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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20Show%3A%20The%20Movie | Regular Show: The Movie is a 2015 American animated science fiction comedy film based on the animated sitcom Regular Show. Produced by Cartoon Network Studios, the film was directed by series creator J. G. Quintel and features the voices of William Salyers, Quintel, Sam Marin, and Mark Hamill reprising their respective roles from the series, with Jason Mantzoukas and David Koechner joining the cast. The film follows Mordecai and Rigby, along with their groundskeeping co-workers Benson, Pops, Muscle Man, Hi-Five Ghost and Skips, as they embark on a mission to save the universe, and their friendship, from a vengeful volleyball coach.
The film premiered on August 14, 2015 at The Downtown Independent theater in Los Angeles, where it was shown until August 20, 2015. The film is the third film based on a Cartoon Network property to receive a theatrical release, after The Powerpuff Girls Movie and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters; it was not released by Warner Bros. Pictures due to the failure of The Powerpuff Girls Movie. The film was released digitally on September 1, 2015, on DVD on October 13, 2015, and ultimately had its television premiere on November 25, 2015, on Cartoon Network. The events of the film take place during the seventh season of the show. Regular Show: The Movie was the first Cartoon Network original film since 2009's Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show.
Plot
In the distant future, Rigby, Benson, Skips, Hi-Five Ghost, Muscle Man, and Pops fight Lord Ross, a madman plotting to erase all of time. Aiding him is a cybernetic Mordecai who is estranged from Rigby for a past transgression. The entire team is killed except for Rigby, who escapes using a timeship, a time traveling space vehicle, to travel to the past, though not before Mordecai mortally shoots him.
In the present, Mordecai and Rigby barely convince Benson not to fire them after running late due to Rigby's idea to get breakfast burritos. Future Rigby then crashlands in the park. He says that when Mordecai and Rigby were in high school, they built a time machine that backfired and created a "Time-nado", a tornado able to travel through space and time. It was later harnessed and weaponized by their former science teacher and volleyball coach, Mr. Ross, who was held responsible for the incident and arrested. Before dying, future Rigby tells his past self that he will soon have to reveal a secret from his past to save the universe, even if it destroys his friendship with Mordecai. Mordecai explains they created the time machine because Rigby got into their dream college, College University, but he did not. Benson tries to convince the group that the ordeal is false, until Muscle Man finds a plasma shotgun on the ship and shoots Benson's car with it, destroying the vehicle and leaving the latter in shock.
After preparing for the mission, the employees use the timeship to travel back in time, damaging the engines in the process. Skips, Muscle Man, and Hi-Five G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillol%20Kargupta | Hillol Kargupta is an academic, scientist, and entrepreneur.
He is a co-founder and President of Agnik, a data analytics company for connected cars and Internet of Things. He also serves as the chairman of the board for KD2U, an organization for promoting research, education, and practice of data analytics in distributed and mobile environments. He was a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County from until July, 2014.
Kargupta received his PhD. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in 1996. Kargupta received his master's degree (M. Tech.) from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India and undergraduate degree (B.Tech) from Regional Engineering College Calicut, India. After finishing his PhD in 1995, Kargupta joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a post-doctoral researcher and then as a full technical staff member. He joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Washington State University in 1997 as an assistant professor. In 2001 Kargupta joined the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC). He spent 13 years at the UMBC and became a full professor in 2009. In 2008, he also founded the Society for Knowledge Discovery in Distributed and Ubiquitous (KD2U) Environments. He currently serves as the President of Agnik.
Awards
IEEE 10-Year Highest Impact Paper award.
SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) annual best student paper award, 1996.
References
External links
Agnik mines data from vehicles
UBI Going Mainstream?
Kargupta talk at the ACM SIGKDD Conference
Halmstad Colloquium - Big Data Analytics for Connected Cars
Living people
1967 births
People from Darjeeling
Indian computer scientists
National Institute of Technology Calicut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20in%20Britain | Irish in Britain is a charity and national membership network founded in 1973 for Irish community groups throughout Britain. Originally established as the Federation of Irish Societies and rebranded in 2013 as Irish in Britain, the organisation has a membership of over 100 Irish charities, societies and groups. The activities of the membership range from welfare, housing, support and advice services to cultural activities, sports, arts, music, theatre and language. Irish in Britain provides member support services and has a strategic role in representing issues common to its membership and the wider diaspora.
Irish in Britain works closely with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ireland and the Irish in Britain. It also coordinates campaigns, including Green Hearts, which raises awareness about heart disease in the community, and Cuimhne – the Irish memory loss campaign.
History
At the Irish Centre in Camden in June 1973, two community networks – the Federation of Irish Societies Northern Region and Southern Region – agreed to amalgamate into one Federation. The Southern Region group had its roots going back to 1950 and was first proposed by Portsmouth Irish Society. The Northern Region group represented organisations from Manchester, Merseyside and Tyneside. Tommy Walsh of the Liverpool Irish Centre was elected the first national chairman.
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ireland and the Irish in Britain
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Ireland was founded in the late 1990s in the context of the Northern Ireland peace process by parliamentarians with an interest in Irish affairs. Since its establishment, the APPG has worked closely with Irish in Britain. The APPG's current chair is Labour MP Conor McGinn, who represents St Helens North and is originally from County Armagh. The Vice-Chairs are Mark Logan (Conservative), Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP), Baroness Harris of Richmond (Liberal Democrat) and Karin Smyth (Labour). Former chairs include Ruane and Kevin McNamara. Irish in Britain acts as secretariat to the parliamentary group, consulting on the agenda and organising relevant documents and minutes.
Campaigns
Vaccine Le Chéile/Together
Irish in Britain initiated their COVID-19 ‘Vaccine Le Chéile’ (meaning 'Together) campaign in January 2022. The aim of the campaign is to provide Irish people and their networks living in Britain with evidence-based information to enable them to make positive informed choices and is supplemented by a wider digital campaign to build awareness, to educate and expand opportunities for information and support.
The most recent element of this campaign is that Irish in Britain are offering to help support member organisations in hosting a pop-up vaccination centre. It is hoped that this will make COVID-19 vaccinations more accessible to the local community and in turn, will increase the vaccination numbers among the Irish population of Britain.
Census
The organisation led the successful campaig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hao%20Li | Hao Li (, born ) is a computer scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur from Germany, working in the fields of computer graphics and computer vision. He is co-founder and CEO of Pinscreen, Inc, as well as associate professor of computer vision at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). He was previously a Distinguished Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Southern California, and former director of the Vision and Graphics Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He was also a visiting professor at Weta Digital and a research lead at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm.
For his work in non-rigid shape registration, human digitization, and real-time facial performance capture, Li received the TR35 Award in 2013 from the MIT Technology Review. He was named Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair in 2015, and was awarded the Google Faculty Research Award and the Okawa Foundation Research Grant the same year. Li won an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2018 and was named to the DARPA ISAT Study Group in 2019. He is a member of the Global Future Council on Virtual and Augmented Reality of the World Economic Forum.
Early life
Li's parents are Taiwanese and lived in Germany as of 2013.
Education
Li went to a French-German high school in Saarbrücken and speaks four languages (English, German, French, and Mandarin Chinese). He obtained his Diplom (eq. M.Sc.) in computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (then University of Karlsruhe (TH)) in 2006 and his PhD in computer science at ETH Zurich in 2010. He was a visiting researcher at ENSIMAG in 2003, the National University of Singapore in 2006, Stanford University in 2008, and EPFL in 2010. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and Princeton University between 2011 and 2012.
Career
Li joined Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm in 2012 as a research lead to develop next generation real-time performance capture technologies for virtual production and visual effects. He later joined the computer science department at the University of Southern California as an assistant professor in 2013 and was promoted to associate professor in 2019. In 2014, he spent a summer as a visiting professor at Weta Digital working on facial tracking and hair digitization technologies for the visual effects of Furious 7 and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. In 2015, he founded Pinscreen, Inc., an Artificial Intelligence startup that specializes on the creation of photorealistic virtual avatars using advanced machine learning algorithms. In 2016, he was appointed director of the Vision and Graphics Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and joined the University of California, Berkeley in 2020 as a Distinguished Fellow. In 2022, Li was appointed associate professor of computer vision at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayantilal%20Gada | Jayantilal Gada is an Indian film producer and distributor. He ventured into film production under his production company, Popular Entertainment Network (PEN) India Ltd.
He is known for producing the 2013 Hindi-language film Mahabharat, which won Best Animation Film at the 3rd Fiji Film Festival.
He founded the company PEN India (full name, Popular Entertainment Network India and also sometimes written as Pen) in 1987; today the company produces and presents Bollywood films. Gada retired in 2014 at the age of 52. His son is the film and TV producer Dhaval Gada and was announced as his successor at PEN on 3 November 2014. However, Jayantilal Gada resumed office from 1 April 2016.
Gada launched a new Television Channel named WOW (Channel). WOW's content mainly consists of various Bollywood Songs, old and classic Bollywood movies, new Hindi movies and Gujarati movies, along with South Indian (Hindi dubbed) movies, TV series such as Mahabharat and other content.
Early life and career
Jayantilal Gada is a Kutchi Vagad born in Lakadia, Gujarat. He studied till 10th in Gurukul High School, Ghatkopar. He began working in his father's small grocery store, also taking courses in radio repairing and photography.
Gada started a small video library in a section of his father's store, buying video cassettes from producers for distribution. This sideline grew as he first began hiring out video cassette players, then began filming weddings on video. Later, he moved into wholesaling videos. Popular Video Cassette Library was restructured and renamed PEN in 1992. After financial problems, Gada began moving into acquiring the copyright to films – at this stage he was aged 25.
Move into presentation and production
In 2004, Gada acquired the rights to supply Hindi-language feature films to public service broadcaster Doordarshan, beginning with the film Yeh Mera India. He convinced Doordarshan to show the remastered and extended version of the classic action-adventure Sholay, which had record viewing figures despite its long running time. Gada also gained the rights to screen films on Zee.
The Bollywood film Kahaani was produced by Gada and his nephew Kushal Gada. In 2013, he produced the 3D animation film Mahabharat, in which Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan and Vidya Balan voiced characters. It made the highest box office returns of all animated films produced in India. It was awarded Best Animation Film At the 3rd Fiji Film Festival. PEN also produced the 2014 film Entertainment, starring Akshay Kumar.
Today Pen acquires worldwide rights to Hindi films and supplies them to networks such as Zee, Sony, Sahara One and Star.
Filmography
TBAThe following is a list of notable films in which Gada's Pen India Ltd has been involved:
References
External links
Jayantilal Gada's Pen India Pvt movies
Film producers from Gujarat
Living people
Hindi film producers
1962 births
Telugu film producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20NX300M | The Samsung NX300M is a rangefinder-styled digital mirrorless camera announced by Samsung on January 3, 2013. It was the first consumer product based on the Tizen operating system. Its other upgrades over the NX300 model include increased rotation range for the tiltable display, allowing it to be put into a 180 degree "selfie" position. It was initially on sale in South Korea only, and its containing the Tizen operating system was not revealed until almost a month later.
References
http://www.dpreview.com/products/samsung/slrs/samsung_nx300m/specifications
Live-preview digital cameras
NX 300M
Cameras introduced in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800%20Words | 800 Words (stylised as 800 words) is a comedy-drama television series, co-produced by South Pacific Pictures and Seven Productions for the Seven Network.
Premise
George Turner is a popular columnist for a top-selling Sydney newspaper, writing a weekly column which he insists must be exactly 800 words. After his wife dies, he buys (over the internet and unseen) a new home in a (fictional) small New Zealand seaside town called Weld, where his parents took him on holiday as a child. He then has to break the news to his two teenage children, Shay and Arlo. But the colourful and inquisitive locals in Weld ensure Turner's dream of a fresh start does not go exactly to plan.
Cast
Main
Erik Thomson as George Turner
Melina Vidler as Shay Turner
Benson Jack Anthony as Arlo Turner
Rick Donald as Jeff "Woody" Woodson, an Australian expat builder who moved to Weld for the surf
Bridie Carter as Jan, George's former boss and editor in Sydney
Emma Leonard as Tracey Dennis, an Australian expat and Shay and Arlo's form teacher at Weld High School
Michelle Langstone as Fiona, the owner-operator of the Weld Boat Club and a volunteer ambulance driver
Anna Jullienne as Katie Bell, a part-Maori artist and owner of the Weld arts and crafts gallery
Cian Elyse White as Hannah, a surfer who works part-time at the Weld Boat Club and the local surf shop
Recurring
Jonathan Brugh as Monty McNamara, a real estate agent who sold George his new home in Weld and is a volunteer firefighter
Peter Elliott as Bill "Big Mac" McNamara, the financial king-pin of Weld and father to Bill Jr, Monty and Robbie
Paul Glover as Bill McNamara Jr, father to Lindsay and Jared
Manon Blackman as Lindsay McNamara, Bill Jr's daughter.
Matt Holden as Jared McNamara, Bill Jr's son
Olivia Tennet as Siouxsie McNamara, Monty's daughter and secretary
John Leigh as Constable Tom, Weld's local police officer and photographer
Alex Tarrant as Ike, one of Zac's children and love interest of Shay
Reon Bell as Billy, Katie and Zac's son
Rob Kipa-Williams as Zac, Katie's ex-partner and father to Ike, Hannah, and Billy
Renee Lyons as Brenda, runs the supermarket
Jesse Griffin as Sean, works for the local council
Henry Beasley as Ollie, works at the petrol station, has a crush on Shay
David Fane as Smiler.
Tandi Wright as Laura Turner (flashbacks), deceased wife of George and mother to Shay and Arlo
Elizabeth Hawthorne as Trish, Laura's mother
Peter Hayden as Roger, Laura's father
Jackie van Beek as Gloria (season 2), production manager of the local newspaper, News of the Weld
Millen Baird as Robert "Robbie" McNamara (season 2), Fiona's ex
Ditch Davey as Terry Turner (season 2), George's younger brother who is a chef
Jamaica Vaughan as Emma (season 2), Fiona's niece and summer love interest of Arlo
Jessica Redmayne as Poppy (season 3), Woody's 16-year-old daughter
Rachael Carpani as Mary (season 3), Woody's ex and mother to Poppy
Miriama Smith as Ngahuia (season 3), Zac's ex and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AthenaPlus | AthenaPlus is a CIP best practice network started in March 2013 which aims to facilitate access to networks of cultural heritage, enrich metadata, as well as improve search, retrieval and re-use of Europeana’s content by enhancing multilingual terminology management and the export/publication tool. By the end of the project, AthenaPlus will contribute more than 3.6 millions of metadata records to Europeana, from both public and private sectors, focusing mainly on museums content. In addition to enabling access to cultural heritage, AthenaPlus is also focused on creative use of content, and adapting data to users with different needs by means of tools that support the development of virtual exhibitions, tourist and didactic applications.
Movio
MOVIO is an open source CMS, a kit of tools, developed within the AthenaPlus project, which enables web content creation. MOVIO has a semantic approach; it can be defined as a SCMS (Semantic Content Management System) as well. It enables building online digital exhibitions targeted to different audiences and aims to enable long term accessibility to the mass of knowledge generated by temporary exhibitions that, for their nature, have a limited life span. The content is shaped using different tools integrated in the software: media archive, ontology builder, storyteller, different types of image galleries, hotspots, maps, timeline, etc. The project was initiated by the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of the Italian Libraries (ICCU), a body of the Ministry, developed by GruppoMeta, and owing to a grant of the Fondazione Telecom Italia 2011. MOVIO is released under MIT license that allows the widest possible reuse of software. The source code has been published on GitHub.
Partners
The consortium is composed of 40 partners from 21 member countries:
Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of the Italian Libraries (ICCU), Italy (project coordinator)
UMA Information Technology GmbH, Austria
PACKED Expertisecentrum Digitaal Erfgoed Vzw, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Openbaar Kunstbezit in Vlaanderen Vzw, Michael Culture Aisbl, Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium, Belgium
Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
The Cyprus Institute Limited, Cyprus
Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, Croatia
National Museum, Czech Republic
Ministry of Culture, Estonia
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, European Association of Jewish Culture, *University of Savoy, Dédale, Université Pierre Mendes France, France
Philipps Universitaet Marburg, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Germany
Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, National Technical University of Athens, University of Patras, Greece
Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, Hungary
Local Government Management Agency, Board of the National Museum of Ireland, Ireland
Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per leinformazioni bibliografiche, Istituto Luigi Sturzo, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagyalaxmi | Bhagyalaxmi (International Title: Lady Luck) is a daily soap opera that airs on Zee Network's Hindi entertainment channel &TV. It premiered on 2 March 2015 and ran till 1 January 2016.
A second season of the show, post a generation leap, was aired on the same channel and time slot of 8pm from 4 January 2016 and was titled Saubhagyalakshmi.
Plot
Bhoomi Agrawal is a bubbly young woman, who wants to be independent in life. She is forced to choose between her personal or professional life after marrying Anshuman Prajapati, the son of a rich traditional family. Through a twist of events, Bhoomi is assumed dead, but in fact alive, she hires a woman, Divya Nair, to take her responsibilities in Prajapati household, as she doesn't want them to know about her death. Divya and Maan pretend to the family that Divya is in fact Bhoomi as Bhoomi's death was likely to destroy the entire family. However, as Maan and Divya start falling in love though unable to forget Bhoomi, Maan accepts his feelings for Divya later they consummate their relationship. Divya's former husband Yuvraj used to abuse her, and threatens to destroy their happy family to get Divya back who has now built a relationship with Maan. Meanwhile, the real Bhoomi who is shown to be in a coma in a critical condition, and gives birth to her and Maan's daughter Muskaan.
Maan and Divya continue keeping her secret from the Prajapati family. Divya becomes pregnant with Maan's child but Yuvraj returns and vows to destroy the Prajapati Family. The show ends with Yuvraj murdering all the members of the Prajapati family except Badi Maa who survived at the shootout. Badi Maa is shocked when Yuvraj exposes Divya's true identity of not being the real Bhoomi. After Yuvraj shoots Maan and Divya, Badi Maa manages to kill him. A dying Divya gives birth to a daughter. Badi Maa, despite her hate for Divya and that her past life brought a disaster for her family, decides to leave with Muskaan and her other granddaughter (Divya's daughter) who she sees as Maan's blood.
Cast
Main
Varun Sharma as Anshumaan "Maan" Prajapati: Lata and Agreem's son; Vasundhara and Manav's nephew; Surbhi and Pavitra's brother; Aryamaan's cousin; Bhoomi and Divya's husband; Muskaan and Kavya's father; Kuhu's uncle (2015–2016)
Simran Pareenja as Bhoomi Agrawal Prajapati: Damini and Milind's daughter; Shanti's grand-daughter; Murlimohan, Govind and Rita's niece; Varun's cousin; Anshumaan's first wife; Lata and Agreem's daughter-in-law; Surbhi and Pavitra's sister-in-law; Muskaan's mother; Kuhu's aunt (2015–2016)
Anupriya Kapoor as Divya Nair Malhotra/Prajapati: Yuvraj's ex-wife; Anshuman's second wife; Lata and Agreem's daughter-in-law; Surbhi and Pavitra's sister-in-law; Kavya's mother; Kuhu's aunt (2015–2016)
Recurring
Aruna Irani as Badi Maa/Vasundhara Prajapati: Matriarch of the Prajapati family; Agreem's sister-in-law; Manav's wife; Aryamaan's mother; Anshumaan, Surbhi and Pavitra's aunt (2015–2016)
Sara Khan as Pavitra Prajapati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorea | Authorea is an online collaborative writing tool that allows researchers to write, cite, collaborate, host data and publish. It has been described as "Google Docs for Scientists".
It has been owned by the commercial publishing company Wiley through Atypon since 2018.
Overview
Authorea allows researchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. Features of the tool include collaborative editing (multiple people editing a document at the same time), automatic citation formatting, tracking changes, and the ability to make any document public or fully private.
When used as an editing tool for scientific papers, Authorea will automatically format a paper in the preferred style and provide files suitable for online submission to peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Over 40 publisher- and journal-specific styles are currently supported.
Authorea is part of the open science movement and supports open access publishing for academic research and free access to research data. The free version of the service allows unlimited public documents, public storage space (for figures, data, code, and other supporting material), and an unlimited number of collaborators (co-authors) per document. Public documents are free for anyone to read.
Authorea also supports private writing: a document and all its attachments can be kept private, visible only to co-authors. A free account allows the user to create one free private document, with more available via a paid subscription.
