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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEA%20International%20Lawyers%20Network | AEA International Lawyers Network, previously known as European Lawyers Association, is an international network of offices situated all over the world. The AEA covers all the 193 UN member countries plus one UN observer (Palestine) and two UN non-members (Taiwan and Kosovo).
Congress
All the Association members meet annually in a Congress. Until now, 10 International Congresses have been celebrated. The first International Congress was held in Madrid in September 2005. The second took place in Paris in 2006. The third was in Madrid in May 2008. The fourth was in May 2009 in Berlin. The fifth was in Rome in May 2010. The sixth was celebrated in Istanbul in June 2011. The seventh was in Saint Petersburg in May 2012. The eighth was in Mexico D.F. in May 2013. The ninth was in Amsterdam in October 2013. In the tenth Anniversary the AEA Congress was held in Athens on the 21 and 22 May 2014. The next Congress will be celebrated in Lisbon on 28 and 29 May 2015.
The celebration place is decided democratically during the previous Congress. The countries who wish to hold a Congress, make a public exposition presenting their office using videos, photographs, and a specifics proposals about their Congress. Thereby, it becomes an exposition like if it was a candidacy to the Olympic Games. During the last vote celebrated in Athens in May 2014, Lisbon, Jerusalem, Prague, Rabat and Victoria Falls were presented as candidates. The finalists were Lisbon and Jerusalem, with Lisbon the eventual winner, so they will hold the 2015 Congress. The next voting for the 2016 Congress will take place in Lisbon in May 2015.
Offices number
Nowadays, the AEA is formed by 2.435 offices. The country with most offices is the United States. The US is followed in numbers by Germany and France. In Spain, there is also a strong office presence and practically all the provinces are covered and working mandatorily with the AEA brand.
Democratic organization
The AEA has a fully democratic structure. The president and the other members of the Directors Board will be chosen via member votes. The voting takes place annually at the Congress.
The president is the lawyer Pedro Beltrán. The Board of Directors is formed by six Vice-presidents and eight other members representing different geographic areas.
References
External links
"El fin de un determinadotipo de capitalismo"
"La Audiencia propone grabar a los menores víctimas de delitos para que no vayan al juicio"
medias.diarioinformacion.com
International law organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demola%20Aladekomo | Sir Demola Aladekomo (born 31 December 1957) is a computer engineer from Lagos, Nigeria. Aladekomo is the chairman of SmartCity Resorts Plc, Card Centre Nigeria Limited, Treasure-nest Limited, Crops Nigeria Limited, Chams Consortium Limited, Insider Concepts Limited, and the founder of Chams Plc. He is a Fellow of the Nigeria Computer Society (FNCS) and the Computer Professional Registration Council (CPN); a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), and the immediate past President of the Lagos Business School Alumni Association (LBSAA) and the Nigeria Computer Society, respectively. Aladekomo has also served as the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of SmartCard Society of Nigeria. He is the founder of DATA Foundation and Volunteer Corps, non-governmental organizations engaged in corporate social investments in Nigeria.
Early life and family
Sir Aladekomo graduated from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in 1982 with a degree in computer engineering and obtained an MBA from the University of Lagos in 1984. He was Chief Executive Programmer at the Lagos Business School (LBS) from 1991 to 1992. He is married to Titi Aladekomo, an entrepreneur and philanthropist. They have four children and three granddaughters.
Professional life
Sir Aladekomo founded Chams Limited (now Chams Plc, and listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange) as the first indigenous computer maintenance outfit in Nigeria in September 1985. Working as the chief engineer, he led the company to deploy Nigeria's first Wide-Area-Network WAN) on personal computers, and to deploy the country's pioneer card technology. Sir Aladekomo also contributed to the development of the first e-payment card in Nigeria: the Valucard project, working with a consortium of five local banks.
Aladekomo helped transform Chams from a privately held company to public company listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, differentiating itself in the Nigerian market by focusing on the business of identity management, ceding the increasingly cluttered card technology and transaction payments segments to its subsidiaries, ChamAccess Limited and Card Centre Nigeria Limited.
Philanthropic activities
Sir Aladekomo is the founder and past chairman of the Board of Trustees of Volunteer Corps, which he established in 1992 to offer educational opportunities to less privileged members of society, and the DATA Foundation; a non-governmental organization committed to professional volunteerism for public school education which has repeatedly awarded scholarships to students in public schools.
Sir Aladekomo served in the following capacities:
Council Member, Osun State University
Board Member, Osun State University Advancement Board
Board Member, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAUTECHEXCEL), the foundation implementing a knowledge park at the university
Patron, Lagos City Chorale Group
Member, Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) from inception/Vision 2010 and Vision 2020
References
Computer e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USC-Lockheed%20Martin%20Quantum%20Computing%20Center | The USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC) is a joint scientific research effort between Lockheed Martin Corporation and the University of Southern California (USC). The QCC is housed at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a computer science and engineering research unit of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and is jointly operated by ISI and Lockheed Martin.
USC faculty, ISI researchers and students are performing basic and applied research into quantum computing, and are collaborating with researchers around the world. The QCC uses a D-Wave Two quantum annealing system, manufactured by D-Wave Systems, Inc. The QCC is the first organization outside of D-Wave to operate the system. The second system is installed at NASA Ames Research Center, and is operated jointly by NASA and Google. The systems must be kept extremely cold and electromagnetically well-shielded to operate with the longest possible coherence time.
Purpose
Quantum information processing, also called quantum computing, theoretically is known to offer dramatic speed-ups and more complete answers for some combinatorial computing problems. Quantum annealing is a branch of quantum computing whose advantages over classical computing are actively being investigated. In quantum annealing, problems are encoded into the lowest energy state of a physical quantum system. Applications currently under study at the QCC include big data analysis, verification and validation of cyber-physical systems, pattern identification and classification, and optimization and machine learning, any of which may support breakthroughs in multiple industries and government.
USC and ISI researchers, as well as Lockheed Martin engineers, seek to develop methods to benchmark quantum annealers, and perform tests of quantumness. These include the study of quantum entanglement and, more generally, the performance of quantum annealing experiments.
Researchers also are working to manage quantum decoherence, the phenomenon that degrades the performance of quantum information processors when quantum states are forced out of quantum superposition. Decoherence can reduce quantum functionality to that of a classical computer, and can be counteracted using quantum error correction. QCC researchers and their collaborators have developed methods to counteract decoherence in quantum annealers by combining quantum error correction with energy penalties that suppress decoherence into a single quantum annealing correction method.
History
The QCC was launched in November, 2011 under the leadership of Scientific and Technical Director Daniel Lidar, a USC professor of electrical engineering, chemistry and physics; Operational Director Robert F. Lucas, director of ISI’s Computational Systems and Technology division; and Ned Allen and Greg Tallant of Lockheed Martin. The QCC began with a 128-qubit D-Wave One, which was replaced in March 2013 with the 512-qubit D-Wave Two.
Research
Research initially focused |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos%20DB | Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service offered by Microsoft. It is designed to provide high availability, scalability, and low-latency access to data for mission-critical applications. Unlike traditional relational databases, Cosmos DB is a NoSQL (meaning "Not only SQL", rather than "zero SQL") database, which means it can handle unstructured and semi-structured, in addition to structured, data types.
Data model
Internally, Cosmos DB stores "items" in "containers", with these two concepts being surfaced differently depending on the API used (these would be "documents" in "collections" when using the MongoDB-compatible API, for example). Containers are grouped in "databases", which are analogous to namespaces above containers. Containers are schema-agnostic, which means that no schema is enforced when adding items.
By default, every field in each item is automatically indexed, generally providing good performance without tuning to specific query patterns. These defaults can be modified by setting an indexing policy which can specify, for each field, the index type and precision desired. Cosmos DB offers two types of indexes:
range, supporting range and ORDER BY queries
spatial, supporting spatial queries from points, polygons, and line strings encoded in standard GeoJSON fragments
Containers can also enforce unique key constraints to ensure data integrity.
Each Cosmos DB container exposes a change feed, which clients can subscribe to in order to get notified of new items being added or updated in the container. As of , item deletions are currently not exposed by the change feed. Changes are persisted by Cosmos DB, which makes it possible to request changes from any point in time since the creation of the container.
A "Time to Live" (or TTL) can be specified at the container level to let Cosmos DB automatically delete items after a certain amount of time expressed in seconds. This countdown starts after the last update of the item. If needed, the TTL can also be overloaded at the item level.
Multi-model APIs
The internal data model described in the previous section is exposed through:
a proprietary SQL API
five different compatibility APIs, exposing endpoints that are partially compatible with the wire protocols of MongoDB, Gremlin, Cassandra, Azure Table Storage, and etcd; these compatibility APIs make it possible for any compatible application to connect to and use Cosmos DB through standard drivers or SDKs, while also benefiting from Cosmos DB's core features like partitioning and global distribution.
SQL API
The SQL API lets clients create, update and delete containers and items. Items can be queried with a read-only, JSON-friendly SQL dialect. As Cosmos DB embeds a JavaScript engine, the SQL API also enables:
Stored procedures. Functions that bundle an arbitrarily complex set of operations and logic into an ACID-compliant transaction. They are isolated from changes made while the stored proced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights%20%28video%20game%29 | Knights is an arcade game released in 1994 as freeware by Kalle Marjola for the Commodore International Amiga home computer. In 2009, the author licensed the game and assets under the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3). Based on this release, the game was ported to C++ and is still updated by the game's community.
Reception
In December 2003, print computer magazine Amiga Point of View reviewed Knights, giving five out of five points. Apart from the lack of a meaningful single player mode, two player gave a unique gameplay experience: "If any other convincing is necessary that this is one of those multiplayer games to play with friends while drinking beer, then consider this; how many other Amiga games let you bash through a door with an axe in a "Here's Johnny!" style just before you bury the axe in your opponent's skull?" The game was also listed on position 10 of a Top 20 Amiga Shareware game list, the Amiga Game Database noted the game for the fun provided.
References
External links
Hall Of Light - Knights
Knights Continuation based on the original artwork (open source)
1994 video games
Amiga games
Linux games
Open-source video games
Video games developed in Finland
Video games using procedural generation
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Duckworth%20%28physicist%29 | John Duckworth FREng (27 December 1916 – 8 January 2015) was a British physicist known for his involvement in the development of Britain's radar defence network during World War II. He also served as the director of the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), and helped supervise Britain's efforts to develop nuclear technology in the 1950s. Duckworth worked as an industrial consultant in his later life.
Early life and education
John Clifford Duckworth was born in east London in 1916, the son of an entrepreneur who owned companies that manufactured batteries and radium-based cosmetics. Duckworth attended King's College School, Wimbledon, before going to study physics at Wadham College, Oxford, where he was captain of the college tennis team. After graduating with a first-class honours degree, Duckworth worked as a researcher in nuclear physics at Oxford's Clarendon Laboratory, but was recruited by the Air Ministry Research Establishment (AMRE) upon the outbreak of war in 1939.
Wartime radar work
During his time with AMRE, Duckworth was involved in the enhancement of the British air defence radar network, helping to develop and install new radar transmitters capable of detecting low-flying enemy aircraft. Later in the war, when British naval convoys came under attack from German bombers, Duckworth worked on developing radar systems for merchant shipping, and also helped create a multi-station ground-based radar interception system for the Royal Air Force. When Germany began using V-1 flying bombs against British cities in 1944, Duckworth helped improve the RAF's radar cover to allow fighter aircraft to intercept the fast-moving V-1s.
Postwar career
After World War II, Duckworth briefly worked in Canada before joining the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) at Harwell, Oxfordshire, supervising the construction of the facility's linear particle accelerator. Thereafter, he joined the electronics company Ferranti, working on the development of the Bloodhound guided missile. In 1955, the British government appointed Duckworth the overseer of the bidding process for the construction of Britain's first nuclear reactors. In 1959, Duckworth became the managing director of the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), a post he held for 11 years. Among the NRDC projects he oversaw was the development of the highly successful antibiotic cephalosporin. After retiring from the NRDC, Duckworth worked for many years as an industrial consultant, and served on the boards of several companies.
Personal life
In 1942, Duckworth married Dorothy Wills, who predeceased him. The couple were survived by their three sons.
References
External links
1916 births
2015 deaths
British physicists
People educated at King's College School, London
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunghwa%20Int%27l%20Communication%20Network | Chunghwa Int'l Communication Network (CCNET; ) is a telecommunication and networking provider in Taiwan, services includes VOIP, SMS, Payment Gateway, Domain name, web hosting, co-location, IDC.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
1997 establishments in Taiwan
Telecommunications companies of Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence%20Tse | Terence Chee Ming Tse [謝慈銘] is an educator, speaker, advisor and commentator. He is a co-founder of Nexus FrontierTech, an artificial intelligence studio. Tse is an Associate Professor of Finance at the ESCP business school, and Hult International Business School. In addition to working with the EU and UN, Tse regularly provides commentaries on the financial market in the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Economist, CNBC, the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Business Review blogs.
He has also appeared on radio and television shows on China’s CCTV, Channel 2 in Greece, France 24 and Japan’s NHK, and delivered speeches at the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the International Trade Centre. He was a keynote speaker at a Heads of Government Meeting alongside the Premier of China and the Prime Minister of Latvia. The Financial Times named Tse 'Professor of the Week' for the FT lexicon in May 2013.
In 2017, through the DRIVE framework he co-created with Mark Esposito, Tse was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award.
Books
Tse’s books includes Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using Drive to Harness the Power of Today's Megatrends (2017), co-authored with Mark Esposito. His second book, Corporate Finance: The Basics, came out in September 2017.
References
External links
TerenceTse.com
1971 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S11%20%28ZVV%29 | The S11 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network. The S11 is one of the network's lines connecting the cantons of Zürich and Aargau.
Route
Line S11 commences at Aarau station, in the canton of Aargau. It follows the Heitersberg line as far as Killwangen-Spreitenbach station, and then the Baden to Zürich line as far as Dietikon station and the approaches to Zürich Hauptbahnhof station. Passing through the lower level platforms at this station, the line then passes through the Hirschengraben and Zürichberg tunnels, and Stettbach station, before joining the Zürich to Winterthur line. The S11 follows this line as far as Winterthur Hauptbahnhof station, running non-stop between Stettbach and Winterthur. From Winterthur it runs either over the Tösstalbahn as far as Sennhof-Kyburg, or over the Winterthur to Etzwilen line as far as Seuzach. During rush hour, trains are extended from Sennhof-Kyburg to Wila.
Trains on the S11 usually run every 30 minutes, with a journey time of around 50 to 92 minutes. The alternation of trains to Sennhof-Kyburg and Seuzach provides an hourly service to each terminus. Service from Dietikon to Aarau is half-hourly at peak times and hourly at off-peak times.
Stations
The following stations are served by the S11.
Stations served by trains on the S11 Aarau branch
Aarau
Lenzburg
Othmarsingen (served by 1 train per hour and direction)
Mägenwil
Mellingen Heitersberg
Killwangen-Spreitenbach
Dietikon
Stations served by all S11 trains
Dietikon
Glanzenberg
Schlieren
Zürich Altstetten
Zürich Altstetten
Zürich Hardbrücke
Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Zürich Stadelhofen
Stettbach
Winterthur Hauptbahnhof
Stations served by trains on the S11 Seuzach branch
Winterthur Hauptbahnhof
Oberwinterthur
Winterthur Wallrüti
Reutlingen
Seuzach
Stations served by trains on the S11 Sennhof-Kyburg / Wila branch
Winterthur Hauptbahnhof
Winterthur Grüze
Winterthur Seen
Sennhof-Kyburg
Kollbrunn
Rikon
Rämismühle-Zell
Turbenthal
Wila
Rolling stock
all services are operated with RABe 511 class trains.
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
Trams in Zürich
References
External links
ZVV official website: Routes & zones
Zürich S-Bahn lines
Transport in Aargau
Transport in the canton of Zürich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side%20encryption | Client-side encryption is the cryptographic technique of encrypting data on the sender's side, before it is transmitted to a server such as a cloud storage service. Client-side encryption features an encryption key that is not available to the service provider, making it difficult or impossible for service providers to decrypt hosted data. Client-side encryption allows for the creation of applications whose providers cannot access the data its users have stored, thus offering a high level of privacy. Those applications are sometimes marketed under the misleading term "zero-knowledge".
Details
Client-side encryption seeks to eliminate the potential for data to be viewed by service providers (or third parties that compel service providers to deliver access to data), client-side encryption ensures that data and files that are stored in the cloud can only be viewed on the client-side of the exchange. By remaining encrypted through each intermediary server, client-side encryption ensures that data retains privacy from the origin to the destination server. This prevents data loss and the unauthorized disclosure of private or personal files, providing increased peace of mind for its users.
Current academic scholarship as well as recommendations by industry professionals provide much support for developers to include client-side encryption to protect the confidentiality and integrity of information.
Examples of cloud storage services that provide client-side encryption are Tresorit, MEGA and SpiderOak. As of February 2016, neither Apple iCloud, or Dropbox provide client-side encryption. Google Drive and Google Docs released client-side encryption in 2021 thereby becoming the first cloud productivity suite ever and the first major cloud storage platform to productionize client-side encryption. Google followed up by releasing client-side encrypted versions of Google Meet, Google Calendar, and Gmail. As of January 2023, Google Workspace Client-side encryption is not yet available to free users.
See also
End-to-end encryption – the encryption of data between two different clients that are communicating with each other
Homomorphic encryption
References
Cryptography
Clients (computing)
Cloud storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska%20Coast%20Connection | The Nebraska Coast Connection is a social networking group founded in 1992 which allows professionals working in the entertainment industry to share their experiences growing up in Nebraska. Members provide advice and insights into succeeding in the entertainment industry centered in Los Angeles, CA.
In 1992, Producer/Director Todd Nelson started the NCC with about thirty fellow Nebraskans to be both a network for entertainment professionals and a bridge between home and Hollywood. The idea was fostered by Todd's frequent trips home. He often visited late UN-L theatre professor Dr. Bill Morgan, who connected him with former students who were pursuing careers in the arts. With support from the University of Nebraska Foundation, the first NCC cocktail event in Bel Air drew 200 people, and the Nebraska Coast Connection was up and running.
Since then, they have hosted barbeques, play nights, Halloween parties, Christmas caroling and comedy nights. They've produced radio commercials, a few short films and two extensive websites.
But the centerpiece of the group since 1995 has been the regular monthly gatherings called The Hollywood Salon. Not to be confused with the place you get your hair done, the idea of an artist's salon has a rich history. From ancient times, writers and painters and poets and politicians have met in salon settings to share their art and discuss events of the day. In Athens, Paris and New York, Salons were important ways for ideas to germinate, artists to be discovered and valuable relationships to blossom. The Hollywood Salon continues that tradition with a slant toward careers in showbiz.
More than 2,000 Nebraskans have found their way into the Coast Connection. About sixty of them attend each monthly Salon. Writers, Actors, Directors, Producers, Musicians, Execs, P.A.s and more than a few Waiters take part. "Wanna-be's" are most welcome. Over the years, hundreds of newly arrived Nebraskans have found jobs and apartments, friends, collaborators, even spouses through the NCC Hollywood Salons. It's a casual, after-work gathering place for a drink and a bite to eat. It's a place to reunite with old friends and get to know new ones. It's an exciting resource and networking opportunity. Special guests like Director Alexander Payne, Screenwriter Lew Hunter, Actress Marg Helgenberger and other prominent Nebraskans in Hollywood often drop in to share their secrets of success. The group has met the second Monday of every month since 1995 and continues to meet at the Culver Hotel in Culver City, California.
