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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movidius | Movidius is a company based in San Mateo, California, that designs low-power processor chips for computer vision. The company was acquired by Intel in September 2016.
Company history
Movidius was co-founded in 2005 by Sean Mitchell and David Moloney in Dublin, Ireland. Between 2006 and 2016, it raised nearly $90 million in capital funding. In May 2013, the company appointed Remi El-Ouazzane as CEO. In January 2016, the company announced a partnership with Google. Movidius has been active in Google's Project Tango, and also announced a planned acquisition by Intel in September 2016.
Products
Myriad 2
The company's Myriad 2 chip is a manycore vision processing unit that can function on power-constrained devices. The Fathom is a USB stick containing a Myriad 2 processor, allowing a vision accelerator to be added to devices using ARM processors including PCs, drones, robots, IoT devices and video surveillance for tasks such as identifying people or objects. It can run at between 80 and 150 GFLOPS on 1W of power.
Myriad X
Intel's Myriad X VPU (vision processing unit) is the third generation VPU from Movidius. It uses a Neural Compute Engine, a dedicated hardware accelerator—for neural network deep-learning inferences.
Neural Compute Stick
The Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick (NCS) is a tiny fanless deep-learning device that can be used to learn AI programming at the edge. NCS is powered by the same low-power, high-performance Intel Movidius Vision Processing Unit that can be found in millions of smart security cameras, gesture-controlled drones, industrial machine vision equipment, and more. Supported frameworks are TensorFlow and Caffe.
On 14 November 2018, the company announced the latest version of NCS, marketed as "Neural Compute Stick 2" at the AI DevCon event in Beijing.
Uses
Google Clips camera uses Myriad 2 VPU.
The Intel RealSense Tracking Camera T265 uses the Myriad 2.
Mavic used the Myriad 2 in all consumer drones announced in 2016.
The Ryze Tello affordable programmable drone, licensing Mavic Software, uses the Myriad 2 VPU.
ComBox Technology uses Myriad X in ComBox x64 PCIe Blad board for CNN inference in DC.
See also
MPSoC
Coprocessor
Convolutional neural network
References
OpenCL compute devices
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Companies based in San Mateo, California
Technology companies established in 2005
Intel acquisitions
2016 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201970%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1970, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Radio Mil. Also included are the number-one songs according to the Record World magazine.
Chart history (Billboard)
By country of origin
Number-one artists:
Number-one compositions (it denotes the country of origin of the song's composer[s]; in case the song is a cover of another one, the name of the original composition is provided in parentheses):
Chart history (Record World)
See also
1970 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine from January 17, 1970 to December 19, 1970.
1970 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20Dynamics%20Markup%20Language | Biological Dynamics Markup Language (BDML) is an XML format for quantitative data describing biological dynamics. It was developed by the Shuichi Onami team at RIKEN QBiC.
The Onami lab hosts the Systems Science of Biological Dynamics (SSBD) database.
References
Markup languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201971%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1971, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Radio Mil. Also included are the number-one songs according to the Record World magazine.
Chart history (Billboard)
By country of origin
Number-one artists:
Number-one compositions (it denotes the country of origin of the song's composer[s]; in case the song is a cover of another one, the name of the original composition is provided in parentheses):
Chart history (Record World)
See also
1971 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine from 9 January to 25 December 1971.
1971 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showbiz%20Ka%21 | Showbiz Ka! was a showbiz talk show aired on Radio Philippines Network from March 5 to June 1, 2007.
Host
Pat-P Daza
See also
List of programs previously broadcast by Radio Philippines Network
Philippine television talk shows
Radio Philippines Network original programming
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Cyber%20University%20of%20Korea | Open Cyber University (OCU) is a consortium of Korean universities. It was founded in 1997 and is considered as the largest Korean academic exchange university as of 2012 with 35 member universities. The organization is authorized by South Korea's Ministry of Education to offer bachelor's degree in various fields of industry. It offers courses for subjects such as World English.
References
External links
Official website
Educational institutions established in 1997
Universities and colleges in South Korea
Distance education institutions based in Asia
1997 establishments in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal%20Estate%20%28TV%20series%29 | Unreal Estate is an Australian lifestyle television program which premiered on the Nine Network on 27 September 2016, hosted by Kate Langbroek and comedian Cameron Knight. The series looks at extraordinary Australian homes and meeting the larger-than-life people who live in them.
Broadcast
The series was set to premiere on 31 August 2016, but this was delayed after an additional episode of Married at First Sight Australia was added to the planned timeslot of Unreal Estate shortly before that date. The series was subsequently rescheduled to debut on Tuesday, 27 September 2016 at 8:40 pm.
Episodes
See also
List of programs broadcast by Nine Network
List of Australian television series
References
Nine Network original programming
2016 Australian television series debuts
2016 Australian television series endings
Australian non-fiction television series
Australian travel television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract%20management%20software | Contract management software constitutes a range of computer programmes, libraries and data used to support contract management, contract lifecycle management, and contractor management on projects and in the procurement of goods and services. It may be used with project management software.
Advantages and key functions
Most sophisticated projects involving contractors now use contract management software instead of relying on the manual management of paper contracts. It has become an essential tool for keeping track of multiple activities with cost implications and can be especially helpful for automating administration, ensuring compliance, monitoring risk, running reports and triggering alerts. In addition to these types of features, contract management software systems provide a centralized repository for employees to quickly access all contracts worldwide in one place. Having contracts stored in multiple locations can delay and interrupt the contracting process.
Contract management software is produced by many companies, working on a range of scales and offering varying degrees of customizability. Basic functions should include the ability to store contract documents, track changes to contract documents, search documents for a particular criterion, send key date alerts and to report required aspects of the contract. Other functions include managing a new contract request, capturing related data, following a document through a review and approval process, and collecting digital signatures.
Contract management software may also be an aid to project portfolio management and spend analysis, and may also monitor KPIs. Leading contract management software provides contract visibility, monitoring, and compliance to automate and streamline the contract lifecycle process.
A centralized repository provides a critical advantage allowing for all contract documents to be stored within one location. Having contracts stored in multiple locations can delay and interrupt the contracting process.
History
Historically, contract management has been seen as a "paper-intensive" process. Early steps from the early 2000's reported by the Aberdeen Group required extensive data conversion work to enable documents to be handled electronically. With the adoption of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation in 2016, companies have needed to take additional steps in regards to contract management. Each data responsible entity is obliged to sign data processing agreements (DPAs) with the various vendors, who treat personal data on behalf of the data responsible. DPAs need to be regularly controlled, adjusted and renewed, which adds an extra agreement to such vendors or at least an extra DPA addendum to each agreement.
Contract risk management software (CRMS) for capital projects
Very large enterprises, such as capital expenditure (capex) projects, involve multiple parties and high risk and uncertainty. They are unlike traditional operating contracts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-conserving%20scheduler | In computing and communication systems, a work-conserving scheduler is a scheduler that always tries to keep the scheduled resource(s) busy, if there are submitted jobs ready to be scheduled. In contrast, a non-work conserving scheduler is a scheduler that, in some cases, may leave the scheduled resource(s) idle despite the presence of jobs ready to be scheduled.
For example, when dealing with networking and packet scheduling, a work-conserving scheduler leaves the channel idle only when there are no packets to transmit, whereas a non-work conserving scheduler might leave the channel idle with packets still pending transmission.
Similarly, when referring to CPU scheduling, i.e. threads or processes scheduled over one or more available processors or cores, a work-conserving scheduler ensures that processors/cores are not idle if there are processes/threads ready for execution.
Non-work conserving schedulers are sometimes useful to enhance predictability and reduce termination jitter for the activities carried out by a computing and communication system. In multi-processor systems they're useful to enhance performance in some scenarios.
Sometimes, a non-work conserving scheduler may be useful to enhance stability of a system; For example, a process scheduler may choose to keep processes off of the run queue if there were concern that the sum of the working sets of all of the runnable processes would exceed available memory and lead to non-linear page thrashing overhead. Limiting the run queue in this manner might lead to under-utilization of available processors (and hence be non-work conserving) with the goal of avoiding situations where the system is unusable due to thrashing.
References
Job scheduling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Fayad | Mohamed Fayad is a professor of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University, and author of many publications in the area of software engineering.
Biography
Early life and education
Fayad received his bachelor's degree in Agriculture Engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. He received his Master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, where his research topic was Object Oriented Software Engineering: Problems & Perspectives. He lives in California.
Career
Fayad was associate professor at the computer science and computer engineering faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno, from 1995 - 1999 and J.D. Edwards Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, from 1999 to 2002. Dr. Fayad has more than fifteen years of industrial experience that include ten years as a software architect in many companies, such as McDonnell Douglas and Philips Research Laboratory.
He is the lead author of several classic Wiley books: Transition to Object Oriented Software Development, August 1998, Building Application Frameworks, Sept., 1999, Implementing Application Frameworks, Sept., 1999, Domain-Specific Application Frameworks, Oct., 1999, and several CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group: Software Patterns, Knowledge Maps, and Domain Analysis, December 2014. He is an IEEE Distinguished Speaker, an associate editor, editorial advisor, a columnist for The Communications of the ACM, where his column is Thinking Objectively, a columnist for Al-Ahram, Egyptians Newspaper, an editor-in-chief for IEEE Computer Society Press - Computer Science and Engineering Practice Press (1995-1997), a general chair of IEEE/Arab Computer Society International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2001, Beirut, Lebanon, 2001, and the founder and president of Arab Computer Society, ACS from April 2004 to April 2007. He has been a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University since 2002.
References
External links
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/fayad/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed_Fayad/
1950 births
Living people
Egyptian computer scientists
American male writers
Cairo University alumni
Egyptian emigrants to the United States
San Jose State University faculty
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty
University of Nevada, Reno alumni
People from Dakahlia Governorate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playground%20Global | Playground Global is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in deep tech and assists startups with software, hardware, machine learning, marketing, talent and design. The company was founded in 2015 by Andy Rubin, Peter Barrett, Matt Hershenson and Bruce Leak. Playground offers startups support with engineering, distribution, manufacturing and financing in exchange for equity.
In May 2019, Playground returned Rubin's investment and removed him from management, following reports of sexual misconduct alleged to have occurred in 2013 while Rubin was an executive at Google. His smartphone company, Essential Products, remained under the Playground umbrella. The next month, Laurie Yoler joined as Playground's first female general partner; she was already serving on the boards of Bose, Tesla and Church & Dwight, among others. Rubin's Essential Products company failed in February 2020, prompting a rebuild of Playground Global.
Significant investments
Playground Global has raised $800 million across two funds, starting with $300 million in 2015 from its limited partners including Google, HP, Foxconn, Redpoint Ventures, Seagate Technology and Tencent, among others. This was followed by $500 million raised during Fund II in 2016.
In June 2015, Playground Global was part of a $20.5 million series A funding round for Nervana Systems, an AI software company acquired by Intel in 2016. In 2017, Playground Global backed Owl Labs, a conferencing devices company, with $1.3 million in seed money. In December 2017, Playground Global led a seed round of $5.7 million for FarmWise to commercialize its automated weeding robot and to continue building autonomous systems which can harvest food for farmers. Playground's Bruce Leak also joined their board of directors. In March 2018, Playground Global led a $35 million funding round for Relativity Space, a startup that develops small launch vehicles with the use of 3-D printing technologies. Playground's Jory Bell joined Relativity's board. In November 2018, Playground Global led a $30 million Series B Funding round for RapidSOS, an emergency response data provider.
References
Financial services companies established in 2015
Companies based in Palo Alto, California
Venture capital firms of the United States
Andy Rubin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Maynila%20episodes | Maynila (lit. Manila) is a weekly anthology of inspiring stories. The series aired on GMA Network's every Saturday. The show is hosted by Lito Atienza.
Episode list
Unknown
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
References
Lists of anthology television series episodes
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensing.biz | Licensing.biz is an online trade magazine published by Biz Media, a subsidiary of Datateam Media Group and based in Hertford, Hertfordshire. Originally aimed at European members of the licensing industry, it has since expanded to cover the trade worldwide.
History
Licensing.biz was founded in 2007 by Intent Media, which was acquired by NewBay Media in 2012. At the time of its creation, the managing director and publisher was Stuart Dinsey. Dinsey left the position in October 2013.
As of 2016, Licensing.biz receives about 52,000 monthly readers from over one hundred countries.
In 2018, NewBay was acquired by Future.
In January 2019, Future sold some B2B brands (including Licensing.biz) to Datateam Media Group, Biz Media was formed as the parent company.
Licensing.biz People Awards
On 30 April 2015, Licensing.biz introduced the People Awards ceremony, held in London. On 11 March 2016, the second annual awards show was held in the same city, hosted by BBC 6 Music presenter Shaun Keaveny. The event recognises successful companies involved in the licensing business.
References
External links
Business magazines published in the United Kingdom
Online magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 2007
Professional and trade magazines
Mass media in Hertfordshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BET%20Tonight | BET Tonight was an American talk show hosted by Tavis Smiley originally from (1998-2001), and subsequently Ed Gordon. It aired on the BET network.
Awards
References
BET original programming
African-American news and public affairs television series
1998 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
1990s American television talk shows
2000s American television talk shows
1990s American television news shows
2000s American television news shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201972%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1972, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Radio Mil. Also included are the number-one songs according to the Record World magazine.
Chart history (Billboard)
By country of origin
Number-one artists:
Number-one compositions (it denotes the country of origin of the song's composer[s]; in case the song is a cover of another one, the name of the original composition is provided in parentheses):
Chart history (Record World)
See also
1972 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine from January 6 to December 23, 1972.
1972 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201973%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1973, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Radio Mil. Also included are the number-one songs according to the Record World magazine.
Chart history (Billboard)
By country of origin
Number-one artists:
Number-one compositions (it denotes the country of origin of the song's composer[s]; in case the song is a cover of another one, the name of the original composition is provided in parentheses):
Chart history (Record World)
See also
1973 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine from January 27 to December 22, 1973.
1973 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20Rescue%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of the American reality show Bar Rescue premiered on Paramount Network on October 5, 2014 at 9/8c except for the third half of the season that aired in the 10/9c slot, and concluded on July 31, 2016 with a total of 58 episodes. Like the third season, season four was also split into multiple parts. Season 4 is also the longest season of Bar Rescue to date, having been on the air for nearly two years.
Experts
Jon Taffer – Host/Star/Bar Consultant/Recon Spy
Nicole Taffer – Host's Wife/Marketing/Recon Spy
Chefs
Aaron McCargo
Josh Capon
Vic "Vic Vegas" Moea
Nick Liberato
Gavan Murphy
Crystal "Chef Pink" DeLongpré
Jamika Pessoa
Kevin Bludso
Tiffany Derry
Penny Davidi
Ryan Scott
Keith Breedlove
Brendan Collins
Mike Ferraro
Mixologists
Phil Wills
Russell Davis
Kate Gerwin
Mia Mastroianni
Raul Faria
Gerry Graham
Lisamarie Joyce
Kyle Mercado
Jason Bran
Neil Witte
Daniel Ponsky
Other special experts
Jessie Barnes – Hospitality
Renae Lemmens – Entertainment
Jeff Haywood Sr. – Construction Manager
Production
On May 9, 2013, Spike TV renewed Bar Rescue for a fourth season with additional episodes announced by Spike.
Episodes
Notes
References
External links
Bar Rescue Updates — Unaffiliated site that keeps track of bars being open or closed and has updates for each bar
2014 American television seasons
2015 American television seasons
2016 American television seasons
Bar Rescue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Stanislaw%20Ulam | This is a (partial) list of things named after Stanislaw Ulam, a 20th-century Polish-American mathematician who also worked in physics and biological sciences:
Computer science
Stan, probabilistic programming language
Mathematics
Borsuk–Ulam theorem
Erdős–Ulam problem
Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem
Hyers–Ulam–Rassias stability
Kuratowski–Ulam theorem
Mazur–Ulam theorem
Ulam's conjecture
Collatz conjecture
Kelly–Ulam conjecture, or reconstruction conjecture
Ulam's packing conjecture
Ulam matrix
Ulam numbers
Ulam spiral
Ulam's game
Ulam–Warburton cellular automaton
Physics
Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem
Fermi–Ulam model
Teller–Ulam design
See also
Ulam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Briefcase%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29 | The Briefcase is an Australian reality television program, based on the American program of the same name, which airs on the Nine Network. Each episode sees two Australian families, struggling financially, each given $100,000 in cash that they must decide either to keep for themselves or to give all or in part to help out the other family, unaware that their counterparts are also faced with the same dilemma.
The six episode program debuted on 20 June 2016. It received a generally negative reception from audiences and critics both before and after its premiere broadcast, with one commentator calling it "exploitative poverty porn at its worst". After two episodes, the program was moved from its 7:30pm timeslot to after 9:30pm following low ratings which also resulted in a poor lead-in for Nine's marquee drama Love Child which followed immediately after. The last episode was burnt off as counter-programming against the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Development and production
The Australian rights to the show was secured before the American program began broadcasting. The Nine Network's Head of Development later criticised the American version for its "stunt" casting and called it a "freak show", saying the Australian version will be "fundamentally different" and feature "average families", following negative reaction and the ultimate cancellation of the original US version.
The contestants on the program were initially not informed about the true nature of the show. Instead they were informed that they would be appearing on a programme titled Making Ends Meet, and would receive financial advice about their situation. The contestants had mixed feelings over being misled, but ultimately had a positive experience filming the show.
Episodes
Episode 1
Episode 2
Broadcast
References
2016 Australian television series debuts
2016 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian reality television series
English-language television shows
Nine Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying%20Lu | Ying Lu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Life
Lu received her Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 2005. She then began her work at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln as an Assistant Professor.
Work
Lu's areas of interest are adaptive real-time systems, autonomic computing, and grid computing, among others. Ying Lu has been a technical program committee member several times, some of which include the "IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium" from 2006–2008, and the International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems" in 2008. She was also the publicity co-chair for "The 14th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems" in 2006, and the work in progress chair for the "IREE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium" in 2008.
