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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream%20Flight | Dream Flight (Vol De Rêve) is a 3-D computer-animated short fiction film completely produced by computer. The film was created in 1982 at the University of Montreal and was directed by Philippe Bergeron, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann.
Plot
It is the story of a creature living on another planet and dreaming that he flies across space like a bird and arrives on Earth. Typical scenes are set in Paris and New York. Others show natural scenes such as ocean, trees, and birds.
Production
The film was programmed using the MIRA graphical language, an extension of the Pascal programming language based on Abstract Graphical Data Types.
Awards
The film was shown at the SIGGRAPH '82 Art Show and the SIGGRAPH ’83 Electronic Theater and received several awards including:
First Award, Computer Graphics, Online, 1982
Golden Sheaf Award, Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, Canada, 1983
Special Award, Murcia Film-Festival, Spain, 1984
Chris Award, 32nd Annual Columbus International Film Festival (Ohio, USA), 1984
Special Award, Facets Multimedia, Chicago, 1985
Raster Technologies award 1986
References
External links
Dream Flight
1982 films
1980s American animated films
1982 computer-animated films
American animated short films
1982 3D films
1982 short films
1980s animated short films
Alien visitations in films
Films about dreams
Animated films set in Paris
Animated films set in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny%20Rose | Destiny Rose is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Ken Chan in the title role. It premiered on September 14, 2015 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Healing Hearts. The series concluded on March 11, 2016 with a total of 130 episodes. It was replaced by The Millionaire's Wife in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Joey Flores-Vegara is a woman trapped in a man's body who dreams and hopes to be the best for her parents. She struggles in life yet continues to be patient and understanding. Joey becomes a stronger person in her new life as Destiny Rose as she faces more challenges in her journey to becoming a renowned writer and a full-fledged woman.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Ken Chan as Joselito "Joey" Flores Vergara Jr. / Destiny Rose Flores-Antonioni
Supporting cast
Fabio Ide as Gabriele Antonioni
Manilyn Reynes as Daisy Flores-Vergara
Michael De Mesa as Rosauro Armani Vitto
Katrina Halili as Jasmine Flores
Sheena Halili as April Rose Flores Vergara
Jackie Lou Blanco as Maria Dahlia Flores
Jeric Gonzales as Vince
Joko Diaz as Joselito "Lito" Vergara Sr.
Irma Adlawan as Bethilda Vitto-Jacobs
JC Tiuseco as Lance
Ken Alfonso as Aris
Guest cast
Melissa Mendez as Yvonne Antonioni
Kate Valdez as Violet Vitto Jacobs
Sig Aldeen as Mario Capello
Bryan Benedict as Stephen
Tony Lapeña as Elvie
Rene Salud as Salvatore
Lander Vera Perez as Hector Tobias
Mimi Juareza as Lady Edelweiss
Tonio Quiazon as Anton
Miggs Cuaderno as young Joey
Ar Angel Aviles as young April
Milkcah Wynne Nacion as young Jasmine
Andrea Torres as herself
Mike Tan as himself
Yasmien Kurdi as herself
Production
Principal photography concluded on March 2, 2016.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Destiny Rose earned a 14.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 17.2% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
2010s LGBT-related drama television series
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine LGBT-related television shows
Television shows set in the Philippines
Transgender-related television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftali%20Tishby | Naftali "Tali" Tishby (; 28 December 1952 – 9 August 2021) was a professor of computer science and computational neuroscientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Early life and education
Tishby was born in 1952. His father Yeshaya Tishby is a researcher of Kabbalah and Jewish thought.
In 1971 he graduated the Hebrew University Secondary School, joined the academic Atuda in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and served in the IDF until 1980. That year he received the Israel Defense Prize.
In 1974 he graduated B.Sc. cum laude in Mathematics in Physics from the Hebrew University. In 1980 he graduated M.Sc. cum laude in Theoretical Physics at Tel Aviv University; his M.Sc. thesis topic was "Spallation nuclear reactions in the galactic cosmic rays". In 1985 he completed Ph.D. studies in the Hebrew University, publishing the thesis "Reduced Dynamical Description: An Information Theoretic Approach". He did his post-doctoral studies at MIT from 1985 to 1986.
Career
From 1986 until 1991 he worked in Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
In 1992 he became a senior lecturer in the Computer science faculty in the Hebrew University and became an associate professor in 1997.
He was the founder of the Hebrew University's Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, and the Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology. In 1998 he founded and chaired the computer engineering program.
He worked on the mathematical and statistical theory of learning and biological adaptation.
Personal life and death
Tishby was married and has four children. Tishby died on 9 August 2021 at the age of 68.
References
External links
1953 births
2021 deaths
People from Jerusalem
Israel Defense Prize recipients
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli neuroscientists
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Tel Aviv University alumni
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Scientists at Bell Labs
Artificial intelligence researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujurly%20Nesil | The Gujurly Nesil Education Center is a privately owned institution providing short courses on languages, mathematics and computer skills. It is located in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. It was established in 2014 by local entrepreneurs inspired by the teachings of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. The 'Arkadag' Berdimuhamedow's educational philosophy serves as the main founding pillar of the education center.
GNEC provides short term seasonal courses throughout the year. GNEC's academic year consists of four educational seasons; winter, spring, summer, and fall academic sessions. Currently GNEC provides multiple level English, Russian, German, Computer Technology, and Mathematics courses. All courses are taught in three shifts: morning, afternoon, and evening.
GNEC's entity serves wide and diverse range of learners, ranging from 7-year-old school kids to working adults. Courses are delivered by highly qualified instructors in an interactive student centered teaching fashion using cutting edge educational technology tools. GNEC's teacher-student ratio is kept at a minimum level to enhance student-teacher interaction.
Courses given at GNEC:
1. English: Beginner, Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate, Advanced, Practice Course, English for Kids 1, 2, 3;
2. Mathematics: Mathematics I (Basics of Algebra), Mathematics II (Algebra and Elementary Functions), Mathematics III (Algebra and Trigonoimetric functions), Mathematics IV (Algebra and the beginning of the analysis);
3. Computer Technologies: Basic Office Tools, Graphical Applications, Architectural Drawing, 3D Modeling, Introduction to Programming, Computer Technical Support, Computer Network Administration, Computer Network Infrastructure, Web Design, Web Programming, Database Management (using MS Access), ;
4. Russian: Russian for Kids 1, 2, 3; Russian for Adults 1, 2, 3;
5. German: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2;
6. Preparational Courses: TOEFL Prep Course; IELTS Prep Course; SAT Prep Course;
Sessions:
GNEC has 3 sessions for convenience of the audience.
1) Morning session. 09:00 - 12:00
2) Afternoon session. 15:00 - 17:50
3) Evening session. 18:30 - 21:20
References
Schools in Turkmenistan
Private schools in Turkmenistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeenNick | TeenNick is an American pay-TV channel that is operated by the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Aimed primarily at teens and tweens, its programming includes a variety of live-action series inherited from sister channel Nickelodeon. The channel launched on September 28, 2009, as the merger between two defunct programming blocks which also targeted a teenage audience: TEENick on Nickelodeon and The N on Noggin. Before its introduction as a channel, TeenNick's space used to be held by Nick GAS (from 1999 to December 31, 2007) and a short-lived, 24-hour version of The N (from December 31, 2007 to 2009).
When the TeenNick channel was first announced in early 2009, its name was spelled "TEENick" like the block it was based on.
Nick Cannon, the original host of the TEENick block on Nickelodeon, was described in publicity materials as the chairman of TeenNick as well as its programming consultant. Cannon also hosted several shows on the channel, including TeenNick Top 10.
As of September 2018, TeenNick is available to approximately 63.314 million pay-TV households in the United States.
History
As programming blocks (2001–2009)
TeenNick is the successor to TEENick and The N, two programming blocks that aired on Nickelodeon and Noggin, respectively.
TEENick was a celebrity-hosted programming block on Nickelodeon aimed at tweens. The block launched on March 4, 2001, and lasted until February 1, 2009. TEENick aired on Sunday nights from 6 to 9p.m. ET/PT. In 2005, it was rebroadcast on Saturday from 8 to 10p.m. ET/PT (replacing the popular SNICK block that started in 1992). Saturday night editions were broadcast as "TEENick Saturday Night" until the end of 2006 where it rebranded as "TEENick" for both broadcasts. The inaugural host was Nick Cannon, followed by Jason Everhart (a.k.a. "J. Boogie"). TEENick's programming mainly consisted of live-action comedies, such as True Jackson, VP, The Troop, and iCarly, as well as occasional reruns of animated shows such as All Grown Up! and My Life as a Teenage Robot.
Meanwhile, The N was an overnight block on Noggin that launched on April 1, 2002, running from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. ET every day. Series that previously aired during Noggin's time as an all-ages channel — like A Walk in Your Shoes and Sponk! — migrated to The N. The block spawned several original series, including the animated comedy O'Grady and the live-action dramas Out There and South of Nowhere. The N was also the U.S. broadcast home of Canada's Degrassi: The Next Generation. Like the rest of the Noggin channel, The N's original shows were created with educational goals, which was uncommon for teen programming at the time.
On August 13, 2007, Viacom announced that it would shut down Nick GAS at the end of the year, with a 24-hour version of The N taking over its channel space. The N's standalone network ran for less than two years, from December 31, 2007 to September 28, 2009. A block called "TEENick on The N" introduce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeTalk%20Radio | LifeTalk Radio is a network of over 200 radio stations featuring Christian music, Christian talk and teaching, and other religious programming. Its headquarters are in Riverside, California. LifeTalk Radio is the only radio network owned by the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and is a ministry of the Adventist Media Center.
History
In 1991, LifeTalk Radio was founded by Paul Moore, in Yakima, Washington. In 2000, the network's headquarters moved to Vonore, Tennessee. In October 2001, Moore was given the Society of Adventist Communicators' "Award of Pioneering Innovation" for creating the network. In 2002, Moore retired as president of LifeTalk Radio, and was replaced by Phil Follett. On July 15, 2004, Steven Gallimore became president of LifeTalk Radio, and the network moved its headquarters to Collegedale, Tennessee later that year. In 2011, LifeTalk Radio moved its headquarters to Simi Valley, California. By 2015, the network's headquarters had been moved to Riverside, California.
LifeTalk Radio's first radio station, KSOH in Yakima, Washington, began broadcasting in March 1992. The station was launched with an "interactive talk radio" format, airing Christian talk programming. In 1996, LifeTalk Radio purchased and launched several additional stations. In 2000, the network was heard on 15 stations, 8 of which were owned by the network. By 2004, LifeTalk Radio was airing on 35 stations, by 2005 it was airing on 65 stations, and by 2008 the network was airing on 70 stations. By 2015, the network was airing on over 100 stations.
Stations
LifeTalk Radio is heard on over 80 full-time and part-time affiliates in the United States, along with 113 additional affiliates internationally. LifeTalk Radio also streams through Roku.
Owned and operated stations
Translators
Fulltime affiliates
Translators
References
External links
Official website
1992 establishments in Washington (state)
American radio networks
Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States
Radio stations established in 1992
Radio stations in Yakima, Washington
Independent ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Adventist organizations established in the 20th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RankingHero | RankingHero is a ranking and social networking site for the poker community. It hosts an extensive live poker database and an interactive social platform linking all actors in the poker industry - from online operators and live poker venues, through professional players and industry leaders, to recreational players and fans.
History
In 2011, professional poker player Pedro Canali decided to partner with Adrien Bacchi and his IT team to develop a platform providing a large poker tournament database combined with an upmarket social network.
In 2012, the successful businessman Bruno Vanryb (founder of Avanquest Software) joined the team, followed in early 2013 by French poker pro Nicolas Levi, presently RankingHero CCO.
Bruno Vanryb: “It all comes from poker pro Pedro Canali, whom I met at the poker table during tournaments. I am a recreational player and one of my good friends, Jacques Zaicik (note: friend and mentor of ElkY) advised me to take some poker coaching to enhance my level of play, and Pedro was the right guy; he coached me quite successfully. We became good friends and I loved his project at once.”
In 2013, things picked up speed when more big names came into play: Bruno Fitoussi, Lucille Cailly, Guillaume de La Gorce, and Renaud Desferet joined the roster of ambassadors for RankingHero.
The public beta release came in October 2013. In the summer of 2014 RankingHero marked its official U.S. launch in partnership with WPT500 and Aria Resort and Casino. In 2015 the website teamed with Unibet Open and the Bluff Europe British Poker Awards for its UK launch.
The Database
Results and rankings are updated on a daily basis. Information is gathered through three main channels - directly from casinos and circuits; crowdsourcing (members can suggest and add results); and in partnership with data software such as The Tournament Director, CardRoomMagic, BravoLivePoker. As of July 2015, the database lists 421,232 players, 1,657,984 results, and 1545 venues.
HeroScore
In 2015 RankingHero launched a unique three-dimensional ranking that assesses the results, popularity, and contribution of poker players. Using aggregated public data, it employs sophisticated algorithms to calculate the overall influence & prestige that a particular player has within the community. As the first composite ranking in poker which is based on objective data and community input, HeroScore allows members to endorse and upvote the achievements of their peers.
Content provider
In addition to the daily updated results database, RankingHero.com provides a wide range of content - live poker news, rankings and schedules, player biographies, strategy articles by renowned pros, and an exclusive interview series featuring big names in the world of poker such as Antonio Esfandiari, Greg Raymer, Mike Sexton, Maria Ho, and others.
Gamification
In the past two years, RankingHero.com has made a name for itself in the industry as provider of custom-made, original promo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20fuzzy%20lop%20%28fuzzer%29 | American fuzzy lop (AFL), stylized in lowercase as american fuzzy lop, is a free software fuzzer that employs genetic algorithms in order to efficiently increase code coverage of the test cases. So far it has detected dozens of significant software bugs in major free software projects, including X.Org Server, PHP, OpenSSL, pngcrush, bash, Firefox, BIND, Qt, and SQLite.
For many years after its release, AFL has been considered a "state of the art" fuzzer. AFL is considered "a de-facto standard for fuzzing", and the release of AFL contributed significantly to the development of fuzzing as a research area. AFL is widely used in academia; academic fuzzers are often forks of AFL, and AFL is commonly used as a baseline to evaluate new techniques.
The source code of American fuzzy lop is published on GitHub. Its name is a reference to a breed of rabbit, the American Fuzzy Lop.
Overview
AFL requires the user to provide a sample command that runs the tested application and at least one small example input. The input can be fed to the tested program either via standard input or as an input file specified in the process command line. Fuzzing networked programs is currently not directly supported, although in some cases there are feasible solutions to this problem. For example, in case of an audio player, American fuzzy lop can be instructed to open a short sound file with it. Then, the fuzzer attempts to actually execute the specified command and if that succeeds, it tries to reduce the input file to the smallest one that triggers the same behavior.
After this initial phase, AFL begins the actual process of fuzzing by applying various modifications to the input file. When the tested program crashes or hangs, this usually implies the discovery of a new bug, possibly a security vulnerability. In this case, the modified input file is saved for further user inspection.
In order to maximize the fuzzing performance, American fuzzy lop expects the tested program to be compiled with the aid of a utility program that instruments the code with helper functions which track control flow. This allows the fuzzer to detect when the target's behavior changes in response to the input. In cases when this is not possible, black-box testing is supported as well.
Fuzzing algorithm
Fuzzers attempt to find unexpected behaviors (i.e., bugs) in a target program by repeatedly executing the program on various inputs. As described above, AFL is a gray-box fuzzer, meaning it injects instrumentation to measure code coverage into the target program at compile time and uses the coverage metric to direct the generation of new inputs. AFL's fuzzing algorithm has influenced many subsequent gray-box fuzzers.
The inputs to AFL are an instrumented target program (the system under test) and corpus, that is, a collection of inputs to the target. Inputs are also known as test cases. The algorithm maintains a queue of inputs, which is initialized to the input corpus. The overall algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technobabylon | Technobabylon is a cyberpunk adventure game developed by Technocrat Games and published by Wadjet Eye Games for Microsoft Windows, iOS, Linux, and macOS. Originally intended as a series of 10 free episodic games, of which three were released, it was released as a full game on 21 May 2015. The game's story covers 10 chapters and focuses on three characters who live in the future city of Newton which is governed by an autonomous AI administrator, each of whom is faced with a complex matter, but soon find themselves caught up in a conspiracy surrounding the city's AI, including murder and hidden truths about its creation.
The game received generally positive reviews, with praise going to its story and puzzles.
Gameplay
The game operates on a typical point-and-click interface used in several adventures, in which players use their mouse to explore and interact with the various environments their characters move through. Each chapter sees the player using one of the game's three protagonists, to solve puzzles within a chapter. While right-clicking objects/NPCs allows them to examine them, left-clicking allows the character to interact with it, either by taking an object or using it and talking to NPCs. At certain points in the game, the player can choose how to complete puzzles and situations; while most are optional, and have little impact on the main story, one choice towards the end affects the ending that players can achieve upon completing the game. Any objects picked up by the player are stored in an inventory, and can be combined with other objects in the inventory, given to NPCs, or used on objects in an environment. Items that are examined are done either through a text-box, or a vocal description by the character.
Story
Setting
Technobabylon takes place in the cyberpunk city of Newton. Newton is coordinated by a highly advanced AI known as Central which maintains the city's various systems and enforces the laws passed by the civilian government. Centralized Emergency Logistics (CEL) acts as a police force under Central's direct authority. Technology has advanced greatly, with nano-mechanical wetware devices allowing people to modify their brain functions or mentally interface with computers. One such innovation is a virtual reality system called the Trance, in which users can socialize with others via constructed avatars or create content like games and virtual environments.
Plot
Latha Sesame, an unemployed shut-in addict to the Trance, finds herself locked inside her apartment after being disconnected. Worried, she manages to bypass the door controls and escape. Moments later, there is an explosion in the building.
Twenty hours earlier, doctors Charles Regis and Max Lao, both agents of CEL, investigate a series of murders by an individual known as the Mindjacker. The Mindjacker uses specialized neural implants to steal information directly from a person's brain, killing the victim in the process. Following a lead from Central, Regis an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace%20Administration%20of%20China | The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC; ) is the national internet regulator and censor of the People's Republic of China.
The agency was initially established in 2011 by the State Council as the State Internet Information Office (SIIO), a subgroup of the State Council Information Office (SCIO). In 2014, the SIIO was renamed in English as the Cyberspace Administration of China, and transformed into the executive arm of the newly established Central Leading Group for Cybersecurity and Informatization of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which was promoted to the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission in 2018.
The CAC's current director is Zhuang Rongwen, who concurrently serves as a Deputy Head of the CCP's Central Propaganda Department
History
On 5 May 2011, the State Council approved the establishment of the State Internet Information Office (SIIO). The SIIO was initially a subgroup of the State Council Information Office (SCIO), which was an external name of the External Propaganda Office (EOP) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The first SIIO director was Wang Chen, who was also the director of the SCIO. Though initially a nameplate of the SCIO, SIIO soon gained full-time staff.
Reforms in February 2014 led to the creation of the Central Leading Group for Cybersecurity and Informatization of the CCP. The SIIO was transformed to become the external name of the Central Leading Group's general office. It additionally changed its name in English to the Cyberspace Administration of China, while its Chinese name stayed the same.
Lu Wei, who was the head of CAC until 2016, was previously the head of the Beijing CCP Committee's Propaganda Department, and oversaw the Internet Management Office, a "massive human effort" that involved over 60,000 Internet propaganda workers and two million others employed off-payroll. It was this experience that assisted CCP general secretary Xi Jinping in selecting Lu as the head of the CAC.
Further reforms in February 2018 upgraded the Central Leading Group to the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission (CACC), with the CAC staying as the executive arm of the commission.
Structure
The Cyberspace Administration of China and the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission of the CCP, its executive arm, are one institution with two names. The CAC is involved in the formulation and implementation of policy on a variety of issues related to the internet in China. It is under direct jurisdiction of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, a party institution subordinate to the CCP Central Committee. The Director of both the state and party institutions is Zhuang Rongwen, who serves concurrently as a Deputy Head of the CCP's Central Propaganda Department.
The CAC includes the following departments: an Internet Security Emergency Command Center, an Agency Service Center, and an Illegal and Unhealthy Information Reporting Center. Unlike most other Chinese administrative agencies, the CAC does not regul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baid | Baid or BAID may refer to:
Barrow Area Information Database, a database supporting arctic science
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, a former art and architecture school in New York City
The BioAssay identification number, an identifying number for chemical compounds used by the PubChem database
Chandan Mal Baid, a leader of the Indian National Congress |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20True%20Detective | True Detective is an American television crime drama that premiered on January 12, 2014 on the HBO network. It was created and written by Nic Pizzolatto. Conceived as an anthology, each season will be engineered as a disparate, self-contained narrative, employing new cast ensembles and following various sets of characters and settings.
