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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%20Mazin | Israel Mazin (Hebrew: ישראל מזין) is an Israeli technology entrepreneur. He is currently the chairman and CEO of MEMCYCO, a cybersecurity company.
Biography
Mazin was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. During his military service in his early life, he was a member of Mamram, the Israel Defense Forces' central computing system unit, providing data processing services for all arms and the general staff of the IDF. In 1990, Mazin founded Memco Software, a now-defunct open-operating system security software company. In 1998, Memco was acquired by Platinum Technology in a stock-for-stock pooling of interests, valued at just over $400 million. In 1999, Platinum was acquired by CA for $3.5 billion. After the acquisition, he moved on to establish GAMA Property. Later on, he co-founded Shadow Technologies with Eli Mashiah, the company hosting and managing the-shadow.com. Ever since, Mazin has been investing in High-Tech startups, and in 2021 he co-founded MEMCYCO (Memco-Cyber-Corporation), a Digital-Watermark Authentication technology for B2B and B2C online communication. In 2018 Mazin received an honorary degree from the Holon Institute of Technology.
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Israeli business executives
Businesspeople from Tel Aviv
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Businesspeople in technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genron%20NPO | is a Japanese think tank that was established in 2001. Its president and founder is Yasushi Kudo. Data from the think tank has been referenced by outlets such as Yonhap, Bloomberg, CNN, Financial Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.
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2001 establishments in Japan
Organizations established in 2001
Think tanks based in Japan
Foreign policy and strategy think tanks in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20analytics | Continuous analytics is a data science process that abandons ETLs and complex batch data pipelines in favor of cloud-native and microservices paradigms. Continuous data processing enables real time interactions and immediate insights with fewer resources.
Defined
Analytics is the application of mathematics and statistics to big data. Data scientists write analytics programs to look for solutions to business problems, like forecasting demand or setting an optimal price. The continuous approach runs multiple stateless engines which concurrently enrich, aggregate, infer and act on the data. Data scientists, dashboards and client apps all access the same raw or real-time data derivatives with proper identity-based security, data masking and versioning in real-time.
Traditionally, data scientists have not been part of IT development teams, like regular Java programmers. This is because their skills set them apart in their own department not normally related to IT, i.e., math, statistics, and data science. So it is logical to conclude that their approach to writing software code does not enjoy the same efficiencies as the traditional programming team. In particular traditional programming has adopted the Continuous Delivery approach to writing code and the agile methodology. That releases software in a continuous circle, called iterations.
Continuous analytics then is the extension of the continuous delivery software development model to the big data analytics development team. The goal of the continuous analytics practitioner then is to find ways to incorporate writing analytics code and installing big data software into the agile development model of automatically running unit and functional tests and building the environment system with automated tools.
To make this work means getting data scientists to write their code in the same code repository that regular programmers use so that software can pull it from there and run it through the build process. It also means saving the configuration of the big data cluster (sets of virtual machines) in some kind of repository as well. That facilitates sending out analytics code and big data software and objects in the same automated way as the continuous integration process.
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Continuous analytics
Development model
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Data analysis
Big data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic%20Park%20%28computer%20video%20game%29 | Jurassic Park is a 1993 action video game developed and published by Ocean Software, for DOS and Amiga computers. The game is based on director Steven Spielberg's 1993 film, Jurassic Park, and also includes elements from author Michael Crichton's 1990 novel of the same name, which the film is based upon.
The player controls the character of Dr. Alan Grant, a paleontologist who becomes trapped at Jurassic Park, an island theme park and zoo populated by genetically engineered dinosaurs. Grant's initial objective is to search for Lex and Tim, the grandchildren of park owner John Hammond. Upon locating the children, Grant must contact a helicopter so survivors can escape the island. Gameplay consists of a bird's-eye view during the game's large exterior environment, but switches to a first-person perspective whenever Grant enters a building.
