans a unique look at the personal side of working in the NFL as scouts and their wives balance life on the road with family life at home." Finding Giants will also show film from inside the New York Giants draft room from the 2014 NFL Draft, when they selected; Odell Beckham Jr., Weston Richburg and Andre Williams (American football). It was the last project TV show thought of by NFL Films' Steve Sabol.
References
NFL Network original programming
2010s American documentary television series
2014 American television series debuts
Documentary television series about sports
Television series by NFL Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movim | Movim (My Open Virtual Identity Manager) is a distributed social network built on top of XMPP, a popular open standards communication protocol. Movim is a free and open source software licensed under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license. It can be accessed using existing XMPP clients and Jabber accounts.
The project was founded by Timothée Jaussoin in 2010. It is maintained by Timothée Jaussoin and Christine Ho.
Concept
Movim is a distributed social networking platform. It builds an abstraction layer for communication and data management while leveraging the strength of the underlying XMPP protocol.
XMPP is a widely used open standards communication platform. Using XMPP allows the service to interface with existing XMPP clients like Conversations, Pidgin, Xabber and Jappix. Users can directly login to Movim using their existing Jabber account.
Movim addresses the privacy concerns related to centralized social networks by allowing users set up their own server (or "pod") to host content; pods can then interact to share status updates, photographs, and other social data. Users can export their data to other pods or offline allowing for greater flexibility.
It allows its users to host their data with a traditional web host, a cloud-based host, an ISP, or a friend. The framework, which is being built on PHP, is a free software and can be experimented with by external developers.
Technology
Movim is developed using PHP, CSS and HTML5. The software initially used the Symfony framework. Due to the complexity of the application and the XMPP connection management, developers rewrote Movim as a standalone application. It now has its own libraries and APIs.
Movim was earlier based on the JAXL library for implementing XMPP. JAXL has been replaced by Moxl (Movim XMPP Library), licensed under the AGPL-3.0-only license, to manage connecting to the server through the XMPP WebSocket protocol. This is claimed to have reduced the code complexity and performance load while providing better error management.
The platform used Modl (Movim Data Layer) until the version 0.13, a PHP database layer using DAO Patterns for database interfacing. The project was then migrated to the Laravel Eloquent ORM.
Architecture
The project consists of a set of libraries that provide an abstraction layer on top of XMPP for communication and data management.
Requests are handled by instances of a derived interface controller class. This methodology is similar to the query processing in a MVC framework.
Access to the interface is provided by a system of widgets, allowing through introspection capabilities, to write AJAX elements without using JavaScript.
The page display uses a system of nested templates.
See also
Diaspora
Friendica
GNU Social
Comparison of social networking software
Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients
Comparison of microblogging and similar services
Comparison of VoIP software
References
External links
Movim Home Page
Movim Github
Soc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violeta%20Bulc | Violeta Bulc (born 24 January 1964) is a Slovenian politician who served as the European Commissioner for Transport from 2014 to 2019.
Early life
Bulc earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, as well as a master's degree in information technology at the Golden Gate University of San Francisco. She then worked from 1991 to 1994 as an expert for wide area networks performance analyses at DHL in Burlingame, California. In 1994 she returned to Slovenia, where she worked as the manager of institutional traffic (until 1997) and then the director of carrier business (until 1999) for Telekom Slovenia. From 1999 to 2000 she was the vice-president of Telemach, a major telecommunications provider, and from 2000 to 2014 the CEO of Vibacom, Sustainable Strategies and Innovation Ecosystems.
Political career
Bulc joined Slovenian politics together with Miro Cerar in 2013, and she was appointed head of the program committee of the Miro Cerar Party.
Bulc served as a minister without portfolio responsible for development, strategic projects and cohesion and as deputy prime minister from 19 September 2014 until 1 November 2014 in the centre-left cabinet of Miro Cerar.
Led by Margrethe Vestager, Bulc was among the seven-strong “Team Europe” that the centrist Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party picked to spearhead its pro-EU, liberal campaign ahead of the 2019 European elections.
Other activities
In 2022, Bulc became a board member of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative.
Critique over esotericism
On 10 October 2014, the Slovenian government announced that Bulc would be Slovenia's nominee for the position of the European Commissioner on the Juncker Commission, replacing Alenka Bratušek.
Bulc was criticized because of her esoteric views, including necromancy.
After a confirmation hearing in front of the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism, Bulc was assigned the transport portfolio.
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1964 births
Golden Gate University alumni
Living people
Modern Centre Party politicians
Politicians from Ljubljana
Slovenian European Commissioners
University of Ljubljana alumni
Women European Commissioners
Women government ministers of Slovenia
European Commissioners 2014–2019
21st-century Slovenian women politicians
21st-century Slovenian politicians
Deputy Prime Ministers of Slovenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number%20of%20conflicts%20per%20year | This page tracks the number of military conflicts with more than 1,000 fatalities, a categorization used by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. It covers past years. For a list of ongoing conflicts, see: List of ongoing armed conflicts.
Number of conflicts per year
References
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Notes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Bosch | Jan Bosch (born 1967) is a Dutch computer scientist, Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Groningen and at Chalmers University of Technology, and IT consultant, particularly known for his work on software architecture.
Biography
Bosch received his MSc in computer science in 1991 from the University of Twente, and in 1995 his PhD degree in computer science from Lund University.
In 1994 Bosch got appointed Professor of Software Engineering at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, and in 2000 he moved to the University of Groningen, where he became Professor of Software Engineering. Since 2011 he is also Professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology.
In 2004 Bosch became also Vice President and the Head of Laboratory at the Nokia Research Center, and from 2007 to 2011 he Vice President Engineering Process at Intuit. In 2011 he co-founded the consultancy firm Boschonian AB, where he is partner.
Selected publications
Bosch, Jan. Design and use of software architectures: adopting and evolving a product-line approach. Pearson Education, 2000.
Bosch, Jan. Speed, Data, and Ecosystems: Excelling in a Software-Driven World., CRC Press 2016.
Articles, a selection:
Aksit, M., Wakita, K., Bosch, J., Bergmans, L., & Yonezawa, A. (1994). "Abstracting object interactions using composition filters." In Object-Based Distributed Programming (pp. 152-184). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Van Gurp, Jilles, Jan Bosch, and Mikael Svahnberg. "On the notion of variability in software product lines." Software Architecture, 2001. Proceedings. Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on. IEEE, 2001.
Bengtsson, P., Lassing, N., Bosch, J., & van Vliet, H. (2004). Architecture-level modifiability analysis (ALMA). Journal of Systems and Software, 69(1), 129-147.
Svahnberg, Mikael, Jilles Van Gurp, and Jan Bosch. "A taxonomy of variability realization techniques." Software: Practice and Experience 35.8 (2005): 705-754.
Hartmann, H., Trew, T., Bosch, J., 2012. The changing industry structure of software development for consumer electronics and its consequences for software architectures. Journal of Systems and Software 85, 178–192. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2011.08.007.
Investments
Jan Bosch is also an angel investor in several Scandinavian companies including Remente and Fidesmo in Sweden, and Kosli in Norway.
References
External links
Jan Bosch homepage
1967 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber%20Coordination%20Centre | The National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) is an operational cybersecurity and e-surveillance agency in India. It is intended to screen communication metadata and co-ordinate the intelligence gathering activities of other agencies. Some have expressed concern that the body could encroach on Indian citizens' privacy and civil-liberties, given the lack of explicit privacy laws in the country.
Motivation
India has no dedicated Cyber-security regulation and is also not well prepared to deal with cyberwarfare. However, India has formulated the National Cyber Security Policy 2013 which is not yet implemented. The National Cyber Coordination Centre's purpose would be to help the country deal with malicious cyber-activities by acting as an Internet traffic monitoring entity that can fend off domestic or international attacks.
Components of the NCCC include a cybercrime prevention strategy, cybercrime investigation training and review of outdated laws.
Background
The NCCC is an e-surveillance and cybersecurity project of Government of India. It has been classified to be a project of Indian government without a legal framework, which may be counterproductive as it may violate civil liberties and human rights.
There were concerns that National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) could possibly be abused for indulging in mass surveillance in India, privacy violation and civil liberty violations as agencies like NTRO and organisations like the National Security Council Secretariat are exempted from the applicability of any transparency law like Right to Information Act. Mass surveillance in India is not new as India already has e-surveillance projects like Central Monitoring System, NATGRID, and DRDO NETRA.
Many, including legal experts, in India believe that intelligence agencies and their e-surveillance projects require parliamentary oversight. Although NCCC is jurisdictionally under the Ministry of Home Affairs, it coordinates with multiple security and surveillance agencies as well as with CERT-In of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Status
The National Cyber Coordination Centre received an in principle approval in May 2013 and would come under the National Information Board. In September 2014, Indian government discussed to establish it. In November 2014 Rs. 1,000 crore has been allotted to improve Indian cybersecurity. From this Rs. 800 crore would be utilised for National Cyber Coordination Centre purposes.
On 9 August, in response to a question, minister of State P.P. Chaudhary mentioned that Phase-1 of the National Cyber Coordination Centre is now operational. Indian and U.S. intelligence agencies are also working together to curb misuse of social media platforms in the virtual world by terror groups.