Authorea also supports preprint workflows. Authorea partnered with bioRxiv to enable authors to submit preprints directly to bioRxiv from Authorea in 2017. Additionally, preprint review hosting platform PREreview was built using Authorea technical infrastructure.
The site currently supports an online LaTeX editor as well as a Markdown (wiki) editor. A simple MS Word-like (WYSIWYG) interface is currently in development.
Authorea grew from over 10,000 active users in 2014 to over 50,000 in 2016.
History
Authorea was launched in February 2013 by co-founders Alberto Pepe and Nathan Jenkins and scientific adviser Matteo Cantiello, who met while working at CERN. They recognized common difficulties in the scholarly writing and publishing process. To address these problems, Pepe and Jenkins developed an online, web-based editor to support real-time collaborative writing, and sharing and execution of research data and code. Jenkins finished the first prototype site build in less than three weeks.
Bootstrapping for almost two years, Pepe and Jenkins grew Authorea by reaching out to friends and colleagues, speaking at events and conferences, and partnering with early adopter institutions.
In September 2014, Authorea announced the successful closure of a $610K round of seed funding with the New York Angels and ff Venture Capital groups.
In January 2016, Authorea closed a $1.6M round of funding led by Lux Capital and including the Knight Foundation and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQLz | NoSQLz is a consistent key-value big data store (NoSQL database) for z/OS IBM systems. It was developed by systems programmer Thierry Falissard in 2013. The purpose was to provide a low-cost alternative to all proprietary mainframe DBMS.
NoSQLz is proprietary software. Version 1 is freeware.
Distinctive features
NoSQLz only provides basic create, read, update and delete (CRUD) functions. It is designed to be very straightforward and easy to implement.
ACID properties are provided, so as to have "real transactions", through optimistic concurrency control, timestamp-based concurrency control and multiversion concurrency control (MVCC).
Interfaces
Unlike version 1, version 2 of NoSQLz is chargeable and supports IBM Parallel Sysplex. The NoSQLz DBMS can be interfaced in Rexx, Cobol, IBM High Level Assembler, etc.
References
External links
CBT Tape File #910, NoSQLz DBMS from Thierry Falissard
Big data products
Proprietary database management systems
NoSQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield%20Geotechnologies | Fairfield Geotechnologies is a seismic service company focusing on data licensing and data processing as well as imaging, data analytics and data interpretation. It is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
History
The company was founded in 1976 and immediately began its first 2D transition zone program in Louisiana.
In 1989, it introduced its first, non-exclusive 3D survey.
In April 2005, the company acquired RFTrax.
In 2011, the company sold $30 million of seismic exploration equipment to Apache Corporation.
In April 2018, the company acquired Geokinetics’ U.S. multiclient data library.
In December 2018, the company sold its seismic technologies business and a U.K. subsidiary to Norway’s Magseis ASA for $233 million.
See also
List of oilfield service companies
References
External links
1976 establishments in Texas
Oilfield services companies
Oil companies of the United States
Seismological observatories, organisations and projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminoso | Luminoso is a Cambridge, MA-based text analytics and artificial intelligence company. It spun out of the MIT Media Lab and its crowd-sourced Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS) project.
The company has raised $20.6 million in financing, and its clients include Sony, Autodesk, Scotts Miracle-Gro, and GlaxoSmithKline.
History
Luminoso was co-founded in 2010 by Dennis Clark, Jason Alonso, Robyn Speer, and Catherine Havasi, a research scientist at MIT in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. The company builds on the knowledge base of MIT’s Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS) project, co-founded in 1999 by Havasi, who continues to serve as its director. The OCMS knowledge base has since been combined with knowledge from other crowdsourced resources to become ConceptNet. ConceptNet consists of approximately 28 million statements in 304 languages, with full support for 10 languages and moderate support for 77 languages. ConceptNet is a resource for making an AI that understands the meanings of the words people use.
During the World Cup in June 2014, the company provided a widely reported real-time sentiment analysis of the U.S. vs. Germany match, analyzing 900,000 posts on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
Applications
The company uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning to derive insights from unstructured data such as contact center interactions, chatbot and live chat transcripts, product reviews, open-ended survey responses, and email. Luminoso's software identifies and quantifies patterns and relationships in text-based data, including domain-specific or creative language. Rather than human-powered keyword searches of data, the software automates taxonomy creation around concepts, allowing related words and phrases to be dynamically generated and tracked.
Commercial applications include analyzing, prioritizing, and routing contact center interactions; identifying consumer complaints before they begin to trend; and tracking sentiment during product launches. The software natively analyzes text in fourteen languages, as well as emoji.
Products
Luminoso's technology can be accessed via two products: Luminoso Daylight and Luminoso Compass. Luminoso Daylight enables a deep-dive analysis into batch or real-time data, whereas Luminoso Compass automates the categorization of real-time data. Both products offer a user interface as well as an API. Luminoso's products can be implemented through either a cloud-based or an on-premise solution.
Research
Luminoso continues to actively conduct research in natural language processing and word embeddings and regularly participates in evaluations such as SemEval. At SemEval 2017, Luminoso participated in Task 2, measuring the semantic similarity of word pairs within and across five languages. Its solution outperformed all competing systems in every language pair tested, with the exception of Persian.
Recognition
Luminoso has been listed as a "Cool Vendor in AI fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20TRS-80%20and%20Tandy-branded%20computers | Tandy Corporation released several computer product lines starting in 1977, under both TRS-80 and Tandy branding.
TRS-80 was a brand associated with several desktop microcomputer lines sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores. It was first used on the original TRS-80 (later known as the Model I), one of the earliest mass-produced personal computers. However, Tandy later used the TRS-80 name on a number of different computer lines, many of which were technically unrelated to (and incompatible with) the original Model I and its replacements.
In addition to these, Tandy released a number of computers using the Tandy name itself.
Original TRS-80 ("Model I") and its successors
Model I
The original TRS-80 Micro Computer System (later known as the Model I to distinguish it from successors) was launched in 1977 and- alongside the Apple II and Commodore PET- was one of the earliest mass-produced personal computers. The line won popularity with hobbyists, home users, and small-businesses.
The Model I included a full-stroke QWERTY keyboard, floating-point BASIC, a monitor, and a starting price of US$600.
By 1979, the TRS-80 had the largest selection of software in the microcomputer market.
In July 1980 the mostly-compatible TRS-80 Model III was launched, and the original Model I was discontinued.
Model III
In July 1980 Tandy released the Model III, a mostly-compatible replacement for the Model I.
Its improvements over the Model I included built-in lower case, a better keyboard, elimination of the cable spaghetti, 1500-baud cassette interface, and a faster (2.03 MHz) Z-80 processor. With the introduction of the Model III, Model I production was discontinued as it did not comply with new FCC regulations as of January 1, 1981 regarding electromagnetic interference.
The Model III could run about 80% of Model I software, but used an incompatible disk format. It also came with the option of integrated disk drives.
Model 4
The successor to the Model III was the Model 4. Its microprocessor was a faster Z80A 4 MHz CPU. Disk-based Model 4's had 64 KB of RAM standard; an optional bank of additional 64 KB was accessible to applications software using bank switching technology.
The Model 4's new hardware features included a larger display screen with 80 columns by 24 rows, inverse video, and an internal audio speaker. Its keyboard had three function keys and a control key. It used an all-new operating system derived from the advanced Model III LDOS 5, licensed from Logical Systems, now christened TRSDOS Version 6. A more modern version of Microsoft's BASIC interpreter more closely resembled the MS-DOS GW-BASIC, featuring PC-like functionality.
The Model 4 could run the industry-standard CP/M operating system without hardware modification (as was needed for the Model III). This afforded the user access to popular application software such as MicroPro's WordStar, Ashton-Tate's dBase II, and Sorcim's SuperCalc. Furthermore, the Model 4 cou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam%20Link | Steam Link is a hardware and software product developed by Valve Corporation for streaming Steam content from a personal computer or Steam Machine wirelessly to a mobile device or other monitor. Steam Link was originally released as a hardware device alongside the debut of Steam Machines in November 2015. Valve discontinued the Steam Link hardware device in November 2018, in favor of supporting its software-based Steam Link application for mobile devices and smart televisions, as well as providing Steam Link as a software package for the Raspberry Pi microcomputer.
Functionality
Steam Link, whether in hardware or software form, supports the streaming of content from a personal computer running Steam to the video device (a connected television or monitor for the hardware unit, the mobile device's screen for the software version). In this setup, the device acting as the Steam Link (the hardware unit or the mobile device in software form) enables a game controller connected to it to be used to control the game over the connection to the home computer.
Prior to March 2019, both the personal computer and the Steam Link hardware device or mobile device using Steam Link software had to be on the same internal network. With an update in March 2019, Valve introduced the Steam Link Anywhere update that allows one to stream across the internet, though the performance of the streaming will be strongly affected by the bandwidth and latency between the personal computer and device with Steam Link.
Hardware
Steam Link is a stand-alone hardware device to enable streaming of Steam content from a personal computer or a Steam Machine wirelessly to a television set, including integration of Steam Controller gamepad. The device was released along with the debut of Steam Machines in November 2015. Valve quietly discontinued the Steam Link in November 2018, in favor of supporting its software-based Steam Link application for mobile devices, smart televisions, and a software package for the Raspberry Pi.
Steam Link is listed as having the following technical specifications:
Wired 100 Mbit/s Fast Ethernet and Wireless 802.11ac 2×2 (MIMO)
3× USB 2.0 ports
Bluetooth 4.0
HDMI out
Support for the following control peripherals: Steam Controller, DualShock 4, Xbox One or 360 Wired Controller, Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows, Logitech Wireless Gamepad F710, or keyboard and mouse
A tear-down revealed the following specific hardware parts:
Marvell DE3005-A1 CPU
Marvell WiFi chip 88W8897
Vivante GC1000 GPU
The Steam Link comes with power adapters for various countries.
Software (hardware)
Operating system
The Steam Link uses a modified version of Linux based on version 3.8 of the Linux kernel. It is possible to enable root SSH access to the system.
SDK
One month after release, support was added to the Steam Link to have Steam Link apps, which can be created using an SDK. A number of such apps have been created, such as apps for accessing Kodi, bu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWN | UWN may refer to:
University World News
United Wrestling Network
University of Wales, Newport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rightel | RighTel (, Raitel) is the third mobile phone network operator of Iran. RighTel is the first 3G mobile operator in Iran, providing 3.75G mobile telecommunication services to individuals and businesses.
Established by the Social Security Organization, in late 2011 and started its expansion and launch of services in 2012. Rightel is fully owned by the investment company of the Social Security Organization. RighTel has approximately 5 percent of the mobile subscribers in Iran and has covered the whole country mostly with 3G technology by 2017 but struggled ever since to increase its market share beyond that and expand its 4G LTE coverage -which it launched in 2015- due to frequent changes in management team and failing to fund the network upgrade.
In 2016, after withdrawing sanctions, RightTel associated with AT&T to provide roaming services to owners of American phones inside of Iran.
See also
MTN Irancell
Communications in Iran
References
Mobile phone companies of Iran
Privately held companies of Iran
Iranian brands
Iranian companies established in 2011
Telecommunications companies established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scikit-image | scikit-image (formerly scikits.image) is an open-source image processing library for the Python programming language.
It includes algorithms for segmentation, geometric transformations, color space manipulation, analysis, filtering, morphology, feature detection, and more. It is designed to interoperate with the Python numerical and scientific libraries NumPy and SciPy.
Overview
The scikit-image project started as scikits.image, by Stéfan van der Walt. Its name stems from the notion that it is a "SciKit" (SciPy Toolkit), a separately-developed and distributed third-party extension to SciPy.
The original codebase was later extensively rewritten by other developers. Of the various scikits, scikit-image as well as scikit-learn were described as "well-maintained and popular" . Scikit-image has also been active in the Google Summer of Code.
Implementation
scikit-image is largely written in Python, with some core algorithms written in Cython to achieve performance.
References
External links
https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image
Image processing software
Python (programming language) scientific libraries
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Erik%20Eriksson | Hans-Erik Eriksson (born 1961) is a Swedish computer scientist, organizational theorist, co-founder of Open Training AB, and author of his known 2000 work on "Business modeling with UML."
Life and work
After his studies in computer science in the early 1980s, Eriksson started working in industry in the field of in system development and software architecture. In 1999 Eriksson and Magnus Penker founded Open Training in Sweden, an online learning and e-training institute. They sold the company in 2004, which continued as Open Training Sweden AB.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Eriksson authored and co-authored a series of books on business modeling and Unified Modeling Language in English. His first book in Swedish had been on object-oriented programming in C++ and was published in 1992.
Work
In their 2000 "Business modeling with UML" Eriksson and Penker propose a fundamental domain modeling concept, which became known as the Eriksson-Penker Business Extensions. This enterprise modeling approach was similar to CIMOSA, This reference model defined four different views of a business: resources, processes, goals, and rules. The main principles in this approach, according to Grangel (2007), are: Process: the set of actions that transform input objects into outputs which have an added value for the customer. Processes have a goal and are affected by events.
Events: a change of state that is caused by a process and is then received by one or more processes.
Resources: all kinds of things that are used in the enterprise, whether they are either physical or abstract, for example, information.
Goals: defined for the enterprise and each of its processes; they represent the desired state of each enterprise resource.
Business rules: define the conditions under which business activity is to be performed and enterprise knowledge should be represented.
General mechanism: mechanisms to be used in any diagram
The Eriksson-Penker Business Extensions for the UML can be applied for "the analysis and description of enterprise-wide data structures and conversions between them (OMG Common Data Warehouse Metamodel - OMG CWM), and for modeling business workflows (Workflow Management Coalition Metamodel)."
Selected publications
Eriksson, Hans-Erik, and Magnus Penker. UML toolkit. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997.
Eriksson, Hans-Erik, and Magnus Penker. Business modeling with UML: Business Patterns at Work, John Wiley & Sons, New York, USA (2000).
Eriksson, Hans-Erik, et al. UML 2 toolkit. Vol. 26. John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
References
1961 births
Living people
Swedish business theorists
Swedish computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Robinson%20%28actress%29 | Angela Robinson is an American actress and singer. She is best known for playing the role of Veronica Harrington in the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera The Haves and the Have Nots from May 2013 to July 2021.
Life and career
Robinson was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. She graduated from William M. Raines High School in Jacksonville and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. While in college, she won the crown of Miss Florida A&M University. She moved to New York City in 1992 and began acting career on the stage, appearing on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. On Broadway, she performed in The Color Purple, and later appeared in the national touring production. Robinson also performed on the national tours of Dreamgirls and The Wizard of Oz. On television, she appeared in the episode "Contagious" of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2005.
From May 2013 to July 2021, Robinson starred as Veronica Harrington, with albeit a high-end and classy presentation, a no-holds-barred prominent villainess on the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera, The Haves and the Have Nots. The program was produced by Tyler Perry. For her performance on The Haves and the Have Nots, Robinson received a Gracie Award for "Outstanding Female Actor - One to Watch," in 2015. For her cold, calculating rendition of Veronica Harrington, Robinson also earned the label of "Ice Queen" on OWN, the tagline for her character used in numerous OWN advertisements to fuel enthusiasm for upcoming episodes during the show's original run. The label originated from the show's considerable fanbase.
In 2021, Robinson starred as Billie Holiday in the North Carolina Theatre production of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. She set to return to television with the 2023 miniseries Lady in the Lake for Apple TV+.
Personal life
In 1996, Robinson married stage actor Scott Whitehurst. In June 2018, they adopted a son named Robinson Scott.
Filmography
References
External links
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Jacksonville, Florida
African-American actresses
American stage actresses
American soap opera actresses
Florida A&M University alumni
Living people
William M. Raines High School alumni
1963 births
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelio%20Telemetry | Fidelio Telemetry is a computer software company, located in Italy, to develop telemetry software for radio-controlled cars. Its products include "Fidelio Orchestra" and "Testbed".
Fidelio Telemetry develops telemetry software for processing and plotting telemetry data for R/C Car vehicles and RC racing setup.
History
Fidelio Telemetry was founded in 2013 and has been providing telemetry software for about 10 years. In 2015, Fidelio Telemetry claimed to have over 3000 customers.
Products
Telemetry in Radio-Controlled (R/C) Racing Car
The rise of radio controllers with telemetry support in the RC car world, combined with the opportunities offered by computer calculation, are bringing new challenges to maintaining effective tools and analyzing programs for critical data and situations. The telemetry system in the R/C world was introduced and has been in use since 2010. The radio transmitter for R/C of the previous generation is equipped with telemetry systems that can store an enormous amount of data. The Fidelio software are able to display, processing and analyze information from the following sensors:
Engine RPM
Temperature
Voltage
Throttle
Brake
Steering
The calculation modules offer the capability to evaluate variables such as:
Top speed
Dynamic response of the car (weight transfer study)
Ideal racing line
Optimal Racing Line & Camera Car support
In motorsport, the racing line or simply "the line" is the path taken by a driver through a corner or series of corners with the typical goal of minimizing lap times.
The software supports:
Camera Car monitor (linked to telemetry informations)
A computation of optimal racing line for the track drawn.
See also
Racing line
Radio control
Weight transfer
List of 2.4 GHz radio use
References
External links
Fidelio Telemetry Official Website
Radio-controlled cars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiyuki%20Sankai | Yoshiyuki Sankai (born 1958/1959) is a Japanese billionaire businessman and academic, the founder, president and CEO of the cyborg-robot maker Cyberdyne; and professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba.
Early life
Sankai has a doctorate in engineering from the University of Tsukuba.
Career
Sankai is a professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba. He is also a visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, US.
Sankai led the University of Tsukuba and Cyberdyne team that developed the HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) powered exoskeleton.
Sankai later became an international fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
Personal life
Sankai lives in Ibaraki, Japan.
References
Living people
1950s births
Japanese billionaires
Japanese inventors
University of Tsukuba alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tsukuba
Japanese chief executives
Japanese company founders
Technology company founders
20th-century Japanese businesspeople
21st-century Japanese businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan | Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and computing. It was originally developed as Mantle by AMD, but was later given to Khronos Group. It was intended to address the shortcomings of OpenGL, and allow developers more control over the GPU.
Overview
Vulkan targets high-performance real-time 3D-graphics applications, such as video games and interactive media, and highly parallelized computing. Vulkan is intended to offer higher performance and more efficient CPU and GPU usage compared to the older OpenGL and Direct3D 11 APIs. It does so by providing a considerably lower-level API for the application than the older APIs that more closely resembles how modern GPUs work.
Vulkan is comparable to Apple's Metal API and Microsoft's Direct3D 12, and is harder to use than the higher-level OpenGL and Direct3D 11 APIs. In addition to its lower CPU usage, Vulkan is designed to allow developers to better distribute work among multiple CPU cores.
Vulkan was first announced by the non-profit Khronos Group at GDC 2015. The Vulkan API was initially referred to as the "next generation OpenGL initiative", or "OpenGL next" by Khronos, but use of those names was discontinued when "Vulkan" was announced.
Vulkan is derived from and built upon components of AMD's Mantle API, which was donated by AMD to Khronos with the intent of giving Khronos a foundation on which to begin developing a low-level API that they could standardize across the industry.
Features
Vulkan is intended to provide a variety of advantages over other APIs as well as its predecessor, OpenGL. Vulkan offers lower overhead, more direct control over the GPU, and lower CPU usage. The overall concept and feature set of Vulkan is similar to concepts seen in Mantle and later adopted by Microsoft with Direct3D 12 and Apple with Metal.
Intended advantages of Vulkan over previous-generation APIs include the following:
Unified API
Vulkan provides a single API for both desktop and mobile graphics devices, whereas previously these were split between OpenGL and OpenGL ES respectively.
Cross platform
Vulkan is available on multiple modern operating systems. Like OpenGL, and in contrast to Direct3D 12, the Vulkan API is not locked to a single OS or device form factor. Vulkan runs natively on Android, Linux, BSD Unix, QNX, Haiku, Nintendo Switch,
Raspberry Pi, Stadia, Fuchsia, Tizen, and Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11.
MoltenVK provides freely-licensed third-party support for macOS, iOS and tvOS by wrapping over Apple's Metal API.
Lower CPU usage
Vulkan reduces load on CPUs through the use of batching and other low-level optimizations, therefore reducing CPU workloads and leaving the CPU free to do more computation or rendering than would otherwise be possible.