A long-time supporter and Nebraska native, Alexander Payne, held a special screening of his Oscar nominated film, Nebraska, for the group's members in the Sherry Lansing Theater on the Paramount Studios lot in November 2013. Todd Nelson, the group's founder, also accompanied Payne to Cannes for the film's premiere.
Guests include Nebraska natives Chris Klein, Abbie Cobb, Jim Hanna, Harley Jane Kozak and Jon Bokenkamp.
Colleen W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20True%20Crime%20Network%20affiliates | The following is a list of current and pending affiliates of True Crime Network, a digital multicast television network owned by Tegna Inc, focusing on crime and investigation documentary programming.
Current affiliates
Former affiliates
References
External links
Official list of Justice Network affiliates (includes information on cable channel placements)
Justice Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTOO-CD | WTOO-CD (channel 50) is a low-power, Class A television station in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Heroes & Icons. Owned by Sonshine Family Television, it is a sister station to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania–based WBPH-TV (channel 60). WTOO-CD's transmitter is located northwest of Johnstown, Pennsylvania in Laurel Ridge State Park along the Cambria–Westmoreland county line.
History
WTOO-CD was owned by Benjamin Perez of Abacus Television until it was sold, along with four other TV stations, to Fifth Street Enterprises LLC in April 2015.
On April 12, 2021, it was announced that WTOO-CD would be sold to Zebra Media, a sister company to Sonshine Family Television, for $450,000; the sale was completed on June 1.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
TOO-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in Pennsylvania
Innovate Corp.
Heroes & Icons affiliates
Start TV affiliates
Catchy Comedy affiliates
Movies! affiliates
Get (TV network) affiliates
True Crime Network affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pink%20Panther%3A%20Hokus%20Pokus%20Pink | The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink is a musical adventure computer game for the PC released on October 18, 1997 by Wanderlust Interactive. It is based on the 1990s television series The Pink Panther, in which the traditionally non-speaking title character speaks audibly, and is a sequel to The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril. Like its predecessor, it teaches players about six countries as the Pink Panther explores them to solve a mystery. The places Pink visits are: Siberia in Russia, the Dead Sea in Israel, Indonesia, Borneo, Kenya, and Ancient Greece.
Gameplay
Armed with a book of knowledge that contains information on the indigenous people, languages, clothing, entertainment, art, history, nature, and foods of each pertinent area, players guide Pink on a quest spanning six countries across the globe to undo the accidental magic of an aspiring boy wizard. Players will need to find objects that can be used or traded to acquire items to solve puzzles and advance the story. Helping Pink travel between locations is Spot, a sentient, speaking black hole that he steals from the warlock Strangeblood's magical forest laboratory.
The game features ten original songs and over 300 fact-filled pages containing information and photos of the countries in which players find themselves. It is also characterized by comic graphics similar to those from the animated shorts.
Plot
After the successful events in The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril, the Pink Panther has given up his life as an agent for Inspector Clouseau and now works as a door-to-door-salesman. However, his more slow-paced life is soon interrupted as Nathan Periowinkle Jr., son of a wealthy lunatic dentist and antique teeth collector, steals utensils from the warlock Strangeblood and accidentally transforms Violet, the young daughter of two guests at the Periowinkles' dinner party in their mansion, into a giant, anthropomorphic wombat (with some bat-like physical features). It falls to Pink to find Strangeblood's book of cryptically-worded spell reversals so that he can undo the transformation before Nathan's parents discover his activities.
Violet wishes to become an "immortal, magical ninja princess mermaid". Upon stealing the book and escaping from Strangeblood through Spot, the sorcerer's pet black hole, Pink gathers the ingredients to complete the potion, including an improvised black belt, while receiving unexpected help from Strangeblood to drain the Dead Sea. Violet drinks the potion and changes into her ideal form but falls asleep in midair after eating a poisoned apple. Pink then searches for the right ingredients to awaken Violet and is revisited on his journey by Strangeblood, who magically reattaches a shark's fins. When the new potion fails, Pink again improvises a third ingredient, this time a Greek salad, and Violet becomes possessed by Echidna of Greek mythology, interrupting the party and demanding audience with Zeus. In Ancient Greece, Pink outwits two gorgons and convince |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Supercomputer%20Center%20in%20Guangzhou | The National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou houses Tianhe-2, which is currently the seventh fastest supercomputer in the world, with a measured 33.86 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second). Tianhe-2 is operated by the National University of Defence Technology, and owned by the Chinese government.
See also
Supercomputing in China
National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin
National Supercomputing Center (Shenzhen)
Shanghai Supercomputer Center
References
External links
National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou
Guangzhou
Computer science institutes in China
Science and technology in China
Supercomputer sites
Supercomputing in China
2014 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binac | Binac may refer to:
Binač, a village in Kosovo
BINAC, a 1949 computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie%20Taylor%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Valerie Elaine Taylor (born May 24, 1963) is an American computer scientist who is the director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Her research includes topics such as performance analysis, power analysis, and resiliency. She is known for her work on "Prophesy," described as "a database used to collect and analyze data to predict the performance on different applications on parallel systems."
Early life and education
Valerie Elaine Taylor was born May 24, 1963, in Chicago, Illinois. Taylor received her bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1985 and 1986, respectively.
In 1991, Taylor received her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in electrical engineering and computer science, under advisor David Messerschmitt. She holds a patent for her dissertation work on sparse matrices.
Work
Shortly after her PhD in 1993, Taylor earned an NSF National Young Investigator Award. She was a faculty member of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University for 11 years.
From 2003 until 2011, she joined the Texas A&M University faculty as the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, working on high performance computing. There, she served as the senior associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Engineering and a Regents Professor and the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor in the Department of Computer Science. She also began the Industries Affiliates Program which allows academics to engage industry partners.
While on the faculty of both Northwestern and Texas A&M, Taylor collaborated with research with Argonne National Laboratory, including a summer sabbatical in 2011. As of July 3, 2017, she is the director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne in Illinois. At Argonne, she cowrote the Department of Energy's comprehensive AI for Science report based on a series of Town Hall meetings.
Taylor is the CEO & President of the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT). The organization seeks to develop the participation of minorities and people with disabilities in the IT workforce in the United States.
Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded almost $54 million to fund ten new projects related to microelectronics design and production, of which Taylor will lead one project at the Argonne National Laboratory.
Awards and honors
Taylor has received numerous awards for distinguished research, leadership, and efforts to increase diversity in computing. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in the area of high performance computing, with a focus on performance analysis and modeling of parallel scientific applications.
Taylor is a member of IEEE. In 2013 she was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers "for contributions to performance enhancement of parallel computing applications", and in 201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho%20Magno | Pancho Angelo Acuña Magno (born October 2, 1986) is a Filipino actor. He is the oldest son of Redgie Magno, VP for Drama Productions, GMA Network.
Filmography
Television
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
Actors from Marikina
Male actors from Metro Manila
Filipino male television actors
Filipino male models
Filipino Christians
Filipino evangelicals
GMA Network personalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liza%20Loop | Liza Loop (née Straus) is an educational technology pioneer, futurist, technical author, and consultant. She is notable for her early use of computers in education, her creation of a public-access computer center, consulting work with Atari, Inc., Apple, Radio Shack and others as well as philosophical musings on the future of learning environments from the 1970s on.
Early life
Loop was raised in Massachusetts and attended Dana Hall; her mother was a science teacher at Dana Hall and her father was an engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Loop attended Cornell University starting in 1963, and later Sonoma State University's graduate school where she was influenced by Stanford University psychologist Dean Brown.
Career
In 1975, Loop joined the Homebrew Computer Club and was the first woman to join the club, and founded the LO*OP Center (Learning Options * Open Portal) non-profit organization. In 1975 LO*OP opened the second public access computer center located outside a museum. After visiting the center, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was impressed enough with her work that he gave her an original Apple I computer to use in her center. For most of 1976 the center's Apple I was the only Apple I in the North Bay.
In 1978, when Atari was developing the Atari 800 home computer, Loop was brought in as a consultant to help meet the market for home computers that children and adults could use for learning.
The Liza Loop Papers from 1972 to 1984 (donated in 1986) are housed in Stanford University Libraries' manuscript division and detail the early years of educational computing.
In the early 21st century, she became an advocate of preserving the early history of computing in education.
Bibliography
Notes
References
External links
LO*OP Center, Inc., Learning Options*Open Portal, non-profit educational project founded by Liza Loop, Dean Brown and Stuart Cooney
Living people
American technology writers
Women technology writers
Educators from California
American women educators
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Shortland%20Street%20characters%20%282015%29 | Shortland Street is a New Zealand television soap opera. It was first broadcast on 25 May 1992 and currently airs on television network TVNZ 2. The following is a list of characters that appeared on the show in 2015 by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the shows executive producer Simon Bennett. The 24th season of Shortland Street began airing on 19 January 2015 and concluded on 15 December 2015.
Victoria Anderton
Victoria "Tor" Anderton, played by Laura Thompson, made her first appearance on 11 March 2015. Thompson secured the role shortly after graduating from drama school.
Victoria arrives at Shortland Street Hospital as part of a surgical exchange program. She reconnects with old-colleague Boyd Rolleston (Sam Bunkall). Victoria's father dies, and after initial sparks with Garrett Whitley (Spencer Falls), Victoria develops feelings for married father Mo Hannah (Jarod Rawiri) after treating his daughter Pixie Hannah (Thomasin McKenzie). At the end of the year, Drew McCaskill (Ben Barrington) is shot by an anonymous shooter. It is later revealed that the shooter is Victoria, who is angry at Drew for sleeping with and dumping her earlier in the year. After framing Mo's wife Margaret Hannah (Debbie Newby-Ward) for the attempted murder of Drew on top of her actual fraud, Victoria starts a relationship with Mo, much to the dislike of Mo's son Curtis (Jayden Daniels). When Margaret returns, Victoria tries to kill her by blowing up her caravan while in the midst of faking a pregnancy to keep Mo in a relationship.
After failing to kill Margaret, Victoria gets Curtis sent to prison by drugging his food. When Curtis passes a routine drug test with the help of his brother Jack, Victoria's plans begin to unravel. Ali Karim (Tane Williams-Accra), who at the time was staying with the Hannahs, reveals that Victoria had not gone to work at Central as she claimed to have done while the Hannahs were visiting Margaret. Victoria takes a syringe full of Drew's blood from a discarded blood bag and injects it onto Curtis' hospital scrubs to frame Curtis for the murder, but again fails to get Curtis in trouble. Harper Whitley (Ria Vandervis) becomes suspicious of Victoria after noticing some odd patterns with her behaviour. After being confronted by Harper, Victoria snaps and tells Harper that Drew deserved it having slept with her and discarding her. After admitting her crimes to Mo, Victoria takes off in a car to avoid arrest. Coming across two children, Victoria swerves and crashes into a tree, succumbing to her injuries upon admittance to hospital.
Jimmy Isaac
Jimmy Isaac, played by Joel Tobeck, made his first appearance on 24 March 2015. Jimmy is Tobeck's second role on the show, having previously portrayed Craig Develter from 1995 to 1996.
Murray Cooper (Matt Chamberlain) contacts Jimmy and is given permission to foster his son Kane Jenkins (KJ Apa). The following year, Jimmy makes contact with Kane and suspiciously transfers him |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil%20television%20drama | Tamil television drama or Tamil serials are a genre of Tamil-language television produced in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. All major TV networks in India. produce a variety of Soap opera series including family drama, comedy, romance, history stories, horror, devotional, fantasy stories and many others.
Tamil serial started to broadcast television series in the 1990s. Today's format of 100–500 episodes started in the 2000s. The television series industry has played a pivotal role in increasing Tamil popularity in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and Tamil diaspora. They are also broadcast in other parts of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and North America.
They are usually shown on Tamil television channels and start at 12 pm to 3 pm (afternoon), 6 pm to 8 pm (evening) and 8 pm to 11 pm (primetime and night). A series will run for about 3 or 4 years. It may air 5 or 6 episodes a week, the pattern usually being Monday through Friday or Monday through Saturday.
Anandham (2003–2009) was the first Tamil TV drama to cross 1,000 episodes and concluded with 1,297 episodes. Kolangal (2003–2009) was the first Tamil serial to cross 1,500 and Chandralekha (2014-2022) was the first Tamil serial to cross 2,000 and concluded with 2315 episodes.
Mayavi, It was the first Indian & Asian 3D series. Nadhaswaram, This serial on 5 March 2014 achieved the feat of being the first TV drama in Indian and Tamil television to be aired live. This was done to commemorate the show's 1000th Episode on 5 March 2014. By airing a 23-minutes 25seconds long live telecast in a single shot, the TV drama has earned a place in the Guinness World Records. Marmadesam, was an extremely successful tele-serial. It was ranked first in viewership among the television programmes telecast from Chennai in 1997. Chithi, It holds the credit of most watched regional Language television program in India ever.
History
The first Tamil languages TV show was Oliyum Oliyum. It was movie song compilation program on television popular during the 1980s.
Format
Tamil Nadu
Tamil television serials are usually helmed by one director, written by one screenwriter, thus having a distinct directing style and language, unlike American television series, where often several directors and writers work together. Series are likely to have only one season, with 1–500 or 1–1000 episodes. Mini series may be longer, with 100 to 200 episodes, but they also run for only one season.
The broadcast time for flagship dramas is 12 pm - 3 pm to 6 pm - 11 pm, with episodes on 5 to 6 consecutive nights : Monday–Friday or Monday–Saturday and weekends. Different dramas appear on each of the nationwide networks, Sun TV, Zee Tamil, Kalaignar TV, Colors Tamil, Zee Tamizh, Jaya TV, Raj TV, Polimer TV, Puthuyugam TV, Vendhar TV, Mega TV, Makkal TV, DD Podhigai, Dramas in prime slots are in the telenovella format, rarely running over 500 episodes.
Sun TV channel consistently remains the top rated Tamil channel and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20True%20Crime%20Network | The following is a list of programs broadcast on True Crime Network, a television network in the United States designed for digital subchannels of broadcast television stations. The majority of the programs are crime, investigation and procedural programs sourced from Turner Entertainment, but includes content from other production companies.
Current programming
Original programming
Killing Spree (March 6, 2016–present) co-produced with TwoFour Productions
Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer (March 6, 2016–present) co-produced with Zodiak Productions
True crime programming
Alaska State Troopers (January 20, 2015–present)
Body of Evidence (January 20, 2015–present)
Border Wars (October 26, 2015 – present)
Cold Blooded
Cold Case Files (November 27, 2015 – present) A&E
Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice (January 24, 2015–present)
Extreme Evidence (January 24, 2015–present)
Forensic Factor (October 26, 2015 – present)
Haunting Evidence (January 20, 2015–present)
I, Detective (January 24, 2015–present)
The Investigators (January 20, 2015–present)
L.A. Forensics (January 20, 2015–present)
Locked Up Abroad (January 20, 2015–present)
Masterminds (January 24, 2015–present)
Missing Persons Unit (January 20, 2015–present)
Most Shocking (October 26, 2015 – present)
Murder by the Book (January 24, 2015–present)
The New Detectives (October 26, 2015 – present)
North Mission Road (January 25, 2015–present)
Over the Limit (January 25, 2015–present)
Parco P.I. (January 24, 2015–present)
Psychic Detectives (January 20, 2015–present)
Solved (January 18, 2015–present)
References
External links
True Crime Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOCEDplus | VOCEDplus is a free international research database about tertiary education, maintained and developed by staff at the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in Adelaide, South Australia. The focus of the database content is the relation of post-compulsory education and training to workforce needs, skills development, and social inclusion.
Structure
The content of the VOCEDplus database encompasses vocational education and training (VET), higher education, lifelong learning, informal learning, VET in schools, adult and community education, apprenticeships/traineeships, international education, providers of education and training, and workforce development. It is international in scope and contains over 84,000 English language records, many with links to full text documents.
VOCEDplus contains extensive Australian materials and includes a wide range of international information, covering outcomes of tertiary education in the shape of published research, practice, policy, and statistics.
Entries are included for the following types of publications: reports; annual reports; papers; discussion papers; occasional papers; working papers; books; book chapters; conference papers; conference proceedings; journals; journal articles; policy documents; published statistics; theses; podcasts; and teaching and training materials.
Each database entry contains standard bibliographic information and an abstract. Many entries include full text access via the publisher's website or a digitised copy.
History
1989-1997
In the early years VOCEDplus was known as VOCED. The original database was produced by a network of clearinghouses across Australia with the aim of sharing activities in the technical and further education (TAFE) sector. VOCED was produced in hardcopy and an electronic version was distributed on diskette.
1997-2001
1997 - the first web version of VOCED was made available from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) organisational website
1998 - a major project to upgrade the database and expand its international coverage commenced
2001 - creation of VOCED's own website
2001 - VOCED endorsed as the UNESCO international database for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) research information
2001-2009
Many changes to the database and website occurred during this period with a focus on continuous improvement to meet the needs of users and utilise emerging technologies.
2006 - materials produced for two adult literacy and learning programs funded by the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) - the Workplace English Language and Learning (WELL) Programme and the Adult Literacy National Project (ALNP) included in VOCED
2007 - the Australian clearinghouse network transferred most of the hardcopy collections to NCVER, to form a centralised repository of resources
2009 - materials produced by Reframing the Future (RTF) a vocational education and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20W.%20Heath%20Jr. | Robert W. Heath Jr. is an American electrical engineer, researcher, educator, wireless technology expert, and a Lampe Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the North Carolina State University. He is also the president and CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc. He was the founding director of the Situation Aware Vehicular Engineering Systems initiative.
Early life and education
Heath received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2002 under the supervision of MIMO pioneer Arogyaswami Paulraj. He completed his M.S. degree in the same field from the University of Virginia in 1997
under the supervision of Georgios B. Giannakis, and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1996.
From 1998 to 2001, Heath was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff and, later, Senior Consultant at Iospan Wireless Inc, San Jose, CA. At Iospan he was part of a team that designed and implemented the physical and link layers of the first commercial MIMO-OFDM communication system. From January 2002 to August 2020, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin where he was a Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering. He is also President and CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc. and Chief Innovation Officer at Kuma Signals LLC. He was the Director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group from 2012-2014, where he oversaw an expansion of the center in terms of faculty and students, and an increase in research expenditures to more than $5M per year. At UT he also founded an initiative that brings together transportation and communications called the Situation-Aware Vehicular Engineering Systems (SAVES). He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the North Carolina State University. He is a co-author on more than 600 refereed conference and journal publications. He is also a co-inventor of 64 U.S. patents. He authored a laboratory manual that teaches the principles of wireless communication to undergraduate students and co-authored a book on millimeter wave wireless communication. He authored a book on wireless digital communications and co-authored a comprehensive textbook on MIMO communications He is particularly known for his work on different aspects of MIMO communication systems and millimeter-wave communications.
