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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emospark | EmoSpark is an artificial intelligence console created in London, United Kingdom by Patrick Levy-Rosenthal. The device uses facial recognition and language analysis to evaluate human emotion and convey responsive content according to the emotion. The console measures 90 mm x 90 mm x 90 mm and is cube shaped. It operates on an "Emotional Processing Unit", an emotion chip developed by Emoshape Inc. that enables the system to create emotional profile graphs of its surroundings. The emotional processing unit is a patent pending technology that is said to create synthesised emotional responses in machines. EmoSpark was funded through an Indiegogo campaign which aimed to raise $200,000.
Product overview
EmoSpark was created by French inventor Patrick Levy-Rosenthal, as an emotionally intelligent artificial life unit for the home that can interact with people. It is powered by Android and can communicate with users through typed input from a computer, tablet, smartphone or TV as well as through spoken commands.
The EmoSpark's features are categorized into two types: functional and emotional. EmoSpark is said to have the ability to perform practical software-based tasks. Through the smartphone interface, it is able to gauge a person’s emotions and is reported to have a conversational library of over 2 million sentences. The face-tracking technology identifies users likes and dislikes to categorize their emotional responses to stimuli such as videos and music. The device has an emotional spectrum that is composed of eight emotions which are surprise, sadness, joy, trust, fear, disgust, anger and anticipation.
EmoSpark monitors a person's facial expressions and emotions through images from an external camera, which are then processed through an emotion text analysis and content analysis. The New Scientist reported that EmoSpark had the ability to work on the best way to cheer up its users, emotionally.
Connectivity
EmoSpark is able to connect to Facebook and YouTube to present users with content designed to improve their mood, or to Wikipedia for collaborative knowledge that can be shared when users ask questions of it. Through Android OS, EmoSpark is able to be customized with Google Play store apps.
The cube is expected to develop its own personality based on the communications it has had with the people using it.
EmoShape
The Emotion Chip (EPU) used in the cube is created by the US company Emoshape Inc, founded by Levy-Rosenthal. EmoShape Ltd (UK) was the company that developed EmoSpark cube. Patrick Levy-Rosenthal also received the IST Prize in 2005 from the European Council for Applied Science, Technology and Engineering.
References
AI software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20data%20in%20the%20United%20States | Open data in the United States refers to the Federal government of the United States' perspectives, policies, and practices regarding open data.
History
In the 1970s the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began releasing weather information, which could now be called "open data".
After Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747 carrying 269 people, was shot down in 1983 after straying into the USSR's prohibited airspace, in the vicinity of Sakhalin and Moneron Islands, President Ronald Reagan issued a directive making the United States Global Positioning System of Air Force Space Command, freely available for civilian use, once it was sufficiently developed, as a common good. During the presidency of Bill Clinton the data actually was made available for public use.
Value of US government open data
Industry collects, processes, and resells open data from the United States government. United States government weather data is the base of an industry which generates billion annually. GPS data is the base of an industry estimated to generate billion annually. Vivek Kundra noted that "Zillow is valued at over $1 billion, the Weather Channel was sold for approximately $3.5 billion in 2008, and Garmin has a market cap of $7.24 billion. These are all companies that were built using raw government data."
Open Data Policy
In May 2013 Barack Obama issued an executive order which established the Open Data Policy along with a memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget which supported that policy. These policies were developed as a way to promote economic growth and create jobs. They were guided by precedents and policies of the Sunlight Foundation and Open Knowledge. The Sunlight Foundation said at the establishment of the policy that it "certainly appears to be the strongest index and audit requirement" that the organization had seen.
The government published this policy on GitHub.
data.gov
data.gov is a U.S. government website launched in late May 2009 by the then Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the United States, Vivek Kundra.
According to its website, "The purpose of data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government." The site seeks to become "a repository for all the information the government collects". The site would publish to the public any data that is not private or restricted for national security reasons.
See also
Copyright status of works by the federal government of the United States
Copyright status of works by subnational governments of the United States
Public.Resource.Org
Freedom of Information Act
Open data in the United Kingdom
References
Sources
External links
Open Government Initiative at the White House
Project Open Data at the office of the Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States
data.gov data.gov, "the home of the U.S. Government’s open data"
Open data by location
Open governmen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20Story | Body Story is a mini-series produced by Wall to Wall and distributed by Channel 4 and Discovery Channel. The series aired in two seasons 1998 and 2001. Combining real-life acting and computer-generated imagery, it shows the processes going on inside the human body in our daily life as well as facing dramatic experiences, in a docufictional style.
The series covers body processes such as basic instincts, learning, immune system, puberty, pregnancy, immune system and recovering.
Season 1
Under pressure
45 year old man has heart attack
The cold war
Bicycle courier slash singer gets a visit from Influenza B
Breaking Down
Young girl breaks arm falling off a bicycle
Basic Instinct
Sleazy man gets drunk
The Takeover
Marion Swift struggles with the various stages of pregnancy with the help of her husband, Ian.
Shut down
Life reaches its end for one Typewriter enthusiast
Season 2
Teen dreams
The episode follows neighborhood children Darren and Natalie, as they grow through the stages of puberty. The first scene shows Darren and Natalie as 8 year old kids frolicking in their backyard. The time is fast forwarded five years, to when both children are 13 years old. Scenes shot in a third person perspective follow Darren and Natalie through the changes of puberty, including: pimples, the first period, the growth of sperm, and the growth spurts that both children go through. All of the changes during puberty result in sexual attraction towards each other, and culminates during a Romeo and Juliet play in which Darren and Natalie share a kiss.
Brave new world
How a baby's mind develops after being born.
Fat attack
How people gain and lose weight.
Allergy
A woman is stung by a wasp and suffers an allergic reaction.
Bad taste
A man suffers from salmonella.
Crash
A couple experience a car crash.
Awards
The first season won a silver medal for Television Film in the 1999 BMA Awards.
International broadcasts
References
British documentary television series about science
Channel 4 documentary series
Discovery Channel original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater%20computer%20vision | Underwater computer vision is a subfield of computer vision. In recent years, with the development of underwater vehicles ( ROV, AUV, gliders), the need to be able to record and process huge amounts of information has become increasingly important. Applications range from inspection of underwater structures for the offshore industry to the identification and counting of fishes for biological research. However, no matter how big the impact of this technology can be to industry and research, it still is in a very early stage of development compared to traditional computer vision. One reason for this is that, the moment the camera goes into the water, a whole new set of challenges appear. On one hand, cameras have to be made waterproof, marine corrosion deteriorates materials quickly and access and modifications to experimental setups are costly, both in time and resources. On the other hand, the physical properties of the water make light behave differently, changing the appearance of a same object with variations of depth, organic material, currents, temperature etc.
Applications
Seafloor survey
Vehicle navigation and positioning
Biological monitoring
Video mosaics as visual navigation maps
Pipeline inspection
Wreckage visualization
Maintenance of underwater structures
Drowning detection, e.g. pool safety
Medium differences
Illumination
In air, light comes from the whole hemisphere on cloudy days, and is dominated by the sun. In water lighting comes from a finite cone above the scene. This phenomenon is called Snell's window.
Light attenuation
Unlike air, water attenuates light exponentially. This results in hazy images with very low contrast. The main reasons for light attenuation are light absorption (where energy is removed from the light) and light scattering, by which the direction of light is changed. Light scattering can further be divided into forward scattering, which results in an increased blurriness and backward scattering that limits the contrast and is responsible for the characteristic veil of underwater images. Both scattering and attenuation are heavily influenced by the amount of organic matter dissolved or suspended in the water.
Another problem with water is that light attenuation is a function of the wavelength. This means that different colours are attenuated faster or slower than others, leading to colour degradation. Red and orange light is the first to be attenuated, followed by yellows and greens. Blue is the least attenuated visual wavelength.
Challenges
In high level computer vision, human structures are frequently used as image features for image matching in different applications. However, the sea bottom lacks such features, making it hard to find correspondences in two images.
In order to be able to use a camera in the water, a watertight housing is required. However, refraction will happen at the water-glass and glass-air interface due to differences in density of the materials. This has t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar%20Media%20Corporation | Qatar Media Corporation (formerly known as Qatar General Broadcasting and Television Corporation) is a public service broadcasting network in Qatar. It was incorporated on 27 April 1997. Several television channels and radio networks are being run by this organization, including Qatar TV and the Qatar Broadcasting Service (QBS) radio station, Qatar Radio. QMC is a member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.
See also
Mass media in Qatar
References
External links
Official website
Television networks in Qatar
1997 establishments in Qatar
State media
Mass media companies established in 1997
Mass media companies of Qatar
Mass media in Qatar
Radio in Qatar
Government-owned companies of Qatar
Multilingual broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20D.%20Lafferty | John D. Lafferty is an American scientist, Professor at Yale University and leading researcher in machine learning. He is best known for proposing the Conditional Random Fields with Andrew McCallum and Fernando C.N. Pereira.
Biography
In 2017, Lafferty was appointed the John C. Malone Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Yale University. He previously taught at the University of Chicago as Louis Block Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, and has held positions at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Diego. His research interests lie in statistical machine learning, information retrieval, and natural language processing, with a focus on computational and statistical aspects of nonparametric methods, high-dimensional data and graphical models.
Prior to University of Chicago in 2011, he was faculty at Carnegie Mellon University since 1994, where he helped to found the world's first machine-learning department. Before CMU, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on natural speech and text processing in the group led by Frederick Jelinek. Lafferty received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University, where he was a member of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, under Edward Nelson in 1986. He was an assistant professor in the Mathematics Department at Harvard University before joining IBM.
He was elected Fellow of IEEE in 2007 "for contributions to statistical pattern recognition and statistical language processing".
Academic career
Lafferty served many prestigious positions, including: 1) program co-chair and general co-chair of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Foundation conferences; 2) co-director of CMU's new Ph.D. Machine Learning Ph.D. Program; 3) associate editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research and the Electronic Journal of Statistics; and 4) member of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS) of the National Research Council.
Lafferty received numerous awards, including two Test-of-Time awards at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2011 & 2012, classic paper prize of ICML 2013, and Test-of-Time awards at the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2014.
Selected works
1990. A statistical approach to machine translation.
The idea of statistical machine translation was born in the labs of IBM Research.
2001. Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data.
Test-of-Time Award of ICML 2011.
2002. Diffusion Kernels on Graphs and Other Discrete Input Spaces.
Test-of-Time Award of ICML 2012.
2003. Semi-Supervised Learning Using Gaussian Fields and Harmonic Functions.
Classic paper prizes of ICML 2013.
2003. Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval.
Test of Time Award of SIGIR 2014.
2006. Dynamic topic models. ICML'06.
See also
Conditional |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2i%20Rete%20Gas | Headquartered in Milan, 2i Rete Gas is the second largest gas distribution operator and the only independent player in the gas distribution sector in Italy, with a widespread and diversified network of concession over the whole Italian territory, a market share of approximately 17% and more than 3.8m customers served.
The company is controlled by three infrastructure funds, F2i One, F2i Two (72% combined), an institutional long-term investor, and Ardian (28%), a premium independent private investment company.
In 2013, 2iRG generated €846m revenues (including €116m for IFRIC 12 effect) and €383m EBITDA.
Key features (main operating data)
Grid extension: 57,000 km
Regions served: 18 (137 out of 177 Ambiti Territoriali Minimi)
Municipalities under management: 1,961
Employees: 2,042
Historical background
In 2000, 2i Rete Gas appeared for the first time as a player in the gas distribution sector with the acquisition of Colombo Gas; in 2002, also Gruppo Camuzzi (approx. 1,000k clients) was acquired.
Since September 2009, after the acquisition of Enel Rete Gas by F2i and Axa Private Equity (today ARDIAN), the company has significantly grown from 2.1 m to 3.8m clients (in 2012) thanks to an important consolidation process.
In particular, in October 2011 the company's gas networks were reorganized by its shareholders: 2iRG acquired 2iGas Infrastruttura Italiana Gas S.r.l. (formerly E.On Rete S.r.l.), the seventh player in the Italian gas distribution sector (3.2% market share in 2010 in terms of volumes of gas distributed) and G6 Rete Gas S.p.A. (from GdF Suez), the sixth player in the Italian gas distribution sector (4.0% market share in 2010 in terms of volumes of gas distributed).
In December 2013, F2i and Ardian acquired another 14.8% stake in Enel Rete Gas from Enel S.p.A.
As of today, after these acquisitions and an organic growth process, 2i Rete Gas has a market share of 17.2% in terms of volumes of gas distributed with 5.9 billion of m3 of gas distributed and 3.8 million of users in 2,000 municipalities, served through a network of approximately 57,000 km.
The company operates throughout the national territory and has a dominant position in North-West and South-East Italy. The objective of the company is to consolidate and strengthen the Italian gas distribution market, which is currently very fragmented, being organized into aggregations of Ambiti Territoriali Minimi (ATEM).
At the beginning of 2014, Enel Rete Gas was renamed 2i Rete Gas SpA.
Notes
External links
F2i Official Website
Electric power companies of Italy
Formerly government-owned companies of Italy
Former Enel subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Bacon%20%28priest%29 | Thomas Bacon (1711/1712 – 1768) was an Episcopal priest, musician, poet, publisher and author. Considered the most learned man in Maryland of his day, Bacon is still known as the first compiler of Maryland statutes.
Early years
The eldest child of mariner William Bacon and his second wife, Elizabeth Richardson, Bacon was probably born a year or so after their 1710 marriage. He had an elder half-brother, William, and a younger brother, Anthony (baptised in 1716). Bacon was either born on the Isle of Man or at his parents' earlier home in Whitehaven, a port town in Cumberland, after which they moved to the island.
He probably received a very good education for his time, because by the mid-1730s, Bacon lived in Dublin and worked in the royal customs service. He had previously managed vessels in the coal trade between Whitehaven and Dublin. In 1737, Bacon published his first book, A Compleat System of the Revenue of Ireland, in its Branches of Import, Export, and Inland Duties, Containing I. An Abridgement of English and Irish Statutes Relating to the Revenue of Ireland II. The Former and Additional Book of Rates Inwards and Outwards, etc. III. A View of the Duties which Compose the Revenue of Ireland, etc. IV. The Method of Making Entries, etc. This earned an invitation for him to become a free citizen of Dublin, with associated privileges.
By 1741, Bacon had married and was publishing the biweekly Dublin Mercury, possibly with the help of his wife or his elder half-brother William, as well as auctioning goods and operating a coffeehouse. In addition to private pamphlets and handbills, Bacon also published the official Irish newspaper, the Dublin Gazette in 1642 and 1643, but abruptly ceased publication in July, after which Augustus Long resumed publication on August 23, 1743. In the interim, a copyright dispute between author Samuel Richardson and other Irish publishers of his controversial novel Pamela, may have caused problems for Bacon, as some characterized him as an agent for the English publisher for selling imported copies after an Irish publisher had printed the first page required under Irish copyright law at the time (which changed as a result of the dispute).
Ministry
Rather than continue his various businesses or pursue a civil service career, Bacon decided to study for the ministry. He returned to the Isle of Man and studied under Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man. At Kirk Michael, Wilson ordained Bacon as a deacon on 23 September 1744, and on 10 March 1745 as a priest "in order to go into the Plantations".
Bacon's brother Anthony had moved to Maryland by 1733, and was working for his uncle, merchant Anthony Richardson until the latter's death in 1741, after which he continued in Maryland for a while, but circa 1749 moved to London to continue his mercantile career, which included the transatlantic slave trade. A 1744 letter mentioned Thomas's prospective missionary career in the colony. The new priest sailed for the colony s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop%2C%20or%20My%20Dog%20Will%20Shoot%21 | "Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!" is the twentieth episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 13, 2007. When Santa's Little Helper rescues a lost Homer, he becomes a local hero and the Simpsons decide to enroll him in Police Dog Academy, where he is teamed with Lou and they become a crime-busting duo. Bart's excitement quickly vanishes after an incident with a jaded Santa's Little Helper, so to appease Bart's depression after the loss of his dog, Marge agrees to buy him a huge pet snake, which causes a life-threatening situation at Bart and Lisa's school. It was written by John Frink and directed by Matthew Faughnan. Friend of the show Stephen Hawking makes his third guest appearance on the show as himself, while Maurice LaMarche does the voice of the Horn Stuffer. Rudy Giuliani makes a guest voice appearance as himself, although not in the original airing. The fan-favorite song "Freak On a Leash" by metal band
Korn is featured when Santa's Little Helper is trying to find Homer in a cornstalk maze. The episode was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award.