Development of the game began in November 1992. A development team of 13 people – considered large at that time – worked on the game. Spielberg was also involved in the game during its development to ensure that it would be faithful to his initial vision. Materials related to the film, including its script and photographs of the sets, aided the developers during the game's production. Jurassic Park was released in the United Kingdom in October 1993, and was subsequently released in the United States a year later. Many critics praised the game's indoor environments, but some criticized its large exterior environment, and its boring and repetitive gameplay.
Gameplay
Jurassic Park is based on the 1993 film of the same name, in which paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant and others become trapped on an island theme park and zoo where genetically engineered dinosaurs have escaped. Playing as Grant, the player must rescue Lex and Tim, the grandchildren of the park's owner, John Hammond. The player begins the game near an overturned vehicle in the Tyrannosaurus paddock. After finding Tim, Grant searches for Lex in a sewer maze. The player then must re-activate the park's power to contact a helicopter so the survivors can escape the island.
Jurassic Park features a bird's-eye view in exterior levels, but switches to a first-person shooter perspective when entering buildings. The exterior levels contain eight large areas, each one consisting of a different dinosaur paddock, as well as a Pteranodon dome. Each level requires Grant to complete a series of tasks in order to advance further through the game. Indoor levels are spread throughout the game. The game features 11 building complexes, each one overrun by velociraptors. The game also includes a raft level. A password is given after each level is won.
The game includes six dinosaur enemies, as well as giant dragonflies. The player begins with a taser weapon; other weapons can be found by the player. First aid kits can be used to restore all of the player's health. Electronic motion sensors are located throughout the game, and can detect all moving objects. Connected to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad%20Behavior | "Dad Behavior" is the eighth episode of the twenty-eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 604th episode of the series overall. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 20, 2016. The plot revolves around Homer discovering an app that makes his life easier, and Grampa learning that he's about to become a father again. It was the first episode to be written by Ryan Koh, and was directed by Steven Dean Moore. Matt Leinart makes a guest appearance as himself.
Plot
Whilst attempting to put together Scandinavian flat-packed furniture, Homer manages to get stuck in a cabinet he has assembled. To help him escape, Barney recommends to him a new app called "Chore Monkey" that makes its user's life easier by assigning contractors to perform menial tasks for the user. Homer begins to use the app for all his unwanted tasks, and solicits a Chore Monkey called Blake, who is an ex-hostage negotiator, to argue with Marge in his place. Homer then uses Chore Monkey Gold—the app's premium subscription tier—to hire a substitute father figure for Bart. However he soon becomes jealous of the easy rapport between this Chore Monkey—Matt Leinart—and his son. Homer briefly hires a Chore Monkey named Tyler to act as a substitute son, but the two squabble, leading to Tyler blackballing the Simpsons' house.
After attempting to video a premeditated "accident" for submission to America's Funniest Home Videos, Milhouse and his father, Kirk Van Houten, fall out. Homer attempts to spend time with Grampa, who has been informed that he's impregnated a fellow (unnamed) resident of his retirement home, and is nervous since he believes that Simpson men do not make good fathers. Midway through a game of Monopoly, Bart discovers that Matt is following a Chore Monkey script, rather than bonding with him naturally. Homer and Milhouse bond whilst topping up the engine oil of Homer's car, and cooking engine block pizza. Bart in turn becomes jealous of the time Homer and Milhouse are spending together.
Whilst playing videogames with Bart, Homer fantasizes about playing with Milhouse instead, before taking the latter out on a fishing trip to the park. Out with Marge at the same park, Grampa reflects that his own relationship with his father was just as dysfunctional as his relationship with Homer. Upon noticing Homer and Milhouse (whom he mistakes as Bart) fishing, Grampa reminisces that he still has the chance to be a good father. Bart meets up with Kirk in the Van Houten's garage. Grampa discovers that his girlfriend got pregnant by Jasper Beardley instead of him, and is first shocked, but then immensely relieved. Bart and Kirk head to Itchy and Scratchy Land, only to find that Homer and Milhouse are also visiting the theme park. The two pairs of characters begin a go-kart race, but after Kirk crumbles under the pressure and brakes suddenly, Bart flies out of the kart and hits a stop sign. Homer rushes to help him, apologizi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosios%20Pavlidis | Theodosios Pavlidis (; born September 8, 1934, in Thessaloniki) is a computer scientist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Education
Pavlidis studied at the National Technical University of Athens, where in 1957 he received his Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering degree. He continued to study at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his MS in Electrical Engineering in 1962 and his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1964.