Multi-threading friendly design
Direct3D 11 and OpenGL 4 were initially designed for use with single-core CPUs and only received augmentation to be executed on multi-cores. Even when application developers use t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CISK-FM | CISK-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts Punjabi language programming at 94.3 MHz/FM, serving the Punjabi diaspora residing in Williams Lake, British Columbia. The station is owned by the Western Singh Sabha Association, which received approval from the CRTC on June 9, 2004. The station operates at 94.3 MHz with an effective radiated power of 35 watts.
References
External links
Gurdwara Sahib Western Singh Sahba
Sikhi Virsa CISK 94.3 FM
Isk
Isk
Punjabi-Canadian culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5Spike | 5Spike was a British free-to-air television channel owned by ViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia (Now Paramount Networks UK & Australia). Launching on 15 April 2015 on Freeview as just Spike, it was a localised version of the American cable channel Spike (now Paramount Network), and became a multiplex channel of Channel 5 in 2017 when it renamed as 5Spike. It primarily aired entertainment programmes, including action and drama series, police documentaries, and programming from its U.S. counterpart, as well as mixed martial arts.
On 7 January 2020, the network was discontinued, with Paramount Network assuming its channel placements and programming
History
Following Viacom's acquisition of Channel 5, it was reported that a local version of the male-skewing U.S. channel Spike would be launching in the United Kingdom. These reports were confirmed in late 2014, with the channel proposed to replace Viva on Freeview. The channel was operated under the auspices of Channel 5's programming director Ben Frow; of Spike's lineup, he described the service as a "driven, high-energy channel offering a point of view and program mix I think is different from anything else on British TV right now."
Spike launched on 15 April 2015 on Freeview channel 31, displacing 5USA; although it was originally announced that Spike would replace Viva entirely on Freeview, Viva was instead moved to a different channel and reduced to two hours per day to conserve bandwidth for Spike, with 5USA taking on its previous channel allotment. Among its first programmes, the premiere of Police Interceptors Unleashed was seen by 137,000 viewers.
On 31 October 2017, Spike was rebranded as 5Spike to more closely associate itself with its sister channels and the Channel 5 brand.
A British version of Spike's successor in the US, Paramount Network, was launched on 4 July 2018. On 7 January 2020, 5Spike was merged with Paramount Network. The 5Spike name was discontinued with the Paramount Network assuming its channel positions on Freeview, Sky (including its +1 timeshift channel) and Virgin Media, and with the programming changed to reflect that of 5Spike, with more male-skewering shows and action movies.
Programming
The channel's lineup drew primarily from the original programmes produced by its U.S counterpart, including Catch a Contractor and Lip Sync Battle among others. The channel also aired imported U.S dramas, from modern dramas such as Breaking Bad (notably marking the first time the entire series would be broadcast by British television; only the first two seasons were shown by Fox and 5 USA, with the remainder available via Netflix), Sons of Anarchy, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and The Walking Dead, to classic shows such as The X-Files, The A-Team and Knight Rider. Spike also carried original British productions, such as Police Interceptors Unleashed (a spin-off of the Channel 5 series), and repeats of some of Channel 5's factual programmes.
As in the U.S, mixed-martia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacVTap | MacVTap is a Linux kernel device driver that facilitates virtualized bridged networking. Typically, it is used in virtualized environments to make both the guest and the host show up directly on the network switch the host is connected to, and to improve throughput and latencies to external systems.
See also
TUN/TAP
References
Linux drivers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic%20Torrents | Academic Torrents is a website which enables the sharing of research data using the BitTorrent protocol. The site was founded in November 2013, and is a project of the Institute for Reproducible Research (a 501(c)3 U.S. non-profit corporation).
The project is said to be similar to LOCKSS but with a focus on "offering researchers the opportunity to distribute the hosting of their papers and datasets to authors and readers, providing easy access to scholarly works and simultaneously backing them up on computers around the world."
Notable datasets
Developing Human Connectome Project
The developing Human Connectome Project which is related to the Human Connectome Project uses the platform. "Researchers from three leading British institutions are using BitTorrent to share over 150 GB of unique high-resolution brain scans of unborn babies with colleagues worldwide... The researchers opted to go for the Academic Torrents tracker, which specializes in sharing research data"
CrossRef metadata
The site hosts public metadata releases from Crossref which contain over 120+ million metadata records for scholarly work, which each have a DOI. This was done so to allow the community to work with the entire database programmatically instead of using their API. "The sheer number of records means that, though anyone can use these records anytime, downloading them all via our APIs can be quite time-consuming. We hope this saves the research community valuable time during this crisis."
See also
Digital library
Digital preservation
References
BitTorrent websites
Creative Commons-licensed works
Open-access archives
Scholarly communication
Open science
Collaborative software
Open data
Academic publishing
Data publishing
Institutional repository software
501(c)(3) organizations
Access to Knowledge movement
American digital libraries
Foundations based in the United States
Metascience-related organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ius%20Laboris | Ius Laboris is a global alliance of law firms that specialise in employment, labour, immigration and pensions law. The network has over 1,500 HR lawyers based in 59 countries across Europe, the Americas, Middle East and Asia. Ius Laboris member firms advise HR professionals and legal counsel internationally on their HR legal requirements.
History
Ius Laboris was established in 2001 by a group of labour and employment lawyers from Belgium, France, Spain, Luxembourg and Italy. In 2021, the alliance covers 59 countries across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The current Chairman is Pascal Lagoutte and the Executive Director is Sam Everatt.
Specialisation
Members of the network offer legal advice in their respective countries and on the following areas:
Employment Rights
Restructuring and Labour Relations
Immigration and Global Mobility
Pay and Benefits
Data Privacy
Discrimination
Health and Safety
Pensions
Members
Rankings and awards
Band 1 - Employment: The Elite in Global-wide - Chambers and Partners (2020)
Highly commended - Global Network of the Year - The Lawyer European Awards (2020)
References
External links
Ius Laboris official site
Global HR Law Guide official website
Law firms of Belgium
International organisations based in Belgium
International law organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL-VITAL | In computer chip design and manufacture VHDL-VITAL or simply VITAL, VHDL Initiative Towards ASIC Libraries, refers to the IEEE Standard 1076.4 Timing.
References
Hardware description languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20Anas | Abu Anas can refer to:
Abu Anas al-Shami (1969–2004), real name Omar Yusef Juma'a, Palestinian jihadist from Kuwait
Abu Anas al-Libi (1964–2015), real name Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai'i, computer specialist for Al-Qaeda from Libya
Muhannad (jihadist) (1969–2011), real name Melfi Al Hussaini Al Harbi, nom de guerre Abu Anas, a mujahid emir (commander) of Chechnya
See also
Anas (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20learning%20with%20errors | In post-quantum cryptography, ring learning with errors (RLWE) is a computational problem which serves as the foundation of new cryptographic algorithms, such as NewHope, designed to protect against cryptanalysis by quantum computers and also to provide the basis for homomorphic encryption. Public-key cryptography relies on construction of mathematical problems that are believed to be hard to solve if no further information is available, but are easy to solve if some information used in the problem construction is known. Some problems of this sort that are currently used in cryptography are at risk of attack if sufficiently large quantum computers can ever be built, so resistant problems are sought. Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption that allows computation on ciphertext, such as arithmetic on numeric values stored in an encrypted database.
RLWE is more properly called learning with errors over rings and is simply the larger learning with errors (LWE) problem specialized to polynomial rings over finite fields. Because of the presumed difficulty of solving the RLWE problem even on a quantum computer, RLWE based cryptography may form the fundamental base for public-key cryptography in the future just as the integer factorization and discrete logarithm problem have served as the base for public key cryptography since the early 1980s. An important feature of basing cryptography on the ring learning with errors problem is the fact that the solution to the RLWE problem can be used to solve a version of the shortest vector problem (SVP) in a lattice (a polynomial-time reduction from this SVP problem to the RLWE problem has been presented).
Background
The security of modern cryptography, in particular public-key cryptography, is based on the assumed intractability of solving certain computational problems if the size of the problem is large enough and the instance of the problem to be solved is chosen randomly. The classic example that has been used since the 1970s is the integer factorization problem. It is believed that it is computationally intractable to factor the product of two prime numbers if those prime numbers are large enough and chosen at random. As of 2015 research has led to the factorization of the product of two 384-bit primes but not the product of two 512-bit primes. Integer factorization forms the basis of the widely used RSA cryptographic algorithm.
The ring learning with errors (RLWE) problem is built on the arithmetic of polynomials with coefficients from a finite field. A typical polynomial is expressed as:
Polynomials can be added and multiplied in the usual fashion. In the RLWE context the coefficients of the polynomials and all operations involving those coefficients will be done in a finite field, typically the field for a prime integer . The set of polynomials over a finite field with the operations of addition and multiplication forms an infinite polynomial ring (). The RLWE context works with a fin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alif%20the%20Unseen | Alif the Unseen is a 2012 cyberpunk fantasy novel by American writer G. Willow Wilson. In the novel, a Middle Eastern hacker named Alif discovers a book of djinn tales which may lead to a new age of quantum computing. The novel won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
Plot Summary
In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, the hacker Alif discovers that his love interest Intisar is entering an arranged marriage with another man. He creates a computer program, Tin Sari, to identify Intisar’s digital footprint and block her from seeing him online. Alif’s computer is attacked by The Hand, a prince who seeks to identify and imprison dissidents. The Hand is also Intisar's fiancé. Unable to contact Alif online, Intisar sends him a book.
Alif is stalked by secret police, causing him to flee with his neighbor Dina. They seek out a gang leader named Vikram the Vampire for protection. They are rescued by two djinn: Vikram and his sister Azalel, who had been living as Alif and Dina's housecat. Vikram reveals that Intisar’s book, the Alf Yeom, is a collection of djinn tales containing powerful secrets.
They meet a convert who specializes in antique books, and they learn that The Hand is seeking the Alf Yeom. Dina, the convert, Alif, and Vikram seek shelter from the police in a mosque. Alif decodes the Alf Yeom and attempts to create a quantum computer. Dina and the convert escape, Vikram is killed, and Alif is captured and interrogated by The Hand. Months later, he is rescued by NewQuarter01, a prince and hacker. Alif learns that his public arrest has become a cause célèbre for anti-regime activists.
Alif reunites with Dina and the convert in the djinn city of Irem. Vikram died during the escape, but the convert is pregnant with his child; she uses this status to assure the cooperation of Vikram's allies. In the City, The Hand’s attempt to replicate Alif’s quantum computer has failed, leading to massive Internet outages and riots in the streets. Alif uses Tin Sari to counteract the Hand’s control of the City’s infrastructure and restore Internet Access to the City, further assisting the rioters. As Alif's djinn allies battle The Hand's, The Hand is identified and lynched by rioters. Alif and Dina escape.
Reception
Alif the Unseen received positive reviews. The New York Times described it as a genre-defying work, with elements of fantasy, dystopian fiction, techno-thriller, and Islamic mysticism. The Times called the novel "a resounding, heterodox alternative" to American fiction which is often safe and provincial. Publishers Weekly praised the juxtaposition of Arab mythology and modern-day computer theory, as well as the novel's exploration of the cultural conflicts between the East and the West. This was echoed by other reviews, which praised the way in which the novel combined the threads of technology and religion. Others praised the novel's handling of relevant societal concerns, as well as Wilson's storytelling and characterization. Salon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARV | Sarbaz Velayat, is an Iranian future soldier program which was unveiled in late 2014 at the IPAS-2014 exhibition. It aims to provide soldiers with new individual communications, data management computer, navigation systems, new body armor and helmets, new 5.56mm assault rifle and advanced weapon accessories. The program is expected to be expensive, and it is anticipated to become operational in near future within special operation forces within the IRGC. The system includes protective gear including integrated sensors and a wrist-worn computer for real-time video access to the unit commander, as well as data about health status, ammunition, and other pertinent information broadcast to the commander to better assess the battlefield scenario and assist in decision making.
References
Projects established in 2014
Future soldier programs
Military of Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Muglia | Bob Muglia (born 1959) is an American business executive and research and development specialist. He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake Computing, a data warehousing startup. Muglia is known for managing divisions at Microsoft that supported the Microsoft Office Suite, Windows Server and MSN Network product families. He was one of four presidents that reported directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Muglia held several executive positions at Microsoft before resigning from the company in 2011. He worked briefly for Juniper Networks, then accepted his position as CEO of Snowflake Computing in June 2014.
Early life
Bob Muglia was born in 1959 in Connecticut. His father was an automotive parts salesman. Muglia started working at his first job when he was 15 years old. He moved to Michigan and earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1981. After graduating, he started working for ROLM Corporation.
Career
Microsoft
Windows and business software
Bob Muglia started his Microsoft career in 1988. He was the first product manager for SQL Server. Muglia also served as the director of Windows NT Program Management and User Education. He was promoted to vice president of the Windows NT division in October 1995. Muglia later held the position of vice president of the Server Application group, until he was promoted to senior vice president of the Applications and Tools group in February 1998.
Bob Muglia was influential in a corporate restructuring at Microsoft in 1999, which assigned business divisions to customer types, rather than technologies. As part of the re-structuring, Muglia became head of the business-productivity group, which oversaw Microsoft Office, Exchange and other business software. According to Computer Reseller News, Muglia pushed developers to visit customers, created customer advisory boards and led other efforts to incorporate customer input into product development at Microsoft.
Muglia testified in the United States v. Microsoft Corp. antitrust lawsuit, and in a case between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems regarding Microsoft's use of Java. According to New York Times reporters Steve Lohr and Koel Brinkley, the judge embarrassed Muglia by rebuking him for his persistent characterization of an email from Bill Gates. Muglia also negotiated aggressively with RealNetworks, regarding an antitrust dispute between the two companies.
In August 2000, Muglia was appointed to vice president of a new .NET Services Group. The following year he was reassigned to focus on database technologies as senior vice president of the Enterprise Storage Services Group. He helped develop Microsoft's plan for autonomic computing, which was announced in March 2003. By early 2004, Muglia held the position of senior vice president of the Windows Server Division.
Servers and tools division
Another re-organization at Microsoft in 2005 resulted in Muglia taking the position of Senior Vice President of Servers and Tool |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Protection%20Act%2C%202012 | The Data Protection Act, 2012 (The Act) is legislation enacted by the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana to protect the privacy and personal data of individuals. It regulates the process personal information is acquired, kept, used or disclosed by data controllers and data processors by requiring compliance with certain data protection principles. Non compliance with provisions of the Act may attract either civil liability, or criminal sanctions, or both, depending on the nature of the infraction. The Act also establishes a Data Protection Commission, which is mandated to ensure compliance with its provisions, as well as maintain the Data Protection Register.
History
The Act was first introduced in the Ghana Parliament in 2010, but was subsequently withdrawn by the then Minister of Communications, Haruna Iddrisu, to be revised. Parliament passed the bill in 2012, which then received Presidential assent on May 10, 2012. The notice of the Act was gazetted on 18 May 2012, and in accordance with Section 99, the Act came into effect on 16 October 2012.
Structure
The Act is made up of 99 sections that are arranged under various headings, as follows:
Key terms
Key terms in the Act are defined in the interpretation section, section 96. Unless the context otherwise requires, section 96 provides the following definitions to the notable terms:
“data controller” means a person who either alone, jointly with other persons or in common with other persons or as a statutory duty determines the purposes for and the manner in which personal data is processed or is to be processed
“data processor” in relation to personal data means any person other than an employee of the data controller who processes the data on behalf of the data controller
“data subject” means an individual who is the subject of personal data
“foreign data subject” means data subject information regulated by laws of a foreign jurisdiction sent into Ghana from a foreign jurisdiction wholly for processing
“personal data” means data about an individual who can be identified,(a) from the data, or (b) from the data or other information in the possession of, or likely to come into the possession of the data controller
“processing” means an operation or activity or set of operations by automatic or other means that concerns data or personal data and the
(a) collection, organisation, adaptation or alteration of the information or data,
(b) retrieval, consultation or use of the information or data,
(c) disclosure of the information or data by transmission, dissemination or other means available, or
(d) alignment, combination, blocking, erasure or destruction of the information or data
“recipient” means a person to whom data is disclosed, including an employee or agent of the data controller or the data processor to whom data is disclosed in the course of processing the data for the data controller, but does not include a person to whom disclosure is made with respect to a particular inquiry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Berghammer | Rudolf Berghammer (born 1952 in Oberndorf, Germany) is a German mathematician who works in computer science.
Life
Rudolf Berghammer worked as an electrician at the Farbwerke Hoechst, Kelheim, from 1966 until 1970. He began studying Mathematics and Computer Science in 1973 at TU München. His academic teachers were Friedrich L. Bauer, Klaus Samelson, Gottfried Tinhofer, and Gunther Schmidt. After obtaining his diploma in 1979, he started working as an assistant mainly to Gunther Schmidt and Friedrich L. Bauer at TU München where he obtained his award-winning Ph.D. in 1984. From 1988 on, he worked as an assistant to Gunther Schmidt at the Faculty for Computer Science of the Universität der Bundeswehr München, where he finally got his habilitation in 1990. Since 1993 he is a professor for Computer-aided Program Development at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kiel.
Work
For many years he has served as head of the steering committee of the international RAMiCS conference series (formerly termed RelMiCS).
Rudolf Berghammer is known for his work in relational mathematics, or Formal Methods of Programming, Semantics, Relational Methods in Computer Science. He developed the RelView system for the manipulation and visualisation of relations and relational programming.
For instance, in 2019 he was coauthor of "Cryptomorphic topological structures: a computational relation algebraic approach".
This work relates the classical neighborhood system approach to topology to closure operators, kernel operators, and Aumann contact relations. The formulation of one approach to another is done with calculus of relations. The article notes the contributions of RelView experiments with finite topologies, for instance for a set with seven elements, 9,535,241 topologies are tested. (see § 9).
Personal
One of his hobbies is mountaineering. In his youth he climbed Ortler or Piz Bernina and other noted summits. He is an active climber spending several days in the alps every year. Furthermore he is an enthusiastic sailor owning a own sailing vessel in the baltic sea.
Written books
Semantik von Programmiersprachen, Logos Verlag, 2001,
Ordnungen, Verbände und Relationen mit Anwendungen, Springer,
Mathematik für Informatiker: Grundlegende Begriffe und Strukturen, Springer, , (eBook)
Editorships
1991: (with Gunther Schmidt) Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #570, Proc. 17th Intern. Workshop WG '91, Richterheim Fischbachau, ,
2003: .
2008: .
2009: .
2014: .
References
External links
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Berghammer at Christian Albrechts Universität Kiel with access to a full list of publications and talks
Rudolf Berghammer at researchr.org
1952 births
21st-century German mathematicians
Academic staff of Bundeswehr University Munich
Computer science educators
Computer science writers
Formal methods people
Academic staff of the University of Kiel
German computer scientists
German textbook |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202008%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2008 in music
List of number-one singles of 2008 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2008 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2008
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20video | Native video is video that is uploaded to or created on social networks and played in-feed, as opposed to links to videos hosted on other sites. Native video formats are specific to each social platform and are designed to maximise video engagement (i.e. number of views), discovery and distribution. The most widely used native video platforms include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
References
Real-time web
Social media
Mobile content
Advertising |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit%20Galloway%20and%20Sherrie%20Rabinowitz | Kit Galloway (born 1948) and Sherrie Rabinowitz (1950–2013) met in 1975 and worked collaboratively under the name Mobile Image. They co-founded the Electronic Café International (ECI), a cafe, networking centre, performance and workshop space and art hub in Santa Monica, California. Until Rabinowitz's death, they created numerous art works which could be categorized as communication aesthetics, telematic art and digital theatre
References
New media artists
20th-century American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%20v.%20Marquan%20M. | People v. Marquan M., 2014 WL 2931482 (Ct. App. NY July 1, 2014) was the first case in which a US court weighed the constitutionality of criminalizing cyberbullying. In People v. Marquan M., the New York Court of Appeals struck down an Albany County law that criminalized cyberbullying, declaring its restrictions overly broad and thus in violation of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.
Background
Historical context
As access to the internet and other information technology has become widespread, there has been a rise in the use of these technologies to bully others, particularly among children and teenagers. This online bullying has been termed cyberbullying, defined as "using the Internet, cell phones or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person" by the National Crime Prevention Council. Following several cyberbullying cases where the victim committed suicide, states have pursued both educational and legislative approaches to combating the phenomenon. By 2011, over forty-five US states had implemented laws against digital harassment, although many of these were focused on school policies for dealing with bullying and harassment, rather than criminalizing cyberbullying.
