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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodie%20Assaf | Woodrow Assaf (March 15, 1917 − November 13, 2009) was an American weatherman who worked for many years in Jackson, Mississippi. He worked at WLBT, the NBC television network affiliate in Jackson, from 1953 to 2001, and after his retirement he was reported to be the weatherman with the second longest tenure at the same station in U.S. broadcasting history. Only Dick Goddard surpassed Assaf at 55 years, with the last 50 at WJW in Cleveland, Ohio.
Early years
Woodie Assaf was born to Lebanese immigrants Ellis and Esma Assaf in McComb, Mississippi on March 15, 1917. He graduated from McComb High School, and then attended Southwest Mississippi Junior College and Louisiana State University. He served as an Army training officer during World War II. He first worked in radio in WSKB in McComb in 1937. After this he worked for radio stations in Vicksburg and Jackson.
Tenure at WLBT
Assaf started working for WLBT television in Jackson in 1953, on the first day it went on the air (December 20, 1953). In the beginning he did a variety of jobs at the station, including recording commercials, selling advertising, and reporting news, sports and weather. Eventually he became the “weather man,” giving weather reports on the station. (He was not a meteorologist and did not claim to be. He qualified all his weather reports with the line "The weatherman says...") He became a well-known and iconic figure in Mississippi throughout his time at WLBT, also due to his efforts in fundraising and community activities. He annually hosted the Easter Seals Telethon. In 1969 he hosted a benefit starring Bob Hope that raised over $2.5 million for victims of Hurricane Camille. He emceed numerous beauty pageants and special events throughout the state. In 1996 he carried the Olympic torch, representing WLBT-TV.
In 1999, a Clarion-Ledger readers' poll voted him Mississippi's most popular TV personality of the millennium.
Personal life and death
He was married to Ruby Assaf (née Nickey) from 1943 until her death in 2009. They were married for 65 years. They had two daughters. Woodie Assaf died of natural causes at Riggs Manor Retirement Center in Raymond, Mississippi, on November 13, 2009.
References
External links
Woodie Assaf Collection at Ole Miss
Woodrow "Woodie" Assaf Papers, Special Collections at The University of Southern Mississippi
American television personalities
Weather presenters
People from McComb, Mississippi
People from Jackson, Mississippi
Southwest Mississippi Community College alumni
Louisiana State University alumni
1917 births
2009 deaths
American people of Lebanese descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20international%20songs%20of%202015%20%28South%20Korea%29 | The international Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing international songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly and monthly charts, as according to the Gaon 국외 (Foreign) Digital Chart. The Digital Chart ranks songs according to their performance on the Gaon Download, Streaming, and BGM charts.
Weekly chart
Monthly chart
Year-end chart
References
Korea international
International 2015
2015 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyNetFone | MyNetFone Australia Pty Ltd is part of the MNF Group, the company that owns and operates Australia's largest VoIP network, which is also the 3rd largest interconnected voice network in the country. MyNetFone provides broadband internet and cloud-based communication services to residential, business and government sectors.
The MNF Group encompasses multiple brands in the voice and data industries including the following: CallStream, Connexus, PennyTel, iBoss, TNZI, OCA (OpenCA) Softswitch, MyNetFone (retail) and Symbio Networks.
Foundation business of the MNF Group – MyNetFone was established in 2004 by co-founders Rene Sugo (CEO) and Andy Fung (NonExec. Director & former CEO), originally as a retail VoIP provider, and diversified into the corporate market in 2008. Today, MyNetFone provides a full suite of corporate voice, fax and data services – including the proprietary Virtual PBX phone system. The company was first listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:MNF) in May 2006.
The company was awarded Forbes 'Asia's Best Under a Billion' (2014), Australia's fastest growing ASX-listed telco (Business Review Weekly Fast 100 2014), Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific (2015, 2016), Australian Financial Review Fast 100 (2017).
Company Background
The company was founded in 2004 and employs around 300 staff across four states of Australia. Its headquarter are located in Sydney, NSW. MyNetFone is a provider of cloud-based communication and Internet services to business, government and residential sectors. The company owns and operates the largest VoIP (voice over internet protocol) network in Australia and operates internationally as well, supplying services to Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. MNF Group is reported to carry more than 7 billion international voice minutes annually – accounting for 3% of global voice communications.
Company history
In 2004 MyNetFone was co-founded by Rene Sugo and Andy Fung. In May 2006 it was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. In August of the same year, MyNetFone expanded to provide services in New Zealand and Singapore.
MyNetFone also announced in 2006 that they would offer combined VoIP and internet solutions for SME and business enterprise market. In September 2006 MyNetFone acquired a new subsidiary, Broad IP Pty Limited. This was the MyNetFone's first acquisition.
In 2007 MyNetFone again announced new services. The first was a mobile VOIP service, called MNF On-the-Go, which expended to include smartphone apps and mobile VoIP software. The second service announced in 2007 was a call redirect feature called ‘Follow Me” which can redirect incoming calls to any landline or mobile number in the world.
In May 2008 MyNetFone launched the Virtual PBX, a hosted IP PBX services for the SME market. They also began offering a SIP (session Initiation Protocol) service and a VoIP only phone system.
In August 2011, MyNetFone acquired Symbio Networks, Australia's largest VoIP wholesale prov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbot | Lightbot is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts, developed by Danny Yaroslavski. Lightbot has been played 7 million times, and is highly rated on iTunes and Google Play store. Lightbot is available as an online Flash game, and an application for Android and iOS mobile phones. Lightbot has been built with Flash and OpenFL.
The goal of Lightbot is to command a little robot to navigate a maze and turn on lights. Players arrange symbols on the screen to command the robot to walk, turn, jump, switch on a light and so on. The maze and the list of symbols become more complicated as the lessons progress. While using such commands, players learn programming concepts like loops, procedures and more, without entering code in any programming language.
References
See also
Colobot
2008 video games
Android (operating system) games
Browser games
Flash games
IOS games
Maze games
Programming games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Kautz | Henry A. Kautz (born 1956) is a computer scientist, Founding Director of Institute for Data Science and Professor at University of Rochester. He is interested in knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, data science and pervasive computing.
Biography
Kautz was born in 1956 in Youngstown, Ohio.
Kautz entered the Case Institute of Technology in 1974, then a year later, transferred to Cornell University and got his B.A. in English and in mathematics in 1978 there. He wrote plays during a one-year fellowship creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University and got an M.A. by the Writing Seminars in 1980. As a foreign student supported by the Connaught Fellowship, he enrolled at University of Toronto in 1980. Kautz completed his master thesis A First-Order Dynamic Logic for Planning under the supervision of C. Raymond Perrault, and then received his M.S. in computer science in 1982. Before receiving his Ph.D. from University of Rochester in 1987 he was a teaching assistant for Patrick Hayes and a teaching assistant and research assistant for his thesis advisor James F. Allen. His PhD thesis was titled A Formal Theory of Plan Recognition (1987).
Kautz was a professor of Computer Science at University of Washington (2000-2006) after worked at AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Laboratories. He is now Professor at University of Rochester and Founding Director of Institute for Data Science after worked as a director of Intelligent Systems at Kodak Research Laboratories (2006-2007).
Selected works
Kautz works on wide areas ranging from planning, knowledge representation and artificial Intelligence to data mining, human computation and crowdsourcing, ubiquitous computing, wearable computers, assistive technology and health.
Books
1991. Reasoning About Plans. (with James F. Allen, R. Pelavin, and J. Tenenberg) Morgan Kaufmann, 1991.
Articles
2013. 10-Year Impact Award ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
2013. Notable Paper First AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP)
2012. Best Paper Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
2005. Best Paper IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC)
2004 & 2006. 1st Place ICAPS Planning Competition (Optimal Track)
1996 & 2004. Best Paper Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
1993 & 2012. Notable Paper Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
1989. Best Paper International Conference on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KRR)
1988. Best Paper Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI)
Patent
1993. Optimization of Information Bases. US patent issued November 1993
1997. Mechanism for Constraint Satisfaction. US patent issued June 1997
1997. Message Filtering Techniques. US patent issued April 1997
AI Limericks
Henry Kautz created limericks on AI, which can be seen here (retrieved January 14 2015).
Awards and honors
1989. IJCAI Computers and Thought Award.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QoS%20Class%20Identifier | QoS Class Identifier (QCI) is a mechanism used in 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks to ensure carrier traffic is allocated appropriate Quality of Service (QoS). Different carrier traffic requires different QoS and therefore different QCI values. QCI value 9 is typically used for the default carrier of a UE/PDN for non privileged subscribers.
Background
To ensure that carrier traffic in LTE networks is appropriately handled, a mechanism is needed to classify the different types of carriers into different classes, with each class having appropriate QoS parameters for the traffic type. Examples of the QoS parameters include Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) or non-Guaranteed Bit Rate (non-GBR), Priority Handling, Packet Delay Budget and Packet Error Loss rate. This overall mechanism is called QCI.
Mechanism
The QoS concept as used in LTE networks is class-based, where each carrier type is assigned one QoS Class Identifier (QCI) by the network. The QCI is a scalar that is used within the access network (namely the eNodeB) as a reference to node specific parameters that control packet forwarding treatment, for example scheduling weight, admission thresholds and link-layer protocol configuration.
The QCI is also mapped to transport network layer parameters in the relevant Evolved Packet Core (EPC) core network nodes (for example, the PDN Gateway (P-GW), Mobility Management Entity (MME) and Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF)), by preconfigured QCI to Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) mapping.
According to 3GPP TS 23.203, 9 QCI values in Rel-8 (13 QCIs Rel-12, 15 QCIs Rel-14) are standardized and associated with QCI characteristics in terms of packet forwarding treatment that the carrier traffic receives edge-to-edge between the UE and the P-GW. Scheduling priority, resource type, packet delay budget and packet error loss rate are the set of characteristics defined by the 3GPP standard and they should be understood as guidelines for the pre-configuration of node specific parameters to ensure that applications/services mapped to a given QCI receive the same level of QoS in multi-vendor environments as well as in roaming scenarios. The QCI characteristics are not signalled on any interface.
The following table illustrates the standardized characteristics as defined in the 3GPP TS 23.203 standard "Policy and Charging Control Architecture".
Every QCI (GBR and Non-GBR) is associated with a Priority level. Priority level 0.5 is the highest Priority level. If congestion is encountered, the lowest Priority level traffic (highest Priority number!) would be the first to be discarded.
QCI-65, QCI-66, QCI-69 and QCI-70 were introduced in 3GPP TS 23.203 Rel-12.
QCI-75 and QCI-79 were introduced in 3GPP TS 23.203 Rel-14.
QCI-67 was introduced in 3GPP TS 23.203 Rel-15.
See also
LTE
References
LTE (telecommunication)
Mobile technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsat | Alsat (short for Albanian Satellite; formerly known as Alsat-M) is a national television station that broadcasts throughout the territory of North Macedonia and other Balkan countries. Its programming is transmitted mainly in Albanian and occasionally in Macedonian, based on the European concepts of information that aim to foster multi-ethnic coexistence in North Macedonia. Alsat has a dynamic range of programming that covers: news, politics, economy, entertainment, music, sports, movies, series and documentaries.
Programming
Original programming
Ditë e re
Pasdite me Alsat
360 gradë
Pasqyra e shëndetit
Rruga drejt
Bota e re
Magazina ekonomike
Pro Sports
Programi 200
Super sfida
Hallkit
Të gatuajmë me Alsat
Pizzicato
Carpe Diem
Të gatuajmë për mysafirët
Flitet se
Rajoni
Kënaqësia e gatimit
Emisioni 5+
Shpuza Show
Busted
References
Television channels in North Macedonia
Television channels and stations established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Africa%20Chemistry%20Network | The Pan Africa Chemistry Network (PACN) connects chemists across Africa. It was launched in London on 21 November 2007 and in Nairobi on 27 May 2008 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The PACN works to connect chemists across Africa and has five centres of excellence in analytical chemistry in Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria.
The aim of the PACN is:
In partnership with Syngenta, who donated £1 million over five years three PACN Centres of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry were established in Kenya, Ghana and Ethiopia.
Since December 2011, Procter & Gamble have been working with the PACN and leading scientists and students to exchange knowledge, enhance skills and generate opportunities for innovation in the areas of hygiene, health and waste management. A Collaboration Lab at the University of Lagos in Nigeria was established which includes provision of analytical equipment and internships for Nigerian scientists to apply their knowledge to real life industry challenge.
The PACN organises a number of events including an annual congress, GC-MS training and scientific symposia.
References
Chemistry societies
Organizations established in 2007
Royal Society of Chemistry
Pan-African organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%20disease%20protein | Wilson disease protein (WND), also known as ATP7B protein, is a copper-transporting P-type ATPase which is encoded by the ATP7B gene. The ATP7B protein is located in the trans-Golgi network of the liver and brain and balances the copper level in the body by excreting excess copper into bile and plasma. Genetic disorder of the ATP7B gene may cause Wilson's disease, a disease in which copper accumulates in tissues, leading to neurological or psychiatric issues and liver diseases.
Gene
Wilson disease protein is associated with ATP7B gene, approximately 80 Kb, located on human chromosome 13 and consists of 21 exons. The mRNA transcribed by ATP7B gene has a size of 7.5 Kb, and which encodes a protein of 1465 amino acids.
The gene is a member of the P-type cation transport ATPase family and encodes a protein with several membrane-spanning domains, an ATPase consensus sequence, a hinge domain, a phosphorylation site, and at least two putative copper-binding sites. This protein functions as a monomer, exporting copper out of the cells, such as the efflux of hepatic copper into the bile. Alternate transcriptional splice variants, encoding different isoforms with distinct cellular localizations, have been characterized. Wilson's disease is caused by various mutations. One of the common mutations is single base pair mutation, H1069Q.
Structure
ATP7B protein is a copper-transporting P-type ATPase, synthesized as a membrane protein of 165 KDa in human hepatoma cell line, and which is 57% homologous to Menkes disease-associated protein ATP7A.
ATP7B consists of several domains:
Phosphatase domain (TGEA motif Thr-Gly-Glu-Ala)
Phosphorylation domain (DKTGT motif Asp-Lys-Thr-Gly-Thr)
ATP binding domain (TGDN motif)
Metal binding domain (six copper binding motifs at the N-terminus in the cytosol)
Eight transmembrane segments
The CPC motif (Cys-Pro-Cys) in transmembrane segment 6 characterizes the protein as a heavy metal transporting ATPase.
The copper binding motif also shows a high affinity to other transition metal ions such as zinc Zn(II), cadmium Cd(II), gold Au(III), and mercury Hg(II). However, copper is able to decrease the zinc binding affinity at low concentration and increase copper binding affinity dramatically with increasing concentration to ensure a strong binding between the motif and copper.
As a P-type ATPases, ATP7B undergoes auto-phosphorylation of a key conserved aspartic acid (D) residue in the DKTGT motif. The ATP binding to the protein initiates the reaction and copper binds to the transmembrane region. Then phosphorylation occurs at the aspartic acid residue in the DKTGT motif with Cu release. Then dephosphorylation of the aspartic acid residue recovers the protein to ready for the next transport.
Function
Most of ATP7B protein is located in the trans-Golgi network (TGN) of hepatocytes, which is different from its homologous protein ATP7A. Small amount of ATP7B is located in the brain.
As a copper-transporting protein, one maj |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazelle%20%28recycling%20company%29 | ecoATM,LLC, doing business as Gazelle,Is an eCommerce company founded in 2006 that recycles used electronic devices, Such as mobile phones and tablet and laptop computers. It is headquartered in San Diego, California with operations in Louisville, Kentucky.
History
Gazelle was founded in 2006 by Israel Ganot, Rousseau Aurelien, and James McElhiney. Gazelle.com launched in 2008 and raised $46 million in funding from Venrock, Rockport Capital, Physic Ventures and Craton Equity Partners.
The company's corporate office is located in San Diego, CA with more than 150 employees. In June 2013, the consumer electronics retailer opened its first processing center in Louisville, KY. The warehouse operates with about 150 employees. In 2013, the company topped $100 million in revenue, growing at an 80 percent rate. In November 2014, Gazelle launched a store to sell certified pre-owned devices direct to consumers.
From its inception to late 2014, Gazelle had paid $200 million to consumers for used devices, and had accepted more than 2 million devices from more than 1 million customers.
On November 10, 2015 Gazelle's acquisition by Outerwall Inc., owner of ecoATM, another electronics recycler, became official.
In December 2020, Gazelle announced that its trade-in program would be shut down on February 1, 2021.
Recognition and awards
Gazelle reached its two millionth device milestone in May 2014.
In 2012, Gazelle ranked within the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies for three years in a row.
In 2012, Gazelle ranked as #97 the Top 100 Consumer Products & Services Companies, #16 in the Top 100 Massachusetts Companies, and #15 in the Boston Metro Area.
See also
Electronic waste in the United States
References
External links
Gazelle
Electronic waste in the United States
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Software companies of the United States
American companies established in 2006
Vending
2006 establishments in Massachusetts
Companies based in San Diego
Online companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20%26%20Friends%3A%20The%20Adventure%20Begins | Thomas & Friends: The Adventure Begins is a 2015 British computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by HIT Entertainment and animated by Arc Productions. It serves as a prequel to the British television series, Thomas & Friends. It is based on the first two books of The Railway Series: The Three Railway Engines and Thomas the Tank Engine, which were previously adapted into the first seven episodes of the show's first season in 1984. It commemorates the 70th anniversary of The Railway Series, making it the first installment to officially adapt a Railway Series story since Series 4.
John Hasler and Joseph May take over the voice of Thomas the Tank Engine as new voice actors in the UK and the US, respectively. Rob Rackstraw joins the US cast as James the Red Engine (he would join the UK cast later the same year), Keith Wickham takes over the role of Sir Topham Hatt in the US, and Christopher Ragland takes the role of the Troublesome Trucks in the UK and US, respectively. It also co-stars the voices of Tim Whitnall, Teresa Gallagher, William Hope and Kerry Shale, voice actors who were already working on the series at the time of the special's production. The production of the special itself was fast-tracked into Arc Productions' schedule for the franchise's 70th anniversary, and as a result, the 21st series of the show had eight episodes cut from its run when the Big World! Big Adventures! rebrand began development.
Plot
Gordon tells Edward that Sir Topham Hatt has bought a new engine to arrange coaches. After helping Gordon up the hill with his goods train by pushing behind, Edward is shunting at Knapford Station when he hears James, another engine who is roughly Edward's size, talking to a green tank engine from London, Brighton and South Coast Railway who introduces himself as Thomas, Sir Topham Hatt's new tank engine. Gordon teases him about his size, but Sir Topham Hatt introduces himself and asks Edward to teach him yard work. Initially, Thomas grapples with a slow brake response and crossing into the others' train lines. He also cheekily whistles at Gordon one day while he is resting and wakes him up, much to Gordon's annoyance.
