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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hedgley | David Rice Hedgley Jr. (born January 21, 1937) is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made major contributions to the field of computer graphics. One of his contributions was the solution of the hidden-line problem in computer 3D graphics.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
1937 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%209%20virtual%20TV%20stations%20in%20Mexico | The following television stations operate on virtual channel 9 in Mexico:
Nu9ve stations
35 stations on channel 9 carry Nu9ve programming.
Other local stations
CORTV in the state of Oaxaca
XHUJED-TDT in Durango, Durango
XHSLS-TDT in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí
XERV-TDT in Reynosa, Tamaulipas
09 virtual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Urrutia%20Galicia | Jorge Urrutia Galicia is a Mexican mathematician and computer scientist in the Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research primarily concerns discrete and computational geometry.
Education and career
Urrutia earned his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1980, under the supervision of Ronald C. Read.
He worked for many years at the University of Ottawa before moving to UNAM in 1999.
With Jörg-Rüdiger Sack in 1991, he was founding co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications.
Recognition
Urrutia is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. The Mexican Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Geometry, held in 2013 in Oaxaca, was dedicated to Urrutia in honor of his 60th birthday.
Selected publications
; preliminary version in Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 1996),
; preliminary version in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications (DIAL-M 1999),
; preliminary version in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC 2013),
References
External links
Homepage
Google scholar profile
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mexican computer scientists
20th-century Mexican mathematicians
21st-century Mexican mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms
University of Waterloo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Ottawa
Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEXRail | TEXRail is a hybrid rail line (i.e., a non-commuter rail service that operates on the national rail network) in Tarrant County, Texas that provides service between downtown Fort Worth and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, with intermediate stations in North Richland Hills and Grapevine. It is operated by Trinity Metro (formerly Fort Worth Transportation Authority). The line was opened for preview service on December 31, 2018 and started revenue service on January 10, 2019. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday.
The new line is worth $1 billion. It is considered a segment of the Cotton Belt Rail Line project, alongside the DART-operated Silver Line (currently under construction) to the east.
Officials with Trinity Metro are hoping the new rail line will entice non-member cities along the line to join the transit agency in its quest to become a regional transit entity. Planned TEXRail stations led to agreements with Grapevine and North Richland Hills in 2006 and 2016, respectively, that allowed stations to be built within those cities. The route also passes through Haltom City, Hurst, and Colleyville, but these cities have not joined or signed interlocal agreements, preventing Trinity Metro from building stations in them.
History
Grapevine citizens voted 8,058 to 2,898 on November 7, 2006 to levy a 1-cent sales tax, of which ¢ would authorize Grapevine to contract with Trinity Metro for rail service and another ¢ for other transit improvements, like a downtown parking garage. This includes an expansion of the commuter rail system to link southwest Fort Worth to the north end of DFW International Airport.
Trinity Metro's Board of Directors finalized their plans in October 2006 for the southwest-to-northeast expansion. Two commuter routes, a light rail route and a bus rapid transit route were under consideration. The Board's recommendation was a commuter rail line that runs in the southwest part of the city near Sycamore School Road, running near Texas Christian University and the Medical District on its way to the existing T&P Station and Fort Worth Central station. At that point it turns northwest toward the Stockyards before turning northeast toward DFW International Airport. Preliminary plans call for nine new stations with eleven total, and could be contingent on other cities along the corridor joining the agency.
A proposal to use private funding to construct both TEXRail and DART's Dallas County segment was considered, but this plan was abandoned after necessary legislation was not passed in the State Legislature. Following this legislative defeat, Trinity Metro began pursuing federal grant funds in order to build TEXRail. On March 5, 2014, it was announced that the TEXRail project would receive $50 million in federal grant funds from President Barack Obama's 2015 New Starts Funding Budget.
In April 2015, Trinity Metro approved a contract for pre-construction services, awarded to an Archer Western Contracto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Polar%20Bears | The Polar Bears is a 2012 3D computer-animated short film presented by The Coca-Cola Company, produced by Ridley Scott, written by David Reynolds, and directed by John Stevenson. The film features the voices of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Armie Hammer, Jonathan Adams, and Megyn Price. The film is based on Coca-Cola's iconic polar bears and was released on the company's website and YouTube channel on December 31, 2012.
Plot
Kaskae leads his family of polar bears across the Arctic Circle to give a speech to other polar bears. Jak, the troublemaker in the family, is given the task of looking after his little sister Kaia along with his elder brother Zook. Hearing part of Kaskae's speech about reaching new heights, Jak rushes to the peak of the tundra with Zook trailing him. As soon as both brothers reach the top, Jak shoves Zook before they both slide down and crash their father's speech. The family then discovers an unattended Kaia dancing with a flock of puffins. The other polar bears are not amused by the scene, as their kind are not supposed to socialize with the puffins, but Jak jumps in the water to join in the fun. Kaskae then orders everyone to be silent before he and the rest of the family jump in to play in the water.
Cast
Lin-Manuel Miranda as Jak
Armie Hammer as Zook
Jonathan Adams as Kaskae
Megyn Price as Sakari
Lola Augspurger as Kaia
Jenna Lamia as Polar Girl 1
Anne Gregory as Polar Girl 2
References
External links
(Coca-Cola)
(Animal Logic)
2012 films
2010s American animated films
2012 3D films
2012 animated films
American animated short films
Animated films about birds
Films directed by John Stevenson
Films scored by Edward Shearmur
Animated films about polar bears
Animated films set in the Arctic
Promotional campaigns by Coca-Cola
Scott Free Productions films
Animal Logic films
American 3D films
Computer-animated short films
3D animated short films
Works based on advertisements
2010s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loai%20Deeb | Loai Mohammed Deeb (born 19 July 1975) is a Palestinian who is the leader of Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) and a former member of the municipal council of Sola, Norway.
In June 2015 Norwegian police charged both Loai Deeb and GNRD with money laundering and receiving stolen goods.
Career
In 2007 he was elected to the local council for Sola district in Rogaland as a member of the Norwegian Labour Party for a period of 4 years.
From 2007 to 2011 he was director of a diploma mill, The Scandinavian University, located in Stavanger with no employees in Norway and without recognition from the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education.
Deeb established the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD), in 2008.
In 2013 he earned 4.7 million Norwegian kroner, after years where his yearly income had rarely exceeded 200 000 Norwegian kroner when he had worked as a security guard and as a messenger in Norway. (
In 2014 Brian Whitaker said that the organization led by Deeb, GNRD, is "funded – to the tune of 3.5 million euros a year".)
In 2014 he produced the video for the song "The Great East", performed by Carole Samaha, the GNRD Goodwill Ambassador.
Criminal charges
On May 27, 2015, Norwegian police raided the headquarters of GNRD in Stavanger and brought Loai Deeb in for questioning. Following the raid Deeb was charged with money laundering and receiving stolen goods. The investigation is carried out by the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim). Through his lawyer Deeb denied the accusations.
In October 2018, Deeb was sentenced to years in jail by the Stavanger District Court. Deeb stated he would appeal the sentence.
In December 2019, Deeb was sentenced to years in jail by the Gulating Court of Appeal.
Education
Deeb's claim to have completed a PhD in international law is disputed. He has claimed that he completed his degree at universities in four different countries on separate occasions, and no major university in any of the four countries have any record of his matriculation. Deeb has no ties to University of Oslo, which contrasts Deeb's claim that he is a professor there.
GNRD's observing of elections
During his period of leadership, the organization has observed elections:
South Sudan's independence referendum - 14,15 January 2011.
Jordanian parliamentary election - 23 January 2013.
Algerian presidential elections - 17 May 2014.
Egyptian presidential election - 26, 28 May 2014.
Presidential and parliamentary elections, Tunisia - October, November, December 2014.
Media scrutiny of claims of Deeb's memberships in organisations
On 17 June 2015 NRK said that the Wikipedia article about Deeb "claims that he is a member of six organisations including European Academy of rights and Federation of the International Criminal Court. Three of the six organisations" have no traces on the internet.
Family
Deeb is married and has 5 children: one so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline%20operator | The skyline operator is the subject of an optimization problem, used in a query to filter results from a database to keep only those objects that are not worse than any other.
This operator is an extension to SQL proposed by Börzsönyi et al. A classic example of application of the skyline operator involves selecting a hotel for a holiday. The user wants the hotel to be both cheap and close to the beach. However, hotels that are close to the beach may also be expensive. In this case, the skyline operator would only present those hotels that are not worse than any other hotel in both price and distance to the beach.
Proposed syntax
To give an example in SQL: Börzsönyi et al. proposed the following syntax for the skyline operator:
SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ...
GROUP BY ... HAVING ...
SKYLINE OF [DISTINCT] d1 [MIN | MAX | DIFF],
..., dm [MIN | MAX | DIFF]
ORDER BY ...
where d1, ... dm denote the dimensions of the skyline and MIN, MAX and DIFF specify whether the value in that dimension should be minimised, maximised or simply be different.
Implementation
The skyline operator can be implemented directly in SQL using current SQL constructs, but this has been shown to be very slow. Other algorithms have been proposed that make use of divide and conquer, indices, MapReduce and general-purpose computing on graphics cards. Skyline queries on data streams (i.e. continuous skyline queries) have been studied in the context of parallel query processing on multicores, owing to their wide diffusion in real-time decision making problems and data streaming analytics.
See also
Pareto efficiency
Multi-objective optimization
Convex hull
Nearest neighbor search
Selection algorithm
References
Data management
Query languages
Relational database management systems
SQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic%20Dungeon | Volcanic Dungeon is a role-playing video game designed by Roy Carnell and Stuart A. Galloway and released by Carnell Software for the ZX Spectrum, Dragon 32/64 and ZX81 computers in 1983. It is a follow-up to 1982's Black Crystal.
Plot
A war between the forces of good and evil has been won by the light and the dark goddess Methzar and the Snow Queen were both defeated. But the witch Magra has managed to escape with some of her army into the titular volcanic dungeon, taking with her a captive elfin princess named Edora. The task of a hero known as the Knight of Star Jewel is to hunt down and kill Magra, and to rescue Edora from her glass coffin.
Reception
According to a Sinclair User ZX-81 retrospective in 1985, "Volcanic deserves recognition as the first graphics adventure for the ZX-81, and therefore one of the first of all adventures. Unfortunately, the game mechanics are rather crude and it is frequently a matter of good fortune." In a "Favourites of Yesteryear" article that same year, Sinclair User rated it 5/10, complaining of the game's slowness and how "death is always too swift. It is as if the computer is playing the player and not the other way around."
Legacy
Volcanic Dungeon was the second part of the 'Third Continent Trilogy'; See also Black Crystal, 1982 and, The Wrath of Magra, 1984.
The BASIC source code listing of Volcanic Dungeon is available online.
References
External links
1983 video games
Commercial video games with freely available source code
Dragon 32 games
Dungeon crawler video games
Fantasy video games
Role-playing video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games about witchcraft
ZX Spectrum games
ZX81 games
Carnell Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Allen%3A%20Not%20the%20Boy%20Next%20Door | Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door is a two-part Australian miniseries about music legend Peter Allen that screened on the Seven Network in 2015.
Plot synopsis
Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door tells the story of how Peter Allen rose from New South Wales to the Hollywood Hills and ends up becoming part of American royalty along the way.
Cast
Joel Jackson as Peter Allen
Ky Baldwin as Young Peter Allen (Peter Woolnough)
Sara West as Liza Minnelli
Rebecca Gibney as Marion Woolnough (Allen's mother)
Sigrid Thornton as Judy Garland
Henri Szeps as Dee Anthony
Nick Farnell as Dick Woolnough
Andrew Lees as Gregory Connell
Rob Mills as Chris Bell
Elise McCann as Lynne Woolnough (Allen's sister)
Christie Whelan Browne as Olivia Newton-John
Production
Filming of the miniseries took place in early 2015. It is written by Stephen MacLean, Michael Miller and Justin Monjo, and directed by Shawn Seet.
Awards
Ratings
Chart impact
Following the screening of episode one, Allen's 2006 album "The Ultimate Peter Allen" re-entered the ARIA Albums Chart at number 24, thus surpassing its 2006 peak of 50.
Likewise, the song "I Still Call Australia Home" re-entered the ARIA singles chart at number 60, surpassing its previous peak of 72 achieved in June 1982.
Following the screening of episode 2, "The Ultimate Peter Allen" rose to another new peak of 18, whilst the song "Tenterfield Saddler" made its ARIA singles chart debut at number 53.
References
External links
2010s Australian television miniseries
2015 Australian television series debuts
2015 Australian television series endings
Cultural depictions of Australian men
Cultural depictions of pop musicians
Seven Network original programming
Television series by Beyond Television Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20RealSense | Intel RealSense Technology, formerly known as Intel Perceptual Computing, was a product range of depth and tracking technologies designed to give machines and devices depth perception capabilities. The technologies, owned by Intel were used in autonomous drones, robots, AR/VR, smart home devices amongst many others broad market products.
The RealSense products were made of Vision Processors, Depth and Tracking Modules, and Depth Cameras, supported by an open source, cross-platform SDK in an attempt to simplify supporting cameras for third party software developers, system integrators, ODMs and OEMs.
History
Intel began producing hardware and software that utilized depth tracking, gestures, facial recognition, eye tracking, and other technologies under the branding Perceptual Computing in 2013. According to Intel, much of their research into the technologies was focused around "sensory inputs that make [computers] more human like". They initially hoped to begin including 3D cameras that could support their Perceptual Computing as opposed to traditional 2D cameras by late 2014.
In 2013, Intel ran a competition among seven teams to create software highlighting the capabilities of its Perceptual Computing technology entitled "Intel Ultimate Coder Challenge: Going Perceptual".
In 2014, Intel rebranded their Perceptual Computing line of technology as Intel RealSense.
Intel RealSense Group supported multiple depth and tracking technologies including Coded Light Depth, Stereo Depth and Positional Tracking.
To address the lack of applications built on the RealSense platform and to promote the platform among software developers, in 2014 Intel organized the "Intel RealSense App Challenge". The winners were awarded large sums of money.
Current Product range
In August 2021 Intel announced it was "winding down" its RealSense computer vision division to focus on its core businesses. Specifically the End of Life (EOL) of LiDAR L515, Facial Authentication (F455) and Tracking (T265) product lines were announced. The majority of the Stereo Product Line were still available and new products were released in the meantime.
Product series
Intel RealSense D400 Product Family
As of January 2018, new Intel RealSense D400 Product Family was launched with the Intel RealSense Vision Processor D4, Intel RealSense Depth Module D400 Series, and 2 ready to use depth cameras: Intel RealSense Depth Cameras D435 and D415.
Intel RealSense Vision Processor D4 Series
The Intel RealSense Vision Processor D4 series are vision processors based on 28 nanometer (nm) process technology to compute real-time stereo depth data. They utilise a depth algorithm that enables more accurate and longer range depth perception than previously available. There are two products in this family: RealSense Vision processor D4 and RealSense Vision Processor D4m.
Other products
The Intel RealSense Depth Module D400 Series is designed for easy integration to bring 3D into devices and machines. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiere%20%28TV%20series%29 | Premiere is an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from July 1, 1968, to September 9, 1968. The presentations were pilots that were not brought by any of the networks.
Among them were "Lassiter", starring Burt Reynolds, "Crisis", starring Carl Betz and Susan Strasberg, and "Higher and Higher", starring Sally Kellerman and John McMartin. Also seen was "Call to Danger", which was made years earlier as the pilot to ''Mission: Impossible.
Lassiter
Lassiter was to be a one-hour show starring Burt Reynolds as a magazine journalist who goes undercover for his stories. It was made by Filmways and was created and produced by Richard Alan Simmons. Sam Wanamaker directed the pilot in November 1966 in Reno, Nevada.
Cast
Burt Reynolds as Lassiter
Sharon Farrell
References
1968 American television series debuts
1968 American television series endings
CBS original programming
1960s American anthology television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makey%20Makey | Makey Makey: An Invention Kit for Everyone is an invention kit designed to connect everyday objects to computer keys. Using a circuit board, alligator clips, and a USB cable, the toy uses closed loop electrical signals to send the computer either a keyboard stroke or mouse click signal. This function allows the Makey Makey to work with any computer program or webpage that accepts keyboard or mouse click.
Product background
MIT students, Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum, the Makey Makey was produced by research done at MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten. Prior to creating the Makey Makey, Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum also worked on creative tools and invention kits such as Drawdio, Singing Fingers, and Scratch.
The first prototype for Makey Makey was created in 2010 and tested at a workshop at San Francisco Exploratorium where participants used the product to create a game called "Drum Pants" that used a beach ball as a controller and water buckets as the foot-pads to play the console game, Dance Dance Revolution. The Second Prototype was created in 2011 and 2012 and tested with interactive design specialists, after which the final prototype was tested at the Maker Faire in San Francisco in 2012 before the end of the Kickstarter campaign.
Funding
Makey Makey was started through a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $50,000. Following its initial funding on Kickstarter, Makey Makey was written about in Mashable, Wired, and New Scientist, among others.
Technical specifications
The Makey Makey board was originally designed around the Atmel 32U4 microcontroller. The controller uses all 12 analog input pins on the 32U4 microcontroller in combination with a pull-up resistor array to sense the low voltages returning from conducting materials like fruit or skin. This microcontroller can easily be used as a USB-HID device and act as a keyboard, gamepad or mouse. The hardware design is very similar to the Arduino Leonardo, with some added pull-up resistors and indication LED's. Because of the similarities you can easily turn a regular Arduino Leonardo into a Makey Makey compatible device. You can also program the official Makey Makey using the Arduino IDE.
The REV 1.2 board is built around the Microchip PIC 18F25K50. With the REV 1.2 reprogramming the microcontroller is no longer possible, and the functionality is now limited to keyboard and mouse emulation. REV 1.2 also drops the open source nature of the board design, and the new Makey Makey boards no longer can run stand-alone code.
The newest 2017 version seems to be designed around a GPCE4096UA sound controller.
Awards and recognition
(2014) Inducted into The Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection
(2014) Popular Science's "Best of Toy Fair"
References
External links
Official homepage
Electronic toys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20S.%20Singleton | Robert Shelby Singleton (born March 25, 1933) is an American engineer, inventor, scientist, teacher of magnetics and computing. He invented magnetic core memory that was addressable by content rather than location, which is the precursor to modern content-addressable memory systems. He later contributed to the invention and development of virtual memory for computer systems, Computer Aided Design and Engineering systems, and complex signal processing algorithms and circuits.
Early life and education
Singleton was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 25, 1933. His father was Richard Leland Painter, a storekeeper-gauger with Internal Revenue Service, and who later rose to assistant to the director of ATF. His mother was Mary Painter, (née Furch). In 1944, at the age of 11, he moved with his mother to Leesburg, Florida. At age 16 he joined Army National Guard and graduated as president of his class in 1951 from Leesburg High School. Shortly after graduation he enrolled at the University of Florida, but left after his first semester to enlist in the United States Army for service in the Korean War.
Upon returning from military service, he enrolled again at the University of Florida. He was selected as member of Sigma Tau honorary engineering fraternity and became a member of IRE (Institute of Radio Engineers) which in 1962 became today’s IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). He graduated with a BSEE degree summa cum laude with an honors project to design and build a microwave parametric amplifier. While at AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories he graduated from New York University with a MSEE degree in 1961.
Military service
Singleton joined the Army National Guard while still in high school and spent two years in the infantry heavy weapons platoon. He enrolled in ROTC in 1951 but quickly transferred to the U.S. Army. In 1952, after basic training, he was selected to participate in the first Nike Fire Control School at Fort Bliss, TX. This was a 40-week training class led by engineers from AT&T Bell Laboratories, the designers of the system, for the 12 men who would ultimately maintain the electronics for the first fully operational Nike anti-aircraft missile site. Located at Ft. Hancock, NJ on Sandy Hook, the site sat in defense of the New York City area. With completion of training, he spent a year with the 526th AAA Missile Battalion.
