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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTBM-CD | WTBM-CD (channel 24) is a low-power, Class A television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Fox affiliate WBRC (channel 6). The two stations studios atop Red Mountain (between Vulcan Trail and Valley View Drive) in southeastern Birmingham; WTBM-CD's transmitter is located along Golden Crest Drive, also atop Red Mountain.
WTBM-CD's signal is relayed on low-power, class A digital translator, WJMY-CD (channel 25) in Tuscaloosa.
The station launched its current affiliation on September 1, 2022.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
The then-WBXA-CD discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on June 3, 2015, a little under three months prior to the official date on which Class A low-power analog television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 24.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20Nordic%20Text%20Archive | Medieval Nordic Text Archive (Menota) is a network of leading Nordic archives, libraries and research departments working with medieval texts and manuscript facsimiles. The aim of Menota is to preserve and publish medieval texts in digital form and to adapt and develop encoding standards necessary for this work.
Menota was established in 2001 and at the time of writing (June 2015) it offers 20 texts with a total of approx. 1 million words. The texts are mostly rendered on the diplomatic level (i.e. following the manuscripts in most matters of orthography), while some also are rendered on a very close level, the facsimile level (rendering abbreviations as such and some allographic variation), and others also on a normalised level, in which the orthography corresponds to the one found in grammars and dictionaries and text series like Íslenzk fornrit.
In addition to the archive of texts, Menota also offers a handbook in XML text encoding, The Menota handbook. This is based on the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative, and discusses a number of encoding questions relating to vernacular manuscripts. The handbook is published digitally on the Menota site, and it offers a full TEI-style Document Type Definition and a Relax NG schema for anyone who wants to encode Medieval Nordic manuscripts.
Menota welcomes transcriptions of all kinds of Medieval Nordic primary sources, i.e. directly from the manuscript itself or a good facsimile of it, as long as the transcription has been proofread to an acceptable level and it is delivered in a valid XML file according to the schema available on the Menota site.
Menota follows the recommendations of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative with respect to the encoding and display of special characters. On the normalised level of text rendering, all necessary characters will be found in the official part of the Unicode Standard, but some characters on a diplomatic level and several on a facsimile level can only be displayed by using characters in the Private Use Area of Unicode. MUFI offers several free or low-cost fonts for this use.
Website
Medieval Nordic Text Archive.
References
The Menota handbook. Guidelines for the electronic encoding of Medieval Nordic primary sources. Gen. ed. Odd Einar Haugen. Version 2.0. Bergen: Medieval Nordic Text Archive, 2008. Digital version
See also
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Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device-to-device | Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in cellular networks is defined as direct communication between two mobile users without traversing the Base Station (BS) or core network. D2D communication is generally non-transparent to the cellular network and it can occur on the cellular frequencies (i.e., inband) or unlicensed spectrum (i.e., outband).
In a traditional cellular network, all communications must go through the BS even if communicating parties are in range for proximity-based D2D communication. Communication through BS suits conventional low data rate mobile services such as voice call and text messaging in which users are seldom close enough for direct communication. However, mobile users in today's cellular networks use high data rate services (e.g., video sharing, gaming, proximity-aware social networking) in which they could potentially be in range for direct communications (i.e., D2D). Hence, D2D communications in such scenarios can greatly increase the spectral efficiency of the network. The advantages of D2D communications go beyond spectral efficiency; they can potentially improve throughput, energy efficiency, delay, and fairness.
Data delivery in non-cooperative D2D communication
Existing data delivery protocols in D2D communications mainly assume that mobile nodes willingly participate in data delivery, share their resources with each other, and follow the rules of underlying networking protocols. Nevertheless, rational nodes in real-world scenarios have strategic interactions and may act selfishly for various reasons (such as resource limitations, the lack of interest in data, or social preferences).
For example, if a node has limited battery resources or the cost of the network bandwidth delivered by mobile network operators is high, it would not willingly relay data for others until appropriate incentives are provided. Meanwhile, malicious nodes may attack the network in different ways to disturb the normal operation of the data transmission process. An adversary, for example, may drop received messages but produce forged routing metrics or false information with the aim of attracting more messages or decreasing its detection probability. This issue becomes more challenging when colluding attackers boost their metrics to deceive the attack detection systems. Dealing with non-cooperative mobile nodes is very challenging because of the distributed network model and intermittent access of nodes to central authorities.
D2D applications
D2D Communications is used for
Local Services: In local service, user data is directly transmitted between the terminals and doesn't involves network side, e.g. social media apps, which are based on proximity service.
Emergency communications: In case of natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes etc., the traditional communication network may not work due to the damage caused. Ad hoc network can be established via D2D which could be used for such communication in such situations. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok%20Agrawala | Ashok Agrawala is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland at College Park and Director of the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics (MIND) Lab. He is the author of seven books and over two hundred peer-reviewed publications. Glenn Ricart and Ashok Agrawala developed the Ricart-Agrawala Algorithm. The Ricart-Agrawala Algorithm is an algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. This algorithm is an extension and optimization of Lamport's Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm.
Biography
Agrawala received B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1963 and 1965 respectively; Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts under the supervision of Yu-Chi Ho in 1970.
He started his professional career as Senior Engineer at the Applied Research Lab of Honeywell in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1968 and developed an Optical character recognition machine. He started his academic career at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1971 as Assistant Professor of Computer Science where he rose to the rank of Full Professor in 1982.
He has at least two children, including computer-graphics researcher Maneesh Agrawala.
Academic work
Agrawala started the MIND Lab (Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab) in 2001 and continues to serve as its director. The Lab has been involved in the development indoor location technology and accurate clock synchronization technology, and actively participated in the semantic web research. The technologies developed in the MIND lab have resulted in 4 startup companies in Maryland. he also started the MAXWell Lab which became the only WiMAX Forum Applications Lab in the western hemisphere.
Recently his work focuses on Context-aware pervasive systems and has developed, M-Urgency, a system to support public safety by providing real-time audio and video, along with location etc. from an incident scene. The general framework for context-aware system is being developed as Rover System which is designed to provide relevant information to decision makers about a situation at hand.
In a research study, he was recognized to be the 27th top nurturer in Computer Science in the world.
He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1991 for contributions to distributed algorithms and policies for computer systems and a Fellow of the AAAS in 2005. He is a Senior Member of then ACM, and a member of Sigma Xi.
Achievements
Development of M-Urgency: Groundbreaking Smartphone App Fights Crime at UMD
Introducing the Ricart/Agrawala algorithm for distributed mutual exclusion leading to major worldwide research activities
Development of the Maruti Operating System and program development environment demonstrating temporal guarantees of few tens of nanoseconds for making any software event happen while running on commercial Pentium process |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby%20B.%20Lee | Ruby Bei-Loh Lee is an American electrical engineer who is currently the Forrest G. Hamrick Professor in Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. Her contributions to computer architecture include work in reduced instruction set computing, embedded systems, and hardware support for computer security and digital media. At Princeton, she is the director of the Princeton Architecture Laboratory for Multimedia and Security. Tech executive Joel S. Birnbaum has called her "one of the top instruction-set architects in the world".
Education and career
Lee graduated from Cornell University's College Scholar Program in 1973. She went to Stanford University for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in computer science and computer engineering in 1975, and a doctorate in electrical engineering in 1980. After briefly teaching at Stanford, she joined Hewlett-Packard in 1981, eventually becoming a chief architect there in 1992, and holding a consulting faculty position at Stanford from 1989 until 1998. She moved to Princeton as the Hamrick Professor in 1998, becoming at that time one of only three female full professors in engineering at Princeton, and the only one to hold an endowed chair.
Contributions
At Hewlett-Packard, Lee designed the PA-RISC architecture and microprocessors based on it, and the multimedia components of the IA-64 (Itanium) architecture. Much of her work since moving to Princeton has concerned both the integration of pervasive security mechanisms into computer architecture, and the hardware support for bit manipulation based cryptographic primitives.
Awards and honors
In 2001 Lee was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for pioneering multimedia instructions in general-purpose processor architecture and innovations in the design and implementation of the instruction set architecture of RISC processors." She also became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2002. She was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia%20Malkhi | Dahlia Malkhi is an Israeli-American computer scientist who works on distributed systems and cryptocurrency.
Education and career
Malkhi earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, finishing her Ph.D. under the supervision of Danny Dolev. She taught at the Hebrew University until 2004, and then joined Microsoft Research at their Silicon Valley research center. In 2014, when Microsoft closed the center, she moved to VMware, a company working in cloud computing and platform virtualization.
She became a lead researcher at Novi Financial, a subsidiary of Meta Platforms (Facebook), and the lead maintainer of Meta's Libra cryptocurrency project. Libra later became Diem and Malkhi became chief technology officer at the Diem Association. In 2022, the Diem project shut down, and she moved to Chainlink Labs as their chief research officer.
Recognition
In 2011, Malkhi became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing." In 2021, she received the Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing.
Selected publications
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Dianne%20Martin | Carol Dianne Briggs Martin is an American computer scientist, former Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at George Washington University and first Senior Faculty Fellow of the North Carolina (NC) Study Center. She currently teaches at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Computer Science and the School of Information and Library Sciences.
Biography
Martin attended the Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, Massachusetts, where as a sophomore in 1959 she became one of the first students to attend the Berg Science Seminars. She then moved to Maryland, where she graduated from the Oxon Hill High School in 1961. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics education in 1965 from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College). In the 1960s, she was a programmer for IBM that worked on the Apollo space project. She worked on the Apollo 11 mission which was the first mission to put a man on the moon and was part of Mission Control for Apollo 8.
Martin returned to school for a master's degree in computer science in 1972 from the University of Maryland, College Park. She joined the George Washington University faculty in 1983 as a computer science instructor, earned an Ed.D. in teacher education in 1987 from GWU, and was promoted to full professor in 1998. She was a program director at the National Science Foundation from 1998 to 2000, chief policy officer at GeoTrust from 2000 to 2001, and chair of the GWU computer science department from 2002 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007 she took a leave of absence from GWU as Dean of the College of Information Systems at Zayed University in Dubai.
Martin has been a member of the McDaniel College board of trustees, and presented the keynote address at McDaniel's 1994 homecoming.
Her husband, David H. Martin (1939–2014) directed the United States Office of Government Ethics from 1983 to 1987.
Awards
In 1999 she became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for extraordinary leadership and innovation in computer science education and for service to ACM and the profession."
In 2005, she was given the Ada Lovelace Award for her accomplishments and contributions on behalf of women in computing.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn%20Wolf | Marilyn Claire Wolf is an American computer engineer who works as Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and Founding Director of the School of Computing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is an expert in embedded computing.
Education and career
Wolf attended Stanford University, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1980, a master's degree in 1981, and a doctorate in 1984. After working at Bell Labs from 1984 to 1989, she joined the Princeton University faculty, and was on the Georgia Tech faculty from 2007 to 2019. At Georgia Tech, she was the Rhesa "Ray" S. Farmer, Jr., Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.
From 1999 to 2000, Wolf was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, and from 2001 to 2007, Wolf was editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing. She is the author of the textbooks Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design (3rd ed., Elsevier, 2012) and High Performance Embedded Computing (2nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2014).
Recognition
In 1998, she was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
and in 2001 she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to embedded computing." She received the IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode Memorial Award in 2019 for contributions to embedded, hardware-software co-design, and real-time computer vision systems. She received the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award in 2022 for her inspirational teaching of graduate students.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June%20Purvis | June Purvis is an emeritus professor of women's and gender history at the University of Portsmouth.
From 2014-18, Purvis was Chair of the Women’s History Network UK and from 2015-20 Treasurer of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History. She organized at the University of Portsmouth on 31st August–1st September 2018 the Women's History Network Annual conference on the Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage: National and International Perspectives. She edits the journal Women's History Review.
Selected publications
Purvis, June (2008) Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945: An Introduction. Routledge, London and New York. .
Purvis, June (2002) Emmeline Pankhurst: a biography, Routledge, London and New York. (hardback). (paperback).
Purvis, June (1991) A history of women’s education in England, Open University Press, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia. . Translated into Japanese 1997 Minerva Press
Purvis, June (1989) Hard lessons: the lives and education of working-class women in nineteenth-century England, Polity Press, Cambridge. .
References
External links
"History Today" articles by June Purvis
"We owe them the vote", theguardian.com. Accessed 12 November 2022.
Living people
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Alumni of the Open University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women historians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal%20learning | Multimodal learning, in context of machine learning, is deep learning from a combination of various modalities of data, often arising in real-world applications. An example of multi-modal data is data that combines text (typically represented as feature vector) with imaging data consisting of pixel intensities and annotation tags. As these modalities have fundamentally different statistical properties, combining them is non-trivial, which is why specialized modelling strategies and algorithms are required.
Motivation
Many models and algorithms have been implemented to retrieve and classify certain types of data, e.g. image or text (where humans who interact with machines can extract images in form of pictures and texts that could be any message etc.). However, data usually come with different modalities (it is the degree to which a system's components may be separated or combined) which carry different information. For example, it is very common to caption an image to convey the information not presented in the image itself. Similarly, sometimes it is more straightforward to use an image to describe the information which may not be obvious from texts. As a result, if different words appear in similar images, then these words likely describe the same thing. Conversely, if a word is used to describe seemingly dissimilar images, then these images may represent the same object. Thus, in cases dealing with multi-modal data, it is important to use a model which is able to jointly represent the information such that the model can capture the correlation structure between different modalities. Moreover, it should also be able to recover missing modalities given observed ones (e.g. predicting possible image object according to text description). The Multimodal Deep Boltzmann Machine model satisfies the above purposes.
Background: Boltzmann machine
A Boltzmann machine is a type of stochastic neural network invented by Geoffrey Hinton and Terry Sejnowski in 1985. Boltzmann machines can be seen as the stochastic, generative counterpart of Hopfield nets. They are named after the Boltzmann distribution in statistical mechanics. The units in Boltzmann machines are divided into two groups: visible units and hidden units. General Boltzmann machines allow connection between any units. However, learning is impractical using general Boltzmann Machines because the computational time is exponential to the size of the machine. A more efficient architecture is called restricted Boltzmann machine where connection is only allowed between hidden unit and visible unit, which is described in the next section.
Restricted Boltzmann machine
A restricted Boltzmann machine is an undirected graph model with stochastic visible variables and stochastic hidden variables. Each visible variable is connected to each hidden variable. The energy function of the model is defined as
where are model parameters: represents the symmetric interaction term between visible unit and hidd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20E.%20Pollack | Martha Elizabeth Pollack (born August 27, 1958) is an American computer scientist who has served as the 14th president of Cornell University since April 2017. Previously, she served as the 14th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan from 2013 to 2017.
Pollack's research specialty is artificial intelligence, where her contributions include works in planning, natural language processing, and activity recognition for cognitive assistance. She also serves on the board of directors of IBM.
Education
Pollack completed her undergraduate studies in linguistics at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1979. She earned master's and doctoral degrees in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania, completing her Ph.D. in 1986 under the joint supervision of Bonnie Webber and Barbara J. Grosz.
Career and research
Before joining the University of Michigan faculty in 2000, she worked at SRI International from 1985 to 1992, and was on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh from 1991 to 2000. She became dean of the School of Information at Michigan in 2007, Vice Provost in 2010, and Provost in 2013. She has also been program chair of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence in 1997, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research from 2001 to 2005, and president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence from 2009 to 2010.
Pollack was the winner of the 1991 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award. She has been a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence since 1996, and of the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2012. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.
On November 14, 2016, the Cornell University Board of Trustees announced that they had unanimously elected her as Cornell University’s 14th president, with her presidency beginning on April 17, 2017. Pollack was officially inaugurated on August 25, 2017.
As President
Martha Pollack has made significant changes to Greek Life on campus, including banning all hard alcohol from events, suspending chapters suspected of hazing, and requiring a full-time live-in advisor for each fraternity and sorority house. She has also introduced plans to improve mental health services on campus after widespread criticism of Cornell's culture and lack of support for students in need, and rejected calls from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Cornell to boycott investments in Israeli businesses.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klara%20Nahrstedt | Klara Nahrstedt () is the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and directs the Coordinated Science Laboratory there. Her research concerns multimedia, quality of service, and middleware.
Nahrstedt earned a diploma in mathematics from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1984, and a master's degree in numerical analysis from Humboldt University in 1985. She earned a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 1995, under the supervision of Jonathan M. Smith. She was editor-in-chief of the journal Multimedia Systems (ACM and Springer) from 2000 to 2006, and chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia from 2007 to 2013.
In 2012 Nahrstedt was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to quality-of-service management for distributed multimedia systems." She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
for contributions to end-to-end quality of service management of multimedia systems, and a winner of a 2012 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering contributions to end-to-end quality of service and resource management in wired and wireless networks". In 2013 she became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2022, she was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering.
Nahrstedt is the daughter of University of California, Berkeley professor Ruzena Bajcsy.
Selected publications
Books
Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (with Ralf Steinmetz, Prentice-Hall, 1995)
Multimedia Fundamentals, Vol. I: Media Coding and Content Processing (with Ralf Steinmetz, Prentice-Hall, 2002)
Multimedia Systems (with Ralf Steinmetz, Springer-Verlag, 2004)
Multimedia Applications (with Ralf Steinmetz, Springer-Verlag, 2004)
Quality of Service in Wireless Networks over Unlicensed Spectrum (Morgan & Claypool, Synthesis Lectures on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, 2012)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deployment%20environment | In software deployment, an environment or tier is a computer system or set of systems in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed. In simple cases, such as developing and immediately executing a program on the same machine, there may be a single environment, but in industrial use, the development environment (where changes are originally made) and production environment (what end users use) are separated, often with several stages in between. This structured release management process allows phased deployment (rollout), testing, and rollback in case of problems.
Environments may vary significantly in size: the development environment is typically an individual developer's workstation, while the production environment may be a network of many geographically distributed machines in data centers, or virtual machines in cloud computing. Code, data, and configuration may be deployed in parallel, and need not connect to the corresponding tier—for example, pre-production code might connect to a production database.
Architectures
Deployment architectures vary significantly, but, broadly, the tiers are bookended by starting at development (DEV) and ending at production (PROD). A common 4-tier architecture is development, testing, model, production (DEV, TEST, MODL, PROD), with software being deployed to each in order. Other common environments include Quality Control (QC), for acceptance testing; sandbox or experimental (EXP), for experiments that are not intended to proceed to production; and Disaster Recovery, to provide an immediate fallback in case of problems with production. Another common architecture is development, testing, acceptance and production (DTAP).
This language is particularly suited for server programs, where servers run in a remote data center; for code that runs on an end user's device, such as applications (apps) or clients, one can refer to the user environment (USER) or local environment (LOCAL) instead.
Exact definitions and boundaries between environments vary – test may be considered part of dev, Acceptance may be considered part of test, part of stage, or be separate, etc. The main tiers are progressed through in order, with new releases being deployed (rolled out or pushed) to each in turn. Experimental and recovery tiers, if present, are outside this flow – experimental releases are terminal, while recovery is typically an old or duplicate version of production, deployed after production. In case of problems, one can roll back to the old release, most simply by pushing the old release as if it were a new release. The last step, deploying to production ("pushing to prod") is the most sensitive, as any problems result in immediate user impact. For this reason this is often handled differently, at least being monitored more carefully, and in some cases having phased rollout or only requiring flipping a switch, allowing rapid rollback. It is best to avoid a name like Quality Assurance (QA); |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lixia%20Zhang | Lixia Zhang () is the Jonathan B. Postel Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her expertise is in computer networks; she helped found the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed the Resource Reservation Protocol, coined the term "middlebox", and pioneered the development of named data networking.
Biography
Zhang grew up in northern China, where she worked as a tractor driver on a farm when the Cultural Revolution closed the schools. She earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1981 at California State University, Los Angeles, and completed her doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, under the supervision of David D. Clark. After working as a researcher at Xerox PARC, she moved to UCLA in 1996.
She and her husband, Jim Ma, have two sons. They reside in Sherman Oaks.
Contributions
Zhang was one of the 21 participants in the initial meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force, in 1986, the only woman and the only student at the meeting. In the IETF, her initial work concerned routing, although her thesis research was instead on quality of service. She was also a member of the Internet Architecture Board, from 1994 to 1996 and again from 2005 to 2009.
A protocol she designed for changing the settings in an experimental network setup became the basis for the Resource Reservation Protocol. Zhang's paper on the protocol, "RSVP: A New Resource ReSerVation Protocol" (with Steve Deering, Deborah Estrin, Scott Shenker, and Daniel Zappala, IEEE Network 1993) was selected in 2002 as one of ten landmark articles reprinted with commentary in the 50th-anniversary issue of IEEE Communications Magazine.