Lu is the author or co-author of more than 25 technical papers, including:
"Partitioned Multiprocessor Scheduling of Mixed-Criticality Period Jobs" (2014)
"Energy Analysis of Hadoop Cluster Failure Recovery" (2013)
"Efficient Real-Time Divisible Loads with Advanced Reservations" (2012)
"TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm Identification" (2011)
"Automatic Data Placement and Replication in Grids" (2009)
"Adaptive Consistency Guarantees for Large-Scale Replicated Services" (2008)
"Queuing Model Based Network Server Performance Control" (2002)
References
Living people
University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treiber%20stack | The Treiber stack algorithm is a scalable lock-free stack utilizing the fine-grained concurrency primitive compare-and-swap. It is believed that R. Kent Treiber was the first to publish it in his 1986 article "Systems Programming: Coping with Parallelism".
Basic principle
The basic principle for the algorithm is to only add something new to the stack once you know the item you are trying to add is the only thing that has been added since you began the operation. This is done by using compare-and-swap. Pushing an item to the stack is done by first taking the top of the stack (old head) and placing it after your new item to create a new head. You then compare the old head to the current head. If the two are matching then you can swap old head to the new one, if not then it means another thread has added an item to the stack, in which case you must try again.
When popping an item from the stack, before returning the item you must check that another thread has not added a new item since the operation began.
Correctness
In some languages—particularly, those without garbage collection—the Treiber stack can be at risk for the ABA problem. When a process is about to remove an element from
the stack (just before the compare and set in the pop routine below) another process can change the stack such that the head is the same, but the second element is
different. The compare and swap will set the head of the stack to the old second element in the stack mixing up the complete data structure. However, the Java version on this page is not subject to this problem, because of the stronger guarantees offered by the Java runtime (it is impossible for a newly created, unaliased object reference to be reference-equal to any other reachable object.)
Testing for failures such as ABA can be exceedingly difficult, because the problematic sequence of events is very rare.
Model checking is an excellent way to uncover such problems. See for instance exercise 7.3.3 in "Modeling and analysis of communicating Systems".
Java example
Below is an implementation of the Treiber Stack in Java, based on the one provided by Java Concurrency in Practice
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.*;
import net.jcip.annotations.*;
/**
* ConcurrentStack
*
* Nonblocking stack using Treiber's algorithm
*
* @author Brian Goetz and Tim Peierls
*/
@ThreadSafe
public class ConcurrentStack <E> {
AtomicReference<Node<E>> top = new AtomicReference<Node<E>>();
public void push(E item) {
Node<E> newHead = new Node<E>(item);
Node<E> oldHead;
do {
oldHead = top.get();
newHead.next = oldHead;
} while (!top.compareAndSet(oldHead, newHead));
}
public E pop() {
Node<E> oldHead;
Node<E> newHead;
do {
oldHead = top.get();
if (oldHead == null)
return null;
newHead = oldHead.next;
} while (!top.compareAndSet(oldHead, newHead));
r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20van%20der%20Torre | Leendert (Leon) van der Torre is a professor of computer science at the University of Luxembourg and head of the Individual and Collective Reasoning (ICR) group, part of the Computer Science and Communication (CSC) Research Unit. Leon van der Torre is a prolific researcher in deontic logic and multi-agent systems, a member of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the University of Luxembourg and founder of the CSC Robotic research laboratory. Since March 2016 he is the head of the Computer Science and Communication (CSC) Research Unit.
Biography
Leon van der Torre was born on March 18, 1968, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He lived in Zevenhuizen, where he attended primary school, before he later attended the secondary school division VWO of the Orange-Nassau College in Zoetermeer. During that time he bought his first computer, a ZX-81, which he programmed himself, and liked to write articles for a computer magazine. He also became national youth champion in the game of bridge.
Leon van der Torre studied computer science at the Erasmus University Rotterdam at the Faculty of Economics, and also pursued studies in philosophy. He held positions at EURIDIS and the Department of Computer Science during which he obtained his Master of Science (1992) and his PhD in computer science (1997) with Yao-Hua Tan. His thesis was concerned with deontic logic in computer science and its combination with nonmonotonic logic. His main research topic are logics in Artificial Intelligence and computer science.
After positions in Germany (Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken), France (Marie Curie fellow, CNRS-IRIT, Toulouse), and the Netherlands (CWI Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit), he joined the University of Luxembourg as a full professor for Intelligent Systems in January 2006. Currently, he is also the head of the Computer Science and Communication Research Unit. As of March 2015, 12 students have completed their PhD under his supervision, and 10 of his postdocs have obtained a permanent position in research or university education.
Research
After working on qualitative decision theory, Leon van der Torre turned towards cognitive science and agent theory. He developed the BOID agent architecture (with colleagues from the Vrije Universiteit), created the area of input/output logics (with David Makinson), and the game-theoretic approach to normative multi-agent systems (with Guido Boella from the University of Turin). He initiated the workshops on coordination and organization (CoOrg), on interdisciplinary perspectives on roles (ROLES), and on normative multi-agent systems (NORMAS). He became an ECCAI Fellow in 2015.
Leon van der Torre is furthermore the editor of the deontic logic corner of the Journal of Logic and Computation, a member of the editorial boards of the Logic Journal of the IGPL and the IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications, chair of the DEON steering committee, a member of the CLIMA steering committee, and an editor of the Hand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Internet%20Ruined%20My%20Life | The Internet Ruined My Life is an American reality television series that was made by Atomic Entertainment and Left/Right Productions for the Syfy Network in the United States that "exposes the unexpected perils of living in a social media-obsessed world".
The first season consisting of six episodes began airing on March 9, 2016, and concluded April 13, 2016.
Plot
This show profiles different people whose lives have been severely impacted by Internet technology and social media.
Episodes
Each half-hour episode is split into two segments telling two different stories.
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
Syfy original programming
2016 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20Mathematical%20Programming | Algebraic modeling languages like AIMMS, AMPL, GAMS, MPL and others have been developed to facilitate the description of a problem in mathematical terms and to link the abstract formulation with data-management systems on the one hand and appropriate algorithms for solution on the other. Robust algorithms and modeling language interfaces have been developed for a large variety of mathematical programming problems such as linear programs (LPs), nonlinear programs (NPs), Mixed Integer Programs (MIPs), mixed complementarity programs (MCPs) and others. Researchers are constantly updating the types of problems and algorithms that they wish to use to model in specific domain applications.
Extended Mathematical Programming (EMP) is an extension to algebraic modeling languages that facilitates the automatic reformulation of new model types by converting the EMP model into established mathematical programming classes to solve by mature solver algorithms. A number of important problem classes can be solved. Specific examples are variational inequalities, Nash equilibria, disjunctive programs and stochastic programs.
EMP is independent of the modeling language used but currently it is implemented only in GAMS. The new types of problems modeled with EMP are reformulated with the GAMS solver JAMS to well established types of problems and the reformulated models are passed to a suitable GAMS solver to be solved. The core of EMP is a file called where the annotations that are needed for the reformulations are added to the model.
Equilibrium problems
Equilibrium problems model questions arising in the study of economic equilibria in a mathematically abstract form. Equilibrium problems include Variational Inequalities, problems with Nash Equilibria, and Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints (MOPECs). Use EMP's keywords to reformulate these problems as mixed complementarity problems (MCPs), a class of problems for which mature solver technology exists. Solve the newly reformulated EMP keyword version of the problem with the PATH solver or other GAMS MCP solvers.
Examples of the use of EMP to solve equilibrium problems include the computation of Cournot–Nash–Walras equilibria.., modeling water allocation, long-term planning of transmission line expansion of the electrical grid, modeling risk-averse agents in hydro-thermal electricity markets with uncertain inflows into hydro reservoirs and modeling variational inequalities in energy markets
Hierarchical optimization
Hierarchical optimization problems are mathematical programs with an additional optimization problem in their constraints. A simple example is the bilevel programming problem that optimizes an upper level objective over constraints that include another lower level optimization problem. Bilevel programming is used in many areas. One example is the design of optimal tax instruments. The tax instrument is modeled in the upper level and the clearing market is modeled in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp%20Aeby | Philipp Aeby is the Chief Executive Officer of RepRisk, an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data science company based in Zurich, specializing in ESG and business conduct risk research and quantitative solutions. He has served in that capacity since 2010 and is also a Board Member of RepRisk. He previously held the position of Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner, when RepRisk was part of the environmental and social consultancy, Ecofact.
Professional career
Before joining RepRisk in 2006, Philipp worked in various managerial positions across Europe at Amgen, the global biopharmaceutical firm. He was a member of the Regional European Management Team based in Brussels where he had the responsibility of budgeting, planning, and sales and marketing effectiveness for Central and Eastern Europe, Benelux, Scandinavia, and the UK. He was also a member of the European Sales Leadership Council at Amgen.
Philipp started his professional career at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked on a broad range of international assignments. In 1994-1995, he was a research associate at CIAT, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia.
Philipp currently serves on the Board of Swiss Sustainable Finance, an organization that aims to promote sustainability in the Swiss financial market, and also positions Switzerland as a hub for sustainable finance. He serves on the Business Advisory Board of Swisspeace, a Swiss-based research institute focused on conflict resolution and peace-building. He was also on UNICEF’s Advisory Board during the launch of UNICEF’s Children’s Rights and Business Principles
Education
Philipp studied history at the University of Basel. Philipp then attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, where he earned a Master’s of Science in Climatology (1991-1994), followed by a PhD in Environmental Physics (1995–1998). His doctoral thesis was on the topic of quantitative fluorescence imaging of tracer distributions in soil profiles. He earned the ETH Medal for outstanding research that involved applying neural networks to pattern recognition.
He has also authored or contributed to various studies and books on the top of sustainability and ESG, including a joint research study by AfU Investor Research and RepRisk on the ESG Performance of European Investment Funds, as well as a chapter in the book "CSR and Finance: the Contribution and Role of the CFO for the Sustainable Management of a Firm" ("CSR und Finance: Beitrag und Rolle des CFO für eine Nachhaltige Unternehmensführung"), entitled "New Risks: Reputation, Compliance, Climate, Water, Raw Materials, Biodiversity, Human Rights, Working Conditions, Corruption."
He is considered knowledgeable on reputational risk and ESG risk, and is often interviewed on the topic by various media.
Personal life
Philipp grew up in Münchenstein outside of Basel, Switzerland. In 2005, Philipp married Dr. , Head of Cyber and Digital St |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia%20Diamond | Fantasia Diamond is a text adventure game by Kim Topley and published by Hewson Consultants. It was released in 1984 for the Amstrad CPC, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro home computers. Unusually for Hewson, it was not released on the Commodore 64 with the game's author stating when asked "The answer to your question is simply that I didn’t own a C64 at the time".
Plot
The game takes place in no specific setting, combining some elements of fantasy such as elves and other magical creatures with more modern elements such as a prominent robot NPC. The story is that many years ago, an ancestor of the player embarked on a courageous journey to a faraway kingdom where they discovered what is considered to be the largest diamond in the world, the Fantasia Diamond. This priceless heirloom was passed down from generation to generation, despite all manner of thieves that attempted to steal it for themselves. Although it was safe for generations, thieves were finally successful in taking the diamond from the player's home and whisking it away to a large castle on the other side of a river. To retrieve it, the master spy Boris was dispatched, but he was captured and is being held prisoner. Now, the only way to recover the diamond is for the player go into the castle themselves, attempt to retrieve the diamond, free Boris the master spy from his prison, and safely return home.
Gameplay
Fantasia Diamond is a text adventure interspersed with simple graphics. The player must explore, find items, talk to NPCs, find a way into the castle and ultimately retrieve the diamond and rescue Boris. During the course of the game, the character will encounter both friendly and hostile creatures that can be given simple typed instructions that they may or may not agree to follow. At certain points during the game the player is required to coax these characters to perform certain actions that otherwise cannot be performed themselves, which can be quite tricky given the way the characters move randomly and sometimes refuse to obey instructions. The player must also constantly search for food and drink to stay alive. If the player becomes too weak from lack of nourishment, then certain tasks such as picking up heavy objects becomes impossible. The player becomes weakened over time, as well as through sustaining injuries in combat.
Reception
CRASH magazine: "Fantasia Diamond is a long adventure with many interesting and logical problems to solve. Highly recommended."
References
External links
Fantasia Diamond at World of Spectrum
1980s interactive fiction
1984 video games
Amstrad CPC games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
Hewson Consultants games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk%20Krawczyk | Henryk Krawczyk (born 1946 in Poland) is a professor and rector of Gdańsk University of Technology since 2008.
Scientific degrees
MS in Design Computer Architecture, GUT, 1969
PhD in Analysis Testability of Digital Systems, GUT, 1976
DsC in Diagnosability Conditions for Computer Distributed Systems, GUT, 1987
Prof. granted by President of Poland, 1996
Academic functions
Vice director of Computer Science Institute 1998 – 1990
Dean of Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunication and Informatics 1991 – 1996, 2002 – 2008
Rector of Gdańsk University of Technology 2008 – 2016
Member of Polish Academy of Sciences since 2007
Teaching subjects
Computer Architecture
System Dependability
Software Quality Assurance
Design Information Processing Systems
Collaborative Computing
Information Society Development
Research interests
Diagnosability of Systems and Networks
Parallel Software Testing
Quality Management in Software Life Cycle
Modelling and Analysis of Negotiation Procedures
High Performance Computing
Service Oriented Computing
Publications
Over 350 publications in main topics of research interests given above including papers in IEEE Trans. on Computers, Euromicro, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, chapters in books issued by Chapman and Hall, LNH Elsevier, Nova Science, Springer – Verlag and presentations in many IEEE conference proceedings and also scientific lectures given in many universities such as University of Oulu (Finland), New Hampshire University (USA), University of Basrah (Irag), Izmir University (Turkey), Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), Bristol University (England), Nova University of Lisbon (Portugal), Lecee University (Italy) and the book entitled Analysis and Testing of Distributed Software Applications issued by RSP London in cooperation with John Wiley & Sons.
References
Sources
Mazurkiewicz B. red (2014). Rektorzy i prorektorzy Politechniki Gdańskiej 1904-2014. Wydawnictwo Politechniki Gdańskiej. .
1946 births
Academic staff of the Gdańsk University of Technology
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20on%20Statelessness | European Network on Statelessness (also known as ENS) is a non-governmental organisation working to eradicate statelessness in Europe. It is a network of over 100 non-governmental organisations, academic initiatives, and individual experts across 39 countries.
Background
Initially hosted as a project of its six founding organisations, the European Network on Statelessness was launched in 2012. In September 2014, ENS registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in the UK.
As of 2015, it was a network of over 100 non-governmental organisations, academic initiatives, and individual experts across 39 countries.
As of 2015, the stated objective of the organisation was "committed to ending statelessness and ensuring that the estimated 600,000 people living in Europe without a nationality are protected under international law."
As of 2021 Nina Murray was head of policy and research at the ENS.
Work
In April 2021, ENS published a report on the barriers stateless people face in access to healthcare both generally and in regard to COVID 19 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how these are similar to or different from other marginalised groups, and the impact of these barriers. Examples are job loss in the informal economy, lack of access to welfare support, lack of access to health care and fear of data sharing between healthcare and immigration authorities, all increasing risk of increased morbidity and extreme poverty.
References
Statelessness
International organizations based in Europe
International organisations based in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque%20de%20las%20Ciencias%20%28Granada%29 | Parque de las Ciencias is a science centre and museum, part of the European Network of Science Centers and Museums (ECSITE), located in the city of Granada, Spain. Under the motto "A new kind of Museum", Parque de las Ciencias was founded in 1990 and opened in 1995. The museum has been solely directed by Ernesto Páramo Sureda since its establishment and its successive expansions. It occupies 70,000 m2 and holds permanent and temporary exhibitions including: a planetarium, educational facilities, café, restaurant, bookshop, library, cinemas, etc. It also has a cultural gallery ranging from 50 to 550 in number. Some of the museum’s highlights are its Plastination Lab and Restoration and Production Workshops.
Parque de las Ciencias council members consists of: The University of Granada, The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the local provincial and regional governments and The Caja Granada Foundation. Some of the museum’s exhibitions are its 'Windows to Science' and 'Live Science', which through crystal bounded spaces, provides the visitors with the experience of being in an actual lab.
Contents
Macroscopio building
Macroscopio building is the fourth phase of Parque de las Ciencias and was designed by the architect Carlos Ferrater. The various exhibition areas lead off the large entrance hall:
Journey to the Human Body Pavilion
This hall focuses on health and everything related to life and their own lives. In a society where people have more time for recreational activities, higher levels of education and a longer average lifespan, the general public has become much more interested in health, medical sciences and new bio-health technologies.
The hall aims to promote awareness of what is currently known about health and life sciences by providing a general overview of the field, linking the different sciences and techniques involved: these include the human body, anatomical sciences, the study of the senses, biomedicine, transplant operations, new medicines, genetics and the genetic engineering revolution, food, understanding relationships between living things and their environment, life expectancy, etc... Life sciences are exceptionally important today and a great deal of interdisciplinary research is being carried out into the field.
Discovering how the human body works has always been a tremendous intellectual and scientific challenge. Knowledge has allowed scientists to carry out exhaustive research into illnesses, disorders, functional anomalies and deformities which have, for many years, caused suffering and death. The history of medicine is, on the one hand, the history of humans’ persistent curiosity and desire to understand the world, and, on the other, the history of the struggle between illnesses and the longing to be as healthy and well as possible.
The hall also includes exhibits on the development of techniques used in science related to health, life, and the study of human beings: instruments and methods used to repres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleen%20Perez | Coleen Perez (born Coleen Nicole Perez Borgonia on January 26, 1995) is a Filipina commercial model and actress, known for her roles such as Molly Rivera in GMA Network's More Than Words.
Filmography
Television
References
External links
Coleen Perez at GMANetwork.com
1995 births
Living people
Filipino television actresses
Filipino female models
Actresses from Nueva Ecija
GMA Network personalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIS%20code | The NIS code (Dutch: NIS-code, French: code INS) is a numeric code for regional areas of Belgium.
This code is used for statistical data treatment in Belgium.
This code was developed mid-1960s by the Statistics Belgium. It was first used for the census of 1970.
Structure of the code
The NIS code consists of 5 digits:
The first number identifies the province. if this digit is followed by 4 zeroes, this code identifies the complete province. Example: 70000 identifies the province Limburg.