True Detective was a candidate for television awards in a variety of categories recognizing its writing, acting, production, and direction. The show received eleven Primetime Emmy nominations heading into the 2014 Emmy season, scooping up five wins, among them being Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Cary Fukunaga. At the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, the show scored three Golden Globe nominations, including Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson and Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for Michelle Monaghan. Other substantial nominations include four TCA Awards (two wins), three Satellite Awards, and a BAFTA (one win).
McConaughey is the most decorated of the show's actors, with ten nominations. Pizzolatto earned two Writers Guild of America Awards (WGAs) for his work as a writer for the series. To date, True Detective has been nominated for 37 awards and has won 24.
British Academy Television Awards
The British Academy Television Awards, presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), recognize distinguished artistic achievement in British television. True Detective has won one award.
Critics' Choice Television Awards
The Critics' Choice Television Award is an annual accolade bestowed by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association in recognition of outstanding achievements in television, since 2011. True Detective has received one award from four nominations.
Emmy Awards
The Primetime Emmy Awards are awarded annually by members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for excellence and outstanding achievements in American primetime television. The branch of awards recognizing technical and production-based work (such as cinematography, editing, and music) are designated as Creative Arts Emmy Awards. True Detective has received five awards from thirteen nominations.
Primetime Emmy Awards
Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Awarded since 1944, the Golden Globe Award is an annual accolade bestowed by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honoring outstanding achievements in television and film. True Detective received four nominations.
Producers Guild of America Awards
The Producers Guild of America Awards were created in 1990 by the Producers Guild of America to acknowledge the contributions of film and television producers in American entertainment. True Detective has been nominated once.
Satellite Awards
The Satellite Awards are the International Press Academy's annual entertainment awards, since 1997. True Detective has been nominated for three awar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20associated%20with%20PARC | Many notable computer scientists and others have been associated with the Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (PARC), formerly Xerox PARC. They include:
Nina Amenta (at PARC 1996–1997), researcher in computational geometry and computer graphics
Anne Balsamo (at PARC 1999–2002), media studies scholar of connections between art, culture, gender, and technology
Patrick Baudisch (at PARC 2000–2001), in human–computer interaction
Daniel G. Bobrow (at PARC 1972–2017), artificial intelligence researcher
Susanne Bødker (at PARC 1982–1983), researcher in human–computer interaction
David Boggs (at PARC 1972–1982), computer network pioneer, coinventor of Ethernet
Anita Borg (at PARC 1997–2003), computer systems researcher, advocate for women in computing
John Seely Brown (at PARC 1978–2000), researcher in organizational studies, chief scientist of Xerox
Bill Buxton (at PARC 1989–1994), pioneer in human–computer interaction
Stuart Card (at PARC 1974-2010), applied human factors in human–computer interaction
Robert Carr (at PARC in late 1970s), CAD and office software designer
Ed Chi (at PARC 1997–2011), researcher in information visualization and the usability of web sites
Elizabeth F. Churchill (at PARC 2004–2006), specialist in human-computer interaction and social computing
Lynn Conway (at PARC 1973–1982), VLSI design pioneer and transgender activist
Franklin C. Crow (at PARC circa 1982–1990), computer graphics expert who did early research in antialiasing
Pavel Curtis (at PARC 1983–1996), pioneer in text-based online virtual reality systems
Doug Cutting (at PARC 1990-1994), creator of Nutch, Lucene, and Hadoop
Steve Deering (at PARC circa 1990–1996), internet engineer, lead designer of IPv6
L Peter Deutsch (at PARC 1971–1986), implementor of LISP 1.5, Smalltalk, and Ghostscript
David DiFrancesco (at PARC 1972–1974), worked with Richard Shoup on PAINT, cofounded Pixar
Paul Dourish (at PARC mid-1990s), researcher at the intersection of computer science and social science
W. Keith Edwards (at PARC 1996–2004), researcher in human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
Jerome I. Elkind (at PARC 1971–1978), head of the Computer Science Laboratory at PARC
Clarence Ellis (at PARC 1976–1984), first African American CS PhD, pioneered computer-supported cooperative work
David Em (at PARC 1975), computer artist, first fine artist to create a computer model of a 3d character
Bill English (at PARC 1971–1989), co-invented computer mouse
David Eppstein (at PARC 1989–1990), researcher in computational geometry and graph algorithms
John Ellenby (at PARC 1975–1978), Led AltoII development, 1979 founded GRID Systems
Matthew K. Franklin (at PARC 1998–2000), developed pairing-based elliptic-curve cryptography
Gaetano Borriello (at PARC 1980–1987), developed Open Data Kit
Richard Fikes (at PARC 1976-1983), leader in representation and use of knowledge in computer systems, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Sean R. Garner (at PAR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendez-vous%20in%20Montreal | Rendez-vous in Montreal is a 1987 animated film that used advanced computer techniques to achieve such effects as modelling the film stars Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart. The film was directed by Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann and produced with a team of 10 people. Specific interactive software [1] was developed that allowed designers to interactively use commands to generate the sequences. The main purpose of Rendez-vous in Montreal was to show that true synthetic actors can be created. This film represented a technological breakthrough both on the software side and the film itself.
The scenario
The movie begins in the hereafter, where Humphrey is bored and longs to live again. He thinks of Marilyn; he calls her many times and begs her to return to Earth with him. The head of Marilyn grown old appears: she accepts. Humphrey then sets up a rendezvous with her for the next day at 10 o'clock at the Bonsecours Market in Montreal. Both actors disappear in the night while making faces at each other. They come down from a starry sky into the Bonsecours Market; we hear footsteps and the sounds of the city in the background. We do not see Humphrey but we hear him think out loud. He hesitates, he looks about for the entrance, he finds it and enters the building. We come to a room where we see a clock that strikes 10 times, reminding us that time is a factor again. Marilyn appears motionless and made of marble. She has not returned to life yet. In reply to Humphrey’s questions, she turns into gold. Humphrey fancies her and sends her a kiss that awakens her. She appears in all her splendor. They take each other's hands and the romance begins.
Techniques
3D models of Marilyn and Humphrey were created by drawing polygons and vertices on Marilyn’s and Humphrey’s sculptures and digitizing photos from these plaster models.
At the beginning, the computer needs to know the shapes of the characters, even the detail of their hands or their thumbs. For example, a sculptor sculpted Marilyn's and Humphrey's hands by covering real human hands with plaster, a grid was drawn, photos from various angles were taken, and the information was digitized in 2D and the computer reconstituted the 3D information. For the heads and torsos, a sculptor created 3D plaster models and the process of digitizing is the same.
The system used for the production of the film was Human Factory [1]. A making of Rendez-vous in Montreal was done that explained all these pioneer methods.
The most important parts of the software developed was:
The body motion control based on keyframe animation and inverse kinematics
The skinning system based on Joint-Local dependent Operators (JLD), which is recognized as the original classical skeleton-based deformation algorithm.
The facial animation is based on 3 levels:
The low level based on specialized procedures called abstract muscles action (AMA) procedures that work on specific regions of the human face,.
The expression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20al-Shabaab-related%20events | This article contains a timeline of events for the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab.
2006
June 10: The Guardian reports "An unnamed network run by one of Aweys's protégés, Aden Hashi Farah "Ayro" is linked to the murder of four western aid workers and over a dozen Somalis who allegedly cooperated with counter-terror organisations."
June 15: Al-Shabaab leader Aden Hashi Farah "Eyrow", was said to have taken arms sent from Eritrea (see page 12).
July 26: Mukhtar Robow or "Abu-Mansur" was reported accepting another load of arms from Eritrea (see page 15).
July: 720 Somali volunteers were selected by Aden Hashi Farah "Eyrow" to travel to Lebanon to fight against the Israelis. Of those, only 80 returned to Mogadishu. In September, another 20 returned, along with five members of Hizbollah. (see page 24).
The bankruptcy of a remittance company, Dalsan International, whose staff included the brother of Aden Hashi Farah "Eyrow", involved the suspicious disappearance of $10 million. It was alleged, "an ICU military leader managed to divert a large amount of money to help financially support the organization in their fight for the control of Mogadishu during the June 2006 confrontation with the former counter terrorism alliance" (see page 39). (Also see ARPCT, Second Battle of Mogadishu)
2007
As of January 6, 2007, after the Fall of Mogadishu and Kismayo to the TFG, the leaders of the Shabaab were in hiding still at large. A member of the disbanded group said they once numbered about 1,000 (lower than other claims by former members), but they do not have any weapons any more. Still, there was support for the call of leaders to maintain jihad against the Ethiopians and secular government.
January 19, 2007—Pro-Islamic Courts Union website featured a video describing the reformation of the ICU into the "Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of the Two Migrations" (PRM), alternatively translated and referred to in press reports as the "Somali People's Insurgent Movement" (SPIM) or "Somali People's Resistance Movement" (SPRM). On January 24, Sheikh Abdikadir was announced to be its commander of the Banadir region.
January 31, 2007—Al-Shabaab made a video warning African Union peacekeepers to avoid coming to Somalia, claiming "Somalia is not a place where you will earn a salary — it is a place where you will die."
February 9, 2007—800 Somali demonstrators in north Mogadishu, where Islamist support was strongest, burned U.S., Ethiopian, and Ugandan flags in protest of the proposed African Union (AU) led and United Nations endorsed peacekeeping mission, known as AMISOM. "Abdirisaq", a masked representative of the resistance group, the PRM, said Ethiopian troops would be attacked in their hotels.
2008
February 28: United States Department of State designates al-Shabaab as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in accordance with section 219 of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
August: Battle of Kismayo - After several days of fighting in whic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Darnell | Ben Darnell is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and business executive. He is the chief technology officer for Cockroach Labs, a company he co-founded in 2015. Prior to his work at Cockroach Labs, he worked for tech companies that include FriendFeed, Facebook, Brizzly, Dropbox, Viewfinder, and Square, Inc.
Early life and education
Darnell entered North Carolina State University in 1998. He graduated in 2002 with a degree in computer science.
Career
Darnell was an early employee of Google and was part of its Google Reader team. He worked with Thing Labs founders Jason Shellen and Chris Wetherell, two colleagues that he would later work with as part of Brizzly. He worked a total of seven years for Google and attributes it as being the foundation for his career as an engineer.
Darnell left Google to join FriendFeed. He joined Kevin Fox whom he also worked with at Google. Darnell began working at FriendFeed in July 2009. The company was purchased the following month by Facebook who incorporated Darnell into its team. A few months later, he left to work for startup Brizzly, a third-party interface for Twitter and Facebook that was later purchased by AOL. During his time at Brizzly, Darnell took over Tornado, an open source real-time web framework based on FriendFeed.
Darnell joined Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis at Viewfinder in 2012. He met them in San Francisco when they showed him a sample of their work. He joined the team and worked primarily on the company's iPhone client app. Darnell joined the team at Square, Inc. after its purchase of Viewfinder in 2013.
Darnell helped launch CockroachDB in 2014 along with Kimball and Mattis. They later formed the company Cockroach Labs after launching the software as an open source project on GitHub. Darnell serves as the company's Chief Architect and also contributes to the source code development of CockroachDB.
References
External links
Cockroach Labs official website
Ben Darnell GitHub profile
American chief technology officers
Living people
North Carolina State University alumni
Google employees
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Bacon | Jean Bacon (born 1942) is a British emeritus professor of distributed systems at the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, where she co-headed the Opera Research Group from its founding in the 1990s. Previously, she taught at Hatfield Technical College where, in the 1970s, she was involved in the design of one of the earliest computer science degree programs offered in the United Kingdom. Bacon retired from her faculty position at Cambridge in 2010 but has continued to work on Opera projects related to distributed systems and security in cloud computing.
Early life and career
Bacon was born in Sheffield in 1942 in a working-class family. She attended Penistone Grammar School and went on to receive her B.S. in mathematics from the University of London. Her first introduction to computing came from a summer job in the early 1960s, after which she worked in computer-related jobs at the National Physical Laboratory and the GEC Hirst Research Centre. In 1968 she transitioned to teaching in Higher National Certificate and Higher National Diploma programs while working on her M.Sc. on a part-time basis. She moved in 1973 to Hatfield – now the University of Hertfordshire – where she was involved in designing an early example of a degree program in computer science. After the birth of her son in 1976, Bacon continued to teach while working on her Ph.D. at Hatfield part-time, studying kernel design and distributed systems.
Research career
In 1985 Bacon moved to a faculty position in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, where her work focused on the design of distributed systems and middleware. She was the first woman to join the Computer Laboratory. There she was a co-leader of the Opera Research Group since its founding in the 1990s. She has also published several textbooks on concurrent and distributed systems.
Bacon is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the British Computer Society. She was the founding editor in chief of the IEEE publication now known as IEEE Distributed Systems Online and served two terms on the IEEE Board of Governors from 2002–04 and 2005–07. In 2013, she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of the University by Open University.
Personal life
Bacon has one son, born in 1976. She is also an artist and has exhibited paintings.
External links
Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 16 September 2008 (video)
References
British women computer scientists
British computer scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Living people
1942 births
People educated at Penistone Grammar School |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20graphical%20data%20type | An abstract graphical data type (AGDT) is an extension of an abstract data type for computer graphics. AGDTs provide the advantages of the ADTs with facilities to build graphical objects in a structured way. Formally, an AGDT may be defined as a "class of graphical objects whose logical behavior is defined by a set of graphical characteristics and a set of graphical operations".
AGDTs were introduced in 1979 by Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann.
The most important tool in this graphical extension is the 3-D graphical type—the figure type. The syntax is described in Figure 2. The word "figure" is a keyword. The formal parameter section, the declaration, and the body are similar to the corresponding elements in a procedure.
To define a figure type, one must
find the characteristics of the figure, which become the parameters;
find the algorithm that allows the user to build the figure with the help of the parameters.
To build the figures, typical graphical statements should be used like: moveabs, moverel, lineabs, and linerel to draw vectors, and include to define an existing figure as part of a new one.
For example, a pyramid with four vertices can be defined as
type PYRAMID = figure (A, B, C, D: VECTOR);
begin
moveabs A; lineabs B, C, A, D, C;
moveabs B; lineabs D
end;
A tree can be defined by 3-D graphical types as
type TREE = figure (var BRANCHES: TEXT; NBRANCHES: INTEGER;
POSITION: VECTOR; HEIGHT, LENGTH:REAL);
where BRANCHES is a file of kinds of branches, NBRANCHES is the number of branches, POSITION is the position of the trunk, HEIGHT is the height of the trunk, and LENGTH is the
length of the branches.
A forest of trees can be defined as
var FOREST: array [1..NBTREES] of TREE
Abstract graphical types have been implemented as an extension of the PASCAL programming language called MIRA-3D.
References
Data types |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppo%20R7 | The Oppo R7 is a mid-range phablet smartphone based on Android 4.4 with Oppo Electronics’ own operating system, ColorOS 2.1, which was unveiled on 20 May 2015. This model includes 3 versions featuring different frequencies, and will be sold in 6 countries all over the world, as well as third-party retailer, Oppostyle and other E-commerce platforms.
Specifications
The Oppo R7 contains a Qualcomm MSM8939 Octa-core processor with 3GB of RAM, with 16 GB expandable storage, and makes use of a 5-inch, 1080p AMOLED 2.5D arc edge display. The device weighs about 147g and is composed of 92.3% metal. It also includes a 13-megapixel main camera and an 8-megapixel front camera, but phase detection autofocus and anti-shake optimization may contribute towards higher image quality. Like other flagships, the Oppo R7 is equipped with VOOC Flash Charging technology.
At present, the Oppo R7 has been officially released in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia.
See also
Phones of OPPO
References
Mobile phones introduced in 2015
Oppo smartphones
Android (operating system) devices
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%20Laboratory%20for%20Computer%20Graphics%20and%20Spatial%20Analysis | The Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis (1965 to 1991) pioneered early cartographic and architectural computer applications that led to integrated geographic information systems (GIS). Some of the Laboratory's influential programs included SYMAP, SYMVU, GRID, CALFORM, and POLYVRT. The Laboratory's Odyssey project created a geographic information system that served as a milestone in the development of integrated mapping systems. The Laboratory influenced numerous computer graphic, mapping and architectural systems such as Intergraph, Computervision, and Esri.
Founding
In 1963, during a training session held at Northwestern University, Chicago architect Howard T. Fisher encountered computer maps on urban planning and civil engineering produced by Edgar Horwood's group at the University of Washington. Fisher conceived a computer mapping software program, SYMAP (Synergistic Mapping), to produce conformant, proximal, and contour maps on a line printer. Fisher applied for a Ford Foundation grant to explore thematic mapping based on early SYMAP outputs, which was awarded in 1965. In association with Harvard providing facilities in Robinson Hall in Harvard Yard as part of the Graduate School of Design, the Ford Foundation provided $294,000 over three years to seed the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics. Working with programmer Betty Benson, Fisher completed SYMAP for distribution in 1966. Also under Fisher's direction, SYMVU and GRID programs were developed. A 1968 reorganisation followed Fisher reaching Harvard's mandatory retirement age and led to renaming as the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis. From 1972, the Laboratory was based in Graduate School's newly built Gund Hall.
The Laboratory's original and continuing goals were:
To design and develop computer software for the analysis and graphic display of spatial data.
To distribute the resulting software to governmental agencies, educational organizations and interested professionals.
To conduct research concerning the definition and analysis of spatial structure and process."
Major research outputs
SYMAP's ability to print cheap, albeit low quality, maps using readily available technology led to rapid adoption in the late 1960s. SYMVU software, developed in 1969 to illustrate surface displays, was another popular product. GRID, CALFORM, and POLYVRT products further explored the raster versus vector approach to mapping. The Laboratory gained a reputation for solid output leading to several commercially successful projects and significant budgetary independence for a research institute. Some struggles with restructuring Geographic Base Files - Dual Independent Map Encoding (GBF-DIME files, an early vector and polygonal data structure) for the Census Bureau's Urban Atlas in 1975 inspired the Laboratory to develop an integrated suite of programs beneath by a common user interface and common data manipulation software. In 19 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma%20%28software%29 | Wilma is a Service virtualization software tool that computer programmers and testers use for developing and testing other software. It sits between software components, software services, microservices, as a transparent proxy, and captures the communication traffic between the software components. Based on its actual configuration, evaluates the captured messages and decides between proxying the request or providing response by itself, as a service stub. Therefore, it is a combined Transparent Proxy and Service Stub. It is written in Java, and Open Sourced under the license GPL.
Situations when Wilma helps
In case there is component that communicates to other components (SOA environment or by simply using 3rd party services/microservices) but need to be tested without the availability of other components, Wilma can act as stub. The environment can be - among others - a local development environment, a CI test environment, or an integration test environment
In similar case, if some of the components are available but some not, Wilma can stub the missing ones, meanwhile proxying the request to the available components
If there is a new feature in a 3rd party component/service, that will be developed later, and not yet available, and if the interface is defined, Wilma can emulate the new feature of the 3rd party component/service, and the feature in the owned component can be developed without waiting for the implementation of the feature in the 3rd party component/service
It is possible to emulate special behavior of 3rd party components/services like: timeouts, slow or bad answers, special - error-nous - answers and error codes - without doing special test environment setup changes, and even if forcing the 3rd party component/service to produce such special answers would be hard/impossible
It is possible to substitute both the request and the response messages real-time, partially and/or completely.
Also - as it can log the messages - it helps testers/developers in troubleshooting, since the logged messages can be analysed - also such recorded messages can be used later as base of stub responses
Main capabilities
Used for HTTP and HTTPS communication channels, including 2-way SSL connections.
Any message types and contents can be used: HTML, XML, SOAP, JSON, REST, etc.