In 1999 Zhang coined the term "middlebox" to refer to a computer networking device that performs functions other than that of a regular Internet Protocol router. Examples of middleboxes include firewalls and network address translators. Her term has been widely adopted by the industry.
Beginning in 2010 she has been the leader of a multi-campus research project concerning named data networking.
Awards and honors
In 2006, Zhang became a Fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to the architecture and signaling protocols in packet switched networks.
In 2009, she won the IEEE Internet Award.
In 2012, she was named to the Postel Professorship.
In 2014, Zhang is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards. Her picture appeared on the four of diamonds in a pack of playing cards featuring 54 notable women in technology.
In 2020, she won the 2020 SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guidepoint | Guidepoint is an expert network, providing business & government professionals with opportunities to communicate with industry and subject-matter experts to answer research questions. Guidepoint clients consult with these experts over the phone, in-person at conferences, at teleconferences, at custom events and workshops, or may gather their primary research data through surveys, polls, or web-based data offerings.
History
Guidepoint was founded by Albert Sebag, who had training and experience in chemotherapeutic drug development and intellectual property law and biotechnology litigation for generic pharmaceutical clients. This experience eventually led Sebag to begin a matching service for oncology patients called Clinical Advisors. Launched in 2003, Clinical Advisors matched cancer patients with the clinical trial that best suited their case.
As Clinical Advisors expanded their network to include expertise in additional healthcare areas, the company progressed into other industries and sectors. In 2007, the company changed its name to Guidepoint Global to reflect this expanded business model. In 2009, Guidepoint Global acquired Vista Research, an expert network company that was active in Asia and had a strong network of experts in other industries such as technology and telecom. from Standard & Poor’s.
Shortly after rebranding as Guidepoint, “the experts at finding expertise,” and premiering a new logo and website, Guidepoint acquired Innosquared, a Germany-based expert network firm.”
Business model
Clients use Guidepoint as a resource to find answers to specific industry questions that might only be answered by industry and subject-matter experts. The company essentially operates as a matchmaking service, connecting its users to recruited experts in the field they are looking to learn more about. Experts are categorized into six main industry sectors: Healthcare; Financial and Business Services; Consumer Goods and Services; Energy, Industrials, Basic Materials; Tech, Media, and Telecom; and Legal and Regulatory.
Services are subscription-based and include hourly phone consultations, in-person events, teleconferences, surveys, custom research reports, and a monthly healthcare data offering called Guidepoint TRACKER, which features data on market share in the therapeutics and medical device sectors, such as the US Breast Implant market.
According to Integrity Research, Guidepoint is ranked as the second-largest expert network, with a network of more than 1,000,000 experts.
Regulatory issue with insider trading
In 2010, there were allegations that an expert who provided expert network services gave confidential information to a third party who traded on that information in violation of the federal securities law. That resulted in a strong regulatory focus on the industry and its investment firm clients. Charges were not brought against Guidepoint. According to Integrity Research, “Although Guidepoint was mentioned in insider trading com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterr10%20Rangeela | Enterr10 Rangeela was a Bhojpuri entertainment channel that was owned by Enterr10 Television Network Private Limited.
History
Enterr10 Rangeela was launched on September 22, 2020, as a Bhojpuri entertainment channel by Enterr10 Television Pvt Ltd. They later showed some dubbed series and original series, then launched a YouTube channel that was later turned into a music channel. that have over 10.3 million subscribers as of 15 March 2023.
Former shows
Ramayan
Aashish Chhathi Maiya Ke
Crime Alert
Bandini
Meri Maa Vindhyavaasini
Tip Top Tarana
Rangeela T20
Pyar Ke Rang
Maai Ke Singaar
Bhayil Bhajan Ke Bela
See also
List of Bhojpuri-language television channels
References
Television channels and stations established in 2020
Television stations in Mumbai
Television stations in Uttar Pradesh
2020 establishments in Delhi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BClay%20Adal%C4%B1 | Tülay Adalı is a Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, whose research interests include signal processing, machine learning, and data fusion.
With Simon Haykin, she is the author of the book Adaptive Signal Processing: Next Generation Solutions (Wiley, 2010), and with Eric Moreau, she is the author of Blind Identification and Separation of Complex-valued Signals (Wiley, 2013).
In 2008 she became a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering "for outstanding research, mentorship, and leadership in the field of biomedical imaging and signal processing", and in 2009 she became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers "For contributions to
nonlinear and complex-valued statistical signal processing". She was an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2012–2013, and has been named a Fulbright Scholar for 2015.
She is the sister of computer scientist Sibel Adalı.
References
External links
Home page
Living people
American electrical engineers
Turkish women computer scientists
Turkish computer scientists
Turkish academics
Turkish electrical engineers
American women computer scientists
American women engineers
Middle East Technical University alumni
North Carolina State University alumni
University of Maryland, Baltimore County faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire%20Kelly%20Schultz | Claire Kelly Schultz (November 17, 1924 - May 28, 2015) was an American computer consultant and academic. She was a leading figure in the early development of automated information retrieval systems and information science. A "documentalist", she was particularly known for her work in thesaurus construction and machine-aided indexing, innovating techniques for punch card information retrieval.
While working as a librarian at the Merck, Sharp and Dohme chemical company she "developed a machine-sorted card system that employed Boolean retrieval logic. Her first use of punched cards in 1949 used the Mooers Zator system." This has been seen as a "transitional role of such punched-card systems toward later use of computers for information retrieval".
Early life and education
Claire Kelly was born on November 17, 1924 in Etters, Pennsylvania to Joseph and Mary (Ross) Kelly. She went to a one-room school, completing 8th grade by age 12. At age 13, her family moved to a farm near Linglestown, Pennsylvania. Claire looked after the housework and livestock as well as attending school. At fifteen, she worked as governess and cook for another family, to earn money for college.
At age 16, she completed high school and attended Juniata College, receiving a four-year scholarship for tuition, and working for a German family for room and board. She obtained her B.S. in Chemistry and Biology with a Minor in Mathematics, a pre-med major, in 1944, at age 19.
Claire wanted to become a doctor, and applied at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, but was initially refused because of her age. She spent the next year working as an attendant at the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry as part of a Quaker program for the humane treatment of mental patients. At Byberry, she met her future husband, Wallace L. Schultz, a conscientious objector who also worked as an attendant. They married in June 1945.
Claire was then accepted at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, which she attended from 1945-46. Soon after starting medical school she became pregnant with her first child. When the school became aware that she was married and pregnant, the dean was outraged and ordered her to leave. After the baby was born, the couple returned to Philadelphia, where Wallace studied English Literature. During much of their marriage, Claire was the primary breadwinner for the family, while Wallace took responsibility for parenting and running their home.
Career
During Schultz's career she worked as a computer consultant, a librarian, a researcher, and a professor. From 1946-1948, Claire worked at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. Initially hired as a librarian, she soon became a laboratory assistant to Dr. Edmond J. Farris, studying human reproduction and fertility.
In 1948, she found a higher paying job as a librarian at Sharp & Dohme in Glenolden, Pennsylvania (later Merck, Sharp & Dohme). While there, she was introduced to Calvin Mooers, an advoc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti%20MRT | The Ferranti Market Research Terminal (MRT) was, arguably, the world’s first application-specific handheld computer. It was designed specifically for the market research sector as a means to augment the regular clipboard schemes that, at the time, were common-place, in social and market research. Despite having an appearance of a calculator built into a clipboard, the reality was that the unit contained a sophisticated form of programmable data-logger that, in response to an interviewer reading questions to the interviewee, had answers digitally recorded (for later uploading and analysis) via pressing appropriate keys on the unit. The unit contained a bespoke operating system to support field based market research. The Ferranti Market Research Terminal (MRT) is also of historical significance to the computing industry since it marked the last original computer design from Ferranti, a long established business (started 1882) that had risen to fame through a collaboration Manchester University to produce the "Mark 1", the world’s first commercial computer and later with Cambridge University producing the "Atlas" and "Titan" computers which, at their peak, held around 25% of the computing market.
History
Ferranti Plc produced two versions that were labelled the MRT-100 and MRT-200 and based on an original 1978 prototype called the Questronic which had been designed at Sheffield University as part of a collaboration between the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering and the Department of Geography. While it is difficult to imagine the context of this product development in the late seventies, it is useful to remember that the IBM PC (which has brought the Windows desktops and laptops that are now commonplace) was only introduced on 12 August 1981. If one ignores calculators, then handheld computers appeared in July 1980 with, perhaps, the first being the Tandy Pocket Computer (Radio Shack TRS-80 Pocket Computer). Later in the same year, Matsushita (now the Panasonic Corporation) produced a handheld computer marketed under the Panasonic and Quasar brand. However, these devices were, of course, general purpose handheld computers unlike the application-specific MRT introduced by Ferranti. A merger in 1989 with the American "International Signal & Control Group" (ISC), led to Ferranti going into bankruptcy in December 1994. With that came the end of the Ferranti MRT and, effectively, Ferranti with its long lineage of UK innovative computing and electronics research, development and manufacture.
Product Description
A description of the Ferranti MRT was given by Deborah Martell (Cardiff Business School, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology) in the 1987 book, "Management Information Systems: The Technology Challenge" (edited by Nigel Piercy) in which she described the product as follows:
"Accurate survey research is of utmost importance in marketing evaluations and NIT [new information technology] is improving this |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoelle%20Maarek | Yoelle Maarek is a Tunisian-born Israeli computer scientist. She is the Vice President of Worldwide Research at Amazon, responsible for Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research. Maarek is a researcher in the field of search engines and data mining, and a former vice president at Yahoo! (Yahoo! Labs) and Director of Yahoo! in Israel and in India. Maarek was the first engineer of Google Israel and established the first development center in Haifa in 2006.
Biography
Early years
Maarek was born on June 1, 1962, in Tunis. When she was one year old, her family immigrated to France. Her father, Armand was a civil engineer, and her mother Claire volunteered for Zionist organizations in France. Maarek did her undergraduate studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, earned a diplôme d'études approfondies from Pierre and Marie Curie University. After completing her master's course, she began her doctoral studies at the Technion in the field of programming languages. During her doctoral studies, she spent a year as a visiting student at Columbia University in New York, where she was exposed to the field of search engines under the guidance of Prof. Gail Kaiser. After returning to Israel to complete her doctorate at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1989, she decided to change her field of research into search engines, under the supervision of Daniel M. Berry.
Career
After completing her doctorate, she returned to the United States and began working at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York State. As part of her role, she led the team that developed the company's first search engine, called "Guru". Maarek worked at IBM from 1989 until 2006, and became a distinguished engineer at IBM before moving to Google. In 2006, she founded the Google Haifa Engineering Center in Haifa, Israel, where one of her key projects involved autocompletion for Google and YouTube queries. During 2009-2017 she worked in Yahoo research in Israel. From August 2017, she joined Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research and became the company's new Vice President of Worldwide Research.
Maarek has served as program committee co-chair for WWW 2009, WSDM 2012 and SIGIR 2012. She is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Technion. In 2013, Maarek was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to industrial leadership and to information retrieval and web search."
Recognitions
In 2009 and 2013, she was chosen as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel by the newspaper Globes.
In 2013, she was elected as an ACM Fellow.
In 2014, she was chosen by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as one of the 66 Israeli women "worth getting to know".
In 2014, she was ranked in #12 of the 22 most powerful women engineers in the world by Business Insider.
Family
Maarek is married to Frank Smadja and has three children.
References
External links
Biography at Yahoo Labs
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artists%20Alliance | Artists Alliance is a defunct non-profit organisation that was based in Ponsonby in Auckland, New Zealand. Artists Alliance provided information, resources, career advice, networks, and advocacy for the visual artists of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Artists Alliance was also part of WeCreate (the copyright coalition of New Zealand) and the Creative Coalition based in Auckland. Artists Alliance received funding from ASB Community Trust, Foundation North, Chartwell Trust, Patillo, Auckland Council, Creative New Zealand, and Pub Charity. They also received income from their members and other stakeholders.
History
Artists Alliance was established in 1991 as an offshoot of the New Zealand Sculptors Society. The non-profit's goal was to advance the interests of New Zealand's visual arts community as well as to offer individual support to artists within that community. Artist's Alliance was closed down in late 2018 due to being denied funding from Creative New Zealand.
Programmes
Internships
Artists Alliance has placed interns within several organisations throughout New Zealand such as: Artists Alliance itself, Creative Coalition, Artspace, Auckland Arts Festival, The Physics Room, Centre of Contemporary Art and the Gus Fisher Gallery.
Mentoring
Each year, Artists Alliance released applications for artists desiring to be mentees; mentors are assigned to the mentees based on factors such as artistic focus and goals. Some of the mentors who participate or have participated in this program include: Anthony Byrt, Phil Dadson, Glen Hayward, Janet Lilo, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Peter Madden, Luke Munn, Emil McAvoy, and Niki Hastings-McFall.
Volunteering
Artists Alliance started a volunteer programme primarily for current students in tertiary art institutions studying art, design or art history, as well as recent graduates from these degrees. Volunteers work with regional galleries, non-profit galleries/initiatives, dealer galleries and event organisers to broaden their knowledge and build working relationships within the arts community.
Artist in Residence
The Artists Alliance fundraised to support an artist in residence for a six-week period. The artist in residence was guaranteed studio space at the Ponsonby office as well as the stipend of money fundraised to spend as he or she wished. Participants were Jessica Pearless, Tiffany Rewa Newick and Corrina Hoseason.
Resources
Blog— In 1991, Artists Alliance began publishing a quarterly magazine about the visual arts. After printing of this magazine ceased it was succeeded by the Artists Alliance Blog.
The Code of Practice for Artists and Dealers —Published in 2005, the Code of Practice for Artists and Dealers was designed to lay out a framework for arrangements between artists and dealers.
Dr. Paynt – A series of articles written by chairman of the board Evan Woodruffe advising artists on various issues.
Leadership and membership
Maggie Gresson
Board
Evan Woodruffe, chairman of the board
Alix Bachmann
Scott |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20435001%E2%80%93436000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fateh%20Singhpura%20railway%20station | Fateh Singhpura is a railway station on the West Central railway network at Suroth, Suroth Tehsil in India. It comes under the Kota railway division of West Central Railway zone
Fatehsinghpura is a D-Grade station on the Delhi–Mumbai route.
See also
Hindaun Tehsil
Hindaun
Hindaun (Rajasthan Assembly constituency)
Suroth
Hindaun City railway station
Hindaun City bus depot
Jaggar Dam
Jalsen Reservoir
Nakkash Ki Devi - Gomti Dham
Kaila Devi Temple
Shri Mahaveer Ji temple
Narsinghji Temple
Karauli district
Educational institutions in Hindaun Subdivision
Kyarda Hanumanji Temple
Timangarh
Railway stations in Karauli district
Kota railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20A.%20Lipinski | Christopher A. Lipinski is a medicinal chemist who is working at Pfizer, Inc. He is known for his "rule of five", an algorithm that predicts drug compounds that are likely to have oral activity. By the number of citations, he is the most cited author of some pharmacology journals: Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Drug Discovery Today: Technologies.
Lipinski received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968 in physical organic chemistry. The Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews article reporting his "rule of five" is one of the most cited publications in the journal's history. In 2006, he received an honorary law degree from the University of Dundee and he has won various awards, including being the Society for Biomolecular Sciences' winner of the 2006 SBS Achievement Award for Innovation in HTS.
References
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American chemists
21st-century American chemists
Pfizer people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Computational chemists
Drug discovery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20of%20Computer%20Science%20%26%20Engineering%20at%20Yanbu | College of Computer Science & Engineering at Yanbu (CCSEY) was established in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, in 1430 Hejri, related to 2010, one of the Taibah University colleges in Yanbu branch, CCSEY is located in Yanbu AL-Bahar, in Medina Region, Yanbu the coastal city which is overlooking the Red Sea. the College offers diploma and undergraduate programs in different computer areas, the number of CCSEY students are nearly 500 students, 25 faculty members, and 25 employees.
In 2013 CCSEY started transferring into Learning organization to adapt to the Knowledge Society age, first through its Strategic Plan, and then by adopting the Cisco Networking Academy curriculum (In the academic year 2014-2015), in order to expand employment options for its graduates and help advance their careers.
See also
List of universities in Saudi Arabia
References
External links
Channel of Computer Science and Engineering at Yanbu on YouTube
2010 establishments in Saudi Arabia
Taibah University
Universities and colleges in Saudi Arabia
Medina
Educational institutions established in 2010
Yanbu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galperin | Galperin is an (Eastern) Jewish surname, derived from Heilprin / Halperin. Notable people with the surname include:
Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Evsey Iosifovich Galperin (1920—1990), Soviet geophysicist, inventor of the symmetric triaxial seismometer design (Galperin configuration)
Gleb Galperin (born 1985), Russian diver who competed in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics
Marcos Galperin (born 1971), Argentine businessman
Mark Galperin (born 1968 or 1969), Russian political activist
Ron Galperin (born 1963), American politician and lawyer
See also
Gelperin, a list of people with a similar surname also derived from Heilprin
Galperina, a list of people with the surname |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Groovenians | The Groovenians is an American adult computer-animated pilot created by Kenny Scharf and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It was aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim on November 10, 2002, but was also re-aired on the network itself during the block "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays" on February 21, 2003. The pilot was panned by critics and audiences, resulting in the series not being picked up by the network.
Plot
The Groovenians follows an adolescent couple named Jet and Glindy from a planet named Jeepers. On Jeepers, society is uniform and artistic qualities are shunned. Jet and Glindy, however, are artists and performers who often perform on their front lawns. Their parents do not approve, and they tell Jet and Glindy that art is not everything in life. As Glindy talks to Jet about wanting to leave Jeepers, a boy named Nixon is dropped next door from a spaceship. He had been evicted from a planet called Groovenia, which he tells Jet and Glindy is a paradise for artists. He gives them his key before he is dragged into his house by his grandmother.
After being presented with options for their future, Jet and Glindy decide to leave Jeepers behind and go to Groovenia, however, Glindy's father stops them. He, along with Glindy's mother, dictates their future; Glindy is to work at an office job and Jet is to marry Glindy's sister. Glindy manages to stop the wedding, and the two, along with Jet's dog, Looki, are run out by the parents and Glindy's sister.
The three escape to the "jetport" where they board a jet to Groovenia. Upon the plane, they are greeted by the flight attendant who has a short sequence creating hype for the planet. Upon landing, Jet and Glindy meet a tree that proclaims in rhyme that a key is needed to gain entry to Groovenia, which was earlier given to them by Nixon. They insert the key into the tree's keyhole, and she takes them to their apartment. There they meet the former roommates of Nixon, Swirly, Lalasha, and Suavo, and introduce themselves. They proceed to spend the day partying, but as Glindy proclaims aloud if Groovenia could possibly get any better, they are attacked by a group of robots called "Normals", and their king, Norman. The Normals and King Norman force them to pay taxes, where Suavo tells Jet and Glindy the reason why Nixon was evicted. It turns out, Nixon didn't pay his taxes, and because of this, Jet and Glindy have to pay them for him. The two are attacked by King Norman, scaring Jet. This causes Glindy to become angry, and she expels Norman and the Normals with colored paint and disco music, and the pilot ends with King Norman swearing revenge as the main characters dance.
Voice cast
Paul Reubens – Jet, the Bubbie
Drena De Niro – Glindy
Vincent Gallo – Nixon
Dennis Hopper – King Norman, Bori (Glindy's Dad)
Ann Magnuson – Zazzy, Lalasha, Dully (Glindy's Mom)
Debi Mazar – Swirly, Yalda, Cuckoo Bird
RuPaul – Champagne Courvoisier
Floyd Peterson – Funbus Captain
Jeff Ben |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocha%E2%80%93Thatte%20cycle%20detection%20algorithm | Rocha–Thatte algorithm is a distributed algorithm in graph theory for detecting cycles on large-scale directed graphs based on the bulk synchronous message passing abstraction.
This algorithm for detecting cycles by message passing is suitable to be implemented in distributed graph
processing systems, and it is also suitable for implementations in systems for disk-based computations, such as the GraphChi, where the computation is mainly based on secondary memory.
Disk-based computations are necessary when we have a single computer for processing large-scale
graphs, and the computation exceeds the primary memory capacity.