The second digit identifies the arrondissement within this province. If after the two first digits there are three zeroes, then this code identifies the complete arrondissement. Example: 71000 identifies the arrondissement of Hasselt.
The last three digits uniquely identify the municipality within that arrondissement. Example: 71066 identifies Zonhoven.
Special cases
The country Belgium received the code 01000.
The three regions received the codes 02000 for Flanders, 03000 for Wallonia and 04000 for the Brussels region.
In 1995 the province of Brabant with first digit 2 was split in Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant. Flemish Brabant received code 20001 and Walloon Brabant received code 20002. The arrondissements kept their old codes.
The provinces and municipalities of Brussels are sorted alphabetically on their French name.
Mergers
municipalities that were merged and received a new name also received a new NIS code, which followed the last number of the list of municipalities of that arrondissement.
municipalities that lost their independence by merger and became municipality parts, also lost their NIS code. Per merged municipality only 1 NIS code remained. At the same time the structure of the NIS sector was adapted. An alphabetic letter was added per municipality part to be able to uniquely identify such a municipality part.
The Arrondissement of Brussels-Periphery with code 22000 merging in 1971 with the arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde, also lost its code by merger. The municipalities within this arrondissement received a new NIS code.
Examples
40000: Province East Flanders
4 Province East Flanders
0000 This code identifies the complete province
32000: Arrondissement of Diksmuide
3 Province West Flanders
2 Arrondissement of Diksmuide
000 This code identifies the complete arrondissement
73032: municipality Hoeselt
7 Province Limburg
3 Arrondissement of Tongeren
032 municipality Hoeselt
61012: municipality Clavier
6 Province Liège
1 Arrondissement of Huy
012 municipality Clavier
23105: municipality Affligem
23 Arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde
105 municipality Affligem (new name of this municipality, resulting in the number no longer corresponding with the alphabetic order)
71022E: municipality part Stokrooie
7 Province Limburg
1 Arrondissement of Hasselt
022 Merged municipality Hasselt
E municipality part Stokrooie, which had the code 71056 before the merger.
External links
List of all NIS codes
Wikidata list with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xor%20DDoS | XOR DDoS is a Linux Trojan malware with rootkit capabilities that was used to launch large-scale DDoS attacks. Its name stems from the heavy usage of XOR encryption in both malware and network communication to the C&Cs. It is built for multiple Linux architectures like ARM, x86 and x64. Noteworthy about XOR DDoS is the ability to hide itself with an embedded rootkit component which is obtained by multiple installation steps. It was discovered in September 2014 by MalwareMustDie, a white hat malware research group. From November 2014 it was involved in massive brute force campaign that lasted at least for three months.
In order to gain access it launches a brute force attack in order to discover the password to Secure Shell services on Linux.
Once Secure Shell credentials are acquired and login is successful, it uses root privileges to run a script that downloads and installs XOR DDoS.
It is believed to be of Asian origin based on its targets, which tend to be located in Asia.
See also
References
Cyberwarfare
Botnets
Denial-of-service attacks
Trojan horses
Linux malware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily%20%28software%29 | is a female vocal originally released for Vocaloid 2. The data for the voice was created by sampling the voice of Yuri Masuda, a Japanese vocalist of the Japanese musical group m.o.v.e.
Development
Lily originally appeared on the cover of the CD "anim.o.v.e. 01" released on Aug 19th, 2009 before the announcement of her VOCALOID development. Lily was introduced as "Code Name: Lily" on DTM MAGAZINE published in May, 2010. The voice source is the lead vocalist of m.o.v.e., Yuri Masuda. The idea of the developing a VOCALOID based on Yuri's voice occurred, as one of the members was a user of VOCALOID. The illustration of Lily's VOCALOID was used on the Anim.o.v.e album while the voicebank was in development.
Additional software
V3 Lily was announced in early 2012 for Vocaloid 3. One of the earliest notes about this was that the new V3 Lily vocal would have a slightly larger vocal range. In July 2013, Internet co.,Ltd announced a Mac update of this product for the Vocaloid Neo engine. Two vocals were included with the package V3 Lily; Native which is an update of the Vocaloid 2 vocal and V3 Lily, which was a newly recorded voice. When imported into Vocaloid 4, the vocals will be able to cross-synthesis with each other.
Lily and Gackpoid were brought up in a tweet during the Megpoid English development. But English vocals could only occur if they were profitable.
In October 2014 it was noted they currently have no plans for a Lily English.:
Characteristics
Video Game
Lily appeared in an iOS game called "Vocadol" along with Vocals Anon & Kanon, VY1, Aoki Lapis, Merli, Cul and Kokone.
References
Vocaloids introduced in 2010
Fictional singers
Japanese idols
Japanese popular culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperless%20trade | Paperless trade refers to "trade taking place on the basis of electronic communications, including exchange of trade-related data and documents in electronic form" in the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific, adopted at United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in May 2016.
The enormous costs arising from the exchange of billions of trade-related documents, as well as the complexity of international trade documents and procedures, are a huge burden on businesses, and a major disincentive to many small firms for participating in international trade. Switching from paper documents would increase security and transparency in supply chains and provide governments and the private sector with higher revenues. Paperless trade aims to making cross-border business transactions more convenient and transparent while ensuring regulatory compliance.
In the report of "Paperless Trade in International Supply Chains: Enhancing Efficiency and Security", paperless trade is discussed from the perspectives of countries and private enterprises. It points out that the advance exchange of information and the automated analysis of trade data enable governments and enterprises to react faster on events and take appropriate measures to reduce costs and risks.
Paperless trade facilitation measures
The implementation of paperless trade has increased significantly in the region of Asia and the Pacific. In contrast with Trade Facilitation measures, most paperless trade and, in particular, cross-border paperless trade measures, are not specifically featured in the WTO TFA, but drafted in the bilateral trade agreements. In 2015, the UN ESCAP collected and listed paperless trade and cross-border paperless trade measures as follows:
Electronic/automated Customs System established (e.g., ASYCUDA)
Internet connection available to Customs and other trade control agencies at border-crossings
Electronic Single Window System
Electronic submission of Customs declarations
Electronic Application and Issuance of Trade Licenses
Electronic Submission of Sea Cargo Manifests
Electronic Submission of Air Cargo Manifests
Electronic Application and Issuance of Preferential Certificate of Origin
E-Payment of Customs Duties and Fees
Electronic Application for Customs Refunds
Laws and regulations for electronic transactions are in place (e.g. e-commerce law, e-transaction law)
Recognized certification authority issuing digital certificates to traders to conduct electronic transactions
Engagement of the country in trade-related cross-border electronic data exchange with other countries
Certificate of Origin electronically exchanged between your country and other countries
Sanitary & Phyto-Sanitary Certificate electronically exchanged between your country and other countries
Banks and insurers in your country retrieving letters of credit electronically without lodging paper-based documents
Depending on how s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NQIT | NQIT (Networked Quantum Information Technologies) is a quantum computing research hub established in 2014 as part of the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. NQIT is a consortium of 9 UK universities and 30 partners, which received funding of £38m over a 5-year period.
By the end of the 5-year programme NQIT aims to produce the Q20:20 engine, a demonstration of a scalable quantum computer demonstrator comprising an optically-linked network of 20 cells, each cell being a quantum processor with 20 matter qubits.
Organisation
The UK National Quantum Technologies Programme was initiated by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne in the Autumn Statement in 2013 in which he pledged a £270 million investment. A £120 million national network of four Quantum Technology Hubs was announced by Greg Clark in 2014. The NQIT Hub is led by a Director, Professor Ian Walmsley, who provides overall leadership and scientific vision, and two Co-Directors, Professor Dominic O’Brien, who leads the Systems Engineering, and Dr Tim Cook, who leads the Industrial User Engagement activities.
NQIT is led by the University of Oxford and academic partners are the University of Bath, the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Leeds, the University of Southampton, the University of Strathclyde, the University of Sussex and the University of Warwick.
Within the University of Oxford, NQIT works across the Departments of Physics, Engineering, Computer Science and Materials.
NQIT works with 30 industrial and government partners, including Aspen Electronics, the Centre for Quantum Technologies, Covesion Ltd, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Element Six, ETSI, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Google, Lockheed Martin, M Squared Lasers, the UK National Physical Laboratory, Oxford Capital, Oxford Instruments, Pure Lifi, Raytheon UK, Rohde & Schwarz, Satellite Applications Catapult and Toshiba.
Q20:20
NQIT's principal goal is to implement the Q20:20 engine: a hybrid matter/optical quantum computer involving twenty optically linked nodes, where each node is a small quantum processor of twenty qubits. Each processing node will be an ion trap, within which a small number of ions are held suspended in a vacuum and manipulated by laser and microwave systems. Each qubit is implemented within the internal hyperfine states of each ion, and control of the qubits is achieved optically via integrated lasers and through microwave manipulation. Quantum interlinks between the traps will be realized by single photon emissions, which are combined and measured by optical fibres, splitters, switches and detectors.
References
External links
'The dawn of quantum technology' with Prof Simon Benjamin, describing Q20:20
'Editorial: Building Quantum Networks', by Ian A. Walmsley and Joshua Nunn
'Technical Roadmap for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing' by Amir Fruchtman and Iris Choi
College and university associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track%20hub | A track hub is a structured directory of genomic data, such as gene expression or epigenetic data, viewable over the web with a genome browser. Track hubs are defined by the track hub standard. Originally developed as part of the UCSC genome browser, they are now supported by Ensembl and BioDalliance.
Track hubs are a useful and efficient tool for visualizing large data sets. Collections of wiggle plots produced by a transcriptomics study can be organized hierarchically into so called composite and super-tracks.
References
External links
https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html
Bioinformatics
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Lisp-family%20programming%20languages | The programming language Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language with direct descendants and closely related dialects still in widespread use today. The language Fortran is older by one year. Lisp, like Fortran, has changed a lot since its early days, and many dialects have existed over its history. Today, the most widely known general-purpose Lisp dialects are Common Lisp and Scheme.
Timeline
References
Lisp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have%20I%20Been%20Pwned%3F | Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP; stylized in all lowercase as "';--have i been pwned?") is a website that allows Internet users to check whether their personal data has been compromised by data breaches. The service collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps and pastes containing information about billions of leaked accounts, and allows users to search for their own information by entering their username or email address. Users can also sign up to be notified if their email address appears in future dumps. The site has been widely touted as a valuable resource for Internet users wishing to protect their own security and privacy. Have I Been Pwned? was created by security expert Troy Hunt on 4 December 2013.
As of June 2019, Have I Been Pwned? averages around one hundred and sixty thousand daily visitors, the site has nearly three million active email subscribers and contains records of almost eight billion accounts.
Features
The primary function of Have I Been Pwned? since it was launched is to provide the general public with a means to check if their private information has been leaked or compromised. Visitors to the website can enter an email address, and see a list of all known data breaches with records tied to that email address. The website also provides details about each data breach, such as the backstory of the breach and what specific types of data were included in it.
Have I Been Pwned? also offers a "Notify me" service that allows visitors to subscribe to notifications about future breaches. Once someone signs up with this notification mailing service, they will receive an email message any time their personal information is found in a new data breach.
In September 2014, Hunt added functionality that enabled new data breaches to be automatically added to HIBP's database. The new feature used Dump Monitor, a Twitter bot which detects and broadcasts likely password dumps found on pastebin pastes, to automatically add new potential breaches in real-time. Data breaches often show up on pastebins before they are widely reported on; thus, monitoring this source allows consumers to be notified sooner if they've been compromised.
Along with detailing which data breach events the email account has been affected by, the website also points those who appear in their database search to install a password manager, namely 1Password, which Troy Hunt has recently endorsed. An online explanation on his website explains his motives and maintains that monetary gain is not the goal of this partnership.
Pwned passwords
In August 2017, Hunt made public 306 million passwords which could be accessed via a web search or downloadable in bulk.
In February 2018, British computer scientist Junade Ali created a communication protocol (using k-anonymity and cryptographic hashing) to anonymously verify if a password was leaked without fully disclosing the searched password. This protocol was implemented as a public API in Hunt's service and is now cons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy%20Hunt | Troy Adam Hunt is an Australian web security consultant known for public education and outreach on security topics. He created and operates Have I Been Pwned?, a data breach search website that allows users to see if their personal information has been compromised. He has also authored several popular security-related courses on Pluralsight, and regularly presents keynotes and workshops on security topics. He created ASafaWeb, a tool that formerly performed automated security analysis on ASP.NET websites.
Data breaches
As part of his work administering the Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) website, Hunt has been involved in the publication of 644 data breaches , and journalists cite him as a cybersecurity expert and data-breach expert.
HIBP had recorded more than 5 billion compromised user-accounts. Governments of Australia, United Kingdom and Spain use the service to monitor their official domains. Popular services, such as 1Password, Eve Online, Okta or Kogan have integrated HIBP into their account-verification process.
Gizmodo included HIBP in its October 2018 list of "100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know It".
In August 2015, following the Ashley Madison data breach, Hunt received many emails from Ashley Madison members asking for help. He criticized the company for doing a poor job informing its userbase.
In February 2016 children's toy-maker VTech, who had suffered a major data breach months earlier, updated its terms of service to absolve itself of wrongdoing in the event of future breaches. Hunt, who had added the data from VTech's breach to the databases of Have I Been Pwned?, published a blog post harshly criticizing VTech's new policy, calling it "grossly negligent". He later removed the VTech breach from the database, stating that only two people besides himself had access to the data and wishing to reduce the chance of its spread.
In February 2017 Hunt published details of vulnerabilities in the Internet-connected children's toy, CloudPets, which had allowed access to 820,000 user records as well as 2.2 million audio files belonging to those users.
In November 2017 Hunt testified before the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce about the impact of data breaches.
Also in November 2017 Hunt joined Report URI, a project (launched in 2015 by Scott Helme) which allows real-time monitoring of CSP and HPKP violations on a website. He planned to bring funding and his expertise to the project.
Education
Hunt is known for his efforts in security education for computer and IT professionals. He has created several dozen courses on Pluralsight, an online education and training website for computer and creative professionals. He is one of the primary course authors for Pluralsight's Ethical Hacking path, a collection of courses designed for the Certified Ethical Hacker certification.
Additionally, Hunt works in education by speaking at technology conferences and running workshops. His primary workshop, titled Hack Y |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20economics | Artificial Economics can be defined as ″a research field that aims at improving our understanding of socioeconomic processes with the help of computer simulation″.
Like in Theoretical Economics, the approach followed in Artificial Economics to gain understanding of socioeconomic processes involves building and analysing formal models. However, in contrast with Theoretical Economics, models in Artificial Economics are implemented in a programming language so that computers can be employed to analyse them.
Method
Concretely, the method followed in Artificial Economics to analyse formal models most often comprises two stages: 1) deductive generation of samples, and 2) inductive inference of general patterns.
The deductive generation of samples consists in running the model many times for different particularisations of the variables that the model contains. Specifically, if the model is stochastic, then each computer simulation run is conducted with a specific realisation of each and every random variable in the model. The result of this first stage is a set of inputs and their corresponding outputs, which have been derived by the computer using pure deduction, i.e. applying to the inputs the inference rules that define the model.
Once a sufficient number of samples have been obtained, an inductive approach is then employed to infer general patterns about the behaviour of the model. This inductive process can only lead to probable –rather than necessarily true– conclusions (unless all possible particular instances are explored), since it tries to infer general properties out of particular instances.
Thus, using this computer simulation approach, the data is produced by the computer using strict deduction, but the general patterns about how the rules of the model transform the inputs into the outputs are inferred using generalisation by induction.
Scope
The benefit of using the computer simulation approach described above (vs. pure logical deduction only) is that it enables the exploration of (formal) models that are –currently– intractable using the most advanced mathematical techniques. This is so because the set of assumptions that can be investigated using computer simulation is not limited by the strong restrictions that mathematical tractability imposes. This point is particularly important in the study of socioeconomic processes, which –due to its complex nature– are oftentimes difficult or impossible to address adequately using a purely deductive approach only. The strictly deductive approach often requires so many simplifications to ensure mathematical tractability that the correspondence between the real world and the model assumptions turns out disappointingly weak.
Some of these simplifications have been outlined in the left column of the table below, together with some of the features that can be explored using the Artificial Economics approach (right column).
The differences in the type of assumptions investigated using the st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC%20QueeN | MBC QueeN was a South Korean non-'free-to-air' television network, which airs programming aimed at women. The channel's slogan is What Women Want.
Defunct television channels
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation television networks
Television channels in South Korea
Korean-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Women's interest channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber%20Security%20Centre | National Cyber Security Centre, National Cyber Security Center, or National Cybersecurity Center may refer to:
Americas
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, United States
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, Canada
Asia
Cyber Security Agency (Singapore)
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, India
National Electronic Security Authority, UAE
National Center for Cyber Security (Pakistan)
Europe
Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information, France
Estonian Defence League's Cyber Unit
European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), European Union
National Cyberdefence Centre, Germany
National Cyber Security Centre (Ireland)
National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania
National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)
Oceania
Australian Cyber Security Centre
National Cyber Security Centre (New Zealand)
See also
Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Tallinn, Estonia
National Intelligence Service (South Korea), oversees cyber security in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20science%20journals | Below is a list of computer science journals.
Alphabetic list of titles
A
ACM Computing Reviews
ACM Computing Surveys
ACM Transactions on Algorithms
ACM Transactions on Computational Logic
ACM Transactions on Database Systems
ACM Transactions on Graphics
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Acta Informatica
Adaptive Behavior
ALGOL Bulletin
Algorithmica
Algorithms
Applied Artificial Intelligence
Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Astronomy and Computing
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
B
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
C
Cluster Computing
Code Words
Cognitive Systems Research
Combinatorica
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
Communications of the ACM
Computación y Sistemas
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
Computational Intelligence
Computational Mechanics
Computer Aided Surgery
The Computer Journal
Computer Law & Security Review
Computer Networks
Computational Optimization and Applications
Computer Science
Computers & Graphics
Computing
Cybernetics and Human Knowing
D
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
Distributed Computing
E
e-Informatica Software Engineering Journal
Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Empirical Software Engineering
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Evolutionary Computation
F
First Monday
Formal Aspects of Computing
Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory
Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision
Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science
Fundamenta Informaticae
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
H
Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
Hipertext.net
I
ICGA Journal
ICT Express
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
IEEE Intelligent Systems
IEEE Internet Computing
IEEE Micro
IEEE MultiMedia
IEEE Software
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
The Imaging Science Journal
Information and Computation
Information and Software Technology
Information Processing Letters
Informatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Strategic%20Computing%20Initiative | The National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) is a United States initiative calling for the accelerated development of technologies for exascale supercomputers, and funding research into post-semiconductor computing. The initiative was created by an executive order issued by President Barack Obama in July 2015. Ten United States government departments and independent agencies are involved in the initiative. The initiative initially brought together existing programs, with some dedicated funding increases proposed in the Obama administration's 2017 budget request. The initiative's strategic plan was released in July 2016.
