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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Election | The Election () is a political drama series produced by Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV). With a budget of HK$15 million, filming started in July 2014 and wrapped up on 28 October 2014. Popularly voted to be the inaugural drama of HKTV, the first episode premiered on 19 November 2014, and the remaining episodes were broadcast every Saturday. A second season was initially planned to start filming in February 2015 but was eventually postponed indefinitely.
Plot summary
With the failure of democratic movements such as the 2014 protests, the election of Chief Executive in 2017 is a hybrid universal suffrage: one has to obtain 600 votes from the 2400-member Nominating Committee to stand as an official candidate. Wai Man-hin (Poon Chan-leung), non-partisan candidate, is killed in a car accident on the day he wins the Chief Executive election. In the coming years, Wai's widow, Yip Ching (Angelica Lee), becomes an active activist for labour rights.
As the 2022 Chief Executive election approaches, Luk Wai-tou (Savio Tsang), DNRA-backed candidate, is embroiled in an extramarital scandal. While DNRA continues to back Luk under the pressure of a mainland official Wang, Sung Man-san (Liu Kai-chi), President of the Legislative Council and Chairman of DNRA, is ambitious and tries to replace Luk. Meanwhile, Yip is persuaded by Cheung Gwai-lung (Gregory Wong) into following her late husband's footsteps and participating in the election.
With the increase in the maximum election expenses, prospective candidates have to rely more on sponsors of local tycoons, who are mostly supportive of the government and pro-government DNRA. After appointing Cheung as her election adviser, Yip eventually receives sponsor and nominating votes, but refuses to co-operate with HKMG, Hong Kong's leading media group. Sung fabricates evidence of Luk's affairs to weaken Luk's popularity, but Wang still supports a now-reluctant Luk to stand for the election. Luk discovers that Sung is behind all his scandals but is killed and then replaced by Sung in despair.
Cheung rejects Sung's invitation to return to DNRA and is framed for a rape. Although the charge against Cheung is dropped, Yip loses several nominating votes and has to turn to the Heung Yee Kuk for help. However, unbeknownst to Yip, her meeting with a rural strongman is used by DNRA and HKMG as evidence of her linkage to the Triads. Shortly, Yip joins the Democratic and Liberal Party (DLP), of which her late father is a co-founder, amidst its fierce intraparty conflict; with the Young Turks' support, Yip beats chairman Ho Chung-bak (Kwok Fung) in the party's primary election. Sung Man-san, now diagnosed with brain cancer, and Yip Ching become official Chief Executive candidates.
A hostage taker demands a conversation with Yip and surrenders himself to the police afterwards. Nevertheless, a hostage dies from heart attack. HKMG collaborates with DRNA to blame the victim's death on Yip and discredit her. While it becomes clear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWeb | OpenWeb is a social engagement platform that builds online communities around digital content. OpenWeb works with publishers to bring conversations back from social networks to publisher sites.
Headquartered in New York City, the company also has offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, San Diego, CA, Paris, France, London, UK, and London, Ontario, Canada.
OpenWeb's technology allows publishers and online content creators to host and moderate comments sections, Polls, "Ask Me Anything`s, and Live Blogs. Their products also include a module that allows users to track topics, an insights dashboard, and several advertising modules.
History
The company was founded in 2015 as Spot.IM by Israeli software architects Nadav Shoval and Ishay Green. Roee Goldberg joined as Co-Founder and COO in 2014.
In 2016, Spot.IM raised $13 million from Index Ventures and AltaIR Capital, along with other notable technology investors, in a Series A round.
In 2017, co-founder and CEO, Nadav Shoval, was inducted into the second annual Forbes Israel 30 Under 30 list. In addition, the company finalized its Series C investment round of $25M, led by New York City-based fund - Insight Partners, Altair VC, and more.
In 2019, Spot.IM raised $25 million in Series D funding. The new funding was led by previous investor Insight Partners along with Norma Investments, AltaIR Capital, Cerca and WGI Group.
In 2020, the company was renamed OpenWeb.
In November 2021, OpenWeb raised a $150M Series E financing round which included investment from Insight Partners, Georgian, The New York Times Company, Samsung Next, Dentsu Ventures, Harel, Entrée Capital, Omer Cygler, and Scott Galloway. This round of investment pushed the company's valuation over $1 billion. In November 2022, OpenWeb announced a Series F round of funding at $170M, valuing the company at over $1.5 billion.
In February 2022, the company acquired Hive Media Group for a mix of cash and stock, with a total value of $60M. In April 2022, OpenWeb acquired French advertising company Adyoulike for a mix of cash and stock, with a total value of $100M. In January 2023, OpenWeb acquired personalization and monetization platform Jeeng.
See also
Internet forum
List of social networking websites
Online community
Social networking service
Website monetization
References
External links
Companies based in Tel Aviv
Internet properties established in 2015
Online companies of Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtracker%20%28music%20streaming%29 | SoundayMusic (Formerly known as Soundtracker) is a geosocial networking mobile music streaming app that enables users to listen to and track the music their friends and neighbors are playing in real time. The service provides over 32 million tracks and allows users to create "music stations" choosing between a mix of up to three artists, or choosing a music genre. In the free version users can create up to 10 personalized stations, look at the stations that are being played nearby in real time, and interact with other users through instant chat.
The paid, premium subscription removes advertisements and allows users to create an unlimited number of stations. It was launched in 2009> by Soundtracker, and as of December 2014 the service had 1.3 million registered users. Soundtracker is available for iOS App Store, Android Google Play, Windows Phone Store, Windows Store, Google Glass, BlackBerry World, Samsung Apps, Amazon Appstore, Nook, and Samsung Smart TV, in 10 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese Simplified, Japanese, Korean and Russian.
Soundtracker is a registered trademark.
Beginnings
The company was formed in late 2008 by a team composed of Daniele Calabrese and 25 software developers and designers. Soundtracker was first marketed in 2010 in San Francisco, and today has offices in Washington DC and Cagliari, Italy.
Evolution
The first mobile platform, iOS, was developed by Daniele Calabrese and his team in Silicon Valley in 2009. The iOS app at its inception featured 13 million tracks and allowed geo-tagging.
In 2010 the team moved to Boston where it developed the stations, push notifications, interaction with nearby listeners, and the app for Windows Phone 7. Also in 2010, a website was introduced to provide access to non-mobile users, and the app was made available on Android, Java, Windows 7 and BlackBerry platforms.
In 2011 the app was integrated with Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Songkick.
In the second half of 2013, a system of in-app purchase and premium subscription was implemented allowing users to create an unlimited number of stations.
In June 2014 Soundtracker launched Autodiscovery, a button that discovers the music played in a certain area.
In October 2014, the App launched a location and proximity based advertising service with Facebook and Twitter.
Features
Playlists
Soundtracker allows users to create playlists by choosing between artists, genre, or using the Autodiscovery feature. Each playlist features new music based on an algorithm for music discovery. The playlists are geolocated and users can see the playlists that are being played around them on a map.
Autodiscovery
In June 2014 Soundtracker introduced Autodiscovery, available on the iOS and Android platforms. Similar to Shazam, the app analyzes a track being played and provides the user with its details. It offers the option to create a station, buy the track from iTunes or Google Play Music, or watch the related mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Expanse%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Expanse is an American science fiction television series developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby for the Syfy network and is based on the series of novels of the same name by James S. A. Corey. Set in a future where humanity has colonized the Solar System, it follows a disparate band of protagonists — United Nations Security Council member Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo), cynical detective Josephus "Joe" Miller (Thomas Jane), ship's officer James Holden (Steven Strait) and his crew — as they unwittingly unravel and place themselves at the center of a conspiracy that threatens the system's fragile peace, while dealing with existential crises brought forth by newly discovered alien technology.
The Expanse has received a positive critical response, with particular praise for its visuals, character development and political narrative. It received a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and three Saturn Award nominations for Best Science Fiction Television Series. Syfy cancelled the series after three seasons. Amazon later acquired the series, producing three more seasons, with the sixth and final season premiering on December 10, 2021.
Series overview
Setting
Hundreds of years in the future, humanity has colonized the Solar System. The three largest powers are the United Nations of Earth and Luna, the Martian Congressional Republic on Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA), a loose political confederation of colonies scattered across the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. The United Nations are a militaristic, ultra-capitalist society with authoritarian undertones, while the Martians have evolved into a corporatist culture. Both ruthlessly exploit and oppress the alien "Belter" populations of the OPA to gain control of their valuable natural resources.
Season 1
UN Deputy Undersecretary Chrisjen Avasarala works to prevent simmering tensions between the United Nations and Mars from erupting into all-out war. Ceres police investigator Josephus "Joe" Miller is tasked with finding a missing young woman, Julie Mao, who has ties to the OPA. The Canterbury, an industrial ice-harvesting ship, and the Martian Navy flagship Donnager are destroyed by unknown stealth ships. James Holden, Naomi Nagata, Alex Kamal, and Amos Burton survive both attacks and escape in the Tachi, a Martian gunship. They rename the ship Rocinante, which becomes the main setting of the series. The crew of the Rocinante, with Miller's help, investigate and eventually discover a biohazard that kills off most of the humans on the asteroid spaceport Eros, including Julie. Chrisjen sends her family away after realizing that a faction within the UN is responsible for the demise of both ships.
Season 2
The crew of the Rocinante, along with members of the OPA, attack the station responsible for the biohazard on Eros. Learning that it is an extra-solar bio-weapon known as the protomolecule, they attempt to destroy Eros. Miller becomes trapped there and die |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20BlackBerry%2010%20devices | This is a list of all devices running the discontinued BlackBerry 10 operating system. The company's later devices, starting in the fall of 2015 with the BlackBerry Priv, use the Android operating system instead.
Smartphones
Mid-range
Mid-range devices are targeted at emerging markets and budget-conscious customers. They use dual-core processors. Between 8 GB and 16 GB of internal storage is included, though more can be added with a separate microSD card.
Flagship
Flagship devices are featured the most in BlackBerry advertisements. The Passport features a quad-core processor. All other devices use dual-core processors.
Porsche Design
Porsche Design smartphones are luxury offerings that are based, as the name suggests, on the Porsche automobile brand. These devices use luxury components on the exterior. The internal hardware is the same as the corresponding flagship devices, but the internal storage is upgraded to 64 GB.
References
External links
BlackBerry.com
Technology-related lists
Lists of mobile phones
BlackBerry Limited smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrateDB | CrateDB is a distributed SQL database management system that integrates a fully searchable document-oriented data store. It is open-source, written in Java, based on a shared-nothing architecture, and designed for high scalability. CrateDB includes components from Trino, Lucene, Elasticsearch and Netty.
History
The CrateDB project was started by Christian Lutz, Bernd Dorn, and Jodok Batlogg, an open source contributor and creator who has contributed to the Open Source Initiative Vorarlberg while at Lovely Systems in Dornbirn. The software is an open source, clustered database used for fast text search and analytics.
The company, now called Crate.io, raised its first round of financing in April 2014. In June that year, Crate.io won the judge's choice award at the GigaOm Structure Launchpad competition. In October, Crate.io won the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in London.
Crate.io closed a $4M founding round in March 2016. In December, CrateDB 1.0 was released having more than one million downloads.
CrateDB 2.0, the first Enterprise Edition of CrateDB, was released in May 2017 after a $2.5M round from Dawn Capital, Draper Esprit, Speedinvest, and Sunstone Capital. In June 2021 Crate.io announced another $10M funding round.
Since March 2023, Crate.io is led by Lars Färnström.
References
External links
Distributed data stores
Document-oriented databases
Free database management systems
NewSQL
Relational database management systems
Software using the Apache license
Time series software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA%20Division%20II%20football%20win%E2%80%93loss%20records | The following data is current as of the end of the 2017 season, which ended after the 2017 NCAA Division II Football Championship. The following list reflects the records according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association. This list takes into account results modified later due to NCAA action, such as vacated victories and forfeits.
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References
Lists of college football team records |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20economic%20geography | Historical economic geography examines the history and development of spatial economic structure. Using historical data, it examines how centers of population and economic activity shift, what patterns of regional specialization and localization evolve over time and what factors explain these changes.
Examples
The first major societies grew in regions with reliable access to arable land, water for irrigation and access to domesticated crops.
The industrial revolution began in towns in Britain that were close to flowing rivers that easily accessed surface coal deposits that provided cheap energy along with access to trafficable rivers to transport their goods. This made them an ideal locations for the first factories.
Most major cities have developed on major trade routes. Many cities have grown around major harbours, such as London and New York City, Singapore and Guangzhou. Many major inland cities such as Paris and Moscow grew on rivers that served as trade routes.
Since the industrial revolution, many cities have grown in response to access to man made transport hubs. Manchester grew rapidly as an industrial centre following the construction of a canal to the ocean. Chicago grew around a short channel that linked Lake Michigan with a tributary of the Mississippi River.
Containerisation has caused large changes in transport networks and in manufacturing. In the 1960s, container trade overtook traditional break bulk shipping. This caused a massive change in the nature of ports, away from the waterfront communities built around docks and dock workers, towards centralised container terminals.
Some cities fates have changed in response to the development of transport technology. Buffalo was once the 8th largest city in the United States of America, largely due to its location on the Erie Canal. However it declined when it was bypassed by the St Lawrence Seaway. Detroit grew as a major cluster of automotive businesses at a time when there were significant economies related to clustering businesses together. It went into decline when containerisation made dispersed production cheaper as manufacturers were able to efficiently and effectively source their components from remote suppliers.
References
Economic history studies
Economic geography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tealium | Tealium is a US headquartered American company founded in 2008 in San Diego, California that sells enterprise tag management, an API hub, a customer data platform with machine learning, and data management products. It has offices in the US, Singapore, UK, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, France and Australia.
History
Tealium was founded in 2008 in San Diego, California, by Mike Anderson, Ali Behnam, and Olivier Silvestre who worked together at WebSideStory, a SaaS-based web analytics player that was acquired by Omniture and later by Adobe Systems. Jeff Lunsford, previously the CEO at Limelight Networks and WebSideStory, was appointed CEO of Tealium in January 2013.
In May 2019 the company announced Series F of investment and raised $55 million. The round was led by Silver Lake Waterman with ABN AMRO, Bain Capital, Declaration Partners, Georgian Partners, Industry Ventures, Parkwood and Presidio Ventures also participating. Its total valuation reached $850 million.
In January 2017, Tealium and Possible APAC became partners.
References
External links
Tealium.com
Technology companies of the United States
Software companies established in 2008
Companies based in San Diego
2008 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Heritage%20Heads%20Forum | The European Heritage Heads Forum (EHHF) is an informal professional and expert network that brings together the heads of the European state heritage authorities (built heritage, landscapes, archaeology, etc.) to share knowledge and ideas and promote consistency in the management of the historic environment in the 21st century. The heads are mostly the directors-general of the departments in charge of immovable heritage within the national relevant ministries (Ministry of Culture, Environment, etc.).
Discussion centres on emerging trends, political engagement, European legislation and the scope of international heritage protection and how these affect national heritage policies and impact upon historic monuments, sites and urban centres. The Council of Europe, the European Commission, as well as the representatives of the civil society are associated with the activities of the EHHF by attending the annual meetings and encouraging the impact assessment of the cultural heritage sector at EU level. The EHHF acts as an advocate for heritage and produces strong statements on specific issues to support common concerns.
History
A European Heritage Summit was first organised in London on 26–28 April 2006 by Dr. Simon Thurley, former Chief Executive Officer of English Heritage. The mission of the Summit was to gather for the first time the European heritage leaders who had the opportunity to exchange their experience and initiate common actions. It was attended by 23 European states which agreed in the Final Statement to continue to meet annually as a forum of European heritage heads, known as the “European Heritage Heads Forum”. The following EHHF annual meetings have been successively hosted by different countries.
In May 2014, the EHHF annual meeting was attended by a record of 26 European states.
The EHHF Troika
The steering committee of the EHHF is a Troika composed of the head, or heads, of heritage of the country which hosted the annual meeting in the previous year and the heads of the countries which will host the subsequent two meetings. Troika meetings are chaired by the host of the next annual meeting. Future hosting countries are chosen by general agreement at the annual meeting.
The EHHF Secretariat
The EHHF Secretariat reports to the Troika and is responsible for organising the annual meetings, circulating information to EHHF members, following-up the actions agreed by the EHHF, maintaining the EHHF website and upholding the original purpose for the informal meeting of the heads of the European heritage agencies to:
Exchange experience, ideas and good practice
Strengthen and support existing European networks dealing with immovable heritage
Carry out specific agreed actions (e.g. formulating harmonised heritage indicators to be used at EU level)
Since January 2014, a permanent administrative secretary has been appointed to manage the EHHF Secretariat along with the Troika members. The permanent Secretariat is based in Brussel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita%20State%20University%20Libraries | Wichita State University Libraries are a research library system with holdings of more than 2 million volumes, 236 databases and more than 70,000 journal subscriptions. Located on the University's main campus in Wichita, Kansas University Libraries serve the approximately 15,000 enrolled students of Wichita State University (WSU) while also providing services to the surrounding community. University Libraries serves as a regional United States Federal Government Documents Depository, a State of Kansas Government Documents Depository, and is the State of Kansas only Patents and Trademarks Library. University Libraries Special Collections and University Archives contains numerous rare books and incunabula, historical manuscripts collections and maps, photographic archives documenting Kansas history, and hosts the Wichita Photo Archives.
History of University Libraries
University Libraries has played a prominent role on the WSU campus throughout its history, beginning with the institution's founding as Fairmount College in 1895. The first campus library was a reading room on the third floor of Fairmount Hall, the first building constructed on campus. Paul Roulet, who was hired as a professor of mathematics and French served as the campus' first librarian until his death in 1903.
By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, library collections had exceeded 20,000 volumes and had massively outgrown the original reading room in Fairmount Hall. The university opened its first library building, the Morrison Library, (named for the first President of Fairmount College, Nathan J. Morrison) in 1909, with the assistance of a $40,000 grant provided by Andrew Carnegie. The first Morrison Library had a neo-classical design, characterized by the doric-style columns on its façade. Sadly these columns are all that remain of this building, which was tragically destroyed by fire in 1964.
By the late 1930s library collections had exceeded the space in the original Morrison Library. A grant from the Federal Government during the New Deal provided the funds for a new library building, named the University of Wichita Library, opened in 1939. Petitioning by students and faculty caused the University to rename the Library the Morrison Library (present day Morrison Hall).