Functions
Government sources mentioned that the government would also involve Internet service providers (ISPs) to ensure round-the-clock monitoring of the Internet, while expertise of other private sector organisation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeggieTales%20in%20the%20House | VeggieTales in the House is an American computer-animated children's comedy streaming television series developed by Doug TenNapel (of Earthworm Jim fame) and produced by Big Idea Entertainment (owned by DreamWorks Classics), and animated by Bardel Entertainment. It picks up after VeggieTales, a Christian-themed video and film series, featuring anthropomorphic vegetables.
Characters
Main
Bob the Tomato (voiced by Phil Vischer) – One of the main characters of VeggieTales, he is best friends and roommates with Larry the Cucumber and acts as the "straight man" to Larry. He works part-time at Pa Grape's store doing various jobs and tasks.
Larry the Cucumber (voiced by Mike Nawrocki) – Best friends and roommate with Bob the Tomato, Larry is scatterbrained and has a silly personality. He works driving the town's ice-cream cart and does odd jobs at Pa Grape's store. He secretly protects the city from crime as the superhero LarryBoy.
Petunia Rhubarb (voiced by Tress MacNeille) – Good friends with Bob, Larry, and Tina Celerina. She often enjoys hanging out with them and often offers them advice whenever they get into a fight or face personal problems. After working at Pa Grape's store, she opened her own flower shop.
Laura Carrot (voiced by Tress MacNeille) – A young carrot who is friends with Bob and Larry and Junior Asparagus, her best friend. She eventually gained a superheroine alter ego dubbed "Night Pony" and helps fight crime with LarryBoy and other superheroes.
Junior Asparagus (voiced by Tress MacNeille) – Best friends with Laura, Junior is a typical child and looks up to Larry. Like Larry, he also has a superhero alter ego, "Junior Jetpack," using a jet pack given to him by Ichabeezer.
Madame Blueberry (voiced by Tress MacNeille) – A female blueberry with a British accent. She lives in a blue, teapot-shaped house, where she spends most of her time drinking tea and enjoying the "fancier" things in life.
Archibald Asparagus (voiced by Phil Vischer) – The Mayor of the town with an upper-crust British accent. He enjoys being the mayor and leader of the town, but more often than not, he can be overwhelmed by the amount of work he does. He often acts as a judge/impartial third party when something goes wrong.
Recurring
Pa Grape (voiced By Phil Vischer) – A wise old grape, he runs a convenience store called Pa's Corner Store. He often provides wise and insightful advice to his friends and customers.
Jimmy and Jerry Gourd (voiced by Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki) - Brothers that live together in an apartment not far from Bob and Larry's house. They don't do much, but they love to eat. Jimmy also gained a superhero alter ego by the name of JimmyBoy and is being trained under the wing of LarryBoy.
Ichabeezer (voiced by Rob Paulsen) – Ichabeezer is a grumpy, gruff and elderly zucchini who doesn't get along with the other veggies. For the Netflix era, he has essentially assumed Mr. Nezzer's role as an outsider/villain foil for Bob and Larry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Pohl%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Klaus Pohl (born 1960 as Klaus Mussgnug in Karlsruhe
) is a German computer scientist and Professor for Software Systems Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen, mainly known for his work in Requirements Engineering and Software product line engineering.
Life and work
Pohl studied computer science from 1984 to 1988 at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences and till 1989 Information Science at the University of Konstanz. He received his PhD in 1995 and habilitation in 1999 from RWTH Aachen. In addition, he worked for several years as a software architect, software developer and consultant.
Klaus Pohl is director of paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, and full professor for Software Systems Engineering at the Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is associate professor of the University of Limerick, Ireland.
From 2005 to 2007 he was the founding director of Lero – The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre.
He is also founding member of IREB e.V. (International Requirements Engineering Boards). IREB is a Non-Profit-Organisation and provider of CPRE (Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering). More than 22,000 people in more than 59 countries have passed the CPRE Foundation Level.
Pohl received several awards including the Fellow award of the German Informatics Society (GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.) in 2014.
His research interests focus on digital, connected systems, requirements engineering, service-based systems and software product line engineering.
Selected publications
Pohl is author of several monographs and author, co-author and editor of over 250 peer-reviewed publications
Monographs
Klaus Pohl and Chris Rupp: Requirements Engineering Fundamentals: A Study Guide for the Certified Professional for Requirement Engineering, Rocky Nook, 2. Edition 2015; German Edition: dpunkt.verlag. 4. Edition 2015; Portuguese Edition.
Klaus Pohl: Requirements Engineering: Fundamentals, Principles, and Techniques, Springer, 2010; German Edition: dpunkt.verlag. 2. Edition 2008; Chinese Edition: 2012.
Klaus Pohl, Günter Böckle, and Frank Van Der Linden (eds.): Software product line engineering: Foundations, Principles, and Techniques. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2005; Japanese Edition: 2009; Chinese Edition: 2013.
Klaus Pohl: Process-centered Requirements Engineering, Advanced Software Development Series, Research Studies Press Ltd, Taunton Somerset, England, 1996.
Selected Proceedings
David Notkin, Betty H.C. Cheng and Klaus Pohl (eds.): Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '13), IEEE/ACM, 2013.
Birgit Geppert and Klaus Pohl (eds.): Proceedings of the 12th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2008), Los Alamitos, IEEE, 2008.
Petri Mähönen, Klaus Pohl and Thierry Priol (eds.): Towards a Service-Based Internet. Proceedings of the 1st European |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachile%20bruchi | Megachile bruchi is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae, making it a cousin of the alfalfa leafcutter bee (Megachile rotundata). It was described by Schrottky in 1909.
References
Bruchi
Insects described in 1909 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachile%20cordata | Megachile cordata is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Smith in 1853, and renamed in 1879.
References
cordata
Insects described in 1853 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Herbert%20Swift%20Jr | George Herbert Swift, Jr (July 1, 1926, Minot, ND – September 23, 2014) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. Swift attended the University of Oregon, earning a master's degree in mathematics in 1951, before attending the University of Washington, where he earned a PhD in mathematics in 1954 under Edwin Hewitt on irregular Borel measure. He began at Duke University in 1954 as an instructor before being IBM hired him in 1956; he would spend 32 years with the company, where he contributed to the development of the IBM 5100. He retired in 1988 from IBM to teach full-time in mathematics as well as computer science.
See also
Borel measure
Borel regular measure
Publications
References
External links
1926 births
2014 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
University of Washington alumni
Mathematical analysts
IBM employees
University of Oregon alumni
Duke University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anania%20cuspidata | Anania cuspidata is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Zhang, Li and Wang in 2002. It is found in China (Gansu).
References
Moths described in 2002
Pyraustinae
Moths of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bet%20ng%20Bayan | Bet () is a 2014 Philippine television reality talent show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Regine Velasquez and Alden Richards, it premiered on October 5, 2014 replacing Sa Puso ni Dok. The show concluded on December 28, 2014 with a total of 13 episodes.
Contestants
Singing
Luzon: Renz Robosa and Katherine Castillo
Mega Manila: Veronica Atienza and Apple Delleva
Visayas: Alma Sumagaysay and Hannah Precillas
Mindanao: Sherwin Baguion and Keirulf Raboy
Dancing
Luzon: Boyz Unlimited and UNEP Dance Club
Mega Manila: Names Going Wild and A's Crew
Visayas: Capa-DS and Don Juan
Mindanao: Black Sheep and D'Gemini
Unique talent
Luzon: Jason Ivan Sobremonte and John Kim Belangel
Mega Manila: Techno Jazz and Ian Adriano
Visayas: Master of Pain and Karinyoso Boys
Mindanao: John Carlo Moneral and Jomar Abjelina
Elimination chart
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Bet earned a 14.7% rating. While the final episode scored a 14.3% rating.
Accolades
References
2014 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Innovators%20%28book%29 | The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution is an overview of the history of computer science and the Digital Revolution. It was written by Walter Isaacson, and published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster.
The book summarizes the contributions of several innovators who have made pivotal breakthroughs in computer technology and its applications—from the world's first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, and Alan Turing's work in artificial intelligence, through the Information Age of the present.
Corrections
In December 2015, Simon & Schuster published a revised electronic edition of The Innovators, which corrected significant errors and omissions in the original edition's Chapter 9, which covers software. Isaacson – who in researching the book interviewed Bill Gates but not Paul Allen – had assigned virtually all credit for the company's early innovations and success to Gates, when in fact they were the product of highly collaborative efforts by several people, including Allen. In the revised edition, among other edits, Isaacson includes archival material from 1981 which Gates credits Allen for being the "idea man" in charge of R&D at Microsoft, while he, Gates, was "the frontman running the business".
In the 2019 three-part Netflix docuseries Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates, this conflict is briefly mentioned by who appears to be Gates's secretary as she goes over the books that Gates was reading at the time of recording.
Isaacson explains in his book that, as he was writing about Wikipedia and how it worked, he decided that his book should be collectively examined in a Wikipedia manner. Hence he uploaded a draft on Medium, allowing readers to make dozens of comments to correct and improve the book.