Messages can be altered on-the-fly
Highly configurable, on-the-fly, both via its UI and API (both Java and .NET API is available)
Suitable for both automated and manual tests
By using the provided interfaces, product/project specific expansions (special message response creators and response content formatter for the stub) can easily be added to the tool
Expandable via plug-ins
Docker images are available
References
External links
Wilma documentation
Wilma project
Software testing tools
Software using the GPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20Wild | Building Wild is a reality construction series. It premiered on National Geographic Channel on January 14, 2014. The network's first-ever "do-it-yourself" series, Building Wild features the work of Paul DiMeo and Pat "Tuffy" Bakatis, collectively known as The Cabin Kings. Each week on the series, The Cabin Kings meet a new client who dreams of a backwoods getaway. In seven days or less, The Cabin Kings build their clients a custom cabin; the landowners must provide some materials and manpower in order to get the job done before the deadline. The cabins featured on the series each included an unexpected design element: a cabin that rotates 360 degrees, a cabin that floats, a cabin with a winch elevator (Tuffy-vator), or a bus converted into living space. Promoted by the network as "The most rugged construction series ever built," all episodes were filmed in the area surrounding Hoosick Falls, NY. The show was created by and is executive produced by George Verschoor and William Spjut.
Its second and final season premiered on February 24, 2015, and ended on April 21, 2015.
Series Format
Paul DiMeo (frequently referred to as "Paulie" on the series) spent nine seasons as a designer on ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Partner Pat "Tuffy" Bakaitis is a master fabricator from rural New York. Together, they are The Cabin Kings, a construction "Odd Couple" that specializes in dream off-the-grid getaways. In each episode, The Cabin Kings meet a new client with a dream of a backwoods retreat. The Cabin Kings agree to provide a design and the know-how to get the cabin built in seven days or less. The clients must pitch in materials that can be repurposed as part of the build and manpower in the form of friends and relatives willing to lend a hand. Each episode becomes a race against the clock, as The Cabin Kings often must first build a road to access the remote building sites. Toward the end of each build, the landowner is sent away while the Cabin Kings make finishing touches on the cabin, so that each episode can culminate in a dramatic "reveal" with that week's clients seeing his or her newly built cabin for the first time.
Repurposing
Each client must contribute materials that can be recycled into the new cabin's design; this "repurposing" became a fan-favorite element of the series, and often provided dramatic or humorous reveals. A reclaimed tractor cab became an outhouse. An 800-gallon milk tank helped turn a dairy operation into a new microbrewery. A vintage camper is lifted into the trees to become a treetop guest house.
Episodes
Season One
Season Two
References
Do it yourself
Home renovation television series
2014 American television series debuts
National Geographic (American TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth%20Enrichment%20Services | Youth Enrichment Services (YES) is a non-profit based in Boston, Massachusetts that offers outdoor and enrichment programming outside of school to at-risk youth. Its primary program is to teach-city youth to ski or snowboard using volunteer instructors.
The organization was founded in 1968 by Richard Williams as Operation Ski Lift as a way to expose inner city youths to the sport of skiing, and was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 1972. In early years it received grants from the City of Boston, but today is run on donations from corporations and individuals. It is supported by Olympic skier Ted Ligety.
Year round activities such as backpacking, canoeing, bicycling and environmental education trips to the Cape Cod National Seashore and to Swann Lodge in the Berkshires were added in the 1970s. The current headquarters in a South End brownstone were built in 1987. In 2007 the YES Academy was founded to include Career Exploration, College Preparation, Girls Outdoor Adventure Leaders and Junior Volunteers programs. Today, additional programs offered by YES include ski and snowboard lessons, track and field programs, kayaking, mountain biking, and rock climbing.
More than 100,000 youths have been served by the organization since it was founded, with about 7,500 youths being served a year, mostly in winter. In 2015, 200 youths participated in the YES academy, which is a 40% gain over the same period three years prior.
YES Programs
Operation SnowSports:
Youth Excel Through Tailored Instruction
Cross Country Ski Program
Outdoor Adventure:
Outdoor Adventure Sessions
Outdoor Adventure Intensives
City Ascent Climbers Program
YES Academy:
College Preparation
Career Exploration
Junior Volunteers
Girls Outdoor Adventure Leaders
Notable alumni
Michelle Edwards
References
External links
Youth Enrichment Services
Sports in Boston
Non-profit organizations based in Boston
Youth empowerment organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdventHealth%20Nicholson%20Center | The AdventHealth Nicholson Center is a medical research and training center with locations in Celebration and Orlando, Florida. Founded in 2001, it operates within the AdventHealth network and trains physicians on foundational surgical techniques, including robotic surgery and laparoscopic surgery, using tools like robotic simulators, wet and dry labs. Using emerging robotic, laparoscopic and orthopedic surgical techniques, the Nicholson Center is researching to develop modified ways to operate.
History
In 2001, the center was founded as the Surgical Learning Institute. After receiving a grant in 2008 from Orlando real estate developers, Anthony and Sonja Nicholson, the center became the Florida Hospital Nicholson Center and opened new facility in 2011. The expansion included lecture and education rooms wired for digital conferences, two simulation-training centers, 25 surgical suites and a medical lab with eight surgical robots that are worth a total of over $8 million. The facility is also USGBC LEED Silver Certified. Currently, the Nicholson Center is a 54,000-square-foot, two-story, $54 million facility
The Nicholson Center, originally started as a facility in AdventHealth Celebration, an acute care hospital in Celebration, Florida, consists of a network of 24 campuses.
Training and research
Academics
The Nicholson Center emphasizes education through events and training programs. The education department offers continued medical education to healthcare providers including surgeons, allied health professionals, healthcare administrators, residents, nurses and Fellows. Through its Continuing Medical Education (CME) training, a network of surgeons, physicians and clinicians develop and design curriculums for health societies. Curriculums are developed using a six-step medical education curriculum development process created by Kern et al. Continuing medical education credits are acquired through the ACCME-affiliated accrediting agency within the Florida Hospital Network.
Laboratories and Training Rooms
The Nicholson Center provides training using operating rooms, clinical and surgical skills labs, simulation training labs and robotics training labs. The facility includes two 935 square-foot operating rooms for training in microsurgery, laparoscopy and computer-assisted surgery, allowing for eight stations per operating room. The labs available for clinical and surgical skills training include 50 stations and wet and dry labs. Lastly, the center's 1,600 square-foot simulation training lab allows surgeons to perform in simulated scenarios. It is also home to one of the largest robotic training labs in the world, incorporating official da Vinci Surgical System robot simulation training.
Funding
After receiving a $4.9 million grant from the Department of Defense and the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (United States Army) (TATRC) in 2011, the research focused on the ways telemedicine technology can be used in surgery for b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20natural%20gas%20processing%20plants%20in%20Nigeria |
List of natural gas processing plants in Nigeria
Capacity data at standard conditions. ( is million cubic feet per day. is million cubic metres per day.)
Natural gas in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mr.%20Robot%20episodes | Mr. Robot is an American drama–thriller television series created by Sam Esmail. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker who has social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. Alderson is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", played by Christian Slater, to join a group of hacktivists. The group aims to cancel all debts by attacking the large conglomerate E Corp.
The pilot premiered on multiple online and video on demand services on May 27, 2015.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
First-season episode titles have a suffix corresponding to a type of digital container format.
Season 2 (2016)
Second-season episode titles have a suffix corresponding to a type of encryption.
Season 3 (2017)
Third-season episode titles are in the form of coding library files, compressed archives and a torrent file, while the season finale title is in the form of a computer command ("shutdown -r").
Season 4 (2019)
The first ten episode titles are HTTP status codes in the 4xx range.
Notes
Specials
Supplementary content
In June 2016, USA Network announced Hacking Robot, a live aftershow hosted by Andy Greenwald. The first episode of Hacking Robot debuted after the season two premiere, with guests Sam Esmail, Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Carly Chaikin and Portia Doubleday and received 376,000 viewers. The second installment aired on September 7, 2016, after the tenth episode of the second season, and received 320,000 viewers.
In addition, a weekly web-only aftershow titled Mr. Robot Digital After Show premiered on The Verge and USA Network's websites after the third episode.
Ratings
Overview
Season 1
The first episode of Mr. Robot was released across multiple digital platforms in advance of its first broadcast. It had a viewership of 2.7 million prior to the first broadcast of the episode.
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
References
External links
Lists of American drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Partners%20Access%20Network | All Partners Access Network (APAN), formerly called Asia-Pacific Area Network, is a United States Department of Defense (USDOD) social networking website used for information sharing and collaboration. APAN is the premier collaboration enterprise for the USDOD. The APAN network of communities fosters multinational interaction and multilateral cooperation by allowing users to post multimedia and other content in blogs, wikis, forums, document libraries and media galleries. APAN is used for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, exercise planning, conferences and work groups. APAN provides non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and U.S. partner nations who do not have access to traditional, closed USDOD networks with an unclassified tool to communicate.
History
1997–2004
The origins of APAN can be traced back to the Virtual Information Center (VIC), which was created at Camp Smith in Honolulu, Hawaii. The VIC was established as an open source, information network designed to provide timely crisis-driven information to command decision makers. Admiral Dennis Blair, the U.S. Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Command, believed that genuine security within the region comes only when nations share dependable expectations of peaceful change, and act in concert to address common challenges. He maintained that armed forces, in conjunction with diplomatic efforts, should cooperate. It was at this same time U.S. coalition partners were seeking greater interoperability within the USPACOM Area of Responsibility (AOR). As a result, APAN was created in March 2000 to provide partner nations with a non-dot-mil (.mil), unclassified link into the Virtual Information Center to establish a way to communicate worldwide.
Blair's objective was to further the USPACOM Regional Security Cooperation objectives using collaborative, online tools. Through his direction, the Asia-Pacific Area Network was utilized to encourage cooperation on common tasks, from search and rescue to peacekeeping operations to promoting collaboration across the Pacific. The goal was to collaborate, cooperate and coordinate with USPACOM foreign partners and NGOs.
Blair, collaborating with Senator Daniel K. Inouye, received congressional funding through the Asia-Pacific Regional Initiative Fund (APRI) to further develop APAN.
As development of Asia Pacific Area Network continued, partnering nations began to increase situation awareness of events and developments within the Asia-Pacific region. APAN provided mutual benefit by providing capabilities, information and shared results instantly with USPACOM foreign counterparts and NGOs. APAN played a major role in Operation Unified Assistance to assist relief efforts to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. During this humanitarian response militaries from multiple countries worked with NGOs in Thailand. APAN was utilized to assist in cooperation of these efforts to assist more than 12,600 USDOD personnel, foreign military partners and NGO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krackhardt%20kite%20graph | In graph theory, the Krackhardt kite graph is a simple graph with ten nodes. The graph is named after David Krackhardt, a researcher of social network theory.
Krackhardt introduced the graph in 1990 to distinguish different concepts of centrality. It has the property that the vertex with maximum degree (labeled 3 in the figure, with degree 6), the vertex with maximum betweenness centrality (labeled 7), and the two vertices with maximum closeness centrality (labeled 5 and 6) are all different from each other.
References
Individual graphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria%20Gordon%20Bolotsky | Gloria Gordon Bolotsky (July 28, 1921 – June 30, 2009) was an American computer scientist, one of the early programmers of the ENIAC computer.
Early life
Gloria Ruth Gordon was born in New York City. She attended a nursing school, but eventually graduated with a degree in mathematics from Brooklyn College.
She married her husband, Max Bolotsky, a metallurgist, in 1948. They raised their family in Rockville, Maryland. They had five daughters.
Career
Gordon worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a mathematician before moving to Philadelphia to join the University of Pennsylvania's engineering school in the 1940s. She was part of a team of around a hundred scientists who participated in the programming of the ENIAC computer, which was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the US Army. The initial programming had been done by six women.
In 1946, Life magazine published a photograph of the ENIAC with two women working on it. Although the women were not identified at the time, the woman crouching was later revealed to be Gordon, while the other one was co-worker Ester Gerston.
From Philadelphia, she was hired to a secret group at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland in 1947. In the 1950s, Gloria Bolotsky worked as a high school mathematics teacher in Towson for a year. In 1963, she joined the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, where she worked for the next twenty years. Her contributions included computer networking, embedding networks in telecommunications systems, and cost optimization techniques.
Later life
Gloria Bolotsky's husband died in 1998 after forty-nine years of marriage. She died of cancer on June 30, 2009, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. She was interred at King David Memorial Gardens, Falls Church, Virginia.
Selected publications
References
Further reading
1921 births
2009 deaths
Scientists from Brooklyn
Brooklyn College alumni
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century American scientists
Scientists from New York (state)
20th-century American mathematicians
20th-century women mathematicians
American women mathematicians
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen%20Routing | The main idea of Schengen Routing is to apply a European internet routing policy such that when sender and recipient are inside the Schengen Area, data between the two endpoints is also routed entirely within the Schengen area.
There is no need to isolate users or restrict the access to the Internet. Seen from another perspective users accessing data in countries outside the European Union will have no profit from this solution, since the communication partner (no matter if source or destination) is not covered by the "Schengen Routing" agreement. Currently the main contributor seems to be Deutsche Telekom, as depicted from an interview of Philip Blank where they describe that "data running over Telekom's German networks stays in this country". This could be seen as a starting point, because if only one Internet service provider supports "Schengen Routing" the traffic to other providers may leave the country. In addition, most users do not know which providers are connected (peering). They should only have the goal to use national services and the rest has to be done by the providers.
Applicability
Routing traffic only in a providers network might be easily achievable for the simple reason that an Internet service provider can control their own network, but how can a European-wide "Schengen Routing" be implemented? There must be an exchange between routing possibilities and much more sensible Internet service provider information to ensure that data, sent from one Internet service provider to another, arising not to leave "Schengen Routing" area really stays with these boundaries. For example, these aspects lead to the fact that QSC AG, a Deutsche Telekom competitor, raised the question about the possibility of protecting traffic with this approach, since it might be impossible to determine data that would travel nationally or internationally.
In the latest reports the governments of France and Germany could act as a key player in introducing "Schengen Routing". The German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the French President François Hollande picked up the topic in order to establish a European communications network that is beyond the reach of US security officials. An initiative from the government might push the development of a "Schengen Routing" area. However more and more people doubt that a European communications network would indeed lead to more security, because they argue that it would not be a problem for security agencies to set up more surveillance stations within Europe to capture data. Since this is true several politicians (e.g. Jan Philipp Albrecht - German member of the European Parliament) stated the fact that a legal framework to secure the fundamental rights in Europe, especially in the market area, is much more important.
In the scope of economics, "Schengen Routing" seems to be a big chance to generate revenues, since every Internet service provider can provide special offers for data storage with the European Union or se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poimapper | Poimapper is field data collection, sharing and analysing software.
Mobile application is used to collect data and update data. By uploading data to a cloud server it is shared among other mobile and office workers.
Poimapper is developed by Pajat Solutions Ltd. Pajat Solutions was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Finland. In 2013 Pajat was awarded the European CSR award for innovative, non-business partnerships that have helped to solve social problems while creating business advantage. The award came from a partnership where NGO's like Plan International were using Poimapper in their health-related monitoring and evaluation work.
References
External links
Data analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Thompson%20Twins%20Adventure | The Thompson Twins Adventure is a 1984 graphic adventure game that was distributed by Computer and Video Games magazine as a promotional 7" flexi disc "freebie" along with its October 1984 issue (Issue 36). The game is based on the Thompson Twins' single "Doctor! Doctor!", and features the Thompson Twins band members as the protagonists. The unusual storage format of the game showcases an experimental technique pioneered by the London-based Flexi Records label, and places the game alongside a small handful of other games distributed on grooved disks. This format never became established and The Thompson Twins Adventure is today valued more for its nostalgic and artifactual value than for its ludological aspects which have been uniformly panned by critics.
Plot
Based on the Thompson Twins' 1984 "Doctor! Doctor!" single, the plot of The Thompson Twins Adventure revolves around the efforts of the three Thompson Twins members (Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie, and Joe Leeway) to gather ingredients for the concoction of the titular doctor's potion. The game opens with the Thompson Twins at a beach location. From there they must travel through several areas including a forest and a cavern to search for ingredients for the doctor's potion. When they have collected all ingredients and located the doctor, the doctor creates his potion and the game ends.
The nature of the doctor's potion was the secret answer to a competition launched concurrently with the game's release by Computer and Video Games. The contest ran for one month (ending on 16 November 1984) during which time contestants were intended to gather and examine clues by listening to the "Doctor! Doctor!" single (a selection of which was included on the flexi disc), listening to the game's special introduction message recorded on the same disc by the Thompson Twins, and playing through the game. When the identity of the potion was discovered, contestants were supposed to send in their answers to Computer and Video Games. The first correct answer would win the grand prize: free tickets to an upcoming Thompson Twins concert with the opportunity to meet the musicians backstage afterward. Prizes would also be awarded to ten runner-ups. Due to difficulties in the creation of the Commodore 64 version of the game, the contest deadline was extended by an extra month (i.e., to December 1984) for Commodore 64 users. The winner of the Spectrum competition was announced as Alison Wagstaf in the magazine's January 1985 issue (Issue 39). The winner of the Commodore 64 version of the contest would get tickets to and backstage access at a later concert.
Gameplay experience
Installation
To begin playing The Thompson Twins Adventure a player must transfer the game data from the flexi disc to the microcomputer (ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64). This can be accomplished in two ways. For both ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 the recommended method involves making an intermediate 33 rpm recording from the flexi disc onto an aud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk%27d | Steampunk'd is an American reality television series broadcast by Game Show Network. The series, hosted by Jeannie Mai, premiered August 19, 2015. The contestants (called "makers") are crafters and designers who specialize in the steampunk genre.
Production
The series was green-lit on March 10, 2015, along with Lie Detectors. GSN later announced Mai as host on June 15. The series premiered August 19, 2015.
Contestants
The 10 steampunk artists competing in the first season are:
Contestant Progress
The contestant won Steampunk'd.
The contestant was the Runner-Up.
The contestant in 3rd Place.
The contestant was on the winning team that week.
The contestant was on the losing team that week, but was safe.
The contestant was in the bottom 2.
The contestant was eliminated.
The contestant was on the winning team, but was eliminated.
‡ The contestant was the team captain that week.
Teams
References
External links
at GSNTV.com
2010s American reality television series
2015 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Game Show Network original programming
Steampunk television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasis%20%28video%20game%29 | Stasis is a 2015 science fiction horror point-and-click adventure game developed by The Brotherhood. Viewed from an isometric perspective, the game requires interactions with computers, combining items and puzzle solving. The game was released on 31 August 2015 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, with Linux and mobile devices planned for future release.
The game centers around the main character John Maracheck who awakes from Stasis aboard an abandoned spaceship. Maracheck must unravel the mysteries aboard the spaceship Groomlake to find his missing wife and daughter, before the spaceship plunges further into Neptune's methane clouds.
The game has been compared with the science fiction horror film, Event Horizon, and the psychological horror adventure game Sanitarium.
Plot
John, his wife Ellen and daughter Rebecca are put into cryogenic stasis bound for Titan. John awakens alone aboard the Groomlake, finding the whole crew dead. Exploring the ship he learns that it is a medical frigate run by the Cayne Corporation for illegal research on unwilling victims. His primary companion is scientist Te'ah, who contacts him by radio. From a variety of PDAs he learns that senior scientist Dr. Malan created project SEED, designed to create supersoldiers by reactivating dormant human genes through torturous experimentation and forced impregnations, resulting in the creation of animalistic and vicious mutant humans referred to as 'hybrids'. Several of these hybrids escaped and butchered the crew, skinning them for their subdermal tags to allow them to roam the ship freely. Concurrently, a ravenous fungus and insect infestation crippled numerous ship systems. John is eventually captured by Malan, who kills his daughter in revenge for John sabotaging the ship's oxygen gardens.
Reaching the escape deck, John shatters a portal and vents Dr. Malan into space, before falling and breaking his leg. Reluctantly, Te'ah acknowledges she engineered the hybrids' escape and destruction of the Groomlake, in order to find Ellen, in who bone marrow Te'ah has implanted genetic material containing all of Malan's research, which Te'ah plans to sell in vengeance against Cayne Corporation for the murder of her husband. John tricks the ship security systems into killing Te'ah, ruining the last stasis pod in the process. John reprogrammes the escape shuttle to take his wife away from the ship. In an epilogue, it appears Ellen has been dead all along.
Gameplay
The game adopts the classic point-and-click system to allow interactions with the environment and utilises PDA data to help unravel aspects of the story.
Music
The game's soundtrack has been composed by Mark Morgan, with additional by Daniel Sadowski.
Development
The game was part funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, raising $132,523 in December 2013. By that time, the game had already been in development for three years by The Brotherhood, a three-man team based in South Africa. This allowed for an alph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Ruhan | Andrew Joseph Ruhan (born September 1962) is a British businessman and motor racing driver. Andrew Ruhan became successful during his 22 years of experience as business leader in the Data Centre industry globally (with total of 30 years of property development experience), Andy has extensively worked globally in the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia. His accomplishments have been recognised worldwide which includes being hailed as Ernst & Young, Entrepreneur of the Year 2001 awardee. He has been involved in a legal dispute with his former business partners over the profits from the sale of 37 Thistle Hotels in the 2000s
Career
Ruhan joined the board of the Lotus F1 in 2013, and took control of the team the following season. His involvement in the team ended when Renault re-purchased the team in December 2015.