Plot
Homer, excited about going to Oktoberfest, is disappointed when he discovers that Marge has tricked him and the kids into going to a Harvest Festival which allows no alcohol. While attempting to leave, Homer accidentally leads the family into a cornfield maze. Lisa crafts an escape plan with Tremaux's algorithm, a real life maze-solving method, but Homer is left behind after wrongly assuming that Marge wants to break up when she was suggesting to split up to find a way out.
Homer is lost inside the maze for several hours and Santa's Little Helper is called upon by Bart to find him. The dog manages to sniff out Homer and drag him out of the maze. Santa's Little Helper becomes a hero and the Simpsons, persuaded by Chief Wiggum, enroll him in the Springfield Animal Police Academy, where he is teamed with Lou, managing to help fight crime in Springfield.
Santa's Little Helper catches Snake Jailbird who is taken to court, but freed on a technicality. This makes Santa's Little Helper jaded, and when he returns home, he bites Bart on the leg out of frustration. Considering the fact that the pressure from the fight against crime is what led to the dog's actions on Bart, the Simpsons send the dog away to live with Lou. As a replacement, Marge buys Bart an African rock python, which he names Strangles. Bart takes Strangles to show and tell at school, where Strangles escapes into a school lab and unintentionally knocks over beakers of ethanol and nitric acid, mixing both substances and creating a toxic cloud.
Bart, being the only person still stranded in school trying to find Strangles, collapses from the smoke, (remarking "It smells like some chemicals cut one"). Both Santa's Little Helper and Strangles arrive to save Bart, who chooses his faithful dog to save him. Santa's Little Helper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20Sony%20Pictures%20hack | On November 24, 2014, a hacker group identifying itself as "Guardians of Peace" leaked a release of confidential data from the film studio Sony Pictures entertainment (SPE). The data included personal information about Sony Pictures employees and their families, emails between employees, information about executive salaries at the company, copies of then-unreleased Sony films, plans for future Sony films, scripts for certain films, and other information. The perpetrators then employed a variant of the Shamoon wiper malware to erase Sony's computer infrastructure.
During the hack, the group demanded that Sony withdraw its then-upcoming film The Interview, starring James Franco as a reporter and Seth Rogen (who also wrote, produced, and directed the film alongside his creative partner Evan Goldberg) as his producer who are hired by the United States and South Korean governments to set up an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as part of a plot to assassinate him, and threatened terrorist attacks at cinemas screening the film. After many major U.S. theater chains opted not to screen The Interview in response to these threats, Sony chose to cancel the film's formal premiere and mainstream release, opting to skip directly to a downloadable digital release followed by a limited theatrical release the next day.
United States intelligence officials, after evaluating the software, techniques, and network sources used in the hack, concluded that the attack was sponsored by the government of North Korea, which has since denied all responsibility.
Hack and perpetrators
The exact duration of the hack is yet unknown. U.S. investigators say the culprits spent at least two months copying critical files. A purported member of the Guardians of Peace (GOP) who has claimed to have performed the hack stated that they had access for at least a year prior to its discovery in November 2014, according to Wired. The hackers involved claim to have taken more than 100 terabytes of data from Sony, but that claim has never been confirmed. The attack was conducted using malware. Although Sony was not specifically mentioned in its advisory, US-CERT said that attackers used a Server Message Block (SMB) Worm Tool to conduct attacks against a major entertainment company. Components of the attack included a listening implant, backdoor, proxy tool, destructive hard drive tool, and destructive target cleaning tool. The components clearly suggest an intent to gain repeated entry, extract information, and be destructive, as well as remove evidence of the attack.
Sony was made aware of the hack on Monday, November 24, 2014, as the malware previously installed rendered many Sony employees' computers inoperable by the software, with the warning by a group calling themselves the Guardians of Peace, along with a portion of the confidential data taken during the hack. Several Sony-related Twitter accounts were also taken over. This followed a message that several Sony Pictures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen%20%28microarchitecture%29 | Zen is the codename for a family of computer processor microarchitectures from AMD, first launched in February 2017 with the first generation of its Ryzen CPUs. It is used in Ryzen (desktop and mobile), Ryzen Threadripper (workstation/high end desktop), and Epyc (server).
Comparison
History
First generation
The first generation Zen was launched with the Ryzen 1000 series of CPUs (codenamed Summit Ridge) in February 2017. The first Zen-based preview system was demonstrated at E3 2016, and first substantially detailed at an event hosted a block away from the Intel Developer Forum 2016. The first Zen-based CPUs reached the market in early March 2017, and Zen-derived Epyc server processors (codenamed "Naples") launched in June 2017 and Zen-based APUs (codenamed "Raven Ridge") arrived in November 2017. This first iteration of Zen utilized GlobalFoundries' 14 nm manufacturing process. Modified Zen-based processors for the Chinese market were built.
First generation refresh
Zen+ was first released in April 2018, powering the second generation of Ryzen processors, known as Ryzen 2000 (codenamed "Pinnacle Ridge") for mainstream desktop systems, and Threadripper 2000 (codenamed "Colfax") for high-end desktop setups. Zen+ used GlobalFoundries' 12 nm process, an enhanced version of their 14 nm node.
Second generation
The Ryzen 3000 series CPUs were released on July 7, 2019, while the Zen 2-based Epyc server CPUs (codename "Rome") were released on August 7, 2019. Zen 2 Matisse products were the first consumer CPUs to use TSMC's 7 nm process node. Zen 2 introduced the chiplet based architecture, where desktop, workstation, and server CPUs are all produced as multi-chip modules (MCMs); these Zen 2 products utilise the same core chiplets but are attached to different uncore silicon (different IO dies) in a hub and spoke topology. This approach differs from Zen 1 products, where the same die (Zeppelin) is used in a simple monolithic package for Summit Ridge products (Ryzen 1000 series) or used as interconnected building blocks in an MCM (up to four Zeppelin dies) for first generation Epyc and Threadripper products. For earlier Zen 2 products the IO and uncore functions are performed within this separate IO die, which contains the memory controllers, the fabric to enable core to core communication, and the bulk of uncore functions. The IO die used by Matisse processors is a small chip produced on GF 12 nm, whereas the server IO die utilized for Threadripper and Epyc is far larger. The server IO die is able to serve as a hub to connect up to eight 8-core chiplets, while the IO die for Matisse is able to connect up to two 8-core chiplets. These chiplets are linked by AMD's own second generation Infinity Fabric, allowing a low-latency interconnect between the cores and to IO. The processing cores in the chiplets are organized in CCXs (Core Complexes) of four cores, linked together to form a single eight core CCD (Core Chiplet Die).
Zen 2 also powers a line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accolades%20received%20by%20The%20Imitation%20Game | The Imitation Game is a 2014 British-American historical thriller film about British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, a key figure in cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code that helped the Allies win the Second World War, only to later be criminally prosecuted for his homosexuality. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing and is directed by Morten Tyldum with a screenplay by Graham Moore, based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges.
The film has been nominated for, and has received, numerous awards with Cumberbatch's portrayal of Turing particularly praised. The film and its cast and crew were also honoured by Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT civil rights advocacy group and political lobbying organisation in the United States. "We are proud to honor the stars and filmmakers of The Imitation Game for bringing the captivating yet tragic story of Alan Turing to the big screen", HRC president Chad Griffin said in a statement.
Accolades
References
External links
Lists of accolades by film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarisse%20de%20Souza | Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza is a full professor at the Informatics Department of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where she does research in the area of human–computer interaction (HCI) and has developed the theory of Semiotic Engineering.
She is the founder of SERG (Semiotic Engineering Research Group) at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).
Biography
Souza got her bachelor's degree in languages (with a focus on translation-interpretation) in 1979, a master's degree in Portuguese language in 1982 and a doctorate degree in applied linguistics in 1988, all by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and only after she joined the department of informatics of PUC-Rio, where she became a professor in 2006.
Throughout her career, she made various internships for its post-doctorate and as a visitor researcher in American and Canadian universities like Stanford University and the University of Waterloo, and in 1991 she initiated her own research about semiotic engineering, with it creating the SERG in 1996.
In 2010 she was the co-winner of the ACM SIGDOC Rigo Award an in 2013 she was inducted to the ACM SIGCHI CHI Academy. She is also one of the co-winners of the IFIP TC13 Pioneers of HCI Award in 2014 and in 2016 she was the winner of the Scientific Merit Award of the Brazilian Computer Society. Clarisse is also one of CRA-W / Anita Borg Institute's Notable Women in Computing featured in Jessica Dickinson Goodman's cad deck and poster.
Publications
She has three international books on the topic of semiotic engineering:
The Semiotic Engineering of Human–Computer Interaction (MIT Press, 2005)
Semiotic Engineering Methods for Scientific Research in HCI (Morgan & Claypool, 2009 - with Carla Leitão)
A Journey through Cultures (Springer, 2012 - with Luciana Salgado and Carla Leitão)
Software Developers as Users (Springer, 2016 - with Renato Cerqueira, Luiz Marques, Rafael Brandão and Juliana Ferreira)
References
External links
Semiotic Engineering Research Group
Semioticians
Brazilian translators
Human–computer interaction researchers
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro alumni
Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20History%20of%20Rock%20%27n%27%20Roll | The History of Rock 'n' Roll is a ten episode television documentary mini-series produced by Time-Life. It originally aired on the Prime Time Entertainment Network from March to May in 1995. All parts were later released on VHS, DVD, and reran on TLC and VH1, the latter which showed all ten parts in the last 10 weeks of the year 1999 on Friday night as part of a countdown to the year 2000.
The series covers Rock Music from the 1950s to the 1990s and features over 200 exclusive interviews with many well-known artists and other music industry figures.
Coincidentally in the same year as "The History of Rock 'n' Roll" first screened another 10-part documentary series, "Rock & Roll" (aka "Dancing in the Street" in the UK), was co-produced for PBS and the BBC, and which also covered the background of rock music.
Episodes
See also
Rock & Roll (aka Dancing in the Street), a 1995 television documentary series, also about the history of rock music, co-produced for PBS and the BBC
Seven Ages of Rock, 2007 series produced by the BBC and VH1 Classic
References
External links
1995 American television series debuts
1995 American television series endings
1990s American television miniseries
Prime Time Entertainment Network
Rockumentaries
Rock music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Fiesta%20Bowl%20broadcasters | Television network, play-by-play and color commentator(s) for the Fiesta Bowl. The Fiesta Bowl began in 1971, but was considered a “minor bowl” until the January 1, 1982 game between Penn State–USC. Since then, the Fiesta Bowl has been considered a major bowl.
Starting with the 2010–11 season, ESPN started airing the games, out bidding Fox for the rights to the games.
Television
Spanish
In 2013, ESPN Deportes will provide the first Spanish U.S. telecast of the Fiesta Bowl.
Radio
References
External links
Ratings/viewership for the Fiesta Bowl since '96
Fiesta Bowl Ratings Dating Back to 1986 (Viewership Since 2002)
How the Fiesta Bowl made its way to TV
Lists of college football bowl broadcasters
Broadcasters
Fiesta Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
Fiesta Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carondelet%20Health%20Network | Carondelet Health Network is a large Catholic health care provider based in Tucson, Arizona. It has five facilities: Carondelet St. Mary's Hospital (the first hospital in Arizona), Carondelet St. Joseph's Hospital, Carondelet Neurological Institute, Carondelet Heart & Vascular Institute (all in Tucson), and Carondelet Holy Cross Hospital in Nogales, Arizona.
In 2015, owners Ascension Health sold a majority stake in Carondelet to Texas-based Tenet Healthcare, with Dignity Health also taking part ownership, turning it from a non-profit to a private profit making hospital chain.
Services provided
Carondelet provides a wide range of health services at multiple locations. Only hospice and palliative care are described in the dated material below.
Carondelet Hospice and Palliative Care seeks to attend to the "physical, spiritual, and psychological needs of people living with a life-limiting illness", ensure that the physical and psychological needs of family members are met, and educate the public on the end-of-life process. Each patient is serviced based on individual needs and desires and a unique plan is created in order to best care for them.
Hospice and Palliative Care Services at one time included:
Nursing visits
Personal care
Durable medical equipment and oxygen
Medications and supplies
Pain and symptom management
Nutrition counseling
Emotional support and counseling
Spiritual support
Bereavement follow-up
Support groups
Specialized therapies
Nurse management study
Carondelet Health Network created a Community Nursing Organization (CNO) model, implemented in 1994, to determine if community-based health services could be efficiently managed by nurses. Key features of the Carondelet model included:
Risk assessment of all members at enrollment and designated intervals
Matching of nursing and clinical resources to member need and risk level
Integration of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention services
Participation of members in development and selection of educational programs and clinical interventions
Individual and group interventions
Community-based service delivery
Carondelet's CNO model included an analysis of the Southern Arizona health care market, in order to localize their nursing services.
The outcome of this study, or whether components of the model were adopted, is not known.
Historical community support
In 2011, Carondelet hospice received a $4.5 million donation from the estate of Winifred Q. Witt, a Tucson resident who, alongside her husband Samuel Witt, was known for her philanthropy in Southern Arizona. Executive director of Carondelet Hospice and Palliative Care Lupe Trieste said "With this gift, Carondelet will be able to ensure enduring, quality programs of support and comfort."
In 2002, all proceeds from the Nogales Debutante Cotillion were given directly to Carondelet Hospice. Cotillion Committee President Dora Dexter said that the committee chose Carondelet Hospice because "It’s a charitable c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBOX%20%28disambiguation%29 | TBOX or Tbox may refer to
Computing
TBox and ABox, terminology and assertion statements in knowledge bases
TBOX, a multi-platform c library in computing
Other uses
Railbox, a railroad company with several reporting marks, including TBOX
Tbox, another name for a bush bass, a musical instrument
TBOX, an acronym for The Twelve Bars of Christmas, a Chicago pub crawl
See also
T-box, transcription factors involved in limb and heart development
T-box leader, a riboswitch involved in sensing tRNA aminoacylation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper%20basis%20function%20network | In machine learning, a Hyper basis function network, or HyperBF network, is a generalization of radial basis function (RBF) networks concept, where the Mahalanobis-like distance is used instead of Euclidean distance measure. Hyper basis function networks were first introduced by Poggio and Girosi in the 1990 paper “Networks for Approximation and Learning”.
Network Architecture
The typical HyperBF network structure consists of a real input vector , a hidden layer of activation functions and a linear output layer. The output of the network is a scalar function of the input vector, , is given by
where is a number of neurons in the hidden layer, and are the center and weight of neuron . The activation function at the HyperBF network takes the following form
where is a positive definite matrix. Depending on the application, the following types of matrices are usually considered
, where . This case corresponds to the regular RBF network.
, where . In this case, the basis functions are radially symmetric, but are scaled with different width.
, where . Every neuron has an elliptic shape with a varying size.
Positive definite matrix, but not diagonal.
Training
Training HyperBF networks involves estimation of weights , shape and centers of neurons and . Poggio and Girosi (1990) describe the training method with moving centers and adaptable neuron shapes. The outline of the method is provided below.
Consider the quadratic loss of the network . The following conditions must be satisfied at the optimum:
, ,
where . Then in the gradient descent method the values of that minimize can be found as a stable fixed point of the following dynamic system:
, ,
where determines the rate of convergence.
Overall, training HyperBF networks can be computationally challenging. Moreover, the high degree of freedom of HyperBF leads to overfitting and poor generalization. However, HyperBF networks have an important advantage that a small number of neurons is enough for learning complex functions.
References
Artificial neural networks
Classification algorithms
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive%20head-up%20display | An automotive head-up display or automotive heads-up display — also known as a auto-HUD — is any transparent display that presents data in the automobile without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints. The origin of the name stems from a pilot being able to view information with the head positioned "up" and looking forward, instead of angled down looking at lower instruments. At this time, there are three different approaches to OEM HUDs in automobiles. The first is to treat the back of the windshield in such a way that an image projected onto it will reflect to the driver. The second is to have a small combiner that is separate from the windshield. Combiners can be retracted. The third is to laminate a transparent display in between layers of the windshield glass.
Timeline
1988: Nissan was the first manufacturer to offer a HUD in the JDM market with the 1988 Nissan Silvia S13.
1988: General Motors began using head-up displays. Their first HUD units were installed on Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Indy Pace Cars and replicas. Optional HUD units were subsequently offered on the Cutlass Supreme and Pontiac Grand Prix before being more widely available.
1989–1994: Nissan offered a head-up display in the Nissan 240SX.
1991: Toyota, for the Japanese market only, released a HUD system for the Toyota Crown Majesta.
1998: The first High Content Reconfigurable display appeared on the Chevrolet Corvette (C5). (1999 Model Year)
1999: Cadillac DTS with night-vision via Head-up Display. (Model Year 2000)
2003: Cadillac introduced a HUD system for the Cadillac XLR.
