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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off%20the%20Record%20%28TV%20series%29 | Off the Record is a comedy television series that aired on the DuMont Television Network in October 1948.
Broadcast history
The show, slated to air Tuesdays at 7pm ET, and starring Zero Mostel and Joey Faye, only lasted two episodes, October 19 and October 26, 1948. Mostel claimed he had been promised a live audience, but the available studio was too small to hold an audience. The setting was a radio station, a set at the Wanamaker Studios.
The 1948 show is not to be confused with a 15-minute show in 1951–52, also called Off the Record, aired from DuMont station WTTG in Washington, DC. This latter show, hosted by Art Lamb and Aletha Agee, featured singers lip-synching to current pop songs, and is on YouTube.
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
1948-49 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
screengrab of Zero Mostel and Joey Faye on Off the Record (1948)
DuMont Television Network original programming
1948 American television series debuts
1948 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20capacity | Storage capacity can refer to
Thermal electric capacity mostly referring to solar power plants
Energy storage capacity
Depression storage capacity, in soil science
Computer data storage capacity, in computing
Native capacity, the apparent storage capacity may differ due to compression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizal%20Memorial%20Colleges%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | Rizal Memorial Colleges Broadcasting Corporation (RMCBC) is a Philippine radio network. Its main headquarters is located at Door 1C, Anda Corporate Center, F. Inigo St., Davao City. RMCBC operates a number of stations across places in Mindanao and Visayas.
Radyo ni Juan
Radyo ni Juan was the flagship network of RMCBC from 2012 to 2020, a couple of months after its founder Dodong Solis died. Radyo ni Juan Tacurong is the sole station carrying the brand with independent programming, while most of its other stations were relaunched under different management.
RMCBC Stations
AM Stations
FM Stations
Power Radio/Max FM
The following stations are operated by Christian Media Management.
Other Brands
Defunct Station
References
Radio stations in the Philippines
Mass media companies established in 1966
Philippine radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%20Excite | Excite is an Android based line of tablet computers released in 2013 and designed by Toshiba Corporation.
Excite tablets run on Android Jelly Bean and include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, Micro-USB and a MicroSD card slot. As of 2015, there were two models, the 7c and the Go, the later having a slimmer form factor designed for better single hand use. Reception for the Excite has been mixed, with criticism of the low 1024×600 resolution display, and praise for its build quality, performance and price.
References
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers
Toshiba brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%20test | Rayleigh test can refer to :
a test for periodicity in irregularly sampled data.
a derivation of the above to test for non-uniformity (as unimodal clustering) of a set of points on a circle (eg compass directions). Sometimes known as the Rayleigh z test.
See also
Circular distribution
Directional statistics
Kuiper's test
Rayleigh distribution
Watson test
Rayleigh plot
References
External links
A test for the significance of the mean direction and the concentration parameter of a circular distribution.
Rao's spacing test - contrasted with Rayleigh test
Theory of probability distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Woz%20Machine | The Integrated Woz Machine (or IWM for short) is a single-chip version of the floppy disk controller for the Apple II. It was also employed in Macintosh computers.
History
When developing a floppy drive for the Apple II, Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak felt that the existing models available on the market were too complicated, expensive and inefficient. Rather than use the existing floppy drives from Shugart Associates, Wozniak decided to use the drive mechanism – but develop his own electronics separately for the both drive and the controller.
Wozniak successfully came up with a working floppy drive with a greatly reduced number of electronic components. Instead of storing 8–10 sectors (each holding 256 bytes of data) per track on a 5.25-inch floppy disk — something standard at that time, Wozniak utilized group-coded recording (GCR), and with 5-and-3 encoding he managed to squeeze as many as 13 sectors on each track using the same mechanics and the same storage medium. In a later revision, this number was bumped up to 16 sectors per track with 6-and-2 encoding.
The floppy drive controller board, the "Disk II interface," was built with 8 ICs, one of which is the PROM, containing tables for the encoder and decoder, the state machine, and some code.
To make it easier to move the controller onto the main board, as in the Apple IIc, Apple IIGS, and Macintosh, Dr. Wendell Sander integrated all these components into one single chip—the IWM.
Application and updates
The IWM is essentially a disk controller on one IC. It was employed in the Apple IIc, and later Apple IIGS, the Apple Lisa 2/10, and all Mac models up to the Macintosh II. Later, an extended version, known as SWIM (Sander-Wozniak Integrated Machine), was introduced. This new version added the capability of reading and writing FM- and MFM-formatted (PC-formatted) floppy disks. In later Mac models, more and more peripheral components were added to the SWIM, until Apple finally phased out floppy drives from the Macs. The floppy controller function still stayed in the chipset for a while, even though the provision of floppy drives for the Macs had already ceased. For instance, the first iMacs still had a floppy drive connector on the motherboard, allowing a floppy drive to be retrofitted by knowledgeable enthusiasts.
See also
Paula (Commodore Amiga)
References
Further reading
Apple Inc. hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore%20Internet%20Exchange | The Singapore Internet Exchange (SGIX) is an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) with PoPs in major Data Centers within Singapore having around 90 peering members. The exchange was founded on 30 September 2009 as a company limited by guarantee in Singapore.
See also
List of Internet exchange points
References
External links
Official website
Traffic statistics
Internet exchange points in Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Flush%20Poker | Full Flush Poker was the flagship online poker operator on the Equity Poker Network, beginning operation in September 2013. The network is operated from the online gambling friendly country of Costa Rica and held a license issued by the Curaçao Gaming and Licensing Commission. Full Flush Poker allowed players from the United States.
Full Flush Poker ceased operation in October 2016.
References
Internet properties established in 2013
Internet properties disestablished in 2016
Gambling companies established in 2013
Gambling companies disestablished in 2016
Defunct poker companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapsnake | Tapsnake is a scareware scam involving coercion to buy protection from a non-existent computer virus that has been distributed in various ways.
It was offered as a game, malware/spyware included transmitting sundry information, particularly GPS location information to unauthorized third parties.
The name Tapsnake comes from the computer game Snaker, which has been revised such that the 'snake' responds to touchscreen taps by the user. The game is the front end of a trojan, spyware. An unsuspecting mobile device user is persuaded to load the "fun, free app," and then the person who wishes to monitor their movements must load a version which enables reception of location reports at 15-minute intervals.
The most recent incarnation is enabled by activating a pop-up ad on an otherwise innocuous website. The user then receives dire warnings as to what the virus may do to them, is offered protection at a price via download (to a mobile device), and is promised increased speed and performance as an additional perk. Android seems to be the operating system most targeted, though iOS attacks are also threatened. The actual game and embedded spyware do not seem to be present at all in this scenario, except in the form of a threat. Blog-advisors seem to agree that the safest course of action is to simply close the advert, 'clicking' on as few things as possible. The intent is to coerce to defraud, in this instance, and not to monitor movement.
References
Scareware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DE-CIX%20Palermo | DE-CIX Palermo, is a carrier and data center-neutral internet exchange point (IX or IXP) in Palermo, Italy, founded in 2015 by DE-CIX.
The exchange is located in the carrier-neutral "Sicily Hub", TI Sparkle's (Telecom Italia) data center in Palermo.
See also
List of Internet exchange points
Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange
References
Internet exchange points in Italy
Telecommunications in Italy
Internet in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20previous%20Days%20of%20Our%20Lives%20cast%20members | This is a list of previous cast members from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network.
Previous cast members
See also
List of Days of Our Lives cast members
References
Days of our Lives
Cast members |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore%20Open%20Exchange | The Singapore Open Exchange (SOX) is an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) situated in Singapore. It was established on 3 September 2001. SOX is a non-profit, neutral, and independent peering network.
Members
SOX has 29 members:
See also
List of Internet exchange points
External links
Official website
References
Internet exchange points in Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20Policy%20Forum | The Alaska Policy Forum (APF) is a conservative, nonprofit think tank located in Anchorage, Alaska. The Alaska Policy Forum is a member of the State Policy Network.
History
APF was started in 2009 and received Internal Revenue Service 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. In 2014, the group was entirely volunteer-run with no paid employees. Members of the AFP's board have included Nick Begich III, the grandson of former Representative Nick Begich and a candidate for Alaska's at-large congressional district in 2022.
Policy areas
APF conducts and publishes research on education, taxes, health care, welfare, regulations, and state budget in Alaska. The group is active in education policy and is a proponent for increased school choice. The organization compiles and publishes the Performance Evaluation for Alaska's Schools (PEAKS) Assessment results.
APF is most well known for publishing public sector payroll data.
Funding
According to the organization's website, Alaska Policy Forum does not accept government funding or grants, but instead relies on donations from individuals and businesses. The Alaska Policy Forum was started with support from Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust, two related donor-advised funds. The Alaska Policy Forum received $192,000 from Donors Trust in 2009 and 2010.
References
2009 establishments in Alaska
Conservative organizations in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Anchorage, Alaska
Political and economic think tanks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USens | uSens, Inc. is a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2014 in San Jose, California. The company's core team includes researchers and developers building interactive and immersive computer-vision tracking solutions. The team has extensive experience in artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, 3D Human–computer interaction (HCI) technology and augmented reality and virtual reality. uSens has been applying computer vision and AI technologies in AR/VR, Automotive and smartphones.
uSens has its corporate headquarters in San Jose, California, with additional offices in China in Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shenzhen.
History
The co-founder of uSens, Dr. Yue Fei, is a researcher in the field of 3D user interfaces and virtual reality who earned his PhD from Rice University in Space Physics.
uSens has developed products in the area of HCI, such as the Fingo Virtual Touch, selling in China. Fingo Virtual Touch uses the company's patented Fingo technology. Fingo is the hardware and software that uSens has developed to allow a user to interact with a digital interface, like a smart TV without the need to touch any surface; it can sense finger movements and hand gestures. It consists of a small sensor and a set of software algorithms that automatically “sense” and translate hand gestures into movements onscreen.
In March 2015, the company launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a VR/AR hardware product, reaching its initial funding goal within a few days. In February 2017, uSens announced that it would refund all Kickstarter backers.
uSens announced a $20 million Series A funding round in June 2016 led by Fosun Kinzon Capital. Additional participants included returning investor Maison Capital, joined by new investors Great Capital, Fortune Capital, Oriental Fortune Capital, iResearch Capital, Chord Capital, and ARM Innovation Ecosystem Accelerator. The company previously received a pre-Series A investment of $5.5 million from co-led by IDG Ventures, Lebox Capital and Maison Capital.
See also
Augmented reality
Gesture recognition
Mixed reality
Motion capture
Virtual reality
References
External links
Mixed reality
Virtual reality companies
Augmented reality
Gesture recognition
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Internet%20Exchange | The Vienna Internet Exchange (VIX) is an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) situated in Vienna, Austria. It was established in 1996. VIX is a non-profit, neutral, and independent peering network.
VIX is the largest Internet Exchange Point in Austria, when measured by number of members and traffic.
History
The Vienna Internet Exchangepoint hosted the 11th Euro-IX Forum, held 12–13 November 2007.
See also
List of Internet exchange points
References
External links
Official website
Traffic statistics
Internet exchange points in Austria
Internet in Austria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essel%20Vision%20Productions | Essel Vision Productions is an Indian company which produces Indian soap operas, reality TV, comedy, game shows, entertainment and factual programming in several Indian languages.
Essel Vision is promoted by Subhash Chandra and is a private company. Its most successful works till date include Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and Dance India Dance.
Present shows
Past shows
2012 Fear Files: Darr Ki Sacchi Tasvirein
2018 Love Me India
2013 Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi
2014 Gangs of Haseepur
2014 Maharakshak: Aryan
2020 Starika
2009 Dance India Dance (season 1)
2010 Dance India Dance (season 2)
2012 Dance India Dance (season 3)
2014 Dance India Dance (season 4)
2012 Dance India Dance Li'l Masters (season 1)
2013 Dance India Dance Li'l Masters (season 2)
2014 Dance India Dance Li'l Masters (season 3)
1995 Sa Re Ga Ma
1996 Sa Re Ga Ma
1997 Sa Re Ga Ma
1999 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa
2000 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa
2005 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005
2006 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Ek Main Aur Ek Tu
2007 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007
2007 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs International
2009 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009
2009 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2009
2010 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar
2011 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs
2012 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2012
2021 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Sapno Ki Shuruwaat
2020 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2020
2019 Gudiya Hamari Sabhi Pe Bhari
2019 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Keralam
2013 Dance India Dance Super Moms season 1
2014 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2014-2015
2015 Maharakshak Devi
2015 Dance India Dance Super Moms season 2
2019 Ishq Subhan Allah
2017 Yaaradi Nee Mohini (TV series)
2016 Lattu Nanga Hogaya
2019 Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni
2019 Netaji (2019 TV series)
2019 Dance India Dance
2018 Dance Kerala Dance
2011 Classic Legends
2018 Main Bhi Ardhangini
References
External links
Official Website
Film production companies based in Mumbai
Television production companies of India
Indian companies established in 1995
Essel Group
Producers who won the Best Children's Film National Film Award
1995 establishments in Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%20CICS | Command CICS or Command-CICS is a software product that allows organizations to migrate from "Macro level" CICS to "Command level" CICS without any re-programming so that companies could migrate to later versions of CICS that did not support macro level application programs. The later versions of CICS offered many advantages over previous versions yet tens of thousands of application programs were effectively locked out of the new version unless they were prepared to operate two completely different versions of CICS on the same Operating Systems, creating both operational and maintenance problems. Two different, simultaneous, CICS Licenses were also required.
History
When CICS was first released by IBM in the late 1960s, it used IBM Assembler macros to generate the API system calls to the CICS teleprocessing monitor kernel. This was also true even if programs were written in COBOL or PL/1. Ken Dakin an independent programmer and CEO of APT Ltd. in the U.K., realized that by creating a middleware product, the problem could be solved for almost all situations. Ken Dakin approached IBM to market his product but received no interest at the time, despite the fact that tens of thousands of their clients application programs would need to be converted or rewritten for the new versions of CICS, costing many millions of dollars.
Macro level emulation
Command-CICS intercepted macro level applications via a Link-edited (static) "stub" positioned ahead of the Load module (MVS) or Phase (DOS/VSE). On gaining control from the CICS Program Control Program (PCP), a "pseudo macro level" environment was established consisting of a pointer to a (unique) pseudo "Common System Area" (CSA), a pointer to a Transaction Control Area plus Transaction Work Area (TCA+TWA) and a pseudo Terminal Control Terminal Entry (TCTTE) and other artifacts of a macro level environment. Before passing control directly to the original program entry point, Command-CICS set up the actual general purpose registers, R13 and R12 to point to the pseudo control blocks.
The CSA was the principal control block holding pointers to the CICS kernel programs (File Control Program, Storage Control Program etc.) in a real macro level CICS environment.
The Command-CICS CSA had alternative pointers to Command-CICS entry points instead. It was possible to use CEDF to debug the application program calls when Command-CICS was used.
Macro interface
The application program proceeded to execute normal machine code instructions right up to its first macro level API call, thus adding zero overhead to the program until that point. As soon as the API call left the application program, Command-CICS code would gain control and replace the original linkage with its own, equivalent, Command-level call.
In original earlier command level CICS versions (that supported both Macro and Command level programs), the CICS "Exec Interface Program" (DFHEIP) converted the Command level call to an 'actual macro level call. This |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punya%20Prasun%20Bajpai | Punya Prasun Bajpai (born 18 March 1963) is an Indian journalist. He has worked at several news networks in his career, including Aaj Tak, where he hosted the weekday show known as 10 तक, and ABP News, where he hosted Masterstroke for four months in 2018.
Bajpai is a well-known name in the field of electronic media, with more than 29 years of experience in electronic and print media. Bajpai has worked with various reputed media agencies such as Jansatta, Sunday Observer, Sunday Mail, Lokmat, Zee News and NDTV.
Early life
He was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. His father is the late Manikant Bajpai, who was an IIS (Indian Information Service) officer. He did his schooling at Muzaffarpur High School.
Career
Bajpai started his career in the electronic media with Aaj Tak in 1996 and worked there until 2003. He then moved to NDTV for a tenure of fourteen months. In 2007–2008, he was Editor-in-Chief of Sahara Samay. He worked at Zee News for four years as a prime-time anchor and editor before returning to Aaj Tak. Bajpai began hosting Masterstroke on ABP News in April, but he resigned four months later on 1 August 2018, due to alleged political pressure on the news channel. In February 2019, he joined Surya Samachar as Editor-in-Chief, where he also hosted the shows Jai Hind and Satta. Recently he gave up Surya Samachar.
In 2015, Bajpai was one of the ten most active Indian journalists on Twitter.
Since 2019, he runs his own news channel on Youtube.
Publications
Bajpai has published six books, including राजनीति मेरी जान (Raajneeti Meri Jaan), डिजास्टरः मीडिया एंड पॉलिटिक्स (Disaster: Media and Politics), संसदः लोकतंत्र या नजरों का धोखा (Sansad: Loktantra ya nazron ka dhokha), आदिवासियों पर टाडा (Aadivasiyon par TADA), R.S.S. Sangh Ka Safar: 100 varsh and others. He writes articles for a number of daily and weekly news and literary publications in Hindi, several of which are also published on his blog.
Awards
He received recognition of his work during the 2001 Indian Parliament attack when he anchored live for five consecutive hours.
He won the Ramnath Goenka award for Hindi print and electronic media in 2005–06 and 2007–08. He is the only journalist to have received this award in TV and print twice.
Controversy
In March 2014 in a leaked video of interview with Arvind Kejriwal, Punya Prasun Bajpai was seen getting instructions from Arvind Kejriwal on promoting his interview by comparing his resignation to the sacrifice of Bhagat Singh and dropping a certain portion of interview on privatization of industries which would portray him anti-middle class. Later, when the interview was telecasted it was found that Punya Prasun Bajpai had actually complied to the instructions and raised questions on his journalistic integrity and ethics. This controversy was called "media fixing" at that time.