See also
Gerald Martin Smith
References
British businesspeople
British racing drivers
Living people
1962 births
Formula One team owners
24H Series drivers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Academy | A Code Academy or Coding Academy is a coding bootcamp, a set of intensive classes focusing on computer programming training.
Code Academy or Coding Academy may also refer to:
Codecademy, an online platform that offers programming classes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%205%20%28Uruguay%29 | Canal 5 (English: Channel 5) is an Uruguayan national television network owned by the Ministry of Education and Culture. The channel began broadcasting on June 19, 1963.
References
External links
Television networks in Uruguay
Television stations in Uruguay
Mass media in Montevideo
1963 establishments in Uruguay
Television channels and stations established in 1963
Spanish-language television stations
State media
Government-owned companies of Uruguay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen%20Cyber%20Army | The Yemen Cyber Army ( Y.C.A ) is a pro-Yemeni hacker group that has claimed responsibility for the defacement of the London-based pro-Saudi Al-Hayat website in April 2015, as well as the exfiltration of data from the Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in May subsequently listed on WikiLeaks.
Associated with the 2015 Yemeni Civil War, the group claims to be based in Yemen itself, but there is speculation from security experts they are Iranian-backed based on IP address information and use of the Persian language. Experts suggest the organization is a manifestation of the ongoing proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Saudi-based Anonymous-affiliated hackers contributed to the ongoing #protest against the Saudi regime.
References
Hacker groups
Cyberwarfare
Yemeni civil war (2014–present)
Cyberwarfare in Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%20Super%20Hero%20Girls | DC Super Hero Girls or DC Superhero Girls (in various countries) is an American superhero web series and franchise produced by Warner Bros. Animation for Cartoon Network based on characters from DC Entertainment that launched in the third quarter of 2015.
DC Super Hero Girls line was later reimagined by Lauren Faust, who had previously worked on The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. This resulted in a full rebrand for the franchise, centered around an eponymous television reboot of the same name, which began airing on Cartoon Network in March 2019. The rebooted series was heavily inspired by Faust's DC Nation Shorts entry Super Best Friends Forever from 2012, while carrying over certain themes from the earlier DC Super Hero Girls web show.
Overview
Premise
At Super Hero High School, well-known DC heroes, both male and female, attend challenging classes and deal with all the awkwardness of growing up with the added stress of having unique superpowers.
Announcement
The multipronged franchise was announced in April 2015. The franchise includes an animated web series, a graphic novel line, books from Random House, Lego tie-ins and action figures from Mattel. The intended audience is girls aged 6–12.
Website
The website was launched in early July 2015. Characters featured at launch were: Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Katana, and Bumblebee. Other characters including Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, Star Sapphire, Beast Boy, Cheetah, Hawkgirl and Catwoman also appear. Amanda Waller is featured as the principal of the series' setting Super Hero High. Many other DC Comics heroes and villains appear in the background as cameos.
Publication history
DC Super Hero Girls was originally launched in 2015 with an animated web short on YouTube. Over the course of 2016, the franchise was expanded with a graphic novel line, additional animated and digital content, toys, and apparel. Diane Nelson, president of both DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, stated in 2016: "We think DC Super Hero Girls can be bigger than a $1 billion brand".
A relaunch of the franchise began with the 2019 DC Super Hero Girls TV series. Also that year, the DC Zoom imprint "launched with the continuation of [the] DC Super Hero Girls" graphic novel line. The DC Ink and DC Zoom imprints were built off both the creative success of the post-New 52 DCYou program, which "employed younger creators than the New 52 titles, with the titles having a more contemporary feel", and "the financial success of the DC Super Hero Girls property". Dan DiDio, DC's co-publisher from 2010 to 2020, explained that "a lot of that had also to do with our interest in getting the young adult marketplace. That was DC testing the waters and wondering what a young adult book would be from DC Comics".
Cast and characters
DC Super Hero Girls has various characters inspired by the DC Universe. Certain charac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Centers%20for%20Environmental%20Information | The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is a U.S. government agency that manages one of the world’s largest archives of atmospheric, coastal, geophysical, and oceanic data. The current director is Derek Arndt.
NCEI is operated by the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), an office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which operates under the U.S. Department of Commerce.
In addition to archiving data, NCEI develops products and services that make data readily available to scientists, government officials, the business community, academia, non-governmental organizations, and the general public.
NCEI provides environmental data, products, and services covering the depths of the ocean to the surface of the Sun.
History
NCEI was created in 2015 from the merger of three NOAA data centers:
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), which includes the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC)
NCEI was established by the in Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235 response to increasing demand for environmental information. The organization was created by merging existing National Data Centers for Weather and Climate, Oceans, Coasts, and Geophysics with the goal of streamlining the collection and preservation of environmental data.
The merger, which came in response to increasing demand for environmental information, was intended to make NOAA's data more useful through the application of consistent data stewardship practices across all science disciplines. NCEI works with the ISC World Data System to make data free and accessible.
Data and services
The NCEI archive contains more than 60 petabytes of data, equivalent to more than 700 million filing cabinets filled with documents. NCEI offers users access to tens of thousands of datasets and hundreds of products. Data are collected by NOAA, other agencies and departments of the U.S. government, as well as by other institutions, organizations, and governments around the world.
Environmental data are collected from many sources, including satellites, land-based stations, ocean buoys, ships, remotely operated underwater vehicles, weather balloons, radar, forecasting and climate models, and paleoclimatological research. Once transmitted to NCEI, data are archived and made available for use by researchers and others in public and private sectors. The data and products offer information about climate and weather, coasts, oceans, and geophysics.
NCEI Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) collaborate on national and international research projects. In 2022, they collaborated with scientists from across the globe to produce world-class research and authored more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Areas of study were as varied as the environmental data housed at NCEI: hurricanes, drought, ocean warmin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArangoDB | ArangoDB is a graph database system developed by ArangoDB Inc. ArangoDB is a multi-model database system since it supports three data models (graphs, JSON documents, key/value) with one database core and a unified query language AQL (ArangoDB Query Language). AQL is mainly a declarative language and allows the combination of different data access patterns in a single query.
ArangoDB is a NoSQL database system but AQL is similar in many ways to SQL, it uses RocksDB as a storage engine.
History
ArangoDB Inc. was founded in 2015 by Claudius Weinberger and Frank Celler. They originally called the database system “A Versatile Object Container", or AVOC for short, leading them to call the database AvocadoDB. Later, they changed the name to ArangoDB. The word "arango" refers to a little-known avocado variety grown in Cuba.
In January 2017 ArangoDB raised a seed round investment of 4.2 million Euros led by Target Partners. In March 2019 ArangoDB raised 10 million dollars in series A funding led by Bow Capital. In October 2021 ArangoDB raised 27.8 million dollars in series B funding led by Iris Capital.
Release history
Features
JSON: ArangoDB uses JSON as a default storage format, but internally it uses ArangoDB VelocyPack – a fast and compact binary format for serialization and storage. ArangoDB can natively store a nested JSON object as a data entry inside a collection. Therefore, there is no need to disassemble the resulting JSON objects. Thus, the stored data would simply inherit the tree structure of the JSON data.
Predictable performance: ArangoDB is written mainly in C++ and manages its own memory to avoid unpredictable performance arising from garbage collection.
Scaling: ArangoDB provides scaling through clustering.
Reliability: ArangoDB provides datacenter-to-datacenter replication.
Kubernetes: ArangoDB runs on Kubernetes, including cloud-based Kubernetes services Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Microservices: ArangoDB provides integration with native JavaScript microservices directly on top of the DBMS using the Foxx framework.
Multiple query languages: The database has its own query language, AQL (ArangoDB Query Language), and also provides GraphQL to write flexible native web services directly on top of the DBMS.
Search: ArangoDB's search engine combines boolean retrieval capabilities with generalized ranking components allowing for data retrieval based on a precise vector space model.
Pregel algorithm: Pregel is a system for large scale graph processing. Pregel is implemented in ArangoDB and can be used with predefined algorithms, e.g. PageRank, Single-Source Shortest Path and Connected components.
Transactions: ArangoDB supports user-definable transactions. Transactions in ArangoDB are atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable (ACID), but only if data is not sharded.
AQL (ArangoDB Query Language) is the SQL-like query language used |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luch%205V | Luch 5V ( meaning ray and sometimes transliterated as Loutch-5V) is a Russian Luch relay satellite which transmits data from the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station, and from other satellites in low Earth orbit. It currently is stationed in the 95° East geosynchronous orbit slot of the Luch network.
Luch
Luch 5V is the third of the MKSR Luch Constellation. Luch 5A was launched on December 11, 2011, and Luch 5B 2 November 2012. They are dual purpose satellites with both military and civil uses, and are similar to those in the US Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.
Luch 5V was built by JSC Information Satellite Systems using the Ekspress-1000A bus, and is an almost clone of the Luch 5A. The only differences are some structural designs that had to be adapted for its companion to orbit, KazSat-3. It has 6 S and Ku band channels with repeaters manufactured by Thales Alenia Space and other equipment manufactured by Sumitomo. The Ku band antenna operates at up to 150 Mbit/s and the S band antenna at up to 5 Mbit/s. The satellite also relays COSPAS/SARSAT signals and Planet-S System data.
The satellite is designed to relay data from the ISS, the new Soyuz-MS and Progress-MS spacecraft, satellites in low earth orbit and rocket launch vehicles.
Launch
Luch 5V was launched on 28 April 2014 on a dual launch with communication satellite KazSat-3. The Proton-M rocket with a Briz-M upper stage launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome launchpad 81/24 at 04:25 UTC. After five burns of the Briz-M upper stage it was placed into geosynchronous orbit.
References
Spacecraft launched by Proton rockets
Spacecraft launched in 2014
Communications satellites of Russia
Satellites using the Ekspress bus
Telecommunications in Russia
2014 in Russia
Roscosmos
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20Redaction | Adaptive Redaction is an alternate version of redaction whereby sensitive parts of a document are automatically removed based on policy. It is primarily used in next generation Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions.
Content and context
The policy is a set of rules based on content and context.
Context can include:
Who is sending (or uploading) the information.
Who is receiving the information (including a website if uploading or downloading).
The communication channel (e.g. email, web, copy to removable media).
The content can be 'visible' information, such as that you see on the screen. It can also be 'invisible' information such as that in document properties and revision history, and it can also be 'active' content which has been embedded in an electronic document, such as a macro.
Purpose
Adaptive Redaction is designed to alleviate "False Positive" events created with Data loss prevention software (DLP) security solutions.
False positives occur when a DLP policy triggers and prevents legitimate outgoing communication. In the majority of cases this is caused through oversight by the sender.
Examples
Sending unprotected credit card information outside an organisation breaches the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS regulations). Many organisations accept credit card information through email, however a reply to an email containing such information would send out the prohibited information. That would cause a breach of policy. Adaptive Redaction can be used to remove just the credit card number but allow the email to be sent.
'Invisible' information can be found in documents and has created embarrassment for several governments.
See also
Data masking
Redaction
Tokenization (data security)
References
Cryptography
Data security
Information technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng%20%28company%29 | DENG is a Danish engineering and equipment supplier located in Accra, Ghana. It was founded in 1988 and the
Chief Executive officer is Jens Schmidt.
History
Founded in 1988
Deng Network
DENG has a distribution network stretching throughout Ghana.
Reference list
Companies based in Accra
Technology companies of Denmark
Danish brands
Ghanaian companies established in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gasarch | William Ian Gasarch ( ; born 1959) is an American computer scientist known for his work in computational complexity theory, computability theory, computational learning theory, and Ramsey theory. He is currently a professor at the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science with an affiliate appointment in Mathematics.
As of 2015 he has supervised over 40 high school students on research projects, including Jacob Lurie. He has co-blogged on computational complexity with Lance Fortnow since 2007. He was book review editor for ACM SIGACT NEWS from 1997 to 2015.
Education
Gasarch received his doctorate in computer science from Harvard in 1985, advised by Harry R. Lewis. His thesis was titled Recursion-Theoretic Techniques in Complexity Theory and Combinatorics. He was hired into a tenure track professorial job at the University of Maryland in the Fall of 1985. He was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 1991, and to Full Professor in 1998.
Work
Gasarch co-founded (with Richard Beigel) the field of Bounded Queries in Recursion Theory and has written many papers in the area capped off by a book on the topic co-authored with Georgia Martin, titled Bounded Queries in Recursion Theory. He has published books such as Problems with a Point, a book with a broad view on mathematics and theoretical computer science which he co-authored with Clyde Kruskal and includes works by other professors such as David Eppstein. He also co-founded the subfield of recursion-theoretic inductive inference named Learning via Queries with Carl Smith. More recently he has been more involved with combinatorics, notably Ramsey Theory. He has written three surveys of what theorists think of the P vs NP problem: in 2002, 2012, and 2019. In 2020 he wrote Mathematical Muffin Morsels: Nobody Wants a Small Piece with Erik Metz, Jacob Prinz, and Daniel Smolyak.
Blog
Lance Fortnow began writing a blog on theoretical computer science with an emphasis on complexity theory in 2002. Gasarch was a frequent guest blogger until 2007 when he became an official co-blogger.
References
External links
Gasarch's Homepage
Living people
American computer scientists
Computability theorists
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Harvard University alumni
Science bloggers
1959 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen%20Nichols | Kathleen Nichols is an American computer scientist and computer networking expert. Nichols is the founder and CEO of Pollere, Inc, a network architecture and performance company based in California, US. Before founding Pollere, Nichols was VP of Network Science at Packet Design, where she was part of the founding team. Prior to Packet Design she was director of advanced Internet architectures in the Office of CTO at Cisco Systems.
Education and background
Nichols holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. She has held several advanced architecture and research positions at Pollere, Cisco, Bay Networks, Com21, Philips Research Labs, Apple Computer, and AT&T Bell Labs. In addition, she was co-chair of the IETF Differentiated Services Working Group, has held several positions with the IEEE Hot Interconnects Symposium, and has been a guest editor of both IEEE Software and IEEE Micro.
Research
Nichols' research focuses on networking and Internet performance. She has written about the problem of bufferbloat, which can lead to failure with Transmission Control Protocol congestion-avoidance algorithms. Bufferbloat causes problems such as high and variable latency, network bottlenecks, and dropped packets. As a buffer becomes full of packets for one TCP stream, packets from other network flows are dropped. The buffers then take some time to drain, before the TCP connection ramps back up to speed and then floods the buffers again.
When the bufferbloat problem is present and the network is under load, even normal web page loads can take many seconds to complete, and simple DNS queries can fail due to timeouts.
Beyond bufferbloat, Nichols has also published additional research on how to control queueing delay, how to improve network simulation with feedback, and how to navigate complexity to achieve high performance.
From September 1984 to December 1985, Nichols was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon State University.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Pittsburgh alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearswift | Clearswift is an information security company based in the UK. It offers cyber-security services to protect business's data from internal and external threats.
The company is owned by Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based HelpSystems.
History
Clearswift was founded as NET-TEL in 1982. One of the co-founders, John Horton, had previously worked at GEC and Acorn Computers.
In 1988, NET-TEL launched Route400, the world's first mail client for MS-DOS (using the X.400 protocol). It was later ported to other platforms.
In 1998, NET-TEL switched its main business to content filtering, as the popularity of the Microsoft Exchange Client took away the mail client market.
In 2001, NET-TEL was rebranded as Clearswift, after a round of venture capital fundraising.
In 2002, Clearswift acquired Content Technologies from Baltimore Technologies, along with the MIMEsweeper brand.
Clearswift extended the MIMEsweeper line to include web and instant messaging filtering. These were marketed as protecting against the leakage of confidential company information on social networking sites - Clearswift argues that instead of banning Web 2.0 sites and services entirely, businesses can actually gain a competitive advantage by making use of them, provided their use is monitored.
In 2003, the company received $6.07 million from its shareholders, including venture capital funds managed by Amadeus Capital Partners, BA Capital Partners, Cazenove Private Equity, and Kennet Partners. Also, it was reported that Clearswift were the providers of a new email filtering system at the House of Commons, responsible for blocking Welsh language emails as "inappropriate content", and preventing MPs receiving copies of a Sexual Offences Bill. Clearswift would not confirm that the House of Commons was a customer, citing customer confidentiality reasons.
In April 2005 Clearswift began to market an SMTP appliance (email gateway) based upon the technology.
In January 2008, failure to renew a domain name caused loss of email services to 5% of Clearswift's customers.
In Dec 2009, Clearswift sold the Deep-Secure, Bastion and Flashpoint products in to a spin-off company, "Deep Secure".
In November 2011, Clearswift was sold to Lyceum Capital.
In August 2012, Clearswift acquired Jedda Systems Pty Ltd.
In February 2013, Clearswift acquired Microdasys in order to strengthen its web product line.
In January 2017, Clearswift was acquired by Swiss defense company RUAG as part of its RUAG Defence Cyber division.
In December 2019, Clearswift was acquired by HelpSystems to expand its cybersecurity portfolio.
Research & development
Clearswift has its main engineering office based in Arlington Business Park (Theale, UK). A smaller engineering office is in Adelaide, Australia which was part of the Jedda acquisition.
References
External links
https://www.clearswift.com/
Companies established in 1982
Companies based in Berkshire
Privately held companies of the United Kingdom
1982 establishments in th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooops%21%20Noah%20Is%20Gone... | Ooops! Noah Is Gone... (also known as All Creatures Big and Small in the United States and Two by Two in the United Kingdom and Ireland) is a 2015 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Toby Genkel and co-directed by Sean McCormack based on an idea by Ralph Christians about what happened to the creatures that missed Noah's Ark.
A sequel, Ooops! 2: The Adventure Continues... (alternative title Two by Two: Overboard!), was released on July 21, 2022.
Plot
Set in the Genesis flood narrative, Dave is a Nestrian, a brightly coloured aardvark-like creature whose only skills seems to be making comfortable nests and secreting a foul-smelling cloud of blue gas whenever he gets emotional. Dave is constantly moving around searching for a place to stay, a real home, much to the despair of Finny, his son, who only wants to make friends. After hearing a rumor of a flood that is said to cover the whole world, Dave packs up again and takes Finny to the gathering of other animals where their only salvation awaits: an ark huge enough to fit in all the animals of the world. With their use of some creative thinking, some Nestrian craftsmanship, and the involuntary help of Hazel and her daughter Leah, who are panther-like creatures called Grymps, they manage to sneak on the ark after all.
Just when the day seemed to have been saved, Dave and Hazel realize that Finny and Leah have disappeared. Their curiosity having gotten the better of them, they were on the scaffolding as the tidal wave hit the boat and it sailed away. Their parents panic as the ark sails away, leaving their children stranded on the last bit of land not yet engulfed by the water. Their desperate race against time begins. Leah, who is a born hunter is burdened with the clumsy and awkward Finny. Somehow, they manage to escape from the rising water, but the Griffins a couple of flying foxes. Eventually add two more animals who were also rejected from the ark to their ranks, as they meet Obesey the whale and his companion who is a squid-like parasite called Stayput. Finding his footing, surrounded by his new group of friends, Finny starts to emerge as the brave hero that he really is.
Meanwhile, their parents must get over their differences to work together, fight their way through gorilla guards and the egotistical Lion Captain to take control of the ark and save them. Having had many adventures, the "Fearless Four" manage to fight the continuing attacks of two Griffins who see Leah and Finny as their dinner. Eventually, the griffins and Obesey fall into the rising water along with Stayput. As the water reaches the top of the mountain where Leah and Finny are, the parents manage to take control of the ark and steer it to the mountaintop.
When the ark passes through a iceberg, it turns out to be hard to climb on. Finny first manages to climb on the ark, but he does not want to leave Leah behind and jumps back on the iceberg. Then Leah jumps on board of the ark and uses her sharp cl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelechia%20caudatae | Gelechia caudatae is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Washington.
The larvae feed on Salix caudata.
References
Moths described in 1934
Gelechia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaksea%20Sound | { "type": "ExternalData", "service": "geoshape", "ids": "Q24189522", "properties": { "fill": "#0050d0"}}
Te Puaitaha / Breaksea Sound is a small fiord on the southwestern coast of South Island, New Zealand in the Tasman Sea. Breaksea Island in Fiordland National Park lies at its entrance. In the 1850s, early settlers Henry Hirst and John Watts-Russell explored the area for flat land suitable for sheep farming, but they were unsuccessful.