2003: BMW was involved in large developments for automotive HUD systems for the 2003 E60 5 Series.
2012: Pioneer Corporation introduced a navigation system that projects a HUD in place of the driver's visor that presents animations of conditions ahead, a form of augmented reality (AR).
These displays are becoming increasingly available in production cars, and usually offer speedometer, tachometer, and navigation system displays.
Night vision information is also displayed via HUD on certain General Motors, Honda, Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Other manufactures such as Audi, BMW, Citroën, Nissan, Mazda, Kia, Mercedes and Volvo currently offer some form of HUD system.
Motorcycle helmet HUDs are also commercially available.
Add-on HUD systems also exist, projecting the display onto a glass combiner mounted on the windshield. These systems have been marketed to police agencies for use with in-vehicle computers.
Eyes-on-the-Road-Benefit
The Eyes-on-the-Road-Benefit (ERB), also known as the Head-Up-Display-Advantage, is the term given to the purported advantages provided to motorists when driving using a head-up display (HUD). This can also be referred to as a heads-up-device or heads-up design, as compared to traditional dashboard designs, which are referred to as Head-Down-Design (HDD). A HUD is an instrument used to communicate information, such as speed, from a vehicle to the driv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Health%20Sciences | Oracle Health Sciences is a family of software developed by Oracle Corporation which is primarily used to create clinical trials and to conduct pharmacovigilance based on the database created with it.
Oracle Argus
Oracle Argus is a pharmacovigilance product line that includes Oracle Argus Affiliate, Oracle Argus Analytics, Oracle Argus Dossier, Oracle Argus Insight, Oracle Argus Reconciliation, Oracle Argus Intercange, and Oracle Argus Safety.
References
Oracle software
Health care software
Clinical trials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase3%20Telecom | Phase 3 Telecom (or "Phase 3 Technologies") is an aerial fiber-optic network infrastructure provider, providing connectivity, network management, and data storage services to wholesale, enterprise, and retail customers across West Africa. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria. Licensed by the Nigerian Communications Commission in 2006 - the company in 2014, 2018, and 2022, added more kilometers to its existing coverage area with footprint expansion of its backbone, enterprise network , and broadband services. Phase operates and counting open-access aerial fiber-optic network. The company, for over two decades has been vital to growth in Africa's growing ICT market, implementing the Wire Nigeria Project—conceived by the Nigerian Communications Commission to help provide broadband communications access to rural communities. Phase 3 has a broad range of wholesale and enterprise clients including Glo, MTN, 9Mobile, Ntel, Airtel, Smile Communications, World Bank, Julius Berger, Unity Bank, etc. Some of the African countries where the company currently has partner operations include Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and the Republic of Niger.
History
Phase 3 was licensed in 2003, as a national long-distance operator and in 2006 entered into a major strategic Public–Private partnership to access powerlines to carry traffic for telecommunication operators. Phase 3 and Alheri Engineering were the two firms that beat 7 companies, including Siemens Nigeria, Suburban Telecom, NTL, Optic Networks Limited, and Backbone Company of Nigeria; to secure the deal. Such access to a telecommunications-enabled infrastructure was to make it possible for both companies (with Phase3 planned layout pegged for Nigeria's north and Alheri Engineering's for the west) to build out reliable fiber-optic backbone networks, to ensure faster broadband penetration and nationwide connectivity in the Nigeria unserved and under-served communities. Thus, making it possible for mobile operators, internet service providers, businesses, government agencies, and international organizations to take advantage of the huge bandwidth that is centrally managed. And, in March 2006, Phase 3 finalized a 15 Years agreement for the Design, Build, Finance, Operate (DBFO) Telecommunications Infrastructure model for the Western part of Nigeria". This largely positioned Phase 3 for expansive growth; the operational viability to run a layered range of telecoms, and value-added services as well as considerable access to foreign investment. More so, the company's capacity to offer non-discriminatory and non-competitive services to mobile operators became its distinctive factor as an open access network with unique right of way (RoW).
Regional connectivity
2009–2011
In 2009, Phase 3 investments cull in the Nigerian telecommunications space hit US$100 million with fiber optic building projects centering on transmission services. Further expansion saw the commencement of the US |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubiecki%20Manor%20in%20Vasylivka | The Dubiecki Manor is an architectural monument located in the village of Vasylivka, Odesa Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. The manor was built between 1830 and 1854. According to some data, architect Francesco Boffo, famous from his work on the Potemkin Stairs in Odessa, designed the building. The designer of the gardens, situated nearby the manor, was the architect Ivan Dallakva. The first owner was the noblemen Major General Vasyl Dubiecki, who built the manor.
History
In 1880, after the death of Vasyl Dubiecki, the manor was sold. In 1885, Konstantin Pankejeff became the owner. His son, Sergei Pankejeff, is well known as the "Wolf Man", one of the most famous clients of Sigmund Freud, because he was tormented by a nightmare of wolves watching him for a long time, which Freud interpreted as fear of being eaten by the father. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok have later analyzed the dream as testifying to child abuse by the father. Thanks to this fact the manor received the nickname Wolf's-lair.
Gallery
Sources
Одесская область может лишиться «Волчьего логова» — уникального памятника архитектуры
Путешествия Историей
Зимний дворец и Лувр под Одессой
History of Odesa Oblast
Buildings and structures in Odesa Oblast
Tourist attractions in Odesa Oblast
Odesa Raion
Ruined castles in Ukraine
Vasylivka, Odesa Raion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Venevisi%C3%B3n%20telenovelas | Venevisión is a Venezuelan television network which is a parent company of Grupo Cisneros founded in 1953 by Gustavo Cisneros.
La cruz del diablo was the first telenovela produced by the network.
1960s
1960
La cruz del diablo
El velo pintado
1965
Madres solteras
Yo, el Gobernador
1966
Dulce María
1967
La señorita Elena
La muñeca brava
Lucecita
Doña Bárbara
La rival
1968
El reportero
La Gata
La virgen de Barlovento
Rosario
1969
Abandonada
Pablo y Alicia
Soledad
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
References
External links
Venevisión [ve] at Internet Movie Database
Venevision International [us] at Internet Movie Database
Venevision
Venevision telenovelas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20Magnetic%20Storage%20International | Laser Magnetic Storage International (LMSI) was a subsidiary of Philips that designed and manufactured optical and magnetic media. It began as a joint venture between Philips and Control Data Corporation. It later became Philips LMS.
Products
LMSI developed a proprietary CD-ROM interface. Early iterations relied on many 7400-series chips – on the CM 153 card for example. Later on, this bus was based on the highly integrated NCR chip – NCR © DIGBIE LMS 97644845-00 0390471 on the CM 260 for example.
External CD-ROMs, LMSI interface
CDD 401: 1× speed (rebranded CM 221)
CDD 461: 1× speed
CDD 462: 1× speed (same as CDD 461 but with multi-session support)
CM 50: 1× speed
CM 100: 1× speed
CM 121: 1× speed
CM 221: 1× speed
CM 225: ?× speed
External CD-ROMs, SCSI interface
CDD 521: 2× speed
CDD 522: 2× speed
CDD 552: ?× speed
CDD 2000: 4× speed
CDD 2600: 6× read, 2x write
CM 110: ?× speed
CM 231: 1× speed
CM 234: ?× speed
Internal CD-ROMs, LMSI interface
CM 201: 1× speed
CM 205: 1× speed
CM 206: 2× speed
CM 210: ?× speed
Internal CD-ROMs, SCSI interface
CM 121: 1× speed
CM 201: 1× speed
CM 204: ?× speed
CM 212: ?× speed
CM 214: ?× speed
PCA80SC: 8× speed
Internal CD-ROMs, IDE interface
CDD 3610: 6× speed
CDD 3801: 32× speed
CDD 4201: ?× speed
CDD 4401: ?× speed
CDD 4801: ?× speed
CM 202: 2× speed
CM 207: ?× speed
CM 208: ?× speed
CM 218: ?× speed
ISA LMSI controller cards
CM 153: 8-bit ISA (coupled with the CM 100 and the CM 201)
CM 155: 8-bit ISA (coupled with the CM 100, the CM 201 and the CM 210)
CM 50 interface: 8-bit ISA (coupled with the CM 50)
CM 250: 8-bit ISA (coupled with the CM 205)
CM 260: 16-bit ISA (coupled with the CM 206)
Motherboard-integrated
Certain Tandy Sensation models featured a LMSI controller PCB connected to the motherboard.
The proprietary 16-pin LMSI CD-ROM interface was relatively short lived and existed on LMSI interface cards and a few ISA sound cards. These sound cards only have internal LMSI connectors, not the external DB-15 connector for external LMSI devices (the DB-15 on sound cards is the game port/UART MPU-401):
Sound Blaster Pro 2 CT1620
Sound Blaster 16 ASP CSP CT1780
Media Vision Jazz 16 LMSI
Pro Audio Spectrum LMSI
Pro Audio 16 LMSI
Generic 16-bit ISA cards with the Aztech AZTPR16 DSP (FCC ID 138-MMSN808)
Magnetic products were geared towards corporate mini computer environments (like the IBM AS/400):
LD 510: internal SCSI MO drive
LD 520: external MO drive
LD 1200: external WORM drive
LD 4100: cartridge optical storage
LD 6100: external WORM drive
LF 4500: cartridge optical storage
References
Philips
1986 establishments in Ontario
1992 disestablishments in Ontario
Compact Disc player manufacturers
Control Data Corporation
Defunct computer companies of Canada
Defunct computer hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20Hack%20Days | Positive Hack Days (PHDays) is an annual international cybersecurity forum. It has been held by Positive Technologies since 2011. PHDays brings together IT and infosec experts, government officials, business representatives, students, and schoolchildren. The forum hosts talks and workshops on the most interesting information security topics, The Standoff cyberexercises, practical competitions in which participants analyze the security of industrial control systems, banking and mobile services, and web apps.
PHDays scope and agenda can be compared to those of Black Hat, DEF CON, and Source. The forum addresses the security of government and individuals in today's cyberworld, zero-day attacks and digital investigations, cyberwarfare, and cryptography.
The forum takes place in Moscow in May. An attendance fee is required. Free tickets are available for winners of special white hacking contests and for students who participate in the Positive Education program. Presentations are given in Russian and English.
PHDays 2011: Who Wins
The first forum was held on May 19, 2011, at a popular club in Moscow.
Talks and workshops covered such topics as government control of information security in Russia, remote banking system safety, secure connection in VoIP, protection of data in the cloud, and security of virtualization systems. The key guest speaker of the event was Dmitry Sklyarov.
During the forum, a capture the flag (CTF) competition was held among information security specialists from different countries. The US team PPP was the winner. There were other hacking contests, and during one of them a participant detected a zero-day vulnerability in Safari for Windows.
Among other speakers were experts from Kaspersky Lab, Russian Agricultural Bank, VimpelCom, Rostelecom, Cisco Systems, Leta IT-Company, Positive Technologies, and PwC. About 500 people attended the one-day event.
PHDays 2012: Future Now
The second forum was conducted on May 30 and 31, 2012 at Digital October's center of new technologies. Along with six parallel streams of presentations and workshops, a CTF competition and several security-related contests were held again. Topics were divided into two areas: technical (exploiting radio noise, password protection, telecom security, usage of sqlmap) and business (internet banking security, data leakage in government, seeking specialists in information security).
The conference featured Bruce Schneier, an American cryptographer and the author of Applied Cryptography, Datuk Mohd Noor Amin (from IMPACT, UN), and the creator of the password cracking tool John the Ripper Alexander Peslyak (known as Solar Designer).
Significant events included: demonstration of zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows XP and FreeBSD 8.3, cracking iPhone 4S using the popular application Office Plus, and contests in taking control of AR.Drone and analyzing remote banking system security.
Young School, a competition of young scientists' research papers, too |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawsey%20Supercomputing%20Centre | The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (PSC) is the government-supported high-performance computing national facility located in Perth, Western Australia. Pawsey supports researchers in Western Australia and across Australia through the Pawsey Centre (facility).
Pawsey is an unincorporated joint venture between the CSIRO, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia. Funding comes from the joint venture partners, the Western Australian Government and the Australian Government. Pawsey services are free to members of the joint venture. Free access to supercomputers is also available to researchers across Australia via a competitive merit process. Services are also provided to industry and government.
Pawsey provides infrastructure to support a computational research workflow. This includes supercomputers and cloud computing, data storage and visualisation. The infrastructure is located at the joint venture members, linked by a dedicated high speed network.
Pawsey is an integral component of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio astronomy telescopes. A dedicated network links the telescopes directly to the Pawsey Centre, where the data is processed, stored and remotely visualised. This network is operated by AARNet, with the Perth-Geraldton link funded by the Australian Government Regional Blackspot Program.
History
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is the continuation of iVEC, an organisation delivering advanced computing resources to Western Australian researchers. iVEC was renamed to the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre on 5 Dec 2014. As part of its Super Science Initiative announced in the May 2009 budget, the Australian Government allocated $80 million over the financial years 2009/10 to 2012/13 to iVEC to establish a petascale supercomputing facility (the Pawsey Centre) located at the Australian Resources Research Centre in Perth. The Western Australian Government subsequently funded iVEC/Pawsey through its Research Facilities Program to 2015 at ~$4 million per annum, and the joint venture partners contributed a similar total.
On 14 May 2015 the Australian Government announced $5.668M funding for 2015-2016 for the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. Also on 14 May 2015, the Western Australian Government announced funding for the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre at $4.1M in 2016–2017, $4.2M in 2017–2018, and $4.3M in 2018–2019. Some funding is also received from the Australian Government through other NCRIS projects such as NeCTAR and RDSI.
Notable staff
John Langoulant - Chair of the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Mark Stickells - Director of the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Locations
The Pawsey Centre building is located in the western precinct of the Technology Park, in Kensington, Western Australia. This building houses the majority of the IT equipment.
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has staff located at all members of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysms | mysms is a cross-platform text messaging service, based on Short Message Service (SMS), for smartphones, tablet computers, and laptop and desktop personal computers.
History
mysms is a brand of sms.at, which is a company of Up to Eleven Digital Solutions GmbH, and based in Graz, Austria. Up to Eleven was founded by Martin and Jürgen Pansy. Toto Wolff and Rene Berger belong to its shareholders. The global launch of mysms was in July 2012 and its efforts were initially focused in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The apps are available for several operating systems, including Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows, and web browsers. As of December 2014, mysms for Android phone exhibits 1,000,000–5,000,000 downloads on the Google Play Store.
Functions
mysms synchronizes the existing text messaging history from the smartphone to desktop computers and tablet computers.
In contrast to instant messaging services like WhatsApp, mysms focuses on Short Message Service (SMS). Messages can be sent to any mobile phone number, regardless of device type or operating system.
Similar to iMessage, users can also send and receive instant messages to other mysms users over the Internet.
Partnerships and integrations
mysms cooperates with other cloud-services like Evernote and implemented Dropbox and Google Drive integrations to allow users to archive their SMS and multimedia messages.
The app for Windows 8 is pre-installed on Hewlett-Packard (HP) laptops. Also, the service is offered as white-label product. For this purpose, mysms partnered with the French mobile network operator Bouygues Telecom.
Open API
mysms provides an open application programming interface (API) to other developers that allows them to build their own application based on mysms' core features.
Achievements
In 2012, mysms achieved second place in the Austrian Fast Forward Award. The German magazine Computer Bild mentioned mysms as winner of their messenger test. As of December 22, 2014, the mysms app for Android phone takes the 36th place in the United States in the category Communication in the Google Play Top App Charts.
See also
Comparison of instant messaging clients
References
Text messaging
Cross-platform software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Edmonds | Ernest Edmonds (born 1942, London, England) is a British artist, a pioneer in the field of computer art and its variants, algorithmic art, generative art, interactive art, from the late 1960s to the present. His work is represented in the Victoria and Albert Museum, as part of the National Archive of Computer-Based Art and Design.
Life and work
Ernest Edmonds is a pioneer of digital art. In 2017 he received the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement In Digital Art. He also is an international expert on Human-Computer Interaction who specialises in creative technologies for creative uses. In 2017 he received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award for the Practice of Computer Human Interaction. He was one of the first to predict the value of iterative design and a very early advocate of iterative design methods and Agile software development. He founded the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference series and was part of the founding team for the ACM Intelligent User Interface conference series.