Themes
The program has five strategic themes:
To unite the traditional high-performance computing (HPC) focus on physical simulations for scientific research and engineering, which focuses on increasing the computing speed, with "big data" applications that are optimized for working with large amounts of data
To preserve the United States' dominance and leadership role in HPC in the face of advances by other nations, by supporting users, vendor companies, software developers, and researchers
To improve the interoperability of software between different supercomputers, reducing the need to laboriously optimize programs in the context of specific machines
To provide widespread access to and training for HPC resources to public and private sector researchers, including through remote access
To develop post-silicon technologies for alternative computing to support future improvements in hardware
At an April 2016 forum, engaging independent software vendors to develop software platforms for HPC was seen as a major hurdle of the initiative, as was attracting a workforce to work on HPC given the dominance of startup companies in attracting talent, and raising awareness of government HPC resources to outside parties.
Justifications for the initiative include the increasing capabilities of China in supercomputing, as well as the increasing relevance of HPC to industry rather than only academic applications.
Agencies
There are three lead agencies: the Department of Energy and Department of Defense will jointly focus on advanced simulation, with Defense also focusing on data analysis, while the National Science Foundation will focus on scientific discovery and workforce development. Energy's involvement will be through the Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration. The FY2017 budget proposal envisions the preexisting Exascale Computing Initiative continuing to deal with research and development for exascale computing, but a new Exascale Computing Program would assume responsibility for development and procurement of actual machines, along the lines of Energy's other scientific instruments such as the Advanced Photon Source the Spallation Neutron Source. The National Science Foundation's involvement would mainly be centered in its Advanced Cyberinfrastructure program, although the Mathematical and Phy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria%20Townsend | Gloria Townsend is an American computer scientist and professor in the department of Computer Science at DePauw University in Indiana. She is known for her work in evolutionary computation and her involvement with women in computing. She has served on the executive committee of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Council on Women in Computing. She is the author of One Hundred One Ideas for Small Regional Celebrations of Women in Computing. In 2013, she received the Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Tucker Jr. Distinguished Career Award for notable contributions to DePauw through her commitments to students, teaching excellence, their chosen disciplines, and service to the university.
In 2006, she organized several new regional celebrations of Women in Computing (WiC) to coincide with the international Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. In 2010, the United States National Science Foundation awarded funding to extend the celebrations to cover 12 regions as a joint effort by ACM-W, ABI, and NCWIT.,
Publications
1998. Turning liabilities into assets in a general education course, SIGCSE '98 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, Pages 58–62, ACM New York, NY, USA, 1998.
2002. People who make a difference: mentors and role models, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - Women and Computing Homepage archive, Volume 34 Issue 2, Pages 57–61, ACM New York, NY, USA, June 2002.
2007. Leveling the CS1 playing field, SIGCSE '07 Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, Pages 331–335, ACM New York, NY, USA, 2007.
See also
Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W)
References
External links
Gloria Townsend Professor of Computer Science, DePauw
ACM-W Profile
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
21st-century American women scientists
DePauw University faculty
Indiana University alumni
Living people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGAI | ACM SIGAI is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI), an interdisciplinary group of academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, software developers, end users, and students who work together to promote and support the growth and application of AI principles and techniques throughout computing. SIGAI is one of the oldest special interest groups in the ACM. SIGAI, previously called SIGART, started in 1966, publishing the SIGART Newsletter that later became the SIGART Bulletin and Intelligence Magazine.
Conferences
SIGAI supports several conferences.
The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction (HRI).
The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI). The next conference will be held October 2016 in Omaha, Nebraska.
The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT).
The International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). The next conference will be held in September 2016 in Singapore.
The International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI).
The International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP).
The SIGAI Career Network and Conference (SIGAI CNC).
Journal
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) is a scholarly journal that publishes the quality papers on intelligent systems, applicable algorithms and technology with a multi-disciplinary perspective. An intelligent system is one that uses AI techniques to offer important services (e.g., as a component of a larger system) to allow integrated systems to perceive, reason, learn, and act intelligently in the real world.
Newsletter/Bulletin
AI Matters is the SIGAI quarterly newsletter featuring ideas and announcements of interest to the AI community. AI Matters is archived and made available in the ACM Digital Library.
Awards
SIGAI has two main awards that are given out annually.
Allen Newell Award
The ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award was founded in honor of Allen Newell, one of the founders of the field of AI. It is presented to an individual selected for career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines.
ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
The ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award recognizes researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGAI from the proceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences. Prior to 2014, it was known as the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Award. Winners include the following:
Munindar Singh, 2020
Carles Sierra, 2019
Craig Boutilier, 2018
David Parkes, 2017
Peter Stone, 2016
Catherine Pelachaud, 2015
Michael Wellman, 2014
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, 2013
Moshe Tennenholtz, 2012
Joe Halpern, 2011
Jonathan Gratch, 2010
Stacy Marsella, 2010
Manuela M. Velos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR%20Berlin | NPR Berlin was the first international affiliate of the American public radio network, NPR. The station started broadcasting in April 2006. It replaced a radio station from Voice of America that previously broadcast on the 104.1 MHz frequency. The affiliate was operated by NPR Media Berlin gGmbH, a German nonprofit organization of which NPR is the sole shareholder. NPR Berlin was in the unique position of being the only NPR affiliate with a broadcast area outside the United States. Although stations in the Armed Forces Network also carry some NPR programming, they are not NPR affiliates. The station was at the time the only NPR station directly operated by NPR itself. A web stream launched on 2 August 2010 and ended on 2 October 2017.
Financing
Much like NPR stations in the States, the station depended on tax-deductible donations from its listeners to operate. Pledge drives took place twice a year. If the station fell short on listener funding, the difference was made up by NPR headquarters. In 2010, the station's pledge drive resulted in 92 listeners donating around €8000.
NPR spent $181,443 on the station in fiscal year 2015. NPR's financial statements published in December 2016 included the following statement about their operations in Berlin:
Management is pursuing options that will reduce the financial subsidy provided by NPR Inc. to NPR Media Berlin, including relinquishing the FM radio station license and closing NPR Media Berlin."
Programming
Most of NPR Berlin's schedule consisted of syndicated NPR programming and some live shows. Its original content was limited to a show called Berlin Journal (airing infrequently) and features like Events Calendar, Life in Berlin and Berlin Stories. The station also carried some English-language output from partners like Deutsche Welle.
Shutdown
In the first quarter of 2017, NPR returned its broadcast license to the regulator, Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (MABB), to take effect as of 1 October 2017. NPR planned to become solely a content provider to the station. The station's broadcasting license was originally planned to last until 31 March 2020. MABB invited tenders for a new operator of the frequency on 12 April 2017. The new license was valid for a maximum of seven years.
MABB awarded the frequency to KCRW Berlin on 14 September 2017. It began broadcasting on 16 October 2017 and the schedule was expected to include locally produced speech and music programming. Some NPR magazine content such as All Things Considered and Morning Edition were still part of the schedule. KCRW Berlin, which closed in 2020, was a subsidiary of 89.9 KCRW in Santa Monica - Los Angeles.
References
External links
Defunct radio stations in Germany
NPR member stations
2006 establishments in Germany
Radio stations established in 2006
Radio stations in Berlin
2017 disestablishments in Germany
Radio stations disestablished in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swalley%20Irrigation%20District | The Swalley Irrigation District supplies water to irrigators through a network of pipes and canals fed by the Deschutes River near Bend in the U.S. state of Oregon. The network, begun in 1899, is a closed system with an intake behind North Canal Dam in Bend and a main canal, the Swalley Canal, that runs north from the city for about . The only covered bridge east of the Cascade Range in Oregon crosses the Swalley Canal.
The district diverts about 82 CFS from the river during the irrigation season, April through October. Water requirements for Swalley have fallen by about 43 CFS over the years due to major water conservation projects and other efficiency projects and programs. Water savings from conservation projects means that more water stays in the river, where increased flow improves conditions for redband trout and other biological species. The district operates a small in-conduit hydroelectric plant that generates renewable energy from the water it diverts for irrigation purposes.
History
The irrigation district was formed in 1899 as the Deschutes Reclamation and Irrigation Company (DRIC). In 1994, when shareholders in the company decided to incorporate as an irrigation district, they adopted the name Swalley Irrigation District after two resident families named Swalley who helped form and manage the DRIC. One of the Swalleys became the project leader and helped build the flumes that carried "Swalley water".
Description
The district is about long and about wide. Its headworks at the North Canal Dam on the Deschutes River in Bend are at above sea level, and the water descends through pipes and open canals to farmland as much as lower.
The main canal, the Swalley Canal, and its network of of side canals, deliver water north of the city to about 700 customers. The district lies generally between U.S. Route 20 on the west and U.S. Route 97 on the east.
Water enters the system from behind the North Canal Dam on the Deschutes River in Bend. For its first , the water flows through pressurized pipe. In 2010, the district completed the piping and the addition of an in-conduit 0.75-megawatt hydroelectric plant. The plant produces enough electricity to supply about 375 homes and businesses near Bend's Old Mill District. Annual income to the district from selling electricity is estimated between $160,000 and $190,000. Grants from other agencies had covered all but $2 million of the $14.5 million cost to build the plant, which has an expected lifespan of 50 to 100 years.
The canal delivers water another beyond the hydroelectric plant but does not discharge to a storage reservoir or any natural water body. It is a closed system with no end-spills or returns to the Deschutes River. Advanced Fish and Debris Screens prevent fish from entering the Main Canal Pipeline at the headworks.
The average customer in the district receives enough water to irrigate . The most common crops are grass and alfalfa, and some customers use the water for oats, s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM-W | The Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field, providing a wide range of programs and services to ACM members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women. ACM-W is an active organization with over 36,000 members.
Celebrations of Women in Computing
ACM-W sponsors annual celebrations focused on women in computing. ACM-W provides up to $3,000 seed funding for each celebration, and also raises and disburses corporate sponsorship. Each celebration organizing committee is responsible for additional fundraising within their conference area. ACM-W supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field, providing a wide range of programs and services to Association for Computing Machinery members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women.
ACM-W Celebrations are regional conferences with global participants from industry, academia, and government. Celebration participation is growing and these events represent some of the largest gatherings of women in technology.
The original Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing was recognized by the US White House on their page "The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology" in the entry for United States Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. In addition to this noteworthy beginning, the conferences have attracted the participation of technology notables including Anita Hill, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-founder Priscilla Chan, and Justine Cassell of Carnegie Mellon University, one of the top universities in Computer Science. The list describes the expansion of celebrations globally to include the largest gathering of women in computing in India.
Chapters
ACM-W has nearly 200 active professional, virtual and student chapters globally. The professional chapters serve to enhance communications networks thereby providing resources and support for women in the workforce. The student chapters serve to increase recruitment and retention of women in computing fields at the university level and offer student activities and projects that aim to improve the working and learning environments for women in computing.
Awards
Starting in 2006, ACM-W has offered an annual Athena Lecturer Award to honor outstanding women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science:
2006–2007: Deborah Estrin of UCLA
2007–2008: Karen Spärck Jones of University of Cambridge
2008–2009: Shafi Goldwasser of MIT and the Weitzmann Institute of Science
2009–2010: Susan J. Eggers of the University of Washington
2010–2011: Mary Jane Irwin of the Pennsylvania State University
2011–2012: Judith S. Olson of the University of California, Irvine
2012–2013: Nancy Lynch of MIT
2013–2014: Katherine Yelick of LBNL
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic%20Computing%20Society | The Memetic Computing Society is a society focusing on research in the area of memetic algorithms and evolutionary computation. The society is located in Singapore.
Conferences
The Memetic Computing Society supports the following conferences.
The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT).
See also
Association for Computing Machinery
ACM SIGAI
IEEE Computer Society
References
External links
Official web site
Release
Information technology organizations based in Asia
Organisations based in Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201977%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1977, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Radio Mil. Also included are the number-one songs according to the Record World magazine.
Chart history (Billboard)
Chart history (Record World)
See also
1977 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine.
1977 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Tapia%20Celebration%20of%20Diversity%20in%20Computing | The Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference is a conference designed to promote diversity, connect undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers, and professionals in computing from all backgrounds and ethnicities. The conferences are sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and presented by the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology (CMD-IT). The conferences are named after Professor Richard Tapia. Tapia is an internationally acclaimed scientist, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the first recipient of the Computing Research Association's A. Nico Habermann Award for outstanding contributions to aiding members of underrepresented groups within the computing community, a member of the National Science Board, and recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring from President Bill Clinton.
Conference structure
The Richard Tapia Celebration consists of three tracks: technical sessions, professional development, and broadening participation. These three tracks include Birds of a Feather sessions, workshops, panels, posters, and a Doctoral Consortium. Since 2017, the Celebration also serves as one of the ACM Student Research Competition sites.
Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award
The Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science and Diversifying Computing is awarded at the Celebration to individuals who have made significant contributions to broadening participation in computer science.
Past recipients:
2023 - Charles Isbell
2022 - Juan C. Meza
2021 - Jamika Burge
2020 - Jeanine Cook
2019 - Maria Cristina Villalobos
2018 - Ayanna Howard
2017 - Manuel Pérez-Quiñones
2016 - David Patterson
2015 - Richard E. Ladner
2014 - Janice E. Cuny
2013 - Juan E. Gilbert
2011 - William Wulf
2009 - Ann Gates
2007 - Peter Freeman
2005 - Valerie Taylor
2003 - Carlos Castillo-Chavez
2001 - Bryant York
List of Conferences
Past conferences include:
See also
CMD-IT
Richard Tapia
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Coalition to Diversify Computing
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
References
External links
ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
Computer conferences
Diversity in computing
Association for Computing Machinery conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition%20to%20Diversify%20Computing | The Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) is a joint organization of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Computing Research Association (CRA). CDC emphasizes recruiting minority undergraduates to MS/PhD programs, retaining minority graduate students enrolled in MS/PhD programs, and transitioning minority MS/PhD graduates into academia, industry, and government careers.
See also
Association for Computing Machinery
Diversity in computing
References
External links
Official website
Information technology organizations based in North America
Computer science education
Professional associations based in the United States
Diversity in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity%20in%20computing | Diversity in computing refers to the representation and inclusion of underrepresented groups, such as women, people of color, individuals with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ individuals, in the field of computing. The computing sector, like other STEM fields, lacks diversity in the United States.
Despite women constituting around half of the U.S. population they still are not properly represented in the computing sector. Racial minorities, such as African Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians or Alaska Natives, also remain significantly underrepresented in the computing sector.
Two issues that cause the lack of diversity are:
1. Pipeline: the lack of early access to resources
2. Culture: exclusivity and discrimination in the workplace
The lack of diversity can also be attributed to limited early exposure to resources, as students who do not already have computer skills upon entering college are at a disadvantage in computing majors. There is also the issue of discrimination and harassment faced in the workplace which affects all underrepresented groups. For example, studies have shown that 50% of women reported experiencing sexual harassment in tech companies.
As technology is becoming omnipresent, diversity in the tech field could help institutions reduce inequalities in society. To make the field more diverse, organizations need to address both issues. There are multiple organizations and initiatives which are working towards increasing diversity in computing by providing resources, mentorship, support, and fostering a sense of belonging for minority groups such as EarSketch and Black Girls Code. Institutions are also implementing strategies such as Summer Bridge programs, tutoring, academic advising, financial support, and curriculum reform to support diversity in STEM. Along with Institutions Educators can help cultivate a sense of confidence in underrepresented students interested in pursuing computing, such as emphasizing a growth mindset, rejecting the idea that some individuals have innate talent, and establishing inclusive learning environments.
Statistics
In 2019, women represented 50.8% of the total population of the United States, but made up only 25.6% of computer and mathematical occupations and 27% of computer and information systems manager occupations. African Americans represented 13.4% of the population, but held 8.4% of computer and mathematical occupations. Hispanic or Latino people made up 18.3% of the population, but constituted only 7.5% of the people in these jobs. Meanwhile, white people, standing at 60.4%-76.5% of the population of the United States, represented 67% of computer and mathematical occupations and 77% of computer and information systems manager occupations. Asians, representing 5.9% of the population, held 22% of computer and mathematical jobs and were 14.3% of all computer and information systems managers.
In 2021, women made up 51% of the total population aged 18 to 74 years old, yet only accoun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Women%20in%20Computing | The Association for Women in Computing (AWC) is a professional organization for women in computing. It was founded in 1978 in Washington, D.C., and is a member of the Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP).
Purpose
The purpose of AWC is to provide opportunities for professional growth for women in computing through networking, continuing education and mentoring. To accomplish this they promote awareness of issues affecting women in the computing industry, further the professional development and advancement of women in computing, and encourage women to pursue careers in computer science. The AWC is a national, nonprofit, professional organization for women and men with an interest in information technology. It grants the Ada Lovelace Award to individuals who have excelled in either of two areas: outstanding scientific technical achievement and/or extraordinary service to the computing community through accomplishments and contributions on behalf of women in computing.
History
AWC was founded in 1978 as a non-profit organization, originally under the name National Association for Women in Computing. The Puget Sound Chapter was founded in the winter of 1979 by Donnafaye Carroll Finger and Diane Haelsig. These two women read an article about a new association for women in computing and were soon discussing the formation of a Puget Sound Chapter. The Twin Cities Chapter of the AWC first met in December 1979, and became a chartered chapter on May 6, 1981.