Overview
The Rocha–Thatte algorithm is a general algorithm for detecting cycles in a directed graph by message passing among its vertices, based on the bulk synchronous message passing abstraction. This is a vertex-centric approach in which the vertices of the graph work together for detecting cycles. The bulk synchronous parallel model consists of a sequence of iterations, in each of which a vertex can receive messages sent by other vertices in the previous iteration, and send messages to other vertices.
In each pass, each active vertex of sends a set of sequences of vertices to its out-neighbours as described next. In the first pass, each vertex sends the message to all its out-neighbours. In subsequent iterations, each active vertex appends to each sequence it received in the previous iteration. It then sends all the updated sequences to its out-neighbours. If has not received any message in the previous iteration, then deactivates itself. The algorithm terminates when all the vertices have been deactivated.
For a sequence received by vertex , the appended sequence is not forwarded
in two cases: if , then has detected a cycle, which is reported;
if for some , then has detected a sequence that contains the cycle ; in this case, the sequence is discarded, since the cycle must have been detected in an earlier iteration; to be precise, this cycle
must have been detected in iteration . Every cycle is detected by all to in the same iteration; it is reported by the vertex .
The figure below presents an example of the execution of the algorithm. In iteration , all the three vertices detect the cycle . The algorithm ensures that the cycle is reported only once by emitting the detected cycle only from the vertex with the least identifier value in the ordered sequence, which is the vertex 2 in the example.
The total number of iterations of the algorithm is the number of vertices in the longest
path in the graph, plus a few more steps for deactivating the final vertices. During the analysis of
the total number of iterations, we ignore the few extra iterations needed for deactivating the final
vertices and detecting the end of the computation, since it is iterations. In practice, the actual number
of these final few iterations depends on the framework being used to implement the algorithm.
Experimental Performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie%20Waller | Angie Waller is a visual artist who has lived in Los Angeles, California, and New York City. She has created works based on data mining and those that feature found objects in videos, installations and websites.
Career
Waller used the data-mining technique to develop her 2003 Data Mining the Amazon, a limited-edition work based on a feature of used by Amazon.com where purchasers are told what other buyers had also purchased. She discovered "associations between pop culture and books that described a specific political ideology."
Armored Cars: Protect Yourself From Ballistic Attacks was a 2009 video and photographic collage compiled from marketing materials produced by manufacturers of armored cars which The New York Times noted as playing "to post-9/11 insecurities and the fears of the wealthy in politically unstable regions." Charissa N. Terranova, a professor of aesthetic studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, compared Waller's "own process of video fabrication" to "the fabrication of corporate truth as a ploy in the marketing of armored cars."
In 2010 Waller wrote Originality Compass and Copyright Law, a work consisting of quotations from U.S. copyright cases that was displayed in both New York and Mexico. In 2011 she rebound 45 books in identical covers, with similar foiled titles, all of which contained the word unknown. As part of the project, she began a quarterly online newsletter entitled "We provide timely information you didn't know you didn't know." Another piece was Most Searched Fears, mounted in 2012, which was a word cloud printed by letterpress in glow in the dark type so that visitors had to stand behind a dark curtain or in a dark room to see it.
She has also presented The Most Boring Places in the World, 2009, an interactive site organized into a Google Maps tour, which features every mention of the phrase "the most boring place in the world" in chatrooms and in blogs and live journals that she could find from January 10 to May 1, 2009. The quotations are paired with satellite images of cities and towns.
References
External links
Artists from Los Angeles
Artists from New York City
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Engineers%20Association%20of%20Spain | The Computer Engineers Association of Spain (ATI, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática in Spanish) is a non-profit association of professionals and students from the sector of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). It is based in Spain, where it is established through a number of Chapters. Founded in 1967, it is the most veteran association in the ICT profession in Spain, with the main headquarters in Barcelona and headquarters in Madrid also.
ATI publishes in Spanish the magazine Novática, the oldest magazine in Spain about computing, and also REICIS (Revista Española de Innovación, Calidad e Ingeniería del Software). From 2000 to 2011 publishes also the e-magazine in English UPGRADE: The European Journal for the Informatics Professional, commissioned by CEPIS (Council for European Professional Informatic Societies).
ATI has sixteen working groups covering different areas of the ICT sector and takes part, either as organizer or collaborator, in several events in this field.
ATI is the Spanish representative in International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and represents Spanish computer professionals too in CEPIS, an organization from which ATI is a founding member. ATI also has a collaboration agreement with Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
In Spain, ATI has established collaboration agreements with Ada Spain, ASTIC, Hispalinux, AI2 and RITSI (Asociación Nacional de Estudiantes de Ingenierías e Ingenierías Técnicas en Informática).
ATI expresses its view about different matters (Libre Software, university degrees on Computer Science, Private copying levy, etc.) through communications, press releases and editorial pages at Novática magazine.
In 2017 the Spanish Data Protection Agency imposes ATI two fines, one of €45,000 (very serious infraction) for transmitting personal data outside the territory of the European Economic Area, and another of €5,000 (mild infraction) for sending e-mails through The Rocket Science Group LLC's Mailchimp service, violating the recipients' right. Appeals from ATI against the sanctions are dismissed successively by the National Court of Spain and the Supreme Court of Spain.
References
External links
ATI's site on the World Wide Web
What's ATI
Novática, Revista de la Asociación de Técnicos de Informática
Revista Electrónica REICIS
CEPIS UPGRADE: The European Journal for the Informatics Professional
International ICT Holidays, a Google Calendar maintained by ATI
Professional associations based in Spain
Information technology organisations based in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Tchou | Mario Tchou (; 1924–1961), also known as Tchou Wang Li, was an Italian engineer of Chinese descent. He was a pioneer of computer science in Italy, who led a group of scientists from the University of Pisa to invent in 1959 the Olivetti Elea—the world's most powerful computer at the time.
Biography
Born in Rome on June 26, 1924, he was the son of Evelyn Wang and the diplomat Yin Tchou, who worked within the Consulate of the Republic of China at the Holy See.
After obtaining his classical high school diploma at the Torquato Tasso Gymnasium High School in Rome, he undertook his studies in electrical engineering in Rome, at the La Sapienza University, and continued them with a scholarship in the United States, where, in 1947, he obtained a Bachelor of electrical engineering at the Catholic University of America in Washington. He graduated from the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering in 1949.
Having moved to New York, he began teaching at Manhattan College while, at the same time, he specialized at the Polytechnic University of New York in Brooklyn, where, in 1949, he obtained a Master of Science with a thesis entitled Ultrasonic Diffraction. In the same year he married the Italian Mariangela Siracusa. In 1952, at the age of 28, he was called to teach at Columbia University in New York, in the department led by John R. Ragazzini.
After the separation from his first wife, he married the artist Elisa Montessori in 1955, and they had two daughters.
Olivetti Elea project
Given his knowledge of electronics, in 1955 Adriano Olivetti hired him into the company and entrusted him with the task of forming a working group which, in collaboration with the University of Pisa, had the aim of designing and building an electronic calculator all Italian, at the suggestion of Enrico Fermi, using the 150 million lire already allocated (for a synchrotron built later in Frascati) for the Pisan Electronic Calculator with valves and transistors. In the same year he separated from his first wife and remarried the painter Elisa Montessori, with whom he had two daughters. He later began working on the largest Olivetti Elea, the greatest transistor supercomputer of the time, later built in 40 examples.
Industrial vision
Mario Tchou's activity was based on a vision that focused on high innovation. In the laboratory of Barbaricina (Pisa district) he gathered the best brains, all young:
«Because new things are only done with young people. Only young people throw themselves into it with enthusiasm, and collaborate in harmony without personalism and without the obstacles deriving from a customary mentality.»
He considered Italy «...at the same level as the most advanced countries in the field of electronic calculating machines from a qualitative point of view. The others, however, receive enormous help from the state. The United States allocates huge sums for electronic research, especially for military purposes. Britain also spends millions of pounds. Oli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamiond%C5%BEije | Kamiondžije ('Truckers') is a 1972–1973 Yugoslav TV series. It follows the adventures of truck drivers Paja and Jare.
Radio Television of Serbia original programming
1973 Yugoslav television series debuts
1973 Yugoslav television series endings
1970s Yugoslav television series
Serbian-language television shows
Television shows set in Serbia
Television shows set in Belgrade
Television shows filmed in Serbia
Television shows filmed in Belgrade |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20IdeaCentre%20A740 | The Lenovo IdeaCentre A740 is an all-in-one desktop computer with a 27-inch touchscreen released by Lenovo in 2014.
Specifications and features
The A740 has a 27-inch frameless glossy screen with a resolution of up to 2560x1440 and capacitive ten-finger touch technology. The A740's screen is only 0.15" at its thinnest point. The screen is anchored by a base which includes most of the unit's hardware and all of its ports, and the mount allows adjusting the angle from 90 degrees down to -5 degrees – one example use is as a "chess board".
The A740 uses a quad-core Intel Core-i7 processor, 8 gigabytes of RAM, and a 1-terabyte Solid State Hybrid Drive with an 8GB SSD part. There is no optical drive in the machine itself, but a USB DVD burner is given as a standard accessory along with the USB (wireless) keyboard and mouse. Ports include ethernet, HDMI, combined audio jack for headphones/microphone, four USB 3.0 connections and a 6-in-1 card reader. The A740's ability to accept HDMI input allows for using the screen with external devices. An internal TV-tuner is optional.
Reviews
In a review published by Techaeris, Alex Hernandez wrote "Overall the A740 scores a 4.3 out of 5 here. There are some great things about this all-in-one and just a few things that need improvement. The hardware and design are great on this machine, Lenovo has been doing some very awesome things in that department. The display is a high point as well and even the price and value is right up there and competes with Apple’s iMac".
References
External links
Product page on Lenovo.com
Products introduced in 2014
Lenovo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20Dhabi%20Art | Abu Dhabi Art is an art fair that takes place every November in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, featuring art gallerias, art and design foundations, as well as additional educational programming and talks.
History
Organized by Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH), the first edition took place in 2007 at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, under the name ArtParis Abu Dhabi. The fair is considered the first for modern and contemporary in the United Arab Emirates, under the patronage of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.
2008: The second edition of the fair took place at Emirates Palace between 17–21 November and included 57 galleries exhibiting several hundred artists.
2009: Rebranded as Abu Dhabi Art (ADA), held between 19–22 November. The fair was organized for the first time by Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC) and Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) under the patronage of General Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
2010: Opened by Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan and held between 6–10 November.
2011: The third edition of the rebranded fair changed its location between Manarat Al Saadiyat and the newly shifted UAE pavilion, that housed the UAE’s participation at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, at the Saadiyat Island Cultural district.
2012: The first edition to be organized by the newly formed Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority replacing the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) and the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA), held between 7–10 November 2012.
2013: Held between 20–23 November with 50 participating galleries divided into five sections including Beyond, for large-scale installations and sculptures; Bidaya, for emerging galleries; Signature, which featured solo exhibitions; Artists' Waves, an artist-led exhibition of work from within the galleries showing at the fair and the final category, Modern, Contemporary and Design.
2014: Organized by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority and held between 5-8 Nov, included over 50 galleries showcasing over 600 works.
See also
Abu Dhabi Tourism and Cultural Authority
Art Dubai
References
External links
Abu Dhabi Tourism and Cultural Authority
Abu Dhabi Art official Website
Art fairs
Visual arts exhibitions
Arab art scene |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20B.%20Schnabel | Robert B. Schnabel (born December 18, 1950) is an American computer scientist. He was executive director and CEO of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) from November 1, 2015 to 2017. He is now professor and external chair of computer science at University of Colorado Boulder.
His academic specialty is numerical optimization, and he is known for promoting diversity and broadening participation in computing, engineering and mathematics.
Life and career
Schnabel was born in Queens, New York. He earned his A.B. degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1971.
From 1973 to 1977, Schnabel studied computer science at the Cornell University, receiving his M.S. degree in 1975 and
Ph.D. degree in 1977.
Schnabel joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in 1977. He remained at CU-Boulder for 30 years, becoming associate in 1980 and then full professor in 1988, chair of the Department of Computer Science in 1990, associate dean for academic affairs of the College of Engineering in 1995 and vice provost for academic and campus computing and chief information officer in 1998. Schnabel was founding director of the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Together with his former doctoral advisor John E. Dennis, Schnabel wrote a 1996 book on numerical optimization that has been cited more than 10,000 times in scholarly works (according to Google Scholar).
Schnabel was Dean and Professor of the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, a position he held from 2007 to 2015.
Schnabel was a co-founder and director for 1997–2007 for the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), a U.S. national non-profit organization aimed at increasing the participation of women and girls in information technology education and careers. He was the founding chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Education Policy Committee, chair of the advisory committee for the Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI), and a co-founder of the Alliance for the Advancement of African-American Researchers in Computing, and is a board member of Code.org, a non-profit organization for encouraging school students to study computer science.
Schnabel also served on the advisory committee for the National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (NSF CISE), starting in 2012.
Schnabel's research interests include numerical computation, numerical solution of unconstrained and constrained optimization problems, solution of systems of nonlinear equations, and nonlinear least squares. He has served as editor-in-chief of SIAM Review and as associate editor of several journals, including SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematical Programming A, Mathematical Programming B and Operations Research Letters.
Honors and awards
TechPoint Trailbl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20Culture%20Research%20Group | The MIT Computing Culture Research Group was an applied research group at the MIT Media Lab founded and led by technologist and artist Christopher Csikszentmihályi, who also co-founded the MIT Center for Civic Media. Between 2000 and 2009, Computing Culture focused on "embedding poetic and political considerations in the development of new technologies." Its stated mission read in part:
To refigure what engineering means, how it happens, and what it produces. Drawing on fields from the humanities, like Science and technology studies, we create new technologies that function as instances of material power, but also as exemplars of what future goals engineering should pursue.
Research and development
Computing Culture designed and built tools to comment on technology and its implications for social power dynamics, but also to function when applied. Tools produced within Computing Culture included, but are not limited to:
Afghan eXplorer (Christopher Csikszentmihályi, 2001), a solar-powered, four-wheeled robot designed to report news from warzones.
MarchToWar.com (Tad Hirsch, Ryan McKinley, 2003), a website devoted to wagers on when the United States' military would invade Iraq
Government Information Awareness (Ryan McKinley, Christopher Csikszentmihályi, 2003), a crowdsourced website devoted to identifying connections among United States elected officials and lobbyists
TXTMob (Tad Hirsch, Christopher Csikszentmihályi, Institute for Applied Autonomy, 2003), a SMS-messaging service for mass-protest coordination
Blendie (Kelly Dobson, 2004), an interactive, intelligent, voice-controlled kitchen blender
Freedom Flies (Christopher Csikszentmihályi, 2005), an Unmanned aerial vehicle designed to observe militia activity in the Southwestern United States
Random Search (Ayah Bdeir, 2006), a wearable garment that tracks touch patterns during airport patdowns
RoBoat (Christopher Csikszentmihályi, 2006), a robotic kayak designed to protest at island prisons
Seeing Yellow (Benjamin Mako Hill, 2007), a campaign against computer printer manufacturers' practice of including traceable, invisible yellow dots on printouts
Notable alumni
Computing Culture awarded degrees at the Master's and PhD level. Notable alumni include:
Ayah Bdeir, founder and CEO of LittleBits
Limor Fried, owner, Adafruit Industries
Tad Hirsch, professor, University of Washington School of Art
Benjamin Mako Hill, free software activist, hacker, and author
Saoirse Higgins, practice-based research and lecturer, Orkney Islands
References
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific organizations established in 2000
2000 establishments in Massachusetts
2000 in computing
Science and technology in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panathinaikos%20F.C.%20Academy | Panathinaikos maintains youth and amateur departments since the 1950s, while Panathinaikos F.C. manage them since 1981. They cooperate with a network of 55 soccer schools in Greece (Panathinaikos FC Soccer Schools), while they were the first Greek club with academies abroad (Cyprus, United States, Australia, Canada, Israel).
History
Since 1928 József Künsztler, coach of the first team, tried to rejuvenate the team with players from the second (reverse) team.
During the 1950s the ex-player of the team, Antonis Migiakis, had the leading role on the creation of the first youth departments of the club. First coaches were Harry Game and Svetislav Glišović. Migiakis was appointed later also as a coach the years 1967–69, 1971-74 και 1981–85. Andreas Papaemmanouil had also significant contribution.
During the presidency of Yiorgos Vardinogiannis the academy was re-organized. Alf Ramsey was appointed as Technical Director, while all the youth departments were housed in Paiania (training ground).
In 2005 Panathinaikos won the Copa Amsterdam, the annual youth football tournament, organized and hosted by AFC Ajax.
Since 2013, the academies are housed also in the Georgios Kalafatis Sports Center, the new athletic center of Panathinaikos FC.
Honours
Greek Amateur Cup1: (2)
1994, 1995
Athens Cup1: (2)
1993, 1994
Greek U-19 Championship: (3)
2005, 2012, 2022
Greek U-17 Championship: (1)
2009
Greek U-15 Championship: (1)
2018
Copa Amsterdam:
Winners (1): 2005
Puskás Cup:
Runners-up (2): 2010, 2013
1Competitions for amateur footballers, won by Panathinaikos' U-21 team (or Panathinaikos Amateurs, as it was called at that time).
Players
U-19 squad
U-17 squad
U-15 squad
Notable players
Notable players coming from the club's youth departments include:
Sotiris Alexandropoulos
Georgios Alexopoulos
Kyriakos Andreopoulos
Vasilis Angelopoulos
Kostas Antoniou
Angelos Basinas
Giannis Bouzoukis
Anastasios Chatzigiovanis
Kostas Chalkias
Diamantis Chouchoumis
Lambros Choutos
Christos Donis
Spyros Fourlanos
Nikos Giannitsanis
Giannis Goumas
Stefanos Kapino
Giorgos Karagounis
Stefanos Kotsolis
Sotirios Kyrgiakos
Anastasios Lagos
Spiros Livathinos
Charalampos Mavrias
Nikos Marinakis
Sotiris Ninis
Spyros Risvanis
Paschalis Staikos
Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos
Alexandros Tzorvas
Georgios Vakouftsis
Markos Vellidis
Personnel
Academies staff
References
External links
Panathinaikos soccer schools
Panathinaikos F.C.
Football academies in Greece
UEFA Youth League teams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20telecommunications%20equipment%20exports | The following is a list of countries by telecommunications equipment exports. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty countries are listed.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Broadcasting Equipment (2012)
Telecommunications equipment
Telecommunications equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20News | Apple News is a news aggregator app developed by Apple Inc., for its iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS operating systems. The iOS version was launched with the release of iOS 9. It is the successor to the Newsstand app included in previous versions of iOS. Users can read news articles with it, based on publishers, websites and topics they select, such as technology or politics.
Overview
The Apple News app works by pulling in news stories from the web through various syndication feeds (Atom and RSS) or from news publishing partners through the JSON descriptive Apple News Format. Any news publisher can submit their content for inclusion in Apple News. Stories added through Safari will be displayed via the in-app web browser included with the app.
News is fetched from publisher's websites through the AppleBot web crawler bot. The bot fetches feeds, as well as web pages and images for the Apple News service. It has received criticism for being poorly behaved and not being fault tolerant; resulting in high loads on websites.
The Apple News version distributed with iOS 9 made it hard to differentiate traffic originating from within the app from traffic originating from other apps. Apple News version 2, introduced in iOS 10, began identifying itself using its own User-Agent string, making it possible to measure the reach of Apple News using web analytics solutions. Traffic analytics was previously only available to paying publisher partners through iAds.
History
Apple News was announced at Apple's WWDC 2015 developer conference. It was released alongside the iOS 9 release on September 16, 2015, for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. At launch, the app was only available to users in the United States, but within a month had become available to users in Australia and the United Kingdom.
It was reported in 2014 that Apple Inc. had acquired the Netherlands-based digital magazine company Prss, developers of an application that simplified the creation of iPad-compatible magazines using a WYSIWYG editor that didn't require any knowledge of code. Prss was seen as a magazine version of iBooks Author. The idea for Prss came after entrepreneur Michel Elings and longtime travel writer and photographer Jochem Wijnands designed their own iPad publication called TRVL. The Prss invention became what is now 'Apple News.'
On June 13, 2016, during the keynote address at WWDC 2016, it was revealed that with the forthcoming iOS 10 update the News app would undergo new icon and app redesigns along with an improved For You section organized by topics. Furthermore, it was announced that there would be support for paid subscriptions for certain news sources and publishers as well as an opt-in system for breaking news notifications and email on top news stories.