AT&T Bell Laboratories and breakthroughs
Singleton studied under Dr. Olle I. Elgerd, a professor of engineering at the University of Florida and author in the fields of electrical engineering and cryptography error correction. Dr. Elgerd encouraged him to accept a position at Bell Laboratories. Singleton accepted the offer to join Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ as member of the technical staff in 1959. He was hired directly by William Keister, a pioneer in the field of logic circuits. Singleton’s work was primarily on digital computing devices including magnetic logic and semiconductors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VigiBase | VigiBase is a World Health Organization's (WHO) global Individual Case Safety Report (ICSR) database that contains ICSRs submitted by the participating member states enrolled under WHO's international drug monitoring programme. It is the single largest drug safety data repository in the world. Since 1978, the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC; established in Uppsala, Sweden) on behalf of WHO, have been maintaining VigiBase.
Vigibase is used to obtain the information about a safety profile of a medicinal product. These data are used by pharmaceutical industries, academic institutions and regulatory authorities for statistical signal detection, updating periodic reports, ICSR comparisons with company databases and studying the reporting patterns.
The data (pre-dominantly post-marketing serious and non-serious cases) is collected from each of its 110 member states which currently comprises to over 10 million ICSRs (October 2014). About a hundred thousand ICSRs are added each year.
Historical events
1957- Thalidomide tragedy.
1968- WHO Programme established with 10 member states. International ADR terminology and drug dictionary.
1969- Definition of Adverse drug reaction.
1978- Operations transferred to the UMC (Uppsala) from WHO (Geneva); setting-up of relational database management system.
1991- On-line WHO database search programme available to national centre.
1993- A documentation grading field was added to VigiBase.
1998- The UMC implemented an automated signal detection method, using a BCPNN data mining approach.
2001- Start of Vigibase Online project (now VigiFlow).
2010- 100th country joins the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring.
2014- Over 10 million adverse reaction reported in VigiBase. Also started to include a larger quantity of more regular submissions from China.
Organisation
Contributors
It is mandatory for all the participating countries (125 members states and 28 associate members) to submit ICSRs to UMC via its appointed national centre based in the respective member states, authorized by its competent authority or the health authority itself.
These reports are usually sent to the respective national centre by marketing authorization holders, health care professionals (HCP), consumers or any regional centre. Most of participating member have a well established system for collection of ICSRs.
These submissions are in ICH E2B format and are reported more than once a month or at least every quarter. For some member states that lack an E2B compatible database for ICSR management, UMC in collaboration with Swissmedic has developed VigiFlow, a web-based ICSR management system. VigiFlow functions as a national ICSR database management system and analysis tool, through which cases are sent to UMC.
Beneficiaries
With primary objective of identify the earliest possible pharmacovigilance signals, the usage of VigiBase is permitted and accessed by the following authorities:
Member states: Authorized centre of all |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%204%20virtual%20TV%20stations%20in%20Mexico | The following television stations operate on virtual channel 4 in Mexico:
Regional networks
TV4 in the state of Guanajuato
Radio y Televisión de Guerrero in the state of Guerrero
Sistema Quintanarroense de Comunicación Social in the state of Quintana Roo
Local stations
XHBC-TDT in Mexicali, Baja California
XHBR-TDT in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
XHCCA-TDT in Campeche, Campeche
XHGK-TDT in Tapachula, Chiapas
XHTV-TDT in Mexico City
XHUAD-TDT in Durango, Durango
XHG-TDT in Guadalajara, Jalisco
XHKG-TDT in Tepic, Nayarit
XEFB-TDT in Monterrey, Nuevo León
XHBO-TDT in Oaxaca, Oaxaca
XHP-TDT in Puebla, Puebla
XHROSL-TDT in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí
XHS-TDT in Ensenada, Baja California
XHST-TDT in Mérida, Yucatán
XHTPZ-TDT in Tampico, Tamaulipas
References
04 virtual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Flink | Apache Flink is an open-source, unified stream-processing and batch-processing framework developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The core of Apache Flink is a distributed streaming data-flow engine written in Java and Scala. Flink executes arbitrary dataflow programs in a data-parallel and pipelined (hence task parallel) manner. Flink's pipelined runtime system enables the execution of bulk/batch and stream processing programs. Furthermore, Flink's runtime supports the execution of iterative algorithms natively.
Flink provides a high-throughput, low-latency streaming engine as well as support for event-time processing and state management. Flink applications are fault-tolerant in the event of machine failure and support exactly-once semantics. Programs can be written in Java, Scala, Python, and SQL and are automatically compiled and optimized into dataflow programs that are executed in a cluster or cloud environment.
Flink does not provide its own data-storage system, but provides data-source and sink connectors to systems such as Apache Doris, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka, HDFS, Apache Cassandra, and ElasticSearch.
Development
Apache Flink is developed under the Apache License 2.0 by the Apache Flink Community within the Apache Software Foundation. The project is driven by over 25 committers and over 340 contributors.
Overview
Apache Flink's dataflow programming model provides event-at-a-time processing on both finite and infinite datasets. At a basic level, Flink programs consist of streams and transformations. “Conceptually, a stream is a (potentially never-ending) flow of data records, and a transformation is an operation that takes one or more streams as input, and produces one or more output streams as a result.”
Apache Flink includes two core APIs: a DataStream API for bounded or unbounded streams of data and a DataSet API for bounded data sets. Flink also offers a Table API, which is a SQL-like expression language for relational stream and batch processing that can be easily embedded in Flink's DataStream and DataSet APIs. The highest-level language supported by Flink is SQL, which is semantically similar to the Table API and represents programs as SQL query expressions.
Programming Model and Distributed Runtime
Upon execution, Flink programs are mapped to streaming dataflows. Every Flink dataflow starts with one or more sources (a data input, e.g., a message queue or a file system) and ends with one or more sinks (a data output, e.g., a message queue, file system, or database). An arbitrary number of transformations can be performed on the stream. These streams can be arranged as a directed, acyclic dataflow graph, allowing an application to branch and merge dataflows.
Flink offers ready-built source and sink connectors with Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, HDFS, Apache Cassandra, and more.
Flink programs run as a distributed system within a cluster and can be deployed in a standalone mode as well as on YARN, Mesos, Docker-ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20Internetwork%20Architecture | The Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) is a new computer network architecture proposed as an alternative to the architecture of the currently mainstream Internet protocol suite. The principles behind RINA were first presented by John Day in his 2008 book Patterns in Network Architecture: A return to Fundamentals. This work is a start afresh, taking into account lessons learned in the 35 years of TCP/IP’s existence, as well as the lessons of OSI’s failure and the lessons of other network technologies of the past few decades, such as CYCLADES, DECnet, and Xerox Network Systems. RINA's fundamental principles are that computer networking is just Inter-Process Communication or IPC, and that layering should be done based on scope/scale, with a single recurring set of protocols, rather than based on function, with specialized protocols. The protocol instances in one layer interface with the protocol instances on higher and lower layers via new concepts and entities that effectively reify networking functions currently specific to protocols like BGP, OSPF and ARP. In this way, RINA claims to support features like mobility, multihoming and quality of service without the need for additional specialized protocols like RTP and UDP, as well as to allow simplified network administration without the need for concepts like autonomous systems and NAT.
Overview
RINA is the result of an effort to work out general principles in computer networking that apply in all situations. RINA is the specific architecture, implementation, testing platform and ultimately deployment of the model informally known as the IPC model, although it also deals with concepts and results that apply to any distributed application, not just to networking. Coming from distributed applications, most of the terminology comes from application development instead of networking, which is understandable, given that RINA's fundamental principle is to reduce networking to IPC.
The basic entity of RINA is the Distributed Application Process or DAP, which frequently corresponds to a process on a host. Two or more DAPs constitute a Distributed Application Facility or DAF, as illustrated in Figure 1. These DAPs communicate using the Common Distributed Application Protocol or CDAP, exchanging structured data in the form of objects. These objects are structured in a Resource Information Base or RIB, which provides a naming schema and a logical organization to them. CDAP provides six basic operations on a remote DAP's objects: create, delete, read, write, start and stop.
In order to exchange information, DAPs need an underlying facility whose task is to provide and manage IPC services over a certain scope. This facility is another DAF, called a Distributed IPC Facility or DIF. A DIF enables a DAP to allocate flows to one or more DAPs, by just providing the names of the targeted DAPs and the desired QoS parameters such as bounds on data loss and latency, ordered or out-of-order delivery, reliabil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilsag%20Entertainment%20Network | Chilsag Entertainment Network is an Indian film and theatre company based in Mumbai. Chilsag Chillies Theatre Company is the live show and musical production arm of the Chilsag Entertainment Network. The enterprise was founded in 2003 by Sachin Gupta.
History
2003–2010
Founded in 2003 by Sachin Gupta Chilsag Chillies Theatre Company was founded with the objective to redefine theatre through its innovative theatre productions. The very first production of the company, "Celebration of Life", was felicitated by the chief minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit and was also appreciated internationally when it was performed at the Factory Theatre, Toronto, Canada and Off-Broadway Theare, New York. Chilsag tied up with Actor's experimental Lab USA and established an acting school 'Salgane School of Acting' as well in 2003. In 2004, Chilsag Chillies received letters of appreciation from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (former President of India), Shivraj Patil (former Home Minister, India) and the Italian cultural centre and Department of Art and Culture, Government of India for the contribution to theatre. Late 2004, Chilsag laid the foundation of a new venture operationalising Corporate Theatre across its units. Theatre Pasta, an international theatre magazine was launched in 2005. Chilsag also stages two of its productions in locations across London in three days with its pack of English actors. Mid 2006, witnessed the initiation of Chilsag Children's Theatre Company and Theatre-in-Education projects. Chilsag Theatre Pasta International Awards successfully started its journey in beginning of 2007. The company staged the premier of its plays, 'A Rollercoaster Ride', 'Wake Up Call' and 'Kailashnath Weds Madhumati' at one of the premier performing arts location in the capital city, New Delhi. Chilsag took its theatre production 'Celebration of Life', 'Handicapped City' to the international forum through shows Off-Broadway (New York City), Factory Theatre (Canada), locations across Boston, West Virginia and other cities. This year marked the launch of International Repertory for Chilsag with American actors. in 2009, Chilsag started its own Drama Therapy Centre. Late 2010, witnessed a collaboration with Indian Council for Cultural Relations and staged the play ' Wake Up Call'.
2011–2019
In 2011, Director Sachin Gupta received the Natya Bhushan, the highest ranking award for his contribution to Hindi theatre. The Film Production House, Chilsag Pictures was established in 2012 and 2014 the first Hindi feature film 'Paranthe Wali Gali' was released. Shortly followed by release of 'Thoda Lutf Thoda Ishq' in 2015. 2015 also witnessed the conceptualisation and production of the biggest musical to be staged the capital city named, 'Chota Bheem The Musical' witnessed by over 18000 in the Siri Fort Auditorium. In 2016, Chilsag signed a six-film deal with United States-based production house for the production of meaningful cinema and short films. Recent tie up with London Pla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20silico%20clinical%20trials | An in silico clinical trial, also known as a virtual clinical trial, is an individualized computer simulation used in the development or regulatory evaluation of a medicinal product, device, or intervention. While completely simulated clinical trials are not feasible with current technology and understanding of biology, its development would be expected to have major benefits over current in vivo clinical trials, and research on it is being pursued.
History
The term in silico indicates any use of computers in clinical trials, even if limited to management of clinical information in a database.
Rationale
The traditional model for the development of medical treatments and devices begins with pre-clinical development. In laboratories, test-tube and other in vitro experiments establish the plausibility for the efficacy of the treatment. Then in vivo animal models, with different species, provide guidance on the efficacy and safety of the product for humans. With success in both in vitro and in vivo studies, scientist can propose that clinical trials test whether the product be made available for humans. Clinical trials are often divided into four phases. Phase 3 involves testing a large number of people. When a medication fails at this stage, the financial losses can be catastrophic.
Predicting low-frequency side effects has been difficult, because such side effects need not become apparent until the treatment is adopted by many patients. The appearance of severe side-effects in phase three often causes development to stop, for ethical and economic reasons. Also, in recent years many candidate drugs failed in phase 3 trials because of lack of efficacy rather than for safety reasons. One reason for failure is that traditional trials aim to establish efficacy and safety for most subjects, rather than for individual subjects, and so efficacy is determined by a statistic of central tendency for the trial. Traditional trials do not adapt the treatment to the covariates of subjects:
Taking account of factors such as the patient's particular physiology, the individual manifestation of the disease being treated, their lifestyle, and the presence of co-morbidities.
Compliance, or lack thereof, in taking the drug at the times and dose prescribed. In the case of a surgically implanted device, to account for the variability in surgeons’ experience and technique, as well as the particular anatomy of the patient. However, adjusting the evaluation of the study for noncompliance has proved difficult. Such adjustments often bias the results of the study, and so many health authorities mandate that clinical trials analyse the data according to the intention to treat principle.
Aim
Accurate computer models of a treatment and its deployment, as well as patient characteristics, are necessary precursors for the development of in silico clinical trials. In such a scenario, ‘virtual’ patients would be given a ‘virtual’ treatment, enabling observation through a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jongla | Jongla is a Finnish start-up company, specialising mobile messaging apps. In June 2016, Jongla announced that it wants to bridge the gap between social networking services and messaging apps. Jongla is targeting especially emerging markets like Africa, Southeast Asia and South America, where they are seeing the best traction. Jongla app is available on Android, iOS and Windows Phone platforms.
Messaging app
In June, 2016 Jongla introduced their 3rd generation app, the Jongla - Social Messenger, which introduced feature updates, brand upgrade and a new app UI. In Social Messenger, Jongla introduced the community of nearby Jongla users and an added ability to engage with user profiles with a choice of reaction like thumbs-up, smile or heart.
Jongla claims to be the world's lightest instant messaging app. The company backs up their claim with app package size comparisons. In June 2016, their APK (Android Application Package) size was 3.5MB, being one tenth of that compared to their competitor apps like WhatsApp, Messenger and Viber.
Jongla has the basic messaging functions like private and group chats and sharing text, stickers, images, locations and videos. Also, anyone can join a Jongla conversation via web application called Jongla Out. Jongla is one of the few messaging apps offering voice messages with special filters which is an integrated push-to-talk voice messaging feature with access to a range of funny voice filters that alter sender's voice.
Jongla has been selected as a winner of the Red Herring's Top 100 Global award 2013. The company has been featured in articles by Forbes, CNBC Africa, Mobile Industry Review and The Guardian Nigeria.
Jongla as a company
Jongla is a Finland-based company founded by Arto Boman and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Jongla CSO is Riku Salminen and the company is owned by a group of private investors including JSH Capital Oy, Ingman Finance Oy, and Holdington Ltd Oy. Chairman of the board is Henry Sjöman accompanied with board members Arto Boman and Simo Makkonen.
References
External links
Arcticstartup.com - Jongla Social Messenger
Pulse.ng - Instant Messaging App Announces Entry Into African Market
Goodnewsfinland.com - Jongla Makes Instant Messaging More Social
Forbes.com - Disrupting The Instant Messaging App Space Jongla-style
Businesswire.com - Jongla Social Messenger bridges the gap between instant messaging and social networks
ITnewsafrica.com - Nigeria: Jongla unveils light usage instant messaging app
Redherring.com - 2013 Red Herring Europe Top 100 Winners
Mobileindustryreview.com - Jongla, Finnish Startup, Aiming To Disrupt Instant Messaging Industry
Guardian.ng - Jongla Joins Race For Soul Of IM Market In Nigeria
CNBCAfrica.com - Jongla App Launches In Nigeria
Bloomberg.com - Jongla
Instant messaging
Online companies of Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Bilotto | Francesco Bilotto (born August 30, 1981) is a television design and entertaining expert, contributing to many media sources. Currently seen as a re-appearing guest on national network news morning programs as well as daytime entertainment talk shows, he also has a self-titled segment "The Francesco Fix" on NBC New York.
Early years
Francesco Bilotto was born to Italian descent parents and raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Bilotto spent his childhood living with his mother in a Cape Cod home on Lake Michigan's shoreline, which is where his love for design and passion for natural beauty began.
Career
Francesco has appeared on ABC The View and NBC Today Show, and is a TODAY Tastemaker, He has also appeared on New York Live, WNBC New York, and Good Morning America ABC Television Network. Bilotto has also had mentions in Closer Weekly, People magazine and other national publications. Bilotto has worked as a free-lance creative consultant to Discover Wisconsin, a program showcasing the state and its vast landscape, locals and historical sites. In 2000, he lived in Chicago and volunteered his talents to Equality Illinois. In 2009 Bilotto moved to San Francisco, California, in pursuit of inspiration and extending his brand on a national level which then brought him to his current home of New York City in 2011. In addition to his broadcast career, Bilotto keeps a private client list including Manhattan socialites, many well known celebrities and Wall Street dwellers.
Personal life
Bilotto resides in Manhattan, New York.
References
External links
1975 births
American designers
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20based%20decision%20making | Data based decision making or data driven decision making refers to educator’s ongoing process of collecting and analyzing different types of data, including demographic, student achievement test, satisfaction, process data to guide decisions towards improvement of educational process. DDDM becomes more important in education since federal and state test-based accountability policies. No Child Left Behind Act opens broader opportunities and incentives in using data by educational organizations by requiring schools and districts to analyze additional components of data, as well as pressing them to increase student test scores. Information makes schools accountable for year by year improvement various student groups. DDDM helps to recognize the problem and who is affected by the problem.
Purpose
The purpose of DDDM is to help educators, schools, districts, and states to use information they have to actionable knowledge to improve student outcomes. DDDM requires high-quality data and possibly technical assistance; otherwise, data can misinform and lead to unreliable inferences. Data management techniques can improve teaching and learning in schools. Test scores are used by many principals to identify “bubble kids”, students whose results are just below proficiency level in reading and mathematics.
Types of data used in education
There are 4 major types of data used in education: demographics data, perceptions data, student learning data, and school processes data.
1. Demographics data in educational organizations answers the question, "Who are we?". Demographics show the current context of the school and shows the trends. Trends help to predict and plan for the future, along with seeing measures where leaders work towards continuous school improvement. Thorough demographic data explains the structure of school, system, and the leadership. In education demographic data to the next items: number of students in the school, number of students with special needs, number of English learners, age or grade of students in cohorts, socio-economical status of students, attendance rates, ethnicity/race/religious beliefs, graduation rates, dropout rates, experience information of teachers, information about parents of students.
2. Perception data tells us what students, staff, and parents think about a school and answers the question, "How do we do business?". School culture, climate, and organizational processes are assessed by perception data. Perception data includes values, beliefs, perceptions, opinions, observations. Perception data is collected mostly questionnaires. Perception data can be differentiate by two groups: 1- staff, 2 - students and parents. Staff are being asked if any changes in instruction or curriculum need to take place. Students and parents are questioned to report their interests, how difficult material is to learn, how are they taught and treated.
3. Student learning data answers two questions: How are our students doing? and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Book%20%28National%20Auto%20Research%29 | The Black Book family of vehicle appraisal guides in the United States, providing vehicle pricing data, is published by National Auto Research, a division of Hearst Communications. New and used car dealers, lenders, manufacturers, fleet remarketers, and government agencies have used Black Book since 1955.
Black Book provides values for both new and used vehicles, including cars, light trucks, and collectible vehicles produced since 1946, motorcycles, ATVs, snowmobiles, personal watercraft, and heavy duty commercial trucks and trailers. Other products include vehicle identification number (VIN) decoding software, projected residual values, inventory management tools, and lead generation applications.
Black Book data is published daily in multiple electronic formats including data feeds, internet-based applications, handheld PDAs, Web-enabled cell phones, Pocket PCs, BlackBerry and Palm devices, smart phones, Micro Browsers, online trade appraisal services, and in a variety of other custom products. Printed versions are also available.
Black Book function in the auto industry
Today, Black Book is a division of Hearst Business Media Corporation. The magazine is circulation controlled, restricted to dealers and financing sources. Black Book is issued weekly, reflecting the latest prices direct from actual or online automobile dealers. National Auto Research Inc, provides vehicle pricing. In select formats, Black Book vehicle appraisal guides are published daily, weekly, and monthly in various electronic formats, including data feeds, internet-based applications, hand held PDAs, smart phones and online appraisal services.