In October 2019, the name of the fiord was officially altered to Te Puaitaha / Breaksea Sound.
References
Fiords of New Zealand
Sounds of Fiordland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepi | Hepi or HEPI may refer to:
Hepi (name)
Hepi TV, a Serbian television network
Higher Education Price Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper%20%28admissions%20test%29 | Casper (Computer-Based Assessment for Sampling Personal Characteristics, earlier CASPer or "CMSENS") is an admissions test developed by Harold Reiter and Kelly Dore. Made for the McMaster University's Program for Educational Research and Development, it has been used by the McMaster University Medical School since 2010. The test was developed to assess an academic applicant's personal and professional attributes in the pre-screening stage of the application process. The test, which is a form of situational judgement test, consist of video- or word-based scenarios, based on real-life situations. Candidates have five minutes to answer three questions.
Casper was piloted by Northern Ontario School of Medicine in the 2014 application cycle. In 2015 the test was adopted by three medical schools: the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New York Medical College. It is currently in use at over 70 medical schools worldwide.
Braden MacBeth criticised Casper on Science-Based Medicine for lack of transparency, flawed studies and a conflict of interest. MacBeth concludes "CASPer should not be incorporated into the medical school admissions process".
References
Tests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadchurch%20%28series%203%29 | The third and final series of the British crime drama Broadchurch began airing on the ITV broadcast network in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2017 and is set three years after the events of series two. The eight-episode series follows the rape of a local woman in the fictional, close-knit coastal town of Broadchurch in Dorset, England. The return features series stars David Tennant and Olivia Colman and many other actors from the first two series.
Production
Production approval
While conceiving and writing the first series of Broadchurch in 2012, Chris Chibnall designed his story to be told as a trilogy but, of course, the first series had to be self-contained in case the show did not do well in the ratings and a second series was not commissioned. When he pitched series one to ITV, in the autumn of 2012, he pitched series two and three at the same time.
On 1 December 2014, a number of media outlets reported that ITV had commissioned a third series of Broadchurch.
On 23 February 2015, ITV confirmed that Broadchurch, as well as David Tennant and Olivia Colman, would return for a third series, repeating the use of "Broadchurch will return" after the closing credits. Jane Featherstone and Chris Chibnall continued as executive producers of the programme in series three, with Dan Winch replacing Richard Stokes as producer for the final series. Chibnall is the lead writer.
Writing
Filming for the third series began in May 2016 and broadcast started on 27 February 2017. The final series follows Miller and Hardy as they investigate a serious sexual assault. Creator Chris Chibnall said, "We have one last story to tell, featuring both familiar faces and new characters. I hope it's a compelling and emotional farewell to a world and show that means so much to me." The Shores, Dorset's Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), and the Dorset Rape Crisis charity, along with various police advisers, assisted Chibnall throughout writing the scripts.
Casting
David Tennant and Olivia Colman were the first two cast members to be confirmed to return for the third and final series. On 12 April 2016, ITV officially announced the casting for the third and final series, with Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Arthur Darvill, Carolyn Pickles and Adam Wilson returning to play their respective roles as Beth Latimer, Mark Latimer, Rev. Paul Coates, Maggie Radcliffe and Tom Miller. Joe Sims confirmed his return as Nigel Carter via Twitter. Charlotte Rampling confirmed she would not return as Jocelyn Knight QC, with her character's absence explained in the second episode as being due to her being involved in a big trial in London.
Actors new to Broadchuch include Mark Bazeley, Georgina Campbell, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Charlie Higson, Sarah Parish, Lenny Henry, Roy Hudd, Sunetra Sarker, Sebastian Armesto, Becky Brunning, Jim Howick, Chris Mason and Deon-Lee Williams.
Cast
Characters in series three of Broadchurch included the following:
Police
Detective Inspector Alec Ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20We%20Bare%20Bears%20episodes | We Bare Bears is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network. Created by Daniel Chong and directed by Manny Hernandez, it follows the adventures of Three adopted anthropomorphic Bears, Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear (voiced respectively by Eric Edelstein, Bobby Moynihan, and Demetri Martin), as they navigate life among humans in San Francisco.
The first six episodes of the series were aired during the final week of July 2015, starting on July 27. The network renewed the series for a second season in August 2015. The first season ended on February 11, 2016, and the second season premiered on February 25, 2016. The series was renewed for a third season in October 2016 which premiered on April 3, 2017, and the second season ended a week later on April 11, 2017; the second and third-season episodes alternated between each other for the first two weeks of April. On March 8, 2018, the series was renewed for a fourth and final season.
Series overview
Episodes
Pilot (2014)
A pilot for the series was produced by Cartoon Network Studios and was released in 2014 at the KLIK! Animation Festival in Amsterdam. Following its release, it received the festival's "Young Amsterdam Audience" award. The pilot was aired over a year later, on Cartoon Network's feed for the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Season 1 (2015–16)
Season 2 (2016–17)
Season 3 (2017–18)
Season 4 (2018–19)
Film (2020)
On May 30, 2019, Cartoon Network announced We Bare Bears: The Movie. On May 21, 2020, the movie was announced to release digitally on June 30, 2020, and premiered on Cartoon Network on September 7, 2020. The film was also leaked on Amazon on its intended DVD date, June 8, but was removed shortly after.
Shorts
Season 1
Season 2
All of these shorts below (along with "Goodnight Ice Bear") were shown after the initial broadcast of the Teen Titans Go! and The Powerpuff Girls (reboot) crossover special "TTG v PPG" and are part of the show's second season.
Season 3
These five shorts aired as part of the third season and aired together on TV on April 27, 2017. TV Guide and other sources say these shorts make an episode called "We Bare Bears Digital Shorts 3".
References
External links
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
2010s television-related lists
We Bare Bears |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod%20Mathur | Vinod Mathur (born 11 November 1953 in Jaipur, Rajasthan) is an Indian computer hardware engineer who played for Rajasthan cricket team from 1971 to 1985. He played 83 first-class and four List A matches. He was named in Rajasthan High Court panel of selectors for selection of senior cricket teams.
References
External links
RCA
cricketarchive
1994 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Rajasthan cricketers
Cricketers from Jaipur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aotearoa%20Television%20Network | The Aotearoa Television Network (ATN) was the first, yet unsuccessful television station operating in the Māori language.
What would eventually become ATN started out in early 1996, when Te Māngai Pāho started looking for tenders for a trial service operating on a UHF licence in Auckland. The winner of the TMP contract, led by Puhi Rangiaho, Tawini Rangahau, Morehu McDonald, Robert Pouwhare and Tukuroirangi Morgan, was announced on March 7 and broadcasting commenced on May 1. The pilot service became regular in October, becoming a normal regional station. TMP's budget only allowed a 500-watt transmitter which resulted in weak or no signal in the ATN catchment area.
Insufficient funding and related uncertainties resulted in the closure of this pilot service in early 1997.
See also
Māori Television, a successful, bilingual service
Te Reo (TV channel), Māori Television's sister channel, entirely in Māori
References
Māori culture
Māori language
Māori organisations
Indigenous television
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1997
Māori mass media
Defunct television channels in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCri%20Kallas | Jüri Kallas (born 20 April 1967) is an Estonian science fiction expert, translator, publisher and editor.
Jüri Kallas has worked for publishers Elmatar and Fantaasia as a compiler and editor. He is currently working on handing out the Estonian Science Fiction Association award Stalker, developing the Estonian science fiction bibliography and is an active contributor for the online science-fiction magazine Reaktor. He has written afterwords for novels and collections. He has translated into Estonian texts by Vladimir Arenev, Alexander Belyaev, Kir Bulychev, Robert E. Howard, Rafał Kosik, Henry Kuttner, H. P. Lovecraft, H. L. Oldie, Viktor Pelevin, Alexandr Siletsky, Mikhail Uspensky, Ilya Varshavsky and others. In addition, Jüri Kallas has worked for different publishers, choosing and editing dozens of crime and romance novels and written forewords for them. He has also published literature criticism and his views and opinions about current political events in Estonia. He has been an editorial board member of the online magazine Algernon.
Publications
Anthologies (compiler)
"Olend väljastpoolt meie maailma" (Öölane) Tartu: Elmatar, 1995
"Stalker 2002" (Maailma fantastikakirjanduse tippteoseid) Tartu: Fantaasia, 2002
Collections (compiler and/or foreword)
H. P. Lovecraft "Pimeduses sosistaja" (Öölane) Tartu: Elmatar, 1996
Robert E. Howard "Conan ja Musta ranniku kuninganna" (Tempus fugit) Tartu: Elmatar, 1999
Robert E. Howard "Conan ja värelev vari" (Tempus fugit) Tartu: Elmatar, 2000
Robert E. Howard "Conan ja punane kants" (Tempus fugit) Tartu: Elmatar, 2000
Veiko Belials "Helesiniste Liivade laul" (Maailma fantastikakirjanduse tippteoseid) Tartu: Fantaasia, 2002
Indrek Hargla "Hathawareti teener" (Maailma fantaasiakirjanduse tippteosed) Tartu: Fantaasia, 2002
Robert E. Howard "Pimeduse rahvas" (Maailma fantaasiakirjanduse tippteosed) Tartu: Fantaasia, 2002
H. G. Wells "Mister Skelmersdale haldjamaal" (Hea tuju raamat) Tartu: Fantaasia, 2002
Robert E. Howard "Aed täis hirmu" (Maailma fantastikakirjanduse tippteoseid) Tartu: Fantaasia, 2003
Stephen King "Kõik on mõeldav: 14 sünget lugu" Tallinn: Pegasus, 2003
Stephen King "Kõik on mõeldav: 14 sünget lugu" Tallinn: Pegasus, 2005
Indrek Hargla "Suudlevad vampiirid" (Eesti fantastikakirjanduse tippteosed) Tartu: Fantaasia, 2011
Novels (afterwords)
Isaac Asimov "Teine Asum" Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1996
Roger Zelazny "Valguse Isand" (Öölane) Tartu: Elmatar, 1997
Robert A. Heinlein "Nukkude isandad" (Tempus fugit) Tartu: Elmatar, 1998
Robert Silverberg "Aja maskid" (Tempus fugit) Tartu: Elmatar, 1998
Ray Bradbury "Vist on kuri tulekul" (Tempus fugit) Tartu: Elmatar, 1999
Arthur C. Clarke "Lapsepõlve lõpp" (Tempus fugit) Tartu: Elmatar, 1999
Philip K. Dick "Blade Runner: Kas androidid unistavad elektrilammastest?" (42) Tallinn: Tänapäev, 2001
Kurt Vonnegut "Kassikangas" (42) Tallinn: Tänapäev, 2001
Michael Moorcock "Saatusemerel purjetaja" (Maailma fantaasiakirjanduse tippteoseid) Tartu: Fantaasia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20forum | A crime forum is a generic term for an Internet forum specialising in computer crime and Internet fraud activities such as hacking, identity theft, phishing, pharming, malware or spamming.
During the early days of the Internet, public dial up BBSes would serve to put miscreants in touch with one another to share tips of credit card fraud, hacking and other illicit services.
By the 2000s and the rise of the modern internet, modern internet forum software was preferred, with private invite-only sites being the most long lived. Sites like ShadowCrew, counterfeitlibrary.com and the Russian language carderplanet.com would specialise in various illegal activities before each eventually succumbing to law enforcement action.
By 2015, notorious forums such as Darkode would be infiltrated and dismantled prior to returning with increased security.
As of July 2015, there are estimated to be several hundred such forums.
See also
Carding (fraud)
Darknet market
Hacker (computer security)
Hacker group
Operation Shrouded Horizon
Nulled
References
Cybercrime
Internet forums
Internet fraud
Crime forums
Dark web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%20Abbate | Janet Abbate (born June 3, 1962) is an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on the history of computer science and the Internet, particularly on the participation of women in the field.
Academic career
Abbate received her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College and her master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She also received her Ph.D. from the in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. From 1996 to 1998, she was a postdoctoral fellow with the IEEE History Center, where she conducted research on women in computing. She joined the faculty of Virginia Tech's Northern Capital Region campus in 2004 and is now an associate professor and the co-director of the graduate program in Science, Technology, and Society.
Prior to her academic work, Abbate was a computer programmer herself. Her background in computer programming has influenced her research approach and has been cited as relevant in reviews of her work.
Research
In 1995, Abbate co-edited Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure with Brian Kahin.
Abbate is the author of two books: Inventing the Internet (2000) and Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing (2012). Inventing the Internet was widely reviewed as an important work in the history of computing and networking, particularly in highlighting the role of social dynamics and of non-American participation in early networking development. The book was also praised for its use of archival resources to tell the history. Though some have criticized the work, citing Abbate's computer programming background as causing issues in presenting a non-technical narrative. She has since written about the need for historians to be aware of the perspectives they take in writing about the history of the Internet and explored the implications of defining the Internet in terms of "technology, use and local experience" rather than through the lens of the spread of technologies from the United States.
Recoding Gender also received positive reviews, especially for its incorporation of interviews with women in the field and for providing a historical overview of how women and gender have shaped computer programming. However, the book has also been criticized for being disjointed—that the link of "women in computing" is not strong enough to hold the different chapters together. The book received the 2014 Computer History Museum prize.
See also
History of the Internet
Protocol Wars
References
1962 births
Living people
Virginia Tech faculty
Science and technology studies scholars
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Radcliffe College alumni
21st-century American women educators
21st-century American educators
21st-century American academics
21st-century American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20M.%20Smith%20Jr. | Nicholas Monroe Smith Jr. (1914 – 2003) was a nuclear physicist and research consultant. Smith was an expert on reactor physics, a developer of operations research/computer modeling, and a computer applications consultant. He had ties to the Manhattan Project at Chicago and Oak Ridge, and worked with Samuel Allison and James Van Allen. Smith was a pioneer in the field of operations research.
Early life and education
Smith was born on March 23, 1914, in Little Rock, Arkansas, the son of Nick Monroe Smith and Mary Gossett.
He attended the University of Arkansas and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and physics.
According to the US Census, in 1940 Smith and his wife Elizabeth resided in Chicago, Illinois.
At the University of Chicago, he earned a master's and doctoral degrees in physics. He worked in the Ryerson Physical Laboratory,
At University of Chicago, his advisor was Samuel Allison and graduate studies involved work on Chicago Pile-1, the first controlled nuclear chain reaction by Enrico Fermi.
Smith landed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., and performed research with James Van Allen in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. In addition to Allison, Smith worked with physicist Lester Skaggs to design an aircraft proximity detection system that utilized radio waves to locate and detonate anti-aircraft shells.
Career as a physicist
Following the outbreak of World War II, Smith obtained a position at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. As a civilian scientist, he was assigned to the Army Air Force in England, and
planned railway targets for airstrikes in support of D-Day. For this work he was presented with the Medal of Freedom.
After World War II, Smith worked as a physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee from 1946 to 1951. He studied and reported on the dangers of radioactive material contamination from nuclear weapons.
In 1949, Smith at Oak Ridge conducted a study sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.)'s Division of Biology and Medicine, and performed calculations to determine the theoretical number of atomic bomb detonations necessary to achieve significant radiation exposure and radioactive material fallout. In 1951 after the Ranger and Greenhouse tests, Smith reassessed the earlier calculations and estimates. He determined that detonation of 100,000 Nagasaki type bombs would be sufficient to achieve the doomsday effect. With this information, the A.E.C.'s staff of the Division of Biology and Medicine concluded this to be extremely remote and dubbed the study as Project GABRIEL.
Project GABRIEL
In the AEC, the group responsible for Project GABRIEL was the Division of Biology and Medicine. The Division was charged with maintenance of experimental studies and field studies. The Division was required to collect and analyze data from internal and external sources. In 1949, Smith performed a theoretical analys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrister%20Ranjit%20Mohanty%20Group%20of%20Institution | The Barrister Ranjit Mohanty Group of Institution (BRM) was established in 2000 as BRM trust for providing education in computer science for school students for Government of Odisha. Subsequently, it diversified by adding engineering, management and vocational courses to its curriculum. All the courses except diploma engineering courses are affiliated with Biju Patnaik University of Technology. The diploma engineering courses are affiliated to SCTE & VT of Odisha.
History
The BRM group of Institution was established in 2000 as BRM trust for giving computer education through the E-School Project of Government of Odsha. In 2001, it started its first in class education with diploma education. A year later, it added BBA & BCA under Utkal University. Again in 2003 it started a 2-year full-time MBA programme under affiliation of BPUT, which was approved by AICTE. Subsequently it added MCA, B. Tech & M. Tech to its curriculum.
Academic profile
BRM Group is a group of colleges in Odisha. More than 2000 students got enrolled to the college in every years curriculum. It is subsidized with BRM International Institute of Technology, BRM International Institute of Management & BRM B-Schools. Its curriculum is maintained as per the university norms of BPUT & AICTE. The educational group has collaborated with many international organisations for increasing its values and name.
Campus and facilities
The institution is spread over 8 acres of land, situated on the banks of Kuakhai river. It can reached through NH-16 (formerly NH-5). The closest railway station is Bhubaneswar railway station and the closest airport is Biju Patnaik Airport.
Courses offered
Master of Technology (M. Tech)
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Master of Computer Application (MCA)
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech)
Diploma in Engineering
References
External links
Education in Odisha
2000 establishments in Orissa
Educational institutions established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BICS%20%28company%29 | BICS is active in digital communications, cloud communication services, mobility and IoT for telecom players, Virtual Network Operators, service providers, enterprise software providers and global enterprises. It is a subsidiary of Proximus Group. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium with sales offices and Service Operation Centers worldwide, including Dubai, Singapore, Bern, San Francisco and New York. BICS provides services across more than 200 countries, carries around 50% of the world's data roaming traffic and partners with more than 500 mobile operators. In 2021 BICS carried over 20.8 billion minutes of international traffic and generated revenues for 999 million Euros.
History
1997, Belgacom created its International carrier Services business unit. Later, in the early years 2000, the Belgacom Group deliberately separated the financial reporting of its International Carrier Services to increase financial transparency and accountability.
January 2005, the international carrier activities were transferred into a wholly owned subsidiary: BICS SA (Belgacom International Carrier Services SA).
July 2005, Belgacom SA and Swisscom agreed to consolidate their international carrier businesses into a joint venture company, Belgacom International Carrier Services SA (BICS). In this JV Belgacom spun off all the existing international telecommunications carrier services activities and related assets previously run within the Belgacom Carrier & Wholesales business unit. As a result of this transaction, Swisscom and Belgacom assumed joint control over Belgacom International Carrier Services SA (BICS) with respectively 72% and 28% shares.
June 2009, BICS announced an agreement with South Africa's MTN Group to combine international carrier services. Under the terms of the deal MTN took an equity stake in BICS in return for merging the assets of its own international wholesale subsidiary MTN ICS. BICS operated as MTN's official international gateway for carrier services globally. Post implementation of the transaction, BICS’ shares distribution becomes the following: Belgacom own 57.6% of BICS, Swisscom 22.4% and MTN 20.0%.
October 2017, BICS announced it had completed the acquisition of US-based CPaaS provider, TeleSign.
January 2021, BICS announced the appointment of Matteo Gatta as CEO of the Group
February 2021, Proximus acquired full ownership of BICS, buying out MTN and Swisscom's shares in the company.
May 2021, BICS is recognised in the Niche Players Quadrant in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed IoT Connectivity Services, Worldwide
June 2021, BICS launches 5G test lab environment
December 2021, BICS acquires CPaaS specialist 3M Digital Networks, also known as MobTexting
BICS' coverage
BICS owns and operates a high capacity MPLS enabled global network based on a wholly owned and operated 100Gbit/s capable DWDM network in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, UK and Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20V.%20S.%20Rao | Paranandi Venkata Suryanarayana Rao is an Indian computer scientist, known for his research in the fields of speech and script recognition and is credited with contributions to the development of TIFRAC, the first indigenously developed electronic computer in India. He is a recipient of awards such as IEEE Third Millenium Medal, Vikram Sarabhai Award, Om Prakash Bhasin Award and VASVIK Industrial Research Award. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1987.
Biography
P. V. S. Rao was born on 17 July 1936 to Venkata Suryanarayana and Ramalakshmamma Paranandi in Berhampur, in the Indian state of Odisha. He graduated in science from Utkal University in 1953 and secured a master's degree in science (Physics) from Banaras Hindu University in 1955. Rao joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in the R&D department of computers in 1955. He obtained a doctoral degree in Physics for his work on the display of text and graphics on computer screens from the University of Mumbai.