Professional career
Heath's early work at Stanford advanced the then nascent field of MIMO communication. During his Ph.D. he took a leave of absence to be one of the first employees at Iospan Wireless (earlier known as Gigabit Wireless Inc), where he was part of a small team that created the first practical MIMO-OFDM radio (a predecessor of what we now know as IEEE 802.11n). His work at Iospan resulted in several early patents on critical MIMO technologies.
Heath's work at Iospan led to his discovery that, depending on the wireless propagation conditions, different MIMO configurations, e.g., spatial multiplexing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version%201 | Version 1 is an Irish company specializing in international management consulting, software asset management, software development, cloud computing, and outsourcing .
On 13 July 2022 Partners Group completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Version 1.
History
Version 1 was established in Dublin, Ireland in 1996 by Justin Keatinge and John Mullen.
In the years leading up to 2011, Version 1 was named in the Deloitte Fast 50 list and employed more than 150 consultants and had annual revenues of €17.5m.
In 2014, Version 1 opened its London, UK, office and expanded its Belfast, Northern Ireland, office. Version 1 acquired the UK-based Tieto Corporation, and were recognized as one of the top 50 workplaces in Europe. They went on to acquire UK-based Rocela Group along with the UK-based Patech Solutions. By year end, they had a total of eight international offices employing more than 500 consultants with annual revenues of €60m.
In 2017, the UK equity firm Volpi Capital LLP became the majority shareholder in Version 1 in a deal that saw a €100 million buy out of the original founders and shareholders. Shareholders included the Development Capital Fund, who invested c. €8m in 2014 and realized in excess of c. €20m on their investment. This buy out raised €90 million of expansion capital to allow Version 1 expand its operations in the UK and Europe. On 24 April 2017, Tom O'Connor was appointed as Version 1 CEO after former CEO Justin Keatinge resigned. Keatinge stayed on Version 1's board and remains a major shareholder.
In 2018, Version 1 announced a €1 million investment into its Innovation Labs. The current areas of focus are: Blockchain, Internet of things, Chatbots, Machine learning, Virtual reality and Augmented reality.
In June 2018 Version 1 acquired the HR Transformation specialist Cedar Consulting Ltd.
In 2019, Version 1 presented alongside ICBF at Oracle OpenWorld, where a Blockchain Solution for the trace-ability of Irish Cattle and meat was discussed. Version 1 also presented at Microsoft Future Decoded 2019, Microsoft's main UK event, with Roger Whitehead, Advisory Services Lead at Version 1 discussing the impact of Application Modernisation.
In 2022, Version 1 are nominated for "Employer of the Year" in the Women in IT Awards 2023.
Partners
Version 1 has multiple long standing and enhanced partner relationships. The company currently has three main technology partners: Oracle Corporation, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. Version 1 has been a Platinum Partner for Oracle in Cloud Managed Services and has the Largest Oracle capability in the UK and Ireland. Version 1 was also voted as the No. 1 Oracle Partner by their customers, in both the 2018 and 2018 Oracle User Group Awards.
Version 1 is a Microsoft Solutions Partner and has worked with Microsoft since 2006, being named Microsoft Partner of the Year in 2011, Application Development Partner of the Year for Ireland in 2015, and Business Intelligence and Data Analytics Par |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20TVes | This is a list of programs currently, formerly, and soon to be broadcast on TVes in Venezuela.
Current programming
Telenovelas
Cordel Encantado (March 9, 2015 – present)
Guerreras y Centauros (February 23, 2015 – present)
Lado a Lado (2014–present)
Porque el amor manda (August 4, 2014 – present)
Una familia con suerte (April 13, 2015 – present)
Violetta (August 4, 2014 – present)
Children's programming
Casper the Friendly Ghost (2014–present)
El Chapulín Colorado (2015–present)
Como tú (2011–present)
Pet Alien (2014–present)
Plaza Sésamo (2010-present)
Hi-5 Australia (2011-present)
Hi-5 Fiesta
Hi-5 House (2017-present)
The Backyardigans
Lifestyle programming
Conexión Yoga (2012–present)
Salud al natural (2013–present)
Sports and variety programming
Con El Mazo Dando (2014–present)
Motores en vivo (2013–present)
Notables: Mateo Manaure (2014–present)
TVes en la mañana (2014–present)
Venezuela sobre tablas (2014–present)
Upcoming
El Moreno Michael (coming soon)
Former programming
References
Tves
Programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Colorado%20Denver%20School%20of%20Public%20Affairs | The University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs is located in the Lower Downtown ("LoDo") district of Denver, Colorado. The School is fully accredited by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA). The School offers graduate programs in public administration, public affairs, and criminal justice, and undergraduate programs in criminal justice and public service.
Academics
The School of Public Affairs offers a number of highly ranked programs, including environmental policy and management (ranked 11th), nonprofit management (21st), public management and leadership (23rd), and public finance and budgeting (17th). The online Master of Criminal Justice program was ranked 19th nationwide in January 2019.
Degree programs
Public affairs and administration
Doctor of Philosophy in Public Affairs
Master of Public Administration
Bachelor of Arts in Public Service
Dual Master of Public Administration / Master of Criminal Justice
Dual Master of Public Administration / Juris Doctor (Boulder)
Dual Master of Public Administration / Master's in Economics
Dual Master of Public Administration / Master of Public Health
Dual Master of Public Administration / Master of Urban and Regional Planning
Pathway Bachelor of Arts in Public Service / Master of Public Administration
Criminal Justice
Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice
Master of Criminal Justice
Pathway Bachelor of Arts / Master of Criminal Justice
Dual Master of Criminal Justice / Master of Public Administration
Concentration areas
Both the Master of Public Administration and Master of Criminal Justice programs offer students the opportunity to select a concentration area within the degree. Approximately one-third of the master's students select and complete a specific concentration; others choose electives from a variety of concentration areas to best meet their professional goals.
Crime Analyst
Disasters, Hazards and Emergency Management
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Environmental Policy and Management
Gender-Based Violence
Local Government
Nonprofit Organizations
Graduate certificates
The School of Public Affairs offers a variety of graduate certificates to help individuals advance in their career. Anyone who has completed a bachelor's degree from an accredited university is eligible to enroll in one of the School's graduate certificate programs.
Crime Analyst
Disasters, Hazards and Emergency Management
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Environmental Policy and Management
Gender-Based Violence
Local Government
Non-profit Organizations
Other certificate programs
Colorado Certified Public Manager Program: The School offers a nationally accredited certification program for public managers that consists of 12 modules conducted via weekend seminars and an online format.
Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Certificate: The School is a partner in the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems and offe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20FIA%20WTCC%20Race%20of%20Morocco | The 2015 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco (formally the 2015 Eurodatacar Race of Morocco) was the second round of the 2015 World Touring Car Championship season and the sixth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Morocco. It was held on 19 April 2015 at the Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan in Marrakech, Morocco.
Both races were won by Citroën Total WTCC, José María López won race one and Yvan Muller won race two. Both drivers achieved their second win at the circuit, setting a new record.
Background
After the first round López led the drivers' championship by five points over teammate Sébastien Loeb. Norbert Michelisz led the Yokohama Trophy standings by three points over local driver Mehdi Bennani.
Lada Sport Rosneft expanded to three cars as Mikhail Kozlovskiy started his season following the late build of his car. Rickard Rydell and Nika International missed the round after Rydell was taken ill in the week before.
Yvan Muller took a five-place grid drop for race one after a collision with Bennani at the previous round. John Filippi also lost five places on the grid for race one after a collision with James Thompson in Argentina. Grégoire Demoustier dropped to the back of the grid for race one after blowing an engine in testing prior to the event. Thompson and teammate Robert Huff both moved to the back of the grid for engine changes after the last round. RML Group released an engine update to their customer teams, ROAL Motorsport's Tom Chilton and Campos Racing's Hugo Valente both took this upgrade and dropped to the back of the grid for race one.
Report
Testing and free practice
López was quickest in the test session on Friday as Citroën filled the top three positions with Muller second and privateer Bennani third.
It was a Citroën 1–2–3–4 in free practice one with López leading Loeb, Bennani and Muller.
López stayed on top in free practice two as Citroën cars filled the top four places once again. The session came to a premature end when Huff crashed his Lada Vesta WTCC into the tyre barriers just before the completion of the half-hour session.
Qualifying
Ma Qing Hua was the quickest driver in the first part of qualifying. None of the Ladas made it through to the second session with Huff in thirteenth their best placed driver.
López was quickest in the second session with Valente second. Ma and Bennani also made it through to the third session along with Chilton. Tom Coronel had slowed in the final moments of the session after his air jack accidentally deployed which briefly brought out the yellow flags and shook up the order slightly. Norbert Michelisz was the best placed Honda driver, narrowly missing out on a Q3 place by four hundredths of a second. Muller ended up tenth to provisionally take pole for race two.
Chilton elected not to go out for the Q3 Superpole session due to a gearbox problem and his impending grid penalty. Bennani was therefore the first car to go out followed by Ma. Valente went out third but braked too l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenes%20Argentinos | Ferrocarriles Argentinos Sociedad del Estado, trading as Trenes Argentinos, is a state-owned railway company of Argentina created for the operation and maintenance of the Argentine railway network in the country, including passenger and freight services, and infrastructure.
The company is divided into four divisions: Trenes Argentinos Operaciones (passenger services), Trenes Argentinos Cargas (freight), Trenes Argentinos Infraestructura (infrastructure), and Trenes Argentinos Capital Humano (human resources).
In March 2021, Minister of Transport announced that Ferrocarriles Argentinos S.E. would be put operative again, after an almost 5-year hiatus during the presidency of Mauricio Macri.
As of May 2022, Trenes Argentinos had 30,102 employees, ranking 1st as the Argentine company with most employees.
History
The project to nationalise all the Argentine railway network had been announced by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during her speech at the Congress of Argentina's 133rd-year inaugural session on 1 March 2015.
At the time the project was sent to the Congress to be discussed, only Belgrano Norte and Urquiza lines (operated by Ferrovías and Metrovías respectively) were under private concessions for passenger services, while Nuevo Central Argentino (NCA), Ferroexpreso Pampeano and Ferrosur companies operated freight trains.
On 15 April 2015, the Congress of Argentina adopted the creation of "Ferrocarriles Argentinos Sociedad del Estado", with 53 votes in favour and 2 votes against. Therefore, the Government of Argentina will take over the operation and maintenance of all the railway lines after they had granted to private companies during Carlos Menem's administration in the early 1990s. The re-nationalisation law was officially promulgated on May 20, 2015.
It was also announced that private companies still operating services at the time the law was promulgated, Nuevo Central Argentino, Ferroexpreso Pampeano, Ferrosur Roca, Metrovías and Ferrovías will continue their activities although Ferrocarriles Argentinos S.E. will be able to renegotiate or even cancel the contracts of concession.
As part of a plan of rail transport modernisation announced by the Ministry of Transport led by Mario Meoni, on March 8, 2021, "Ferrocarriles Argentinos S.E." was relaunched, setting its new offices at Constitución railway station. FASE had been inactive during the government of Mauricio Macri, when its divisions operated independently. The relaunch included a new logo, inspired on the homonymous company dissolved in 1993.
The company shared its original name with the previous national operator which was broken up during the privatisation process, and also uses a modified version of its original logo.
Organizational structure
By 2015, the board of directors had six members: a representative of the Secretary of Transport, the presidents of ADIF, SOFSE and Belgrano CyL and other two representatives appointed by the Ministry of Transport accor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Crystal%20Rainforest | The Crystal Rain Forest is an educational puzzle video game developed and published by Sherston Software for use in primary schools. Originally released in 1992 for the Acorn Archimedes computer platform, the game later saw releases for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in 1999.
Set in the world of the planet Oglo, the game follows the adventures of two protagonists on a quest to save the last remaining rainforest from the destructive "Cut and Run Gang." To achieve their mission, players must retrieve magical rainforest crystals and outwit various challenges, such as solving puzzles and navigating the dense rainforests.
Development
The Crystal Rain Forest was developed by Sherston Software, an educational software company based in the United Kingdom. The game was designed to provide an engaging and educational experience for young learners in primary schools.
The game's development journey began in the early 1990s when it was initially released for the Acorn Archimedes computer platform in 1992.
The concept of the game revolved around combining entertainment and education, making it appealing to young players while also serving as an effective teaching tool. To achieve this goal, the developers set their game in the magical world of the planet Oglo, where players would embark on a quest to save the rainforest and its mystical crystals.
The game mechanics were designed to challenge players' problem-solving abilities and foster critical thinking skills. Players would encounter various puzzles and interactive activities throughout their journey, requiring them to think creatively to overcome obstacles.
In 1999, a later version of The Crystal Rain Forest was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, offering a wider audience the opportunity to experience the game. This update introduced new graphics, enhancing the overall visual appeal of the game.
The Crystal Rain Forest was part of the Mission Control series developed by Sherston Software, a collection of educational software aimed at providing valuable learning experiences for young minds. The game's integration of interactive activities, machinery puzzles, and programming elements added depth to its educational content, offering students a multidimensional learning experience.
Gameplay
The Crystal Rain Forest offers a gameplay experience for primary school students, designed by Sherston. The game is set in the fictional planet Oglo, where the rainforest of the kingdom of Azon is under threat from the nefarious "Cut and Run Gang," who are cutting down the forest. Players take on the role of two protagonists who must embark on a mission to save the rainforest and its magical crystals, while also rescuing the poisoned king of Azon.
The gameplay is presented in a first-person perspective, providing an immersive experience for players as they explore the dense rainforest and undertake various challenges and puzzles. Through the use of controls and mechanisms, players navigate through the rainf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkDB | RethinkDB is a free and open-source, distributed document-oriented database originally created by the company of the same name. The database stores JSON documents with dynamic schemas, and is designed to facilitate pushing real-time updates for query results to applications. Initially seed funded by Y Combinator in June 2009, the company announced in October 2016 that it had been unable to build a sustainable business and its products would in future be entirely open-sourced without commercial support.
The CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) then purchased the rights to the RethinkDB source code and contributed it to the Linux Foundation.
History
RethinkDB was founded in 2009, and open-sourced at version 1.2 in 2012. In 2015, RethinkDB released version 2.0, announcing that it was production-ready. On October 5, 2016, the company announced it was shutting down, transitioning members of its engineering team to Stripe, and would no longer offer production support. On February 6, 2017, The Cloud Native Computing Foundation purchased the rights to the source code and relicensed it under the Apache License 2.0.
ReQL
RethinkDB uses the ReQL query language, an internal (embedded) domain-specific language officially available for Ruby, Python, Java and JavaScript (including Node.js).
It has support for table joins, groupings, aggregations and functions.
There are also unofficial, community-supported drivers for other languages, including C#, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Lua, and PHP.
Popularity
According to the DB-Engines ranking, as of February 2016, it was the 46th most popular database.
Comparison with other document databases
A distinguishing feature of RethinkDB is the first class support for real-time change feeds. A change query returns a cursor which allows blocking or non-blocking requests to keep track of a potentially infinite stream of real-time changes.
Fork
Due to seeming stagnation, RethinkDB was forked by members of the community on May 17, 2018.
The new project, called RebirthDB, is also hosted on GitHub. The project later merged back with the original repository.
See also
NoSQL
References
External links
Free database management systems
Document-oriented databases
Distributed computing architecture
Structured storage
NoSQL
Linux Foundation projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrassBase | GrassBase (or GrassBase – The Online World Grass Flora) is a web-based database of grasses, continually maintained and updated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
As of 2015, GrassBase was one of the largest (along with GrassWorld) structured datasets for plants. In the January 2016 update, it had morphological descriptions for 11,369 accepted species of grasses and listings for 64,213 botanical names.
Authorship of the database is credited to W. D. Clayton, M. S. Vorontsova, K. T. Harman and H. Williamson.
References
External links
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Online botany databases
Online taxonomy databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus%20Learning%20Trust | Focus Learning Trust is a registered charity which operates a network of private schools (known as OneSchool Global UK schools) in the United Kingdom that are affiliated to the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
The schools have a non-selective intake of pupils from the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. Focus Learning Trust was first formed in 2003 and has a head office in Warwick, England.
List of OneSchool Global UK schools
Primary schools
OneSchool Global UK Hartford
OneSchool Global UK Northampton
OneSchool Global UK Scunthorpe
OneSchool Global UK Shinfield
Secondary schools
OneSchool Global UK Alloa
OneSchool Global UK Atherstone
OneSchool Global UK Balmedie
OneSchool Global UK Berkeley
OneSchool Global UK Biggleswade
OneSchool Global UK Dunstable
OneSchool Global UK Gloucester
OneSchool Global UK Hartford
OneSchool Global UK Hindhead
OneSchool Global UK Hornby
OneSchool Global UK Kenley
OneSchool Global UK Knockloughrim
OneSchool Global UK Linton
OneSchool Global UK Long Eaton
OneSchool Global UK Newry
OneSchool Global UK Newtown
OneSchool Global UK Plymouth
OneSchool Global UK Reading
OneSchool Global UK Scunthorpe
OneSchool Global UK Stoke-by-Nayland
OneSchool Global UK Swaffham
OneSchool Global UK Swansea
OneSchool Global UK Wilton
OneSchool Global UK York
References
External links
Focus Learning Trust official website
Plymouth Brethren
Christian schools in England
2003 establishments in the United Kingdom
Private school organisations in England
Organizations established in 2003
Organisations based in Warwickshire
Associations of schools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen%20of%20Python | The Zen of Python is a collection of 19 "guiding principles" for writing computer programs that influence the design of the Python programming language. Software engineer Tim Peters wrote this set of principles and posted it on the Python mailing list in 1999. Peters's list left open a 20th principle "for Guido to fill in", referring to Guido van Rossum, the original author of the Python language. The vacancy for a 20th principle has not been filled.
Peters's Zen of Python was included as entry number 20 in the language's official Python Enhancement Proposals and was released into the public domain. It is also included as an Easter egg in the Python interpreter, where it can be displayed by entering import this.
In May 2020, Barry Warsaw (developer of GNU Mailman) wrote the lyrics to music.
Principles
The principles are listed as follows:
See also
Convention over configuration
There's more than one way to do it
Notes
References
External links
PEP20 on Python website
2004 essays
Essays about computing
Programming principles
Python (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural%20design | In software design, Procedural Design (SPD) converts and translates structural elements into procedural explanations. SPD starts straight after data design and architectural design. This has now been mostly abandoned mostly due to the rise in preference of Object Oriented Programming and design patterns.
References
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yozgat%20Bozok%20University | Bozok University () is a university located in Yozgat, Turkey. It was established in 2006.
Affiliations
The University is a member of the Balkan Universities Network and Caucasus University Association.
References
External links
Universities and colleges in Turkey
Educational institutions established in 2006
State universities and colleges in Turkey
2006 establishments in Turkey
Yozgat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie%20Seneff | Stephanie Seneff (born April 20, 1948) is a senior research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Working primarily in the Spoken Language Systems group, her research at CSAIL relates to human-computer interaction, and algorithms for language understanding and speech recognition. In 2011, she began publishing controversial papers in low-impact, open access journals on biology and medical topics; the articles have received "heated objections from experts in almost every field she's delved into," according to the food columnist Ari LeVaux.