On June 4, 2018, during the WWDC 2018 keynote address, Apple announced that the Apple News app would be ported to macOS and be available to users in Australia, United Kingdom, and United States starting in macOS 10.1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/222nd%20Broadcast%20Operations%20Detachment | Stationed in Bell, CA, the 222nd Broadcast Operations Detachment (BOD) is an Army Reserve public affairs unit that is capable of operating an Armed Forces Network (AFN) radio/television station as well as providing media relations support for the U.S. Army Reserves, Regular Army, and Department of Defense. Their products include videography packages such as video news releases (VNR), B-Roll packages, veteran history projects, and training videos. Most recently, the 222nd supported the U.S. Army's public affairs mission with two, year-long tours of duty in Baghdad, Iraq, were the unit was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), 2003–2004. The 222nd BOD supports the 201st Press Camp Headquarters (PCH) in Bell, CA, and the 63rd Regional Support Command (RSC) in Mountain View, CA.
Mission
The mission of the 222nd BOD is to establish and operate mobile radio/television broadcast facilities, perform as the broadcast support arm for a Public Affairs Operations Center, and produce broadcast products for distribution to internal and external worldwide audiences through the American Forces Radio Television Services.
About Army Public Affairs
Public Affairs fulfills the Army's obligation to keep the American people and the Army informed, and helps to establish the conditions that lead to confidence in America's Army and its readiness to conduct operations in peacetime, conflict and war.
Enlisted Soldiers in the 222nd BOD are Broadcast and Journalism Specialists (46S) and Multimedia Illustrators (25M), along with a Unit Administrative Specialist (42A) and a Unit Supply Specialist (92Y). Officers in a Public Affairs unit can come from all branches of the U.S. Army. They need only complete the Public Affairs Qualification Course in Ft. Meade, Maryland to receive the Functional Area MOS for Public Affairs (46A). For both enlisted soldiers and officers, Public Affairs units are available in all components of the U.S. Army (Active, Reserve, and Army National Guard).
Army Public Affairs Broadcast Specialists are involved in creating, filming, reporting, hosting and editing news and entertainment radio and television programs. They are primarily responsible for participating in and supervising the operation of audio or video news for the American Forces Network (AFN), The Pentagon Channel or Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS).
Combat Correspondents, or broadcast journalists in the 222nd prepare scripts and news copy for radio and television programs and participate as hosts, announcers, masters of ceremonies, and actors in radio and television broadcasts. Journalists also research, prepare and disseminate information through news releases, radio and television products. They perform as writers, reporters, editors, videographers, producers, and program hosts in radio and television productions.
Requirements
In order to become a Broadcast and Journalism Specialist (46S) in the U.S. Army, a soldier must meet the following requirement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuanyuan%20Zhou | Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou is a Chinese and American computer scientist and entrepreneur. She is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where she holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Mobile Computing. Her research concerns software reliability, including the use of data mining to automatically detect software bugs and flexible system designs that can adapt to hardware platform variations. She is also the founder of three start-up companies, Emphora, Pattern Insight, and Whova.
Education and career
Zhou earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1992 from Peking University, before earning her M.A. in 1996 from Princeton University. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in 2001, also from Princeton University, under the supervision of Kai Li. She spent the next two years at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, where she spun off a start-up from NEC, Emphora, in the area of data storage. Next, she took a faculty position at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2002. During her time there, in 2007, she founded her second start-up, Pattern Insight, to commercialize her work in automated bug detection and removal for large software projects; she continues to serve as Pattern Insight's chief technical officer. In 2009, she moved to UCSD, as the first Qualcomm Professor in Mobile Computing. In 2012 she founded her third start-up, event-management software company Whova.
Zhou is the program chair for the 21st International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2016), and the program co-chair for the 27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2019).
Awards and honors
In 2005, Zhou won the Anita Borg Early Career Award of the Computing Research Association.
She was awarded a Sloan Fellowship in 2007. In 2013, she was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to software reliability and quality", and in 2014, she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers "for contributions to scalable algorithms and tools for computer reliability." In 2015, Zhou won the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award.
Speaking
Zhou has spoken at many academic and business conferences, including CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women in 2018, and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
References
External links
Home page
PatternInsight
Whova
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
Peking University alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of California, San Diego faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
NEC people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rina%20Dechter | Rina Dechter (born August 13, 1950) is a distinguished professor of computer science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Her research is on automated reasoning in artificial intelligence focusing on probabilistic and constraint-based reasoning. In 2013, she was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Education
Dechter received her B.S in Mathematics and Statistics from Hebrew University in 1973, her M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the Weizmann Institute in 1976, and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1985 as a student of Judea Pearl.
Academic career and research
Dechter was a staff member at Hughes Aircraft Company from 1985 to 1988. She became a senior lecturer in computer science at the Technion from 1988 to 1990, after which she moved to the University of California, Irvine, where she became a full professor in 1996. She was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2005 to 2006. From 2011 to 2018 she was the co-editor in chief of the scientific journal Artificial Intelligence,.
Dechter wrote a standard text in constraint programming called Constraint Processing published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers in 2003. It was reviewed as a valuable graduate-level resource or reference work. She also co-edited a festschrift dedicated to her Ph.D. advisor Judea Pearl and his influence in the field of causal modeling and probabilistic reasoning, titled Heuristics, Probability, and Causality.
Dechter was the first to use the phrase deep learning, in a 1986 paper.
Awards and honors
Dechter received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the United States National Science Foundation in 1991, became a fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence in 1994, and received an award for research excellence from the Association of Constraint Programming in 2007. In 2013, she was elected a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, cited "for contributions to the algorithmic foundations of automated reasoning with constraint-based and probabilistic information."
References
External links
Home page
Living people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of California, Irvine faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
21st-century American women
Israeli computer scientists
1950 births
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20Designer | Neural Designer is a software tool for machine learning based on neural networks, a main area of artificial intelligence research, and contains a graphical user interface which simplifies data entry and interpretation of results.
In 2015, Neural Designer was chosen by the European Commission, within the Horizon 2020 program, as a disruptive technology in the ICT field.
Features
Neural Designer performs descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive data analytics. It implements deep architectures with multiple non-linear layers and contains utilities to solve function regression, pattern recognition, time series and autoencoding problems.
The input to Neural Designer is a data set, and its output is a predictive model. That result takes the form of an explicit mathematical expression, which can be exported to any computer language or system.
Related tools
Weka: free machine learning and data mining software.
RapidMiner: free and commercial machine learning framework implemented in Java.
KNIME: free and commercial machine learning and data mining software.
See also
Artificial intelligence
Artificial neural network
Comparison of deep learning software
Data mining
Deep learning
Machine learning
Predictive analytics
References
C++ software
Deep learning software
Proprietary software that uses Qt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfina%20Foundation | The Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming.
About
Delfina Foundation was founded in 2007 by Delfina Entrecanales CBE, as the successor to Delfina Studio Trust, initially with an intention to nurture artists from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. The foundation now works internationally with thematic (rather than geographic) programmes, which have explored a range of topics including, the politics of food, the public domain, performance, science and technology, and collecting.
Residencies for artists, writers and curators form the core of Delfina Foundation's work as it seeks to support and facilitate the professional development of cultural practitioners, from emerging to established art professionals. The foundation is London's largest provider of international residencies.
The foundation began working around seasonal thematic programmes in 2014, when it reopened following an expansion of its Edwardian townhouse premises in Victoria, London. These themes are explored through residencies and public programming, including exhibitions, talks, performances, screenings and commissions.
Building
Since its founding, Delfina Foundation has been located in Catherine Place, in Victoria, London. Initially the foundation occupied the Edwardian house at number 29, but in 2009 the foundation's patron Delfina Entrecanales bought the adjoining property allowing the foundation to expand and span the two houses. The expansion and renovation of the facility at 29-31 Catherine Place in 2014 was undertaken by London-based architects Studio Octopi and Egypt-based Shahira Fahmy Architects, the winners of a competition that promoted design collaboration between architects based in the UK and the greater Middle East. The £1.4m project doubled the residency capacity (from 4 to 8) and created 1,650 square feet of additional exhibition and event space, giving it a combined total area of 4,564 square feet, and making it London's largest artist residency provider.
In addition to the 8 bedrooms and exhibition space the property includes a communal kitchen area, an outdoor terrace and courtyard, the foundation's offices, and a library/resource room, which includes reference books, magazines, and other archives.
Residency Programme
Residencies for art practitioners - including artists, writers, curators and collectors - form the core of Delfina Foundation's work. The residency programme brings together practitioners, at various stages in their career, from around the world, who are exploring common ideas and practices. The programme seeks to give practitioners time and space to incubate their ideas as well as opportunities to showcase them. To date the foundation has supported over 400 residencies.
Since its physical expansion in 2014, the foundation is able to host 6 to 8 residents at a time in its premises i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Walk%20TV | The Walk TV (stylized as the WALK TV) is an American Christian specialty television network in the United States.
The network consists primarily of 263 low-powered television stations across the United States, and is also available on C-band free-to-air satellite services. In addition, The Walk TV is also available to users of the Roku Digital media receiver.
History
The network was launched as LegacyTV on January 11, 2010.
The purpose of this channel is to provide programming that helps people appreciate the Judeo-Christian legacy. The name of the channel was changed to its current name in 2013. The network was run by James L. West, who also ran the Doctor Television Channel.
In February 2020, WGGS-TV of Greenville, South Carolina became the network flagship when its owner, Carolina Christian Broadcasting, acquired The Walk TV.
Programming
General programming
The Walk TV programming lineup consists primarily of religious programming, family movies, off-network syndicated public domain episodes of Bonanza, and some Christian music programming. The Walk TV also features a program produced and hosted by Randall Terry, "Voice of Resistance" in addition to religious news programs from CBN such as The 700 Club and CBN Newswatch.
Children’s educational programming
Adventures in Odyssey
Donkey Ollie
Dr. Wonders Worship
iShine Kinect
Laura McKenzie’s Traveler
Miss Charity’s Diner
Real Life 101
The Real Winning Edge
Scaly Adventures
So You Want To Be
Sugar Creek Gang
Sports programming
Until 2018, The Walk TV, along with the JUCE TV and Tri-State Christian Television networks, provide broadcasts of college football games involving the Lynchburg, Virginia-based Liberty University Flames, a member of the Big South Conference at the time (Liberty now competes in Conference USA). The game broadcasts were produced by the university-operated Liberty Flames Sports Network. Unlike JUCE TV, The Walk TV shows those games live. Game On is a sports-related show that is offered by The Walk TV. This is only available to full-time Walk TV affiliates.
Affiliates
The following is a list of confirmed Walk TV affiliates
References
External links
The Walk TV Official Website
The Walk TV on Facebook
RabbitEars.Info - The Walk TV query
Television channels and stations established in 2010
2010 establishments in South Carolina
2020 mergers and acquisitions
Television networks in the United States
Religious television stations in the United States
Christian television networks
English-language television stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty%20Flames%20Sports%20Network | The Liberty Flames Sports Network (also known as LFSN) is an American syndicated regional radio and television network with occasional broadcasts. The network broadcasts Liberty University Flames football, volleyball, softball and baseball as well as men's and women's basketball games over the air on television and radio.
Radio broadcasts
The Victory Radio Network provides Flames football and basketball games to 25 radio stations in Virginia (mainly from Marion eastward and 7 stations in northeastern North Carolina in areas east of Raleigh. The network also has limited coverage in north-central North Carolina, eastern and southern West Virginia, southern Maryland and the Washington, D.C. area. Flagship stations include WLNI and WFIR for men's basketball.
Television programming
The LFSN broadcasts Liberty Flames men's and women's basketball, volleyball, softball and baseball games to select television stations in Virginia. Liberty Flames football, on the other hand, can be seen in up to 90 million households throughout the contiguous 48 states and the Anchorage, Alaska area.
The LFSN's nationwide availability of Flames football on television is due in part of religious television networks and stations having syndication rights to carry them well beyond the Lynchburg/Roanoke media market, especially when not featured on major commercial television networks. The networks include JUCE TV (a unit of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, available on the third digital subchannel of all TBN owned-and-operated stations), The Walk TV, and the Tri-State Christian Television network. All three of those networks are available over-the-air, cable, satellite, as well as on the Roku digital media receiver. In addition, all three channels are also available through the use of free-to-air satellite television equipment. Cable-exclusive children's religious network Kids & Teens TV (Dish Network channel 264) also airs Liberty Flames football.
Game On is a LFSN-produced sports show that features sport stories throughout the world of sports. It, too, is also available through the networks that run LFSN-produced football games.
The two over-the-air television flagship stations are formerly-Liberty University-owned independent station WZBJ-CD in Lynchburg, and ABC affiliate WSET-TV in Roanoke.
References
External links
College basketball on the radio in the United States
College football on the radio
College football on television
Liberty Flames and Lady Flames
Sports radio networks in the United States
Television stations in Virginia
Television stations in Roanoke, Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson%20Tide%20Sports%20Network | The Crimson Tide Sports Network (sometimes stylized as the CTSN) is the radio and television network of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide men's and women's sports teams. It consists of four television stations, two regional cable networks, and several radio stations throughout the state of Alabama, some of which serves small parts of surrounding states. This organization's headquarters are located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
It is operated through a joint venture between IMG College and Learfield Communications.
Programming
Coach’s shows
Television
Crimson Tide This Week
The Nick Saban TV Show
Radio
Crimson Tide Today
The Nick Saban Show
Hey, Coach
Talent
Football
Eli Gold – play-by-play (home games)
Chris Stewart – play-by-play (away games)
Tyler Watts – color analyst
Basketball
Chris Stewart – play-by-play
Baseball
Chris Stewart – play-by-play
Over the air television stations
Regional cable networks
Station list
Asterisk (*) indicates HD Radio broadcast.
Gray background indicates low-power FM translator.
Satellite radio
In a partnership with CTSN, SiriusXM simulcasts all Alabama football games and various other sports on their regional play-by-play channels: 190, 191 and 192.
References
External links
Official website of the University of Alabama Athletic Department
Alabama Crimson Tide
College football on the radio
College basketball on the radio in the United States
University of Alabama
Sports radio networks in the United States
Learfield IMG College sports radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFKK-LD | KFKK-LD (channel 32) is a low-power television station licensed to Stockton, California, United States, serving the Sacramento area, airing classic television and paid programming from Timeless TV. It is owned by HC2 Holdings.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Former affiliations
KFKK-LD was affiliated with DrTV, a healthy-lifestyle specialty network that launched in the first quarter of 2014. The network ceased operations in 2019.
References
FKK-LD
Television channels and stations established in 2016
Innovate Corp.
2016 establishments in California
Low-power television stations in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Raider%20Network | The Blue Raider Network is the sports radio network for the Middle Tennessee State University Athletic teams, the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders. It broadcasts men's and women's basketball, as well as football and baseball games. The events are broadcast over six radio stations, and a few of the station's translators.
The network is a joint unit of the university's broadcasting department and Learfield Sports.
On-air personnel
Chip Walters—Play-by-play commentary (Football and Men's Basketball)
Dick Palmer—Play-by-play commentary (Baseball and Women's Basketball)
Kyle Turnham - Color Analyst (Men's Basketball)
Dennis Burke - Color Analyst (Football)
Duane Hickey - Color Analyst (Women's Basketball)
Radio stations
Blue Raider Television Network
In some cases, some MTSU Blue Raiders football, basketball, and (to a lesser extent) baseball games are shown on Nashville area MyNetworkTV affiliate WUXP-TV. The broadcasts would be either legit from the Blue Raider Network itself, or via the syndicated Conference USA package by the ad hoc American Sports Network, which started operations in late August 2014 by the Sinclair Broadcasting Group (the owner of WUXP and WZTV).
References
College basketball on the radio in the United States
College football on the radio
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Sports radio networks in the United States
Mass media in Rutherford County, Tennessee
Learfield IMG College sports radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid%20of%20doom%20%28programming%29 | In computer programming, the pyramid of doom is a common problem that arises when a program uses many levels of nested indentation to control access to a function. It is commonly seen when checking for null pointers or handling callbacks. Two examples of the term are related to a particular programming style in JavaScript, and the nesting of if statements that occurs in object-oriented programming languages when one of the objects may be a null pointer.
Examples
Most modern object-oriented programming languages use a coding style known as dot notation that allows multiple method calls to be written in a single line of code, each call separated by a period. For instance:
theWidth = windows("Main").views(5).size().width();
This code contains four different instructions; it first looks in the collection of windows for a window with the name "Main", then looks in that window's views collection for the 5th subview within it, then calls the size method to return a structure with the view's dimensions, and finally calls the width method on that structure to produce a result that is assigned to a variable name theWidth.
The problem with this approach is that the code assumes that all of these values exist. While it is reasonable to expect that a window will have a size and that size will have a width, it is not at all reasonable to assume that a window named "Main" will exist, nor that it has five subviews. If either of those assumptions is wrong, one of the methods will be invoked on null, producing a null pointer error.
To avoid this error, the programmer has to check every method call to ensure it returns a value. A safer version of the same code would be:
if windows.contains("Main") {
if windows("Main").views.contains(5) {
theWidth = windows("Main").views(5).size().width();
//more code that works with theWidth
}
}
If the programmer wishes to use that value based on whether or not it exists and is valid, the functional code inside the if statements is all pushed to the right, making it difficult to read longer lines. This often leads to attempts to "flatten" the code:
if windows.contains("Main") { theWindow = windows("Main") }
if theWindow != null && theWindow.views.contains(5) { theView = theWindow.views(5) }
if theView != null {
theWidth = theView.size().width();
//additional code
}
Or alternatively:
if !windows.contains("Main") {
// handle error
} else if !windows("Main").views.contains(5) {
// handle error
} else {
theWidth = windows("Main").views(5).size().width();
//more code that works with theWidth
}
This sort of programming construct is very common and a number of programming languages have added some sort of syntactic sugar to address this. For instance, Apple's Swift added the concept of optional chaining in if statements while Microsoft's C# 6.0 and Visual Basic 14 added the null-conditional operators ?. and ?[ for member access and indexing, respectively. The basic idea is to allow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan%20ibn%20Mahmud | Sultan ibn Mahmud was the last known Shaddadid emir of Ani reigning in parts of the dynasty's possessions from at least 1174 to 1199. He is known exclusively from the epigraphic data.
At the time of Sultan and his immediate predecessors, Ani became a target of expansionism of the kings of Georgia. Sultan's rule in parts of his dynasty's dwindling possessions, in the lands across the Araxes, is documented by an inscription dated to Safar 570 (September 1174) in the Dashtadem castle in modern Armenia. Another inscription, that from Ani, dated to , indicates that he had revived the Shaddadid rule in Ani. Vladimir Minorsky identified him with Shahanshah ibn Mahmud, known from the literary sources. Sultan's inscription from Ani is the last the Shaddadis are heard of. By 1200, Ani had been invaded by the armies of Queen Tamar of Georgia, who granted the city in possession to her loyal subject of the Armeno–Georgian Mkhargrdzeli family.
References
Shaddadid emirs of Ani
12th-century monarchs in the Middle East
12th-century Kurdish people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine%20Borman | Lorraine Borman is an American computer scientist associated with Northwestern University who specializes in information retrieval, computational social science, and human–computer interaction. She was one of the founders of SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery, and became its first chair.
Background
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Borman worked at the Vogelback Computing Center of Northwestern University, where she published several works in information retrieval and computational social science. By 1977, she was editor of the Bulletin of the ACM Special Interest Group on the Social and Behavioral Science of Computing (SIGSOC), and in that role traveled to China with a group of Northwestern faculty and toured the computing facilities there.
Founding SIGCHI
Beginning in 1978, she and SIGSOC chair Greg Marks began talking about refocusing SIGSOC, because by then the use of computers in the social sciences had become more mainstream, making it possible for SIGSOC's core constituency of social scientists to interact through social science societies instead of through the ACM. Borman and Marks found their new focus in human–computer interaction; Borman chaired a panel on this topic at an ACM Conference in 1978, and was the proceedings editor of a SIGSOC conference in 1981 centered on the topic. By 1982, they had persuaded the ACM to rename SIGSOC to SIGCHI. Borman became the first chair of the new SIG, and remained chair for six years.