A post-war economic boom led to a vast expansion of programs at the University of Wichita, increasing yet again the size of library collections, and placing demands for space that exceeded the size of the Morrison Library. A donation of property by Frank and Harvey Ablah, a pair of successful Wichita entrepreneurs made possible the financing of the construction of a new library facility. Ablah Library opened its doors in 1962.
Current library facilities
University libraries currently consist of three facilities located on the main campus of WSU: Ablah Library, McKinley Chemistry Library and Thurlow Lieurance Memorial Music Library.
Ablah Library
The Ablah Library, opened in 1962, remains the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel%20Neff | David "Axel" Neff is an American businessman, best known for his role as the former Director of International Operations of the Russian social network Vkontakte and as a co-founder of mobile messaging platform Digital Fortress, used to create the instant messaging application Telegram Messenger. Neff was a co-founder of the US based Telegram LLC, which was responsible for the creation of Telegram Messenger. He served as the head of subsidiaries for both companies, Durov LLC and Digital Fortress LLC respectively. Neff was also the director of Pictograph LLC and Telegram LLC.
Early life
Neff is from Buffalo, New York and graduated high school from Springville Griffith Institute. From there he moved to Philadelphia, PA to attend Swarthmore College, where he studied engineering and played football. He graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Economics.
Career
Involvement in VK
While in College, Neff became acquainted with Ilya Perekopsky and Pavel Durov through a mutual friend at Saint Petersburg State University.
From July 2008 to April 2014, he served as the Assistant Director of International Operations. He assisted with various global expansion efforts, VK operational matters in the US, and translation of the social network from Russian into other languages. He played a key role in acquiring the domain name VK.com which VK transitioned to in 2012. He was also involved in VK expansion by sending contest winners iPod Nano promotion from Colden, NY.
Digital Fortress LLC
Digital Fortress LLC was a company created by Neff in his home city of Buffalo, New York in 2012, and co-founded by Pavel Durov. It is engaged in the management and financing of mobile applications. Neff served as the director of this company. Digital Fortress LLC maintained its headquarters in Buffalo, New York. In early 2013 the company bought 96 terabytes of infrastructure from QBC Systems. In April of that same year, Pavel Durov said that Digital Fortress was a cloud cluster, that was created for the benefit of startups from the Start Fellows.
On August 14, 2013, the company released its first experimental application, called Telegram. Telegram is a freemium instant messaging application for smartphones that was built using a new encryption algorithm called MTProto, which was created by Pavel Durov's Brother, Nikolai Durov.
Telegram affiliation
In January 2013, the news channel TV Rain reported that Neff's Digital Fortress company was working on a new project. At that time, it was reported the first application to be supported by Digital Fortress would be called telegra.ph, for which a domain had already been registered. Later this name was dropped in favor of Telegram.
On August 14, 2013 the application was released on the Apple iOS platform. At the same time, a contest was announced to solicit developers to assist in developing the application on Android, referred to as "Durov's Android Challenge".
Shortly following the release of Telegram, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleisson%20Freire | Gleisson Jorge de Souza Freire or simply Gleisson Freire (born May 3, 1982 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian forward. He currently plays for Brazil team Rio Negro.
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External links
The database of player in ogol.com.br
The database of player in footballdatabase.eu
The database of player in theplayersagent.com
A dialogue with the player and video to score two goals in the Malaysian league
1982 births
Living people
Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Petroleros de Salamanca C.F.C. footballers
Mesquita Futebol Clube players
Duque de Caxias Futebol Clube players
Al-Minaa SC players
Ascenso MX players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players
Iraq Stars League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico
Expatriate men's footballers in Iraq
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Iraq
Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee%20Meets%20Bagel |
Coffee Meets Bagel is a San Francisco–based dating and social networking service.
History
Coffee Meets Bagel was created by three sisters: Arum, Dawoon, and Soo Kang. Arum first had the idea for the app in 2011, and the sisters launched the app in New York City on April 17, 2012. Coffee Meets Bagel then launched in Boston on May 10, 2012 and in San Francisco on October 24, 2012.
In September 2012, the company announced that it had raised seed funding of $600,000 led by Lightbank, with Match.com co-founder Peng T. Ong also investing.
In January 2015, Coffee Meets Bagel was featured on Shark Tank, where the sisters sought a $500,000 investment in exchange for 5% of the company. They did not make a deal with any of the sharks, notably turning down Mark Cuban's hypothetical offer of $30 million to buy the entire company.
In February 2015, the company announced a $7.8 million Series A financing round led by existing investor DCM Ventures.
In May 2018, the company raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Atami Capital.
User personal data breach
In February 2019, Coffee Meets Bagel acknowledged that an attacker had stolen "a partial list of user details, specifically names and email addresses" between late 2017 and mid-2018. Outside reporting indicated that as many as 6,174,513 accounts may have been affected and that other details including age and gender may have been taken as well.
August 2023 service disruption
On August 27, 2023, Coffee Meets Bagel's service became unavailable without warning, with the company's engineers stating that they are dealing with a "system outage". Several users have expressed their dissatisfaction on the popular discussion forum Reddit, citing Coffee Meets Bagel's lack of transparent incident explanation and failure to provide service for multiple days. Additionally, users are concerned about the potential leakage of their personal data.
The service was restored on September 3. In a FAQ, co-founder and co-CEO Dawoon explained that the outage was due to "an outside actor who maliciously deleted company data and files" and that a thorough investigation was launched to understand the full scope of the incident.
Features
Features of the Coffee Meets Bagel app include limiting the number of profiles users can interact with each day and offering ice-breaker information for matches. In 2020, Coffee Meets Bagel added video virtual speed dating in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
See also
Comparison of online dating websites
References
External links
Android (operating system) software
IAC (company)
IOS software
Mobile social software
Multilingual websites
Online dating services of the United States
American social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkhill%20Forest | Kirkhill Forest is a forest in Scotland, situated to the north-west of Aberdeen, on the north side of the A96 between the villages of Dyce and Blackburn. Kirkhill is a working forest with a network of paths for walking, a permanent orienteering trail, and a mountain bike fun park.
References
Forests and woodlands of Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopore%20railway%20station | Sopore Railway Station is situated in the outskirts of Sopore town. It lies on Northern Railway Network Zone of Indian Railways. It is one of the northernmost station of Indian Railways.
Location
The station is located at Amargrah about 2 km from Sopore town towards south on Srinagar-Sopore highway.
History
The station has been built as part of the Jammu–Baramulla line megaproject, intending to link the Kashmir Valley with Jammu Tawi and the rest of the Indian railway network.
Design
The station features Kashmiri wood architecture, with an intended ambience of a royal court which is designed to complement the local surroundings to the station. Station signage is predominantly in Urdu, English and Hindi.
Reduced level
The station is situated on R.L. of 1589 m above mean sea level.
See also
Baramulla railway station
Srinagar railway station
References
Railway stations in India opened in 2008
Railway stations in Baramulla district
Sopore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Zhuhai | The Zhuhai tram network was a light rail system serving the city of Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. The first section of Line 1 started trial operation on November 7, 2014 with the full line scheduled initially to open by August 2015 and finally opened on 13 June 2017 and runs from Haitian Gardens to Shangchong. A three-line network was planned.
Line 1 uses AnsaldoBreda's Sirio trams, license built at CRRC Dalian and was also the first Chinese tram system that uses Ansaldo's catenary-free TramWave electrification system. If completed, it would have connected central Zhuhai to Zhuhai Railway Station and the Gongbei Port of Entry to Macau.
It has suspended service since January 22, 2021 due to low ridership and high operating costs. It is reported that the tram will be dismantled. On May 31, the tram committee voted 15 to 1 to demolish the tram line, due to low operational reliability, high operational cost, lack of services and low passenger levels. The TramWave technology was especially problematic and despite 11 different modifications to the power supply, it has remained problematic, with accidents related to the power supply system happening on average 0.13 times for every thousand kilometre travelled by all trams combined, and has risen higher every year, with a failure rate of 0.05 in 2017. The power supply was especially vulnerable to rainwater, causing short circuits and electricity leakage.
References
Zhuhai
Transport in Zhuhai
Rail transport in Guangdong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol%20School%20%282014%20TV%20series%29 | Idol School () is a South Korean variety show, which aired on MBC Music, MBC's cable and satellite network for music. The show is hosted by Jun Hyun-moo, singer Kim Yeon-woo and Sojin of Girl's Day.
Corners/Segments
"Manager's Fast Pedal" – Manager of team are turning the pedals. The music filled the team's fastest energy is playing. However, any amount determined by the ability of the manager.
"Profile Talk" – The hosts feature the profile, info, facts, and rumors about the guest. The idols need to verify, or even, voluntarily prove the info before the MCs. That must appeal to charm in a short period of time. If guest winner the guest get transition stage, stage video and special effects. This is not something you want, when penalties drastically manager.
"Survival Game" – The guests play a game together with the hosts make a group. If the guest winner will get 10 cameras and show stage, if lost will get 1 camera and pin stage.
"Survival Show" – A special where the guests have result survival and make a group for performance stage.
Hosts
Current hosts
Jun Hyun-moo
Kim Yeon-woo
Sojin
List of Episodes
2014
References
External links
MBC Music "Idol School" homepage
South Korean variety television shows
MBC TV original programming
2014 South Korean television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Scorpion%20episodes | Scorpion is an American drama television series developed by Nick Santora for CBS. The series premiered on September 22, 2014, and is loosely based on the life of self-proclaimed genius and computer expert Walter O'Brien. The series follows Walter O'Brien and his team of genius outcasts as they are recruited by federal agent Cabe Gallo of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to form Scorpion, said to be the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats around the globe.
On May 12, 2018, CBS cancelled the series after four seasons.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2014–15)
Season 2 (2015–16)
Season 3 (2016–17)
Season 4 (2017–18)
Ratings
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
References
External links
Lists of American drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery%20Playhouse | Mystery Playhouse is an American radio drama hosted by Peter Lorre which aired on the American Forces Network from July 1944 to June 1946.
The series aired during World War II specifically for the purposes of entertaining the troops serving during the war.
Premise
Mystery Playhouse was created by the American Forces Network in 1944 for the entertainment of the troops during World War II.
Every week, the series aired rebroadcasts of episodes of many popular radio shows of the time. Some include rebroadcast of The Whistler, Mr. and Mrs. North, Inner Sanctum Mystery, and The Adventures of Nero Wolfe.
Peter Lorre's way of introducing each episode was noted as "...part plot summary, and part philosophical about the human condition".
Episodes
Fifty Candles - July 25, 1944
Nightmare - November 28, 1944
The Bottle - December 12, 1944
The Letter - December 26, 1944
Deadline at Dawn - January 30, 1944
The Eleventh Juror - April 3, 1945
Lady in the Morgue - May 15, 1945
Angel Face - October 5, 1945
A Death is Caused Part I - October 12, 1945
A Death is Caused Part II - October 12, 1945
Leg Man - October 19, 1945
Ladies in Retirement - January 18, 1946
Witness for the Prosecution - May 31, 1946
Female of the Species - June 7, 1946
The Adventure of the Fa - June 14, 1946
Listen to
Audio of Mystery Playhouse
References
American radio dramas
American Forces Network radio programs
1940s American radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Balzac | Le Balzac is a movie theater in Paris, France. It features an art deco main auditorium, and is known for its independent arthouse programming.
History
Le Balzac was opened in 1935 with a screening of the film The Wedding Night, directed by King Vidor. Initially, Le Balzac specialized in major Hollywood productions. After World War II, Le Balzac turned its focus to French cinema and helped the emergence of French directors such as René Clément and Jacques Tati, before focusing on international arthouse productions. In 2014 Jean-Jacques Schpoliansky, the long-time director of Le Balzac, described his vision for Le Balzac as "like a literary salon, where people can discuss and imagine changes in society".
References
Cinemas in Paris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki%20L.%20Hanson | Vicki Hanson FACM FRSE FBCS, is an American computer scientist noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility and for her leadership in broadening participation in computing.
She was named the Chief Executive Officer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2018 having served as its President from 2016 to 2018.
Hanson was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for contributions to the design of accessible systems and for leadership in the computer science and engineering community.
Education
In 1974 Hanson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Colorado. At the University of Oregon she graduated with a Master of Arts degree in cognitive psychology in 1976, going on to complete her Ph.D in 1978.
Career and research
Dr. Hanson was a Distinguished Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology within the HCI and Accessibility research groups. She was also Professor and Chair of Inclusive Technologies at the University of Dundee where she led multiple efforts related to inclusion of older adults and individuals with disabilities. From 1986 to 2009 she was a Research Staff Member and Manager at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in New York, founding the Accessibility Research Group in 2000.
She is Past Chair of SIGACCESS and was Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. She has served on Fellows Committees for ACM and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has been active in conference organizing and program committees for ASSETS, CHI, and several other ACM conferences. She was elected as ACM President for a two-year term in 2016.
Hanson's interest in supporting disabled populations began at the University of Colorado where she focused on communication disorders, majoring in psychology along with speech pathology and audiology. In graduate school at the University of Oregon, her scope broadened to include psycholinguistics and applied cognitive psychology. These threads converged during her postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Studies at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and later at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut, where she conducted research on American Sign Language (ASL) and the acquisition of reading by deaf children and adults. In this work, she demonstrated the degree to which reading success among the profoundly and prelingually deaf was coupled to the existence and use of phonological mental representations, representations that were formed without the benefit of ever having heard spoken language.
Joining the Research staff at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1986, Hanson began developing educational applications for the deaf and others. Her first application, HandsOn demonstrated how computer technology could provide a bilingual educational experience for deaf children. Combining ASL and English, it allowed a student's skill in ASL to bo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeVIO | CeVIO is the collective name of a range of computer software projects, including Vision (digital signage) and Creative Studio (audio creation software). CeVIO was made to assist in the creation of user-generated content. It works via text-to-speech method.
Overview
It allows audio creation software for speech and voice synthesizing. Speech and Song are this program's main features. The Speech portion offers a large dictionary of words to which Sato Sasara, Suzuki Tsudumi, and Takahashi speak from and are accurate in the Japanese language, although the option to manually edit it exists as well. The Speech portion was created with help of the HTS method. This method is famous in the VOCALOID fanbase because this method created the online synthesizers Sinsy, Open J-Talk, Renoid Player, and many more. The Speech portion offers different types of voices for each character.
CeVIO Creative Studio's speech intonation can be controlled with three parameters: cheery, angry, and sad. Other things can be controlled as well, such as volume and speed of consonants and vowels.
The software was initially released as "CeVIO Creative Studio FREE" with Sato Sasara as the only voice. One was free to create tracks, insert lyrics, and add breaths to the end of notes, but even then those would get caught up in the end of her already automatically set breaths. Anything else would require external software but didn't really stop the choppiness of her vowel transitions. After the release of "CeVIO Creative Studio S" on the 14th of November 2014, the FREE version was replaced by one-month free trial of the full version. The free demo version was no longer available since November 19, 2014.
In the full version, more options for fine-tuning became available. Fine-Tune Amplitude Timing, which allows editing of the choppiness. In addition to pitch, pitch-bends can now also be adjusted, along with vibrato, vibrato timing, volume and dynamics. Gender factor is also available, which makes the voice less or more mature. The option to import MIDI's and .xml's is still present. The file extension also has changed from the free version's ".ccs" to ".csv".
Products
CeVIO Project
Sato Sasara (さとうささら) (Free, CCS, AI, VS), a female vocal for CeVIO Free, CeVIO Creative Studio, CeVIO AI and VoiSona capable of speech and singing.
Suzuki Tsudumi (すずきつづみ) (CCS,AI), a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio and CeVIO AI capable of speech and singing.
Takahashi (タカハシ) (CCS), a male vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio capable only of speech. He has an upcoming Talk voicebank for CeVIO AI.
1st PLACE
ONE (オネ) (CCS, AI) is a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio and CeVIO AI capable of speech and singing. She is the second vocal in the "- ARIA ON THE PLANETES -" project, the first being the Vocaloid IA. She was released on January 27, 2015, with a speaking voicebank only. A singing voicebank was later released on May 22, 2015.
IA (イア) (CCS, AI) is a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio and Ce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling%20at%20the%201997%20Bolivarian%20Games | This page shows the results of the Wrestling Competition at the 1997 Bolivarian Games, held in Arequipa, Peru.
Men's competition
Greco-Roman
Freestyle
References
Results database
Sports at the Bolivarian Games
1997 in sport wrestling
1997 Bolivarian Games
Wrestling in Peru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20Network | The Shadow Network is a China-based computer espionage operation that stole classified documents and emails from the Indian government, the office of the Dalai Lama, and other high-level government networks. This incident is the second cyber espionage operation of this sort by China, discovered by researchers at the Information Warfare Monitor, following the discovery of GhostNet in March 2009. The Shadow Network report "Shadows in the Cloud: Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0" was released on 6 April 2010, approximately one year after the publication of "Tracking GhostNet."
The cyber spying network made use of Internet services, such as social networking and cloud computing platforms. The services included Twitter, Google Groups, Baidu, Yahoo Mail, Blogspot, and blog.com, which were used to host malware and infect computers with malicious software.
Discovery
The Shadow Net report was released following an 8-month collaborative investigation between researchers from the Canada-based Information Warfare Monitor and the United States Shadowserver Foundation. The Shadow Network was discovered during the GhostNet investigation, and researchers said it was more sophisticated and difficult to detect. Following the publication of the GhostNet report, several of the listed command and control servers went offline; however, the cyber attacks on the Tibetan community did not cease.
The researchers conducted field research in Dharamshala, India, and with the consent of the Tibetan organizations, they were able to monitor the networks in order to collect copies of the data from compromised computers and identify command and control servers used by the attackers. The field research done by the Information Warfare Monitor and the Shadowserver Foundation found that computer systems in the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (OHHDL) had been compromised by multiple malware networks, one of which was the Shadow Network.
Further research into the Shadow Network revealed that, while India and the Dalai Lama's offices were the primary focus of the attacks, the operation compromised computers on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.
The research team recovered more than 1,500 e-mails from the Dalai Lama's Office along with a number of documents belonging to the Indian government. This included classified security assessments in several Indian states, reports on Indian missile systems, and documents related to India's relationships in the Middle East, Africa, and Russia. Documents were also stolen related to the movements of NATO forces in Afghanistan, and from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). The hackers were indiscriminate in what they took, which included sensitive information as well as financial and personal information.