Career
Seneff attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earning her Bachelor of Science (BS) in biophysics in 1968, master's (MS) and engineering (E.E.) degrees in electrical engineering in 1980, and a doctoral degree (PhD) in computer science and electrical engineering in 1985. She is a senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Her research career focused on using computational modeling and analysis of the human auditory system to improve communication between humans and computers. She was elected a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) in 2012 as recognition for her "contributions to conversational human-computer systems and computer-assisted language learning". Seneff collaborates with and is married to MIT professor Victor Zue.
Biology and medical topics
In 2011, Seneff began publishing articles on topics related to biology and medicine in low-impact, open access journals, such as Interdisciplinary Toxicology and eight papers in the MDPI journal Entropy between 2011 and 2015. According to food columnist Ari LeVaux, Seneff's work in this area has made her "a controversial figure in the scientific community" and she has received "heated objections from experts in most every field she's delved into". In 2013, she coauthored a paper that associated the herbicide glyphosate with a wide variety of diseases such as cancer and disorders such as autism. Discover magazine writer Keith Kloor criticized the uncritical republication of the study's results by other media outlets. Jerry Steiner, the executive vice president of sustainability at Monsanto, said in an interview regarding the study that "We are very confident in the long track record that glyphosate has. It has been very, very extensively studied." Seneff's claim that glyphosate is a major cause of autism and that, "At today's rates, by 2025, half the kids born will be diagnosed with autism," has also been criticized. For example, Pacific Standard noted that, contrary to Seneff's claims, many scientific reviews have found that the rise in autism rates over the past 20 years is due to changes in diagnostic practices, and that a number of studies, including a 2012 review in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, have found little evidence that glyphos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TomoPy | TomoPy is an open-sourced Python toolbox to perform tomographic data processing and image reconstruction.
Overview
Tomographic reconstruction creates three-dimensional views of an object by combining two-dimensional images taken from multiple directions, for example in how a computer-aided tomography scanner allows 3D views of the heart or brain. Data collection can be rapid, but the required computations are massive. Further, many common experimental perturbations can degrade the quality of tomographs, unless corrections are applied. Unless automated tools make these corrections, beamline staff can be overwhelmed by data that can be collected far faster than corrections and reconstruction can be performed.
To address the needs for image correction and tomographic reconstruction in an instrument independent manner, the TomoPy code was developed, which is a parallelizable high performance tomography library.
References
Data processing
Free science software
Image processing software
Python (programming language) scientific libraries
Tomography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20S.%20Abrams | Philip S. Abrams is a computer science researcher who co-authored the first implementation of the programming language APL.
APL
In 1962, Kenneth E. Iverson published his book A Programming Language, describing a mathematical notation for describing array operations in mathematics. In 1965, Abrams and Lawrence M. Breed produced a compiler that translated expressions in Iverson's APL notation into IBM 7090 machine code.
In the 1970s, he was vice president of development for Scientific Time Sharing Corporation (STSC), Inc.
Selected works
Abrams, Philip S., An APL Machine, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), February, 1970.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
APL implementers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20Detectors | Lie Detectors is an American television series broadcast by Game Show Network. The series, hosted by Rove McManus, premiered on April 20, 2015.
Each episode features a panel of three comedians presenting a variety of random facts and lies over several rounds to a studio audience, who vote to decide which of the three comedians tells the truth in each round.
Production
The series received little advanced attention from GSN before it was announced as green-lit on March 10, 2015. During the first week of the series' run, a new episode aired each weekday (Monday to Friday) at 6:30 p.m. ET. Starting on April 29 of the same year, the show moved to its permanent time slot, with two back-to-back new episodes airing each Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. ET. The series was not renewed for a second season.
Cast
Panelists on the show have included:
Christian Finnegan
Michelle Buteau
Sherrod Small
Liza Treyger
Dave Hill
Gina Brillon
Nick Turner
Rachel Feinstein
Casey Jost
Sean Donnelly
Sabrina Jalees
Jennifer Bartels
Lil Rel Howery
Arden Myrin
Brandon Scott Jones
Jade Catta-Preta
Reception
Both David Knox and Neil Genzlinger, writing for Australia's TV Tonight and The New York Times respectively, drew comparisons between the series and To Tell the Truth.
Ratings
The first episode in its regular timeslot on April 29, 2015 rated 342,000 American viewers, losing 191,000 viewers from lead-in Idiotest. On May 6, 2015, it dropped to 298,000 viewers.
References
External links
at the Wayback Machine
2010s American comedy game shows
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Game Show Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry%20Logistics | Kerry Logistics Network Limited is a listed company engaged in third party logistics, freight services, warehouse operations, and supply chain solutions. It was listed on 19 December 2013, raising over US$280 million, as a spin-off of Kerry Properties Limited.
Kerry Logistics is headquartered in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong. As of 2020, they managed of logistics facilities globally ( of which is self-owned), with a fleet of 10,000+ self-owned vehicles operating in 59 countries and territories.
The parent company of SF Express, SF Holding, has acquired a 51.8% stake in Kerry Logistics, for HKD 17.6 billion in 2021.
Hong Kong
Before incorporation, its first established warehouse in Hong Kong was built in 1981. By 1991, the Group had five warehouses and acquired one warehouse with an aggregate GFA of approximately . The company was established in 1991. In 1999, they opened their flagship logistics facility, Kerry Cargo Centre, a multi-storey combined logistics facility and global HQ office.
The company name was changed to “Kerry Logistics Network Limited” in 2000, the same year they began to provide truck freight services to warehousing customers. International freight forwarding operations also began shortly after in Hong Kong through the acquisition of Kerry Freight (Hong Kong) Limited (previously named “R&B Transports Limited”).
As of 2016, Kerry Logistics owned 12 logistics facilities in Hong Kong with a total GFA of .
The Group generated a revenue of over HK$53 billion in 2020 and is the largest international logistics company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Stock Code 0636.HK) as well as a selected Member of the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index Series 2020-2021.
Mainland China
In 2003, in collaboration with a joint venture partner, the first logistics centre in China was developed. In 2005, the China division acquired a 70% equity interest in EAS, and the new joint entity was renamed Kerry EAS Logistics ("KEAS"). EAS, a Chinese state-owned enterprise, was one of the leading domestic freight and warehousing entities in China at the time.
As of the end of 2016, KEAS managed approximately of self-owned logistics facilities and approximately of leased logistics facilities in China. The revenue in Mainland China was HK$8 billion, or about 38% of the total group revenue.
Taiwan
In 2004, KLN commenced freight forwarding operations in Taiwan. In 2008, they acquired an initial equity interest in Kerry TJ Logistics, previously named “T. Join Transportation Co., Ltd”. As of the end of 2016, KLN held a total equity interest of approximately 49.67% in Kerry TJ Logistics.
Kerry TJ Logistics is a major logistics service provider in Taiwan whose shares have been listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 1990. It has an extensive distribution network supported by a fleet of more than 3,000 trucks.
ASEAN
KLN's business in ASEAN (Southeast Asia) started in 2002, with both integrated logistics and international freight forwarding op |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20%28New%20Zealand%20radio%20network%29 | Magic is a New Zealand oldies radio network owned by MediaWorks New Zealand. The network targets New Zealand's growing population of baby boomers with a line-up of veteran broadcasters. Its breakfast show, McCormick & McCarron (formerly Magic in the Morning, Magic Breakfast and Bunting in the Morning respectively), is hosted by Gary McCormick and Mark McCarron.
Magic operated Magic Talk, a nationwide Auckland-based talkback, news and sport radio network formed by the 2019 rebrand of Radio Live. The station competed directly against New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) station Newstalk ZB. Magic was rebranded as Magic Music, and some programmes shared with Magic Talk. This change took effect in mid-January 2019, with a large number of Radio Live hosts leaving the station due to the restructure. The first programme aired on Magic Talk was Overnights with Tony Amos. The station ceased on 20 March 2022 ahead of its delayed rebranding as Today FM on 21 March 2022.
History
Magic was launched on 20 April 2015 in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Tauranga, Rotorua, Hawke's Bay and Dunedin, some stations were launched on frequencies MediaWorks acquired in radio spectrum auctions, others were secondary frequencies used by other MediaWorks stations such as in Dunedin the 99.8FM frequency was previously used by Radio Dunedin and Wellington's 891AM previously used by The Breeze. New frequencies in Wanganui, Kāpiti, Wairarapa, Blenheim, Nelson, Queenstown, Southland and Rodney were added, followed by Palmerston North, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Taupō, Taranaki, Thames, the Seabird Coast, Paeroa, the Hauraki Plains and Hamilton. The Magic brand name has been used in other regions such as Magic FM in Northland which was owned by MediaWorks but closed down in 2001, Magic 828 & 98.6FM in Palmerston North which was rebranded The Breeze in 2004 and Magic 91FM which was a local station in Auckland during the 1980s.
The launch of Magic was made possible by the closure of Kiwi FM on March 31. Magic took over the former Kiwi FM studios in Auckland. Kiwi was an independent non-profit music broadcaster, wholly owned by MediaWorks. It operated as ten years as Kiwi FM, and had previously operated as ten years as Channel Z. The network attracted 28,000 listeners each week and was responsible for about one percent of local music airtime on New Zealand radio. However, its popularity and long-term viability had been undermined by new websites offering direct access to local music, and MediaWorks decided to focus its youth resources on the nationwide roll-out of George FM and Mai FM.
MediaWorks hoped the Magic network would increase its market share of the one million New Zealanders aged 50-74. In New Zealand this demographic is growing in size, is more likely to listen to the radio and listens to radio for longer hours. People in this group also have fewer family commitments, and have more assets and disposable incomes. MediaWorks secured a network of new frequencie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Anoprienko | Alexander Anoprienko () is a Professor of the Computer Engineering Department of the Donetsk National Technical University (DonNTU). He also holds the position of the Director of the DonNTU Competence Center as well as the Director of the DonNTU UNITECH Technological Park. Since October 2014 he has held the position of the provisional Rector of DonNTU.
He is also a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Engineering Sciences, providing an expertise in computer systems and technologies, internet-based technologies, computer modeling and simulation as well as computing history. He contributes as author and administrator to the Ukrainian Research and Academic Network URAN (e.g., serving the DonNTU Master’s Portal).
Anoprienko was born 21 September 1957 in Stalino (the former name of Donetsk before 1961, being a part of USSR). After finishing secondary school №76 in Donetsk in 1974, he began a study at the Donetsk Polytechnic University (presently DonNTU), in the Department of Electronic Computing Machines (ECM). After graduating DonNTU, he joined the ECM department as a teaching and research assistant During 1989-90, he completed a 10-months internship at the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (Germany), funded by a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant.
In 2000, he became the coordinator of the DonNTU Technology Park. The park is known for projects like “Donetsk: 1000 images”, which became one of the first Ukrainian projects of such kind, and also an info-website “Gifted Generation”, dedicated to the issues of seeking and supporting gifted and talented children.
References
External links
Publications and reports Anoprienko A. in the electronic records archives DonNTU
Licences author Anoprienko A.
Web portal magister's DonNTU
Academic staff of Donetsk National Technical University
Donetsk National Technical University alumni
Living people
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20voltage%20scaling | Adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) is a closed-loop dynamic power minimization technique that adjusts the voltage supplied to a computer chip to match the chip's power needs during operation. Many computer chips, especially those in mobile devices or Internet of things devices are constrained by the power available (for example, they are limited to the power stored in a battery) and face varying workloads. In other situations a chip may be constrained by the amount of heat it is allowed to generate. In addition, individual chips can vary in their efficiency due to many factors, including minor differences in manufacturing conditions. AVS allows the voltage supplied to the chip, and therefore its power consumption, to be continuously adjusted to be appropriate to the workload and the parameters of the specific chip. This is accomplished by integrating a device that monitors the performance of the chip (a hardware performance manager) into the chip, which then provides information to a power controller.
AVS is similar in its goal to dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) and dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS). All three approaches aim to reduce power usage and heat generation. However AVS adapts the voltage directly to the conditions on the chip, allowing it to address real-time power requirements as well as chip-to-chip variations and changes in performance that occur as the chip ages.
Background
Technological advances have enabled very powerful and versatile computing systems to be implemented on smaller chips. As this allows a larger number of functions to take place in the same area, both current density and the associated power dissipation become more concentrated compared to larger chips. The power consumption and thermal performance of integrated circuits has become a limiting factor for high-performance systems. Mobile devices are also limited by the total amount of power available. Minimizing power consumption in digital CMOS circuits requires significant design effort at all levels. Supply voltage reduction is one way to achieve this, but static supply voltage reduction can reduce performance. Dynamic voltage scaling systems are used to adjust the supply voltage to the specific operations the chip is performing. However, conventional DVS systems do not directly monitor the performance of the chip and must therefore accommodate operation under worst-case performance scenarios. AVS aims to supply each individual domain of the system on the chip with just enough voltage to perform its task under the conditions actually experienced by the chip, minimizing power consumption per processor domain.
Advantages of AVS
Adaptive voltage scaling is a closed-loop DVS approach that evaluates different factors, such as process variations from device to device on a chip, temperature fluctuations during chip operations, and load variations, and establishes a voltage-frequency relationship for the circuit under those conditions. Each individual chip's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa%20text%20system | The Cocoa text system (formerly known simply by the primary class name NSText) is the linked network of classes, protocols, interfaces and objects that provide typography and text field editing capabilities and to Cocoa applications on Apple's macOS, where it is the primary text-handling system. Although "extremely complex", the standard text-handling abilities of the Cocoa text system have been widely praised as without peer.
It is possible to implement a fully featured rich text editor in only a few lines of code.
Formerly embodied in developer NeXT Inc.'s OpenStep API specification, and implemented in NeXT's OPENSTEP operating system, and probably also in the earlier NeXTSTEP platform, Cocoa's NSText has additionally been implemented via the OpenStep API specification successfully in third-party implementations such as the free-and-open-source GNUstep.
The Cocoa text system uses a Model–View–Controller design pattern. The view layer is handled by NSTextView and NSTextField, NSLayoutManager and NSTextContainer are the controller layer, and NSTextStorage (a mutable attributed string subclass) is the model.
The Cocoa text system also interacts with Services to provide standard streams functionality in a GUI environment.
Users interact with two classes, NSTextField (providing single-line edit fields) or NSTextView (providing multi-line editing). Each NSTextField uses a shared instance of a NSTextView called the "field editor". This was done to reduce high memory requirements that would arise if every field implemented its own NSTextView object graph when only one field can actually have focus at any time.
Cocoa adopts many Emacs keybindings familiar to programmers.
References
External links
About the Cocoa Text System
Text System Architecture
macOS APIs
GNUstep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20TV%20India | Cinema TV India is an Indian Hindi movies channel owned by Cinema 24X7 PVT LTD (which is the whole subsidiary owned by leading home shopping Network Naaptol Group). The channel was launched on 1 June 2012.
History
The Cinema TV channel was launched on 1 June 2012 as a free-to-air movie channel. They show Hindi movies and Hindi-dubbed movies and film feature shows.
Former Shows
Fillum Baazi
Bollywood Times
Bhakti Geet Mala
References
Hindi-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television stations in Mumbai
Hindi-language television stations
2012 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
Movie channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Scott%20%28entrepreneur%29 | Adrian Scott is a social networking site founder, technology entrepreneur, investor, and film and TV actor. He is best known as founder of the social networking site Ryze in the summer of 2001, and as a founding investor in Napster.
Education
Scott graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at age 16 with a B.S. cum laude in Mathematics, and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at age 20. He then taught management at Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a visiting scholar for a semester. He was awarded the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol's General Carl A. Spaatz Award.
Napster
As an angel investor, Scott put some of the first money into Napster, the influential and pioneering peer-to-peer music service.
Ryze
Scott started building Ryze in early 2001. Ryze was a major influence on Friendster (which in turn influenced Facebook) and other social networking startups. Ryze received a Webby Awards nomination in the 6th Annual Webby Awards in the Services Category.
Angel investor
Scott invested in high-tech startups including Napster, BuyDirect.com (acquired by Beyond.com), and Giganet (acquired by Emulex).
Startup advisor
Scott has advised high-tech startups including Starmine (acquired by Thomson Reuters) and Plaxo (acquired by Comcast).
Board member
Scott is on the board of directors of Legitmix.
Patent
Adrian Scott is an inventor of a U.S. Patent titled "Hashing algorithm used for multiple files having identical content and fingerprint in a peer-to-network". Read More
Actor
Scott is also a film and television actor, having appeared in the feature films Hands of Stone, Historias del Canal, and The Wind and the Water, and the television show QuienTV.
Press coverage
Scott has been written about in books including The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster, The Customer Revolution, and Growing Up Digital, as well as in numerous magazine and newspaper articles internationally.
References
Living people
Angel investors
Businesspeople from Ottawa
Technology company founders
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Male actors from Ottawa
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20in%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings | The year 2007 is the 13th year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2007 Fighting Network Rings held 2 events beginning with, Rings Holland: The Chosen Ones.
Events list
Rings Holland: The Chosen Ones
Rings Holland: The Chosen Ones was an event held on March 25, 2007 at Vechtsebanen Sport Hall in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Results
Rings Gala: Risky Business
Rings Gala: Risky Business was an event held on September 23, 2007 in The Netherlands.
See also
Fighting Network Rings
List of Fighting Network Rings events
References
Fighting Network Rings events
2007 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n%20Atli%20Benediktsson | Jón Atli Benediktsson (born 19 May 1960) is the rector and president of the University of Iceland and professor in electrical and computer engineering at the university. His research fields are remote sensing, image analysis, pattern recognition, machine learning, data fusion, analysis of biomedical signals and signal processing. He has published over 400 scientific articles in these fields and is one of the most influential scientists in the world according to Publons’ lists in 2018 and 2019.
Education
Jón Atli Benediktsson completed doctoral degree (PhD) in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana in 1990. The dissertation’s title is “Statistical Methods and Neural Network Approaches for Classification of Data from Multiple Sources”. At Purdue, he received the Stevan J. Kristof Award Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Remote Sensing (1991). He completed the MSEE degree in electrical engineering from Purdue in 1987. The title of the MSEE thesis is “Methods for Multisource Data Analysis in Remote Sensing”. Jón Atli completed his degree in electrical engineering at the University of Iceland in 1984. He graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík (Junior College in Reykjavik) in 1980. There he was on the school's debate team and the president of Vísindafélag Framtíðarinnar (science society of the school). He had previously attended classes at Vörðuskóli (passing landspróf, the national standard lower secondary school exam), Hlíðaskóli, Æfinga- og tilraunaskóli (of the Iceland´s School of Education), and Ísaksskóli.
At Purdue (1986-1990), Jón Atli was a research assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and Laboratory for Application of Remote Sensing (LARS). After completing his doctoral degree, Jón Atli was for six months a post-doc at Purdue. Before entering graduate studies, he was on the staff of the University of Iceland's Engineering Research Institute and a part-time teacher at the University of Iceland from 1984 to 1985.
Professional experience
Jón Atli has been with the University of Iceland since 1991, first as assistant professor of electrical engineering (1991-1994), associate professor of electrical engineering (1994-1996), and since 1996 as professor of electrical and computer engineering. During these years, he taught many courses, e.g., on pattern recognition, signal processing, probabilistic methods, circuit analysis, soft computation and remote sensing. Nine doctoral students have completed doctorates from the University of Iceland under Jón Atli’s supervision.