However, in 2010, the Albany County legislature introduced a law that criminalized cyberbullying to fight the growing problem.
Facts of the case
In 2010, the Albany County Legislature introduced the offense of cyberbullying to address "non-physical bullying behaviors transmitted by electronic means[.]" The law defined cyberbullying as The law made cyberbullying a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to one year in jail with a $1000 fine.
One month after the law went into effect, the defendant Marquan M., a 16-year-old high school student, created a Facebook page under a pseudonym where he posted photos of classmates accompanied by descriptions of their alleged sexual practices, partners, and other personal information. After a police investigation determined that the defendant was the one responsible for the content, he was charged with cyberbullying under the Albany County law.
Procedural history
At trial, Marquan M. filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the law violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment because it was overbroad and unlawfully vague. Specifically, the defendant contended that the law was overbroad because it proscribed protected expression and unlawfully vague because it failed to give fair notice to the public. Following the City Court's denial of his motion to dismiss, the defendant pleaded guilty, but raised constitutional arguments on appeal. The County Court affirmed the City Court's denial of the motion to dismiss and held that the law did not violate the defendant's First Amendment rights. The county found that while parts of law are invalid, they are nonetheless severable, rendering the remainder of the law constitutional if interpreted in a restrictive manner. The New Y |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Moody%20%28sportscaster%29 | David Wayne Moody (born March 25, 1961) is an American motorsports commentator who works for the Motor Racing Network (MRN). He is the lead turn announcer for MRN and has worked for the radio network on and off since 1983. He moved to MRN full-time in 1997 and became the lead turn announcer in 2001. Since 2003, Moody has been the host of the radio show SiriusXM Speedway on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Early years
Born in Barre City, Vermont, Moody discovered auto racing when his uncle, Doug MacDonald, took him to the local Thunder Road Speedbowl. The track was owned by MRN co-founder Ken Squier. After being hired by CBS Sports to serve as their NASCAR anchorman, Squier selected Moody to replace him as the track's public address announcer. "I still don’t know how he picked me," said Moody. "He may have read some of my newspaper columns and thought I had a workable vocabulary. More likely, I was just standing there with my finger in my nose and he figured, 'this is a kid with time on his hands.'"
David used to announce for high school basketball, hockey, and football games from the time he was young.
Motor Racing Network
Beginning
With Squier's endorsement, Moody debuted for MRN in the 1983 Daytona 500 as a garage reporter. "I think it was one of the only Daytona 500s in history where nobody blew up, nobody crashed and nobody even spun," he recalled. "I sat down there all day long, praying for someone to talk to. I eventually got a couple minutes of airtime, but that was about it." Moody worked as a turn announcer for the first time in 1987, during the Gatorade 125's at Daytona International Speedway. Later, he called Darrell Waltrip through Turns three and four, en route to Victory Lane in the Daytona 500.
Present
Moody worked part-time for MRN until 1997, when he was hired to work weekly as a turn announcer. He took over the lead turn announcer's position in 2001, when Joe Moore moved to the anchor booth when Allen Bestwick transitioned to television with NBC. Moody has also worked in the anchor booth on occasion with Moore, replacing veteran Barney Hall.
Role
Moody is the lead turn announcer for MRN, calling the first and second turns for the network's broadcasts of NASCAR Cup Series, XFINITY and Camping World Truck Series race events. He is known for his high-energy, play-by-play commentary and his distinctive call, "Trouble in Turn Two!" Moody does not work the west coast races, due to travel concerns impacting his ability to host the Friday "SiriusXM Speedway" program. He is usually replaced on those race broadcasts by California native Dan Hubbard. Moody also serves as booth anchor for selected XFINITY and Camping World Truck Series companion events.
SiriusXM
Since 2003, Moody has hosted the nationally syndicated Sirius XM show Sirius XM Speedway on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. "Our first show was the day after Matt Kenseth won the championship. You couldn’t have picked a worse time to start a racing show. It was the end of the season. All of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Havasi | Catherine Havasi (born 1981) is an American scientist who specialises in artificial intelligence (AI) at MIT Media Lab. She is co-founder and CEO of AI company Luminoso. Havasi was a member of the MIT group engaged in the Open Mind Common Sense (also known as OMCS) AI project and that created the natural language AI program ConceptNet.
Early life and education
Havasi grew up in Pittsburgh and became interested in artificial intelligence from reading Marvin Minsky's 1986 book The Society of Mind. She attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became involved in the MIT Media Lab and studied under Minsky. She received a Ph.D in computer science from Brandeis University.
Career
In 1999, she became involved in the MIT project Open Mind Common Sense with Minsky and Push Singh, and was part of a team that created ConceptNet, an open-source semantic network based on the information in the OMCS database.
In 2010, Havasi was among the team that founded Luminoso, a text analytics software company building on the work of ConceptNet.
Havasi was named among Boston Business Journal'''s "40 Under 40", of business and civic leaders making a major impact in their respective fields in 2014. Fast Company included her in its "100 Most Creative People in Business 2015" listing.
She is co-author of 7 peer-reviewed journal articles on AI and language, and many per-reviewed major conference presentations,
Selected publications
Most cited publication
Cambria, Erik, Bjorn Schuller, Yunqing Xia, and Catherine Havasi. "New avenues in opinion mining and sentiment analysis." IEEE Journal of Intelligent Systems 28, no. 2 (2013): 15-21. (cited 701 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)
Havasi, Catherine, Robert Speer, and Jason Alonso. "ConceptNet 3: a flexible, multilingual semantic network for common sense knowledge." In Recent advances in natural language processing, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2007. pp. 27-29.Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2007. (cited 341 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)
Speer, Robert, and Catherine Havasi. "Representing General Relational Knowledge in ConceptNet 5."In LREC, pp. 3679–3686. 2012. (cited 227 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)
Other publications
Catherine Havasi, Robert Speer, James Pustejovsky, and Henry Lieberman.'Digital Intuition: Applying Common Sense Using Dimensionality Reduction. IEEE Journal of Intelligent Systems, 24(4) July 2009. (cited 97 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)
Robert Speer, Catherine Havasi, and Henry Lieberman.AnalogySpace: Reducing the dimensionality of common sense knowledge.'' Proceedings of AAAI vol. 8, pp. 548–553.2008, July 2008. (cited 193 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)
References
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
American consciousness researchers and theorists
1981 births
American computer scientists
Massachuse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Portable%20Intermediate%20Representation | Standard Portable Intermediate Representation (SPIR) is an intermediate language for parallel computing and graphics by Khronos Group. It is used in multiple execution environments, including the Vulkan graphics API and the OpenCL compute API, to represent a shader or kernel. It is also used as an interchange language for cross compilation.
SPIR-V was introduced in 2015 by the Khronos Group, and has since replaced the original SPIR, which was introduced in 2012.
Purpose
The purposes of SPIR-V are to natively represent the primitives needed by compute and graphics; to separate high-level language from the interface to compute and graphics drivers; to be the distribution form, or distribute fully compiled binaries; to be a fully self-contained specification; and to support multiple APIs. It is also used as an intermediate target for cross-compilation tools.
For example, SPIR-V allows the Vulkan API to use any shading language, including GLSL and HLSL. SPIR-V can be compiled into several shading languages (GLSL, GLSL ES, MSL, HLSL) using SPIRV-Cross, so that these languages can be interconverted. It also has paths to and/or from WebGPU, OpenCL, SYCL, C++, and Rust.
In target platforms, ingesting SPIR-V removes the need to build a high-level language source compiler into device drivers, which reduces driver complexity.
Versions
SPIR was originally introduced in 2011 and SPIR-V was introduced in 2015.
LLVM-based versions
SPIR prior to the 2015 SPIR-V release was based on the LLVM Intermediate Representation. A provisional specification for SPIR 1.0 was announced in 2012. On July 22, 2013, a provisional specification SPIR 1.2 was announced at SIGGRAPH 2013. The final SPIR 1.2 specification was released at HiPEAC 2014 on January 21, 2014. On August 11, 2014, a provisional specification for SPIR 2.0 was released at SIGGRAPH 2014. SPIR-V does not use LLVM.
SPIR-V
SPIR-V 1.0 is a new version of SPIR announced in March 2015, and released on November 16, 2015. The SPIR family now includes a true cross-API standard that is fully defined by Khronos with native support for shader and kernel features.
A separate program by the Khronos Group allows for interconversion with LLVM IR.
Support for ingestion of SPIR-V is incorporated in the core specification of OpenCL 2.1, the Vulkan API, and OpenGL version 4.6.
Features
SPIR-V is a high-level intermediate language, exchanged in binary form. Functions are represented by a control-flow graph of basic blocks, using static single assignment (SSA) form. Data structures retain high-level hierarchical representation. It is not lossy like previous byte-code or virtual machine-like intermediate representations used for graphical shaders. This allows closer to optimum performance on the target devices.
Extensibility
SPIR-V can be extended by writing extensions to add semantics, or reserving ranges of the token values for the party's use. Vendors can independently add desired semantics to SPIR-V. Additional sets of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Australian%20television%20ratings%20for%202015 | Australian television ratings are measured by the ratings mediator OzTAM, a system that is operated and owned by the Seven Network, Nine Network and Ten Network and was created in 1999. Ratings are measured for around forty weeks of every year, but are not measured during the Australian summer period or at Easter. Ratings are measured for the 5 city metropolitan area, which includes the five states Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney and Perth. The five major networks (ABC, Seven, Nine, Ten and SBS) are competitive during the time when ratings are measured, for both total viewers and scoring highly in the three key demographics, where they must aim to appeal to 16- to 39-year-olds (younger viewers), 18- to 49-year-olds (the majority) and 25- to 54-year-olds (older viewers). At the end of every week during the ratings season, the network share average (%) for each of the major networks is released, as well as the network that scored highest in the three key demographics. Then, at the end of the year, the data for every week is looked at to compile an overall winner in both categories.
Historically, Seven Network has largely been the winner by having the highest number of total viewers, while Nine Network normally wins all three of the key demographics. These two networks are typically placed first and second, respectively. ABC had long been the fourth placed national network, until 2013, when Network Ten began to fall in the ratings.
Network shares
Weekly ratings
From the week beginning, February 8, 2015.
Weekly key demographics
From the week beginning, February 8, 2015.
Key demographics shares
See also
Television ratings in Australia
References
2015
2015 in Australian television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West-East%20Bag | West-East Bag (WEB) was an international women artists network active from 1971 to 1973.
West-East Bag formed towards the beginning of the feminist art movement in the United States. Sources differ as to the exact origin of WEB. In one account, artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro formed the idea with art critic Lucy R. Lippard in April 1971 after visiting the exhibition 26 Women Artists. A second account places New York Times art writer Grace Glueck at the formation and a third has Chicago and Schapiro meeting Lippard, Marcia Tucker and Ellen Lanyon during a lecture trip. Lippard recalls mentioning East Coast Bag while talking to Chicago, who replied "ah ha, if you're going to say East Coast Bag then we're going to call it West East Bag instead of East West Bag, because the west coast came first."
In 1971, West-East Bag published the first issue of their newsletter W.E.B. to link efforts in their home cities. The inaugural issue made mention of tactics used against museums to protest the lack of women artists in their collections and exhibitions. Schapiro (Los Angeles), Lippard (New York), and Ellen Lanyon (Chicago) took turns producing the then-monthly newsletter.
Like the Ad Hoc Women Artists' Committee before them, the group encouraged chapters to set up slide registries, creating an archive of the work of women artists on photographic slides. WEB slide registries were created in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. WEB members also held consciousness raising sessions and organized protests of their local art institutions.
Local chapters such as Boston and Chicago published their own WEB newsletters, sponsored conferences, and organized monthly meetings. By April 1972, Chicago's WEB chapter had sponsored a series of conferences that led to the formation of feminist arts organizations across the Midwest. WEB members in Chicago organized the first women artists' conference there, Artists Meet in Spring 1973.
West-East Bag laid the foundation for a series of cooperatively run women's galleries, starting with A.I.R. Gallery in 1972. West-East Bag grew to include representatives from 52 cities and eight countries. By 1973, WEB ceased being active on a national level.
See also
Women's Art Movement, an Australian movement
References
Arts organizations established in 1971
Feminist art organizations in the United States
Newsletters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaclass%20%28Semantic%20Web%29 | In the Semantic Web and in knowledge representation, a metaclass is a class whose instances can themselves be classes. Similar to their role in programming languages, metaclasses in Semantic Web languages can have properties otherwise applicable only to individuals, while retaining the same class's ability to be classified in a concept hierarchy. This enables knowledge about instances of those metaclasses to be inferred by semantic reasoners using statements made in the metaclass. Metaclasses thus enhance the expressivity of knowledge representations in a way that can be intuitive for users. While classes are suitable to represent a population of individuals, metaclasses can, as one of their feature, be used to represent the conceptual dimension of an ontology. Metaclasses are supported in the ontology language OWL and the data-modeling vocabulary RDFS.
Metaclasses are often modeled by setting them as the object of claims involving rdf:type and rdfs:subClassOf—built-in properties commonly referred to as instance of and subclass of. Instance of entails that the subject of the claim is an instance, i.e. an individual that is a member of a class. Subclass of entails that the subject is a class. In the context of instance of and subclass of, the key difference between metaclasses and ordinary classes is that metaclasses are the object of instance of claims used on a class, while ordinary classes are not objects of such claims. (e.g. in a claim Bob instance of Human, Bob is the subject and an Instance, while the object, Human, is an ordinary class; but a further claim that Human instance of Animal species makes "Animal species" a metaclass because it has a member, "Human", that is also a Class).
OWL 2 DL supports metaclasses by a feature called punning, in which one entity is interpreted as two different types of thing—a class and an individual—depending on its syntactic context. For example, through punning, an ontology could have a concept hierarchy such as Harry the eagle instance of golden eagle, golden eagle subclass of bird, and golden eagle instance of species. In this case, the punned entity would be golden eagle, because it is represented as a class (second claim) and an instance (third claim); whereas the metaclass would be species, as it has an instance that is a class. Punning also enables other properties that would otherwise be applicable only to ordinary instances to be used directly on classes, for example "golden eagle conservation status least concern."
Having arisen from the fields of knowledge representation, description logic and formal ontology, Semantic Web languages have a closer relationship to philosophical ontology than do conventional programming languages such as Java or Python. Accordingly, the nature of metaclasses is informed by philosophical notions such as abstract objects, the abstract and concrete, and type-token distinction. Metaclasses permit concepts to be construed as tokens of other concepts whil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetish%20Con | Fetish Con is an annual trade show focusing on networking within the adult entertainment industry. The trade show include lectures for the general public and retail sales of adult clothing and toys. Founders Genesis Lynn, Vesta and Mike came up with the idea when they started sharing shoots with each other in 2000.
Many of Fetish Con's attendees are people who practice fetishism and BDSM or have an interest in it. The event was first held in 2001 and it has been produced by XIX Events since its inception. Fetish Con moved to Tampa, Florida, in 2004 and to St. Petersburg, Florida, in 2015.
Dates and locations
References
External links
2001 establishments in the United States
Erotic events
Recurring events established in 2001
Sexuality in Florida
Trade shows in the United States
Events in St. Petersburg, Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaclass%20%28disambiguation%29 | In programming languages, a metaclass is a class whose instances are classes.
Metaclass may also refer to:
Metaclass (Semantic Web), a class whose instances are other classes instead of individuals
See also
Class (disambiguation)
Meta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuprl | Nuprl is a proof development system, providing computer-mediated analysis and proofs of formal mathematical statements, and tools for software verification and optimization. Originally developed in the 1980s by Robert Lee Constable and others, the system is now maintained by the PRL Project at Cornell University. The currently supported version, Nuprl 5, is also known as FDL (Formal Digital Library). Nuprl functions as an automated theorem proving system and can also be used to provide proof assistance.
Design
Nuprl uses a type system based on Martin-Löf intuitionistic type theory to model mathematical statements in a digital library. Mathematical theories can be constructed and analyzed with a variety of editors, including a graphical user interface, a web-based editor, and an Emacs mode. A variety of evaluators and inference engines can operate on the statements in the library. Translators also allow statements to be manipulated with Java and OCaml programs. The overall system is controlled with a variant of ML.
Nuprl 5's architecture is described as "distributed open architecture" and intended primarily to be used as a web service rather than as standalone software. Those interested in using the web service, or migrating theories from older versions of Nuprl, can contact the email address given on the Nuprl System web page.
History
Nuprl was first released in 1984, and was first described in detail in the book Implementing Mathematics with the Nuprl Proof Development System, published in 1986. Nuprl 2 was the first Unix version. Nuprl 3 provided machine proof for mathematical problems related to Girard's paradox and Higman's lemma. Nuprl 4, the first version developed for the World Wide Web, was used to verify cache coherency protocols and other computer systems.
The current system architecture, implemented in Nuprl 5, was first proposed in a 2000 conference paper. A reference manual for Nuprl 5 was published in 2002. Nuprl has been the subject of many computer science publications.
Successors
Both the JonPRL and RedPRL systems are also based on computational type theory. RedPRL is explicitly "inspired by Nuprl".
References
External links
PRL Project web page. The current maintainers of Nuprl have extensive documentation and publications on Nuprl.
A User-Level Introduction to the Nuprl Proof Development System (2001 paper at the University of Pennsylvania Scholarly Commons)
RedPRL web page
Automated theorem proving
Proof assistants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20CNN | This is a list of news programs broadcast by CNN. CNN is a 24-hour cable news network founded by media mogul Ted Turner. The network debuted on June 1, 1980.
Current programming
Weekday programming
New programming
Saturday programming
* New programming
Sunday programming
Broadcast specials
CNN Newsroom-International (simulcast on CNNI outside of primetime hours during breaking news events of major significance)
Election Night in America (flagship banner for CNN's election coverage, simulcast on CNNI)
New Year's Eve Live (annual coverage of Times Square's ball drop festivities, simulcast on CNNI)
Original Series
Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico (2023-present)
Special Programming
CNN Heroes (2007–present)
Future programming
See It Loud: The History of Black Television
King Charles
Columbia: The Final Flight
TinderBox: Great Moments in Pop Culture
Spy Wars
Gorbachev
Former programming
Original Series
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013–18)
Believer (2017)
Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta (2019)
Chicagoland (2014)
Cold War (1998)
Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies (2016–19)
The Hunt With John Walsh (2014–17)
The Kennedys (2018)
Long Road to Hell: America in Iraq (2015)
The Messy Truth with Van Jones (2016 documentary series and 2017 studio programs)
Millennium (1999)
Morgan Spurlock Inside Man (2013–16)
The Movies (2019)
Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History (2018)
The Radical Story of Patty Hearst (2018)
The Redemption Project with Van Jones (2019)
Somebody's Gotta Do It (2014–16)
This Is Life with Lisa Ling (2014–22)
United Shades of America (2016–22)
The Wonder List with Bill Weir (2015–17) (moved to CNN+ in 2022)
Christiane Amanpour Sex & Love Around the World (2018)
The Story of Late Night (2021)
First Ladies (2020)
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (2021–22)
History of Sitcom (2021)
Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury (2021)
Special Programming
CNN Republican Town Hall with Donald Trump (May 11, 2023)
CNN Films
Blackfish (2013)
Holy Hell (2016)
Love, Gilda (2018)
RBG (2018)
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
Now More than Ever: The History of Chicago (2017)
Unseen Enemy (2017) – CNN Films; 1 part; premiered on April 7, 2017
On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries (2020)
Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023)
References
CNN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Indian%20International%20School%2C%20Tokyo%20Campus | is an Indian international school in Edogawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan. It is a part of the Global Indian International School network and it uses the International Baccalaureate Diploma and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) of India curricula.
History
In July 2006 the school opened. The school serves kindergarten through high school.[3] English is the medium of instruction.[3]
Currently, the school has 4 campuses in Edogawa-ku, Tokyo.
As of 2022 it had about 1220 students, 55% of whom are Japanese nationals, 35% of Indian nationals and others from mixed nationalities. Initially, the school had few Japanese students but the number increased as the popularity of international schools among Japanese people increased.
In 2022, an Indian diplomat, Aftab Seth, who served as the Ambassador of India to coountries like, Greece, Vietnam and Japan was invited for the Leadership Lecture Series. And in 2023, Mr. Suhas Risbood and Mr. Rohit Khandadia were invited for the same on the topic " Sustainability" .