Edmonds studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Leicester University. He has a PhD in logic from the University of Nottingham, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has nearly 300 refereed publications in the fields of human-computer interaction, creativity and art and was a pioneer in the development of practice-based PhD programmes. Ernest Edmonds is Emeritus Professor of Computational Art at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Art
Edmonds’ art is in the constructivist tradition and he first used computers in his art practice in 1968. He first showed an interactive work with Stroud Cornock in 1970. He first showed a generative time-based computer work in London in 1985. He has exhibited throughout the world, from Moscow to LA. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, holds some of his artwork and is collecting his archives within the National Archive of Computer Based Art and Design.
In 2014, Edmonds curated a seminal historical exhibition, Automatic Art, at GV art gallery, London.
Selected exhibitions
2017
Ernest Edmonds, De Montfort University Gallery Leicester UK
Constructs, Colour, Code: Ernest Edmonds 1967–2017
2013
Ernest Edmonds, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Transformations: Digital Prints from the V&A collection, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
2012/3
Light Logic. Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Selected New Acquisitions. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2012
Intuition and Integrity, Kinetica, London; Lighthouse, Brighton; Lovebytes, Sheffield, Phoenix, Leicester
Transformations: Digital Prints from the V&A collection, Great Western Hospital, Swindon, UK
Visualise Poetry, Language, Code, Cambridge, UK
2010
Grid Gallery, Vivid festival, Sydney
2009
When Ideas Become Form—20 Years, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Cities Tango, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney and ISEA, Belfast
2007
Ernest Edmonds and Alf Loehr, Conny Dietzschold Galler |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynatrace | Dynatrace, Inc. is a global technology company listed on the NYSE that provides a software observability platform based on artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. Dynatrace technologies are used to monitor, analyze, and optimize application performance, software development and security practices, IT infrastructure, and user experience for businesses and government agencies throughout the world.
The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform uses a proprietary form of AI called Davis to discover, map, and monitor applications, microservices, container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, and IT infrastructure running in multicloud, hybrid-cloud, and hyperscale network environments. The platform also provides automated problem remediation. The Dynatrace platform provides observability of the full solution stack in order to simplify the complexity of cloud native computing and accelerate an organization's digital transformation and cloud migration.
Product
The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform uses AI to provide infrastructure monitoring, applications and microservices monitoring, application security, digital experience, business analytics, and cloud automation capabilities. Dynatrace also provides a Software Intelligence Hub that publishes integrations with more than 620 technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Java, and Prometheus.
The Dynatrace platform consists of the following technologies:
OneAgent for automated data collection
Smartscape for continuously updated topology mapping and visualization
PurePath for code-level distributed tracing
AppEngine for building custom applications based on observability, security, and business data
AutomationEngine for building custom automated DevOps workflows
Grail data lakehouse with indexless, schema-on-read storage for contextual data analytics and management using massively parallel processing and the proprietary Dynatrace query language (DQL), which uses a sequence of commands to chain (pipe) data processing operations.
Davis, a proprietary AI engine that combines multiple AI techniques including causal-AI for automatic root-cause fault-tree analysis, predictive analytics, and generative AI.
Dynatrace provides multicloud observability to both SaaS and managed service deployment models, in partnership with service providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, among others.
Open source contributions
Dynatrace invests in building DevOps and SRE automation and contributes developments to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), including the contribution of Keptn, an open-source pluggable control plane for cloud-native application lifecycle orchestration. Dynatrace is a key contributor and investor in open-source community activities around observability and performance. Examples include W3C Trace Context, of which Dynatrace is a founding member and co-chair; OpenTelemetry; and OpenFeature. Other open-source tec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Xing | Eric Poe Xing is an American computer scientist whose research spans machine learning, computational biology, and statistical methodology. Xing is founding President of the world’s first artificial intelligence university, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
As professor in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, he was founding director of the Center for Machine Learning and Health at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He has served as a visiting associate professor at Stanford University, and as a visiting research professor at Facebook Inc. Xing is also the Founder, Chairman, and former Chief Scientist and CEO of Petuum Inc.
Biography
Xing received a B.Sc. in physics at Tsinghua University in 1993, and a Ph.D. in molecular biology at Rutgers University in 1999 and a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004.
Xing became a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, directing the SAILING Lab, whose research spans a broad spectrum of topics ranging from theoretical foundations to real-world applications in machine learning, distributed systems, computer vision, natural language processing, and computational biology. He became a tenured professor in 2011 and became a full professor in 2014.
In 2010, Xing served as a visiting research professor at Meta, formerly known as Facebook, as well as a visiting professor at Stanford University’s Department of Statistics.
Xing’s major research contribution lies in the foundational work of statistical machine learning methodology, including pioneering work in distance metric learning (DML); statistical models and analyses of networks and graphs; methods for learning and analyzing graphical models; and new system, theory, and algorithms for distributed machine learning, such as the development of the “parameter server”.
Xing is a board member of the International Machine Learning Society. Starting in 2014, he served as the program chair and, in 2019, began duties as general chair of the International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML).
In 2016, Xing co-founded Petuum Inc., a US-based startup dedicated to democratizing the ownership and use of AI systems and solutions and make even the most advanced AI technology accessible and affordable. In 2016 and 2017, Petuum was named by CB Insight as one of the AI 100 around the world. In 2017, Petuum raised $93 million in a round of venture funding from SoftBank. With his collaborators, Xing developed the Petuum framework for distributed machine learning with massive data, big models, and a wide spectrum of algorithms.
In January 2021, Xing became President of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
Honors and awards
Xing is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
In 2016, he was elected a Fellow of the Association of Advancement of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20protection | Code protection may refer to:
In computing, source code protection in which proprietary code is compiled, encrypted or obfuscated to conceal its inner workings from end users or competitors.
In embedded microprocessors, hardware copy protection schemes by which firmware programmed into a microcontroller may be executed internally but is not readable or easily duplicated.
In telephony, exchange code protection to prevent the same number being assigned in two small border communities on opposite sides of a telephone area code boundary. This allows local calls between the two communities without dialling the area code. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRJAN%20System | FIRJAN System is a network of private nonprofit organizations with more than ten thousand associates. Its mission is to promote business competitiveness, education and quality of life of industrial workers and the whole society, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. FIRJAN System consists of five institutions that work in an integrated manner for the growth of the industry of RJ. Together, FIRJAN, Industrial Center of Rio de Janeiro (CIRJ), Industry Social Service of the State of Rio de Janeiro (SESI Rio), National Industrial Training Service of the State of Rio de Janeiro (SENAI Rio) and Euvaldo Lodi Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IEL Rio) promote actions in economic, political and social levels to ensure a prominent position to the state on the national scenery. Today, all institutions act as service providers to enterprises and society.
Organizations
FIRJAN System thus acts in an integrated way through the five organizations that comprise it:
FIRJAN
FIRJAN develops and coordinates studies, researches and projects to guide the actions of industrial promotion and new investments in the state. Its themed corporate boardrooms and sectoral entrepreneurial forums discuss trends and launch guidelines for actions of support and advice to enterprises. Today, more than 80 industrial unions are affiliated to FIRJAN, representing more than 10,000 businesses around the Rio de Janeiro state.
CIRJ
CIRJ enables the associated companies access (in special conditions) to the services offered by the five institutions of FIRJAN System. Its goal is to promote business competitiveness and protect the interests of members. The service is personalized.
SENAI Rio
SENAI Rio promotes industrial learning, qualification and specialisation of workers through various courses. It has a network of 42 fixed operating units - including five technology centres nd 30 mobile units.
SESI Rio
SESI Rio develops actions to promote health, education, sports, leisure and culture targeted to workers, businesses and society in general. The institution also operates in the areas of occupational Safety and Health and environmental protection. It has 30 operating units distributed throughout the state.
IEL Rio
IEL Rio promotes business training and develops projects to encourage entrepreneurship, contributing to the industry's modernization and growth. Moreover, it seeks to unite universities and research institutions to the business world.
Pilars
Business competitiveness
Directed to businesses' economy and sustainable development, it covers topics that go from micro/macroeconomic and investments to segmented studies in areas such as electrical energy, broadband, natural gas and nanotechnology. And if the interest is the tax management and the development of the municipalities of Brazil, there are the studies Fiscal Management FIRJAN Index (IFGF) and Municipal Development FIRJAN Index (IFDM), respectively.
Besides, FIRJAN System awards industrial good manufacturing practices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%27s%20Well%2C%20Worcestershire | Alfred's Well is a hamlet in the civil parish of Dodford in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire, England. Its nearest town is Bromsgrove.
References
http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/50kGazetteer/3260
Villages in Worcestershire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20Computing%20International | Commodore Computing International was a magazine for the Commodore range of computers, including the Commodore 64, Amiga, and Commodore PC range. The magazine was in circulation from 1980 to 1990.
History and profile
Commodore Computing International was established by Nick Hampshire in 1980. The publisher was Nick Hampshire Publications. Later issues were published by Croftward Limited. The magazine had its headquarters in London. It folded in 1990.
References
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Home computer magazines
Magazines established in 1980
Magazines disestablished in 1990
Magazines published in London
Ten times annually magazines
Video game magazines published in the United Kingdom
Commodore 8-bit computer magazines
Amiga magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack%20My%20Life | Hack My Life is an American how-to series that premiered on truTV on January 6, 2015.
The U.S. cable network teamed up with micro-blogging site Tumblr and phone service MetroPCS to create this show, and it invited its viewers to share their life-hacks to be considered for airing. The first season wrapped up on March 24, 2015. The second season premiered on August 18, 2015. The third season premiered on March 29, 2016.
Synopsis
Hosts Kevin Pereira (formerly of G4TV's Attack of the Show!) and Brooke Van Poppelen explore and demonstrate life hacks that can be time and money-saving. Examples included are using a bag of potato chips as a substitute for charcoal in a BBQ pit, or building your own portable air-conditioning unit using a Styrofoam cooler, ice cubes, and a battery-operated fan.
At the end of each first-season episode, the hosts highlight which hacks are the best time saver, biggest money saver, least likely to succeed, and the hack of the week. For the second-season episode endings, Kevin and Brooke test out solutions posted on their Tumblr page.
An enhanced version of the series is titled as Hack My Life: Inside Hacks, which features on-screen commentary from the cast and crew, and has premiered April 25, 2017.
Recurring Segments
Hack or Wack? - Kevin and Brooke test hacks found on the internet and determine whether the shortcut is "hack" or "wack". In some episodes, the public is invited on set to give their own opinions.
Hack vs. Hack - The hosts test both hacks to determine which is more effective. Several individuals are invited to try them out.
Hack Quickie - The animated interstitial segments show quick effective hacks. Examples given: Using an empty tissue box as a plastic bag dispenser, or painting nail polish on multiple keys to color-code them.
Hack All-Star - An ordinary household item is featured each week with many more uses of them. The segment is sometimes changed to sports-themed Hack MVP.
Hack Your <subject> - Throughout season 1, Kevin and Brooke showcase a series of shortcuts to help viewers hack their party, housework, etc.
Now What? - Brooke gives different scenarios and asks "Now what?" in a "Six degrees of separation" kind of hacks.
Hack Line of Defense - Throughout season 1, a series of hacks are provided to defend a person from their "antagonist".
The Lazy Cook - Brooke showcases hack recipes that take little or no effort to make.
Let's Make A Thing - Kevin gives instructions on how to turn ordinary items into a useful hack.
Reen-Hackment - In this segment throughout season 1, it's a slacker vs. hacker showdown, in the season 4 that segment is renamed as Hacker vs Slacker.
Hacksperiment - Kevin and Brooke test wacky experimental hacks.
Breaking Down the Hacks - Kevin narrates why the hacks are effective or otherwise.
Undercover Hack - Throughout season 1, Kevin and Brooke set up hidden cameras at a random establishment, and invites the public to try out the hacks without any instructions. Those t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeball%20%28disambiguation%29 | Eyeball is a term for the entire eye.
Eyeball may also refer to:
Eyeball (film), 1975 Italian-Spanish film
Eyeball Records, an American independent record label (1975-2012)
Eyeball Networks, a Canadian company whose products include Eyeball Chat
Eyeballs is internet jargon for number of viewers of webpages or sites, see attention economy
See also
Eye (disambiguation)
Eyes (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHUAM-FM | XHUAM-FM, known as UAM Radio, is the radio station of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, established in 2011.
History
Single-frequency network
UAM Radio originally broadcast on 94.1 FM from five 20-watt transmitters at various UAM facilities, each of which is located at a different UAM facility in Mexico City:
XHUAMR-FM at the General Rectory, which houses the studio facilities
XHUAMA-FM at the Unidad Azcapotzalco
XHUAMC-FM at the Unidad Cuajimalpa
XHUAMI-FM at the Unidad Iztapalapa
XHUAMX-FM at the Unidad Xochimilco
It is estimated that the transmitter network covered 70% of Mexico City.
The permits for these stations were awarded by Cofetel on January 27, 2010. The network signed on March 11, 2011, bringing the 94.1 FM frequency back to use in Mexico City for the first time since the closure of XHFM-FM in 1957.
Conversion to a single transmitter
In July 2017, the Federal Telecommunications Institute authorized UAM Radio to begin using one transmitter, from the Cuajimalpa site, using the callsign XHUAM-FM and with a power increase to 3,000 watts, expanding reception to eastern portions of the State of Mexico. The university sought the change because its single-frequency network was "not sufficient to provide an efficient FM radio service to Mexico City".
Testing began for the higher-power transmissions from Cuajimalpa in March 2018.
Format
The format is largely cultural in nature. Some programs utilize UAM resources and are produced by departments at the various UAM units.
References
University radio stations in Mexico
Radio stations established in 2011
Radio stations in Mexico City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20hack | Sony hack may refer to one of these cybersecurity incidents targeting the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony:
2011 PlayStation Network outage, caused by a cyberattack
2014 Sony Pictures hack, 2014 hack allegedly caused by North Korean hackers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBCI | OpenBCI is an open-source brain–computer interface platform, created by Joel Murphy and Conor Russomanno, after a successful Kickstarter campaign in late 2013.
OpenBCI boards can be used to measure and record electrical activity produced by the brain (EEG), muscles (EMG), and heart (EKG), and is compatible with standard EEG electrodes. The OpenBCI boards can be used with the open source OpenBCI GUI, or they can be integrated with other open-source EEG signal processing tools.
Hardware
The OpenBCI 32-bit board uses the ADS1299, an IC developed by Texas Instruments for biopotential measurements. The OpenBCI uses a microcontroller for on-board processing — the 8bit version (now deprecated) uses an Arduino-compatible ATmega328P IC, while the 32bit board uses a PIC microcontroller — and can write the EEG data to an SD card, or transmit it to software on a computer over a bluetooth link.
In 2015, OpenBCI announced the Ganglion board with a 2nd Kickstarter campaign. It costs $200 and has 4 input channels for measuring EEG, EMG, and EKG, and is also Bluetooth enabled.
Software
OpenBCI has released an open-source application for use with the OpenBCI, written with Processing. Display and processing software written in NodeJS and Python are also available.
3D Printed Headset
Design files for a 3D printed headset for pre-production OpenBCI boards have been released on GitHub. The headset, known as the Ultracortex, holds the electrodes in place, and makes it easy to configure their placement using the 10–20 System. A headset design files are available for download from OpenBCI's GitHub account, or the headset can be purchased from the OpenBCI online store. The headsets are manufactured and produced by Voodoo Manufacturing.
Applications
The OpenBCI has been used to control a HexBug robot using SSVEPs (Steady State Visually Evoked Potentials). Locked in graffiti artist Tempt One has used the OpenBCI and the low-cost Eyewriter eye-tracking system to continue to draw after being diagnosed with the degenerative nerve disorder ALS.
See also
List of open-source hardware projects
References
External links
Brain–computer interfacing
Computing input devices
Open hardware electronic devices
Open hardware and software organizations and companies
Electroencephalography
Open science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM%20operated%20deskphone | A SIM operated deskphone is a home or office-based deskphone that operates using a mobile SIM card. Connecting to a 3G/GSM virtual Private Automated Branch Exchange (PABX) network set up by a mobile operator, a SIM operated deskphone combines the features and flexibility of a mobile phone with the functionality of a traditional deskphone.
Unlike fixed line system, SIM operated deskphone feature built in batteries so can operate without wires if required and be easily moved and installed from office to office, location to location.
Hardware
Leading design and manufacturers of SIM operated deskphones include Tecdesk, Huawei and Jablocom. SIM operated deskphone models range from standard deskphone functionality such as built-in display, caller ID, phonebook, mute, redial, loudspeaker, conference call facility, memory keys and SMS support, through to HD voice call quality, 3G connection to PC and laptop and Bluetooth wireless connection to headsets. Some SIM operated deskphones are powered by an Android operating system.