Jón Atli was the pro-rector for science and academic affairs at the University of Iceland from February 2009 to July 2015. He was the director of academic development and the assistant to the rector and president at the University of Iceland, 2006-2009.
Jón Atli has been very active in international collaboration and has taught in many countries. He has advised master’s and doctoral students at several universities. He has also bee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Entrepreneurs%20Network | Global Entrepreneurs Network (@GEN) was the world's first web hosting and e-commerce hosting provider, founded by Thomas Heimann in 1994. The company merged in late 1998 with Sage Network (later Interliant - INIT).
Early history
Thomas Heimann was an early online entrepreneur marketing his "Computer Profits" and "All-in-One Electronic Marketing Kit" which were two products that taught entrepreneurs how to use Usenet newsgroups for online marketing. He came to the realization that the World Wide Web would become the "Great Equalizer" and de facto platform for online commerce. In his attempts to set up a web presence for his own marketing business he realized that the few companies that were selling web servers and offering web related services to businesses at the time were simply too expensive for entrepreneurs and small businesses, with the least expensive solution cobbled together at the time costing in excess of $5,000.00.
In late 1994 Thomas met (online) Rich Skrenta, an engineer with Novel at the time, and the two discussed what it would take to provide simple web hosting and email solutions, as well as domain registration services, and the two reached an arrangement that gave birth to the Global Entrepreneurs Network (GEN). GEN – using the initial domain of Entrepreneurs.net – purchased a Unix server to be hosted by Skrenta in his basement, and GEN would pay Skrenta a one-time fee of $50 for every domain registered and account set up on the server. Skrenta wrote a number of Perl scripts to automate domain registration and account setup, and GEN officially opened doors as a membership organization offering two membership plans: Standard Membership at $49/month or $249/year and full-service membership at $99/month or $895/year. Each membership plan included a domain registration, with 5 email addresses and a 5 MB website for standard members and unlimited email addresses and 100 MB website for full-service members.
Since the domain registration process at the time was entirely free, GEN became the first company to offer free domain registration via a web-based order form that in turn connected to the scripts Skrenta created to automate the registration process with InterNIC.
Originally GEN was started in Heimann's two-bedroom apartment with a handful of early day employees, most of which worked 'practically free' just for the excitement of being part of something "big". In late 1995 GEN was able to secure a sublease at below market rates for class A office space at 100 N Tampa Street in downtown Tampa, where the company would remain for the next two years.
Growth and expansion
In 1995 GEN hired Raymond Karrenbauer, who became instrumental in designing the first Microsoft IIS-based web server farm, which was a strategic decision that led to GEN becoming the first web hosting provider to offer Microsoft FrontPage hosting in 1996 upon Microsoft's launch of the product, with its $9.95/month Start Smart Frontpage hosting plan.
In 1996 GEN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippo%20grass | Hippo grass is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
Echinochloa stagnina
Vossia cuspidata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudlet | A cloudlet is a mobility-enhanced small-scale cloud datacenter that is located at the edge of the Internet. The main purpose of the cloudlet is supporting resource-intensive and interactive mobile applications by providing powerful computing resources to mobile devices with lower latency. It is a new architectural element that extends today's cloud computing infrastructure. It represents the middle tier of a 3-tier hierarchy: mobile device - cloudlet - cloud. A cloudlet can be viewed as a data center in a box whose goal is to bring the cloud closer. The cloudlet term was first coined by M. Satyanarayanan, Victor Bahl, Ramón Cáceres, and Nigel Davies, and a prototype implementation is developed by Carnegie Mellon University as a research project. The concept of cloudlet is also known as follow me cloud, and mobile micro-cloud.
Motivation
Many mobile services split the application into a front-end client program and a back-end server program following the traditional client-server model. The front-end mobile application offloads its functionality to the back-end servers for various reasons such as speeding up processing. With the advent of cloud computing, the back-end server is typically hosted at the cloud datacenter. Though the use of a cloud datacenter offers various benefits such as scalability and elasticity, its consolidation and centralization lead to a large separation between a mobile device and its associated datacenter. End-to-end communication then involves many network hops and results in high latencies and low bandwidth.
For the reasons of latency, some emerging mobile applications require cloud offload infrastructure to be close to the mobile device to achieve low response time. In the ideal case, it is just one wireless hop away. For example, the offload infrastructure could be located in a cellular base station or it could be LAN-connected to a set of Wi-Fi base stations. The individual elements of this offload infrastructure are referred to as cloudlets.
Applications
Cloudlets aim to support mobile applications that are both resource-intensive and interactive. Augmented reality applications that use head-tracked systems require end-to-end latencies of less than 16 ms. Cloud games with remote rendering also require low latencies and high bandwidth. Wearable cognitive assistance systems combine devices such as Google Glass with cloud-based processing to guide users through complex tasks. This futuristic genre of applications is characterized as “astonishingly transformative” by the report of the 2013 NSF Workshop on Future Directions in Wireless Networking. These applications use cloud resources in the critical path of real-time user interaction. Consequently, they cannot tolerate end-to-end operation latencies of more than a few tens of milliseconds. Apple Siri and Google Now which perform compute-intensive speech recognition in the cloud, are further examples in this emerging space.
Cloudlet vs Cloud
There is significant |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNC%20machine%20tool%20monitoring%20by%20AE%20sensors | A machine tool monitoring system is a flow of information and system processing in which the information selection, obtaining data, processing of information and decision making on the refined information are integrated. The aim of tool condition monitoring is to detect early the disturbances in the machining process and wear of machine tool components.
The condition of tool has been researched extensively in the past and have focused on detection of tool wear, tool breakage and the estimation of remaining tool life. It is very important for on-line identification of tool condition in machining process for enhanced productivity, better quality of parts and lower costs for unmanned, automated manufacturing systems.
Techniques of machine tool monitoring
Machine tool monitoring can be done with or without additional sensors. Using additional sensors, monitoring can be done by measuring:
the cutting force (with a multi-channel table dynamometer or rotating dynamometer)
vibration amplitude using multi-channel accelerometers
audible sound from the machining process
high-frequency sound or acoustic emission
Sensor-less machine tool monitoring is done by measuring internal drive signals such as:
feed motor current
spindle motor current
spindle power
Combined measuring of multiple quantities is also possible.
Acoustic emission sensor
Machine tool monitoring is explained with Acoustic Emission (AE) sensors. An AE sensor is commonly defined as the sound emitted as an elastic wave by a solid when it is deformed or struck, caused by the rapid release of localized stress energy. Therefore, it is an occurrence phenomenon which releases elastic energy into the material, which then propagates as an elastic wave. The detection frequency range of acoustic emission is from 1 kHz to 1 MHz.
Rapid stress-releasing events generate a spectrum of stress waves starting at 0 Hz and typically falling off at several MHz. AE can be related to an irreversible release of energy. It can also be generated from sources not involving material failure including friction, cavitation and impact. The three major applications of AE sensors phenomena are: a) Source location - determine the locations of occurrence of an event b) Material mechanical performance - evaluate and characterize materials/structures; and c Health monitoring – monitors the safety operation.
How an AE sensor monitors machine tool
An AE sensor works on the principle of measuring the high-frequency energy signals produced during cutting process. It also measures the AE energy resulting from the fracture when a tool breaks. It is best suited to applications where the level of background AE signal is low compared to the sound of tool breakage. This makes the AE sensor ideal for breakage detection of small drills and taps. It is easy to install on both new and existing machines.
An AE sensor detects force proportional monitoring signals even in machining operations, which generate very small cutting fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20Computer%20%26%20Communication | Dragon Computer & Communication, more commonly known as Dragon in Indonesia, was the first and largest hardware distribution company in the country. Dragon is located in Jakarta, Java, Indonesia.
The company offers a wide range of computer hardware brands, including, but not limited to, ACER, ASUS, Inktec, Elevo, Lite-ON and Edimax.
History
Batumas Computer Center (BCC)
Dragon, previously known as Batumas Computer Center (BCC), was founded by Fransiskus Eddy Liew in 1980. Prior to establishing the company, Liew - a Malaysian national at the time - was well-known as an importer of various brands, such as Olivetti typewriters, Citizen Calculator, and Casio Digital watches, since 1973.
Eddy Liew is well-known among his peers and family as an entrepreneur from the golden era of calculator and digital watch sales. Liew moved his business line to the distribution and sale of personal computers, which at the time was considered novel with unclear prospects.
The decision he made was fairly precise as BCC (at that time selling the first computer brand in Indonesia, Sinclair) was gaining huge success. Other brands which were distributed under BCC in the 80's included Commodore, IBM, KT Technology, Twinhead. BCC also known as ACER Software (before ACER is known for Computer Hardware & Peripheral Manufacture).
Rebrand to 'Dragon Computer & Communication'
Eddy Liew's second son was born in 1988, the year of the dragon. In response to this, BCC altered its name to Dragon Computer. Furthermore, Liew recognised that computer hardware and telecommunications hardware would increasingly be used together and therefore should not be separated, resulting in the addition of the word ‘Communication’ to ‘Dragon Computer’, creating ‘Dragon Computer & Communication’.
In 1998, the company's small shop in Glodok, Jakarta was amongst the targets of a local riot and was subsequently burnt down and looted. Despite this, it proved to be a catalyst for the company's growth and move to the aptly named 'The Dragon' headquarters in Mangga Dua Square, Jakarta.
Dragon is also one of the founders and idealists of the Associations of Indonesian Computer Entrepreneurs (APKOMINDO) and the Indonesian Information and Technology Association (AITI).
Distributed brands
Dragon is known as a main distributor of ACER and ASUS in Indonesia. Under the Dragon flag, ACER become a #1 brand in Indonesia for 9 consecutive years 2005 - 2013 (According to IDC and GFK).
In 2014, ASUS appointed Dragon as one of its distributors and in the same year ASUS become #1 brand in Indonesia (According to IDC and GFK)
In the early era of Dragon, under Eddy Liew's leadership. Dragon also developed several well known brands to the Indonesian market, such as: BENQ, Compaq, IBM Aptiva, Packard Bell, Gateway, E-Machine by Acer, Epson Printer, and Inktec.
Dragon also contribute to the success of Lite-ON brand and BTC (Taiwanese brand) in indonesia during 2003. Lite-ON become the leader brand of optical drive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Levo is one circular direction (levorotation or counterclockwise) of rotating plane-polarized light.
Levo may also refer to:
Levo (company), a network for millennials in the workplace
Mikke Levo (born 1995), Finnish ice-hockey player
Tapio Levo (born 1956), Finnish ice-hockey player
Levo (Stresa), a parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Novara in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy
Liron Levo, Israeli actor in Dawn (2014 film) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20scraping | Data scraping is a technique where a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program.
Description
Normally, data transfer between programs is accomplished using data structures suited for automated processing by computers, not people. Such interchange formats and protocols are typically rigidly structured, well-documented, easily parsed, and minimize ambiguity. Very often, these transmissions are not human-readable at all.
Thus, the key element that distinguishes data scraping from regular parsing is that the output being scraped is intended for display to an end-user, rather than as an input to another program. It is therefore usually neither documented nor structured for convenient parsing. Data scraping often involves ignoring binary data (usually images or multimedia data), display formatting, redundant labels, superfluous commentary, and other information which is either irrelevant or hinders automated processing.
Data scraping is most often done either to interface to a legacy system, which has no other mechanism which is compatible with current hardware, or to interface to a third-party system which does not provide a more convenient API. In the second case, the operator of the third-party system will often see screen scraping as unwanted, due to reasons such as increased system load, the loss of advertisement revenue, or the loss of control of the information content.
Data scraping is generally considered an ad hoc, inelegant technique, often used only as a "last resort" when no other mechanism for data interchange is available. Aside from the higher programming and processing overhead, output displays intended for human consumption often change structure frequently. Humans can cope with this easily, but a computer program will fail. Depending on the quality and the extent of error handling logic present in the computer, this failure can result in error messages, corrupted output or even program crashes.
However, setting up a data scraping pipeline nowadays is straightforward, requiring minimal programming effort to meet practical needs.
Technical variants
Screen scraping
Although the use of physical "dumb terminal" IBM 3270s is slowly diminishing, as more and more mainframe applications acquire Web interfaces, some Web applications merely continue to use the technique of screen scraping to capture old screens and transfer the data to modern front-ends.
Screen scraping is normally associated with the programmatic collection of visual data from a source, instead of parsing data as in web scraping. Originally, screen scraping referred to the practice of reading text data from a computer display terminal's screen. This was generally done by reading the terminal's memory through its auxiliary port, or by connecting the terminal output port of one computer system to an input port on another. The term screen scraping is also commonly used to refer to the bidirectional exchange of data. This |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KENET | KENET, Kenya Education Network, is Kenya's National research and education network (NREN). KENET is licensed by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) as a not-for-profit operator serving the education and research institutions.
References
External links
1999 establishments in Kenya
Communications in Kenya
National research and education networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Schamberger | Robert "Rob" Schamberger is an American painter known for his portraiture of professional wrestlers. He is currently the host of Canvas 2 Canvas on the WWE Network.
Personal life and education
Schamberger currently resides in Kansas City.
Technique
Rob's technique involves the tracing and copying of promotional images or video stills to paper or canvas after which he uses various materials such as acrylic, watercolour, ink, and paint markers, to create his work. Often many materials are used in the same painting in a mixed media fashion. Schamberger uses synthetic round brushes in a variety of sizes as well as a painting knife to create his works. Regarding tracing, Schamberger himself has stated - "Man, I could give a damn."
Schamberger utilizes unusual colour combinations and uses a technique not unlike the posturization tool in Photoshop to break down the original reference photos to create something unique when compared to the source material.
Career
Schamberger hosts the Canvas 2 Canvas YouTube show with the WWE Network. On the show Schamberger unveils new portraits of past and current wrestlers.
Schamberger is the official WWE Artist in Residence.[7] While Schamberger operates an independent store, most of his WWE artwork is purchased by the WWE organization and sold through their official storefronts and auctions. Schamberger's work is printed on a variety of WWE merchandise, including tee shirt designs.
External links
References
American painters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American painters
21st-century American painters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Civil%20Aviation%20and%20Communication%20Maldives | The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Communication Maldives is a ministry of the government of Maldives. The ministry's job is to ensure a safe transport network domestically and internationally.
The Accident Investigation Coordination Committee (AICC), subordinate to the ministry, investigates aviation accidents and incidents in the Maldives.
See also
Maldives Civil Aviation Authority
References
Aviation organisations based in the Maldives
Government of the Maldives
Organizations investigating aviation accidents and incidents
Civil aviation in the Maldives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News18%20India | News18 India is an Indian Media television channel owned by Network 18. It was launched in 2005 as Channel 7 by Jagran Prakashan Limited and acquired in 2006 by Network 18 and rebranded IBN7. In 2016 it took its current name.
In 2013, News18 India launched, on channel 520 on the UK's Sky TV platform News18, a live version of the parent channel.
Popular shows
Aar Paar
Aar Paar is Hindi news show which aired daily at 7pm having Amish Devgan as anchor.
Ham to puchhenge
It runs daily at 8 pm.
Desh Nahin Jhukne Denge with Aman Chopra
See also
Network 18
CNN-News18
References
Hindi-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2006
24-hour television news channels in India
Television stations in New Delhi
2012 establishments in Delhi
Network18 Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOC1 | TOC1 may refer to:
The TOC protocol, or Talk to OSCAR protocol, a computing protocol
TOC1 (gene), a gene regulating the circadian rhythm in plants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCdiger%20Marmulla | Rüdiger Marmulla (born 19 December 1963, in Frankfurt am Main) is a German cranio-maxillofacial surgeon.
Career
On 24 March, 1998, Rüdiger Marmulla performed the first computer-assisted bone segment navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany. For this, a new navigation system was used which Marmulla developed in cooperation with Carl Zeiss. The Surgical Segment Navigator uses for the first time complete anatomical surfaces instead of single reference points for the patient registration process.
After his academic studies in human medicine and dentistry at the University of Frankfurt/Main, Rüdiger Marmulla received two doctorates as Dr. med. (MD) and Dr. med. dent. (DMD) in the field of electron-microscopic research at the Dr. Senckenbergische Anatomie. Later, Rüdiger Marmulla joined the medical branch of the Christian AIDS Help Facility in Frankfurt/Mainz.
From 1994 to 1998, Rüdiger Marmulla worked as resident in the clinic for oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Regensburg, as of 1998 he was senior physician. In 1999, Rüdiger Marmulla qualified as a professor with his thesis in computer-assisted bone segment navigation. Since 1995, Rüdiger Marmulla acts as consultant for Carl Zeiss AG and since 2005 as consultant for Fraunhofer Institute IPK, Berlin.
From 2002 on he led a special research field funded by the German Research Foundation for computer-supported surgery at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Karlsruhe. Since 2005, Rüdiger Marmulla had, among others, a joint research and development project for navigation with the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR).
Monographs
Time Scheduling Professional. Jungjohann Publishing house, Neckarsulm 1997, .
Comprehensive Patient Administrator. 2nd ed. Jungjohann Publishing house, Neckarsulm 2003, .
with Michael Dieterich: Church in Progress. 1st ed. IPP Publishing house, Freudenstadt 2015, .
Patents
Marmulla, Rüdiger (inventor), Carl Zeiss Oberkochen (submitter): Bone Segment Navigation System, International Patent PCT/EP98/06828, 1998
Marmulla, Rüdiger (inventor), Carl Zeiss Oberkochen (submitter): Bone Segment Navigation system, European Patent EP/98954456, 1999
Marmulla, Rüdiger System and method for bone segment navigation, United States Patent 6.241.735, 2001
Marmulla, Rüdiger (inventor), Carl Zeiss (submitter): System and method for bone segment navigation, Japanese Patent 1999-523260, 2002
Marmulla, Rüdiger and Lüth, Tim: Device for instrument, bone segment, tissue, and organ navigation, European Patent 1237493, 2004
Marmulla, Rüdiger and Lüth, Tim: Method and device for instrument, bone segment, tissue, and organ navigation, United States Patent 7.079.885, 2006
References
External links
Publications in US National Library of Medicine
1963 births
Living people
German maxillofacial surgeons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20program%20product | The terms "computer program product" and "program product" may refer to:
Software as a product
T 1173/97, a decision by the Board of Appeal in the European Patent Office, which is also known as Computer program product/IBM or simply Computer program product
computer programming when considered as a product of labor
a License Program Product concept that is part of the IBM AIX operating system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Series%20of%20Fighting%2022%3A%20Palhares%20vs.%20Shields | World Series of Fighting 22: Palhares vs. Shields was a mixed martial arts event held in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. This event aired on NBCSN in the U.S and on Fight Network in Canada.
Background
The event went head-to-head with UFC 190 on the same night.
The main event was scheduled to be a fight for the WSOF Welterweight Championship between champion Rousimar Palhares making his second defence of his title against challenger Jake Shields.
The co-main event was scheduled to be a fight for the WSOF Bantamweight Championship between champion Marlon Moraes making his second defence of his title against challenger Sheymon Moraes.