Bajpai hosted a prime-time show on ABP News called Masterstroke. In July 2018, the channel elicited criticism from the government for its story about a video |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi%20Sumeet%20Productions | Shashi Sumeet Productions Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian company founded by Shashi Mittal and Sumeet Hukamchand Mittal which produces Indian soap operas, entertainment and reality programming on Indian television. Some of its notable works include: Diya Aur Baati Hum, Punar Vivah, Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai, Barrister Babu, Meet: Badlegi Duniya Ki Reet, Dhruv Tara – Samay Sadi Se Pare.
Current productions
Former productions
Soap operas
Reality shows
References
Television production companies of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4D%20reconstruction | In computer vision and computer graphics, 4D reconstruction is the process of capturing the shape and appearance of real objects along a temporal dimension. This process can be accomplished by methods such as depth camera imaging, photometric stereo, or structure from motion, and is also referred to as spatio-temporal reconstruction.
See also
3D reconstruction
Free viewpoint television
Structure from motion
Volumetric video
References
External links
c-Space: 4D Reconstruction from pictures and videos
Computer graphics
3D imaging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VicRail%20R%20type%20carriage | The R type carriages were a series of locomotive-hauled carriages proposed to be built for the Victorian country rail network in the early and mid 1980s.
Early plans indicated a build of at least six four-carriage sets for high speed services on the Albury, Bairnsdale, Mildura and Swan Hill lines.
Background
Alan Reiher, the newly minted Chairman of the Victorian Railways Board, had in mind the Spanish Talgo cars, which featured a very low centre of gravity. In April 1982, Les Rolls, a former chief mechanical engineer of the Victorian Railways, and John Hearsch, the then-current Group Manager for Country Passenger Services, travelled overseas to investigate trends and developments in high speed passenger rail services. The international tour looked at the Talgo vehicles, as well as the British Rail Mark 3 coaches and the French SNCF Corail cars, which all had features of interest. The Spanish and French cars were both significantly outside the Victorian loading gauge, and they could not easily be reduced in size. The British coaches were very close to local requirements, requiring relatively simple changes to the coupler heights, replacement of the outward-opening doors and a better air conditioning system to suit Australian climate conditions. However, British Rail advised that they could not begin construction of the Victorian cars for a few years due to a backlog of existing orders.
Design
Due to the projected delay, in early 1983 Comeng's plant in Dandenong was awarded a contract from VicRail to develop concepts for the proposed country carriages.
Reiher's preference for a low centre of gravity inspired the use of a lower carriage profile overall. To allow for this, the air conditioning units were to be mounted under the floor, with cooled air pumped up through body side pillars and entering the carriage saloon through vents above the carriage racks. To ensure the minimum possible weight the cars were to be constructed with low-grade 3CR12 stainless steel, which used chromium in place of nickel and molybdenum, and is created with very fine particles making for better welding properties. Comeng had no experience with 3CR12, so experiments were undertaken to develop acceptable methods of spot and arc welding, as well as finding a suitable painting method. The steel panels were going to be rolled by Lysaghts. Also to save weight, the cars were to use head end power in lieu of fitting underfloor diesel alternator sets or belt-driven generators, as had been applied to earlier vehicles.
Early artwork for the cars reflected the low-slung body, mostly unpainted stainless steel with orange bands on the roof and below platform level, and doors in all four corners. Later artwork by Comeng's artist Phil Belbin, essentially reflected a repainted XPT carriage - with a full height body, a single vestibule with access doors at one end of each carriage, and ten windows per side.
A full-size mockup of a section of the carriage design was constructed at N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPCL | The term OpenPCL may refer to:
OpenPCL, a SourceForge hosted open source project for a computer program that can read and display Printer Command Language (PCL) data sets, as normally intended for use with 2D printers.
The self declared open Point Cloud Library (PCL) project, a software project that aims displaying various 3D data sets. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions%20on%20geographic%20data%20in%20China | Under Chinese law, the use of geographic information in the People's Republic of China is restricted to entities that have special authorization from the administrative department for surveying and mapping under the State Council. Consequences of the restriction include fines for unauthorized surveys, lack of geotagging information on many cameras when the GPS chip detects a location within China, incorrect alignment of street maps with satellite maps in various applications, and the criminalization of crowdsourced mapping efforts such as OpenStreetMap.
Chinese lawmakers said that these restrictions are to "safeguard the security of China's geographic information". Song Chaozhi, an official of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, said "foreign organizations who wish to carry out mapping or surveying work within China must make clear that they will not touch upon state secrets or endanger state security". Critics outside of China point out that the laws close critical sectors of the Chinese economy to foreign companies, and assist with cracking down on dissent.
Legislation
Surveying
According to articles 7, 26, 40 and 42 of the Surveying and Mapping Law of the People's Republic of China, private surveying and mapping activities have been illegal in mainland China since 2002. The law prohibits
Article 1 says:
Fines range from 10,000 to 500,000 CNY ($ – $ USD). Foreign individuals or organizations that wish to conduct surveying must form a Chinese-foreign joint venture.
Between 2006 and 2011, the authorities pursued around 40 illegal cases of mapping and surveying. The media has reported on other cases of unlawful surveys:
March 7, 2007 - Japanese and Korean scholars fined; joint-venture Weihai hired foreign surveyors without approval from the government
March 25, 2008 - China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping cracks down on some of the 10,000 websites that publish maps in China, most without authorization.
January 6, 2009 - Chinese authorities fine UK students for “illegal map-making activities”.
2010 - Chinese authorities to crack down on the unregistered or illegal among 42,000 online map providers, targeting incorrect information and leaks of sensitive information involving state secrets. New standards require all Internet map providers to keep servers storing map data inside China.
March 14, 2014 - Coca-Cola is accused of illegal mapping.
As a consequence, major digital camera manufacturers including Panasonic, Leica, FujiFilm, Nikon and Samsung restrict location information within China.
OpenStreetMap, the crowdsourced project to assemble a map of the world, advises that "private surveying and mapping activities are illegal in China".
Map content
Chinese law and regulations also rule on the contents of any published map:
The 公开地图内容表示若干规定 ("some rules on the content presentation of public maps") of 2003 by the Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (BSM) prohibits the representation of sensitive information such as airpor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexpedia | Sexpedia () was a 2015 Hong Kong romantic comedy television series produced by Hong Kong Television Network. The first episode premiered on 13 April 2015.
Over a year after the series was released, rival television station TVB released a similarly themed series, Come with Me, on its online streaming platform.
Cast
Jason Chan as Dicky Ko Tik, an IT technician suffering from erectile dysfunction
Joman Chiang as Kuk Choi-yi, a sex toy salesperson
Jan Tse as Dr Selina Mok Chui-lin, a sex therapist who occasionally acts as a narrator to convey knowledge about sex to the audience
Alan Luk as Moses Ng
Maggie Wong as Milk Ng
Zeno Koo as Joe Ng
Calvin Lui as Daniel
Cherry Pau as Cheung Chin-chin, a registered nurse
Rachel Lam as Ho Siu-cho, an airline hostess
Kwok Fung as Kuk Choi-yi's father
Tong Chun-ming as Nelson, a crossdresser and Selina's husband
Casper Chan as Toby, a friend of Cheung Chin-chin
Pancy Chan as Sharon
Luvin Ho as Peggy
Anita Kwan as Elaine
Jacky Yeung as Wallace
Danel Yu as Cathy, episode 1 and 12
Franco Chan as Mr. Cho, episode 2
Eunice Ho as Cheung Lai-fong, episode 2
Eddie Li as Sunny with premature ejaculation, episode 4
Karen Lee as Monica, episode 4
Homan Ho as Mr. Ho, episode 6
Janice Ting as Mrs. Ho, episode 6
Leila Tong as herself portraying as Ting Siu-hoi from The Borderline, guest star episode 8
Lawrence Chou as himself portraying as Choi Ying-yeung from The Borderline, guest star episode 8
Candy Chu as Sa Sa who is into sadomasochism, episode 8
Brian Wong as Sa Sa's boyfriend, episode 8
Nick Chong as Jing, episode 10
Release
A 10-minute preview was released on HKTV's YouTube channel on 1 April 2015.
References
Hong Kong Television Network original programming
2015 Hong Kong television series debuts
2010s Hong Kong television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kbox | Kbox or K-box may refer to:
Products
kBox, an exercise device
K-box, an audio speaker
KBox, a brand of computer products by KACE Networks; See List of products based on FreeBSD
Radio stations
KBOX, a Lompoc, California, US radio station
KNGO, a radio station (1480 AM) licensed to serve Dallas, Texas, United States, which held the call sign KBOX from 1958 to 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt%20Sports%20Network | The Vanderbilt IMG Sports Network, also known as the Commodore Radio Network, is the sports radio network for the Vanderbilt Commodores, the athletic programs of Vanderbilt University. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, the network consists of 10 radio stations in Middle Tennessee, and one in Kentucky.
There is no television division of this network, but Vanderbilt Commodores fans worldwide can listen to coaches shows and game events on Vanderbilt Access at the athletic department's website. IMG College has been operating the Vanderbilt Sports network since 2000.
Since 2012, WLAC, known on air as "NewsRadio 1510," is the Nashville area home (and flagship station) of Vanderbilt sports programming. Because that station is a 50,000 clear-channel AM station, Vanderbilt's night-time games can be heard in most of the eastern United States and parts of southeastern Canada. WSM, the other clear-channel station in Nashville, previously served as the network's flagship from the 1950s through 2012. WLAC took over as flagship station two years after losing rival Vol Network's broadcasts of Tennessee Volunteers basketball and football games to WGFX-FM.
Radio affiliates
Current affiliates
Tennessee
Kentucky
Former affiliates
Ashland City, TN -- WQSV AM 790
Benton, Kentucky -- WCBL-FM
Chattanooga, TN -- WDOD (defunct)
Clarksville, TN -- WJZM AM 1400
Gallatin, TN (Nashville) -- WGFX FM 104.5
Nashville -- WSM AM 650 (195?-2012)
West Memphis, Arkansas (Memphis, TN) -- KWAM
Winchester, TN -- WCDT
References
External links
Vanderbilt Commodores - Official Site
College football on the radio
College basketball on the radio in the United States
Vanderbilt Commodores
Vanderbilt University
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilltopper%20Sports%20Network | The Hilltopper Sports Network is the regional sports radio network for the Western Kentucky University's Hilltoppers and Lady Toppers. Headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the network provides coverage of WKU's athletic teams football, men's and women's basketball. Some select affiliates also clears WKU Men's Baseball games. The network boasts the second-largest radio network in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, behind only their main competitor, the UK IMG Sports Network.
WKYU-TV, the university-owned PBS member station, is the sole television affiliate that broadcasts WKU's televised coaches shows, along with some of WKU's sporting events, including those that originate from Sinclair Broadcasting-owned Stadium. In addition, some men's and women's basketball games are presented by WKYU with the Fox College Sports cablecast of the game, with the radio network's audio, broadcasting under the branding, "Hilltopper Sports Satellite Network."
Radio affiliates
Former affiliates
Bardstown -- WBRT AM 1340 (2005-200?)
Bowling Green -- WBGN AM 1340 (1950?-199?) original flagship station
Brandenburg -- WMMG-AM/FM 1140AM/103.5FM (WMMG-AM went defunct defunct)
Columbia -- WAIN AM 1270 (2005-200?)
Elizabethtown -- WQXE FM (1969-197?)
Glasgow -- WCLU AM 1490 (196?-198?)
Morgantown -- WLBQ AM 1570 (1994-2005)
Lewisport/Owensboro -- WLME 102.7
Princeton -- WPKY AM 1580
See also
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers and Lady Toppers
WKYU-TV
Hilltopper Sports Satellite Network
References
External links
WKU Athletics Official Website
Western Kentucky University
Sports radio networks in the United States
Sports in Bowling Green, Kentucky
College basketball on the radio in the United States
College football on the radio
Learfield IMG College sports radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogue%20%28video%20game%29 | Brogue is a free roguelike computer video game created by Brian Walker. As in its predecessor Rogue, the goal of Brogue is for the player (represented by the character @) to descend to the 26th floor of the Dungeons of Doom, retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, and return to the surface. Players also have the option of delving deeper into the dungeon to obtain a higher score. This task is complicated by the presence of monsters and traps in a procedurally generated dungeon.
Development started in 2009, with the latest version, 1.7.5, being released on September 25, 2018. Brogue'''s interface, design and character graphics have been praised for their simplicity and beauty.
Further development of Brogue has taken place under the name Brogue Community Edition or Brogue CE, with multiple contributors. As of October 2023, the latest version of Brogue CE is 1.13.
Reception IndieGames.coms Cassandra Khaw called Brogue "beautiful and accessible." PC Gamers Graham Smith compared it favorably with The Binding of Isaac, Dungeons of Dredmor and Spelunky; saying "[i]f [...] you want to start swimming to the deeper end of the pool [of roguelikes], Brogue is your waterwings". Rock Paper Shotguns Graham Smith ranked the interface alongside Papers, Please, Democracy 3, and Elite: Dangerous'', citing "using old-fashioned ASCII [...] with a set of effects that make the world colourful and alive".
References
External links
2009 video games
Linux games
MacOS games
Roguelike video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games using procedural generation
Windows games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P4%20%28programming%20language%29 | P4 is a programming language for controlling packet forwarding planes in networking devices, such as routers and switches. In contrast to a general purpose language such as C or Python, P4 is a domain-specific language with a number of constructs optimized for network data forwarding. P4 is distributed as open-source, permissively licensed code, and is maintained by the P4 Project (formerly the P4 Language Consortium), a not-for-profit organization hosted by the Open Networking Foundation.
History
P4 was originally described in a 2014 SIGCOMM CCR paper titled “Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors”—the alliterative name shortens to "P4". The first P4 workshop took place in June 2015 at Stanford University. An updated specification of P4, called P4-16, was released between 2016 and 2017, replacing P4-14, the original specification of P4.
Design
As the language is specifically targeted at packet forwarding applications, the list of requirements or design choices is somewhat specific to those use cases. The language is designed to meet several goals:
Target independence
P4 programs are designed to be implementation-independent: they can be compiled against many different types of execution machines such as general-purpose CPUs, FPGAs, system(s)-on-chip, network processors, and ASICs. These different types of machines are known as P4 targets, and each target must be provided along with a compiler that maps the P4 source code into a target switch model. The compiler may be embedded in the target device, an externally running software, or even a cloud service. As many of the initial targets for P4 programs were used for simple packet switching it is very common to hear the term "P4 switch" used, even though "P4 target" is more formally correct.
Protocol independence
P4 is designed to be protocol-independent: the language has no native support for even common protocols such as IP, Ethernet, TCP, VxLAN, or MPLS. Instead, the P4 programmer describes the header formats and field names of the required protocols in the program, which are in turn interpreted and processed by the compiled program and target device.
Reconfigurability
Protocol independence and the abstract language model allow for reconfigurability–P4 targets should be able to change the way they process packets (perhaps multiple times) after they are deployed. This capability is traditionally associated with forwarding planes built on general-purpose CPUs or network processors, rather than the fixed function ASICs. Although within the language there is nothing to prevent a given target from optimizing around a certain set of protocols, these optimizations are invisible to the language author and may ultimately reduce the system's flexibility and reconfigurability goals.
Components
P4 programs typically have the following components:
Parsing logic
P4 allows the specification of custom packet header parsing logic including but not limited to parsing typical headers used |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liestiadi | Liestiadi (born 14 October 1968) is an Indonesian former football player. He currently coached for Liga 2 club Sriwijaya.
Personal life
Before getting into coaching, he was a computer teacher in SMA Sutomo in Medan. He holds a Bachelor of Information Technology degree from Institut Teknologi TD Pardede.
Coaching career
During his time at Arema as Robert Alberts assistant, he won the 2009–10 Indonesia Super League. He was appointed as the assistant for the Indonesia national football team in 2011 and also for several youth national teams.
On 26 November 2014, he signed with Gresik United to coach them for the 2015 Indonesia Super League.
Since 2008, he holds the AFC A coaching licence.
References
External links
Profile at scoreway.com
1968 births
Living people
Indonesian men's footballers
Indonesian people of Chinese descent
Indonesian football managers
Indonesia Super League managers
Arema FC managers
Persiba Balikpapan managers
Gresik United F.C. managers
Persipura Jayapura managers
PSIM Yogyakarta managers
Sriwijaya F.C. managers
Footballers from Medan
Men's association football midfielders
Liga 1 (Indonesia) managers
Liga 2 (Indonesia) managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubes%20%28OLAP%20server%29 | Cubes is a light-weight open source multidimensional modelling and OLAP toolkit for development reporting applications and browsing of aggregated data written in Python programming language released under the MIT License.
Cubes provides to an analyst or any application end-user "understandable and natural way of reporting using concept of data Cubes – multidimensional data objects".
Cubes was first publicly released in March 2011. The project was originally developed for Public Procurements of Slovakia. Cubes 1.0 was released in September 2014 and presented on the PyData Conference in New York
Features
OLAP and aggregated browsing (default is ROLAP)
logical model of OLAP cubes in JSON or provided from external sources
hierarchical dimensions (attributes that have hierarchical dependencies, such as category-subcategory or country-region)
multiple hierarchies in a dimension
arithmetic expressions for computing derived measures and aggregates
localizable metadata and data
Cubes is capable of handling large amounts of data and complex queries. According to a review by TechTarget, Cubes can handle "data volumes in the hundreds of millions of rows" and "complex queries and calculations that require multi-level aggregations and dynamic subsetting." Additionally, the review notes that Cubes is well-suited for smaller organizations or teams that don't require the complexity and scalability of enterprise-level OLAP solutions.