Tecdesk released the first Android powered SIM operated deskphone, the Smart 5500, in February 2013 and features include compatibility with Android apps, Virtual presence support, Wi-Fi hotspot functionality, Wi-Fi back up connection should the 3G / GSM network get interrupted, phonebook capacity for 6000 entries and a colour capacitive touchscreen.
Services
UK telecommunication companies, BT and Vodafone have adopted SIM operated deskphones as part of their single-hosted business service communications, One Phone and One Net.
References
Unified communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADDML | Archival Data Description Mark-up Language (ADDML) is a standard describing a collection of data files. The standard was originally developed by the National Archives of Norway (NAN), and existed in several different versions until a constant form was reached with 8.2, the present de facto standard.
Scope
ADDML is a standard describing a collection of data files organised as flat files. A flat file in this context is a file existing as plain text, internally organised either by fixed positioning or delimiter separation. Such a collection of files is called a dataset. A file containing the description of a dataset is called a dataset description.
It is also possible to describe other types of files, but not in detail. This can be used to describe relations between files and metadata about them.
Usage
ADDML serves several purposes. Its main task is to describe the technical structure of a dataset designated for repository submissions. Today’s standard sees an extension of its original purpose, but the technical structure remains, making it possible to describe a flat file structure when it is to be exchanged from one system to another (and not only for archival purposes).
Version 8.3 additionally facilitates the description of other types of files, but not in detail, since other standards available are already handling this kind of description. Emphasis in the implementation of describing other files than flat files in ADDML has been put on the option of describing the file types, the relation between them and so forth. Both the reference part and the data objects part are generic, making an expansion possible according to individual needs. In addition, the option of including properties has been developed and implemented from version 8.0 and on.
The implementation of ADDML requires limitations. The use of the generic parts of the standard depends on individual definitions.
References
External links
ADDML - Arkivverket
Markup languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infobel | Infobel is a Brussels, Belgium-based online international telephone directory. Launched in 1995 by Kapitol SA, Infobel was the first online telephone directory. As of 2014, Infobel had a database that contained over 140 million telephone numbers.
History
The root for what would later become Infobel began when Marc Wahba pitched the idea to create a CD-ROM-based telephone directory of Belgian telephone numbers to Belgacom. In early 1995 Belgacom ended the project and Wahba went to stay with his brother, Alain Wahba. Alain owned Kapitol Trading, a small import-export business that dealt with Belgian and American goods, with Michaël Wellner. The Wahbas decided to finish the telephone directory project and begin marketing and selling it through Kapitol Trading. Kapitol began selling the CD-ROM telephone directory—named Infobel–in April 1995. In response, Belgacom sued Kapitol. The case against Kapitol was dismissed on 19 July 1995.
Building on the success of the CD-ROM telephone directory and the dismissal of Belgacom's lawsuit, Kapitol launched the Infobel website in late July 1995. Infobel was the first telephone directory website launched on the then-nascent Internet. Within a year, the directory covered over 50 countries. At launch, the majority of Infobel's revenue came from advertising.
In 2000, Infobel partnered with Maporama SA, an online cartography company, to add to the Infobel site mapping features for its European telephone listings.
Following the 2001 dot-com bubble, Infobel restructured and pared down its offerings to a more traditional business model.(lesoir2004) Infobel now focused on its database and search engine technology and its main revenue driver was businesses who used the site to ensure to verify the authenticity of foreign customers.
Kapitol acquired the Belgian and Dutch activities of Scoot Europe, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal, in 2002. Late that year, the New York Times reported that the Infobel website had telephone listings for more than 187 countries and was available in six languages.
In 2008, Kapitol partnered with Multiplied Media Corporation to incorporate Infobel's directory data into MMC's Poynt, an application that allowed users to find local businesses and entertainment.
Kapitol launched the Infobel mobile app in 2012.
Website and business model
Infobel allows users to search telephone directories for businesses and people in countries across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific, and the Middle East. It also features business listings by category for multiple European countries. The site is available in 17 languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian, Russian, Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian.
Much of Infobel's revenue comes from businesses and websites that use the company's databases to improve their own services. These computers include GPS device manufacturers such as Gar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961%20census%20of%20India | The 1961 census of India was the tenth in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872.
The population of India was counted as 438,936,918 people.
Population by state
Language data
The 1961 census recognized 1,652 mother tongues, counting all declarations made by any individual at the time when the census was conducted. However, the declaring individuals often mixed names of languages with those of dialects, sub-dialects and dialect clusters or even castes, professions, religions, localities, regions, countries and nationalities. The list therefore includes "languages" with barely a few individual speakers as well as 530 unclassified "mother tongues" and more than 100 idioms that are non-native to India, including linguistically unspecific demonyms such as "African", "Canadian" or "Belgian". Modifications were done by bringing in two additional components- place of birth i.e. village or town and duration of stay ( if born elsewhere).
See also
Demographics of India
References
External links
Census Of India, 1991
Censuses in India
Political history of India
India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Ethiopian%20Women%27s%20Associations | The Network of Ethiopian Women's Associations is a national network of Ethiopian societies who share the goal of advancing women’s rights, gender equality, and women’s empowerment in Ethiopia.
History
The Network of Ethiopian Women's Associations states that it was created in 2003 as a network of non-governmental organizations and women's associations in Ethiopia.
After a change in the Charities and Societies law in 2009, NEWA reorganized itself as a consortium of Ethiopian societies working on gender equality and women's rights. NEWA consisted of 42 organizations and associations from around Ethiopia in 2009. NEWA said that it aimed at a "vision of an Ethiopian society where gender equality is realized [and] becomes the normal context for women's and men's lives in Ethiopia".
Area of expertise
The network aims to ensure that women and men at all levels are made aware of women's constitutional and legal rights, and to solicit practical support from various sectors.
Works
NEWA recently created a book featuring the stories of 64 of the women interviewed so far, selected to portray a wide range of occupations, ages and backgrounds and for the inspirational quality of their stories.
References
2003 establishments in Ethiopia
Organizations established in 2003
Women's rights in Ethiopia
Women's rights organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temsalet | Temsalet is a book published by the Network of Ethiopian Women's Associations featuring the stories and photographs of 64 accomplished Ethiopian women. Its publication on October 7, 2014 was accompanied by a week-long exhibition, "Faces of Temsalet", featuring photographs by Ethiopian photographer Aïda Muluneh, whose portraits of the women accompany each story in the book.
References
2014 non-fiction books
Ethiopian books
Books of photographs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oznoz | Oznoz is a subscription video on demand service with the focus on multilingual children's television programming. Oznoz carries a library of 4000 hours of programming on-launch, and exclusive rights to libraries such as Sesame Workshop, Hit Entertainment, and Nelvana in many languages other than English. Oznoz languages include Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Korean, Kurdish, Japanese, Persian, Urdu, Spanish, and non-dialogue shows. Oznoz content can be accessed as an over-the-top service through the channel's website and iPad and Android apps.
Distribution
Oznoz is available via website, mobile apps, smart TVs, and other devices. On launch, the service is available to subscribers in Canada and the United States.
Content
The service is oriented primarily towards bilingual families who speak two or more languages. Content includes television series, movies and shorts such as Barney, Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob The Builder, Pingu, Babar, Super Why, 1001 Nights, Franklin, Pororo, Be Ponkickies, Sesame Street, Elmo's World and other original shows from international broadcast partners such as Al Jazeera Children's Channel, TV Tokyo, IRIB and others.
References
External links
About Oznoz
Streaming television
Video on demand services
Internet properties established in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anphabe.com | Anphabe.com is a Vietnamese social networking service and employment website. It is the largest online network of management professionals in Vietnam.
Anphabe has been referred to as the Vietnamese LinkedIn.
History
Anphabe.com was started by Thanh Nguyen, one of the few female tech founders in Vietnam, in 2011 in Ho Chi Minh City.
In 2013, Anphabe received investment from Recruit Global Incubation Partners, the venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings, a recruiting company out of Japan.
In 2014, the company launched a review of the best company to work for in Vietnam.
References
External links
Official Website
JobPed Website
Recruit (company)
Employment websites
Information technology companies of Vietnam
Business services companies established in 2011
Internet properties established in 2011
Vietnamese social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevi%C5%9Fti%C4%9Fimiz%20G%C3%BCnler | is a 1961 Turkish romantic drama film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Orhan Günsiray, Fatma Girik, and Nilüfer Aydan.
References
External links
at the Internet Movie Database
1961 films
Turkish black-and-white films
Turkish romantic drama films
1961 romantic drama films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasak%20A%C5%9Fk | is a 1961 Turkish romantic drama film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Nilüfer Aydan, Efgan Efekan, and Cahit Irgat.
References
External links
at the Internet Movie Database
1961 films
Turkish romantic drama films
1961 romantic drama films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ
Turkish black-and-white films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eafak%20Bek%C3%A7ileri | is a 1963 Turkish drama film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Göksel Arsoy, Leyla Sayar, and Nilüfer Aydan.
References
External links
at the Internet Movie Database
Guardians of Dawn (1963)
1963 films
Turkish war drama films
1963 drama films
Turkish black-and-white films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eehrazat%20%28film%29 | Şehrazat is a 1964 Turkish crime thriller film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Orhan Günsiray, Leyla Sayar, and Nilüfer Aydan.
References
External links
Şehrazat at the Internet Movie Database
1964 films
Turkish crime thriller films
1960s crime thriller films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ
1960s lost films
Lost Turkish films
Turkish black-and-white films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCne%C5%9Fe%20Giden%20Yol | Güneşe Giden Yol is a 1965 Turkish drama film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Ayhan Isik, Selda Alkor, Muzaffer Tema.
References
External links
Güneşe Giden Yol at the Internet Movie Database
1965 films
Turkish black-and-white films
Turkish drama films
1965 drama films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkek%20Ve%20Di%C5%9Fi | Erkek Ve Dişi is a 1966 Turkish drama film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Fikret Hakan, Selda Alkor, and Reha Yurdakul.
References
External links
Erkek Ve Dişi at the Internet Movie Database
1966 films
Turkish drama films
1966 drama films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakolda%20Ayna%20Var | is a 1966 Turkish comedy film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Sadri Alisik, Fatma Girik, and Suphi Tekniker.
References
External links
at the Internet Movie Database
1966 films
Turkish comedy films
1966 comedy films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac%C4%B1%20Zafer | Acı Zafer is a 1972 Turkish film directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Yilmaz Köksal, Deniz Erkanat, Turgut Özatay.
References
External links
Acı Zafer at the Internet Movie Database
1972 films
Turkish drama films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ
1970s Turkish-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatma%20Bac%C4%B1 | Fatma Bacı is a 1972 Turkish drama film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Yildiz Kenter, Fatma Belgen, and Leyla Kenter.
References
External links
Fatma Bacı at the Internet Movie Database
1972 films
Turkish drama films
1972 drama films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ
1970s Turkish-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C5%9Fam%20Kavgas%C4%B1 | Yaşam Kavgası is a 1978 Turkish drama film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Fatma Girik, Can Gürzap, and Ahmet Mekin.
References
External links
Yaşam Kavgası at the Internet Movie Database
1978 films
Turkish drama films
1978 drama films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ
1970s Turkish-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%20Kad%C4%B1n | O Kadın is a 1982 Turkish romantic drama film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Gülsen Bubikoglu, Cihan Ünal, and Arsen Gürzap.
References
External links
O Kadın at the Internet Movie Database
1982 films
Turkish romantic drama films
1982 romantic drama films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyaz%20%C3%96l%C3%BCm | Beyaz Ölüm is a 1983 Turkish crime drama film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Tarik Akan, Ahu Tugba, and Yaprak Özdemiroglu.
References
External links
Beyaz Ölüm at the Internet Movie Database
1983 films
Turkish crime drama films
1983 crime drama films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ
1980s Turkish-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96l%C3%BCm%20Yolu | Ölüm Yolu is a 1985 Turkish adventure film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Kadir Inanir, Hülya Avsar, and Tanju Gürsu.
References
External links
Ölüm Yolu at the Internet Movie Database
1985 films
Turkish adventure films
1980s adventure films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day%20One%20%28app%29 | Day One is a personal journaling app available for Android, macOS and iOS devices. Some features include: data syncing with multiple devices; end-to-end encryption, Markdown authoring of entries; location, weather, date, time, and other automatic metadata; quick entry menu bar (Mac only); and reminders.
The application has been reviewed by Macworld, The Verge, Lifehacker and other tech websites. The Mac version of Day One was chosen as "Mac App of the Year" in 2012 by the Mac App Store and won an Apple Design Award in 2014 for being "super well-designed on OS X and being exactly what it needs to be and nothing more."
Day One was acquired by Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com, on June 14, 2021.
History
Day One had a service called Publish for publishing selected entries to a Day One-hosted webpage and sharing via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other social services.
Development
On February 4, 2016, the developers, Bloom Built, introduced Day One 2 for Mac and iOS, citing the release as a full app rebuild. The update introduced a visual overhaul and new features such as multiple journals and photos.
End-to-End Encryption
On June 12, 2017, Bloom Built added end-to-end encryption to Day One 2 after two years of development. The update was a culmination of the Day One Sync services launched in 2015 as a replacement for iCloud and DropBox sync.
References
External links
iOS App Store link
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
MacOS software
Automattic
2021 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%B1sk%C4%B1vrak | Kıskıvrak is a 1986 Turkish adventure film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Tarık Akan, Gülsen Bubikoglu, and Korhan Abay.
References
External links
Kıskıvrak at the Internet Movie Database
1986 films
Turkish action adventure films
1980s action adventure films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ
Films about prostitution
Films about pornography
Cross-dressing in film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teyzem | Teyzem is a 1986 Turkish drama film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Müjde Ar, Yasar Alptekin, and Mehmet Akan.
References
External links
Teyzem at the Internet Movie Database
1986 films
Turkish drama films
1986 drama films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ
1980s Turkish-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C4%B1lar%20Ko%C4%9Fu%C5%9Fu | Karılar Koğuşu is a 1990 Turkish drama film, directed by Halit Refiğ and starring Irem Altug, Kadir Inanir, and Hülya Koçyigit.
References
External links
Karılar Koğuşu at the Internet Movie Database
1990 films
Turkish drama films
1990 drama films
Films directed by Halit Refiğ
1990s prison films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%2015%3A%20The%20Show | MLB 15: The Show is a Major League Baseball video game developed by San Diego Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the tenth entry of the MLB: The Show franchise, and was released on March 31, 2015, for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.
Matt Vasgersian, Eric Karros, and Steve Lyons return as commentators. Mike Carlucci returns as public address announcer. Legends can be used as free agents in the Franchise and Season modes in the game.
On October 31, 2017, Sony decommissioned the game's online servers.
New features
The game adds licensed equipment, including fielding gloves, batting gloves, cleats and bats.
Year to Year Saves
Players who purchased MLB 14: The Show will be able to transfer their Franchise, Road to the Show and Postseason Mode progress into MLB 15: The Show, and continue where they previously left off. Players who have save data from the PS3 version of MLB 14: The Show will also be able to carry the data over to the PS4 version of MLB 15: The Show, and vice versa.
Universal Rewards
The game also features a brand new universal rewards system, which allows players to earn cards and stubs by playing any game mode. Rewards include player cards for use in the game's fantasy baseball mode, "Diamond Dynasty", as well as equipment, sponsorships or stadiums. Other features include a new "Community Market" where players can buy and sell cards using Stubs.
Cover athletes
On December 6, 2014, it was announced that Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig would be on the game's standard cover. On February 5, 2015, it was announced that Toronto Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin would feature on the Canadian retail release of the game's cover.
Reception
MLB 15: The Show received "generally favorable" reviews upon release. The PlayStation 4 version of the game received an aggregated score of 81% on GameRankings based on 29 reviews and 80/100 on Metacritic based on 37 reviews. The PlayStation Vita version holds a 71% score on GameRankings.
Before the game's initial release, Sony did not provide review copies of the game for critical reviews. According to a Sony representative, the reason for the delay was "due to this year's flagship Universal Rewards feature, which will require active servers to function." Review copies were distributed on the public release date, March 31.
Soundtrack
References
2015 video games
Major League Baseball video games
15
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 4 games
PlayStation Vita games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Sports video games with career mode
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Canada
Video games set in the United States
Video games set in Maryland
San Diego Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Cyberspace%20Affairs%20Commission | The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission () is a policy formulation and implementation body set up under the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party for the purpose of managing internet-related issues. This is believed to include the expansion of online services, internet security concerns, as well as broad jurisdiction over policies on internet censorship. The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission runs the Public Opinion Information Center, which coordinates with state media outlets on censorship. The commission's executive arm is the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, which has the external name of the Cyberspace Administration of China under the "one institution with two names" system.