See also
Indians in Japan
References
Further reading
Xu Hui (徐 輝). "A comparative study of Chinese and Indian school in Japan : Focus on the "Tokyo chuka school" and "GIIS"" (在日華僑学校と印僑学校に関する比較考察 : 東京中華学校とGIISを中心に; Archive). 大東アジア学論集 (14), 44-63, 2014-03. 大東文化大学大学院アジア地域研究科. See profile and profile #2 at CiNii. see profile at Daito Bunka University Repository (大東文化大学機関リポジトリ). English abstract available.
External links
Global Indian International School, Tokyo Campus
Elementary schools in Japan
International schools in Tokyo
Indian international schools in Japan
Educational institutions established in 2006
2006 establishments in Japan
Edogawa, Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amilo | Amilo may refer to:
Amilo, Azamgarh, a census town in Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, India
Amilo, Varanasi, a village in Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh, India
Amilo, a notebook computer manufactured by Fujitsu Siemens Computers
See also
Amilos, a settlement in ancient Arcadia, Greece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jsoup | jsoup is an open-source Java library designed to parse, extract, and manipulate data stored in HTML documents.
History
jsoup was created in 2009 by Jonathan Hedley. It is distributed it under the MIT License, a permissive free software license similar to the Creative Commons attribution license.
Hedley's avowed intention in writing jsoup was "to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup."
Projects powered by jsoup
jsoup is used in a number of current projects, including Google's OpenRefine data-wrangling tool.
See also
Comparison of HTML parsers
Web scraping
Data wrangling
MIT License
References
External links
Java (programming language) libraries
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
XML parsers
HTML parsers
Web scraping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Universe%3A%20Attack%20the%20Light | Steven Universe: Attack the Light is a role-playing video game developed by Grumpyface Studios and published by Cartoon Network Games. The game, based on the animated TV series Steven Universe and featuring a story written by series creator Rebecca Sugar, was released for iOS and Android mobile devices on April 2, 2015. An Apple TV/tvOS version was later developed, which added "Diamond Mode", a higher-difficulty version of the game with added bonuses.
Gameplay
Attack the Light is a simplified role-playing game in which Steven and the three Crystal Gems—Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl—travel across five color-themed worlds. Players move across the map by swiping the touchscreen and can interact with chests, mechanisms, and hidden areas to obtain items that can either be used in battle or to open up other areas. Some areas may be inaccessible until players solve a puzzle or obtain the necessary item from another level.
During battles, in which the protagonists and the enemy take turns to attack, the Gems fight against the enemy while Steven provides support, able to use healing and defensive abilities and access items. Most of the actions characters can perform require Star Points, of which there are a limited supply during each turn, though players can use items to increase their Star Points or choose to save them for their next turn.
Similar to games such as the Paper Mario series, many of the actions performed feature gesture-based controls. Simple well-timed taps of the screen can be used to deal extra damage or reduce damage taken from enemy attacks. Other abilities, which can be unlocked as each character levels up with experience, feature unique mechanics such as aiming a shot or repeatedly swiping the screen.
If a Gem loses all of their Harmony (health), they will retreat into their gem until an item revives them or the battle ends, with the game ending if all three Gems are defeated. Players can find badges to equip to the Gems, giving them stat boosts, as well as earn currency that can be used to purchase additional items.
Development and release
Attack the Light was developed by Grumpyface Studios. Rebecca Sugar, creator of the original series Steven Universe, was "instrumental" along with the show's supervising director Ian Jones-Quartey in the development of the game. It was released on both the iOS and Android platform on April 2, 2015. Cartoon Network promoted it with the broadcast of "Say Uncle", a non-canon crossover with Uncle Grandpa.
Reception
Attack the Light received critical acclaim. On Metacritic, the game has a score of 91/100, which indicates "universal acclaim". It was assessed as "superb" by Destructoid, whose reviewer wrote that combat was very well-implemented, providing complexity but not confusion, and that the game's strongest quality was its personality, thanks to drawing on the TV series' voice actors. Kotaku was also positive about the game, praising its unexpected complexity and depth as well as how it manage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YleX | YleX (formerly known as YLEX) is one of the major radio stations of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) featuring pop music and cultural programming. The station started as Radiomafia, and name changed to YleX in 2003. Programming targets the younger age group (17 to 27, or variously 15 to 34) as its audience and has attained around 7% listenership in Finland according to a survey in June to August 2013.
Frequencies
Helsinki - 91.9 MHz
Turku - 92.6 MHz
Tampere - 93.7 MHz
Jyväskylä - 87.6 MHz
Joensuu - 94.9 MHz
Vaasa - 89.6 MHz
Oulu - 93.2 MHz
Rovaniemi - 94.0 MHz
Inari - 92.8 MHz
Seinäjoki - 90.1 MHz
References
Yle radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg%20TV%20Canada | Bloomberg TV Canada was a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Channel Zero. It was a localized version of the U.S. financial news channel Bloomberg Television; its programming was largely identical, but also featured opt-outs for domestic programs covering Canadian business news.
The channel launched on November 17, 2015, replacing the American version that was readily available in Canada. The channel shut down on October 5, 2017, and Bloomberg subsequently partnered with established Canadian competitor Business News Network (BNN) in 2018 instead. As a result of the partnership, BNN rebranded to BNN Bloomberg.
History
On February 26, 2015, Channel Zero announced it had reached an agreement with Bloomberg L.P. to launch a localized Canadian business news channel as an offshoot of its original American Bloomberg Television channel which was currently being distributed in Canada for several years at the time. It was later announced that the channel was expected to launch on November 16, 2015 with its studios located in downtown Toronto in the city's financial district.
The channel launched one day later than expected on November 17, 2015. At the time of launch, the American service was withheld from being distributed by Canadian television service providers at the request of its owners, although it remained a legally authorized channel for distribution in Canada by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
Programming on the service largely mirrored the American channel's schedule, but with two local programs covering Canadian business news; Bloomberg North, and The Daily Brief. They were later cancelled and replaced with Bloomberg Markets: Canada in January 2017, which was hosted by former Reuters TV journalist Lily Jamali.
Originally launched as an exempt discretionary service that did not require a CRTC-granted television licence as it did not at launch have the required 200,000 subscribers, the channel was granted a CRTC licence on August 17, 2017 after reaching that subscriber level in 2016.
On the same day Channel Zero was granted its licence for Bloomberg TV Canada by the CRTC, Channel Zero announced in a statement that it would be cancelling all Canadian original productions for the channel and laying off 22 members of its staff relating to those productions, leading to speculation of how Channel Zero would maintain its required Canadian content quotas with no original Canadian productions. The statement referred to September 1, 2017 as the date the channel will be "changing the focus" of its programming, however, still maintaining that the channel will focus on business news and information, with reporting from Bloomberg studios in Canada and around the world, suggesting the channel would remain in operation.
On October 5, 2017, the channel was discontinued and replaced with the American Bloomberg Television service, the channel Bloomberg TV Canada replaced at its launch in 2015. The CRT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Heart | Heather Lotruglio (born 1971), better known as Heather Heart, is an American (New York) based Techno DJ.
In 1991, her zine called Under One Sky laid the foundation for a network of techno music fans across the US. In 1992, she began DJing, especially at the Storm raves. In 1995, she co-founded Groove records, the first techno record store in the United States.
Life and musical career
Heather Heart was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the New York City area and started clubbing at the beginning of the underground dance music explosion influenced by the UK's "summer of love."
In 1990 Heart, along with Frankie Bones and his brother, fellow DJ Adam X, co-founded the first all-techno record store, Groove Record Shop, in Brooklyn. Shortly afterwards, Heart began an underground techno music zine Under One Sky (Archived PDF from 1992 available here http://ravearchive.com/zines/underonesky/underonesky6.pdf), founded in 1991, which created a forum wherein the US and global dance music undergrounds could share ideas and, increasingly cultural and spiritual messages. This work drew together fans, DJs, and producers within and across the US and helped create a flourishing music scene. In 1992 Heart began Djing, first under the name "Heather Heather," later changing it to Heather Heart. She became famous especially for djing the Storm Raves founded by fellow DJ Frankie Bones. The three have been called "The forefathers (and foremother) of New York techno." In 1995 they moved the store to Manhattan, and renamed it Sonic Groove. This became the center of the underground techno scene and a fixture in dance music, where Heart was a crucial, friendly and knowledgeable presence. About that time X and Heart began to throw their own parties under the name Mental.
These venues and parties were the backbone of the New York underground music scene, as well as becoming "the model for every city with an underground dance scene." In 1999, Heart was featured in the movie "Better Living Through Circuitry" about the US rave scene. In 2015, she was listed in Mixmag's "20 Women who shaped the History of Dance Music."
Discography
1994 (as X-Heart, with Adam X) "Analogistic Warrior" Magnetic North
1997 "Blizzard" (on V/A Define The Sonic Groove) Sonic Groove
1995 (as X-Heart) "Solo siren" Communique Records
1998 (DJ Mix) "Eastbound Underground 01 (The Future Sound Of Sonic Groove 98)" Sonic Groove
References
External links
1974 births
American DJs
Club DJs
DJs from New York City
American women DJs
Living people
Musicians from Brooklyn
American techno musicians
Electronic dance music DJs
21st-century American women musicians
American women in electronic music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Center%20for%20Creative%20Work | The Women's Center for Creative Work, or WCCW, is a network of women based in Los Angeles who promote art and feminism. Founded in 2013, the WCCW operates through various exhibitions, workshops, dinners, and other special events that connect creative women and feminists.
The WCCW was founded in 2013 by Katie Bachler, Kate Johnston, and Sarah E. Williams. In 2015, the WCCW received a grant for Los Angeles-based Social Practice Art projects from SPArt.
"Combining a co-workspace on the LA river in Frogtown, project incubation facilities, residency programs, a rapidly growing network of over 16,000 followers, and a full calendar of artistic and professional development programming, WCCW advocates for feminist-led creative projects and practices in Los Angeles."
In 2018, the WCCW launched the Stock Photo Project, a stock photo database featuring people of color, women, genderqueer, and disabled folks of all ages and body types, in a variety of settings and narratives. In 2019, the WCCW was part of the Frieze fair.
Events
Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon. Wikipedia meetup. March 2015.
The Egg & The Eye Pop-up. Afternoon pop-up restaurant with the Craft and Folk Art Museum. December 2014.
Women Who Run With Wolves. Doll-making workshop with Necessary Habits. August 2014.
A Women's Dinner of Exchanges. Dinner based around ideas of exchange and economies. October 2014.
References
Arts organizations based in California
Feminist organizations in the United States
Organizations based in Los Angeles
Arts organizations established in 2013
2013 establishments in California
History of women in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaqueline%20Jesus | Jaqueline Gomes de Jesus (born March 7, 1978) is a Brazilian psychologist, writer, and LGBT activist.
Biography
Jesus is the daughter of a computer operator and a mining science teacher. She has a sibling, a younger brother. Jesus lived most of her life in Ceilândia. A good student, she studied chemistry, for a year before switching majors. She holds an M.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Brasília, and a PhD in Social Psychology, Work and Organisations from the same institution. She worked at the University of Brasília from 2003-2008 as a diversity adviser and also coordinated a center for black students. She was one of the organizers of Brasilia's Pride parade, and participated in the development of Brazil's goals for the UN's Millennium Dome. Jesus has proactively addressed discriminatory actions, refusing to accept passive prejudice. She began her human rights activism in 1997, with "Estructuración", a Brasilia homosexual group, serving first as secretary and in 1999, became president. In that period, she worked alongside government and educational institutions, in fighting prejudice and valuing differences, speaking at the opening of the 5th National Conference on Human Rights. Jesus participated in various social movements. In 2000, with Luiz Mott, she co-founded the Academic Association of Gays, Lesbians and Sympathizers of Brazil, serving as general secretary. She was appointed to the editorial board of the Grupo Gay Negro de Bahia; and founded the NGO Acciones Ciudades en Orientación sexual.
Key publications
Homofobia : identificar e prevenir, 2015 (tr. "homophobia: identifying and preventing")
Ainda que tardia : escravidão e liberdade no Brasil contemporâneo, 2016 (tr. "Although late: slavery and freedom in contemporary Brazil")
References
Bibliography
Norma Mogrovejo. 2000. Un amor que se atrevió a decir su nombre: la lucha de las lesbianas y su relación con los movimientos homosexual y feminista en América Latina. (tr. "A love that dared to speak its name: the struggle of lesbians and their relationship with the homosexual and feminist movements in Latin America") Ed. Plaza y Valdes. 397 pp.
1978 births
People from Brasília
Brazilian psychologists
Brazilian women psychologists
Brazilian non-fiction writers
Transgender women writers
Brazilian LGBT rights activists
21st-century Brazilian women writers
21st-century Brazilian writers
Living people
Brazilian LGBT writers
Travestis
Brazilian transgender people
LGBT psychologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHT | VHT may refer to:
VHT TrackBite, former name of the PJ1 TrackBite resin used in drag racing
Very high throughput, in the wireless networking standard IEEE 802.11ac-2013
See also
HT (disambiguation)
Extremely High Throughput, in IEEE 802.11be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstaDad | InstaDad is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Neal del Rosario, it stars Gabby Eigenmann in the title role. It premiered on April 5, 2015. The series concluded on July 5, 2015 with a total of 13 episodes. It was replaced by Alamat in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Gabby Eigenmann as Kenneth Monteamor
Supporting cast
Jazz Ocampo as Maaya "Aya" Monteamor
Gabbi Garcia as Marikit "Kit" Monteamor
Ash Ortega as Mayumi "Yumi" Monteamor
Matet De Leon as Gracia
Juancho Trivino as Dwight
Prince Villanueva as Ikot
Ruru Madrid as Zig
Coleen Perez as Annie
RJ Padilla as Franco
Cindy Miranda as Lea
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of InstaDad earned a 9.7% rating. While the final episode scored an 11.9% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT%20%28TV%20channel%29 | CT (stood for City Television) was a 24-hour Filipino cable and satellite television network based in Mandaluyong. It was launched on March 22, 2015. Owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation, replacing Jack City, a defunct spin-off of sister channel Jack TV. This channel was formerly broadcast on all local pay TV and cable operators in the Philippines.
History
2011–2012: Chase
During its initial launch on BEAM Channel 31, Chase was a general entertainment channel that was male-focused air during nighttime, while sharing its channel with the game show channel, TGC, which aired during daytimes. In late February 2012, the former announced in an on-screen graphic during its shows that it was switching to a 24-hour broadcast, therefore remaining on channel 31 while the latter was spin-off into its own channel on select cable providers.
2012–2015: Jack City
On September 7, 2012, Chase announced through on-screen graphics and various plugs that it was going to be replaced by a spin-off of sister channel Jack TV. On October 20, 2012, Jack City was launched. With some of Chase's programs carried onto its roster. The full broadcast was released on November 11, 2012.
On June 28, 2013, the channel's airing hours were reduced to 18 hours a day on free TV, in compliance with the National Telecommunications Commission's guidelines. However, it still continues to air 24 hours a day as a cable channel. On September 1, 2014, Jack City ended its run on free TV. This move resulted in a change of its channel assignment for SkyCable and Destiny Cable (Digital) subscribers.
2015–2017: CT
On March 22, 2015, Jack City was replaced by CT, thus becoming independent from its parent network. Upon launch, the channel broadened its programming focus by adding talk shows, sitcoms and men's lifestyle programs to its roster.
Dispute with Sky Cable and Digital test broadcast
On April 10, 2017, Sky Cable & Destiny Cable dropped CT along with Basketball TV, Jack TV, Solar Sports & NBA Premium TV allegedly due to Sky Cable's unpaid carriage fees.
On December 31, 2017 at 11:59 pm, CT signed off after 2 years of broadcasting. CT got shut down due to low ratings.
Final programming
See also
Solar Entertainment Corporation
CHASE
Jack City
References
Defunct television networks in the Philippines
Former Solar Entertainment Corporation channels
English-language television stations in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 2015
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
2015 establishments in the Philippines
2017 disestablishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempotron | The Tempotron is a supervised synaptic learning algorithm which is applied when the information is encoded in spatiotemporal spiking patterns. This is an advancement of the perceptron which does not incorporate a spike timing framework.
It is general consensus that spike timing (STDP) plays a crucial role in the development of synaptic efficacy for many different kinds of neurons Therefore, a large variety of STDP-rules has been developed one of which is the tempotron.
Algorithm
Assuming a leaky integrate-and-fire-model the potential of the synapse can be described by
where denotes the spike time of the i-th afferent synapse with synaptic efficacy and the resting potential. describes the postsynaptic potential (PSP) elicited by each incoming spike:
with parameters and denoting decay time constants of the membrane integration and synaptic currents. The factor is used for the normalization of the PSP kernels. When the potential crosses the firing threshold the potential is reset to its resting value by shunting all incoming spikes.
Next, a binary classification of the input patterns is needed( refers to a pattern which should elicit at least one post synaptic action potential and refers to a pattern which should have no response accordingly). In the beginning, the neuron does not know which pattern belongs to which classification and has to learn it iteratively, similar to the perceptron . The tempotron learns its tasks by adapting the synaptic efficacy . If a pattern is presented and the postsynaptic neuron did not spike, all synaptic efficacies are increased by whereas a pattern followed by a postsynaptic response leads to a decrease of the synaptic efficacies by with
Here denotes the time at which the postsynaptic potential reaches its maximal value.
It should be mentioned that the Tempotron is a special case of an older paper which dealt with continuous inputs.
Sources
Computational neuroscience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO%20Now | HBO Now (formerly named HBO from July 2020) was an American subscription video on demand streaming service for premium television network HBO owned by WarnerMedia subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc. Officially unveiled on March 9 and launched on April 7, 2015 the service allows subscribers on-demand access to HBO's library of original programs, films and other content on personal computers, smartphones, tablet devices and digital media players. Unlike HBO Go, HBO's online video on demand service for existing subscribers of the linear television channel, HBO Now was available as a standalone service and does not require a television subscription to use, targeting cord cutters who use competing services such as Netflix and Hulu. As of February 2018, HBO Now had 5 million subscribers.
HBO Now was succeeded on May 27, 2020 by HBO Max, a new DTC service that also includes content from Warner Bros. and other WarnerMedia properties. Subscribers of the linear HBO television service and HBO Now were able to migrate to HBO Max at no additional cost, although some providers did not immediately reach such agreements (Amazon did not reach an agreement until mid-November, while Roku would not reach a deal until mid-December 2020). The "HBO Now" branding was dropped at the end of July, while the service and app remained available for Roku and select TiVo users; support for the HBO streaming app was formally sunset on December 17, 2020, when Roku replaced it with HBO Max.
Development
On October 15, 2014, following a trial of a similar service in Nordic Europe, HBO announced plans to launch an online, subscription video on demand service in the United States in 2015. This new service would be geared towards cord cutters – consumers who primarily use online video services to view television programs rather than subscribe to cable or satellite television – and would not have to be purchased as part of a television subscription, therefore also making it a competitor to services such as Netflix. This contrasts with HBO's existing online video on demand service, HBO Go, which is only accessible to those who have subscribed to HBO through a television provider.
On December 9, 2014, it was reported that HBO had outsourced development of the service's infrastructure to Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM), who also developed the infrastructures used by WatchESPN and WWE Network. The network was previously working on a new platform codenamed "Maui"; however HBO, especially after major outages of HBO Go that occurred during several recent season premieres of high-profile HBO series, felt that outsourcing the service to a third-party would bring lower risk to the project. Otto Berkes stepped down as the company's Chief Technical Officer following this move.
The service was officially unveiled as HBO Now during an Apple press event on March 9, 2015. It was also announced that Apple would be the service's exclusive launch partner, with the HBO Now app being exclusive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylar%20Tibbits | Skylar Tibbits is an American designer and computer scientist known for his work on self-assembly and 4d printing.
Education
Skylar Tibbits graduated from Philadelphia University with a Bachelor of Architecture and received a Master of Science in Computer Science as well as a Master of Science in Design and Computation from MIT.
Career
Tibbits’ work has been exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Frac Center’s 2014 Archilab Exhibition, and the 2008 Beijing Biennale.
Tibbits also co-curated the 2007 ScriptedbyPurpose exhibition in Philadelphia with Marc Fornes.
He currently teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture where he has founded the Self-Assembly Laboratory. Tibbits is also the founder of SJET (a cross-disciplinary design firm in Boston, MA).
Tibbits has appeared on numerous television and documentary episodes, including BBC Click, Fox Business Network, This Old House and BBC World News Live. His work has been featured in various print and media outlets including New York Times, Wired, CNN, the Smithsonian Institution and Fast Company.