Model
The logical conceptual model in Cubes is described using JSON and can be provided either in a form of a file, directory bundle or from an external model provider (for example a database). The basic model objects are: cubes and their measures and aggregates, dimensions and their attributes, hierarchies. Logical model also contains mapping from logical attributes to their physical location in a database (or other data source).
Example model:
{
"cubes": [
{
"name": "sales",
"label": "Our Sales",
"dimensions": [ "date", "customer", "location", "product" ],
"measures": [ "amount" ]
}
]
"dimensions": [
{
"name": "product",
"label": "Product",
"levels": [
{
"name":"category",
"label":"Category",
"attributes": [ "category_id", "category_label" ],
},
{
"name":"product",
"label":"Product",
"attributes": [ "product_id", "product_label" ],
}
]
},
...
]
}
Operations
Cubes provides basic set of operations such as Data drilling and filtering (slicing and dicing). The operations can be accessed either through Python interface or through a light web server called Slicer.
Example of the python interface:
import cubes
workspace = Workspace("slicer.ini")
browser = workspace.browser("sales")
result |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cocoa%20Trees | The Cocoa Trees is a retail chain store of chocolate and confectionery brands based in Asia. It is a brand of Focus Network Agencies (FNA) Singapore, a former subsidiary of ABR Holdings. The company is the largest distributor and retailer of chocolate and confectionery products in Asia, with more than 70 stores in the Asia-Pacific region. It also operates 12 chocolate and confectionery shops at Singapore Changi Airport. In 2014, FNA secured tenders to operate the departure lounges of Terminal 1 and 3. FNA also supplies and distributes chocolates to supermarkets in Singapore and overseas.
History
FNA was founded in 1991 when the Duty Free Store Singapore (DFS) closed down their Chocolates Trading Division. Esther Loo, who was then the head of chocolate division at DFS, took over and started her own distribution company. The company started out with 5 staff and two agency lines: Hawaiian Host and Droste. In the same year, FNA posted a turnover of $1 million.
From 1991 to 1993, FNA acquired three more chocolate brands and opened of their first retail outlet, FNA Chocolate Boutique. Loo Lip Giam, current Group chief executive officer and husband of Esther Loo, joined the company in 1994. FNA Chocolate Boutique was renamed The Cocoa Trees in 2000.
In 2003, FNA received an investment sum of $5 million from ABR Holdings, which also owns the Swensen's ice cream franchise, and its partners. ABR Holdings sold their shares in 2012. In 2014, FNA received an undisclosed amount of investment from Heliconia Capital Management, an investment arm of Temasek Holdings. FNA plans to expand the chain abroad.
FNA's Regional Distribution (Travel Retail) Division has established a Pan-Asian distribution network. The Cocoa Trees has branches and outlets operating out of China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, the Maldives, Malaysia and Taiwan. The company also owns Cocoa and Co. and Choc Spot.
Retail stores
Choc Spot and Cocoa & Co. are retail stores set up by The Cocoa Trees to target sub-urban malls in Singapore. Choc Spot stores are located at West Mall, Bedok Mall, Nex, Sembawang Shopping Centre, West Gate, Compass Point (Grand Final). Cocoa & Co operates five outlets in Singapore Changi Airport, selling candies and chocolates.
M&M's World Stores are also operated at Singapore Changi Airport terminals, supplying clothing and other goods branded with M&M's mascots and logos. In October 2011, FNA, Mars, Incorporated International Travel Retail (ITR) and Changi Airport Group (CAG) opened a 40-square metre M&M's store at Singapore Changi Airport's Terminal 1. In the following year, the group opened its flagship store at Changi Airport's Terminal 2 departure transit lounge.
Subsidiaries
Hydro Style, founded in 2004 is Singapore's largest importer and distributor of designer European kitchen and bathroom supplies. Interiors Affairs, the retail arm of Hydro Style, was launched in 2010. Interiors Affairs sells the products carried by Hydro Style in its showroom.
Establ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20marching | Ray marching is a class of rendering methods for 3D computer graphics where rays are traversed iteratively, effectively dividing each ray into smaller ray segments, sampling some function at each step. For example, in volume ray casting the function would access data points from a 3D scan. In Sphere tracing, the function estimates a distance to step next.
Distance-aided ray marching
Sphere tracing
In sphere tracing, or sphere-assisted ray marching an intersection point is approximated between the ray and a surface defined by a signed distance function (SDF). The SDF is evaluated for each iteration in order to be able take as large steps as possible without missing any part of the surface. A threshold is used to cancel further iteration when a point has reached that is close enough to the surface. As powerful GPU hardware became more widely available, this method was popularized by the demoscene and Inigo Quilez.
For simple scenes with basic 3D shapes, ray marching does not have many benefits over ray tracing (which finds intersections without marching through the space). Strengths of SDF ray marching are, for example, when morphing shapes, approximating soft shadows, repetition of geometry, and algorithmically defined scenes.
Signed distance functions exist for many primitive 3D shapes. They can be combined using mathematical operations like modulo and booleans to form more complex surfaces. For instance, taking the modulus of an SDF's input coordinates tiles its volume across all of space, and taking the maximum of two SDFs gives their volumes' surface of intersection. Because SDFs can be defined for many fractals, sphere tracing is often used for 3D fractal rendering.
Cube-assisted
A similar technique to sphere-assisted ray marching, the use of cubes and taxicab distance can be used to render voxel volumes.
Volumetric ray marching
In volumetric ray marching, each ray is traced so that color and/or density can be sampled along the ray and then be combined into a final pixel color. This is often used for example when rendering clouds or 3D medical scans.
Deferred shading
When rendering screen space effects, such as screen space reflection (SSR) and screen space shadows, rays are traced using G-buffers, where depth and surface normal data is stored per each 2D pixel.
External links
The 1989 paper Hypertexture by Ken Perlin contains an early example of a ray marching method.
The other 1989 paper Ray Tracing Deterministic 3-D Fractals by John C. Hart at al. contains another, more explicite example of a ray marching method.
References
3D imaging
Computer graphics algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20jam | A data jam is a technically oriented workshop exercise where people solve problems using data sets. The events can produce visual data, analytics and applications.
Examples include the Hudson Data Jam, hosted by Cary Institute of Environmental Systems, in which students are asked to tell a story based on raw data collected from the watershed of the Hudson River and the Capitol Code, a data jam based on the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State.
References
Technology events
Computer science competitions
Not to be confused with the web site datajam.com which was started along with packetjam.com as a speed testing site. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DE-CIX%20Marseille | DE-CIX Marseille, is a carrier and data center-neutral internet exchange point (IX or IXP) in Marseille, France, founded in 2015 by DE-CIX.
The exchange is located in the carrier-neutral Interxion data center in Marseille.
See also
List of Internet exchange points
References
Internet exchange points in France
Telecommunications in France
Internet in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles%20World%20Affairs%20Council | The Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall (LAWACTH), the Los Angeles office within the national network of World Affairs Councils of America, is a non-profit, non-partisan organization which arranges speaker events, debates, seminars, and film screenings with international themes. It is a membership-based organization supported by membership fees and contributions. Speakers have included heads of state, political leaders, and entrepreneurs in technology and science. A subset within the LAWAC is the Young Professionals program, which engages young people in the workforce in global affairs issues and networking.
History
LAWAC was founded in 1954. Since that time, the Council has hosted eight US presidents and more than 250 heads of state and government. Most Los Angeles World Affairs Council events feature major international political figures in either speech or interview formats. Events are generally on weekday evenings. Question-and-answer sessions follow these remarks, offering opportunities for audiences to engage with speakers directly. Additionally, upper-level Council members are included in VIP receptions prior to events for discussion and photographs.
Notable speakers
The council creates transcripts of the speeches and makes them available through its website archives.
Student programs
The Council also has a high school program for which members can sponsor additional reservation fees to enable local high school groups to attend events. Students who participate in the Council's High School Program often engage in discussions with speakers prior to events. Internships are also available through the Council for local university students, enabling them to participate in event facilitation and general council operations.
References
Loper, Mary Lou. "World Affairs Council: Balanced Talks." Los Angeles Times. April 2, 1987, Accessed April 8, 2015.
External links
Los Angeles World Affairs Council Website
Los Angeles World Affairs Council Facebook Page
Los Angeles World Affairs Council YouTube Channel
World Affairs Councils of America – Local Councils List
Archive of events
Non-profit organizations based in Los Angeles
World Affairs Councils of America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-transforming%20brain | The self-transforming brain refers to the ability of the self to consciously use mental activity to change/modify the brain's neural network in order to experience life with more happiness and fulfillment. This capacity of using awareness to do so is based on the assumption that the brain and the mind are closely connected, that one does not change without the other. The phrase "I think therefore I am" is not only a famous proclamation in the eyes of neuroscience. It has been evidenced that mental activities such as fleeting thoughts and feelings can create new neural structures in the brain and thus shape a person's reality. Therefore, it is possible to make use of the brain's neuroplasticity to re-wire or change one's brain and life by consciously activating happy, tranquil and loving mental states.
Background: Brain-evolution link
The experience of happiness and well-being is a universal pursuit, but often a struggle to achieve. One explanation for this is that happiness is not the brain's default and normal state of mind, whereas the Evolutionary psychologists claim that suffering is. Suffering in the form of everyday stress, hurt, anger, loneliness, worry and disappointment experienced by the layperson is thought to be the side effect of strategies that helped human ancestors survive and pass on their genes throughout evolution. In this manner, the neural networks in the human brain have evolved to create pain and suffering when the evolutionary instincts cannot keep up with the outside world. This happens, for example, when the brain attempts to separate the body and the self from a world where everything is connected. Consequently, the weaknesses of an individual's body become personal weaknesses, and the individual suffers as a result of negative self-image, illness and aging. Another survival strategy embedded in the neural networks of the brain is the tendency to approach pleasure and avoid pain, which is why humans suffer when they experience mental states with a negative feeling tone.
Bias
Due to the strong impact of evolution on the human brain, what the modern man is left with is a negativity bias, which colours the manner in which humans perceive and interpret events within the environment. This bias is the reason for why the mind in particular, scans for, remembers and reacts to unpleasant experiences and why emotions such as worry, anxiety and fear of anticipated negative outcomes often follows. However, the negativity bias does not correspond with reality, as humans are most often not in danger. Even so, the brain simulates worst-case scenarios and creates additional worry and fear over events that most likely never will occur. Consequently, this process strengthens these neural structures and humans suffer even more.
Self-transformation through meditation
The nervous system
The neuroplasticity of the brain allows re-wiring of default neural pathways through conscious acts performed by the individual. As the sympathetic ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExactEarth | exactEarth Ltd is a Canadian company that specializes in data services that deliver real-time global location-based maritime vessel tracking information utilizing patented satellite AIS detection technology.
exactEarth provides satellite AIS data services to commercial markets as well as government customers in India, Canada, United States, Australia and across Europe.
Founded in 2009, exactEarth is based in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. The company was publicly traded until 2021 when Spire Global acquired the company.
History
In 2005, COM DEV International first recognized that the AIS messages being transmitted by major ships could potentially be received from space. COM DEV validated its AIS detection capability through aircraft trials in 2007 and launched a nanosatellite (EV0) in April 2008.
exactEarth commenced commercial operations in June 2009. In September 2010, Hisdesat acquired a 27% equity interest in the company for a cash investment of approximately CA$15 million, with COM DEV retaining a 73% equity interest.
On 23 June 2015, exactEarth filed a Preliminary Prospectus with Canadian Securities Administrators, announcing their intentions to launch an Initial public offering (IPO). However, on 5 November 2015, exactEarth's largest shareholder, COM DEV, announced plans for an acquisition by Honeywell with exactEarth spinning out into its own publicly traded company. exactEarth's prospectus was abandoned. COM DEV shareholders approved the acquisition on 21 January 2016, with each COM DEV shareholder receiving 0.1977 exactEarth stock for every COM DEV stock held. Final court approval of the acquisition came on 25 January 2016.
On 9 February 2016, exactEarth became a publicly traded company, trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol of XCT. For a while, HISDESAT Servicios Estratégicos S.A. was the largest stakeholder. However, in December 2021, the company was acquired by Spire Global and its stock were de-listed from the TSX.
Satellites
On 8 June 2015, exactEarth announced a partnership with Harris Corporation to build 58 AIS detecting payloads to be launched on board the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation. It is expected that this constellation will provide global average revisit times and customer data latency of less than one minute.
As of October 2015, exactEarth operates a satellite constellation consisting of 9 satellites.
Projects
exactEarth satellite AIS data was used in security efforts at the 2010 Olympics and Paralympics.
exactEarth satellite AIS data was used in the ship emission modelling project of the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
exactEarth satellite AIS data aids ScanEx RDC in identifying illegal shipping within marine protected natural areas.
Awards
In 2009, exactEarth technology was recognized at the Ontario Premier's Innovation Awards for developing a satellite system for their work on satellite AIS.
References
External links
Official Website
Telecommunications companies establ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARL%20%28programming%20language%29 | The SARL programming language is a modular agent-oriented programming language. It aims at providing the fundamental abstractions for dealing with concurrency, distribution, interaction, decentralization, reactivity, autonomy and dynamic reconfiguration.
SARL is platform-independent and agent’s architecture-agnostic. It provides a set of agent-oriented first-class abstractions directly at the language level (see the section on the concepts). Nevertheless, it supports the integration and the mapping of concepts provided by other agent-oriented metamodels. SARL itself exploits this extension mechanism for defining its own extensions (organizational, event-driven, etc.).
An important feature of the SARL programming language is its native support for "holonic multiagent systems," and "recursive agents"
(also called "holons").
Overview
The metamodel of SARL is based on four main concepts: Agent, Capacity, Space and Skill.
The core metamodel of SARL is presented in Figure 1, and the main concepts are colored in light blue.
Each of them are detailed in the following sections, as well as the corresponding piece of SARL code to illustrate their practical use.
In SARL, a Multiagent System (MAS) is a collection of Agents interacting together in shared distributed Spaces.
Each agent has a collection of Capacities describing what it is able to perform, its personal competences.
Each Capacity may then be realized/implemented by various Skills.
For understanding the relationship between the concepts of Capacity and Skill, a parallel can be drawn with concepts of Interface and their implementation classes in object-oriented languages.
To implement specific architectures (like BDI, reasoning, reactive, hybrid, etc.) developers should develop their own capacities and skills providing the agents with new exploitable features.
Despite its open nature, SARL imposes some fundamental principles to be respected by the various Virtual Machines (VM) that wants to support it. First of all, the implementation of Space must be fully distributed and the execution layer must be abstracted from agents. SARL encourages a massively parallel execution of Agents and Behaviors. SARL is fully interoperable with Java to easily reuse all the contributions provided by the Java community, but also to facilitate the integration and evolution of legacy systems. One of the key principles governing SARL consists in not imposing a predefined way for Agents to interact within a Space. Similarly, the way to identify agents is dependent on the type of Space considered. This allows to define different types of interaction mechanisms and models on Spaces.
The metamodel and the syntax of the SARL programming language have been inspired by the languages like Scala, Clojure, and Ruby.
The SARL tools have been developed on top of Xtext, that enables to easily build domain-specific languages that are directly integrated into the Eclipse framework. The complete definition of the SARL syntax is a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Neural%20Networks%20and%20Learning%20Systems | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. It covers the theory, design, and applications of neural networks and related learning systems. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2021 impact factor of 14.255.
The journal was established in 1990 by the IEEE Neural Networks Council.
Editors-in-chief
Yongduan Song (Chongqing University), 2022–present
Haibo He (University of Rhode Island), 2016–2021
Derong Liu (University of Illinois), 2010–2015
Marios M. Polycarpou (University of Cyprus), 2004–2009
Jacek M. Zurada (University of Louisville), 1998–2003
Robert J. Marks II (Baylor University), 1992–1997
Michael W. Roth (Johns Hopkins University), 1991
Herbert E. Rauch (Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory), 1990
References
External links
Computer science journals
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
English-language journals
Monthly journals
Academic journals established in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202005%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
2005 in music
List of number-one singles of 2005 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2005 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2005
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-key%20quicksort | Multi-key quicksort, also known as three-way radix quicksort, is an algorithm for sorting strings. This hybrid of quicksort and radix sort was originally suggested by P. Shackleton, as reported in one of C.A.R. Hoare's seminal papers on quicksort; its modern incarnation was developed by Jon Bentley and Robert Sedgewick in the mid-1990s. The algorithm is designed to exploit the property that in many problems, strings tend to have shared prefixes.
One of the algorithm's uses is the construction of suffix arrays, for which it was one of the fastest algorithms as of 2004.
Description
The three-way radix quicksort algorithm sorts an array of (pointers to) strings in lexicographic order. It is assumed that all strings are of equal length ; if the strings are of varying length, they must be padded with extra elements that are less than any element in the strings. The pseudocode for the algorithm is then
algorithm sort(a : array of string, d : integer) is
if length(a) ≤ 1 or d ≥ K then
return
p := pivot(a, d)
i, j := partition(a, d, p) (Note a simultaneous assignment of two variables.)
sort(a[0:i), d)
sort(a[i:j), d + 1)
sort(a[j:length(a)), d)
Unlike most string sorting algorithms that look at many bytes in a string to decide if a string is less than, the same as, or equal to some other string; and then turning its focus to some other pair of strings, the multi-key quicksort initially looks at only one byte of every string in the array, byte d, initially the first byte of every string.
The recursive call uses a new value of d and passes a subarray where every string in the subarray has exactly the same initial part -- the characters before character d.