That stormy night at Tidmouth Sheds, Thomas meets Henry, whom Edward tells the story about the time he hid in a tunnel to get out of the rain, fearing it would ruin his paint. The following day, Thomas is sent to the Sodor Steamworks where he is repainted blue and given the number 1. Gordon tells Thomas it's merely a replacement (the last No. 1 engine being a vertical-boilered engine called a "coffee-pot") and orders him to fetch his express coaches. Thomas nearly takes two four-wheeled coaches called Annie and Clarabel, who belong to James, but take a liking to Thomas. Soon, seeing Henry at the water tower, Thomas asks him about his fear of the rain. Henry explains that the rain makes him nervous, but Thomas tries fruitlessly to convince him that there is nothing to be afraid of.
The following day, Thomas t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20Network%20Management | In electricity distribution circuits, Active Network Management (ANM) describes control systems that manage generation and load for specific purposes. This is usually done to keep system parameters (voltage, power, phase balance, reactive power and frequency) within predetermined limits. ANM generally refers to automated systems.
Details
Real-time or near-real-time measurements are used with a model of the system to determine the control signals that need to be sent to users and generators. These will be requests to adjust power or other parameters. Other equipment can also be included in an ANM system that balances phases, pushes or pulls reactive power or switches circuits to achieve the desired results. The results of the requested changes are monitored and fed back into the data model.
Predictive and forecasting methods may be used to prepare the network for anticipated conditions. This may include delaying load from being connected if an increase in power generation (say from wind turbines, solar power, or tidal generators) is expected in the near future. It may also include bringing on load ahead of schedule (say water pumping or energy storage) ahead of anticipated uncontrollable load—especially domestic or industrial use.
Some systems may include an element of human intervention. This is particularly important for large and complex systems where an accurate, predictive model is impossible to produce. Anticipating human behavior is best done by humans rather than by machines and national grid companies ultimately rely on a team of experienced experts to balance the system.
One purpose of an ANM system can be to allow additional generating capacity to be attached to the existing electrical grid whilst allowing the generators to be shut off if the capacity of the infrastructure might be overloaded under certain conditions; while permitting the generators to be used more effectively if the grid is later "reinforced".
Examples
The ANM system on the Orkney is claimed have been the first such system in the British Isles in 2009.
References
Notes
Footnotes
Sources
Further reading
See also
Voltage control and reactive power management
Smart grids
Electrical circuits
Smart grid
Emerging technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial%20machine%20learning | Adversarial machine learning is the study of the attacks on machine learning algorithms, and of the defenses against such attacks. A survey from May 2020 exposes the fact that practitioners report a dire need for better protecting machine learning systems in industrial applications.
Most machine learning techniques are mostly designed to work on specific problem sets, under the assumption that the training and test data are generated from the same statistical distribution (IID). However, this assumption is often dangerously violated in practical high-stake applications, where users may intentionally supply fabricated data that violates the statistical assumption.
Some of the most common attacks in adversarial machine learning include evasion attacks, data poisoning attacks, Byzantine attacks and model extraction.
History
At the MIT Spam Conference in January 2004, John Graham-Cumming showed that a machine learning spam filter could be used to defeat another machine learning spam filter by automatically learning which words to add to a spam email to get the email classified as not spam.
In 2004, Nilesh Dalvi and others noted that linear classifiers used in spam filters could be defeated by simple "evasion attacks" as spammers inserted "good words" into their spam emails. (Around 2007, some spammers added random noise to fuzz words within "image spam" in order to defeat OCR-based filters.) In 2006, Marco Barreno and others published "Can Machine Learning Be Secure?", outlining a broad taxonomy of attacks. As late as 2013 many researchers continued to hope that non-linear classifiers (such as support vector machines and neural networks) might be robust to adversaries, until Battista Biggio and others demonstrated the first gradient-based attacks on such machine-learning models (2012–2013). In 2012, deep neural networks began to dominate computer vision problems; starting in 2014, Christian Szegedy and others demonstrated that deep neural networks could be fooled by adversaries, again using a gradient-based attack to craft adversarial perturbations.
Recently, it was observed that adversarial attacks are harder to produce in the practical world due to the different environmental constraints that cancel out the effect of noises. For example, any small rotation or slight illumination on an adversarial image can destroy the adversariality. In addition, researchers such as Google Brain's Nicholas Frosst point out that it is much easier to make self-driving cars miss stop signs by physically removing the sign itself, rather than creating adversarial examples. Frosst also believes that the adversarial machine learning community incorrectly assumes models trained on a certain data distribution will also perform well on a completely different data distribution. He suggests that a new approach to machine learning should be explored, and is currently working on a unique neural network that has characteristics more similar to human perception than state of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20z13%20%28microprocessor%29 | The z13 is a microprocessor made by IBM for their z13 mainframe computers, announced on January 14, 2015. Manufactured at GlobalFoundries' East Fishkill, New York fabrication plant (formerly IBM's own plant). IBM stated that it is the world's fastest microprocessor and is about 10% faster than its predecessor the zEC12 in general single-threaded computing, but significantly more when doing specialized tasks.
The IBM z13 is the last z Systems server to support running an operating system in ESA/390 architecture mode. However, all 24-bit and 31-bit problem-state application programs originally written to run on the ESA/390 architecture are unaffected by this change.
Description
The Processor Unit chip (PU chip) has an area of 678 mm2 and contains 3.99 billion transistors. It is fabricated using IBM's 22 nm CMOS silicon on insulator fabrication process, using 17 metal layers and supporting speeds of 5.0 GHz, which is less than its predecessor, the zEC12. The PU chip can have six, seven or eight cores (or "processor units" in IBM's parlance) enabled depending on configuration. The PU chip is packaged in a single-chip module, a departure from IBM's previous mainframe processors, which were mounted on large multi-chip modules. A computer drawer consists of six PU chips and two Storage Controller (SC) chips.
The cores implement the CISC z/Architecture with a superscalar, out-of-order pipeline. It has facilities related to transactional memory, and new features such as two-way simultaneous multithreading (SMT), 139 new SIMD instructions, data compression, improved cryptography and logical partitioning. The cores have numerous other enhancements such as a new superscalar pipeline, on-chip cache design and error correction.
The instruction pipeline has an instruction queue that can fetch 6 instructions per cycle; and issue up to 10 instructions per cycle. Each core has a private 96 KB L1 instruction cache, a private 128 KB L1 data cache, a private 2 MB L2 cache instruction cache, and a private 2 MB L2 data cache. In addition, there is a 64 MB shared L3 cache implemented in eDRAM.
The z13 chip has on board multi-channel DDR3 RAM memory controller supporting a RAID-like configuration to recover from memory faults. The z13 also includes two GX bus as well as two new Gen 3 PCIe controllers for accessing host channel adapters and peripherals.
Vector Facility
The z13 processor supports a new vector facility architecture. It adds 32 vector registers, each 128 bits wide; the existing 16 floating-point registers are overlaid on the new vector registers. The new architecture adds over 150 new instructions to operate on data in vector registers, including integer, floating-point, and string data types. The z13 implementation includes two independent SIMD units to operate on vector data.
Storage Controller
A compute drawer consists of two clusters. Each cluster comprises three PU chips and one Storage Controller chip (SC chip). Even though each PU chip has 64 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w%20Fast%20Tram | Kraków Fast Tram () is a light rail network being developed in Kraków alongside the existing tramway.
It consists of several modernized or purpose-built tram tracks with radio-controlled absolute priority on crossings, a long tunnel under Kraków Główny railway station with two underground stops and a long overpass over Kraków Płaszów rail station. Unlike many light rail systems, Kraków Fast Tram is not separate from regular tramway lines: the tracks are a part of the wider "classic" tramway network and are used by ordinary trains, which benefit from moving through a fast tram corridor. The stops at the fast tram tracks are equipped with an electronic passenger information system showing estimated departure times live. As of 2017, the system is also installed on other, less modern tram lines.
History
The first fast tram line was opened on 12 December 2008, more than 30 years since construction started; however due to the missing tracks through Płaszów, it temporarily used the link through Kazimierz and Podgórze districts, where short lengths of track were not in its own right-of-way but were connected to the traffic light control system and passenger information system. That gap was eliminated when the light rail overpass over the rail station in Płaszów opened on 30 August 2015. The construction costs amounted to 164 million złoty, of which 67 million was covered by EU funds. It incorporates a tram stop with stairways and elevators to the rail platforms underneath and can be used by both pedestrians and cyclists, in addition to trams and emergency vehicles.
Lines
In addition to the ordinary lines, there are two "fast tram lines" that run at up to 5 minute intervals on the fast tram tracks:
See also
Trams in Kraków
References
External links
MPK Kraków, tram network operator website
ZIKiT Kraków, the infrastructure owner website
Brochure on public transport in Kraków
Map and application tracking Kraków trams live
Krakow
Transport in Kraków |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKII-FM | CKII-FM is a radio station which broadcasts community radio programming at 101.3 MHz (FM) in Dolbeau-Mistassini, Quebec, Canada.
On June 15, 2001, a local First Nations group, Alliance Autochtone Local 30 Mistassini, won approval of its application by the CRTC. The station originally was licensed to broadcast on 89.9 MHz, but would later relocate to 101.3 MHz, with an effective radiated power of 250 watts. The station would commence broadcasting September 17, 2003. The station's format included programming for the local Innu community from 6 p.m. to 12 midnight, and travelers' information for the Lac-Saint-Jean region at other hours. The station would close in August 2011 after plans to sell the station to a local public access channel, Télévision locale Dolbeau-Mistassini (TVLDM), fell through.
On April 11, 2014, another group, Société d'information Lac-St-Jean, received approval from the CRTC to reactivate 101.3 as a French-language community FM radio station, with an effective radiated power of 395 watts (non-directional antenna with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 28.2 metres). As part of the license, TVLDM would assist in the operation of the station and the training of the station's employees and volunteers.
The station's callsign will be CKIW-FM.
References
External links
Kii
Kii
Radio stations established in 2003
2003 establishments in Quebec
Dolbeau-Mistassini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wawrzynek | John Wawrzynek is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a joint appointment with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and is the Chief Faculty Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. He is currently a principal researcher in multiple large research centers at UC Berkeley including Algorithms and Specializers for Provably Optimal Implementations with Resilience and Efficiency (ASPIRE), the Parallel Computing Laboratory (ParLab), and the TerraSwarm Research Center.
References
External links
John Wawrzynek's Berkeley EECS webpage
American computer scientists
California Institute of Technology alumni
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people
Living people
University at Buffalo alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prasad%20V.%20Tetali | Prasad V. Tetali is an Indian-American mathematician and computer scientist who works as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His research concerns probability theory, discrete mathematics, and approximation algorithms.
Tetali was born in Visakhapatnam, India but is now a United States citizen. He graduated from Andhra University in 1984, earned a master's degree in computer science in 1986 from the Indian Institute of Science, and completed his doctorate in 1991 at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University under the supervision of Joel Spencer. After postdoctoral studies, he joined the School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech in 1994, and added a joint appointment in computing in 2001. At Georgia Tech, his doctoral students have included Adam Marcus. He was editor-in-chief of SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics from 2009 to 2011. He moved to Carnegie Mellon University in 2021 to become the head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
Tetali became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009, and one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Indian computer scientists
20th-century Indian mathematicians
Theoretical computer scientists
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Georgia Tech faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
Scientists from Visakhapatnam
Andhra University College of Engineering alumni
Andhra University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Lumia%20532 | The Microsoft Lumia 532 is an entry-level smartphone developed by Microsoft Mobile that runs the Windows Phone 8.1 Operating System and is upgradable to Windows 10 Mobile operating system.
Along with the Microsoft Lumia 435, it is believed to be based on designs from the cancelled Nokia X family.
The Microsoft Lumia 532 has been criticised for its lackluster battery power for a device in its price range.
Specifications
Hardware
The Lumia 532 has a 4.0-inch IPS LCD display, quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor, 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage that can be expanded using microSD cards up to 256 GB. The phone has a 1560 mAh Li-Ion battery, 5-megapixel rear camera and VGA front-facing camera. It is available in black, white, green and orange.
Software
The Lumia 532 ships with Windows Phone 8.1.
See also
Microsoft Lumia
Microsoft Lumia 435
Microsoft Lumia 535
References
Microsoft Lumia
Mobile phones introduced in 2015
Discontinued smartphones
Windows Phone devices
Microsoft Lumia 532
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Z1 | The Samsung Z1 is a smartphone created by Samsung Electronics. It was the first phone to use the Tizen operating system.
It was released in India in January 2015, Bangladesh in February 2015 and Sri Lanka in May 2015.
The phone was succeeded by the Samsung Z3 in October 2015.
Specifications
Hardware
The Samsung Z1 features a 480×800 WVGA PLS TFT 4-inch display with a pixel density of 233 pixels-per-inch.
It has a 1.2 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor, 768 MB RAM, 4 GB of storage (with option for up to 64 GB of additional storage via microSDXC card) and a 1500 mAh battery.
The rear-facing camera is 3.15 megapixels with LED flash. The front-facing camera is 0.3 megapixels. The phone can record VGA (640×480) videos at 15fps.
Software
The Samsung Z1 comes with Samsung's own mobile operating system Tizen. The UI was specifically designed for users who were upgrading from feature phones to smartphones.
Sales
By June 2015 Samsung sold 1 million units.
References
Samsung mobile phones
Tizen-based devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2015
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHRN | CHRN is a multilingual radio station which operates at 1610 kHz/AM in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station serves as a flagship for Radio Humsafar, an international radio network serving the South Asian diaspora. CHRN is Radio Humsafar's second radio station in the Greater Montreal area, as it also owns CJLV.
Radio Humsafar received approval for the station from the CRTC on May 16, 2014. The station will operate at 1610 kHz with a universal transmitter power of 1,000 watts. The 1610 frequency was previously occupied by CJWI from 2002 until 2009, when it relocated to 1410 kHz.
Radio Humsafar previously applied for a station on March 16, 2011, which would have broadcast at 1400 kHz with a power of 1,000 watts; this application was later withdrawn, for unknown reasons, though a station at this position would have been first-adjacent to CJWI at 1410 kHz, which would have created interference issues.
CHRN is one of only two full-power stations in North America to use the 1610 frequency, the other being CHHA; the frequency has been unused in Mexico since 2018 and is reserved in the United States for travelers' information stations.
References
External links
Radio Humsafar
CHRN-AM history - Canadian Communication Foundation
Hrn
Hrn
Hrn
Asian-Canadian culture in Montreal
Indo-Canadian culture
Indian diaspora mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitrig | Bitrig was an OpenBSD-based operating system targeted exclusively at the amd64 and armv7 platforms.
It is no longer being developed, and some of the work that it had done was merged back into OpenBSD. Some of its achievements included porting FUSE/puffs support, libc++ to the platform to replace libstdc++, PIE support for AMD64 and NDB kernel support.
Bitrig focused on using modern tools such as Git and LLVM/Clang along with only focusing on modern platforms.
It aimed to have a "commercially friendly code base", with texinfo being the only GNU tool in the base system. GPT partitioning was supported by Bitrig, and future plans included support for virtualisation and EFI.
References
OpenBSD
Software using the ISC license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeChef | CodeChef is an online educational and competitive programming platform. CodeChef started as an educational initiative in 2009 by Directi, an Indian software company. In 2020, it was purchased by Unacademy.
After failing to reach profitability, Unacademy said it would retain a 30% stake in CodeChef while returning the remaining equity to the company's founding team to grow further.
Along with monthly coding contests, CodeChef has initiatives for schools, colleges and women in competitive programming. It hosted the India regionals of the ICPC for college students, as well as for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), for school students in India.
Most parts of CodeChef are available without charge, but the more advanced features require a monthly subscription. CodeChef competes with similar Ed-Tech companies like LeetCode, HackerRank, SPOJ, PrepInsta Prime, Topcoder, GeeksforGeeks, etc.
History
In 2010, Directi launched Code-Chef to help programmers improve their problem-solving skills through active participation in programming contests. The goal was to strengthen problem-solving skills by fostering friendly competition and community engagement. In July, the organization launched the "Go for Gold" initiative, enabling Indian teams to excel at the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (formerly known as ACM-ICPC).
In July 2013, Directi launched the "Code-Chef for Schools" program to encourage school students to participate in programming. The initiative hopes to enable Indian students to excel at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). The competition requires contestants to show necessary IT skills such as problem analysis, algorithm and data structure design, programming, and testing.
In November 2017, the first Code-Chef Certification exam was conducted. By 2018, the organization launched CodeChef for Business to target technology enterprises.
In 2020, its ownership was changed from Directi to Unacademy.
References
Programming contests
Indian educational websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20Cytometry%20Standard | Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) is a data file standard for the reading and writing of data from flow cytometry experiments. The FCS specification has traditionally been developed and maintained by the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC). FCS used to be the only widely adopted file format in flow cytometry. Recently, additional standard file formats have been developed by ISAC.
File Format
The FCS file format describes a file that is a combination of textual data followed by binary data. The order of the file layout is as follows:
HEADER segment
TEXT segment
DATA segment
Optional ANALYSIS segment
CRC value
Optional OTHER segments
The HEADER segment is an ASCII text string that begins by identifying the version of the FCS standard used, followed by three pairs of byte offsets that designate the positions of the TEXT, DATA, and ANALYSIS segments. An example header segment is given below
FCS3.0 58 4380 4381 5586 0 0
Because the field width of the header segment byte positions is constrained by 8 characters, the maximum position it is capable of storing is 99,999,999. Anything beyond that is encoded as a 0 for both the start and end position, and the corresponding TEXT segment keyword is used instead.
The text segment is an ASCII text string that is divided into a series of key-value pairs that are delimited by some chosen character, e.g. '|'. The first character immediately following the header segment is the delimiter. An example of a header and text segment is given below
FCS3.0 58 4380 4381 5586 0 0|$BEGINANALYSIS|0|$BEGINDATA|4381|$BEGINSTEXT|0|$BTIM|08:24:37.64|$BYTEORD|1,2,3,4|$CELLS|RBC|...|
To be a valid FCS file, the text segment must contain all required keywords, which describe the DATA segment format and encoding. For FCS version 3.1, the required FCS primary TEXT segment keywords are as follows:
The DATA segment of the FCS file follows after the TEXT segment and is laid out event-wise (row-wise) according to the order described in the parameters (a.k.a. channels) $P1N $P2N$...PnN. An event is either an actual biological cell or some other mass that was large enough to trigger the data acquisition capturing device of the flow cytometer instrument. Data segments hold the following layout:
Data Segment
[Event1][Event2][Event3]...[Event$TOT]
Each event is laid out according to the number of bytes described by $PnB for each parameter. These bytes are to be interpreted according to the combination specified by $BYTEORD and $DATATYPE.
Event
[$P1B][$P2B][$P3B]...[$PnB]
Data structure
Flow cytometry data is typically saved for analysis in the form of an array, with fluorescence and scatter channels represented in columns, and individual "events" (most of which are cells) forming the rows.