Origin
The attackers were tracked through e-mail addresses to the Chinese city of Chengdu in Sichuan province. There was suspicion, but no confirmation, that one of the hack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20University%20Press | European University Press was founded on 20 January 2003 . It has several outlets in Germany and tries to have a regional networking role for other European university presses. So far, the University Press has published books of members and institutions of more than 30 European universities.
Aims
The European University Press wants to enhance the visibility of international and especially European research results especially in comparison to American research results which are seen as dominating. For this purpose, it fosters multilinguality when introducing new publications and supports English abstracts of German and French research results. It also supports an English paper as a condensation of a non-English monograph. It encourages European scholars to submit English papers, summarizing their research and making it accessible in English. Therefore, the European University Press is better known under its English name (despite its German origin).
Instruments
The European University Press is operator of the platform sciencenet.eu for books published by university presses. The press fosters the establishment of instruments of quality assurance such as peer review, the 'European Impact Factor', 'European Citation Index' as well as open access by professional presses. University presses fulfilling the quality criteria of the European University Press, can become members of the network, they are entitled to use the logo of European University Press.
Innovation
The European University Press published the first book to be read with Google Glass on 8 October 2014, as introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The book can be read as a normal paper book or - enriched with multimedia elements - with Google Glass, Kindle, on Smartphone and Pads on the platforms iOS and Android.
External links
Plattform ScienceNet.EU
Website
Literature by and on the European University Press in the Catalogue of the German National Library
Catalogue as pdf for download
Online Catalogue of available titles from buchhandel.de
References
University presses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282015%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that appeared in 2015, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced by the soap's executive producer, Lucy Addario. The 28th season of Home and Away began airing from 2 February 2015. Katarina Chapman and Ryan Kelly were introduced in the same month. Martin Ashford's sister, Billie Ashford arrived in April, while Charlotte King made her first appearance in June. James Edmunds and Charlotte's teenage son Hunter King made their debuts in July. September saw the arrival of Tank Snelgrove, while Trystan Powell was introduced in October. Skye Peters made her first appearance in November.
Katarina Chapman
Katarina "Kat" Chapman, played by Pia Miller, made her first screen appearance on 5 February 2015. The character and Miller's casting was announced on 4 August 2014. Miller auditioned for the role two weeks before the announcement and she began filming from 5 August. Of joining Home and Away, Miller said "I'm feeling very excited, it just feels like it's been such a whirlwind." Kat moves to Summer Bay from the city and she was described as being "tough and resilient". Kat is a policewoman and Miller explained that her character was there "to enforce the law and help people", instead of being a "sex symbol". The actress added that Kat "has been through a bit and had experiences - some good and some not so great". For her portrayal of Kat, Miller earned a nomination for the Logie Award for Best New Talent in 2016.
Ryan Kelly
Ryan Kelly, played by Daniel Webber, made his first screen appearance on 17 February 2015. Webber is the real-life flatmate of Nic Westaway, who plays Kyle Braxton. After being cast as Ryan, he told Westaway that he would be stalking his on-screen girlfriend Phoebe Nicholson (Isabella Giovinazzo). Westaway recalled "He said, 'I'm stalking your girlfriend'. Then he added, 'on the show'." Stephen Downie branded Ryan "a mysterious peeping Tom" and added "we get the vibe he doesn't seem like the sort of guy who'll settle for an autograph."
After arriving in Summer Bay, Ryan goes to the diner and tells Roo Stewart (Georgie Parker) that he is in the Bay to meet a girl. He spots Phoebe Nicholson and tells Roo that he is a fan of hers. He follows Phoebe home and watches her from the bushes. Ryan talks to her the following day and is spotted by John Palmer (Shane Withington) looking through the window of her house. Ryan sees Phoebe's boyfriend Kyle Braxton leave town and later shows up at her house, telling Phoebe he knows she is alone. Phoebe tries to get Ryan to leave, but he tells her he wants to help as she is not safe. Phoebe's screams alert John and Ryan leaves. The following day, Ryan is questioned by Katarina Chapman (Pia Miller) and told to stay away from Phoebe, who also gets an AVO. Phoebe's boyfriend, Kyle, and Ash (George Mason) threaten Ryan. After learn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit%20Sahai | Amit Sahai (born 1974) is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at UCLA and the director of the Center for Encrypted Functionalities.
Biography
Amit Sahai was born in 1974 in Thousand Oaks, California, to parents who had
immigrated from India. He received a B.A. in mathematics with a computer
science minor from the University of California, Berkeley, summa cum laude, in
1996.
At Berkeley, Sahai was named Computing Research Association Outstanding
Undergraduate of the Year, North America, and was a member of the three-person
team that won first place in the 1996 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Sahai received his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2000, and joined the
computer science faculty at Princeton University. In
2004 he moved to UCLA, where he currently holds the position of professor of
computer science.
Research and recognition
Amit Sahai's research interests are in security and cryptography, and theoretical
computer science more broadly. He has published more than 100 original
technical research papers.
Notable contributions by Sahai include:
Obfuscation. Sahai is a co-inventor of the first candidate general-purpose indistinguishability obfuscation schemes, with security based on a mathematical conjecture. This development generated much interest in the cryptography community and was called "a watershed moment for cryptography." Earlier, Sahai co-authored a seminal paper formalizing the notion of cryptographic obfuscation and showing that strong forms of this notion are impossible to realize.
Functional Encryption. Sahai co-authored papers which introduced attribute-based encryption and functional encryption.
Results on Zero-Knowledge Proofs. Sahai co-authored several important results on zero-knowledge proofs, in particular introducing the concept of concurrent zero-knowledge proofs. Sahai also co-authored the paper that introduced the MPC-in-the-head technique for using secure multi-party computation (MPC) protocols for efficient zero-knowledge proofs.
Results on Secure Multi-Party Computation. Sahai is a co-author on many important results on MPC, including the first universally composably secure MPC protocol, the first such protocol that avoided the need for trusted set-ups (using "Angel-aided simulation") and the IPS compiler for building efficient MPC protocols. He is also a co-editor of a book on the topic.
Sahai has given a number of invited talks including the 2004 Distinguished Cryptographer Lecture
Series at NTT Labs, Japan. He was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research
Fellow in 2002, received an Okawa Research Grant Award in 2007, a Xerox
Foundation Faculty Award in 2010, and a Google Faculty Research Award in 2010.
His research has been covered by several news agencies including the BBC World
Service.
Sahai was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to cryptography and to the development of indistinguishability obfuscation".
In 2019, he was n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazia%20Sadiq | Professor Shazia Sadiq is a computer scientist based in Queensland, Australia.
Background
Originally from Pakistan, Sadiq was one of a handful of women to undertake studies in a computer science program within Pakistan at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan in 1980s, and wrote her first computer program in Fortran using punched cards.
She later received a NORAD scholarship to undertake a masters in computer science from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. She then went on to do a PhD in Information Systems at the University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia, with Professor Maria Orlowska.
Since 2001 Sadiq has been based in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, at the University of Queensland. She conducts research and teaching in databases and information systems.
She serves as deputy chair on the Australian Academy of Science's National Committee on Information and Communication Sciences and formerly as vice president of the Asia Pacific Chapter of IQ International – the International Association of Information and Data Quality.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2002)
Masters in Computer Science (Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 1993)
Masters in Computer Science (Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 1989)
Research and advocacy
Sadiq's research is focused on developing innovative solutions for Business Information Systems. She has published over 100 publications in prestigious journals and conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDBJ, TKDE, WWWJ, ISJ, CAiSE, ER, and BPM. She has also received several received grants. Her work on declarative modeling of complex and dynamic business requirements has been applied in the areas of business process management, and GRC (governance, risk and compliance) with approximately 1000 citations on the collective works. Sadiq is leading a group of researchers and students in the area of big data quality and integration with novel applications in transportation, social media and learning analytics. In addition to her work in research, Sadiq contributes to the professional community of data and information quality professionals as a board member of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the International Association of Information and Data Quality and as convener of the Queensland Data Quality Roundtable.
Sadiq has also contributed to the enhancement of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) education for the last fifteen years. She has devoted considerable energy towards raising awareness of the importance of ICT skills for a number of disciplines, while ensuring that ICT students are equipped with the knowledge and confidence to tackle the rising challenges of a constantly evolving ICT landscape and a data driven society. Her teaching methods have been recognized through publications in leading conferences and journals, leadership roles at national and international ICT educational foru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual%20hashing | Perceptual hashing is the use of a fingerprinting algorithm that produces a snippet, hash, or fingerprint of various forms of multimedia. A perceptual hash is a type of locality-sensitive hash, which is analogous if features of the multimedia are similar. This is not to be confused with cryptographic hashing, which relies on the avalanche effect of a small change in input value creating a drastic change in output value. Perceptual hash functions are widely used in finding cases of online copyright infringement as well as in digital forensics because of the ability to have a correlation between hashes so similar data can be found (for instance with a differing watermark).
Development
The 1980 work of Marr and Hildreth is a seminal paper in this field.
The July 2010 thesis of Christoph Zauner is a well-written introduction to the topic.
In June 2016 Azadeh Amir Asgari published work on robust image hash spoofing. Asgari notes that perceptual hash function like any other algorithm is prone to errors.
Researchers remarked in December 2017 that Google image search is based on a perceptual hash.
In research published in November 2021 investigators focused on a manipulated image of Stacey Abrams which was published to the internet prior to her loss in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election. They found that the pHash algorithm was vulnerable to nefarious actors.
Characteristics
Research reported in January 2019 at Northumbria University has shown for video it can be used to simultaneously identify similar contents for video copy detection and detect malicious manipulations for video authentication. The system proposed performs better than current video hashing techniques in terms of both identification and authentication.
Research reported in May 2020 by the University of Houston in deep learning based perceptual hashing for audio has shown better performance than traditional audio fingerprinting methods for the detection of similar/copied audio subject to transformations.
In addition to its uses in digital forensics, research by a Russian group reported in 2019 has shown that perceptual hashing can be applied to a wide variety of situations. Similar to comparing images for copyright infringement, the group found that it could be used to compare and match images in a database. Their proposed algorithm proved to be not only effective, but more efficient than the standard means of database image searching.
A Chinese team reported in July 2019 that they had discovered a perceptual hash for speech encryption which proved to be effective. They were able to create a system in which the encryption was not only more accurate, but more compact as well.
Apple Inc reported as early as August 2021 a Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) system that they know as NeuralHash. A technical summary document, which nicely explains the system with copious diagrams and example photographs, offers that "Instead of scanning images [on corporate] iCloud [servers], t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20James%20Skellern | David Skellern is an Australian electronic engineer and computer scientist credited, along with colleagues, for the first chip-set implementation of the IEEE 802.11a wireless networking standard.
He is credited with a number of important technology innovations. developed with colleagues which include John O'Sullivan, Terence Percival and Neil Weste, and in particular the first chip-set implementation of the IEEE 802.11a wireless networking standard. This innovation has been described as a revolution in world communications, allowing high speed wireless communications.
Skellern was appointed to the Order of Australia in 2012.
Biography
He received a B.Sc. University of Sydney (1972) [Pure Mathematics, Computer Science & Physics], a B.E. (Hons), Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney (1974), and a PhD, University of Sydney (1985) for a thesis on A Mapping System for Rotational Synthesis Data.
Career
From 1974 to 1983 he worked in radio astronomy and taught electronics at Sydney University and Macquarie University. From 1983 to 1989 he held research and academic positions at that university's department of Electrical engineering. In 1989, he became Professor and chair of the Department of Electronics at Macquarie University.
In 1997 he co-founded Radiata, a company engaged in the commercial development of WLAN communications. The company demonstrated the world's first chip-set implementation of the 54 Mbit/s IEEE 802.11a High-Speed WLAN standard, based on the research Skellern conducted with Neil Weste in the 1990s at Macquarie University in collaboration with CSIRO. Radiata was sold to Cisco Systems in 2001 for $565 million.
When Radiata was acquired by Cisco in 2001. he became the Technology Director of their Wireless Networking Business Unit, until 2005, when he joined NICTA (National Information and Communications Technology Australia Ltd), where he was first chief executive officer (2005–2010) and finally, in 2011, Chairman.
Public activities
Skellern was involved in debate on sharing of the spectrum which resulted in the allocation of additional 5 GHz spectrum for Wireless Access Systems at the World Radio Conference in 2003 (WRC2003).
Honors
He has held visiting faculty and researcher appointments at Imperial College London, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, Digital Equipment Corporation Paris Research Labs, France, and British Telecom Research Labs, Martlesham Heath, UK, Visiting Researcher.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer for contributions to high speed devices and systems for wireless and wireline communications networks, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and an honorary fellow of the Engineers Australia (Institute of Engineers Australia).
He received the Clunies Ross Award, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2010 the MA Sargent Medal, Engineers Australia, the CSIRO Tony Benson Award for Individual Achi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20qualifier | In the C, C++, and D programming languages, a type qualifier is a keyword that is applied to a type, resulting in a qualified type. For example, const int is a qualified type representing a constant integer, while int is the corresponding unqualified type, simply an integer. In D these are known as type constructors, by analogy with constructors in object-oriented programming.
Type qualifiers are a way of expressing additional information about a value through the type system, and ensuring correctness in the use of the data. Type qualifiers are not generally used outside the C/C++ family of languages: many languages have a notation of constants, but express this by the name binding being constant (a "variable that doesn't vary"), rather than through the type system; see alternatives, below.
By language
C/C++
and C11, there are four type qualifiers in standard C: const (C89), volatile (C89), restrict (C99) and _Atomic (C11) – the latter has a private name to avoid clashing with user-defined names. The first two of these, const and volatile, are also present in C++, and are the only type qualifiers in C++. Thus in C++ the term "cv-qualified type" (for const and volatile) is often used for "qualified type", while the terms "c-qualified type" and "v-qualified type" are used when only one of the qualifiers is relevant.
Of these, const is by far the best-known and most used, appearing in the C and C++ standard libraries and encountered in any significant use of these languages, which must satisfy const-correctness. The other qualifiers are used for low-level programming, and while widely used there, are rarely used by typical programmers. For a time however volatile was used by some C++ programmers for synchronization during threading, though this was discouraged and is now broken in most compilers.
D
In D the type constructors are const, immutable, shared, and inout. immutable is a stronger variant of const, indicating data that can never change its value, while const indicates data that cannot be changed through this reference: it is a constant view on possibly mutable data. shared is used for shared data in multi-threading (as volatile was briefly used for in C++). inout is a wildcard used to allow functions that do not modify data (and thus are only concerned with the unqualified type of the data) to return the same qualified type as the input. const and immutable can also be used as storage class specifiers.
Syntax
In C and C++, a type is given in a function declaration or variable declaration by giving one or more type specifiers, and optionally type qualifiers. For example, an integer variable can be declared as:
int x;
where int is the type specifier. An unsigned integer variable can be declared as:
unsigned int x;
where both unsigned and int are type specifiers. A constant unsigned integer variable can be declared as:
const unsigned int x;
where const is a type qualifier, which the qualified type of x is const unsigned int and the unq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera%20Pawlowsky-Glahn | Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn (born September 25, 1951) is a Spanish-German mathematician. From 2000 till 2018, she was a full-time professor at the University of Girona, Spain in the Department of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics. Since 2018 she is emeritus professor at the same university. She was previously an associate professor at Technology University in Barcelona from 1986 to 2000. Her main areas of research interest include statistical analysis of compositional data, algebraic-geometric approach to statistical inference, and spatial cluster analysis. She was the president of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) during 2008–2012. IAMG awarded her the William Christian Krumbein Medal in 2006 and the John Cedric Griffiths Teaching Award in 2008. In 2007, she was selected IAMG Distinguished Lecturer.During the 6th International Workshop on Compositional Data Analysis in June 2015, Vera was appointed president of a commission to formalize the creation of an international organization of scientists interested in the advancement and application of compositional data modeling.
Education
PhD., Free University Berlin, 1986
MSc., University of Barcelona, 1982
B.Sc., University of Barcelona, 1980
Books
Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Jean Serra (Editors), 2019. Oxford University Press, 190 p.
Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Juan José Egozcue, Raimon Tolosana-Delgado, 2015. Modelling and Analysis of Compositional Data. Wiley, 256 p.
Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Antonella Buccianti (Editors), 2011. Compositional Data Analysis: Theory and Applications. Wiley, p. 400.
Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Mario Chica-Olmo, Eulogio Pardo-Igúzquiza, 2011. New applications of geomathematics in earth sciences, v. 122, no. 4, Boletín Geológico y Minero, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, 435 p.
Antonella Buccianti, G. Mateu-Figueras, Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn (Editors), 2006. Compositional Data Analysis in the Geosciences: From Theory to Practice. Geological Society of London special publication, 212 p.
Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn and Ricardo A. Olea, 2004. Geostatistical Analysis of Compositional Data. International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Studies in Mathematical Geosciences, Oxford University Press, 181 p.
Lucila Candela and Vera Pawlowsky (Editors), 1988. Curso sobre fundamentos de geoestadística. Barcelona, Spain, .
References
Living people
20th-century Spanish mathematicians
Women mathematicians
Spanish statisticians
Women statisticians
Academic staff of the University of Girona
Free University of Berlin alumni
University of Barcelona alumni
1951 births
21st-century Spanish mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Directory%20of%20Medical%20Schools | The World Directory of Medical Schools is a public database of institutions that provide medical education. There are over 3,800 medical schools listed in the directory. The directory is published as a collaboration of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) and the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER).
Database
For the database, a "medical school" is defined as an "educational institution that provides a complete or full program of instruction leading to basic medical qualification; that is, a qualification that permits the holder to obtain a license to practice as a medical doctor or physician". As of 2023, the database has records for more than 3,800 medical schools that are operational and more than 190 that have ceased to be operational.
It was created by merging WMFE's AVICENNA Directory for Medicine with FAIMER's International Medical Education Directory (IMED) to produce a single comprehensive resource, including the schools in each of the prior directories.
History
The World Health Organization (WHO) originally published the World Directory of Medical Schools from 1953 to 2007 before transferring responsibility to the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) which renamed it the AVICENNA Directory for Medicine. A separate International Medical Education Directory (IMED) had been published by the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) since 2002. In March 2012, the AVICENNA and IMED directories agreed to merge into a single comprehensive directory. The new World Directory of Medical Schools officially launched in April 2014 managed by both WMFE and FAIMER. The Avicenna and IMED directories were subsequently discontinued.
Sponsors
The major sponsors are the Australian Medical Council, Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, and the Medical Council of Canada.