Tyrone Spong was expected to face Mike Kyle at the event. However, Spong pulled out of the bout due to an injury and was replaced by Thiago Silva. In turn, Silva was forced out of the bout after being deemed ineligible to receive a license by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Short notice replacement Clifford Starks stepped in to face Kyle at the event.
Results
Guest live appearances
For the closing of the Preliminary Card Livestream, a guest set was performed by Venezuelan eOne Music artist DJ Zardonic including a performance of "Bring It On", a track that served as the WSOF theme song in 2015.
See also
World Series of Fighting
List of WSOF champions
List of WSOF events
References
World Series of Fighting events
2015 in mixed martial arts
Zappos Theater |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production%20system | Production system may refer to:
Computer Animation Production System (CAPS), developed by the Walt Disney Company and Pixar in the 1980s
Production system (computer science), a program used to provide some form of artificial intelligence
Production systems, in operations management and industrial engineering
Subsea Production Systems, typically wells located on the seafloor
Toyota Production System, organizes manufacturing and logistics at Toyota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%202005 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the weekly Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' weekly physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 2005.
Chart history
References
2005 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Lists of number-one songs in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Time%3A%20Finn%20%26%20Jake%20Investigations | Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations is a 2015 action adventure video game developed by Vicious Cycle Software under license from Cartoon Network Interactive. It was published by Little Orbit for Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. This is the fourth game based on the animated television series Adventure Time following The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom, and the first action-adventure title in the series presented in full 3D graphics. The game was first announced on April 21, 2015, and released on October 20, 2015, in North America, and on November 6 in Europe.
The game was removed from digital storefronts on March 31, 2018, due to the expiration of Little Orbit's Adventure Time license.
Overview
Players check out Land of Ooo locales, talk to characters, sharpen their creative puzzle-solving skills, and defeat bad guys. Loosely based on the TV show's sixth season, the game features a focus on exploring, investigating, and puzzle-solving. Thanks to the discovery of an assignment printing machine called the 'tickertype,' Finn and Jake decide to become detectives like their parents, Joshua and Margaret. Players gradually fill the treasure room of Finn and Jake's Tree House with treasure from enemies that they defeat.
Reception
It has a score of 66 on Metacritic. Nintendo Life awarded it a score of 7 out of 10, saying "While it might prove too basic for more advanced players, younger players and families should have a fun time questing with dog and human. Big fans of the show, of course, should not feel so afraid to give this one a try, either." Nintendo World Report awarded it a score of 7 out of 10, saying "By default, I feel as if this is the best Adventure Time video game so far. It's not perfect, and it's a little on the easy side, but as an Adventure Time fan, it made me smile."
References
External links
2015 video games
Action-adventure games
Finn and Jake Investigations
Detective video games
Episodic video games
Nintendo 3DS eShop games
Nintendo 3DS games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 4 games
Video games based on television series
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Rod Abernethy
Wii U eShop games
Wii U games
Windows games
Xbox 360 games
Xbox One games
Cartoon Network video games
Vicious Cycle Software games
Little Orbit games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy%20Sagi | Teddy Sagi (; born 1971) is an Israeli billionaire businessman based in London and Cyprus. Sagi is the founder of the gambling software company Playtech, and cybersecurity company Kape Technologies (owns ExpressVPN) and owner of London's Camden Market. His personal wealth is estimated at US$5 billion, with interests in real estate, gambling software, payments processing, and digital advertising.
Personal life
Sagi was born in 1971 in Tel Aviv, the only child of Ami Sagi, a businessman who owned a travel agency, and his wife Lizi, a cosmetician who sold make-up. He grew up in Tel Aviv's Shikun Lamed neighborhood.
In 1996 Sagi received a nine-month prison sentence after being convicted in Israel of bribery and fraud.
In 2009 Sagi obtained Cypriot citizenship as part of a 'golden visa' scheme by Cyprus government. As Cyprus is part of the European Union, Sagi obtained a Passport of the European Union. In 2013, The Guardian reported that Sagi had "been based in Cyprus for some years".
Since 2010, Sagi has been living with Yael Nizri, the 2006 Miss Israel, and they have two daughters together. Sagi owns the most expensive home in Israel, located in Herzliya. The home, which he bought in 2010, lies in the wealthy neighborhood of Herzliya Pituah on Galei Techelet Street, Israel's most expensive street. It is a 2,000 square meter house on a half-acre lot on the shore, and has a fitness room, wine cellar, sealed room, and an elevator to the beach. Sagi also owns two penthouses in Herzliya, and other homes in Tel Aviv (including an apartment in the Tzameret Towers purchased from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak), London's Knightsbridge, Cyprus, and Berlin.
Career
On 2 January 2022, Forbes listed his net worth at US$5.7 billion.
Playtech
Sagi founded Playtech in 1999. It was floated in 2006 on the London Stock Exchange at a price that valued the business at approximately £550 million. He has since scaled down his holdings to 4.6%, as opposed to 81% at the time of its IPO. He has since invested in hi-tech companies and real estate.
Hi-Tech
SafeCharge
Sagi was majority shareholder (with 68% control) of the company, which is a credit card clearing company for the online gambling industry.
Primarily based in Bulgaria, SafeCharge was traded on London's AIM, with a market cap of £385 million. The company was listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange.
In 2019, Nuvei Corporation announced its acquisition of SafeCharge, and agreed to pay $889 million in cash for it. In August 2019, Nuvei completed the acquisition.
Kape Technologies plc
Kape Technologies is a United Kingdom-based cybersecurity software company. Kape owns VPN services and cybersecurity tools, including CyberGhost, Private Internet Access (PIA), ZenMate, and Intego.
In late 2012, Sagi acquired the start-up company Crossrider for $37 million. The company went public on AIM at a value of $US 250M. Crossrider started off by making a software de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS | TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, LoseThos, and SparrowOS) is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system (OS) designed to be the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible. It was created by American programmer Terry A. Davis, who developed it alone over the course of a decade after a series of manic episodes that he later described as a revelation from God.
The system was characterized as a modern x86-64 Commodore 64, using an interface similar to a mixture of DOS and Turbo C. Davis proclaimed that the system's features, such as its 640x480 resolution, 16-color display, and single-voice audio, were designed according to explicit instructions from God. It was programmed with an original variation of C (named HolyC) in place of BASIC, and included an original flight simulator, compiler, and kernel.
First released in 2005 as J Operating System, TempleOS was renamed in 2013 and was last updated in 2018.
Background
Terry A. Davis (1969–2018) began experiencing regular manic episodes in 1996, leading him to numerous stays at mental hospitals. Initially diagnosed with bipolar disorder, he was later declared schizophrenic and remained unemployed for the rest of his life. He suffered from delusions of space aliens and government agents that left him briefly hospitalized for his mental health issues. After experiencing a self-described "revelation", he proclaimed that he was in direct communication with God, and that God told him the operating system was for God's third temple.
Davis began developing TempleOS circa 2003. One of its early names was the "J Operating System" before renaming it to "LoseThos", a reference to a scene from the 1986 film Platoon. In 2008, Davis wrote that LoseThos was "primarily for making video games. It has no networking or Internet support. As far as I'm concerned, that would be reinventing the wheel". Another name he used was "SparrowOS" before settling on "TempleOS". In mid-2013, his website announced: "God's temple is finished. Now, God kills CIA until it spreads ." Davis died after being hit by a train on August 11, 2018.
System overview
TempleOS is a 64-bit, non-preemptive multi-tasking, multi-cored, public domain, open source, ring-0-only, single address space, non-networked, PC operating system for recreational programming. The OS runs 8-bit ASCII with graphics in source code and has a 2D and 3D graphics library, which run at 640x480 VGA with 16 colors. Like most modern operating systems, it has keyboard and mouse support. It supports ISO 9660, FAT32 and RedSea file systems (the latter created by Davis) with support for file compression. According to Davis, many of these specifications—such as the 640x480 resolution, 16-color display and single audio voice—were instructed to him by God. He explained that the limited resolution was to make it easier for children to draw illustrations for God.
The operating system includes an original flight simulator, compiler, and kernel. One bundled program, "After Egypt", i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Staiger | Ludwig Staiger is a German mathematician and computer scientist at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Jena in 1976; Staiger wrote his doctoral thesis, Zur Topologie der regulären Mengen, under the direction of and Rolf Lindner.
Previously he held positions at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin (East), the Central Institute of Cybernetics and Information Processes, the Karl Weierstrass Institute for Mathematics and the Technical University Otto-von-Guericke Magdeburg. He was a visiting professor at RWTH Aachen University, the universities Dortmund, Siegen, and Cottbus in Germany and the Technical University Vienna, Austria. He is a member of the Managing Committee of the Georg Cantor Association and an external researcher of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
He co-invented with Klaus Wagner the Staiger–Wagner automaton. Staiger is an expert in ω-languages, an area in which he wrote more than 19 papers including the paper on this topic in the monograph. He found surprising applications of ω-languages in the study of Liouville numbers.
Staiger is an active researcher in combinatorics on words, automata theory, effective dimension theory, and algorithmic information theory.
Notes
Bibliography
L. Staiger. Quasiperiods of infinite words. In Alexandra Bellow, Cristian S. Calude, , editors, Mathematics Almost Everywhere: In Memory of Solomon Marcus, pages 17–36, World Scientific, Singapore, 2018.
C. S. Calude, L. Staiger. Liouville numbers, Borel normality and algorithmic randomness, Theory of Computing Systems, First online 27 April 2017, doi:10.1007/s00224-017-9767-8.
Staiger, L. "Exact Constructive and Computable Dimensions", Theory of Computing Systems 61 (2017) 4, 1288-1314.
C. S. Calude, L. Staiger, F. Stephan. Finite state incompressible infinite sequences, Information and Computation 247 (2016), 23-36.
Staiger, L. "On Oscillation-Free Chaitin h-Random Sequences". In M. Dinneen, B. Khoussainov and A. Nies, editors, Computation, Physics and Beyond, pages 194-202. Springer-Verlag, 2012.
Staiger, L. The Kolmogorov complexity of infinite words, Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (EECC) 13, 70 (2006).
Staiger, L. "ω-Languages". In G. Rozenberg and A. Salomaa, editors, Handbook of Formal Languages, Volume 3, pages 339-387. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1997.
External links
Ludwig Staiger Home Page
CDMTCS at the University of Auckland
Algorithmic Complexity and Applications: Special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae (83, 1-2, 2008), dedicated to Professor L. Staiger 60's birthday.
Theory of computation
Formal languages
21st-century German mathematicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
20th-century German mathematicians
University of Jena alumni
Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcom%20%28media%20agency%29 | Starcom is an international media network, the third-largest communications group globally, part of France’s Publicis, headquarters in Chicago.
History
The global holding company Starcom Mediavest Group was formed in 2000. Jack Klues, who had been the Chief Executive Officer of Starcom Worldwide, was named SMG’s first CEO upon its formation. Former CEO Laura Desmond became one of the business world’s youngest CEOs ever when she was named to the position in 2008.
In recent years, SMG has had partnerships with companies such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Acxiom, Tencent and more involving data, analytics and "technology-fueled creativity".
SMG also reorganized into 3 divisions—Connections (media brands), Content (creative assets), and Tech solutions (RUN, extech)—to reflect the fact that it now derives more than 50% of its business from digital, content, and data/analytics.
Resources
SMG Performance Marketing: Full-service media agency.
LiquidThread: branded entertainment content and on-ground activation specialists.
MRY: Full-service digital creative agency.
Relevant24: Real-time content agency creating multi-media branded content marketing
RUN: Mobile-first data management and programmatic buying platform for the digital world that executes cross-device campaigns across multiple formats, including display and video .
Data & Analytics:
Extech: Offers new marketplace products and services.
SPORTS at SMG: Sports and event marketing, including strategy, planning, rights acquisition and activation to SMG clients.
VivaKi: Programmatic advertising and media buying
IP Pixel: digital creative agency. IP Pixel was founded in 2003 by Nicholas Yecke, John Rafferty, and Jen Schreiber then members of Starcom IP - Starcom WorldWide, held by the Publicis Groupe. In 2007, Publicis restructured Pixel into a fully integrated part of its Starcom MediaVest Group.
Employees and Locations
SMG employs roughly 7,000 people in 49 locations worldwide.
References
Publicis Groupe
Marketing companies established in 2000
Companies based in Chicago
Advertising agencies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.OOO | .ooo ("triple-O") is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It was launched and is operated by Infibeam.
References
Top-level domains
Computer-related introductions in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manok%20ni%20San%20Pedro | Manok ni San Pedro () is a 2013 Cebuano drama series aired on TV5 Channel 21 Cebu.
The drama was introduced during the network's mall show in Parkmall, Mandaue City on April 13, 2013, along with the network's other drama series such as Antigo and other network's programs.
Cast
Wilson Navarro as Esteban "Teban" Escudero
Shelie Cabante as Liza
Marvin Sinamban as Arnold
George Aznar as Don Miguel - Liza's father
Vic Romarate as Don Alfonso - Arnold's father
Cathleen Melgar as Rosie - Liza's sister
Pedro Pongase as Rocky - Arnold's sidekick
Geraldine Roldan as Geraldin - Don Alfonso's helper
Nolito Morales Dayanan as Atty. Ismokoy Bira
Isagani Nadela Sacol as Gani Boy
Lani Durano Alerta as Mayang - Teban's cousin
Miguelito Yburan as Ekong - Teban's father
Mary Jane Lawas as Rustica - Teban's former love interest
Lino Giolen as Atty. Bartolome "Tommy" Imbaw - Ogis' security guard
Norman Bastid as Tarok Mongisi
Gale Camus as Gale
Ananias Barongo Waskin as Dondon
Rey Salon as Sente - Don Miguel's errand boy
Jasmine Dominguez as Rosa Mia
Ricky Labang as Opong
McArthur Flor Jr. as Glen
Mariele Montellano as Inday
Production crew
McArthur Flor Jr.
Rey Salon
Norman Bastida
Jeffrey Salabande
Nilo Camus
See also
TV5 Cebu
References
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
TV5 (Philippine TV network) original programming
Television in Cebu City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaPS%20S.A. | MaPS S.A. is a software editor founded in 2011 by Thierry Muller. The company is headquartered in Luxembourg. Its platform, called MaPS System, provides Data Management software for Multichannel Marketing.
History and Funding
The first version of MaPS System was released under the agency Prem1um S.A. in 2005 in the partnership with Pingroom agency. In combination with MaPS System, Prem1um also provided various consulting services in Marketing, Publishing and Sales. This is where MaPS System takes its names (M stands for Marketing, P for Publishing and S for Sales).
In 2011, after being successful, Prem1um S.A. decided to enable the software MaPS System to operate independently under MaPS S.A., as a separate company and editor of the software. The first financial supports were provided by Malta ICI, a Venture Capital firm, and the local partner Chameleon Invest, a seed-capital fund led by Business Angels, who invested €900,000. In a second investment round in 2014 led by Newion Investments, a Venture Capital firm, €1.4 Million were raised, thus amounting to total assets of €2.2 Million.
In 2016, the company was taken over by three private investors.
In 2018, after two years of continuous growth and European expansion in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, MaPS S.A acquired Awevo, an e-commerce web agency.
Products
The services included in MaPS System range from the data centralization, Data Governance to an optimized Multichannel Marketing. The software currently includes more than 35 modules for Master Data Management, Product Information Management, Digital Asset Management, Business Process Management including catalogue Publishing features.
Certifications
In 2019, MaPS System and Awevo received "Made in Luxembourg" label, given to the companies whose services are entirely designed in Luxembourg, without any production or development offshoring.
MaPS System is a member of ICT Cluster by Luxinnovation.
References
MaPS System –
Awevo – Official website
Newion invests in MaPS System | http://www.newion-investments.com/news/newion-invests-in-maps-system/1]
Introducing MaPS System | http://www.siliconluxembourg.lu/introducing-maps-system-a-centralized-information-management-solution/]
MaPS System's page in Luxinnovation catalogue | https://clustermembers.luxinnovation.lu/ict/members/maps-system/
Made in Luxembourg | http://www.made-in-luxembourg.lu/en/presentation/
Data management software
Data management
Software companies of Luxembourg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20cache%20encoding | Power consumption is becoming increasingly important for both embedded, mobile computing and high-performance systems. Off-chip data bus consumes a significant part of system power. It is observed that the off-chip data bus consumes between 9.8% and 23.2% of the total power
consumed by the system depending on the system. So, reducing the power consumption of the off-chip data bus would reduce the overall power consumption.
Introduction
Off-chip buses are associated with higher capacitance values internal node capacitances and hence, therefore techniques for minimizing
switching at external address and data buses, even at the expense of a slight increase in switching at internal capacitances are quite useful. Off chip power consumption can be reduced by at least these two techniques: by reducing the number of bus lines activated during data transfer and by reducing the number of bit transitions on the active bus lines. A mix of both of these techniques produce optimal result.Value cache encoding is a scheme which is used to reduce power consumption in off chip data bus. In this scheme, Cache at both side of data bus is used to reduce the dynamic power dissipation on off-chip data buses. These caches are maintained such that their contents are the same all the time.
Scheme Details
In this protocol, we employ a small cache (called value cache, or VC for short) at each side of the off-chip data bus. These value caches keep track of the data values that have recently been transmitted over the bus. The entries in these caches are constructed in such a way that the contents of both the value caches are the same all the time. When a data value needs to be transmitted over the bus, we first check whether it is in the value cache of the sender (whether it is memory or cache). If it is, we transmit only the index of the data (i.e., its value cache address, or index) instead of the actual data value and, the other side (receiver) can determine the data value by using this index and its value cache.To transmit the data in the value cache using only 1 bit switching activity, the size of value cache is limited to the width of the data bus. That is, with a 32-bit bus, the VC could have only 32 entries. Since the value caches employed by our power protocol are very small, the width of the index value is much smaller than the width of the actual data value. Consequently, fewer off-chip bus lines need to be activated for transmission Our approach tries to achieve the first option by exploiting the locality of the data values communicated over the off-chip data bus. However, once the width of the data (that needs to be transmitted) has been reduced, we can also expect a reduction (in general) on the average bit switching activity per transfer. In addition, this switching activity can be further reduced by using well-known bus encoding schemes in conjunction with our strategy
Cache Consistency
The receiver side runs the same placement and replacement policy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20organization%20for%20low%20power | Power consumption in relation to physical size of electronic hardware has increased as the components have become smaller and more densely packed. Coupled with high operating frequencies, this has led to unacceptable levels of power dissipation. Memory accounts for a high proportion of the power consumed, and this contribution may be reduced by optimizing data organizationthe way data is stored.
Motivation
Power optimization in high memory density electronic systems has become one of the major challenges for devices such as mobile phones, embedded systems, and wireless devices. As the number of cores on a single chip is growing the power consumption by the devices also increases. Studies on power consumption distribution in smartphones and data-centers have shown that the memory subsystem consumes around 40% of the total power. In server systems, the study reveals that the memory consumes around 1.5 times the core power consumption.