History
The commission was originally established as the Central Leading Group for Cybersecurity and Informatization (), also called the Cyberspace Affairs Leading Group. The decision to establish the group was announced at the 3rd Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee in November 2013, but did not hold its first full meeting until February 2014. The Leading Group was not a wholly new created entity, since it was primarily a reconstitution of the Leading Group for National Informatization, with a similar membership composition.
In March 2018, the leading group was transformed into a commission, called the Central Cybersecurity and Informatization Commission, also called the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission (CCAC).
Membership
19th Committee
Leader
Xi Jinping (Politburo Standing Committee Member, Party General Secretary, State President)
Deputy Leaders
Li Keqiang (Politburo Standing Committee, Premier of the State Council)
Director of the General Office
Zhuang Rongwen, concurrently Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, deputy head of the Propaganda Department, deputy director of the State Council Information Office (SCIO)
20th Committee
Director
Xi Jinping (Politburo Standing Committee Member, Party General Secretary, State President)
Deputy Leaders
Li Qiang (Politburo Standing Committee, Premier of the State Council)
Cai Qi (Politburo Standing Committee, First Secretary of the Secretariat)
Director of the General Office
Zhuang Rongwen, concurrently Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, deputy head of the Propaganda Department, deputy director of the State Council Information Office (SCIO)
References
Institutions of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
2013 establishments in China
Organizations established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau%20121 | Bureau 121 is a North Korean cyberwarfare agency, and the main unit of the Reconnaissance General Bureau of North Korea's military. It conducts offensive cyber operations, including espionage and cyber-enabled finance crime. According to American authorities, the RGB manages clandestine operations and has six bureaus.
Cyber operations are thought to be a cost-effective way for North Korea to maintain an asymmetric military option, as well as a means to gather intelligence; its primary intelligence targets are South Korea, Japan, and the United States.
History
Bureau 121 was created in 1998.
Targets and methods
The activities of the agency came to public attention in December 2014 when Sony Pictures canceled the opening of its movie The Interview after its computers had been hacked. Bureau 121 has been blamed for the cyber breach, but North Korea has rejected this accusation.
Much of the agency's activity has been directed at South Korea. Prior to the attack at Sony, North Korea was said to have attacked more than 30,000 PCs in South Korea affecting banks and broadcasting companies as well as the website of South Korean President Park Geun-hye North Korea has also been thought to have been responsible for infecting thousands of South Korean smartphones in 2013 with a malicious gaming application. The attacks on South Korea were allegedly conducted by a group then called DarkSeoul Gang and estimated by the computer security company Symantec to have only 10 to 50 members with a "unique" ability to infiltrate websites.
American authorities believe that North Korea has military offensive cyber operations capability and may have been responsible for malicious cyber activity since 2009. As part of its sophisticated set-up, cells from Bureau 121 are believed to be operating around the world. One of the suspected locations of a Bureau 121 cell is the Chilbosan Hotel in Shenyang, China.
South Korea has also repeatedly blamed Bureau 121 for conducting GPS jamming aimed at South Korea. The most recent case of jamming occurred on 1 April 2016.
Structure
Bureau 121 consists of the following units as of 2019:
Lab 110
Office 98
Office 414
Office 35
Unit 180
Unit 91
128 Liaison Office
413 Liaison Office
Staffing
Bureau 121 is the largest (more than 600 hackers) and most sophisticated unit in the RGB. According to a report by Reuters, Bureau 121 is staffed by some of North Korea's most talented computer experts and is run by the Korean military. A defector indicated that the agency has about 1,800 specialists. Many of the bureau's hackers are hand-picked graduates of the University of Automation, Pyongyang and spend five years in training. A 2021 estimate suggested that there may be over 6,000 members in Bureau 121, with many of them operating in other countries, such as Belarus, China, India, Malaysia, and Russia.
While these specialists are scattered around the world, their families benefit from special privileges at home.
Alleged operations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20G.%20Cantor | David Geoffrey Cantor (April 12, 1935 – November 19, 2012) was an American mathematician, specializing in number theory and combinatorics. The Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm for factoring polynomials is named after him; he and Hans Zassenhaus published it in 1981.
Biography
Cantor was born on April 12, 1935. He completed his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology, graduating in 1956, and earned his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1960, where he was supervised by Basil Gordon and Ernst G. Straus. He became an assistant professor at the University of Washington in 1962, moved back to UCLA in 1964, and retired in 1991. After his retirement, he worked at the Center for Communications Research in La Jolla, California.
Cantor specialized in number theory and combinatorics. The Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm for factoring polynomials is named after him; he and Hans Zassenhaus published it in 1981. He received the National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1960 and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 1968. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. At the time of his death, he had been a member of the American Mathematical Society for 54 years.
Cantor lived in San Diego, California. He died on November 19, 2012, at the age of 77.
See also
Cantor's algorithm
References
1935 births
2012 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
Combinatorialists
Number theorists
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of Washington faculty
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoJo%27s%20Bizarre%20Adventure%3A%20Eyes%20of%20Heaven | is an action video game for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Based on the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series by Hirohiko Araki, Eyes of Heaven is the second game in the franchise to be developed by CyberConnect2, following 2013's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle, with which this game shares the same engine. The game was released for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan on December 17, 2015 and was released exclusively on the PlayStation 4 in Western territories on June 28, 2016.
Plot
The game's main storyline takes place immediately following the events of Stardust Crusaders. Jotaro Kujo and his allies, having just defeated the evil vampire DIO, are suddenly attacked by friends and enemies who have either disappeared or died along the way. They are soon approached by a young Robert E. O. Speedwagon, who possesses a piece of the Saint's Corpse that allows him to not only travel through time and space, but also dispel the evil influence possessing the mysterious foes. Speedwagon leads Jotaro and his allies on a journey through space, time, and alternate universes, in order to stop another iteration of DIO and his disciple Enrico Pucci from obtaining the Saint's Corpse and purging the world of the Joestar family. In their quest to collect the Saint's Corpse, Jotaro and Joseph are joined by characters from each part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, including Jotaro's great-great grandfather Jonathan Joestar, a younger version of Joseph Joestar, Joseph's and Dio's illegitimate sons Josuke Higashikata and Giorno Giovanna, Jotaro's own daughter Jolyne Cujoh, paraplegic jockey Johnny Joestar, and an amnesiac given the temporary name of Josuke Higashikata.
The heroes collect every part of the Corpse save one. Suddenly, the Joestars encounter an alternate DIO, now wielding an upgraded version of his Stand that can rewrite reality itself, which he calls The World Over Heaven. Though DIO takes most of their collected parts of the Corpse, the group narrowly escapes DIO's grasp, with Jotaro retaining a piece of the Corpse. Funny Valentine appears to the group and reveals that the version of DIO they encountered, now known as "DIO, Gone to Heaven" (Heaven Ascension DIO), is from a alternate world where he was victorious over Jotaro and succeeded in his becoming a god. He learned of the base world upon encountering Valentine and nullifying the infinite rotation Johnny had placed upon him and now plans on using the Saint's Corpse to take over all of reality and erase the Jostars from existence. Valentine further reveals that this version of Dio still bears the same type of Stand as Jotaro's, and remains unaware that objects from parallel dimensions are drawn to each other and destroyed upon contact. As the Joestars continue battling DIO's minions to regain their stolen Corpse parts, Valentine is eliminated by DIO as retribution for his betrayal.
Eventually, the Joestar g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20403001%E2%80%93404000 |
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| 403004 || || — || November 14, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.78" | 780 m ||
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| 403005 || || — || November 14, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.81" | 810 m ||
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| 403006 || || — || November 12, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.94" | 940 m ||
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| 403007 || || — || October 2, 2003 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.87" | 870 m ||
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| 403008 || || — || November 2, 2007 || Catalina || CSS || JUN || align=right | 1.2 km ||
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| 403009 || || — || November 1, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
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| 403010 || || — || November 2, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
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| 403011 || || — || November 8, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || 3:2 || align=right | 4.5 km ||
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| 403012 || || — || November 7, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.8 km ||
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| 403013 || || — || November 9, 2007 || Socorro || LINEAR || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.65" | 650 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 403014 || || — || November 9, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 403015 || || — || November 17, 2007 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.0 km ||
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| 403016 || || — || November 2, 2007 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.78" | 780 m ||
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| 403017 || || — || November 18, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.82" | 820 m ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 403018 || || — || November 3, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || (5) || align=right data-sort-value="0.87" | 870 m ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 403019 || || — || September 15, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 403020 || || — || November 17, 2007 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 403021 || || — || November 19, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 403022 || || — || November 4, 2007 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie%20Tarascon | Jean-Marie Tarascon FRSC (born September 21, 1953) is Professor of Chemistry at the Collège de France in Paris and Director of the French Research Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E).
Education
Tarascon was educated at the University of Bordeaux, where he was awarded a Diplôme d'études universitaires générales in physics and chemistry, a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering, and a PhD in solid-state chemistry in 1981.
Career
Following his PhD, Tarascon did postdoctoral research at Cornell University. He worked at Bell Labs and Bellcore from 1982 to 1994, then moved to the University of Picardie Jules Verne in 1994. He has been at the College de France since 2010. He is also credited with laying foundations of the reputable Erasmus mundus masters course in energy storage and conversion "Materials for energy storage and conversion" hosted by UPJV, Amiens in association with seven universities across the globe and several energy research networks.
Research
Tarascon's research investigates the synthesis of novel electronic phenomena and materials such as superconductors, ferroelectrics, fluoride glasses, rechargeable batteries and colossal magnetoresistance. He has made many contributions to superconductivity and was the original proponent of the thin and flexible plastic lithium ion battery.
Awards and honours
Tarascon was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2014. His nomination reads:
Tarascon was honoured by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002. He was nominated to the Académie des Sciences in 2005, and was the University of Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV) gold medalist in 2008. He won the ENI Protection of the Environment award in 2011. In 2015 he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Centenary Prize. In 2016, he received an honorary doctorate 'doctor honoris causa' from Hasselt University. In 2017, he was one of the two winners of the Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation. He was one of the five nominated for the CNRS Innovation Medals. In 2020 he received the Balzan Prize for Environmental Challenges: Materials Science for Renewable Energy.
References
External links
Jean-Marie Tarascon's research group
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Living people
Foreign Members of the Royal Society
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
20th-century French chemists
21st-century French chemists
University of Bordeaux alumni
1953 births
French materials scientists
French chemists
Inorganic chemists
Solid state chemists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20405001%E2%80%93406000 |
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| 405006 || || — || October 25, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.87" | 870 m ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#FA8072
| 405007 || || — || November 1, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.60" | 600 m ||
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| 405008 || || — || November 1, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || ERI || align=right | 1.7 km ||
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| 405009 || || — || November 3, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.76" | 760 m ||
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| 405010 || || — || November 21, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.3 km ||
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| 405011 || || — || November 20, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || DOR || align=right | 2.7 km ||
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| 405012 || || — || November 24, 2000 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.87" | 870 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 405013 || || — || December 20, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.99" | 990 m ||
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|-id=016 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 405016 || || — || February 16, 2001 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.6 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
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|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
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|-id=019 bgcolor=#FA8072
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|-id=021 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 405021 || || — || August 16, 2001 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.8 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 405022 || || — || August 20, 2001 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.6 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 405023 || || — || August 20, 2001 || Socorro || LINEAR || ADE || align=right | 2.6 km ||
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%2B | Video+ (or Video+ Player on Google Play) is a video player and downloader that is developed and operated by LEO Network. The developer describes it as a video "hunter" or "seeker" where to explore one’s interests and discover the neighborhood.
Description
Video+ works as a sniffer to allow users to discover video collections from nearby people. It was featured on the location-based media sharing and discovering function. Location-based service (LBS) was first applied by the biggest and fastest growing Location-Based Social Network – Foursquare and became popular and widely used to Mobile app since 2009.
Video+ has no registration requirements for the first login, users can share their video list under the “Share” function and discover other users’ lists under “Nearby”. In addition, users may find common-interest groups.
Supported Formats
mkv, avi, flv, rm, rmvb, asf, asx, mov, mpe, ts, vob, wmv, f4v, vp, mpeg, mpg, m4v, mp4, 3gp, 3gpp, 3g2, 3gpp2
Download Protocols
Supports BT, HTTP, HTTPS, MAGNETsj
Technologies
According to Sem, one of LEO’s most contributed developers: Video+ was implemented with the self-developed “Air-Link Multi-connectional Wireless Transmission” technology, which combines Wi-Fi with Bluetooth and requires no internet connection during the downloading process.
References
External links
Official Site
Video+ on Google Play
Media players
Mobile software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Computer%20and%20Information%20Literacy%20Study | The International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) study assesses information and communications technology (I.C.T.) knowledge of students and teachers worldwide. This test was created by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in June 2010. There have been two cycles of the study: ICILS 2013 and ICILS 2018.
The first survey was conducted in 2013 and the results were released 3 March 2015. The test assessed computer and literacy skills of 60,000 8th grade students (average 13.5 years old) from 21 education systems worldwide. 18 of the 21 tested education systems had in place policies concerning the use of ICT in education.
The second cycle of the study was conducted in 2018, the results of which were released on 5 November 2019.
The third cycle of the study, ICILS 2023 was officially launched at the 2018 IEA General Assembly Meeting.
Assessment
The study was assessed through 4 levels:
Knowledge of basic software
Basic use of computers as information source
Sufficient knowledge and skills of ICT for information gathering and use
Critical thinking while searching for information online
ICILS 2013 results
ICILS 2013 found that only 2% of students use their critical thinking and teachers lack confidence in teaching essential ICT skills.’
83% of the student population achieved Level 1 status, while 2% of the population achieved Level 4 status. The study found that students use computers 87% of the time at home, more than they do in school, 54% of the time. ICILS has shown that in school, students use 45% of their time to prepare essays, 44% to prepare presentations, 40% working with other students at the same school, 39% completing school exercises and 30% organizing time and work. At home, students use 75% of their time communicating with others using messaging or social network, 52% searching for information for study or school work, 49% posting comments to online profiles or blogs and 48% using voice chat.
Fewer than half the teachers felt that they were capable of carrying out more complex tasks, such as installing software, collaborating with others and taking part in discussion forums.
The results of ICILS 2018 were released on 5 November 2019.
Participating education systems
ICILS 2013
ICILS 2018
References
Computer literacy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Buttarelli | Giovanni Buttarelli (24 June 1957 – 20 August 2019) was an Italian civil servant, who served as the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). On 4 December 2014, he was appointed by a joint decision of the European Parliament and the Council. He was due to serve a five-year term in this position. Previously, he served as Assistant EDPS, from January 2009 until December 2014. He was also a member of the Italian judiciary with the rank of judge of the Court of Cassation.
Before joining the EDPS, Buttarelli worked as Secretary General of the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, the Italian Data Protection Authority, between 1997 and 2009.
Background
Giovanni Buttarelli was born in 1957 in Frascati, a little town near Rome. He graduated “cum laude” from La Sapienza University in Rome in 1984, where he also worked as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law. Specifically, he worked with Prof. Franco Cordero on Criminal Procedure until 1990. He was appointed as a Professor at the Faculty of Law at Lumsa University in Rome, in 2005, where he lectured on the Protection of Personal data and Fundamental Rights in Italy and Europe. In 1989, he was made a judge at the Tribunal of Avezzano.
He was also appointed to the High Level Policy Panel of the European Project on "Public Perception of Security and Privacy: Assessing Knowledge, Collecting Evidence, Translating Research Into Action - PACT (285635)” by the Peace Institute of Oslo.
Along with 138 other national representatives, he signed the Italian Manifest for a Digital Agenda in 2011. He was also a regular contributor to specialised books and journals, at both the European and national level and is the author of a significant number of papers.
Career
Legislation Department of the Italian Ministry of Justice (1989–1997)
From 1989 to 1997, Buttarelli was an advisor at the Legislation Department of the Italian Ministry of Justice.
He cooperated with various ministers and contributed to drafting and following up many regulatory provisions, in particular concerning criminal law, criminal procedure and data protection. He was also a member of several inter-ministerial committees concerning, among other topics, immigration, racial discrimination, community fraud, de-criminalisation, tax reforms, computer crime laws, access to confidential records and the digitalisation of public administrative agencies.
He is the author of Italian privacy law n. 675/96 on the processing of personal data.
Council of Europe (1990–2019)
In 1990, Buttarelli was appointed as a member of various Working Groups and Committees, such as the Convention 108 Consultative Committee, the Center for Just Peace and Democracy, the Group of Specialists on Access to Public Information and the Working Group on Data Protection in Police and Criminal Matters.