Chapters
AWC has chapters in:
Montana State University
New Jersey
Seattle, Washington
Twin Cities, Minnesota
Puget Sound Washington
See also
ACM-W
Ada Lovelace Award
Anita Borg
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Women in computing
References
External links
Association for Women in Computing - Montana State University
Association for Women in Computing – Northern New Jersey Chapter
Association for Women in Computing – Puget Sound Chapter
Association for Women in Computing – Twin Cities Chapter
Association for Women in Computing (CBI 49), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Correspondence, minutes, reports, proceedings, audio tapes, and artifacts that document the history and activities of the AWC.
Association for Women in Computing, Twin Cities Chapter (CBI 7), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Administrative records created by the Twin Cities Chapter of the Association for Women in Computing
Organizations for women in science and technology
Professional associations for women
Women in computing
Professional associations based in the United States
Computer_science-related_professional_associations
Women in Washington, D.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda%20Baker | Brenda Sue Baker is an American computer scientist. She is known for Baker's technique for approximation algorithms on planar graphs, for her early work on duplicate code detection, and for her research on two-dimensional bin packing problems.
Baker did her undergraduate studies at Radcliffe College. She earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973; her dissertation concerned automata theory and formal languages, and was supervised by Ronald V. Book. Early in her career she was an instructor and Vinton-Hayes Research Fellow at Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, a visiting lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and an assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Communication Sciences at the University of Michigan. Later she worked at Bell Laboratories, becoming a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff there.
Baker married another Bell Labs computer scientist, Eric Grosse, who would later become Google's Vice President for Security & Privacy Engineering. Their son, Roger Baker Grosse, is also a computer science researcher.
Research
Her research interests principally include algorithm and software tools. Specifically, she has worked on problems involving string pattern matching, combinatorial algorithms, and approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems.
In the software tools domain, she designed tools to analyze and compare source code and compiled executables. These tools include Dup and Pdiff, which compare regions of source code to determine if there are any repeated segments, as well as Exediff, which enables the creation of small patches for executables without requiring access to the source code they were compiled from.
Selected publications
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Radcliffe College alumni
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American women scientists
University of Michigan faculty
Harvard University alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
American women computer scientists
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayank%20Prakash | Mayank Prakash (born 1973) is a businessman based in the United Kingdom. Computer Weekly magazine described him as "the most influential person in UK IT" in their 2017 awards.
Qualifications
Mayank Prakash holds an MBA from Manchester Business School, is a Wharton Fellow and an alumnus of Singularity University.
Career History
Mayank Prakash started his career as a Graduate Engineer Trainee at the Hewlett-Packard. He worked in the HCL JV starting with the entrepreneurial Frontline Solutions start-up venture and was soon after selected to join the Senior Management Trainee Programme and deputed to incubate ERP implementation capabilities working with the Big 4 Consulting firms at HCL Tech.
Prakash was the International CIO of Avaya, then the Group CIO of iSoft and later the CIO of Sage Group in UK. Prakash was hired by Morgan Stanley leading Tech and Data team of Morgan Stanley Wealth and Asset Management and as Director of Morgan Stanley Advantage Services.
In 2014, Prakash left Morgan Stanley to join the Department for Work and Pensions as the Director General in charge of technology, replacing Andy Nelson. In this role, Prakash combines his predecessor's job as CIO with business transformation, security and data responsibilities, and worked directly for Sir Robert Devereux.
Subsequently, Mayank joined FTSE100 Centrica as the Chief Consumer Digital and Information Officer.
Current roles
Prakash joined the board of Uber as a Non Exec Director.
As Centrica sold its North American business, Prakash was head hunted to join UK's largest wealth and professional services group Evelyn Partners managing £57bn assets as the Group CTO and then promoted to become the Group Chief Operations Officer. Prakash is also the Director on the board of UK's fastest growing £10 bn funding business Evelyn Partners Fund Solutions Limited.
He was selected as the Deputy President of the British Computing Society in 2021 and the President in 2022. The British Computing Society is the Chartered Institute for Technology. Prakash is the chair of the board and also serves on the nominations and remuneration committee of the Trustee Board.
Prakash is also the Chair of PIMFA WealthTech Advisory Council.
References
Technology business executives
1973 births
Living people
British civil servants
Chief information officers
Chief digital officers
Alumni of the Manchester Business School |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Bee | French Bee SAS, styled as French bee, and formerly named French Blue, is a French low-cost, long-haul airline based at Paris Orly Airport. It operates a scheduled network between France and worldwide leisure destinations with a fleet of Airbus A350s. Its head office is in parent company 's offices in the Belleville-sur-Vie area of Bellevigny, Vendée, France.
History
Formation and startup (2014–2017)
In 2014, Marc Rochet (an airline executive at French Caribbean airline Air Caraïbes, with prior executive experience at airlines including AOM and L'Avion) and Jean-Paul Dubreuil (chairman of , the holding and parent company of Air Caraïbes) discussed ways to expand Groupe Dubreuil's aviation businesses. A possibility included the buyout of Corsair International from TUI Group; however when the buyout fell through in March 2015, a decision was made to instead form an entirely new French airline. In June 2015, Groupe Dubreuil announced the launch of a project under the codename "Sunline", involving the creation of a new low-cost, long-haul airline to be based in France. The airline was publicly unveiled in March 2016, under the name "French Blue". Plans for the airline's first two years were to launch flights from Paris to Punta Cana in September 2016, flights to the islands of Réunion and Mauritius in summer 2017, and to operate a fleet of two Airbus A330-300 and two Airbus A350-900s by March 2018. The airline also planned to hire 400 employees within two years.
After receiving its first Airbus A330-300, the airline operated some long-haul flights on behalf of Air Caraïbes from 1 July 2016, before the airline's first flight from Paris Orly to Punta Cana International Airport on 10 September 2016. In October 2016, the airline announced its next destination from Paris Orly with flights to Roland Garros Airport on Réunion island, beginning on 16 June 2017. In August 2017, the airline received its first Airbus A350-900, and was also considering Mauritius and Seychelles as new destinations for 2018. By November 2017 however, the airline ultimately chose Papeete and San Francisco as its next destinations, with plans to begin serving them on 11 May 2018.
Rebranding and expansion (2017–2020)
In November 2017, while the airline as "French Blue" was applying with the United States Department of Transportation for a foreign air carrier permit to begin service to the country, US-based JetBlue raised objections to another airline serving the country bearing the word "Blue" in its name. In response, the airline was temporarily renamed to simply "French", before the airline announced on 30 January 2018 that it was rebranding as "French Bee". In February 2018, after receiving regulatory approval to begin operations to the US, the airline formally announced the opening of reservations for flights between Paris Orly and Faa'a International Airport (Papeete) in French Polynesia, with flights stopping at San Francisco International Airport each way, and launching o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittoor%20V.%20Ramamoorthy | Chittoor V. Ramamoorthy (1926–2016) was an Indian American computer scientist, computer engineer and educator whose work had many implications in engineering, computer science, and software engineering. Together with Raymond T. Yeh, he is given credit for the early establishment of the discipline of software engineering. He had a large following worldwide with whom he actively collaborated until the last few months of his life. Advances made during these collaborations included the exploration of transdisciplinary methods and the development of a science to support future complex systems design.
Early life and education
Ramamoorthy was born in Burma to Indian parents and educated in India and the U.S. He studied physics and textile technology at the University of Madras, did graduate work in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and received both a Master's and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1964.
Career
He started his career at Honeywell in 1956. He later taught at the University of Texas at Austin and at the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. He also served on advisory committees for the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy; Los Alamos Labs; Lockheed Research; and IBM.
In 1994, he retired from UC Berkeley and became professor emeritus after having mentored 73 Ph.D. students. He held the Control Data Distinguished Professorship at the University of Minnesota and the Grace Hopper Chair at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterrey, California. He was a visiting professor at Northwestern University and visiting research professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He served as the education chair of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies. He also held the honorary professorship at Asia University Taichung, Taiwan. He was the founding director of the International Institute of Systems Integration. Dr. Ramamoorthy served on several advisory committees of the U.S. Government and academia, including advisory committees of the U.S. Army (Advanced Strategic Missile Defense), the Air Force (Science Advisory Board), the Navy (Office of Naval Research), the Los Alamos National Labs, Lockheed Research, IBM Research, and the university systems of Florida, Texas, Missouri, California, and Toronto.
Ramamoorthy was a Life Fellow of the IEEE as well as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on the Knowledge and Data Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, He was the program chair of the first IEEE-ACM-International Conference of Software Engineering and co-founder of IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed systems (SRDS).
He helped start several organizations including the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) where he served as board chairman until his passing. He was both a founding member and fellow of SDPS.
Personal life
Ramamoorthy was married for 58 years to his wife, Daulat. They had three children: Vi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%20Bahadur%20%28film%20series%29 | 3 Bahadur () is a Pakistani film series comprising the 3D computer-animated films directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. The series started with the film 3 Bahadur in 2015 and is followed by the sequel 3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam (2016).The third and final installment 3 Bahadur: Rise of the Warriors was released in 2018. Distributed by ARY Films, all films gather the story of three friends and their adventurous journey to save their community from evil.
Films
3 Bahadur (2015)
Directed by two times Oscar award winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the plot of the film focuses on three friends and their journey of saving the community from evils like Baba Balaam. The main roles were played by Zuhab Khan, Hanzala Shahid, Muneeba Yaseen, Behroze Sabzwari and Alyy Khan, as Saadi, Kamil, Amna, Dennu and Young Mangu respectively. The film was released on 22 May 2016 in Pakistan as the first full length computer-animated film of Pakistan. It also became highest grossing animated film in Pakistan.
3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam (2016)
After getting positive response on 3 Bahadur, director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy announced the sequel 3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam. She said "3 Bahadur was a very special project for me because it inculcated a sense of pride and ownership in Pakistani children. Now, with #3Bahadur Part 2, I want to make sure that Saadi, Kamil and Amna inspire bravery and fearlessness in every child across the country." The film will be released in December 2016 and it will be the debut of Fahad Mustafa, Ahmed Ali Butt, Ali Gul Pir and Sarwat Gilani as a voice over artist.
3 Bahadur: Rise of The Warriors (2018)
The third film, 3 Bahadur: Rise of the Warriors released in 14 December 2018, which has the voice by Mehwish Hayat, Fahad Mustafa, Sarwat Gillani, Nimra Bucha, and Behroze Sabzwari.
Cast and characters
Crew
Box office performance
See also
List of Pakistani animated films
List of highest-grossing Pakistani films
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy filmography
References
External links
Facebook
Instagram
Film series introduced in 2015
Animated film series
Pakistani film series
Pakistani animated films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20computing | Creative computing covers the interdisciplinary area at the cross-over of the creative arts and computing. Issues of creativity include knowledge discovery, for example.
Overview
The International Journal of Creative Computing describes creative computing as follows:
Creative computing is interdisciplinary in nature and topics relating to it include applications, development method, evaluation, modeling, philosophy, principles, support environment, and theory.
The term "creative computing" is used both in the United Kingdom and the United States (e.g., at Harvard University and MIT).
Degree programmes
A number of university degree (Bachelor's degree) programmes in Creative Computing exist, for example at:
University of the Arts London
Queen's University
University of West London
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
Bath Spa University
Falmouth University
Goldsmiths, University of London
Queen Mary, University of London
Wrexham Glyndŵr University
Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Leeds Beckett University, the programme is named as BSc (Hons) Creative Media Technology
University of Portsmouth, the programme is named as BSc (Hons) Creative Media Technologies
City University of Hong Kong, the programme is named as Bachelor of Science in Creative Media, jointly offered by the School of Creative Media and the Department of Computer Science
Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, the programme is named as Bachelor of Science (Honours) Multimedia Technology and Innovation
Hong Kong Metropolitan University, the programme is named as Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Computing and Interactive Entertainment
Caritas Institute of Higher Education, the programme is named as Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Digital Entertainment Technology
Master's degree programmes:
City University of Hong Kong, the programme is named as Master of Arts in Creative Media (MACM)
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the programme is named as Multimedia & Entertainment Technology (MSc)
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the programme is named as Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy Programs in Computational Media and Arts
Sogang University (Seoul), Department of Art & Technology
Journal
The International Journal of Creative Computing is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Inderscience Publishers, covering creativity in computing and the other way around. The editor-in-chief is Andy M. Connor (Auckland University of Technology).
The journal was established in 2013 and is abstracted and indexed in CSA, ProQuest, and DBLP databases. The journal is currently in the process of recruiting a new Editorial Board for re-launch in 2021.
See also
Creative coding
Computer art
References
Creativity techniques
Subfields of computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Casado | Martín Casado is a Spanish-born American software engineer, entrepreneur, and investor. He is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and was a pioneer of software-defined networking, and a co-founder of Nicira Networks.
Early life and education
Martín Casado was born around 1976 in Cartagena, Spain. He received his bachelor's degree from Northern Arizona University in 2000. In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate from the same university. He worked for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory doing computational science followed by work with the intelligence community from December 2000 to September 2006.
Casado attended Stanford University from 2002 to 2008, earning both his Masters and PhD in computer science.
While at Stanford, he began the development of OpenFlow, an open-source protocol that enabled software-defined networking. During this period, he co-founded Illuminics Systems with Michael J. Freedman. His Ph.D. thesis, "Architectural Support for Security Management in Enterprise Networks,” under advisors Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker and Dan Boneh, was published in 2008.
Career
In 2007, Casado co-founded Nicira Networks along with McKeown and Shenker, a Palo Alto, California based company working on network virtualization.
Along with McKeown and Shenker, Casado promoted software-defined networking. His Ph.D. work at Stanford University led to the development of the OpenFlow protocol, which was promoting using the term software-defined networking (SDN).
McKeown and Shenker co-founded the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) in 2011 to transfer control of OpenFlow to a not-for-profit organization.
In July 2012, VMware acquired Nicira for $1.26 billion.
At VMware he was made a fellow and held the positions chief technology officer (CTO) for networking and security and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit.
Casado was a 2012 recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Grace Murray Hopper Award as for helping create the Software Defined Networking movement.
In 2015 Casado, McKeown and Shenker received the NEC C&C Foundation award for SDN and OpenFlow. In 2015, he was selected for Forbes’ “Next Gen Innovators 2014.”
Casado left VMware and joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in February 2016 as its ninth general partner.
Andreessen Horowitz had been one of the investors Nicira, contributing $17.7 million to the start-up venture.
References
External links
Northern Arizona University alumni
Stanford University alumni
1970s births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zba%C5%BEdi | Zbaždi () is a village in Municipality of Struga, North Macedonia.
Population
As of the 2021 census, Zbaždi had 10 residents with the following ethnic composition:
Macedonians 4
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 6
Population (2002 Macedonian census): 10
Macedonians 10
References
Villages in Struga Municipality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%20Mouse%20Mixed-Up%20Adventures | Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures is an American computer-animated preschool television series that was broadcast on Disney Junior. Produced by Disney Television Animation, the series is the successor to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Originally airing as Mickey and the Roadster Racers for its first two seasons, it debuted on its first two episodes consecutively on Sunday, January 15, 2017.
The series was renewed for a second season on March 15, 2017. The second season premiered on April 13, 2018. The show’s third season was renewed one year later, which led to the series being renamed to Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures, the first episode under the new title was originally broadcast on October 14, 2019.
This was Russi Taylor's last television series role before her death on July 26, 2019, it was also the first series not to feature Donald Duck's regular and official voice actor Tony Anselmo due to him being too busy providing the voice for the character in other Disney projects, including DuckTales.
The show was followed by a new series, Mickey Mouse Funhouse, which debuted on August 20, 2021. In 2021, two spin-off holiday specials were released: a Halloween special, Mickey's Tale of Two Witches, on October 7, 2021, in addition to a Christmas special, Mickey and Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas, on December 2, 2021.
Plot
Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures is about the Sensational Six (Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Daisy and Pluto) as they race around their town of Hot Dog Hills and around the world (Pluto doesn't race in any way). Unlike the previous series, this show contains two 11-minute stories as opposed to Clubhouses full-length 22-minute stories.
In the first half, Billy Beagle commentates on Mickey and his friends' races whether the race is in Hot Dog Hills or somewhere else around the world.
In the second half, Minnie and Daisy work as the Happy Helpers alongside Cuckoo-Loca (from Minnie's Bow-Toons) where they help out different residents of Hot Dog Hills. Minnie and Daisy use the Turnstyler located in the office and the Happy Helper Van to assume the clothes associated with their jobs that they are hired to help out on.
In Season 2, the Roadster Racers get their roadsters modified by Ludwig Von Drake so that they can perform Super-charged moves. In Season 2, the theme song (and a segment of the introduction) is also extremely altered near the end for the Super-charged part.
In Season 3, Mickey builds a mixed-up motor lab that mixes up and transforms cars. It starts to use the classic "Hot Dog" song originally written and performed by They Might Be Giants for Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. This new version of the song was placed between the two segments of each episode and at the end of the last segment.
Episodes
Characters
Main
Mickey Mouse (voiced by Bret Iwan) is the leader of the Roadster Racers and owner of Mickey's garage. Mickey drives the Hot Doggin' Hot Rod which turns into Mickey's car.
Minnie Mouse (voiced by Russi Taylor from 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cph1%20holin%20family | The Cph1 Holin Family (TC# 1.E.16) is also called the CDD Holin 4 superfamily, but belongs to the Holin Superfamily IV as classified in the Transporter Classification Database (TCDB). A representative list of members belonging to the Cph1 family can be found in TCDB.
See also
Holin
Lysin
Transporter Classification Database
References
Holins
Protein families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Relocation%20Arc | The Federal Relocation Arc is a network of facilities surrounding Washington, D.C. designed to ensure the survival of non-military components of the United States government in the event the capital city of Washington is rendered uninhabitable during a war or other serious emergency, such as a nuclear attack. Departments participating in the Federal Relocation Arc are primarily agencies that might not themselves be military targets but could have their operations disrupted should a serious event occur in the capital.
Organization
Development of the Federal Relocation Arc began during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower after military leaders came to the conclusion that planning for the post-attack survival of the President of the United States alone would be a useless exercise if the rest of the government was wiped out.
The Federal Relocation Arc consists of three layered networks of facilities, each of which is designed to be progressively more survivable and fortified than the previous. In the event that intelligence or rising tensions indicate that a serious emergency may soon develop, cabinet-level agencies of the United States government would activate three "emergency teams" sequentially lettered "A", "B", and "C". Each pre-designated emergency team generally consists of 60 to 100 staff who are capable of running the most critical functions of the government agency that they represent. Following an alert, an agency's "A" team would move to a secure underground facility located within or immediately adjacent to the agency's normal headquarters building in Washington, D.C. The "B" team would relocate to the High Point Special Facility in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. The "C" team would set up office at a dedicated emergency facility that each agency maintains approximately 20–30 miles outside of Washington.