Memory data organization of low energy address bus
System level buses such as off-chip buses or long on-chip buses between IP blocks are often major sources of energy consumption due to their large load capacitance. Experimental results have shown that the bus activity for memory access can be reduced to 50% by organizing the data. Consider the case of compiling the code written in C programming language:
int A[4][4], B[4][4];
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < 4; j++) {
B[i][j] = A[j][i];
}
}
Most existing C compilers place a multidimensional array in row-major form, that is row by row: this is shown in the "unoptimized" column in the adjoining table. As a result, no memory access while running this code has sequential memory access because elements in columns are accessed sequentially. But it is possible to change the way in which they are placed in memory so as to maximize the number of sequential accesses from memory. This can be achieved by ordering the data as shown in the "optimized" column of the table. Such redistribution of data by the compiler can significantly reduce energy consumption due to memory access.
Data structure transformations
This method involves source code transformations that either modifies the data structure included in the source code or introduces new data structures or, possibly, modifies the access mode and the access paths with the aim of lowering power consumption. Certain techniques are used to perform such transformations.
Array declaration sorting
The basic idea is to modify the local array declaration ordering, so that the arrays more frequently accessed are placed on top of the stack in such a way that the memory locations frequently used are accessed directly. To achieve this, the array declarations are reorganized to place first the more frequently accessed arrays, requiring either a static estimation or a dynamic analysis of frequency of access of the local arrays.
Array scope modification (local to global)
In any computation program, local variables |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Algorithm%20Auction | The Algorithm Auction is the world's first auction of computer algorithms. Created by Ruse Laboratories, the initial auction featured seven lots and was held at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on March 27, 2015.
Five lots were physical representations of famous code or algorithms, including a signed, handwritten copy of the original Hello, World! C program by its creator Brian Kernighan on dot-matrix printer paper, a printed copy of 5,000 lines of Assembly code comprising the earliest known version of Turtle Graphics, signed by its creator Hal Abelson, a necktie containing the six-line qrpff algorithm capable of decrypting content on a commercially produced DVD video disc, and a pair of drawings representing OkCupid's original Compatibility Calculation algorithm, signed by the company founders. The qrpff lot sold for $2,500.
Two other lots were “living algorithms,” including a set of JavaScript tools for building applications that are accessible to the visually impaired and the other is for a program that converts lines of software code into music. Winning bidders received, along with artifacts related to the algorithms, a full intellectual property license to use, modify, or open-source the code. All lots were sold, with Hello World receiving the most bids.
Exhibited alongside the auction lots were a facsimile of the Plimpton 322 tablet on loan from Columbia University, and Nigella, an art-world facing computer virus named after Nigella Lawson and created by cypherpunk and hacktivist Richard Jones.
Sebastian Chan, Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Cooper–Hewitt, attended the event remotely from Milan, Italy via a Beam Pro telepresence robot.
Effects
Following the auction, the Museum of Modern Art held a salon titled The Way of the Algorithm highlighting algorithms as "a ubiquitous and indispensable component of our lives."
References
Algorithms
2015 in computing
Contexts for auctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodner%20Figueroa | Rodner Figueroa (born 1972) is a Venezuelan television show host. Figueroa has hosted shows on Univision, such as El Gordo y La Flaca, Sal y Pimienta, and for Al Rojo Vivo on the Telemundo network.
Career
Univision
Early 2015 during a segment on the work of makeup artist Paolo Ballesteros, Figueroa stated multiple times in Spanish that Michelle Obama "looks like a character from the movie Planet of the Apes." His co-hosts contested, but Figueroa made the statement again. Figueroa was subsequently fired by Univision for the racist comment. After losing his job, Figueroa later publicly apologized about the comments.
Telemundo
In October 2017, Figueroa joined María Celeste Arrarás on the Telemundo network news program Al Rojo Vivo.
Personal
Figueroa and the man who replaced him as host of Sal y Pimienta, Mexican show host Carlos Calderon, are personal friends. Figueroa stated he is happy that Calderon replaced him. Rodner Figueroa is in a relationship with Ernesto Mathies and publicly acknowledged his homosexuality.
References
External links
1967 births
Venezuelan LGBT entertainers
Venezuelan gay men
Living people
Univision people
Venezuelan television personalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreCMC | LibreCMC is a Linux-libre distribution for computers with minimal resources, such as the Ben NanoNote, ath9k-based Wi-Fi routers, and other hardware with emphasis on free software. Based on OpenWrt, the project's goal is to aim for compliance with the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG) and ensure that the project continues to meet these requirements set forth by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). LibreCMC does not support ac (Wi-Fi 5) or ax (Wi-Fi 6) due to a lack of free chipsets.
As of 2020, releases do not utilize codenames anymore. The acronym "CMC" in the libreCMC name stands for "Concurrent Machine Cluster".
History
On April 23, 2014, libreCMC's first public release is mentioned in a Trisquel Linux forum. On September 4, 2014, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) added libreCMC to its list of endorsed distributions. Shortly afterwards, on September 12, 2014, the FSF awarded their Respects Your Freedom (RYF) Certification to a new router pre-installed with libreCMC.
On May 2, 2015, libreCMC merged with the LibreWRT project. LibreWRT, initially developed as a case study, was listed by the website prism-break.org as one of the alternatives to proprietary firmware, but today the website lists libreCMC.
On March 10, 2016, the FSF awarded their RYF certification to a new router pre-installed with libreCMC.
On March 29, 2017, libreCMC began its first release based upon the LEDE (Linux Embedded Development Environment) 17.01 codebase.
On January 3, 2020, libreCMC began its first release based upon the OpenWrt 19.07 codebase.
Release history
Source
List of supported hardware
LibreCMC supports the following devices:
Buffalo (Melco subsidiary)
WZR-HP-G300NH
WHR-HP-G300NH
Netgear
WNDR3800: v1.x
TP-Link
TL-MR3020: v1
TL-WR741ND: v1 - v2, v4.20 - v4.27
TL-WR841ND: v5.x, v8.x, v9.x, v10.x, v11.x, v12.x
TL-WR842ND: v1, v2
TL-WR1043ND: v1.x, v2.x, v3.x, v4.x, v5.x
ThinkPenguin
TPE-NWIFIROUTER2
TPE-R1100
TPE-R1200
TPE-R1300
TPE-R1400
Qi-Hardware
Ben Nanonote
See also
Comparison of Linux distributions
Linksys WRT54G series
List of router firmware projects
References
External links
LibreCMC package installation tutorial
Build automation
Custom firmware
Embedded Linux
Embedded Linux distributions
Free routing software
Free software only Linux distributions
Homebrew software
Wi-Fi
Linux distributions without systemd
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HackerRank | HackerRank is a technology company that focuses on competitive programming challenges for both consumers and businesses. Developers compete by writing programs according to provided specifications. HackerRank's programming challenges can be solved in a variety of programming languages (including Java, C++, PHP, Python, SQL, and JavaScript) and span multiple computer science domains.
HackerRank categorizes most of their programming challenges into a number of core computer science domains, including database management, mathematics, and artificial intelligence.
When a programmer submits a solution to a programming challenge, their submission is scored on the accuracy of their output. Programmers are then ranked globally on the HackerRank leaderboard and earn badges based on their accomplishments, which is intended to drive competition among users. In addition to individual coding challenges, HackerRank also hosts contests (often referred to by HackerRank as "CodeSprints") where users compete on the same programming challenges during a set period of time and are then ranked at the conclusion of the event. HackerRank is part of the growing gamification trend within competitive computer programming. The consumer side of their website is free for coders to use.
History
HackerRank was founded as InterviewStreet Inc. by two NIT Trichy alumni, Vivek Ravisankar and Hari Karunanidhi. HackerRank is a Y Combinator-backed company, and was the first Indian company accepted into Y Combinator. They also participated in TechCrunch Disrupt in 2012, and currently have venture capital backing from Khosla Ventures and Battery Ventures.
Funding
In July 2015, HackerRank received $7.5 million funding from Japanese firm Recruit Holdings’ HR technology fund. On February 13, 2018 HackerRank announced it had raised $30 million in Series C funding, led by JMI Equity.
Acquisition
In December 2019, HackerRank acquired Mimir, a cloud-based service that provides tools for teaching computer science courses. Mimir is used by Google and some universities including Michigan State, UCLA, Oregon State and Purdue. Mimir is HackerRank’s first acquisition.
HackerRank for Work
Their enterprise-side product, HackerRank for Work, is a subscription service that aims to help companies source, screen, and hire engineers and other technical employees. The product is intended to allow technical recruiters to use programming challenges to test candidates on their specific programming skills and better understand their qualification for a certain role. Candidate's challenges, once submitted, are auto-scored and the results are then provided to the technical recruiter for review. In addition to screening, HackerRank also hosts programming hackathons, referred to as CodeSprints, as a way for companies to source technical candidates. HackerRank’s customers include Yahoo!, Quora, and Amazon.
See also
CodeChef
HackerEarth
CodeFights
Codeforces
CodinGame
Topcoder
Codewars
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou%20rail%20transit | Wenzhou Rail Transit (), operated by Wenzhou Mass Transit Rail Corporation (abbreviated as WZ-MTR), is the rapid transit network serving the city of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Three lines (S1, S2 and S3) have received approval from the NDRC, and two more lines (M1 and M2) are not approved (de facto rejected) by NDRC. Line S1 has been under construction since November 2011 and was opened in January 2019. Line S2 opened in August 2023. Line S3 is under construction and will open in 2027. The first three lines are projected to cost about 50 billion yuan.
In operation
Line S1
The first phase of Line S1 begins at Tongling station in the west, south of Wenzhou South Railway Station, and ends at Shuang'ou Avenue station in the east, with of track and 18 stations. Construction of the Shitan Tunnel of Line S1 began on 11 November 2011, and the rest of the line officially began construction in March 2013. Line S1 was originally scheduled to open in October 2018. The west section of the line ( with 12 stations) was opened on January 23, 2019. The last section of the line ( with 6 stations) was opened on September 28, 2019.
Line S2
The first phase of Line S2 runs from Qingdong Road Station in Yueqing to Dongshan Station in Rui'an, with of track and 20 stations, including one at Wenzhou Longwan International Airport. Construction of S2 began in January 2016. Line S2 will feature distinct express and local services. Line S2 opened on 26 August 2023.
Approved lines
As of 2023, one line is under construction: Line S3.
The first phase of Wenzhou Rail Transit received official approval from the National Development and Reform Commission in September 2012. This phase includes three lines: S1, S2, and S3, with a total length of . Construction is projected to complete by 2018, at an estimated cost of about 50 billion yuan.
Line S3
The first phase of Line S3 starts at , along Wenrui Avenue, passes through Nanbaixiang, Xianyan, Tangxia to Rui'an City, then crosses Feiyun River to the south, passes Kunyang, Aojiang, Longgang, to Lingxi. It is expected to open in 2027.
The first phase of the Wenzhou Rail Transit S3 Line has a total length of , of which the underground line is long and the elevated line is long. The first phase of the Wenzhou Rail Transit S3 Line has 13 stations, including 10 elevated stations and 3 underground stations.
The second phase of the line for 26.40 billion yuan is long, has 17 stations, and the proportion of underground lines is 32.4% and runs through districts Rui'an City, Pingyang County, Cangnan County, and Longgang City.
Short-term plans
On March 21, 2019, the Wenzhou government announced plans for Line M1 and Line M2. As of , Line M1 and Line M2 have not been approved by NDRC, so actual construction have not started.
Line M1
Line M1 is a fully underground line with 23 stations. The length of the line is .
Line M2
Phase 1 of Line M2 is a fully underground line with 23 stations. The length of the line is .
Long-te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMNIWRITER | OmniWriter is a word processor for the Commodore 64 home computer HESware. Called the "dean of Commodore 64 word-processing programs" in Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Software Catalog and Review, OmniWritersold at a list price of USD$79. It was specifically recommended for home business use.
The package included a reference card that fits around the Commodore's function keys, customizable colors and a scrolling 80-column width display. The maximum file size is 23 pages, but multiple files can be chained for printing. OmniWriter can import up to 240 columns of data from Microsoft Multiplan.
References
External links
Commodore 64 software
Word processors
Discontinued software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Camp%20on%20Communication%20and%20Computers | The International Camp on Communication and Computers (ICC) is a non-profit organisation organising annual camps for partially sighted and blind youth in Europe. Every year, the camp is hosted by a different institution (typically schools for the blind or universities) in a European country.
Concept
The idea behind the camp is very simple. It focuses on enhancing the participants' technical and social skills, both of which are of great importance to enable the students being integrated into mainstream education. The usage of IT and AT is highly encouraged and taught in workshops driven by participants' choice. Also, the participants are supported in the process of choosing their future study and get information how to organise it. Besides that, the participants get to build up and strengthen an international network, which serves as a platform for exchange and advice.
Programme
The day typically starts with breakfast at 7.30 am. Workshops are held in the morning (9.00 am - 12.00 pm) and afternoon (2.00 pm - 5.00 pm). During the workshops, there are small coffee breaks. In the evening, there are different leisure time activities, as well as the opportunity to go to the city.
The participants are basically responsible for themselves, although there are always staff members and volunteers ready to help.
There's always an excursion day, on which all the participants can discover a special place near the host.
The workshops deal with every aspect of the participants' lives. While there workshops dealing with general life skills, social issues and culture, there are others dealing with specific software (e.g. JAWS).
Leisure time activities may differ on the host and its environment. They can again range from crafting to sightseeing.
History
The efforts to support blind and partially sighted students at the universities of Linz and Karlsruhe led to considerations on how to support the transition from school to university. These considerations encouraged founders Klaus Miesenberger and Joachim Klaus to make up a concept to get in touch with possible students at an early stage.
To get some experiences, there was a national computer camp in Austria in 1993.
Camps and locations
Since 1993, the camp took place in various European countries and brought together about 1700 participants and 1300 staff members.
1st Integrating Computer Camp 1993, Graz, Austria
1st International Computer Camp 1994, Graz & Linz, Austria
2nd International Computer Camp 1995, Graz & Linz, Austria
3rd International Computer Camp 1996, Graz & Linz, Austria
4th International Computer Camp 1997, Zeist, Netherlands
5th International Computer Camp 1998, Villeurbanne and Clermont-Ferrand, France
6th International Computer Camp 1999, Stockholm, Sweden
7th International Computer Camp 2000, Stuttgart, Germany
8th International Computer Camp 2001, Skofja Loka, Slovenia
9th International Computer Camp 2002, Loughborough, United Kingdom
10th International Computer Camp 2003, Zo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blued%20%28app%29 | Blued is currently the largest gay social network app in the world. Launched in 2012 in China, the app now has over 40 million users worldwide in 193 countries. The application is available on Android and iOS. Its features include verified profiles, live broadcasting, a timeline, and group conversations. In 2016, the app was valued at 600 million dollars.
History
Ma Baoli, (; also known as Geng Le; ), then a closeted police officer in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, set up Danlan (, a reference to the Bohai Sea) a message board for gay men, in 2000. As the site gained more attention, his supervisors eventually discovered in 2012 that Ma ran the website and forced him to resign. He then came up with Blue'd, which was initially based on the American app Jack'd, and released it the same year after seeking investors.
Today, Blued employs over 200 staff at its headquarters in Beijing, China, and has recently opened new offices in London, UK, and India to overview the rapid expansion of the app overseas. Within 4 years, Blued has become the largest gay social network in the world with over 27 million registered users.
The app, the BlueCity group in general and Ma himself have been recognized for their health promotion efforts, particularly in the prevention of HIV/AIDS infections. Danlan had collaborated with health officials in Beijing to promote HIV testing to higher-risk demographics soon after its launch. After one of Ma's friends told him he was infected with HIV in 2009, BlueCity took a more comprehensive approach, eventually hosting forums with Chinese CDC and UNAIDS members, and premier Li Keqiang met with Ma in 2012 to discuss HIV/AIDS in China and discrimination against the LGBT community. This role has also been credited with giving the company more lenient treatment from the Chinese government, which has a mixed record on LGBT rights and has shut down or censored other LGBT online spaces.
In 2016, Blued partnered with Hornet, a social networking platform for gay and bisexual men. Commenting on the global partnership between Blued and Hornet, Hornet president Sean Howell declared: “Gay apps have evolved over the past few years to more fully engage users, who demand a richer, mobile experience”.
Ma announced that he would resign from BlueCity in August 2022, shortly after it was delisted form Nasdaq.
BlueCity Group
The BlueCity group, of which Ma is CEO of, owns the following platforms:
Blued
Danlan Public Interest, a HIV prevention nonprofit
He Health (, a platform for men's health, including through delivery of PrEP
LESDO, a social platform for lesbian and bisexual women that was founded in 2014 and was acquired by BlueCity in 2020; reportedly China's second-biggest dating app for lesbians
Finka (), a social media app targeted at gay and bisexual LGBTQ men with a userbase of 2.7 million as of 2019, acquired by BlueCity in 2020
Blued Baby, a surrogacy platform for gay Chinese men looking for surrogates in other countries; ceased operation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang%20People%27s%20Broadcasting%20Station | Xinjiang People's Broadcasting Station (XJBS) was a radio station broadcasting to the Xinjiang province area. It was operated by the Xinjiang Networking Transmission Limited in Mandarin, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Mongolian languages. Founded as Dihua People's Broadcasting Station in 1949 it was renamed after Xinjiang in 1951. In 2018 it merged with Xinjiang Television (XJTV) forming the Xinjiang Radio and TV Station ().
List of programmes
See also
Tianshannet
External links
Official website:
, Arabic and Latin script
, Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
, Arabic, Cyrillic
Mongolian (Mongolian script in Menksoft encoding)
Directory of FM radio stations in Xinjiang
Chinese-language radio stations
Mandarin-language radio stations
Mass media in Ürümqi
Radio stations in China
Radio stations established in 1949
1949 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20bq%20smartphones | The following is a comparative list of smartphones belonging to the bq line of devices, using the Android/Ubuntu operating system.
Smartphones
Android (operating system) devices
Lists of mobile phones
Computing comparisons
BQ (company) mobile phones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20functional%20connectivity%20software | Functional connectivity software is used to study functional properties of the connectome using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data in the resting state and during tasks. To access many of these software applications visit the NIH funded Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) site.
See also
List of neuroimaging software
Functional connectivity
Neuroimaging
References
Neuroimaging software
Lists of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom | The following is a list of the exports of the United Kingdom.
The UK exports to 160 nations.
The UK is the fifth largest exporter.
Data is for 2019, in millions of USD (United States dollars), as reported by International Trade Centre. Currently the top fifty exports are listed.
References
International Trade Centre - International Trade Statistics (2019) - Monthly, quarterly and yearly trade data. Import & export values, volumes, growth rates, market shares, etc.
Foreign trade of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Exports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20letter%20on%20artificial%20intelligence%20%282015%29 | In January 2015, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and dozens of artificial intelligence experts signed an open letter on artificial intelligence calling for research on the societal impacts of AI. The letter affirmed that society can reap great potential benefits from artificial intelligence, but called for concrete research on how to prevent certain potential "pitfalls": artificial intelligence has the potential to eradicate disease and poverty, but researchers must not create something which is unsafe or uncontrollable. The four-paragraph letter, titled "Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter", lays out detailed research priorities in an accompanying twelve-page document.
Background
By 2014, both physicist Stephen Hawking and business magnate Elon Musk had publicly voiced the opinion that superhuman artificial intelligence could provide incalculable benefits, but could also end the human race if deployed incautiously. At the time, Hawking and Musk both sat on the scientific advisory board for the Future of Life Institute, an organisation working to "mitigate existential risks facing humanity". The institute drafted an open letter directed to the broader AI research community, and circulated it to the attendees of its first conference in Puerto Rico during the first weekend of 2015. The letter was made public on January 12.