Black Book methodology
Black Book visits 60 auctions nationwide every week to gather the most up-to-date information on used car values. It collects data from wholesale auctions it attends in person or online, applies adjustments and compares them against dealer advertised prices. Access is restricted because it requires subscriptions, but public access to its price search features are accessible through third party sites such as Newcars.com. Assessing car value is dependent on several factors including make, model, year, condition, accessories and mileage of the vehicle. Currently Black Book is the official valuation service for Cars.com, a third-party internet shopping site based on their accurate vehicle values which help serve as an important guide for consumers navigating the vehicle selling and trade-in process.
References
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1955 establishments in the United States
Automobile magazines published in the United States
Hearst Communications publications
Magazines established in 1955
Magazines published in Georgia (U.S. state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202006%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
2006 in music
List of number-one singles of 2006 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2006 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2006
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%20Network | Aurora Network may refer to:
Aurora (university network), a network of European universities
A subsidiary of 37Games
See also
Aurora (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20historical%20Ontario%20Parliament%20Network%20transmitters | In a number of small communities in Northern Ontario without cable service, TVOntario also operates LPTV transmitters which broadcast the network as a conventional over-the-air signal. These transmitters broadcast with the call sign CJOL-TV. See list of CJOL-TV and CIOL-TV Ontario Parliament Network transmitters.
Transmitters located in First Nations communities in the region also leased time to the Wawatay Native Communications Society to broadcast aboriginal-themed programming.
In April 2012, TVOntario announced that it would be decommissioning all of its remaining analog transmitters and associated towers by October 2013 including towers that it owns, which would impact the Ontario Parliament Network, as it shares towers with TVOntario. As of December 2012, the Ontario Parliament Network only has 10 remaining over-the-air transmitters, according to Industry Canada's TV spectrum database. Previously, there had been 32 transmitters with the call sign of CJOL-TV.
As of 2015, it is uncertain if any of these remaining analog transmitters are still in operation.
References
External links
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
TV Database Online Ontario - CJOL-TV - w9wi.com
TVO
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Canadian television-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20Private%20Banker | Asian Private Banker is an Asia-based intelligence, data and networking company that aims to support Asia's private wealth management communities.
History
Asian Private Banker was founded in November 2009.
Audience
The magazine and website are aimed at relationship managers, C-suite management at private banks, and specialists in charge of product selection. The majority of the readership is based in the two main off-shore booking centres: Hong Kong and Singapore, with a smaller following in China, the UK, Switzerland, and the US.
Content
Digital
The website provides daily digital content and news articles, as well as an archive of previously published content, paralleled by daily e-newsletters and a news app (APB News).
Print
Asian Private Banker's print magazine is the only Asia-produced magazine focusing exclusively on private banking and wealth management, with lead feature articles on industry issues, regular columns and a compilation of articles from the website during that period.
Data and Research
Asian Private Banker conducts incisive proprietary research on private banks, their product providers, and the various UHNW/HNW clients they serve, as well as provide AUM (assets under management) and RM (relationship managers) League Tables, cited by industry sources as the most reliable of their kind, and the magazine is now using its network within the industry to build its data offering.
See also
Business Journalism
List of newspapers in Hong Kong
Periodical publication
References
2009 establishments in Hong Kong
Business magazines
Economy of Hong Kong
Magazines established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Engineering%20Anthropometry%20Resource | World Engineering Anthropometry Resource (WEAR) is an international not-for-profit group that "provides a digital platform for sharing anthropometric data from around the world." It is registered in Europe but its members and partners are from all over the globe. It is made up of “a group of interested experts involved in the application of anthropometry data for design purposes.”
History
WEAR was first proposed in 2000 at an International Ergonomics Association (IEA) meeting. The strategic plan was drafted at the first working meeting in Paris, France in 2002. The first workshop was at the IEA in Seoul, Korea in 2003. Since then there have been working meetings and symposiums in USA, South Africa, Brazil, China, Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand and Spain. WEAR gained support from the International Council for Science (ICSU): Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) in Berlin, Germany in 2004. Renewal of WEAR as the CODATA Task group for Anthropometric Data and Engineering was made in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012. The first WEAR short course was held in Paris in 2008. The website launch of the beta version of the online WEAR resource was at the IEA Congress in Beijing in 2009. The WEAR Conference met in Adelaide in 2011.
To create a searchable resource like WEAR is a mammoth undertaking. A standardization procedure was required to make more than 120 different anthropometric databases searchable and comparable. These databases often had different measurement collection methodologies, some described without much detail, and some in languages other than English. To achieve a workable standard the Anthropometric Measurement Interface (AMI) was created.
A WEAR/CODATA meeting was held on 18 November 2013 in Long Beach, California, USA. During the November 18th meeting those present discussed the new datasets added to the WEAR portal and organised for future uploads. WEAR representatives appointed new officers and made plans to attend the CODATA meeting in India in 2014.
WEAR’s President is Dr Kathleen Robinette, Treasurer Dr Régis MOLLARD and Secretary General Dr Daisy Veitch.
Goals
The goals of WEAR are, according to its members, "to provide high-quality data, including anthropometry, tools and applications, for end-users in a self-sustaining way and to provide an educational forum with which to expand the user-base of anthropometric data for design purposes."
References
Further reading
Newton, David E., DNA Evidence and Forensic Science, Infobase Publishing, New York, 2008, pp 206, 209.
Niu, Jianwei, Li, Zhizhong and Xu, Song, “Block Division in Three-Dimensional Head Shape Clustering” in Duffy, Vincent G. (ed.) Digital Human Modelling, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2009, p. 64.
Macauley-Bush, Pamela, Ergonomics: Foundational Principles, Applications, and Technologies, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida, 2011, p. 144.
Niu, Jianwei and Li, Zhizhong, “Using 3D Anthropometric Da |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20V.%20Solovyev | Victor V. Solovyev () is the chief scientific officer of Softberry Inc. He was previously a professor of computer science in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (2013-2015) and in the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway College, University of London (2003-2012). He was on the editorial board of Mathematical Biosciences and was a founder of Softberry Inc..
Research
Solovyev works with developing statistical approaches, machine learning algorithms, computational platforms and bioinformatics tools for high-throughput biological big data analysis. He is interested in genome structural and functional annotation and applying it for rational design of biological systems.
Education
Solovyev received Ph.D. in genetics from Russian Academy of Sciences in 1985 and M.S. in physics from Novosibirsk State University in 1978.
Career
Solovyev joined KAUST in 2013 as Professor in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division. He had previously been a professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway College, London University (2003-2012). He was the genome annotation group leader in the Joint Genomic Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2003) and was the director of bioinformatics at EOS Biotechnology (1999-2002). He was a leader of the computational genomics group at the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, UK (1997-1999). He also held positions as assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, computational scientist at Amgen Inc., visiting scientist at Supercomputer Center, Florida State University, visiting professor at ITBA (Milan, Italy) and a group leader at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Software developing
About 100 software applications implemented as standalone programs or combined in pipeline or packages, have been developed under his guidance. Many of these programs are available for the academic community to run on-line or for downloading. Scientific community actively uses these applications. For example, the Fgenesh eukaryotic gene identification program has been used or cited in more than 3,000 scientific publications, according to Google scholar data. The Fgenesb bacterial genome annotation pipeline based on Markov chain models was significantly superior to other approaches, in gene finding in bacterial community sequences. MolQuest is the most comprehensive, easy-to-use desktop application for sequence analysis and molecular biology data management.
Other interests
Besides bioinformatics, his interests include cryptography and information security. FendoffF an application to encrypt passwords, files or images that uses several original encryption methods, was developed for iOS and Android as well as for desktop computers. He also developed the Wild West Chess computer game.
References
External links
Russian bioinformaticia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olvi%20L.%20Mangasarian | Olvi Leon Mangasarian (12 January 1934 – 15 March 2020) was the John von Neumann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Sciences in Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego and Professor Emeritus of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a recognised expert on optimization, data mining, and classification. In 2000, while professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he was awarded the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for pioneering work in introducing the use of Operations Research techniques to the field of data mining with a particularly notable application being to breast cancer diagnosis.
Selected publications
Mangasarian, O. L. (1993). Nonlinear programming (Vol. 10). SIAM.
Festschrift
Pang, J. S. (1999). Computational Optimization: A Tribute to Olvi Mangasarian, Volumes I and II. Kluwer Acad. Publ.
References
External links
personal homepage
Lanchester Prize announcement
American operations researchers
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Harvard University alumni
University of California, San Diego faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Iraqi emigrants to the United States
1934 births
2020 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toelgyfaloca | Toelgyfaloca is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Thyatirinae of the Drepanidae.
Species
Toelgyfaloca albogrisea (Mell, 1942)
Toelgyfaloca circumdata Houlbert, 1921
References
, 2007, Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Band 13: 1-683
Thyatirinae
Drepanidae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontiers%20of%20Information%20Technology%20%26%20Electronic%20Engineering | Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering electrical and electronic engineering, including computer and information sciences. It was established in 2010 as Journal of Zhejiang University Science C (Computer & Electronics) and obtained its current title in 2015 when it started to be co-sponsored and administrated by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Zhejiang University. It is now published by Zhejiang University Press and Springer Science+Business Media.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, EI-Compendex, Scopus, and Inspec. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.545.
References
External links
Monthly journals
Electrical and electronic engineering journals
Academic journals established in 2010
English-language journals
Zhejiang University Press academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAREN | CAREN (Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment) protocol—is a versatile, multi-sensory virtual reality system used for treatment and rehabilitation of human locomotion, or walking, as well as pain, posture, balance spinal stability and motor control integration.
History
MOTEK was founded in 1993 as a privately held motion capture, animation and visualization studio.
The early mission of MOTEK focused on the development and implementation of innovative animation and visualization techniques focusing on real time generation of realistic animation.
The company managed project work to ensure growth without the need for venture capital or going public until 1998. In 1997, MOTEK had applied for a research grant to the European commission in order to develop the system now known as CAREN. This grant was received in 1998 and enabled the development of CAREN's 1st prototype.
The company also received external funding through TWINNING and NPM capital, both Dutch based investment companies.
The 1st production grade CAREN system was sold to the University of Groningen in 2000.
Within the annals of CAREN’s beginnings, the technology was being used primarily by scientific and military organizations because of the sheer complexity of its modern intricacies and somewhat complicated testing.
References
Further reading
Virtual reality
Therapy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nore%20Davis | Nore Davis (born April 10, 1984) is an American stand-up comedian and actor who has appeared on Comedy Central and MTV television programming.
Biography
Nore Davis was born on April 10, 1984, in New York City. He first started doing stand-up comedy during his teenage years while living in Yonkers, New York. His interest in stand-up comedy was originally a side hobby for him, as he only did open mic nights and performed on college campuses. However, after realizing that college wasn't for him, he knew that comedy was the only thing that he wanted to do for a living. Before eventually deciding to work full-time as a comedian, Davis used to work at a gas station, and then later in graphic design.
Early on in their careers, Davis was good friends with the then-unknown Amy Schumer. They used to share their comedy ideas together, and when Schumer eventually got her own show on Comedy Central entitled, Inside Amy Schumer, Davis appeared in one of the sketches in the pilot episode.
Davis has also made television appearances on Russell Simmons Presents, Last Week Tonight, MTV's Nikki & Sara Live, NickMom Night Out, The Artie Lange Show, and had a minor speaking role in HBO's Boardwalk Empire. He has also been seen in many videos on CollegeHumor.
On November 28, 2014, Davis released his first comedy album called, "Home Game."
Davis is currently working with Comedy Central for his own show called, "In Between with Nore Davis."
On November 23, 2018, Davis released his second comedy album, Too Woke, on Blonde Medicine. The album was recorded at Union Hall in Brooklyn, New York in early 2018. The album was released in two volumes of 7 tracks each. It was named one of the Top Ten Best Comedy Albums of 2018 of by Vulture.
In "Argestes", the 6th episode of the 2nd season of Succession, Davis played comedian Zell Simmons.
Personal life
Davis resides in New York City. He has a transgender brother, Khalil. He is a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with his favorite character being Raphael. His comedy influences include Tracy Morgan, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Bill Burr, Eric Idle, Joan Rivers, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, and Patrice O'Neal.
References
External links
1984 births
African-American male actors
African-American male comedians
American male comedians
African-American stand-up comedians
American stand-up comedians
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
Living people
Male actors from New York City
American sketch comedians
Comedians from New York City
21st-century American comedians
21st-century American male actors
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20of%20Pidgin%20and%20Creole%20Language%20Structures | The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS) is a comparative linguistic atlas of contact languages. It exists as a four volume publication and online database in the form of a website APiCS Online.
The atlas was edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber. The project ran between 2006 and 2013. The project involved 78 linguists contributing with data on languages that they are experts on. This makes APiCS different from other similar surveys of languages where there is typically one or a team of researchers gathering data on many languages by reading different descriptions. The project also has a wiki page APiCS wikipage. It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
APiCS gathers comparable synchronic data on the grammatical and lexical structures of a large number of pidgin and creole languages. The data is presented in the form of maps and profile pages for each language. The profile pages for the languages also includes sociohistorical information about each language. The published physical volumes contains more information of this kind than the online version.
Languages included
The project covers 76 contact languages (pidgins, creoles and mixed languages). The language set contains not only the most widely studied Atlantic and Indian Ocean creoles, but also less well known pidgins and creoles from Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia, including some extinct varieties. The Atlas does not make any classification into what is and what is not a pidgin/creole/mixed language. It is up to the readers and users of the database to make these classifications. This is a very important point, as it is inappropriate to refer to all languages in the APiCS as creoles.
Each language is the responsibility of a single author or a team of authors, which were requested to fill out a questionnaire for the 130 structural features and to write a sociohistorical and grammatical survey article for their language. There are also 18,525 audio examples online to illustrate the features for each language.
Structural features
The database consists of 130 structural features which are drawn from all areas of grammar: phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon. A feature has between two and nine values, shown on the maps by different colours and shapes of the language symbols. The online version of the database includes interactive map display and various filtering and search functions, allowing users to address various research questions. Furthermore, the online version also includes sound files of every language, enabling the users to listen to a short text that is glossed and translated.
One of the important differences between APiCS and World Atlas of Language Structures, as well as other earlier surveys of languages, is that APiCS allows for languages to be coded for more than one strategy. For example |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Linguistic%20Linked%20Data | The Cross-Linguistic Linked Data (CLLD) project coordinates over a dozen linguistics databases covering the languages of the world. It is hosted by the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany (previously at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena).
Databases and projects
Glottolog
World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)
World Loanword Database (WOLD)
Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APICS)
Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP)
Intercontinental Dictionary Series (IDS)
Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English (eWAVE)
A world-wide survey of affix borrowing (AfBo)
South American Indigenous Language Structures Online (SAILS)
PHOIBLE
Tsammalex
Comparative Siouan Dictionary (CSD)
Concepticon
Dogon languages
Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications
Glottobank (includes Lexibank, Grambank, Phonobank, Parabank, Numeralbank)
Dictionaria
Australian Message Stick Database (AMSD)
Language Description Heritage (LDH)
Cross-Linguistic Data Formats (CLDF)
Cross-Linguistic Transcription Systems (CLTS)
Language Description Heritage (LDH) open-access library
IE-CoR (Indo-European Cognate Relationships)
References
External links
Cross-Linguistic Linked Data
CLLD on Zenodo
Lexibank on Zenodo
Linguistics databases
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Grace%20Helbig%20Show | The Grace Helbig Show is an American late-night talk show created and hosted by YouTube star Grace Helbig which aired on E! cable network. It premiered on April 3, 2015, and the first season ended on June 7, 2015.
History
On August 6, 2014, Deadline Hollywood reported that Grace Helbig was to star in a comedy/talk show pilot, tentatively called The Grace Helbig Project. The announcement came only a few weeks before the conclusion of another E! late-night talk show, Chelsea Lately, which Helbig had previously appeared on.
On March 10, 2015, E! stated in a press release that the show, now titled The Grace Helbig Show, would premiere on April 3, 2015, at 10:30 pm ET, following The Soup.
On May 11, 2015, the network announced that the show would be moving from Fridays at 10:30 pm ET to Sundays at 11 pm ET, beginning May 31, 2015.
Episodes
International broadcast
The Grace Helbig Show airs in simulcast in Canada on E!, the Canadian equivalent of the US channel. The show premiered on E! in Australia and New Zealand on Sunday, April 5, 2015, and on April 20, 2015, in the United Kingdom.
References
External links
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
2010s American late-night television series
E! original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributoria | Contributoria was an independent journalism network founded by Matt McAlister, Sarah Hartley and Dan Catt. It operated as a division of Guardian Media Group, the company that owns British daily national newspaper The Guardian. It launched on 6 January 2014, and published its final issue on 1 September 2015 after running for 21 issues in print and online.
Purpose
Sarah Hartley, editor and co-founder of the platform has said, "Contributoria is designed to operate like a cooperative and inspire professional writers and journalists to support each other. Finding new ways to fund quality journalism for freelance writers will help keep a diversity of published voices online. I encourage all journalists and writers to join up and help shape what could be the future of writing."
Funding
The platform was initially funded as a winner of the News Innovation Contest from the International Press Institute and sponsored by Google.
Development
In March 2015, Contributoria introduced a new feature called 'Topics' which allows NGOs, media outlets and commercial companies to commission stories through the platform.
References
2014 establishments in the United Kingdom
Guardian Media Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahiti%20Nui%20Television | Tahiti Nui TV (), abbreviated as TNTV, is a French Polynesian television channel. It was launched on and is in both the French and Tahitian languages.
Programming
See: List of programs broadcast by Tahiti Nui Television
TNTV airs three news providing TV shows, Te ve'a, The Journal and Manihini.
References
External links
TNTV Replay
See also
List of programs broadcast by Tahiti Nui Television
Mass media in French Polynesia
Television networks in France
Companies of French Polynesia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Computer%20Archive%20of%20Modern%20and%20Medieval%20English | The International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) is an international group of linguists and data scientists working in corpus linguistics to digitise English texts. The organisation was founded in Oslo, Norway in 1977 as the International Computer Archive of Modern English, before being renamed to its current title.
The portal to their materials is hosted at the University of Bergen, where they have set out the aim of the organization to "collect and distribute information on English language material available for computer processing and on linguistic research to compile an archive of English text corpora in machine-readable form, and to make material available to research institutions." Creating computer corpora, i.e. collections of texts in machine-readable form, is the most accessible way to study both transcribed spoken language and various genres of written texts for modern scholars, including both "descriptive and more theoretically-minded linguists".
The ICAME group hosts academic conferences that focus on corpus linguistic studies of historical changes and contemporary grammatical descriptions of English, and makes corpora of different varieties of English available to scholars, starting with editions of the 1960s Brown Corpus. Their first academic conference was held in Bergen, Norway in 1979, and scholars who were interested in corpus linguistics continued to meet each spring in different European and English-speaking countries. At these meetings, the compilation and distribution of corpora they enabled played a key role in the creation of the field of corpus linguistics in the 20th century, a precursor to current big data analytics. In summarizing the field, Kennedy's Introduction to Corpus Linguistics notes that "for corpus linguists with an interest in the description of English, the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English has been the major resource". The influence of ICAME on the field has also be laid out in Facchinetti's history, Corpus Linguistics Twenty-five Years On.
One influential resource that ICAME made available was a CD of 20 different corpora, including those covering different regional Englishes (such as the Australian Corpus of English, the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English, the Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English, the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT), the Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots, and the International Corpus of English—East-African component), as well as versions of the Brown Corpus and the Lancaster-Bergen-Oslo (LOB) corpus tagged for part of speech.
ICAME also published an annual journal, the ICAME Journal, formerly ICAME News, that contains articles, conference reports, reviews and notices related to corpus linguistics. The current editors of the ICAME Journal are Merja Kytö and Anna-Brita Stenström.
References
Further reading
Leech, Geoffrey and Stig Johansson. 2009. "The coming of ICAME," ICAME Journal 33: 5-20. http://eprin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Speer | James H. Speer (born 1971) is a professor of geography and geology at Indiana State University. He is a past president of the Tree-Ring Society and the Geography Educator's Network of Indiana. He has been the organizer for the North American Dendroecological Fieldweek (NADEF) since 2003.
Education
Speer received his bachelor's and master's degree in geosciences from the University of Arizona and his PhD from the University of Tennessee in geography.