Awards and honors
In 1992, the ACM gave Borman their Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award and in 1994 they elected her as an ACM Fellow "for her diligent work and commitment to the development and growth of SIGCHI and for her creative spark and skilled workmanship which guided the research and publication of the DataPlan Committee reports." In 2003 she was given the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition%20of%20electronic%20cigarette%20aerosol | The chemical composition of the electronic cigarette aerosol varies across and within manufacturers. Limited data exists regarding their chemistry. However, researchers at Johns Hopkins University analyzed the vape clouds of popular brands such as Juul and Vuse, and found "nearly 2,000 chemicals, the vast majority of which are unidentified."
The aerosol of e-cigarettes is generated when the e-liquid comes in contact with a coil heated to a temperature of roughly within a chamber, which is thought to cause pyrolysis of the e-liquid and could also lead to decomposition of other liquid ingredients. The aerosol (mist) produced by an e-cigarette is commonly but inaccurately called vapor. E-cigarettes simulate the action of smoking, but without tobacco combustion. The e-cigarette aerosol looks like cigarette smoke to some extent. E-cigarettes do not produce aerosol between puffs. The e-cigarette aerosol usually contains propylene glycol, glycerin, nicotine, flavors, aroma transporters, and other substances. The levels of nicotine, tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs), aldehydes, metals, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), flavors, and tobacco alkaloids in e-cigarette aerosols vary greatly. The yield of chemicals found in the e-cigarette aerosol varies depending on, several factors, including the e-liquid contents, puffing rate, and the battery voltage.
Metal parts of e-cigarettes in contact with the e-liquid can contaminate it with metals. Heavy metals and metal nanoparticles have been found in tiny amounts in the e-cigarette aerosol. Once aerosolized, the ingredients in the e-liquid go through chemical reactions that form new compounds not previously found in the liquid. Many chemicals, including carbonyl compounds such as formaldehyde, can inadvertently be produced when the nichrome wire (heating element) that touches the e-liquid is heated and chemically reacted with the liquid. Propylene glycol-containing liquids produced the most amounts of carbonyls in e-cigarette vapors, while in 2014 most e-cigarettes companies began using water and glycerin instead of propylene glycol for vapor production.
Propylene glycol and glycerin are oxidized to create aldehydes that are also found in cigarette smoke when e-liquids are heated and aerosolized at a voltage higher than 3 V. Depending on the heating temperature, the carcinogens in the e-cigarette aerosol may surpass the levels of cigarette smoke. Reduced voltage e-cigarettes generate very low levels of formaldehyde. A Public Health England (PHE) report found "At normal settings, there was no or negligible formaldehyde release." However, this statement was contradicted by other researchers in a 2018 study. E-cigarettes can emit formaldehyde at high levels (between five and 15 times higher than what is reported for cigarette smoke) at moderate temperatures and under conditions that have been reported to be non-averse to users. As e-cigarette engineering evolves, the later-generation and "hotter" devices co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Integrity%20Protection | System Integrity Protection (SIP, sometimes referred to as rootless) is a security feature of Apple's macOS operating system introduced in OS X El Capitan (2015) (OS X 10.11). It comprises a number of mechanisms that are enforced by the kernel. A centerpiece is the protection of system-owned files and directories against modifications by processes without a specific "entitlement", even when executed by the root user or a user with root privileges (sudo).
Apple says that the root user can be a significant risk factor to the system's security, especially on systems with a single user account on which that user is also the administrator. SIP is enabled by default, but can be disabled.
Justification
Apple says that System Integrity Protection is a necessary step to ensure a high level of security. In one of the WWDC developer sessions, Apple engineer Pierre-Olivier Martel described unrestricted root access as one of the remaining weaknesses of the system, saying that "[any] piece of malware is one password or vulnerability away from taking full control of the device". He stated that most installations of macOS have only one user account that necessarily carries administrative credentials with it, which means that most users can grant root access to any program that asks for it. Whenever a user on such a system is prompted and enters their account password – which Martel says is often weak or non-existent – the security of the entire system is potentially compromised. Restricting the power of root is not unprecedented on macOS. For instance, versions of macOS prior to Mac OS X Leopard enforce of securelevel, a security feature that originates in BSD and its derivatives upon which macOS is partially based.
Functions
System Integrity Protection comprises the following mechanisms:
Protection of contents and file-system permissions of system files and directories;
Protection of processes against code injection, runtime attachment (like debugging) and DTrace;
Protection against unsigned kernel extensions ("kexts").
System Integrity Protection protects system files and directories that are flagged for protection. This happens either by adding an extended file attribute to a file or directory, by adding the file or directory to or both. Among the protected directories are: , , , (but not ). The symbolic links from , and to , and are also protected, although the target directories are not themselves protected. Most preinstalled Apple applications in are protected as well. The kernel, XNU, stops all processes without specific entitlements from modifying the permissions and contents of flagged files and directories and also prevents code injection, runtime attachment and DTrace with respect to protected executables.
Since OS X Yosemite, kernel extensions, such as drivers, have to be code-signed with a particular Apple entitlement. Developers have to request a developer ID with such an entitlement from Apple. The kernel refuses to boot if unsi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khushboo%20Bangla | Khushboo Bangla is an Indian cable entertainment company based in New Delhi. It airs programming in the Bangla language. The channel is also available in various areas of India. It started to broadcast on 14 October 2017 as the Bangla language cable channel in India. The channel mostly airs content intended for family and coming-of-age generations. Its main audience attraction is Bangla movies. This channel has aired a Bangladeshi television drama series which name is Crime Patrol.
Current Programming
Adventure Stories
Magical Stories
Bangla Golpo
Chacha Bhatija
Husir Khazhana
Fun Time
Formar Show
Crime Watch
Funcho
Mowgli
Bangla Comedy
Fun Unlimited
References
Manoranjan Group
Bengali-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2017
Television stations in Kolkata
2017 establishments in Delhi
Movie channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dum%20TV%20Kannada | Dum TV Kannada is a Kannada 24x7 Entertainment channel. It was owned by Enterr10 Television Network Pvt. Ltd. This channel was launched on 28 September and launched by the brand ambassador and Kannada Film Actress Hariprriya. This channel broadcast Kannada movies and Kannada shows that were dubbed from their own sister channel Dangal and some shows were taken from Sony Sab and Sony Entertainment Television.
Former shows
Beladingala Bale
Ramayana
Sai Baba
Nagavalli
Shani Ninna Mahime
Paramatma
Tenali Rama
Sindhu
Crime Alert
References
External links
Official facebook page of Dum TV Kannada
Kannada-language television
Defunct television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2020
Kannada-language television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Lane%20Price | Jordan Lane Price is an American actress, singer and model. She is best known for her portrayal of Celia Fitzgerald in The Online Network reboot of soap opera drama series All My Children.
Early life
When Price was eight years old, she began musical theater, which eventually led her to start working in professional theater. She studied philosophy in college.
Career
Price portrayed Celia Fitzgerald in The Online Network reboot of soap opera drama series All My Children. It was originally reported Price was cast in the role of an aged Miranda Montgomery, however she would portray a new character of Celia Fitzgerald, and that the role of Miranda would be played by Denyse Tontz. Price first appeared in the contract role when the series premiered on April 29, 2013. Her performance as the character were well received by critics.
Her debut extended play (EP), Sponge will be released on June 30 from Innit Recordings. It was composed entirely by singer-songwriter and producer James Levy, mixed at The Rumpus Room and mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound. The lead single, "These Days" was positively received by critics as a "timeless piece of pop perfect" while also pointing out the "60s-inspired vibe and Price's fuzzed out vocals add to the track's winsome, retro feel". The second single, title track "Sponge", was also positively received by critics as a "tune resplendent in beats to march to and Lane Price's honeyed tones layered and lightly reverbed".
Filmography
Discography
Extended plays
Sponge (2015)
References
External links
1989 births
Living people
American female models
American soap opera actresses
People from Los Angeles
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highways%20in%20Albania | The Highways in Albania are the central state and main transport network in Albania. The motorways and expressways are both part of the national road network. The motorways are primary roads with a speed limit of . They have white on green road signs such as in Italy and other countries nearby. The expressways are the secondary roads, also dual carriageways, but without an emergency lane. They have a speed limit of . They have white on blue road signs.
The A1 is the country's longest and only toll highway connecting the port city of Durrës on the Adriatic Sea in the west as well as the capital of Tirana in the center, with the Republic of Kosovo in the northeast. The A3 is the second longest motorway and connects Tirana with the Pan-European Corridor VIII, running from Durrës on the Adriatic Sea to Varna on the Black Sea. The A2 is the third longest motorway and represent a significant north-south corridor within the country and the Adriatic-Ionian motorway.
The country is a member of the Pan-European Corridor system. The Pan-European Corridor VIII pass through the country and starts at Durrës on the Adriatic Sea in the west continuing across the Republic of North Macedonia and Bulgaria and ends at Varna at the Black Sea in the east.
The country signed the European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries in 2006. The following European routes are currently defined to end at, or near, the border of Albania such as the E86, E762, E851, E852, E853.
History
Since antiquity, the area of Albania served as an important crossroad within the Roman Empire through the Via Pubblica and Via Egnatia. The former passed through northern Albania, while the latter linked Rome with Byzantium, through Durres on the Adriatic Sea. During World War I, occupying forces opened up new road sections mainly in the mountainous areas of the country. In King Zog's period, further road construction took place near Vlora and at Krraba Pass between Tirana and Elbasan.
The total length of Albania's roads more than doubled in the first three decades after World War II, and by the 1980s almost all of the country's remote mountain areas were connected, either by dirt or paved roads, with the capital city of Tirana, and ports on the Adriatic and Ionian Sea. Private car ownership was not allowed and the only vehicles circulating were state-owned trucks, agricultural and official's vehicles, buses, motorcycles, and bicycles. The country's roads, however, were generally narrow, poorly marked, pocked with holes, and in the early 1990s often crowded with pedestrians and people riding mules, bicycles, and horse-drawn carts.
The largest road project in the history of Albania was the construction of the A1 dual carriageway from 2007 to 2010, linking Albania with Kosovo. The segment involved the carving of a mountainous terrain, and the construction of a 5.6 km long tunnel and dozens of bridges. In 2010, Prime Minister Sali Berisha announced plans to build several major highwa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectra%20AI | Vectra AI, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in AI applied to network detection and response (NDR) solutions. Established in 2012, Vectra AI now operates in 113 countries from its headquarters in San Jose, California.
History
Vectra AI, formerly known as TraceVector, was founded in 2008 by a group of 4 cybersecurity professionals. Its mission was to offer security professionals an automated intrusion detection system that could address the escalating and sophisticated cyber-attacks which had increased dramatically in recent years.
In March 2015, Vectra launched the S-series sensor, announced record bookings growth of nearly 400 percent in 2015 over 2014 and expanded its business into EMEA.
Product
Vectra AI employs artificial intelligence techniques, including supervised (pre-trained), unsupervised machine learning and deep learning techniques, to detect and respond to in-progress cyberattacks in real time.
The product's algorithms continuously learn the behavioral norms of devices, user accounts, ports and protocols to identify signs of compromise across enterprise infrastructure. Threats are automatically triaged, scored and correlated to compromised hosts, and attack behaviors are correlated across hosts to provide the “narrative” of developing attacks. These threats are prioritized, while alerting and remediation actions are taken with other security technologies.
Investors
Vectra AI has secured investments from a diverse group of investors, including Khosla Ventures, IA Ventures, Accel Partners, Atlantic Bridge, Wipro Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Intel Capital, DAG Ventures, Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Junos Innovation Fund (Juniper), Nissho Electronics, Silver Lake, TCV, and Blackstone.
Funding
Vectra AI raised a total of $350 million in funding and is considered a Unicorn with its $1.2 billion valuation.
References
Further reading
Companies based in San Jose, California
American companies established in 2012
Computer security companies
Networking companies of the United States
AI companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20Zave | Pamela Zave (born 1948) is an American computer scientist now working at Princeton University. She is known for her work on requirements engineering, telecommunication services, and protocol modeling and verification, and is now working on network architecture. She was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2002, and was the 2017 recipient of the Harlan D. Mills Award from the IEEE Computer Society.
Education and career
Zave graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in English, in 1970. She earned her doctorate in computer science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1976, under the name Pamela Zave Smith; her thesis, "Functional equivalence of parallel processes", was supervised by Donald R. Fitzwater. She taught at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1975 to 1981, and then joined Bell Labs (which was then part of AT&T). She remained in the AT&T part of the Labs through the two corporate splits that formed Bellcore in 1984 and Lucent in 1996, and
continued working at AT&T Labs Research through 2017. Since then she has been a research associate at Princeton University.
Awards and honors
In 2017 Zave received the Harlan D. Mills Award from the IEEE Computer Society "for groundbreaking use of formal methods in the development of telecommunication software and for enduring contributions to software engineering theory."
In 2002 Zave was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for encouraging the use of formal methods in the development of telecommunication software through influential research, tool development, large case studies, and professional education." She was also selected as an AT&T Fellow in 2009.
Research on requirements engineering
In collaboration with Michael A. Jackson, Zave created the set of definitions and reasoning obligations that have become known as the standard model for requirements engineering. The model is most fully explained in the paper "Four dark corners of requirements engineering." Earlier papers on this work won the Ten-Year Most Influential Paper Award from three conferences: 11th International Requirements Engineering Symposium (2003), 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (2005), and 18th IEEE Conference on Requirements Engineering (2010).
Research on telecommunication services
Distributed Feature Composition (DFC) is a modular architecture for telecommunication services, designed to provide structured feature composition and easy management of feature interactions. DFC was invented by Zave and Michael Jackson beginning in 1997.
An implementation of DFC was used to build the features for CallVantage (SM), AT&T's first voice-over-IP service, which became publicly available in 2004 and served approximately 100,000 customers world-wide.
After CallVantage the DFC implementation was used to build a teleconferencing system used internally by AT&T, which for some time supported millions of user minutes each work day. DFC ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20Radio%20Network | The NBA Radio Network was the official national radio broadcaster, distributed by Public Interest Affiliates (PIA), a Chicago radio syndication company, of National Basketball Association games (more specifically, a regular season game of the week, the All-Star Game, as many as 31 playoff contests, including all of the conference finals and Finals, and even the draft and lottery) from the 1990–91 through the 1994–95 season. NBA Radio was ultimately supplanted by ESPN Radio.
Commentators
Play-by-play
Marv Albert (1992 NBA All-Star Game)
Eddie Doucette (secondary play-by-play, 1990–1992)
Jim Durham (secondary play-by-play, 1992–1993)
Joe McConnell (lead play-by-play, 1990–1995)
Color commentators
Quinn Buckner (1993 NBA All-Star Game)
Bob Lanier (lead color commentator, 1991–1994, NBA Draft analyst, 1993–1994)
Frank Layden (lead color commentator, 1990–1991)
Wes Unseld (lead color commentator, 1994–1995)
Dick Versace (secondary color commentator, 1992–1995)
Sideline reporters
Chet Coppock (1990–1991)
Tom Hanneman (1991–1995)
Studio hosts
Chet Coppock (1990–1991, 1991 NBA draft host)
Tom Hanneman (1992–1995) (1992 NBA draft host)
Glenn Ordway (NBA Draft host, 1993–1995)
Studio analysts
Rick Pitino (1995 NBA draft analyst)
Bob Lanier (NBA Draft analyst, 1993–1994)
Bill Raftery (NBA Draft analyst, 1993–1995)
References
1990 radio programme debuts
1995 radio programme endings
1990s American radio programs
American sports radio programs
ESPN Radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-out%20%28software%29 | Fan-out has multiple meanings in software engineering.
Message-oriented middleware
In message-oriented middleware solutions, fan-out is a messaging pattern used to model an information exchange that implies the delivery (or spreading) of a message to one or multiple destinations possibly in parallel, and not halting the process that executes the messaging to wait for any response to that message.
Software design and quality assurance
In software construction, the fan-out of a class or method is the number of other classes used by that class or the number of other methods called by that method.
Additionally, fan-out has impact on the quality of a software.
See also
Middleware
Coupling (computer programming)
Software quality
Software metric
References
Middleware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avast%20SecureLine%20VPN | Avast SecureLine VPN is a VPN service developed by Czech cybersecurity software company Avast. It is available for Android, Microsoft Windows, macOS and iOS operating systems.
The VPN can be set to automatically turn on when the user connects to a public Wi-Fi.
Functionality
Similar to other VPNs, SecureLine works by making the user appear in a different place via changing the user's IP address, bypassing internet censorship for the country the user is in or Wi-Fi the user is using. The VPN can be set to automatically turn on when the user connects to a public Wi-Fi.
Security features of Avast SecureLine VPN include: 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard, single shared IP, DNS leak protection, kill switch, and Smart Connection Rules.
Server locations
Avast has egress servers in more than 60 cities world-wide. Servers in eight cities support P2P connections for protocols like BitTorrent and further servers are dedicated to users of streaming services.
See also
Comparison of virtual private network services
Information privacy
Internet privacy
References
External links
SecureLine VPN
Android (operating system) software
iOS software
MacOS software
Proprietary software
Virtual private network services
Windows software
Gen Digital software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmussaar%20Landscape%20Conservation%20Area | The Osmussaare landscape reserve is situated in Lääne County Noarootsi Parish on the island of Osmussaar, Estonia. Its size is 489 ha. The reserve is part of the Natura 2000 network. The reserve was created in 1996 in order to protect rare and scientifically valuable geological objects (such as bedrock outcrops, shingle deposits, and erratic boulders consisting of Neugrund breccia) and plant communities. The reserve is also important for bird migration and lies within the Nõva-Osmussaar Important Bird Area.
There are four lakes on the territory of the reserve: Kappelkärre, Krokatstaindappen, Lihlhamne, Inahamne.
Bird species under nature protection during the migration period
Pandion haliaetus, Gavia arctica, Cygnus columbianus, Circus cyaneus, Aquila pomarina, Grus grus, Sterna sandvicensis.
Other bird species
Haliaeetus albicilla, Crex crex, Podiceps grisegena, Cygnus cygnus, Sterna caspia Cepphus grylle, Columba oenas, Anthus cervinus, Calidris alpina, Anser erythropus, Larus fuscus ja Eptesicus nilssoni.
Plant species under nature protection
Cochlearia danica, Anthyllis coccinea, Ophrys insectifera, Cardamine hirsuta, Draba muralis, Hornungia petraea, Salix repens, Dactylorhiza cruenta, Herminium monorchis, Liparis loeselii, Malus sylvestris, Dactylorhiza incarnata, Epipactis atrorubens, Gymnadenia conopsea, Epipactis palustris, Listera ovata, Orchis militaris, Platanthera bifolia, Cerastium pumilum, Sagina maritima, Oxytropis pilosa, Polygonum oxyspermum.
References
Nature reserves in Estonia
Important Bird Areas of Estonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XARA | XARA is an acronym for "Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access", which describes a category of zero-day vulnerabilities in computer software systems.
Initial Disclosure
An academic research paper entitled "Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access on MAC OS X and iOS". was published on 26 May 2015 by a team of researchers from Indiana University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Georgia Institute of Technology. The paper was widely released to the public on 16 June 2015
and commented on by both mainstream and technical media outlets.
The paper identifies a number of separate categories of zero day threats to applications and stored passwords which can potentially be exploited by malware on iOS devices and OS X. The paper also discloses the existence of similar vulnerabilities on Android devices.
Response by Vendors
On 19 June 2015, Apple Computer responded to the press that they had implemented countermeasures to exclude malware containing the XARA exploit from their iOS App Store.
Attack Vectors
In XARA each attack vector violates the principles of a computer security sandbox.
Untrusted partners using shared resources such file system, keychain.
Inter-process communication without verification of partner.
Weak security policies of system installer allow other applications to be designated as shared resource bundles.
Known systems with problems
iOS from Apple Computer
OS X from Apple Computer
Android from Google
See also
Targeted attacks
Access Control
Software-defined protection
Sandbox (computer security)
Vector (malware)
References
Computer network security
Types of malware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minds%20%28social%20network%29 | Minds is an open-source and distributed social network. Users can earn money or cryptocurrency for using Minds, and tokens can be used to boost their posts or crowdfund other users. Minds has been described as more privacy-focused than mainstream social media networks. Writers in The New York Times, Engadget, and Vice have noted the volume of far-right users and content on the platform, following a trend across social media. Minds describes itself as focused on free speech, and minimally moderates the content on its platform. Its founders have said that they do not remove extremist content from the site out of a desire to deradicalize those who post it through civil discourse.
History
Minds was co-founded in 2011 by Bill Ottman and John Ottman as an alternative to social networks such as Facebook, which the founders believed abused their users via "spying, data mining, algorithm manipulation, and no revenue sharing". Other cofounders were Mark Harding, Ian Crossland, and Jack Ottman. Minds launched to the public in June 2015.