The number of events acquired from each sample usually ranges between the low thousands and the low millions.
History
The first version of a Flow Cytometry Standard (F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anupam%20%28supercomputer%29 | Anupam is a series of supercomputers designed and developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for their internal usages. It is mainly used for molecular dynamical simulations, reactor physics, theoretical physics, computational chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, and finite element analysis.
The latest in the series is Anupam-Aganya.
Introduction
BARC carries out inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary R&D activities covering a wide range of disciplines in physical sciences, chemical sciences, biological sciences and engineering. Expertise at BARC covers the entire spectrum of science and technology.
BARC has started development of supercomputers under the ANUPAM project in 1991 and till date, has developed more than 20 different computer systems. All ANUPAM systems have employed parallel processing as the underlying philosophy and MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data) as the core architecture. BARC, being a multidisciplinary research organization, has a large pool of scientists and engineers, working in various aspects of nuclear science and technology and thus are involved in doing diverse nature of computations.
To keep the gestation period short, the parallel computers were built with commercially available off-the-shelf components, with BARC's major contribution being in the areas of system integration, system engineering, system software development, application software development, fine tuning of the system and support to a diverse set of users.
The series started with a small four-processor system in 1991 with a sustained performance of 34 MFlops. Keeping in mind the ever increasing demands from the users, new systems have been built regularly with increasing computational power. The latest in the series of supercomputers is the 4608 core ANUPAM-Adhya system developed in 2010-11, with a sustained performance of 47 TeraFLOPS on the standard High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark. The system is in production mode and released to users.
In 2001, BARC achieved a new milestone in developing a supercomputer 20-25 times faster than the fastest computer built by other institutes in the country when it commissioned ANUPAM-PENTIUM.
Anupam Systems
See also
PARAM
SAGA-220, a 220 TeraFLOP supercomputer built by ISRO
EKA
Wipro Supernova
Supercomputing in India
References
Supercomputers
Information technology in India
Supercomputing in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bangladeshi%20films%20of%201973 | A list of Bangladesh films released in 1973.
Releases
See also
1973 in Bangladesh
References
External links
Bangladeshi films on Internet Movie Database
Film
Bangladesh
1973 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetica%20%28software%29 | Kinetica is a distributed, memory-first OLAP database developed by Kinetica DB, Inc. Kinetica is designed to use GPUs and modern vector processors to improve performance on complex queries across large volumes of real-time data. Kinetica is well suited for analytics on streaming geospatial and temporal data.
Background
In 2009, Amit Vij and Nima Neghaban founded GIS Federal, a developer of software they called GPUdb. The GIS stood for Global Intelligence Solutions. GPUdb was initially marketed for US military and intelligence applications, at Fort Belvoir for INSCOM.
In 2014 and 2016, the analyst firm International Data Corporation mentioned Kinetica for its production deployments at the US Army and United States Postal Service, respectively. As a result of their work with USPS, IDC announced that Kinetica was the recipient of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award.
On March 3, 2016, the name of the company was changed to GPUdb to match the name of the software, and a $7 million investment was announced which included Raymond J. Lane. In September 2016, it announced another $6 million investment, and an office in San Francisco, while keeping its office in Arlington, Virginia. After adding marketing and service people, the name of both the company and product was changed to Kinetica.
In June 2017, the company announced US$50 million in Series A funding led by Canvas Ventures and Meritech Capital Partners, along with new investor Citi Ventures and existing backer Ray Lane of GreatPoint Ventures.
The company has headquarters in Arlington, Virginia and regional offices in Europe and Asia Pacific.
Software
The software is designed to run on graphics processing units such as the Tesla from Nvidia. Partners include Cisco, Dell EMC, HPE, IBM, NVIDIA, Confluent, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. At Kinetica's core is a distributed, memory-first relational SQL database that utilizes the processing power of CPUs with the acceleration of multi-core GPU devices to analyze and visualize data with fast (often millisecond) response times. Kinetica is designed to handle streaming, batch and historic data. Other features include graph solving algorithms, user defined functions, geospatial functions, the Advanced Analytics Workbench for deploying machine learning and deep learning algorithms, natural language processing, automatic storage tiering, and Kinetica Reveal - a web-based dashboarding tool.
Customers
The United States Postal Service deployed Kinetica in to production 2014. Other public customers include Telkomsel, Softbank, GSK, Pubmatic, and OVO.
References
External links
Official Kinetica website
Proprietary database management systems
Geographical databases
Cross-platform software
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Big data companies
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itinerary%20file | ITN, is a file format designed as an itinerary data format for TomTom devices.
It can be used to describe itineraries using support waypoints. The format is proprietary for TomTom. Its data store location, name, and waypoint type and can in this way be used to interchange data between GPS devices and software packages. Such computer programs allow users, for example, to create and modify itineraries.
Data types
The file format assumes that each line in it holds a supporting waypoint:
longitude|latitude|description|type|
The type specifies whether how to handle this waypoint:
Units
Latitude and longitude are expressed in fixed point integer numbers using the WGS 84 datum. Please note these numbers are the floating point values times 100,000, e.g. the latitude 52.493601 will be shown as 5249360.
It is allowed to prefix these numbers with + or -.
Sample ITN document
The following is an ITN file produced by a TomTom hand-held GPS unit. This document does not show all functionality which can be stored in the ITN format but its purpose is to serve as a brief illustration.
490843|5237653|Amsterdam Central Station|4|
496283|5226712|Abcoude Park and Ride|0|
507226|5208633|Stadsbaan Utrecht|0|
509797|5199465|Company in Vianen|2|
Limitations
TomTom devices as of 2014 will only accept at most 255 waypoints. Devices before that allow 32 or 48 at most, with an exception for the Rider product range, allowing 100 waypoints.
It is unknown what the maximum length of the description field is allowed to be, most applications assume 64 characters. The character encoding of the description is assumed to be Windows-1252 (the Latin alphabet), sometimes called ANSI. This character set allows 224 different characters to be used, supporting most European languages.
TomTom decided in 2015 to deprecate the ITN format in favour of the more versatile GPX format. ITN is still supported as an import format.
See also
Concepts
Point of Interest
File Formats
GPX, a standard for routes, tracks and waypoints.
KML, the equivalent format compatible with Google Earth.
Software
GPSBabel, used to upload/download/convert ITN files
ITN Converter, used to create/convert ITN files
References
External links
TomTom Itinerary, a guide on ITN
GPX: the GPS Exchange Format
Computer file formats
Global Positioning System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20and%20Structural%20Biotechnology%20Journal | Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal, published by Elsevier on behalf of the Research Networks, covering all aspects of computational and structural biology. It was established in 2012, and the editor-in-chief is Gianni Panagiotou (Hans Knöll Institute).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service, Global Health, Proquest databases, Science Citation Index Expanded, CAB International, MEDLINE/PubMed, Inspec, and Scopus.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 6.0.
References
External links
Academic journals established in 2012
Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals
English-language journals
Elsevier academic journals
Bioinformatics and computational biology journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bangladeshi%20films%20of%201977 | A list of Bangladesh films released in 1977.
Releases
See also
1977 in Bangladesh
References
External links
Bangladeshi films on Internet Movie Database
Film
Bangladesh
1977 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keepod | Keepod is a $7 PC product by the company Keepod Ltd, headquartered in London, UK, focused on bringing personal computing to students in low-income communities all over the world. Keepod was founded in 2014 by Nissan Bahar and Franky Imbesi as a startup company, with initial funding from an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.
Keepod has received praise, including the Excellence Award at the China Global AI and Big Data competition in 2019. It has been greatly covered by the media with in-depth stories by BBC Click, Forbes and El Mundo as one of the possible solutions to bridge the global digital divide, and it has launched awareness collaborations with artists such as musician Robert Del Naja and supermodel Crystal Renn.
Concept
In the core approach of Keepod, each student gets a modern PC environment (ChromiumOS) on a Keepod USB stick. This student can then boot on repurposed laptops that are deployed in shared spaces such as classrooms and community centres.
With Keepod, recycled PCs are shared personally among many, removing the need for each student to have an individual computer. The Keepod product is low cost (the $7 PC) and designed to be easily replaceable.
The concept behind this can be compared to that of a public bus. Not everyone can have an individual car, but many can use the bus, all with their own destination. Because of this, the Keepod can be utilized with education, especially in locations that cannot afford the higher costs of individual computers for each student.
Keepod is attempting to equalize the many inconsistencies in education between countries, by targeting low budget areas in order to increase the supplies available for education. Keepod works closely with NGOs, around the world to identify and serve projects.
Impact
The majority of people around the world still do not have access to personal computing. Many of the current efforts to bridge the digital divide are failing and it is difficult for organizations to make a dent in this large demand. The idea of providing a “laptop per child” sounds feasible in theory, but there is merely not enough funding to do so. Other initiatives to provide students with mobile devices, such as cell phones and tablets, are struggling to provide a fulfilling educational experience, especially if students aspire to go into the professional world. The distribution of relatively expensive mobile devices can pose a danger to many students in low income communities throughout the world, as children become potential targets of crime.
Keepod attempts to amend these computing issues with a $7 fix. The Keepod perspective is that the software makes the computer personal; not the physical hardware. Therefore, the Keepod USB carries the user OS and settings that can be then started on any shared computer.
It can be assumed that the price of Keepod is generally lower than other market solutions. This is drawn because of the low starting price & the low cost of maintenance for the Keepod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titans%20Radio%20Network | The Titans Radio Network is an American radio network composed of 42 radio stations which carry English-language coverage of the Tennessee Titans, a professional football team in the National Football League (NFL).
Nashville market station WGFX () serves as the network's flagship station. The network also includes 41 affiliates in the U.S. states of Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama, along with nearby areas of Mississippi, eastern Arkansas, and far southern Illinois: twenty-two AM stations, sixteen of which supplement their signals with a low-power FM translator; and nineteen full-power FM stations, one of which supplements its signal with a low-power FM translator.
In addition to traditional over-the-air AM and FM broadcasts, network programming airs on satellite radio via Sirius XM and is available online via Sirius XM, TuneIn and NFL+.
History
As the Houston Oilers Radio Network (1960-1996)
The radio network began with the 1960 American Football League season as the Houston Oilers Radio Network, when the now-Tennessee Titans were based in Houston, Texas, and were known as the Oilers. Houston's KXYZ was the first flagship of the network for 1960 through 1963. KILT was the network's second flagship station from 1963 to 1975. In the beginning, Majestic Advertising of Milwaukee, Wisconsin was the holder of production rights to the radio broadcasts and pre-season TV broadcasts. In the 1970s and beyond, the network was operated by the Texas State Networks, which also produces their own radio news programs, along with agricultural news updates to their affiliated stations statewide.
KODA took over as the flagship station from 1985 through 1990. KTRH, which was the network flagship from 1976 to 1984, returned to be the flagship for the network for the franchise's final five seasons in Houston from 1991 until the end of the 1996 season. Around 35 to 40 (and at one point 86) stations broadcast all pre-season and regular season games each season, along with any playoff appearance the Oilers had during its time in Houston, including their AFC Championship Game appearances in 1978 and 1979. At one point during this time period after the mid 1980s, KQQK served as the flagship for the team's Spanish-language broadcasts in Houston.
During the team's final season in Houston, which was a disastrous turnout for the team in 1996, and in preparation for the team's move to their then-new headquarters in Nashville one year earlier than expected, the Oiler Radio Network was reduced from many affiliates across most of Texas and western Louisiana to only the flagship station in Houston, and a few affiliates in Tennessee, including its future flagship, then-Adult contemporary-formatted WGFX of Nashville (officially licensed to Gallatin). In October 1996, KTRH cut off games in favor of preseason basketball involving the Houston Rockets of the NBA.
As the Tennessee Oilers Radio Network and Titans Radio (1997-present)
It was renamed the Tennessee Oilers Radio Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfree | Winfree may refer to:
People
Arthur Winfree (1942–2002), American biologist
Daniel Winfree (born 1953), American lawyer and jurist
Erik Winfree (born 1969), American biochemist and computer scientist, son of Arthur Winfree
Juwann Winfree (born 1996), American football player
Kenny Winfree (born 1954), American singer-songwriter
William P. Winfree (born 1951), American physicist
Haystak (born 1973), American hip-hop musician born Jason Winfree
Vado (rapper) (born 1985), American hip-hop musician born Teeyon Winfree
Places
Old River-Winfree, Texas, a city in Chambers and Liberty counties, Texas, United States
Winfree Academy, charter schools in Texas
Winfree Observatory, an astronomical observatory in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberbully%20%282015%20film%29 | Cyberbully is a 2015 British docudrama television film that premiered on Channel 4 on 15 January 2015. The film stars Maisie Williams as Casey Jacobs, a typical teenage girl who lives her life out online, and is called out for her cyberbullying by an anonymous culprit. The film was written by Ben Chanan and David Lobatto, with Chanan also directing the feature.
Cyberbully was released on DVD on 8 February 2016.
Synopsis
The film takes place entirely in the bedroom of Casey Jacobs and happens in real time.
One evening, Casey is listening to music but finds her Spotify settings are being tampered with. While Skyping with her best friend Megan, who is about to go on a date, Casey learns that her ex-boyfriend, Nathan, has posted a cruel comment on Twitter about her use of anti-depressants. Megan confides in their friend, Alex, and suggests that he hack Nathan's account as revenge, but he declines. After Casey and Megan end their chat, Casey receives an instant message, ostensibly from Alex, who provides her with a hacked link to Nathan's Twitter account. Casey eagerly posts a tweet about Nathan's erectile dysfunction as revenge. However, after she notices that the type of language the messenger is using is not the sort that Alex would use, Casey realises that the messenger is an anonymous hacker.
The hacker first describes themselves as a "fan", showing Casey's previous activity across social media, even under her online pseudonym "Chronic Youth", before pointing out that Megan hasn't included a photo of Casey on her Instagram account for a long time. Finally, they reveal that they are a vigilante who "helps victims of cyberbullying". Suddenly frightened, Casey excuses herself from the chat, but after seemingly complying, the hacker activates a screamer on her computer, catching her off-guard. They take control of the webcam and start to communicate to Casey in a computer-generated voice.
The hacker reveals a series of nude photographs that Casey took of herself, and threatens to post them online if she either leaves the room, answers any calls, or her father (who repeatedly calls for Casey and knocks on her door) enters. Casey tries to covertly send a message to Megan but the hacker intercepts it by accessing her phone as well, effectively leaving her trapped and isolated. To Casey's horror, the hacker then uploads a video that she and Megan filmed revealing the homosexuality of their friend, Tamara, on her Twitter account, effectively outing her and provoking a series of angry texts from Tamara. When Casey demands to know how the hacker's actions are helping her, the hacker scoffs and reveals that it is Casey who is the cyberbully.
The hacker explains how Casey's "Chronic Youth" activity constitutes cyber-bullying, such as a video she made deriding a group of online shoppers. They also reveal that they had posted the comment about Casey from Nathan's account in order to bait her. Casey at first dismisses their accusations, attempting to just |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie%20Berger | Bonnie Anne Berger is an American mathematician and computer scientist, who works as the Simons professor of mathematics and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests are in algorithms, bioinformatics and computational molecular biology.
Education
Berger did her undergraduate studies at Brandeis University, and earned her doctorate from MIT in 1990 under the supervision of Silvio Micali. As a student, she won the Machtey Award in 1989 for a paper on parallel algorithms that she published with fellow student John Rompel at the Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science.
Career and research
After completing her PhD, Berger remained at MIT for postdoctoral research where she became a faculty member in 1992. Her research in bioinformatics has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Science, the Journal of Algorithms. Her former doctoral students include Serafim Batzoglou, Lior Pachter, Mona Singh, Manolis Kellis, and Phil Bradley.
Berger has served as vice president of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and chair of the steering committee for RECOMB.
Awards and honours
Berger was the 1997 winner of the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award. In 1998 she was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin (but she was unable to make a personal appearance). In 1999, Berger was included in a list of 100 top innovators published by Technology Review. In 2003, Berger became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and in 2012 she became an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). In 2016, Berger was inducted into the college of fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to computational biology, bioinformatics, algorithms and for mentoring". She also received the Honorary Doctorate at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). She serves as a Member-at-Large of the Section on Mathematics at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was awarded the ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award in 2019. In 2020 she gave the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture, and additionally was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, in the 2022 Class of SIAM Fellows, "for pioneering work in computational molecular biology, including comparative and compressive genomics, network inference, genomic privacy, and protein structure prediction".
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women computer scientists
America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Mills | Shawn Mills is an American technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and former president of Green House Data, rebranded as Lunavi. Mills started his career with the founding of a VoIP company that was acquired during the internet boom of the late 1990s.
Education
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Mills graduated from Southwest High School where he played baseball. He later attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration in Finance.
Career
In 1998, Mills co-founded and raised $4.25 million in venture capital for an early free PC-to-Phone VoIP service, Televant, Inc. Under Televant, Mills and his partner also operated the website Callrewards.com, an online rewards and loyalty program. The properties were acquired in 2000 by PhoneFree.com for undisclosed financial terms. PhoneFree.com subsequently merged with iDial Networks, where Mills stayed on as the Senior Vice President of Product Development and Product Marketing.
After relocating to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Mills worked in other early-stage companies until founding Green House Data in Cheyenne in 2007. He served as CEO until Mills, the largest shareholder, and the Board of Directors hired Board chairman Sam Galeotos to take the chief executive role. He currently serves as president. Under Mills leadership, the company had undergone rapid expansion, acquiring seven companies in six years, opening data centers in Wyoming, Oregon, New Jersey, New York, and in Washington state.
Sustainability
"As Google and other industry giants invest in renewables, they're lighting the way for sustainable business on a larger scale," said Mills in the Christian Science Monitor. In 2016 Green House Data ranked on the EPA's Top 30 Tech & Telecom Green Power Partnership list, purchasing 15,675,000 kWh of renewable energy credits annually.
During Mills's tenure, Green House Data became the first B Corp in Wyoming.
Leadership and awards
In 2013, Mills received the Spirit of Wyoming Award from the Small Business Administration. He frequently spoke at industry events, like the Association for Data Center Management Professionals (AFCOM). Mills is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization a global network of young chief executives with approximately 22,000 members in more than 125 countries. In 2017, Mills was awarded the Colorado Technology Association's CEO of the Year award. He was honored again in 2021 with the Colorado Entrepreneur Excellence Award.
Political activism
During the 2018 Wyoming Legislative session, Mills worked with advocacy groups to pass Wyoming State Senate Enrolled Act 0048, which adds computer science and computational thinking to the state educational program.