References
External links
WFME website
FAIMER website
Organizations established in 2014
Medical databases
Medical education
International medical and health organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faktiskt | Faktiskt is the eight studio album by Swedish singer-songwriter Orup, released on 15 November 2006, by Roxy Recordings.
Track listing
Personnel
Orup — vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming, composer, song lyricist, producer
Anders Hansson — drums, percussion, keyboard, programming, producer
Petter Gunnarsson — bass
Staffan Astner — guitar
Per Adebratt — keyboard, programming, producer
Charts
References
External links
2006 albums
Orup albums
Roxy Recordings albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued%20process%20verification | Continued process verification (CPV) is the collection and analysis of end-to-end production components and processes data to ensure product outputs are within predetermined quality limits. In 2011 the Food and Drug Administration published a report outlining best practices regarding business process validation in the pharmaceutical industry. Continued process verification is outlined in this report as the third stage in Process Validation.
Its central purpose is to ensure that processes are in a constant state of control, thus ensuring final product quality. Central to effective CPV is a method with which to identify unwanted process inconsistencies in order to execute corrective or preventive measures. Once quality standards are set in place they must be monitored with regular frequency to confirm those parameters are being met. Continued process verification not only helps protect consumers from production faults, but business also see benefits in implementing a CPV program. Should product outputs not match target standards it can be very costly to investigate the problem source without existing CPV data.
Vital components of continued process verification
An alert system to identify process malfunctions that lead to deviations from quality standards.
A framework for gathering and analyzing data of final product quality and process consistency. Analysis should include source materials consistency and manufacturing equipment condition; and data should be collected in a format that allows for long-term trend analysis as well as intra-production quality analysis.
Continued review of quality qualification standards and process reliability. Departures from any predetermined standards should be flagged for review by trained personnel and appropriate measures undertaken to restore end-to-end quality standards.
Data collection and analysis
Crucial in effective CPV implementation is an appropriate data collection procedure. Data must allow for statistical analytics and trend analysis of process consistency and capability. A correctly implemented procedure will minimize overreactions to individual production outlier events and guarantee genuine process inconsistency are detected. While production variability can sometimes be obvious and even casually identified the FDA recommends using statistical tools to quantitatively detect problems and identify root causes. Initially, continued process verification should be based on quality standards established in the design phase. After a period of time variations can be detected by identifying deviation from historical data using statistical tools. Furthermore, these same tools can also be used to identify opportunities to optimize processes that may pre-emptively increase quality reliability.
References
Further reading
BPOG, 2014, Continued Process Verification: An Industry Position Paper with Example Plan © 2014, BPOG - Biophorum Operations Group. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
Software testing
Formal |
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}}Africell Group''' is a mobile technology company providing voice, messaging, data, mobile money and other integrated telecoms services to almost 20 million subscribers across Africa. It is the only US-owned mobile network operator in Africa.
Company overview
Africell was founded in 2001. It has US ownership and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The company has approximately 10,000 direct and outsourced employees and currently operates in four countries – The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola.
Africell is a market leader in The Gambia and Sierra Leone, with approximately 60% market share of the telecoms sectors in each. In Democratic Republic of Congo, Africell has between 20 and 25% market share in the provinces in which it is active. There has been significant subscriber growth in all markets since 2010. As of January 2023, Africell has almost 20 million subscribers. Its Africell Impact Foundation was launched in July 2022.
Africell is among the fastest-growing mobile telecommunications companies in Africa. The group is undergoing rapid expansion due to strong demographic trends in Africa (in terms of age, education, urbanisation and other factors), deepening telecoms penetration in most African countries, and the increasing availability of affordable smartphones. In addition to investing in mobile network operations and telecommunications infrastructure, Africell's strategy involves developing fintech products and services such as micro-payments, micro-insurance and micro-finance which - in addition to helping individual customers - have a multiplier effect on wider economic growth in Africa.
In January 2021, it was announced that Africell had won a competitive international tender process for a telecommunications license in Angola. Africell launched services in Angola in April 2022, the first new or independent operator in two decades to do so.
History
Africell was founded in 2001 by US entrepreneur Ziad Dalloul. Africell launched its first comm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay%20Kumar | Sanjay Kumar may refer to:
Sanjay Kumar (activist) (born 1976), Indian homeless advocate
Sanjay Kumar (business executive) (born 1962), Chairman and CEO of Computer Associates International
Sanjay Kumar (professor), director of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Sanjay Kumar (soldier) (born 1976), Indian Army soldier who received the Param Vir Chakra
Sanjay Kumar (wrestler, born 1983), Indian Greco-Roman wrestler
Sanjay Kumar (wrestler, born 1967), Indian freestyle wrestler |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diazona%20violacea | {{Taxobox
| image = Diazona-violacea.jpg
| image_caption = The ascidian Diazona violacea, Firth of Lorne, Scotland, 20 m
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Ascidiacea
| ordo = Aplousobranchia
| familia = Diazonidae
| genus = Diazona
| species = D. violacea
| binomial = Diazona violacea| binomial_authority = Savigny, 1816
| synonyms =
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}}Diazona violacea is a species of tunicate, an ascidian in the family Diazonidae. It is the type species of the genus Diazona''.
Distribution
This species is known from the northeast Atlantic from the British Isles to Portugal, and in the Mediterranean Sea. In the British Isles it is found off Scotland, Ireland and SW England. It is a cold water species found below 30 m in Plymouth but as shallow as 15 m in Scotland.
Description
This colonial ascidian is translucent grey with transparent zooids. The zooids are marked with white internal lines and circles and there are typically six spots around the exhalant siphon.
References
External links
Aplousobranchia
Fauna of the Atlantic Ocean
Fauna of the Mediterranean Sea
Animals described in 1816
Taxa named by Marie Jules César Savigny |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Urban%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Urban Artist of the Year is an honor presented annually by American television network Univision at the Lo Nuestro Awards. The accolade was established to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. However, since 2004, the winners are selected through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented in 2005 to Puerto-Rican American performer Don Omar. The same year, Don Omar was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album for his album The Last Don Live. Puerto-Rican American reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel are the most nominated act, with nine nominations, and also are the most awarded, with five wins. The duo also earned the Lo Nuestro Award for Artist of the Year in the 2011 ceremony. American rapper Pitbull won Urban Artist of the Year in 2011, the same year the single "Give Me Everything" became his first to top the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. Pitbull also won the following year and performed the main theme for the film Men in Black 3 (2012). In 2014, Pitbull was awarded again in the category. Puerto-Rican American performer Tito El Bambino is the most nominated artist without a win, with three unsuccessful nominations.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.
See also
Grammy Award for Best Latin Urban Album
Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album
Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica for Best Urban Artist
References
Urban Artist
Latin hip hop
Awards established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4I%20Corps | The C4I Corps (, Heyl HaTikshuv), or Teleprocessing Corps, is a combat support corps of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) under the command of the Teleprocessing Branch, formerly the Computer Service Directorate. The C4I Corps is responsible for all areas of teleprocessing and communications in the IDF. The corps commander is known as the chief teleprocessing officer and is an officer with the rank of "Tat Aluf", equivalent to a brigadier general in the United States Army. The current commander of the corps is Yossi Karadi.
History
The Haganah Communications Service was established in 1937 and in the same year the first Morse Code radio operators’ course was held. At that time in the British Mandate, they operated 12 underground broadcasting stations. In 1938 they brought 150 carrier pigeons to the country. In 1939 the first broadcast station run by the Etzel, also known as the Irgun, was activated. The first communications officer course was held in 1947, and in the time of the Jerusalem blockade, radio communication equipment was installed on Palmach armored vehicles that went up to the city.
After the establishment of the State of Israel and the IDF, the Communications Corps was established on October 14, 1948.
With the establishment of the Computer Service Directorate in 2003, the C4I Corps became one of its subordinate units, but in 2005 as part of comprehensive organizational changes in the Ground Forces Command, the C4I Corps together with the Ordnance Corps, Logistics Corps, and Adjutant Corps became subordinate elements of that headquarters. In 2007 it was decided to return the C4I Corps to the Computer Service Directorate and over the course of the year 2008 the decision was implemented.
Commanders
References
External links
IDF C4I Corps Official Website
Corps of Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20diagram | Comparison diagram or comparative diagram is a general type of diagram, in which a comparison is made between two or more objects, phenomena or groups of data. A comparison diagram or can offer qualitative and/or quantitative information. This type of diagram can also be called comparison chart or comparison chart. The diagram itself is sometimes referred to as a cluster diagram.
Overview
A comparison diagram is a general type of diagram, meaning a class of specific diagrams and charts, in which a comparison is made between two or more objects, phenomena or groups of data. They are a tool for visual comparison.
When it comes to comparing data, five basic types of comparison can be determined.
Comparison of components, for example the pieces of pie chart
Item comparison, for example the bars in a bar chart
Time-series comparison, for example the bars in a histogram or the curve of a line chart
Frequency distribution comparison, for example the distribution in a histogram or line chart
Correlation comparison, for example in a specific dot diagram
Comparison diagrams can be used in research projects, to give an overview of existing possibilities and to validate models. It can be used in decision making in presenting alternatives for further selection. And it can be used in education to show the variety in a specific population.
History
Origins
Comparison charts originate from the late 18th century and early 19th century. One of its roots are the 18th century nautical chart, which could offer a comparison of shore or coastal profiles. These were made popular by the English cartographer and a publisher of maps William Faden (1749–1836).Another root of comparison diagrams are the earliest thematic maps. In France in 1872 Charles-René de Fourcroy published one of the first economic thematic map, which he named "Table poléométrique" (Poleometric Table). Late 18th century August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome presented a diagram, named "Groessen Karte von Europa" from 1785, where he compared the sizes of all then existing European countries. This work inspired later scientist, such as Alexander von Humboldt in Germany, and Charles Dupin in France in their works. Early 19th century, Alexander von Humboldt was one of the first to picture various cross sections of mountains, including for example the "limit of perpetual snows at different latitudes," or the different kinds of vegetation on different heights. Much of this work was published in the 1914 "Atlas géographique et physique des régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent." In 1805 Von Humboldt had published a map (see image), entitled "Ideen zu einer Geographie der Pflanzen nebst einem Naturgemälde der Tropenländer" (Ideas for a geography of plants, together with a nature paintings of the tropics) in which he made a comparison of the different types of plans in the tropics, and the heights on which they grew.
First comparative charts
In the 1810s the first formal comparative mountains chart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.%20Viswanadham | Nukala Viswanadham (born 9 November 1943 in India), an Indian Academic, is currently an INSA Senior Scientist at the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science. He is a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences. He is an elected Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering, and IEEE. He was a recipient of the S.K. Mitra Memorial Award of INAE. He worked at the Indian Institute of Science as a Professor, at the National University of Singapore, and Indian School of Business.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
Master in Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
PhD, Indian Institute of Science
Professional
Viswanadham is the Chief Editor of Sadhana, Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering during 2008-2012.
Awards, honors, and fellowships
Fellow IEEE
Fellow of The Third World Academy of Sciences, Italy
Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy
Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
S.K.Mitra Memorial Award of Indian National Academy of Engineering
Books
N.Viswanadham, V.V.S. Sarma and M.G. Singh, "Reliability of Computer and Control Systems", North-Holland Systems and Control series, Amsterdam, Vol.8, 446 pages, 1987.
N. Viswanadham and Y. Narahari, "Performance Modelling of Automated Manufacturing Systems", Prentice Hall, USA, 592 pages, 1992.
N. Viswanadham, "Analysis of Manufacturing Enterprises: An approach to leverage the value delivery processes to competitive advantage", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 312 pages, 1999.
N. Viswanadham and S. Kameshwaran, "Ecosystem Aware Global Supply Chain Management", World Scientific Publishing, 2013.
N. Viswanadham,"Recent Advances in Modelling and Control of Stochastic Systems", Indian Academy of Sciences, 1991, p. 169.
Selected publications
References
External links
Lcm.csa.iisc.ernet.in
1943 births
Living people
Andhra University alumni
Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
Indian computer scientists
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202014 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2014
2014 in American television
2014-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20and%20Criminal%20Tracking%20Network%20and%20Systems | The Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks and Systems, abbreviated to CCTNS, is a project under the Indian government for creating a comprehensive and integrated system for effective policing through e-Governance. The system includes a nationwide online tracking system by integrating more than 14,000 police stations across the country. The project is implemented by National Crime Records Bureau.
History
The concept of CCTNS was first conceived in the year 2008 by the then Home Minister, P. Chidambaram in the aftermath of 2008 Mumbai attacks. This was then approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) in 2009 and was allocated a fund of Rs. 2,000 crore. A pilot phase of the project was launched on 4 January 2013 by the then Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
Functioning
CCTNS aims to integrate all the data and records of crime into a Core Application Software (CAS), which is presently spreading across 28 states and 9 union territories of India. CAS was developed by the Bangalore-based IT firm, Wipro. It needs to integrate different software and platforms followed by different states and to digitize records of those states which have not digitized their police records. The project also involves training of police personnel and setting up of citizen portal to provide services to citizens.
Crime and Criminals Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS)
The Project will interconnect about 15000 Police Stations and additional 5000 offices of supervisory police officers across the country
It will digitize data related to FIR registration, investigation, and charge sheets in all police stations.
It would help in developing a national database of crime and criminals
The full implementation of the project with all the new components would lead to a central citizen portal having linkages with State-level citizen portals that will provide a number of citizen-friendly services.
The total outlay for the project is 2000 crore rupees, and also includes the Operation and Maintenance phase for additional five years up to March 2022.
Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS)
The CCEA also decided to implement Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) by 2017. It will be done through integrating CCTNS with e-Courts, e-Prisons, Forensics, and Prosecution, which are the key components of the Criminal Justice System. e-prosecution in Delhi has already been launched by the ICJS team.
Implementation of ICJS will ensure
Quick data transfer among different pillars of the criminal justice system, which will not only enhance transparency but also reduce processing time.
Enable National level crime analytics to be published at an increased frequency, which will help the policymakers as well as lawmakers in taking appropriate and timely action.
Enable pan-India criminal/accused name search in the regional language for improved inter-state tracking of criminal movement.
See also
Crime reporting and tracking
Bureau of Police Research and Develo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20A.%20Rodriguez | Carlos A. Rodriguez (born 1965) is a Cuban-American business executive. He has served as the chief executive officer and president of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) since November 2011. Rodriguez has worked for ADP since 1999, when the firm acquired Vincam.
He serves on the boards of ADP, Hubbell Inc. and Microsoft. He is a member of World 50, the Business Roundtable, and the Economic Club of New York. He sits on the board of directors of the A-T Children's Project.
Rodriguez graduated from Christopher Columbus High School (Miami-Dade County) in 1982 and went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University.
References
Cuban businesspeople
American chief executives of financial services companies
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Harvard Business School alumni
1965 births
Christopher Columbus High School (Miami-Dade County, Florida) alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hive%20UI | Hive (stylized as HIVE) is a custom ROM developed by Xolo and is built on the Android operating system v 4.4.4 (KitKat). Hive is exclusive to Xolo devices and is not licensed to third-parties.
Hive was designed by Xolo's software design team at Bangalore. Users can interact with the development team and share ideas for new features. The Hive Development Team aims to release over-the-air updates with new features or bug fixes every fortnight.
The first Xolo device (8X-1000) with Hive was launched in August 2014.
Smartphones running Hive UI
Xolo 8X-1000
Xolo Omega 5.0
Xolo Omega 5.5
Xolo Black
Xolo Black 1X
See also
List of custom Android firmware
References
External links
Custom Android firmware
Embedded Linux
Mobile Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuteki | NUTEKI is a Russian-Belarusian alternative metal band, which was formed in 2007. The band was founded by Mikhail Nokarashvili (lead vocals) and Kirill Matsiushenko (keyboards and programming), both of whom are originally from Bobruisk, Belarus. NUTEKI are mostly recognized by their distinctive appearance and view towards live performances: "Shows must be performed in such a way that the people would still be interested to see them even with no audio".
Over the span of their career, NUTEKI took part in the Belarusian national contest to represent the country on Eurovision three times. They became semifinalists in 2011; won the second place in 2013, came in fifth in 2014. and got second in 2017, behind NAVI
History
Early years (2007-2009)
In February 2008, NUTEKI self-released their debut single "Glass of My Soul", which later became the band's most popular release to date. After this release, the band participated in the "Destined to Be Number One" music contest held in Moscow and managed to take the first place. This achievement was incredibly important in the history of the band, seeing as all the members' ages ranged from 16 to 18 years during that period. Following the success, the band headlined the 45-date "Summer Music Festival" during the Summer of the same year.
Digital Dreams, Unplugged #1 (2010-2013)
On August 1, 2010, the band's debut album "Digital Dreams" was released.
In the beginning of 2011's Summer, the band started recording the music video for "The Clowns", which is released in June 2012.
The year of 2011 was a very active period for the group, during which they had numerous concerts, including "The Big Clowns Show" tour across Ukraine.
In February 2012 NUTEKI releases their first acoustic album called "Unplugged #1".
THE BGNNG (2014-present)
NUTEKI self-released their EP "THE BGNNG" in October 2014, which consists of the first chapter of their upcoming second album and a music video for their song "Wind Inside".
Discography
Studio albums
Digital Dreams (2010)
Unplugged#1 (2012)
NUTEKI (2014–2015)
EPs
"Ты+Я" (You+Me) (2009)
THE BGNNG (2014)
"Дни-километры" (Days-Kilometers) (2015)
Singles
"Glass of My Soul" (Стекло моей души) (2008)
"The Clowns" (2012)
"Save Me" (2012)
"Please Don't Stop" (2013)
"Fly Away" (2013)
Music Videos
2009 — «Стекло души» (Glass of My Soul)
2010 — «Ты+Я» (You+Me)
2012 — «Не молчи» (Don't be Silent)
2012 — «Клоуны» (The Clowns)
2012 — «Save Me»
2012 — «Stars»
2012 — «The Clowns»
2013 — «Если/Но» (Please Don't Stop in Russian)
2013 — «Please Don't Stop»
2013 — «Дыши со мной» (Fly Away in Russian)
2014 — «Fly Away»
2014 — «Wind Inside»
2015 — «Дни километры»
2015 — «Больше чем ты»
2015 - «Песня счастливых»
2016 - «Take My Heart»
2016 - ≈lokimj swkjw≈
Live Records
NUTEKI - LIVE IN MINSK DVD (2012)
References
Russian rock music groups
Musical groups established in 2007
Musical quartets
Musical quintets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCASE | Root Cause Analysis Solver Engine (informally RCASE) is a proprietary algorithm developed from research originally at the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at Warwick University. RCASE development commenced in 2003 to provide an automated version of root cause analysis, the method of problem solving that tries to identify the root causes of faults or problems. RCASE is now owned by the spin-out company Warwick Analytics where it is being applied to automated predictive analytics software.