A Facebook page affiliated with the hacktivist group Anonymous encouraged its followers to support Minds in 2015, and called for developers to contribute to the service's open source codebase.
In 2018, over 150,000 Vietnamese users joined Minds after fearing that Facebook would comply with a new law requiring them to remove political dissent and release user data to the Vietnamese government. Beginning in May 2020, over 250,000 Thai users joined Minds after growing concerns about privacy on Twitter, which had been widely used for political activism. This led Minds to add Thai language support to its mobile apps, and upgrade its servers to handle the influx of traffic.
In October 2019, United States President Donald Trump invited Minds to a social media summit hosted at the White House. In January 2021, after YouTube and Facebook removed tens of thousands of Trump supporters and alleged white supremacists from their platforms in the wake of the 2021 United States Capitol attack earlier that month, Minds was among the alternative apps those users adopted.
In June 2020, Minds hosted "MINDS: Festival of Ideas" at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Appearances included Tulsi Gabbard, Daryl Davis, Tim Pool, and Cornel West.
Service
Minds is a website as well as a desktop and mobile app. The platform awards Ethereum ERC20 cryptocurrency tokens to its users based on their engagement with the site, and users spend tokens to promote their content or to crowdfund other users through monthly subscriptions. The tokens can also be bought and redeemed for standard currency. Minds offers a monthly premium subscription that gives users access to exclusive content, the ability to become verified, and the ability to remove boosted posts from their feed.
Posts on Minds appear in reverse chronological order, unlike many mainstream platforms that use more complex and often secret ranking algorithms to determine which posts appear.
Mi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto%20Igel | Ernesto Igel (27 November 1893 – 24 January 1966) was an Austrian entrepreneur and founder of the company Empresa Brasileira de Gáz a Domilicio Ltda, the first Brazilian gas distribution network of fuel for cooking equipment (LPG).
In 1938, the company changed its name to Ultragaz S.A.
Through Ultragaz's growth and the creation of new companies, Ernesto Igel founded Ultra, also known as Ultrapar.
Early life
Born to a family of merchants in Vienna, Austria, Igel was the eldest of five children. At 15, he got his first job at an import-export company. At 21, he was drafted to the Austrian army to fight in World War I. He was sent to Romania, where he served as a management assistant.
Career
After the war, Igel moved to Brazil in 1920, when he was 26 years old. He then established the company Ernesto Igel & Cia., an importer of tableware, sanitary metals, stoves and heaters for use with pipeline gas. During his trips to Europe, Igel got to work with the then-new gas bottling technology for domestic use.
On 30 August 1937, Igel founded Empresa Brasileira de Gáz a Domicílio Ltda. The following year, in September 1938, the company's IPO set the start of Ultragaz S.A. After that, the company extended its operations and began to conduct business throughout Brazil.
Personal life
Igel married Margaret Hartman, also Austrian, with whom he had two children, Pery and Daisy Igel. The businessman headed the administration of their companies until 1959, when he named his son, Pery Igel, as the new head of Ultragaz.
References
1893 births
1966 deaths
Businesspeople from Vienna
20th-century Brazilian businesspeople
Austrian expatriates in Brazil
Igel family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBGrid%20Consortium | The SBGrid Consortium is a research computing group financially supported by participating research laboratories and operated out of Harvard Medical School. SBGrid provides the global structural biology community with support for research computing. Members of the SBGrid Consortium fund SBGrid’s ongoing operations through an annual membership fee. The resulting organization is a user-supported and user-directed community resource.
SBGrid’s primary service is the collection, deployment and maintenance of a comprehensive set of software and computational tools that are useful in structural biology research. As of 2015, SBGrid curates a collection of 300 structural biology applications for installation on computers in SBGrid laboratories around the world.
SBGrid also develops a specialized research computing infrastructure for structural biologists in the Boston area.
Background
SBGrid was first created by Piotr Sliz as an in-house effort to support and maintain a few dozen X-ray crystallography in the laboratory of Stephen C. Harrison and the late Don Craig Wiley, then at Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital. After adding support for additional labs, SBGrid began charging user fees to recover operational costs in 2002. It also expanded software support to include electron microscopy (EM), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and other structural biology techniques. In response to requests from users for support for Macintosh computers, SBGrid recompiled most of its applications to run on the Mac OS X platform in 2004. By 2006, the SBGrid consortium included 37 laboratories at 14 different institutions.
SBGrid’s user-oriented community began to solidify in 2008 with its first user meeting: Quo Vadis Structural Biology (“Where is structural biology heading?”). The meeting attracted approximately 300 participants and incorporated a structural biology symposium and three workshops: scientific programming with Python; molecular visualization with Maya; and macOS programming. SBGrid held subsequent meetings in Boston (2009, 2013, 2014). In 2011 SBGrid hosted the Open Science Grid All-Hands Meeting at Harvard Medical School after having established a Virtual Organization (SBGrid VO) within the Open Science Grid (OSG) and deployed a grid computing portal in 2010. SBGrid has become one of the top OSG users (outside of high-energy physics users) and utilizes ~5,000,000 CPU hours per year.
In 2012, SBGrid launched a webinar program featuring software tutorials from a different developer each month. Recordings are publicly available on the SBGridTV YouTube channel. SBGrid team members have also published a guide to software licensing, an editorial that advocates for better disclosure of source code, and recommendations for optimizing peer review of software source code.
By 2014, SBGrid had 245 member laboratories around the world.
Membership
During the registration process, an SBGrid associate will advise new labs regarding hardware and com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amphibians%20of%20Russia | There are thirty species of amphibians recorded in Russia.
List of species
Order Caudata
Family Hynobiidae
Genus Salamandrella
Siberian salamander (Salamandrella keyserlingii)
Schrenck Siberian salamander (Salamandrella schrenckii)
Genus Onychodactylus
Fischer's clawed salamander (Onychodactylus fischeri)
Family Salamandridae
Genus Lissotriton
Smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)
Genus Ommatotriton
Southern banded newt (Ommatotriton vittatus)
Genus Triturus
Northern crested newt (Triturus cristatus)
Southern crested newt (Triturus karelinii)
Order Anura
Family Bombinatoridae
Genus Bombina
European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina)
Oriental fire-bellied toad (Bombina orientalis)
Family Pelobatidae
Genus Pelobates
Common spadefoot (Pelobates fuscus)
Eastern spadefoot (Pelobates syriacus)
Family Pelodytidae
Genus Pelodytes
Caucasian parsley frog (Pelodytes caucasicus)
Family Bufonidae
Genus Bufo
Common toad (Bufo bufo)
Caucasian toad (Bufo verrucosissimus)
Asiatic toad (Bufo gargarizans)
European green toad (Bufo viridis)
Natterjack toad (Bufo calamita)
Mongolian toad (Bufo raddei)
Family Hylidae
Genus Hyla
European tree frog (Hyla arborea)
Japanese tree frog (Hyla japonica)
Family Ranidae
Genus Rana
Common frog (Rana temporaria)
Moor frog (Rana arvalis)
Long-legged wood frog (Rana macrocnemis)
Siberian wood frog (Rana amurensis)
Dybowski's frog (Rana dybowskii)
Hokkaidō frog (Rana pirica)
Genus Pelophylax
Marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus)
Pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae)
Edible frog (Pelophylax kl. esculentus)
Dark-spotted frog (Pelophylax nigromaculatus)
References
Amphibians
Russia
Russia
Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20News%20Today | Good News Today or GNT, formerly known as Aaj Tak Tez or Tez News, is a 24-hour Hindi reality show channel owned by the TV Today Network, and a sister channel of Aaj Tak. Tez was running between 22 August 2005 and 4 September 2021. The channel has renamed to Good News Today or GNT which came from effect from 5 September 2021. GNT News TV channel now available on DD Free dish DTH, at channel number 13.
See also
List of television stations in India
References
External links
gnttv.com.
India Today Group
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Mass media in Mumbai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spree%20TV | Spree TV was an Australian free-to-air datacasting television channel mainly carrying paid programming and home shopping, launched on 17 September 2013 by Ten Network Holdings and Brand Developers.
Though datacasting was intended by the Labor government of the time to broadcast telecourses and other non-commercial content, without any legislative restriction on its use, most Australian broadcasters have utilized the datacasting services for teleshopping instead. For the most part however, the general public has ignored these datacasting teleshopping channels, resulting in their swift discontinuation. Aspire TV, a similar channel by content, met this fate a year earlier on 31 July 2021.
Spree TV first aired on channel 15, before moving to channel 17 on 16 September 2020 to prepare for the launch of 10 Shake on 27 September 2020. It closed on 12 August 2022. A similarly formatted teleshopping network titled Gecko launched on its space on 18 September 2022.
See also
List of digital television channels in Australia
References
Network 10
Digital terrestrial television in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2013
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2022
English-language television stations in Australia
2013 establishments in Australia
2022 disestablishments in Australia
Home shopping television stations in Australia
Defunct television channels in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th%20Golden%20Melody%20Awards | The 26th Golden Melody Awards () ceremony for popular music category was held on June 27, 2015. The TTV network broadcast the show live from the Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan. The ceremony recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, which runs from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014.
Winners and nominees
Winners are highlighted in boldface.
Vocal category – Record label awards
Song of the Year
"Island's Sunrise (Original Version Re-mixed)" (from Island's Sunrise) – Fire EX.
"Missing" (from Missing) – Lala Hsu
"The Rest of Time" (from Wake Up Dreaming) – Jacky Cheung
"Faces of Paranoia" (from Faces of Paranoia) – aMEI, Soft Lipa
"Play" (from Play) – Jolin Tsai
Best Mandarin Album
Play – Jolin Tsai Missing – Lala Hsu
Wake Up Dreaming – Jacky Cheung
Rice & Shine – Eason Chan
Aiyo, Not Bad – Jay Chou
Departures – Karen Mok
Best Hokkien Album
The Most Beautiful Flower – Ricky Hsiao Timeless Sentence – Chthonic
The Tenth Album – New Formosa Band
Ye Shou – Hsieh Ming-yu
Polaris – Chan Ya-wen
Best Hakka Album
The Songs of Mountain Are All on the One Road – Ayugo Huang Daylight – Huang Wei-jie
Curving Roads – Huang Pei-shu
On the Road – Misa
Moments of Love – Sinco Chiu
Best Aboriginal Album
Polynesia – Chalaw Pasiwali Hosa – Hosa
Wild Boxing – Boxing
Ocean, Forest – Suming
Ima Lalu Su – Inka Mbing & Her Young Atayal Friends
Best Music Video
Shockley Huang – "Nebulous" (from You Lovely Bastard) Li Bo-en – "Selfie Addict" (from XXXIII)
Muh Chen – "Play" (from Play)
Hou Chi-jan – "We're All Different, Yet the Same" (from Play)
Teng Yung-shing, Xi Ran – "In a Flash" (from In a Flash)
Vocal category – Individual awards
Best Composition
William Wei – "Wolves" (from Journey Into The Night) Europa Huang – "Missing" (from Missing)
Li Ronghao – "King of Comedy" (from Li Ronghao)
JJ Lin – "Listen Up" (from Rice & Shine)
Chang Shilei – "Departures" (from Departures)
Best Lyrics
Francis Lee – "Departures" (from Departures) Hush – "Missing" (from Missing)
Wyman Wong – "King of Comedy" (from Li Ronghao)
Lin Xi – "Listen Up" (from Rice & Shine)
Lin Xi – "It's All Good" (from Departures)
Best Music Arrangement
Buddha Jump – "Let You See" (from Let You See) Chen Chien-chi – "Missing" (from Missing)
Lawrence Ku – "Touching Hearts" (from To the Top)
Pessi Levanto – "Forgotten Times" (from Midnight Cinema)
Starr Chen, Nese Ni – "Play" (from Play)
Producer of the Year, Album
Arai Soichiro – Departures
Ayugo Huang – The Songs of Mountain Are All on the One Road
Joanna Wang, Pessi Levanto – Midnight Cinema
Chen Chien-chi – You Lovely Bastard
Jay Chou – Aiyo, Not Bad
Producer of the Year, Single
Xiao An – "Lip Reading" (from Play)
JJ Lin – "Listen Up" (from Rice & Shine)
Stefanie Sun – "Kepler" (from Kepler)
Xiao An – "Sophisticated Game" (from Grown Love)
Starr Chen – "Play" (from Play)
Best Mandarin Male Singer
Eason Chan – Rice & Shine''
Jacky Ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Kingdom%3A%20Let%27s%20Go%20Ape | Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape (), also titled Evolution Man and Why I Did (Not) Eat My Father, is a 2015 computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Jamel Debbouze in collaboration with producer Fred Fougea. The film is based on the 1960 novel The Evolution Man by Roy Lewis from an original screenplay by Fred Fougea and Jean-Luc Fromental.
An English dub of the film was made, but was cut 22 minutes shorter for its dark tones towards children.
Voice cast
Jamel Debbouze and Ben Bishop (English dub) as Édouard.
Mélissa Theuriau and Sohm Kapila (English dub) as Lucie.
Arié Elmaleh and Ray Gillon (English dub) as Ian.
Patrice Thibaud and Wayne Forester (English dub Vladimir) as Vladimir / and Geoff Searle (English dub Sergey) Sergey.
Christian Hecq and Ray Gillon (English dub) as Siméon.
Youssef Hajdi and Ray Gillon (English dub) as Marcel.
Adrien Antoine and Ben Bishop (English dub) as Vania.
Diouc Koma as Vania. (motion-capture)
Johanna Hilaire and Julia Boecker (English dub) as Gudule.
Dorothée Pousséo and Melanie Cooper (English dub) as Myrtille.
Dominique Magloire and Georgina Lamb (English dub) as Mamacita.
Enzo Ratsito and Beau Thomas (English dub) as Diego.
Charlotte des Georges and Melanie Cooper (English dub Fleura) as Fleura / and Anjella Mackintosh as (English dub Victoire) as Victoire.
Nathalie Homs and Georgina Lamb (English dub) as The Witch.
Georgette Kala-Lobé as The Witch. (motion-capture)
Cyril Casmèze and Jack Cooke (English dub) as Hubert.
Dominique Magloire and Georgina Lamb (English dub) as Mamacita.
D'Jal and Tracey Ayer (English dub) as The Prehistoric Portuguese.
Reception
Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape received positive reviews in France, while the movie had negative reviews internationally for its uncanny valley appearances, some critics considered the film as it copied elements from The Lion King and The Croods. It earned a 4.9 on IMDb.
References
External links
2015 films
2015 3D films
2015 comedy films
2015 computer-animated films
2010s French animated films
2010s children's adventure films
2010s children's comedy films
2010s children's animated films
2010s adventure comedy films
2010s French-language films
2010s Italian-language films
Belgian animated films
Belgian children's films
Belgian adventure films
Belgian comedy films
Chinese 3D films
Chinese computer-animated films
Chinese children's films
Chinese adventure comedy films
French 3D films
French computer-animated films
French children's adventure films
French children's comedy films
French adventure comedy films
Italian 3D films
Italian animated feature films
Italian children's films
Italian adventure comedy films
Jungle adventure films
Animated adventure films
3D animated films
Chinese-language films
Animated films based on British novels
Animated films about cavemen
Animated films about gorillas
Animated films set in Africa
Animated films set in the Stone Age
Animated films set in jungles
Pathé films
French animated comedy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Kong | is a 26-episode 1960 Japanese television series (told in two thirteen episode chapters) produced by Nisan Productions. It aired on the Fuji Television network every Sunday from April 3 to September 25. The series was about a giant dinosaurian robot created by the Z-Gang to conquer Japan. The show is notable in that it was the first Japanese television series about a kaiju.
Overview
The series was broken into 2 episode arcs that ran 13 half hour episodes each and aired every Sunday morning from 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM. The first arc was titled Monster Marine Kong (かいじゅうマリンコング) while the second arc was titled Marine Kong Strikes Back (「マリンコングの大逆襲」).
In the series a huge reptilian monster dubbed "Marine Kong", standing tall, rises out of the Ocean and attacks Hiratsuka. When Dr. Yada a renowned scientist, does research, he realizes the creature is giving off radio waves thus discovering that it is not an organic monster but a robot. The robot was built and is being controlled by the villainous Z-Gang, a cartel of criminals out to conquer Japan. Eventually the Z-Gang's plans are thwarted by a jamming radio wave invented by Dr. Yada and the creature is blown up. In the second arc, the Z-Gang builds a new more powerful version of Marine Kong, but Dr. Yada is able to take over the control waves of the robot and reconfigure it. He then reprograms the robot to follow the instructions of his son, Kazuo. Marine Kong is then sent against the Z-Gang to thwart their plans of Global domination.
Production
In 1959, Nisan Productions planned on producing a series called "Great Seabeast Gebora"(大海獣ゲボラ). The series would feature a gigantic starfish monster as the main character. This series was planned for the TBS network. An outline for this series was published in the September 1959 issue of Boy Pictorial Magazine. Shin-Toho were hired to produce the special effects and six episodes were scripted before it was ultimately canceled.
The following year in 1960, Nisan decided on producing another show featuring a marine-based kaiju this time for Fuji TV, which would become Marine Kong.
This new series took influence from kaiju films, King Kong, Moonlight Mask and Tetsujin 28-go. King Kong was the inspiration for the name. When Gebora the "Marine Mammal" became the kaiju "Marine Kong", publicity materials stated "King Kong comes from the setting of a jungle, Marine Kong comes from the setting of the sea". The Kaiju influence and the monster being Dinosaurian in appearance came from the Kaiju films from Toho. In 1954 Toho studios produced the first Kaiju movie in Japan called Godzilla. In 1955, they produced a sequel, while in 1956 and 1958 they produced both Rodan and Varan respectively. These early Kaiju films were very popular and convinced Nisan Productions that the idea of a Kaiju starring in a serialized television series could be successful. While this was not the first time a Kaiju appeared on Japanese television (in 1958 a huge ape called Mammoth Kong appea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADu%20saga | Maríu saga is an Old Norse-Icelandic biography of the Virgin Mary. Because of the wide range of sources used by its compiler and the way theological commentary has been interspersed with biography, the work is considered "unique within the continental medieval tradition on Mary's life."
The earliest manuscripts of the work are from the second half of the thirteenth century. The saga is anonymous, but has been attributed to Kygri-Björn Hjaltason. This is informed by a reference in Arngrímr Brandsson's version of Guðmundar saga biskups that the cleric Kygri-Björn wrote a Maríu saga. While this does not mean that he was the author of the surviving saga, in the absence of any other medieval life of Mary, Kygri-Björn is the most plausible candidate for authoring the saga.
The text is unusual in the way that it mixes biography with theological commentary. The life of Mary is based on the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (Liber de ortu beatae Mariae et infantia salvatoris) and the derived work de nativitate Mariae. It also uses the canonical gospels of Matthew and Luke, the Trinubium Annae (though only in Stock. Perg. 4to 11) and Books 16 and 17 of Flavius Josephus' Antiquitates Judaicae. In addition to these, the text makes use of Old and New Testament authors and Jerome, Gregory the Great, St Augustine and John Chrysostom. Many of its sources have yet to be identified.
Maríu saga was edited in the nineteenth century by Carl Richard Unger. His two volume edition includes numerous stories of miracles attributed to Mary in addition to versions of the saga itself. The manuscript tradition includes texts of the saga alone, texts of the miracles without the saga, and texts with both miracles and saga.
Bibliography
A comprehensive bibliography can be found in Wolf's The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose.
Manuscripts
The text of Maríu saga survives in twenty manuscripts. Complete copies of the text are indicated below in bold.
AM 232 fol.
AM 233a fol.
AM 234 fol.
AM 235 fol.
AM 240 fol. I
AM 240 fol. II
AM 240 fol. IX
AM 240 fol. X
AM 240 fol. XI
AM 240 fol. XIII
AM 240 fol. XIV
AM 633 4to
AM 634 4to
AM 635 4to
AM 656 4to I
NRA 78
NRA 79
Stock. Perg. 4to no. 1
Stock. Perg. 4to no. 11
Stock. Perg. 8vo no. 5
Editions
(Modern Icelandic edition)
(Link is to Vol. 1. Vol. 2 here.)
References
Old Norse prose
Medieval literature
Sagas of saints |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramwaje%20Szczeci%C5%84skie | The Tramwaje Szczecińskie (Polish for Szczecin Trams) is a tram transport company of Szczecin, the capital city of West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It manages the city's tram network. Company was established on 1 January 2009, as a result of transforming previous company, MZK Szczecin.