The function must return a single character. Bentley and Sedgewick suggest either picking the median of or some random character in that range. The partition function is a variant of the one used in ordinary three-way quicksort: it rearranges so that all of have an element at position that is less than , have at position , and strings from onward have a 'th element larger than . (The original partitioning function suggested by Bentley and Sedgewick may be slow in the case of repeated elements; a Dutch national flag partitioning can be used to alleviate this.)
Practical implementations of multi-key quicksort can benefit from the same optimizations typically applied to quicksort: median-of-three pivoting, switching to insertion sort for small arrays, etc.
See also
American flag sort another radix sort variant that is fast for string sorting
Ternary search tree three-way radix quicksort is isomorphic to this data structure in the same way that quicksort is isomorphic to binary search trees
Notes
References
Articles with example pseudocode
Comparison sorts
String sorting algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20architect | A data architect is a practitioner of data architecture, a data management discipline concerned with designing, creating, deploying and managing an organization's data architecture. Data architects define how the data will be stored, consumed, integrated and managed by different data entities and IT systems, as well as any applications using or processing that data in some way. It is closely allied with business architecture and is considered to be one of the four domains of enterprise architecture.
Role
According to the Data Management Body of Knowledge, the data architect “provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic data requirements, outlines high level integrated designs to meet these requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture.”
According to the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), a data architect is expected to set data architecture principles, create models of data that enable the implementation of the intended business architecture, create diagrams showing key data entities, and create an inventory of the data needed to implement the architecture vision.
Responsibilities
Organizes data at the macro level.
Organizes data at the micro level, data models, for a new application.
Provides a logical data model as a standard for the golden source and for consuming applications to inherit.
Provides a logical data model with elements and business rules needed for the creation of data quality (DQ) rules.
Skills
Bob Lambert describes the necessary skills of a data architect as follows:
Foundation in systems development: the data architect should understand the system development life cycle; software project management approaches; and requirements, design, and test techniques. The data architect is asked to conceptualize and influence application and interface projects, and therefore must understand what advice to give and where to plug in to steer toward desirable outcomes.
Depth in data modeling and database design: This is the core skill of the data architect, and the most requested in data architect job descriptions. The effective data architect is sound across all phases of data modeling, from conceptualization to database optimization. In his/her experience this skill extends to SQL development and perhaps database administration.
Breadth in established and emerging data technologies: In addition to depth in established data management and reporting technologies, the data architect is either experienced or conversant in emerging tools like columnar and NoSQL databases, predictive analytics, data visualization, and unstructured data. While not necessarily deep in all of these technologies, the data architect hopefully is experienced in one or more, and must understand them sufficiently to guide the organization in understanding and adopting them.
Ability to conceive and portray the "big picture": When the data architect initiates, evaluates, and influences pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi%20Institute%20of%20Advanced%20Computer%20%26%20Research%2C%20Rayagada | Gandhi Institute of Advanced Computer & Research, Rayagada (GIACR), formerly IACR, is an engineering college located in Rayagada, in the state of Odisha, India. It was established in 1999 by Rabindranath Educational Trust, Rayagada with the approval of AICTE, New Delhi and Government of Odisha and affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology. GIACR is certified with ISO 9001:2008 by Bureau Veritas for the Quality Management System.
Academics
Initially (postgraduate) M.C.A. course was introduced and MBA was introduced in 2006. Since 2004, GIACR offers 06 undergraduate B.Tech courses in CSE, IT, ECE, EEE, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Admission is through the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE). It also offers Diploma courses in Civil Engineering & Mechanical Engineering.
Facilities
GIACR facilities include a beautiful garden, Central Library, Air Conditioned Computer Laboratories, Computer Center, Training, Development & Placement Divn., Mechanical Workshops, Civil Workshops, Electrical Laboratories, Electronics Laboratories, Canteen & Students Common Room.
References
External links
Official website of the Gandhi Institute of Advanced Computer & Research
Engineering colleges in Odisha
Colleges affiliated with Biju Patnaik University of Technology
All India Council for Technical Education
Education in Rayagada district
Educational institutions established in 1999
1999 establishments in Orissa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract%2C%20load%2C%20transform | Extract, load, transform (ELT) is an alternative to extract, transform, load (ETL) used with data lake implementations. In contrast to ETL, in ELT models the data is not transformed on entry to the data lake, but stored in its original raw format. This enables faster loading times. However, ELT requires sufficient processing power within the data processing engine to carry out the transformation on demand, to return the results in a timely manner. Since the data is not processed on entry to the data lake, the query and schema do not need to be defined a priori (although often the schema will be available during load since many data sources are extracts from databases or similar structured data systems and hence have an associated schema). ELT is a data pipeline model.
Cloud data lake components
Common storage options
AWS
Simple Storage Service (S3)
Amazon RDS
Azure
Azure Blob Storage
GCP
Google Storage (GCS)
Querying
AWS
Redshift Spectrum
Athena
EMR (Presto)
Azure
Azure Data Lake
GCP
BigQuery
References
External links
Dull, Tamara, "The Data Lake Debate: Pro is Up First", smartdatacollective.com, March 20, 2015.
ELT: Extract, Load, and Transform A Complete Guide | Astera Software
Data warehousing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20Date%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | Blind Date is an Australian television game show which was originally based on the American series The Dating Game.
Blind Date first aired from 1967 to 1970 on the 0-10 Network (now known as Network 10). Graham Webb hosted the series from its debut to the 28 November 1969 episode. Jeremy Cordeaux hosted the show in 1970.
A 1974 version on the Seven Network was hosted by Scottish-born Bobby Hanna. A 1991 version hosted by Greg Evans was screened on Network Ten as a revived version of Perfect Match, which was also based on the same format.
A new series, termed the show's revival, began on 15 October 2018 on Channel 10, hosted by Julia Morris. It was broadcast at 7:30 pm on Mondays until the fifth episode, where it moved to the time-slot of 8:40 pm on Wednesdays.
Format
Each week, a number of single Aussies around Australia, who are looking for 'love', ask three questions to three potential suitors who are behind a wall (which is called the Slide-O Wall from the seventh series). Each potential suitor takes turns to answer these questions and then the contestant has to choose a date from only the potential suitor's answers and voices. The host asks the contestant, "Which contestant would you like to choose? 'Contestant number 1', 'number 2' or 'number 3'?" The contestant will choose one of these, with each number corresponding to each potential suitor, with '1' being the suitor sitting closest to the wall and number '3' being the person seated furthest.
Once the contestant chooses a suitor, they meet the two other potential mates that they did not choose. Then, the contestant and suitor ('the dates') stand on either side of the wall and, for the first time, the host reveals the suitor who is behind it by saying the suitor's name while the wall slides away to reveal them.
The dates are then given the opportunity to choose from two envelopes which contain two different dates (which are paid for by the show) that they could potentially go on. Once they choose the date, they proceed to walk up a staircase and near the top, the turn around to wave goodbye. The dates then walk away to the top of the staircase which then leads to a backstage area so that they can 'get ready' to go on their date.
In the next episode, the dates normally come back to make another appearance and talk about how their date went with the host. During their second visit, a video is shown about how their date went and what happened. Then, the dates disclose if they would like to stay together for another date, 'just be friends', or end the relationship altogether.
Episode status
Archival status of the show is not known, given the wiping of the early eras. An episode of the 1974 version is held by National Film and Sound Archive.
Series overview
References
External links
Network 10 original programming
Seven Network original programming
1967 Australian television series debuts
1970 Australian television series endings
1974 Australian television series debuts
1974 Australi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanaa%20Edwar | Hanaa Edwar (born 1946) is an Iraqi women's rights activist. She is the founder and general secretary of Iraqi Al-Amal Association, and co-founder of the Iraqi Women's Network.
Biography
Hanaa Edwar was born to a Christian family in the Southern city of Basra, Iraq. She earned a degree in law from Baghdad University in 1967. At age 26, Hanaa Edwar had left for Eastern Berlin to be an Iraqi women's rights representative. Edwar had spent a decade in Eastern Berlin, but was unable to return to Iraq due to Saddam Hussein's regime and was essentially exiled to live in Syria. Edwar would return to Iraq shortly after the 2003 U.S led invasion to establish her organization Al-Amal which translates to hope in english.
During her 50 years as an advocate, she has led countless campaigns for gender equality, including efforts to advance women's role in drafting the country's new constitution in 2005. Alongside allies, she secured a minimum 25 percent women's quota in the parliament and in the local governments. She was also a member of the expert team tasked with drafting a law addressing domestic violence in Iraq.
In June 2011 she interrupted a government television conference to challenge Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki about the army having arrested four protestors. After she challenged the prime minister publicly, a "bullet was left in an envelope outside her office."
Career
From 1981 until 1998, Edwar held the position of secretariat within the Iraqi Women's League. Ms. Edwar founded the Al-Amal Association in 1992. She currently holds the position of general secretary of the Al-Amal Association. Al-Amal focuses on building peace, promoting human rights, and sustainable development in Iraq. Al-Amal is also a place for Iraqi youth to gather. At Al-Amal, Iraqi youth have the opportunity to participate in various creative activities such as singing to help them express themselves. She has created a number of other prominent organizations, including the Arab Women's Court, formed in Beirut in 1996 with the aim of combating violence against women; the Arab NGO Network for Development, which supports, enables and empowers Arab civil societies in their quest for democracy, human rights and sustainable development; Asuda for Combating Violence against Women, based in Sulaimaniya since 2001; and Beit Khanzad, an Erbil-based shelter for women and children in 2002.
Awards
Ms. Edwar was awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize 2011 by the International Peace Bureau (IPB), for her contribution “to the advancement of democracy and human rights”, and her “firm stand against violence and war.” In December 2011, she was awarded by UN mission in Iraq the Appreciation certificate of Human Rights Defender in honor for her work in promoting human rights in Iraq. She won Arab Woman of the Year Award in 2013.
References
External links
Interview
1946 births
Living people
Iraqi women's rights activists
University of Baghdad alumni
Women human rights activists
Iraqi Chr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minions%20Paradise | Minions Paradise was a mobile game based on characters appearing in the computer-animated comedy film franchise Despicable Me. The game was developed by Electronic Arts in partnership with Illumination Entertainment and Universal Partnerships & Licensing. It was given a soft launch on April 21, 2015 and was later given an official release on October 13 of the same year worldwide on Android and iOS.
The game was retired on May 22, 2017 and removed from the store (for non-players); players could still play the game until the retiring date, but the in-app purchases in the game were disabled.
Synopsis
The game follows the Minions as they go on vacation on a cruise ship. Things quickly go wrong after some of Phil's antics result in the ship sinking, leaving the Minions in the water and him on a deserted island. This causes them to get angry at him so he must try to make it up to them by turning the island into a perfect vacation spot.
Reception
Critical reception has been mixed. Gamezebo reviewed the game and wrote: "Much of Minions Paradise will seem familiar to anyone who’s played other free city/town/base/resort building games before. You stock up on money, resources, and premium currency in order to build fancier things and expand your territory so that you can stock up on even more money, resources, and premium currency. But beneath the simple setup is a game that’s honestly kind of refreshing in its approach to free-to-play." Forbes criticized Minions Paradise in a review about Star Wars: Battlefront, where they called it a "familiar and formulaic phone and tablet game built around timers, tapped icons, and insidious invitations to skip forward in a build queue by buying fake currency in bundles that cost anywhere from $2.99 to $99.99" and wrote that "the imposed bottle necks on upgrades and item acquisition makes tapping both incessant and detached from any dramatic significance, something that feeds a recursive loop of player presence." Apple'N'Apps gave Minions Paradise a score of 3.5, praising it for its mini-games, theme and flow of quests and objectives while also criticizing it for being too similar to other freemium simulation games.
References
External links
2015 video games
Android (operating system) games
Casual games
City-building games
Electronic Arts games
IOS games
Video games based on animated films
Despicable Me
Works about vacationing
Video games developed in the United States
EA Salt Lake games
EA Mobile games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made%20with%20Code | Made with Code is an initiative launched by Google on 19 July 2014. Google aimed to empower young women in middle and high schools with computer programming skills. Made with Code was created after Google's own research found out that encouragement and exposure are the critical factors that would influence young females to pursue computer science. It was reported that Google is funding $50 million to Made with Code, on top of the initial $40 million invested since 2010 in organizations like Code.org, Black Girls Code, and Girls Who Code. The Made with Code initiative involves both online activities as well as real life events, collaborating with notable firms like Shapeways and App Inventor.
Projects
Made with Code revolves primarily around providing online activities for young girls to learn coding on its website. Many of Made with Code's projects use Blockly programming, a visual editor that writes programs by assembling individual blocks. Step by step instructions are provided to guide users. Along the way, works may either be discarded or saved and downloaded.
Dance Visualiser
Dance Visualiser mixes dance with code by modelling a visualiser that mirrors a dancer's motions. Through the application of Blockly programming, users track the different parts such as the head, chest, hip and four limbs of the dancer's body. After inputting the necessary details, a customized visualization is generated accordingly.
Music Mixer
In Music Mixer, users manipulate the number of notes and set the speed of each instrument to produce a colorful rotating visual music mixer. The range of instruments that are available include Acapella, Country, Electronic, HipHop, Pop and Rock.
Beats
Beats connects Blockly programming language and virtual instruments together to produce a string of beats. Users set the speed from a minimum of 30 to a maximum of 300 beats. The range of virtual instruments available include hi-hat, clave, cowbell, cymbal, tom, kick, snare and clap.
Avatar
Project Avatar allows users to customize their own avatar. Through Blockly programming language, users input different shapes on a virtual 2D work space, then arrange the shapes into a 3D avatar.
Accessorizer
Accessorizer allow to accessorize (put accessories on) a selfie with Blockly programming language. The first step is selecting an image, either by snapping a picture or selecting the available characters including Dorothy, Rose, Smoosh, Raul and Blanche. The next step is to position the accessories on top of the character or image. Accessories include the eyes, mouths, shirts, hats and wigs.
GIF
GIF lets users make a custom animation with a background and a series of frame. With the Blockly programming language, four images can be constructed which will then cycle so as to form an animation. The first step is to select the background, which includes characters such as Licky Ricky, Mayday Mary, Puss in Moon Boots, Purple Mess, Flappy the Uni-Horn, Tonsil Tammy, Bucky, Long Lidi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste%20Baranski | Celeste Suzanne Baranski is an American electronic engineer, entrepreneur, and executive who helped create several pioneering electronic devices including early versions of the tablet computer. Baranski, with her colleague Alain Rossmann, won the Discover Award from Discover Magazine in 1993.
Education
Baranski attended Stanford University from 1975 to 1980 and obtained Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering.
Career
After engineering jobs at ROLM, GRiD Systems, and Tsunami Technologies, Baranski joined GO Corporation in 1987 as one of the founders, and served as Vice President of Engineering. In 1990, the hardware division of GO was divested as EO Inc. and she continued there from 1990 to 1994, producing the EO Personal Communicator, an early tablet computer. The device did not enjoy commercial success so after the collapse of Go/EO, she worked from 1994 to 2006 on mobile devices at Norand Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Set Engineering, Handspring, and Palm.
After taking a sabbatical she founded Vitamin D Video, a machine vision company, in 2007 and served as its Chief Executive Officer until 2010. The company licensed artificial intelligence algorithms from Numenta, a company founded by Jeff Hawkins whom she met at Handspring/Palm. It was acquired by Sighthound in 2013.
From 2010 to 2014 she was Senior Vice President, Engineering, at Panasas, a data storage company.
In 2014 she joined Hawkins' machine intelligence company, Numenta, as Vice President of Engineering.
References
Living people
1957 births
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
American electronics engineers
21st-century American businesswomen
21st-century American businesspeople
American computer businesspeople
Computer engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina%20%28talk%20show%29 | Katrina is an Australian television talk show aired on ATV-0 (now ATV-10 and part of Network Ten) in Melbourne in 1967. Hosted by Katrina Pye, the talk show aired in a 15-minute time slot. Following the end of the series, Pye moved to another ATV-0 series, Chit-Chat.
Despite a considerable trend towards "national" series for prime-time shows, many Australian daytime shows remained single-city-only at the time. The archival status of the series is not known, and it is possible the series was wiped.
References
External links
Katrina on IMDb
1967 Australian television series debuts
1967 Australian television series endings
Australian television talk shows
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Iba | Aaron Iba (born June 18, 1983) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He is known for co-authoring Etherpad, co-founding AppJet, and for his work as a partner in Y Combinator. Iba graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 with a degree in Mathematics.
Background
Iba grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts and then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was there that he teamed up with David Greenspan to win the annual Battlecode programming competition in 2003. Iba and Greenspan would go on to attend the Y Combinator program, where they created AppJet and Etherpad. Iba would go on to become a partner in Y Combinator, and was named "one of the best hackers among the YC alumni".
Iba is also an Angel investor in over 10 companies, including Meteor, PlanGrid, and Light Table.
AppJet/Etherpad
In 2007, Iba co-founded AppJet, a company providing JavaScript development and hosting tools. AppJet received funding from notable investors including Paul Graham, Paul Buchheit, Trevor Blackwell, Mitch Kapor and Scott Banister.
AppJet failed to gain traction with developers, but in 2009 the company used its own tools to launch Etherpad, the first web-based realtime collaborative text editor.
In 2009, AppJet was acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum. The Etherpad technology and team were merged into the Google wave project.
Y Combinator
In 2011, Iba became one of 6 full-time partners in Y Combinator, where he oversaw and participated in numerous investments in startup companies. In 2013, Iba left Y Combinator to found PayGarden, an alternative payments company borne out of insights he gleaned as an investor in various online merchants.