Innovators by chapter
Innovators discussed in the book by chapter:
Chapter 1 – Ada, Countess of Lovelace:
Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace
Chapter 2 – The Computer:
Herman Hollerith, Vannevar Bush, Konrad Zuse, Alan Turing, George Stibitz, Claude Shannon, Howard Aiken, John Atanasoff, John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert
Chapter 3 – Programming:
Grace Hopper, Richard Bloch, Jean Jennings, John von Neumann
Chapter 4 – The Transistor:
John Bardeen, William Shockley, Walter Brattain, Patrick Haggerty, Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore
Chapter 5 – The Microchip:
Jack Kilby, Arthur Rock, Andy Grove, Ted Hoff, Jean Hoerni
Chapter 6 – Video Games:
Steve Russell, Nolan Bushnell
Chapter 7 – The Internet:
J. C. R. Licklider, Robert Taylor, Larry Roberts, Paul Baran, Donald Davies, Leonard Kleinrock, Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn
Chapter 8 – The Personal Computer:
Ken Kesey, Stewart Brand, Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay, Lee Felsenstien, Ed Roberts
Chapter 9 – Software:
Paul Allen, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Dan Bricklin
Chapter 10 – Online
William von Meister, Steve Case, Al Gore
Chapter 11 – The Web
Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, Justin Hall, Ev Williams, Ward Cunningham, Jimmy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory%20of%20services | A Directory of Services is an electronic database of services held with details of the service offered.
National Health Service
A clinical directory of services can be used in conjunction with a clinical decision support system.
In the English National Health Service a directory has been compiled by every clinical commissioning group. NHS trusts, local authorities, voluntary and commercial organisations all provide information for these directories. The Directory is held centrally by the NHS Digital. It provides real-time information about services available to support patients. Pharmacy contractors are obliged to update their entries where the pharmacy’s opening hours change, either temporarily or permanently.
The directory is used by:
NHS 111
Choose and Book
NHS Pathways
NHS Choices
In 2005 Peter Davies a former NHS head of communications set up a scheme enabling primary care trusts to provide directory-type information in the Yellow Pages directory. By setting up a national agreement with Yellow Pages he hoped to keep costs down and solve the problem of PCT patches crossing different regional editions of the directory.
Egypt
Managing Quality in Egypt: A Directory of Services for SMEs was launched in Cairo in March 2017 intended to assist small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries to find national institutions to help them meet safety and technical standards necessary which they must meet in foreign markets. It has been created by the Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality, the Engineering Export Council of Egypt, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt and the International Trade Centre.
References
National Health Service (England)
Government services web portals in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland%20Browns%20Radio%20Network | The University Hospitals Cleveland Browns Radio Network is an American radio network composed of 24 radio stations which carry English-language coverage of the Cleveland Browns, a professional football team in the National Football League (NFL). Jim Donovan has been the lead announcer since the team's return in 1999, but following the 2023 season opener, he went on medical leave to undergo treatment for leukemia, and Chris Rose is serving as interim play-by-play announcer in his absence. Nathan Zegura serves as commentator and Je'Rod Cherry is the sideline analyst/reporter.
Since 2013, Cleveland market stations WKNR (), WKRK-FM (), and WNCX () have served as the network's three flagships, an arrangement noted for competing ownership among the stations: WKNR is owned by Good Karma Brands, while WKRK-FM and WNCX are owned by Audacy, Inc. (formerly CBS Radio). The network also includes 21 affiliates in the U.S. states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York: ten AM stations, eight of which supplement their signals with a low-power FM translator; and eleven full-power FM stations, one of which supplements its signal with a low-power FM translator.
In addition to traditional over-the-air AM and FM broadcasts, network programming airs on satellite radio via Sirius XM and is available online via Sirius XM, TuneIn and NFL+. The University Hospitals Health System of Cleveland, Ohio, has owned the naming rights to the network since the 2017 season.
History
Original franchise (1946–1995)
Radio broadcasts for the Cleveland Browns date back to the team's inaugural 1946 season in the All-America Football Conference, with WGAR () as the initial flagship station; WGAR sportscaster Bob Neal and Stan Gee were the team's first announcers. Bill Mayer took over as Neal's color commentator in 1947 in addition to his duties as WGAR's morning drive host. WGAR also carried a weekly 15-minute show during the football season by head coach Paul Brown, the Browns' co-founder and namesake. A five-station network was assembled for the 1948 season consisting of WGAR, WATG in Ashland, WBNS in Columbus, WHIO in Dayton, WFRO-FM in Fremont, WJEL in Springfield and WTRF in Bellaire; stations in Lima, Toledo, Zanesville, Marion and Cincinnati were added the following year. By 1952, the network spanned 16 stations in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.
WGAR served as the flagship until the 1950 season, the team's first with the National Football League, when WERE () took over; Neal also moved to WERE but was replaced due to his announcing for Cleveland Indians telecasts being sponsored by Pfeiffer Brewing Co., rival to the Brewing Corp. of America which sponsored the Browns network. WTAM carried the games in 1952 and 1953 with Ken Coleman as announcer, WGAR reclaimed the flagship rights the following year. Through all but one year of WGAR's second stint as flagship, Bill McColgan handled play-by-play; while Bill Kelly returned in 1954, Jim Graner replaced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Groupe%20Bull%20products | The following is a list of products from the French-owned computer hardware and software company Groupe Bull.
Computer hardware
Bull Gamma series
Gamma 3 (1952)
Gamma 55 (1967) (also known as GE 55)
Gamma 60 (1960)
Gamma 30 (1964) (RCA 301)
Gamma M 40 (1965)
Gamma 10 (1966)
CAB500 (1961, sold under license from Société d'Electronique et d'Automatisme)
Série 300 TI (1962)
GE-600 series (1965)
GE 400 (1967)
GE 115 (1966)
GE-265 (1968)
CII Iris 50 (1968)
CII Mitra 15 (1970)
GE 58 (1970)
CII Iris 80 (1971)
CII Iris 60 (1972)
Honeywell H200 (1970)
HB 2000 (1973)
Micral (1973)
Mini6 (1978)
CII HB 64/40 (1976)
CII HB 66/60 (1976)
CII HB 61 DPS (1978)
Bull DS800 (2007)
Bull DPS series
DPS4 (1980)
DPS7 and DPS 7000 (1981)
DPS6 series (1983)
DPS 8 (1984)
DPS 6 Plus and DPS 8000 (1987)
DPS 9000 (1999)
Bull DPX series
Bull DPX 2 (1992)
Bull DPX 20
SM 90 (1981)
Correlative Syst. 1982
SPS7 and SPS9
Bull Escala (1994)
Bull NovaScale (2004)
Novascale bullion (2010)
Bull bullx (2009)
Bull Estrella
Bull Series 4000 Printing System (1988)
Mobile phones
In October 2013 Groupe Bull introduced the Hoox line of cellular phones with enhanced encryption and biometric authentication targeting security-conscious users.
Models:
Hoox m1 mobile phone
Hoox m2 smartphone
Computers on the TOP500 list
As of June 2012 Bull has 16 machines on the TOP500 supercomputer list
References
Groupe Bull products
Groupe Bull products
Groupe Bull
Groupe Bull |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVRYTHNG | EVRYTHNG is an internet of things (IoT) software company based in London, with operations in Oregon, New York, Beijing, Minsk and Switzerland. The company delivers real-time data and actionable information about “smart products” featuring a digital identity in its EVRYTHNG Product Cloud, which connects consumer packaged goods to the web for business intelligence.
Niall Murphy, Andy Hobsbawm, Dominique Guinard and Vlad Trifa founded the company in January 2011. Murphy was the company's founding CEO. In 2022, EVRYTHNG was acquired by Digimarc, an Oregon-based company that specializes in digital watermarking and product digitization for brand integrity, traceability, sustainability and more.
History
Niall Murphy, Andy Hobsbawm, Dominique Guinard and Vlad Trifa founded the company in January 2011. In November 2011, EVRYTHNG closed a $1 million seed funding round led by Atomico, a technology investment firm.
EVRYTHNG announced Diageo, a British alcoholic beverages company, as its first customer in October 2012. EVRYTHNG created a digital identity for Diageo's whiskey brands in Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Australia, Eastern Europe and Vietnam.
In 2013, global analyst group Frost & Sullivan awarded EVRYTHNG’s IoT platform a New Product Innovation Best Practice award.
In April 2014, EVRYTHNG secured US$7 million in a series-A investment round from Atomico, BHLP LLC, Dawn Capital and Cisco Investments. Later that year, the company received an undisclosed amount of funding from Samsung Ventures Investment Corporation. In 2014, EVRYTHNG received the best IoT start-up of the year recognition from The Europas, a subsidiary event from TechCrunch. The company was voted IoT Breakout Startup of the Year in 2014 and 2015 by Postcapes awards.
In March 2017, EVRYTHNG raised $24.8 million Series B round of funding. The Series B round was led by Sway Ventures and included participation from new investors BLOC Ventures and Generation Ventures.
EVRYTHNG was one of the first companies to support the GS1 Digital Link standard, upgrading the barcode and GTIN to a web address format, with the first iteration of the standard launched in 2018. EVRYTHNG co-founder and CTO Dom Guinard has co-chaired the GS1 Digital Link working group since its inception.
In 2019 Ralph Lauren became a customer of EVRYTHNG to digitize its product portfolio, rolling out the EVRYTHNG Product Cloud into all factories and across its product range.
EVRYTHNG was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer in 2018. In 2020 the World Economic Forum named EVRYTHNG a Global Innovator. That same year, EVRYTHNG won Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Award.