He worked there for 43 years and at the time of his retirement in 1998, he was serving as senior professor and head of the Computer Systems and Communications Group. During his tenure at TIFR, he worked as the Project Director of a sponsored project on Air Defence Systems (1972–84), and a research project on Knowledge-based Computer Systems sponsored jointly by the United Nations Development Program and the Government of India. He was Professor and Head of the Speech and Digital Systems Group (later named the Computer Systems and Communications Group, 1978–82) and Senior Professor and the Head of the Computer Systems and Communications Group (1980–98).
Rao was involved in the development of TIFRAC, the first electronic computer developed in India in 1955. After its commissioning in 1959, he was involved with computer research activities at the University of Illinois and took part in the development of ILLIAC II, which was commissioned in 1962, in areas related to memory systems. Later, he headed the development of OLDAP, another TIFR computer project. He was associated with several government agencies, including the Technology Development Council and chaired the Working Group on Computers of Electronics Commission of the Government of India.
He also sat on the governing council of the Indian Statistical Institute and the board of CMC Limited. He was President of the Computer Society of India (1980–82) and Chairman of the All India Council of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (1981–83). He also served as a member of the editorial committees of journals such as IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics and Journal of Computer Science and Technology. He was the author of three books, An Introduction to Computer Programming in FORTRAN and other Languages (1980), BASIC Elementary, Standard and Enhanced (1989) and Trends in Computer Architecture: An In-depth Perspective (1991) and contribute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda%20Women%27s%20Network | The Uganda Women's Network (UWONET) is a Ugandan non-governmental organization (NGO) working to advance public policy regarding women's rights. It is an umbrella organisation of national women's NGOs and individuals operating in East Africa. The executive director is Rita H. Aciro-Lakor.
History
UWONET was created after the 1993 East African Women's Conference, held in Kampala, Uganda, in preparation for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995.
1998 Land Act
During the early part of the twenty-first century, women in East Africa provided 85 per cent of the agricultural work, yet owned only 7 percent of the land. Many women's rights organizations and individuals, disillusioned by groups that were not bringing women into the political process, started turning to UWONET – especially their campaign for land reform, which started in 1995. UWONET, in conjunction with the Uganda Land Alliance, lobbied Parliament in 1998 about women's right to inherit land in Uganda. In 1998, the Land Act was passed with provisions for women's rights. This campaign set a precedent for women in Uganda to "work together and to respond to issues in a more timely and aggressive way."
People's Manifesto
In 2000, UWONET published "People's Manifesto", which took on the topics of internal reform in UWONET and also the "need to develop means of incorporating women's concerns" to the leadership level in Uganda. In the run-up to the Ugandan 2001 presidential and parliamentary elections, UWONET spearheaded an initiative that took steps towards challenging the lack of internal democracy in the Movement Government. Together with like-minded organizations, UWONET put together a 26-page manifesto known as the "People's Manifesto" to highlight the people's rights and lack thereof to aspiring presidential candidates. They also published the manifesto to "let parliamentary candidates in the 2002 March elections know the demands that women wanted addressed."
Women's Manifesto
In 2015, UWONET, together with other organisations under The Women's Democracy Group, launched a political document, "The Women's Manifesto 2016–2021", which set out demands taken from a cross section of women in both rural and urban areas. Among other things, the document made five major demands: the betterment of women's health, land and property rights, education, economic empowerment, and decision-making in politics.
Function
UWONET coordinates "collective action" among its members to attain gender equality in Uganda. Since UWONET was founded, women have been contributing more economically and have won land rights from the 1998 Land Act. According to director Lakor, however, there is still a long way to go to reach gender equality.
Programme areas
UWONET'S activities are implemented under four thematic areas; namely:
Economic justice and empowerment. Under this programme area, UWONET seeks to: advocate for gender-responsive trade policies; advocate for increased women's access, ownershi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Schnell | Ronald Steven Schnell (born November 10, 1966) is an American computer programmer in Weston, Florida. He was co-founder of Mail Call in 1997 and the chief technology officer of Rand Paul's 2016 presidential campaign.
Life and work
Schnell began programming in 1975 (age nine), on the IBM 360 mainframe. In 1981, he tested and spoke about SETL (for VAX minicomputers) at NYU's Courant Institute. In 1982, Schnell wrote a chat program for Telenet called NET-TALK, while at the Maryland timesharing company Dialcom; this led to helping test the BBC Micro. Schnell wrote the text adventure game DUNNET in 1983 for MacLisp and 1992 for Emacs Lisp. After high school, Schnell attended Syracuse University from 1984 through 1986, and was a DJ on WJPZ-FM
Between late 1986 and throughout the 1990s, Schnell was a Unix kernel consultant. He moved to the west coast, and founded his first startup in 1990, Secure Online Systems. He co-founded Mail Call in 1997 in Florida; the product used IVR and back-end text-to-speech (subscribers could call a toll-free number, and check their email via the telephone—Mail Call was before the invention of the smartphone). From 2002 to 2005, Schnell was a divisional vice president at Equifax. Schnell was general manager of The Technical Committee in Seattle, a court-mandated computer-software-nonprofit that monitored Microsoft's compliance with a federal court ruling.
Starting in 2013, Schnell became an adjunct professor of Computer Security at Nova Southeastern University. In 2015, Schnell also became CTO of the Rand Paul presidential campaign; he hosted a hackathon in San Francisco during July 2015. Schnell designed the app for Paul'16 (featuring a hidden game, vote feedback, donations, and virtual-selfies).
Personal life
Schnell was married in 1994, and has two children. Schnell's home automation system, which he helped specify, was profiled in 1998. Schnell plays Segway polo, and in 2007 co-founded the Polo Bears team.
References
Notes
External links
Official page
Faculty page at Nova
1966 births
Living people
American chief technology officers
Syracuse University alumni
Rand Paul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo%20Rosenblueth%20Foundation | Arturo Rosenblueth Foundation named in honor of the Mexican scientist Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns. It focuses on the field of applied computer science, information systems and information technology.
It is a Mexican academic institution nonprofit. Founded in 1978 by a group of professionals and academics.
Since its inception, the foundation has as its paradigm the technology development to solve relevant problems of Mexico, as well as training qualified in the field of human resources, computing and information applied to solve the problems of society.
It has also developed several technological projects of great impact in Mexico, as in education, health, transport, urban infrastructure, security and quality of life, among others; also participated in the consultation for the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples organized by the EZLN, 6 on March 21, 1999.
The institution collaborates with various organizations and is part of different organizations' accreditation and computing in Mexico. As ANIEI, CONAIC, Conacyt, CANATI of the General Coordination of Technological Universities Assessment Board Plans and Programs of the Secretariat of Public Education.
Since 1980 annually awards the prize Alejandro Medina, which is a prize in informatics awarded by the Foundation Arturo Rosenblueth to professionals and researchers who have made technological contributions to society.
References
Educational foundations
Non-profit organizations based in Mexico
Universities in Mexico City
Educational organizations established in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20South%20Wales%20Metropolitan%20Rail%20Area | The New South Wales Metropolitan Rail Area (MRA) is the government-operated railway network centred on Sydney and bounded by Newcastle Interchange in the north, in the west, and Glenlee and in the south. The MRA contains the entirety of the state's electrified rail network (save for the isolated Skitube Alpine Railway). The MRA is owned by Transport Asset Holding Entity and maintained by Sydney Trains.
Background
Prior to 2004, the entire NSW Government-owned rail network was operated by the then Rail Infrastructure Corporation (RIC). In preparation for the planned lease of the interstate and Hunter Valley networks to the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC), the Transport Administration Act 1988 was amended in 2003 to define a "metropolitan rail area", to be managed by a new agency called RailCorp. The residual non-metropolitan, non-ARTC network remained with RIC as the Country Regional Network, and is now managed directly by Transport for NSW.
Boundaries
At its northern extent, the MRA is bounded by the former terminal station at . Between December 2014 and October 2017, however, trains have only operated as far as Hamilton. Train services were extended back to the new Newcastle Interchange when it opened in October 2017. The northern section of the network extends 165 kilometres from and is electrified for its entire length. The Main North railway continues north from into the ARTC-operated Hunter Valley network.
At its western extent, the MRA is bounded by the former station at Bowenfels, a few kilometres west of the town of Lithgow. In practice, the last MRA station is . The western section of the network extends 158 kilometres from Central and is electrified for its entire length. The Main West railway continues west from Bowenfels into the Transport for New South Wales operated Country Regional Network.
At its south-western extent, the MRA is bounded by the rural locality of Glenlee. The last metropolitan station is , in Campbelltown. The south-western section of the network extends 58 kilometres from Central and is electrified for its entire length. The Main South railway continues south from Glenlee into the ARTC-operated interstate network.
At its south-eastern extent, the MRA is bounded by Bomaderry Station. The south-eastern ("Illawarra") section of the network extends 154 kilometres from Central and is electrified as far south as (119 kilometres from Central). Bomaderry is also the terminus of the South Coast railway. The ARTC-operated interstate network joins the South Coast railway at , south of Wollongong.
The Southern Sydney Freight Line and Sydney Freight Network are physically within, but do not form part of, the MRA. These are reserved for use by freight trains and are operated and maintained by ARTC.
Operations
All Sydney Trains services operate within the MRA. NSW TrainLink intercity and regional services operate within and beyond the MRA.
See also
Sydney Trains
NSW TrainLink
Australian Rail Track Cor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamopedia%20Online | Islamopedia Online was a website dedicated to providing a comprehensive database of information regarding Islam, its most influential leaders, and translations of current topics and religious opinions.
Contents
The stated purpose of Islamopedia Online is to provide news and background analysis on Muslim countries and Islamic topics that are not covered in the Western media due to lack of familiarity with the country, the issues, or the personalities as well as the inability to access reliable sources in their original language. Islamopedia features a database of what they deem the most important religious figures in the Muslim world including their positions. Islamopedia also provides a translation in English of major news articles translated from Arabic, Urdu, and Farsi.
Islamopedia Online is part of the Islam in the West Program, hosted at the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University. It is financially supported by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University, the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard University, the Transatlantic Program on Islam in the West based at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, the Social Science Research Council, and the Minerva Fellowship. It is directed by Jocelyne Cesari.
Through its analysis, Islamopedia has concluded that Salafi, Wahabi, and Athari websites dominate the web due to "context collapse" where individuals can ask questions without reprisal or exposure because the internet "annihilates the context and the identity of the user." Hence the many users accept the answer as the "true Islam" even though they may not apply it to their lives; instead the use of the Islamic website solidifies their identification as Muslim in opposition to the West even though one does not adhere to its edicts or instructions. They also solicit papers from experts for inclusion in the database.
Development
Islamopedia Online was founded in 2007 with a grant from the Carnegie Foundation. Its members initiated a comprehensive survey of major topics, opinions, and authorities in the Islamic world determining that the best resource they could provide was in aggregating information from websites that provided religious opinions from Islamic scholars and leaders. Focusing on Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Urdu, and English, they have collected and aggregated 44,000 entries from over 100 separate websites.
Advisory board
The advisory board of Islamopedia Online includes:
Mahmoud Al-Saify, lecturer in Islamic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School
Gadis Arivia, professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Indonesia
Ali S. Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University
Margot Badran, senior fellow, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Gary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%201%20%28Aarhus%29 | Ring 1, or Ringgaden, is a ring road that surrounds the most central part of Aarhus, Denmark, roughly bounding the neighborhood of Midtbyen. It is part of the Danish national road network and is numbered O1, denoting a ring road. The total length of the road is about 8.8 km.
Geography
Ring 1 connects the major road Marselis Boulevard in the south with Grenåvej in the north at Marienlund. Ringgaden is subdivided according to the geographical location and is named like this (south to north):
History
Ideas for a ring road around Aarhus materialised politically in 1919, and it was subsequently constructed in several stages, beginning in 1923 and finishing in 1938.
See also
Ring 2 (Aarhus)
References
Sources
Aarhus Municipality: Nordre Ringgade, Kommuneatlas
External links
Ring roads in Denmark
Transport in Aarhus
Infrastructure in Aarhus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing%20on%20the%20radio | Gillette Cavalcade of Sports aired at 10 p.m. ET on Fridays from
1942-1960, most frequently from Madison Square Garden. The networks were Mutual (1942–45), ABC (1945–53), and NBC (1953–60). Don Dunphy did blow-by-blow, with Bill Corum (1942–53) and Win Elliott (1953-60)
Blue Ribbon Bouts aired on Wednesdays at 10 p.m., from arenas all over the country. They were first on CBS Radio starting in 1950, switching to ABC in 1955. Russ Hodges and Jack Drees were the original announcers. When Hodges had baseball conflicts, Drees and Steve Ellis handled the broadcasts. Hodges moved to TV in 1951, and Jack Drees and/or Steve Ellis did the blow-by-blow every week until mid-1953. There was network TV, but not radio the next two years. Radio returned to ABC in 1955 with Ellis doing all the bouts through 1957 (Jack Quinlan subbed on November 28, 1956).
Networks
Locally
Locally in New York, boxing was a regular feature on WHN 1050, and to a lesser extent WMCA 570 from the 1930s through 1942, and on WMCA and until early 1949 on 1050. WMCA announcers included Sam Taub in the 1930s and the team of Joe O'Brien and Jimmy Power from 1940-42. WHN/WMGM's blow-by-blow announcers included Don Dunphy, Sam Taub, Steve Ellis, Charley Vackner and Guy LeBow.
WINS had a Wednesday night series from Queensboro Arena in the summer of 1945, with Tedd Lawrence and Joe Tobin on commentary. They also did radio broadcasts of the televised Monday night bouts from Eastern Parkway Arena, starting in the spring of 1954. Les Keiter did these bouts from August thru October of that year, when the series ended.
WMGM added a Monday night series from St. Nicholas Arena, in competition with the WINS series. Ward Wilson and Jim Gordon were the announcers. After that, the only boxing radio in New York was the ABC and NBC network
weekly bouts. In other words, from there on, only national broadcasts of mostly championship fights
were on NY radio.
ABC Radio Sports
NBC Radio Sports
CBS Radio Sports
Mutual Broadcasting System
Boxing mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelechia%20mundata | Gelechia mundata is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from New Mexico.
References
Moths described in 1929
Gelechia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ap%20Bokto | Ap Bokto is a 2014 Bhutanese 3D computer-animated film produced and directed by Karma Dhendup under Athang Animation Studio.
The film was the first Bhutanese 3D animation film to be made and the first animated film to be based from a Bhutanese folk tale. The story of the film revolves around Ap Bokto who encounters and outwits several wild animals whose goal is to make him as their meal.
Production
Production for the film took more than 2 years with a budget of Nu. 4.5 million. The production team was composed of 30 people. Athang Animation Studio's proprietor, Karma Dhendup directed and produced the film. The film's duration is 53 minutes.
Cast
Ap Bokto
(Voiced by:Phurba Thinley)
the main protagonist of the story.
Release
The film was first released in Thimphu in September 2014. The film was scheduled to be screened in other districts in the country but the screening were halted following reports of unauthorized leakage of the film.
Reception
Although the film was aimed at targeting kids above five years of age, it overwhelmingly poured in viewers as young as one-and-a-half year old babies.
Internet traffic Analytics showed there were more than five thousand viewers of Ap Bokto everyday on YouTube and traffic showed 30% of the viewers were from outside Bhutan and almost every country on earth have viewed this channel.
Famous YouTuberPewDiePie has reviewed Ap Bokto's trailer and danced it's song.
The film was positively received by the Bhutanese audience especially by children. By around March 2015, the film, including the relevant comics, has made money amounting to around 40 percent of the Nu. 4.5 million budget. Karma Dhendup has received invitations from European film festivals due to the film's success.
Synopsis
Ap Bokto sequel are yet to be released and synopsis differs but all in line of its original shapes.
Leakage
Dhendup's animation studio was approached by a woman who found a flash drive from a customer containing the film for theatrical release on February 6, 2015. Dhendup believes that the film could have been leaked as early as the end of January 2015. Dhendup said that he heard copies of the film reached India.
Purpose and objective making Ap Bokto
Besides entertainment, Athang aims to instill values to children as it lies at the heart of our collective responsibility as parents, guardians, and mentors.
As we live in a complex and rapidly changing world it becomes crucial to equip our children with values that will not only help them navigate the challenges they encounter but also empower them to become responsible, compassionate, and contributing members of society.
Ap Bokto's film are made to help children develop their character with honesty, integrity, and empathy. The play also distinguishes between right and wrong, ethical decisions even when faced with challenging situations.
Film also depict Long-Term Happiness as many studies show that individuals who prioritize values lead happier and more fulfilling lives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHSC-FM | XHSC-FM is a radio station in Guadalajara. Located on 93.9 MHz, XHSC-FM is owned by Grupo Imagen and carries its Imagen news/talk network.
History
XHSC-FM signed on in the mid-1970s, the original concession being held by José Vargas Santamarina. Vargas Santamarina helped manage MVS Radio stations, and indeed for years this station carried MVS's FM Globo romantic music format.
In the 1990s, XHSC became Radioactivo 93.9, borrowing a format used in Mexico City on XHDL-FM, as MVS and Grupo Imagen formed the Frecuencia Modulada Mexicana alliance. When this broke up in 1999, Imagen retained XHSC, which became the Guadalajara outlet of its news/talk network.
References
Radio stations in Guadalajara
Grupo Imagen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portfolium | Portfolium, Inc. is an American social networking platform company that allows university students and recent graduates to connect with businesses and employers and present their previous academic work and projects to supplement their resumes. The company was founded in 2014 and acquired by Instructure in 2019.
History
Portfolium was founded in 2014 in San Diego by Adam Markowitz. Markowitz was unable to stand out and get hired by employers after numerous interviews, leading him to create a portfolio with the projects and activities he participated in while at UC San Diego, ultimately landing him a job working on NASA's space shuttle program. He then went on to create a prototype social networking platform, in which users would have the ability to create media-rich resumes with their academic projects and activities.
The company was accepted into Evonexus' accelerator 4-month Evostart program in San Diego. The company raised $900,000 in a seed funding round in the summer of 2014, exceeding by more than three times their initial goal of $250,000. Investors included Tech Coast Angels, Taner Halicioglu of Keshif Ventures among others. Portfolium was among the 15 winners of a $10,000 prize from the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, in order to enhance the company's potential global expansion.
Partnerships
Portfolium first reached the alumni association of Markowitz's alma mater, UC San Diego, where he received a positive feedback. The company then secured a partnership agreement with California State University San Marcos, allowing the registration of the university's student and alumni population to Portfolium. The company also signed a contract with the University of California school system to power accounts for students and alumni across all 9 undergraduate campuses. Another partnership was secured with California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. Under that deal, university students were populated into their own exclusive network within Portfolium, with access to further features, such as intergroup communication and the ability to link work within the group. Prior to signing with Portfolium, some Cal Poly students tested other ePortfolio solutions in a benchmark study where Portfolium was ultimately chosen as the unanimous winner.
Website description
Portfolium's online platform is an academic-oriented social networking service, mainly targeting university students and recent graduates. Users can showcase their work by uploading media files such as images, PDFs, videos and other media files onto their profiles. Portfolium has attracted graduates from a wide variety of majors, but engineers and other STEM students understand and utilize the features of the platform the quickest. This was attributed to the fact that its founder was an engineer himself and, when originally designed and marketed, it was done so having the needs of engineers in mind. A mobile iOS application was made available on Portfoliu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event%20store | An event store is a type of database optimized for storage of events.
Conceptually, an event store records only the events affecting an entity, dossier, or policy, and the state of the entity at any point in its history can be reconstructed by replaying its contributing events in sequential order. Events (and their corresponding data) are the only "real" facts that should be stored in the database. All other objects can be derived from these events, meaning they are instantiated in memory by runtime code as needed (e.g. for showing in a user interface). In theory, any object that aggregates over recorded event data is not stored in the database. Instead these objects are built 'on the fly', by traversing the event history. When the aggregated object instance is no longer needed, it can simply be discarded (released from memory).
Example with insurance policies
For example, the event store concept of a database can be applied to insurance policies or pension dossiers. In these policies or dossiers the instantiation of each object that make up the dossier or policy (the person, partner(s), employments, etc.) can be derived and can be instantiated in memory based on the real world events.
Double timeline
A crucial part of an event store database is that each event has a double timeline: This enables event stores to correct errors of events that have been entered into the event store database before.
The two dates are:
Valid date is the date at which the event has become valid.
Transaction date is the date at which the event is entered into the database.