Career
Pavlidis taught at Princeton University, starting as an assistant professor in 1964, promoted to associate professor in 1968 and full professor in 1975. In 1980, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, as a Member of Technical Staff. While at Bell Labs, in 1982, he was appointed Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) and held that position through 1986. Pavlidis resumed teaching in 1986, first as a Leading Professor, and then as a distinguished professor in 1995, becoming emeritus in 2001.
Pavlidis conducted fundamental research in several computer software technology areas, including pattern recognition, image analysis, picture editing, OCR, computer vision, and barcodes. He contributed to the PDF417 two-dimensional barcode ISO standard, allowing for the barcode itself to have very high information density and error correction. His work in computer vision resulted in an algorithm that could scan barcodes that are poorly printed or defaced/dirty.
Pavlidis has published several books, and numerous articles and papers in leading engineering journals and conference proceedings. He is also a named inventor on 15 U.S. issued patents.
Additional aspects of Pavlidis' career may be found in the sidebar of his IAPR profile.
Honors and awards
Books
Biological Oscillators: Their Mathematical Analysis. Academic Press, 1973.
Structural Pattern Recognition. Springer-Verlag, 1977.
Algorithms for Graphics and Image Processing. Computer Science Press, 1982.
Interactive Computer Graphics in X. PWS Publishing, 1995.
Fundamentals of X Programming. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.
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1934 births
Living people
Greek emigrants to the United States
National Technical University of Athens alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Greek computer scientists
Princeton University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Scientists from Thessaloniki
Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Silver%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | David Silver (born 1976) is a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind and a professor at University College London. He has led research on reinforcement learning with AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar.
Education
He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1997 with the Addison-Wesley award, and having befriended Demis Hassabis whilst at Cambridge. Silver returned to academia in 2004 at the University of Alberta to study for a PhD on reinforcement learning, where he co-introduced the algorithms used in the first master-level 9×9 Go programs and graduated in 2009. His version of program MoGo (co-authored with Sylvain Gelly) was one of the strongest Go programs as of 2009.
Career and research
After graduating from university, Silver co-founded the video games company Elixir Studios, where he was CTO and lead programmer, receiving several awards for technology and innovation.
Silver was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2011, and subsequently became a lecturer at University College London. His lectures on Reinforcement Learning are available on YouTube. Silver consulted for Google DeepMind from its inception, joining full-time in 2013.
His recent work has focused on combining reinforcement learning with deep learning, including a program that learns to play Atari games directly from pixels. Silver led the AlphaGo project, culminating in the first program to defeat a top professional player in the full-size game of Go. AlphaGo subsequently received an honorary 9 Dan Professional Certification; and won the Cannes Lion award for innovation. He then led development of AlphaZero, which used the same AI to learn to play Go from scratch (learning only by playing itself and not from human games) before learning to play chess and shogi in the same way, to higher levels than any other computer program.
Silver is among the most published members of staff at Google DeepMind, with over 130,000 citations and has an h-index of 78 according to Google scholar.
Awards and honours
Silver was awarded the 2019 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthrough advances in computer game-playing.
In 2021, Silver was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) for his contributions to Deep Q-Networks and AlphaGo.
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1976 births
Living people
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
Computer programmers
Go (game) researchers
University of Alberta alumni
Academics of University College London
Google DeepMind |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20Turing%20machine | A neural Turing machine (NTM) is a recurrent neural network model of a Turing machine. The approach was published by Alex Graves et al. in 2014. NTMs combine the fuzzy pattern matching capabilities of neural networks with the algorithmic power of programmable computers.