Purpose
The letter highlights both the positive and negative effects of artificial intelligence. According to Bloomberg Business, Professor Max Tegmark of MIT circulated the letter in order to find common ground between signatories who consider super intelligent AI a significant existential risk, and signatories such as Professor Oren Etzioni, who believe the AI field was being "impugned" by a one-sided media focus on the alleged risks. The letter contends that:
The potential benefits (of AI) are huge, since everything that civilization has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable. Because of the great potential of AI, it is important to research how to reap its benefits while avoiding potential pitfalls.
One of the signatories, Professor Bart Selman of Cornell University, said the purpose is to get AI researchers and developers to pay more attention to AI safety. In addition, for policymakers and the general public, the letter is meant to be informative but not alarmist. Another signatory, Professor Francesca Rossi, stated that "I think it's very important that everybody knows that AI researchers are seriously thinking about these concerns and ethical issues".
Concerns raised by the letter
The signatories ask: How can engineers create AI systems that are beneficial to society, and that are robust? Humans need to remain in control of AI; our AI systems must "do what we want them to do". The required rese |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20France | The following is a list of the exports of France. Data is for 2019, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by International Trade Centre. Currently the top thirty exports are listed.
See also
Economy of France
List of exports of the United Kingdom
References
International Trade Centre - International Trade Statistics (2019) - Monthly, quarterly and yearly trade data. Import & export values, volumes, growth rates, market shares, etc.
Foreign trade of France
France
Exports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivvyCloud | Divvy Cloud Corporation is a privately held, venture-backed American cybersecurity company with headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Its core product protects cloud and container environments from misconfigurations, policy violations, threats, and IAM challenges. DivvyCloud supports AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud, and Kubernetes. DivvyCloud is in a category of technology classified by Gartner as cloud security posture management.
History
DivvyCloud was founded in May 2013 by former Electronic Arts employees Brian Johnson and Chris DeRamus. During their tenure at Electronic Arts, they were responsible for the large-scale infrastructure of MMORPG titles. After writing proprietary tools to manage the complex environment, they left Electronic Arts and created DivvyCloud.
In May 2019, DivvyCloud secured $19 million in a funding round led by Providence Strategic Growth, an arm of Providence Equity Partners, with contributions from existing investors MissionOG and RTP Ventures. This investment brought its total capital raised to date to $29 million, following a $6 million series A round in September 2017.
The company has won numerous awards, including Cyber Defense Magazine Editor's Choice Winner of the 2019 InfoSec Awards in the Cloud Security category and the 2019 Cyber Security Excellence Awards.
With over 970% growth from 2016 to 2019, DivvyCloud was recognized by Inc Magazine as being one of the 500 fastest-growing companies in America.
In April 2020, Rapid7 agreed to acquire DivvyCloud for $145 million. The deal is expected to close during the second quarter of 2020.
References
Computer security companies
Cloud platforms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri%20TIN | The Esri TIN format is a popular yet proprietary geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software for storing elevation data as a triangulated irregular network. It is developed and regulated by Esri, US. The Esri TIN format can spatially describe elevation information including breaking edge features. Each points and triangle can carry a tag information.
A TIN stored in this file format can have any shape, cover multiple regions (e.g. islands) and contain holes (e.g. lakes).
In 2007 a reverse-engineered description of Esri TIN format came to light. Since then, the Virtual Terrain Project, an open-source software, has implemented support for reading the format, without the need of ArcGIS being installed.
Overview
The Esri TIN format is a digital vector storage format for storing elevation information including breaking edge features. The Esri TIN format was introduced with ArcView GIS.
The Esri TIN format consists of a collection of files with specific filenames and a common filename extension, stored in the same directory. Most of the files are mandatory files (tdenv.adf, tedg.adf, thul.adf, tmsk.adf, tmsx.adf, tnod.adf, tnxy.adf and tnz.adf), optionally a file containing the coordinate system and projection information (prj.adf) and files containing point tag information (tnval.adf and tndsc.adf) and triangle tag information (ttval.adf and ttdsc.adf) can be given.
Mandatory files
tdenv.adf — header and statistical data
tedg.adf — edges data and topology
thul.adf — outer and inner hull polygon data
tmsk.adf — mask data, masks invisible triangles
tmsx.adf — index file for tmsk.adf
tnod.adf — triangle node data
tnxy.adf — position information (x and y coordinates)
tnz.adf — height information (z values)
The endianness of most of the files is big-endian. tmsk.adf, tmsx.adf and tdenv.adf have mixed endianness.
Other files
prj.adf — projection description, using a well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems; are single line {B286C06B-0879-11D2-AACA-00C04FA33C20} signifies an unknown coordinate system
tndsc.adf — statistic on point tag usage
tnval.adf — point tag data
ttdsc.adf — description of triangle tag data
ttval.adf — triangle tag data
The endianness of the file tndsc.adf and tnval.adf is little-endian.
Files generated by ArcGIS 10
tnodinfo.adf — point types and more
teval.adf — edges data
tdenv9.adf — the file tdenv.adf renamed
Size of file
A TIN with n points (incl. superpoints) and k triangles, the file sizes calculate to:
tnxy.adf : 16*n bytes
tnz.adf : 4*n bytes
tnod.adf : 12*k bytes
tedg.adf : 12*k bytes
tmsx.adf : 116 bytes
tdenv.adf/tdenv9.adf : 104 bytes
tmsk.adf : 132 + 4*ceiling(k/32) bytes
thul.adf : min. 12 bytes, depends on the number of points in the convex hull polygon
tndsc.adf : 24* the number of tag entries specified in tndsc.adf bytes (see below)
tnval.adf : 4*n' bytes (n': number of tagged points, incl. superpoints; see below)
tnodinf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin%20B.%20Cremers | Armin Bernd Cremers (born June 7, 1946) is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor in the computer science institute at the University of Bonn, Germany. He is most notable for his contributions to several fields of discrete mathematics including formal languages and automata theory. In more recent years he has been recognized for his work in artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics as well as in geoinformatics and deductive databases.
Life and work
Armin B. Cremers studied mathematics and physics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. After his graduate diploma (1971) and PhD (1972), both in mathematics, both summa cum laude, he received his academic lectureship qualification for computer science (1974), all from the University of Karlsruhe. Following an invitation by Seymour Ginsburg, he joined the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 1973 where he worked until 1976 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science. With Ginsburg he initiated Grammar Forms, a new formalism for grammatical families.
In 1976 A. B. Cremers returned to Germany and was appointed to full professor of computer science at the University of Dortmund, where he remained until 1990, holding the chair for information systems. During the same time he continued working as a visiting research professor at USC, where together with Thomas N. Hibbard he developed the concept of Data Spaces, a comprehensive computational model, in theory and applications.
At the University of Dortmund A. B. Cremers served as chairman of the computer science department and, since early 1985, as vice president for Research and Junior Scientific Staff. In this position he was liaison for the development of the Technology Center Dortmund . He was the initiator and founding director of the Center for Expert Systems Dortmund (ZEDO) and the NRW State Research Collaborative in Artificial Intelligence (KI-NRW). From 1988 to 1996 he was also a member of the supervisory board of the German National Research Center for Mathematics and Data Processing (GMD).
Since 1990 A. B. Cremers has been professor and director of computer science and head of the research group in artificial intelligence at the University of Bonn. From Bonn he has contributed fundamentally to artificial intelligence and robotics (with Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Sebastian Thrun among his students), and to the development of software engineering, particularly in civil engineering, and information systems, particularly in the geosciences. The paper "The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot" won the AAAI Classic Paper award of 2016. Together with Matthias Jarke A. B. Cremers established the (B-IT) in 2001 and led this as Founding Scientific Director from the University of Bonn side until his retirement from teaching in 2014.
From 2004 to 2008 Cremers was Dean of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and from April 2009 to July 2014 University V |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Swendsen | Robert Haakon Swendsen is Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known in the computational physics community for the Swendsen-Wang algorithm, the Monte Carlo Renormalization Group and related methods that enable efficient computational studies of equilibrium phenomena near phase transitions. He is the 2014 Recipient of the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics from the American Physical Society.
Swendsen completed his undergraduate studies at Yale University and his PhD at University of Pennsylvania.
Swendsen is also known for his pedagogy. He received the Ashkin Teaching award in 2014 He is also known for his textbook, An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics (2nd ed. 2020). Oxford University Press.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American physicists
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Yale University alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Computational physicists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit%20Benchmark | Credit Benchmark, or "CB", is a privately owned financial data analytics company which provides Credit Consensus Ratings and Analytics based on the contributed risk views of major global financial institutions. The internal risk views of these institutions are collected, aggregated and anonymized to create a Credit Consensus Rating on tens of thousands of corporate, financial, fund and sovereign entities globally.
The company is headquartered in London, UK, with offices in New York City, and services a global client base of banks, insurance and reinsurance companies, asset managers, CCPs and other firms. Credit Benchmark has been releasing Credit Consensus data since May 2015.
Credit Benchmark was recognised in the FinTech50 awards in 2015, 2016, and 2017. It now sits in the FinTech50 Hall of Fame. The company also supports several ESG initiatives including #10,000 Black Interns, Living Wage Employers, and ClientEarth.
History
Credit Benchmark was founded in 2012 by Donal Smith and Mark Faulkner, both previously of Data Explorers. It completed a $7million Series A funding round in 2014, led by Index Ventures; a $20million Series B funding round in 2015, led by Balderton Capital; and a $7million funding round in 2018 led by Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, Communitas Capital and a group of private investors including ex-Goldman Sachs International CEO, Michael Sherwood.
The company began collecting Probability of Default (PD) and forward-looking senior unsecured Loss Given Default (LGD) data from several Internal Ratings Based ("IRB") banks in 2014. The first Credit Consensus data release was in May 2015 and has continued on a monthly and subsequently a twice monthly basis since.
In 2019, Credit Benchmark announced the formation of an Advisory Board, chaired by ex-Goldman Sachs CRO, Craig Broderick. The data was also added to the FactSet Marketplace that year.
In 2020, Credit Benchmark supplied the Bank of England access to the CB dataset to help process COVID Corporate Financing Facility ("CCFF") applications. Later that year, partnerships were announced with the Global Peer Financing Association ("GPFA") and IHS Markit. Credit Benchmark's dataset was also launched on the Bloomberg Terminal and enterprise service in November 2020.
Credit Benchmark joined the World Economic Forum's Global Innovators Community in 2022.
Products and Services
Credit Benchmark offers a subscription-based data service to a global client base of banks, insurance and reinsurance companies, asset managers, CCPs and other firms.
The dataset includes 80,000+ entity-level Credit Consensus Ratings and Analytics supplemented by descriptive analytics that provide insights into the underlying credit views that make up the Consensus including range and standard deviation.
Through a partnership with Bloomberg, Credit Benchmark also offers rating assessments (notching) for bonds and loans issued by the entities with Credit Consensus Ratings. This service combines the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream%20%28abstract%20data%20type%29 | In type theory and functional programming, a stream is a potentially infinite analog of a list, given by the coinductive definition:
data Stream α = Nil | Cons α (Stream α)
Generating and computing with streams requires lazy evaluation, either implicitly in a lazily evaluated language or by creating and forcing thunks in an eager language. In total languages they must be defined as codata and can be iterated over using (guarded) corecursion.
See also
Coinduction
References
Type theory
Functional programming
Functional data structures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20Writer | Perfect Writer is a word processor computer program published by Perfect Software for CP/M. In 1984, Thorn EMI Computer Software acquired an exclusive marketing and distribution licence for Perfect Software's products, and the program was rewritten and released as Perfect II for IBM PC compatible computers. Written in C and famous for its stability, it was an enhanced version of MINCE, which itself was a version of Emacs for microcomputer platforms. Emacs itself was too heavyweight to fit within the 64 KB RAM limit of most microcomputers. Like MINCE, it included a floppy disk based virtual memory system.
Along with its companion spreadsheet (Perfect Calc), and database (Perfect Filer), Perfect Writer was bundled with early Columbia Data Products, Kaypro II and Morrow computers, as well as with the Torch Computers Z80 Disk Pack add-on for the BBC Micro and had a list price of . In the UK, it was bundled with the short lived Advance 86B PC (a near IBM compatible). It supported up to 7 buffers, had a character transpose command, undo, footnotes, and indexing. Its capabilities were very close to that of the dedicated word processors of the day. Perfect Writer's ability to cut and paste between documents open in multiple buffers was an advantage over WordStar.
Perfect Writer supported a number of add-on programs, Perfect Speller and Perfect Thesaurus, also published by Perfect Software, along with third party software such as Plu*Perfect published by Plu*Perfect Systems. Plu*Perfect included "D", a dired-like file browser that was deemed "the best of all directory displayers" by Stewart Brand.
Perfect Writer was originally published by Perfect Software. Later versions of the product were developed and maintained by Knowledge Engineering in Austin, Texas. The thesaurus was designed written and maintained by George O. Jenkins, Jr.
References
External links
Text Editors Wiki
Perfect Writer screenshot gallery
Emacs
CP/M software
Commodore 128 software
DOS software
Text editors
Word processors
Discontinued software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20Sierra | Sierra was the code name for a 16-bit/32-bit personal computer designed by the Sunnyvale Research Lab (SRL) of Atari, Inc. starting around 1983. The design was one of several new 16-bit computer systems proposing to use a new chipset from Atari Corporate Research.
The graphics portion consisted of a two chip system called "Silver and Gold", Gold generated the video output while Silver was a sprite processor that fed data to Gold. The chipset was collectively known as Rainbow, and the system is sometimes referred to by this name. The audio portion of the chipset consisted of a powerful sound synthesizer known as AMY. The CPU had not been chosen, but the Motorola 68000, National Semiconductor 32016 and Intel 286 were being considered. Several proposed operating systems were considered including VisiCorps Visi On and Atari's own internal OS code-named "Snowcap".
Sierra was bogged down since its inception through a committee process that never could come to a consensus on the design specifications. A second project, Atari Gaza, ran in parallel, designing an upscale workstation machine running either BSD Unix or CP/M-68k. Atari management concluded they had no way to sell into the business market, redirecting Gaza engineers to a new low-cost machine based on the Amiga chipset, "Mickey". All of these systems were still incomplete when the company was purchased by Jack Tramiel in July 1984 and the majority of the staff was laid off. Only the synthesizer caught the interest of Tramel Technology lead engineer Shiraz Shivji and the rest of the projects disappeared.
History
Earlier 8-bit designs
Atari's earlier consoles and computers generally used an off-the-shelf 8-bit central processor with custom chips to improve performance and capabilities. With most designs of the era, graphics, sound and similar tasks would normally be handled by the main CPU, and converted to output using relatively simple analog-to-digital converters. Offloading these duties to the custom chips allowed the CPU in Atari's design to spend less time on housekeeping chores. Atari referred to these chips as co-processors, sharing the main memory to communicate instructions and data. In modern terminology, these would be known as integrated graphics and sound, now a common solution for mainstream offerings.
In the Atari 2600, a single all-in-one support chip known as the TIA provided graphics and sound support to its stripped-down MOS Technology 6502-derivative, the 6507. Due to the high price of computer memory, the TIA was designed to use almost no traditional RAM. The screen was drawn from a single line in memory, which the program had to quickly change the memory on-the-fly as the television drew down the screen. This led to both a quirky design as well as surprising programming flexibility; it was some time before programmers learned the knack of "racing the beam", but when they did, 2600 games began to rapidly improve compared to early efforts.
The much more powerful Atari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene%20World%20Magazine | Scene World Magazine (abbreviated SWO) is a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 home computer. The magazine has been released regularly since February 2001.
History
Scene World was founded in November 2000 by several Commodore scene personalities under the organization of Joerg "Nafcom" Droege. The initial magazine presentation system was programmed by Robin Harbron, who would later find success as one of the developers of the C64 Direct-to-TV game device. Harbron stopped actively supporting the magazine in 2001; the presentation system has since been documented, modified, and updated by various editors and staff members.
Throughout Scene Worlds history, it has attempted to style itself as both an NTSC (North America, Japan, and South Korea) and PAL (Europe, Oceania, and the Middle East) production, allowing it to court talent and reach audiences in largely disparate computer cultures. Scene World has also been one of the few disk magazines to actively seek individuals that do not fit into the specific software cracking or demo scene subcultures that most other disk magazines focus on. As a result, it has been able to conduct interviews with numerous non-Commodore-related computer industry pioneers.
Additionally, Scene World partnered with fellow disk magazine Loadstar (ISSN 0886-4144) in 2003 for a "Wild West" cross-promotion.
Scene World currently utilizes an all-volunteer editorial staff of 20, and produces two issues of the disk magazine per year, generally in summer and winter, with video interviews scheduled to coincide with the disk magazine releases. Podcasts and video reviews are released on a semi-monthly basis, and do not follow the release schedule of the magazine.
Magazine content
Issues of the magazine are delivered as downloadable disk image files for use in emulators or on actual Commodore hardware. Additionally, issues can be viewed online, via an embedded version of the VICE emulator. Text of the magazine is provided via presentation software. This software allows users to select and read articles and scroll through text, while also allowing them to change text and background color, switch between fonts, alternate between logos, and select either music or silence. Uniquely, support for the Commodore 1351 computer mouse is a feature of the presenter system; during initial planning, Droege felt that American users would be more inclined to view the magazine if it resembled Berkeley Softworks' GEOS operating environment.
The text of the magazine is divided into articles or chapters, and covers topics ranging from news and updates, interviews (text-only or transcribed from video interviews), opinion and editorial content, demo party reports, and release charts.
In addition to Commodore-specific files, a PDF floppy disk sleeve image is also included with each issue. These "diskcovers" can be printed to create protective sleeves for people using physical floppy disks.
Further endeavors
In 2012, Droege expanded Scene Worlds non |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Trial%20of%20Mary%20Lincoln | The Trial of Mary Lincoln is an opera in one act by composer Thomas Pasatieri. Commissioned for television by the National Educational Television network under the leadership of Peter Herman Adler, the work uses an English language libretto by Anne Howard Bailey. Bailey was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for her libretto. A work of historical fiction, the opera is based on the life of Mary Todd Lincoln; mainly focusing on the 1875 trial where her sanity was being evaluated. Set in an around Washington, Illinois, the opera consists largely of flashbacks to her early life, and ends with the judgment of her insanity and her committal.
The Trial of Mary Lincoln premiered on a nationally televised broadcast on February 14, 1972 with Elaine Bonazzi as the title heroine. Kirk Browning directed the production which also starred Wayne Turnage as Robert Todd Lincoln, Carol Bogarde as Elizabeth Todd, Julian Patrick as Lincoln's Clerk, Alan Titus as Mary's nephew, and Chester Watson as Leonard Swett.
See also
Pasatieri's operas Black Widow (1972), The Seagull (1974), Signor Deluso (1974), Frau Margot (2007)
References
1972 operas
One-act operas
Operas for television
Operas set in the 19th century
Operas
Operas based on real people
Operas by Thomas Pasatieri
Fiction set in 1875
Operas set in the United States
Lincoln, Mary
English-language operas |
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