In November 2021, EVRYTHNG announced it would be acquired by Digimarc. The acquisition was completed in January 2022. The combined company released the Digimarc Brand Integrity solution, featuring the EVRYTHNG Product Cloud for remote product authentication.
References
Software companies based in California
Companies bas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland%20Trail%20Blazers%20Radio%20Network | The Portland Trail Blazers Radio Network is an American radio network consisting of 18 radio stations which carry coverage of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s Portland Trail Blazers.
The Radio Network has one flagship station (KPOJ) and 17 affiliate stations in Oregon and Washington. Travis Demers is the play-by-play announcer and former Trail Blazers player Michael Holton is the color analyst for home games. Mike Lynch is studio host. Rich Patterson is the network producer.
Station list
References
External links
Mass media in Portland, Oregon
National Basketball Association on the radio
Portland Trail Blazers
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YYoga | YYOGA is a yoga, fitness, and wellness company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the original network yoga company in Canada. Terry McBride founded the company in 2007. McBride is the CEO.
History
In 2007, Nettwerk music executive, entrepreneur and yogi Terry McBride founded YYOGA. The company was founded with the intention to create a community of yoga studio and lifestyles centres whose schedules fit better into peoples lifestyles.
In 2019, the company launched YYOGA at Home, which offers thousands of on-demand virtual classes. Subscription is offered monthly or annually.
Unfortunately, due to impacts from COVID, YYOGA permanently closed a couple of locations and now operates 5 studios in the Lower Mainland, including Vancouver, North Vancouver and Richmond.
References
2007 establishments in British Columbia
Companies based in Vancouver
Entertainment companies established in 2007
Yoga organizations
Canadian companies established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh%20Pring | Koh Pring, (, Jambul Island, Koh Prins(former French name) is a Cambodian island in the gulf of Thailand, 64 km off the coastal city of Sihanoukville. Official sources provide no data of civilian communities on the "Outer Islands". Administration falls to the Cambodian navy, as the island lies within the national marine border in which it represents an isolated outpost.
Geography
Koh Pring is in fact the largest island of a tiny archipelago of 3 islands (Koh Pring, Koh Doung and Koh Trangol).
Pring - ព្រីង - is Khmer for Jambul (jambolan, jamblang, or jamun), the fruit of an evergreen, flowering tropical tree.
See also
Sihanoukville
Koh Rong
Koh Sdach
List of islands of Cambodia
List of Cambodian inland islands
References
Sihanoukville (city)
Populated places in Sihanoukville province
Islands of Cambodia
Islands of the Gulf of Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYIC-FM | DYIC (95.1 FM), broadcasting as 95.1 iFM, is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio is located at St. Anne Bldg., Luna St., La Paz, Iloilo City, and its transmitter is located along Coastal Rd., Brgy. Hinactacan, La Paz, Iloilo City.
History
DYIC was RMN's seventh FM station in Iloilo, established in 1980 as 95.1 YIC, airing a CHR/Top 40 format together with other RMN FM stations across the country, excluding DWHB in Baguio (which they carrying smooth jazz format) and DYXL in Cebu (which they carrying easy listening format). The station's branding was later changed into 95IC, adapted its tagline "Red Hot Radio" (not to be confused with Real Radio Network's 99.5 RT in Manila).
On August 16, 1992, the station was relaunched as Smile Radio 95.1 and switched to a mass-based format.
On November 23, 1999, it was rebranded as 951 ICFM (pronounced as "nine-five-one") and switched back to its CHR/Top 40 format, with the slogan "Live It Up!".
On May 16, 2002, the station was relaunched once more as 95.1 iFM and bought back its mass-based format. Since late 2011, iFM launched a new slogan called "Ambot sa Kambing na may Bangs!"; thus, this is the only iFM station in the city that currently used as its bumpers.
However, by 2015, the slogan changed to Bestfriend Mo, then Ang Idol kong FM by 2017.
References
Radio stations in Iloilo City
Radio stations established in 1980 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Works%20%28TV%20network%29 | The Works was an American digital broadcast television network owned by the MGM Television division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The network, which was primarily carried on the digital subchannels of television stations, maintained a general entertainment format featuring a mix of feature films, classic television sitcoms and drama series from the 1950s through the 1980s, and news and interview programming.
Through its ownership by MGM, The Works was a sister network to This TV, a joint venture between MGM and Tribune Broadcasting which also focuses on films and classic television series from the 1950s to the 1990s and carries programming from The Works' corporate cousin MGM Television.
History
With little prior announcement of its formation in advance of its debut, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer launched The Works on April 1, 2014; the network debuted on nine television stations owned or operated by Titan Broadcast Management (though either NRJ TV or Ellis Communications), with an initial clearance rate of, at minimum, 31% of all television households in the United States. In addition to carrying The Works on its stations, Titan Broadcast Management also handles advertising sales for the network. To make room for the network, Titan ended its affiliations with the Retro Television Network on most of its stations, swapping out that network with The Works. The network was formally launched in January 2015, with 26 affiliate stations, covering 37% of the nation's television households.
The Works subchannel network quietly pulled off the air around February 28, 2017, when remaining affiliates, consisting mainly of Titan Broadcast Management operated stations, switched to Charge!, a Sinclair-owned subchannel network formerly operated by MGM.
Programming
The Works' program schedule relied primarily on the extensive library of films and television programming currently owned by MGM and subsidiary United Artists. Unlike many other digital multicast networks, The Works also featured some more recent and originally-produced programming.
The network maintained a general entertainment programming format with a large emphasis on theatrical feature films from the MGM library, sports and classic television series. News programming was also provided by the network through a programming agreement with The Huffington Post, which provided a rebroadcast of its discussion program Huff Post Live in separate two-hour blocks of news in the midday and early evening on Monday through Fridays; affiliates were also inclined to produce local news content to air on the network.
List of programs broadcast by The Works
Classic television series
The Addams Family
American Gladiators
Comedy Time
Home Run Derby
Science Fiction Theatre
The Rat Patrol
Quick Laffs
Children's programming
BoomerangE/I (imported from Australia)
Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot (imported from Japan)
Heroes Among UsE/I
Jack Hanna's Into the WildE/I
Killer InstinctE/I
Prince Planet (imported from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterostasis%20%28cybernetics%29 | Heterostasis is a medical term. It is a neologism coined by Walter Cannon intended to connote an alternative but related meaning to its lexical sibling Homeostasis, which means 'same state'. Any device, organ, system or organism capable of Heterostasis (multistable behavior) can be represented by an abstract state machine composed of a characteristic set of related, interconnected states, linked dynamically by change processes allowing transition between states.
Although the term 'Heterostasis' is an obvious rearrangement (by syntactically substituting the prefix 'Hetero-' for its dichotome 'Homeo-', and likewise swapping the semantic reference, from 'same'/'single' to 'different'/'many'), the endocrinologist Hans Selye is generally credited with its invention. An excellent overview of the two concepts is contained in the Cambridge Handbook of Psychophysiology, Chapter 19. Selye's ideas were used by Gunther et al., in which dimensionless numbers (allometric invariance analysis) were used to investigate the existence of heterostasis in canine cardiovascular systems.
Alternative terminology
The equivalent term Allostasis is used in biological contexts, where state change is analog (continuous), but Heterostasis is sometimes preferred for systems which possess a finite number of distinct (discrete) internal states, such as those containing computational processes. The term Servomechanism is usually used in industrial/mechanical situations (non-biological and non-computational) where it often applies to analog state change, e.g. in a Direct Current Servomotor.
References
Homeostasis
Servomechanisms
Technology neologisms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brianna%20Wu | Brianna Wu (born July 6, 1977) is an American video game developer and computer programmer. She co-founded Giant Spacekat, an independent video game development studio, with Amanda Warner in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also a blogger and podcaster on matters relating to the video game industry.
In 2018, Wu unsuccessfully ran for Congress in Massachusetts's 8th congressional district. Wu began a second campaign for the primary in 2020; in April, she announced her departure from the race, due to the COVID-19 lockdown preventing in-person campaigning.
Early life and education
Wu was born in West Virginia and raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi by adoptive parents. She grew up in an entrepreneurial environment; her father was a retired US Navy doctor who opened his own clinic, and her mother ran a series of small businesses. In 2003 she enrolled at the University of Mississippi, studying journalism and political science and wrote for The Daily Mississippian, but never graduated.
Career
At the age of 19, Wu formed a small animation studio to create an animated pilot episode. The venture was unsuccessful, resulting in her withdrawal from college and a move to Washington, D.C., to work in political fundraising for several years. She later worked as a journalist until she was inspired by the release of the iPhone to work as a graphical designer and create a video game.
In 2008, she married Frank Wu, four-time winner of the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist. In 2010, she co-founded the company Giant Spacekat with Amanda Stenquist Warner. Wu was co-host of the weekly Isometric podcast on Relay FM. The podcast was launched in May 2014 and covers the video game industry. On April 18, 2016, the Isometric podcast was ended. The same hosts, including Wu, started a new podcast called Disruption on Relay FM, covering technology and culture. In 2020, she and Cenk Uygur co-founded Rebellion PAC, a political action committee with a focus on running advertisements in opposition to Donald Trump and in support of progressive get-out-the-vote efforts.