Recognition
He received the Henry Cowles award from the American Association of Geographers (with Thomas W. Swetnam) for their paper on Pandora moth outbreaks in 2002. In 2008, he received the Richard L. Holmes Outstanding Service to Dendrochronology award from the Tree-Ring Society. He received the William E. Bennett Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Citizen Science from the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement in 2011. He received the Henry Cowles award from the American Association of Geographers a second time for his book Fundamentals of Tree-Ring Research published with the University of Arizona Press. He received the Dreiser Distinguished Research/Creativity Award at Indiana State University in 2017.
Research
He has authored and co-authored more than 40 scientific papers. His most cited papers are:
References
James H. Speer faculty profile
James H. Speer homepage
Google Scholar Profile
Researchgate Profile
Academia.edu Profile
Tree-Ring Society
Fundamentals of Tree-Ring Research
National Center for Science and Civic Engagement
North American Dendroecological Fieldweek (NADEF)
Speer et al. 2004
Speer et al. 2009
Clark et al. 2017
Living people
University of Tennessee alumni
University of Arizona alumni
Indiana State University faculty
1971 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy%20compression | In mathematics and theoretical computer science, entropy compression is an information theoretic method for proving that a random process terminates, originally used by Robin Moser to prove an algorithmic version of the Lovász local lemma.
Description
To use this method, one proves that the history of the given process can be recorded in an efficient way, such that the state of the process at any past time can be recovered from the current state and this record, and such that the amount of additional information that is recorded at each step of the process is (on average) less than the amount of new information randomly generated at each step. The resulting growing discrepancy in total information content can never exceed the fixed amount of information in the current state, from which it follows that the process must eventually terminate. This principle can be formalized and made rigorous using Kolmogorov complexity.
Example
An example given by both Fortnow and Tao concerns the Boolean satisfiability problem for Boolean formulas in conjunctive normal form, with uniform clause size. These problems can be parameterized by two numbers (k,t) where k is the number of variables per clause and t is the maximum number of different clauses that any variable can appear in. If the variables are assigned to be true or false randomly, then the event that a clause is unsatisfied happens with probability 2−k and each event is independent of all but r = k(t − 1) other events. It follows from the Lovász local lemma that, if t is small enough to make r < 2k/e (where e is the base of the natural logarithm) then a solution always exists. The following algorithm can be shown using entropy compression to find such a solution when r is smaller by a constant factor than this bound:
Choose a random truth assignment
While there exists an unsatisfied clause C, call a recursive subroutine fix with C as its argument. This subroutine chooses a new random truth assignment for the variables in C, and then recursively calls the same subroutine on all unsatisfied clauses (possibly including C itself) that share a variable with C.
This algorithm cannot terminate unless the input formula is satisfiable, so a proof that it terminates is also a proof that a solution exists. Each iteration of the outer loop reduces the number of unsatisfied clauses (it causes C to become satisfied without making any other clause become unsatisfied) so the key question is whether the fix subroutine terminates or whether it can get into an infinite recursion.
To answer this question, consider on the one hand the number of random bits generated in each iteration of the fix subroutine (k bits per clause) and on the other hand the number of bits needed to record the history of this algorithm in such a way that any past state can be generated. To record this history, we may store the current truth assignment (n bits), the sequence of initial arguments to the fix subroutine (m log m bits, where m is th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaBay | AlphaBay was a darknet market operating at different times between September 2014 and February 2023. Both as an onion service on the Tor network and as an I2P node on I2P. After it was shut down in July 2017 following law enforcement action in the United States, Canada, and Thailand as part of Operation Bayonet, it was relaunched in August 2021 by the self-described co-founder and security administrator DeSnake. The alleged original founder, Alexandre Cazes, a Canadian citizen born on 19 October 1991, was found dead in his cell in Thailand several days after his arrest, with police suspecting suicide.
History
AlphaBay reportedly launched in September 2014, pre-launched in November 2014 and officially launched on December 22, 2014. It saw a steady growth, with 14,000 new users in the first 90 days of operation. The darknet informer website Gwern.net placed AlphaBay Market in the top tier of markets regarding the 6-month survival probability and it had proven to be successful. In October 2015, it was recognized as the largest online darknet market according to Dan Palumbo, research director at Digital Citizens Alliance.
Non-standard services included customizable digital contracts around building reputations.
In May 2015, the site announced an integrated digital contracts and escrow system. The contract system allows users to make engagements and agree to provide services in the future, according to the terms of the contract.
By October 2015, AlphaBay had over 200,000 users, and a claimed 40,000 sellers.
At the time of its demise in July 2017, AlphaBay had over 400,000 users, and around 300,000 listed items on their website.
AlphaBay is noteworthy in the world of darknet markets for accepting other cryptocurrency in addition to bitcoin; support for Monero, supposedly more anonymous, was implemented at the end of August 2016. It also accepted Ethereum.
Site breaches
In April 2016, AlphaBay's API was compromised, leading to 13,000 messages being stolen. In January 2017, the API was once again compromised, allowing over 200,000 private messages from the last 30 days and a list of usernames to be leaked. The attack was from a single hacker who was paid by AlphaBay for the disclosure. AlphaBay reported that the exploit had only been used in conjunction with this attack and not used previously.
News coverage
On March 28, 2015, AlphaBay Market made the news for selling stolen Uber accounts. Uber made a statement regarding a potential data breach:
"We investigated and found no evidence of a breach. Attempting to fraudulently access or sell accounts is illegal and we notified the authorities about this report. This is a good opportunity to remind people to use strong and unique usernames and passwords and to avoid reusing the same credentials across multiple sites and services."
In October 2015, the London-based telecommunications company TalkTalk sustained a major hack. The stolen data was put for sale on AlphaBay Market, which led to the arre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madura%20English%E2%80%93Sinhala%20Dictionary | Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary () is a free electronic dictionary service developed by Madura Kulatunga. It is available as computer software, an online website and an android app. The dictionary contains over 230,000 definitions including various technical terms. As of 2016, the dictionary has been downloaded approximately 1,000,000 and ranks 100th most visited sites in Sri Lanka. The dictionary is distributed as freeware. It was initially released on 23 November 2002.
Development
Kulatunga, a Sri Lankan computer engineer, wrote a program in Visual Basic for an English–Sinhala dictionary, using the dictionary entries from the English–Sinhalese Dictionary of Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera. The program was marketed from 23 November 2002. In 2008 he started a free internet version of it, the first online English–Sinhala dictionary. Kulatunga later admitted that he had infringed the copyright of the Malalasekera English–Sinhala dictionary in creating his software, but he said in 2015 that he no longer infringed on copyrights. In 2017 he developed and added Sinhala keyboard input method to his Google Play android app.
References
External links
English bilingual dictionaries
Sinhala language
Online dictionaries
Sri Lankan websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Computing%20and%20Engineering | The Faculty of Computing and Engineering is one of six educational and research faculties of Ulster University. The faculty is made up of four schools and three research institutes. The faculty is spread across the Ulster University at Belfast, Coleraine and Magee campus' of the University. The Faculty represents the university as a member of the Engineering Professors' Council (EPC), which is the representative body for Engineering in UK higher education.
Schools
School of Computing and Information Engineering
The Ulster University School of Computing and Information Engineering (shortened to SCIE) is physically located at the Coleraine campus of Ulster University, in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
School of Computing and Intelligent Systems
The Ulster University School of Computing and Intelligent Systems (shortened to SCIS) is physically located at Magee College of the Ulster University, in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. SCIS focuses on teaching and research in the main areas of computer science, games, electronics, robotics and multimedia. It currently offers five main undergraduate bachelor's degree programmes in the above areas and three one-year taught postgraduate master's degrees in the areas of creative technologies, intelligent systems and financial services. PhD research opportunities are also available through the research graduate school.
History
SCIS was formed in 2001 through a merger of the School of Computing and Mathematics and School of Engineering on the Magee campus. Professor Martin McGinnity was the first Head of School (HOS) (2001-2005) and he has since moved on to become Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Centre. Professor Liam Maguire is the current HOS (2005 to date). His inaugural professorial lecture took place in March 2009 to an invited audience.
Notable Activities
Students past and present have been taking part in competitions and events organised by leading software companies and industry.
In 2009, students on the games course were participants in an international video games competition, taking part in the 'Dare to be Digital' competition in Edinburgh.
Microsoft Corporation has also collaborated with SCIS in the hosting of the Games Summit, entitled XNAFEST 2009.
In 2008, top computing students were rewarded for their academic achievements in an awards ceremony which saw students receiving prizes from some of the top IT companies in Northern Ireland.
School of Computing and Mathematics
The Ulster University School of Computing and Mathematics (shortened to SCM) is physically located at the Jordanstown campus of Ulster University, in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
School of Engineering
The Ulster University School of Engineering (shortened to SCE) is physically located at the Jordanstown campus in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and at the Magee campus of Ulster University in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Research Inst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prag%20Cine%20Awards%20North-East%202015 | The Prag Cine Awards North-East 2015 ceremony, presented by the Prag Network, honored the actors, technical achievements, and films censored in 2014 from Assam and rest of Northeast India, and took place on March 21–22, 2015, at the Chowkidingee field in Dibrugarh, Assam. This was the first time when films produced in other Northeastern states were also honored in this ceremony. Assamese actress Nishita Goswami and television host Nabish Alam hosted the show. Film fraternities from Northeast as well as Bollywood personalities such as Neha Dhupia, Gulshan Grover, Adil Hussain were present in this event.
Actor Bishnu Kharghoria was honored with the lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution towards the Assamese film Industry. Arup Baishya received best actor award for Othello and the best actress award has gone to Amrita Gogoi for Ahetuk. Manas Saikia directed North Bank won the best film award, while Anmol Chan, Nepali language film from Sikkim, won the best film north-east award.
Winners and nominees
In this edition of Prag Cine Awards, awards were given in 22 categories to the Assamese and non-Assamese films produced from Assam and in another 4 categories to the films produced from rest of northeast India and censored in the year of 2014. Ahetuk topped the nomination list with fifteen nominations, followed by North Bank and Othello with twelve and eleven nominations respectively.
Awards for films from Assam
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Awards for films from rest of northeast India
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Lifetime achievement award
Actor Bishnu Kharghoria was honored with the lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution towards the Assamese film Industry.
Other awards
Best Writing on Cinema: Dr. Subratjyoti Neog
Jury's Special Mention: Shabnam Borgoyari – Aarohi
See also
List of Assamese films of the 2010s
References
Cinema of Assam
2014 film awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVN | OVN (Open Virtual Network) is a system to support virtual network abstraction. OVN complements the existing capabilities of Open vSwitch to add native support for virtual network abstractions, such as virtual L2 and L3 overlays and security groups.
Overview
OVN is a network virtualization platform that separates the physical network topology from the logical one. Users are able to connect virtual and physical interfaces with logical switches and routers, regardless of the underlying physical topology. Users are also able to define security policies and load-balancing to these logical instances. OVN uses Open vSwitch for its switching fabric and uses tunnels to provide the logical/physical separation.
Open source bindings for OVN are available for a number of platforms, such as OpenStack and Kubernetes. OVN is the software-defined networking platform used in a number of Red Hat products, including Red Hat Virtualization, OpenStack, and OpenShift.
OVN is written in platform-independent C language, which provides easy portability to various environments. The source code is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
Features
As of May 2018, features provided by OVN include the following:
Logical switches
Flexible L2/L3/L4 security policies
Distributed logical IPv4 and IPv6 routers
Native support for NAT, load-balancing, and DHCP
L2 and L3 gateways
See also
Network virtualization
Open vSwitch
Software-defined networking (SDN)
References
Computing platforms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computers%20with%20on-board%20BASIC | This is a list of computers with on-board BASIC. They shipped standard with a version of BASIC that was installed in the computer. The computers can access the BASIC language without the user inserting cartridges or loading software from external media.
BASICs with Bitwise Ops use -1 as true and the AND and OR operators perform a bitwise operation on the arguments.
FOR/NEXT skip means that body of the loop is skipped if the initial value of the loop times the sign of the step exceeds the final value times the sign of the step (such as 2 TO 1 STEP 1 or 1 TO 2 STEP -1). The statements inside the FOR/NEXT loop will not be executed at all.
Numeric support indicates if a BASIC supports Integers and/or Floating Point.
Variable Name Length is how many characters of a variable name are used to determine uniqueness.
Full tokenization means that all keywords are converted to tokens and all extra space characters are removed. Partial tokenization leaves extra space characters in the source. None means that no tokenization is done. How to test for full tokenization:
10 PRINT "HELLO"
LIST
If it is fully tokenized it should return 10 PRINT "HELLO" without all the extra spaces that were entered.
References
On-Board Basic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen%20Corpus%20of%20London%20Teenage%20Language | The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT) is a data set of samples of spoken English that was compiled in 1993 from tape recorded and transcribed conversations by teens between the ages of 13 and 17 in schools throughout London, England. This corpus, which has been tagged for part of speech using the CLAWS 6 tagset, is one of the linguistic research projects housed at the University of Bergen in Norway.
Resultant research
Linguistic analysis based on COLT has appeared in the book Trends in Teenage Talk and subsequent journal articles, including, for example, work tracking innit, cos, degree modifiers, extenders, the use of taboo words, and negation.
References
English corpora
Applied linguistics
Linguistic research
University of Bergen
Corpora
Youth culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel%20D.%20Procaccia | Ariel D. Procaccia is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. He was previously an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his research in artificial intelligence (AI) and theoretical computer science, especially for his work on computational aspects of game theory, social choice, and fair division. He is the founder of Spliddit, a fair division website.
Biography
Procaccia received his Ph.D. summa cum laude in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2009. His doctoral dissertation won the IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft and Harvard University, where he was partially supported by a Rothschild Fellowship from Yad Hanadiv. In 2011, he joined the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University as a faculty member. In spring 2020 he was on sabbatical at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a faculty member until 2019.
Research and Awards
In 2015, Procaccia won the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, given every two years since 1971 to an outstanding AI researcher under the age of 35, for "his contributions to the fields of computational social choice and computational economics, and for efforts to make advanced fair division techniques more widely accessible". He is a recipient of a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship, a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2020 Social Choice and Welfare Prize.
Misc
Procaccia is an emeritus blogger on the popular algorithmic game theory blog "Turing's Invisible Hand."
References
External links
Home page at Carnegie Mellon University
Citations on Google Scholar
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Sloan Research Fellows
Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Computer Science & Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fair division researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%20Preview | Hollywood Preview was a 30-minute show aired on the DuMont Television Network from September 14, 1955, to June 1, 1956. The show, hosted by actor Conrad Nagel, featured Hollywood stars and clips of upcoming films.
Broadcast history
The show had various time slots during its broadcast run. The show began as a weekly show (September 1955 to March 1956), then went to weekdays Monday through Friday for the final months (April to June 1956).
Wednesday 9-9:30pm (14 September 1955 – 28 December 1955)
Friday 10:30-11pm (6 January 1956 – 30 March 1956)
Monday to Friday 4:30-5pm (2 April 1956 – 1 June 1956)
Preservation status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1955-56 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
Hollywood Preview at CVTA with list of episodes
1955 American television series debuts
1956 American television series endings
1950s American television series
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Cleaver | Operation Cleaver, as labelled in a report by American firm Cylance Inc. in late 2014, was a cyberwarfare covert operation targeting critical infrastructure organizations worldwide, allegedly planned and executed by Iran.
Cylance's report was later tacitly acknowledged in a confidential report by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), though Iranian officials denied involvement in the operation.
Cylance report
In December 2014, California-based cyber security firm Cylance Inc. published results of a 2-year investigation, an 86-page technical report, indicating that an operation, called "Operation Cleaver", has targeted the military, oil and gas, energy and utilities, transportation, airlines, airports, hospitals and aerospace industries organizations worldwide.
The title "Operation Cleaver" alludes to frequent uses of the word "cleaver" in the malware's coding.
According to the report, over 50 entities in 16 countries have been hit by the campaign, based in the United States, Israel, China, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, France and England among others.
Cylance's research does not name individual companies, but Reuters reports citing "a person familiar with the research" Navy Marine Corps Intranet, Calpine, Saudi Aramco, Pemex, Qatar Airlines and Korean Air were among the specific targets.
Stuart McClure, Cylance founder and CEO believes that the hackers are sponsored by Iran and have ties to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
FBI report
According to Reuters, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has filed a confidential "Flash" report, providing technical details about malicious software and techniques used in the attacks. The technical document said the hackers typically launch their attacks from two IP addresses that are in Iran, but does not attribute the attacks to the Iranian government. FBI warned businesses to stay vigilant and to report any suspicious activity spotted on the companies' computer systems.
Iran's reaction
Iran has officially denied involvement in the hacking campaign. "This is a baseless and unfounded allegation fabricated to tarnish the Iranian government image, particularly aimed at hampering current nuclear talks", said Hamid Babaei, spokesman for Permanent mission of Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations.
See also
Cyberwarfare in Iran
References
External links
Cylance Operation Cleaver Report
Cyberwarfare in Iran
Cyberwarfare in the United States
Cyberattacks
Hacking in the 2010s
Cyberattacks on energy sector
Cybercrime in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Newscaster | "Operation Newscaster", as labelled by American firm iSIGHT Partners in 2014, is a cyber espionage covert operation directed at military and political figures using social networking, allegedly done by Iran. The operation has been described as "creative", "long-term" and "unprecedented". According to iSIGHT Partners, it is "the most elaborate cyber espionage campaign using social engineering that has been uncovered to date from any nation".
ISight's perceptions
On 29 May 2014, Texas-based cyber espionage research firm iSIGHT Partners released a report, uncovering an operation it labels "Newscaster" since at-least 2011, has targeted at least 2,000 people in United States, Israel, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The victims who are not identified in the document due to security reasons, are senior U.S. military and diplomatic personnel, congresspeople, journalists, lobbyists, think tankers and defense contractors, including a four-star admiral.
The firm couldn’t determine what data the hackers may have stolen.
According to the iSIGHT Partners report, hackers used 14 "elaborated fake" personas claiming to work in journalism, government, and defense contracting and were active in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube and Blogger. To establish trust and credibility, the users fabricated a fictitious journalism website, NewsOnAir.org, using content from the media like Associated Press, BBC, Reuters and populated their profiles with fictitious personal content. They then tried to befriend target victims and sent them "friendly messages" with Spear-phishing to steal email passwords and attacks and infecting them to a "not particularly sophisticated" malware for data exfiltration.
The report says NewsOnAir.org was registered in Tehran and likely hosted by an Iranian provider. The Persian word "Parastoo" (; meaning swallow) was used as a password for malware associated with the group, which appeared to work during business hours in Tehran as they took Thursday and Friday off. iSIGHT Partners could not confirm whether the hackers had ties to the Iranian government.
Analysis
According to Al Jazeera, Chinese army's cyber unit carried out scores of similar phishing schemes.
Morgan Marquis-Boire, a researcher at the University of Toronto stated that the campaign "appeared to be the work of the same actors performing malware attacks on Iranian dissidents and journalists for at least two years".
Franz-Stefan Gady, a senior fellow at the EastWest Institute and a founding member of the Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative, stated that “They’re not doing this for a quick buck, to extrapolate data and extort an organization. They’re in it for the long haul. Sophisticated human engineering has been the preferred method of state actors”.
Reactions
Facebook spokesman said the company discovered the hacking group while investigating suspicious friend requests and removed all of the fake profiles.
LinkedIn spokesman said they are i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instart | Instart was an American multinational computer technology corporation, headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company specialized primarily in improving online content delivery speeds. The company also offered software designed to increase online advertising by accelerating the rate at which ads loaded and preventing blockers or filters from blocking ads.
The company was headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in New York, London, Bangalore and Sydney. , the company claimed that it processed 60 billion transactions per day.
On February 27, 2020, Akamai announced that it had acquired Instart's customers and select intellectual property.
History
The company was founded in an attempt to improve the speed of downloading and updating video games.
In the fall of 2014, the company started a US$100 million contract buyout program for Akamai customers.
In February 2016, Instart acquired Kwicr, a mobile app accelerator.
In June 2018, the company shortened its name to Instart from Instart Logic. Instart was a shortened form of "Instant Start".