After the onset of the event, the "A" team would continue to operate the agency in question until it was destroyed or its ability to communicate with the outside world was cut off, at which time the "B" team would seamlessly assume control. Following the destruction or loss of communication with the "B" team, authority for the operation of the agency would transition to the "C" team. Should the "C" team no longer be able to function, administrative control of the agency could diffuse to regional offices.
Mobilization and dispersal of emergency teams to the Federal Relocation Arc may require several hours to complete, so its utility would be susceptible to a "Bolt Out of the Blue" attack (known by the military acronym "BOOB"), a sudden, decapitating nuclear strike against Washington, D.C. by a foreign state that occurred with no warning and was not preceded by any period of rising tension or intelligence indicators. Military planners consider the likelihood of such an attack to be low.
Activations
An alert issued following the September 11, 2001 attacks initiated the dispersal of departmental emergency teams to relocation sites. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mother/Daughter%20Experiment%3A%20Celebrity%20Edition | The Mother/Daughter Experiment: Celebrity Edition is an American reality television series that premiered on March 1, 2016, on the Lifetime cable network. The show is about six mother/daughter pairs who try to repair their broken relationships and rebuild their bonds. With therapist Dr. Debbie Magids guiding them through explosive therapy and intense exercises.
Cast
Natalie Nunn former cast member of Bad Girls Club and Karen Nunn
Heidi Montag former cast member of The Hills and Darlene Egelhoff
Kim Richards former cast member of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Kimberly Jackson
Shar Jackson actress known for Moesha and Cassie Jackson
Courtney Stodden former cast member of Couples Therapy and Krista Keller
Jessica Canseco former cast member of Hollywood Exes and Josie Canseco
Episodes
Legal action
Shortly after its premiere, Krista Keller, the mother of Courtney Stodden, threatened to sue the Lifetime network over her portrayal on the show.
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2016 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Los Angeles
Lifetime (TV network) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20ConcurrentMap | The Java programming language's Java Collections Framework version 1.5 and later defines and implements the original regular single-threaded Maps, and
also new thread-safe Maps implementing the interface among other concurrent interfaces.
In Java 1.6, the interface was added, extending ,
and the interface was added as a subinterface combination.
Java Map Interfaces
The version 1.8 Map interface diagram has the shape below. Sets can be considered sub-cases of corresponding Maps in which the values are always a particular constant which can be ignored, although the Set API uses corresponding but differently named methods. At the bottom is the java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap, which is a multiple-inheritance.
Implementations
ConcurrentHashMap
For unordered access as defined in the java.util.Map interface, the java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap implements java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap. The mechanism is a hash access to a hash table with lists of entries, each entry holding a key, a value, the hash, and a next reference. Previous to Java 8, there were multiple locks each serializing access to a 'segment' of the table. In Java 8, native synchronization is used on the heads of the lists themselves, and the lists can mutate into small trees when they threaten to grow too large due to unfortunate hash collisions. Also, Java 8 uses the compare-and-set primitive optimistically to place the initial heads in the table, which is very fast. Performance is , but there are delays occasionally when rehashing is necessary. After the hash table expands, it never shrinks, possibly leading to a memory 'leak' after entries are removed.
ConcurrentSkipListMap
For ordered access as defined by the java.util.NavigableMap interface, java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentSkipListMap was added in Java 1.6, and implements java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap and also java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap. It is a Skip list which uses Lock-free techniques to make a tree. Performance is .
Ctrie
Ctrie A trie-based Lock-free tree.
Concurrent modification problem
One problem solved by the Java 1.5 java.util.concurrent package is that of concurrent modification. The collection classes it provides may be reliably used by multiple Threads.
All Thread-shared non-concurrent Maps and other collections need to use some form of explicit locking such as native synchronization in order to prevent concurrent modification, or else there must be a way to prove from the program logic that concurrent modification cannot occur. Concurrent modification of a Map by multiple Threads will sometimes destroy the internal consistency of the data structures inside the Map, leading to bugs which manifest rarely or unpredictably, and which are difficult to detect and fix. Also, concurrent modification by one Thread with read access by another Thread or Threads will sometimes give unpredictable results to the reader, although the Map's internal consistency will not be de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hanggang%20Makita%20Kang%20Muli%20episodes | Hanggang Makita Kang Muli is a 2016 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from March 7, 2016 to July 15, 2016 replacing Buena Familia.
Mega Manila and Urban Luzon ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
March 2016
April 2016
May 2016
June 2016
July 2016
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%20%28supercomputer%29 | Fermi is a 2.097 petaFLOPS supercomputer located at CINECA.
History
FERMI is the main HPC computer in CINECA. It was acquired in June 2012 and entered into full production on August 8 the same year. Fermi is the Italian national tier-0 system for scientific research and is also part of the European HPC infrastructure (PRACE). Its procurement was sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
In June 2012, Fermi reached the seventh position on the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world.
In the Graph500 list of top supercomputers, Fermi reached the fifth position, testing at 2,567 gigaTEPS (traversed edges per second).
Specifications
FERMI is a Blue Gene/Q system, the last generation of the IBM project for designing petascale supercomputers. It consists of 10 racks, two midplanes each, for a total of 10.240 compute nodes and 163.840 cores.
Each compute card (compute node) features a 1.6 GHz IBM processor chip with 16 A2 cores, 16 GB of RAM and the network connections. A total of 32 compute nodes are plugged into a node card. Then 16 node cards are deployed on one midplane which is combined with another midplane and two I/O drawers to fill a rack with a total of 32·32·16 = 16K cores for each rack. On the compute nodes runs a light Linux-like kernel (CNK − compute-node kernel).
Compute nodes are disk-less. I/O functionalities are provided by I/O nodes.
The nodes are accessed by ssh via the front-end nodes (or login nodes) at login.fermi.cineca.it. The login nodes run a complete RedHat Linux distribution (6.2). Parallel applications have to be cross-compiled on the front-end nodes and can only be executed on the partition defined on the compute nodes.
The CINECA system consists of 10 racks configured as follows:
2 racks: 16 I/O nodes per rack (minimum job allocation of 64 nodes - 1024 cores).
8 racks: 8 I/O nodes per rack (minimum job allocation of 128 nodes - 2048 cores).
See also
Supercomputing in Europe
References
Articles about Fermi and its network
Il Sole 24 ore - in Italian
Datacenter Knowledge
Supercomputing in Europe
IBM supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%20%28supercomputer%29 | Galileo is a 1.1petaFLOPS supercomputer located at CINECA in Bologna, Italy.
History
GALILEO is available in Cineca since January 2015, in full production since February, the 2-nd, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy), the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the University of Milano-Bicocca. It is the Italian National Tier-1 HPC machine, devoted to scientific computing as well as technical oriented applications. Galileo is also available to European researchers as a Tier-1 system of the PRACE
infrastructure.
In June 2015, Galileo reached the 105-th position on the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world.
In the Green500 list of top supercomputers. Galileo reached the 389-th position in their benchmark, the system tested at 242.17 MFLOPS/W (Performance per watt).
Technical details
Galileo is an IBM Linux infiniband cluster, with a NeXtScale architecture. It is made of 516 compute nodes. Each node contains 2x8-cores Intel Haswell processors (2.40 GHz) and a shared memory of 128 GB. The internal network is Infiniband with 4xQDR switches. The cluster is accessible though 8 login nodes, also user for visualization, reachable via ssh at the address login.galileo.cineca.it. The login nodes are equipped with 2 nVidia K40 GPU each. On the cluster there are also 8 service nodes NX360M5 for I/O and management.
The Operating system for both executable and login nodes is CentOS 7.0.
Galileo is an heterogeneous hybrid cluster: 359 nodes are equipped with Intel accelerators (Intel Phi 7120p), 2 accelerators per node for a total of 768 Phi in the system; 40 nodes are equipped with nVidia accelerators (nVidia K80), 2 accelerators per node for a total of 80 K80 in the system.
See also
Supercomputing in Europe
References
External links
La Repubblica in Italian
Corriere Comunicazioni in Italian
ResearchItaly in Italian
Primeur Magazine
RaiNews in Italian
GPGPU supercomputers
IBM supercomputers
Supercomputing in Europe
X86 supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico%20%28supercomputer%29 | PICO is an Intel Cluster installed in the data center of Cineca. PICO is intended to enable new "BigData" classes of applications, related to the management and processing of large quantities of data, coming both from simulations and experiments. The cluster is made of an Intel NeXtScale server, designed to optimize density and performance, driving a large data repository shared among all the HPC systems in Cineca.
History
The development of Pico was sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy) in 2015.
Specifications
PICO is an Intel Cluster made of 74 nodes of different types, devoted to different purposes, with the common task of data analytics and visualization on large amount of data.
Login nodes: 2 × 20-core nodes, 128 GB-mem. Both of this two nodes are reachable with the IP: login.pico.cineca.it
Compute Nodes: 51 × 20-core nodes, 128 GB-mem. A standard scientific computational environment is defined here. Pre-installed applications are in the visualization domain, as well as data analysis, post-processing and bioinformatics. It is possible to access this environment via ssh and submit large analysis in a PBS batch environment.
Big memory Nodes: two nodes, big1 and big2, equipped respectively with 32 cores – 0.5 T and 40 cores – 1 T of RAM are available for specific activities, which require a remarkable quantity of memory. Both are HP DL980 servers.
The big1 node is equipped with 8 Quad-Core Intel Xeon E7520 processors with a clock of 1.87 GHz and 512 GB of RAM, and a NVidia Quadro 6000 graphics card.
The big2 node is equipped with 4 Ten-Core Intel Xeon E7-2860 with a clock of 2.26 GHz and 1024 GB of RAM.
Viz nodes: 2 × (20-core, 128 GB-mem, 2 × GPU Nvidia K40) + 2 × (16-core, 512 GB-mem, 1 × GPU Nvidia K20). A remote visualization environment is defined on this partition, taking advantage from the large memory and the GPU acceleration.
BigInsights nodes: 4 × 16-core nodes, 64 GB-mem/node, 32TB local disks/node + 1 × 20-core nodes, 128 GB-mem.). On these nodes an IBM solution for Hadoop applications is available. InfoSphere BigInsights is available for special projects.
Other nodes: 13 × 20-core nodes, 128 GB-mem. They are used for internal activities in the domain of Cloud computing, large Scientific Databases, hadoop for science.
See also
Supercomputing in Europe
References
Articles about Pico and its network
Cineca: dal supercomputing alla gestione dei big data (Luca De Biase)
L’utilizzo dei Big Data in Istat: stato attuale e prospettive (presentation at ForumPA by Giulio Barcaroli - ISTAT)
Centro internazionale di fisica teorica Abdus SalamSymposium on HPC & Data-Intensive Applications in Earth Science (presentation by Carlo Cavazzoni and Giuseppe Fiameni - Cineca)
Supercomputing in Europe
IBM supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Lip%20Sync%20Battle%20Philippines%20episodes | Lip Sync Battle Philippines is a Philippine musical-reality competition television series broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Michael V. and Iya Villania, the show premiered on February 27, 2016 succeeding Celebrity Bluff. It is the Philippine version of the American reality television series under the same title. The show concluded on August 27, 2016 with a total of 26 episodes. It was replaced by Superstar Duets on its timeslot. The show returned for a third season on April 1, 2018 on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line up replacing All Star Videoke.
Series overview
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2016)
Note: Winners are listed in bold.
Season 3 (2018)
Note: Winners are listed in bold.
Additional notes
Abrenica and his special guest, Versoza, the casts of Sandugo, both played the role of Machete in two different generations. This makes Versoza's appearance notable.
Guevarra and Nacua are the first tag team winner to have the Lip Sync Battle Championship Belt.
The second song of Napoles, "Let's Get Loud" is a reference to Lola Tinidora's special song in Eat Bulaga!'s Kalyeserye where Richards is a main cast.
The episode's special guests, del Moral and Pangilinan, are both co-stars of the contestants. del Moral is in Because of You with Ching and Martin while Pangilinan is with Umali and Tanfelix in Wish I May.
The second song of de Castro, "Fantastic Baby" is a reference to Yaya Dub's special song in Eat Bulaga's Kalyeserye.
Cruz and Paner, of the 80's all-girl group "The Triplets", joined de Leon's round 2 performance against Reynes, their third member of the group. Meanwhile, Chan, Reynes' co-star in the afternoon series Destiny Rose joined her as Destiny Rose himself.
Regino is the original singer of the song lip synced by Martin for her second performance.
The first three-way battle participates. The theme for this week's challenge was to lip sync the songs of Madonna.
References
Lists of reality television series episodes
Lists of Philippine television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20philanthropy | Data philanthropy describes a form of collaboration in which private sector companies share data for public benefit. There are multiple uses of data philanthropy being explored from humanitarian, corporate, human rights, and academic use. Since introducing the term in 2011, the United Nations Global Pulse has advocated for a global "data philanthropy movement".
Definition
A large amount of data collected from the Internet comes from user-generated content. This includes blogs, posts on social networks, and information submitted in forms. Besides user-generated data, corporations are also currently mining data from consumers in order to understand customers, identify new markets, and make investment decisions. Kirkpatrick, the Director at United Nations Global Pulse, labels this data "massive passive data" or "data exhaust". Data philanthropy is the idea that something positive can come from this overload of data. Data philanthropy is defined as the private sector sharing this data in ways that the public can benefit. The term philanthropy helps to emphasis that data sharing is a positive act and that the shared data is a public good.
Challenges
A challenge that comes with sharing data is the internet privacy of the user whose data is being used. Mathematical techniques (differential privacy and space time boxes) have been introduced in order to make personal data accessible, while providing the users such data with anonymity. But even if these algorithms work, there is always the possibility and fear of re-identification.
The other challenge is convincing corporations to share their data. The big data corporations collect provides them with market competitiveness. They are able to infer meaning regarding consumer behavior. The fear is that by sharing all their information, they may lose their competitive edge.
Furthermore, numerous moral challenges are encountered. One proposal on how to solve those has been brought to light by Mariarosaria Taddeo in 2016, providing an ethical framework that aims to address those.
Sharing strategies
The goal of data philanthropy is to create a global data commons where companies, governments, and individuals can contribute anonymous, aggregated datasets. The United Nations Global Pulse offers four different tactics that companies can use to share their data that preserve consumer anonymity. These include:
Share aggregated and derived data sets for analysis under nondisclosure agreements (NDA)
Allow researchers to analyze data within the private company's own network, under NDA
Real-Time Data Commons: data pooled and aggregated between multiple companies of the same industry to protect competitiveness
Public/Private Alerting Network: companies mine data behind their own firewalls and share indicators
By providing these four tactics United Nations Global Pulse hopes to provide initiative and options for companies to share their data with the public.
Digital disease detection
By using data gathered f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeding%20%28computing%29 | In computing, and specifically peer-to-peer file sharing, seeding is the uploading of already downloaded content for others to download from. A peer, a computer that is connected to the network, becomes a seed when having acquired the entire set of data, it begins to offer its upload bandwidth to other peers attempting to download the file. This data consists of small parts so that seeds can effectively share their content with other peers, handing out the missing pieces. A peer deliberately chooses to become a seed by leaving the upload task active once the content has downloaded. The motivation to seed is mainly to keep the file being shared in circulation (as there is no central hub to continue uploading in the absence of peer seeders) and a desire to not act as a parasite. The opposite of a seed is a leech, a peer that downloads more than they upload.
Background
Seeding is a practice within peer-to-peer file sharing, a content distribution model that connects computers with the use of a peer-to-peer (P2P) software program in order to share desired content. An example of such a peer-to-peer software program is BitTorrent. Peer-to-peer file sharing is different from the client–server model, where content is directly distributed from its server to a client. To make peer-to-peer file sharing function effectively, content is divided into parts of 256 kilobytes (KB). This segmented downloading makes the parts that peers are missing be transferred by seeds. It also makes downloads go faster, as content can be exchanged between peers. All peers (including seeds) sharing the same content are called a swarm.
Data shared via peer-to-peer file sharing contains shared file content, computing cycles and disk storage, among other resources.
Motivations
In peer-to-peer file sharing, the strength of a swarm depends on user behaviour, as peers ideally upload more than they download. This is done by seeding, and there are different motivations to do this. There are two popular motivations to seed, of which one is the reputation-based incentive mechanism and the other is the tit for tat mechanism. As the name reveals, the former is based on the reputation of a peer, meaning that those peers who have a good reputation will get a better treatment from the uploader. The tit for tat mechanism prevents peers from downloading content if they do not upload to the peers they download from. The latter forces a peer to upload.
Although seeding is only a social norm, some scholars see the practice of uploading parts of the data bulk to others as a duty, claiming that "downloaders are forced to reward uploaders in order to compensate for their resource consumption and encourage further altruistic behaviour." Other scholars are milder and believe that a group of highly motivated seeders could already provide a notion of fairness by scheduling when to seed, uploading more effectively.
Threats
Leechers, peers that download more than they upload, are a threat to peer-to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zootopia%20%28soundtrack%29 | Zootopia (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2016 computer-animated film of the same name, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film's score is composed by Michael Giacchino, marking his first feature-length project for Walt Disney Animation Studios, after composing for specials and short films produced by the company, as well as multiple Pixar films. In addition to the original score, the film features a song titled "Try Everything" performed by Shakira, apart from providing voice-over to the character Gazelle, with the song written by Sia and Stargate. The soundtrack was released digitally and through CD on March 4 and 25, 2016 by Walt Disney Records. A double-LP picture disc titled Music From Zootopia was released on May 19, 2017.
Composition
Giacchino started recording for the film's score on November 16, 2015. He called the film as "one of those films with a huge heart and wonderfully realized characters set within a story that’s not only incredibly fun and entertaining but takes an honest look at our own world and the important issues we deal with living in such a diverse society. That’s what really attracted me to the film, the chance to write music that reflects these kind of challenges." While adding that the score had "flavors of world music sprinkled everywhere", it always follow the emotional story of Hopps and Nick. With executive music producer Chris Montan and music supervisor Tom McDougall, the recording sessions began with an 80-piece orchestra conducted by Tim Simonec and was completed within 4 days.