Revolution 60
Wu is credited as head of development for her company Giant Spacekat's game, Revolution 60. It features female protagonists, said to echo the founders of the game studio. The game was demonstrated at Pax East in March 2013, where it was listed as one of the 10 best indie games of the conference. The game, created with the Unreal Engine for a total budget of several hundred thousand dollars, was released for iOS devices in July 2014.
2018 congressional bid
Wu decided immediately after the 2016 American presidential election to run for a Congressional seat in the greater Boston area, focusing in part on privacy rights and online harassment, but also on the wider Massachusetts economy. She challenged Rep. Stephen F. Lynch of the 8th district, in an announcement she made on Twitter. Wu stated, in a radio interview, that Lynch did not sufficiently represent the Democrats, citing his positions on reproductive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%20Bass | Leonard Joel (Len) Bass (born c.1943) is an American software engineer, Emeritus professor and former researcher at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), particularly known for his contributions on software architecture in practice.
Biography
Bass received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1970 under the supervision of Paul Ruel Young with the thesis, entitled "Hierarchies based on computational complexity and irregularities of class determining measured sets."
Bass was appointed Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rhode Island in 1970. In 1986, he moved to the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he started as head of the user-interface software group, and later focused on the analysis of software architectures. Since 2011, he has been Senior Principal Researcher at NICTA (National ICT Australia).
Len Bass was awarded the Software Development Magazine'''s Jolt Productivity Award twice in 1999 and 2003.
Selected publications
Books
Bass, L., Clements, P., Kazman, R. (1st ed. 1998, 2nd ed. 2003, 3rd ed. 2012, 4th ed. 2022). Software Architecture in Practice. Pearson Education
Clements, P., Bass, L., Garlan, D., Ivers, J., Little, R., Nord, R., Stafford, J. (1st ed. 2002, 2nd ed. 2011). Documenting software architectures: views and beyond. Pearson Education.
Bass, L., Weber, I., Zhu, L. (2015). DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective. Addison-Wesley Professional.
Articles and reports, a selection:
Kazman, R., Bass, L., Webb, M., & Abowd, G. (1994, May). "SAAM: A method for analyzing the properties of software architectures." In Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering (pp. 81–90). IEEE Computer Society Press.
Abowd, G., Bass, L., Clements, P., Kazman, R., & Northrop, L. (1997).Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation(No. CMU/SEI-96-TR-025). Carnegie-Mellon Univ Pittsburgh Pa Software Engineering Inst.
Kazman, R., Abowd, G., Bass, L., & Clements, P. (1996). "Scenario-based analysis of software architecture." IEEE Software, 13(6):47–55.
Presentations
Bass, L. [lenbass]. (2016, July 31). Networking [Video file].
Bass, L. [lenbass]. (2016, July 30). Virtual Machine'' [Video file].
References
External links
Len Bass at the Software Engineering Institute
Len Bass at NICTA
Living people
Purdue University alumni
University of Rhode Island faculty
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
American software engineers
American computer scientists
American expatriates in Australia
1940s births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20Philippines | Cable News Network Philippines (known as CNN Philippines and abbreviated as CNN PH) is a commercial broadcast, cable and satellite television network in the Philippines. It is owned and operated by Nine Media Corporation, together with Radio Philippines Network (RPN) as the main content provider, under license from Warner Bros. Discovery. Replacing 9TV, CNN Philippines was launched on March 16, 2015. CNN Philippines is the fifth local franchise of CNN in Asia, after CNN Indonesia, CNN Türk, CNN Arabic and CNN-IBN (now CNN-News18 in India).
CNN Philippines' local programming is produced from the Upper Ground Floor of the Worldwide Corporate Center, Shaw Boulevard corner Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Mandaluyong. The channel maintains its analog transmitter located at the RPN Compound, #97 Panay Avenue, Brgy. South Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City; while digital transmission facilities are located at the Crestview Subdivision, Barangay San Roque, Antipolo, Rizal. On October 14, 2014, Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific with Nine Media signed a five-year brand licensing agreement, until December 31, 2020 that will build the alliance between the two news agencies on television and online.
CNN PH was launched on March 16, 2015, 6:00 am (PST) and is seen on RPN's flagship station DZKB-TV, Channel 9 in Metro Manila and among eight regional VHF TV stations in Channels 9 Mandaue and Davao, Channel 12 Baguio, Channel 10 Iriga, Channel 8 Bacolod and Channel 5 Zamboanga. The flagship Filipino newscast News Night is also airing via RPN Radyo Ronda stations. It operates daily via analog and digital from 5:00 am to 12:00 mn; while its programming broadcasts 24 hours daily on cable, satellite and live streaming providers.
Background
Under the brand licensing agreement between Turner Broadcasting System and Nine Media, the latter will pay CNN an undisclosed amount of monthly fee for programs and expertise from CNN International and CNN/U.S. that will air in the CNN Philippines in exchange of locally produced news, current affairs and lifestyle programs and rolling news coverage from 9News, all based on the standards of CNN. Also, 9News will be trained by CNN staff at the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia to enhance their reporting that will also help them to contribute reports for CNN International along with its news bureaus scattered worldwide; as consultants from the latter will help Nine Media/RPN for further development and expansion of CNN Philippines. The official news website, 9news.ph will be redesigned and changed into CNNPhilippines.com.
On the day of the soft launching of CNN Philippines held on October 14, 2014, at the Solaire Resort & Casino, CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker released a statement that said:
Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Sec. Sonny Coloma was the guest of honor at the trade launch of CNN PH at the Philippine International Convention Center the following day. RPN, the broadcaster of CNN PH, was under |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zantema | Zantema can refer to
Hans Zantema (born 1956), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist
Grytsje Kingma-Zantema (born 1964), Frisian singer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOT%20TV | HOTGOLD TV
is a Portuguese pornography premium cable and satellite television network owned by HOT Gold. Its flagship programming are Portuguese pornographic films.
Portuguese-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television stations in Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Westcott | John Hugh Westcott FRS, FREng, Hon FIEE (3 November 1920 – 10 October 2014) was a British scientist specialising in control systems and Professor of Computing and Automation at Imperial College London.
Career
Westcott was educated at Wandsworth Grammar School, the City and Guilds College, both in London, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His career began in radar research during World War II. After a year in Germany with the Allied Commission, he obtained a scholarship to the MIT where many scientists returning from the services were addressing the early possibilities of computer applications.
He was the first to lecture on the new field of cybernetics in Britain and was a member of the Ratio Club with Grey Walter, Alan Turing, Giles Brindley and others from various fields, who met between 1949 and 1952 to discuss brain mechanisms and related issues. He researched servo-mechanisms at Imperial College London, where he headed the new Department of Computing and Control from 1966. A founder-member in 1957 of the International Federation of Automatic Control, one of the first professional bodies to liaise successfully across the Iron Curtain, he was a consultant to companies such as Shell, ICI, Westlands and British Steel Corporation in applying control systems to large and complex processes. In the 1970s and 1980s he also worked on macro-economic modelling and computer modelling for policy-evaluation.
Awards and honours
Westcott was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 1980.
References
1920 births
2014 deaths
Academics of Imperial College London
British computer scientists
Fellows of the Royal Society
British expatriates in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenization | Tokenization may refer to:
Tokenization (lexical analysis) in language processing
Tokenization (data security) in the field of data security
Word segmentation
See also
Tokenism of minorities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Q | Canal Q is a Portuguese cable and satellite television network that is owned by Produções Ficticias, a creative agency and production company responsible for some of the most popular comedy shows in Portuguese national television. The channel carries comedy programming, entertainment and information, while 90% of the programming are original productions. Its flagship program is Inferno, a satirical television program.
History
The channel was announced in the start of 2010 and was licensed on February 11, 2010, while regular broadcasts commenced on March 29 of the same year. Initially the channel was a MEO exclusive and broadcast from 21:45 to 00:00 every night. Among the channel's early shows were A Rede (The Network), which was initially hosted by Ana Markl and Nuno Markl, which focused on contemporary pop culture in general, Mapa (Map), hosted by Nuno Artur Silva, a show in which the interviewees were forced to form a sort of map in order to connect them and As Cidades Visíveis (Visible Cities), which focused on the creative life of cities.
As the months progressed, Canal Q expanded the number of daily hours, which is currently (on average) between 11:00 and 04:00. The channel's first live event, on October 30, 2010, was a live broadcast of the 2010 Miss World pageant, followed by a debate on international crisis.
A huge schedule change occurred on October 3, 2011. A Rede was replaced by satirical news show Inferno, originally taking the 22:00 timeslot before moving to 22:30 in May 2012.
The channel rebranded for the first time on July 13, 2012, with the logo swapping blue for red. The look was designed by Terra Líquida Filmes.
In February 2013, it was announced that the channel would expand to ZON (now NOS). Said launch occurred on March 4, 2013, followed by international launches in Angola, Mozambique and France.
On March 29, 2014, the channel rebranded once again, with a completely new look and logo.
References
Portuguese-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television stations in Portugal
2010 establishments in Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit%20It%20Rich%21 | Hit It Rich! is a social network casino game developed by Zynga and available on Facebook. Hit it Rich is a freemium game, meaning that it is free to play, but players have the option of purchasing extra features.