Notable clients included Neiman Marcus, Cafe Media, Edmunds, Bonnier, Ziff Davis, CBS, Tronc, TUI Group, Telstra and Kate Spade.
Financing
Instart had received $140 million in 6 rounds of funding from 10 investors:
Series A: In February 2012 Instart Logic received $9 million as first round of funding
Series B: In April 2013 Instart Logic received $17 million
Series C: In May 2014 Instart Logic received $26 million
Series C2: In May 2015, Instart Logic closed a $13 million expansion funding led by new investors Four Rivers Group and Hermes Growth Partners, in addition to existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Tenaya Capital
Series D: In January 2016 Instart Logic received $45 million funding from Geodesic Capital, Telstra Ventures, Stanford-StartX Fund, Harris Barton Asset Management and participation from existing investors
Series E: In November 2017 Instart Logic closed $30 million of equity funding led by ST Telemedia with all other prior investors participating
Products
Instart products included:
Instart Digital Experience Cloud
Cloud and Web Application Performance Optimization
Mobile Application Performance Optimization
Image Optimization
Tag Analytics and Control
Advertising Acceleration and Viewability Optimization
Digital Advertising and Marketing Recovery
Web Application Firewall
DDOS Attack Protection
Bot Management and Security
Instart Content Delivery Network
Nanovisor
Reception
The company was named to the visionary category of the Web Application Firewall magic quadrant by Gartner Group in September 2017.
Instart was ranked by Business Insider as No. 1 among the 17 best startups to work for in America.
References
External links
2010 establishments in California
2020 disestablishments in California
Cloud computing providers
Companies based in Palo Alto, California
Content delivery networks
DDoS mitigation companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessi%20Losada | Jessi Losada is an American sportscaster of Cuban descent. For 36 years, Losada worked on Spanish television networks in the United States, broadcasting various different sports events and sports shows.
Losada joined Univision in 1978, becoming sports-anchor and producer for the channel's Los Angeles affiliate in 1980. Losada later moved to Miami, Florida, when he was promoted to national sports-anchor by the television conglomerate.
At that position, he worked for 19 years until moving to Univision's main rival, Telemundo, in 1999. At Telemundo, Losada worked on shows like Telemundo Boxing–Boxeo Telemundo, Titulares Telemundo-a variety show focused on sports, NBA basketball games, NFL football games, the Olympic Games and more. Losada decided, after 16 years at Telemundo, to leave the network and return to California.
Losada received six Emmy Awards; four for his coverage of Super Bowl games, one for his story of Rafael Palmeiro in 1992 and one for his coverage of the 1990 World Cup of Association Football in Italy. Additionally, from 1984 to 1987, he broadcast games of the Los Angeles Rams on local radio in Los Angeles. He also worked Los Angeles Raiders games and was sports-anchor at CBS.
Losada joined Fox Deportes in late 2015, where he has worked as announcer for football, boxing and motorsport.
References
American sports journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American people of Cuban descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wajahat%20Saeed%20Khan | Wajahat Saeed Khan (born November 5, 1978), is a Pakistani journalist.
Khan has produced, reported, and anchored for Pakistan's major cable networks, as well as leading U.S., U.K., and Indian publications. Khan was a producer and correspondent for NBC News in Islamabad and Kabul, and the National Security Correspondent for Lahore-based Dunya News. He has also contributed to CNN, The Times and India Today, but is best known as the anchor and editor of the hit primetime show, Mahaaz (The Front), which he produced from 2015 till 2018. From 2019 to 2023, he was an editor and correspondent at Nikkei Asia.
Early life and education
Khan was born in Quetta, Balochistan to a family of civil servants from the Pashtun tribe. He attended Karachi Grammar School, where he was selected as Editor of the school magazine, The Grammarian, considered Pakistan's oldest print publication. He went on to the University of Michigan, majoring in Political Science and History, reporting and editing on campus for The Michigan Daily. At Michigan, Khan became the only collegiate journalist to cover the US invasion of Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks.
In 2011, the Harvard Kennedy School honored Khan as the first Pakistani fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University. At Harvard, Khan authored one of the first studies tracking hate content on Pakistani social media.
Career
Khan's broadcast career started after his return from Michigan, when electronic media was deregulated in Pakistan in the early 2000s by the regime of General (retired) Pervez Musharraf. He joined the country's largest media house, the Jang Group of Newspapers/Geo News, as Manager of News Product Development and Strategy before switching to news production. Khan was at Geo News, the country's primary cable news network, from 2003 to 2007. He then helped launch Dawn News, Pakistan's first English-based news network, in 2007. At Dawn, his broadcast career took off with the hit interview series Talk Back; he also became the first Pakistani to produce an investigative interview series from India for Talk Back: Eye on India. Pivoting to documentaries, Khan produced the first independent documentary series on the Pakistani military, "We Are Soldiers", which was eventually banned by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority. He remained at Dawn until 2010.
In 2011, Khan was nominated as a Goldsmith Fellow by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University. The first Pakistani and the youngest fellow at the Shorenstein Center, Khan authored a study about the rise of militancy and hate content on Pakistani social media.
Khan did a short stint for CNN in 2011–2012 before moving on to produce and then correspond for NBC News from Islamabad, Kabul, Kathmandu, London, and New York.
From 2012 till 2013, Khan pivoted from English broadcast to Urdu, and conducted the series Ikhtilaf ["Opposition"], for Karachi-based AAJ TV. In 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20encoding | Bus encoding refers to converting/encoding a piece of data to another form before launching on the bus. While bus encoding can be used to serve various purposes like reducing the number of pins, compressing the data to be transmitted, reducing cross-talk between bit lines, etc., it is one of the popular techniques used in system design to reduce dynamic power consumed by the system bus. Bus encoding aims to reduce the Hamming distance between 2 consecutive values on the bus. Since the activity is directly proportional to the Hamming distance, bus encoding proves to be effective in reducing the overall activity factor thereby reducing the dynamic power consumption in the system.
In the context of this article, a system can refer to anything where data is transferred from one element to another over bus (viz. System on a Chip (SoC), a computer system, an embedded system on board, etc.).
Motivation
Power consumption in electronic systems is a matter of concern today for the below reasons:
Battery-operated devices: Due to ubiquity of battery operated devices and the need to maximize the duration between two subsequent charging of the battery, it is necessary that the system consumes as less power (and energy) as possible.
Environmental constraints: In an attempt to protect the environment, we need to conserve the usable energy. Since the energy consumed by electronic systems is increasing drastically, minimizing the energy consumption of electronic systems is critical to save the environment.
Power dissipation: As per the Moore's law, semiconductor devices have been packing more and more transistors in smaller amount of area. This leads to higher power dissipation per unit area and makes packaging and thermal cooling system design complex and costly. Hence, low power electronic systems are needed to tackle this issue.
The dynamic power dissipated by an electronic circuit is directly proportional to the activity factor and the load capacitance as seen by the output of the logic gate. In case of a bus, the load capacitance is usually high since bus needs to be connected to multiple modules and routed longer and the activity factor is also high. Due to higher value of load capacitance and activity factor, in a typical system, bus power consumption can contribute up to 50% of the total power consumption. Bus encoding aims to reduce this power by reducing the amount of activity (number of toggles) in the bus lines. While the kind of bus encoding to be used for a particular system can be best determined when the target application and environmental constraints about the system are known apriori, described below are some bus encoding techniques which can help reduce bus power for most systems.
Hence bus encoding is important for any electronic system design.
Examples of bus encoding to achieve low power
Following are some of the implementations to use bus encoding for reducing dynamic power consumption in different scenarios:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela%20Institute%20for%20Development%20Studies | The Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS) is an Africa-wide think tank which provides a forum for dialogue, information
dissemination, networking and research on the different elements of Africa. The institutions aims to shape policy and practice on governance, economic development and the evolution of African institutions. It seeks to address the short, medium, and long-term development challenges in Africa in a holistic and comprehensive manner. MINDS is a non-governmental organisation and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
History
MINDS was established in 2010 by former Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the African Development Bank, Dr Nkosana Moyo
Programmes
MINDS programmes focus on four thematic areas, i.e. African Heritage, African Governance and Democracy, Economic Development and Institution Formation/Development. The institution commissions research that may lead to a better understanding of African Heritage to shape the nature of development programmes, lead in to better results relative to those achieved to date. The findings from the research undertaken and/or commissioned by MINDS will be used either as input into dialogues whose proceedings will be published. MINDS will also make existing knowledge more accessible through reviews and consolidation of that knowledge.
MINDS convenes dialogues based on the research findings. Dialogues hosted also serves the opportunity for knowledge dissemination, networking and influencing public policy formulation and practice in the thematic areas.
Youth Programmes
High Level Dialogue
African Heritage
Board of trustees
Nkosana Moyo
Graça Machel
Ali Mufuruki
Sara Menker
Advisory board
Donald Kaberuka
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Francis Daniels
Noureddine Ayed
Adebayo Olukoshi
Thandika Mkandawire
Trevor Manuel
Patrons
Olusegun Obasanjo
Pedro Pires
Benjamin Mkapa
Festus Mogae
Project partners and associates
Shoprite
Old Mutual
Trust Africa
Southern Africa Trust
Grace Machel Trust
The African Capacity Building Foundation
Nelson Mandela Foundation
South African Airways
Musa Capital
See also
List of charitable foundations
References
External links
Official website
Think tanks based in South Africa
Organisations based in Johannesburg
Think tanks established in 2010
2010 establishments in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Shift%20%28Hong%20Kong%20TV%20series%29 | Night Shift (), is a 2015 crime thriller television series produced by Hong Kong Television Network. The entire series was filmed at night.
Plot
The story links together the experiences of several EU assault team members working different night shifts. During their shifts, they already encounter all kinds of unfathomable dangers and challenges, but the true test of their endurance lies in the endless temptations that they face in the darkness of the night. With their willpower slowly weakening as the night wears on, their self-protection and restraint are also in danger of suffering serious blows.
Cast
Emergency Unit
Frankie Lam as Heman
Dominic Lam as Bao Kuk
Kwok Fung as Tai Sir
Luvin Ho as Kit
Sin Ho-ying as Kai Yet
Wu Kwing-lung as Tsui Tsai
Kong Fai as Wong Tze-hang
Night club
Kathy Yuen as Aka
Rachel Lam as Leslie
Lena Wong as Rainbow
Ruby Lau as Nana
Jan Tse as Suki
Jacky Yeung as Mark
Benji Chiang as manager of the Bar
Gregory Wong as guy in the Bar
Triads
Bryant Mak as 6 Luck
Philip Keung as Tai Dan
Felix Lok as Che Ding
Bond Chan as Tin Kau
Ambulance Unit
Chow Tsz-lung as Yau Yung
Wong Man-piu as Master Kai
Jason Lam as Brother Kin
7-Eleven
Crystal Leung as Ah Fa
Oscar Chan as Jason
Annie Chong as Sandy
Social worker
Tong Chun-ming as Alan
Bonnie Wong as Grandma 7
Peter Lai as Tang Bak
Other cast
Yetta Tse as Yan
Alan Luk as Fat Kee
Deon Cheung as Edwin
Mizz Eva as Eva
Ann Ho as Rene
Anita Chan as Carman
Cherry Pau as Ho Ying, (episode 7 & 11)
Production
Filming started on 8 September 2013 and ended on 26 November 2013.
Release
A behind the scenes video clip was posted on YouTube on 30 November 2013. The first trailer was released on HKTV's YouTube channel on 26 October 2014. A 9-minute preview was released on HKTV's YouTube channel on 11 August 2015.
References
External links
Official website
Hong Kong Television Network original programming
2015 Hong Kong television series debuts
2010s Hong Kong television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Cloud%20Partnership | The European Cloud Partnership (ECP) is an advisory group set up by the European Commission as part of the European Cloud Computing Strategy to provide guidance on the development of cloud computing in the European Union. The ECP is led by a steering board composed of representatives of the IT and telecom industry as well as European government policymakers.
History
After publishing a document, "Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe", the European Commission set up the European Cloud Partnership in 2012, with a steering board including both government and industry representatives. The ECP's first meeting was held on 19 November 2012; it was chaired by the President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves.
In 2013 the ECP began drafting its charter. That year, as information about the PRISM scandal came to light, the ECP emphasized the need for Europe to develop its own cloud infrastructure, rather than depend on that of the United States. It completed a report titled "Trusted Cloud Europe" in February 2014 defining its policy, and outlining a process for effective public and private sector participation in cloud computing development in Europe. The report recommended that the commission identify technical, legal and operational best practices, and promote these through certifications and guidelines, and facilitate recognition across national boundaries. The report also recommended that the commission identify cloud computing stakeholders and help them work together through consultations and workshops.
In March 2014, the European Commission invited external parties to submit opinions, take part in a discussion forum and complete an online survey in response to the report.
References
External links
Trusted Cloud Europe - a policy vision document by the Steering Board of the European Cloud Partnership - page 15
European Commission projects
Cloud computing
Information technology organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toelgyfaloca%20circumdata | Toelgyfaloca circumdata is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Constant Vincent Houlbert in 1921. It is found in China in Beijing, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan and Yunnan.
References
Moths described in 1921
Thyatirinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptake%20%28business%29 | Uptake is an industrial artificial intelligence (AI) software company. Built around a foundation of data science and machine learning, Uptake’s core products include an Asset Performance Management application and a fully managed platform.
Uptake’s industry-specific content, including its Asset Strategy Library (ASL), provides guidance on failure prevention. The ASL is the largest in the market today with approximately 800 equipment types, over 58,000 failure modes and over 180,000 reportable conditions.
Uptake was founded by Brad Keywell in Chicago, Illinois in 2014.
Business
Uptake was incorporated in 2014 and is located in Chicago, with offices in San Francisco, Houston, Albuquerque, Riyadh, and Mississauga.
In March 2015, Caterpillar announced its minority investment in Uptake, with the aim of the joint development of systems to monitor and improve use of the nearly 3 million pieces of Caterpillar equipment in the field. Caterpillar’s core business offerings were completed in mid 2016. On September 21, 2016, Progress Rail formed a strategic partnership, launching EMD Uptime, with Uptake for condition monitoring. On March 2, 2017, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Energy, an $84 billion portfolio of companies primarily in the renewables space, announced a deal with Uptake. Two of BHE's subsidiaries, BHE Renewables and MidAmerican Energy Company, now use Uptake's software to connect and track their fleet of wind turbines.
In June 2018, Uptake announced the U.S. Army would be using its software to improve the readiness of a few dozen of its Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
In February 2018, Uptake announced the hire of Ganesh Bell, former chief digital officer at General Electric, as President.
In June 2019, Uptake announced Ganesh Bell would step down as President.
In September 2020, Uptake announced that Kayne Grau would become its President. In October 2021, the company announced Grau would become CEO and that Founder Brad Keywell would become Executive Chairman of the Board.
Financing
On October 27, 2015, Uptake announced that it had raised $45 million in venture capital led by GreatPoint Ventures and existing investors including New Enterprise Associates and Caterpillar. Uptake’s valuation was estimated to be one billion dollars, making it the third unicorn in the state of Illinois. On February 1, 2017 investor Revolution Growth, a firm started by Steve Case, Donn Davis and Ted Leonsis, announced that they would be backing Uptake with $40 million as part of the Series C round. This valued Uptake at $2 billion. In November 2017, Uptake closed a Series D round of $117 million at a post-money valuation of $2.3 billion. That brought Uptake's total funding to over $250 million.
References
American companies established in 2014
Companies based in Chicago
Cloud computing providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie%20Drobnic%20Holan | Angie Drobnic Holan is the director of the International Fact-Checking Network and editor for PolitiFact and was part of the Pulitzer Prize winning team of journalists noted for their fact-checking of the 2008 presidential elections in the United States.
Background
Angie Drobnic began her career in journalism at Albuquerque’s NuCity (now Alibi) in 1994, and left in 1998 to pursue her degree in journalism from Columbia University. She also earned a master’s degree in library science from the University of South Florida. More recently she has worked as a business reporter for the Mobile Press-Register, a news reporter for the Tampa Tribune, and a news researcher for the Tampa Bay Times, where she became an expert on the Affordable Care Act. She has also taught undergraduate courses in reporting and writing at the University of Tampa and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
PolitiFact
She has been a part of PolitiFact since its launch in 2007, when Tampa Bay Times’ Washington bureau chief Bill Adair sought to create a unique way for covering the 2008 election. She began with the organization as a reporter, then as its deputy editor and editor of PolitiFact Florida. She was named editor in 2013.
Lectures and awards
She has lectured on fact-checking methods for the Global Fact-Checking summits 2014-2017, held in London, Buenos Aires and Madrid; at the Poynter Institute, a journalism school in St. Petersburg, Florida; at the Alice G. Smith Lecture at her alma mater, the University of South Florida and numerous other campuses. In addition to Holan winning a Pulitzer Prize, the USF School of Information presented her with the Jean Key Gates Distinguished Alumni Award.
References
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
University of South Florida alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Know%20a%20Secret | I Know a Secret or I Know the Secret may refer to:
I Know a Secret, film directed by Bruce Pittman 1982
I Know a Secret, List of programs broadcast by ABC (Australian TV network)
I Know a Secret (Ginny Owens album) 2014
I Know a Secret, compilation album by Erskine Hawkins
I Know the Secret, album by Medical Mission Sisters 1967
"I Know the Secret", title song from the album by Medical Mission Sisters 1967
"I Know a Secret", song by Erskine Hawkins, covered by Spike Jones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita%20Rani%20Ahuja | Rita Rani Ahuja is an American actress and producer. She is best known for directing Bombay Skies and voicing Alexandrite on the Cartoon Network television series Steven Universe.
Awards and nominations
Ahuja's short film Bombay Skies won numerous awards, including Best Short Film at the 2008 LA Femme Film Festival in Los Angeles. She also won the 2003 Images Award from the Filmi Film Festival in Toronto, Canada for her work as an actress in the feature film Trade Offs.
Filmography
References
External links
Living people
21st-century American actresses
American film actresses
American voice actresses
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKool | eKool is a school management system used in Estonia covering 90% of the nation's school network connecting all the pupils, parents and teachers involved. It is estimated that this application is used by 28-30% of Estonians in total. The name eKool means eSchool in Estonian.
The system is usable for teachers, pupils and parents to exchange information about time tables, grades, homework assignments and other similar features. eKool was created in 2002 by Look@World foundation in cooperation with companies from the private sector. It was originally designed to meet the requirements of four test schools: Rocca Al Mare School, Jüri Gymnasium, Kuressaare Gymnasium and Tallinn Arte Gymnasium. Since then it has grown to cover 90% of Estonian school network.
History
eKool started in 2002 to replace printed school diaries by digital journals which would enable parents and students to see their grades and homework assignments online. The pilot project was launched by the specifications of 4 schools: Rocca Al Mare School, Jüri Gymnasium, Kuressaare Gymnaasium and Tallinn Arte Gymnasium. The initial Look@World program ended in 2005 after which it was turned into a private company: Koolitööde AS. In the next few years the eKool mostly expanded over the Estonian school system reaching over 420 schools by 2012.
Since 2014 eKool is also supported by mobile application which allows students and parents to access their information from mobile phones. However schools and teachers still need to use a computer.
Functionalities
eKool can be accessed by combination of user-name and password, Estonian ID-card, Estonian Mobile-ID, Smart-ID or through online bank identification. eKool can be used by various interest groups: school personnel, students, parents and to some extent the local government overseeing their own school's. With one user account a person can access functionalities for different user groups where the user belongs to.
The schools personnel carries out most of the data entry process to eKool which latter can be used by all parties that have right to access the information. Among the information schools provide are:
E-Journal
Timetable
Lesson topics and homework
Grades
Absences of students
Notifications of school events and news
The parents and the students can access the information and keep themselves up to date. From their own side they make it easy for the school to collect contact information because parents and students enter it themselves and keep eKool updated by using it.
References
External links
Cloud applications
Education in Estonia
Communications in Estonia
Internet in Estonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mette%20Thomsen | Mette Thomsen (born 26 February 1970) is a Danish novelist.
According to Thomsen , she belongs to the culture of "zappers" who have grown up with computers, mobile phones and television, leading to a more limited experience of the world and fewer relationships with other people. This leads to a feeling of anxiety, the starting point of her novels.