Algorithm
The algorithm has been built from the ground up to be particularly suitable for the following situations:
'dirty' data
incomplete data
big data
small datasets
complex problems for example multi-modal failure or with more than one solution
RCASE is considered to be an innovator in the field of Predictive analytics and falls within the category of classification algorithms. Because it was built to handle the data types above, it has been proven to have many advantages over other types of classification algorithms and machine learning algorithms such as decision trees, neural networks and regression techniques. It does not require hypotheses.
It has since been commercialised and made available for operating systems such as SAP, Teradata and Microsoft. RCASE originated from manufacturing and is widely used in applications such as Six Sigma, quality control and engineering, product design and warranty issues. However it is also used in other industries such as e-commerce, financial services and utilities where root cause analysis is required.
Notable applications
Motorola, the home of Six Sigma, used the research technology behind RCASE to support their quality processes. It was used to eliminate No Fault Found quality issues for a particular mobile phone model.
Mechanism & architecture
RCASE is non-statistical and thus does not require any hypotheses. If the key parameters causing the issue or fault in a process are not present in a dataset, it will still narrow the search space and advise where the root cause may lie. This is a different approach to statistical theories which try to find a best fit.
RCASE is based on optimised combinatorial theory and runs on either a grid cluster or a high performance in-memory database. The software will interface with all MES and ERP systems. The result is a security system monitoring and preventing defective products from being produced. The output from the analysis will be markers that identify either an exact root cause of failure or a parametric region pointing high probability of failure (i.e. data-driven guidance on where to look next to gather data and resolve the root cause exactly).
The software can be installed on Linux or Microsoft operating systems and deployed as On-Premises or Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS” or “cloud”).
See also
Predictive maintenance
References
External links
Warwick Analytics
Statistical classification
Analytics
Business intelligence software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20reaction%20model | Chemical reaction models transform physical knowledge into a mathematical formulation that can be utilized in computational simulation of practical problems in chemical engineering. Computer simulation provides the flexibility to study chemical processes under a wide range of conditions. Modeling of a chemical reaction involves solving conservation equations describing convection, diffusion, and reaction source for each component species.
Species transport equation
Ri is the net rate of production of species i by chemical reaction and Si is the rate of creation by addition from the dispersed phase and the user defined source. Ji is the diffusion flux of species i, which arises due to concentration gradients and differs in both laminar and turbulent flows. In turbulent flows, computational fluid dynamics also considers the effects of turbulent diffusivity. The net source of chemical species i due to reaction, Ri which appeared as the source term in the species transport equation is computed as the sum of the reaction sources over the NR reactions among the species.
Reaction models
These reaction rates R can be calculated by following models:
Laminar finite rate model
Eddy dissipation model
Eddy dissipation concept
Laminar finite rate model
The laminar finite rate model computes the chemical source terms using the Arrhenius expressions and ignores turbulence fluctuations. This model provides with the exact solution for laminar flames but gives inaccurate solution for turbulent flames, in which turbulence highly affects the chemistry reaction rates, due to highly non-linear Arrhenius chemical kinetics. However this model may be accurate for combustion with small turbulence fluctuations, for example supersonic flames.
Eddy dissipation model
The eddy dissipation model or the Magnussen model, based on the work of Magnussen and Hjertager, is a turbulent-chemistry reaction model. Most fuels are fast burning and the overall rate of reaction is controlled by turbulence mixing. In the non-premixed flames, turbulence slowly mixes the fuel and oxidizer into the reaction zones where they burn quickly. In premixed flames the turbulence slowly mixes cold reactants and hot products into the reaction zones where reaction occurs rapidly. In such cases the combustion is said to be mixing-limited, and the complex and often unknown chemical kinetics can be safely neglected. In this model, the chemical reaction is governed by large eddy mixing time scale. Combustion initiates whenever there is turbulence present in the flow. It does not need an ignition source to initiate the combustion. This type of model is valid for the non-premixed combustion, but for the premixed flames the reactant is assumed to burn at the moment it enters the computation model, which is a shortcoming of this model as in practice the reactant needs some time to get to the ignition temperature to initiate the combustion.
Eddy dissipation concept
The eddy dissipation concept (EDC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query%20Abstraction%20Layer | QAL is an open-source development project that aims to create a collection of libraries for mixing, moving, merging, substituting and transforming data; also in some cases, such as MongoDB, schemas.
Description
Sources and destinations include different database backends, file formats like .csv, XML and spreadsheets. Even untidy HTML web pages can be used as both a source and destination.
For SQL/RDBMS backends, it has a database abstraction layer that supports basic connectivity to Postgres, MySQL / MariaDB, IBM Db2, Oracle and MS SQL Server. It uses XML formats (the SQL schema is self-generated) for representation of queries, transformation and merging, making it all processable by scripts.
With regards to SQL, QAL uses a subset of SQL features and data types, which while obviously not complete however is sufficient for most usages. It is however easy to instead use backend-specific SQL when the queries do not have to be backend-agnostic.
It is currently distributed as a Python Library (.egg) and a Debian package file (.deb).
It is related to the Optimal BPM (Business Process Management) project. The Optimal BPM SourceForge project used to be DAL/QAL.
References
External links
QAL Documentation and examples
API documentation
Python (programming language) libraries
Free software programmed in Python
Cross-platform free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty%20Point%20Bold | Sixty Point Bold is a 1959 Australian television play which aired on ABC. It was produced by the Sydney station of the network, ABN-2, and was kinescoped/telerecorded for showing in Melbourne on ABV-2. It was the second 90-minute live television play produced by ABN. It was written and produced by Royston Morley and aired July 16, 1959 for 90 minutes.
Plot
Set in a fictional South American country, it concerned a newspaper magnate Andre Charvet who clashes with the president of the nation, whose democratic government has replaced a dictatorship. Charveet brings a foreign correspondent called David back to the country to campaign against the President.
Cast
Kevin Brennan as Andre Charvet
James Condon as President Ortega de Riverda
Dinah Shearing as Maria Charvet
Bruce Beeby as Paul Crevel, Maria's lover
Harp McGuire as David, a foreign correspondent
Charles Tasman
John Alden
Owen Weingott
Production
It was the third in a series of plays dealing with a man in political power. Advertising called it "the story of political intrigue, violence and romance in a Latin America state".
See also
List of live television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s)
References
External links
Sixty Point Bold on IMDb
1958 television plays
1950s Australian television plays
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
English-language television shows
Black-and-white Australian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flajolet%E2%80%93Martin%20algorithm | The Flajolet–Martin algorithm is an algorithm for approximating the number of distinct elements in a stream with a single pass and space-consumption logarithmic in the maximal number of possible distinct elements in the stream (the count-distinct problem). The algorithm was introduced by Philippe Flajolet and G. Nigel Martin in their 1984 article "Probabilistic Counting Algorithms for Data Base Applications". Later it has been refined in "LogLog counting of large cardinalities" by Marianne Durand and Philippe Flajolet, and "HyperLogLog: The analysis of a near-optimal cardinality estimation algorithm" by Philippe Flajolet et al.
In their 2010 article "An optimal algorithm for the distinct elements problem", Daniel M. Kane, Jelani Nelson and David P. Woodruff give an improved algorithm, which uses nearly optimal space and has optimal O(1) update and reporting times.
The algorithm
Assume that we are given a hash function that maps input to integers in the range , and where the outputs are sufficiently uniformly distributed. Note that the set of integers from 0 to corresponds to the set of binary strings of length . For any non-negative integer , define to be the -th bit in the binary representation of , such that:
We then define a function that outputs the position of the least-significant set bit in the binary representation of , and if no such set bit can be found as all bits are zero:
Note that with the above definition we are using 0-indexing for the positions, starting from the least significant bit. For example, , since the least significant bit is a 1 (0th position), and , since the least significant set bit is at the 3rd position. At this point, note that under the assumption that the output of our hash function is uniformly distributed, then the probability of observing a hash output ending with (a one, followed by zeroes) is , since this corresponds to flipping heads and then a tail with a fair coin.
Now the Flajolet–Martin algorithm for estimating the cardinality of a multiset is as follows:
Initialize a bit-vector BITMAP to be of length and contain all 0s.
For each element in :
Calculate the index .
Set .
Let denote the smallest index such that .
Estimate the cardinality of as , where .
The idea is that if is the number of distinct elements in the multiset , then is accessed approximately times, is accessed approximately times and so on. Consequently, if , then is almost certainly 0, and if , then is almost certainly 1. If , then can be expected to be either 1 or 0.
The correction factor is found by calculations, which can be found in the original article.
Improving accuracy
A problem with the Flajolet–Martin algorithm in the above form is that the results vary significantly. A common solution has been to run the algorithm multiple times with different hash functions and combine the results from the different runs. One idea is to take the mean of the results together from each hash function, obtain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrho | Sparrho combines human and artificial intelligence to help research professionals and layman users stay up-to-date with new scientific publications and patents. Sparrho's recommendation engine provides personalized scientific news-feeds by using proprietary machine learning algorithms to "aggregate, distill and recommend" relevant content. The platform aims to complement traditional methods of finding relevant academic material such as Google Scholar, and PubMed with a system which enables the serendipitous discovery of content and across relevant scientific fields.
Recommendation engine
Sparrho uses a "three-pronged approach" to content recommendation. Firstly, "data-data analysis" is tackled using techniques such as natural language processing to provide appropriate research based on data provided by users. Secondly, "user-user interactions" are utilized to propose a wider range of potentially relevant subject areas to users with similar interests. Finally, "user-data interactions" such as labeling articles as "relevant" or "irrelevant" within a particular scientific field allows Sparrho to personalize user newsfeeds.
History
Sparrho was founded in 2013 by Vivian Chan and Nilu Satharasinghe as a solution to issues Chan encountered over the course of her biochemistry PhD at the University of Cambridge, especially in staying up to date with scientific literature Initially established at Ideaspace in West Cambridge, and moving subsequently to Camden Collective and the Ministry of Startups in London, the company is now based in the data science hub SHACK15 in Shoreditch, London.
In 2014, Chan was a semi-finalist for the 2014 Duke of York New Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and in 2015, Chan was included on the 35 Women Under 35 list compiled by Management Today. In 2016, Sparrho was a semi-finalist in Pitch@Palace 5.0.
As of July 2017, Sparrho has raised $3 million from investors including White Cloud Capital, AllBright, and Beast Ventures.
Competitors
Sparrho's primary competitors are PubChase and Scizzle, though both PubChase and Scizzle are targeted towards biomedical sciences and solely recommend academic journal papers.
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
References
External links
Search engine software
Scholarly search services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20Recognition%20%26%20Synthesis | Speech Recognition & Synthesis, formerly known as Speech Services, is a screen reader application developed by Google for its Android operating system. It powers applications to read aloud (speak) the text on the screen with support for many languages. Text-to-Speech may be used by apps such as Google Play Books for reading books aloud, by Google Translate for reading aloud translations providing useful insight to the pronunciation of words, by Google TalkBack and other spoken feedback accessibility-based applications, as well as by third-party apps. Users must install voice data for each language.
Supported languages
Albanian (Albania)
Arabic
Bengali (Bangladesh)
Bengali (India)
Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
Cantonese (Hong Kong)
Catalan (Spain)
Chinese (China)
Chinese (Taiwan)
Croatian (Croatia)
Czech (Czech Republic)
Danish (Denmark)
Dutch (Belgium)
Dutch (Netherlands)
English (Australia)
English (Nigeria)
English (India)
English (United Kingdom)
English (United States)
Estonian (Estonia)
Filipino (Philippines)
Finnish (Finland)
French (Canadian)
French (France)
German (Germany)
Greek (Greece)
Gujarati (India)
Hebrew (Israel)
Hindi (India)
Hungarian (Hungary)
Icelandic (Iceland)
Indonesian (Indonesia)
Italian (Italy)
Japanese (Japan)
Javanese (Indonesia)
Kannada (India)
Khmer (Cambodia)
Korean (South Korea)
Latvian (Latvia)
Lithuanian (Lithuania)
Malay (Malaysia)
Malayalam (India)
Marathi (India)
Nepali (Nepal)
Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)
Polish (Poland)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Punjabi (India)
Romanian (Romania)
Russian (Russia)
Sinhala (Sri Lanka)
Slovak (Slovakia)
Spanish (Spain)
Spanish (United States)
Sundanese (Indonesia)
Swahili (Kenya)
Swedish (Sweden)
Tamil (India)
Telugu (India)
Thai (Thailand)
Turkish (Turkey)
Ukrainian (Ukraine)
Urdu (Pakistan)
Vietnamese (Vietnam)
Welsh (United Kingdom)
History
Some app developers have started adapting and tweaking their Android Auto apps to include Text-to-Speech, such as Hyundai in 2015. Apps such as textPlus and WhatsApp use Text-to-Speech to read notifications aloud and provide voice-reply functionality.
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is powered by WaveNet, software created by Google's UK-based AI subsidiary DeepMind, which was bought by Google in 2014. It tries to distinguish from its competitors, Amazon and Microsoft, with distinct AI features.
DeepMind's AI voice synthesis tech is notably advanced and realistic. Most voice synthesizers (including Apple's Siri) use concatenative synthesis, in which a program stores individual phonemes and then pieces them together to form words and sentences.
A WaveNet generates speech that sounds more natural than other text-to-speech systems. It synthesizes speech with more human-like emphasis and inflection on syllables, phonemes, and words. On average, a WaveNet produces speech audio that people prefer over other text-to-speech technologies.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming%20Li | Ming Li is a Canadian computer scientist, known for his fundamental contributions to Kolmogorov complexity, bioinformatics, machine learning theory, and analysis of algorithms. Li is currently a University Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He holds a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics. In addition to academic achievements, his research has led to the founding of two independent companies.
Education
Li received a Master of Science degree (Computer Science) from Wayne State University in 1980 and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree (Computer Science) under the supervision of Juris Hartmanis, from Cornell University in 1985. His post-doctoral research was conducted at Harvard University under the supervision of Leslie Valiant.
Career
Paul Vitanyi and Li pioneered Kolmogorov complexity theory and applications, and co-authored the textbook An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications,.
In 2000, Li founded Bioinformatics Solutions Inc, a biomedical software company, primarily providing solutions for tandem mass spectrometry protein characterization. Originally developed to identify novel peptides through de novo peptide sequencing, the technology has been adapted to address antibody characterization. Other products have included protein structure prediction, general purpose homology searching, and next generation sequencing glyco-peptide research.
In 2013, Li co-founded Technologies Inc, an artificial intelligence company. Utilizing statistical machine learning, deep neural networks, and natural language processing, the company develops a unique language-understanding platform for knowledge mining, sentence parsing, practical question-answering, and human-computer chatting. The software has been applied on voice-control navigation systems, personal tour guide applications, robotics, and other intelligent electronics.
Awards and honours
1996 - E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, NSERC
1997 - Award of Merit, FCCP
2001 - Killam Research Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts
2002 - Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics, Tier I
2006 - Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Pioneer Award
2006 - Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
2006 - Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
2009 - Premier’s Discovery Award (Innovation Leadership)
2010 - Killam Prize
2021 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.
References
External links
Home page
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Wayne State University alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider%20Threat%20Program | The Insider Threat Program is the United States government's response to the massive data leaks of the early twenty-first century, notably the diplomatic cables leaked by Chelsea Manning but before the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden. The program was established under the mandate of Executive Order 13587 issued by Barack Obama.
Effect on whistle-blowing
Concern has been expressed that the program does not provide any latitude for whistle-blowers. Senator Chuck Grassley is concerned that the program is merely a way to crack down on whistle-blowers.
Senate hearing
The FBI were asked to a Senate hearing to establish the parameters of the FBI ITP, and the methods for avoiding targeting whistle blowers. Ten minutes into the hearing the FBI witnesses walked out.
References
External links
Executive Order 13587
Press release about Presidential Memo on Minimum Standards
National Security Agency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen%20McKeown |
Kathleen R. McKeown is an American computer scientist, specializing in natural language processing. She is currently the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science and is the Founding Director of the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia University.
McKeown received her B.A. from Brown University in 1976 and her PhD in Computer Science in 1982 from the University of Pennsylvania and has spent her career at Columbia. She was the first woman to be tenured in the university's School of Engineering and Applied Science and was the first woman to serve as Chair of the Department of Computer Science, from 1998 to 2003. She has also served as Vice Dean for Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
She has held the positions of President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Computational Linguistics and has been a board member and secretary of the board of the Computing Research Association.
McKeown's research focuses on natural language processing and has included the Newsblaster multi-document summarization program to derive summary news stories from the contents of a number of news sites; for a few years this included multilingual news.
Honors
1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
1991 Faculty Award for Women, National Science Foundation
1994 AAAI Fellow
2003 ACM Fellow
2010 Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award in Innovation
2012 Association for Computational Linguistics founding Fellow
2019 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2022 Elected to the American Philosophical Society
Selected publications
Text Generation: Using Discourse Strategies and Focus Constraints to Generate Natural Language Text. Studies in natural language processing. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University, 1985, 2nd ed. 1992. .
with Ani Nenkova. Automatic Summarization. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 5:2–3. Hanover, Massachusetts: Now, 2011. .
References
External links
Kathleen McKeown's faculty page at Columbia University
Living people
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Brown University alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Natural language processing researchers
Computational linguistics researchers
21st-century American women
Members of the American Philosophical Society
Presidents of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea%20Verou | Lea Verou () is a computer scientist, front end web developer, speaker and author, originally from Lesbos, Greece. Verou is currently a research assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), an elected participant in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Technical Architecture Group (TAG), and an Invited Expert in the W3C CSS Working Group.
She is the author of CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems ().
Education
Verou earned her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Athens University of Economics and Business. She had previously attended Aristotle University of Thessaloniki studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She later earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from MIT. Since 2014, she has been a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) candidate at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Her background encompasses both technical development and visual design.
Career
Verou started her career as a freelancer in 2005 while she was in university. In 2008, she co-founded a Greek web development company called Fresset Ltd, which managed a number of Greek community websites that she and her co-founder had created. The company was sold in 2013. In 2012, Verou joined W3C as a Developer Advocate.