Awards
Tibbits' work has won awards including a 2014 WIRED Inaugural Fellowship, 2014 Gifted Citizen Initiative, the 2013 Architectural League NYC Prize, 2013 Next Idea in Art and Technology Award at Ars Electronica, 2012 TED Senior Fellowship, 2011 TED Fellowship and named a “Revolutionary Mind” in SEED Magazines 2008 Design Issue.
Publications
Tibbits, S. (2012), "Design to Self-Assembly." Architectural Design, 82: 68–73. doi: 10.1002/ad.1381
Dan Raviv, Wei Zhao, Carrie McKnelly, Athina Papadopoulou, Achuta Kadambi, Boxin Shi, Shai Hirsch, Daniel Dikovsky, Michael Zyracki, Carlos Olguin, Ramesh Raskar & Skylar Tibbits (2014), “Active Printed Materials for Complex Self-Evolving Deformations,” Scientific Reports, 4, 7422 doi:10.1038/srep07422
Kara'in, L., Schaeffer, J., de Puig, H., Gomez-Marquez, J., Young, A. and Tibbits, S. (2014), “DNA disPLAY: Programmable Bioactive Materials Using CNC Patterning,” Architectural Design, 84: 104–111. doi: 10.1002/ad.1788
Tibbits, S. (2014), “4D Printing: Multi-Material Shape Change,” Architectural Design, 84: 116–121. doi: 10.1002/ad.1710
Tibbits, S. and Cheung, K. (2012) "Programmable materials for architectural assembly and automation", Assembly Automation, Vol. 32 Iss: 3, pp. 216 - 225
References
External links
MIT Self-Assembly Lab
SJET
American architects
American designers
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodie%20Stroud | Bodie Stroud is a custom automobile designer and classic car builder. He starred in Rock My RV on the Travel Network.
Early life
Stroud was born in Glendale, California and attended Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga. While attending school, he refurbished a 1961 VW 18-window Micro Bus with friends. After graduating high school, Stroud attended one year at Pasadena, California's Art Center.
Television and radio work
In 2004, Stroud appeared on Discovery Channel's TV Show, "Monster Garage", with builder and fabricator, Jesse James. In 2009 he won the Ford Design Award, "Best of Show at SEMA" in Las Vegas, with "The Scarliner" 1960 Ford Starliner. Bodie also appeared on "Hot Rod TV" in ‘09 with his 1956 Ford Truck as BS Industries prepared for the Grand National Roadster Show.
In 2010 Stroud used a 494 cubic-inch V-8 engine built originally by Ford for Can=Am racing. An original was used by Mario Andretti in his Holman & Moody McLaren M6B, although he placed no higher than third in those races. Andretti signed the valve cover of Strouds 1969 Ford Boss 494 Mustang, which was on display at the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) Convention that year. Stroud created a Documentary around this Mustang build, titled, "The Real Thing". It was produced by Julian King. This documentary was chosen and awarded by Vimeo as a "Vimeo Staff Pick".
In 2010, Stroud appeared on Jay Leno's podcast, "Jay Leno's Garage", which highlighted his 1969 Mustang. He has since appeared several times on the podcast.
In 2011, Stroud started a Radio Show/Podcast, titled "In the Garage with Bodie Stroud". Stroud has interviewed people both in and out of the automotive industry. "In the Garage with Bodie Stroud" can be heard on iHeart Radio, iTunes and CRN Talk Radio.
Stroud has appeared on "Jay Leno's Garage" and on "Hot Rod TV", he has also been several times on Adam Carolla's Show,"Car Cast".
Stroud was host on the Travel Channel's TV Show, "Rock My RV", alongside Poison's Bret Michaels. "Rock My RV" first aired on the Travel Network in 2013 and included 16 "one hour" episodes. Each week, Stroud and Bret Michaels spent time creating custom RV's for several travelers.
In Spring of 2015, Bodie Stroud Industries' X-100 Pick Up Truck was featured on the Cover of "Classic Trucks" Magazine for June 2015, and also appeared in "Motor Trend" Magazine, as well as "The Detroit News" Newspaper.
Patents
As an engineer and innovator as well, Stroud has patented his line of Bodie Stroud Industries EZ-Aline adjustable tubular control arms to simplify the lives of mechanics, creating a quick solution to an otherwise lengthy process.
Products
Stroud is currently offers his line of BSI 1956 "X-100" Pickup Trucks, which are available to order, in three different customized colors. As seen recently in "Motor Trend" Magazine.
He also has a fashion line of tees, hoodies and customized auto parts under the brand "Bodie Stroud Industries".
References
External links
Year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel%20News | Rebel News (also known as The Rebel Media and The Rebel) is a Canadian far-right political and social commentary media website operated by Rebel News Network Ltd. It has been described as a "global platform" for the anti-Muslim ideology known as counter-jihad. It was founded in February 2015 by former Sun News Network personalities Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley.
Rebel News broadcasts its content only on the internet and has been compared to Breitbart News of the US. Rebel News has been described as being part of the alt-right movement.
Former Sun News reporter Faith Goldy joined Rebel News after its launch, but was fired for her coverage of the 2017 Charlottesville rally and for conducting an interview with The Daily Stormer. A co-founder and two freelancers resigned in protest of the coverage. Gavin McInnes, founder of the far-right neo-fascist organization Proud Boys, was a contributor. McInnes departed in 2017, then temporarily rejoined the site for a period in 2019. In the midst of the 2021 Canadian federal election, Justin Trudeau accused Rebel News of spreading misinformation, especially with regards to COVID-19 vaccines. Rebel News has promoted climate change denial and oil sands extraction in Alberta.
History
Prior to the official opening of the media franchise operation as a corporation, it operated for a number of years as an individual effort by Levant, who styled himself "The Rebel." At least one of his ideas, to fight "anti-Christian bigots on Nanaimo city council," attracted support from university student and now Member of Parliament Dane Lloyd.
2015–2017
The Rebel Media was formed by Levant and Lilley following the closure of the Sun News Network. Levant said that his online production would be unencumbered by the regulatory and distribution difficulties faced by Sun News Network and that its lower production costs would make it more viable. Levant has cited Breitbart News, the American far-right news website, as an inspiration. A crowdfunding campaign raised roughly for the project. The site soon attracted a number of other former Sun News Network personalities such as David Menzies, Paige MacPherson, Faith Goldy, Patrick Moore and, briefly, Michael Coren.
In the summer of 2015, the channel, led by Levant, launched a campaign to boycott Tim Hortons, a chain of Canadian coffee shops, after it rejected in-store ads from Enbridge due to complaints from customers opposed to the oil pipeline projects being promoted by the ads.
In early 2016, the Alberta government banned The Rebel Media's correspondents from press briefings on the grounds that, because Ezra Levant had testified in court in 2014 that he was a columnist or commentator rather than a reporter, none of his current correspondents could be considered to be journalists. On 17 February 2016, the government admitted that it made a mistake and said that it would allow The Rebel Media correspondents into press briefings. The Canadian Association of Journalists supporte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Tochtermann | Klaus Tochtermann (born 22 August 1964, Heidelberg) is a professor in the Institute for Computer Science at Kiel University and also the director of the ZBW – German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
Education and career
Klaus Tochtermann is the son of Werner Tochtermann. He graduated from the Kieler Gelehrtenschule in 1983. From 1985 to 1991 he studied computer science at the Kiel University and Dortmund University. At Dortmund University he received his doctorate in computer science with a thesis on A model for hypermedia: description and integrated formalisation of essential hypermedia concepts. Klaus Tochtermann spent the following year as a post-doc at Texas A&M University, Center for the Studies of Digital Libraries, USA with a grant from the Max-Kade-Foundation. His key activities in this time were in the field of web-based tools and services for digital libraries. From 1997 until 2000 he was division head at the FAW Ulm (Research Institute for Application-oriented Knowledge Processing at Ulm University).
From 2001 until 2010 he was the scientific director of the research institute Know-Center, a competence center for information technology-based knowledge management located in Austria. In 2001 founded the I-KNOW conference series in cooperation with Hermann Maurer. In 2002 he received his habilitation in the field of Applied information processing with the thesis Personalisation in the Context of Digital Libraries and Knowledge Management. From 2004 until 2010 he held the chair for Knowledge Management, at the TU Graz (Austria). From 2007 until 2010, he was also head of the Institute for Networked Media at Joanneum Research, an application-oriented research institution located in Graz.
Since 2010, Klaus Tochtermann has been the director of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and has held a chair for Digital Information Infrastructures at Kiel University.
In 2012, Klaus Tochtermann initiated the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. This research alliance addresses the question of how the participatory Internet (e.g. Social Media) changes research and publishing processes, and how information infrastructure institutions can participate in the shaping of these changes.
In 2014, the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics headed by Klaus Tochtermann received the national “Library of the Year 2014” award from the German Library Association (dbv).
Main research focus
Science 2.0, Open Science, European Open Science Cloud
Knowledge management and knowledge provision
Semantic technologies
Selected professional activities
Member of the High Level Expert Group "European Open Science Cloud" of the European Commission (until 2018)
Member of the Council for Information-Infrastructures
Member of the board of the Know-Center – Graz (Austria)
Visiting professor at the Universiti Teknologi MARA (until 2016) (Malaysia)
Visiting Professor for Digital Infrastructure at St. Gal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRVCC | Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) provides an interim solution for handing over VoLTE (Voice over LTE) to 2G/3G networks. The voice calls on LTE network are meant to be packet switched calls which use IMS system to be made. To make it inter operable with existing networks, these calls are to be handed over to Circuit switched calls in GSM/WCDMA networks. QoS is ensured by SRVCC operators for calls made.
3GPP also standardized SRVCC to provide easy handovers from LTE network to GSM/UMTS network.
References
LTE (telecommunication)
Mobile technology
Voice over IP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Learning%20Teacher%20Network | The Learning Teacher Network is a European non-profit, member-based education network and association, which performs as a European platform for professional debate in the vanguard of educational progress. The network works closely with UNESCO in Quality Education and the implementation of the Global Action Programme for Education for Sustainable Development (GAP/ESD).
History
The Learning Teacher Network started in 2002 as a Comenius programme 3 Network within the European Socrates Programme. The network was composed of 26 partner institutions from ten European countries and worked in the thematic area of the new role of the teacher.
During the period funded by the European Commission the network successfully organised annual international conferences, published three state of art publications, and arranged European in-service training courses as well as European contact seminars.
In 2006 the Learning Teacher Network was transformed to an independent, non-profit and membership based educational and international association and network.
In 2009 during the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, the Learning Teacher Network was awarded the European Gold Award by the European Commission as being the best project within the entire EU Lifelong Learning Programme, category Comenius.
From 2015 the Learning Teacher Network is an official UNESCO GAP Key Partner, working in the implementation of the UNESCO Global Action Programme for Education for Sustainable Development (GAP/ESD) in the capacity building of educators and trainers.
Structure and governance
The Learning Teacher Network is an association of individuals, organisations and educational institutions in education and training. The network is formally composed of members with either individual or institutional membership but organises also a wider circle of individuals who link up, give active support or participate in network activities.
The network is managed and coordinated by an international Executive Committee.
For the carrying out of activities, the network has each one Editorial board for the publications, working committees and thematic groups, and national representatives in 34 European countries. The supreme body of the network is the Annual General Meeting.
Mission
The mission of the Learning Teacher Network is to empower and build capacity of 'The Teacher of Tomorrow' as agent for sustainable education and transformation in society. The network's motto is Trust, Respect and Fun .
Publications
The Learning Teacher Magazine
Launched in 2010, The Learning Teacher Magazine () is a quarterly illustrated publication targeting teachers and leaders at schools and teacher education.
The Learning Teacher Journal
Since 2009 The Learning Teacher Journal () is a peer-reviewed academic journal.
International conferences, seminars and European training courses
Since 2004 the Learning Teacher Network organises annual international conferences and European in-service training |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial%20Crisis%20Network | The Judicial Crisis Network or JCN (officially called the Concord Fund in tax filings and originally called the Judicial Confirmation Network) is an American conservative advocacy organization. Its president is Carrie Severino, a former law clerk for Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. In 2020, OpenSecrets described the organization as having "unmatched influence in recent years in shaping the federal judiciary." It is among a network of organizations associated with Leonard Leo, a longtime executive in the Federalist Society, that are funded mostly by anonymous donors and distributed by Concord and a related group, The 85 Fund.
Background
The organization was founded in 2005 to promote the judicial appointees of then president George W. Bush. Fundraiser and lawyer Ann Corkery, along with California real estate magnate Robin Arkley II, were key to the beginning of the organization.
The current leader is Carrie Severino. She was previously a law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and to Judge David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She is a contributor to National Review. She is married to Roger Severino.
Severino received her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where she was a student while Elena Kagan was dean. Severino has been involved with constitutional challenges to the Affordable Care Act.
Funding
The leading funder of Concord is the Wellspring Committee, which is directed by Ann Corkery. Wellspring was part of the Koch political financing network leading up to the 2008 elections, then was later used by Leonard Leo's associates to direct money to Concord's predecessor organizations. Wellspring, which does not disclose who funds it, gave close to $7 million to Concord in 2014; between 2012 and 2015, it reported giving Concord more than $15 million. Concord's tax return for the period July 2015 to June 2016 shows that one $17.9 million donation, whose source was not reported, accounted for 96.6 percent of the organization's revenue.
Advocacy activities
In 2013, Concord ran ads in Alaska that were critical of U.S. senator Mark Begich's votes to approve all of president Barack Obama's federal judicial nominees. The group also ran advertisements that were critical of Mary Landrieu and Mark Pryor's votes for president Obama's court picks. In 2014, the group ran digital advertisements critical of Chris Christie's judicial appointments. Concord has been active in Michigan and North Carolina supreme court elections.
In 2015, the Judicial Crisis Network donated $600,000 to Nebraskans for the Death Penalty, a group promoting reinstatement of capital punishment in Nebraska.
In 2016, Concord ran a negative advertisement about Jane L. Kelly, a federal appeals judge from Iowa who was on a White House list of possible nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Also in 2016, Concord bought advertisements across the country to oppose president Obama's supreme court nominee, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titans%20All%20Access | Titans All Access is a magazine-style television program that focuses on the Tennessee Titans, the National Football League franchise based in Nashville, Tennessee. Hosted by Titans Radio Network on-air personality Mike Keith, along with Amie Wells, the show is produced by Fox network affiliate WZTV in association with the franchise. It premiered in September 2002. Episodes are aired during NFL Football season on either Friday, Saturdays, or Sundays, depending on the station.
It will premiere its 22nd season at the beginning of the 2023 NFL season.
Format
Long-form behind-the-scenes stories are featured in this program, along with reviews of the previous game, and the previews of upcoming Titans games. Interviews with players, as well as insights from Titans general manager Ruston Webster are also featured.
Stations
In Nashville, Titans All Access is aired on WZTV on Saturdays at 11:30 a.m., and Sundays at 10:30 a.m. MyNetworkTV affiliate WUXP also airs the program at 10:30 a.m. Saturdays. The program is also seen in the Bowling Green, Kentucky market thanks to WZTV's carriage on select cable systems and, more importantly, WZTV and WUXP's over-the-air coverage in that area.
In addition to the broadcast episodes, archived episodes, some from past seasons, can be streamed on the Titans official website and on the team's YouTube channel.
See also
Tennessee Titans
References
External links
TitansOnline.com
WZTV Official Website
Titans All Access – Show Website featuring Titans news and information provided by WZTV/Fox 17 Sports.
Tennessee Titans
Mass media in Tennessee
Mass media in Nashville, Tennessee
2002 American television series debuts
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Television shows set in Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NECAT%20Network | The NECAT Network, known formally as the Nashville Education, Community and Arts Television Network, is a group of local non-commercial educational public and educational access television channels headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and serving the entire Middle Tennessee region. Its offices and broadcast facilities are at 120 White Bridge Road in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.
History
The NECAT Network was founded after the Metro Nashville city government-backed merger of Metropolitan Educational Access Corporation and the Community Access Corporation. Both organizations had 30 years of operating locally owned cable channels in the Nashville area.
Through its franchise agreement with the city government, the NECAT Network’s channels are partially funded by main cable server Comcast and the city government.
Like many other public access television stations, local residents can produce their own programs with these channels.
Channels
The NECAT Network operates three non-commercial public and educational access cable-exclusive television stations. Here are the channels that the NECAT Network operates:
Access Nashville is the main public access television station for the area, whose schedule mainly includes locally produced programming, including some local music shows, telecasts of local church services, a few local talk shows, and more. This channel can be seen on Comcast channel 19.
Music City Arts Channel (MCAtv), seen on Comcast channel 9, is the public arts channel, involving local shows related to music, art, dance, film, and more.
iQtv is the educational access channel on Comcast channel 10. This channel features programming originating from the Metro Nashville Public Schools, the Nature Conservancy (Tennessee Chapter), and the Nashville area Chamber of Commerce. Documentaries, educational programs, and lectures are involved in IQTV’s schedule.
These channels are also available in 19 middle Tennessee counties via AT&T U-Verse.
References
External links
NECAT Network - official website
NECAT Networks Facebook Page
Mass media in Nashville, Tennessee
Television stations in Nashville, Tennessee
Television stations in Tennessee
American public access television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportradar%20US | Sportradar US, formerly SportsData, LLC, is the US branch of Sportradar. Based in Minneapolis, Sportradar US captures live play-by-play data and delivers it in real-time to companies in media, technology and fantasy sports. Its clients include Google, Bleacher Report, Facebook, Twitter and the Pac-12 Conference. They have writers and editors who attend games, watch broadcasts and survey media to gather relevant news related to sports. Coverage includes injuries, in-game information, breaking news from existing media and internet outlets.
History
On December 2, 2013, SportsData announced its acquisition by Sportradar and rebranded to Sportradar US. They host coverage for 40 sports, 800 leagues and 200,000 events.
Sportradar is headquartered in St. Gallen (Switzerland) and also has offices in: Trondheim, Oslo, Stockholm, London, Paris, Barcelona, Munich, Gera, Bremen, Hamburg, Linz, Vienna, Zlín, Ljubljana, Tallinn, Moscow, Durban, Hong Kong, Montevideo, Usk, New York City, Sarasota, Minneapolis, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Athens, Rome, Beijing, Singapore and Kyiv.
On February 11, 2015, NASCAR signed a deal granting SportsData rights to distribute data. NASCAR previously held statistics in house available to fans only from their official website.
On April 20, 2015, Sportradar US becomes NFL's exclusive statistics distribution partner
On September 29, 2015, also NHL choose Sportradar as their distribution partner.
On October 27, 2015, Ted Leonsis, Mark Cuban and Michael Jordan, led by Revolution Growth, invest $44 Million in Sportradar US' parent company.
References
External links
Official Website
Sports mass media in the United States
Companies based in Minneapolis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearinghouse%20for%20Networked%20Information%20Discovery%20and%20Retrieval | The Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval or CNIDR was an organization funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation from 1993 to 1997 and based at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC) in Research Triangle Park. CNIDR was active in the research and development of open source software and open standards, centered on information discovery and retrieval, in the emerging Internet.
Among the software developed at CNIDR were Isite, an open source Z39.50 implementation and successor to the free version of WAIS, and Isearch, an open source text retrieval system. CNIDR staff were involved in the development of open standards in the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Z39.50 Implementors Group and Dublin Core.
CNIDR collaborated with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to develop the USPTO's first Internet-based patent search systems. One of these provided full text searching and images of medical patents related to the research and treatment of HIV/AIDS and issued by the US, Japanese and European patent offices. Another system, known as the US Patent Bibliographic Database, provided searching of "front page" bibliographic information for all US patents since 1976.
References
Information retrieval organizations
Internet Standards
Internet protocols
Internet search engines
Organizations established in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20block | In computing, a logic block or configurable logic block (CLB) is a fundamental building block of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. Logic blocks can be configured by the engineer to provide reconfigurable logic gates.
Logic blocks are the most common FPGA architecture, and are usually laid out within a logic block array. Logic blocks require I/O pads (to interface with external signals), and routing channels (to interconnect logic blocks).
Programmable logic blocks were invented by David W. Page and LuVerne R. Peterson, and defined within their 1985 patents.
Applications
An application circuit must be mapped into an FPGA with adequate resources. While the number of logic blocks and I/Os required is easily determined from the design, the number of routing tracks needed may vary considerably even among designs with the same amount of logic.