An NTM has a neural network controller coupled to external memory resources, which it interacts with through attentional mechanisms. The memory interactions are differentiable end-to-end, making it possible to optimize them using gradient descent. An NTM with a long short-term memory (LSTM) network controller can infer simple algorithms such as copying, sorting, and associative recall from examples alone.
The authors of the original NTM paper did not publish their source code. The first stable open-source implementation was published in 2018 at the 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, receiving a best-paper award. Other open source implementations of NTMs exist but as of 2018 they are not sufficiently stable for production use. The developers either report that the gradients of their implementation sometimes become NaN during training for unknown reasons and cause training to fail; report slow convergence; or do not report the speed of learning of their implementation.
Differentiable neural computers are an outgrowth of Neural Turing machines, with attention mechanisms that control where the memory is active, and improve performance.
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Neural network architectures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Graves%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Alex Graves is a computer scientist. Before working as a research scientist at DeepMind, he earned a BSc in Theoretical Physics from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in artificial intelligence under Jürgen Schmidhuber at IDSIA. He was also a postdoc under Schmidhuber at the Technical University of Munich and under Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto.
At IDSIA, Graves trained long short-term memory neural networks by a novel method called connectionist temporal classification (CTC). This method outperformed traditional speech recognition models in certain applications. In 2009, his CTC-trained LSTM was the first recurrent neural network to win pattern recognition contests, winning several competitions in connected handwriting recognition.
Google uses CTC-trained LSTM for speech recognition on the smartphone.
Graves is also the creator of neural Turing machines and the closely related differentiable neural computer.
In 2023, he published the paper Bayesian Flow Networks.
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Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
Scottish computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEGAJ-AM | XEGAJ-AM is a radio station on 790 AM in Guadalajara, Jalisco. It is owned by Radio Fórmula and carries its news/talk programming.
History
XEGAJ received its concession on April 1, 1992. It was owned by Radio Color, S.A., a Radiorama subsidiary. It was sold to Radio Fórmula in 2000.
References
Radio stations in Guadalajara
Radio Fórmula |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaun%20%28Semantic%20Pointer%20Architecture%20Unified%20Network%29 | Spaun ("Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network") is a cognitive architecture pioneered by Chris Eliasmith of the University of Waterloo Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience. It consists of 2.5 million simulated neurons organized into subsystems that resemble specific brain regions, such as the prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, and thalamus. It can recognize numbers, remember them, figure out numeric sequences, and even write them down with a robotic arm. It is implemented using Nengo.
References
External links
Spaun version 2.0 source code
Cognitive architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gated%20recurrent%20unit | Gated recurrent units (GRUs) are a gating mechanism in recurrent neural networks, introduced in 2014 by Kyunghyun Cho et al. The GRU is like a long short-term memory (LSTM) with a gating mechanism to input or forget certain features, but lacks a context vector or output gate, resulting in fewer parameters than LSTM.
GRU's performance on certain tasks of polyphonic music modeling, speech signal modeling and natural language processing was found to be similar to that of LSTM. GRUs showed that gating is indeed helpful in general, and Bengio's team came to no concrete conclusion on which of the two gating units was better.
Architecture
There are several variations on the full gated unit, with gating done using the previous hidden state and the bias in various combinations, and a simplified form called minimal gated unit.
The operator denotes the Hadamard product in the following.
Fully gated unit
Initially, for , the output vector is .
Variables
: input vector
: output vector
: candidate activation vector
: update gate vector
: reset gate vector
, and : parameter matrices and vector
Activation functions
: The original is a logistic function.
: The original is a hyperbolic tangent.
Alternative activation functions are possible, provided that .
Alternate forms can be created by changing and
Type 1, each gate depends only on the previous hidden state and the bias.
Type 2, each gate depends only on the previous hidden state.
Type 3, each gate is computed using only the bias.