Open source work
During the course of her studies and career, Verou has started over thirty open-source software projects, including PrismJS, a popular syntax highlighter, and Mavo, her research project at MIT.
Conference speaking
Verou has spoken at over a hundred conferences, including Smashing Magazine's conference SmashingConf, A List Apart's conference An Event Apart, South by Southwest (SXSW), and JQuery's conference.
Her talks are known for their distinctive style involving live coding through a custom presentation framework that she built to optimize the experience for the audience.
Bibliography and publications
Her first book, CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems was published by O'Reilly Media in 2015. It sold thousands of copies and was translated into 8 languages. In 2020, it was named "The Best CSS Book" by the Chicago Tribune.
Prior to that, Verou had co-authored a chapter in the book Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web in 2012.
Since 2011, she has written dozens of articles, including bylines in .net Magazine, Smashing Magazine, CSS-Tricks, A List Apart, and Web Almanac. In 2017, Verou co-authored her first CSS Specification with Tab Atkins Jr., and Elika J. Etemad, and has since co-authored four others.
She has also co-authored four peer-reviewed scientific papers as part of her research at MIT, published in ACM UIST and ACM CSCW.
Teaching
Verou's teaching career began when she was still an undergraduate in Athens University of Economics and Business, where she co-organized a 4th year undergraduate course about web development together with Prof. Vasilis Vassalos.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel%20Romero%20D%C3%ADaz | Ángel Romero Díaz (born November 3, 1979, in Huelva) is a Spanish social worker, politician, columnist and writer. He is the secretary of social networks at the PSOE of Huelva. He is the director in the department of Institutional and Civil Relations of the Presidency of the Regional Government of Andalusia. In November 2014, he was ranked the third most influential politician of the PSOE on the website Klout, after Pedro Sánchez and Jose Antonio Rodríguez Salas.
Early life
Díaz was born in Huelva in 1979. He grew up in Valdelamusa, a small city in Huelva. His father was a miner. Díaz was the youngest of six sons. He studied at the Cerro de Andévalo college and continued his studies at the Institute of Baccalaureate, The Rábida of Huelva, where he realized up to COU. He qualified in Social Work for the University of Huelva and as a University Expert in programs and policies for youth of the University of Valencia.
During his college years, Díaz worked as a waiter, disc-jockey, public relations consultant, hotel and catering business, mason, commercial insurance employee, agricultural worker and a consulting programmer.
Career
In 2005, he worked as an adviser at the Andalusian Youth Institute. In 2007, he was elected as an alcalde, a type of magistrate of Valdelamusa and a lieutenant mayor of Cortegana. He was a former representative councilman of Mining Development, Youth, Voluntary work, Participation, Cooperation. In 2011, he was named Provincial Delegate of Culture of the Regional Government of Andalusia to Huelva. In 2014 he moved to Seville to work at the Office of the Chair of the Regional Government of Andalusia.
Policy
He is currently the Secretary of Social Networks for PSOE of Huelva and General Secretary for Valdelamusa's PSOE. He is also a member of the Director's Committee of PSOE of Andalusia. He has been a Secretary of Student Politics of Socialist Youth of Huelva (1997–2000), Secretary of Organization (2004–2008) and a General Secretary (2008–2011). In addition, he has been the President of the Committee of the Socialist Youth of Andalusia (2010–2012) and member of the Federal Committee of the Socialist Youth of Spain.
Other roles
He has been a president of juvenile and cultural associations. He was the president of the Sports Club Valdelamusa of football (2006–2011), on three occasions. In addition, he was also the representative of the student body in the constituent Cloister of the University of Huelva, a columnist of the diaries ODIEL and El Periódico de Huelva and at present, of Sólo Huelva Radio. He was a collaborator of the Huelva Informacion and of Cadena 100 Huelva. He was the winner of the first literary contest in SMS of the IAJ.
His first book, A Cielo Abierto, was published in 2014, with Ediciones Niebla.
References
External links
Articles of opinion
Interview.
Spanish male writers
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians
1979 births
Living people
University of Huelva alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore%20algebra | In computer algebra, an Ore algebra is a special kind of iterated Ore extension that can be used to represent linear functional operators, including linear differential and/or recurrence operators. The concept is named after Øystein Ore.
Definition
Let be a (commutative) field and be a commutative polynomial ring (with when ). The iterated skew polynomial ring is called an Ore algebra when the and commute for , and satisfy , for .
Properties
Ore algebras satisfy the Ore condition, and thus can be embedded in a (skew) field of fractions.
The constraint of commutation in the definition makes Ore algebras have a non-commutative generalization theory of Gröbner basis for their left ideals.
References
Computer algebra
Ring theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Conflict | Computer Conflict is a 1980 compilation of two turn-based computer wargame scenarios by Strategic Simulations for the Apple II. The scenarios are imaginary and deal with the defense of Russia during the Cold War.
Gameplay
Two scenarios are included:
Rebel Force: A single-player scenario dealing with an invasion of a strategic Russian town by rebels. It was originally published as "Conflict" in Australia by Keating Computer Services.
Red Attack!: A two-player competitive scenario dealing with attacking / defending three Russian towns. The battlefield is randomized - both players must agree on a fair one before the scenario begins.
External links
Article on Conflict from Play It Again
Computer Conflict manual from Apple2Online.com
1980 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Computer wargames
Cold War video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Strategic Simulations games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Palsky | Gilles Palsky (born 1962), is a French geographer and Professor at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, France from 2007 to 2015. He is a member of the editorial board of Cybergéo and Imago Mundi, and known for his work on the history of statistical graphics and thematic mapping in the 19th century.
Biography
Palsky was a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Saint-Cloud from 1978 to 1983. He graduated in 1981 in the field of history of geography. In 1990 he obtained his PhD from the University of Paris 1 with a thesis on the history of quantitative mapping before 1914, which was subsequently published in 1996. In 2003 he obtained his habilitation at the Paris 12 Val de Marne University with a thesis, entitled "L'esprit des cartes. Approches historiques, sémiologiques et sociologiques en cartographie" (The spirit of maps. Historical approaches, semiology and sociology in cartography).
Palsky was lecturer at the Paris 12 Val de Marne University from 1991 to 2006, and Professor at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University from 2007 to 2014. He was member of the Management Board the Faculty of Humanities and Science at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and director of specific research "Territories, Representation, Actors" in the urbanism master program from 2005 to 2007. From 2009 to 2014, he chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee of the 23rd section at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Since 2010, he heads the special research "Geoprism" in master programme of geography.
Palsky is a founding member of the OUCARPO (OUvroir de CArtographie POtentielle), an initiative around mapping potential. It was created May 3, 2013, at the initiative of the philosopher William Monsaingeon.
In 1996 Palsky was awarded the George Erhard award by the French geographical society Société de géographie.
Work
Palsky's research focuses on cartography, geovisualization, urbanism, epistemology and the history of geography. He specialized in the history of statistical mapping in the 19th century, and in the foundations of the graphic semiology. He traced back the history of quantitative mapping methods, and looked into the reasons for their late adoption in geography. His current research focuses on the role of boards in the construction of geographical knowledge on the various forms of participatory mapping, and the mapping theory.
Selected publications
Palsky, Gilles (with Jean-Marc Besse, Philippe Grand, and Jean-Christophe Bailly). (2019): An Atlas of Geographical Wonders. From Mountaintops to Riverbeds. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2019, .
Palsky, Gilles (with Jean-Marc Besse and Jean-Christophe Bailly. Le monde sur une feuille : Les tableaux comparatifs de montagnes et de fleuves dans les atlas du XIXe siècle, Lyon, Fage éditions, 2014.
Palsky, Gilles. La Cartographie thématique en France: recherche sur ses origines et son évolution jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle; PhD Thesis Université Paris 1, 1990.
Palsky, Gilles. Des chiffres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20News%20%28streaming%20service%29 | CBS News (formerly CBSN, also known as the CBS News Streaming Network) is an American streaming video news channel operated by the CBS News and Paramount Streaming divisions of Paramount Global. Launched on November 6, 2014, it features blocks of live, rolling news coverage, original programs, as well as encore airings of CBS News television programs.
It is available via the CBS News website and mobile app, apps on digital media players, co-owned Paramount+ and Pluto TV, and other free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) services.
The success of CBSN prompted CBS to launch similar services for sports and entertainment news—CBS Sports HQ and ET Live—in 2018, in conjunction with CBS Sports and Entertainment Tonight respectively. In December of that year, CBS also began extending the concept to its local television stations, launching streaming local news services in the markets of the network's owned-and-operated stations.
History
Rumors that CBS News was preparing a 24-hour online news service were first reported by BuzzFeed in October 2013, and later confirmed by a CBS spokesperson who stated that the company was seeking "partners" for the service. Initial reports suggested that the service would consist of a linear, multi-platform streaming channel, featuring video content from other CBS News productions, along with other online-exclusive content; The New York Times likened the rumored format to an all-news radio station, combining pre-recorded video content with regular, live news updates. On May 15, 2014, CBS Corporation CEO Leslie Moonves confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg Television that the company was working on the service. Describing it as an "exciting alternative to cable news", he went on to say that "there is so much information that we get every day that doesn’t fit into a 22-minute newscast at 6:30 or CBS This Morning."
In October 2014, Capital New York reported that CBS had recently filed for trademarks on the name CBSN as a potential name for the service. It also reported that the content would take place in an informal newsroom setting, and that its interface would consist of a video player with a playlist on a sidebar, and feature social network integration. On November 5, 2014, during a Re/code conference in Dublin, CBS Interactive President Jim Lanzone announced that the service would officially launch on November 6, 2014. CBS News President David Rhodes explained that CBSN was not designed to compete directly with traditional pay-television news outlets, but to "create something that is native for connected devices", such as smartphones, tablets, and digital media players.
There was also an emphasis placed on targeting younger viewers, particularly those who are in places with little or no access to television, or those who do not subscribe to pay television at all. As opposed to CNNGo, a similarly formatted TV Everywhere service introduced by CNN prior to the launch of CBSN, CBSN is available at no charge a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Bott | Ed Bott is an American technology journalist and author, known for his books and articles on Microsoft Windows. He has been the editor for the U.S. version of PC/Computing and the managing editor for PC World in the past. In addition, Bott has written more than 25 books. The topics of his books include Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. , Bott writes for ZDNet.
Awards and honors
Bott is the awardee of eleven Microsoft Most Valuable Professional awards, and, according to Time magazine, had one of the best Twitter feeds of 2013. Bott is also a three-time winner of the Computer Press Association award, won an international award of merit from the Society for Technical Communication, and won two Jesse H. Neal Awards with Woody Leonhard.
Publications
Windows 11 Inside Out (March 11, 2023)
Windows 10 Inside Out 4th Edition (December 22, 2020)
Windows 10 Inside Out 3rd Edition (February 4, 2019)
Windows 10 Inside Out 2nd Edition (November 6, 2016)
Windows 10 IT Pro Essentials: Support Secrets (July 14, 2016)
Introducing Windows 10 for IT Professionals (February 18, 2016)
Windows 10 IT Pro Essentials: Top 10 Tools (April 26, 2016)
Windows 10 Inside Out (October 22, 2015)
Microsoft Office Inside Out: 2013 Edition (June 25, 2013)
Introducing Windows 8.1 for IT Professionals (October 15, 2013)
Windows 7 Inside Out, Deluxe Edition (July 25, 2011)
Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out (October 4, 2010)
Windows 7 Inside Out (September 30, 2009)
Windows Vista Inside Out, Deluxe Edition 9 (June 8, 2008)
Windows Vista Inside Out (January 18, 2007)
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2007 (January 1, 2007)
Microsoft Office 2007 In Depth by Ed Bott (July 24, 2008)
Microsoft Windows XP Networking and Security Inside Out: Also Covers Windows 2000 (October 5, 2005)
Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out Deluxe (November 4, 2004)
Ed Bott's Your New PC: Seven Easy Steps to Help You Get Started! (October 27, 2004)
Faster Smarter Microsoft Windows XP with Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition (November 19, 2003)
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2003 (September 25, 2003)
Microsoft Windows Security Inside Out for Windows XP and Windows 2000 (January 1, 2002)
Using Microsoft Office XP Special Edition (May 22, 2001)
Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Millennium (November 13, 2000)
Faster Smarter Microsoft Windows XP (December 13, 2002)
Practical Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Practical Series (January 31, 2000)
Special Edition Using Windows 98 2nd Edition (December 21, 1999)
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2000 (May 17, 1999)
Using Microsoft Office 2000 Using Series (May 4, 1999)
Special Edition Using Office 97 With Windows 98 (July 1, 1998)
Platinum Edition Using Windows 98 (June 1998)
Using Microsoft Windows 95 With Internet Explorer 4.0 Special Edition (February 1, 1998)
Using Microsoft Office 97: Platinum Edition (June 7, 1997)
Using Windows 95 Second Edition (March 1, 1997)
Using Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (Septemb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree-preserving%20randomization | Degree Preserving Randomization is a technique used in Network Science that aims to assess whether or not variations observed in a given graph could simply be an artifact of the graph's inherent structural properties rather than properties unique to the nodes, in an observed network.
Background
Cataloged as early as 1996, the simplest implementation of degree preserving randomization relies on a Monte Carlo algorithm that rearranges, or "rewires" the network at random such that, with a sufficient number of rewires, the network's degree distribution is identical to the initial degree distribution of the network, though the topological structure of the network has become completely distinct from the original network.
Degree preserving randomization, while it has many different forms, typically takes on the form of a relatively simple approach: for any network consisting of nodes with edges, select two dyadically tied nodes. For each of these dyadic pairs, switch the edges such that the new dyadic pairs are mismatched. After a sufficient number of these mismatches, the network increasingly loses its original observed topography.
As is common with algorithms based on Markov chains, the number of iterations, or individual rewires, that must occur on a given graph such that the graph is sufficiently random and distinct from the original graph is unknown, though Espinoza asserts that a safe minimum threshold is , where "is at least 100" (Espinoza). Others have provided input for this issue, including one author who states that a safe minimum may instead be at least , where epsilon lies in a range between and , though ultimately the correct number is not presently known.
Uses
There are several cases in which published research have explicitly employed degree preserving randomization in order to analyze network properties. Dekker used rewiring in order to more accurately model observed social networks by adding a secondary variable, , which introduces a high-degree attachment bias. Liu et al. have additionally employed degree preserving randomization to assert that the Control Centrality, a metric they identify, alters little when compared to the Control Centrality of an Erdős–Rényi model containing the same number of nodes in their simulations - Liu et al. have also used degree preserving randomization models in subsequent work exploring network controllability.
Additionally, some work has been done in investigating how Degree Preserving Randomization may be used in addressing considerations of anonymity in networked data research, which has been shown to be a cause for concern in Social Network Analysis, as in the case of a study by Lewis et al. Ultimately the work conducted by Ying and Wu, starting from a foundation of Degree Preserving Randomization, and then forwarding several modifications, has showed moderate advances in protecting anonymity without compromising the integrity of the underlying utility of the observed network.
Additional |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20Sports%20Network | The Michigan Wolverines Sports Network is an American radio network consisting of 46 radio stations which carry coverage of Michigan Wolverines football and men's basketball. WXYT-FM (97.1 FM) and WWJ (950 AM), both in Metro Detroit, serve as the network's flagship stations. The network also includes 44 affiliates in the U.S. states of Michigan and Ohio: 27 AM stations, four of which extend their signals with low-power FM translators; and 17 full-power FM stations ( Toledo generally only broadcasts Michigan content over its HD Radio digital subchannel). Games are also available on Sirius XM satellite radio and online via TuneIn.
Announcers
Football
Doug Karsch does play-by-play and Jon Jansen does color commentary for football.
Basketball
Brian Boesch currently serves as play-by-play announcer for men's basketball, joined by color analyst Terry Mills.
History
Michigan's relationship with IMG College dates back to March 2001 when the school signed a five-year deal with Host Communications, Inc., a sports marketing firm based in Lexington, Kentucky; the deal was predicated to generate $7.5 million in advertising revenue from Michigan football and men's basketball radio broadcasts through 2005–06 (this partnership with Host would ultimately remain in place for the next seven years). In 2007, IMG College purchased Host Communications; in August 2008, IMG announced a new 12-year media rights deal with Michigan reportedly worth $86 million, including gameday radio broadcasts.
WJR/Detroit had served as the network flagship station for Michigan football since 1976 (with sister station CKLW serving as backup for those times when Detroit Tigers baseball games took precedence) and men's basketball since 1997. In October 2005, WJR announced a new deal to broadcast rival Michigan State football and men's basketball, while simultaneously dropping its long partnership with Michigan. The news came as a surprise to the Michigan athletic department, including director Bill Martin, who claimed the school had acted "in good faith" throughout months of negotiations with the station. Michigan soon signed a new five-year deal with CBS Radio and CHUM Limited (later CTVglobemedia), owners of WOMC/Detroit and CKLW/Windsor, respectively. In August 2011, new Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon announced a five-year contract extension with CBS Radio, with the majority of network flagship coverage shifting to WOMC AM sister station WWJ.
Play-by-play announcer Jim Brandstatter and analyst Dan Dierdorf both announced their retirements prior to the commencement of the season-opening Michigan Wolverines Football game on September 4, 2021. The Duo sat side-by-side in the Michigan booth for 7 seasons.
Station list
Gray background indicates low-power translator
* football only
** men's basketball only
Network map(s)
References
External links
Michigan football affiliates
Michigan men's basketball affiliates
IMGCollege.com: University of Michigan
College basketb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine%20Gold%20Coast%20News | Nine Gold Coast News is a weeknight, local news bulletin of the Nine Network. It is screened on the Gold Coast, Queensland relay of Channel Nine from Brisbane. The bulletin first aired in 1996.
Unlike all Nine News bulletins, the Gold Coast bulletin runs for thirty minutes every weeknight. It comprises mainly local news, as well as sport, weather and boating.