References
Living people
1983 births
American computer programmers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
People from Lexington, Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring%20your%20own%20encryption | Bring your own encryption (BYOE), also known as bring your own key (BYOK), is a cloud computing security marketing model that aims to help cloud service customers to use their own encryption software and manage their own encryption keys. BYOE allows cloud service customers to use a virtualized example of their own encryption software together with the business applications they are hosting in the cloud, in order to encrypt their data. The business applications hosted is then set up such that all its data will be processed by the encryption software, which then writes the ciphertext version of the data to the cloud service provider's physical data store, and readily decrypts ciphertext data upon retrieval requests. This gives the enterprise the perceived control of its own keys, and producing its own master key by relying on its own internal hardware security modules (HSM) that is then transmitted to the HSM within the cloud. Data owners may believe their data is secured because the master key lies in the enterprise's HSM and not that of the cloud service provider. When the data is no longer needed (i.e. when cloud users choose to abandon the cloud service), the keys can simply be deleted. That practice is called crypto-shredding.
See also
Cloud computing security
Encryption
Zero trust security model
References
Cloud computing
Cloud infrastructure
Cryptography
Data protection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Data%20Consortium | The Health Data Consortium (HDC) is a Washington, D.C.-based public-private partnership that advocates for the availability and use of health data, in particular government health datasets, and the improvement of health and health care through patient data accessibility and innovative use of data. HDC is a 501(c)(3) organization.
History
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the Health Data Initiative to make its data available for public use and, in collaboration with the Institute of Medicine, hosted a public forum featuring various private, non-profit, and entrepreneurial stakeholder groups to explore how the data could be used to promote innovation that would improve people's health. This forum was held again in 2011 and 2012, wherein it was rebranded into its current iteration as the Health Datapalooza.
Due to the success of the forum and growing industry interest, HHS, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, and other parties involved believed that there needed to be a structured organization independent of the government that could convene stakeholder groups and promote the health data mission year-round. They approached Forum One Communications to help establish this organization as a public-private partnership, which was named the Health Data Consortium.
Leadership
In February 2013, Dwayne Spradlin was announced as acting CEO of HDC. He was succeeded by Dr. Christopher Boone, who was appointed Executive Director in October 2014.
Work
Health Datapalooza
The Health Datapalooza conference continues the work of the Health Data Initiative Forum by convening stakeholders annually. In particular, Health Datapalooza is known for highlighting health care startups that use health data to develop programs and applications by way of a coding challenge or through demos of the applications.
Health Data All Stars
The Health Data All Stars is a directory of organizations and websites that offer open health datasets for public viewing and use. The directory currently features over fifty open health data entries.
See also
Public-private partnerships in the United States
References
External links
Health Data Consortium website
Health Datapalooza website
Health charities in the United States
Charities based in Washington, D.C.
Open data
Public–private partnership projects in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Washington, D.C.
2012 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Organizations established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20data%20record | A product record (or product data record) is the data associated with the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. It includes all the information used to develop, describe, manage and communicate information about products and critical linkage between relevant data elements. It is a key concept of product lifecycle management (PLM) and product data management (PDM), because it represents all the data that PLM processes and software manage and allow access to.
The product record is the single version of the truth for product data and implementing PLM is not possible without first designing the product record. However, PLM solutions often do not physically host all the product record data in their database but only create the logical connections so information can be accessed in its native application.
References
External links
Oracle "Managing the Product Record for the Medical Device Industry"
Product lifecycle management
Information technology management
CAD file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20S.%20Cleveland | William Swain Cleveland II (born 1943) is an American computer scientist and Professor of Statistics and Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, known for his work on data visualization, particularly on nonparametric regression and local regression.
Biography
Cleveland obtained his AB in Mathematics mid 1960s from Princeton University, where he graduated under William Feller. For his PhD studies in Statistics he moved to Yale University, where he graduated in 1969 under Leonard Jimmie Savage.
After graduation Cleveland started at Bell Labs, where he was staff member of the Statistics Research Department and Department Head for 12 years. Eventually he moved to the Purdue University, where he became Professor of Statistics and Courtesy Professor of Computer Science.
In 1982 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
His research interests are in the fields of "data visualization, computer networking, machine learning, data mining, time series, statistical modeling, visual perception, environmental science, and seasonal adjustment." Cleveland is credited with defining and naming the field of data science, which he did in a 2001 publication.
Selected publications
Cleveland, William S. The elements of graphing data. Monterey, CA: Wadsworth Advanced Books and Software, 1985.
Cleveland, William S. Visualizing data. Hobart Press, 1993.
Articles, a selection:
Cleveland, William S. "Robust locally weighted regression and smoothing scatterplots." Journal of the American statistical association 74.368 (1979): 829–836.
Cleveland, William S., and Robert McGill. "Graphical perception: Theory, experimentation, and application to the development of graphical methods." Journal of the American statistical association 79.387 (1984): 531–554.
Cleveland, William S., and Susan J. Devlin. "Locally weighted regression: an approach to regression analysis by local fitting." Journal of the American Statistical Association 83.403 (1988): 596–610.
Cleveland, William S., Eric Grosse, and William M. Shyu. "Local regression models." Statistical models in S (1992): 309–376.
References
External links
William S. Cleveland, Shanti S. Gupta Professor of Statistics, Courtesy Professor of Computer Science
William Cleveland at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
1943 births
Living people
Human–computer interaction researchers
Information visualization experts
Princeton University alumni
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Purdue University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Scientists at Bell Labs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telcobuy | Telcobuy.com (commonly known as Telcobuy) is a technology and supply chain management company founded by David Steward and Jim Kavanaugh in 1999. The company provides enterprise networking services and data center security. It is also a reseller of information technology hardware.
Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, the company operates more than 2 million square feet of warehousing, distribution, and integration space throughout the United States. It is a privately held Minority Business Enterprise (MBE).
History
In 1999, World Wide Technology spun off its telecommunications division to form Telcobuy.com. During its first year of business, the company sold 94 percent of its equipment inventory to SBC Communications Inc., Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp.
Operations
Telcobuy has included supplier diversity in its supply chain — spending more than $57 million with minorities, women, and Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses (SDVOB) since 2001.
In October 2009, the company partnered with IBM for Cisco systems as a Cisco Certified Gold Partner. The company ships in-stock Cisco equipment directly from its inventory, while non-stocked items are processed and drop-shipped from Cisco.
References
External links
Official website
Information technology companies of the United States
Companies based in St. Louis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNU%20%28disambiguation%29 | RNU or rnu may stand for:
Republican Network for Unity, Northern Ireland
Russian National Union, Russia
Russian National Unity, Russia
Russian National Unity (2000), Russia. Organization after the split with the founder A. Barkashov.
RNU, Ranau Airport, Malaysia
Radiodifusión Nacional del Uruguay
rnu (Rowett nude), a hairlessness gene in laboratory rats
See also
RNU2, a human gene |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Veronica%20%28Talpa%20Radio%29 | Radio Veronica is a Dutch commercial radio station owned by Mediahuis since June 2023, therefore it was a subsidiary of Talpa Network. The station runs a mixed playlist of pop and rock music from the 1970s until the 2000s, additional with current hits. The station can be compared with Absolute Radio and Radio X (United Kingdom) in the United Kingdom.
Radio Veronica in its present form was created on 31 August 2003 by a merger of the cable station Radio Veronica of the Vereniging Veronica and the golden oldie station Radio 103 of Sky Radio Ltd. In return, received the Vereniging Veronica 3.5% of the shares of the Sky Radio Ltd. in hands. In 2006, this interest was expanded to 10%, after the Telegraaf Media Groep NV and ING acquired the Sky Radio Group and those in Sienna Holding BV - operating under the name Sky Radio Group accommodated. In 2007, the Telegraaf Media Groep NV acquired 85% (now 22.85%) of the company owned and thus control over the company.
The brand "Radio Veronica" has a long heritage in the Netherlands going back to the offshore station (VRON) in the 1960s and early 1970s later becoming (as VOO) part of the Dutch public broadcasting system before once again becoming a private venture however the station/brand has undergone several changes of ownership since.
Radio Veronica is comparable to NPO Radio 2 by their similarity of decades (1970s - today). The only difference is that NPO Radio 2 does play more genres than rock music.
In April 2023 Talpa Network sold the station to Mediahuis, due to a legal change it was no longer allowed for a single party to hold more than three fm-frequencies.
Fluctuations
Uunco Cerfontaine was since 2003 the program director of the station. Early 2013 was Niels Hoogland appointed as program director. On 4 November 2013 the station was a new course. This meant the dismissal of Erwin Peters, Bart van Leeuwen, Luc van Rooij and Dennis Hoebee. The change did not achieve a higher market share. Between January 2013 and October 2014, the market share decreased by 2%. Also Rob van Someren was replaced in autumn 2014 by Jeroen van Inkel. Niels Hoogland was replaced on 1 November 2014 by Erik de Zwart.
Erik de Zwart presented on 2 February 2015 a new programming. In this new course old items, such as "De Stemband", "De plaat en zijn verhaal" and Veronica FM program "Rinkeldekinkel" returned. The design of the station appears again in the eighties, but adapted to the present time. Further De Zwart took the DJs Bart Van Leeuwen and Dennis Hoebee back.
Charts
Current
Top 1000 allertijden
Album Top 1000 allertijden
80s Top 880
90s Top 590
00s Top 500
Top 500 van de 21ste eeuw
Top 40 Hitdossier
RockHits Top 500
Download Top 1000 allertijden
Former
De Download Top 750
70s Top 270
Soulshow Top 100
Spin-off stations
Radio Veronica and former radio and TV personnel also broadcast a number of spin-off stations which are available only via the Internet:
Veronica Top 1000 Allertijden
Veronica Rock |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Buenos%20Aires | The first trams in Buenos Aires began operating in 1863 in what quickly became a vast network of tramways with the city being known as the "City of Trams" for having the highest tramway-to-population ratio in the world. In the 1920s, Buenos Aires had of tramways and 99 tram lines using 3000 carriages running throughout the city. By 1963, the vast majority of the network began to be dismantled, though some minor tram services continue in the city today.
History
Horse-drawn and steam-powered trams
The first horse-drawn trams began circulating the city in 1863 as a feeder service to the railways, taking passengers from Plaza de Mayo to the Retiro Terminal, where it connected to the Buenos Aires Northern Railway. A second similar horse-drawn feeder service was established between Monserrat and the Constitución railway terminal in 1866 to service the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway.
The first urban tramways were inaugurated in 1870 by Argentine pioneer Federico Lacroze and his brother Julio. These two lines were the Lacroze brothers' Central Tramway (Tramway Central) and the Méndez brothers' Tramway 11 de Septiembre, which both ran parallel from Plaza de Mayo westwards to Plaza Miserere, currently the home of Once de Septiembre railway station. The tramways were first met with scepticism from the public, however by 1880 numerous other tram operators began to appear - such as the Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company - and the city would eventually emerge as having the largest tramway-to-population ratio in the world, gaining a global reputation for many decades as the "City of Trams". During this period, up until electrification, there was also an abundance of steam-powered trams which also gradually replaced the horse-drawn ones.
Electrification of the network
In 1880 Fyodor Pirotsky created the first electric tram in Saint Petersberg and Argentina opened its first electric tram in 1892 in the city of La Plata, south of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires would not receive its first electric trams until 1897 when the North American engineer Charles Bright and the Argentine engineer Juan Mallol opened their "Buenos Ayres Electric Tramway" and "Tramways La Capital" lines in the city. These vehicles operated at 30 km/h, which was considered to be extremely fast for the time and led a journalist writing about an initial voyage to refer to the electric tram as "a furious vehicle that eats up the ground with its frightening speed". By 1914, the last of the horse-drawn trams were retired and the - now much larger - network was completely electrified.
The Belgian Compagnie Générale de Tramways de Buenos-Ayres took over the Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company in 1908 and standardised much of the network, though many Argentine companies such as the Lacroze Company remained. In the early 1900s the network expanded rapidly as a result of electrification and by the mid-1920s the system has reached its maximum extension of 875 km with 3,000 vehicles carrying 650 millio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-J%C3%BCrgen%20Appelrath | Hans-Jürgen Appelrath (7 February 1952 – 5 August 2016) was a professor of computer science and information technology (IT) at the University of Oldenburg from 1987.
Early career
After graduating from high school in Duisburg in June 1970, Appelrath studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Bonn from 1970 to 1972. He then enrolled in the diploma course (old German Diplom) in computer science with minor in mathematics at the University of Dortmund, which he successfully completed in March 1977. From 1977 to 1983, he was a research associate of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Dortmund in various industrial collaboration projects. In May 1983, Appelrath was awarded his PhD by the University of Dortmund.
From 1984 to 1986, Appelrath was senior lecturer and research group leader at the Department of Computer Science of the ETH Zurich, where he was appointed as assistant professor of computer science in 1986. Between 1986 and 2001, he declined offers of professorship by the universities of Augsburg, Koblenz, Münster and Innsbruck.
Since 1987, Appelrath was a professor of computer science and IT at the University of Oldenburg, and, since 1991, a board member of the IT institute, Offis. From June 1992 to June 2005, he served as Chairman of Offis institute. From 2009 to 2010, he was Vice President for Research at the University of Oldenburg, and from June 2014 acting Vice President.
Later career
Appelrath was the author and publisher of numerous textbooks and publications. He was responsible for many, extensive third-party projects at the University of Oldenburg and its affiliated institute OFFIS, which employs about 280 academic staff.
He was a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). He also sat on the Advisory Board of Institute of Computer Science at University of Zurich and Computer Science Technology Center (TZI) at University of Bremen.
In addition, Appelrath was a member of supervisory boards of several companies and chairman of the Association of Cooperative Education in IT and Business, Oldenburg. (Berufsakademie für IT und Wirtschaft Oldenburg)
Awards
2004: Fellow of the German Society for Computer Science (Gesellschaft für Informatik)
2005: "Bull of Oldenburg" award given by the city of Oldenburg for extraordinary achievements in science, industry and major contributor to the city's economy.
2005: Lower Saxony Order of Merit
2007: Honorary Doctor of Carl Friedrich Gauss Faculty of Technical University of Braunschweig
References
External links
Department of Information Systems at the University of Oldenburg
Homepage of OFFIS, Institute of Information Technology
1952 births
2016 deaths
German computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Oldenburg
University of Bonn alumni
Technical University of Dortmund alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PoSeidon%20%28malware%29 | PoSeidon is a name for a family of malicious computer programs targeting computerized Point-of-Sale systems.
History
Cisco's "Talos" computer security research laboratory discovered and introduced the family of malware and their nickname "PoSeidon" on their security blog on 20 March 2015.
Operation
The malware attempts to steal both keystrokes and credit card numbers stored in system memory, by scanning RAM for Discover, Visa, MasterCard and AMEX issued credit cards. The credit card data is then encrypted and sent (exfiltrated) to a number of predefined Russian servers.
If the commercial remote administration software LogMeIn is installed, the LogMeIn settings are modified, forcing the next remote user to enter a username and password. This allows the username and password to be read into the keylogger and exfiltrated.
References
Windows trojans
Hacking in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20communication%20and%20telecommunication%20economics | Information communication and telecommunication economics refers to a broad range approach to the micro and macro economics of data consumption and management, voice or data. This application of micro cum macro economic principles to the subject matter here refers to three clear strategies vis-a-vis information, communication and telecommunication.
Information refers to data that is accurately organized and timely presented, so as to affect the end user's behavior. Information Economics on the other hand can be defined as the application micro and macro economic principles and policies to information consumption and management which ultimately drives economic, social, cultural and political growth and development. Communication refers to connecting people so as to organize them with a view of driving a common goal. Economics of Communication is about applying micro and macro economic principles to cost effectively connect, organize and achieve clearly defined goals. Telecommunication, is the exchange of information, voice or data, per time per space by electronic means. Then economics of Telecommunication is also the economics of Information Communication & Telecommunication refers to the branch of economics that APPLIES the principles of economics vis-a-vis demand, supply, market structures, consumer and producer behavior to the study and propound applicable theories to ICT markets and industry.
Information, communication and telecommunications economics: Policy options
Water resources management
ICT among other policy tools influence the efficient management of cross- country water resource. More so, Internet Users, Broadband Subscribers, and Mobile cell phones Subscribers strongly affect water resource management performance indicators (WRMPI). Contrary to wide spread expectations, education does not influence WRMPI.
GSM Companies, Job creation, GSM Industry expansion in Nigeria's Informal Sector
Trade policies of GSM companies influence the rate at which the ICT subsector expands. Contrary to wide spread expectations, education does not influence the rate of employment in this industry's informal sector.
References
Information technology consulting
Telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilegeddon | Mobilegeddon is a name for Google's search engine algorithm update of April 21, 2015. The term was coined by Chuck Price in a post written for Search Engine Watch on March 9, 2015. The term was then adopted by webmasters and web-developers.
The main effect of this update was to give priority to websites that display well on smartphones and other mobile devices. The change did not affect searches made from a desktop computer or a laptop.
Google announced its intention to make the change in February 2015. In addition to their announcement, Google published an article, "Mobile Friendly Sites," on their Google Developers page to help webmasters with the transition. Google claims the transition to mobile-friendly sites was to improve user experience, stating "the desktop version of a site might be difficult to view and use on a mobile device."
The protologism is a blend word of "mobile" and "Armageddon" because the change "could cause massive disruption to page rankings." But, writing for Forbes, Robert Hof says that concerns about the change were "overblown" in part because "Google is providing a test to see if sites look good on smartphones"..
Search engine results pages on smartphones now show URLs in "breadcrumb" format, as opposed to the previous explicit format.