Biography
Born in Humlebæk in Northeastern Zealand in Denmark, Thomsen developed her interest in storytelling while at Zahles Gymnasieskole, the high school she completed in 1989. In 1991, she spent the summer months at the London Cartoon Centre learning how to write cartoon strips. Thomsen then spent a couple of years studying law in Copenhagen, but then returned creating cartoons.
The influence of cartoons can be seen in Thomsen's first humorous novel Af en superhelts bekendelser (Confessions of a Superhero, 1994). After becoming an attempted rape victim, the heroine becomes a superhero who suppresses violent men.
Thomsen's next novel Plastic (1995) is about a girl receiving unemployment benefits who dreams of becoming a successful Barbie doll in a perfect life to come. In 2005, Thomsen published the poetry collection Vindæg.
Thomsen's 2009 novel Seks is about six people. It is based on the theory that everyone on earth can come into contact with everyone else via relationships with six other people. All the individuals nevertheless experience a sense of loneliness.
References
External links
Mette Thomsen's website
1970 births
Living people
20th-century Danish novelists
21st-century Danish novelists
People from Fredensborg Municipality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cboe%20Canada | The NEO Exchange, now operating as Cboe Canada, is a stock exchange providing a listing of companies and ETFs. Cboe Canada is part of the Cboe Global Markets network, based in Toronto.
History
NEO Exchange received a recognition order from the Ontario Securities Commission on November 17, 2014 and commenced trading of 45 Toronto Stock Exchange-listed securities on March 27, 2015. On the first day, about 6.1 million securities worth approximately $106.3 million were traded on the exchange.
In January 2016, NEO secured its first listing: the Invesco PowerShares DWA Global Momentum Index ETF, which began trading on March 31, 2016. In September 2016, BlackRock Asset Management Canada Ltd. announced their intention to change the listing venue of five iShares exchange-traded funds, consisting of 12 listings in total, from the Toronto Stock Exchange to NEO. The transition of all 12 listings was completed on February 22, 2017.
In early 2017, Redwood Asset Management and BMO Asset Management separately announced plans to list exchange-traded funds on NEO for the first time, while Invesco Canada applied to list two additional PowerShares listings on NEO. On April 20, 2017, Mackenzie Financial announced the imminent launch of a new Global High Yield Fixed Income ETF, becoming the fifth issuer to list on the NEO Exchange.
Cannabis Strategies Acquisition Corp. (NEO:CSA.A), a special purpose acquisition corporation backed by Canaccord Genuity Corp., completed its initial public offering of US$125, 000, 000 and began trading its shares on December 21, 2017, becoming the first corporate issuer to list on the NEO Exchange.
RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM) launched seven new ETFs that began trading on the NEO on Thursday, September 21, 2017. It was the first time RBC GAM listed ETFs on NEO and the firm became the sixth provider to list on the exchange in 2017.
Purpose Investments Inc. changed the listing venue for certain closed-end funds (CEFs) and unit-traded funds (UTFs) from the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) to NEO Exchange on December 29, 2017. These investment funds will be the first of their kinds to list on NEO, and include the first products to launch on NEO under the Purpose brand.
The NEO Exchange welcomed Nobilis Health (NEO:HLTH), the first company to complete a cross-listing on NEO and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), on March 7, 2017. Nobilis Health was previously listed on the TSX and chose to return to Canada because of NEO's focus on "liquidity, their investor communication services and the streamlined disclosure-based listing model, coupled with their unwavering dedication to meeting the needs of public companies and investors".
The NEO Exchange welcomed three ETF providers in the first quarter of 2018, beginning in February when AGF Investment Inc. launched two new ETFs on NEO and Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc. announced the launch of the Horizons Emerging Marijuana Growers Index ETF (NEO:HMJR). On March 29, Evolve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective%20memory | Reflective memory is a means to share common data between different and independent systems deterministically. Such systems using a common reflective memory form a reflective memory network which is a deterministic one, when any system of the network acquired data and writes it to its local memory, such data is written locally to all other systems, this behaviour is like a dual-ported memory system. Reflective memory networks are real-time local area networks where each device or computer always has a local up-to-date copy of the shared data set. These networks are designed for highly deterministic data communications delivering tightly timed performance required on distributed control systems or simulations. Reflective memory technologies are focused to applications where determinism, simplicity for implementation and lack of software overhead are very important considerations.
Reflective memory was developed in the 1980s by VMIC for applications in VME systems. Usually reflective memory devices are connected together by means of fiber optic. It is commonly used with real-time operating systems, VXI and other platforms. VMIC was acquired by GE Fanuc, a cooperative venture between GE and Fanuc of Japan. This business became GE Intelligent Platforms, and the embedded computing element of the business was spun off in 2015 as Abaco Systems, who now market reflective memory.
Examples of reflective memory application are:
the Large Binocular Telescope, where it has been reported that each subsystem of the telescope control system includes ethernet connection for reflective memory.
CERN
Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) plasma control system (PCS)
Aircraft flight simulators
References
External links
Abaco white paper on Reflective Memory
Computer memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebit | The Chromebit is a stick PC running Google's ChromeOS. It is able to be plugged into any display via HDMI to act as a personal computer. Keyboards and mice are able to be connected over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. The device was announced in April 2015 and began shipping November 2015.
Functionality
A Chromebit uses a display with an HDMI port to control a desktop variant of the Chromebook netbook, which runs Google's ChromeOS operating system. ChromeOS primarily supports a single application, a web browser, thereby relying heavily on an Internet connection for software functionality and data storage.
Chromebits have a superficial resemblance to the Chromecast, another Google device. But whereas the Chromecast is designed to display multimedia and web content from an Android or ChromeOS device on a television or other large-screen display, the Chromebit is a self-contained personal computer. The device competes against the Intel Compute Stick, which offers similar plug-in functionality using two other operating systems, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
Technology
Internally, the first Chromebit resembles a standard Chromebook laptop. The device features 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, as well as a USB 2.0 port at one end. The other end swivels, enabling it to fit into a variety of HDMI slots. The Chromebit has a total RAM capacity of 2 gigabytes and 16 gigabytes of flash memory.
Availability and models
Google announced the Chromebit on March 31, 2015. Google and Asus began shipping the first model that November. The Chromebit no longer received updates after November 2020.
References
Cloud clients
Google hardware
Products introduced in 2015
Google Chrome
Personal computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk-on-spheres%20method | In mathematics, the walk-on-spheres method (WoS) is a numerical probabilistic algorithm, or Monte-Carlo method, used mainly in order to approximate the solutions of some specific boundary value problem for partial differential equations (PDEs). The WoS method was first introduced by Mervin E. Muller in 1956 to solve Laplace's equation, and was since then generalized to other problems.
It relies on probabilistic interpretations of PDEs, and simulates paths of Brownian motion (or for some more general variants, diffusion processes),
by sampling only the exit-points out of successive spheres, rather than simulating in detail the path of the process. This often makes it less costly than "grid-based" algorithms, and it is today one of the most widely used "grid-free" algorithms for generating Brownian paths.
Informal description
Let be a bounded domain in with a sufficiently regular boundary , let h be a function on , and let be a point inside .
Consider the Dirichlet problem:
It can be easily shown that when the solution exists, for :
where is a -dimensional Wiener process, the expected value is taken conditionally on , and is the first-exit time out of .
To compute a solution using this formula, we only have to simulate the first exit point of independent Brownian paths since with the law of large numbers:
The WoS method provides an efficient way of sampling the first exit point of a Brownian motion from the domain, by remarking that for any -sphere centred on , the first point of exit of out of the sphere has a uniform distribution over its surface. Thus, it starts with equal to , and draws the largest sphere centered on and contained inside the domain. The first point of exit from is uniformly distributed on its surface. By repeating this step inductively, the WoS provides a sequence of positions of the Brownian motion.
According to intuition, the process will converge to the first exit point of the domain. However, this algorithm takes almost surely an infinite number of steps to end. For computational implementation, the process is usually stopped when it gets sufficiently close to the border, and returns the projection of the process on the border. This procedure is sometimes called introducing an -shell, or -layer.
Formulation of the method
Choose . Using the same notations as above, the Walk-on-spheres algorithm is described as follows:
Initialize :
While :
Set .
Sample a vector uniformly distributed over the unit sphere, independently from the preceding ones.
Set
When :
, the orthogonal projection of on
Return
The result is an estimator of the first exit point from of a Wiener process starting from , in the sense that they have close probability distributions (see below for comments on the error).
Comments and practical considerations
Radius of the spheres
In some cases the distance to the border might be difficult to compute, and it is then preferable to replace the radius of the sphere by a lower b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran%20Hermano%20%28Argentine%20season%208%29 | Gran Hermano 2015 is the eighth season of the Argentinian version of the reality show Gran Hermano. This season was confirmed in December 2014 by the main executive of the network Liliana Parodi. It was the first season to be broadcast on América TV after being previously in Telefe. The premiere was set for Wednesday 29 April 2015, being delayed one week from its original debut date. This season will come three years after the end of the most recent one. This season finished on 30 September 2015, after 155 days, becoming the second longest season ever produced in the country after the seventh season.
Jorge Rial announced that he would return to the show's main hosting duties, after leaving the position halfway during the previous season due to personal issues. Pamela David, one of America's main personalities, took over on hosting the show's Debates and Daily Highlights.
Production
The House
With the network change, Endemol now has a major role in the show's production, and now the house will be at Endemol's Estudios Mayor, which are located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, in a specific area known as "Palermo Hollywood". The architectural design of the house is work of Alberto Negrin. The studio where the house is located was used previously by El Trece for a show called La Casa de los Artistas which was broadcast in 2013.
Casting
Reportedly, over 30,000 people auditioned on the open casting calls made by producers between January and February 2015. By March 2015, host Jorge Rial mentioned during his show Intrusos about some of those who showed up in these audition calls, those named include: Gran Hermano Spain 10 finalist Almudena Martinez; former "Los Wachiturros" member Emanuel Ghidone; former gang leader Tamara Blanco, known as "The Cheta"; Tomas Loyola aka "Tomasito Suller" who previously participated in GH 2012; former cumbia group "Volcano" lead singer Roberto Edgar; Cristian, who is son of former Gran Hermano 2007 and Gran Hermano Famosos contestant Diego Leonardi.
Housemates
Summary
On 17 April 2015, Melanie Defederico was announced as a "housemate" by Jorge Rial in his show Intrusos, however, due to the exposure she got the days after the news were made official, she was dropped from the official shortlist and will be replaced by an auditionee.
On the premiere, the 14 official housemates for this season were revealed, plus, an "enigmatic" 15th housemate (Francisco, who is in the middle of a paternity controversy between him, model Gisela Bernal and her husband Ariel Diwan, baby he says is not his. However, by early August 2015, it was confirmed that Francisco is the actual father of that baby, since a DNA test was done on Diwan and came back negative) and they are the ones listed below.
On Day 36, during the 3rd round of nominations, after constant rule breaking, a Double Eviction was announced on that Gala (June 3, 2015). Now, on Day 43 (June 10, 2015), it was announced that the replacement revealed to go in d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Coding%20Scheme | Data Coding Scheme is a one-octet field in Short Messages (SM) and Cell Broadcast Messages (CB) which carries a basic information how the recipient handset should process the received message. The information includes:
the character set or message coding, which determines the encoding of the message user data
the message class, which determines to which component of the Mobile Station (MS) or User Equipment (UE) the message should be delivered
the request to automatically delete the message after reading
the state of flags indicating presence of unread voicemail, fax, e-mail or other messages
the indication that the message content is compressed
the language of the cell broadcast message
The field is described in 3GPP 23.040 and 3GPP 23.038 under the name TP-DCS.
Message character sets
A special 7-bit encoding called the GSM 7 bit default alphabet was designed for the Short Message System in GSM. The alphabet contains the most-often used symbols from most Western-European languages (and some Greek uppercase letters). Some ASCII characters and the Euro sign did not fit into the GSM 7-bit default alphabet and must be encoded using two septets. These characters form GSM 7 bit default alphabet extension table. Support of the GSM 7-bit alphabet is mandatory for GSM handsets and network elements.
Languages which use Latin script, but use characters which are not present in the GSM 7-bit default alphabet, often replace missing characters with diacritic marks with corresponding characters without diacritics, which causes not entirely satisfactory user experience, but is often accepted. In order to include these missing characters the 16-bit UTF-16 (in GSM called UCS-2) encoding may be used at the price of reducing the length of a (non-segmented) message from 160 to 70 characters.
The messages in Chinese, Korean or Japanese languages must be encoded using the UTF-16 character encoding. The same was also true for other languages using non-Latin scripts like Russian, Arabic, Hebrew and various Indian languages. In 3GPP TS 23.038 8.0.0 published in 2008 a new feature, an extended National language shift table was introduced, which in the version 11.0.0 published in 2012 covers Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu languages. The mechanism replaces GSM 7-bit default alphabet code table and/or extended table with a national table(s) according to special information elements in User Data Header. The non-segmented message using national language shift table(s) may carry up to 155 (or 153) 7-bit characters.
GSM recognizes only two encodings for text messages and one encoding for binary messages:
GSM 7-bit default alphabet (which includes using of National language shift tables as well)
UCS-2
8-bit data
Message classes
The TP-DCS octet has a complex syntax to allow carrying of other information; the most notable are message classes:
Flash messages are received by a mob |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Rosenberg%20%28SIP%20author%29 | Jonathan Rosenberg (born ) is a technologist noted for his work in IP communications. Network World has referred to him as "a pioneer [in] the development of the SIP protocol", and he was included in the 2002 TR35 list of the world's top under-35 innovators, as published by MIT Technology Review.
, Rosenberg is the chief technology officer and Head of A.I. at Five9, a cloud contact center provider. Prior to this, he was vice president and chief technology officer for Collaboration at Cisco, having previously worked as Skype's chief technology strategist.
Rosenberg is a longtime member of the IETF, where he has served in several leadership positions over his career. As of August 2017, he remains the 8th most prolific author of internet standards.
Career
Rosenberg has worked in the VOIP field for over 20 years to date. He began working at Lucent Technologies in March 1993 as a Member of the Technical Staff. There, he led a small SIP research lab, acted as a team lead for DSP work, and conducted research in areas of wide area service discovery. It was during his time at Lucent that he received his PhD from Columbia University. In October 1999, Rosenberg left Lucent to serve as the chief technology officer of dynamicsoft. At dynamicsoft, Rosenberg conceived of, drove requirements for, designed, and lead software development for industry's first SIP application server. He also acted as architect and first product manager for dynamicsoft presence engine, conceived of, helped developed requirements for, and designed SIP firewall control proxy and co-developed the architecture for the dynamicsoft network application engine. When dynamicsoft was acquired by Cisco, Rosenberg followed the company. At Cisco, Rosenberg earned the rank of Cisco Fellow, the company's most senior technical position. He drove Cisco's Intercompany Media Engine (IME) product from concept through ship and set technology strategy for Cisco's service provider voice business. In 2009, Rosenberg left Cisco to serve as Chief Technology Strategist at Skype. At Skype, He pioneered the Facebook video calling integration, along with many other developments. In 2013, Rosenberg left Skype to return to his alma mater Cisco Systems, taking the position of CTO and Vice President of Cloud Collaboration. Shortly thereafter, he was promoted to CTO and Vice President of Collaboration.
In September 2018, Rosenberg reported that he is leaving Cisco. In January 2019, he followed his former Cisco Systems boss Rowan Trollope to Five9, joining the company as CTO and Head of A.I.
Personal life
Jonathan Rosenberg lives in Freehold Township, New Jersey with his wife and two children.
See also
References
Further reading
Includes an interview and a short profile of Rosenberg.
Living people
American chief technology officers
Cisco people
1970s births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara%20no%20Kiyosuke | was a Japanese waka poet and poetry scholar of the late Heian period.
He was the second son of , compiler of the Shika Wakashū.
Poetry
The following poem by him was included as No. 84 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:
He was a member of the conservative Rokujō school of poetic composition, and Donald Keene has called him a "mediocre poet". Suzuki et al., however, say that his brilliant poetry scholarship put him at the top of the waka world in his day.
He was one of the first to apply rules of choosing themes, participants and judges in the uta-awase poetry gatherings. His standards of judging poetry, made him a rival of Fujiwara no Shunzei.
About 1165, Emperor Nijō commissioned him to compile a waka anthology, which became the . He compiled twenty books of 998 poems, a much larger anthology than its namesake, and submitted to the emperor expecting for it to be recognized as the seventh imperial anthology. The emperor died before its completion, and it remains consigned to the status of a private collection.
Ultimately ninety-four of his poems were included in imperial collections.
Scholarship
Kiyosuke is known primarily as the author of the and the He was one of the first scholars to question the traditional 905 date of the Kokin Wakashū.
References
Bibliography
External links
E-text of his poems in Japanese.
12th century in Japan
12th-century Japanese poets
1104 births
1177 deaths
Fujiwara clan
Hyakunin Isshu poets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shc%20%28shell%20script%20compiler%29 | shc is a shell script compiler for Unix-like operating systems written in the C programming language. The Shell Script Compiler (SHC) encodes and encrypts shell scripts into executable binaries. Compiling shell scripts into binaries provides protection against accidental changes and source code modification, and is a way of hiding shell script source code.
Mechanism
shc takes a shell script which is specified on the command line by the -f option and produces a C source code of the script with added encryption. The generated source code is then compiled and linked to produce a binary executable. It is a two step process where, first, it creates a filename.x.c file of the shell script file filename. Then it is compiled with cc -$CFLAGS filename.x.c to create the binary from the C source code with the default C compiler.
The compiled binary will still be dependent on the shell specified in the shebang (eg. #!/bin/sh), thus shc does not create completely independent binaries.
shc itself is not a compiler such as the C compiler, it rather encodes and encrypts a shell script and generates C source code with the added expiration capability. It then uses the system C compiler to compile the source shell script and build a stripped binary which behaves exactly like the original script. Upon execution, the compiled binary will decrypt and execute the code with the shells'-c option.
Versions
Alternatives
obash
shellcrypt
References
External links
raw.githubusercontent.com
l0d.org
neurobin.org
Unix software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor%20consistency | Processor Consistency is one of the consistency models used in the domain of concurrent computing (e.g. in distributed shared memory, distributed transactions, etc.).
A system exhibits Processor Consistency if the order in which other processors see the writes from any individual processor is the same as the order they were issued. Because of this, Processor Consistency is only applicable to systems with multiple processors. It is weaker than the Causal Consistency model because it does not require writes from all processors to be seen in the same order, but stronger than the PRAM Consistency model because it requires Cache Coherence. Another difference between Causal Consistency and Processor Consistency is that Processor Consistency removes the requirements for loads to wait for stores to complete, and for Write Atomicity. Processor Consistency is also stronger than Cache Consistency because Processor Consistency requires all writes by a processor to be seen in order, not just writes to the same memory location.
Examples of Processor Consistency
In Example 1 to the right, the simple system follows Processor Consistency, as all the writes by each processor are seen in the order they occurred in by the other processors, and the transactions are coherent.
Example 2 is not Processor Consistent, as the writes by P1 and P3 are seen out of order by P2 and P4 respectively.
Example 3 is Processor Consistent and not Causally Consistent because in P3: for Causal Consistency it should be since W(x)2 in P1 causally precedes W(y)3 in P2.
Example 4 is not Processor Consistent because in P2: for Processor Consistency it should be because W(x)2 is the latest write to x preceding W(y)3 in P1.
This example Cache Consistent because P2 sees writes to individual memory locations in the order they were issued in P1.
Processor Consistency vs. Sequential Consistency
Processor Consistency (PC) relaxes the ordering between older stores and younger loads that is enforced in Sequential consistency (SC). This allows loads to be issued to the cache and potentially complete before older stores, meaning that stores can be queued in a write buffer without the need for load speculation to be implemented (the loads can continue freely). In this regard, PC performs better than SC because recovery techniques for failed speculations aren’t necessary, which means fewer pipeline flushes. The prefetching optimization that SC systems employ is also applicable to PC systems. Prefetching is the act of fetching data in advance for upcoming loads and stores before it is actually needed, to cut down on load/store latency. Since PC reduces load latency by allowing loads to be re-ordered before corresponding stores, the need for prefetching is somewhat reduced, as the prefetched data will be used more for stores than for loads.