The score consisted entirely of percussion instruments, such as onglong, gamelan, African drums, South American drums, bells and special instruments imported from Indonesia. All these were arranged and played by prominent percussionist Emil Richards, known for his collaborations with Jerry Goldsmith on the Planet of the Apes score. Emil offered Giacchino, a mixing bowl and a ram horns, which he blended and used in the score, calling it as a "perfect combination of sounds and weirdness that we can throw in there". Giacchino further created an 8-minute suite, driven through piano, making it devoid from the comedic elements and focuses in a more emotional way.
Track listing
Credits
Credits and personnel for the soundtrack adapted from AllMusic.
Mike Anderson – engineer
Amund Björklund – arranger
Marshall Bowen – conductor
Connie Boylan – assistant contractor
Ashley Chafin – management, music production
Vincent Cirilli – engineer
Dave Clauss – engineer
David Coker – scoring assistant
Donna Cole-Brulé – management, music business affairs
Mae Crosby – synthesiser programming
Andrea Datzman – music editor, score
Brad Dechter – orchestration
Greg Dennen – scoring crew
Luke Dennis – technician
Mikkel Eriksen – engineer, text
Patricia Sullivan – mastering
Sia Furler – text
Earl Ghaffari – music editor, producer
Michael Giacchino – composer, primary artist, score producer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPLM | XPLM (formerly xPLM Solution GmbH) is an international computer software company specializing in the integration of various development applications with product lifecycle management (PLM) systems. The company was founded as xPLM Solution GmbH in 2005 in Dresden, Germany. Today XPLM is one of the leading integration providers for product development systems. Besides offices in Germany XPLM maintains subsidiaries in Switzerland and the United States.
References
External links
Software companies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gogglebox%20Australia%20episodes | Gogglebox Australia is an Australian reality/observational television series on Network Ten and The LifeStyle Channel that premiered on 11 February 2015. The series, which is a local adaptation of the British series of the same name, sees Australian families, couples and friends watching and commenting on a variety of television programs and movies. The series airs on subscription television channel Lifestyle first, and then airs on free-to-air network Network Ten a day later.
The fifteenth season premiered on Lifestyle on 9 March 2022, following the airing of a celebrity special on 2 March 2022.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
Season 2 (2015)
Season 3 (2016)
Season 4 (2016)
Season 5 (2017)
Season 6 (2017)
Season 7 (2018)
Season 8 (2018)
Season 9 (2019)
Season 10 (2019)
Season 11 (2020)
Season 12 (2020)
Season 13 (2021)
Season 14 (2021)
Season 15 (2022)
Season 16 (2022)
Season 17 (2023)
Season 18 (2023)
References
Lists of Australian non-fiction television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VARAN | VARAN (Versatile Automation Random Access Network) is a Fieldbus Ethernet-based industrial communication system.
VARAN is a wired data network technology for local data networks (LAN) with the main application in the field of automation technology. It enables the exchange of data in the form of data frames between all LAN connected devices (controllers, input/output devices, drives, etc.).
VARAN includes the definitions for types of cables and connectors, describes the physical signalling and specifies packet formats and protocols. From the perspective of the OSI model, VARAN specifies both the physical layer (OSI Layer 1) and the data link layer (OSI Layer 2). VARAN is a protocol according to the principle master-slave. The VARAN BUS USER ORGANIZATION (VNO) is responsible for the care of the Protocol.
References
Computer networking
Computer network organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Radio | I-Radio is an Indonesian radio network headquartered in Jakarta. The network only plays Hot AC & CHR.
Its headquarters are at Sarinah Tower Lt 8, Jl. MH. Thamrin 11 Central Jakarta.
History
The MRA Group, at that time had owned Hard Rock FM, was expanding their radio network. In 2000, MRA created IRADIO and TRAXFM by acquisitions. IRADIO broadcast for the first time in 3 April 2000, while MTV On Sky was on test broadcast until 1 July 2000.
Programming
Masih Pagi-Pagi
Kirim Salam
Masih Sore-Sore
10 Lagu Keren I-Radio (formerly Indonesia Keren Banget)
due to Jakarta relay everyday 2pm-4pm WIB)
Zona Cinta (weekend)
Cutting Edge (Sunday)
Newsbuzz (news)
Network
IRADIO has 3 provincial stations, makes it the most nationwide MRA radio brand.
101.4 Trax FM Jakarta (PM2FGE)
105.1 Trax FM Bandung (PM3FXU)
88.7 Trax FM Yogyakarta (PM5FIY)
Slogan
100% Musik Indonesia (100% Indonesian Music) (2000-present)
Cinta Musik Indonesia (Love Indonesian Music) (2010-present)
Indonesia Keren Banget (Indonesia's Very Amazing) (2013-2016)
Juaranya Musik Indonesia (The Champion in Indonesian Music) (2017-present)
References
Indonesian radio networks
Radio stations in Jakarta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revizorro | Revizorro () is a Russian television show in a documentary format distributed by the Friday! network. The first episode aired in June 2014, coinciding with the birthday of the TV network. Initially hosted by a Russian TV presenter Elena Letuchaya, before being substituted by the singer Olga Romanovskaya in April 2016. The program is a Russian adaptation of the Ukrainian show Revizor.
About
"Revizorro" is a television program by "Friday!" that reviews various public facilities: hotels, hostels, restaurants, cafes, clubs, water parks and other public places that provide all sorts of services to their visitors. Filming of the first episode in Stavropol began in February 2014.
Residents of various cities can leave reviews of their local business establishments on the Friday! TV channel website. Based on these reviews, the staff of "Revizorro" makes a list of potential places to review. The crew shows up at a business establishment without a warning so that the staff cannot prepare for their visit. It then allows the viewers honest description of all the pros and cons of the establishments being evaluated. Many episodes also show patrons of the restaurants who use the services, check the quality of food, and cleanliness of the premises, instead of the host herself.
The owners of the audited businesses often offer money to Revizorro's employees so that they will warn them about the crew's visit or promote their businesses in a more favorable light. However, the program officials reject such proposals, stressing how the purpose of the program is in its impartial review of an establishment.
Host
See also
Elena Letuchaya, a Russian journalist, television presenter, producer and director.
Olga Romanovskaya, a Ukrainian singer, TV-host and producer,
References
External links
Russian documentary television series
2014 Russian television series debuts
2010s Russian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encantadia%20%282016%20TV%20series%29 | Encantadia is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 2005 Philippine television series of the same title. It served as a reboot and the fourth television series in the Encantadia franchise. Directed by Mark A. Reyes, it stars Kylie Padilla, Gabbi Garcia, Sanya Lopez and Glaiza de Castro. It premiered on July 18, 2016 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Poor Señorita. The series concluded on May 19, 2017 with a total of 218 episodes. It was replaced by Mulawin vs. Ravena in its timeslot.
The series including a director's cut of the finale is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Four sisters – Pirena, Amihan, Alena and Danaya — guard the gems that hold the power to maintain peace and harmony in the world of Encantadia. Their bond is broken when Pirena discovers that their mother, is afraid of her desire to become the queen of Encantadia.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Glaiza de Castro as Pirena
Kylie Padilla as Amihan
Gabbi Garcia as Alena
Sanya Lopez as Danaya
Supporting cast
Mikee Quintos as Lira/Kambi
Kate Valdez as Mira
Rocco Nacino as Aquil
Ruru Madrid as Ybrahim / Ybarro
Janice Hung as Ether
Solenn Heussaff as Cassiopeia / Arvia
Diana Zubiri as Lilasari
Alfred Vargas as Amarro
John Arcilla as Hagorn
Rochelle Pangilinan as Agane / Andora
Neil Ryan Sese as Asval
Carlo Gonzales as Muros
Pancho Magno as Hitano / Berdano
Klea Pineda as Muyak
Buboy Villar as Wantuk
Cheska Iñigo as Mayca
Noel Urbano as Imaw's voice
Daniel Dasalla Bato as Abog
Recurring cast
Inah de Belen as Deshna / Selene
Phytos Ramirez as Paolo Carlos "Paopao" Aguirre
Arra San Agustin as Ariana / Amihan
Marx Topacio as Azulan
Rey Talosig Jr. as Emre's voice
Zoren Legaspi as Emre
Karl Avalon as Pirena's mashna
Guest cast
Marian Rivera as Minea
Dingdong Dantes as Raquim
Sunshine Dizon as Adhara
Max Collins as Amihan I
Dayara Shane as young Amihan / Cassandra
Barbara Miguel as young Pirena
JC Movido as young Danaya
Althea Ablan as young Alena
Chlaui Malayao as young Lira / Milagros
Kariz Espiñosa as young Mira
Jestoni Alarcon as Armeo
Roi Vinzon as Arvak
Barbara Miguel as teenage Pirena
Angelu de Leon as Amanda Reyes-Quizon
Ryan Eigenmann as Berto Reyes
Miguel Tanfelix as Pagaspas
Alden Richards as Lakan
Janine Gutierrez as Agua
Julianne Lee as Alira Naswen
Ken Alfonso as Gamil
Ana Feleo as Ades
Christian Bautista as Apitong
Jaycee Parker as Asnara
John Feir as Jigs
Joanna Marie Katanyag as Choleng
Rafa Siguion-Reyna as Enuo
Betong Sumaya as Rael
Leandro Baldemor as Dado Quizon
Lindsay de Vera as Dina
Carmen del Rosario as Rosing
Kyle Manalo as Louie
Arny Ross as Silvia Montecarlo
Nar Cabico as Banjo
Avery Paraiso as Kahlil
Maureen Larrazabal as Lanzu
Ge Villamil as Orthana
Ermie Concepcion as Vita
Ervic Vijandre as Icarus
James Teng as Pakô
Conan Stevens as Vish'ka
Yuan Francisco as young Paopao / Paolo
Vaness del Moral as Gurna
Wynwy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20of%20Women%27s%20Museums | The International Association of Women's Museums (IAWM) is an organisation with its foundation office in Bonn (Germany) and its administrative office in Merano (Italy). The network was founded in 2008 in Merano and transformed into an association in Alice Springs (Australia) in 2012. It has the goal to connect women's museums worldwide and to advocate for their interests.
IAWM is led by six board members from different continents. The chairwoman is currently Mona Holm from Norway and the coordinator of the network is Astrid Schönweger from Italy.
Goals
IAWM's goal is to promote culture, arts, education and training from a gender perspective. Furthermore, the association wants to foster exchange, networking, mutual support and global cooperation among Women's Museums. Conducting research and the development of projects, exhibitions, new initiatives, community activities, seminars and conferences is another goal. IAWM is also working to promote and strengthen the acceptance of women's museums, to promote their global cooperation and mutual support, and to achieve international recognition in the world of museums. The membership of women's and gender museums worldwide and is advocating for women's rights and a gender-democratic society.
The association works as juncture network and as a central contact point for mediation for women's museums and initiatives. It monitors women's museums and initiatives worldwide.
Activities of IAWM
Monitoring
The association provides a database of women's museums worldwide and
promotes and disseminates activities and exhibitions of women's museums.
Networking
IAWM regularly organizes international congresses and
reaches out to other networks for collaboration
Cooperating
The network brings together women's museums for cooperation and collective projects, such as the EU-project She Culture;
it promotes exchange and cooperation with other women's or gender and museum networks.
History of women's museums
Today women's museums exist on every continent. They have originated mostly independently from each other. Women's museums of the US and Europe have their origin in the period of the second-wave feminism and its new understanding of history as gender history. Likewise, the museums of other continents have their roots in modern feminism. They want to provide insight into female history, culture or art to an interested public.
Women's museums are important for women's education, empowerment, and self-confidence. They provide awareness training, possibilities for independent actions, and tools to overcome discrimination.
History of IAWM
The association IAWM emerged from the Network of Women's Museums, which was founded in Merano, Italy in 2008. The Women's Museum in Merano and Senegal organised the first congress, where 25 women's museums from all five continents joined for a meeting. The Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner (2003) Shirin Ebadi was invited to take over the role of the godmother of the con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox%20%28operating%20system%29 | Redox is a Unix-like microkernel operating system written in the programming language Rust, which has a focus on safety, stability, and performance. Redox aims to be secure, usable, and free. Redox is inspired by prior kernels and operating systems, such as SeL4, MINIX, Plan 9, and BSD. It is similar to Linux and BSD, but is written in a memory-safe language. It is free and open-source software distributed under an MIT License.
Redox gets its name from the reduction-oxidation reactions in chemistry; one redox reaction is the corrosion of iron, also called rust.
Design
The Redox operating system is designed to be secure. This is reflected in two design decisions:
Using the programming language Rust for implementation
Using a microkernel design, similar to MINIX
Components
Redox provides packages (memory allocator, file system, display manager, core utilities, etc.) that together make up a functional operating system. Redox relies on an ecosystem of software written in Rust by members of the project.
Redox kernel – derives from the concept of microkernels, with inspiration from MINIX
Ralloc – memory allocator
TFS file system – inspired by the ZFS file system
Ion shell – the underlying library for shells and command execution in Redox, and the default shell
pkgutils – package manager
Orbital windowing system – display and window manager, sets up the orbital: scheme, manages the display, and handles requests for window creation, redraws, and event polling
relibc – C standard library
Command-line applications
Redox supports command-line interface (CLI) programs, including:
Sodium – vi-like editor that provides syntax highlighting
Graphical applications
Redox supports graphical user interface (GUI) programs, including:
NetSurf – a lightweight web browser which uses its own layout engine
Calculator – a software calculator which provides functions similar to the Windows Calculator program
Editor – simple text editor, similar to Microsoft Notepad
File Browser – a file manager that displays icons, names, sizes, and details for files; uses the launcher command to open files when they are clicked
Image Viewer – Image viewer for simple file types
Pixelcannon – 3D renderer, can be used to benchmark the Orbital desktop
Orbterm – ANSI type terminal emulator
History
Redox was created by Jeremy Soller and was first published on 20 April 2015 on GitHub. As of July 2021, the Redox repository had a total of 79 contributors.
References
External links
Official GitLab instance
Free software operating systems
Free software programmed in Rust
Hobbyist operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Software using the MIT license
Unix variants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FACIT%20EDB | FACIT EDB was a vacuum tube based computer that was manufactured by Åtvidabergs Industrier AB after the designs for BESK, that had been developed by the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery (Matematikmaskinnämnden).
FACIT EDB was the first fully Swedish series production computer. EDB stod for "Electronic Computer Processing". The manufacturing was done by Åtvidabergs Industrier department of electronics in Stockholm and came to fruition by recruiting 18 key persons from the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery (Matematikmaskinnämndens). Internally nicknamed "the Besk boys". In 1960 the department became Facit Electronics with a new factory in Solna. The recruitment of people from Swedish Board for Computing Machinery were approved by the Finance minister Gunnar Sträng. That thought that production of computers was not something the government should be involved in. In 1963 a FACIT EDB-3 was installed at National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) which enabled use at any time of the day.
History
In 1956 Åtvidabergs industrier recruited seventeen people from the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery that had developed the BESK computer. The same year the company bought the designs drawings for BESK and the first copy were inaugurated in October 1957. It had some improvements, like the double amount of magnetic-core memory, later came a new advanced magnetic tape memory, the carousel memory.
FACIT EDB was installed as a service machine in Åtvidaberg industries facilities at Karlavägen in Stockholm. It meant that customers could come and run their own programs for payment per the hour. The machine became heavily used, the need for calculations existed among others in meteorology.
Operation
FACIT EDB were like the BESK computer a so called IAS machine. The original IAS-machine were completed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1951. FACIT EDB were programmed by loading a program into the working memory, were also in- and output data could be stored. IAS-machines weren't software compatible, but build on drawings of the original IAS-machine architecture.
FACIT EDB was a copy of the BESK, and was built with a combination of electron tubes and germanium diodes. The programs were fitted with break points so that the calculation could be resumed after som electron tube had burnt out and been replaced. As working memory a ferrite core was used.
Input- and output units were:
Paper tape reader (in) 500-1000 characters/second. 5-8 channel strip.
Magnetic tape, carousel memory from 1958, (in and out)
Typewriter (out) circa 10 characters/second.
Paper tape puncher (out) circa 150 characters/second.
Teleprinter (out) 11 rows/second, 160 characters/row.
Control panel (in and out).
Software and programs for the machine was among others an ALGOL compiler, machine code compiler and operating system. The machine could also run various standard programs meant for BESK.
References
External links
kth.diva-portal.org: Att arbeta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel%20memory | Carousel memory is a type of secondary storage for computers, which was created by Swedish computer engineers and Gunnar Stenudd. It was first shown at an exhibition in Paris in 1958.
Description
The FACIT ECM 64, manufactured by Swedish company Facit AB, is a prototype of carousel memory. To avoid having a single, long magnetic tape, it instead has 64 small rolls of each, with wide tape on each roll, divided into per roll. The tape speed is . To read a particular roll, the carousel rotates so the desired roll ends up at the bottom. A counterweight sits at the free end of the tape, and facilitates the roll in moving out and down into a mechanism with a read-and-write head. The tape is then rewound. The average seek time is and the storage space is . The control system is operated by transistors. Both the carousel and individual spools are replaceable.
The magnetic tape is a 5/8-inch (1.6 cm) wide and 0.05 mm thick Mylar 3M Co type 188.The storage density is specified to , and the access head is capable of simultaneous read/write operations. The power requirement is 3-phase 380 volts 50 Hz with when in standby and when active. Signaling for data uses -20 V to 0 V 5 µs pulses.
Peak transfer speed is , using 8-parallel lines and thus per line.
The first delivery of the Facit EDB 3 computer was in 1958 (to ASEA in Västerås) used the carousel memory Facit ECM 64.
See also
BESK, Sweden's first electronic computer, also developed by Erik Stemme
Exatron Stringy Floppy, 1978 endless tape drive
Karlqvist gap, calculation of magnetic field in ferromagnetic layer
Rotronics Wafadrive, 1984 endless tape drive
ZX Microdrive, 1983 endless tape drive
References
Further reading
Information technology in Sweden
Swedish inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuppa%20%28Java%20library%29 | Cuppa is a behavior-driven development (BDD) unit testing framework for the Java programming language version 8. The framework uses features introduced in version 8 of the language, such as lambdas. It is inspired by Mocha.