Impact
Based on their data set, software company Searchmetrics found that the average loss of rankings for the non-mobile friendly sites measured was 0.21 positions on average. Content marketing company BrightEdge has tracked over 20,000 URLs since the update, and is reporting a 21% decrease in non mobile-friendly URLs on the first 3 pages of search results. According to Peter J. Meyers it was "nothing to write home about."
See also
Mobile Web
Adaptive web design
Responsive web design
Search engine optimization
References
Google Search
Search algorithms
Search engine optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%2099.5 | Sky 99.5fm (previously Radio Trinidad 730 AM) is a radio station in Trinidad and Tobago owned by the TBC Radio Network.
References
Radio stations in Trinidad and Tobago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walid%20Sultan%20Midani | Walid Sultan Midani (born April 3, 1983) is the founder and CEO of DigitalMania Studio, the first video game development studio in Tunisia.
Career
Walid gets his computer engineering degree from the private college of engineering and technology of Tunis (ESPRIT) in July 2008 and began his career in the field of video games.
In 2004, he co-founded startup Tunisia games that organised the Electronic Sports Tunisian Cup from 2005 to 2009. He also took part in the organisation board of the "Electronic Sports World Cup - ESWC" in Paris 2005 to 2007 and in California on 2008.
He launched the first video game studio in Tunisia: DigitalMania in 2011 of which he is the CEO.
In 2017, founded Yourun Ltd, video games and entertainment studio based in Malta. Their main title is Warshmallows a 2D arena shooter starring the Warshmallows, a tiny creatures with amazing powers. Yourun Ltd is also working on entertainment platforms mixing AI, blockchain and gamification.
He is also actually the co-founder of a Tunisian accelerator, Boost, and the co-director & co-founder of the Tunisian branch of the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, The Founder Institute.
References
Video game designers
Video game producers
1983 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutions%20Journalism%20Network | The Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) is an independent, non-profit organization that advocates an approach of solutions journalism, an evidence-based mode of reporting on the responses to social problems. It was founded in 2013 by David Bornstein, Courtney E. Martin, and Tina Rosenberg. Its staff in New York City and Oakland, California, help journalists and news organizations across the country understand, value, and build the capacity to do solutions-oriented reporting.
The mission of SJN is "to spread the practice of solutions journalism: rigorous and compelling reporting about responses to social problems". What SJN calls solutions journalism is preceded by very similar journalistic styles that have been practiced outside the United States, including "constructive journalism", which originated in Denmark.
As of November 2017, the organization says it had created working relationships with 180 newsrooms in the United States, exposing thousands of journalists to the practice of solutions journalism.
History
The Solutions Journalism Network grew out of the "Fixes" column in The New York Times Opinionator section written by journalists David Bornstein and Tina Rosenberg since October 2010. Together with Courtney Martin, an author, speaker, blogger and frequent contributor to "Fixes", they established SJN in February 2013.
SJN's first major project was a collaboration with The Seattle Times to produce a year-long series of solutions-oriented stories about public education called Education Lab. This initiative was extended for a second year. In its first year, SJN also launched a series of funds to provide financial support to journalists pursuing solutions stories on topics concerning climate change resilience, social and emotional learning, and women's economic equity.
Philosophy
SJN believes that most news reporting fails to fulfill journalism's mission to hold an accurate mirror up to society. While traditional journalism holds that a reporter's primary role is to expose problems, SJN argues that the press should also examine examples of responses to those problems, with the same degree of rigor. These responses, it holds, are an important part of what is happening in the world, and accurate coverage of society must include them to be able to provide the whole story.
SJN attempts to distinguish solutions journalism from "happy news", fluff or advocacy. By covering how people are attempting to solve problems, and writing objectively about the associated evidence of failure or success, solutions journalism seeks to provide information of value to society. SJN argues that such reporting strengthens the watchdog function of journalism: if some people have found newsworthy responses to a problem, it removes the excuses of those who are behaving badly.
SJN also argues that a steady diet of problem-focused reporting makes citizens passive, apathetic and disengaged. Research shows that news that is only about what's wrong with the world caus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn%20Scheirer | Jocelyn Scheirer is an American entrepreneur, scientist, and artist who has been working in wearable technology since the late 1990s. Her research focuses on Affective Computing, which she pursued while pursuing her PhD (pending) at MIT Media's Lab Affective Computing Group with Rosalind Picard. Scheirer invented and, along with MIT, patented the Galvactivator glove which measured skin conductance through sensors on the palm and relayed the varying intensity through an LED display.
She founded the intercommunication equipment and systems company Empathyx, Inc. in 2006 and co-founded the emotional analytics company Affectiva in 2009, serving as their director of operations until 2010. Scheirer has also created several visual and performance art pieces that have been featured in several galleries in Massachusetts including the MIT Museum, the Galatea Fine Art Gallery, and the Bromfield Gallery. She currently serves as CEO of the wearable company Bionolux Labs, LLC.
Education and published works
Scheirer graduated from Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts in 1985. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and English Literature from Tufts University in 1989. She then went on to earn her master's degree from Brandeis University, focusing on Developmental and Social Psychology, graduating in 1996. Scheirer later pursued a PhD in media arts and sciences while working as a research assistant in the MIT Media Lab's Affective Computing Group from 1996 to 2001.
Career
Shortly after graduating from Tufts University, Scheirer worked as a research technician under Arthur S. Tischler in the endocrine pathology lab at Tufts University School of Medicine from 1991 to 1994. She co-authored several works with Tischler concerning chromaffin cell proliferation in rats and humans. Two years later, Scheirer joined the MIT Media Lab as a research assistant in the Affective Computing Research Group and began developing affective objects, or physical objects that can record emotional data from a given subject and relay that information to that subject or to observers in a given environment. She published several studies on the topic with Rosalind Picard, the founder of the Affective Computing Research Group.
While at MIT Scheirer developed several affective objects with Picard including AboutFace, eyeglasses that can track changes facial movement characteristic of confusion and interest, Touch Phone, a telephone handset supplemented with pressure sensitive foam that changed the color of an icon on the recipient's screen, and the Galvactivator, a glove that measures skin conductance and relays the information via a glowing LED. Scheirer would continue to prototype the Galvactivator device in her future companies Empathyx, Inc. and Bionolux, LLC. Affectiva also licensed the patent in 2009.
Scheirer briefly worked as a consultant for Sherry Turkle in the Science, technology, and society department at MIT. conducting ethnographic research for Turkle's book A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Hero%206 | Big Hero 6 may refer to:
Big Hero 6 (comics), a team of superheroes appearing in IDW and Marvel Comics
Big Hero 6 (film), a 2014 computer-animated superhero film based on the comics characters
Big Hero 6: The Series, an animated series based on the 2014 film Big Hero 6
List of Big Hero 6: The Series episodes, list of the episodes of the TV series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20compression | In computer science, iterative compression is an algorithmic technique for the design of fixed-parameter tractable algorithms, in which one element (such as a vertex of a graph) is added to the problem in each step, and a small solution for the problem prior to the addition is used to help find a small solution to the problem after the step.
The technique was invented by Reed, Smith and Vetta to show that the problem of odd cycle transversal was solvable in time , for a graph with vertices, edges, and odd cycle transversal number . Odd cycle transversal is the problem of finding the smallest set of vertices of a graph that include at least one vertex from every odd cycle; its parameterized complexity was a longstanding open question. This technique later proved very useful in showing fixed-parameter tractability results. It is now considered to be one of the fundamental techniques in the area of parameterized algorithmics.
Iterative compression has been used successfully in many problems, for instance odd cycle transversal (see below) and edge bipartization, feedback vertex set, cluster vertex deletion and directed feedback vertex set. It has also been used successfully for exact exponential time algorithms for independent set.
Technique
Iterative compression applies, for instance, to parameterized graph problems whose inputs are a graph and a natural number , and where the problem is to test the existence of a solution (a set of vertices) of size . Suppose
that the problem is closed under induced subgraphs (if a solution of size exists in a given graph, then a solution of this size or smaller also exists in every induced subgraph) and that there exists an efficient subroutine that determines whether a solution of size can be compressed to a smaller solution of size .
If these assumptions are met, then the problem can be solved by adding vertices one at a time to an induced subgraph, and finding the solution to the induced subgraph, as follows:
Start with a subgraph induced by a vertex set of size , and a solution that equals itself.
While , perform the following steps:
Let be any vertex of , and add to
Test whether the -vertex solution } to can be compressed to a -vertex solution.
If it cannot be compressed, abort the algorithm: the input graph has no -vertex solution.
Otherwise, set to the new compressed solution and continue the loop.
This algorithm calls the compression subroutine a linear number of times. Therefore, if the compression variant is solvable in fixed-parameter tractable time, i.e., f(k) · nc for some constant c, then the iterative compression procedure solving the entire problem runs in f(k) · nc+1 time.
The same technique can be applied to finding sets of edges for graph properties closed under subgraphs (rather than induced subgraph), or for other properties beyond graph theory. When the value of the parameter is unknown, it can be found by using an outer level of exponential search or sequential search |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20H.%20Mealy | George H. Mealy (December 31, 1927 – June 21, 2010 in Scituate, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician and computer scientist who invented the namesake Mealy machine, a type of finite state transducer. He was also a pioneer of modular programming, one of the lead designers of the IPL-V programming language, and an early advocate of macro processors in assembly language programming.
Mealy went to Harvard University, where he was active in radio as business manager for WHRB. He graduated in 1951 with an A.B., and at that time began working for Bell Laboratories. He later taught at Harvard.
Selected publications
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References
1927 births
2010 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
American computer scientists
Harvard University alumni
Harvard University faculty
People from Scituate, Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Platform%20for%20NFV | Open Platform for NFV is a collaborative open source platform for network functions virtualization. It was started by the Linux Foundation in 2014. Member companies include
AT&T, Brocade Communications Systems, China Mobile, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks, NEC, Nokia Networks, NTT DoCoMo, Orange S.A., Red Hat, Telecom Italia and Vodafone.
References
External links
OPNFV Homepage
Virtual Central Office Homepage
Emerging technologies
Linux Foundation projects
Network architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th%20Signal%20Command%20%28United%20States%29 | The United States Army's 7th Signal Command (Theater) is responsible for the integration, security and defense of Army networks in the Continental United States. The 7th Signal Command is designed to extend Army network capabilities to Army forces in support of US based expeditionary operations. The command is one of five theater Signal Commands worldwide, and is a subordinate element of NETCOM/9th SC (Army). It was activated at Fort Gordon in July 2008.
Mission
Install, operate, and defend Network and Mission Command capabilities for Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational forces within the Western Hemisphere in support of Unified Land Operations. As directed, support other national missions or contingency operations.
Units
The command structure for 7th SC (T) includes the 21st Signal Brigade in Fort Detrick Maryland, 93rd Signal Brigade in Fort Eustis, Virginia, and 106th Signal Brigade in Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The 93rd operates Network Enterprise Centers (NECs) at installations in the Eastern United States, while the 106th operates NECs in the West.
References
Signal Commands of the United States Army |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natter%20%28social%20network%29 | Natter was a social network, often referred to as a "microblogging" or even "micro-microblogging" platform. Natter allowed its users or “natterers” to post up to 100 characters and an image in each post, which could then be seen by any online users.
Natter was first launched in 2014 as a website at natter.com, and later launched apps for both iOS and Android. Originally, each post could only contain up to three words and a hashtag.
On Friday, July 29, 2016, Natter ceased operations, due to competition, as well as a lack of funds.
In February 2017 Natter relaunched with a redesigned chat style app including direct messaging between users.
On September 6, 2018, Natter was shut down once again due to a steep decline in its userbase. Potential buyers of the software had approached Neil Stanley, the owner of Natter at the time, but ultimately backed out after too large a demand.
As of 2018, Natter's official website is defunct.
Community
Since its relaunch, the Natter user base grew rapidly after receiving significant aid from posts made on other social media sites, such as Tumblr and Twitter. Natter has thus developed a tight-knit community to the extent that it has commonly been referred to as a family by regular users.
The community often put on role-playing events dubbed "god wars", in which users change their icons and adopt characterized personas. These events have resulted in the development of "Natter Lore" surrounding some users and the nature of the social media site.
Once Natter had been shut down, with none willing to purchase it, a Mastodon instance of the same name was created, prompting a significant portion of the community to migrate to it.
References
External links
Defunct microblogging services
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/106th%20Signal%20Brigade%20%28United%20States%29 | The 106th Signal Brigade is an Army signal command located at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. Its mission is to secure and defend the western portion of Army networks in the contiguous United States.
History
The 106th Signal Brigade traces its history back to Birmingham Army Air Base, Alabama where it was constituted as the 932rd Signal Battalion and activated on 15 February 1943. Its mission was supporting Army Air Corps operations. In April 1944 the 932rd was reorganized and re-designated as the 932rd Signal Battalion. The 932rd served in Europe during World War II. The unit returned to the United States in October 1945 and was inactivated at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.
The 932rd was re-activated 12 August 1963 at Camp des Loges near Paris, France and re-designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 106th Signal Group as part of US Army Europe. It was assigned to US Army Strategic Communications Command (USASCC) on 1 July 1964. The unit remained in France until March 1967 when it was relocated to Stuttgart, Germany. The 106th was inactivated in Germany in November 1967.
On 16 October 1991, the 106th was again re-activated, this time in Corozal, Panama, re-designated as the 106th Signal Brigade, and assigned to US Army Information Systems Command (USAISC) providing strategic and tactical communications support to the US Army South (USARSO) and US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). The Brigade was inactivated in October 1997 as part of the provisions of the Panama Treaty of 1977.
On 16 July 2008, the 106th Signal Brigade was reorganized and re-activated at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as part of the 7th Signal Command (Theater).
References
Signal brigades of the United States Army |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza%20Derakhshani | Reza Derakhshani is an inventor and professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Missouri Kansas City. He is known for inventing and developing a biometric security system that uses the patterns of blood vessels in the eyes. His research has encompassed biometrics, biometric spoofing, biomedical signal and image processing, and computational intelligence.
After earning his B.S. at Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran, Derakhshani continued his studies at West Virginia University in Morganstown, where he earned his Ph.D. He later taught at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and then UMKC. His courses include advanced biomedical signal analysis, neural and adaptive systems courses and overseeing senior robotics design projects. Along with biometrics, he also researches biomedical signal and image processing and computational intelligence. Much of his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation's Center for Identification Technology Research.
He also serves as Chief Science Officer of EyeVerify, a Missouri-based startup company that develops and markets biometric security software based on Derakhshani's research.
Eye vein verification
Derakhshani identified the potential usefulness of the patterns of blood vessels in the sclera — the white part of the eyes — which are unique to each person. The pattern can be imaged and turned into a digital template, and then encoded with mathematical and statistical algorithms. These allow confirmation of the identity of the proper user and the rejection of anyone else.
Derakhshani holds several patents on the technology, including a 2008 patent for the concept of using the blood vessels seen in the whites of the eye as a unique identifier.
Honors and awards
2014 UMKC N.T. Veatch Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity.
2013 Silicon Prairie Technologist of the Year finalist.
Privacy by Design Ambassador (August 2013 – Present).
The 2008 UMKC Trustees’ Faculty Scholar Fellowship Award for distinguished research and creativity
January 2002 – January 2004. Lane Fellowship for highest academic achievement in field of study, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University.
References
External links
Personal website at UMKC
University of Missouri–Kansas City faculty
Living people
Biometrics
West Virginia University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20F.%20Blackwell | Alan F. Blackwell (born 1962) is a New Zealand-British cognition scientist and professor at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, known for his work on diagrammatic representation, on data and language modelling, investment modelling, and end-user software engineering.
Biography
Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Blackwell attended Newlands College, and received his BA in Electronic Engineering from the University of Auckland, and studied Comparative Religion and Medieval History at Massey University. Subsequently he obtained his MA in Computer Science from the Victoria University of Wellington, and later on his PhD in Psychology at Cambridge University.
After completing his MA, Blackwell started working at the New Zealand software company Progeni Systems Limited. In the UK he was a systems analyst for Cambridge Consultants Limited, where he designed real-time diagnostic and encryption systems. He later moved to Hitachi, where he worked at its Europe Advanced Software Centre. In the late 1990s, he joined the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge and became a reader at the University of Cambridge, Department of Neuroscience.
Work
Blackwell's research interest is in the field of constructing and applying "models of human behaviour when interacting with technology." Blackwell explained that "these models take a variety of forms, not all drawing on neuroscience, but I have a particular interest in neuroeconomic models of abstraction formation and use. This theoretical base is broadly applicable to the design of new technologies, including software that is programmable and customisable by end-users, and the use of domestic technologies."
Diagrammatic representation and reasoning
In the 1990s Blackwell started his academic research in diagrammatic representation and reasoning. With Yuri Engelhardt he investigated its history and developed a "taxonomy of diagram taxonomies" (1998), and a "meta-taxonomy for diagram research" (2002). In 2001 he edited the Springer publication Thinking with Diagrams. In its introduction he described that diagram have an important role in problem representation:
One of the central insights offered to cognitive science by artificial intelligence research is the importance of problem representation when creating effective implementations of intelligent behaviour. This is mirrored in experimental psychology by studies demonstrating that the form in which a problem is presented can make structurally identical problems either very easy or very difficult to solve. Diagrams are an interesting artefact for this reason — their purpose is purely to modify the representation of problem situations.
According to Blackwell, many questions about diagrams have remained open. One of the reason is its status between linguistics and perceptual theory:
Diagrams are not easily amenable to the methods that have been used to investigate other varieties of human markings. They are not linguistic in the way that speech and written te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Test%20Specification%20Language | Universal Test Specification Language (UTSL) is a programming language used to describe ASIC tests in a format that leads to an automated translation of the test specification into an executable test code. UTSL is platform independent and provided a code generation interface for a specific platform is available, UTSL code can be translated into the programming language of a specific Automatic Test Equipment (ATE).