Error correction
Another crucial part of an event store database is that events that are stored are not allowed to be changed. Once stored, also erroneous events are not changed anymore. The only way to change (or better: correct) these events is to instantiate a new event with the new values and using the double timeline. A correcting event would have the new values of the original event, with an event data of that corrected event, but a different transaction date. This mechanism ensures reproducibility at each moment in the time, even in the time period before the correction has taken place. It also allows to reproduce situations based on erroneous events (if required).
Advantages and disadvantages
One advantage of the event store concept is that handling the effects of back dated events (events that take effect before previous events and that may even invalidate them) is much easier.
An event store will simplify the code in that rolling back erroneous situations and rolling up the new, correct situations is not needed anymore.
Disadvantage may be that the code needs to re-instantiate all objects in memory based on the events each time a service call is received for a specific dossier or policy.
Compared to regular databases
In regular databases, handling backdated events to correct previous, erroneous events can be painful as it often results in rolling back all previous, erroneou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Series%20of%20Fighting%2025%3A%20Lightweight%20Tournament | World Series of Fighting 25: Lightweight Tournament was a mixed martial arts event held in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. This event aired on NBCSN in the U.S and on Fight Network in Canada.
Background
This event featured a one night only 8 Man Lightweight tournament to crown a number one contender for the WSOF Lightweight Championship.
On August 24, 2015, it was announced that The field of eight included Islam Mamedov, Mike Ricci, Joáo Zeferino, Rich Patishnock, Jorge Patino, Brian Cobb, Brian Foster and Luis Palomino. Joe Condon replaced Brian Cobb.
Results
Tournament bracket
Patino fought as a replacement for Mamedov due to a torn ACL.
Foster fought as a replacement for Ricci due to an injured hip.
See also
World Series of Fighting
List of WSOF champions
List of WSOF events
References
Events in Phoenix, Arizona
World Series of Fighting events
2015 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Chavarria | Gabriel Chavarria (born April 29, 1989) is an American actor. He played Jacob Aguilar in Hulu's East Los High and was the lead during Season One of USA Network's The Purge.
Career
In 2007, Chavarria made his film debut Freedom Writers. The film was directed by Richard LaGravenese and was released on January 5, 2007. Chavarria played Jacob Aguilar in the Hulu series East Los High, which premiered in 2013. He played Danny, a significant role in the 2016 drama film Lowriders. Chavarria played the human soldier Preacher in the film War for the Planet of the Apes, and a deep-submergence rescue vehicle pilot aboard the American submarine USS Arkansas in Hunter Killer.
In 2018 he had a lead role in the TV series The Purge.
In 2020 he is a main character in the Netflix Original Series, Selena: The Series, playing A.B. Quintanilla, Selena's older brother, bass player, and song writer/producer.
Filmography
Freedom Writers (2007)
A Better Life (2011)
East Los High (2013)
Lowriders (2016)
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
The Purge (2018)
Hunter Killer (2018)
Selena: The Series (2020)
References
External links
Living people
American male film actors
American male television actors
American people of Honduran descent
21st-century American male actors
Hispanic and Latino American male actors
1989 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra%20Innovation%20Network | The CBR Innovation Network (also Canberra Innovation Network or CBRIN) is an initiative of the government of the Australian Capital Territory, that was founded in 2014, and established to accelerate innovation and diversify the economy in the ACT region. The CBR Innovation Network is based on the collaboration of its six Foundation Members: the Australian National University, CSIRO, Canberra Institute of Technology, Data61 (now merged with CSIRO), the University of Canberra, and the University of New South Wales (Canberra, ADFA). One of the CBR Innovation Network's primary programs has been the creation of an innovation district in Canberra, which features a business incubator, a start-up accelerator program and a co-working space.
History
A need for targeted economic development in Canberra was identified by the ACT Government’s Economic Development Directorate in 2014.[2] Canberra Innovation Network was subsequently established in November 2014, with the goal of accelerating innovation and diversifying the ACT region's economy.[1]
Programs
Canberra Innovation Network supports a range of programs within the ACT, including:
- Coworking, a co-working space for entrepreneurs and startups.[5]
- GRIFFIN Accelerator, a 3-month intensive mentoring program for startups.[7]
- Incubator, a mentorship, coworking and learning program for startups[8]
- Innovation Connect Grant, a grant that supports early innovative, entrepreneurial ideas[9]
References
External links
CBR Innovation Network at the ACT Government site
Coworking official site
CBRIN Incubation Support
GRIFFIN Accelerator
Innovation Connect Grand official site
Canberra's universities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Greenberg | Albert Greenberg is an American software engineer and computer scientist who is notable for his contributions to the design of operating carrier and datacenter networks as well as to advances in computer networking and cloud computing. At Microsoft, he is a Corporate Vice President and the director of development for its Microsoft Azure service, which is a cloud computing infrastructure platform that coordinates data centers around the world. In contrast to hard-wired computer networks, firms such as Microsoft are turning increasingly to software-defined networking (or SDN) approaches to run its cloud computing networks by managing virtual networks across "millions of servers". He oversees development of technologies that keep the network running in the cloud, so that when component failures happen, software systems pinpoint the failures and "route around the faulty components;" the technology permits data centers to be "software-defined", allowing the cloud to grow rapidly while being flexible to meet changing needs, as he explained in 2015 in eWeek magazine. His research focuses on the infrastructure of cloud services, management of enterprise networks, data center networks, and systems monitoring.
Greenberg received his PhD in 1983 at the University of Washington as an ARCS Scholar (Seattle Chapter). He has won numerous awards for his contributions: he is an ACM Fellow, received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award in 2015 for his "fundamental contributions to large-scale backbone networks and data-center networks," and won the prestigious SIGCOMM Award in 2015 for "pioneering the theory and practice of operating carrier and datacenter networks." In addition, he publishes in numerous scholarly journals on topics such as networking and cloud computing. He began his career at AT&T Labs and became division manager for network measurement engineering and research, was promoted to executive director and an AT&T Fellow, and was hired by Microsoft in 2007 as a principal researcher. In 2016, he was inducted into the United States National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to the theory and practice of operating large carrier and data center networks."
References
External links
Albert Greenberg Keynote speech
Patents by Albert Greenberg
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Directors of Microsoft
AT&T people
Researchers in distributed computing
Scientists from Seattle
People from Summit, New Jersey
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion%20Support%20Network | The Abortion Support Network is a UK based charity which provides financial assistance, accommodation and consultation to people from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Malta, Gibraltar and Poland who are seeking an abortion abroad.
The charity was founded in 2009 by Mara Clarke.
In 2017 as part of a coalition, ASN made a submission to the Citizens' Assembly. That same year, ASN fund-raised and provided over £73,000 (€84,000) worth of grants for all associated expenses of obtaining an abortion, including travel. The team of volunteers fielded 1,009 phone calls (685 from Ireland) providing free advice.
By 2020, ASN has made over £300,000 in grants, and been contacted by 5000 people. In partnership with five organisations in four countries, ASN launched Abortion Without Borders to help people in Poland access abortions.
See also
Abortion in the Republic of Ireland
Abortion in Poland
National Network of Abortion Funds, a similar organization working in the United States
References
Abortion in the Republic of Ireland
Health charities in the United Kingdom
Reproductive rights
Abortion-rights organisations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalyeserye | Kalyeserye was a soap opera parody segment that was aired live on the Filipino noontime variety show Eat Bulaga! on GMA Network. The mini-show, as it had evolved, focused on AlDub, the fictional couple pairing — or "love team" as it is more commonly known in the Philippines — of Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza's "Yaya Dub" character in which the two only communicate through lip-syncing to various pop songs and movie audio clips as well as written messages, and interact only on the show's split-screen frame. Richards is usually based in Broadway Centrum studio of Eat Bulaga! in Quezon City, Metro Manila while Mendoza travels around to a different external location.
With an initial runtime of a few minutes, the show soon expanded to over a half-hour for each episode, with specials running even longer and for more segments. Runtimes ranged from about 55 minutes on weekdays to about 1 hour and 15 minutes on Saturdays. The show featured live improvisation from Alden Richards, Maine Mendoza, Wally Bayola, Jose Manalo and Paolo Ballesteros, who all played various roles while the other hosts of Eat Bulaga! in the studio served as live commentators (usually as a live "panel" consisting of 3–4 hosts) that interact with the characters and also with the audience. Kalyeserye had elements of comedy-drama, parody, romantic comedy and reality television. According to Anna Leah Sarabia, a Filipino anthropologist, the segment uses fairy tale and soap opera tropes. The term "Kalyeserye" is a play on the Filipino word teleserye (television series) and is a portmanteau of the Tagalog words kalye (street, from Spanish calle) and serye (series, serie). It was coined by Joey de Leon, one of the primary hosts of Eat Bulaga!, to refer to the location outside the studio, which was usually shot out on the streets of Metro Manila or in the provinces of the Philippines that serve as the remote setting of the parody segment.
The portion proved to be a success in both broadcast television and social media, resulting in a significant increase in viewership and popularity of Eat Bulaga! in its 36th year in Philippine entertainment. In addition, it has contributed immensely to the rise of the careers of Richards and Mendoza.
Kalyeserye temporarily ended on September 3, 2016 and returned on October 15, 2016, after a month-break. The segment went on a hiatus on September 3, 2016, and the entire segment concluded on December 17, 2016.
Overview
The show follows the love story of Yaya Dub (Mendoza), a girl who converses only in dubsmash (lip-syncing to phrases from songs and other audio clips), and Alden Richards, a regular guest on the "Juan for All, All for Juan" television segment, during which they begin flirting with each other by dubsmashing and exchanging waves. Yaya Dub's employer, Lola Nidora (Bayola), is initially against the couple's budding romance. Lola Nidora then reveals her Book of Secrets/Secret Diary which contains various reasons for her disapproval. The appea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Comment%20Section | The Comment Section is a weekly American infotainment television series which premiered on the E! network, on August 7, 2015. Announced in May 2015, the show is hosted by Michael Kosta and "explores the biggest stories of the week and all of the outrageous and hilarious comments made about them on social media."
References
External links
2010s American satirical television series
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
E! original programming
English-language television shows
Infotainment
Television series about television
2010s American video clip television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier%20des%20personnes%20recherch%C3%A9es | Fichier des personnes recherchées (File of Wanted People), or FPR, is a French database of criminals and wanted people run by the French Interior Ministry and used by the national police and other law enforcement agencies in France.
About
The FPR began as a paper filing system in 1969, and it included criminals ranging from mafia members to escaped prisoners. The file is also consulted during applications for a national identity card, a passport, a residency card of a visa.
In 1995, the FPR was expanded to include missing people and abducted children.
Each file contains:
identity of the person sought;
physical description and photograph if available;
reason for the search;
instructions in case a wanted person is discovered.
The FPR contained 620,000 records as of 14 November 2018.
Cards
The FPR system includes 21 fiches — subfiles or cards that indicate additional special circumstances, such as:
E card: wanted by immigration officials (police générale des étrangers)
IT card: banned in French territory (interdiction du territoire)
R card: residence in France forbidden (opposition à résidence en France)
TE card: entry into France forbidden (opposition à l'entrée en France)
AL card: mentally ill (aliénés)
M card: underage runaways (mineurs fugueurs)
V card: escaped criminals (évadés)
S card: threat to national security (Sûreté de l'État)
PJ card: wanted by judicial police (recherches de police judiciaire)
T card: debtors to the national treasury (débiteurs envers le Trésor)
See also
Law enforcement in France
Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters
References
External links
2010 Government decree covering the FPR
1969 establishments in France
National Police (France)
French criminals
Counterterrorism in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20as%20a%20service | Search as a service is a branch of software as a service (SaaS), focused on enterprise search or site-specific web search.
The need for search
Searching is an important part of any business database function, either through internal databases, internal document stores, or through the content of a website. This is needed for both internal company staff and for external customers. Although a simple database query such as "List existing customers with a postal code for Argleton" is a trivial piece of in-house software development, probably through SQL, this is a simplistic example. More complex searches such as "Find all product brochure text that references the Bindeez product" or "Search the customer-uploaded reviews for any synonyms of 'caught fire' and 'pets' or 'children'" are more difficult to implement. Search, especially free text search or text searching through images of scanned documents, is a specialist discipline.
Externally-provided search services
By outsourcing the search function to a specialist search company through software as a service, a more capable search function may be available to even the smallest organisation. Two methods are popular for this:
Web-mediated search
One method searches a company's publicly visible web presence. An existing search engine such as Bing or Google is encouraged to web crawl this site, as they would normally do so anyway. A link to the company's favoured search partner is coded onto their web site as a simple HTML web form or search box. When a query is submitted, this search box searches the main Google (or other) corpus for the text string, but only for results from that particular web site. These results are then displayed on the site's page, as if they were returned by the site itself. This feature is very easily implemented: the search form simply includes a site: qualifier in the query string passed to the search engine.
Search as a service
The second method is more sophisticated, although more complex. It can support enterprise search too, searching through private resources that are not visible to the public web. Only this form is commonly termed 'Search as a service'. A search provider company offers a search service and a contract is agreed with the client to support their searches. The client then uses the provider's API to upload content data or indexing metadata (if already available) for the content to be searched. The provider then constructs a search index for this content. If the content is free text data or similar unstructured data, then it is first tokenised by Lucene, or similar process.[i]
Search as a service may also be particularly useful for mobile applications, where the client device is limited for storage, processing speed and connection bandwidth. This approach is taken by Algolia, a popular player in the field. Alternately, newer service providers like ExpertRec[4] have further simplified the approach by avoiding having to upload data via API and instead by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBrace | MBrace is a .NET open-source framework and runtime which introduces a novel programming model for performing large scale computations in public, private and hybrid cloud computing environments. MBrace is inspired by the programming paradigm of asynchronous workflows as introduced in the F# programming language while borrowing ideas from CloudHaskell and HdpH. MBrace is written entirely in F# and provides bindings for F# and C#.
Overview
MBrace is a programming model and framework powered by the .NET software stack that is suitable for distributed programming. Based on the F# programming language, it offers an expressive and integrated way of developing, deploying and debugging large-scale computations running in cloud environments. MBrace is capable of distributing arbitrary code and offers native access to the rich collection of tested libraries offered with the underlying .NET framework. MBrace draws heavy inspiration from the Haskell community, especially from the work on concurrency/parallelism and shares many similar ideas with the HdpH project. Its programming model is founded on the premise that monads, in a recursive higher-order language, offer a rich substrate for expressing many different kinds of algorithmic patterns (i.e.: MapReduce, streaming, iterative or incremental algorithms) which can be defined at the user level as libraries, without the need to change any underlying runtime infrastructure.
Distinguishing features
MBrace offers a series of unique features such as:
Bigger scope: MBrace provides a unified experience for authoring various kinds of algorithms. While other frameworks focus on more specific algorithms or patterns (e.g. MapReduce, actors). MBrace provides such algorithms as extensions (i.e.: the workflow library implementing MapReduce) which can be combined and tweaked by the users.
Centralized deployment, monitoring and debugging: MBrace provides a shell that can be used for centralized monitoring and deployment without the need of batch files, manual copying, etc.
Concise and succinct algorithm development: The code developed using MBrace is not cluttered by orchestration details which makes code maintenance and debugging less cumbersome while its programming model enables less experienced users to tackle with big data and HPC algorithms.
References
External links
The main website of MBrace
.NET software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi%20expression%20programming | Multi Expression Programming (MEP) is an evolutionary algorithm for generating mathematical functions describing a given set of data. MEP is a Genetic Programming variant encoding multiple solutions in the same chromosome. MEP representation is not specific (multiple representations have been tested). In the simplest variant, MEP chromosomes are linear strings of instructions. This representation was inspired by Three-address code. MEP strength consists in the ability to encode multiple solutions, of a problem, in the same chromosome. In this way, one can explore larger zones of the search space. For most of the problems this advantage comes with no running-time penalty compared with genetic programming variants encoding a single solution in a chromosome.
Representation
MEP chromosomes are arrays of instructions represented in Three-address code format.
Each instruction contains a variable, a constant, or a function. If the instruction is a function, then the arguments (given as instruction's addresses) are also present.
Example of MEP program
Here is a simple MEP chromosome (labels on the left side are not a part of the chromosome):
1: a
2: b
3: + 1, 2
4: c
5: d
6: + 4, 5
7: * 3, 5
Fitness computation
When the chromosome is evaluated it is unclear which instruction will provide the output of the program. In many cases, a set of programs is obtained, some of them being completely unrelated (they do not have common instructions).
For the above chromosome, here is the list of possible programs obtained during decoding:
E1 = a,
E2 = b,
E4 = c,
E5 = d,
E3 = a + b.
E6 = c + d.
E7 = (a + b) * d.
Each instruction is evaluated as a possible output of the program.
The fitness (or error) is computed in a standard manner. For instance, in the case of symbolic regression, the fitness is the sum of differences (in absolute value) between the expected output (called target) and the actual output.
Fitness assignment process
Which expression will represent the chromosome? Which one will give the fitness of the chromosome?
In MEP, the best of them (which has the lowest error) will represent the chromosome. This is different from other GP techniques: In Linear genetic programming the last instruction will give the output. In Cartesian Genetic Programming the gene providing the output is evolved like all other genes.
Note that, for many problems, this evaluation has the same complexity as in the case of encoding a single solution in each chromosome. Thus, there is no penalty in running time compared to other techniques.
Software
MEPX
MEPX is a cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux Ubuntu) free software for the automatic generation of computer programs. It can be used for data analysis, particularly for solving symbolic regression, statistical classification and time-series problems.
libmep
Libmep is a free and open source library implementing Multi Expression Programming technique. It is written in C++.
hmep
hmep is a new open source libr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUP%20programming%20language | DUP (DataUnit Processing language) is a special-purpose, interpreted and functional programming language. The DUP language looks like a mixture of C and ASN.1. It borrows its structure from C, while the way of using variables comes from ASN.1. This makes it intuitive for a programmer used to C/C++ and ASN.1 to use the language. It was developed at Ericsson, and used in Ericsson Billing Gateway and Ericsson Multi Activation platform.
Language
Functions
A function is declared as follows:
<return type> <function name> ( <argument list> )
{
<function body>
}
The <return type> is one of the ASN.1 types supported by the application in which is used.
It is possible to add CONST to the type which implies that the return value is constant and can not be changed. A function can also have the return type VOID which means that it does not return anything.
The <argument list> is a comma separated list of arguments.
Each argument is declared as follows:
<argument name> <argument type>
The <argument type> is an ASN.1 data type. It is
also possible to use the ANY type if the type is unknown.
All return values and arguments are passed as reference.
An example of DUP code can be seen below:
CONST INTEGER add(a CONST INTEGER)
{
declare result INTEGER;
result ::= 10;
result += a;
return result;
}
Notes
Ericsson
Programming languages created in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visage%20Technologies%20AB | Visage Technologies AB is a private company that produces computer vision software for face tracking (head tracking, face detection, eye tracking, face recognition) and face analysis (age detection, emotion recognition, gender detection), along with a special business unit in automotive industry. The primary product of Visage Technologies is a multiplatform software development kit visageSDK.
History
Visage Technologies AB was founded in Linköping, Sweden in 2002. The founders of Visage Technologies were among the main contributors to the MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation International Standard. Since Visage Technologies' founders have academic background, Visage Technologies promotes research collaboration with academic institutions, especially with Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb and University of Linköping. From 2015, the company expanded with a new automotive industry business unit that works with object tracking.
Application
Visage Technologies AB is licensing facial tracking technology for industrial and academic clients. Some of the previous and current industrial clients are: Fujitsu, BMW, Coca-Cola, Publicis Groupe, Facerig and Emotiv, while some agencies used visageSDK for mobile apps for Samsung, FX, or X Factor, along with marketing campaigns for Disney, Armani or Škoda.
Various academic institutions as well use visage|SDK to aid them in research, such as United States Naval Academy, Princeton University, Rutgers University, City College of New York, and McGill University. in the fields of face tracking and detection, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and other computer vision studies and applications.
Recently, visageSDK has been used to create solutions for virtual makeup (Oriflame etc.) and 3D face filtering (face masking).
See also
Automotive industry
Biometrics
Computer vision
Emotion recognition
Eye tracking
Face detection
Facial motion capture
Facial recognition system
Game development
Head tracking
Machine learning
Marketing research
Three-dimensional face recognition
visageSDK
References
External links
Software companies of Sweden
Software companies of Croatia
Software companies established in 2002
Development software companies
Companies based in Östergötland County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens%20Walk%20tram%20stop | Queens Walk is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network, previously known as Meadows Centre. The stop is situated on Queens Walk in the Meadows area of the city of Nottingham. It is situated on reserved track and comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the tracks. The stop is on line 2 of the NET, from Phoenix Park via the city centre to Clifton, and trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Queens Walk opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
In the original plans for NET phase two, the stop now known as Meadows Embankment was to be called Queens Walk. However, by popular demand this name was transferred to the stop previously known as Meadows Centre.