As an expert appointed by the Council of Europe, he drafted the report and the draft guidelines on video surveillance (2003) and the report and draft recommendation on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter%20on%20quarter | Quarter-on-quarter or quarter-over-quarter is a term of art in accounting, finance and economics. It may refer to a comparison of data in the current quarter to the same data in the previous quarter. For example, if the volume of sales was 105 units in 2019Q2, 100 units in 2020Q1, and 102 units in 2020Q2, then the sale volume has increased in 2020Q2 quarter-over-quarter (i.e., comparing it to 2020Q1), but it has decreased year-over-year (i.e., comparing it to 2019Q2).
The term also applies to a comparison of data in a period of the current quarter to the same period in the previous quarter. For example, the comparison of sales in April (i.e., the first month of Q2) to sales in January would be a quarter-over-quarter comparison.
It is sometimes abbreviated as q/q.
See also
year-over-year
References
Accounting terminology
Financial reporting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo%20%28application%29 | BRAVO Pit and BRAVO Poker is software designed by Genesis Gaming Solutions for player ratings and pit management utilizing electronic data collection. Bravo Pit allows casino management to organize tables for house games. BRAVO poker allows management and players to view active number of tables, games players and promotions.
Bravo Poker Live
Bravo Poker Live is an app release by Genesis Gaming in October 2011 for smartphones which allows players to view the number of tables, types of games, tournament information, and casino bonuses offered. Players can see how many tables are playing at any time as well as the number of players at each table. The application is used by many casinos across America.
References
External links
Poker tools
2007 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HuffPost%20Arabi | Arabic Post (Arabic: عربي بوست), formerly known as HuffPost Arabi (Arabic: عربي HuffPost), was an Arabic-language news web site founded by Wadah Khanfar, the former CEO of Al Jazeera Media Network in partnership with The Huffington Post. On 30 March 2018, HuffPost Arabi announced that it will no longer be publishing content.
References
External links
Huffpost Arabi (in Arabic)
British news websites
Arabic-language websites
2015 establishments in the United Kingdom
Arabi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHLAC | XHLAC can refer to two stations, both in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán:
XHLAC-FM 107.9, "Radio Azul"
XHLAC-TV channel 11, transmitter for the Canal 5 network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requests%20%28software%29 | Requests is an HTTP client library for the Python programming language.
due to its elegant mapping of the HTTP protocol onto Python's object-oriented semantics. Requests's design has inspired and been copied by HTTP client libraries for other programming languages. It is implemented as a wrapper for urllib3, another third-party Python HTTP library.
Kenneth Reitz, the original author, handed control over to the Python Software Foundation in 2019 after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2015.
References
External links
Python (programming language) libraries
Free network-related software
Free software programmed in Python
Software using the Apache license
Hypertext Transfer Protocol clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20lineage | Data lineage includes the data origin, what happens to it, and where it moves over time. Data lineage provides visibility and simplifies tracing errors back to the root cause in a data analytics process.
It also enables replaying specific portions or inputs of the data flow for step-wise debugging or regenerating lost output. Database systems use such information, called data provenance, to address similar validation and debugging challenges. Data provenance refers to records of the inputs, entities, systems, and processes that influence data of interest, providing a historical record of the data and its origins. The generated evidence supports forensic activities such as data-dependency analysis, error/compromise detection and recovery, auditing, and compliance analysis. "Lineage is a simple type of why provenance."
Data lineage can be represented visually to discover the data flow/movement from its source to destination via various changes and hops on its way in the enterprise environment, how the data gets transformed along the way, how the representation and parameters change, and how the data splits or converges after each hop. A simple representation of the Data Lineage can be shown with dots and lines, where dot represents a data container for data points and lines connecting them represents the transformations the data point undergoes, between the data containers.
Representation broadly depends on the scope of the metadata management and reference point of interest. Data lineage provides sources of the data and intermediate data flow hops from the reference point with backward data lineage, leading to the final destination's data points and its intermediate data flows with forward data lineage. These views can be combined with end-to-end lineage for a reference point that provides a complete audit trail of that data point of interest from sources to their final destinations. As the data points or hops increase, the complexity of such representation becomes incomprehensible. Thus, the best feature of the data lineage view would be to be able to simplify the view by temporarily masking unwanted peripheral data points. Tools that have the masking feature enable scalability of the view and enhance analysis with the best user experience for both technical and business users. Data lineage also enables companies to trace sources of specific business data for the purposes of tracking errors, implementing changes in processes, and implementing system migrations to save significant amounts of time and resources, thereby tremendously improving BI efficiency.
The scope of the data lineage determines the volume of metadata required to represent its data lineage. Usually, data governance, and data management determines the scope of the data lineage based on their regulations, enterprise data management strategy, data impact, reporting attributes, and critical data elements of the organization.
Data lineage provides the audit trail of the data poi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hulu%20original%20programming | Beginning in 2011, streaming service Hulu began to produce its own original content. The first production released was the web series The Morning After, a light-hearted pop-culture news show. In 2012, Hulu announced that it would begin airing its first original scripted program, titled Battleground.
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Co-productions
These shows have been commissioned by Hulu in cooperation with a partner network.
Continuations
These shows have been either picked up by Hulu for additional seasons after having aired previous seasons on another network, or were moved to Hulu from another network and premiered on the service without being marketed as Hulu Originals.
Upcoming original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Co-productions
Continuations
In development
Notes
References
External links
Hulu
Hulu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbs%20in%20Norway | Serbs in Norway (; ) are Norwegian citizens and residents of ethnic Serb descent or Serbian-born persons who reside in Norway.
Demographics
The Norwegian census data includes immigrants with country of birth (first-generation) and Norwegian-born with immigrant parentage (second-generation), but does not include ethnicity, thus, the total number of ethnic Serbs in Norway is hard to define. According to 2006 data, there were 10,042 immigrants from Serbia and Montenegro, 2,863 with parents from that country, 12,718 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2,104 with parents from that country, 2,566 from Croatia, 449 with parents from that country. In 2001, the number of immigrants from FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) was 15,469. 2017 data lists 6,396 immigrants from Serbia and Norwegian-born descendants.
The Serbian Ministry of Diaspora estimated in 2007 that there was a Serb diaspora community numbering ca. 2,500 people in Norway. This data includes emigrants from Serbia as well as ethnic Serbs or other minorities who view Serbia as their nation-state.
History
Serbs and Serbians have migrated to Norway as guest and migrant workers during Socialist Yugoslavia, and as refugees of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.
Notable people
See also
Norway–Serbia relations
Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Britain and Scandinavia
Serbs in Sweden
References
Immigration to Norway
Norway
Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHUDG-FM | XHUDG-FM is a radio station in Guadalajara, owned by the Universidad de Guadalajara. The station was founded in 1974 and is branded as Radio Universidad, the keystone of an eight-station radio network and sister to XHUDG-TDT channel 44.
Transmitters
UDG owns eight transmitters throughout the state of Jalisco:
XHUDG-FM 104.3 Guadalajara
XHUGA-FM 105.5 Ameca
XHANU-FM 102.3 Autlán de Navarro, 38.76 kW ERP
XHGZ-FM 94.3 Zapotlán el Grande, 5 kW ERP
XHUGC-FM 104.7 Colotlán
XHUGL-FM 104.7 Lagos de Moreno, 1.727 kW ERP
XHUGO-FM 107.9 Ocotlán
XHUGPV-FM 104.3 Puerto Vallarta, 20 kW ERP
The transmitters have significant local production; XHUGL originates some programming for the network, and all carry additional locally focused news programming. Most, but not all, transmitters run around 2 kW of effective radiated power.
History
XHUDG-FM began to transmit officially on May 30, 1974, created to bridge the gap between the academic community and the residents of Jalisco. However, the history of the station dates to an experimental transmission mounted in 1963 under the callsign XEIITG by UDG's engineering school. From the late 1960s, attempts were made to win a permit and actually launch a full-time radio station, a permit conceded by presidential decree in 1973. The first transmitter, donated by then-President Luis Echeverria, was put into place, and the station came on air from the engineering school, broadcasting 13 hours a day. XHUDG-FM moved to the Cultural and Administrative Building in 1983.
The transmitters in the rest of the state were all built in the early 2010s. At the same time, a permit discontinuity prompted the UDG to receive a new permit for its Guadalajara flagship, which became XHUDG-FM.
Programming
Programming on XHUDG-FM and its transmitter network is widely varied. Music takes up most of the stations' broadcast day, and on the retransmitters, much of it is locally produced. News programming, known as Señal Informativa, primarily comes from Guadalajara with each transmitter producing its own additional local broadcasts. Señal Informativa was extended to TV with the launch of XHUDG television in 2011.
References
Radio stations established in 1974
University radio stations in Mexico
Radio stations in Guadalajara
University of Guadalajara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revaluate | Revaluate is artificial intelligence for the real estate and mortgage industry. Revaluate segments lists and databases for marketers by propensity to move. The award winning third party validated accuracy is the best in the industry at identifying people who are likely to move in the next six months. Marketers use this refined and targeted data to greatly increase their campaigns' efficiency. On Dec. 1, 2020, Revaluate announced the launch of Reside, a growth engine to bring new business; stepping beyond the limitations of their current database, Reside allows marketers to choose new geographic areas for customer growth, blending new customer lists into existing sales processes. This newly segmented database will introduce them to market segments, people, and business opportunities that they may never have connected with otherwise.
History
Revaluate began in 2014 as a startup website that mined data from a wide range of public and private sources and used the information to produce home history reports, each covering a specific residential address. These reports were intended to help consumers make better-informed housing decisions, analogous to the need that online reviews serve for other products and services. In the same month, it closed a convertible debt financing round for an undisclosed amount. In its first two months of operation, it averaged a week-over-week growth rate of 20%. In 2016 they transitioned into the Revaluate you know today.
References
External links
Official Website
Real estate companies established in 2014
American real estate websites
Online real estate databases
2014 establishments in New York City
Companies based in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Media%2C%20Data%20and%20Society | The Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (now closed) was a global research center at Central European University (CEU) that focused on media, communication and information policy. Located in Budapest, Hungary, CMDS produced scholarly and practice-oriented research about journalism, media freedom, and internet policy. In October 2022, CMDS began its operations under the name Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) independently of CEU.
History and Network
The center was founded as the Center for Media and Communication Studies. It began in 2004, and was designed to serve as a focal point an international network of acclaimed scholars and academic institutions, whose research ranges from media and communications policy, fundamental communications rights through media and civil society and new media and digital technology to media in transition. In September 2014 it was relaunched as the Center for Media, Data and Society to represent new interests in technology policy, and big data. The center was led between September 2016 until it shut down by Marius Dragomir, a media expert, journalist and scholar. Most of CMDS' projects are continued by the Media and Journalism Research Center, a research institute established by Marius Dragomir in 2022.
Projects and Mission
The center's research projects focused on identifying trends and challenges in the use of information technologies and advancing policy discussions about the regulation of data and media. The center had an annual summer school on activism and digital media that draws democracy advocates, media activists, and civil rights campaigners from around the world to discuss policy and strategy. Projects of CMDS included Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives, Ranking Digital Rights, Strengthening Journalism in Europe, Research on Violent Online Political Extremism.
The center was also known for its monitoring work on media policy in Central and Eastern Europe and Hungary in particular. Since its launch in 2017, the Media Influence Matrix project designed by Marius Dragomir expanded to over 50 countries. The center is also known for its research on media capture. Its last director, Marius Dragomir published studies that attempted to define and analyze the media capture phenomenon.
See also
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Center for Global Communication Studies at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
Oxford Internet Institute
Program in Comparative Media Law at University of Oxford
References
External links
Center for Media, Data and Society homepage (archived)
Research
Central European University
Information society
Internet-related activism
Internet governance advocacy groups
2004 establishments in Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics%20and%20Forensic%20Ethics%20Group | The Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group (formerly National DNA Database Ethics Group) is a non-departmental public body that advises the government of the United Kingdom on the ethical issues regarding collection, use, and retention of biometric and forensic material and the use of large and complex data sets and projects using explainable data-driven technology. Professor Mark Watson-Gandy took over as the chairman of the body in 2019, replacing Christopher Hughes O.B.E. who held the position since 2009.
References
External links
Official website
Genetics in the United Kingdom
Home Office (United Kingdom)
National DNA databases
Non-departmental public bodies of the United Kingdom government |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAXC-LD | WAXC-LD is a Low-power television station in Alexander City, Alabama affiliated with the Retro Television Network. The station is branded as WAXC-TV 3 with the number 3 representing its channel position on Charter Spectrum. The channel produces Auburn Blitz, a program that covers sports at Auburn University. The station also produces telecast of local high school sports and Sportz Biltz, a show focusing on Alabama sports.
History
For many years, the station was co-owned with WETU-LD and carried the same programming including a UPN affiliation during the 1990s. After dropping UPN, WAXC became a Pax TV (later i and Ion) affiliate.
Sportz Blitz
Sportz Blitz is a weekly live interactive sports talk television show broadcast across central Alabama. The show originates from WAXC's studios and is simulcast on WKGA 97.5 FM radio in east central Alabama. The show is also carried by WOTM-LD in the Birmingham market, and WETU-LD in the Montgomery market.
The show focuses on Alabama high school and college sports, specifically Auburn University and the University of Alabama. Additional topics include major national professional sports stories and outdoors sports such as fishing and hunting. Differentiating the show from news broadcasts and other sports television shows, the hosts take live calls from the audience and discuss issues on the air in the same manner as sports radio shows.
History
Sportz Blitz began airing during football season in the Fall of 2006. The broadcast schedule was extended for Season 2 (2007-2008) to air year round. In the Fall of 2007 a spin-off program began airing, Sportz Blitz Outdoors, featuring the same hosts and B.A.S.S. Elite Series professional fisherman Greg Vinson providing outdoor sports instruction for new show, Sportz Blitz Outdoors. On February 26, 2008 a new radio call-in show spin-off was created called "Sportz Blitz Overtime" which airs on WKGA 97.5 FM following the regular television broadcast.
References
External links
WAXC-TV 3 official website
Sportz Blitz Official Site
Low-power television stations in Alabama
AXC-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1995
1995 establishments in Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Auto%20Channel | The Auto Channel (TACH) is an American automotive and transportation themed television network and Internet entity that was founded in 1995. TheAutoChannel.com is based in Louisville, Kentucky and the television network is based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Specific topics covered include new and used vehicles, motor homes and recreational vehicles, hot rods and specialty vehicles, motorcycles, motor sports, repair and maintenance, marine and boating, aviation and space exploration, mass transit and railroading.
TheAutoChannel.com is the Internet's largest privately owned automotive information resource, containing more than one million pages of content and thousands of video and audio files. It also encompasses Buyers Guides By Brand, EV-Motoring, RVmotoring.com, NewCarBuyersGuide.com, UsedCarBuyersGuide, PerfectNewCarMatch.com, and PennySaverNetworks.com.
The Auto Channel network uses video content produced exclusively for the TACH websites as well as content that the company produced for outside networks such as Comcast Sports Net. TACH TV programming also includes shows produced by external producers.
References
Television channels and networks about cars
Television stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Civil%20Aviation%20Organization%20Public%20Key%20Directory | The International Civil Aviation Organization Public Key Directory (ICAO PKD) is a database maintained by the International Civil Aviation Organization holding national cryptographic keys related to the authentication of e-passport information.
The United Nations became the first non-state participant in October 2012, enabling issuing of e-UNLP, the electronic form of the United Nations laissez-passer.
In December 2014, ICAO reported the PKD as having 45 participants.
In 2015 the German Bundesdruckerei (German Federal Printing Office) won the request for tender of the ICAO to provide the ICAO PKD.
In July 2017, ICAO reported the PKD as having 58 participants.
As of November 2017, 60 participants were part of the ICAO PKD, with the European Union being the 60th member and at the same time the second non-state participant.
See also
Passenger name record
Passport
Biometric passport
Machine-readable passport
Public-key cryptography
References
External links
ICAO PKD entry page
ICAO PKD (Public Key Directory) data download
Travel technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Needle%20Shop | The Needle Shop was an early American television program which aired on the DuMont Television Network in a 15-minute timeslot on weekday afternoons. The program was broadcast from New York City television station WABD from November 1948 to December 1949.
DuMont begins daytime programing
On November 1, 1948 DuMont began programming shows during daytime hours. As the only television network without a radio network, and since TV was cutting into radio audiences, ABC, CBS and NBC didn’t want to hurt their daytime radio profits. DuMont's core business was manufacturing TV sets, so they wanted to replace test patterns with live programs, since most shopping was done in the daytime hours, and programing would attract TV buyers. DuMont began selling daytime commercial spots for as little as $25, and businesses took advantage of the low rates.