History
Increased complexity of ASICs leads to requirements of more complex test programs with longer development times. An automated test program generation could simplify and speed up this process. Teradyne Inc. together with Robert Bosch GmbH agreed to develop a concept and a tool chain for an automated test-program generation. To achieve this a tester independent programming language was required. Hence, UTSL, a programming language that enables detailed description of tests that can be translated into the ATE specific programming language was developed. The ATE manufacturers need to provide a Test Program Generator that uses the UTSL test description as inputs and generates the ATE-specific test code with optimal resource mapping and better practice program code.
As long as the ATE manufacturer provides with the test program generator that can use UTSL as an input the cumbersome task of translating a test program from one platform to another can be significantly simplified. In other words, the task of rewriting of the test programs for a specific platform can be replaced by the automatically generating the code from the UTSL based test specification. Prerequisite for this is that the UTSL description of tests is sufficiently detailed with definition of the test technique as well as the description of all the necessary inputs and outputs.
Being a platform independent programming language, UTSL allows the engineers to read, analyse and modify the tests in the test specification regardless of the ATE at which the testing of the ASIC will be done. UTSL is based on C# and allows procedural programming and is class oriented. The classes contain sub-classes which in term have their sub-classes.
UTSL contains high amount of commands and test-functions. It also allows the usage of commonly known high level programming language syntax elements such as "if/then/else" , etc.
Design
UTSL is a C# like language where the test are defined as blocks of code. Simple tests such a forcing current and measuring voltage or vice versa can be written in UTSL and with the means of the ATE (Automatic Test Equipment) specific code generator translated into testable code (see the picture1).
UTSL allows the user to set the instruments ranges and clamps in order to guarantee the measurement precision and to prevent the measurements from exceeding the instrument clamp values. The current UTSL capabilities can cover c.a. 70% of the required test specification for ASIC testing. For the remaining 30% one could use the option of writing comments in an infor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downgrade%20attack | A downgrade attack, also called a bidding-down attack or version rollback attack, is a form of cryptographic attack on a computer system or communications protocol that makes it abandon a high-quality mode of operation (e.g. an encrypted connection) in favor of an older, lower-quality mode of operation (e.g. cleartext) that is typically provided for backward compatibility with older systems. An example of such a flaw was found in OpenSSL that allowed the attacker to negotiate the use of a lower version of TLS between the client and server. This is one of the most common types of downgrade attacks. Opportunistic encryption protocols such as STARTTLS are generally vulnerable to downgrade attacks, as they, by design, fall back to unencrypted communication. Websites which rely on redirects from unencrypted HTTP to encrypted HTTPS can also be vulnerable to downgrade attacks (e.g., sslstrip), as the initial redirect is not protected by encryption.
Attack
Downgrade attacks are often implemented as part of a Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, and may be used as a way of enabling a cryptographic attack that might not be possible otherwise. Downgrade attacks have been a consistent problem with the SSL/TLS family of protocols; examples of such attacks include the POODLE attack.
Downgrade attacks in the TLS protocol take many forms. Researchers have classified downgrade attacks with respect to four different vectors, which represents a framework to reason about downgrade attacks as follows:
There are some recent proposals that exploit the concept of prior knowledge to enable TLS clients (e.g. web browsers) to protect sensitive domain names against certain types of downgrade attacks that exploit the clients' support for legacy versions or non-recommended ciphersuites (e.g. those that do not support forward secrecy or authenticated encryption) such as the POODLE, ClientHello fragmentation, and a variant of the DROWN (aka "the special drown") downgrade attacks.
Removing backward compatibility is often the only way to prevent downgrade attacks. However, sometimes the client and server can recognize each other as up-to-date in a manner that prevents them. For example, if a Web server and user agent both implement HTTP Strict Transport Security and the user agent knows this of the server (either by having previously accessed it over HTTPS, or because it is on an "HSTS preload list"), then the user agent will refuse to access the site over vanilla HTTP, even if a malicious router represents it and the server to each other as not being HTTPS-capable.
See also
Side-channel attack
References
Backward compatibility
Computer network security
Cryptographic attacks
Transport Layer Security
Web security exploits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless%20society | The term classless society refers to a society in which no one is born into a social class. Distinctions of wealth, income, education, culture, or social network might arise and would only be determined by individual experience and achievement in such a society.
Thus, the concept posits not the absence of a social hierarchy but the uninheritability of class status.
Helen Codere defines social class as a segment of the community, the members of which show a common social position in a hierarchical ranking. Codere suggest that a true class-organized society is one in which the hierarchy of prestige and social status is divisible into groups. Each group with its own social, economic, attitudinal and cultural characteristics, and each having differential degrees of power in community decision.
Since determination of life outcome by birth class has proved historically difficult to avoid, advocates of a classless society such as anarchists, communists and libertarian socialists propose various means to achieve and maintain it. They attach varying degrees of importance to it as an end in their overall programs/philosophy.
For the opposite see class society.
Classlessness
The term classlessness has been used to describe different social phenomena.
In societies where classes have been abolished, it is usually the result of a voluntary decision by the membership to form such a society to abolish a pre-existing class structure in an existing society or to form a new one without any. This would include communes of the modern period such as various American utopian communities or the kibbutzim as well as revolutionary and political acts at the nation-state level such as the Paris Commune or the Russian Revolution. The abolition of social classes and the establishment of a classless society is the primary goal of anarchism, communism and libertarian socialism.
According to Ulrich Beck, classlessness is achieved with class struggle: "It is the collective success with class struggle which institutionalizes individualization and dissolves the culture of classes, even under conditions of radicalizing inequalities". Essentially, classlessness will exist when the inequalities and injustice out ranks societies idea of the need for social ranking and hierarchy.
While Rolf Becker and Andreas Hadjar argue that class identity has weakened, in that "class position no longer generates a deep sense of identity and belonging", others maintain that class continues to affect lives, such as how children's success in education correlates with their parents' wealth.
Marxist definition
In Marxist theory, tribal hunter-gatherer society, primitive communism, was classless. Everyone was equal in a basic sense as a member of the tribe and the different functional assignments of the primitive mode of production, howsoever rigid and stratified they might be, did not and could not simply because of the numbers produce a class society as such. With the transition to agriculture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Peers | Frank Wayne Peers (January 18, 1918 – October 2016) was a Canadian political scientist and historian. He is a former Director of Information Programming at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who later taught at the University of Toronto in the Department of Political Economy. He is the author of two books and many articles about the politics of broadcasting in Canada.
Early life and education
Peers was born in Alsask, Saskatchewan. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1936 and a Bachelor of Education in 1943 from the University of Alberta (Mount Royal College). In 1948, he received his Masters of Arts and then a Doctorate degree from the University of Toronto in 1966.
Career
Peers worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he served as the head of Public Affairs, and then Director of Information Programming. In 1954 he was a delegate to the Commonwealth Conference in Lahore, Pakistan.
In 1963 he began teaching Canadian politics in what was then the Department of Political Economy, at the University of Toronto. He authored two studies, The Politics of Canadian Broadcasting, 1920-1951 (UTP 1969) and The Public Eye: Television and the Politics of Canadian Broadcasting, 1952-1968 (UTP 1979), as well as articles in various journals.
In the late 1970s, he also co-edited the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Peers retired from his academic post in 1983. He died in Toronto in October 2016 at the age of 98.
Philanthropy
After his retirement, Peers endowed several graduate scholarships named for professors serving before and during his own years in the department, including the Alexander Brady/MacGregor Dawson Scholarships, the Peter Russell OGS Scholarship, the Ted Hodgetts OGS Scholarship, the Paul Fox OGS Scholarship, the Stefan Dupré OGS Scholarship, the Frank Peers OGS Scholarship and Graduate Fellowship, the Ken Bryden Scholarship in Canadian Government and Politics, the Tom Easterbrook Graduate Scholarship in Mass Media, and the A.W. Johnson Graduate Scholarship in Canadian Government and Public Administration.
With Professor Peter Russell, Peers initiated the creation of the C.B. Macpherson Dissertation Fellowships. He also endowed an undergraduate scholarship at the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies honouring the retirement of David Rayside.
Honours
In 2014, the Graduate Student Space for Political Science students on the third floor of Sidney Smith Hall, was named the Frank Peers Room in his honour.
References
External links
Frank Peers personal records held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
Frank Peers research records on Canadian broadcasting and the CBC held at the University of Toronto Media Commons Archives
journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/viewFile/.../13752
http://www.utppublishing.com/The-Politics-of-Canadian-Broadcasting-1920-1951.html
http://www.utppublishing.com/The-Public-Eye-Television-and-the-Politics-of-Canadian-Broadcasting-1952-19 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%20Binzumovich%20Leviev | Lev Binzumovich Leviev (born June 22, 1984) is an Israeli-Russian entrepreneur and investor, founder of international venture capital firm LVL1, co-founder of Russia's largest social network VK.com (originally VKontakte) and the Selectel data center network.
Early life and education
Leviev was born in Volgograd. He attended the American school in Herzliya, Israel, where he met his future business partner Vyacheslav Mirilashvili. In 2006, he earned a bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance and Accounting at McGill University in Canada, where he graduated with honors.
He is married.
Early career
VK.com
In 2006, he co-founded VK.com with his friends, Yitzchak Mirilashvili and Pavel Durov.
Leviev and Vyacheslav invested tens of thousands of dollars in the project. The money was borrowed from Mirilashvili-Sr. Leviev's share was 10%. From the moment of founding the company until 2012, he was the Chief Operating Officer of VK.com.
Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies fund was the company's first external investor. He bought a quarter of the network in 2007 and later merged DST's shareholdings into the Mail.Ru Group. At the end of 2010, the holding increased its VK.com ownership stake by 7.5% - from 24.99% to 32.49%. Mail.ru Group secured the option to buy another 7.5% of VK.com in 2011.
In July 2011, Mail.ru exercised the option and increased its shareholding to 39.99% which reduced the total share of the partners from 55.5% to 48.01% making Leviev's share between 6% or 8%, according to various sources.
Having learned about negotiations between his fellow co-founders and Alisher Usmanov in March 2012, Durov deleted their profiles id3 and id4. Leviev and Mirilashvili were planning to exit VK.com via an IPO for $3 bln, but at the end of March, Durov announced that the social network would not IPO for an undefined period.
In April 2013, Ilya Sherbovich's investment fund, United Capital Partners, paid an estimated $840 mln for the partner's share. Assuming a valuation of $1.75 bln for the entire network, Leviev would have received $105–140 mln.
During the conflict between UCP and Pavel Durov, the fund considered Leviev as a potential CEO of VK.com.
Selectel
In 2007, Leviev and Vyacheslav Mirilashvili founded the Selectel data center network to provide for VK.com’s needs in processing and storing servers.
By 2009, VK.com’s full server capacity was being managed by Selectel. In 2012, VK.com opened its own data center, but it still remains a client of Selectel.
After selling his VK.com shares in September 2014, Leviev assumed the role of CEO at Selectel.
In May 2014, it was reported that Selectel was investing ₽1 bln in a technopark in Saint Petersburg that would include a data center, offices and warehouses.
By the end of 2016, Selectel was ranked the fourth largest IaaS provider for public and hybrid cloud in Russia (based on revenue).
By 2017, the company was one of the largest IaaS providers in Russia, with a market share of 7%. At t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian%20Petre | Marian Petre (born 1959) is a British computer scientist and Professor of Computing at the Open University and Director of its Centre for Research in Computing (CRC), known for her work on Visual Programming Environments, and co-developed the concept of cognitive dimensions of notations.
Education
Petre obtained her Ph.D. in computer science from the University College London in 1989.
Career and research
In 1990 she started her academic career at the Institute for Perception Research (IPO), in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, which was directed by Theo Bemelmans. Back in Britain she joined the Open University and started cooperation with Thomas R.G. Green, with whom she developed the concept of cognitive dimensions of notations. At the Open University she was eventually promoted to Professor of Computing. Petre was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in "recognition of her empirical research into software design."
Selected publications
Her selected publications include:
Fincher, Sally, and Marian Petre, eds. Computer science education research. CRC Press, 2004.
Petre, Marian, and Gordon Rugg. The unwritten rules of PhD research. McGraw-Hill International, 2010.
Green, Thomas R.G., Marian Petre, and R. K. E. Bellamy. "Comprehensibility of visual and textual programs: A test of superlativism against the’match-mismatch’conjecture." ESP 91.743 (1991): 121–146.
Petre, Marian. "Why looking isn't always seeing: readership skills and graphical programming." Communications of the ACM 38.6 (1995): 33–44.
Green, Thomas R. G., and Marian Petre. "Usability analysis of visual programming environments: a ‘cognitive dimensions’ framework." Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 7.2 (1996): 131–174.
Petre, Marian, and Alan F. Blackwell. "Mental imagery in program design and visual programming." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 51.1 (1999): 7-30.
Carswell, L., Thomas, P., Petre, M., Price, B., & Richards, M. (2000). "Distance education via the Internet: The student experience." British Journal of Educational Technology, 31(1), 29-46
References
1959 births
Living people
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
British cognitive scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
Alumni of University College London
Academics of the Open University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenon%20Kulpa | Zenon Kulpa (born 1946) is a Polish computer scientist, and Assistant Professor at Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of Polish Academy of Sciences, known for his work on diagrammatic representation and diagrammatic reasoning.
Biography
Kulpa obtained his M.Sc. in Electronics at the Electronics Faculty of the Warsaw Technical University, and his PhD in Computer Science from the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
After his studies Kulpa started working for the Institute of Automatic Control of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in the late 1960s. There he met the computer scientist Ryszard S. Michalski. With Michalski he wrote his first English articles, entitled "A System of Programs for the Synthesis of Switching Circuits Using the Method of Disjoint Stars" presented at the 1971 IFIP Congress in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
Later in the 1970s he focussed his work on the field of computer graphics and image processing, and in the 1990s on diagrammatic representation and reasoning. In In 2006 he obtained his D.Sc. in Computer Science from the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warsaw, Poland, with the thesis "Diagrammatic interval analysis with applications." Kulpa was one of the founding members of the Polish Computer Science Society (PTI) and member of the Planetary Society.
Selected publications
Bolc, Leonard, and Zenon Kulpa, eds. Digital image processing systems. Vol. 109. Springer, 1981.
Kulpa, Zenon. Diagrammatic interval analysis with applications. Diss. Instytut Podstawowych ProblemĂłw Techniki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2006.
Articles, a selection:
Michalski, Ryszard S., and Zenon Kulpa. "A system of programs for the synthesis of switching circuits using the method of disjoint stars." (1972).
Kulpa, Zenon. "Area and perimeter measurement of blobs in discrete binary pictures." Computer Graphics and Image Processing 6.5 (1977): 434-451.
Kulpa, Zenon. "On the properties of discrete circles, rings, and disks." Computer graphics and image processing 10.4 (1979): 348-365.
Kulpa, Zenon. "Diagrammatic representation and reasoning." Machine GRAPHICS & VISION 3 (1/2. 1994.
Kulpa, Zenon. "Diagrammatic representation for a space of intervals." Machine Graphics & Vision. 1997.
Kulpa, Zenon. "From picture processing to interval diagrams." Prace Instytutu Podstawowych Problemów Techniki PAN (2003): 1-313.
References
External links
Zenon Kulpa Home Page, 1994-2009 at web.archive.org.
1946 births
Living people
Polish computer scientists
Polish cognitive scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
Warsaw University of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristolochia%20tricaudata | Aristolochia tricaudata is a species of perennial plant in the family Aristolochiaceae. It is found in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico.
References
External links
tricaudata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core-and-pod | Core-and-pod design is a computer network design that uses individual pods that hang off the core layer as atomic units.
Within the pod, there may be only a single access layer or a “leaf and spine” network in the pod. The routed core layer serves as a fast and simple way to connect many generations of pods to each other. When the “leaf and spine” network is used within the pod, the core layer can be referred to as the “spine of spines,” since it is the thing that connects the “spines” of the pods. This design then resembles some kind of large and wide tree, with many “branches,” or pods, off the main “trunk,” or core.
This new design differs from the original “three-tier” architecture through the fact that pods can be bundled as a unit. The units can be manipulated as however the staff of the network pleases. The new design also requires the staff of the network to understand the many designs and tools that can be used to manage the different pod iterations.
See also
Network planning and design
Data center network architectures
References
External links
Data Center Networks: Topologies, Architectures and Fault-Tolerance Characteristics
Want a more efficient data center? Maybe it's time you tried a core and pod setup
Network architecture
Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcolona%20nodata | Microcolona nodata is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1897. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania.
The wingspan is 7–8 mm. The forewings are ochreous, mixed with white and sprinkled with dark fuscous, almost wholly suffused with white on the anterior half and sometimes throughout. There is a raised black dot on the fold at one-sixth and a larger one beneath the fold at one-third, a third in the disc before the middle, as well as a fourth beneath the fold obliquely beyond the third. There are two transversely placed close together or confluent above the tornus. There is sometimes a blackish costal dot beyond the middle and always a black apical dot and another obliquely above and before it. The hindwings are whitish grey.
References
Moths described in 1897
Microcolona
Moths of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa%20Fitzgerald | Willa Fitzgerald (born January 17, 1991) is an American actress. She is known for her starring role as Emma Duval in MTV's Scream. She has played cheer coach Colette French in the USA Network's television drama series Dare Me and officer Roscoe Conklin in the Amazon Prime Video television series Reacher. Her other notable roles include Amazon Studios' television series Alpha House, the USA Network's drama series Royal Pains, and Netflix's horror miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher.
Life and career
After first studying psychology for three years, Fitzgerald earned her Bachelor's Degree in Theater Studies from Yale University.