Minimal gated unit
The minimal gated unit (MGU) is similar to the fully gated unit, except the update and reset gate vector is merged into a forget gate. This also implies that the equation for the output vector must be changed:
Variables
: input vector
: output vector
: candidate activation vector
: forget vector
, and : parameter matrices and vector
Light gated recurrent unit
The light gated recurrent unit (LiGRU) removes the reset gate altogether, replaces tanh with the ReLU activation, and applies batch normalization (BN):
LiGRU has been studied from a Bayesian perspective. This analysis yielded a variant called light Bayesian recurrent unit (LiBRU), which showed slight improvements over the LiGRU on speech recognition tasks.
References
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20consent | Dynamic consent is an approach to informed consent that enables on-going engagement and communication between individuals and the users and custodians of their data. It is designed to address the many issues that are raised by the use of digital technologies in research and clinical care that enable the wide-scale use, linkage, analysis and integration of diverse datasets and the use of AI and big data analyses. These issues include how to obtain informed consent in a rapidly-changing environment; growing expectations that people should know how their data is being used; increased legal and regulatory requirements for the management of secondary use of data in biobanks and other medical research infrastructure. The approach started to be implemented in 2007 by an Italian group who introduced the ways to have an ongoing process of interaction between researcher and participant where "technology now allows the establishment of dynamic participant–researcher partnerships." The use of digital interfaces in this way was first described as 'Dynamic Consent' in the EnCoRe project (see below). Dynamic Consent therefore describes a personalised, digital interface that enables two-way communication between participants and researchers and is a practical example of how software can be developed to give research participants greater understanding and control over how their data is used. It also enables clinical trial managers, researchers and clinicians to know what type of consent is attached to the use of data they hold and to have an easy way to seek a new consent if the use of the data changes. It is able to support greater accountability and transparency, streamlining consent processes to enable compliance with regulatory requirements.
Background
Researchers are required to obtain informed consent from potential participants before any research begins – this is a fundamental principle of medical research as laid out in the Declaration of Helsinki. Traditionally this has been done through a paper consent form which is accompanied by a subject information sheet that describes the risks and benefits of being involved in the research. Increasingly, this also outlines how an individual's data will be protected and their privacy maintained. This constitutes a formal agreement that specifies how a research participant’s data will be used in that particular study. Participants should be informed about the purpose(s) for which their data will (or may) be used; where it will be stored; the expected retention time; if any other parties are involved; the amount and the sensitivity of the information exchanged; whether the data will be shared onward to yet other parties; whether the consent to use these data can be revoked. Consent to data processing is also a requirement of data protection and privacy laws in most countries. Traditionally, participants have obtained details of how their data will be used from patient information sheets and face-to-face intera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruddington%20Lane%20tram%20stop | Ruddington Lane is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network. The stop takes its name from Ruddington Lane, which is crossed on the level just south of the stop, and lies on the boundary between the city of Nottingham and the district of Rushcliffe. The stop is on line 2 of the NET, from Phoenix Park via the city centre to Clifton, and trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
The tram line and stop is located on the course of the former Great Central main line, which once linked London with Nottingham and Sheffield, but which closed in 1969. The railway line here ran in a cutting and crossed under Ruddington Lane. As part of the development of the tramway, the tram track was raised and Ruddington Lane lowered, so as to allow a traffic light controlled level crossing. To the south of this crossing, the tram line passes under Clifton Boulevard (A52) using a pre-existing bridge, before leaving the former railway right of way and running on a new alignment across country towards the Clifton Estate. The stop is on reserved track and comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the tracks.
Ruddington Lane opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
Gallery
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Nottingham Express Transit stops
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015
Transport in Rushcliffe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous%20reprojection | Asynchronous reprojection is a class of computer graphics technologies aimed ensuring a virtual reality headset's responsiveness to user motion even when the GPU isn't able to keep up with the headset's target frame rate. Reprojection involves the headset's driver taking one or multiple previously rendered frames and using newer motion information from the headset's sensors to extrapolate (often referred to as "reprojecting" or "warping") the previous frame into a prediction of what a normally rendered frame would look like. "Asynchronous" refers to this process being continuously performed in parallel with rendering, allowing reprojected frames to be displayed without delay in case a regular frame isn't rendered in time.