Programmer’s Intuition
In terms of how well a PC system follows a programmer’s intuition, it turns out that in properly synchronized systems, the outco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash%20Dolls | Dash Dolls is an American reality television series that premiered on the E! cable network, on September 20, 2015. The show is a spin-off of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. The series features a group of young female employees, referred to as Dash Dolls, working in the Dash boutique in Hollywood which is owned by the Kardashian sisters.
Production
Development
The series was greenlit on March 26, 2014. The show is broadcast on E!, an American cable network which features mostly entertainment-related programming and reality television series. The network has ordered eight hour-long episodes. The show is the sixth series installment in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians franchise, following Kourtney and Khloé Take The Hamptons, and the first one not featuring any members of the Kardashian family as the main cast. The series is produced by Bunim/Murray Productions and Ryan Seacrest Productions, the same companies which produce Keeping Up with the Kardashians and their spin-offs; Gil Goldschein, Jeff Jenkins, Farnaz Farjam and Claudia Frank serve as executive producers, along with the Kardashian sisters and Kris Jenner. The network describes the premise of the show as:
Dash is a chain of retail stores which was founded in 2006 by the Kardashian sisters. There are several stores operating in the United States; the reality series is set in a boutique located in West Hollywood, which was opened in 2012 when the store was relocated from its original location in Calabasas, California. On April 5, 2015, the network aired an episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians involving a storyline which featured the Dash dolls for whom Khloé Kardashian organized a teambuilding retreat; Molly Mulshine of The New York Observer noted that the episode "conveniently introduced to the future stars of Dash Dolls." The sneak peek of the show was released on May 31, 2015. Malika Haqq, one of the main cast members of the show, discussed the development of the show by saying:
Haqq and her twin sister Khadijah had served as co-managers of the retail store before the television series occurred. "We did not put out any signs like ‘Yo we want a show.’ It didn't happen like that. Khloé and Kourtney asked us if we could help them out. [...] They needed somebody that they could trust," Malika Haqq discussed doing business with the Kardashians. Haqq also noted that working in the store has always resembled a television show because of its unique environment and famous owners. "Ultimately when you put a large group of girls together, you're game to get a bunch of drama," Haqq also added. Kim Kardashian has disclosed that she initially wanted Keeping Up with the Kardashians to focus more on their stores in order to bring people's attention and later said that she "didn’t think it would turn into what it turned into."
Cast
The reality series chronicles the daily life of the employees working in one of the Dash boutiques. The show features Khloé Kardashian’s best friend Malika Ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrmont%20Bay%20ferry%20services | The Pyrmont Bay ferry service, officially known as F4 Pyrmont Bay, is a commuter ferry service in Sydney, New South Wales. Part of the Sydney Ferries network, it is operated by Transdev Sydney Ferries and services the Lavender Bay and Darling Harbour areas. It began operation on 25 October 2020, and replaced the western half of the F4 Cross Harbour ferry service. Emerald-class ferries and SuperCat ferries operate the service.
The F4 Pyrmont Bay follows the same stopping pattern as the ceased Darling Harbour ferry service, officially known as F4 Darling Harbour. The Darling Harbour service was operated by the State Transit Authority from its commencement in the 1980s, the Sydney Ferries Corporation from 2004, and Harbour City Ferries from 2013 until the service was replaced by the F4 Cross Harbour service on 26 November 2017. It was originally created to promote tourist and traveller pilgrimage to the Darling Harbour precinct after its redevelopment in the 1980s. First Fleet and HarbourCat ferries usually operated the service. King Street Wharf served as the route's terminus during the majority of its later lifespan before it was replaced by Barangaroo.
History
After the redevelopment of the Darling Harbour precinct in the 1980s until the late 1990s, the area was serviced by public transport with only one wharf, the Aquarium ferry wharf; adjacent to the Sydney Aquarium. The wharf was opened as part of an initiative to promote pilgrimage to the new Darling Harbour precinct and its new attractions, such as the Aquarium. It also coincided with the opening of the Sydney Monorail loop from Town Hall to Darling Harbour. Routes from Circular Quay to Aquarium and vice versa usually included stops at Darling Street Balmain / Balmain East and McMahons Point. Following the opening of the Milsons Point and Pyrmont Bay wharves in the late 90s, Darling Harbour ferries also included these stops, with Pyrmont Bay being the terminus of the route. Balmain was also included on the route after timetable changes in April 2002, as a stop between Balmain East and Aquarium. After July 2008 timetable changes, the route was briefly split into two terminuses, with Balmain East serving as a junction between a route to Balmain and a Route to Pyrmont Bay.
After a publicised fatal collision of the Sydney Ferries HarbourCat Pam Burridge and the private vessel Merinda in March 2007, resulting in the death of four people and injury of two others, a report on the Sydney Ferries Corporation, the previous operator of the Sydney Ferries system, conducted and written by Bret Walker, was commissioned by then-Premier of New South Wales Morris Iemma and released in November 2007. One of the many recommendations of the "Walker Report" was to create a new ferry terminal at Darling Harbour, to ease congestion on the network, especially at Circular Quay. The plan for the Darling Harbour service was to decommission the Aquarium wharf, leaving it for use by commercial vessels, and reroutin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20news%20media%20APIs | Some online news media have created Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to enable computer applications to request stories and information about their stories (metadata) from them.
List of 1st-party news APIs
References
Journalism lists
Application programming interfaces
Electronic publishing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalyves%20Polygyrou | Kalyves Polygyrou or Kalives, (, ), old name Mecyberna,
is a village in Chalkidiki peninsula in Central Macedonia of Northern Greece.
There is a kindergarten and primary school to accommodate pupils of both Kalyves and the nearby village of Yerakini. Patron Saint of the village is St. Modestus.
Location
Kalyves is located on the gulf of Torone, between the two fingers (smaller peninsulas) of Kassandra and Sithonia, 70 km southeast of Thessaloniki, 4.5 km west of Yerakini (Gerakini) and 6 km east of Olynthus.
It belongs to the Municipality of Polygyros, the capital town of Chalkidiki.
Etymology and history
Kalyves Polygyrou means “Huts of Polygyros” as the first inhabitants, farmers, who settled from Polygyros in the late 1800s and early 1900s, had small houses as homesteads for the cultivation of their land in the area, ever since belonging to its municipality administration (municipal unit).
In the past the area was also involved in sericulture (silk farming).
In ancient times it used to be an independent city and seaport of Olynthus.
Economy
Olive farming is the main occupation of the residents, for green table olives and olive oil. In the north there is the Industrial area of Polygyros with a number of companies and the magnesite mines of Patelidas.
The population is increased in the summer months June to August by many holidaymakers, mainly Greeks, most of whom have their summer homes there.
It has a long beach stretching from Mikyverna (Mecyberna
) residences beach to Agios Mamas beach. On the beach one can find many hotels, taverns, bars and the remains of the old windmill “Molyvopyrgos” in the west.
A big summer resort started its operations on the beach near the windmill in the spring of 2015.
References
External links
Populated places in Chalkidiki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%20Network%20%28international%29 | Paramount Network is a brand of several television channels operated by Paramount International Networks that showcase the Paramount Pictures film catalogue, and selected TV series from Paramount Global's television productions. The channel was first launched in Spain on March 30, 2012, and in the years since, the channel has operated in a number of territories across Europe, East Africa, Latin America and Asia. It was formerly known as the Paramount Channel (which is still used in France).
History
As Paramount Channel
To date, Paramount Channel has launched in Spain in March 2012, France in September 2013, Hungary in February 2014, Russia in January 2014, Romania on January 14, 2014, Latin America in September 1995 until 2003, but returns again in the brand new look of November 2014, Sweden in December 2014, Poland in March 2015, Italy and Thailand in February and May 2016, and in the Middle East in April 2017.
Relaunch
In May 2018, Viacom announced that the original Paramount Channel in Spain would relaunch as a local version of the U.S Paramount Network, switching to a general entertainment format with television series and films. The same relaunch as the Paramount Network occurred in Italy on March 16, 2019, and in Latin America on April 14, 2020. On October 20, 2020, it was announced that the Hungarian version would also rebrand as the Paramount Network, and the rebranding date was confirmed on November 23 that year. Paramount Channel in Hungary rebranded as the Paramount Network on December 17, 2020. In December 2020, ViacomCBS announced Prima Comedy Central in the Czech Republic will be rebranded as Paramount Network. Paramount Network launched effectively on January 12, 2021. On January 26, 2021, it was announced on the Paramount Channel Asia official Facebook page that ViacomCBS announced that the Paramount Channel in Thailand, Malaysia, and the Pacific Islands (including the Philippines) was to be rebranded as Paramount Network on February 1, 2021.
Following the beginning of the launch of Paramount+ in March 2021, and its international expansion, this has led to Paramount Global to close the Paramount Network channels operating in the Nordic countries by the end of 2021, to put more resources towards Paramount+.
In August 2021, Paramount Networks International agreed a deal with Comcast Corporation's Sky Group to launch the Paramount+ streaming service in various European markets via Sky's set-top boxes and devices. To reduce overall branding confusion with Paramount+, Paramount Network in the UK was rebranded as 5Action on 19 January 2022, without any overall changes to its programme schedule.
Less than two weeks before the UK rebranding, rumors begin to surge about Paramount Network and Spike in Italy closing on January 17, 2022. This was later confirmed, with Mediaset acquiring the positions left unused on DTT, and Paramount Network being replaced with the channel Twentyseven.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiere%20%28TV%20program%29 | Premiere is the first commercially sponsored television program to be broadcast in color. The program was a variety show which aired as a special presentation on June 25, 1951, on a five-city network hook-up of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) television stations. Its airing was an initial step in CBS's brief and unsuccessful campaign to gain public acceptance of its field-sequential method of color broadcasting, which had recently been approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as the first color television broadcasting standard for the United States.
Competition for a U.S. color broadcasting standard
CBS's field-sequential color broadcasting system was an electro-mechanical system. It transmitted monochrome images electronically, and color was then added mechanically by placing a rapidly spinning (1440 r.p.m.) transparent tricolor disk in front of the television screen. This spinning Red-Green-Blue disk, when synchronized with a corresponding spinning disk in a color television camera, created the impression of full color. A major downside to the CBS system was that the video images being transmitted were not "compatible" with current black-and-white television sets, meaning that unless these sets were modified they would render these video transmissions as meaningless lines and squiggles (with the very rare exception of some sets which would produce four small black-and-white images, one in each corner of the screen.)
During the past decade an often contentious competition had taken place to obtain official approval from the FCC for a U.S. color broadcasting method which would meet the FCC's criteria for cost, quality, and convenience. The primary challenger to CBS's system was an all-electronic color system employing a dot-sequential method which was being developed by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), the parent company of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The RCA system had a distinct advantage in that it was compatible, meaning that current black-and-white televisions could receive a monochrome picture without any adjustments or modifications. However the color image produced on RCA's tricolor picture tubes had repeatedly been found unsatisfactory by the FCC.
On October 11, 1950 the FCC gave its official approval of CBS's field-sequential color system and stated that commercial color broadcasting could begin as of November 20, 1950. Legal objections were immediately raised by RCA and others and the resulting court case worked its way through the courts up to the U.S. Supreme Court. On May 28, 1951 on an 8-1 vote the Supreme Court sided with the FCC, stating that commercial color programming could begin in twenty-five days. CBS announced that it would commence commercial broadcasting with Premiere on Monday, June 25, 1951. This would be the beginning of CBS's initial plan to broadcast twenty hours of color a week by autumn. RCA and others were still free to continue working on a competing compatible color syst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared%20Morgenstern | Jared Seth Morgenstern (born March 8, 1981) is an American designer and entrepreneur who graduated from Harvard University with a Master's and Undergraduate Degree magna cum laude in Computer Science. Shortly after graduating from Harvard, Morgenstern began working on a social networking website called Metails.com with former classmate, Eddie Lim. Lim and Morgenstern plus a team of two more employees sold Metails.com to Buy.com in 2004. In January 2006, Morgenstern was recruited to join Facebook as its third designer. At Facebook Jared would eventually lead the product teams working on Virtual Gifts, Usernames, Games, Social Ads, and the Like button among other projects.
In 2014 Jared joined Kleiner Perkins as an entrepreneur partner. In May 2014, he founded Chime out of his apartment in San Francisco.
References
External links
Jared giving a TEDx talk in Tel Aviv, Israel
Jared Morgenstern - האיש שהביא לנו את ה"לייק" בישראל — Jared discussing creating the Like button
1981 births
Living people
American bloggers
Web developers
American chief executives
American computer programmers
Facebook employees
American designers
People from Roslyn Heights, New York
20th-century American Jews
Harvard University alumni
Kleiner Perkins people
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip%20Sync%20Battle | Lip Sync Battle is an American musical reality competition television series that premiered on April 2, 2015, on the American cable network Spike, later known as Paramount Network. The show is based on an idea by Stephen Merchant and John Krasinski, in which celebrities battle each other with lip sync performances. The idea was introduced as a recurring segment on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and later The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, before being developed into a separate show.
The premiere episode was the highest-rated premiere in Spike's history. Lip Sync Battle has been a hit show for the network. The series' success has led to the creation of various international adaptations. In August 2018, the show was renewed for a fifth season which premiered on January 17, 2019.
On September 22, 2020, it was announced that the series would move to another ViacomCBS network as part of the Paramount Network's now-scrapped planned shift to films. However, no new home for the program has been announced since then.
Overview
Lip Sync Battle debuted on Spike on April 2, 2015. It is produced by John Krasinski and Stephen Merchant and hosted by rapper and actor LL Cool J. Model Chrissy Teigen serves as color commentator.
The show is a spin-off of a segment first introduced on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Merchant, Krasinski and Emily Blunt, were brainstorming ideas for Krasinski's upcoming appearance on Late Night when the idea took shape. Jimmy Fallon then developed it into a recurring segment on his show. The game pits two celebrities against each other in a lip syncing battle for two rounds. The audience votes for the winner, who receives a Lip Sync Battle belt reminiscent of the WCW Television Championship title belt.
In 2014, Merchant, Krasinski and Fallon pitched the show to NBC, who passed on it. NBC's cable channels USA Network and Bravo also passed. The competition series was eventually picked up by Spike, which was then rebranding. "Part of what I wanted to do with Lip Sync Battle is increase co-viewing, but also add diversity to the network," said network president Kevin Kay.
Lip Sync Battle has been a major success for Spike. Its series premiere drew 2.2 million viewers, the channel's highest-rated non-scripted premiere. Kay described the show as "a television and viral rock star for Spike." The show was renewed for a second season of 20 episodes on April 22, 2015.
In January 2016, the network renewed the series for a third season consisting of another 20 episodes. "Lip Sync Battle is a multiplatform pop-culture phenomenon that has played an integral role in delivering a new and broader audience to Spike," Kay said.
In July 2016, the show received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in the Outstanding Structured Reality Program category.
In 2017, it was announced that the show would air a live hour-long special (Lip Sync Battle Live: A Michael Jackson Celebration) on January 18, 2018, to coincide with the relaunch of Spike as the P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actran | ACTRAN (acronym of ACoustic TRANsmission, also known as the Acoustic NASTRAN) is a finite element-based computer aided engineering software modeling the acoustic behavior of mechanical systems and parts. Actran is being developed by Free Field Technologies, a Belgian software company founded in 1998 by Jean-Pierre Coyette and Jean-Louis Migeot. Free Field Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of the MSC Software Corporation since 2011. Free Field Technologies and MSC Software are part of Hexagon AB since 2017.
History
The development of Actran started in 1998 when Jean-Pierre Coyette, now professor of the Louvain School of Engineering – Université catholique de Louvain, and Jean-Louis Migeot, now professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and past president of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium - Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, cofounded the Free Field Technologies SA software company.
The original idea was to develop a finite element-based simulation tool for vibro-acoustic applications able to overcome the limitations of the then dominant Boundary Element Method. The use of finite elements enabled the simulation of complex noise sources, the combination of multiple materials in the same model and the handling of multi-million degrees-of-freedom models. The initial target application was the prediction of the acoustic transmission through complex partitions (hence the name ACTRAN: ACoustic TRANsmission). A central feature of Actran was the use of Infinite Elements (IE) as an alternative to BEM for modelling non-reflecting boundary conditions and calculating the far field. Actran uses conjugated infinite elements, an extension of the wave envelope technique.
Early developments were funded by an industrial consortium and the first commercial release was made broadly available in 2002, after the three-years exclusivity period given to the members of the consortium ended.
Software modules
Actran is written in the Python and C++ languages and is compatible with both Linux and Windows operating systems.
The Actran software is currently divided and licensed into different modules depending on the target application and the physics involved:
Actran Acoustics: basic module for acoustic radiation analysis and weakly coupled vibro-acoustic simulations; typical applications are: noise radiation from powertrains, noise transmission through mufflers and silencers.
Actran VibroAcoustics: module dedicated to strongly coupled vibro-acoustic simulations; typical applications are: sound transmission through structures (walls, windows, etc.), loudspeakers, underwater acoustics;
Actran AeroAcoustics: module dedicated to the computational aeroacoustics; typical applications are HVAC ducts, centrifugal and axial fans, side window noise.
Actran for Trimmed bodies: module dedicated to trimmed body analyses; typical applications are car cabins and aircraft fuselages;
Actran SEA: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Asia%20Television%20series | This is a list of series released by Asia Television.
1976: Big Sister (大家姐)
1977: Network (電視人)
1978: In Cold Blood (追族)
1978: Crocodile Tears (鱷魚淚)
1978: Superstar (巨星)
1978: Con Gang (奇兵36)
1978: A Hong Kong Tragedy (郎心如鐵)
1978: Chinese New Horoscope (十二生肖)
1979: Reincarnated (天蠶變)
1979: Dragon Strikes (天龍訣)
1979: Sword of Fury (怒劍鳴)
1980: Dynasty (大內群英)
1980: Dynasty II (大內群英續集)
1980: Fatherland (大地恩情)
1980: Gone with the Wind (浮生六劫)
1980: Rainbow Connections (彩雲深處)
1981: The Legendary Fok (霍元甲)
1981: Newark File (女媧行動)
1981: Agency 24 (甜甜廿四味)
1981: The Magnificent 7 (蕩寇誌)
1982: The Fist (陳真)
1982: The Conqueror (雄霸天下)
1982: Another Time, Another Love (再生戀)
1982: Barber Shop (家姐、細佬、飛髮舖)
1983: The Romantic Poet (唐伯虎三戲秋香)
1983: Super Hero (鐵膽英雄)
1983: Young Dowager (少女慈禧)
1984: Drunken Fist (醉拳王無忌)
1984: Butterfly Killer (蝴蝶血)
1984: By Royal Decree (十二金牌)
1984: Empress Wu (武則天)
1984: Drunken Fist II (醉拳王無忌第二輯日帝月后)
1984: Jade Bow Connection (雲海玉弓緣)
1985: Spiritual Marginal (靈界邊緣人)
1985: Stardust Memories (阮玲玉)
1985: The Legendary Prime Minister – Zhuge Liang (諸葛亮)
1985: Ten Brothers (十兄弟)
1985: Five Beauties (群芳頌)
1986: Super Stuntman (狮王之王)
1986: Full House Year (滿堂紅)
1986: The Adventures (冒險家樂園)
1986: The Boy Fighter from Heaven (哪吒)
1986: Condor in September (九月鷹飛)
1987: Stardust Dream (紅塵)
1987: Adventure in Paradise (香港情)
1987: The Duel (武林故事)
1987: A Royal Affair (當皇帝愛上殭屍)
1987: Genghis Khan (成吉思汗)
1988: Master of Mount Wu Tang (武當之巔)
1988: Legend of Ms. Choi Kam Fa (賽金花)
1988: Bandits from Hong Kong (張保仔)
1989: Shivering Night (夜琉璃)
1989: Dream of Paradise (天堂夢)
1989: The Vampire Detective (殭屍神探)
1989: The Righteous Cop (男大當差)
1989: The Legend of Fu Hung Suet (傅紅雪傳奇)
1989: Immortal Love (我的野蠻殭屍女友)
1989: Master of Mount Wu Tang II (武當之巔之二 崑崙第一刀)
1989: Father & Son (兜亂兩仔爺)
1989: The P.I. On Call (妙探出租)
1989: (安樂茶飯)
1989: Fun Time (吳耀漢攪攪震 or 六星級攪攪震)
1990: The Street Market Ninja (街市忍者)
1990: The Merciless Law (法本無情)
1990: The Blood Sword (中華英雄)
1990: Housekeeper, My Honey (樓下伊人)
1991: The Good, the Ghost and the Cop (隔離差館有隻鬼)
1991: Rebuilding Prosperity (再造繁榮)
1992: Shanghai Godfather (再見黃埔灘)
1992: Vampire Hero (殭屍英雄)
1992: Mythical Crane, Magic Needle '92 (仙鶴神針)
1993: Shanghai Godfather II (再見黃埔灘 II 之再起風雲)
1993: The Silver Tycoon (銀狐)
1993: The Legendary Poet (青蓮居士)
1993: The Master of War (孫子兵法)
1993: Vampire Cops (偵探殭屍)
1993: Reincarnated II (天蠶變之再與天比高)
1994: The Movie Tycoon (戲王之王)
1994: Bays of Being Parents (可憐天下父母心)
1994: Beauty Pageant (鳳凰傳説)
1994: Vampire Magistrate (殭屍與律師)
1994: The Odd Couple (拿破崙與小殭屍)
1994: Secret Battle of the Majesty (君臨天下)
1994: Outlaw Hero (法外英雄)
1994: The Kung Fu Master
1995: Justice Junior (九品芝麻官)
1995: Vampire Expert (殭屍道長)
1995: Justice Pao (a.k.a. Judge Bao) (包青天)
1995: Shanghai Godfather III (再見黃埔灘 III 之殭屍天下)
1995: Fist of Fury (精武門)
1995: The Young Master (少年韓非子之長江後浪推前浪)
1995: Vampire Hero II (殭屍大俠)
1995-1996: Wong Fei Hung Series (黃飛鴻新傳)
1996: I Have a Date with Spring (我和春天有個約會)
1996: The Little Vag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MutualArt.com | MutualArt.com is an art information website that provides auction prices, personalized updates and data on a number of artists. MutualArt.com also includes an online art appraisals service. Premium Members have access to the site's Art Market Analysis.