An iOS version of Hit it Rich was released and an additional version was launched on Google Play for Android devices. Players are able to carry progress from the web version of the game to mobile. The game is part of the larger Zynga Casino franchise, which was revealed in an October 2011 event called “Unleashed.” It was developed by Spooky Cool Labs, which Zynga acquired in June 2013, for the purpose of creating social casino games.
In February 2014, Hit it Rich was the most downloaded free game on the iPad's "casino" category.
Features and gameplay
During the game, players experience a unique type of entertainment that blends the look and feel of Vegas-style video slot machines with commercial themes such as The Wizard of Oz, The Terminator, and others, including other Zynga products such as Farmville 2.
The game features numerous five-reel slots that vary by bet size and the number of betting lines available. Bonus rounds are activated when three “Bonus” symbols appear on valid lines, and extra coins are earned for outscoring friends.
As the game progresses, new levels are unlocked, with higher max bets. At the same time, players earn points in the game’s loyalty program. Every bet adds experience points to a bar located at the top of the screen. Once the bar is filled, the player advances to the next level. There are five levels ranging from Tin to Platinum. Tournament play, achievements lists, and a high-limit lobby add to the social experience. As with other Zynga games on Facebook, friends help one another achieve goals.
Hit it Rich is available in seven languages including: Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.
Notes
External links
Zynga Hit It Rich!
2013 video games
Android (operating system) games
Facebook games
Free-to-play video games
Zynga
Casino video games
IOS games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-access%20edge%20computing | Multi-access edge computing (MEC), formerly mobile edge computing, is an ETSI-defined network architecture concept that enables cloud computing capabilities and an IT service environment at the edge of the cellular network and, more in general at the edge of any network. The basic idea behind MEC is that by running applications and performing related processing tasks closer to the cellular customer, network congestion is reduced and applications perform better. MEC technology is designed to be implemented at the cellular base stations or other edge nodes, and enables flexible and rapid deployment of new applications and services for customers. Combining elements of information technology and telecommunications networking, MEC also allows cellular operators to open their radio access network (RAN) to authorized third parties, such as application developers and content providers.
Technical standards for MEC are being developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, which has produced a technical white paper about the concept.
Distributed computing in the RAN
MEC provides a distributed computing environment for application and service hosting. It also has the ability to store and process content close to cellular subscribers, for faster response time. Applications can also be exposed to real-time radio access network (RAN) information.
The key element is the MEC application server, which is integrated at the RAN element. This server provides computing resources, storage capacity, connectivity and access to RAN information. It supports a multitenancy run-time and hosting environment for applications. The virtual appliance applications are delivered as packaged operating system virtual machine (VM) images or containers incorporating operating systems and applications. The platform also provides a set of middleware application and infrastructure services. Application software can be provided from equipment vendors, service providers and third-parties.
Deployment
The MEC application server can be deployed at the macro base station EnodeB that is part of an LTE cellular network, or at the Radio Network Controller (RNC) that is part of a 3G cellular network and at a multi-technology cell aggregation site. The multi-technology cell aggregation site can be located indoors or outdoors.
Business and technical benefits
By using mobile edge computing technology, a cellular operator can efficiently deploy new services for specific customers or classes of customers. The technology also reduces the signal load of the core network, and can host applications and services in a less costly way. It also collects data about storage, network bandwidth, CPU utilization, etc., for each application or service deployed by a third party. Application developers and content providers can take advantage of close proximity to cellular subscribers and real-time RAN information.
MEC has been created using open standards and application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20states%20and%20territories%20by%20religiosity | The degree of religiosity in the population of the United States can be compared to that in other countries and compared state-by-state, based on individual self-assessment and polling data.
Methodologies
The Gallup Poll assesses religiosity around the world, asking "Is religion important in your daily life?" and in the United States by state, asking the degree to which respondents consider themselves to be religious. The Pew Research Center and Public Religion Research Institute have conducted studies of reported frequency of attendance to religious service. The Harris Poll has conducted surveys of the percentage of people who believe in God.
Results
Religious Denominations (Pew Research 2014)
Religions by metropolitan areas
Attendance
A 2013 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute reported that 31% of Americans attend religious services at least weekly. In 2006, a world-wide online Harris Poll surveyed 2,010 U.S. adults and found that 26% of those surveyed attended religious services "every week or more often", 9% went "once or twice a month", 21% went "a few times a year", 3% went "once a year", 22% went "less than once a year", and 18% never attend religious services. A 2013 Harris Poll reported an 8% decline in a belief in God, since a prior 2009 poll.
According to a 2011 Gallup poll, the state with the greatest percentage of respondents identifying as "very religious" was Mississippi (59%), and the state with the smallest percentage were Vermont and New Hampshire (23%), while Florida (39%) and Minnesota (40%) were near the median. A 2014 Pew Research poll found that the states with the greatest percentage of respondents who stated that religion was "very important" or "somewhat important" to their lives were Alabama (90%) and Louisiana (90%), while the state with the smallest percentage was Vermont (57%).
U.S. states and Washington, D.C.
The table below displays the results of a 2014 survey by Pew Research:
U.S. territories
The following is the percentage of Christians and all religions in the U.S. territories as of 2015 (according to the ARDA):
Note that CIA World Factbook data differs from the data below. For example, the CIA World Factbook says that 99.3% of the population in American Samoa is religious.
See also
Bible belt
Demographics of the United States: Religion
Freedom of religion in the United States
Historical religious demographics of the United States
Religion in the United States
References
Religiosity
Religious demographics
United States, religiosity
History of religion in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20Function%20Call%20Syntax | Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS) or Uniform Calling Syntax (UCS) or sometimes Universal Function Call Syntax is a programming language feature in D and Nim that allows any function to be called using the syntax for method calls (as in object-oriented programming), by using the receiver as the first parameter, and the given arguments as the remaining parameters. UFCS is particularly useful when function calls are chained (behaving similar to pipes, or the various dedicated operators available in functional languages for passing values through a series of expressions). It allows free-functions to fill a role similar to extension methods in some other languages. Another benefit of the method call syntax is use with "dot-autocomplete" in IDEs, which use type information to show a list of available functions, dependent on the context. When the programmer starts with an argument, the set of potentially applicable functions is greatly narrowed down, aiding discoverability.
Examples
Nim programming language
type Vector = tuple[x, y: int]
proc add(a, b: Vector): Vector =
(a.x + b.x, a.y + b.y)
let
v1 = (x: -1, y: 4)
v2 = (x: 5, y: -2)
# all the following are correct
v3 = add(v1, v2)
v4 = v1.add(v2)
v5 = v1.add(v2).add(v4)
D programming language
import std.stdio;
int first(int[] arr)
{
return arr[0];
}
int[] addone(int[] arr)
{
int[] result;
foreach (value; arr) {
result ~= value + 1;
}
return result;
}
void main()
{
auto a = [0, 1, 2, 3];
// all the following are correct and equivalent
int b = first(a);
int c = a.first();
int d = a.first;
// chaining
int[] e = a.addone().addone();
}
C++ proposal
Proposals for a unification of member function and free function calling syntax have been discussed from the early years of C++ standardization. Glassborow (2004) proposed a Uniform Calling Syntax (UCS), allowing specially annotated free functions to be called with member function notation.
It has more recently been proposed (as of 2016) for addition to C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter, to reduce the ambiguous decision between writing free functions and member functions, to simplify the writing of templated code. Many programmers are tempted to write member functions to get the benefits of the member function syntax (e.g. "dot-autocomplete" to list member functions); however, this leads to excessive coupling between classes.
Rust usage of the term
Until 2018 it was common to use this term when actually referring to qualified/explicit path syntax and most commonly the Fully Qualified Path syntax.: because it's possible to have several traits defining the same method implemented on the same struct, a mechanism is needed to disambiguate which trait should be used.
Member functions can also be used as free functions through a qualified (namespaced) path.
The term UFCS is incorrect for these uses, as it allows using methods as (namespaced) free functions, but not using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone%20ad%20hoc%20network | Smartphone ad hoc networks (SPANs; also smart phone ad hoc networks) are wireless ad hoc networks that use smartphones. Once embedded with ad hoc networking technology, a group of smartphones in close proximity can together create an ad hoc network. Smart phone ad hoc networks use the existing hardware (primarily Bluetooth and Wi-Fi) in commercially available smartphones to create peer-to-peer networks without relying on cellular carrier networks, wireless access points, or traditional network infrastructure. Wi-Fi SPANs use the mechanism behind Wi-Fi ad-hoc mode, which allows phones to talk directly among each other, through a transparent neighbor and route discovery mechanism. SPANs differ from traditional hub and spoke networks, such as Wi-Fi Direct, in that they support multi-hop routing (ad hoc routing) and relays and there is no notion of a group leader, so peers can join and leave at will without destroying the network.
Spans are useful under circumstances when the regular network is overloaded or unavailable, such as conferences, music festivals, or natural disasters, and have been popular in Australia and Latin America. They are popular with youth in the United States as a way to save money, as data sent directly from device to device is free.
SPANs started being used in Iraq in 2014 to bypass government restrictions on Internet usage, in the 2014 and 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, in 2015 in anti-government protests in Russia. They have also been used by protestors in Taiwan, Iran, and Syria.
Features
Capable of going off-grid and enabling peer-to-peer communications without relying on cellular carrier networks, wireless access points, or traditional network infrastructure.