Controversy
Under Mills' leadership, the company he founded found itself aligned with Sam Galeotos, who was named to the company's board in 2016 and ran in the 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election. As a pro-Trump candidate, Galeotos launched a wildly unsuccessful bid for gov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Djibril%20Coulibaly | Pierre Djibril Coulibaly (born June 1957, Korhogo, Ivory Coast) is an Ivorian software engineer. He is managing director of Computer NEXAT, which he created in 2003 after twenty years at SIR and as a head of IT in education.
Career
Coulibaly was a founding member and vice president of the Federation of Inventors of the Ivory Coast (FEDINCI). Coulibaly introduced, in 2010, an application to Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (Organisation of African Intellectual Property) to obtain a patent for the universal computer management software design process (patent 15165 of 30 March 2010). The work of Coulibaly on universal management software facilitates accessibility of management software for business areas hitherto neglected by application developers.
Awards
Coulibaly won the Start Award for Quality in Geneva, Switzerland; and the Knight of the National Order of Côte d'Ivoire for best tertiary sector innovation in Cotonou, Benin in 2013 at the Carrefour international innovation convention.
Coulibaly was honored as one of the 100 personalities that have marked Africa in 2014, by the FinancialAfrik.
References
1957 births
Living people
Software engineers
People from Korhogo
Ivorian engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScreenOS | ScreenOS is a real-time embedded operating system for the NetScreen range of hardware firewall devices from Juniper Networks.
Features
Beside transport level security ScreenOS also integrates these flow management applications:
IP gateway VPN management – ICSA-certified IPSec
IP packet inspection (low level) for protection against TCP/IP attacks
Virtualization for network segmentation
Possible NSA backdoor and 2015 "Unauthorized Code" incident
In December 2015, Juniper Networks announced that it had found unauthorized code in ScreenOS that had been there since August 2012. The two backdoors it created would allow sophisticated hackers to control the firewall of un-patched Juniper Netscreen products and decrypt network traffic. At least one of the backdoors appeared likely to have been the effort of a governmental interest. There was speculation in the security field about whether it was the NSA. Many in the security industry praised Juniper for being transparent about the breach. WIRED speculated that the lack of details that were disclosed and the intentional use of a random number generator with known security flaws could suggest that it was planted intentionally.
NSA and GCHQ
A 2011 leaked NSA document says that GCHQ had current exploit capability against the following ScreenOS devices: NS5gt, N25, NS50, NS500, NS204, NS208, NS5200, NS5000, SSG5, SSG20, SSG140, ISG 1000, ISG 2000. The exploit capabilities seem consistent with the program codenamed FEEDTROUGH.
Versions
References
External links
ScreenOS Software Documentation
Embedded operating systems
Real-time operating systems
Network operating systems
Juniper Networks
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramez%20Elmasri | Ramez A. Elmasri (20 October 1950 – 14 May 2022) was an Egyptian-American computer scientist and a noted researcher in the field of database systems. He was also professor and associate chairman in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.
He was best known as the author of the textbooks: "Fundamentals of Database systems" (with Shamkant Navathe, published by Pearson, edition 7, 2015). His book has been a leading textbook in the database area worldwide for last 25 years. It is now in its seventh edition, having been translated into Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Euskara (Basque language), and Arabic. His book is used as a standard textbook in India, Pakistan, Europe, South Africa, Australia and South East Asia, and is also widely used in the US, Canada, and South America. He had worked at The University of Texas at Arlington since 1990 and had supervised 16 Ph.D. and more than 200 M.S. projects/theses.
Education
Elmasri received his degree in B.S. in electrical engineering (computers and automatic control) from Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt in 1972 and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1980. His dissertation title was "On the Design and Integration of Data Models", and it was one of the first research works on the two topics of "(i). Schema Integration", and "(ii). Query Languages for Entity-Relationship Models". It also examined in-depth how to add structural constraints to the relational model, by proposing the "Structural Model". Many of these constraints are now part of the SQL standards. His research supervisor was Professor Gio Wiederhold.
Career
Elmasri was appointed a faculty member at IFRICS (Institute for Retraining in Computer Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, where he taught the database course at the institute from 1984 to 1985. He was also a summer research fellow at the Rome Air Development Center, Rome Laboratory, Rome, New York, in 1987. He there conducted research on incorporating databases for distributed real-time systems. He has also worked as a consultant for Bell Communication Research (now Telcordia Technologies) at Piscataway, New Jersey, in 1989, where he conducted research on data models, query languages and indexing techniques for temporal databases. In 1990 he conducted research on enhancing capabilities of the data cycle architecture. He was also a visiting professor at The University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, where he conducted research on active and object-oriented databases in 1991. He was appointed a faculty associate at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute (ARRI), The University of Texas at Arlington, Fort Worth, Texas. His research there focused on system integration, object-oriented software, concurrent engineering and agile manufacturing. He was also a principal research scientist at Honeyw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWOP | DWOP (103.9 FM), on-air as 103.9 Fam Radio, is a radio station owned by Kaissar Broadcasting Network and operated by Family Radio Broadcasting. The station's studio and transmitter is located at Brgy. Tarosanan, Camaligan.
The station was formerly managed by Sonia O. Leano's SOL Broadcasting from 2012 to 2021, when it went off the air. At that time, it was located along Magsaysay Ave., Naga, Camarines Sur. In September 2022, Family Radio Broadcasting leased the station.
References
Radio stations in Naga, Camarines Sur
Radio stations established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accolades%20received%20by%20The%20Last%20of%20Us | The Last of Us is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Players assume control of Joel (Troy Baker), escorting the young Ellie (Ashley Johnson) across a post-apocalyptic United States. The game's development was led by Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann, as game director and creative director, respectively. The game was officially announced on December 10, 2011, and was nominated for Most Anticipated Game at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards. Following its previews at E3 2012, the game won five awards at the Game Critics Awards, including Best of Show, which it also won from several gaming publications.
The game was released for PlayStation 3 on June 14, 2013, and for PlayStation 4 as The Last of Us Remastered in July and August 2014. It received "universal acclaim", according to review aggregator Metacritic, based on 98 reviews. Within three weeks of its release, The Last of Us sold approximately 3.4 million copies, and seven million by July 2014, becoming one of the best-selling PlayStation 3 games. The game received six nominations at the Golden Joystick Awards, of which it won three, and seven nominations at Spike VGX, with Baker and Johnson winning Best Voice Actor and Best Voice Actress, respectively.
The Last of Us won Best Animated Video Game at the 41st Annie Awards, and Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing at the 66th Writers Guild of America Awards. It led the 17th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards with thirteen nominations and ten awards, including Game of the Year, received five nominations at the 3rd Annual New York Game Awards, of which it won the Big Apple Award for Best Game, and won four of its seven nominations at the SXSW Gaming Awards, including Game of the Year. At the 10th British Academy Video Games Awards, The Last of Us received ten nominations and won five awards: Best Game, Action & Adventure, Audio Achievement, Performer, and Story. At the 14th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, it won Game of the Year, Best Design, and Best Narrative. It received nine nominations at the 12th Annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards, of which it won four: Audio of the Year, Sound Design of the Year, Best Audio Mix, and Best Dialogue.
The game appeared on several publications' year-end lists of the best games, including The A.V. Club, The Daily Telegraph, GamesRadar, GameTrailers, GameRevolution, Giant Bomb, Good Game, Hardcore Gamer, IGN, Kotaku, VG247, and VideoGamer.com. The Last of Us Remastered received nominations at The Game Awards 2014 and the 15th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards. The game was named among the best games of the 2010s by The Hollywood Reporter, Mashable, Metacritic, and VG247, and was added to the World Video Game Hall of Fame at the Strong National Museum of Play in May 2023. It is often ranked among the greatest video games ever made.
Accolades
References
Last of Us, The
The Last of Us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bangladeshi%20films%20of%201978 | A list of Bangladesh films released in 1978.
Releases
See also
1978 in Bangladesh
References
External links
Bangladeshi films on Internet Movie Database
Film
Bangladesh
1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20Crime%20Network | True Crime Network (formerly Justice Network) is an American digital multicast television network that is operated by True Crime Network, LLC, a limited liability company, which is owned by Tegna Inc. The network specializes in true crime, investigation and forensic science documentary programming aimed at adults – with a skew toward women – between the ages of 25 and 54.
The network, which broadcasts in 480i standard definition, is available in several large and mid-sized markets via digital subchannel affiliations with broadcast television stations, along with carriage of True Crime Network-affiliated subchannels on cable television providers in most of its market coverage via existing carriage agreements for local broadcast stations.
On July 13, 2020, it was announced that Justice Network would relaunch as True Crime Network.
History
The concept for the network was developed in 2013, when network founder Lonnie Cooper (a former executive at Bounce TV and chief executive officer of sports marketing firm CSE) had approached Steve Schiffman (who formerly served as president of National Geographic Channel) on a proposal for a new digital multicast network. Schiffman consulted with John Ford, former president of Discovery Channel and co-founder of Investigation Discovery, and they suggested to Cooper that the network should focus on crime- and investigation-related programming, an idea they suggested based on the popularity of the genre and the success of Investigation Discovery. Incidentally by that year, about half of the 50 highest-rated television programs as ranked by Nielsen were crime-related series.
The formation of Justice Network was announced on November 10, 2014, with the Gannett Company's television station group tapped as its charter affiliates, which then reached one third of the population. Besides featuring justice-oriented programming intended to entertain audiences, the network was also intent on taking an active role in combating crime by working with various law enforcement agencies to disseminate information about missing children and about fugitives accused of various felonies. Cooper assembled several top media executives to head the network at its launch with Schiffman as chief executive officer, Barry Wallach (former president of NBCUniversal Television Distribution) as head of distribution and John Ford (former president of Discovery Channel) as head of programming.
The network launched at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time on January 20, 2015. On March 6, 2016, the network premiered its own original programs co-produced with TwoFour Productions and Zodiak Productions.
In November 2017, Justice Network and the Justice Network, LLC parent entity were placed into a new corporate parent, Cooper Media, which was also founded to serve as the owner of its documentary- and history-themed sister network Quest (which launched on several Tegna-owned or -operated stations in January 2018). In May 2019, it was announced that Tegna would ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataVault | The DataVault was Thinking Machines' mass storage system, storing five gigabytes of data, expandable to ten gigabytes with transfer rates of 40 megabytes per second. Eight DataVaults could be operated in parallel for a combined data transfer rate of 320 megabytes per second for up to 80 gigabytes of data.
Each DataVault unit stored its data in an array of 39 individual disk drives with data spread across the drives. Each 64-bit data chunk received from the I/O bus was split into two 32-bit words. After verifying parity, the DataVault controller added 7 bits of Error Correcting Code (ECC) and stored the resulting 39 bits on 39 individual drives. Subsequent failure of any one of the 39 drives would not impair reading of the data, since the ECC code allows any single bit error to be detected and corrected.
Although operation is possible with a single failed drive, three spare drives were available to replace failed units until they are repaired. The ECC codes permit 100% recovery of the data on any one failed disk, allowing a new copy of this data to be reconstructed and written onto the replacement disk. Once this recovery is complete, the data base is considered to be healed.
In today's terminology this would be labeled a RAID-2 subsystem. However, these units shipped before the label RAID was formed.
The DataVault was an example of unusual industrial design. Instead of the usual rectilinear box, the cabinet had a gentle curve that made it look like an information desk or a bartender's station.
References
External links
Computer storage devices
Thinking Machines Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified%20penetration%20testing%20engineer | Certified Penetration Testing Engineer (C)PTE) is an internationally recognized cyber security certification administered by the United States-based information security company Mile2. The accreditation maps to the Committee on National Security Systems' 4013 education certification. The C)PTE certification is considered one of five core cyber security certifications.
Accreditations
Obtaining the C)PTE certification requires proven proficiency and knowledge of five key information security elements, penetration testing, data collection, scanning, enumeration, exploitation and reporting.
The CPTE certification is one of some information assurance accreditations recognized by the U.S. National Security Agency. The certification has also been approved by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Initiative for Cybersecurity Studies and Careers (NICSS) and the U.S.-based National Security Systems Committee.
Examination
The online exam for C)PTE accreditation lasts two hours and consists of 100 multiple choice questions.
References
External links
Mile2 C)PTE website page
Beginners Guide to Penetration Testing
Computer security qualifications
Data security
Information technology qualifications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay%20and%20Lesbian%20Labor%20Activists%20Network | The Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network (GALLAN) is a non-profit organization of trade unionists founded in 1987 by Tess Ewing, Harneen Chernow, Susan Moir, Cheryl Schaffer, Nancy Marks, Gerry Thomas, Tom Barbara and Diane Fry and a few other members of Boston's LGBTQ community. GALLAN's main purpose was to support LGBTQ rights and oppose homophobia in the workforce, as well as push its unions to campaign for anti-discriminatory measures and benefits packages. GALLAN started as a series of potluck dinners and discussions, and later hosted events for the community in partnership with labor unions to campaign for LGBTQ rights in Massachusetts.
GALLAN helped to form the national organization Pride at Work in 1994, which became a constituency group of The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) in 1997. Today, GALLAN is considered a local chapter of Pride at Work.
Mission
In one of their early flyers, GALLAN stated their mission was to raise lesbian and gay issues within organized labor and to bring labor issues to the LGBTQ community at large. The organization believed that both movements could be strengthened by recognizing that homophobia and oppression of working people are linked, and many of the two struggles are intertwined. They listed the similarities between the movements as the following:
specific protection for lesbian and gay workers has been won by many unions in collective bargaining agreements.
gay workers are otherwise protected from arbitrary treatment by employers by "just cause" agreements in union contracts.
employment policies that discriminate against the LGBTQ community hurt all workers by creating divisions, making workers as a class weaker than they need to be.
Many unions such as SEIU and AFSCME have been in the forefront of AIDS education and the fight to prevent discriminatory work policies. National gay/labor coalitions have developed and have successfully worked together in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco to fight against anti-gay and anti-labor initiatives by The Heritage Foundation and the Coors interests.
Activities and outreach
GALLAN hosted many events in order to educate the community about LGBTQ issues and support their cause. Events and activities included marching at Gay Pride parades, building coalitions with LGBTQ groups, working on referendum campaigns, supporting union organizing drives, providing education to unions, and attending rallies and providing strike support.
The Gay and Lesbian Activists Network held regular networking events in Boston for members, called Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Networking Today (GALLANT). On flyers for the event, they defined the word "gallant" as "1. Show or gay in appearance; 2. High-spirited and courageous." GALLANT started by hosting meetings/potluck events to help "bring gay issues to the labor community and labor issues to the gay community." GALLAN also participated in larger national events, such as the C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eniram | Eniram Oy, founded in 2005, is a Finnish clean-tech software engineering company which specializes in marine energy management products and services for ship-owners and operators of commercial vessels, ranging from cruise ships, bulk carriers, container ships, LNG carriers and tankers.
The company’s onboard and on-shore energy management systems provide ship-owners and operators with insight for cutting harmful emissions, increasing fuel efficiency, driving operational change and optimizing overall ship and fleet performance.
Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Eniram employs software designers, naval architects and ship captains.
On 1 July 2016, Eniram was bought by the Finnish engine and maritime company Wärtsilä.
History
2005: Eniram Oy is established in Helsinki; first employees come on board.
2007: trim optimization trials with Royal Caribbean International, Norwegian Cruise Line and Carnival Cruise Lines, three of the world’s largest cruise ship companies
2008: first trim optimization deal; first container ship customer; Eniram US offices open.
2009: first tanker ship customer (trim optimization).
2010: first fleet performance offering; UK office opens.
2011: Singapore office is established, Eniram #1 on the Deloitte Fast 50 Awards list.
2012: first speed and engine optimization customers.
2013: German offices open, expansion to Japan and Middle East
2014: Eniram named European Cleantech Company of the Decade
2016: Eniram bought by Wärtsilä.
Awards
Slush names Eniram in Top 50 companies list.
The 2014 Global Cleantech 100 Companies
Startup100 ranks Finnish startups monthly based on online marketing activities and performance. Eniram is listed in the Top 100 for October 2014
Winner of the 2014 Fathom Shipping Energy Efficiency Award
Avaus: Eniram #9 on the “Smartest Companies in Finland” list
See also
Fuel efficiency
Energy engineering
References
External links
Sulfur Regulations Spur Fuel-saving Technologies, Marine Link, Nov. 13, 2014
Interview: Attaining World Business Intelligence, World Maritime News, Oct. 7, 2014
Information Technology and Marine Software, Pacific Maritime Magazine, September, 2014
Finnish invention slashes ship emissions, Yle Uutiset, July 30, 2014
Operating in heavy fouling areas could cost cruise vessels $500,000 per year, Ship Technology, Oct. 5, 2012
Hamburg Süd to Equip More Vessels with DTA Technology, Ship Technology, Apr 26, 2011
Eniram's website.
Engineering companies of Finland
Marine energy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20vault | Data vault or Data Vault may refer to:
Data vault modeling, a database modeling method
Data vaulting, or off-site data protection
DataVault or Data Vault, an early massive data storage system
Data Vault, product of Personal, Inc.
Data Vault, product of Callpod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20memory | In computer science, shared memory is memory that may be simultaneously accessed by multiple programs with an intent to provide communication among them or avoid redundant copies. Shared memory is an efficient means of passing data between programs. Depending on context, programs may run on a single processor or on multiple separate processors.
Using memory for communication inside a single program, e.g. among its multiple threads, is also referred to as shared memory.
In hardware
In computer hardware, shared memory refers to a (typically large) block of random access memory (RAM) that can be accessed by several different central processing units (CPUs) in a multiprocessor computer system.
Shared memory systems may use:
uniform memory access (UMA): all the processors share the physical memory uniformly;
non-uniform memory access (NUMA): memory access time depends on the memory location relative to a processor;
cache-only memory architecture (COMA): the local memories for the processors at each node is used as cache instead of as actual main memory.
A shared memory system is relatively easy to program since all processors share a single view of data and the communication between processors can be as fast as memory accesses to the same location. The issue with shared memory systems is that many CPUs need fast access to memory and will likely cache memory, which has two complications:
access time degradation: when several processors try to access the same memory location it causes contention. Trying to access nearby memory locations may cause false sharing. Shared memory computers cannot scale very well. Most of them have ten or fewer processors;
lack of data coherence: whenever one cache is updated with information that may be used by other processors, the change needs to be reflected to the other processors, otherwise the different processors will be working with incoherent data. Such cache coherence protocols can, when they work well, provide extremely high-performance access to shared information between multiple processors. On the other hand, they can sometimes become overloaded and become a bottleneck to performance.
Technologies like crossbar switches, Omega networks, HyperTransport or front-side bus can be used to dampen the bottleneck-effects.
In case of a Heterogeneous System Architecture (processor architecture that integrates different types of processors, such as CPUs and GPUs, with shared memory), the memory management unit (MMU) of the CPU and the input–output memory management unit (IOMMU) of the GPU have to share certain characteristics, like a common address space.
The alternatives to shared memory are distributed memory and distributed shared memory, each having a similar set of issues.