The use of these techniques allows for a lowering in the video rendering hardware specifications required to achieve a certain intended level of responsiveness.
Variations
Various vendors have implemented their own variations of the technique under different names. Basic versions of the technique are referred to as by Google and Valve, while Oculus has two implementations, called and . Asynchronous timewarp uses the headset's rotational data to extrapolate a new rendered frame based on the last frame it received. Asynchronous spacewarp additionally uses depth information to help compensate for perspective and other geometric changes. Valve's early version called interleaved reprojection would make the application run at half frame rate and reproject every other frame. A later variant by Valve is SteamVR Motion Smoothing, which builds upon regular asynchronous reprojection in being able to reproject two frames instead of one.
See also
2D to 3D conversion
References
Virtual reality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20Acres%20tram%20stop | Compton Acres is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network. The stop lies on the boundary between the city of Nottingham and the district of Rushcliffe. The stop is on line 2 of the NET, from Phoenix Park via the city centre to Clifton, and trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
The tram line and stop is located on the course of the former Great Central main line, which once linked London with Nottingham and Sheffield, but which closed in 1969. The stop is on reserved track and comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the tracks. It is accessed by footpath from each side of the line.
Compton Acres opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015
Transport in Rushcliffe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Assistant | The Google Assistant is a virtual assistant software application developed by Google that is primarily available on mobile and home automation devices. Based on artificial intelligence, The Google Assistant can engage in two-way conversations, unlike the company's previous virtual assistant, Google Now.
The Google Assistant debuted in May 2016 as part of Google's messaging app Allo, and its voice-activated speaker Google Nest. After a period of exclusivity on the Google Pixel smartphones, it was deployed on other Android devices starting in February 2017, including third-party smartphones and Android Wear (now Wear OS), and was released as a standalone app on the iOS operating system in May 2017. Alongside the announcement of a software development kit in April 2017, Assistant has been further extended to support a large variety of devices, including cars and third-party smart home appliances. The functionality of the Assistant can also be enhanced by third-party developers.
Users primarily interact with the Google Assistant through natural voice and will respond to "Hey Google" and with Google's large update in 2023 "Lucy", though keyboard input is also supported. Assistant is able to answer questions, schedule events and alarms, adjust hardware settings on the user's device, show information from the user's Google account, play games, and more. Google has also announced that Assistant will be able to identify objects and gather visual information through the device's camera, and support purchasing products and sending money.
At CES 2018, the first Assistant-powered smart displays (Smart speakers with video screens) were announced, with the first one being released in July 2018. In 2020, Google Assistant is already available on more than 1 billion devices. Google Assistant is available in more than 90 countries and over 30 languages, and is used by more than 500 million users monthly.
History
The Google Assistant was unveiled during Google's developer conference on May 18, 2016, as part of the unveiling of the Google Nest smart speaker and new messaging app Allo; Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained that the Assistant was designed to be a conversational and two-way experience, and "an ambient experience that extends across devices". Later that month, Google assigned Google Doodle leader Ryan Germick and hired former Pixar animator Emma Coats to develop "a little more of a personality".
Platform expansion
For system-level integration outside of the Allo app and Google Nest, the Google Assistant was initially exclusive to the Google Pixel smartphones. In February 2017, Google announced that it had begun to enable access to the Assistant on Android smartphones running Android Marshmallow or Nougat, beginning in select English-speaking markets. Android tablets did not receive the Assistant as part of this rollout. The Assistant is also integrated in Wear OS 2.0, and will be included in future versions of Android TV and Android Auto. In October |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Allo | Google Allo was an instant messaging mobile app by Google for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems, with a web client available on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera. It closed on March 12, 2019.
The app used phone numbers as identifiers, allowing users to exchange messages, files, voice notes, and images. It included a virtual assistant that generated automatic reply suggestions and an optional encrypted mode known as incognito mode. Users could also resize messages and add doodles and stickers on images before sending them.