Cuppa is linked as a JAR at compile-time; the framework resides under the package org.forgerock.cuppa.
Example of a Cuppa test class
A Cuppa test class is a Java object annotated with the @Test annotation.
import org.forgerock.cuppa.Cuppa.*;
@Test
public class ListTest {
{
describe("List", () -> {
describe("#indexOf", () -> {
it("returns -1 when the value is not present", () -> {
List<Integer> list = Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3);
assertThat(list.indexOf(5)).isEqualTo(-1);
});
});
});
}
}
See also
JUnit, another test framework for Java
RSpec, a similar test framework for Ruby
References
External links
Cross-platform software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Java development tools
Java platform
Unit testing frameworks
Software using the Apache license
Articles with example Java code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCJV-LP | KCJV-LP is an Oldies formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Leon Springs, Texas, serving San Antonio, Texas. KCJV-LP is owned and operated by Hispanic Heritage Radio Network.
References
External links
2016 establishments in Texas
Oldies radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2016
CJV-LP
CJV-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRASK%20%28computer%29 | Trask or TRASK (TRAnsistorized Sequence Calculator) was a semiconductor based computer that begun development by the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery from 1960 and that went into use in 1965.
History
Swedish Board for Computing Machinery that had developed BESK began in 1960 the work to develop a new semiconductor based computer. The plan was to create a faster machine with the experiences from BESK as a foundation but built using semiconductors that since the invention of the transistor in 1947 had become useful for this purpose. When the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery were dissolved in 1963, the development were half ways and the project was overtaken by the Nobelinstitutet för fysik in cooperation with , Gunnar Hellström and the designer Zoltan Horvath. TRASK went into service in 1965 and were used until 1980 when it was donated to the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology where it were rebuilt and was put into operation for demonstrations.
Operating principle
TRASK is a fully transistorized mainframe intended for scientific calculations. It consists of central units in cabinets, two Facit ECM-64 carousel memories, Ampex memory unit (in a 19-inch rack, standing on top of the cabinets), paper tape readers, paper tape puncher, typewriter, maneuver panel and a desk.
Input- and output units were:
Paper tape reader (in) 500-1000 characters/second. 5-8 channel strip
Magnetic tape (in and out)
Typewriter (out) circa 10 characters/second
Paper tape puncher (out) circa 150 characters/second
Teleprinter (out) 11 rader/sek, 160 tecken/rad
Control panel (in and out)
Information technology in Sweden
Swedish inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid%20Nawab | S. Hamid Nawab is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University who is a researcher, educator, and engineer in the signal processing and machine perception subfields of Electrical Engineering and their application to the machine/computer analysis of complex biosignals from auditory, speech, and neuromuscular systems.
Education
Nawab received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering, MS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1977, 1979 and 1982, respectively.
Career
Nawab is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) for contributions to the analysis of complex biosignals from speech, auditory, and neuromuscular systems.
Key journal articles written by Nawab include "Integrated Processing and Understanding of Signals", "Decomposition of Surface EMG Signals", "Approximate Signal Processing", "Direction Determination of Wideband Signals" (winner of the 1988 Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society in the Multidimensional Signal Processing category), and "Signal Reconstruction from Short-time Fourier Transform Magnitude".
Among his other major written works is the book Symbolic and Knowledge-Based Signal Processing at the intersection of signal processing and artificial intelligence research, as well as the textbook Signals and Systems that he co-authored with Alan V. Oppenheim and Alan S. Willsky. The textbook has been adopted around the world with its international edition and its Chinese edition.
Nawab is currently a tenured full professor at Boston University, where he has earned five teaching awards, including the university-wide Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has held visiting professorships in Electrical Engineering at MIT (1994–95) and in Computer Science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1989–90).
Nawab is also Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Yobe Inc.
Personal life
Nawab is a Pakistani-American. He currently lives in Andover, Massachusetts, with his wife and son. He has lived in the Greater Boston area since 1974 when he first arrived in the US to attend college.
References
Boston University faculty
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American academics of Pakistani descent
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faking%20It%20%28season%203%29 | The third and final season of Faking It, an American single-camera romantic comedy, premiered on March 15, 2016, on the MTV network. The show was renewed for a third season on April 21, 2015. Ten new episodes were produced.
Plot
When their first summer apart comes to an end, Amy (Rita Volk) returns home and is ready to continue her friendship with Karma (Katie Stevens) now that she has finally moved on from her. But the two struggle to get their friendship back on track. Shane (Michael Willett), who is now friends with Karma, is caught between his friendship with both Amy and Karma. Liam (Gregg Sulkin) and Zita (Chloe Bridges) are now dating after spending the summer trying to find out more about Liam's past.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Katie Stevens as Karma Ashcroft
Rita Volk as Amy Raudenfeld
Gregg Sulkin as Liam Booker
Michael Willett as Shane Harvey
Bailey De Young as Lauren Cooper
Recurring cast
Rebecca McFarland as Farrah
Senta Moses as Penelope Bevier
Erick Lopez as Tommy Ortega
Courtney Kato as Leila
Amy Farrington as Molly
Lance Barber as Lucas
Dan Gauthier as Bruce Cooper
August Roads as Oliver Walsh
Chloe Bridges as Zita Cruz
Parker Mack as Felix Turner
Elliot Fletcher as Noah
McKaley Miller as Rachel
Jordan Rodrigues as Dylan
Sophia Taylor Ali as Sabrina
Production
The series was picked up for another season on April 21, 2015, which was set to premiere in 2016. Ten new episodes were produced. The episodes were broadcast on Tuesdays at 10:30PM ET/PT. A day before the supposed season finale, it was announced by MTV that the series would be cancelled after 3 seasons, making the third-season finale the series finale. The cancellation was attributed to low ratings and MTV's shift in strategy to focus on reality shows.
Episodes
References
External links
2016 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Contact%20Championship | Full Contact Championship (FCC) is India's longest running professional mixed martial arts fight network. Founded in 2009, under the banner of Full Contact Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, FCC is India's first pro MMA organization. FCC has been sanctioned by Mixed Martial Arts Association of India and has followed the usual "Fight Night" format. It is one of the MMA organisations, formed to promote the sport of MMA in India and globally. Till date, FCC has had 13 fight nights; the most recent one being held at Indore on 9 July 2016 by the name of FCC-13.
Management Team
Prashant Kumar - Founder & Director - Prashant is a Mixed Martial Arts expert who participated in Free Style Fighting in Mumbai in the early 1990s. Prashant has a Black Belt in Taekwondo, has trained in Kickboxing, Muay Thai, and has also cross trained in Grappling and Judo.
Binoy Khimji - Director
Joy Kapur - Director
FCC Fight Nights
Since 2009, FCC has produced 13 fight nights. Their occurrence has been in the following order:
Rules
FCC's current rules are based upon the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts that were originally established by the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board and modified by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Cage
FCC uses a 6 sided Hexagon cage for its fights. This cage was introduced in FCC-12. Prior to FCC-12, the fights took place in a square ring.
FCC-12
FCC-12 took place at Famous Studios, Mumbai on 29 January 2016. This was by far the biggest of FCC fight nights. This event marked the introduction of a hexagon fight cage into FCC. The fight night saw a total of 9 bouts, including a wild card entry bout as well. Wali "The Warrior", an Afghani mixed martial artist was the winner of the Main Event Bout, beating Mumbai's "Furious" Farhan. FCC-12 had a telecast on DD Sports and was widely covered by a lot of print, online and television media. It had online ticket sales on Bookmyshow and had partnered with Fever 104 FM for Radio Promotions. During the FCC-12 Fight Night, the founder Prashant Kumar announced FCC League - World's First ever MMA League. FCC league will be a 7 city team based league and will consist of 7 fighters in each team, one being an international fighter.
FCC-13
The team of FCC announced their 13th fight night in Indore and organized the same on 9 July 2016. A total of 12 bouts took place in this fight night. The media announcement was made on SR Media, a local TV channel and the venue for the same was Basketball Complex, Indore. The event saw a crowd of more than 2000 people flocking the stadium to witness FCC-13. Elli Avram was the guest of honor and Deep Money performed live at the fight night. FCC-13 featured 3 India v Afghanistan bouts.
References
Mixed martial arts organizations
Sports organizations established in 2009
2009 establishments in Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20Center%20for%20Life%20Science | or DBCLS, is a Japanese research institute and part of the Research Organization of Information and Systems. It was founded in 2007.
BioHackathon
DBCLS has been organizing annual BioHackathon event since 2008 and co-organizing with National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) since 2011. The main objective of the events is a development of technologies and resources which improves integration, preservation and utilization of databases in life sciences.
Resources at the DBCLS
Anatomography
External links
DBCLS Official Website
Notes and references
Research institutes in Japan
2007 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20456001%E2%80%93457000 |
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| 456008 || || — || November 26, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 2.3 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 456009 || || — || December 1, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 2.2 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 456010 || || — || December 24, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || EOS || align=right | 1.4 km ||
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| 456011 || || — || December 25, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.0 km ||
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| 456012 || || — || December 26, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.54" | 540 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 456013 || || — || December 26, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 456014 || || — || December 26, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.6 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 456015 || || — || December 8, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || EOS || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 456016 || || — || December 24, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.5 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 456017 || || — || December 24, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || 615 || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 456018 || || — || November 25, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || EOS || align=right | 1.8 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 456019 || || — || December 24, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.71" | 710 m ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 456020 || || — || December 24, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || EOS || align=right | 1.9 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 456021 || || — || December 25, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.59" | 590 m ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 456022 || || — || December 25, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.69" | 690 m ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 456023 || || — || Decem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20optimization | Online optimization is a field of optimization theory, more popular in computer science and operations research, that deals with optimization problems having no or incomplete knowledge of the future (online). These kind of problems are denoted as online problems and are seen as opposed to the classical optimization problems where complete information is assumed (offline). The research on online optimization can be distinguished into online problems where multiple decisions are made sequentially based on a piece-by-piece input and those where a decision is made only once. A famous online problem where a decision is made only once is the Ski rental problem. In general, the output of an online algorithm is compared to the solution of a corresponding offline algorithm which is necessarily always optimal and knows the entire input in advance (competitive analysis).
In many situations, present decisions (for example, resources allocation) must be made with incomplete knowledge of the future or distributional assumptions on the future are not reliable. In such cases, online optimization can be used, which is different from other approaches such as robust optimization, stochastic optimization and Markov decision processes.
Online problems
A problem exemplifying the concepts of online algorithms is the Canadian traveller problem. The goal of this problem is to minimize the cost of reaching a target in a weighted graph where some of the edges are unreliable and may have been removed from the graph. However, that an edge has been removed (failed) is only revealed to the traveller when they reach one of the edge's endpoints. The worst case for this problem is simply that all of the unreliable edges fail and the problem reduces to the usual shortest path problem. An alternative analysis of the problem can be made with the help of competitive analysis. For this method of analysis, the offline algorithm knows in advance which edges will fail and the goal is to minimize the ratio between the online and offline algorithms' performance. This problem is PSPACE-complete.
There are many formal problems that offer more than one online algorithm as solution:
k-server problem
Job shop scheduling problem
List update problem
Bandit problem
Secretary problem
Search games
Ski rental problem
Linear search problem
Portfolio selection problem
Online matching
See also
Online algorithm
Online mirror descent
References
Mathematical optimization
Online algorithms
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20457001%E2%80%93458000 |
457001–457100
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| 457001 || || — || February 7, 2008 || Catalina || CSS || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.77" | 770 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 457002 || || — || December 19, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.94" | 940 m ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 457003 || || — || February 6, 2008 || Catalina || CSS || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.76" | 760 m ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 457004 || || — || February 6, 2008 || Catalina || CSS || 3:2 || align=right | 7.2 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 457005 || || — || January 14, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.67" | 670 m ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 457006 || || — || February 7, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.98" | 980 m ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 457007 || || — || February 7, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 457008 || || — || February 7, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.70" | 700 m ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 457009 || || — || February 7, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 2.8 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 457010 || || — || February 7, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.99" | 990 m ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 457011 || || — || February 8, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.70" | 700 m ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 457012 || || — || February 8, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.72" | 720 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 457013 || || — || March 15, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.65" | 650 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 457014 || || — || February 10, 2008 || Catalina || CSS || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 457015 || || — || January 1, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 457016 || || — || February 7, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.79" | 790 m ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 457017 || || — || February 6, 2008 || Catalina || CSS || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.77" | 770 m ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 457018 || || — || February 6, 2008 || Catalina || CSS || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.56" | 560 m ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 457019 || || — || February 7, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.59" | 590 m ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 457020 || || — || January 20, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || EUN || align=right | 1.4 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 457021 || || — || December 30, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || MAR || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 457022 || || — | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20Hard-pipe | IP hard pipe, defined in IETF RFC 7625, is an IP network-based technology that provides bandwidth guarantee and low delay for services.
Conventional IP networks allow bandwidth reuse, but do not allow key services to exclusively use fixed bandwidth. IP hard pipe strictly isolates soft and hard pipes by reserving hardware so that soft and hard pipes do not affect each other. Even if traffic bursts occur in the soft pipe, they cannot preempt hard pipe bandwidth. IP hard pipe reserves bandwidth and ensures low delay for services, and therefore can be used to carry leased line services of high-value customers.
Purpose
As carrier networks are evolving to IP, customers with strict bandwidth, delay, and security requirements prefer SDH(Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) networks. To retain these customers, carriers must maintain both IP and SDH networks, which incurs significant maintenance costs. Therefore, carriers expect to migrate their customer network to the IP network to reduce maintenance costs and facilitate user management.
IP hard pipe is an IP network-based end-to-end transmission technology that provides bandwidth guarantee and low delay through dedicated hardware and independent pipes, allowing IP networks to provide end-to-end transmission services with SDH service quality. IP hard pipe also provides service-specific SLA (service-level agreement) monitoring and granular OAM, ensuring smooth evolution of SDH networks to IP networks.
Benefit
IP hard pipe applies to carriers' key services (such as leased line services of enterprises) and bearer networks for valued services of medium- and large-sized enterprises (such as production networks). IP hard pipe brings the following benefits:
• Reduces SDH network construction investments and costs for maintaining both SDH and IP networks. When SDH networks run out of warranty, new services can be rolled out on IP networks, and key services of high-value VIP customers can be deployed on newly established networks.
• Provides rapid service protection, ensuring highly reliable service.
• Provides granular service quality measurement, providing flexible and effective maintenance and management for leased lines dedicated to VIP customers.
• Applies to key services of transportation and electricity industries.
Principle
Centralized Management of Bandwidth Resources and Uniform Service Provisioning
In the IP hard pipe solution, the NMS centrally manages bandwidth resources and uniformly provisions services. Provisioning hard pipe service involves two steps:
1. Establish a hard pipe plane.
In the physical network topology, establish the hard pipe topology as designed.
2. Provision services.
The service bandwidth and source and destination devices are manually specified for VIP customers. The NMS then delivers configurations to the devices.
Application
Hard-Pipe-based Enterprise Leased Line Application
Carriers must plan the logical hard pipe network on existing IP bearer networks and reserve t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Salesin | David Salesin is an American computer scientist. He has worked in computer graphics, three-dimensional and four-dimensional mathematics, and photorealistic rendering. Until 2019, he was the Director of Snap Inc. Research Team, an affiliate professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of the University of Washington in Seattle, and previously director of the Adobe Creative Technologies Lab. He is currently a Principal Scientist at Google.
Salesin graduated from Brown University in 1983, and did graduate work at Stanford.
Salesin received a National Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation in 1993, and in 1995 was named a Presidential Faculty Fellow, receiving a National Science Foundation grant.
Computer Animation Rendering
André and Wally B. (1984) models: André/Wally
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) computer animation: Industrial Light & Magic
Luxo Jr. (1986) rendering
Tin Toy (1988) dynamics
Toy Story (1995) renderman software development
References
External links
http://www.adobe.com/technology/people/san-francisco/david-salesin.html
http://salesin.cs.washington.edu/cv.html
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Brown University alumni
University of Washington faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Cycling%20Route%20Network | The Adventure Cycling Route Network, developed by Adventure Cycling Association since 1974, comprises over 52,000 miles of routes for bicycle touring in the U.S. and Canada and is the largest such network in North America.
Overview
The Adventure Cycling Route Network consists of mostly rural bicycle routes varying in length from loops of a few hundred miles to coast-to-coast routes of more than 4,000 miles. The routes eschew high-traffic roads and big cities for rural two-lane highways and small towns. Routes have been designed to allow for daily stops for food, supplies, and lodging.
History
Adventure Cycling's first route was the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, which they developed leading up to the 1976 Bikecentennial celebration.
United States Bicycle Route System
Adventure Cycling is the only national organization providing staff support to develop the United States Bicycle Route System (USBRS), which when complete will comprise over 50,000 miles of bicycle routes connecting urban, suburban, and rural areas throughout the U.S.
Routes
Adirondack Park Loop
Allegheny Mountains Loop
Arkansas High Country Route
Atlantic Coast Bicycle Route
Bicycle Route 66
Chicago to New York City Bicycle Route
Florida Connector
Grand Canyon Connector
Great Divide Mountain Bike Route
Great Parks Bicycle Route
Great Rivers South Bicycle Route
Green Mountains Loop
Idaho Hot Springs Mountain Bike Route
Lake Erie Connector
Lewis & Clark Trail Bicycle Route
North Lakes Bicycle Route
Northern Tier Bicycle Route
Pacific Coast Bicycle Route
Parks, Peaks, and Prairies Bicycle Route
Sierra Cascades Bicycle Route
Southern Tier Bicycle Route
Tidewater Potomac Heritage Bicycle Route
TransAmerica Bicycle Trail
Underground Railroad Bicycle Route
Utah Cliffs Loop
Washington Parks Bicycle Route
Western Express Bicycle Route
References
External links
Interactive Network Map
Cycling in North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20prep | Urban prep may refer to:
Urban prep (subculture), a 1990s and early 2000s youth subculture influenced by preppy and hip-hop fashion.
Urban Prep Academies, a network of boys' schools based in Chicago. |
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