In software
In computer software, shared memory is either
a method of inter-process communication (IPC), i.e. a way of exchanging data between programs running at the same time. One process will create an area in RAM which other proc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter%20Extremism%20Project | The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is a non-profit non-governmental organization that combats extremist groups "by pressuring financial support networks, countering the narrative of extremists and their online recruitment, and advocating for strong laws, policies and regulations".
CEP was formally launched on 22 September 2014, by former senior government officials, including former the Homeland Security adviser Frances Townsend, former Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman and Mark Wallace, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. The mission of the organization is to fight global extremism, with an initial goal of disrupting the financing and online recruitment and propaganda of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The group is modeled on United Against Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group led by Wallace which has had success increasing economic pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran. Other prominent board members include Gary Samore, August Hanning, Dennis Ross and Irwin Cotler.
CEP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. It can accept tax-deductible contributions on a confidential basis. For security reasons, CEP generally declines to name its financial backers, except for Thomas Kaplan, a billionaire investor who also supports United Against Nuclear Iran.
Digital Disruption Campaign
CEP launched its "Digital Disruption Campaign" to remove accounts associated with ISIS from social media networks in order to deny them popular platforms to incite violence, spread their ideas and recruit members. The campaign has particularly focused on Twitter, calling on the company to adopt new policies to prevent extremists such as ISIS from misusing their platform, as well as identifying ISIS accounts and alerting Twitter to remove them. ISIS has made extensive use of social media, especially Twitter, to recruit fighters and to distribute propaganda videos, including clips that show the decapitation of American journalists and a British foreign aid official. The campaign has led to death threats such as beheading against the CEP president Frances Townsend on Twitter from jihadist accounts.
CEP started by collecting ISIS propaganda to learn how it tailors its messaging to various audiences. CEP had this material translated into English to make it easier for academics, reporters and other researchers to study ISIS and its methods. CEP then crafted a counter-narrative that brought attention to human rights abuses under ISIS, its use of extreme violence against women, children and non-combatants.
YouTube study
A study released by CEP in July 2018, determined that while YouTube had made a great deal of progress towards removing extremist content, terrorists still had a large audience on the site. CEP determined that between March and June 2018 ISIS members and supporters uploaded 1,348 videos to the site which received 163,391 views over the same period. 24% of those videos remained on YouTube for at least two hours. Many of these videos wer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20Knowledge%20Tracing | Bayesian Knowledge Tracing is an algorithm used in many intelligent tutoring systems to model each learner's mastery of the knowledge being tutored.
It models student knowledge in a Hidden Markov Model as a latent variable, updated by observing the correctness of each student's interaction in which they apply the skill in question.
BKT assumes that student knowledge is represented as a set of binary variables, one per skill, where the skill is either mastered
by the student or not. Observations in BKT are also binary: a student gets a problem/step either right or wrong.
Intelligent tutoring systems often use BKT for mastery learning and problem sequencing. In its most common
implementation, BKT has only skill-specific parameters.
Method
There are 4 model parameters used in BKT:
or -, the probability of the student knowing the skill beforehand.
or -, the probability of the student demonstrating knowledge of the skill after an opportunity to apply it
or -, the probability the student makes a mistake when applying a known skill
or -, the probability that the student correctly applies an unknown skill (has a lucky guess)
Assuming that these parameters are set for all skills, the following formulas are used as follows: The initial probability of a student mastering skill is set to the p-init parameter for that skill equation (a). Depending on whether the student learned and applies skill correctly or incorrectly, the conditional probability is computed by using equation (b) for correct application, or by using equation (c) for incorrect application. The conditional probability is used to update the probability of skill mastery calculated by equation (d). To figure out the probability of the student correctly applying the skill on a future practice is calculated with equation (e).
Equation (a):
Equation (b):
Equation (c):
Equation (d):
Equation (e):
See also
Knowledge space theory
References
Educational technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPair | AirPair is a service and eponymous company that connects people who need help with programming issues (usually, programmers at small technology companies or at finance companies that use technology products) and people who can help them. Unlike services such as oDesk and Elance, AirPair is not a service for outsourcing programming tasks, but rather a service that facilitates one-off knowledge transfers from people with highly specialized knowledge of particular technology stacks or programming issues to people who are in need of specialized help.
History
AirPair launched in March 2013, with founder Jonathon Kresner, who hails from Australia, working full-time, and it soon hired three other part-time developers to work alongside him. Kresner had previously founded two other startups: Preparty, a social invitation and event-booking service based in Australia, and ClimbFind, an online rock-climbing community that reached a million users. Kresner was inspired to work on AirPair because he saw the need for outside expert assistance with programming issues arise regularly at these startups.
In November 2013, founder Kresner describes the company's initial success at bootstrapping itself to "Ramen profitability" in a blog post. In December 2013, AirPair was accepted into the Winter 2014 Y Combinator batch.
In March 2014, AirPair announced it would launch partnerships with Stripe, Twilio, and other companies that had their own application programming interfaces, allowing developers having trouble with the APIs to seek help over AirPair from experts on the APIs.
AirPair presented at the Y Combinator Winter 2014 Demo Day on March 25, 2014, and successfully raised over $1 million within the next 48 hours.
Reception
A review of AirPair by Will Lam stressed that because payment was based on time rather than results, it was important to use it for clearly thought-out questions where one had high confidence that the session would help.
Dennis Beatty, who met AirPair founder Jonathon Kresner in March 2014, wrote in April 2014 a glowing review of AirPair's vision of connecting people and its business success.
AirPair has been compared with other peer-to-peer coding help sites such as Codementor and HackHands.
References
External links
Companies established in 2013
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoanalthes%20undatalis | Neoanalthes undatalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Xi-Cui Du and Hou-Hun Li in 2008. It is found in Guizhou, China.
References
Moths described in 2008
Spilomelinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyan%20Devadoss | Satyan L. Devadoss is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Diego. His research concerns topology and geometry, with inspiration coming from theoretical physics, phylogenetics, and scientific visualization.
Academia
Devadoss graduated as valedictorian from North Central College in 1993. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1999 from Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Jack Morava. He was a Ross assistant professor at the Ohio State University under Ruth Charney and Mike Davis before joining the faculty at Williams College, receiving tenure and promotion to full-professor. He has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the Ohio State University, Harvey Mudd College, the University of California, San Diego, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and Stanford University.
Awards
Devadoss is a recipient of the Henry L. Alder National Teaching Award (2007), the Northeastern Sectional Award for Distinguished Teaching (2014), and the Deborah and Franklin Haimo National Teaching Award (2016), all awarded by the Mathematical Association of America.
In 2012, he became an inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Devadoss has also received the Nelson Bushnell Prize (2012) from Williams College, the Young Alumni Award (2008) from North Central College, and the inaugural William Kelso Morrill Award (1995) from the Johns Hopkins University.
Works
In 2017, Devadoss led a team at the University of San Diego to receive a $1,000,000 grant from the Fletcher Jones Foundation for the renovation of his mathematics department. The centerpiece of this renovation was his Math Studio, a laboratory that focuses on the physical questions surrounding mathematics research.
With Joseph O'Rourke, Devadoss is a coauthor of the textbook Discrete and Computational Geometry (Princeton University Press, 2011). With Matt Harvey, he is a coauthor of the tradebook Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries (MIT Press, 2020). Devadoss was also recruited by the Great Courses to create the Shape of Nature, a 36-lecture video course focusing on the applications of geometry and topology to the natural world.
He was a cofounder of CereusData, a data visualization company that focuses on storytelling of institutional data.
Devadoss wrote an opinion editorial published by the Los Angeles Times (2021) on the tension between the usefulness and wonder of mathematics. He also wrote an opinion editorial in the Washington Post (2018) on the nature of mathematics related to the humanities and the arts. It was chosen by the staff editors as one of their favorite opeds of the year.
Artworks
In 2018, he co-led a team in designing, creating, and showcasing a two-ton metal, wood, and acrylic interactive sculpture titled "Unfolding Humanity" for Burning Man. The 12-foot tall dodecahedral artwork, externally skinned with black panels containing 2240 acrylic win |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Newcomb | Philip H. Newcomb (born 1950s) is an American software engineer and CEO of The Software Revolution, Inc., known for his work in the field of formal methods of software engineering.
Biography
Newcomb started his studies at Indiana University in 1972, and obtained his BSc in Cognitive Psychology in 1976. In 1977 he did graduate work in computer science at the University of Washington and at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1984 he continued his studies at Ball State University, where he obtained his MA in Computer Science in 1988.
In 1983 Newcomb started as researcher at the Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center in Seattle, working in the field of formal methods for software engineering and artificial intelligence. He became senior principal scientist, and in 1989 director of the Software Reverse, Reengineering and Reuse Program. In 1995 he founded his own company, The Software Revolution, Inc., to deliver solutions for software modernization.
In 2012 he was awarded the Stevens Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to software and systems development.
Selected publications
Ulrich, William M., and Philip Newcomb. Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies. Morgan Kaufmann, 2010.
Articles, a selection:
Newcomb, Philip, and Lawrence Markosian. "Automating the modularization of large COBOL programs: application of an enabling technology for reengineering." Reverse Engineering, 1993., Proceedings of Working Conference on. IEEE, 1993.
Markosian, L., Newcomb, P., Brand, R., Burson, S., & Kitzmiller, T. (1994). "Using an enabling technology to reengineer legacy systems." Communications of the ACM, 37(5), 58-70.
Newcomb, Philip, and Gordon Kotik. "Reengineering procedural into object-oriented systems." 2013 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE). IEEE Computer Society, 1995.
Newcomb, Philip. "Architecture-driven modernization (ADM)." 2013 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE). IEEE Computer Society, 2005.
References
External links
Philip H. Newcomb at tsri.com
1950s births
Living people
American computer scientists
Information systems researchers
Indiana State University alumni
University of Washington alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Ball State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20of%20America%20Persian%20News%20Network | Voice of America Persian News Network (VOA-PNN) is a governmental international broadcaster of the United States of America in Persian language. Its headquarters are in Washington D.C. It started to broadcast its programs on 18 October 1994 with a one-hour television program. Its radio programs started on 22 November 1979 with 30 minutes broadcasting per day.
Managers
The first manager of the VOA-PNN was Ahmadreza Baharloo. Later managers were Kambiz Mohammadi, Shila Ganji, Behrouz Abbassi, Behrouz Souresrafil, James Glassman, Hida Fouladvand and Ramin Asgard. The current manager of the VOA-PNN is Setareh Derakhshesh.
Programs
As of July 2007, VOA-PNN broadcast 1 hour of radio programming a day, 7 hours a day of original programming for television, and a website.
Original series
Parazit (2008–2012)
OnTen (2012–2015)
Interview with Abdolmalek Rigi
In April 2007, VOA-PNN conducted a phone interview with Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of Jundallah (which was later designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2010 by the U.S.) and introduced him as the leader of the "popular resistance movement". Following the event, Iran accused the U.S. of supporting terrorists by giving them the opportunity to speak. The New York Times Magazine quoted Mehdi Khalaji as "[VOA administrators] do not seem to be able to distinguish between journalism and propaganda. If you host the head of Jondollah and call him a freedom fighter or present a Voice of America run by monarchists, Iranians are going to stop listening". The act resembled the "hallmark of ideological objectivity" in VOA, and was criticized as an "irresponsible American embrace of violent regime change", according to Suzanne Maloney.
References
External links
Official website
1994 establishments in Washington, D.C.
1979 establishments in Washington, D.C.
American radio networks
Television networks in the United States
Organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Persian-language radio stations
Persian-language television stations
Voice of America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philidris%20cordata | Philidris cordata is a species of ant in the genus Philidris. Described by Smith in 1859, the species is endemic to Indonesia and New Guinea. This species is a frequent inhabitant of the ant plant genera: Myrmecodia and Hydnophytum.
References
Dolichoderinae
Insects described in 1859
Hymenoptera of Asia
Insects of Indonesia
Insects of New Guinea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Fargo, an American anthology black comedy–crime drama television series created by Noah Hawley, premiered on October 12, 2015, on the basic cable network FX. Its principal cast is Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart, and Ted Danson. The ten-episode season's finale aired on December 14, 2015. As an anthology, each Fargo season possesses its own self-contained narrative, following a disparate set of characters in various settings in a connected shared universe.
A prequel to the events in its first season, season two of Fargo takes place in the Upper Midwest in March 1979. It follows the lives of a young couple—Peggy (Dunst) and Ed Blumquist (Plemons)—as they attempt to cover up the hit and run and homicide of Rye Gerhardt (Kieran Culkin), the son of Floyd Gerhardt (Smart), matriarch of the Gerhardt crime family. During this time, Minnesota state trooper Lou Solverson (Wilson), and Rock County sheriff Hank Larsson (Danson), investigate three homicides linked to Rye.
Cristin Milioti, Brad Garrett, Elizabeth Marvel, Jeffrey Donovan, Rachel Keller, Zahn McClarnon, Angus Sampson, Bokeem Woodbine, and Nick Offerman all make recurring appearances. Kieran Culkin guest stars.
Hawley and his writing team used the second season to expand the scope of the show's storytelling. Season two's episodes were shot in Calgary, Alberta over an 85-day period. The series received widespread critical acclaim and was cited as one of the strongest programs of the 2015 television season. It was a candidate for a multitude of awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series and Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film, and won several other honors recognizing outstanding achievement in acting, directing, writing, cinematography, editing, special effects, and creative direction.
Cast
Main
Kirsten Dunst as Peggy Blumquist, a hairdresser focused on improving herself through self-actualization and pop psychology techniques.
Patrick Wilson as Lou Solverson, a Minnesota State Patrol trooper and the father of Molly Solverson, one of the main characters of season one. Keith Carradine portrayed the older version of the character in the first season.
Jesse Plemons as Ed Blumquist, Peggy's husband and the local butcher's assistant.
Jean Smart as Floyd Gerhardt, wife of Otto Gerhardt, the head of Fargo's most prominent organized crime syndicate. After her husband suffers a debilitating stroke, she finds herself having to lead the Gerhardt dynasty and deal with her three living sons, each of whom is vying to replace their father.
Ted Danson as Hank Larsson, the sheriff of Rock County, Minnesota, Lou's father-in-law, Betsy's father, and Molly Solverson's maternal grandfather.
Recurring
Special guests
Kieran Culkin as Rye Gerhardt, the youngest of the three Gerhardt brothers.
Martin Freeman as Narrator
Allison Tolman as older Molly Solverson
Joey King as Greta Grimly, Molly's stepdaughter, r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Ramsay%20%28British%20philanthropist%29 | Paul Ramsay is a United States-based British-born philanthropist and computer tycoon.
Biography
Paul Ramsay was born in Birmingham, England. He graduated from Birmingham University with a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1975, an MSc in Computer Science in 1976, and a PhD in Computer Science in 1982. Ramsay worked for several computer companies after moving to California, United States, in 1983. Ramsay helped found US technology company Brocade Communications Systems in 1995.
Philanthropy
Ramsay and his wife Yuanbi, who is also a computer scientist, gave Birmingham University's School of Computer Science £1 million towards student bursaries and research. The Paul and Yuanbi Ramsay Bursaries are intended to encourage high-calibre students for whom financial considerations may prevent uptake of a place in the School of Computer Science. Paul and Yuanbi Ramsay were both appointed to the Chancellor's Guild of Benefactors at Birmingham University. The Ramsays also set up the Paul and Yuanbi Ramsay Pediatric Endowed Fellowships at Stanford University's Child Health Research Institute in the United States.
Philately
After retiring from the technology industry, Ramsay continued to pursue his lifelong interest in philately. He joined the Great Britain Philatelic Society in 2007, publishing several articles in the Society's flagship magazine The GB Journal, winning the Literature Field Award in 2016 for the most significant published work by a Society member in the field of GB Philately. In 2014 he became editor of the Society's general information magazine The GBPS Newsletter. Ramsay also joined the Royal Philatelic Society London as a member and was later elected a Fellow of the RPSL. In May 2018 he donated his collection of hand-painted envelopes to be auctioned by Spink on behalf of the RPSL. The auction raised £175,000 for the Tomorrow's Royal campaign.
Publications
ATOL, a simple language with powerful data structuring facilities (1979)
A prototyping language for text-processing applications (1982)
TRAP - Tax Reform Analysis Package (1983)
A microcomputer-controlled apparatus for simultaneous measurement of exoelectron emission and thermoluminesence (1983)
Silver Jubilee Booklet Interleaf Numbers (2013)
Coloured Advertisements in British Stamp Booklets (2013)
Ford’s Blotting Paper in British Stamp Booklets (2013)
Air Mail Panes in British Stamp Booklets (2013)
Dubarry Advertisements in British Stamp Booklets (2015)
George V Perforations on Photogravure Definitive Booklets and Rolls (2016)
Postage and Telegraph Dies of De La Rue from the Inland Revenue Records (2021)
The Struggle Behind Britain’s National Health Stamps (2023)
The £sd Postage Stamps of Great Britain Issued in Booklets (2012)
The Post Office Telegraph Stamps of Great Britain (2014)
The £sd Postage Stamps of Great Britain Issued in Rolls (2015)
The Postage Due Stamps of Great Britain (2018)
References
Living people
Alumni of the University of Birmingha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20%28software%29 | Q is a computer software package for molecular dynamics (MD) simulation (current release: Q6). Unlike other MD codes, it has specialized since its conception (Marelius et al. 1998) on three specific types of free energy calculations. These calculations are based on the methods: empirical valence bond (EVB), free energy perturbation (FEP), and linear interaction energy (LIE), as well as, more recently, also path integral calculations using the bisection quantum classical path (BQCP) approach.
The methods in which the program specializes can return quantitative calculations of the energy balance which occurs in proteins and nucleic acids. It can provide insight into key problems in biochemistry such as, energetic details on parts of the translation mechanism in mitochondrial ribosomes (Lind et al. 2013), or details in enzymatic reactions (Mones et al. 2013), among others.
The program is similar to GROMACS in being force-field agnostic, meaning that it provides no force-field, but can rather use common force-fields such as CHARMM, AMBER, OPLS, and GROMOS.
The software provides one main utility for molecular dynamics called qdyn, and various subprograms such as qprep (to prepare input files from X-ray coordinates), qfep (to process MD calculations for FEP), and others.
General command to run
The general command to run Q is very similar to that of other MD programs and its syntax for a dynamics run is as follows:
qdyn inputfile.inp > outputfile.out
qdyn – This is the name of the main program which runs dynamics.
inputfile.inp – This is a text file which specifies all options to the program such as how long are the simulation and the time-steps, what temperature is being simulated, and many others.
outputfile.out – This is the output file which gives a detailed account of the energetic results. The verbosity of the information in the output file is controlled in the input file. The output places emphasis on reporting on nonbonded interactions such as van der Waals force and electrostatics interactions in detail on the solvent, the solution, and the interactions among them.