Optional Internet access through gateway devices, such as mobile hotspots in the mesh.
Optional stationary or portable infrastructures such as routers, mesh extenders, or other non-phone hardware.
Leverage the devices that people carry on their person and use every day.
Primarily use Bluetooth Mesh or Wi-Fi, since the cellular spectrum is licensed and controlled by cellular providers and FCC regulations.
Set up and tear down are on-demand. Join and leave at will.
Routing protocol may be implemented at the Network Layer or Link Layer.
Often requires rooting a device and making modifications to the operating system, kernel, or drivers.
Threats to telcos
The ad hoc networking technology operating on Wi-Fi ad hoc mode, at the unlicensed ISM band of 2.4 GHz may result in profit loss by cellular carriers since ISM band is free and unlicensed while cellular carriers operate on licensed band at 900 MHz, 1200 MHz, 1800 MHz, etc. This has the potential to threaten telecommunication operators (telcos). Smart phone mobile ad hoc networks can operate independently and allow communications among smart phones users without the need for any 3G or 4G LTE signals to be present. Wi-Fi ad hoc mode was first implemented on Lucent WaveLAN 802.11a/b on laptop computers. Since W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalka | Amalka may refer to:
Amalka (given name), a girl's name, a variant of Amalia
Víla Amálka - Fairy Amalka, a popular Czech animated fairy tale
Amalka, Poland, a village in Poland
Amalka Supercomputing facility, a supercomputer in the Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20heuristic%20intelligence | Computational heuristic intelligence (CHI) refers to specialized programming techniques in computational intelligence (also called artificial intelligence, or AI). These techniques have the express goal of avoiding complexity issues, also called NP-hard problems, by using human-like techniques. They are best summarized as the use of exemplar-based methods (heuristics), rather than rule-based methods (algorithms). Hence the term is distinct from the more conventional computational algorithmic intelligence, or symbolic AI. An example of a CHI technique is the encoding specificity principle of Tulving and Thompson. In general, CHI principles are problem solving techniques used by people, rather than programmed into machines. It is by drawing attention to this key distinction that the use of this term is justified in a field already replete with confusing neologisms. Note that the legal systems of all modern human societies employ both heuristics (generalisations of cases) from individual trial records as well as legislated statutes (rules) as regulatory guides.
Another recent approach to the avoidance of complexity issues is to employ feedback control rather than feedforward modeling as a problem-solving paradigm. This approach has been called computational cybernetics, because (a) the term 'computational' is associated with conventional computer programming techniques which represent a strategic, compiled, or feedforward model of the problem, and (b) the term 'cybernetic' is associated with conventional system operation techniques which represent a tactical, interpreted, or feedback model of the problem. Of course, real programs and real problems both contain both feedforward and feedback components. A real example which illustrates this point is that of human cognition, which clearly involves both perceptual (bottom-up, feedback, sensor-oriented) and conceptual (top-down, feedforward, motor-oriented) information flows and hierarchies.
The AI engineer must choose between mathematical and cybernetic problem solution and machine design paradigms. This is not a coding (program language) issue, but relates to understanding the relationship between the declarative and procedural programming paradigms.
The vast majority of STEM professionals never get the opportunity to design or implement pure cybernetic solutions. When pushed, most responders will dismiss the importance of any difference by saying that all code can be reduced to a mathematical model anyway. Unfortunately, not only is this belief false, it fails most spectacularly in many AI scenarios.
Mathematical models are not time agnostic, but by their very nature are pre-computed, ie feedforward. Dyer [2012] and Feldman [2004] have independently investigated the simplest of all somatic governance paradigms, namely control of a simple jointed limb by a single flexor muscle. They found that it is impossible to determine forces from limb positions- therefore, the problem cannot have a pre-compute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth%20Dwellers | Depth Dwellers is a first-person shooter released in 1994 by TriSoft for MS-DOS. The game was designed to work with 3D glasses. It was also included with the Woobo Electronics CyberBoy unit.
Plot
The player is assigned to journey into the Zendle mines to accomplish what his beloved Princess Aurora could not: to rescue the Depth Dwelling men of Ora from the Ri of Riase.
Gameplay
The object of the game is for the player to make it to the exit teleporter in every level. Throughout each level, the player can destroy robotic enemies, free slaves, find secrets and collect treasure for bonus points. Wherever there is a locked door, the player is required to find one of two keys to unlock it. The player makes use of only firearms and if exhausted of ammo, cannot attack. Secrets can be found by touching a wall that is different in appearance.
Reception
PC Zone claimed that the game was like a bizarre cross between Doom and Blake Stone, leaving much to be desired but having its own gentle charm. The review negatively scored the bad sound design and the flat sprites, calling them "unexciting". Computer Gaming World regarded the graphics as slightly better than Wolfenstein 3D, praising the realistic sounds and gameplay but criticizing the limited save slot system.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%20Rotoloni | Bo Rotoloni is the deputy director of the Information & Cyber Sciences research and development directorate at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). He is also the former director of GTRI Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory, a position he held from the creation of the laboratory in 2010 until accepting his current position in 2014. Rotoloni joined GTRI in 2004 and has also served as deputy director of the Signature Technology Laboratory (now the Advanced Concepts Laboratory).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Wright%20%28researcher%29 | George A. "Fred" Wright is the Associate Laboratory Director and Principal Research Engineer of the Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory (CTISL) at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. In 2008, Dr. Wright founded a cyber security incubator, which led to the formation of CTISL in 2010. Since its inception the “Cyber Lab” has seen explosive growth with nearly $80M in annual research awards and 300 people in 2017. The Lab focuses on development and integration of security technologies into Government and industry enterprises. His research has focused in a variety of technical areas, including cyber security, electronic warfare, communications systems, signal processing, signals intelligence, and radar systems. Wright is also an adjunct professor of computer science at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Education
Wright holds three degrees, including a B.S. in electrical engineering from Memphis State University earned in 1986, and an M.S. and PhD in electrical engineering, both from Georgia Tech, awarded in 1987 and 1996, respectively.
Career
Wright joined GTRI as a research engineer in the Electronic Systems Laboratory in 1987. Prior to the creation of the Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory (CTISL), where he was named deputy director and chief engineer, Wright was chief engineer of ELSYS.
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Georgia Tech faculty
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Georgia Tech alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheSkyNet | theSkyNet was a research project that used volunteer Internet-connected computers to carry out research in astronomy. It was an initiative of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), a joint venture of Curtin University and the University of Western Australia. theSkyNet had two projects, Sourcefinder and POGS. Both projects have been completed. theSkyNet Sourcefinder aimed to test and refine automatic radio sourcefinding algorithms in preparation for radio galaxy surveys using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and the Square Kilometre Array. theSkyNet POGS used Spectral Energy Distribution fitting to calculate characteristics of many galaxies using images taken by the Pan-STARRS PS1 optical telescope in Hawaii.
History
theSkyNet Sourcefinder project was introduced publicly on 13 September 2011, operating on a Java-based user platform, processing data using new distributed computing software called Nereus.
One year later, theSkyNet celebrated its first birthday and at the same time theSkyNet POGS project became the first public Australian based project to participate in the well established volunteer computing platform BOINC. The acronym POGS is a reference to a game played with discs that originated on Maui, Hawaii, in the 1920s, and the fact that the Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope, is situated on Mount Haleakala, Maui. However, the project recast "POGS" as the backronym for "Pan-STARRS Optical Galaxy Survey".
Scientific objectives
The aim of theSkyNet POGS project is to:
Combine the spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength (ultra-violet, optical and near infra-red) galaxy atlas for the nearby Universe.
Calculate the physical parameters of each galaxy, including: star formation rate, stellar mass of the galaxy, dust attenuation, and the total dust mass on a pixel-by-pixel basis using spectral energy distribution fitting techniques.
The aim of theSkyNet Sourcefinder project is to:
Refine the use of the Duchamp Sourcefinding algorithm for very large datasets in preparation for next generation radio telescope surveys using Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and the Square Kilometre Array.
Software
theSkyNet POGS volunteer computing software runs continuously in the background on a computer while a user works, making use of any processor time that would otherwise be unused. It is one of many projects which utilise the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) Project Management software platform, which allows users to contribute to a range of volunteer computing projects at the same time.
After a volunteer downloads the BOINC Manager software and elects to join theSkyNet POGS project, work units are requested automatically by the BOINC Manager. These are downloaded and processed automatically on the user's computer, using a percentage of the computer's idle time, according to the parameters set by the volunteer.
On completion of a work unit, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNet | BNet may refer to:
Bungie.net, homepage of news and updates for Bungie and Destiny.
Battle.net, an online gaming service provided by Blizzard Entertainment
Student Radio Network, a group of radio stations in New Zealand previously branded as bNet
beibl.net (BNET), a Welsh Bible translation.
BNET, a defunct online magazine about business management owned by CBS Interactive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Jones%20and%20the%20Bigfoot%20Mystery | Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery is a popular episodic puzzle adventure developed by Lucid Games. Part 1 was original published by Sony Computer Entertainment on PlayStation Vita on May 14, 2013, and later on iOS on May 16, 2013. Episode 2 was released on iOS on July 24, 2014. It had since been removed from all app stores. Although, Both episodes are now available for purchase on Steam.