For example, a crossbar switch requires much more routing than a systolic array with the same gate count. Since unused routing tracks increase the cost (and decrease the performance) of the part without providing any benefit, FPGA manufacturers try to provide just enough tracks so that most designs that will fit in terms of lookup tables (LUTs) and I/Os can be routed. This is determined by estimates such as those derived from Rent's rule or by experiments with existing designs.
FPGAs are also widely used for systems validation including pre-silicon validation, post-silicon validation, and firmware development. This allows chip companies to validate their design before the chip is produced in the factory, reducing the time-to-market.
Architecture
In general, a logic block consists of a few logic cells (each cell is called an adaptive logic module (ALM), a logic element (LE), slice, etc.). A typical cell consists of a 4-input LUT, a full adder (FA), and a D-type flip-flop (DFF), as shown to the right. The LUTs are in this figure split into two 3-input LUTs. In normal mode those are combined into a 4-input LUT through the left mux. In arithmetic mode, their outputs are fed to the FA. The selection of mode is programmed into the middle multiplexer. The output can be either synchronous or asynchronous, depending on the programming of the mux to the right, in the figure example. In practice, entire or parts of the FA are put as functions into the LUTs in order to save space.
Logic blocks typically contain a few ALMs/LEs/slices. ALMs and slices usually contain 2 or 4 structures similar to the example figure, with some shared signals.
Manufacturers have started moving to 6-input LUTs in their high performance parts, claiming increased performance.
3D architecture
To shrink the size and power consumption of FPGAs, vendors such as Tabula and Xilinx have introduced new 3D or stacked architectures. Following the introduction of its 28 nm 7-series FPGAs, Xilinx revealed that several of the highest-density parts in those FPGA product lines will be constructed using multiple dies in one package, employ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%20%28miniseries%29 | Molly is a two-part Australian miniseries about Australian music personality Molly Meldrum. Aired on the Seven Network, the first part premiered on 7 February 2016, with the second and final half screening on 14 February. It is based on Meldrum's biography, The Never, Um ... Ever Ending Story, which was written with journalist Jeff Jenkins.
Synopsis
Framed by Ian "Molly" Meldrum's fall from a ladder outside his home during the 2011 Christmas season and his resulting coma, Molly flashes back and forth through the key events of Meldrum's life, from his small beginnings in Quambatook, through his rise to becoming one of the biggest names in Australian music.
The central focus of the series is the invention, rise and eventual fall of the high-rating TV series Countdown, and how it shaped Meldrum's life and legacy. The opportunities afforded to him as host of the groundbreaking new show, along with his accessible personality and passion for music saw him become an essential figure of the Australian music scene in the 1970s, '80s and beyond.
Cast
Samuel Johnson as Molly Meldrum
Aaron Glenane as Michael Gudinski
Rebecca Breeds as Camille, Meldrum's fiancée
Ben Gerrard as Caroline, Meldrum's transgender flatmate
T.J. Power as Robbie Weekes, co-creator and director of Countdown
Tom O'Sullivan as Michael Shrimpton, co-creator and producer of Countdown
Benedict Hardie as Alan Wade, an ABC executive who clashes with Meldrum
Heather Mitchell as Pat Hatcher, Wade's successor
Krew Boylan as Lynne Randell
Connor Crawford as John Paul Young
Ben Geurens as Shirley Strachan
Jacinta Stapleton as Madonna
Kate Atkinson as Meldrum's mother
Helen Morse as Meldrum's grandmother
Comedians Ed Kavalee, Andy Lee, Hamish Blake and Mick Molloy also make cameo appearances. Molly Meldrum appeared as himself in an epilogue.
Production
Filming of the telemovie took place in early 2015.
Reception
Ratings
The first part of the telemovie was the highest-rating non-sport program in Australia for 2016.
With 3.02 million national viewers (2.1 million metropolitan and 931,000 regional).
Samuel Johnson went on to win the Gold Logie the following year for his performance.
Music
A three-disc soundtrack featuring 60 tracks was released on 27 November 2015 by Liberation Music, titled Molly: Do Yourself a Favour after one of Meldrum's catchphrases on Countdown. It peaked at number 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
A second three-disc soundtrack was released on 21 October 2016 by Liberation Music, titled Molly: Counting Down The Hits.
References
External links
Seven Network original programming
2010s Australian television miniseries
2016 Australian television series debuts
2016 Australian television series endings
Cultural depictions of Australian women
Cultural depictions of pop musicians
Cultural depictions of journalists
Cultural depictions of presenters
Cultural depictions of Madonna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroth%20%28software%29 | Zeroth is a platform for brain-inspired computing from Qualcomm. It is based around a (NPU) AI accelerator chip and a software API to interact with the platform. It makes a form of machine learning known as deep learning available to mobile devices. It is used for image and sound processing, including speech recognition. The software operates locally rather than as a cloud application.
Mobile chip maker Qualcomm announced in March 2015 that it would bundle the software with its next major mobile device chip, the Snapdragon 820 processor.
Applications
Qualcomm demonstrated that the system could recognize human faces and gestures that it had seen before and detect and then search for different types of photo scenes.
Another potential application is to extend battery life by analyzing phone usage and powering down all or part of its capabilities without affecting the user experience.
See also
Neuromorphic computing
TrueNorth
SpiNNaker
Vision processing unit, a class of processors aimed at machine vision (including convolutional neural networks, hence overlapping with 'neural processing units')
References
Qualcomm software
Mobile software
Data mining and machine learning software
Image processing software
Speech recognition software
AI accelerators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis%20Dessalles | Jean-Louis Dessalles (born in 1956 in Périgueux) is a French computer scientist and researcher in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, professor à Télécom Paris (Paris). He is best known for his contributions to the Simplicity theory and for his original theory about a possible political origin of language.
Biography
Dessalles was born in Périgueux in Southwestern France. He graduated from École Polytechnique in 1979 (promotion X76) and from Télécom ParisTech in 1981.
He is currently Professor of Computer Science at Télécom Paris, which is part of the University of Paris-Saclay.
Research
Jean-Louis Dessalles focuses on the quest for fundamental principles underlying the language faculty and its biological origins. His contribution to Simplicity theory was to show that complexity drop predicts narrative interest. He also designed a concise model of argumentative relevance. On the issue of human language evolutionary origins, he found that Costly signalling theory can explain how honest communication is possible among selfish agents.
Publications
Books
Des intelligences TRÈS artificielles, Paris: Odile Jacob. 2019.
Le Fil de la vie. La face immatérielle du vivant (avec Pierre-Henri Gouyon et Cédric Gaucherel). Paris: Odile Jacob. 2016.
La pertinence et ses origines cognitives, Nouvelles théories. Paris: Hermes-sciences.
Why We Talk, The evolutionary origins of language. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2007.
Les origines de la culture : les origines du langage (avec Pascal Picq et B. Victorri). Paris: Le Pommier. 2006.
Aux origines du langage. Une histoire naturelle de la parole. Paris: Hermes-sciences. 2000.
L'ordinateur génétique. Paris: Hermes-sciences. 1996.
Science papers
2020: Language: The missing selection pressure. Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, 17.
2015: From conceptual spaces to predicates. In F. Zenker & P. Gärdenfors (Eds.), Applications of conceptual spaces: The case for geometric knowledge representation, 17-31. Dordrecht: Springer.
2014: Optimal investment in social signals, Evolution 68(6), 1640–1650.
2014: Why talk?. In D. Dor, C. Knight & J. Lewis (Eds.), The social origins of language, 284–296. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
2013: Algorithmic simplicity and relevance. In D. L. Dowe (Ed.), Algorithmic probability and friends - LNAI 7070, 119-130. Berlin, D: Springer Verlag.
Journal articles, radio, TV.
2015 : Le grand roman de l’Homme. Emmanuel Leconte et Franck Guérin, ARTE, 14 July 2015
2014: Comment nous optimisons nos signaux sociaux. La Recherche, 494, 56–59.
2011: Parler pour exister, Revue Sciences Humaines, 224, 45–47.
2011: Les origines du langage. La Marche des Sciences, Aurélie Luneau. France Culture, 18 January 2011.
2002: Image et science: le langage, Jean-Pierre Mirouze. France 5, 3 October 2002.
2002: L’homme animal politique, animal loquace. Continent Sciences, Stéphane Deligeorges. France Culture, 21 February 2002.
2001: L’origine politique du langage, La R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASBUG | JASBUG is a security bug disclosed in February 2015 and affecting core components of the Microsoft Windows Operating System. The vulnerability dated back to 2000 and affected all supported editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows RT, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows RT 8.1.
The vulnerability allows hackers to remotely take control of Windows devices that connect to an Active Directory domain.
JASBUG is registered in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures system as . The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, part of the Department of Homeland Security, issued ICS-ALERT-15-041-01, warning control systems owners that they should expedite applying critical JASBUG fixes.
Microsoft released two patches, MS15-011 and MS15-014, to address JASBUG on the same day the vulnerability was disclosed. These fixes took Microsoft over a year to develop and deploy due to the complexity of the JASBUG vulnerability.
At the time of disclosure, more than 300 million computers were believed to be vulnerable to the exploit.
History
JASBUG was disclosed to the public by Microsoft as a part of "Patch Tuesday," on February 10, 2015.
Background
The vulnerability was initially reported to Microsoft in January 2014 by Jeff Schmidt, founder of JAS Global Advisors. After Microsoft publicly announced the security vulnerability, it garnered the name JASBUG in reference to the role JAS Global Advisors played in discovering the exploit.
Discovery
In 2014, JAS Global Advisors was working on an engagement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization governing the standards of the Internet, to research potential technical issues surrounding the rollout of new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) on the Internet.
While working on the research, JAS Global Advisors, with business partner SimMachines, uncovered the vulnerability by applying "big data" analytical techniques to very large technical data sets.
Effect
JASBUG principally affects business and government users. Home users are less likely to be affected by JASBUG because they do not use domain-configured computers.
White House cybersecurity advisor Michael Daniel spoke about the importance of addressing JASBUG in a meeting of the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board of the National Institute for Standards and Technology, and the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Homeland Security immediately took steps to fix the vulnerability on federal networks.
Suzanne E. Spaulding, serving as Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) at the Department of Homeland Security, mentioned JASBUG in a February 2015 House of Representatives hearing that touched on the potential effect of a DHS funding hiatus.
In the aftermath of JASBUG, various government agencies have updated their techni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boxcar%20Children%20%28film%29 | The Boxcar Children is a 2014 American computer-animated family adventure film based on The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner.
Plot
The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children: Henry, Jessie (or Jess), Violet, and Benny, who have evidently been orphaned for some time.
They come to a bakery to buy some bread, and ask to stay for the night. When a baker and his wife learn that the children are orphans, they plan to take in the three elder children, who are big enough to be useful in the bakery, but to send little Benny to a Children's Home. The children overhear the couple talking about this, and escape from the bakery. The bakers decide to chase them but then leave the children to go on their own.
Finding an abandoned boxcar, the children start a new life of independence. Henry ends up working various odd jobs in a nearby town Silver City for a doctor, named Dr. Moore, in order to earn money for food and other materials they need. He also does gardening for the doctor's mother. The children also find a Wire Fox Terrier and they name him Watch. The children's lives are pleasant and full of hard work until Violet becomes ill and they go to Dr. Moore's office for assistance.
Unbeknownst to the children, by that time Dr. Moore knows very well who they are and where they are living; indeed, he has been keeping a discreet eye on them for weeks. Their grandfather, who lives nearby, has been advertising in the papers, offering a reward for news of them, but Dr. Moore hasn't wanted to spoil the children's fun by informing on them. When Violet becomes ill, however, he feels it is time to do so.
Their grandfather, a steel baron, named James Henry Alden, comes at once to see them. The doctor suggests that he gets to know them first before telling them who he is, so he is simply introduced to them as a friend of the doctor's. The children warm to his kindness and are surprised but delighted when they eventually learn that he is their much feared grandfather (but the children had been brought up to fear their grandfather, whom they had never met, because he did not approve of their parents' marriage). They go to live with him after all, and he has the boxcar transferred to his backyard for their enjoyment.
Voice cast
Zachary Gordon as Henry Alden – Older Brother (Oldest sibling): Henry is a 14-year-old boy and is the older brother. He is also the oldest sibling of all. He used to work for Dr. Moore for money. He also won the Field Day Free-For-All race. He is very caring for his younger siblings.
Joey King as Jessie Alden – Older sister: Jessie is a 13-year-old girl and is the older sister. She often makes right decisions and takes care of Henry, Violet and Benny the most. She was also the one to spot the boxcar at the first place. She became the houseworker of the boxcar. And, as she took out the thorn from Watch's (their dog) foot, Watch treats her as his master, but he likes everyone.
Mackenzie Foy as Violet Alden – Young |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock%20%28testing%20framework%29 |
Spock is a Java testing framework capable of handling the complete life cycle of a computer program. It was initially created in 2008 by Peter Niederwieser, a software engineer with GradleWare. A second Spock committer is Luke Daley (also with Gradleware), the creator of the popular Geb functional testing framework.
See also
JUnit, unit testing framework for the Java programming language
Mockito, mocking extensions to JUnit
TestNG, test framework for Java
References
Cross-platform software
Java development tools
Java platform
Unit testing frameworks
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patuakhali%20Polytechnic%20Institute | Patuakhali Polytechnic Institute () is one of the oldest polytechnic institute in Bangladesh.
Departments
Civil Technology
Electrical Technology
Electronics Technology
Computer Technology
Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning Technology
See also
Dhaka Polytechnic Institute
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110234/http://www.ppi.gov.bd/ppi/index.php/about-us
Polytechnic institutes in Bangladesh
Organisations based in Patuakhali
Educational institutions established in 1989
1989 establishments in Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Heyward | Susan Heyward is an American actress. She starred in the PlayStation Network original series Powers (2015–16) and HBO period drama Vinyl (2016). From 2018 to 2019, Heyward had a recurring role as Tamika Ward in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black. On stage, she made her Broadway debut in the 2013 production of The Trip to Bountiful and in 2018-2019 played Rose Granger-Weasley in the Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Life and career
Heyward was born and raised in Atlanta Georgia and graduated with BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She began her career appearing in Off-Broadway productions and guest-starring roles on television series including Law & Order and 30 Rock. In 2009, she was regular cast member in the short-lived Comedy Central comedy series Michael & Michael Have Issues. In 2014, she had a recurring role in the Fox thriller series The Following. In 2013, she made her Broadway debut appearing opposite Cicely Tyson in The Trip to Bountiful. Her off-Broadway credits include title role in Sabrina Fair and The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois. Her film credits include Mother of George (2013) starring Danai Gurira, Poltergeist (2015), The Incredible Jessica James (2017) and The Light of the Moon (2017).
In 2015, Heyward was cast in the leading role alongside Sharlto Copley and Eddie Izzard in the PlayStation Network's first scripted original series, Powers. The series was canceled after two seasons. In 2016, she co-starred in the HBO period drama series, Vinyl playing the role of personal secretary to Bobby Cannavale's lead character. From 2018 to 2019, Heyward played the role of Tamika Ward, the new Warden in Litchfield prison in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black. In 2018, Heyward was cast as Rose Granger-Weasley in the Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Filmography
Film
Television
Stage
References
External links
Living people
American stage actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
Actresses from Philadelphia
21st-century American actresses
African-American actresses
1982 births
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
20th-century African-American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20Born%20Beautiful | Not Born Beautiful () is a telenovela filmed in Russia, directed by Alexander Nazarov and shown from 5 September 2005 to 7 July 2006 by the Russian network STS. It is a Russian spin of the Colombian Yo soy Betty, la fea (I'm Betty, the Ugly One) telenovela, which has fostered more than a dozen versions in other countries. The telenovela reached success in Russia and boosted the ratings of the TV network STS.
Nelli Uvarova plays the role of a charming ugly girl, Yekaterina (Katya) Pushkareva. This became a breakout role in Nelli's career and brought her national love and fame. During the broadcast of the series she became a real star of Russian television. Nelli's American counterpart America Ferrara also became widely known for her portrayal of the namesake of Ugly Betty.
The show attracted viewers who were not in the traditional viewing audience of telenovelas. In fall of 2005, fully one-third of Russian TV viewers, and 58% of Ukraine viewers, were tuning in to watch the show.
According to TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand, Not Born Beautiful is likely the closest and most faithful of "Yo soy Betty, la fea"'s international adaptations.
And according to its authors, in 2004-6, Russia was "at an apex" of "consumerism and glamour culture", and:Ne rodis' krasivoy addresse[d] the central cultural conflict of post-Soviet culture: the negotiation between the Russian (Soviet) values and the new corporate bourgeois ones.
In all 200 episodes were filmed, many on a one-per-day schedule. The "industrial pace of shooting" matched the industrial setting, Media City's studios in the former Soviet-era State Ball-Bearing Plant Number 1 in Moscow, which operated from the 1930s to 1990. This was 31 more episodes than in the Colombian original series.
American TV executive James Kramer and other Americans were involved in bringing "Ugly Betty" to Russia.
Plot
Katya, a plain-looking girl, works as a secretary at the company Zimaletto, a manufacturer of uniforms and wedding dresses. No man has paid attention to her yet, but she doesn't allow her looks to keep her from dreaming about love and happiness.
Opening theme
The theme "If love lives in your heart" / "Esli v serdtse zhivet lyubov", with music and lyrics by , performed by Yulia Savicheva became well known. The song, performed by Alsou, received a 2008 Russian MTV award as the first in a medley of nine songs required to be performed by singers or groups other than the original recording artist.
Characters
Main
Recurring
Interesting Facts
The spin-off comedy "UmaNetto" (literally translated as No Brains), was broadcast by STS in 2007
References
External links
Ne rodis krasivoy, at IMDb
"If love lives in your heart", at YouTube, performed by Yulia Savicheva with a plain-looking second singer and snorkel parka-sporting others
Yo soy Betty, la fea
Russian telenovelas
STS (TV channel) original programming
2005 Russian television series debuts
2006 Russian televi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capturas%20del%20%C3%9Anico%20Camino | Capturas del Único Camino, Damián Anache's first solo album, reveals a recording of a generative piece performed using an algorithm created by himself. The designed software (developed on Pure Data language) manipulates different kinds on sonic materials consisting of: acoustic instruments (played by the composer); sounds generated by his mouth and vocal tract (also by the same composer); sounds created by synthesis techniques; and other recordings of sounds generated by water. This interpretation algorithm involves a list of directions and actions subjected by random choices according to a model proposed for the piece's first section score (printed score included in physical editions). Furthermore, be noted that although the piece is presented as a CD Audio, the same piece is developed in other formats such as audiovisual installation.
Track listing
"Paisaje primero" - 14:15
"Paisaje propio" - 14:15
"Paisaje artificial" - 14:15
"Paisaje natural" - 15:08
Format, codification and digital release
The piece was created using Ambisonics, the surround sound technique. CD version is UHJ encoded for stereo compatibility, as well as the digital release which is also available for download at 48 kHz 24 bit. B-format version was announced to be released "soon" on composer's instagram account.
Credits
Composition, image generation and packaging concept by Damian Anache. Realization of packaging and design by Emmanuel Orezzo. Executive Producer: Nicolas Madoery.
co-executive-producer: Nicolás Varchausky. This publication was supported by the research project "Spatial sound synthesis in electroacoustic music", directed by Oscar Pablo Di Liscia, National University of Quilmes 2013-2015.
International reissues
The album has Europe and North American (TBA) reissues. Both offers different generative versions of the piece.
Public instances
Capturas... has been exposed in different formats: as audiovisual installation, sound art installation, tape electroacoustic music piece (at speaker concerts) and also as live performance music. Those events were:
La Semana del Sonido, at Centro Cultural Roberto Fontanarrosa , Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina (May, 2014), tape music for 12 speakers 3D surround system.
Sintesis Espacial de Sonido concert, at CMMAS (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras), Morelia, México (August, 2014), tape music for 8 speakers surround system.
MUSLAB's Jardín Sonoro, Espacio Sonoro UAM-X (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, DF, Mexico) (October, 2014), tape music.
Album release show at C'est La Vié, La Plata, Argentina (November, 2014), realtime audiovisual installation with 4 speakers surround system.
Retratos de Ideas outdoors event at National University of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (December, 2014), realtime sound art installation with 4 speakers surround system.
ICMC, International Computer Music Conference 41 edition concert at North Texas University, Denton, Texas, USA (October, 2015), tape music.