See also
References
Marelius J., Kolmodin K., Feierberg I. and Åqvist J., (1998). "Q: A Molecular Dynamics Program for Free Energy Calculations and Empirical Valence Bond Simulations in Biomolecular Systems", Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, 16, 213-225.
Lind C., Sund J. and Åqvist J., (2013). "Codon-reading Specificities of Mitochondrial Release Factors and Translation Termination at Non-standard Stop Codons", Nature Communications, 4,2940.
Mones L., Tang W., and Florian J., (2013). "Empirical Valence Bond Simulations of the Chemical Mechanism of ATP to cAMP Conversion by Anthrax Edema Factor", ''Biochemistry', 52, 2672-2682.
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT320 | The VT320 is an ANSI standard computer terminal introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1987. The VT320 is the text-only version, while the VT330 adds monochrome ReGIS, Sixel and Tektronix 4010 graphics, and the VT340 adds color.
The 300 series replaced the earlier VT200 series, as a lower-cost system better able to compete with a number of VT220 clones that had entered the market. Foremost among these was the Wyse WY-60, introduced in 1986 with a form factor and feature set similar to the VT220, but including 4010 graphics and selling for only $699, compared to $795 for the base-model VT220 lacking graphics. The VT320 was introduced at $495, something of a surprise, forcing Wyse to lower their prices to $599.
The VT320 was replaced by the VT420 in 1990, but the VT340 remained in production until all of these models were replaced by the VT500 series in 1994.
Description
The VT300s introduced a number of new features compared to the VT200s. With the great increase in RAM available, the 300s added the ability to store several pages of data locally, as well as perform editing on that data entirely within the terminal. The user could scroll up and down among several pages, normally about three, perform edits, and then send all of the changes to the host in a single operation. This required compatible host-side software to work. That memory also meant all of the 300 series were able to store large numbers of sixel-based glyphs, allowing them to be used not only as a user-defined character set as in the earlier 200s, but also to produce full-screen bitmap graphics by storing a separate sixel for each location on the screen.
Finally, all members of the line could support two sessions, either using two MMJ ports available on some models, or in the case of the VT330 and VT340, using a single serial connection using a system known as TD/SMP on the server and SSU on the terminals. The TD/SMP protocol was never published, and only worked with DEC's own terminal servers. Using either system, the terminal could display the two sessions "stacked" and switch between them, or by splitting the screen vertically to show them one above the other, or horizontally side-by-side. The serial ports could run up to 19,200 bit/s, the same maximum rate as the VT200s.
Like the VT200s, the VT300s included a number of alternate character sets for various international uses and basic form graphics. The system shipped with five sets of 94 characters, as well as a single set with 96 graphics characters. The sets were ASCII, ISO Latin and three graphics character sets. Using sixels, any one of these sets could be replaced with user-generated characters. The system also included DEC's unique National Replacement Character Sets that allowed single characters in a set to be swapped out to match the layout of a keyboard. For instance, in the UK the # symbol could be swapped out for the £, eliminating the need for custom versions of the terminal for each country. It su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milcah%20Martha%20Moore | Milcah Martha Moore (1740–1829) was an 18th-century American Quaker poet, the creator of a manuscript commonplace book featuring the work of women writers of her circle and compiler of a printed book of prose and poetry.
Early years
Milcah Martha Hill was born in 1740 to Richard and Deborah (Moore) Hill in Funchal on the island of Madeira. She was one of eight children (six of them girls, of whom she was the youngest); one of her sisters would later become known under her married name of Margaret Morris for a fragmentary journal she kept during the revolutionary period of 1776-78 for Milcah's amusement. Her father was a physician and trader who had moved to Madeira as a result of financial setbacks, and her mother was a granddaughter of William Penn's friend Thomas Lloyd. During her childhood, her father's fortunes improved, and in 1761 the family moved to the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania. Milcah's mother died shortly before the journey was made, and her father not long after.
Career
Women of the period used commonplace books as a method of creating a private, informal historical record of their own era, collecting in them aphorisms, quotations, advice, poems, letters, reminiscences, recipes, and other materials of personal significance. Many of these women either found difficulty getting their work published or did not want to make their work public, so they circulated their writings in manuscript, forming what has been termed a "third sphere" of discourse, neither fully public nor fully private. Moore's own commonplace book, which she called "Martha Moore's Book", focused on poetry written by women in her circle and included over 125 poems (some of them quite long) by more than a dozen writers. The exact number of contributors is uncertain because some of the women are represented under pseudonyms or initials, not all of which have been securely connected to known individuals. About half of the poems are by Moore's second cousin Hannah Griffitts, while many of the rest are by Susanna Wright and Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, who are considered three of the era's most talented women writers of the eastern seaboard. Of particular value are those by the polymath Wright, only four of whose poems were known before the discovery of Moore's book.
The collection was made around the time of the American Revolution, between the mid-1760s and 1778, and a number of the poems, especially those by Griffitts, are satires on political events of the day. Occasional verse is a favored form—especially elegies and birthday poems—and there are also hymns and verse letters. Apart from poems, there are extracts from a journal kept by Fergusson during a trip to England as well as some passages copied from the works of Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Fothergill. With their strongly moral tone and striving towards personal improvement, it has been suggested that compendia such as Moore's were precursors to the advice columns that would become a staple o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Agcaoili | Phil Agcaoili is a technologist, entrepreneur, and cyber security, information security, and privacy expert.
Agcaoili co-founded SecureIT and sold it to VeriSign in 1996
Education
Phil Agcaoili graduated from Columbia High School in East Greenbush, New York, in 1989, studied aerospace engineering at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, received a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, in 1993, and attended Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, for an MBA in computer information systems. He was inducted into the Mechanical Engineering Honor Society Pi Tau Sigma in 1991 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was inducted into the East Greenbush Education Foundation Hall of Fame in 2011.
Career
Agcaoili started his career at General Electric.
He co-founded and was the Chief Information Security Officer of SecureIT in 1996. SecureIT was acquired by Verisign in 1998 for $70M. After the acquisition, he became VeriSign's first CISO. He was an early foundation member at Internet Devices, which was acquired by Alcatel in 1999 for $180M. He was the Chief Security Architect at Scientific-Atlanta, which was acquired by Cisco in 2005 for $6.9B.
He co-founded the Southern CISO Security Council in 2006.
While at Dell in 2008, he set security standards for Cloud computing as a Founding Member and Steering Committee member of the Cloud Security Alliance. He co-invented and co-authored the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) in 2009 (versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2), co-founded the GRC Stack in 2010, and co-founded the Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR) in 2011.
Agcaoili was named the Chief Information Security Officer at Cox Communications in 2009.
He has helped shape cyber security best practices for U.S. Telecoms as a committee co-chair for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) II Work Group 2A (Cyber Security Best Practices) in 2010, served on the NCTA Cyber Security Work Group as an inaugural member, played an instrumental role in 2012 in the FCC CSRIC III Work Group 11 (Consensus Cyber Security Controls), served as a committee co-chair for cyber security on the Communications Sector Coordinating Council (CSCC), was a member of the Communications Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Communications ISAC), and was an industry representative on the National Coordinating Center for Communications (NCCC).
He was inducted into the Ponemon Institute as a Distinguished Fellow in 2011 and then appointed the Chairman of the Ponemon Institute Distinguished Fellows in 2012.
He has been instrumental in shaping United States cyber security efforts. Throughout 2013 he helped the National Institute of Standards and Technology develop the first version of the U.S. Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) released as the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (FICIC) on February 12, 2014. In 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Reardon | Thomas Reardon (born 1969) is an American computational neuroscientist and the CEO and co-founder of CTRL-labs. Formerly, he was a computer programmer and developer at Microsoft. He is credited with creating the project to build Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer (IE), which was the world's most used browser during its peak in the early 2000s. He founded CTRL-labs in 2015 with neuroscientists from Columbia University. Following the acquisition of CTRL-labs he leads the neural interfaces group at Facebook Reality Labs.
Early life
Reardon is originally from New Hampshire, from an Irish-Catholic background. He is one of 18 siblings, eight of them adopted. Described as a "math and computer prodigy," Reardon took graduate-level math and science classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while in high school. He moved to North Carolina at age 16.
Early tech career
While in North Carolina, Reardon co-founded a startup at age 19. After the startup's acquisition, he met Bill Gates and joined Microsoft for 10 years as a program manager on the Windows 95 and Windows 98 projects.
At one point, Reardon constituted Microsoft's entire Internet Explorer development team. He served as a program manager and architect for Internet Explorer through version 4. Notably, he delivered the first implementation of CSS in Internet Explorer 3 and came up with the idea of bundling Internet Explorer with the Microsoft Windows operating system. IE3 was the first incarnation of Explorer to seriously compete with Netscape Navigator, which until that point had been the most popular browser.
During Reardon's tenure, Internet Explorer surpassed Netscape Navigator as the most-used web browser in the late 1990s and early 2000s, in what came to be known as the First Browser War. Reardon was a founding board member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and worked with W3C and other standards agencies as Microsoft's representative to establish many of the standards and precedents that still govern the World Wide Web. Reardon was one of the earliest advocates and influencers of HTML4, CSS, and XML, designing the first commercial implementations of these languages.
In 1998, Microsoft became embroiled in antitrust litigation, United States v. Microsoft Corp. as a result of the browser war with Netscape. Reardon expressed disillusionment with Microsoft after the Netscape ordeal, ultimately deciding to leave to start a wireless networking startup called Avogadro.
Reardon later joined OpenWave, a mobile software company, where he served as general manager and then Vice President, finally being appointed Chief Technology Officer, a post he held until 2004. At OpenWave, he worked on developing the first mobile web browser. In 2003, the MIT Technology Review named Reardon, then 34, one of its Top 35 Innovators Under 35, an annually published list recognizing innovators for "accomplishments that are poised to have a dramatic impact on the world as we know it".
Higher e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photolith%20film | A photolith film is a transparent film, made with some sort of transparent plastic (formerly made of acetate). Nowadays, with the use of laser printers and computers, the photolith film can be based on polyester, vegetable paper or laser film paper. It is mainly used in all photolithography processes.
A color image, or polychromatic, is divided into four basic colors: cyan, the magenta, the yellow and black (the so-called system CMYK (short name from cyan, magenta , yellow and black ), generating four photolith film images, a photo filtered with each of the three basic colors plus a B&W film (addition of the three). For black-and-white images, such as text or simple logos, only one photolith film is needed.
The photolith film it is sometimes recorded by an optical laser process on an imagesetter machine, coming from a digital file, or by a photographic process in a contact copier, if a physical copy of the original already exist. In the old offset printing plates acquire text or images to be printed after being sensitized from a photolith film.
The photolith films, as well as vegetable and the laser films, are used to store plates, screens or other media sensitive to light as a backup for repeating their processes in the future. They normally store the information of the three or four separated colours on monochrome photolith films.
See also
Azo compound
Contact copier
Ozalid
Diazo copier
References
Animation techniques
Non-impact printing
Technical drawing
Infographics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard%20McCarty | Willard McCarty is Professor of Humanities Computing in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London, England, where he is director of the doctoral programme in the department. He is a visiting professor in the Digital Humanities Research Group in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, and the editor of the Humanist Discussion Group established by him in 1987, dealing with humanities computing and the digital humanities.
Academic career
He is the author of the book Humanities Computing and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters in the field. He is editor of the journal Interdisciplinary Science Reviews and founding editor of Humanist (electronic seminar). He has also conducted interviews with Digital Humanities researchers like John Burrows and Hugh Craig about network aspect in the research field.
He has received several honors and awards including the 2013 Roberto Busa Prize for lifetime achievement in the digital humanities and the 2006 Richard W. Lyman Award of the National Humanities Center. The Willard McCarty Fellowship was set up in 2018 by the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London in honour of his contribution to the advances and growth of the
field of Digital Humanities and the Department.
References
External links
Professor Willard McCarty
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Humanist
Humanities Computing
Obi-Wan McCarty
People in digital humanities
Academic staff of Western Sydney University
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of King's College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20empirical%20loading%20and%20dilution%20model | The stochastic empirical loading and dilution model (SELDM) is a stormwater quality model. SELDM is designed to transform complex scientific data into meaningful information about the risk of adverse effects of runoff on receiving waters, the potential need for mitigation measures, and the potential effectiveness of such management measures for reducing these risks. The U.S. Geological Survey developed SELDM in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration to help develop planning-level estimates of event mean concentrations, flows, and loads in stormwater from a site of interest and from an upstream basin. SELDM uses information about a highway site, the associated receiving-water basin, precipitation events, stormflow, water quality, and the performance of mitigation measures to produce a stochastic population of runoff-quality variables. Although SELDM is, nominally, a highway runoff model is can be used to estimate flows concentrations and loads of runoff-quality constituents from other land use areas as well. SELDM was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey so the model, source code, and all related documentation are provided free of any copyright restrictions according to U.S. copyright laws and the USGS Software User Rights Notice. SELDM is widely used to assess the potential effect of runoff from highways, bridges, and developed areas on receiving-water quality with and without the use of mitigation measures. Stormwater practitioners evaluating highway runoff commonly use data from the Highway Runoff Database (HRDB) with SELDM to assess the risks for adverse effects of runoff on receiving waters.
SELDM is a stochastic mass-balance model. A mass-balance approach (figure 1) is commonly applied to estimate the concentrations and loads of water-quality constituents in receiving waters downstream of an urban or highway-runoff outfall. In a mass-balance model, the loads from the upstream basin and runoff source area are added to calculate the discharge, concentration, and load in the receiving water downstream of the discharge point.
SELDM can do a stream-basin analysis and a lake-basin analysis. The stream-basin analysis uses a stochastic mass-balance analysis based on multi-year simulations including hundreds to thousands of runoff events. SELDM generates storm-event values for the site of interest (the highway site) and the upstream receiving stream to calculate flows, concentrations, and loads in the receiving stream downstream of the stormwater outfall. The lake-basin analysis also is a stochastic multi-year mass-balance analysis. The lake-basin analysis uses the highway loads that occur during runoff periods, the total annual loads from the lake basin to calculate annual loads to and from the lake. The lake basin analysis uses the volume of the lake and pollutant-specific attenuation factors to calculate a population of average-annual lake concentrations.
The annual flows and loads SELDM calculates for the stream and lake analys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartbeat | Chartbeat is a technology company that provides data and analytics to global publishers. The company was started in 2009 and is headquartered in New York City, US. The software as a service (SaaS) company integrates code into the websites of publishers, media companies and news organizations to track users in order to monetize audience engagement and loyalty metrics so they can make decisions about the content to publish and promote on their Web sites. In August 2010, the company was spun off from Betaworks as a separate entity. Chartbeat has been both praised and criticized as an alternative to Google Analytics for real-time data.
History
Betaworks launched Chartbeat in April 2009 as a real-time web analytics tool that, it said, publishers could use to react quickly to changes in user behavior. At the time, Google Analytics did not offer real-time data. The launch of Chartbeat was part of a broader strategy by Betaworks to capitalize on the growth of the real-time, stream-based, social web. Betaworks had also invested in Twitter, Tumblr, bit.ly, and TweetDeck. In August 2010, the company was spun off from Betaworks as a separate entity. In July 2011, Chartbeat launched Newsbeat, a version of their service for news sites. In February 2016, founding CEO Tony Haile resigned from the company after seven years as CEO. Long time COO John Saroff was named as his successor. In October 2017, Chartbeat made updates to its user experience and design, including the rebrand of its flagship product as Chartbeat for Publishing.
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortadelo%20and%20Filemon%3A%20Mission%20Implausible | Mortadelo and Filemon: Mission Implausible (, "Mortadelo and Filemon versus Jimmy the joker") is a 2014 Spanish 3D computer-animated comedy co-written, directed and edited by Javier Fesser based on the characters from the Mort & Phil comic book series. It achieved six nominations for the 29th Goya Awards, winning in the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Animated Film categories, and two for the second edition of Premios Feroz.
Plot
After installing his 30th Vault, Super, the head of the spy agency called "T.I.A" (a play on the name C.I.A, also a spy agency) receives a message from Jimmy "The Crazy" The agency's main enemy successfully steals the vault, Super calls the unlucky Phil and his sidekick Mort (After the first one had a dream where he was respected and admired by everyone), when he discovers that a guy he held in jail named Tronchamulas (Trunkmules) has escaped, and thirsty with rage to apply the technique of "El aquello" (turn the victim inside out).
At the agency, a furious Tronchamulas ends up being sedated by Professor Bacterio's invention, called Reversiccina, which totally changes his angry and intimidating appearance to a kind and polite person,super orders that Phil and Mort take Tronchamulas to a witness protection program, after a chase across town for a Tronchamulas in a runaway baby stroller, the trio stop at a reality show, where accidentally a Tronchamulas Reversiccinaded speaks the whole Super's plan in front of 200 million viewers.
Jimmy, outraged by his cousin saying he knows where his hiding place is, destroys the T.I.A. HQ roof, Super orders Mort and Phil again to take Tronchamulas to their house, taking advantage that Tronchamulas is disoriented by reversiccina, they force him to do housework, such as darning, ironing, washing and cooking. Phil provokes Tronchamulas by joking about the fact that his father didn't want him, so Tronchamulas threatens Phil who, despite being reversicinated, can still do "El aquello" on him. Above them, an angry Jimmy and his henchmen attempt to destroy the building his cousin was in, hilariously failing.On the ground floor of the apartment where they were staying, Tronchamulas finds a little old man, half blind, thinks that Tronchamulas is a child and decides to take him to the police station, when the effect of Reversiccina wears off, Tronchamulas takes the wheel and goes to the hideout from his cousin to alert him that he is wanted.
Convinced that Tronchamulas was kidnapped by Jimmy, Phil and Mort decide to go rescue him, Jimmy intends to destroy the T.I.A once and for all with a missile, after seeing that the duo "destroyed" his hiding place. Tronchamulas using a crane, catches the duo on a"homemade plane", very similar to Phil's dream, he launches both towards Jimmy, that was heading towards T.I.A with the missile, an intense aerial battle takes place to prevent the destruction of the HQ, however, in an act of distraction, Phil unintentionally releases the missile he was holding, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20Fabians%20Health%20Network | The Young Fabians Health Network is a special interest group of the youth section of the Fabian Society.
About
The aim of the Young Fabians Health Network is to connect professionals, academics and policy makers in the health and social care sectors. Providing a forum for policy orientated debate and discussion feeding into wider Young Fabian thinking.
The network organises an annual programme of policy round-tables, publications, panel events involving public figures from the world of health and social care.
History
The Young Fabian Health Network was formed in November 2011 founded by Dr Martin Edobor. In February 2012 the Health Network was officially launched by former Young Fabian Chair, Sara Ibrahim with a keynote address from Maureen Donnelly former chair of Cambridgeshire primary care trust at University College London.