The company deals with:
serving tram transport within the borders of city Szczecin.
leading repairs, maintenance and modernisation of tram vehicles and other devices and equipment.
managing entrusted property
Tram vehicles
The company currently possesses following types of trams:
Low-floor rolling stock can be found on the lines : 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12.
References
Sources
official website of Tramwaje Szczecińskie
http://www.mkm.szczecin.pl/
Transport in Szczecin
Companies based in Szczecin
Polish Limited Liability Companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Civil%20Rights%20Initiative | The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) is a non-profit organization founded by Holly Jacobs in 2012. The organization offers services to victims of cybercrimes through its crisis helpline. They have compiled resources to help victims of cybercrimes both in America and internationally. CCRI's resources include a list of frequently asked questions, an online image removal guide, a roster of attorneys who may be able to offer low-cost or pro-bono legal assistance, and a list of laws related to nonconsensual pornography and related issues. CCRI publishes reports on nonconsensual pornography, engages in advocacy work, and contributes to updating tech policy. CCRI offers expert advice to tech industry leaders such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google regarding their policies against nonconsensual pornography. CCRI is the lead educator in the United States on subject matter related to nonconsensual pornography, recorded sexual assault, and sextortion.
Leadership
Holly Jacobs is the founder and a board member. Previously, she served as CCRI's President and Executive Director.
Mary Anne Franks is CCRI's President, Legislative and Tech Policy Director. She is a law professor at the University of Miami School of Law and an expert in First Amendment law, Second Amendment law, privacy, cyberlaw, and criminal law and procedure. Franks drafted the first model criminal statute on nonconsensual pornography, which has been used as a template by many states as well as for pending federal legislation. She is also the author of The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech (Stanford Press, 2019).
Danielle Citron is CCRI's Vice President and Secretary. She teaches law at the University of Virginia School of Law. She is an expert in information privacy, free expression, and civil rights law. In 2019, she was named a Mac Arthur Fellow for her work on sexual privacy and cyberstalking. She is the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (Harvard University Press). Citron and Franks have co-authored a piece titled Criminalizing Revenge Porn in the Wake Forest Law Review, which was the first law review article to take on the topic and its challenges.
Hany Farid is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and the School of Information. Dr. Farid brings to CCRI his expertise in misinformation and digital forensics.
Ari Ezra Waldman is a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University School of Law. His work focuses on asymmetrical power relations rooted in law and technology. His expertise focuses on privacy, online harassment, free speech and the LGBTQ community. Prof. Waldman is the author of Privacy As Trust: Information Privacy for an Information Age (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Inside the Information Industry (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021). In 2020, Prof. Waldman was also named one of 2020's Top Fifty Thinkers by Prospe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%20Women%27s%20Network | Israel Women's Network (IWN) (, ) is a feminist non-partisan civil society organization founded in Jerusalem in 1984. IWN's mission is to advance the status of women in Israel by promoting equality through a range of projects and methods.
Background
IWN was founded in 1984 as a result of a conference held in Jerusalem by the Jewish-American Congress. The four-day conference, headed by Betty Friedan, was titled "Woman as Jew, Jew as Woman: An Urgent Inquiry." The participants compiled a list of demands for legislative changes which would improve the social and political standing of women in Israel and the American Jewish diaspora. These demands were successfully presented to the heads of the Labor Party and the Likud Party, thus initiating the formation of a non-partisan organization that would focus on advancing the status of women through education, legislation and advocacy. Alice Shalvi, one of the founders of the IWN, was chairperson of the organization. The founders heldng public meetings across Israel to raise awareness about women's issues and to determine the primary obstacles concerning Israel's female population. These meetings attracted large audiences, and shed light on issues of which very few women at the time were aware. These topics included: women's health, equality in the workplace and equal opportunity, the portrayal of women in the media, lack of representation in the government, and women's status in the rabbinical courts and in family law in general.
Origin
IWN gained recognition as Israel's major advocacy group for women's rights. Meetings with Knesset members to establish collaboration on women's issues became a common occurrence, which led to the unprecedented authoring of new legislation regarding women passed by Knesset, such as the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law and the Prevention of Family Violence Law. Additionally, IWN promoted and succeeded in establishing the parliamentary Committee for the Advancement of Women as an official Knesset committee.
IWN's offices are located in Ramat Gan.
Goals
Israel Women's Network targets change on a national policy level as well as on a grassroots level. IWN seeks to achieve long-term systematic change regarding women's rights in Israel. Aside from its legislative and advocacy work, the organization is engages in legal representation of women regarding pay equity, women's protective labor law enforcement and sexual harassment; increasing public participation and women's leadership; economic empowerment of marginalized women; and supporting at-risk girls and young women.
Accomplishments
In 1987 IWN hosted a one-week International Conference of Women Writers, attended by approximately 60 authors from around the world. Participants debated the existence of a distinct genre identified as "women’s writing," and the perceived distinction between male and female literary styles.
Also in 1987, IWN assisted Leah Shakdiel in becoming the first woman to serve on a religious |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Lister%20%28computer%20science%20researcher%29 | Raymond Lister (born 1959) is an Australian computer scientist and researcher on computer science education research. He was born in Casino, New South Wales and has spent most of his life in Sydney, NSW Australia. During his research and academic career he has specialised in understanding the learning and teaching of computer programming and is an associate professor at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Lister is an ALTC Associate Fellow.
Conference Keynote Addresses
Toward a Developmental Epistemology of Computer Programming (WiPSCE keynote)
External links
UTS Profile
References
Australian computer scientists
1959 births
Living people
People from Casino, New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Inc. | HP Inc. is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that develops personal computers (PCs), printers and related supplies, as well as 3D printing solutions. It was formed on November 1, 2015, as the legal successor of the original Hewlett-Packard after the company's enterprise product and business services divisions were spun off as a new publicly traded company, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
HP is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the S&P 500 Index. It is the world's 2nd largest personal computer vendor by unit sales as of January 2021, after Lenovo. In the 2023 Fortune 500 list, HP is ranked 63rd largest United States corporation by total revenue.
History
Hewlett-Packard was founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, who both graduated with degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1935. The company started off in the HP Garage in Palo Alto, California. On November 1, 2015, Hewlett-Packard was split into two companies. Its personal computer and printer businesses became HP Inc., while its enterprise business became Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The split was structured so that Hewlett-Packard changed its name to HP Inc. and spun off Hewlett-Packard-Packard Enterprise as a new publicly traded company. HP Inc. retains Hewlett-Packard's pre-2015 stock price history and its former stock ticker symbol, HPQ, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise trades under its own symbol, HPE.
As HP Inc.
In May 2016, HP introduced a new PC gaming sub-brand known as Omen (reusing trademarks associated with VoodooPC), including gaming laptops and desktops (with the latter offering options such as CPU water cooling and Nvidia's GTX 1080 graphics, and promoted as VR-ready), and other accessories (such as monitors) designed to cater to the market.
In November 2017, HP acquired Samsung Electronics' printer division for $1.05 billion.
In February 2021, HP announced its acquisition of Kingston's gaming division HyperX for $425 million. The deal only includes computer peripherals branded as HyperX, not memory or storage.
The sale was completed in June 2021.
In February 2022, HP announced it had acquired the Edinburgh-based packaging development company, Choose Packaging, in an effort to strengthen its capabilities in the sustainable packaging vertical.
In March 2022, HP announced the acquisition of the California-headquartered communications software and hardware provider Poly Inc. in an all-cash transaction. HP said the cash amount agreed was $40 per share, which implied a total enterprise value of $3.3bn, inclusive Poly's net debts.
Attempted merger with Xerox
On November 5, 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported that print and digital document company Xerox was contemplating acquiring HP. The company unanimously rejected two unsolicited offers, including a cash-and-stock offer at $22 per-share. HP stated that there was "uncertainty regarding Xerox’s ability |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RU.TV | RU.TV is a Russian music TV channel founded by Sergey Kozhevnikov and owned by Russian Media Group. It started broadcasting in October 2006 as the video version of Russkoye Radio.
Programming
In January 2017 RU.TV switched to the 16:9 format and began broadcasting in HDTV.
Broadcast
In several Russian cities—Derbent, Domodedovo, Kaspiysk, Kyzyl, Perm, Simferopol and Makhachkala—RU.TV is on broadcast analog frequencies. Since the channel was carrying commercials before they were banned on broadcast television at the beginning of 2015, it is allowed to continue doing so.
Cable
In Russia RU.TV is carried by ER-Telecom. When it went live in 2009 it was carried on Akado; a year later it moved to National Cable Networks. In Moscow this put RU.TV on Mostelekom; later in 2010 it became available online.
Satellite
RU.TV is freely available on the Yamal 201 and ABS-2A satellites.
Network partners
RU.TV partners with Labytnangi-TV in that city, PTK-Avto in Perm and MTV POBEGAILO in Slavgorod.
References
Television channels in Russia
Music television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2006
2006 establishments in Russia
Music organizations based in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20online%20database%20creator%20apps | This list of online database creator apps lists notable web apps where end users with minimal database administration expertise can create online databases to share with team members.
Users need not have the coding skills to manage the solution stack themselves, because the web app already provides this predefined functionality. Such online database creator apps serve the gap between IT professionals (who can manage such a stack themselves) and people who would not create databases at all anyway. In other words, they provide a low-code way of doing database administration. As the concept of low-code development in general continues to evolve, some of the brands that began as online database creator apps are evolving into low-code development platforms for both the databases and the custom apps that use them.
References
Web applications
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman%20Iqbal | Salman Iqbal () is a Pakistani media businessman and media mogul. He became the CEO of ARY Digital Network in 2014 after the death of Abdul Razzak Yaqoob. In addition, Iqbal is the owner of the ARY Group, that was started by his Uncle Abdul Razzak Yaqoob and publisher of the Newsweek Middle East.
He is the owner of the PSL team Karachi Kings. In 2017, he was listed among The 500 Most Influential Muslims.
Awards
References
Businesspeople from Dubai
Pakistani businesspeople
Pakistani expatriates in the United Arab Emirates
People from Karachi
Memon people
Pakistani people of Gujarati descent
Pakistan Super League franchise owners
Pakistani mass media owners
University of Houston alumni
Recipients of Sitara-i-Imtiaz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20van%20Blokland | Erik van Blokland (born 29 August 1967 in Gouda) is a Dutch typeface designer, educator and computer programmer. He is the head of the Type Media Master of Design program in Typeface Design at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in the Netherlands.
Letterror
Letterror is the name of the collaborative efforts of Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum. While studying at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, the two were introduced by the school's professor of Type Design, Gerrit Noordzij, who "knew they shared an enthusiasm for computers and programming". Their collaboration started in earnest in Berlin in 1989 around the time the duo were working for Erik Spiekermann. First they published zine, which was named Letterror, which demonstrated their experiments with generative type. That name followed their collaboration through the years.
LTR Beowolf
LTR Beowolf is a Serif-typeface which had novel programming features. Each time it was printed, code within the typeface files moved the outlines of the letters around slightly, giving it a spiky appearance. The two designers, van Blokland and Just van Rossum, discovered that PostScript 1 format typeface files contained code that they could edit directly, adding randomization points to the line positioning points that usually make up such a file.
It is thought to be the first dynamically generated typeface, which modified letterforms on the fly. It used a randomizing algorithm to generate different letter forms each time a letter was printed. The typeface "expanded the possibilities of typography", introducing Generative design to type.
It was published under the name FF Beowolf, the first typeface in the FontFont library.
The specifications of printer drivers were updated in time to curtail "aberrations", so in the end FF Beowulf stopped working. Later versions of the typeface do not include the random feature that made it famous, as current font technology does not support programming features within typefaces, for security reasons. Instead they use a feature called "contextual alternates" to swap out the basic set of letters with pre-randomized alternative letters, when certain letter combinations occur in context, from a pool of over 90.000 alternate letters.
LTR Beowolf was one of 23 typefaces in the MoMA Architecture and Design Collection's first type acquisition in 2011. Each typeface in the group was selected as a "milestone in the history of typography". The typefaces were exhibited at the Standard Deviations exhibition in March of the same year.
Trixie, Instant Types and Grunge Type
Following Beowulf, the design duo discovered that they could create previously unseen typefaces that evoked the printed look of amateur letter tools like stamps, typewriters, name tag makers and other household items. By combining a scanner, and recently available computer programs, such as image vector tracing software, Photoshop, Illustrator and early type design program Fontographer, they could create much mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint%20Airways | Mint Airways was an airline based in Madrid, Spain.
History
Mint Airways was founded on 3 June 2009 by Inter-Flights —part of the International Flights Network SA, a Spanish company with its headquarters in Madrid. It began operating charter services from Madrid-Barajas airport using a Boeing 757 aircraft.
The airline soon added another 757 to its fleet and, towards the end of 2010, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 from Swiftair was also made part of the airline, although only for a brief period.
During the first eighteen months of operation Mint Airways got wet lease contracts for Thomas Cook Airlines, Atlas Blue, Royal Air Maroc, Air Mediterranee, Axis Airways, Nouvelair, Tunisair, Blue Panorama, Air Italy and Spanair. Together with Pullmantur Air and Iberworld it also found a niche in the lucrative transport of pilgrims to Hajj from Southeast Asia.
Mint Airways began facing financial difficulties after Comtel Air —an Austrian airline with which it had a leasing contract— filed for bankruptcy in late 2011. Following a scandal in which Comtel Air flight crew asked stranded passengers to pay for the aircraft fuel, Mint Airways initiated legal action against Comtel.
Mint Airways became insolvent on 22 May 2012 —less than three years after having started— following which it ceased all operations.
Code data
ICAO Code: MIC (not current)
Fleet
2 Boeing 757-200
References
External links
Airline history; Spain
Cierra Mint Airways
El Mundo - Aviación mundial en turbulencia, 23 de Julio de 2012
Defunct airlines of Spain
Airlines established in 2009
Airlines disestablished in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-level%20design | Low-level design (LLD) is a component-level design process that follows a step-by-step refinement process. This process can be used for designing data structures, required software architecture, source code and ultimately, performance algorithms. Overall, the data organization may be defined during requirement analysis and then refined during data design work. Post-build, each component is specified in detail.
The LLD phase is the stage where the actual software components are designed.
During the detailed phase the logical and functional design is done and the design of application structure is developed during the high-level design phase.
Design phase
A design is the order of a system that connects individual components. Often, it can interact with other systems. Design is important to achieve high reliability, low cost, and good maintain-ability.
We can distinguish two types of program design phases:
Architectural or high-level design
Detailed or low-level design
Structured flow charts and HIPO diagrams typify the class of software design tools and these provide a high-level overview of a program. The advantages of such a design tool are that it yields a design specification understandable to non-programmers and provides a good pictorial display of the module dependencies.
A disadvantage is that it may be difficult for software developers to go from a graphic-oriented representation of software design to implementation. Therefore, it is necessary to provide little insight into the algorithmic structure describing procedural steps to facilitate the early stages of software development, generally using Program Design Languages (PDLs).
Purpose
The goal of LLD or a low-level design document (LLDD) is to give the internal logical design of the actual program code. Low-level design is created based on the high-level design. LLD describes the class diagrams with the methods and relations between classes and program specs. It describes the modules so that the programmer can directly code the program from the document.
A good low-level design document makes the program easy to develop when proper analysis is utilized to create a low-level design document. The code can then be developed directly from the low-level design document with minimal debugging and testing.
Other advantages include lower cost and easier maintenance..
References
Design
Software design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportVU | SportVU is a camera system that collects data 25 times per second. Its aim is to follow the ball and all players on court. SportVU provides statistics such as real-time player and ball positioning through software and statistical algorithms. Through this data, STATS presents performance metrics for players and teams to use.
STATS was first created for soccer, however it later expanded the core SportVU technology into basketball beginning with the 2010-2011 NBA season. Currently, STATS is the Official Tracking partner of the NBA. The NBA uses statistics collected by SportVU on NBA.com and NBATV as well as in arenas across the country to provide information for the audience. SportVU statistics are utilized by teams in the league for the purpose of analytics and player development. The cameras keep a digitized visual record of every game, collecting players' positions and speed.
History
2005-2010
SportVU was created in 2005 by scientists, Gal Oz and Miky Tamir, who had a background in missile tracking and advanced optical recognition. They had previously used the same science to track soccer matches in Israel.
SportVU was featured at national trade shows NAB 2007, in Las Vegas, and International Broadcasting Convention 2007, in Amsterdam. In 2008, SportVU was acquired by STATS LLC. STATS then centers SportVU efforts on basketball. During the 2009 NBA Finals in Orlando, STATS demoed their SportVU technology for NBA executives. At the start of the 2010-2011 NBA season, four teams were contracted to use SportVU, the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs.
2011-2015
SportVU converted their tracking system from delayed processing to real-time data delivery during the 2011-2012 NBA season. At the start of the 2012-2013 season, 10 teams were using SportVU.
Since the 2013-2014 NBA season, the SportVU camera system was installed in all NBA arenas. In the same year, STATS added the ICE analytics platform to organize, display and analyze SportVU data. NBA team, Toronto Raptors, shared with sports blog, Grantland, their progress with the use of SportVU's new algorithms. The Raptors Analytics Team created a graphical user interface to play video footage of the play from the X-Y coordinates.
2016-2017
In 2016, STATS and the NBA met an agreement to extend SportVU tracking data to more media outlets including ESPN, NBA on TNT, and Bleacher Report.
Beginning in the 2016-2017 season, STATS was used as France's Ligue de Football Professionnel's official data and tracking provider. STATS used SportVU to provide football data and statistics.
After NBA's adoption of SportVU tracking technology in 2013, statisticians and data scientists used tools such as machine learning to provide more complex statistics from the tracking data. At the 10th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in 2016, STATS's own Director of Data Science and his team was awarded for their contributions to a research paper on the prediction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golo%20%28programming%20language%29 | Golo is computer software, a programming language for the Java virtual machine (JVM). It is simple, with dynamic, weak typing. It was created in 2012 as part of the research activities of the DynaMid group of the Centre of Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of service (CITI) Laboratory at Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon (INSA). It is distributed as free and open-source software under the Eclipse Public License 2.0.
History
It has been built as a showcase on how to build a language runtime with invokedynamic. Golo is largely interoperable with the programming language Java and other JVM languages (e.g., numeric types are boxing classes from java.lang, and collection literals leverage java.util classes), that runs on the JVM.
In June 2015, Golo became an official Eclipse Foundation project. The project was terminated in September 2022.
Technical details
The language features have been initially designed around the abilities of invokedynamic – JSR 292 that appeared in Java SE 7. Golo uses ahead-of-time compilation of bytecode. While the bytecode remains stable over a program execution, the invokedynamic-based reconfigurable call sites support the adaptive dispatch mechanisms put in place for helping the HotSpot just-in-time compiler (JIT) to extract reasonable performance.
Publications
Baptiste Maingret, Frédéric Le Mouël, Julien Ponge, Nicolas Stouls, Jian Cia and Yannick Loiseau. Towards a Decoupled Context-Oriented Programming Language for the Internet of Things. To appear in the 7th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming hosted at ECOOP 2015. Prague, Czech Republic. July 2015.
Julien Ponge, Frédéric Le Mouël, Nicolas Stouls, Yannick Loiseau. Opportunities for a Truffle-based Golo Interpreter. Technical report arXiv:1505.06003 (cs.PL) and HAL-INRIA deposit
Julien Ponge, Frédéric Le Mouël and Nicolas Stouls. Golo, a Dynamic, Light and Efficient Language for Post-Invokedynamic JVM. In Procs. of PPPJ'13. Stuttgart, Germany. September 2013. DOI link. HAL-INRIA deposit. Slides.
See also
List of JVM languages
References
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External links
Golo at GitHub repository
Golo incubation page at Eclipse.org
Eclipse integration for Golo
Netbeans module to support Golo
Programming languages
JVM programming languages
Software using the Eclipse license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectel | Selectel Ltd. (Russian: ООО "Селектел") is a Russian provider of cloud infrastructure and data center services. It was founded in 2008, and it currently owns and operates six data centers in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Leningrad region. According to the study conducted by IKS Consulting, Selectel was the 3rd largest cloud infrastructure services provider in Russia in 2020 based on its market share (8.7%). According to the Cnews Analytics research in 2020, the company was the 3rd largest data center operator in Russia in terms of the number of commercial server racks.