Nine Gold Coast News is a regional news service for the Gold Coast, presented by Paul Taylor and Eva Milic and weather is presented by Luke Bradnam. The bulletin airs at 5:30pm on weeknights as an opt-out broadcast on QTQ-9's Gold Coast transmitters, before the main 6pm Brisbane edition of Nine News. Produced from the network's studios at Surfers Paradise, Nine Gold Coast News was also simulcast on local Gold Coast radio station Juice107.3 until early 2022 when 4CRB took over the simulcast which began in July 2022
Current presenters
Past presenters
Reporters
Mackenzie Colahan
Jordan Fabris
Kathryn Foran
Nick Kelly
Natasha Pruchniewicz
Annie Pullar
Chloe Robinson
Tracey Smith
Brendon Wolf
Courtney Zagel
Petrina Zaphir
See also
References
External links
1996 Australian television series debuts
1990s Australian television series
2000s Australian television series
2010s Australian television series
2020s Australian television series
Australian television news shows
Nine News
Television shows set in Gold Coast, Queensland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20care%20analytics | Health care analytics is the health care analysis activities that can be undertaken as a result of data collected from four areas within healthcare; claims and cost data, pharmaceutical and research and development (R&D) data, clinical data (collected from electronic medical records (EHRs)), and patient behavior and sentiment data (patient behaviors and preferences, (retail purchases e.g. data captured in running stores). Health care analytics is a growing industry in the United States, expected to grow to more than $31 billion by 2022. The industry focuses on the areas of clinical analysis, financial analysis, supply chain analysis, as well as marketing, fraud and HR analysis.
Health care analytics allows for the examination of patterns in various healthcare data in order to determine how clinical care can be improved while limiting excessive spending. this can help improve the overall patient care offered in healthcare facilities.
Healthcare analytics Education in UAE
The Dubai Pharmacy College (DPCG) is a pioneer in healthcare data analytics education in the GCC region. DPC offers a Post-graduate certificate course in healthcare business data analytics for healthcare professionals to motivate the intuition to explore the concept of healthcare data analytics and apply innovations in healthcare computing technologies. The aim of the certification program is to provide a platform for interprofessional researchers to utilize the fundamental technology including software applications for intelligent data acquisition, processing, and analysis of healthcare data.
Federal government role in health IT
Multiple federal entities are heavily involved in health IT. Within the executive branch, the administration itself, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) each have strategic plans and are involved in determining regulation. Within the legislative branch, multiple committees within the House of Representatives and Senate hold hearings and have opinions on using data and technology to reduce costs and improve outcomes in healthcare.
The ONC issued the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020. The plan outlines the steps federal agencies will take to achieve widespread use of health information technology (health IT) and electronic health information to enhance the health IT infrastructure, to advance person-centered and self-managed health, to transform health care delivery and community health, and to foster research, scientific knowledge and innovation. The plan is intended “to provide clarity in federal policies, programs, and actions and includes strategies to align program requirements, harmonize and simplify regulations, and aims to help health IT users to advance the learning health system to achieve better health.”
The Strategic Plan includes several key initiatives employing multiple strategies to meet its goals. These include: (1) finalizing and im |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26E%20%28Spanish%20and%20Portuguese%20TV%20channel%29 | A&E was a Spanish and Portuguese basic cable and satellite television channel that carried reality television programming produced by A&E USA, owned by The History Channel Iberia in a joint venture between A&E Networks and AMC Networks International Iberia. It had feeds in Spanish available in Spain, and in Portuguese available in Portugal and Africa. On April 18, 2018, it was replaced by the Iberian version of Blaze.
References
Portuguese-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
Defunct television channels in Portugal
Defunct television channels in Spain
Television stations in Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus%20cordata | Ficus cordata, the Namaqua rock fig, or Namaqua fig is a species of fig that occurs in two disjunct populations in Africa, one in the arid southwest of the continent, and a second in the northern subtropics. In the south it is often the largest and most prominent tree, and is virtually restricted to cliff faces and rock outcrops, where it has a rock-splitting habit.
Subspecies
The subspecies are:
F. c. cordata – southwestern Africa
F. c. lecardii (Warb.) C.C.Berg – Senegal to central Africa
Range and habitat
The nominate subspecies is native to arid western South Africa, Namibia and southwestern Angola, while a second subspecies is native to Africa's northern subtropics. The nominate subspecies is found in fynbos, succulent Karoo and Nama Karoo, while the northern subspecies is found in savannah, up to 1,500 m above sea level.
Species associations
The nominate subspecies is pollinated by the wasp Platyscapa desertorum Compton.. The wasp Comptoniella vannoorti Wiebes. is an associated non-pollinator that oviposits through the fig wall. The pollinator wasp of the northern subspecies, F. c. lecardii, is as yet unknown.
Similar species
F. salicifolia, the Wonderboom, is sometimes deemed a third subspecies of Ficus cordata, i.e. F. c. subsp. salicifolia (Vahl) C.C.Berg, but it lacks the yellowish sessile figs of F. cordata, and its range is much to the east.
References
Trees of Africa
Flora of Southern Africa
cordata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbr | Plumbr was an Estonian software product company founded in late 2011 that developed performance monitoring software. The Plumbr product was built on top of a proprietary algorithm that automatically detected the root causes of performance issues by interpreting application performance data. In October 2020, Plumbr was acquired by Splunk.
Products
Plumbr monitored customers' JVM applications for memory leaks, garbage collection pauses and locked threads. Plumbr problem detection algorithms were based on analysis of performance data of thousands of applications.
Plumbr consisted of an agent and a portal. Plumbr Agent was attached to application runtime and sent memory usage and garbage collection information to Plumbr Portal. On Plumbr Portal one could see information such as heap and permgen memory usage, garbage collection pauses' and lock contention duration. Clients that were not able to send data to third parties could order a self-hosted portal and have a full solution in-house.
In case of performance incidents Plumbr provided its users with information on problem severity and problem's root cause location in source code or runtime configuration, and listed the steps needed to take to remediate the problem.
Clients included NASA, NATO, Dell, HBO, Experian, EMC Corporation.
References
External links
Software companies of Estonia
Programming tools
Java development tools
Java virtual machine
Software performance management
Profilers
Software companies established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Onymous | Operation Onymous was an international law enforcement operation targeting darknet markets and other hidden services operating on the Tor network.
Background
Operation Onymous was formed as a joint law enforcement operation between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the European Union Intelligence Agency Europol. The international effort also included the United States Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Eurojust. The operation was part of the international strategies that address the problems of malware, botnet schemes, and illicit markets or darknets. It was also linked with the war on drugs effort with the participation of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Raids
On 5 and 6 November 2014, a number of websites, initially claimed to be over 400, were shut down including drug markets such as Silk Road 2.0, Cloud 9 and Hydra. Other sites targeted included money laundering sites and "contraband sites". The operation involved the police forces of 17 countries. In total there were 17 arrests. A 26-year-old software developer was arrested in San Francisco and accused of running Silk Road 2.0 under the pseudonym 'Defcon'. Defcon was "one of the primary targets". Within hours of the seizure a third incarnation of the site appeared, 'Silk Road 3.0'; Silk Road had previously been seized in October 2013, and then resurrected, weeks later, as 'Silk Road 2.0'.
$1 million in Bitcoin was seized, along with €180,000 in cash, gold, silver and drugs. Of the
"illicit services" that were initially claimed to have been shut down, few were online marketplaces like Silk Road. A complaint filed on 7 November 2014 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, "seeking the forfeiture of any and all assets of the following dark market websites operating on the Tor network", referred to just 27 sites, fourteen of which were claimed to be drug markets; the others allegedly sold counterfeit currency, forged identity documents or stolen credit cards.
US and European agencies sought to publicise the claimed success of their six-month-long operation, which "went flawlessly". The UK National Crime Agency sent out a tweet mocking Tor users. The official Europol press release quoted a US Homeland Security Investigations official, who stated: "Our efforts have disrupted a website that allows illicit black-market activities to evolve and expand, and provides a safe haven for illegal vices, such as weapons distribution, drug trafficking and murder-for-hire."
Other leading drug markets in the Dark Web were unaffected, such as Agora, Evolution and Andromeda. Whereas Silk Road did not in fact distribute weapons, or offer contract killings, Evolution did allow trade of weapons as well as drugs. Prior to the closure of Silk Road 2.0, Agora already carried more listings than Silk Road, and Evolution was also expected to overtake it. Agora and Evolution are more professional operations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORENA | CORENA is an abbreviation of "Citizens [ sic ] Own Renewable Energy Network Australia Incorporated", an Australian nonprofit organisation based in Modbury, South Australia that relies on voluntary contributions from the public to fund practical renewable energy projects.
History
The concept was inspired by a conversation between founder Margaret Hender and a relative, wherein they discussed the possibility of Australia becoming powered entirely by renewable energy. A study published by Beyond Zero Emissions established that the goal was achievable if each household contributed $8 per week over 10 years. Thus CORENA was established to act as a focal point for the community desire to participate in such a scheme.
CORENA was incorporated on 22 April 2013.
Name
The lack of an apostrophe in the official title of the organisation stems from the requirement that the name of a financial institution account needs to exactly match the name of an organisation as it appears in its incorporation documents. Furthermore, the account name input fields of financial institutions don't accept the apostrophe as a valid character, causing deposits to bounce if the entered name does not match the account name. Hence for practical reasons the apostrophe remains omitted in spite of the grammatical error.
Projects
Big Win Project
The first Big Win project aims to collect AU$5 million initially, with the aim of using this money to enable the first stage of building a 50 MegaWatt solar thermal and storage plant, including planning, the purchase of land and auxiliary power.
Quick Win Projects
CORENA also co-ordinates a series of Quick Win projects that provide interest-free loans, consisting of money collected through donations, to nonprofit community groups to install solar power or solar hot water systems and/or for energy efficiency measures.
References
External links
Non-profit organisations based in South Australia
Solar energy organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Instruments%20Professional%20Computer | The Texas Instruments Professional Computer (abbreviated TIPC or TI PC) and the Texas Instruments Professional Portable Computer (TIPPC) are personal computers produced by Texas Instruments that were both released on January 31, 1983, and discontinued around 1985; the TIPC is a desktop PC and the TIPPC is a portable version that is fully compatible with it. Both computers were most often used by white-collar information workers and professionals that needed to gather, manipulate and transmit information.
Features and specifications
The TIPC is very similar to the IBM PC both architecturally and from a user-experience perspective, with some technically superior aspects. It is based on the Intel 8088 CPU and an optional Intel 8087 floating point coprocessor. It supports MS-DOS compatible operating systems, but is not a fully IBM PC compatible computer. Alternative operating systems are CP/M-86, Concurrent CP/M-86, and the UCSD p-System.
The TIPC was reviewed in Byte magazine in its December 1983 issue. The CPU clocked at 5 MHz (a bit faster than the 4.77 MHz of the IBM PC) and has 64 KB of RAM pre-installed. A RAM board can be installed in an expansion slot providing an additional 192 KB or RAM, for a maximum of 256 KB. A later version supports up to 768 KB of total memory. The computer featured 5 expansion slots and has either a 12-inch green-phosphor monochrome (CRT) monitor or a 12-inch color monitor with a color graphics resolution of 720x300 pixels. For text, the display shows 25 lines of 80 columns each. The device has a 5¼-inch floppy disk drive and can support a second floppy drive or a "Winchester" hard drive without requiring the use of an expansion slot or separate chassis, and typically features one of each.
Byte said the keyboard, which has a different layout for the arrow keys and is quieter than the IBM PC, was "well, wonderful". The keyboard has 57 typewriter keys, 5 cursor control keys, 12 function keys and a separate 18-key numeric keypad area. The keyboard has "infinite height adjustment from 5 to 15 degrees slope and connects to the system unit with a telephone-type coiled cord so you can position the key
board for greatest comfort (even use it in your lap)". The computer also has the capability to map the keyboard keys to characters to support arbitrary user customization of the keyboard layout. The keyboard ordinarily supports 256 distinct characters to enable international use, and the character set can be expanded to 512 characters for special-purpose applications. A light is provided to indicate uppercase mode selection.
Speech synthesis and speech recognition were added after the initial release, including support of natural-language queries with a relational database.
Promotion
TI was the first company to release videotape training videos for their computers.
References
External links
TI PPC at Old-Computers.com : The Museum. Accessed 10 February 2015.
Professional Computer
Microcomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20as%20complex%20networks | The field of complex networks has emerged as an important area of science to generate novel insights into nature of complex systems The application of network theory to climate science is a young and emerging field. To identify and analyze patterns in global climate, scientists model climate data as complex networks.
Unlike most real-world networks where nodes and edges are well defined, in climate networks, nodes are identified as the sites in a spatial grid of the underlying global climate data set, which can be represented at various resolutions. Two nodes are connected by an edge depending on the degree of statistical similarity (that may be related to dependence) between the corresponding pairs of time-series taken from climate records.
The climate network approach enables novel insights into the dynamics of the climate system over different spatial and temporal scales.
Construction of climate networks
Depending upon the choice of nodes and/or edges, climate networks may take many different forms, shapes, sizes and complexities.
Tsonis et al. introduced the field of complex networks to climate. In their model, the nodes for the network were constituted by a single variable (500 hPa) from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis datasets. In order to estimate the edges between nodes, correlation coefficient at zero time lag between all possible pairs of nodes were estimated. A pair of nodes was considered to be connected, if their correlation coefficient is above a threshold of 0.5.
Steinhaeuser and team introduced the novel technique of multivariate networks in climate by constructing networks from several climate variables separately and capture their interaction in multivariate predictive model. It was demonstrated in their studies that in context of climate, extracting predictors based on cluster attributes yield informative precursors to improve predictive skills.
Kawale et al. presented a graph based approach to find dipoles in pressure data. Given the importance of teleconnection, this methodology has potential to provide significant insights.
Imme et al. introduced a new type of network construction in climate based on temporal probabilistic graphical model, which provides an alternative viewpoint by focusing on information flow within network over time.
Agarwal et al. proposed advanced linear and nonlinear methods to construct and investigate climate networks at different timescales. Climate networks constructed using SST datasets at different timescale averred that multi-scale analysis of climatic processes holds the promise of better understanding the system dynamics that may be missed when processes are analyzed at one timescale only
Applications of climate networks
Climate networks enable insights into the dynamics of climate system over many spatial scales. The local degree centrality and related measures have been used to identify super-nodes and to associate them to known dynamical interrelations in the atmosphere, called teleconnection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Instruments%20Professional%20Portable%20Computer | The Texas Instruments Portable Professional Computer (TIPPC) is a portable version of Texas Instruments Professional Computer (TIPC), and are devices that were released on January 31, 1983. The TIPC is a desktop PC and the TIPPC is a fully compatible, portable version of the TIPC, and both machines were DOS-compatible, but not IBM PC compatible. Both computers were most often used by white-collar information workers and professionals who needed to gather, manipulate and transmit information. Texas Instruments (TI) was the first company to release videotape training videos for their computers.
Specifications
The TI Professional Computer came with a 14", 720x300 pixel color monitor, had 512 KB RAM and contained state-of-the-art, cutting-edge features, including industry-standard software support, easy expandability, a superior and user-friendly QWERTY keyboard, and natural language database options.
The standard version of the TIPPC had a built-in 9" monochrome monitor; the upgraded version came with a built-in 9" color monitor. The graphical capabilities were far superior to the IBM competitor; the TIPPC featured a maximum resolution of 720x300 pixels. The standard device came equipped with 64 KB RAM but could be expanded to 768 KB.
The TI Portable Professional Computer was one of the first portable computers available with a built-in color screen (optional), and one of the first portable computers that could be connected to an Ethernet network, with the addition of one of 3Com's first Ethernet cards.
Additionally, both the TIPC and TIPPC were equipped with voice recognition software, allowing the user to speak basic commands to the computers. Both computers also featured an Ethernet card, a new device developed in 1983 by 3Com.
See also
Texas Instruments Professional Computer
References
"OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum." OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum. Web. 7 Nov. 2014.
"Texas Instruments - 1983 TIPC and TI Professional Computer Introduced." Texas Instruments - 1983 TIPC and TI Professional Computer Introduced. Web. 7 Nov. 2014.
External links
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ti/professional/2223216-001_TIPC_Technical_Reference_Manual_Preliminary_012183.pdf
Professional Portable Computer
Portable computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20telenovelas | Telemundo was the first television channel broadcasting telenovelas, and Univision soon followed in the 1990s. Over the years, these two television networks have made co-productions with other countries including Venezuela, México, Colombia and Chile. Telemundo and Univision are sister channels with Venevisión and Televen, Venezuelan channels that have broadcast and produced their telenovelas for many years. Caracol Televisión is another sister channel of Telemundo.
Below is a list of all the telenovelas produced by Telemundo and Univision:
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
See also
List of telenovelas of Telemundo
List of telenovelas of Univision
References
External links
Telenovelas
Dynamic lists
American
American telenovelas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongdaesin%20station | Dongdaesin Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 in Dongdaesin-dong, Seo District, Busan, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Seo District, Busan
Railway stations opened in 1990
1990 establishments in South Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKSTV | Hong Kong Satellite Television (HKSTV, traditional Chinese: 香港衛視, simplified Chinese: 香港卫视) is a non-domestic satellite television network consisting of two Mandarin language channels, owned by Hong Kong Satellite TV International Media Group (HKS), based in Hong Kong. HKSTV was available in Hong Kong via Now TV and Cable TV Hong Kong between 2011 and 2014. It is now available over the internet in Taiwan via 5TV (China United) and also in Mainland China via CNTV. The HKSTV signal can be picked up via Satellite in over 140 countries world-wide. HKSTV distinguishes itself from other channels by using a mix of foreign and Chinese television hosts.
The company is registered in and named after Hong Kong, but most of its programmes are produced in mainland China.
History
HKSTV was given licenses for six separate Channels and one Internet-based television Channel by the Hong Kong government in 2008. In 2010, HKSTV began broadcasting into Hong Kong. In 2011, HKSTV became the first Hong Kong television station to be broadcast into Mainland China via CNTV. In 2013, HKSTV began broadcasting across Taiwan via 5TV, and can be reached by every household in Taiwan.