The Needle Shop was one of the first of the daytime programs to find a sponsor. Starting in November 1948 Martin Fabrics began advertising during the Wednesday slot of the series, and offered a booklet How to Sew Velvet to anyone who sent in 25 cents. The company received over 300 requests for the booklet, which was considered remarkable for the start of daytime programing. In March 1949 it was reported that The Needle Shop would soon be sponsored by Steam-O-Matic, a maker of clothes irons.
Broadcast history
The series of home-sewing lessons was hosted by Alice Burrows, who was age 62 when she started appearing on the program. In a news article published across the country Burrows was described as being "pretty, silvery-haired and bristling with energy".
Burrows stated she applied for the job as a teacher on television, and was hired on the spot to do a daily 15-minute sewing show. She received fan mail from across the United States, much of it from men who asked her to influence their wives to do more mending and darning. Because of her high volume of mail from husbands she did special programs showing men how to sew on buttons and let out trouser waist bands to make room for "middle-age spread." She received a good response to her shows aimed at men.
Daytime time slot
According to the book What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s the DuMont daytime schedule beginning in January 1949 was:
10-10:30am Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room
10:30-11am Welcome, Neighbors
11am-12noon The Stan Shaw Show
12noon-12:15pm Amanda
12:15-12:30pm Man in the Street
12:30-12:45pm Camera Headlines
12:45-1pm Fashions in Song
1-1:30pm Okay, Mother
2:30-3pm Inside Photoplay (The Wendy Barrie Show)
3-3:15pm The Needle Shop
3:15-3:30pm Vincent Lopez Speaking (The Vincent Lopez Show)
However, the daytime lineup changed frequently. Newspaper television listings show The Needle Shop broadcast from 2:30-2:45 in October 1948, from 1:30-1:45 in April 1949, and 1:45-2:00 in December 1949.
Preservation status
There are no known preserved episodes of The Needle Shop.
Reception
Billboard magazine felt a younger and more at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Robot | Mr. Robot is an American drama thriller television series created by Sam Esmail for USA Network. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder, clinical depression and dissociative identity disorder. Elliot is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", played by Christian Slater, to join a group of hacktivists called "fsociety". The group aims to destroy all debt records by encrypting the financial data of E Corp, the largest conglomerate in the world.
The pilot premiered via online and video on demand services on May 27, 2015. In addition to Malek and Slater, the series stars an ensemble cast featuring Carly Chaikin, Portia Doubleday, Martin Wallström, Michael Cristofer, Stephanie Corneliussen, Grace Gummer, BD Wong, Bobby Cannavale, Elliot Villar and Ashlie Atkinson. The first season debuted on USA Network on June 24, 2015, while the second season premiered on July 13, 2016, and the third season premiered on October 11, 2017. The fourth and final season premiered on October 6, 2019, and concluded on December 22, 2019.
Mr. Robot received critical acclaim particularly for the performances of Malek and Slater, its story and visual presentation and Mac Quayle's musical score. The series gained a cult following. Esmail has received praise for his direction of the series, having directed three episodes in the first season before serving as the sole director for the remainder of the show. The show received numerous accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Peabody Award.
Premise
The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cybersecurity company Allsafe as a cybersecurity engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety, dissociative identity disorder, clinical depression and drug abuse, Elliot's thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects with people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists known as fsociety. One of their missions is to cancel all consumer debt by encrypting all the data of one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (which Elliot perceives as Evil Corp), which also happens to be Allsafe's biggest client.
Cast and characters
Main
Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a senior cybersecurity engineer at Allsafe Cybersecurity and a vigilante hacker. He has dissociative identity disorder and deals with other mental illnesses such as clinical depression and severe anxiety, which are partly responsible for his antisocial behavior and drug use. Elliot's hacker nickname is "Sam Sepiol" or "samsep10l". Elliot as a child is portrayed by Aidan Liebman (seasons 1–2), Alex Bento (season 3), and Evan Whitten (season 4).
Carly Chaikin as Darlene Alderson, Elliot's younger sister, a malware coder and one of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once%20Upon%20a%20Kiss | Once Upon a Kiss is a 2015 Philippine television drama romance comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Joyce E. Bernal, it stars Bianca Umali and Miguel Tanfelix. It premiered on January 5, 2015 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Strawberry Lane. The series concluded on May 1, 2015 on with a total of 83 episodes. It was replaced by Let the Love Begin in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bianca Umali as Mariella "Ella" Servando Rodrigo
Miguel Tanfelix as Prince Pelaez Almario
Supporting cast
Michael de Mesa as Enrique "King" Pelaez
Mylene Dizon as Giselle Pelaez-Almario
Cris Villanueva as Eric Almario
Tessie Tomas as Mérida Almario
Manilyn Reynes as Aurora Servando-Rodrigo
Nova Villa as Adelaida "Adela" Servando
Maricar de Mesa as Ursula Salazar
Sabrina Man as Wendy Salazar
Mariel Pamintuan as Athena Almario
Luigi Revilla as John
Miggy Jimenez as Mickey Abueva
Nicole Dulalia as Lily
Jenny Alvarez as Amber Monteverde
Eunice Lagusad as Melody Catacutan
Recurring cast
Betong Sumaya as Sebastian Poblador
Frank Magalona as Hans Peligro
Valerie Concepcion as Minnie Servando-Rodrigo
Cai Cortez as Fiona Allegre
Ana Roces as Daisy
Pekto as Badong
Ping Medina as Sido
Sherilyn Reyes-Tan as Jasmine
Tina Paner as Sophia
Ramon Christopher as Renato
Guest cast
Al Tantay as Pedring Servando
Keempee de Leon as Jimmy Rodrigo
Gabby Eigenmann as Philip Madasalin
Chuckie Dreyfus as Luis Montenegro
Orestes Ojeda as Adolfo Pelaez
Elijah Alejo as young Athena Pelaez
Rochelle Pangilinan as Rapunzel Pelaez-Almario
Marc Justine "MJ" Alvarez as young Mickey Abueva
Joshua Lichtenberg as young Prince Pelaez-Almario
Hershey Garcia as young Mariella "Ella" Servando-Rodrigo
Zandra Summer as Giselle's secretary
Carme Sanchez as Nelly
Mosang as Mimay
Ashley Cabrera as Fifi
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Once Upon a Kiss earned a 19.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 23.2% rating. The series had its highest rating on April 28, 2015 and May 1, 2015 with a 23.2% rating.
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romantic comedy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard%20S.%20Michalski | Ryszard S. Michalski (May 7, 1937 – September 20, 2007) was a Polish-American computer scientist. Michalski was Professor at George Mason University and a pioneer in the field of machine learning.
Biography
Michalski was born in Kalusz near Lvov on 7 May 1937.
He received an equivalent of Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at the Universities of Technology in Kraków and Warsaw in 1959; obtained M.S. Computer Science at the Polytechnic Institute of
St. Petersburg in 1961; and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice in 1969. In the period 1962–1970 he worked at the Institute of Automation of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in Warsaw, during which he and Jacek Karpiński developed an early successful learning system for recognizing handwritten alpha-numeric characters.
He emigrated to America in 1970, worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until moved with his research group to the George Mason University in 1988. Although leaving Poland, he worked part-time at the Institute of Computer Science of PAS in Warsaw.
Ryszard S. Michalski died on 20 September 2007 from cancer at his home in Fairfax.
Academic life
Michalski was cofounder of Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory at George Mason University. He earned a patent for the university with Learnable Non-Darwinian Evolution Model (LEM), a form of evolutionary computation, in 2003.
He cofounded the Journal of Machine Learning in 1986 and helped organize the first international multistrategy machine learning conferences in 1991.
Work
Michalski influenced wide areas, notably in machine learning, but also in the broadly understood areas of data analysis and knowledge discovery. Some of his offspring are listed below. (See more on his homepage at GMU)
Learning system for handwritten character recognition (1966)
AQ algorithm (1969)
Conceptual clustering (1980)
Multistrategy learning (1984)
Logic of human plausible reasoning-with Alan Collins (1979–1989)
Multistrategy data mining/Knowledge segment (1991)
Data-driven constructive induction (1991)
Hypothesis-driven constructive induction (1991)
Inferential theory of learning (1991)
Learning trees from rules (1993)
Natural induction (1996)
Learnable Evolution Model-LEM (1997)
Data Inferencing (1998)
Knowledge Mining (2001)
Attributional calculus (1998/2004)
Honors and awards
Michalski was elected to Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2000 and Fellow of AAAI. Poland President honored him with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in July 2007.
Selected works
Michalski was prolific author of scientific works on various topics in computer science, including machine learning, artificial intelligence, and human plausible reasoning. He wrote, co-wrote, or co-edited more than 350 research publications and more than one dozen books. Some of which are listed below. (See more on his homepage at GMU)
Books
1983. (wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Net%20Edge | M-Net Edge was a channel broadcast by South African pay TV satellite network DStv. It was launched on 20 October 2014, after the discontinuation of two of M-Net's Series channels.
The channel ceased its operations on 1 April 2017 as it was going to be integrated with M-Net.
Programming
Bates Motel
House Of Cards
Better Call Saul
Shameless
Transparent
Girls
Vinyl
Billions
Killjoy
Vikings
Game Of Thrones
Lucifer
Gotham
Grimm
Rome
Person Of Interest
Stalker
References
M-Net
Television stations in South Africa
Defunct television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2014
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
Companies based in Johannesburg
2014 establishments in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Centrifuge%20Brain%20Project | The Centrifuge Brain Project is a 2011 German short mockumentary fantasy film written and directed by Till Nowak. The film incorporates computer-generated imagery to create seven real-seeming fictional amusement park rides used in a faux documentary film about the construction of physics-defying rides intended for use in research efforts to improve human cognitive function. Nowak was inspired to create the project when visiting an amusement park in 2008.
Background
Art installation
Creating the sequences for the seven rides took three months, spread out through 2008 and 2011. After Nowak created the short as the three-minute video presentation The Experience of Fliehkraft, it was shared as part of the art installation "A Lot of Civilisation" at various museums and international venues during 2011. Blueprint renderings of seven unique rides were displayed while a looped video presentation repeated on several screens. In 2011, the 3-minute art piece was presented in November 2011 as part of the solo exhibition "A Lot of Civilisation" during "Walk of Art" at Prototyp Museum in Hamburg, Germany. It was also presented at Ars Electronica in Linz, where it was awarded with an honorary mention, and SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, British Columbia, where it received a juried runner up. In 2012, it was presented at the Transmediale in Berlin, the Seoul Biennale in South Korea, and the 7th edition of Media City Seoul. Most recently it was presented at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris as part of L' Art Robotique through January 2015.
Short film
As Nowak began sharing his faux blueprints and realistic clips as part of art installations, he also released The Centrifuge Brain Project. Its creation was inspired by his wish "to create an even stronger clash between realism and absurdity." Choosing a realistic approach, he chose the mockumentary style to allow viewers "to feel as if they were eye witnesses", and "to enhance the impact of the idea." As part of the film's plot, Nowak created the fictional "Institute for Centrifugal Research" as the researching firm and chose actor Leslie Barany for the role of Chief Engineer Dr. Nick Laslowicz. Barany was cast because of his ability to improv from the scripted lines to have them seem as if given in a real interview. Nowak related that "Barany was perfect for the role, because he turned out to be a very good liar."
Nowak had the monologue concept in his head for a while; the script was written just two days before filming. Nowak stated, I had no technical reference for the short film. I created the manipulated amusement rides and the techy talk just out of my own scientific humor. They are a mix of real physics, absurdity and deliberate contradictions. The goal was to create the biggest possible mistake, but still make it sound serious and convincing. Filming took two days – one day in an actual amusement park and one day in a laboratory – and editing took two months.
With the added storyline and t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behnaam%20Aazhang | Behnaam Aazhang (born December 7, 1957) is the J.S. Abercrombie Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and Director of the Rice Neuroengineering Initiative.
Early life and education
Aazhang was born in Bandar-Anzali, Iran, and attended Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran from 1975 until 1978. He moved to the United States in 1979. Aazhang received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1981, 1983, and 1986, respectively, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Aazhang was a research assistant in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois from 1981 to 1985. In August 1985, he joined the faculty of Rice University in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Career and Research
Aazhang served as founding director of Rice's Center for Multimedia Communications (CMC) from 1998 until 2006. He was the Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2004 until 2014. He held an Academy of Finland Distinguished Visiting Professorship appointment (FiDiPro) at the University of Oulu in Finland from 2006 until 2014. For his contributions, he received an honorary doctorate in 2017 (the highest honor the university can bestow). During his career, he served as visiting professor or visiting scientist at several institutions, including IBM Federal Systems Company, ETH Zurich, Helsinki University of Technology and Nokia Mobile. He has been the Director of the Rice Neuroengineering Initiative since 2018.
Awards and honors
Aazhang was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1999 for contributions to multi-user wideband digital cellular communications. In addition, he was also elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.
He received the SIGMOBILE Test of Time (ToT) Award in 2019 which recognizes outstanding papers that have had a lasting impact on the field of mobile computing, for the paper “Design of WARP: a wireless open-access research platform”.
Personal life
Aazhang lives in Houston, TX with his wife, Lisa. He has four children.
References
Rice University faculty
Sharif University of Technology alumni
Living people
1957 births
Iranian emigrants to the United States
People from Bandar-e Anzali
American people of Iranian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202013%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2013 in music
List of number-one singles of 2013 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2013 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2013
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20Painting%20World%20Alliance | Light Painting World Alliance (LPWA) was a nonprofit organization (NPO). Its goal was to offer the light painting community a cross-border platform to show its art, to set up networks, and to promote social concerns and further training by means of light painting.
For this purpose LPWA established a network of local representatives from currently 30 countries worldwide.
It was founded in December 2011 by Russian artist Sergey B. Churkin.
LPWA showcases light painting works of its members in the context of exhibitions, conferences and special events using an advisory board of lightpainters for selection.
In September 2014 LPWA was awarded status as an official Collaborating Partner of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 (IYL2015) by UNESCO.
This happened in accordance with the proclaimed International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 by UNESCO.
As representatives of LPWA artists Sergey Churkin, Eric Mellinger, Hugo Baptista and JanLeonardo were officially invited to attend opening ceremonies at UNESCO Headquarters Paris.
Selected events and exhibitions
2012: Central House of Artists Moscow - 1st Light Painting World Exhibition
2013: LPWA Mumbai 2013 International Light Painting Show
2013: G8 Gallery Moscow) - Positive In My Mind
2013: Espace Pierre Cardin Paris - 2nd Light Painting World Exhibition
2014: World Light Painting Mega Animation Project
2014: Oviedo - 1st International LightArt Congress & 3rd World Light Painting Exhibition
2014: Embarcadère Culture Center Aubervilliers - Special Event
2014: New Town Plaza Hong Kong - Waves of Shining Light Special Event
2014: LPWA Contest -Light Painted World
2015: Madrid - THE BODY ART WEEKEND Special Event
2015: UNESCO Paris - Light Painted World Exhibition
External links
References
Cultural organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Silverberg | Alice Silverberg (born 1958) is professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. She was faculty at the Ohio State University from 1984 through 2004. She has given over 300 lectures at universities around the world, and she has brought attention to issues of sexism and discrimination through her blog Alice's Adventures in Numberland.
Research
Silverberg's research concerns number theory and cryptography. With Karl Rubin, she introduced the CEILIDH system for torus-based cryptography in 2003, and she currently holds 10 patents related to cryptography. She is also known for her work on theoretical aspects of abelian varieties.
Education and career
Silverberg graduated from Harvard University in 1979, and received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984 under the supervision of Goro Shimura. She began her academic career at Ohio State University in 1984 and became a full professor in 1996. She moved to the University of California at Irvine in 2004 as Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, and in 2018 she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor. Over the past 25 years she has organized or co-organized more than ten conferences in mathematics and cryptography, and has served on the program committees of more than twenty others. Silverberg has a long record of service with the American Mathematical Society and is currently a member of their nominating committee. She has served as an editor for the Association for Women in Mathematics since 2008, and recently joined the board of the Number Theory Foundation.
Honors
In 2012, Silverberg became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. She was elected to the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics "For her outstanding research in number theory and deep commitment to the promotion of fairness and equal opportunity evidenced by her service and outreach efforts", also citing her many invited lectures and her blog.
Additional work
In 2017, Silverberg began a blog entitled Alice's Adventures in Numberland, which humorously discusses issues surrounding sexism in academia. This is a topic which she has previously discussed in interviews, and has been quoted on.
References
External links
Home page
Alice's Adventures in Numberland
Living people
1958 births
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Number theorists
Harvard University alumni
Princeton University alumni
Ohio State University faculty
University of California, Irvine faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
Scientists from California
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
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