EMU Fes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Gentry%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Craig Gentry (born 1973) is an American computer scientist working as CTO of TripleBlind. He is best known for his work in cryptography, specifically fully homomorphic encryption.
Education
In 1993, while studying at Duke University, he became a Putnam Fellow. In 2009, his dissertation, in which he constructed the first Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme, won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Career
In 2010, he won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for the same work. In 2014, he won a MacArthur Fellowship. Previously, he was a research scientist at the Algorand Foundation and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
References
1973 births
Living people
MacArthur Fellows
Duke University alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
Stanford University alumni
Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
IBM Research computer scientists
Putnam Fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Butterick | Matthew Coffin Butterick (born November 15, 1970) is an American typographer, lawyer, writer, and computer programmer. He received the 2012 Golden Pen Award from the Legal Writing Institute for his book Typography for Lawyers, which started as a website in 2008 based on his experience as a practicing attorney. He has worked for The Font Bureau and founded his own website design company, Atomic Vision (purchased by Red Hat in 1999). Expanding Typography for Lawyers, Butterick published Practical Typography as a "web-based book" in July 2013.
Butterick graduated with a BA in visual and environmental studies from Harvard University. He later earned a JD at the University of California, Los Angeles and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2007.
As of January 2023, Butterick is currently serving as co-counsel in multiple class action lawsuits against AI companies Github Copilot, Stable Diffusion, as well as another class action lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt.
Typefaces
Butterick's typeface designs include:
For Font Bureau
Wessex (1993), transitional text serif inspired by Bulmer and Caledonia
Herald Gothic (1993), a bevelled sans-serif
Berlin Sans (1994, part), a flared sans-serif
Hermes (1995), a blocky sans-serif loosely inspired by Berthold Block
Alix, a typewriter font
Self-released
Equity, an updating of the 1930s body text serif design Ehrhardt. Features grades designed to suit different types of paper and printers, and separate small caps fonts intended for use in Word.
Concourse, loosely inspired by Dwiggins’ geometric sans-serif design Metro. Features stylistic alternates and small caps.
Triplicate, a monospaced slab serif design inspired by typewriter fonts such as the default face used in the IBM Selectric. Essentially a further development of Alix, with more variants including a proportional version and a style designed specifically for displaying code.
Advocate, a caps-only slab and sans serif design. Reminiscent of mid-century American college sports team lettering, corporate logos and Bank Gothic. Somewhat resembles an expansion of Herald Gothic.
Heliotrope, an attempt to merge the characteristics of serif and sans serif fonts into a single typeface. It draws loose inspiration from typefaces such as Optima and Albertus.
References
External links
Butterick's Practical Typography website
Equity
Concourse
Lawyers from Los Angeles
American typographers and type designers
American instructional writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
Living people
Harvard University alumni
UCLA School of Law alumni
People from Ann Arbor, Michigan
1970 births
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American lawyers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSeven | pSeven is a DSE (Design Space Exploration) software platform that was developed by DATADVANCE that features design, simulation and analysis capabilities and assists in design decisions. It provides integration with third party CAD and CAE software tools, multi-objective and robust optimization algorithms, data analysis, and uncertainty quantification tools.
pSeven comes under the notion of PIDO (Process Integration and Design Optimization) software. Design Space Exploration functionality is based on the mathematical algorithms of pSeven Core Python library, also developed by DATADVANCE.
pSeven workflow automation capabilities and algorithms from pSeven Core laid the foundation for the development of pSeven Enterprise, a cloud-native low-code platform used for engineering automation at enterprise level.
History
The foundation for the pSeven Core library as pSeven's background was laid in 2003, when the researchers from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems started collaborating with Airbus to perform R&D in the domains of simulation and data analysis. The first version of pSeven Core library was created in association with EADS Innovation Works in 2009. Since 2012, pSeven software platform for simulation automation, data analysis and optimization is developed and marketed by DATADVANCE, incorporating pSeven Core.
Functionality
pSeven's functionality can be divided into following blocks: Data & Model Analysis, Predictive Modeling, Design Optimization and Process Integration.
Data & Model Analysis
pSeven provides a variety of tools for data and model analysis:
Design of Experiments
Design of Experiments allows controlling the process of surrogate modeling via adaptive sampling plan, which benefits the quality of approximation. As a result, it ensures time and resource saving on experiments and smarter decision-making based on the detailed knowledge of the design space.
Sensitivity and Dependency Analysis
Sensitivity and Dependence analysis are used to filter non-informative design parameters in the study, ranking the informative ones with respect to their influence on the given response function and selecting parameters that provide the best approximation. It is applied to better understand the variables affecting the design process.
Uncertainty Quantification
Uncertainty Quantification capabilities in pSeven are based on OpenTURNS library. They are used to improve the quality of the designed products, manage potential risks at the design, manufacturing and operating stages and to guarantee product reliability.
Dimension Reduction
Dimension reduction is the process of reducing the number of random variables under consideration by obtaining a set of principal variables.
Predictive Modeling
Predictive modeling capabilities in pSeven are based on building, exploring and managing approximation models. pSeven incorporates several proprietary approximation techniques, including methods for ordered and structured data, allowi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202007%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2007 in music
List of number-one singles of 2007 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2007 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2007
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20Bit | The Micro Bit (also referred to as BBC Micro Bit or stylized as micro: bit) is an open source hardware ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the United Kingdom. It was first announced on the launch of BBC's Make It Digital campaign on 12 March 2015 with the intent of delivering 1 million devices to pupils in the UK. The final device design and features were unveiled on 6 July 2015 whereas actual delivery of devices, initially planned for September 2015 to schools and October 2015 to general public, began on 10 February 2016.
The device is described as half the size of a credit card and has an ARM Cortex-M0 processor, accelerometer and magnetometer sensors, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, a display consisting of 25 LEDs, two programmable buttons, and can be powered by either USB or an external battery pack. The device inputs and outputs are through five ring connectors that form part of a larger 25-pin edge connector. In October 2020, a physically nearly identical v2 board was released that features a Cortex-M4F microcontroller, with more memory and other new features.
Hardware
v1
The physical board measures and, , included:
Nordic nRF51822 – 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller, flash memory, static RAM, Bluetooth low energy wireless networking. The ARM core has the capability to switch between or .
NXP/Freescale KL26Z – ARM Cortex-M0+ core microcontroller, that includes a full-speed USB 2.0 On-The-Go (OTG) controller, used as a communication interface between USB and main Nordic microcontroller. This device also performs the voltage regulation from the USB supply (4.5-5.25 V) down to the nominal 3.3 volts used by the rest of the PCB. When running on batteries this regulator is not used.
NXP/Freescale MMA8652 – 3-axis accelerometer sensor via I²C-bus.
NXP/Freescale MAG3110 – 3-axis magnetometer sensor via I²C-bus (to act as a compass and metal detector).
MicroUSB connector, battery connector, 25-pin edge connector.
Display consisting of 25 LEDs in a 5×5 array.
Three tactile pushbuttons (two for applications, one for reset).
I/O includes three ring connectors (plus one power one ground) which accept crocodile clips or 4 mm banana plugs as well as a 25-pin edge connector with two or three PWM outputs, six to 17 GPIO pins (depending on configuration), six analog inputs, serial I/O, SPI, and I²C. Unlike early prototypes, which had an integral battery, an external battery pack (AAA batteries) can be used to power the device as a standalone or wearable product. Health and safety concerns, as well as cost, were given as reasons for the removal of the button battery from early designs.
The available hardware design documentation consist of only the schematic and BOM distributed under the Creative Commons By Attribution license, no PCB layout is available. The compatible reference design by Micro:bit Educational Foundation, however, is fully documented.
v2
v2, released on 13 October 2020, inclu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AccuWeather%20Network | The AccuWeather Network is an American cable and satellite television network launched, operated and owned by AccuWeather. The network broadcasts live and pre-recorded national and regional weather forecasts, analysis of ongoing weather events, and weather-related news. The network's studio and master control facilities are based at AccuWeather's headquarters in State College, Pennsylvania.
History
AccuWeather, which for many years had distributed and continues to distribute its forecast content to participating broadcast television stations around the United States, launched its first 24-hour television venture in 2007, with the launch of The Local AccuWeather Channel, a network distributed via the digital subchannels of various commercial (and in one case, non-commercial) stations, primarily featuring pre-recorded short-form local, regional, and national forecast segments. The Local AccuWeather Channel, which peaked in distribution in the early 2010s, remains available on a small and declining number of stations.
On January 13, 2014, AccuWeather announced that it would launch a new national weather channel, tentatively named "AccuWeather Channel", in the third quarter of that year. The channel aimed to focus its programming on forecasts and other weather information, designed as an alternative to The Weather Channel, which, since its purchase by NBCUniversal, Bain Capital, and The Blackstone Group in 2008, shifted towards a mix of forecasts and reality series which had a tenuous or limited connection to weather.
Plans to form a competing network began to be developed by AccuWeather in 2013; however, the company did not intend to publicly announce the launch until later the following year, with founder and president Dr. Joel N. Myers citing the decision to announce the launch earlier based on the limited "availability of quality forecasts on TV", and a then-ongoing carriage dispute between The Weather Channel and satellite provider DirecTV to make notice of the new service. Barry Lee Myers, then chief executive officer of AccuWeather, cited the company's decision to start the new channel as it had already offered "coverage in virtually every other medium" and, because of its existing digital presence, created a channel that would have the "look and feel of a digital device". AccuWeather Network was announced as a multi-platform service that would be streamed on the internet and mobile websites of AccuWeather and on its affiliate partners (which did not occur upon its initial launch), in addition to cable and satellite distribution. The channel's launch was eventually delayed until the channel was able to secure carriage on pay television providers.
The network was launched on March 10, 2015, with Verizon Fios as the first provider to offer the new network; Verizon Fios began carrying AccuWeather Network on channels 119 (in standard definition) and 619 (in high definition) after the provider's carriage agreement with The Weather Channel (whic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener%20connector | In network theory, the Wiener connector is a means of maximizing efficiency in connecting specified "query vertices" in a network. Given a connected, undirected graph and a set of query vertices in a graph, the minimum Wiener connector is an induced subgraph that connects the query vertices and minimizes the sum of shortest path distances among all pairs of vertices in the subgraph. In combinatorial optimization, the minimum Wiener connector problem is the problem of finding the minimum Wiener connector. It can be thought of as a version of the classic Steiner tree problem (one of Karp's 21 NP-complete problems), where instead of minimizing the size of the tree, the objective is to minimize the distances in the subgraph.
The minimum Wiener connector was first presented by Ruchansky et al. in 2015.
The minimum Wiener connector has applications in many domains where there is a graph structure and an interest in learning about connections between sets of individuals. For example, given a set of patients infected with a viral disease, which other patients should be checked to find the culprit? Or given a set of proteins of interest, which other proteins participate in pathways with them?
The Wiener connector was named in honor of chemist Harry Wiener who first introduced the Wiener Index.
Problem definition
The Wiener index is the sum of shortest path distances in a (sub)graph. Using to denote the shortest path between and , the Wiener index of a (sub)graph , denoted , is defined as
.
The minimum Wiener connector problem is defined as follows. Given an undirected and unweighted graph with vertex set and edge set and a set of query vertices , find a connector of minimum Wiener index. More formally, the problem is to compute
,
that is, find a connector that minimizes the sum of shortest paths in .
Relationship to Steiner tree
The minimum Wiener connector problem is related to the Steiner tree problem. In the former, the objective function in the minimization is the Wiener index of the connector, whereas in the latter, the objective function is the sum of the weights of the edges in the connector. The optimum solutions to these problems may differ, given the same graph and set of query vertices. In fact, a solution for the Steiner tree problem may be arbitrarily bad for the minimum Wiener connector problem; the graph on the right provides an example.
Computational complexity
Hardness
The problem is NP-hard, and does not admit a polynomial-time approximation scheme unless P = NP. This can be proven using the inapproximability of vertex cover in bounded degree graphs. Although there is no polynomial-time approximation scheme, there is a polynomial-time constant-factor approximation—an algorithm that finds a connector whose Wiener index is within a constant multiplicative factor of the Wiener index of the optimum connector. In terms of complexity classes, the minimum Wiener connector problem is in APX but is not in PTAS unless P = NP.
Exa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassib%20Nassar | Nassib Nassar is an American computer scientist and classical pianist.
As a computer scientist, Nassar was among the architects of information retrieval software for the World Wide Web and was the creator of Isearch, one of the earliest open source search engines, in 1994. He was president of Etymon Systems, an open source software company founded in 1998 and best known for producing Etymon PJ, which became the standard library for generating Portable Document Format (PDF) documents in Java, and Amberfish, a large scale information retrieval system for semi-structured text and XML.
As a pianist Nassar was the winner of The American Prize in 2014 for his performance of the Brahms F minor piano sonata. Other performances have included the 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven, played in a series of seven recitals.
References
American computer scientists
American classical pianists
American male pianists
Free software programmers
American computer programmers
American computer businesspeople
Living people
21st-century classical pianists
21st-century American male musicians
21st-century American pianists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLRU-LP | WLRU-LP (106.9 FM) is a non-commercial low-power FM broadcasting station in Hillsboro, Ohio airing Catholic programming. Local Masses, recitation of the Holy Rosary and related programming is broadcast live from St. Mary Catholic Church in Hillsboro in addition to polka music and network programming (in audio portion) provided by CatholicTV Network.
Father Mike Paraniuk is the founder and program director and is the host of the weekly polka program. Fr. Paraniuk is of Polish descent and heritage and has previously did on-air work at WOBO-FM in Batavia from 1982 until 2005.
LaRue Turner, previously an engineer and co-owner at the former WELX in Xenia (now WGNZ in Fairborn) is the consulting engineer who was at first the inspiration for the callsign.
According to a Highland County Press newspaper article dated December 18,2014 WLRU was scheduled to come on the air on December 23, 2014 beginning with the initial airing of Christmas music. The new LPFM followed through on its promise on that date.
The station was profiled in the March 2015 edition of The Catholic Telegraph, the official newspaper of the Cincinnati Archdiocese.
External links
Catholic Telegraph story of WLRU's on-air debut
WLRU information from REC Networks site
Catholic radio stations
LRU-LP
Highland County, Ohio
LRU-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemuda%20Institute | Kemuda Institute (KI) is a private college in Brunei. It was established in 2004 and has campuses in Beribi in Bandar Seri Begawan. Kemuda Institute mainly provides vocational courses in computing and information technology, leading up to BTEC qualification by Pearson as well as diplomas by NCC Education, two UK-based vocational qualifications providers. The current Chairman of Kemuda Institute is Dato Paduka Haji Abdul Razak bin Muhammad, who is also the founder of the college.
References
Universities and colleges in Brunei
2004 establishments in Brunei
Educational institutions established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorica | Sensorica is an open value network (OVN), established in 2011 in Montreal, Canada, for open source hardware development. It is a pilot project for commons-based peer production applied to hardware, designed to operate at large scale.
Sensorica uses the Resources, Events, Agents accounting model as a basis of its network resource planning and contribution accounting system (NRP-CAS). The NRP is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) type of software based on the REA model to support the complexity of operations in an OVN. It collects, stores, and interprets data from all the different types of activities in the network and connects them to specific resources, events, and agents. Economic agents are associated with other agents and participate in events of various types, such as processes, exchanges, or transfers. Events change the state of resources by using, citing, consuming, creating, or transferring them. A certain resource may be an output from one process and then an input to another one. Those processes and events are then connected with a resource flow.
Important contributions to p2p
The main contributions of Sensorica to material peer production is to provide a space for experimenting with tools (IT infrastructure), methods, peer governance and p2p culture. Sensorica is a real community of scientists, engineers and hackers that use a digital environment to collaborate on designing open source hardware solutions. The network has access to a makerspace in Montreal, where hardware prototyping is done and some limited capacity production, making use of digital fabrication. The digital and physical environments in which network activity is deployed have been set up as nondominium forms of property, meaning that they don't belong to anyone but anyone who engages can gain access. This is similar to the physical dimension of the Bitcoin network, the aggregate of all the mining computers, which is permissionless (unrestricted access based on a set of strict rules) and not owned by anyone.
Sensoricans define their network as "A stigmergic environment for synergistic open innovation, leveraging collective intelligence."
In the recent past Sensoricans have been experimenting a lot of stigmergy, which is a way of organizing innovation and production relying less on planning.
Sensorica's processes are also designed to stimulate collective intelligence, which makes collaboration integrated, i.e. it looks and feels like one social brain is thinking and making decisions, producing harmonious and coherent results (as opposed to a mosaic of outcomes).
When Sensoricans speak about synergistic open innovation they mean that all ventures are interlocked at the agents and resources level and one venture can be complementary to another. This is achieved through the NRP platform, which considers any resource as an independent entity that can be used in any process, belonging to any venture. That makes Sensorica is an ecosystem of ventures in synergy. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste%20My%20Steel%21 | Taste My Steel! is a role-playing game published by Phantasy Network in 1982.
Description
Taste My Steel! is a historical system of the swashbuckling era. The game includes rules for swordplay and swordsmanship, firearms, brawling, and creating scenarios and campaigns.
Publication history
Taste My Steel! was designed by Don Johnson, and published by Phantasy Network in 1982 as a 56-page book.
Reception
References
Historical role-playing games
Historical Swashbuckler role-playing games
Role-playing games introduced in 1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kingdom%20%28American%20TV%20series%29%20episodes | Kingdom is an American drama television series created by Byron Balasco. The series premiered on October 8, 2014, on the Audience Network and concluded on August 2, 2017. It stars Frank Grillo, Kiele Sanchez, Matt Lauria, Jonathan Tucker, Nick Jonas and Joanna Going. Season one consists of ten episodes. DirecTV renewed the series for a 20-episode second season, 10 of which aired in 2015 and 10 in 2016. On July 7, 2016, it was renewed for a third and final season.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2014)
Season 2 (2015–16)
Season 3 (2017)
References
External links
Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz%20Michael%20Wegner | Lutz Michael Wegner (born October 11, 1949) is a German computer scientist.
Biography
Wegner was born in Weinsberg near Heilbronn, Germany, in 1949. He graduated from Williston Academy in Easthampton, Mass. in 1968 and from Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Heilbronn in 1969. From 1969 to 1974 he studied industrial engineering at the University of Karlsruhe finishing with an MBA to be followed by two years as a visiting Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. His thesis titled "Analysis of two-level grammars" was submitted and defended in Karlsruhe in 1977 with Hermann Maurer and Thomas Ottmann being the referees. In 1982 he received the venia legendi in applied computer science from the University of Karlsruhe with an inaugural dissertation (Habilitationsschrift) on Quicksort variants for multisets. Examiners were Thomas Ottmann, Wolfgang Janko and Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht).
In 1984 he was appointed professor at the Hochschule Fulda (Fulda University of Applied Sciences) and went from there in 1987 to the University of Kassel where he served as full professor and chairman of the database group since 1989 until his retirement in March 2015.
Lutz Wegner is divorced and has three children.
Achievements
Lutz Wegner started his career with fundamental research on two-level grammars, also known as
van Wijngaarden grammars which had been used to define the programming language Algol68.
His results were included in the Handbook of Formal Languages by Arto Salomaa and Grzegorz Rozenberg.
For his second thesis he developed variants of Quicksort suitable for multiset and proved that they
achieved the lower bound for quicksort algorithms previously given by Robert Sedgewick.
Following a sabbatical stay at the IBM Scientific Center Heidelberg he took an interest in the Non-First Normal-Form data model, also known as nested relational model, and designed a graphical editor which also served as base for
research on synchronous groupware. In 1986 he authored an E-learning course "Introduction to Unix", which
originally was a contribution to Hermann Maurer's COSTOC-Project, and with
several portings was in active use until 2015, thus constituting one of the longest running examples
of courseware.
Besides his scientific achievements Wegner was instrumental in introducing computer science studies
(Bachelor and Master) at the University of Kassel which started in 2001 after securing three additional,
sponsored professorships with Traudl Herrhausen, then a member of the Hessian Parliament, opening doors to
industry and charities.
Notable publications
Lutz M. Wegner: On Parsing Two-level Grammars Acta Informatica 14 (1980) pp. 175–193
Lutz M. Wegner: Quicksort for Equal Keys. IEEE Trans. Comput. 34:4 (1985) pp. 362–366 .
Jukka Teuhola and Lutz Wegner: Minimal Space, Average Linear Time Duplicate Deletion. Comm. ACM 34:3 (1991) pp. 62–73 .
See also
Two-level grammars
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