History
MutualArt was founded in 2004 by Moti Shniberg, an Israeli-born technology entrepreneur; David A. Ross, a former director of the Whitney Museum; and Dan Galai, a professor of business at Hebrew University.
MutualArt acted initially as a holding company for the Artist Pension Trust. The company's CEO is Zohar Elhanani.
In 2008 MutualArt launched its online portal, mutualart.com. At the time, its web site was reportedly one of the first examples of the Web 2.0 Semantic Web applied to a customer service. The site attempted to link art collectors with artists, museums, galleries and information sources including the art publications, auction house information and prices.
In 2016 the company merged with the Artist Pension Trust to form the MutualArt Group.
References
External links
Art websites
Internet properties established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLAN%20%28disambiguation%29 | Wireless LAN is a computer network that links devices using wireless communication within a limited area.
WLAN may also refer to:
WLAN-Hotspot, also known as a wireless hotspot
WLAN (AM), a radio station in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
WLAN-FM, a radio station in Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom%21%20%28game%20show%29 | Boom! is an American television game show that premiered on the Fox network on June 25, 2015. An adaptation of an Israeli series with the same title, Boom! is a general-knowledge quiz show where three players must correctly answer questions in order to defuse bombs. The program's stage utilizes 3D projection mapping featuring more than one million LEDs. Boom! is produced by Jeff Apploff and Bob Boden.
On August 21, 2016, Fox cancelled Boom! after one season due to low ratings.
Format
Main game
Three players compete as a team to defuse a series of six time bombs by answering one question per bomb. Each question has several answer choices, only one of which is incorrect, and each answer corresponds to a differently colored wire on the bomb. The goal is to cut the wires for only the correct answers before the timer on the bomb reaches zero.
Before each question, the category is given and the team chooses one player to attempt it. When the player cuts a wire, the timer briefly stops and the result is revealed after a three-second delay. If the player cuts all the correct wires, the bomb is defused and money is added to the team's bank. However, if the player cuts the incorrect wire or if time runs out, the bomb "explodes", spraying its contents all over him/her and the studio. That player is then eliminated from the game, and no money is added to the bank.
The players and host all wear safety goggles for eye protection while onstage, and the audience members in the front rows wear goggles and plastic rain ponchos to keep themselves clean. The contents of the bombs are typically food items that are sticky and/or hard to clean off clothing, such as pizza sauce, maple syrup, and gravy.
Every player must attempt to defuse at least one of the six bombs. If all three players are eliminated, the game ends and the team leaves with no winnings. Values, time limits, and numbers of answer choices increase from one question to the next as shown below.
Mega Money Bomb
If at least one player is still in the game after the sixth bomb, the team must decide whether to take their winnings and end the game, or attempt to answer a seventh question and defuse the final Mega Money Bomb. The host gives them the category for this question in order to help them decide.
The question has 10 answer choices, seven correct and three incorrect, and a 90-second time limit. One player cuts the wires, while the other two can offer advice, and all three must stand over the bomb. Any player may be chosen to cut the wires, regardless of whether or not he/she was eliminated from the main game. If the players successfully defuse the bomb, their entire bank is quadrupled; if not, it is cut in half.
The maximum possible winnings total is $500,000, obtained by successfully defusing all seven bombs.
Episodes
International versions
In some international versions, there are two teams of four, and the player must avoid cutting the color wire corresponding to the correct answer.
Refe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassis%20macleayi | Ambassis macleayi, commonly known as Macleay's glassfish, Macleay's glass perchlet, Macleay's perchlet, reticulated glassfish, reticulated perchlet, or network perchlet, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Ambassidae. It is native to northern Australia and the trans-Fly River region of New Guinea. It is a fish with a vertically flat, narrow body and a standard length generally between , with large specimens reaching long. It generally eats water fleas and other small invertebrates. This fish is considered to be a least-concern species according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), although it could suffer from habitat degradation due to feral pigs and invasive water plants such as the water hyacinth. The fish is suitable for aquarium use in tanks containing other non-aggressive species.
Taxonomy
French naturalist Francis de Castelnau described this species as Pseudoambassis macleayi in 1878, from specimens collected from the Norman River near the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia. The species was named in honour of William Macleay for his important contributions to fish taxonomy. Castelnau placed it in a new genus, separate to Ambassis, due to its lack of a recumbent spine (spine laying against the dorsal surface) in front of its dorsal fin. Allan Riverstone McCulloch placed it in the genus Ambassis in 1929. Gilbert Percy Whitley made it the type species of the genus Austrochanda, calling it Austrochanda macleayi, in 1935. The species was subsequently returned to Ambassis in 1989 by J. R. Paxton, D. F. Hoese, G. R. Allen, and J. E. Hanley in the Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Common names include Macleay's glassfish, Macleay's glass perchlet, Macleay's perchlet and reticulated glassfish.
Description
Macleay's glassfish is a moderately large ambassid that may grow to a standard length (SL) of , but is usually between . Males tend to be larger than females. The body is deep, at close to half the SL, with a large head and a maxilla (upper jaw) that extends beyond the front edge of the large eye. The first dorsal fin is tall at up to 40% SL, with the second spine longer than the first; within the anal fin, the third spine is longer than the second. Colour varies from a partly transparent olive-green to a dark brown/green or a golden/yellow, with the lower surfaces generally paler. Scales have a darker edge giving a reticulated pattern, especially on the upper half. The caudal (tail), anal and dorsal fins are dusky with off-white to translucent spines and white to yellow rays; the caudal and anal fins may have a thin reddish or dark margin; pelvic fins are white and the pectoral fins are transparent often with a dark mark at the base of the fin. A. macleayi may be differentiated from other fish of the genus Ambassis by the relatively deep body, high gill raker count, interrupted lateral line and the dark spot at the base of the pectoral fins.
Distribution and habitat
Ambassis macleayi occurs from t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Televisi%C3%B3n%20Nacional%20de%20Chile%20telenovelas | Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) is a Chilean state-owned national television network founded on October 24, 1969. Villa Los Aromos was the first telenovela produced by the network.
1980s
1981
Villa Los Aromos
1982
De cara al mañana
La gran mentira
1983
El Juego de la vida
1984
La represa
La torre 10
1985
Morir de amor
1986
La dama del balcón
La villa
1987
Mi nombre es Lara
1988
Bellas y audaces
Las dos caras del amor
1989
A la sombra del ángel
1990s
1990
El milagro de vivir
1991
Volver a empezar
1992
Trampas y caretas
1993
Jaque Mate
Ámame
1994
Rompecorazón
Rojo y miel
1995
Estúpido Cupido
Juegos de fuego
1996
Sucupira
Loca piel
1997
Oro verde
Tic Tac
1998
Iorana
Borrón y cuenta nueva
1999
La fiera
Aquelarre
2000s
2000
Romané
Santo ladrón
2001
Pampa Ilusión
Amores de mercado
2002
El circo de las Montini
Purasangre
2003
Puertas adentro
16
Pecadores
2004
Los Pincheira
Destinos cruzados
Ídolos
2005
17
Los Capo
Los treinta
Versus
2006
Amor en tiempo récord
Entre medias
Cómplices
Disparejas
Floribella
2007
Corazón de María
Alguien Te Mira
Amor por accidente
Karkú
2008
Viuda Alegre
El Señor de la Querencia
Hijos del Monte
2009
Los exitosos Pells
¿Dónde está Elisa?
Los Ángeles de Estela
Conde Vrolok
2010s
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2019
See also
Televisión Nacional de Chile
List of Canal 13 telenovelas
References
Televisión Nacional de Chile
Telenovelas of Television Nacional de Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Server%202016 | Windows Server 2016 is the eighth release of the Windows Server operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was developed alongside Windows 10 and is the successor to the Windows 8.1-based Windows Server 2012 R2. The first early preview version (Technical Preview) became available on October 1, 2014 together with the first technical preview of System Center. Windows Server 2016 was released on September 26, 2016 at Microsoft's Ignite conference and broadly released for retail sale on October 12, 2016. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2019 and the Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel.
Features
Windows Server 2016 has a variety of new features, including
Active Directory Federation Services: It is possible to configure AD FS to authenticate users stored in non-AD directories, such as X.500 compliant Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories and SQL databases.
Windows Defender: Windows Server Antimalware is installed and enabled by default without the GUI, which is an installable Windows feature.
Remote Desktop Services: Support for OpenGL 4.4 and OpenCL 1.1, performance and stability improvements; MultiPoint Services role (see Windows MultiPoint Server)
Storage Services: Central Storage QoS Policies; Storage Replicas (storage-agnostic, block-level, volume-based, synchronous and asynchronous replication using SMB3 between servers for disaster recovery). Storage Replica replicates blocks instead of files; files can be in use. It's not multi-master, not one-to-many and not transitive. It periodically replicates snapshots, and the replication direction can be changed.
Failover Clustering: Cluster operating system rolling upgrade, Storage Replicas
Web Application Proxy: Preauthentication for HTTP Basic application publishing, wildcard domain publishing of applications, HTTP to HTTPS redirection, Propagation of client IP address to backend applications
IIS 10: Support for HTTP/2
Windows PowerShell 5.1
Windows Server Containers
Networking features
DHCP: As Network Access Protection was deprecated in Windows Server 2012 R2, in Windows Server 2016 the DHCP role no longer supports NAP
DNS:
DNS client: Service binding – enhanced support for computers with more than one network interface
DNS Server: DNS policies, new DDS record types (TLSA, SPF, and unknown records), new PowerShell cmdlets and parameters
Windows Server Gateway now supports Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels
IP address management (IPAM): Support for /31, /32, and /128 subnets; discovery of file-based, domain-joined DNS servers; new DNS functions; better integration of DNS, DHCP, and IP Address (DDI) Management
Network Controller: A new server role to configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot virtual and physical network devices and services in the datacentre
Hyper-V Network virtualization: Programmable Hyper-V switch (a new building block of Microsoft's software-defined networking solution); V |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20populated%20places%20in%20Luxembourg | This is a list of populated places in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. It is based on the official database of the National Administration of Topography (Administration du cadastre et de la topographie - ACT).
Furthermore it provides the Communes and Cantons every settlement is located in.
The Luxembourgish names are based on the names recommended by the National Council for the Luxembourgish Language (Conseil permanent pour la langue luxembourgeoise - CPLL).
Settlement types
The settlement type describes the entity as which a settlement is administered.
The twelve towns of Luxembourg have special legal status and are appointed by law. In general, these are larger settlements of a few thousand people and of regional importance.
Villages are medium-sized settlements of usually a few hundred people. Every settlement classified as "official locality" (localité officielle) in the National Postal Register but not being appointed as town by law is classified as village in this list.
In Luxembourg, villages and towns are signposted by bilingual yellow streetsigns showing the official name (often in French) and the luxembourgish name of the locality.
Lieux-dits are named inhabited places that are smaller than villages and often only have few inhabitants. They might be isolated hamlets or farms that are located outside of villages, but are often administered as part of the nearest locality. In this list, settlements fitting none of the criteria of towns or villages are classified as "lieu-dit".
In Luxembourg, Lieux-dits are signposted by monolingual white streetsigns, showing only the luxembourgish name of the locality.
Populated places in Luxembourg
References
Liste des localités avec coordonnées - data.public.lu
See also
List of cities in Luxembourg
Outline of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
populated places |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma%20Agrawal | Dharma P. Agrawal was a communications scientist who specialised in wireless sensor networks. Since 1998 he has been the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing Systems at the University of Cincinnati. He has published work on wireless sensor networks and ad-hoc computing, and was one of the editors of the Encyclopedia on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing in 2009.
Affiliations and awards
Agrawal was a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to parallel system architecture, interconnection networks and computer arithmetic, the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the World Innovation Foundation.
Agrawal received the Third Millennium Medal of the IEEE Computer Society in 2000, and the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award of the same society in 2008. He was a Fulbright Senior Specialist (2002–2007), and was on the ISI Highly Cited Researcher list in 2001. He received the Hind Rattan of the NRI Welfare Society of India in 2011. In 2013 he was named a charter fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
References
University of Cincinnati faculty
Living people
Fellow Members of the IEEE
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Year of birth missing (living people)
National Institute of Technology, Raipur alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20tracks%20of%202006%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Digital Track Chart ranks the best-performing digital tracks of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collects music data for the weekly ARIA Charts.
To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single not an EP and only paid downloads counted from downloadable outlets.
The First issue counted was week ending 10 April.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
List of number-one singles of 2006 (Australia)
References
Australia Digital Singles
2006 in Australian music
Digital 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopusocial | OctopuSocial is a web application for managing, scheduling and analyzing social networking. It is presented as an alternative for managing social media. Compared to similar applications, it is distinguished by the ability to manage accounts in columnar format, allowing for comments and likes.
History
Developed in Venezuela, the first version was published in 2011 and known as autotuits.com. It was defined as a system for publishing content on Twitter. In April 2014, it became OctopuSocial.com, evolving as a social media platform for programming, management, and analysis for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, including integration with services like Bit.ly, Klout and RSS.
In July 2014, it was named the first social media manager for Latin America by Colombiadigital.net and since then, its presence in Latin America has been noted as an option for the management of social networks.
The project is located at No. 8 in Venezuela and No. 2,587 in the world, according to the application Startup Ranking.
References
External links
Social media companies
Twitter services and applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elachista%20melanura | Elachista melanura is a species of moth in the family Elachistidae. This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.
Taxonomy
This species was originally described by Edward Meyrick in 1889 using a female specimen collected in Hamilton in January. Hudson discussed this species in his 1928 publication The Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand. The holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.
Description
Meyrick described the species as follows:
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. Other than its type locality, this species has also been collected in Titirangi in February 2000.
Habitat
The type specimen was collected in heath-like scrub and swamp habitat. It has also been collected in gumland and pakihi (a type of wetland).
Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
References
Moths described in 1889
melanura
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prakash%20Panangaden | Prakash Panangaden is an American/Canadian computer scientist noted for
his research in programming language theory, concurrency theory, Markov processes and duality theory.
Earlier he worked on quantum field theory in curved space-time and radiation from black holes.
He is the founding Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM SIGLOG).
Biography
Prakash Panangaden was born in Pune, India on March 11, 1954. He attended school at the Calcutta Boys' School, Kolkata. He received a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee under the supervision of Leonard Parker.
His PhD thesis was on renormalization of interacting fields in curved spacetime.
Prakash has successfully graduated 19 students and has in total 41 academic descendants, 8 of whom are women.
He joined the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University in 1985 as an Assistant
Professor, where he worked in the Nuprl project and co-authored a book. He moved to McGill University as an associate professor in the School of Computer Science
in 1990 and was promoted to professor in 1996.
He has been keynote speaker at many conferences, including the two top conferences in the field – LICS and ICALP.
Awards
In 2017, the Test-of-Time Award Committee consisting of Christel Baier, Amy Felty (chair), Andrew Pitts and Nicole Schweikardt chose the paper Bisimulation for Labelled Markov Processes (by Richard Blute, Josee Desharnais, Abbas Edalat, Prakash Panangaden) as one of two papers from LICS 1997 that has had the most impact in the 20 years since its publication. In 2013 Prakash Panagaden was elected a FRSC.
His citation reads:
"Prakash Panangaden's research career has spanned computer science, mathematics and physics.
He has worked on programming languages, probabilistic systems, quantum computation and relativity.
He is particularly known for deep connections between domain theory and continuous-state Markov processes
where he and his colleagues proved a striking logical characterization theorem. He and Keye Martin discovered
a remarkable way to reconstruct spacetime topology from causal structure using mathematical
ideas from programming languages."
He was honoured on his 60th birthday by his research community. There was a three-day symposium, called PrakashFest, held at Oxford University
and a Festschrift was published by Springer-Verlag.
The summary of the Festschrift reads:
"This Festschrift volume contains papers presented at a conference, Prakash Fest, held in honor of Prakash Panangaden, in Oxford, UK, in May 2014, to celebrate his 60th birthday.
Prakash Panangaden has worked on a large variety of topics including probabilistic and concurrent computation, logics and duality and quantum information and computation.
Despite the enormous breadth of his research, he has made significant and deep contributions. For example, he introduced logic and a real-valued interpretation of the logic to
capture equivalence of probabilistic processes qu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20Hendren | Laurie Hendren (December 13, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for her research in programming languages and compilers.
Biography
Hendren received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from Queen's University, Kingston in 1982 and 1984 respectively. She received a Ph.D in computer science from Cornell University in 1990.
She then joined the School of Computer Science at the McGill University as an assistant professor in 1990. While there she was promoted to associate professor in 1995 and full professor in 2001. She also served as Associate Dean (Academic) for the Faculty of Science at McGill University from 2005 to 2014. In 2014, she became the 5 of diamonds in the Notable Women of Computing card deck.
Awards and notable achievements
Hendren was awarded the Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Science at McGill University for the academic year 2006–2007. She was made an ACM Fellow in 2009, awarded a Canada Research Chair in 2011, and elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012.
Hendren was the programming languages area editor of the Association for Computing Machinery books series and has been the program chair of the Association for Computing Machinery SIGPLAN Programming Language Design and Implementation Conference.
In 2019, Hendren was awarded the senior AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize, but died before the ECOOP conference at which the prize is usually awarded. It was thus awarded posthumously.
Research projects
Hendren has led or co-led several big open source research projects at McGill University. These are:
Soot: a framework for analyzing and transforming Java and Android Applications
SableVM: an open implementation of a Java virtual machine
abc: the AspectBench Compiler for AspectJ
McLab: compiler tools for array-based languages
HIG: health informatics research for radiation oncology
References
External links
McGill University: Laurie Hendren, School of Computer Science
Blog: Flat-chested warriors blog about breast cancer and the Goldilocks Mastectomy
Papers and citations: Google Scholar Profile for Laurie J. Hendren
1958 births
2019 deaths
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Cornell University alumni
Academic staff of McGill University
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