Critical reception
Episode 1 (Playstation Vita)
The PlayStation Vita version of episode 1 has a Metacritic score of 74 based on 11 critic reviews.
Adventure Gamers said "While the first episode is a little uneven in its story and puzzle pacing at times, Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery is a delightfully stylish debut that makes me want to come back for more. " Eurogamer Sweden said "The first episode of Jacob Jones’ adventure leaves me wanting more and I’m already waiting for the next part. It’s a great little title that will appeal to any gamer that loves a good puzzle. " XGN wrote "This game is such a nice puzzle game. It's a cheap episode and it's really fun. Maybe it even gives us a little bit of a PS Vita comeback! " Push Square said "Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery: Episode One - A Bump in the Night sets the scene on an enjoyable world, and introduces some entertaining puzzles in the process. The stiff challenge is well balanced with lots of hints, though the difficulty does feel a little at odds with the child-friendly aesthetic. Nevertheless, the presentation is exquisite throughout, and we're already looking forward to the next instalment in this charming series." Everyeye.it wrote "The first episode of Jacob Jones and the Mystery Bigfoot is fun and challenging. The only flaw of the game is its extreme similarity to the saga of Professor Layton. But those who love the genre, will also appreciate this." VandalOnline said "This is a great idea, with some brilliant puzzles and some not-so-brilliant ones. Still, taking into account its affordable price, we think it deserves a try. " PSX-Sense.nl said "Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery is an episodic title and the first episode has recently been released. There's a lot of text to tell the story and there's a couple of difficult puzzles to get through. Long story short: this is a fun PlayStation Vita game, available at a low price. " The Digital Fix said "Overall probably the greatest success of A Bump in the Night is taking Jacob and ensuring that his character is likable, rather than simply presenting him as one of those annoying know-it-all kids that you enjoyed not being friends with when you were younger. The storytelling may be linear but as we’ve seen with Telltale’s The Walking Dead that’s no obstacle for a good yarn. " The Sixth Axis said "Penned by TV’s own George Poles, this charming sequence of interspersed brainteasers, point-to-go navigation and child-like exposition never really threatens to wow, but still manages to keep you hooked until the end, if only to find out where that adm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified%20Remote | Unified Remote is a mobile application from Unified Intents for remote controlling programs on a user’s computer from their smartphone. This application attempts to simplify the task of controlling many different programs from one app, and includes support for 70+ applications such as Spotify, YouTube, VLC Media Player, and Windows Media Player.
Background
Unified Remote is the result of a hobby project of two Swedish students, Jakob Berglund and Philip Bergqvist, which later turned into a profitable start-up venture. The app was first launched as a free app on Android in 2010, with simple features and support for 13 remote controls for Windows applications. A year later, an improved version was released, as well as a paid (premium) version including more features and remote controls. The latest version was launched in 2014, which included an overhauled user interface and introduced support for iOS, Mac, and Linux.
Growth
Since 2010, the company has gained popularity in online media within social media, news sites, and blogger communities. Most notably, the app has been featured on sites such as:
CNET
TheJournal
PC World
Gizmodo UK
Lifehacker
Android Police.
International media coverage includes:
Brazil
Poland
Germany,
Sweden
The app has over 3 million downloads worldwide and is rated among the top apps for Android on Play Store.
Features
The application provides many remote controls for various programs. This includes basic mouse and keyboard input and support for media applications, presentation software, and even power functions. The server also provides an open API, which makes it possible for developers to create their own custom remote controls.
Competitors
There are several different apps on the various app stores that provide similar universal remote control functionality. Other competitors also include official apps for different media applications, which instead provide dedicated remote control functionality for specific applications.
In more recent years, software vendors have begun to target smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs directly, thus making the need for a computer remote control redundant. This is especially apparent within the home entertainment space with products such as Apple TV, AirPlay, and Chromecast.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20machine%20learning | Quantum machine learning is the integration of quantum algorithms within machine learning programs.
The most common use of the term refers to machine learning algorithms for the analysis of classical data executed on a quantum computer, i.e. quantum-enhanced machine learning. While machine learning algorithms are used to compute immense quantities of data, quantum machine learning utilizes qubits and quantum operations or specialized quantum systems to improve computational speed and data storage done by algorithms in a program. This includes hybrid methods that involve both classical and quantum processing, where computationally difficult subroutines are outsourced to a quantum device. These routines can be more complex in nature and executed faster on a quantum computer. Furthermore, quantum algorithms can be used to analyze quantum states instead of classical data.
Beyond quantum computing, the term "quantum machine learning" is also associated with classical machine learning methods applied to data generated from quantum experiments (i.e. machine learning of quantum systems), such as learning the phase transitions of a quantum system or creating new quantum experiments.
Quantum machine learning also extends to a branch of research that explores methodological and structural similarities between certain physical systems and learning systems, in particular neural networks. For example, some mathematical and numerical techniques from quantum physics are applicable to classical deep learning and vice versa.
Furthermore, researchers investigate more abstract notions of learning theory with respect to quantum information, sometimes referred to as "quantum learning theory".
Machine learning with quantum computers
Quantum-enhanced machine learning refers to quantum algorithms that solve tasks in machine learning, thereby improving and often expediting classical machine learning techniques. Such algorithms typically require one to encode the given classical data set into a quantum computer to make it accessible for quantum information processing. Subsequently, quantum information processing routines are applied and the result of the quantum computation is read out by measuring the quantum system. For example, the outcome of the measurement of a qubit reveals the result of a binary classification task. While many proposals of quantum machine learning algorithms are still purely theoretical and require a full-scale universal quantum computer to be tested, others have been implemented on small-scale or special purpose quantum devices.
Quantum associative memories and quantum pattern recognition
Associative (or content-addressable memories) are able to recognize stored content on the basis of a similarity measure, rather than fixed addresses, like in random access memories. As such they must be able to retrieve both incomplete and corrupted patterns, the essential machine learning task of pattern recognition.
Typical classical associative mem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT%20Introduction | The NeXT Introduction, sub-titled "the Introduction to the NeXT Generation of Computers for Education", was a lavish, invitation-only gala launch event for the NeXT Computer (also called the NeXT Computer System). It was described as a multimedia extravaganza. It was held at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California on Wednesday October 12, 1988. The event ran from 9:30am till 12 noon. Attendees were all given a unique launch event poster.
After Steve Jobs departed Apple three years prior to this event, he sank from sight only emerging once in 1986 to unveil the NeXT logo and once in early 1987 to announce that H. Ross Perot had invested $20 million in NeXT inc. Otherwise, Steve Jobs shunned public appearances at computer-industry events to avoid having to comment publicly about his new company's activities. But then he re-emerged with this Launch in what was described as having "the subtlety of a Hollywood première" in what was his first major public appearance since leaving Apple. Jobs hired multimedia artist George Coates to stage the unveiling.
At the time, it was considered that this event was the launch of not just a new computer but also a new Steve Jobs. With Jobs himself telling his audience "It's great to be back."
More than 3000 invitations were sent out to educators, software developers & reporters for the launch event but not a single Apple employee was invited.
The company rented the Davies Symphony Hall, supposedly because of its good acoustics, to show off the DSPs that allowed the Cube to play full stereo sound. The machine played a duet with one of the symphony's violinists.
Jobs opened the show with a purpose-built animation built by NeXT UI Architect Keith Ohlfs, demonstrating the history of computer interfaces and the multi-tasking capabilities of the NeXT computer.
The following day October 13 saw the follow-up event "The NeXT Day" where selected educators and software developers were invited (for $100 registration fee) to send up to four key individuals to attend the first public technical overview of the NeXT computer which was held at the San Francisco Hilton. This event gave developers interested in developing NeXT software an insight into the software architecture, object-oriented programming and developing for the NeXT Computer. The luncheon speaker was Steve Jobs.
The program was designed for experienced developers and provided a technical overview of the NeXT software architecture and development environment.
This Launch event was replicated at other venues over the following days at other locations such as Boston's Symphony Hall and University of California, Riverside.
Agenda
Each attendee received an agenda for the day:
Launch poster
The launch poster was given to delegates of the launch event. It measured 37" by 17" and was printed on heavy poster paper. The poster's design consisted of a NeXT Computer, Screen, Keyboard, Mouse and Laser Printer. It also incorporated the NeXT logo de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20men%27s%20footballers%20with%201%2C000%20or%20more%20official%20appearances | In association football, at least 44 players have played at least 1,000 official matches at all age levels. Regarding youth football, only matches with national teams are counted, as such data for club levels cannot be found for the majority of the players. Regarding B teams and reserve teams, appearances for such teams are only included if made in the primary football pyramid and not reserve divisions.
English goalkeeper Peter Shilton holds the record for the most appearances, making over 1,400 appearances between the and , including a national record of 125 appearances for England, and in 1996 became the first footballer to make 1,000 league appearances. In March 2022, Robert Carmona from Uruguay was recognized as the oldest active footballer by Guinness World Records and was reported as having played around 2,200 official matches, a total that would place him at the top of the list by far; however, due to a lack of details about the distribution of these matches per year and team, or even which teams he played for, he cannot currently be added to the list.
Ranking
Bold indicates the player is currently active
Notes
See also
List of top international men's football goalscorers by country
List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps
List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals
List of men's footballers with 500 or more goals
List of goalscoring goalkeepers
List of one-club men in football
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