In 2012 the Network held a series of policy roundtables examining the funding mechanisms for health and social care. In May that year Andy Burnham MP, Shadow Secretary of State of Health, set out Labour’s vision for a sustainable social care system at the Health Network's flagship policy event. The policy series culminated in the publication of Young Fabian 61 policy pamphlet "Irreversible? Health and social care policy in a post-coalition Landscape", edited by Martin Edobor and Daniel Wilson-Craw examining the way a 'whole person care' approach could be used to tackle the health and social care crisis.
Ade Adeyemi chaired the Health Network from 2012–2013, where he led a policy series looking at the use of data within the NHS. In June 2013 the Health Network entered a formal partnership with AMREF, Africa’s leading health charity with the aim of long term collaboration to provide policy-based solutions to healthcare problems in Africa.
The Network was recently chaired by Amrita Rose (2013-2014), she worked with the steering committee on a series of events examining how Labour can develop a sustainable health policy platform for Britain. Sonia Adesara chaired the Network from 2017-2019. The current Chair is Milo Barnett.
Chairs
Chairs of Young Fabians Health Network are elected at an annual AGM's and hold office for one year.
Young Fabian Press
Anticipations – Print magazine of the Young Fabians
Anatomy – Policy project-centric serial
See also
List of UK think tanks
External links
Young Fabians Website
References
Political and economic think tanks based in the United Kingdom
Fabian Society
Medical and health organisations based in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laff%20%28TV%20network%29 | Laff (legal name: Laff Media, LLC) is an American digital multicast television network headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and is owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network specializes in comedy programming, featuring mainly sitcoms from the 1990s through the 2020s.
History
Laff's launch was announced by Katz Broadcasting in January 2015 as having a scheduled launch date of , coinciding with Tax Day in the United States; the explanation by Katz is that people needed "something to laugh to" on what they deemed one of the most stressful days of the year. The network launched at Noon that day; the first program was the film My Mom's New Boyfriend.
Katz announced that television stations owned by ABC Owned Television Stations and 13 E. W. Scripps Company would serve as the network's charter affiliates; the former serving as a replacement for the standard definition feed of the Live Well Network, which with Laff's announcement also began to roll-back to only being carried by ABCOTS stations. On March 13, 2015, Katz Broadcasting announced an affiliation deal with the Cox Media Group to carry Laff on the subchannels of seven of its stations expanding its initial reach to 47% of the country. The following week on March 20, as part of a multi-network affiliation agreement with Katz, the Meredith Corporation announced that it would carry the network on two of its stations.
On February 13, 2015, Laff acquired the syndication rights to five sitcoms. Laff followed that deal for film licensing with Disney–ABC Domestic Television, Miramax, and Sony Pictures Television by March 17. Laff made a multi-year deal for five sitcoms with Carsey-Werner Productions in April 2016. Roseanne reruns were removed on May 29, 2018, after Roseanne Barr was fired from the show by ABC (which then continued on as The Conners); both decisions were based on a Roseanne Barr tweet considered racist.
A list of 2019 Nielsen ratings published by Variety indicated that Laff averaged 223,000 viewers in prime time, down 5% from the 2018 average.
The network moved off ABC Owned Television Stations at the beginning of 2021, in favor of new carriage on Scripps's recently acquired Ion Media stations in place of the now-defunct Qubo, Ion Plus and Ion Shop networks.
In July 2023, the managing company of Laff announced a over-the-top streaming channel counterpart of Laff, called Laff More.
Programming
Laff provides comedy programming to owned-and-operated and affiliated stations every day from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time, with paid programming filling the remaining vacated hours. Laff's schedule mainly consists of 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s off-network sitcoms. On September 1, 2021, Nexstar launched a direct competitor to Laff, Rewind TV, and the latter network replaced Laff on Nexstar stations (or will in the upcoming months if not immediately possible due to contractual obligations).
Movies
Laff carries three to four comedic flims t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20addition%20system | A vector addition system (VAS) is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of distributed systems. Vector addition systems were introduced by Richard M. Karp and Raymond E. Miller in 1969, and generalized to vector addition systems with states (VASS) by John E. Hopcroft and Jean-Jacques Pansiot in 1979. Both VAS and VASS are equivalent in many ways to Petri nets introduced earlier by Carl Adam Petri. Reachability in vector addition systems is Ackermann-complete (and hence nonelementary).
Informal definition
A vector addition system consists of a finite set of integer vectors. An initial vector is seen as the initial values of multiple counters, and the vectors of the VAS are seen as updates. These counters may never drop below zero. More precisely, given an initial vector with non negative values, the vectors of the VAS can be added componentwise, given that every intermediate vector has non negative values. A vector addition system with states is a VAS equipped with control states. More precisely, it is a finite directed graph with arcs labelled by integer vectors. VASS have the same restriction that the counter values should never drop below zero.
Formal definitions and basic terminology
A VAS is a finite set for some .
A VASS is a finite directed graph such that for some .
Transitions
Let be a VAS. Given a vector , the vector can be reached, in one transition, if and .
Let be a VASS. Given a configuration , the configuration can be reached, in one transition, if and .
See also
Petri net
Finite state machine
Communicating finite-state machine
Kahn process networks
Process calculus
Actor model
Trace theory
References
Formal specification languages
Models of computation
Concurrency (computer science)
Diagrams
Software modeling language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Ring | The term Cambridge Ring could refer to:
The Cambridge Ring (computer network) technology developed at the university of Cambridge, England
The Cambridge Five espionage ring.
The inner ring-road of Cambridge, England. Made up of A1134, Gonville Place, and East Road. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20De | Soft De (Ꙣ ꙣ; italics: Ꙣ ꙣ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
Computing codes
See also
Cyrillic characters in Unicode
Cyrillization of Arabic
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20Em | Soft Em (Ꙧ ꙧ; italics: Ꙧ ꙧ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
Soft Em is used in the Old Church Slavonic language.
The font DejaVu has the glyph in Cyrillic Extended-B.
Computing codes
See also
Cyrillic characters in Unicode |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bangladeshi%20films%20of%201975 | A list of Bangladesh films released in 1975.
Releases
See also
1975 in Bangladesh
References
External links
Bangladeshi films on Internet Movie Database
Film
Bangladesh
1975 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WampServer | WampServer refers to a solution stack for the Microsoft Windows operating system, created by Romain Bourdon and consisting of the Apache web server, OpenSSL for SSL support, MySQL database and PHP programming language.
Notable lists, variants, and equivalents on other platforms
LAMP: for the Linux operating system (The original AMP stack – explained here.)
MAMP: for the macOS operating system
SAMP: for Solaris operating system
WIMP: A similar package where the Apache is replaced by Internet Information Services (IIS)
WISA: solution stack for Windows (operating system), consisting of Internet Information Services, Microsoft SQL Server, and ASP.NET
XAMPP: A cross-platform web server solution stack package.
See also
Comparison of web frameworks
List of AMP packages
References
External links
Web server software
Website management
WAMP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMiCS | RAMiCS, the International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science, is an academic conference organized every eighteen months by an international steering committee and held in different locations mainly in Europe, but also in other continents. Like most theoretical computer science conferences, its contributions are strongly peer-reviewed. Proceedings of the conferences appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and some of the stronger papers have been published in Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming.
Early history
RAMiCS, then still called RelMiCS, was first organized by Chris Brink and Gunther Schmidt on January 17–21, 1994 in Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany as International Seminar on Relational Methods in Computer Science. The second RelMiCS was organized by the late Armando Haeberer and held July 10–14, 1995 in Paraty near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 3rd International Seminar on the Use of Relational Methods in Computer Science (RelMiCS 3) was January 6–10, 1997 in Albatros Hotel in Hammamet, Tunisia. A 4th International Seminar on Relational Methods in Computer Science (RelMiCS 4) took place September 14–20, 1998 in Stefan Banach International Mathematical Centre, Sept. 2004, Warsaw, Poland. The 5th International Seminar on Relational Methods in Computer Science (RelMiCS 5) occurred January 9–14, 2000 at Valcartier near Québec, Canada. From that point on, publication was arranged with Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
See also
Calculus of relations
Binary relation
Heterogeneous relation
List of computer science conferences
References
Theoretical computer science conferences
Relational algebra
Recurring events established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker%20%28company%29 | Looker Data Sciences, Inc. is an American computer software company headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. It was acquired by Google in 2019 and is now part of the Google Cloud Platform. Looker markets a data exploration and discovery business intelligence platform.
History
The company was founded in Santa Cruz, California in January, 2012 by Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield and occupied the historic Rittenhouse building there. The product grew out of Tabb's experience building software at companies like Netscape, LiveOps, and Luminate before founding Looker.
Looker makes use of a simple modeling language called LookML that lets data teams define the relationships in their database so business users can explore, save, and download data with only a basic understanding of SQL.
The product was the first commercially available business intelligence platform built for and aimed at scalable or massively parallel relational database management systems like Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, HP Vertica, Netezza, and Teradata.
On August 13, 2013, Looker announced a Series A round of funding from Redpoint Ventures, First Round Capital, and PivotNorth Capital, raising more than $18M. Prior to the Series A round, Looker raised $2M in a seed round from First Round Capital and PivotNorth Capital. On March 11, 2015, Looker raised $30M in series B funding. In July, 2015, Jen Grant joined as chief marketing officer, and the company estimated it has 140 employees. On January 14, 2016, Looker raised $48M in series C funding from Kleiner Perkins. At that time, the company estimated 450 customers, including Jet.com. On March 30, 2017, Looker raised $81.5M in series D funding led by Capital G. On December 6, 2018, Looker raised $103M in series E funding led by Premji Invest. On June 21, 2016, Looker celebrated the release of Winning With Data, a book coauthored by Looker CEO, Frank Bien and Redpoint Partner, Tomasz Tunguz.
On June 6, 2019, Google announced it was acquiring Looker for $2.6 billion. The acquisition was finalized February 2020.
In March 2022, Looker's CEO - Frank Bien - announced his departure from the company.
Under Google Cloud Platform
The Looker Platform for Data operates today as a part of Google Cloud Platform and offers a wide variety of tools for relational database work, business intelligence, and other related services. Looker's 2019 revenue is estimated to be about $140 million.
References
External links
Data visualization software
Business intelligence software
Google acquisitions
Business intelligence companies
2020 mergers and acquisitions
Business services companies established in 2012
Software companies established in 2012
Software companies based in California
Data warehousing products
Companies based in Santa Cruz, California
2012 establishments in California
Defunct software companies of the United States
Google Cloud
Business services companies disestablished in the 21st century
Business analysis
Big data companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compello | Compello AS is a Norwegian IT company established in 2011 after the merger of Client Computing Europe ASA and Compello Software AS. The company develops solutions for automated data flow comprising solutions for EDI, eInvoice and Invoice Approval. The company is 100% owned by Etrinell AS with headquarters in Oslo, Norway.
More than 80 people are currently employed in Compello based in Oslo, Sandefjord, Stockholm, and Colombo. The company collaborates with Microsoft and was chosen Best Norwegian Independent Software Partner at Microsoft's annual Partner Conference in Washington DC in 2014.
In 2018, Compello won the ODA Award Organization, a role model prize of promoting women in tech.
History
In 2018, Compello's German business was sold out from the Compello group.
Client Computing Europe ASA merged with Compello Software AS in 2011, and rebranded at the same time to Compello AS.
Client Computing was established in 1995, and focused originally on message flow and EDI-messages to the power and textile industries. The business expanded to Sweden in 1998 by acquiring the EDI-part of Posten/SDS, and into Germany in 2006 through GLI GmbH.
In 2004, the company invested in Euronova AS, thereby accessing e-invoicing. Euronova later became a fully owned subsidiary named Client Computing Norway AS.
The Norwegian EDI and eInvoice activities were organised under Client Computing Utility AS and Client Computing Norway AS. In late 2010, Client Computing Utility AS was merged with Client Computing Norway AS. Client Computing Norway AS merged with Compello Software AS in 2012.
Compello Software was established in 1997, focusing on electronic invoice approval. This covers invoice scanning, interpretation (OCR), workflow and ERP integration. The company merged with Client Computing Europe ASA in 2011.
References
External links
Official webpage
Information technology companies of Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Goldsmith%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Michael Goldsmith (born 1959) is a British computer scientist, senior research fellow and Lecturer at the University of Oxford, England.
He is a member of Oxford University's Department of Computer Science. He is an associate director of Oxford University's Cyber Security Centre, and an Oxford Martin Fellow of The Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. He is a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Career
Goldsmith is a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford's Computer Science Department, From 2006 to 2011 he was principal fellow: High-Integrity Techniques in the e-Security Group of the WMG Digital Laboratory in the University of Warwick.
Publications
Goldsmith's publications cover security, cryptography in general, CSP, and formal methods in particular.
References
External links
1959 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Oxford
British computer scientists
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford
Formal methods people
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan%20%C4%B0stanbul | Ulan İstanbul is a Turkish drama TV series that aired from 23 June 2014 to 23 March 2015 on the Kanal D network. The television finale aired on 9 February 2015, and its last six episodes were streamed on the internet.
Plot
The TV series portrays a group of con-artists disguised as a well-established Istanbul family, the Nevizades. Firuz (Emre Kınay) loses one million Turkish Lira in a scam and blames Derya's father, Captain(Sevtap Özaltun), for his loss, resulting in Captain being imprisoned. This leads Kandemir (Uğur Polat), a member of the Nevizade family, and his five children to become con-artists, scamming "bad" people in order to raise money for Captain's release. The Nevizade family begins by moving to a historical street of Istanbul.
After the 29th episode of the series, the Nevizade family finally manages to collect one million Turkish Lira, enough to free Captain. However, unknown to them, one of their scams was recorded by a former family friend, Firuz. In lieu of being exposed by Firuz, the family is blackmailed into working for Firuz and continues to scam people.
Characters
Release
The show started being broadcast on Kanal D and was released via Kanal D's web portal. After the 33rd episode, the show ended its television broadcasts and became web-only. The first web episode was aired on 16 February 2015 and was free to view, along with the second and third web episodes. The following episodes were paid-only. The show ended with the explanation that Turkish audiences were not yet ready to pay for content.
References
External links
Ulan İstanbul at Kanal D web site
2014 Turkish television series debuts
2015 Turkish television series endings
Kanal D original programming
Turkish drama television series
Television series by D Productions
Television series produced in Istanbul
Television shows set in Istanbul
Television series set in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20media%20in%20Qatar | The mass media in Qatar relays information and data in Qatar by means of television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines and the internet. Qatar has established itself as a leading regional figure in mass media over the past decade. Al Jazeera, a global news network which was established in 1996, has become the foundation of the media sector. The country uses media to brand itself and raise its international profile.
Despite Al Jazeera being considered to be one of the Middle East's most open media outlets, Qatari authorities enforce stringent restrictions on freedom of local media, including censoring internet services and outlawing criticism of the ruling family in the media. However, in October 2018, National Press Club declared its review for Al Jazeera. "News organizations supported by public money can and do produce independent journalism," said NPC Journalism Institute President Barbara Cochran. The accolades received by Al Jazeera from respected American professional organizations attest to the quality of their news coverage as supportive and independent. “The job of every news organization is to tell the truth, even if it makes people uncomfortable. We believe it would be wrong and counter-productive to censor a news organization whose work has won wide praise from the international journalism community." said National Press Club President Andrea Edney.
Print media
Newspapers
There are currently seven newspapers in circulation in Qatar, four published in Arabic and three in English. Qatar's first weekly newspaper, Gulf News, appeared in 1969. Al Arab was the first post-independence newspaper to appear in Qatar, in 1972. Gulf Times was the first English newspaper in Qatar until the arrival of The Peninsula in 1996.
According to circulation estimates released in 2004, Al Watan was the most widely circulated newspaper in Qatar, with a circulation rate of 18,000. Al Sharq and Gulf Times both came second, with circulation rates of 15,000. A 2008 report asserted that the total circulation rate was approximately 100,000 copies per day, with Al Raya and Gulf Times both having the highest circulation rates at 18,000, and Al Sharq and Al Watan having circulation rates of 15,000.
Magazines
Firefly Communications and Oryx Communications are two of the most prominent magazine publishing houses in Qatar. There were nine magazines in 2009.
The first weekly magazine, Al-Urooba, was issued in 1970.
English-language magazines in the country include family publication Doha Family Magazine, the first regularly printed parenting publication in Qatar and Society, published by Gulf Times.
Business magazine The Edge, women's fashion magazine GLAM, and Qatar Today. Qatar Al Yom is an Arabic-language business magazine. By 2014, Firefly had added more publications to its brand, including Qatar Construction News, Alef, Volante and Sur La Terre.
Publishing
Qatar established a foothold in the publications market with the founding of Bloomsbury Qatar Foun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premio%20Lo%20Nuestro%202014 | The 26th Lo Nuestro Awards were presented by the American network Univision, honoring the best Latin music of 2013 in the United States. The ceremony took place on February 20, 2014, at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST (8:00 p.m. EST). The Lo Nuestro Awards were presented in 33 categories and it was televised by Univision. Mexican singer Ninel Conde and Cuban American actor William Levy hosted the show.
American singer Prince Royce earned three awards including Artist of the Year; American artist Marc Anthony received five accolades. Multiple winners also included deceased Mexican-American performer Jenni Rivera, Puerto-Rican American singers Tito El Bambino and Olga Tañón, Mexican-American norteño artist Gerardo Ortíz, and American rapper Pitbull. Puerto-Rican American artist Luis Fonsi and American singer Jencarlos Canela premiered their new singles, and the closing of the show featured the supergroup Salsa Giants. Most performers expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan protests during their participation on the show. The telecast garnered in average 9.5 million viewers in North America.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 26th Lo Nuestro Awards were announced on December 3, 2013 on the morning show ¡Despierta América! by several artists including Elvis Crespo, Chino & Nacho, Mané de la Parra, Alejandra Espinoza, Leslie Grace, Rigú, and Tommy Torres. Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz, artists Marc Anthony and Prince Royce, and Colombian performer Carlos Vives received the most number of nominations, with five each. The winners were announced before the live audience during the ceremony, with American singer Jenni Rivera being one of the most awarded performers, earning three accolades, including Pop Song ("Detrás de Mi Ventana"), Pop and Regional Mexican Female Artist.
Anthony became the night's biggest winner, receiving four accolades (Tropical Album, Tropical Song, Salsa Artist and Collaboration of the Year for the song "¿Por Qué Les Mientes?" with Tito El Bambino). Anthony also was the recipient of the Excellence Award. American singer Prince Royce was named Artist of the Year and was nominated for the same award at the 2014 Latin Billboard Music Awards. Habítame Siempre by Mexican performer Thalía was the Pop Album of the Year. Upon release, the album reached number-one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart. American rapper Pitbull won for Urban Artist and his song "Echa Pa'lla (Manos Pa'rriba)" was the Urban Song of the Year. The song also won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Performance. Mexican rock singer Alejandra Guzmán received the Lifetime Achievement Award; fellow Mexican band 3Ball MTY earned the first Tribal Artist prize, which was criticized by Antonio Tinoco, of the website Latin Times, as the category seemed "to have been made exclusively" to recognize the band. Puerto-Rican American performer Daddy Yankee was named "Youth Idol", which was also scrutinized by Ti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLava | OpenLava is a workload job scheduler for a cluster of computers. OpenLava was pirated from an early version of Platform LSF. Its configuration file syntax, application program interface (API), and command-line interface (CLI) have been kept unchanged. Therefore, OpenLava is mostly compatible with Platform LSF.