Gallery
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadows%20Way%20West%20tram%20stop | Meadows Way West is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network, previously known as Meadows North. The stop is situated on Meadows Way in the Meadows area of the city of Nottingham. The stop is on line 1 of the NET, from Hucknall via the city centre to Beeston and Chilwell.
Meadows Way West opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
In the original plans for NET phase two, the stop was known as Meadows North but was renamed before opening to better reflect its location.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh%20Karri | Ramesh Karri is a researcher specializing in trustworthy hardware, high assurance nanoscale integrated circuits, architectures and systems. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering. Additionally, Karri is the co-founder of Trust-Hub, Embedded Security Challenge and NYU CRISSP center, the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Nanoscale Architectures. He is a member of NYU WIRELESS. He was awarded the Humboldt Fellowship and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Career
Karri received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. In 2011, he was appointed as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering. Karri and a team of researchers from the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering and the University of Connecticut designed new techniques to protect computer systems from Trojan viruses in November 2011. The research improved the ability to conceal valuable but vulnerable information from malicious computer programs. In November 2013, Ozgur Signanolu collaborated with Karri to improve the design for electronic chips and reduce security threats including counterfeit chips and Trojan viruses. Karri contributed to the paper "Security Analysis of Integrated Circuit Camouflaging." In December 2013, it was recognized as the Best Student Paper at the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Karri was appointed as DAC’s chair of security in 2014.
Publications
R. Karri, J. Rajendran, and K. Rosenfeld, "Trojan Taxonomy" a book chapter in "Introduction to Hardware Security and Trust" edited by Mohammad Tehranipoor and Cliff Wang, Springer, New York, USA, 2011, pp. 325–338.
R. Karri and K. Rosenfeld, "Security and Testing" a book chapter in "Introduction to Hardware Security and Trust" edited by Mohammad Tehranipoor and Cliff Wang, Springer, New York, USA, 2011, pp. 385–409.
R. Karri and D. Goodman (EDITORS), "System-level power optimization for wireless multimedia communication" Kluwer Academic Publishers, . This includes the following chapter co-authored with my student.
R. Karri and P. Mishra, "Optimizing IPSec for energy-efficient secure wireless systems" a book chapter in "System-level power optimization for wireless multimedia communication" Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp. 133–152.
J. Rajendran, H. Zhang, C. Zhang, G.S. Rose, Y. Pino, O. Sinanoglu and R. Karri, Fault Analysis-based Logic Encryption, accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computers.
X. Guo and R. Karri, "Recomputing with Permuted Operands - A Concurrent Error Detection Approach", accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design.
J. Rajendran, A. K. Kanuparthi, M. Zahran, S. Addepalli, G. Ormazabal, and R. Karri, "Securing processors against insider attacks: a circuit mi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch%20Communications | Birch Communications was an American provider of IP-based communications, network broadband, cloud computing, and information technology services to small, mid-sized, enterprise and wholesale business customers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. It was acquired by Fusion Connect in 2018 and integrated into the company. Founded in 1996 in the wake of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, several years later the company began acquiring other telecom companies in an effort to increase its network size and service offerings. Birch Communications raised $77.5 million in funding in 2011, and $110 million in funding in 2012 after it financed a new $90 million facility.
Atlanta Business Chronicle named Birch one of Atlanta's Top 50 Private Companies in 2013, and that year company revenues were approximately $207 million. Birch Communications also acquired Cbeyond in 2014 for $323 million, which expanded Birch’s cloud service offerings. In September 2014, Birch announced that they had made 24 acquisitions, worth more than $500 million. Birch has regional operations centers in Atlanta, Macon, Georgia and Emporia, Kansas with approximately 1,400 employees. Tony Tomae serves as Birch’s president and chief executive officer.
History
Founding as Access Integrated Networks (1996–1999)
Birch was founded in 1996 as Access Integrated Networks by Thomas Wright and partners. Initially the headquarters of the IT service provider were located in Macon, Georgia, near Atlanta, Georgia. Access was formed directly in the wake of the Telecom Act of 1996, and initially the company was a "re-seller of telecom services focused on the under-served small- and medium-sized business customer segments." Using a business model developed by its founders such as Thomas Wright, the company used a different funding model than many other competitive local exchange carriers in that they weren't reliant on venture capitalists. By 1997, the company had a client base of around 100.
Early acquisitions (2000–2007)
In 2001, the company's founders began funding acquisitions with their own bank accounts and company profits. By 2002, Access Integrated Networks was serving nine states and had annual revenue of $40 million. Oddo became president and CEO in 2003, also retaining a role as one of three shareholders. Oddo previously had served as chief information officer and president of Graphic Scanning, which had been acquired by Bell South in 1992, and had also served executive roles at NuVox Communications and Network Telephone. In 2003, Oddo "implemented a major shift in business strategy," and focused on building out the size of the company's IP network through acquisitions.
In November 2005, Access Integrated Networks acquired customers from Kentucky-based Cinergy Communications. Access then acquired 43,000 local access lines from Trinsic Communications in November 2006, a Delaware-based provider of local and long distance telephone services. At the same time, Access also assumed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Analytics%20Library | oneAPI Data Analytics Library (oneDAL; formerly Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library or Intel DAAL), is a library of optimized algorithmic building blocks for data analysis stages most commonly associated with solving Big Data problems.
The library supports Intel processors and is available for Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems. The library is designed for use popular data platforms including Hadoop, Spark, R, and MATLAB.
History
Intel launched the Intel Data Analytics Library(oneDAL) on December 8, 2020. It also launched the Data Analytics Acceleration Library on August 25, 2015 and called it Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library 2016 (Intel DAAL 2016). oneDAL is bundled with Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit as a commercial product. A standalone version is available commercially or freely, the only difference being support and maintenance related.
License
Apache License 2.0
Details
Functional categories
Intel DAAL has the following algorithms:
Analysis
Low Order Moments: Includes computing min, max, mean, standard deviation, variance, etc. for a dataset.
Quantiles: splitting observations into equal-sized groups defined by quantile orders.
Correlation matrix and variance-covariance matrix: A basic tool in understanding statistical dependence among variables. The degree of correlation indicates the tendency of one change to indicate the likely change in another.
Cosine distance matrix: Measuring pairwise distance using cosine distance.
Correlation distance matrix: Measuring pairwise distance between items using correlation distance.
Clustering: Grouping data into unlabeled groups. This is a typical technique used in “unsupervised learning” where there is not established model to rely on. Intel DAAL provides 2 algorithms for clustering: K-Means and “EM for GMM.”
Principal Component Analysis (PCA): the most popular algorithm for dimensionality reduction.
Association rules mining: Detecting co-occurrence patterns. Commonly known as “shopping basket mining.”
Data transformation through matrix decomposition: DAAL provides Cholesky, QR, and SVD decomposition algorithms.
Outlier detection: Identifying observations that are abnormally distant from typical distribution of other observations.
Training and Prediction
Regression
Linear regression: The simplest regression method. Fitting a linear equation to model the relationship between dependent variables (things to be predicted) and explanatory variables (things known).
Classification: Building a model to assign items into different labeled groups. DAAL provides multiple algorithms in this area, including Naïve Bayes classifier, Support Vector Machine, and multi-class classifiers.
Recommendation systems
Neural networks
Intel DAAL supported three processing modes:
Batch processing: When all data fits in the memory, a function is called to process the data all at once.
Online processing (also called Streaming): when all data does not fit in memory. Intel® DAAL can process data chunks individ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion%204K | Fashion 4K is a 24-hour New York City-based satellite television channel broadcast in Europe that operates under the Fashion One television network. The channel was officially launched in New York City on September 1, 2015, and is the first English language free-to-air channel to be broadcast in 4K resolution (or Ultra High Definition) in Europe. Fashion One also officially launched its sister channel Fashion One 4K in Asia, Latin America and North America as the first true international launch of a UHD channel. Both channels operate under Fashion One's network which is owned by Bigfoot Entertainment. As of September 1, 2015, approximately 116 million households across Europe received Fashion 4K via SES S.A.'s Astra 19.2ºE satellite. Since December 2016 it became received via Eutelsat's Hot bird13°E satellite .
Fashion 4K's corporate office are located in the Fashion One, One Astor Plaza, 1515 Broadway, Times Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City while studio and production facility are located in the Harper's Bazaar, Hearst Tower, 300 West 57th Street or 959 Eighth Avenue, near Columbus Circle, Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, and its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center.
Formal launch
Fashion One 4K
Fashion One 4K was officially launched in Asia, Latin America and North America at the same time as Fashion 4K via MEASAT-3a, NSS-806 and SES-3 respectively.
Fashion One Network
Fashion 4K operates under the Fashion One television network along with Fashion One 4K. Before Fashion 4K, Fashion One launched Fashion One HD and Fashion First both local variants of the network.
Pre-History
Fashion One began updating its production format from HD to Ultra HD in 2014.
Programming
Fashion 4K's original purpose was to play 4K resolution fashion content 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Though the channel identifies primarily as a fashion channel, the channel's programming also covers lifestyle and entertainment. Fashion 4K's programming is made up of original series, featured programs and footage from a network of content providers. All footage is shot in 4K resolution.
Original Series
Fashion 4K's original series have been adapted from shows that were broadcast on the Fashion One channel for 4K resolution output.
Fashion On A Plate
This docu-series originally aired on the Fashion One channel on June 26, 2014, and returns for its second season on Fashion 4K. This series explores the relationship between food and fashion and challenges restaurants and chefs to combine the two industries on one plate.
Model Yoga
Model Yoga is a lifestyle series that also returns for its second season on Fashion 4K. The show originally aired on January 2, 2011.
Eco Fashion
Eco Fashion is a documentary series that highlights the industry of sustainable fashion. The show first aired on Fashion One on October 15, 2012, and returns for its third season on Fashion 4K.
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20informatics | Urban informatics refers to the study of people creating, applying and using information and communication technology and data in the context of cities and urban environments. It sits at the conjunction of urban science, geomatics, and informatics, with an ultimate goal of creating more smart and sustainable cities. Various definitions are available, some provided in the Definitions section.
Although first mentions of the term date back as early as 1987, urban informatics did not emerge as a notable field of research and practice until 2006 (see History section). Since then, the emergence and growing popularity of ubiquitous computing, open data and big data analytics, as well as smart cities, contributed to a surge in interest in urban informatics, not just from academics but also from industry and city governments seeking to explore and apply the possibilities and opportunities of urban informatics.
Definitions
Many definitions of urban informatics have been published and can be found online. The descriptions provided by Townsend in his foreword and by Foth in his preface to the Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics emphasize two key aspects: (1) the new possibilities (including real-time data) for both citizens and city administrations afforded by ubiquitous computing, and (2) the convergence of physical and digital aspects of the city.
In this definition, urban informatics is a trans-disciplinary field of research and practice that draws on three broad domains: people, place and technology.
"People" can refer to city residents, citizens, and community groups, from various socio-cultural backgrounds, as well as the social dimensions of non-profit organisations and businesses. The social research domains that urban informatics draws from include urban sociology, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, city planning and others.
"Place" can refer to distinct urban sites, locales and habitats, as well as to larger-scale geographic entities such as neighbourhoods, public space, suburbs, regions, or peri-urban areas. The place or spatial research domains entail urban studies, architecture, urban design, urban planning, geography, and others.
"Technology" can refer to various types of information and communication technology and ubiquitous computing / urban computing technology such as mobile phones, wearable devices, urban screens, media façades, sensors, and other Internet of Things devices. The technology research domains span informatics, computer science, software engineering, human–computer interaction, and others.
In addition to geographic data/spatial data, most common sources of data relevant to urban informatics can be divided into three broad categories: government data (census data, open data, etc.); personal data (social media, quantified self data, etc.); and sensor data (transport, surveillance, CCTV, Internet of Things devices, etc.).
Although closely related, Foth differentiates urban informatics from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%20Really%20Happens%20in%20Thailand | What Really Happens in Thailand is an Australian reality documentary television series that airs on the Seven Network.
The program was first announced at the network's upfronts in 2014. The series is a spin-off of the 2014 program What Really Happens in Bali and produced by the same production company McAvoy Media. The series films the activities and situations of Australian tourists and expats in various locations throughout Thailand, including nightclubs, hospitals and cosmetic surgery centres.
Broadcast
The series premiered in Australia on the Seven Network on 14 September 2015, airing on Monday nights until the fifth episode of the series, when the show was moved to Thursday nights. After episode six, the series was pulled from the schedule until the television non-ratings period, when episode seven premiered on a Tuesday night however it did not reach the top 20 most watched programs for the first time in the program's season.
Episodes
Spin-off
A second spin-off of the format followed in 2016, titled What Really Happens on the Gold Coast.
References
Seven Network original programming
2015 Australian television series debuts
Australian factual television series
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Thailand
Australian television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlivable | Unlivable is an American television series airing on the Fyi network. The show features April "Bama" Glover and Gary Stein working together to makeover houses across America.
Broadcast
The eight episode series premiered in the U.S. on the Fyi network on October 15, 2014.
Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on May 1, 2015 on LifeStyle Home.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2014 American television series debuts
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen%20Studios | Pen Studios (formerly Popular Entertainment Network) is an Indian film production and distribution company established by Dr. Jayantilal Gada on 31 March 1987. Based in Mumbai, it mainly produces and distributes Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films.
In 1992, the business was restructured under the name Popular Entertainment Network, and began to acquire video rights for movies to be distributed over various media such as video cassettes, satellites, terrestrial platforms, etc. The company subsequently forayed into theatrical and distribution rights of movies.
In the past few years, Pen Studios has produced films such as Kahaani and Shivaay, with many A-listers, that have been a huge success at the box office. The company, now, is also expanding by focusing on producing good regional content.
Pen India Limited launched a new Television Channel named WOW. WOW's content library is full of various Bollywood music and old classic Bollywood movies to new Hindi, Gujarati, Hindi dubbed (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam) films, and TV series such as Mahabharat.
Initial years
Dr. Jayantilal Gada started as a small-time entrepreneur with a video library called Popular Video Cassette Co in 1984. Later, he went into trading of video rights and distribution of VHS tapes across India by establishing Asia's biggest video shop, "Popular Video", at Lamington Road, Mumbai.
Brief history
Restructured and formed Popular Entertainment Network Limited (with brand name 'PEN') in 1992 and started dealing in copyrights of Hindi feature films viz. video, satellite and Doordarshan (DD).
PEN was the largest content provider of Hindi feature films to channels.
In 1995, PEN created another landmark by telecasting Sholay 20 years after its theatrical release on Doordarshan and creating a record with the highest ever Television viewing ratings (76 TRPs) with about 7.5 crore revenues.
In 1996, Sony TV telecast Sholay to celebrate its first anniversary and gained the number-one position among satellite channels, beating Zee TV for the first time.
Daughter Bhavita Jayantilal Gada also joined PEN in 2006 and started an animation division with mega projects like Mahabharat.
Nephew Kushal Kantilal Gada joined the group in 2007 after graduating in management studies.
In 2009, son Dhaval Gada, after completing his course at Whistling Woods International Institute, joined PEN to streamline production activities.
Film history
In 2012, PEN's maiden production Kahaani with Sujoy Ghosh proves successful at the box office.
In 2013, PEN released three projects: Issaq, released all over India in 900 theatres. Singh Saab the Great on 1970 screens in India. Mahabharat 3D animation feature film also released in 300 theatres.
In 2014, PEN completed and finally released Sholay 3D in 780 theatres in India. PEN also co-produces and distributes Nagesh Kukunoor's Art House film Lakshmii on 82 screens, Entertainment in 3,200 screens worldwide. PEN also distributed and released Ekkees Toppon Ki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic%20process%20automation | Robotic process automation (RPA) is a form of business process automation that is based on software robots (bots) or artificial intelligence (AI) agents. It is sometimes referred to as software robotics (not to be confused with robot software).
In traditional workflow automation tools, a software developer produces a list of actions to automate a task and interface to the back end system using internal application programming interfaces (APIs) or dedicated scripting language. In contrast, RPA systems develop the action list by watching the user perform that task in the application's graphical user interface (GUI), and then perform the automation by repeating those tasks directly in the GUI. This can lower the barrier to the use of automation in products that might not otherwise feature APIs for this purpose.
RPA tools have strong technical similarities to graphical user interface testing tools. These tools also automate interactions with the GUI, and often do so by repeating a set of demonstration actions performed by a user. RPA tools differ from such systems in that they allow data to be handled in and between multiple applications, for instance, receiving email containing an invoice, extracting the data, and then typing that into a bookkeeping system.
Historic evolution
The typical benefits of robotic automation include reduced cost; increased speed, accuracy, and consistency; improved quality and scalability of production. Automation can also provide extra security, especially for sensitive data and financial services.
As a form of automation, the concept has been around for a long time in the form of screen scraping, which can be traced back to early forms of malware. However, RPA is much more extensible, consisting of API integration into other enterprise applications, connectors into ITSM systems, terminal services and even some types of AI (e.g. Machine Learning) services such as image recognition. It is considered to be a significant technological evolution in the sense that new software platforms are emerging which are sufficiently mature, resilient, scalable and reliable to make this approach viable for use in large enterprises (who would otherwise be reluctant due to perceived risks to quality and reputation).
A principal barrier to the adoption of self-service is often technological: it may not always be feasible or economically viable to retrofit new interfaces onto existing systems. Moreover, organisations may wish to layer a variable and configurable set of process rules on top of the system interfaces which may vary according to market offerings and the type of customer. This only adds to the cost and complexity of the technological implementation. Robotic automation software provides a pragmatic means of deploying new services in this situation, where the robots simply mimic the behaviour of humans to perform the back-end transcription or processing. The relative affordability of this approach arises from the fact that n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia%20Technocrat%20University | Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia is a private higher education in Bandar Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia. Subjects taught include information management, computer science, and languages.
History
The school was first known as Technocrat Course and Training Center. This course was first established based on Depdikbud permit of Lampung Province on February 29, 1986 by Dr. H.M. Nasrullah Yusuf, S.E., M.B.A.
When it was first established, Technocrat Course and Training Center was designed only for English course, Accounting, training center and manually typing. The tutors were Dr. Masrullah Yusuf and his wife, Hj. Hernaini, S.S., M.Pd.
In 1995, Technocrat Course and Training Center changed its name into Teknokrat Education Institution. This institution led two departments, they were Course and Training Department, and Business and Management Education Institution Department. Then, Business and Management Education Institution continued to develop its education programs. In 1996, Teknokrat one-year Institution of higher education began its teaching and learning process and it lasts until now. The Higher School of Teknokrat was established in 2000.
College
Teknokrat is located at Zainal Abidin Pagaralam street No. 9-11 Labuhan Ratu, Bandar Lampung. This school provides three institutions, they are Higher School of Information Management and Computer Teknokrat, Academic of Information Management and Computer science Teknokrat and Higher School of Foreign Language Teknokrat.
Higher School of Information Management and Computer (STMIK) Teknokrat
STMIK Teknokrat received its operational permission and legal status on February 8, 2001 and has registered itself to the Indonesian Directorate General of Higher Education with the letter No. 13/D/O/2001. Its study programs are S1 degrees of Information Technique (TI) and Information System (SI). Those programs have been accredited ‘B’ by the National Accreditation Board for Higher Education (BAN PT).
Academy of Information Management and Computer (AMIK) Teknokrat
AMIK Teknokrat received its operational permission and legal status on June 9, 2000 and has registered itself to the Indonesian Directorate General of Higher Education with the letter No. 92/D/O/2000. Its study programs are Computerized Accounting (TA), Information Management (MI), and Computer Technique (TK).
Higher School of Foreign Language (STBA) Teknokrat
STBA Teknokrat received its operational permission and legal status on April 25, 2000 and has registered itself to the Indonesian Directorate-General of Higher Education with the letter No. 48/D/O/2000. Its study programs are S1 English Literature, D3 English, and D3 Japanese.
Student Activity Unit
Student Activity Unit (UKM) is a student organization whose function is to accommodate a variety of interests and talents of the students in Teknokrat. Those Student Activity Unit are:
Student Academic Units
UKM Robotics
UKM TEC
UKM Animation Design
UKM Programming
Spirituality Units |
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