History
The company was founded in 2008 by Vyacheslav Mirilashvil and Lev Binzumovich Leviev, former investors of the Russian social network VKontakte. In order to meet the growing needs of VKontakte, they registered Selectel and launched the first data center in St. Petersburg, Russia. Between 2008 and 2012, Selectel opened 5 new data centers:
Tsvetochnaya 1 in St. Petersburg
Berzarina in Moscow
Dubrovka 1, 2, 3 in the town of Nevskaya Dubrovka, outside of St. Petersburg.
Selectel's sixth and latest Tier III data center, Tsvetochnaya 2, was launched in December 2015 in St. Petersburg, right next to Tsvetochnaya 1.
In November 2015, RIPE NCC included Selectel on their list of K-root node hosts.
On October 10, 2017, Selectel announced a non-financial partnership with Russian-Singapore joint venture SONM by sharing the use of blockchain technology. The first joint products will be launched in 2018.
In 2019 the company announced the availability of its services in the Novosibirsk region of Russia, and in 2020 launched its services in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
In May 2022, Selectel announced that it is building its seventh data center Yurlovsky (the company’s second data center in Moscow).
Services
Selectel presently offers a variety of brands and services including dedicated physical and virtual server leasing, colocation services, cloud services (managed databases, object storage, Managed Kubernetes and others), and fiber-optic leasing. In 2015, Selectel released two major developments in their line of cloud-based hosting solutions: the Virtual Private Cloud and the vScale brand of cloud servers.
In 2018 Selectel launched a public cloud based on the VMware technologies. In 2021 Selectel received the status of an authorized VMware DRaaS provider which confirms that the infrastructure of Selectel’s cloud powered by VMware fully complies with the technical requirements of VMware.
Selectel is known to rarely take down malicious content or spam services hosted on its network.
Industry awards
In 2019, Selectel was announced as the winner of the National Data Center Awards (Russian: «Национальная премия ЦОДы. РФ») in the “Cloud of the Year” category.
In 2020, Selectel won the Russian Data Center Awards as the fastest-growing IaaS provider.
In 2022, Selectel was announced as the winner of the National Data Center Awards (Russian: «Национальная премия ЦОДы. РФ») in the “ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Measure%20U | IMeasureU, Ltd. (IMU) is a wearable technology company. They make inertial measurement unit that analyze body movements in sports. They combine the sensor data with computational models to model human body movement. IMeasureU has worked with Athletics Australia runners.
In July 2017, the company was acquired by Vicon, an English company specializing in motion capture, with the plan to integrate Vicon's camera systems with IMeasureU's sensors.
On 23 June 2015, IMeasureU launched an Indiegogo campaign seeking to raise US$200,000 to develop a consumer product.
See also
Running injuries
Biomechanics of sprint running
References
External links
IMeasureU
Wearable devices
Wearable computers
Activity trackers
Manufacturing companies based in Auckland
Biomechanics
Sportswear brands
Running |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Network%20Star%20%28season%2011%29 | The eleventh season of the American reality television series Food Network Star premiered June 7, 2015 on Food Network. Food Network chefs Bobby Flay and Giada de Laurentiis returned to the series as judges, with Alton Brown not returning for undisclosed reasons. This season also continued the inclusion of Star Salvation, a six-week webseries that featured the most recently eliminated contestant competing against the remaining previously eliminated contestants for a chance to re-enter the main Food Network Star competition.
This season also returned to the practice of the winner of the competition being chosen by the Food Network staff, rather than by viewers as in the three previous seasons.
Contestants
Winner
Eddie Jackson – Richardson, Texas
Runners-up
Jay Ducote – Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Dominick "Dom" Tesoriero – Staten Island, New York
Eliminated
(In order of elimination)
Christina Fitzgerald –St. Louis, Missouri
Matthew Grunwald –Scottsdale, Arizona
Sita Lewis – New York, New York
Rosa Graziano – Los Angeles, California
Rue Rusike – Brooklyn, New York
Emilia Cirker – Reston, Virginia
Michelle Karam – Santa Barbara, California (withdrew)
Dominick "Dom" Tesoriero – Staten Island, New York (Returned to competition after winning Star Salvation)
Alex McCoy – Washington D.C.
Arnold Myint – Nashville, Tennessee
Contestant progress
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition and became the next "Food Network Star".
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(WIN) The contestant won the challenge for that week.
(RETURNED) The contestant won Star Salvation and returned to the main competition.
(HIGH) The contestant was one of the selection committee's favorites for that week.
(IN) The contestant performed well enough to move on to the next week.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the selection committee's three or four least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the selection committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
(QUIT) The contestant voluntarily left the competition.
Star Salvation
This season of Star Salvation was hosted by Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli and season 7 winner Jeff Mauro.
: Having withdrawn from the competition, Michelle did not compete in Star Salvation this week.
(WIN) The chef won Star Salvation and returned to the main competition.
(IN) The chef continued in the competition.
(OUT) The chef lost in that week's Star Salvation and was eliminated from the competition.
Episodes
Week 1: Food Star Food Festival
Top 3: Jay, Eddie and Arnold
Bottom 3: Dom, Matthew and Christina
Eliminated: Christina
Week 2: Savory Baking
Top 2: Eddie and Arnold
Bottom 3: Emilia, Sita and Matthew
Eliminated: Matthew
Week 3: Trendy Dinner
Top 2: Dom and Arnold
Winner: Michelle
Bottom 3: Eddie, Rosa and Sita
Eliminated: Sita
Week 4: 4th of July Cookout
Winners: Eddie, Arnold and Alex
Bottom 3: Dom, Michelle and Rosa
Eliminated: Ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann%20%26%20Wife | Mann & Wife is an American sitcom that premiered on the digital television network Bounce TV on April 7, 2015.
The series stars real-life married couple David Mann and Tamela Mann as newlywed couple Daniel and Toni Mann, who blend their family together after getting married. Both police officer Daniel and teacher Toni have children from previous relationships; Daniel has two boys and Toni has two girls. Toni and her girls move into Daniel's house in Atlanta with Daniel, his sons, and his mother Lorraine (Jo Marie Payton). The blended family must navigate their new lives together.
Bounce TV announced the series on May 5, 2014 and the series premiered on April 7, 2015, with the first season consisting of 10 episodes. On June 16, 2015, Bounce TV renewed the series for a second season. On April 13, 2016, the show has been renewed for a third season. The show has yet to be cancelled or renewed for a fourth season.
Cast and characters
David Mann as Daniel Mann, a police officer, Terri and Tasha's stepfather, DJ and Darren's father
Tamela Mann as Toni Mann, a teacher, DJ and Darren's stepmother, Terri and Tasha's mother
Jo Marie Payton as Lorraine Mann, Daniel's mother who lives with the family; a retired schoolteacher
Tony Rock as Michael Hobbs, Daniel's new partner
Tiny Lister as Daniel's former lieutenant and boss
John Marshall Jones as Daniel's new lieutenant and boss
Steven Walsh, Jr. as Daniel "D.J." Leviticus Mann, Jr., Daniel's older son
Lauryn Kennedy Hardy as Terri, Toni's older daughter
Amir O'Neil as Darren Mann, Daniel's younger son
Jadah Marie as Tasha, Toni's younger daughter
Recurring
Vivica A. Fox as Michelle Mann, DJ and Darren's biological mother, Daniel's ex-wife
J. Anthony Brown as Lionel Mann, Daniel's brother and Toni's brother-in-law
Rolonda Watts as Shawna, choir director
Maverick White as Moenah, school teacher
Development and production
Bounce TV announced the series in May 2014 with the series set to premiere in the winter of 2015. Production began in November 2014.
Bounce TV and Bobbcat Productions were in a legal battle over the Mann's in November 2014. When co-creator Roger M. Bobb pitched the series in February 2014, Bobbcat Productions also announced a reality series featuring the couple to air on BET. Since, Bobbcat Productions has found a way to honor both series and the series premiered as scheduled on April 7, 2015.
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
Season 2 (2016)
Season 3 (2017)
Reception
Ratings
The premiere on April 7, 2015, was the most watched original programming for Bounce TV. The premiere episode garnered 0.46 million viewers, with 0.14 million in adults 18–49, and over .8 million viewers over its premiere time slots. The second episode grew to 1.3 million viewers over its time slots premieres.
References
External links
2010s American black sitcoms
2015 American television series debuts
Bounce TV original programming
English-language television shows
Married couples
Television seri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%C3%A1quez | 'Batáquez' , 'Estación Batáquez' or 'Ejido Monterrey' , is a locality Mexican of the Valley of Mexicali, in the municipality from Mexicali, Baja California. According to data from INEGI, it is located at coordinates 32 ° 32'58 north latitude and 115 ° 04'15 west longitude and had 1,121 inhabitants in 2010. Despite being a small locality, Batáquez has local importance since it is head of the municipal delegation of the same name.
The name: Batáquez Station is derived from the fact that, from the beginning until the mid-twentieth century, there was a railway station in the town called: Intercalifornias railway or "pachuco train", which was called "Batáquez". Over time, the population center of Ejido Monterrey was located next to the aforementioned station.
Batáquez is communicated mainly by the federal highway No. 2, which crosses the town from east to west, and by the state highway No. 3, which intersects in this locality with the federal No 2 and heading south, this state highway is the road that connects with Guadalupe Victoria which is the most important town in the valley area of Mexicali.
History
In 1904 the company Southern Pacific was authorized to build a railway line south of the border to complete the stretch that would connect San Diego with Yuma. This branch entered national territory by Mexicali, then went east, to Los Algodones, and from there crossed the international line again, until Yuma. This railroad was known as Intercalifornia, but it was popularly called El Chinero, because most of its users through the valley were Chinese, who moved from one ranch to another to work agricultural and populated the rural areas in greater numbers than Mexicans.
Along the way, towns were emerging at the railway stations: Pascualitos, Sesbania, Cucapá, Pólvora, Hechicera, Batáquez, Paredones and Cuervos.
References
External links
Populated places in Baja California
Boroughs of Mexicali |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Video%20Countdown | Hot Video Countdown is an upcoming daily music video series airing on The BWE Television Network. The show is hosted by Josh Skinner (On Air with Ryan Seacrest), actress Brit Sheridan (Kate, Supernatural), actor and model Sam Sarpong and Deja Riley, daughter of music legend Teddy Riley. In addition to music videos, Hot Video Countdown features musicians, actors, and other celebrities promoting their latest work in music, TV and film. Premiering January 1, 2018, performers Tahj Mowry, Tequan Richmond, and Don Benjamin have all announced they'll be on the first week.
References
External links
2015 American television series debuts
2010s American music television series
American music chart television shows
English-language television shows
Music chart shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DENIS%40Home | DENIS@home is a volunteer computing project hosted by Universidad San Jorge (Zaragoza,Spain) and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform.
The primary goal of DENIS@home is to compute large amounts of cardiac electrophysiological simulations.
Development
DENIS@home was initially released on March 20, 2015. Since then, it has been developed by a team of three people aided by four undergraduate students. All members of the development team are a part of the Computing for Medical and Biological Applications research group.
See also
List of volunteer computing projects
References
External links
Science in society
Volunteer computing projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widening%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, especially model checking and abstract interpretation, widening refers to at least two different techniques in the analysis of abstract transition systems where infinite progressions of abstract states are replaced by a (computed or guessed) least fixed point. The use of the term in model checking is closely related to acceleration techniques, some authors reserving acceleration for exact computations.
Intuition
While many computer programs can be understood in terms of machine states and transitions (see formal semantics of programming languages), their state spaces may be too large to fully represent and analyse. Modern analysis techniques therefore try to reason about abstract states, which correspond to many concrete states.
Often, the abstract states are structured in such a way that by repeatedly following the effect of program steps or by coarsening the abstraction, one obtains a chain of abstractions that is proven to terminate.
Use in Model Checking
Widening techniques and the closely related acceleration techniques are used in the forward analysis of systems in the discipline of symbolic model checking. The techniques detect cycles, i.e. sequences of abstract state transitions that could be repeated. When such a sequence can be repeated over and over, yielding new states (e.g. a variable might be incremented at every repetition), the symbolic analysis of the program will not explore all of these states in finite time. For several important families of systems such as pushdown systems, channel systems or counter systems, subclasses amenable to so-called flat acceleration have been identified for which a complete analysis procedure exists that computes the whole set of reachable states. This type of forward analysis is also related to well structured transition systems, but well-structuredness alone is not sufficient for such procedures to be complete (for example, the coverability graph of a Petri net is always finite but in general, it overapproximates the true state space).
Use in Abstract Interpretation
Cousot and Cousot
have introduced a notion of widening while defining the framework of abstract interpretation. An example for the widening of an abstract domain that appears in abstract interpretation would be replacing the upper bound of an interval by .
References
Model checking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang%20Public%20License | The Erlang Public License is a computer software license, which was applied to some older Erlang programming language source code. It is a derivative work of the Mozilla Public License, containing terms which differ from MPL, mainly in terms of jurisdiction. The license was constructed in accordance with the laws of Sweden.
Change of Apache License 2.0
On June 12, 2015, Ericsson announced at the Erlang User Conference 2015 that starting with the subsequent major release, Erlang/OTP 18.0, Erlang/OTP source code would be released under terms of the Apache License 2.0.
References
External links
Text of the Erlang Public License
Erlang Public License explained
Software licenses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Ison | Raymond L. Ison (born 3 July 1952, Bathurst, NSW, Australia) is an Australian-British cybernetician, systems scholar/scientist, and Professor of Systems at the Open University in the UK. He is currently President of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR). He was also Professor Systems for Sustainability at Monash University, and fellow at the Centre for Policy Development, and President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in the year 2014-15. He is known for his work on systems praxeology within rural development, sustainable management, systemic governance and the design and enactment of learning systems.
David Russell, a psychotherapist and psychodynamic psychologist in private practice in Sydney and Blackheath, NSW, Australia, about Ray Ison: "All of Ison's professional work has been driven by a passion to maintain a flourishing and highly interactive life-world. His writings and research have given voice to this passion by consistently exemplifying an epistemology of action: How we know what we know; how this knowledge shapes ongoing experience; and how this experience is found to be satisfying or dissatisfying. His approach has been to focus on relationships and the networks in which they are embedded, namely, the systems."
Awards
Foundation Medal, Wesley College (University of Sydney); Academician of IASCYS (International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Sciences)
Life and work
From a background in Agricultural Science (University of Sydney) including plant ecophysiology and agronomy (University of Queensland) and systems agriculture, rural development and agricultural extension (Hawkesbury & University of Sydney) Ison has established himself as a major scholar and practitioner in the field of Systems Praxeology – the science of practical action grounded in systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ison's research and scholarship spans the biophysical and social and is primarily interdisciplinary and collaborative. He has made major contributions to systemic governance, particularly in the fields of water and river catchments based on social learning realised through STiP. Many of his publications can be seen or accessed by Open Research Online.
Ison, who took up the Chair in Systems at The Open University (UK) in 1994, is only the third appointee to the Open University (OU) chair in Systems since the group was established in 1971 (the inaugural chair was John Beishon, followed by Derek Pugh). From 2008 to 2015 he was also Professor Systems for Sustainability at Monash University (School of Geography and the Monash Sustainability Institute) where he established and ran the Systemic Governance Research Program which now continues within the Applied Systems Thinking in Practice (ASTiP) group at the OU.
Ison has been returned in all UK Research Assessment Exercises (now Research Excellence Framework or REF) with the OU Development Studies group (there is no category for Systems). In 2021 this will be U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Food%20Facts | Open Food Facts is a free, online and crowdsourced database of food products from around the world licensed under the Open Database License (ODBL) while its artwork—uploaded by contributors—is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution–Share Alike license.
The project was launched on 19 May 2012 by French programmer Stéphane Gigandet during the Food Revolution Day organized by Jamie Oliver and has won the 2013 Dataconnexions Award from Etalab and the 2015 OKFN Award from Open Knowledge.
In May 2016, its database contained more than 80,000 products from 141 countries. In June 2017, thanks to the growing ecosystem of apps and open data imports from various countries, this number rose to 880,000. In October 2019 OFF passed the 1,000,000 products milestone.
By the 10th anniversary in May 2022, the database already contained 2.3 million products from 182 countries.
Overview
The project gathers information and data on food products from around the world.
For each item, the database stores its generic name, quantity, type of packaging, brand, category, manufacturing or processing locations, countries and stores where the product is sold, list of ingredients, any traces (for allergies, dietary laws or any specific diet), food additives and nutritional information. The nutritional value is calculated using the Nutri-Score.
Each contributor can add or edit food items based on the information explicitly shown on the package. As a result, the GTIN (Global Trade Item Number) embedded in the barcode on the packaging of the product (when available) is generally used as the identifier. Mobile phone applications allow for capturing photos and information that are reprocessed manually by volunteers.
Due to similar mechanisms for modification, extension, or deletion of content and structure, the project is sometimes compared to Wikipedia in the media.
Reuses
The data is reused by various projects on issues related to palm oil, sugar, and location of the producers.
The Open Food Facts app
Open Food Facts made an app for IOS and Android. With this app, it's possible for the contributors to quickly add products on the site (by photographing them and complete some product information). You can use the app to scan the barcode of food products and directly see the nutri-score and the eco-score. It's also easy to compare different food products based on their ingredients.
Open Food Fact days
The Open Food Facts days is an annual event where contributors can brainstorm. There are also a lot of workshops.
See also
Information activism
Right to know
Farm-to-table
References
External links
Open Food Facts team wiki (English)
http://blog.openfoodfacts.org/en/ (English)
Online databases
Consumer rights organizations
Food- and drink-related organizations
Creative Commons-licensed websites
Open content projects
Free-content websites
Crowdsourcing
Internet properties established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20voice%20actors | Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (in animation, video games, puppet shows, radio, audio books, amusement rides, computer programs, etc.)
This is a list of Canadian voice actors/actresses notable for their performances in Canadian, American, British or Japanese animated series.
Eligible for this list: Any Canadian in Wikipedia who has contributed in some way to the voice acting field whether they are an actor, politician, television personality or any other type of celebrity.
A
Alistair Abell (Colin MacLeod in Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, Lord Djibril in Gundam Seed Destiny)
Mark Acheson (Lord Tirek in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Orion in Class of the Titans, Attuma in Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes)
Michael Adamthwaite (Kyoji Kasshu in Dynasty Warriors, Ribbons Almark in Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Jay in Ninjago)
Drew Adkins (Arthur Read from 2012 to 2014)
Julissa Aguirre (Fina in Skies of Arcadia, Kira in Infinite Space, Ara-o in Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido)
Philip Akin (Bishop in X-Men: The Animated Series, Tripp Hansen in Monster Force)
Melissa Altro (Muffy Crosswire in Arthur, Pippi Longstocking in Pippi Longstocking, Gretchen in Camp Lakebottom)
Cameron Ansell (Arthur Read from 2004 to 2007)
Harvey Atkin (Bowser/King Koopa in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World)
Peter Aykroyd (Elwood Blues in The Blues Brothers: Animated Series)
B
Ali Badshah
Caitlyn Bairstow (Suna Light in Mega Man: Fully Charged, Lucky in Super Lucky's Tale)
Ashleigh Ball (Applejack and Rainbow Dash in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Blythe Baxter in Littlest Pet Shop)
Long John Baldry (Dr. Eggman in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Mistle-Toad in Toad Patrol)
Sonja Ball (Jane Read in Arthur and Postcards from Buster, Wimzie in Wimzie's House, Polly Esther in Samurai Pizza Cats, Huckle Cat in The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Nai-Nai in Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, Beauty Stem and Panther Cap in Toad Patrol, Buck in Mega Babies, Gofrette, Elliot Kaufman in Creepschool, Marina and Hedwig in Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid, Beanie, Stanford and Nana in My Goldfish is Evil, Pinocchio in Pinocchio 3000, Jennyline in Dragon Hunters, Nicole in the Madeline TV specials, also a singer for several theme songs such as The Adventures of the Little Koala, Ovide Video and The Little Flying Bears)
Heather Bambrick (Mom Tiger in Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Koki in Wild Kratts, Naughty Kitty in Atomic Puppet)
Carl Banas (Head Elf in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Scorpion in Spider-Man, Schaeffer in The Raccoons)
Emilie-Claire Barlow (Courtney in Total Drama, Theresa in Fugget About It, Mrs. Ridgemount in Stoked, Bunny in Almost Naked Animals, Alice Gehabich in Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia and Bakugan Battle Brawlers, Sailor Mars and Venus in Sailor Moon, Chrissy in 6teen, Ellody and Laurie in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Rac |
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