Between 2013 and 2014, Fitzgerald played the role of Lola Laffer in the Amazon Studios political web television series Alpha House. The series lasted two seasons before being cancelled. On April 23, 2014, it was reported that Fitzgerald obtained a recurring role in USA Network's drama series Royal Pains as Emma Miller. Between 2014 and 2015, she also obtained guest-starring roles in various television series such as Blue Bloods, The Following and Gotham.
On August 5, 2014, Fitzgerald was cast in MTV's Scream. On July 29, 2015, the series was renewed for a second season that premiered on May 30, 2016. On April 26, 2017, MTV announced that Scream would undergo a reboot featuring a new cast.
Fitzgerald's credits in theater include works such as Couple in the Kitchen, The Private Sector, Cow Play and The Cat and the Canary. In August 2016, she joined the cast of the film Misfortune, directed by Lucky McKee and released in October 2017 under the title Blood Money.
In January 2016, she was cast in the go90 web series Relationship Status. She portrayed the role of Beth in a two-episode arc.
In March 2017, Fitzgerald was cast in a starring role in the Fox television pilot Behind Enemy Lines, playing Navy pilot Roxanne Daly, though Fox passed on the pilot in May 2017. In July 2017, Fitzgerald was cast to play Meg in the BBC miniseries Little Women based on Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. It premiered on Boxing Day, 2017.
In November 2017, Fitzgerald was cast as the lead of E!s pilot #Fashionvictim as Anya St. Clair. In March 2018, the pilot was not commissioned to go forward with E!.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2018/03/e-juicy-stories-pilot-michael-patrick-king-amy-harris-juicy-couture-founders-fashionvictim-dead-1202346440/ |first=Nellie |last=Andreeva |title=E! Picks Up 'Juicy Stories' Dramedy From Michael Patrick King, Amy Harris & Juicy Couture Founders To Pilot, '#Fashionvictims Dead |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=March 20, 2018 |access-date=August 3, 2018}}</ref> In December 2017, she was cast to play Kitsey Barbour in The Goldfinch based on Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, which was released on September 13, 2019.
In July 2018, Fitzgerald was cast as one of the lead roles in the USA Network drama pilot Dare Me, which was picked up to series in January 2019. On |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ministry%20of%20Foreign%20Affairs%20of%20Russia%20overseas%20schools | The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs operates a network of overseas schools for children of Russian diplomats.
Africa
North America
South America
Asia
Europe
Oceania
References
Lists of international schools
Russia education-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand-based%20switching | Demand-based switching (DBS) is a computer technology term which refers to the process of using software to optimize the use of hardware resources.
Intel uses demand-based switching power management technology to control power voltage consumption at different states of a computer's operations. DBS routines select a minimum clock speed of the microprocessor appropriate to the workload which specific tasks being performed by the computer place on the processor. This results in less electricity being consumed, both by the processor and by fans counteracting excess heat output.
Intel's processor technology takes advantage of DBS techniques. AMD processors uses a similar process, which the company calls "Power Now".
Demand-based switching is also sometimes used in route-caching routines in local area networks to ensure efficient packet switching and traffic flow. Software DBS algorithms are frequently used in Linux servers.
References
Electrical power control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari%20Luotonen | Ari Luotonen is a Finnish software developer and author.
He studied for M.Sc. in Tampere University of Technology, but cut his studies short with an Equivalent of B.Sc. in Computer Science. In July 1993, he moved to Geneva to work for CERN. There, he wrote a large proportion of CERN httpd, especially HTTP caching support. In addition, Luotonen contributed to the implementation of numerous CGI applications, the most famous being the WIT - W3 Interactive Talk.
In September 1994, Luotonen began working at Mosaic Communications, founded a few months earlier. Mosaic would become in two months time as of November 1994 the renamed Netscape Communications Corporation.
Works
References
Living people
1971 births
Finnish computer programmers
People associated with CERN
Finnish expatriates in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%20the%20Love%20Begin%20%28TV%20series%29 | Let the Love Begin is a 2015 Philippine television drama romance comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 2005 Philippine film of the same title. Directed by Gina Alajar, it stars Ruru Madrid and Gabbi Garcia. It premiered on May 4, 2015 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Once Upon a Kiss. The series concluded on August 7, 2015 with a total of 70 episodes. It was replaced by Beautiful Strangers in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Erick and Pia were childhood friends and got separated due to their parents' arguments. They will meet again as teenagers, with Erick eventually falling in love with Pia. When Pia's stepmother, Celeste, and Luchie torture Pia and her family, it leads to the both of them deciding to end their relationship.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Ruru Madrid as Frederick "Erick" M. Pontenciano / DJ 1D
Gabbi Garcia as Sophia Alexandra "Pia" V. Sta. Maria
Supporting cast
Ai-Ai delas Alas as Jenina "Jeni" Magtanggol-Pontenciano / DJ Pabebeyoncé
Ar Angel Aviles as Elsa Pontenciano
Gina Pareño as Maria Anastacia "Tacing" Magtanggol
Gardo Versoza as Antonio "Tony" Sta. Maria / DJ Tony
Donita Rose as Celeste Estuar-Dela Vega
Rita De Guzman as Luchie Estuar-Dela Vega
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Jose Marie Quinto / DJ Jom
Gladys Reyes as Katrina Fernandez / DJ Katy Fairy
Neil Ryan Sese as DJ Jesse
Noel Trinidad as Milton Villasanta
Phytos Ramirez as Rafael "Uno" Fernandez / fake DJ 1D
Therese Malvar as Lily
Rhen Escaño as Connie
Abel Estanislao as Makoy
Sancho Vito Delas Alas as Caloy
Nomer Limatog as Jules
Rob Sy as Alex
Vince Gamad as Danny
Lucho Ayala as Edison
Kenneth Paul Cruz as Michael
Ricardo Cepeda as Rodney
Joko Diaz as Enrico
Angeli Bayani as Eds
Guest cast
Rich Asuncion as Melissa Magtanggol-Pontenciano
Rita Avila as Sofia "Sofie" Villasanta-Sta. Maria
Polo Ravales as Francisco "Kiko" Estuar-Dela Vega
Joyce Burton as Victoria Estuar
Andre Paras as Bradley "Brad" Castillo (a character from The Half Sisters)
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Let the Love Begin earned a 19.7% rating. While the final episode scored a 22.1% rating which is the series' highest rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romantic comedy television series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rich%20Man%27s%20Daughter | The Rich Man's Daughter is a 2015 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Rhian Ramos and Glaiza de Castro. It premiered on May 11, 2015 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Second Chances. The series concluded on August 7, 2015 with a total of 65 episodes. It was replaced by My Faithful Husband in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Jade Tanchingco is born into a wealthy and traditional Chinese-Filipino family. She always believed she would end up married to her boyfriend, David, until she falls in love with a woman, Althea Guevarra.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Rhian Ramos as Jade Tanchingco
Glaiza de Castro as Althea Guevarra
Supporting cast
Luis Alandy as David Limjoco
Katrina Halili as Louella "Wila" Mateo
Mike Tan as Paul Tanchingco
Chynna Ortaleza as Batchi Luna
Sheena Halili as Sally Lim-Tanchingco
Gloria Romero as Ama Cecilia Tanchingco
Pauleen Luna as Pearl Sy-Tanchingco
Paolo Contis as Tommy Alvaro
TJ Trinidad as Gabriel Tanchingco
Charee Pineda as Angeline "Angie" San Jose
Stephanie Sol as Abby Reyes-Luna
Al Tantay as Oscar "Oca" Tanchingco
Glydel Mercado as Amanda Dionisio-Tanchingco
Tony Mabesa as John Tanchingco
Guest cast
Raquel Monteza as Julie Limjoco
Bryan Benedict as Gerald Luna
Eva Darren as Isabeli Tanchingco
Bing Davao as Lucky Tanchingco
Lito Legaspi as Felix Guevarra
Marc Justine Alvarez as Miggy Alvaro
Kariz Espinosa as Marinelle Luna
Ken Alfonso as Lester
Ken Chan as young Angkong
Jackie Rice as young Ama
Robert Arevalo as JunJun
Andrew Schimmer as Jay
Solenn Heussaff as Kathleen
Production
Marian Rivera was originally cast for role of Jade Tanchingco. She later left the series in April 2015, due to her pregnancy. In the same month, Rhian Ramos was hired as replacement.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of The Rich Man's Daughter earned a 20.7% rating, which is the series' highest rating. While the final episode scored a 19.8% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
2010s LGBT-related drama television series
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Lesbian-related television shows
Philippine LGBT-related television shows
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%20Mucci | Mara Mucci (born 5 July 1982) is an Italian politician.
Born in Bologna, Mucci got a degree in computer science, did competitive swimming, and also was a theater actress and a photographer.
In 2013 Mucci was elected deputy for the 5 Star Movement. On 26 January 2015 she announced along with other eight deputies and one senator her exit from the party, and entered the new group Free Alternative.
References
External links
Italian Chamber of Deputies - Mara Mucci
1982 births
Living people
Politicians from Bologna
Five Star Movement politicians
Free Alternative politicians
Deputies of Legislature XVII of Italy
21st-century Italian women politicians
Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20workbench | A language workbench is a tool or set of tools that enables software development in the language-oriented programming software development paradigm. A language workbench will typically include tools to support the definition, reuse and composition of domain-specific languages together with their integrated development environment. Language workbenches were introduced and popularized by Martin Fowler in 2005.
Language workbenches usually support:
Specification of the language concepts or metamodel
Specification of the editing environments for the domain-specific language
Specification of the execution semantics, e.g. through interpretation and code generation
Examples
Racket is a cross-platform language development workbench including compiler, JIT compiler, IDE and command-line tools designed to accommodate creating both domain-specific languages and completely new languages with facilities to add new notation, constrain constructs, and create IDE tools.
JetBrains MPS is a tool for designing domain-specific languages. It uses projectional editing which allows overcoming the limits of language parsers, and building DSL editors, such as ones with tables and diagrams. It implements language-oriented programming. MPS combines an environment for language definition, a language workbench, and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for such languages.
Kermeta is an open-source academic language workbench. The Kermeta workbench uses three different meta-languages: one meta-language for the abstract syntax (aligned with Emof); one for the static semantics (aligned with OCL) and one for the behavioral semantics (called the Kermeta Language itself).
Melange is a language workbench that provides a modular approach for customizing, assembling and integrating multiple domain-specific language (DSL) specifications and implementations.
Spoofax. is an open-source language workbench for generating parsers, type checkers, compilers, interpreters, as well as IDE plugins for Eclipse and IntelliJ. It uses SDF and a scannerless GLR parser for syntax, and formalisms derived from Stratego/XT for semantics.
Xtext is an open-source software framework for developing programming languages and domain-specific languages (DSLs). Unlike standard parser generators, Xtext generates not only a parser, but also a class model for the abstract syntax tree. In addition, it provides a fully featured, customizable Eclipse-based IDE.
Meeduse is an EMF-based framework that allows one to build, prove and animate executable domain-specific languages (xDSLs) using the B Method. The tool embeds ProB, and animator and model-checker of the B Method.
See also
Language-oriented programming
Compiler-compiler
Intentional programming
:Category:Language workbench
References
External links
Martin Fowler, Language Workbench
Language Workbench Challenge
2005 introductions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Cyber-shot%20DSC-HX90V | The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX90V is a superzoom compact camera, which can zoom up to 30x; equivalent to 24-720mm. At the time of its release, it is the world's smallest superzoom digital camera (along with its sibling, the WX500). It features optical image stabilization, an AF Illuminator, an 18.2MP BSI Active pixel sensor and has customizable settings. The camera has a pop-up OLED electronic viewfinder that has 638,400 dots and is far brighter than any other conventional electronic viewfinders. The camera’s screen is a 3" TFT LCD (921,000 dots) that tilts upward 180 degrees. Also borrowed from the RX100 is a customizable ring around the front of the lens. The HX90V can record video at 1080/60p using the XAVC S codec, which allows for bit rates up to 50MBps. The camera has a built-in GPS; used for geotagging. The camera also has built-in Wi-Fi with NFC and Bluetooth, which means you can connect your camera to your phone or tablet by using PlayMemories Camera Apps.
See also
List of superzoom compact cameras
References
Information
Specifications
Manual And Help Guides in PDF for Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX90V
Point-and-shoot cameras
Superzoom cameras
HX90V
Cameras introduced in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Prewitt | Kenneth Bernard Prewitt (December 14, 1946 — April 11, 2015) was an American radio news anchor who reported on economic news for CBS, ABC, and Bloomberg Radio networks. Together with Tom Keene, he co-anchored Bloomberg Radio's flagship program, Bloomberg Surveillance, from 2005 to 2013. According to Bloomberg, he was seen as the authoritative voice through interviewing many Wall Street billionaires and the former Federal Reserve chairman. Prewitt died April 11, 2015 at his home in Manhattan, from complications caused by brain cancer. He had been on leave since receiving the diagnosis in 2013.
See also
Tom Keene
References
1946 births
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
American radio news anchors
2015 deaths
deaths from brain tumor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwezi%20Sifunda | Khwezi Sifunda, better known as Khwezi (born in Pietermartizburg, South Africa) is a South African computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, music producer and businessman.
History
Khwezi is the founder and CEO of WeAreAfriKa. He gained popularity by being named as a feature artist on 5FM, South Africa's most popular radio station, as an artist on Rocking The Republic, a feature show on the radio station. Khwezi has worked with or written for notable artists/producers such as Rye Rye, Dej Loaf, DJ Chuckie, Makeba Riddick and Chris Brown.
On 1 June 2016 Khwezi founded "MBK" a London based company and presently serves as the CEO.
Musical career
On 11 June 2014 he signed with Sony Music Entertainment's RCA Records. He released his debut single "Top of the World" on 17 April 2015. He got his first career number 1 record on May 24, 2015 when "Top of the World" reached the top spot on the OFM local music charts.
On 7 August 2015 he released the Babylon EP as a digital download on Sony Music.
Khwezi's track 'Feeling High', released on the independent American record label 'Bonfire Records' has gained over 2.1 million streams on streaming service Spotify.
Awards and nominations
OFM Awards
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|2015
| rowspan="2"|Khwezi
| rowspan="2"|Song of the Year
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Metro FM Music Awards.
The Metro FM Music Awards are held annually by the South African Radio Station Metro FM.
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|2014
| rowspan="2"|Danny K
| rowspan="2"|Best RnB Album
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South African Music Awards
The South African Music Awards (SAMAs) are an annual award ceremony, run by the Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA), where accolades are presented to members of South Africa's music industry.
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|2015
| rowspan="2"|Toya Delazy
| rowspan="2"|Best Pop Album
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Discography
References
External links
https://soundcloud.com/khweziofficial
http://www.beatport.com/artist/probsnmayhem
https://archive.today/20130421203156/http://www.5fm.co.za/djs/Catherine/blog/rocking-the-republic-probsnmayhem/send-share
Living people
South African DJs
1993 births
South African record producers
Electronic dance music DJs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca%20Rossi | Francesca Rossi (born December 7, 1962) is an Italian computer scientist, currently working at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (New York, USA) as an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader.
Education and career
She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from the University of Pisa in 1986, and a PhD in computer science from the same university in 1993. After her graduation, she stayed at the University of Pisa as an assistant professor until 1998. She then moved to the University of Padova where she was an associate professor until 2001, and a full professor until 2018. In 2014–2015 she was on sabbatical as a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University. In 2015 she joined IBM Research, at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Center (New York, USA), as a distinguished researcher.
In 2020 she became an executive and was appointed as an IBM Fellow.
Research interests
Her research interests are in the area of artificial intelligence, with particular focus on constraint programming, combinatorial optimization, preference modeling, reasoning, and aggregation, knowledge representation, constrained reinforcement learning, ethically aligned AI, neuro-symbolic AI, and cognitive AI architectures. In the past, she has also worked on language semantics, graph grammars, logic programming, and Petri nets. She is also interested in understanding how to embed ethical principles into decision-making systems, to support either individuals or groups make more ethical decisions. Topics of special attention, in this regard, are detecting bias, defining distances between preference models, as well as embedding ethical behavioral constraints into reinforcement learning models. Most recently, her research interest is in leveraging cognitive theories of human reasoning and decision making, such as the thinking fast and slow theory of Daniel Kahneman, to advance AI's capabilities.
On these topics, she has published over 230 articles in international journals and conferences. She has also edited over 20 volumes, including the Handbook of Constraint Programming. She co-authored the book "A Short Introduction to Preferences: Between Artificial Intelligence and Social Choice", published in the Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, July 2011, and she authored the book "Il confine del futuro – Possiamo fidarci dell'Intelligenza Artificiale?", published by Feltrinelli for the Italian market.
Awards, honors, and appointments
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), president, 2022–2024
General chair, ACM/AAAI Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, Montreal, August 2023.
Women in Tech association, Tecnovisionarie award — Artificial Intelligence, AI ethics category, 2021
General chair, AAAI conference, 2020
Radcliffe Fellowship, 2014–2015
President, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2013 – 2015
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ut%20Video%20Codec%20Suite | UT Video Codec Suite is a fast, lossless video codec, developed by and released under the free GNU General Public License. The algorithm of UT video is based on the Huffman code.
UT video was developed as an alternative to HuffYUV, in order to achieve better compression. It can handle color spaces such as YUV422 (ULY2), RGB (ULRG), RGBA (ULRA) and, most recently, YUV420 (ULY0).
It has both x86 and x64 builds. Due to its multithreading support, this codec is also capable of encoding HDTV material in real time. The codec requires support for the SSE2 instruction set because it is heavily used for speed optimizations.
UT video uses the following FOURCC codes: ULY0, ULY2, ULRA, ULRG.
References
2008 software
Free video codecs
Lossless compression algorithms |
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