OpenLava was based on the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto.
OpenLava was allegedly licensed under GNU General Public License v2, but that licensing was proven to be invalid and illegal at trial.
History
In 2007, Platform Computing (now part of IBM) released Platform Lava 1.0, which is a simplified version of Platform LSF 4.2 code, licensed under GNU General Public License v2. Platform Lava had no additional releases after v1.0 and was discontinued in 2011. In June 2011, OpenLava 1.0 code was committed to GitHub.
Commercial support
In 2014, a number of former Platform Computing employees founded Teraproc Inc., which contributed development and provided commercial support for OpenLava.
Commercially supported OpenLava contains add-on features than the community based OpenLava project.
IBM Lawsuit
In October 2016, IBM filed a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement and trade secrets misappropriation against Teraproc. The complaint accused some of the company's founders of taking “confidential and proprietary source code" for IBM's Spectrum LSF product when they left, which was then used as the basis of the competitive product OpenLava. David Bigagli, the TeraProc employee who started the OpenLava project, posted a notice on GitHub announcing that downloads for OpenLava had been disabled because of a DMCA takedown notice sent by IBM's lawyers.
Bigagli later announced that the source code for OpenLava 3.0 and 4.0 would be taken down, while the source code of 2.2 would be restored in order to regain the GitHub repository and the openlava.org website, while claiming that the DMCA claim is fraudulent.
On September 18, 2018, the US Courts found in favor of IBM and issued a permanent injunction against Teraproc and its agents.
See also
List of free and open-source software packages
IBM Spectrum LSF
GNU Queue
References
Job scheduling
Distributed computing
Cluster computing
Copyright infringement of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Expandables | The Expandables is a Canadian home renovation television series produced by Tricon Films & Television, which premiered January 8, 2015 on HGTV Canada. The series is also slated to air on DIY Network in the United States.
Hosted by contractor Rob Evans and designer Mia Parres, the series features the duo meeting with homeowners whose living spaces are not meeting their needs. Each of the hosts then comes up with a renovation plan to improve the functionality of the home, which are presented to the homeowners. After the homeowners make their choice of which plan to pursue, the hosts collaborate to finish the renovation and design work.
The series premiered in Australia on September 14, 2015 on LifeStyle Home.
References
2015 Canadian television series debuts
2010s Canadian reality television series
HGTV (Canada) original programming
Television shows filmed in Toronto
Television series by Halcyon Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20intelligence | Software Intelligence is insight into the inner workings and structural condition of software assets produced by software designed to analyze database structure, software framework and source code to better understand and control complex software systems in Information Technology environments. Similarly to Business Intelligence (BI), Software Intelligence is produced by a set of software tools and techniques for the mining of data and the software's inner-structure. Results are automatically produced and feed a knowledge base containing technical documentation and make it available to all to be used by business and software stakeholders to make informed decisions, measure the efficiency of software development organizations, communicate about the software health, prevent software catastrophes.
History
Software Intelligence has been used by Kirk Paul Lafler, an American engineer, entrepreneur, and consultant, and founder of Software Intelligence Corporation in 1979. At that time, it was mainly related to SAS activities, in which he has been an expert since 1979.
In the early 1980s, Victor R. Basili participated in different papers detailing a methodology for collecting valid software engineering data relating to software engineering, evaluation of software development, and variations.
In 2004, different software vendors in software analysis start using the terms as part of their product naming and marketing strategy.
Then in 2010, Ahmed E. Hassan and Tao Xie defined Software Intelligence as a "practice offering software practitioners up-to-date and pertinent information to support their daily decision-making processes and Software Intelligence should support decision-making processes throughout the lifetime of a software system". They go on by defining Software Intelligence as a "strong impact on modern software practice" for the upcoming decades.
Capabilities
Because of the complexity and wide range of components and subjects implied in software, Software intelligence is derived from different aspects of software:
Software composition is the construction of software application components. Components result from software coding, as well as the integration of the source code from external components: Open source, 3rd party components, or frameworks. Other components can be integrated using application programming interface call to libraries or services.
Software architecture refers to the structure and organization of elements of a system, relations, and properties among them.
Software flaws designate problems that can cause security, stability, resiliency, and unexpected results. There is no standard definition of software flaws but the most accepted is from The MITRE Corporation where common flaws are cataloged as Common Weakness Enumeration.
Software grades assess attributes of the software. Historically, the classification and terminology of attributes have been derived from the ISO 9126-3 and the subsequent ISO 25000:2005 quality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauer%20City%203 | Bauer City 3 was a network of 12 popular mainstream music radio stations in Scotland and northern England, owned and operated by Bauer Radio.
Overview
From Monday 19 January 2015, The Hits on DAB was absorbed into the new Bauer City 3 network of stations.
The new services were locally branded and identified, with the opportunity to split for individual local news, information, advertising and jingles, with The Hits content as a national programme feed.
Programming was broadcast among all Bauer City 3 stations in Scotland and Northern England, originating from the studios of Key 103 in Castlefield and Clyde 3 in Glasgow. Some other output was broadcast from Bauer's London Studios at Golden Square, Soho.
From 1 September 2017, the local City 3 branding of the stations on DAB was withdrawn, in favour of reverting to using The Hits name in all areas.
Stations
Clyde 3 (Glasgow and the West of Scotland)
Forth 3 (Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife)
Hallam 3 (South Yorkshire and the North Midlands)
Key 3 (Greater Manchester)
Metro 3 Radio (Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and County Durham)
MFR 3 (Scottish Highlands, Moray and Orkney)
Radio Aire 3 (Leeds and West Yorkshire)
Radio City 3 (Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales)
Rock FM 3 (Lancashire)
Tay 3 (Tayside)
The Hits (UK-wide on Freeview and online)
TFM 3 (Teesside, County Durham and North Yorkshire)
Viking 3 (East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire)
References
External links
Bauer Media
Former British radio networks
Bauer Radio
Bauer Group (UK)
3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premio%20Lo%20Nuestro%202015 | The 27th Lo Nuestro Awards ceremony, presented by the American network Univision, honoring the best Latin music of 2014 in the United States, took place on February 19, 2015, at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST (8:00 p.m. EST). During the ceremony, Lo Nuestro Awards were presented in 31 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by Univision.
American singer-songwriter Romeo Santos and Spanish artist Enrique Iglesias earned six awards each, including Artist of the Year for Santos and Pop Song of the Year for Iglesias; American norteño singer Gerardo Ortíz and reggaeton performer J Balvin earned three awards. Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona received the Excellence Award and Italian singer Laura Pausini was recognized for her musical career.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 27th Lo Nuestro Awards were announced on December 2, 2014 on the morning show ¡Despierta América! by several artist including Alejandra Guzmán, América Sierra, Chiquis, David Bisbal, Enrique Iglesias, J Balvin, Joey Montana, Laura Pausini, Leslie Grace, Luis Coronel, Noel Torres, and Wisin. Spanish singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias with ten nominations became the most nominated act. Iglesias' record-breaking song for most weeks at number-one on the Billboard Latin Songs chart, "Bailando", is a finalist for Pop Song and Video of the Year, as well Pop Collaboration of the Year (for the featured performance by Descemer Bueno and Gente de Zona); while his songs "Loco" (with Romeo Santos) and "El Perdedor" (with Marco Antonio Solís), also received nominations. Iglesias is also shortlisted for Artist of the Year along rapper J Balvin, band Calibre 50, and bachata performer Romeo Santos.
American singer Romeo Santos and Spanish artist Enrique Iglesias were the most awarded performers, with six awards each, including a joint win for Tropical Collaboration of the Year for the track "Loco". Santos was named Artist of the Year. For the Regional Mexican Female Artist of the Year, Chiquis earned her first nomination up against her late mother, Jenni Rivera. About the nomination, Chiquis declared to the website Latin Times: "It's a great honor to be nominated for the first time for Premio Lo Nuestro, but it's a great honor that I feel to be nominated with my mom." Jenni Rivera won the award, two years after her death, and her daughter Chiquis received the accolade on her behalf. Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona received the Excellence Award.
Winners are listed first and indicated with a double-dagger ().
Ceremony information
Categories and voting process
The categories considered were for the Pop, Tropical, Regional Mexican, and Urban genres, with additional awards for the General Field that includes nominees from all the genres, for the Artist of the Year, New Artist and Music Video categories. The nominees were selected based on the Top 500 Latin Songs played during the eligibility period, Octo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306%20WNBL%20season | The 2005–06 WNBL season was the 26th season of competition since its establishment in 1981. A total of 8 teams contested the league.
Broadcast rights were held by free-to-air network ABC. ABC broadcast one game a week, at 1:00 PM at every standard time in Australia.
Molten provided equipment including the official game ball, with Hoop2Hoop supplying team apparel.
Team standings
Finals
Season award winners
Statistics leaders
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20141227122005/http://www.wnbl.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Guide/12284_BASKAUST_WNBL_MEDIA_GUIDE_2014-15_BACK.pdf
2005-06
2005–06 in Australian basketball
Aus
basketball
basketball |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriopea%20pallidata | Adriopea pallidata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Adriopea. It was described by Broun in 1910.
References
Parmenini
Beetles described in 1910 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305%20WNBL%20season | The 2004–05 WNBL season was the 25th season of competition since its establishment in 1981. A total of 8 teams contested the league.
Broadcast rights were held by free-to-air network ABC. ABC broadcast one game a week, at 1:00 p.m. at every standard time in Australia.
Molten provided equipment including the official game ball, with Hoop2Hoop supplying team apparel.
Team standings
Finals
Season award winners
Statistics leaders
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20141227122005/http://www.wnbl.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Guide/12284_BASKAUST_WNBL_MEDIA_GUIDE_2014-15_BACK.pdf
2003-04
2004–05 in Australian basketball
Aus
basketball
basketball |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304%20WNBL%20season | The 2003–04 WNBL season was the 24th season of competition since its establishment in 1981. A total of 8 teams contested the league.
Broadcast rights were held by free-to-air network ABC. ABC broadcast one game a week, at 1:00PM at every standard time in Australia.
Molten provided equipment including the official game ball, with Hoop2Hoop supplying team apparel.
Team standings
Finals
Season award winners
Statistics leaders
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20141227122005/http://www.wnbl.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Guide/12284_BASKAUST_WNBL_MEDIA_GUIDE_2014-15_BACK.pdf
2003-04
2003–04 in Australian basketball
Aus
basketball
basketball |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaboLights | MetaboLights is a data repository founded in 2012 for cross-species and cross-platform metabolomic studies that provides primary research data and meta data for metabolomic studies as well as a knowledge base for properties of individual metabolites.
The database is maintained by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the development is funded by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). As of July 2018, the MetaboLights browse functionality consists of 383 studies, two analytical platforms, NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry.
Semantic annotation is based on various ontologies and controlled vocabularies, including the BRENDA tissue ontology and the NCBI taxonomy. The metabolite structure data is linked to chemical databases, including ChemSpider, PubChem, and ChEBI.
Links to metabolite databases, however, seem to be missing.
MetaboLights consists of two components:
a repository, that enables the metabolomic community to share experimental findings, data and protocols for any metabolomic study. (Fig. 1-2)
a reference layer of individual metabolite compounds and their reference spectra including additional information on their biological roles, locations, concentrations and raw data from metabolomic experiments. (Fig. 3)
Scope and access
The data stored in MetaboLights is available for download from an FTP site and can be reused by the scientific community, where data sharing is considered an integral part of the scientific method. Copyright and license information, however, is not easily identifiable.
MetaboLights includes user tools for submission of experiments using the ISA-TAB format for metadata tagging of all submissions. Submitted studies are automatically assigned a stable unique accession number (e.g. MTBLS1) that can be used as a publication reference; MetaboLights is one of the repositories recommended by several scientific journals, including EMBO Journal and Nature's Scientific Data. There is also a guided submission process to help meet the Metabolomics Standards Initiative (MSI) recommendations for high quality data submissions for NMR and MS experiments.
References
Biological databases
Science and technology in Cambridgeshire
Scientific databases
South Cambridgeshire District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMPACT%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | IMPACT (sometimes spelled Impact) is a computer graphics architecture for Silicon Graphics computer workstations. IMPACT Graphics was developed in 1995 and was available as a high-end graphics option on workstations released during the mid-1990s. IMPACT graphics gives the workstation real-time 2D and 3D graphics rendering capability similar to that of even high-end PCs made well after IMPACT's introduction. IMPACT graphics systems consist of either one or two Geometry Engines and one or two Raster Engines in various configurations.
IMPACT graphics consists of five graphics subsystems: the Command Engine, Geometry Subsystem, Raster Engine, framebuffer and Display Subsystem. IMPACT Graphics can produce resolutions up to 1600 x 1200 pixels with 32-bit color and can also process unencoded NTSC and PAL analog television signals.
IMPACT graphics subsystems come in three configurations for SGI Indigo2 IMPACT workstations: Solid IMPACT, High IMPACT, and Maximum IMPACT. The equivalent configurations also exist for the SGI Octane workstation but are referred to as SI, SSI, and MXI (I-series). Later Octane workstations used a similar configuration but with updated ASIC chips and are referred to as SE, SSE, and MXE (E-series). IMPACT uses Rambus RDRAM for texture memory.
The IMPACT graphics architecture was superseded by SGI's VPro graphics architecture in 1997.
References
Computer graphics
Graphics chips
SGI graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubski | Hubski is a social networking and discussion site, built by Mark Katakowski. A month after creating the site, Katakowski was joined by Steve Clausnitzer, another Ann Arbor resident.
Hubski has been designed as alternative to Reddit. In addition to sharing content from around the web, users are encouraged to share their own original content. Hubski started out as a clone of Hacker News, and is still written in Arc, the dialect of Lisp created by Paul Graham.
Features
Hubski has a variety of features to help users share content; some of them are commonly found on other aggregators, some not so often:
Mechanisms for filtering by tags, users, and domains
Embedding magnet links
RSS feeds for users, topics, and new posts
Personal tags for posts
Per-user configurable themes
Responsive design to accommodate users of varying screen sizes
References
External links
Internet forums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny%20%28film%29 | Uncanny is a 2015 American science fiction film directed by Matthew Leutwyler and based on a screenplay by Shahin Chandrasoma. It is about the world's first "perfect" artificial intelligence (David Clayton Rogers) that begins to exhibit startling and unnerving emergent behavior when a reporter (Lucy Griffiths) begins a relationship with the scientist (Mark Webber) who created it.
Plot
David Kressen, a child prodigy, graduated MIT a decade ago at age 19, after receiving multiple degrees in mechanical and computer engineering. Since then, he has not been seen. On the day of his graduation, he was approached by Simon Castle, billionaire CEO and founder of Kestrel Computing. Castle made him an offer impossible to refuse. David went to Workspace 18, part of a program of intellectual angel investments that Castle makes to genius-level individuals to further the high level science they practice. For the last ten years, David has been working tirelessly in Workspace 18, perfecting his ultimate creation: Adam, an artificial intelligence that is indistinguishable from an actual human being.
Joy Andrews is a reporter brought in for a week of exclusive access to do a series of interviews about Adam and his creator. She initially regards the robot with curiosity but as their interactions build, Adam seems to respond to her presence. David, who she initially thought of as arrogant, emerges as naive, hiding behind a formidable existence. As their friendship develops and grows into something more, Adam begins exhibiting peculiar emergent behavior impossible to program.
Cast
Mark Webber as David Kressen
Lucy Griffiths as Joy Andrews
David Clayton Rogers as Adam Kressen
Rainn Wilson as Simon Castle
Release
Uncanny premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and made its international premiere at the 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Reception
Ain't It Cool News called it "a rare breed of thoughtful, independent science fiction." Sight & Sound Magazine wrote, "Confident, meticulously crafted.... written with sharp brilliance and performed with perfect nuance." Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the script "remains too simplistic to become fully involving".
References
External links
2015 films
2010s science fiction films
American independent films
American science fiction films
Films directed by Matthew Leutwyler
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino%20Boffo | Dino Boffo (born 19 August 1952) is an Italian journalist. From 1994 to 2009, he was editor of the newspaper Avvenire, and from, 2010 to 2014 director of the television network TV2000.
References
1952 births
Living people
Italian newspaper editors
Italian television journalists
20th-century Italian journalists
21st-century Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
People from the Province of Treviso
20th-century Italian male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20depictions%20of%20Steve%20Jobs | Steve Jobs (; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s (along with engineer, inventor, and Apple Computer co-founder, Steve Wozniak). Shortly after his death, Jobs's official biographer, Walter Isaacson, described him as the "creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing".
Books
Autobiographies/memoirs
2023: Make Something Wonderful by Leslie Berlin
2018: Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
2014: Steve Jobs: The Unauthorized Autobiography by J. T. Owens
2013: The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs by Chrisann Brennan
2006: iWoz by Steve Wozniak
Biographies and histories
2015: Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
2015: Steve Jobs and Philosophy: For Those Who Think Different, edited by Shawn E. Klein
2014: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Edwin Catmull of Pixar
2012: Steve Jobs: The man who thought different by Karen Blumenthal
2011: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (the basis for the 2015 film, Steve Jobs by Danny Boyle)
2005: iCon: Steve Jobs by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon.
2005: What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff
2004: Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac was Made by Andy Hertzfeld
2000: The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman.
1994: Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything by Steven Levy
1993: Steve Jobs & the NeXT Big Thing by Randall E. Stross
1992/1996: Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely (the basis for the 1996 PBS documentary, Triumph of the Nerds)
1988: Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward by Jeffrey S. Young
1988: Accidental millionaire : the rise and fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer by Lee Butcher.
1984: Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer by Michael Swaine and Paul Frieberger (Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, second edition, 2000 and Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer, third edition, 2014; the basis for the 1999 film, Pirates of Silicon Valley by Martyn Burke).
1984: The Little Kingdom:The Private Story of Apple Computer by Michael Moritz (the first history of Apple Computer, updated and reissued as Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and the Creation of Apple in 2009)
1984: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
Graphic novels
2015: Steve Jobs: Insanely Great by Jessie Harland.
2012: The Zen of Steve Jobs by Caleb Melby with artwork by Jess3 that explores the relationship between Jobs and Kobun Chino Otogawa.
2012: Steve Jobs: Genius by Design a biographical graphic work by Jason Quinn (published by Campfire Graphic Novels)
Films and television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enaretta%20caudata | Enaretta caudata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Fahraeus in 1872.
References
Enaretta
Beetles described in 1872 |
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