Programming
HKSTV broadcasts a variety of programming in Mandarin Chinese with a focus on news programmes, documentaries and panel shows including;
两岸民声 (People's voice)
记录 (Documentary)
东边西边 (East Meets West)
Former programming
Kunlun Fight
Hosts
HKSTV employs Foreign and Chinese hosts. Current and former hosts include;
张宗月 (zhāng zōng yuè)
王明青 (wáng míng qīng)
安娜 (ān nà)
高璐 (gāo lù)
马艳丽 (mǎ yàn lì)
麦子 (mài zi)
那晴 (nà qíng )
宋博宁 (sòng bó nìng)
宋思轩 (sòng sī xuān)
孙卉 (sūn huì)
王晓耕 (wáng xiǎo gēng)
徐樱子 (xú yīng zǐ)
叶虹韵 (yè hóng yùn)
杨阳 (yáng yáng)
杨洋 (yáng yáng)
蝶丹 (dié dān)
Hazza
References
External links
Official HKS website
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television stations in Hong Kong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagalchi%20station | Jagalchi Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 in Nampo-dong, Jung District, Busan, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Jung District, Busan
Railway stations opened in 1988
1988 establishments in South Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choryang%20station | Choryang Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 in Choryang-dong, Dong District, Busan, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Dong District, Busan
Railway stations opened in 1987
1987 establishments in South Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwacheon%20station%20%28Busan%20Metro%29 | Jwacheon Station () is a station of Busan Metro Line 1 in Jwacheon-dong, Dong District, Busan, South Korea. The station is unrelated to the Jwacheon Station of Korail.
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Dong District, Busan
Railway stations opened in 1987
1987 establishments in South Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beomil%20station%20%28Busan%20Metro%29 | Beomil Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 in Beomil-dong, Dong District, Busan, South Korea. The station is unrelated to the Beomil Station of Korail.
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Dong District, Busan
Railway stations opened in 1987
1987 establishments in South Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beomnaegol%20station | Beomnaegol Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 in Beomcheon-dong, Busanjin District, Busan, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Busanjin District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonsan%20station%20%28Busan%20Metro%29 | Yeonsan Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 and Busan Metro Line 3 in Yeonsan-dong, Yeonje District, Busan, South Korea.
Station Layout
Line 1
Line 3
Gallery
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Yeonje District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myeongnyun%20station | Myeongnyun Station () is a station of Busan Metro Line 1 in Myeongnyun-dong, Dongnae District, Busan, South Korea.
Station Layout
Gallery
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Dongnae District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncheonjang%20station | Oncheonjang Station () is a station of Busan Metro Line 1 in Oncheon-dong, Dongnae District, Busan, South Korea.
Station Layout
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Dongnae District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusan%20National%20University%20station | Pusan National University Station () is a station of Busan Metro Line 1 in Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeong District, Busan, South Korea.
Station Layout
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Geumjeong District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Women%27s%20Health%20Network | The Australian Women's Health Network is the peak organisation for women's health in Australia. The organisation was formed by women who attended the inaugural Community Health Association Conference in September 1986. It was incorporated on 3 March 1994. It is a non-profit network run primarily by volunteers. Australian Women's Health Network is an umbrella organization for State and Territory Women's Health Networks, and other national organizations which embrace its objectives and philosophy. The National Management Committee is made up of representatives from every state and territory in Australia. They especially aim to be universally trustworthy and to help women that are at a particularly higher risk when dealing with poor health. The organization prides itself on its accountability, transparency, integrity, and respect. They are willing to hold themselves accountable for their decisions and actions, having an open arms policy to gain the trust of the people, being able to maintain that trust, and treating each individual as an equal, not prioritizing anyone's self-worth over another. It also acts as a haven and aims to be overcome society's boundaries through inclusiveness in hopes of equity and equality. Actively participates in feminist movements, stressing the necessity and paramount of women's health. The organization outreaches to media to further shed light on the issue of women's health.
Vision and purpose
The vision for Australia's Women Health Network came from the Women's Health Charter which has a goal of making sure every woman in Australia is safe. The charter hopes to ensure that women are free from violence and discrimination, and among all else, have equal opportunity and freedom from discrimination. This charter is the basis for the beliefs embedded within the Australian Women's Health Network and works collectively to create better opportunities for women in Australia, offering a hub of organizations and services. Their goals also work towards implicit events that may affect women's health such as social, cultural and environmental determinants of health. The Australian Women's Health Network defines their role as being “The national voice for women’s health”.
Activity
The Australian Women's Health Network is a pro-choice organization. The 1st Australian Women's Health Conference occurred in October 1987 at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne and was funded by the Department of Health. The 7th conference was held in Sydney from May 2013. Speakers at the conference included Kimberly Dark.
In 2009, AWHN received approximately $100,000 in funding from the Department of Health and Ageing.
AWHN has been funded in various ways since 1986, with a combination of government contracts and philanthropy. In 2022, AWHN had funding renewed as the Women's Health peak body through the Australian Government Department of Health, Health Peak and Advisory Bodies Program.
Not only do they advocate for women's health, they branch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Estrada | Susan Estrada is in the Internet Hall of Fame for founding CERFnet, one of the original regional IP networks, in 1988. Through her leadership and collaboration with PSINet and UUnet, Estrada helped form the interconnection enabling the first commercial Internet traffic via the Commercial Internet Exchange.
She wrote Connecting to the Internet in 1993 and she was inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014.
She is on the board of trustees of the Internet Society.
In 2012, Susana Estrada was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as a pioneer in the development of internet.
References
Living people
Internet pioneers
American telecommunications industry businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women Internet pioneers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HYSPLIT | The Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory model (HYSPLIT) is a computer model that is used to compute air parcel trajectories to determine how far and in what direction a parcel of air, and subsequently air pollutants, will travel. HYSPLIT is also capable of calculating air pollutant dispersion, chemical transformation, and deposition. The HYSPLIT model was developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Air Resources Laboratory and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology Research Centere in 1998. The model derives its name from the usage of both Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches.
Model development
Early interest in computing air parcel trajectories stemmed from the nuclear arms race of the Cold War. In 1949, the United States government used wind data from radiosonde balloon measurements to determine the likely sources of air parcel trajectories to find a Soviet Union atomic test site. The initial version of HYSPLIT (HYSPLIT1) was developed in 1982 and obtained meteorological data solely from rawinsonde measurements and its dispersion calculations assumed uniform daytime mixing and no mixing at night. The second version of HYSPLIT (HYSPLIT2) improved upon HYSPLIT1 by varying the mixing strength. The third version of HYSPLIT (HYSPLIT3) utilized numerical weather prediction models to compute meteorology rather than rawinsonde data alone, improving spatial and temporal resolution of the model. HYSPLIT4, created in 1998, serves as the basis for current model versions.
Applications
The HYSPLIT model is widely used for both research applications and emergency response events to forecast and establish source-receptor relationships from a variety of air pollutants and hazardous materials. Examples of use include:
Back trajectory analysis to establish source-receptor relationships
Tracking and forecasting radioactive material
Real-time wildland fire smoke predictions
Wind blown dust
Stationary sources of anthropogenic emissions
The HYSPLIT model can be run interactively on the Real-Time Environmental Applications and Display System (READY) web site or installed on PC, Mac, or Linux applications, which use a graphical user interface, or automated through scripts ('PySPLIT' package in Python, 'openair' and 'splitr' packages in R). HYSPLIT is rather unusual in that it may be run in client-server mode (HYSPLIT-WEB) from the NOAA website, allowing members of the public to select gridded historical or forecast datasets, to configure model runs, and retrieve model results with a web browser. Annual trainings on the installation, configuration, and use of the modeling system and its applications are offered by HYSPLIT developers.
Wildland fire smoke forecasting
The HYSPLIT model is extensively used by United States Land Management Agencies to forecast potential human health impacts from wildland fire smoke. Smoke from wildland fires can directly impact both the public and wildfire personnel health. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ria%20Money%20Transfer | Ria Money Transfer is a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide, Inc., which specializes in money remittances. Ria initiates transfers through a network of agents and company-owned stores located throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, and online. Ria is one of the big four remittance companies.
History
The company opened its first store in 1987. Ria has since grown to become the third largest money transfer service in the world.
In 2006, Ria was acquired by Euronet Worldwide, Inc., becoming part of its money transfer segment together with XE.
Ria began working with post offices in 2010 and on July 31, 2014, partnered with Postbank, which is owned by the Kenyan government. This allowed customers to send money through any of the bank's 99 branches, or receive it directly into their accounts.
In 2014, the company launched Walmart-2-Walmart Powered by Ria, a Walmart money transfer service within the US. The service allows customers to transfer money to and from more than 4,600 stores at competitive prices.
In 2015, Ria acquired Malaysia based money transfer provider IME.
In 2016, the company expanded its relationship with Walmart to Latin America and partnered with Walmart Chile to offer money transfer services through selected Líder brand supermarkets. In 2019, Ria and Walmart partnered with Paypal’s Xoom to introduce domestic money transfer services. Xoom expanded to 60 countries in the deal with Ria.
As of 2020, Ria’s money transfer services are available at over 470,000 locations in 159 countries, online, and through their app.
Ria continues to expand into Latin America with the support of a joint venture between parent company Euronet and Spain's Prosegur Cash.
The Central Bank of Nigeria listed Ria as one of their approved international money transfer operators for diaspora remittances in March 2021. First Bank of Nigeria also works with Ria to bring remittances into the country.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank released a report detailing the importance of remittances to provide a critical lifeline for vulnerable populations.
Ria has international presence as a key company for sending remittances in Belarus and as one of the companies that pays the most for sending remittances from the US to Mexico.
Products and services
Ria Money Transfer App
The Ria Money Transfer App is available in the United States, Canada, and in most countries in Europe. With over 1,000,000 downloads, the app allows customers to send money through Ria’s global network.
Mobile Money
Customers can send and receive money through Ria Money Transfer’s mobile wallet network. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest remittance costs, but it’s also the most developed when it comes to mobile wallets. In a partnership with Gambia's mobile money platform Qmoney, Ria customers can make fund transfers to Qmoney customers using their mobile phones.
References
External links
Ria Money Transfer Official Site
The Ria Blog
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YubiKey | The YubiKey is a hardware authentication device manufactured by Yubico to protect access to computers, networks, and online services that supports one-time passwords (OTP), public-key cryptography, and authentication, and the Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) and FIDO2 protocols developed by the FIDO Alliance. It allows users to securely log into their accounts by emitting one-time passwords or using a FIDO-based public/private key pair generated by the device. YubiKey also allows for storing static passwords for use at sites that do not support one-time passwords. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook use YubiKey devices to secure employee accounts as well as end user accounts. Some password managers support YubiKey. Yubico also manufactures the Security Key, a similar lower cost device with only FIDO2/WebAuthn and FIDO/U2F support.
The YubiKey implements the HMAC-based One-time Password Algorithm (HOTP) and the Time-based One-time Password Algorithm (TOTP), and identifies itself as a keyboard that delivers the one-time password over the USB HID protocol. A YubiKey can also present itself as an OpenPGP card using 1024, 2048, 3072 and 4096-bit RSA (for key sizes over 2048 bits, GnuPG version 2.0 or higher is required) and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) p256, p384 and more depending on version, allowing users to sign, encrypt and decrypt messages without exposing the private keys to the outside world. Also supported is the PKCS#11 standard to emulate a PIV smart card. This feature allows for code signing of Docker images as well as certificate-based authentication for Microsoft Active Directory and SSH.
Founded in 2007 by CEO Stina Ehrensvärd, Yubico is a private company with offices in Palo Alto, Seattle, and Stockholm. Yubico CTO, Jakob Ehrensvärd, is the lead author of the original strong authentication specification that became known as Universal 2nd Factor (U2F).
YubiKey released the YubiKey 5 series in 2018 which adds support for FIDO2.
History
Yubico was founded in 2007 and began offering a Pilot Box for developers in November of that year. The original YubiKey product was shown at the annual RSA Conference in April 2008, and a more robust YubiKey II model was launched in 2009. Yubico's explanation of the name "YubiKey" is that it derives from the phrase "your ubiquitous key", and that "yubi" is the Japanese word for finger.
YubiKey II and later models have two "slots" available, for storing two distinct configurations with separate AES secrets and other settings. When authenticating the first slot is used by only briefly pressing the button on the device, while the second slot gets used when holding the button for 2 to 5 seconds.
In 2010, Yubico began offering the YubiKey OATH and YubiKey RFID models. The YubiKey OATH added the ability to generate 6- and 8-character one-time passwords using protocols from the Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH), in addition to the 32-character passwords used by Yubico's own OTP authenti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Gelber%20%28game%20designer%29 | Daniel Seth Gelber is a game designer who has worked primarily on wargames and role-playing games.
Career
Dan Gelber had created an RPG design about a computer-controlled world of dystopic adventure called "Alpha Complex" that he ran for his local group, and Gelber's friend Greg Costikyan and Eric Goldberg approached Gelber about turning the setting into a professional product. Gelber gave Goldberg and Costikyan his notes for the game and they turned those ideas into a complete manuscript. Gelber, Costikyan, and Goldberg licensed Paranoia to West End Games, and Ken Rolston helped rewrite the rules before it was published in 1984.
Gelber also designed (with Jeffrey Simons and Evan Jones) The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game.
References
External links
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Role-playing game designers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFTY-LD | KFTY-LD (channel 45) is a low-power television station licensed to Middletown, California, United States, airing classic television and paid programming from Timeless TV. The station is owned by HC2 Holdings.
History
The station’s construction permit was issued on February 25, 2010 under the calls of K02QO-D. It moved to its current callsign KFTY-LD on November 12, 2013.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Low-power television stations in California
Innovate Corp.
FTY-LD
Television channels and stations established in 2010
2010 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cyberattacks | A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
Indiscriminate attacks
These attacks are wide-ranging, global and do not seem to discriminate among governments and companies.
Operation Shady RAT
World of Hell
Red October, discovered in 2012, was reportedly operating worldwide for up to five years prior to discovery, transmitting information ranging from diplomatic secrets to personal information, including from mobile devices.
WannaCry ransomware attack on 12 May 2017 affecting hundreds of thousands of computers in more than 150 countries.
2017 Petya cyberattack
Destructive attacks
These attacks relate to inflicting damage on specific organizations.
Great Hacker War, and purported "gang war" in cyberspace
LulzRaft, hacker group known for a low impact attack in Canada
Operation Ababil, conducted against American financial institutions
TV5Monde April 2015 cyberattack
Vulcanbot
Shamoon, a modular computer virus, was used in 2012 in an attack on 30,000 Saudi Aramco workstations, causing the company to spend a week restoring their services.
Wiper – in December 2011, the malware successfully erased information on hard disks at the Oil Ministry's headquarters.
Stuxnet - A malicious computer worm believed to be a jointly built American-Israeli cyber weapon. Designed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program with what would seem like a long series of unfortunate accidents.
Viasat hack - a February 2022 attack on the KA-SAT network of Viasat
Cyberwarfare
These are politically motivated destructive attacks aimed at sabotage and espionage.
2007 cyberattacks on Estonia, wide-ranging attack targeting government and commercial institutions
2008 Cyberattacks during the Russo-Georgian War, a series of cyberattacks that swamped and disabled websites of numerous South Ossetian, Georgian, Russian and Azerbaijani organizations. The attacks were initiated three weeks before the shooting war began in what is regarded as "the first case in history of a coordinated cyberspace domain attack synchronized with major combat actions in the other warfighting domains (consisting of Land, Air, Sea, and Space)."
2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, a series of coordinated cyberattacks against major government, news media, and financial websites in South Korea and the United States.
July 2009 cyberattacks, against South Korea and the United States
2009 Shadow Network, China-based computer espionage operation that stole classified documents and emails from the Indian government, the office of the Dalai Lama, and other high-level government networks.
2010 Australian cyberattacks, a series of denial-of-service attacks conducted by t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20E.%20Caines | Peter Edwin Caines, FRSC is a control theorist and James McGill Professor and Macdonald Chair in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which he joined in 1980.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE, SIAM, IFAC, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Royal Society of Canada. He is the recipient of Bode Lecture Prize in 2009 for fundamental contributions in the areas of stochastic, adaptive, large scale and hybrid systems. He initiated the Mean Field Games (or Nash Certainty Equivalence) in engineering with Minyi Huang and Roland Malhame for the analysis and control of large population stochastic dynamic systems. This is studied independently around the same time by Jean-Michel Lasry and Pierre-Louis Lions.
During 1992 -1995 he served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, was a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Society from 2002 to 2007. In 2013 he received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for services to the community and to Canada.
Selected publications
P. E. Caines, [ Linear Stochastic Systems], John Wiley, 1988.
M.Y. Huang, R.P. Malhame and P.E. Caines, "Large Population Stochastic Dynamic Games: Closed-Loop McKean–Vlasov Systems and the Nash Certainty Equivalence Principle," Communications in Information and Systems. Vol 6, Number 3, 2006, pp 221–252.
Goodwin, G.; Ramadge, P.J.; Caines, P.E., "Discrete-time multivariable adaptive control," Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on, vol.25, no.3, pp. 449,456, Jun 1980.
References
External links
Homepage
Peter E. Caines' Bio at IEEE website
1945 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Academic staff of McGill University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202014 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2014
QandA
2014-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Rappaport | Theodore (Ted) Scott Rappaport (born November 26, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American electrical engineer and the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and founding director of NYU WIRELESS.
He has written several textbooks, including Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice and Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications (2014).
In the private sector he co-founded TSR Technologies, Inc. and Wireless Valley Communications, Inc. In the academic setting he founded academic wireless research centers at Virginia Tech, the University of Texas at Austin, and New York University.
His 2013 paper, "Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!" has been called a founding document of 5G millimeter wave. He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2018, and to the Wireless Hall of Fame in 2019. He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for contributions to the characterization of radio frequency propagation in millimeter wave bands for cellular communication networks.
Early life and education
Ted Rappaport was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Lincoln High School in Cambridge City, Indiana.
Rappaport first developed an affinity for radio at age 5 when he would visit his grandfather, and together they would spend hours "tuning around, listening to Morse code and ship-to-shore" on his grandfather's Philco antique shortwave radio. From those early beginnings, he developed a fascination for wireless and "loves to experiment with antennas". At age 13, after he fractured his leg playing football his grandmother gave him a shortwave radio which helped keep him occupied while his leg was healing. He acquired his ham radio license, and while in high school began teaching adults Morse code.
Rappaport was among the first graduates of Purdue University's National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) where he co-authored the proposal that resulted in the National Science Foundation award presented to Purdue by President Ronald Reagan.
Career
Academic
Rappaport graduated from Purdue University with a BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering in 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively. He joined the faculty of Virginia Tech in 1988 as an assistant professor and in 1990 founded the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), one of the world's first academic research centers for the fledgling wireless communications field.
In 2002 Rappaport accepted the William and Bettye Nowlin professorship at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).
In 2012, he joined New York University and Polytechnic University prior to the merger of the two universities to lead their wireless communications engineering and research initiatives as the David Lee/Ernst Weber Chair of Electrical Engineering while also holding professorships at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Science |
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