Before launch, Google touted strong privacy in the app, with particular emphasis on messages stored "transiently and in non-identifiable form". However, at launch, privacy was significantly rolled back, with Google keeping logs of messages indefinitely (or until the user deletes messages) in an effort to improve the app's "smart reply" feature.
History
Allo was announced at Google's developer conference on May 18, 2016. At the time, Google said that it would release Allo in summer 2016, and they launched it on September 21, 2016. During the unveiling of Google's Pixel smartphone in October 2016, it announced that Allo would be pre-installed on the Pixel phones, along with its sister app, Google Duo. In February 2017, a tweet by Google's Vice President of Communications Nick Fox showed a screenshot of Allo running as a web app, along with the words: "Still in early development, but coming to a desktop near you..." A further tweet from Fox in May stated that the web client was "a month or two from public release."
In August, Google Allo for web went live for Android users using Google Chrome, while Firefox, Opera and iOS support was rolled out in October.
In April 2018, it was reported that Google would be "pausing" development of Allo. Anil Sabharwal, the new head of the communications group at Google, stated that its employees would work primarily on its implementation of the carrier-based Rich Communication Services (RCS) Universal Profile, under the branding "Chat". This was implemented within the Android Messages app used for SMS.
In December 2018, Google announced they would end support for Allo in March 2019. A final update to the app allowed users to export chat messages from Allo. The Allo service shut down completely on March 14, 2019, with its homepage recommending users to try Google's Messages app as an alternative.
Features
Allo was based on phone numbers, not by social media or email accounts. Allo's "Smart reply" feature used Google's machine learning technology to suggest a reply to the last message, which could be selected from a few options. The feature also analyzed images sent to the user in order to suggest responses. Similar to the smart reply feature seen in Google's Inbox app, it learnt from the user's behavior to adapt its suggestions over time. Allo was one of the apps that supported Google Assistant, a virtual assistant that allows users to ask questions and receive answers i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endless%20OS%20Foundation | Endless Mobile, Inc. is an American information technology company that develops the Linux-based operating system Endless OS and reference platform hardware for it. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California, U.S. with an additional office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
History
Endless was founded in May 2012 in San Francisco, California by Matthew Dalio and Marcelo Sampaio. In the first three years, the company focused on designing through field research in Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and also in Guatemala.
In April 2015, the company was launched for the general public through a campaign on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. It raised $176,538 with 1,041 backers in less than 30 days.
In November 2015, Endless started to sell computers at Claro stores in Guatemala. Before that, the product was being sold in own kiosks. January 2016 marked the launch of Endless Mini, a white spherical PC the size of a grapefruit, costing $79 and $99.
On April 1, 2020, Endless became a nonprofit organization, Endless OS Foundation.
Product
Hardware
According to the specifications found in their store there will be several models based either on an Intel Celeron N2807 processors (Mission and Endless) or on a quad-CPU AMLogic S805 Cortex A5 ARM processor (Mission Mini and Endless Mini).
Software
Endless OS is a Debian derivative distribution. It is built on top of the Linux kernel and other open source technologies (Chromium, GNOME, GRUB, GTK+, PulseAudio, systemd, X.Org, and many more). Unlike most Linux distributions, it uses a read-only root filesystem managed by OSTree and Flatpak for application delivery and update. The user interface is based on a highly modified GNOME desktop environment. Endless Computers publish their FOSS components and forks on GitHub. They submit many of their patches upstream.
The first public release was Endless OS 2.1.0 in July 2014. Endless OS 3.3.6 was released in mid-December 2017. The latest version of Endless OS is 5.0.4 Basic, which was released on January 27, 2023.
Reception
Endless Mini was awarded CES Editors' Choice at CES 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to Reviewed.com.
Endless Mini was selected by TechSpot as one of the best devices showcased at the 2016 Mobile World Congress.
Reviews
PC World said that the Endless computer can be useful for areas with limited Internet access since it comes preinstalled with a lot of useful software and content, but for users who have easy access to the Internet, there are alternatives that are significantly more powerful or significantly cheaper.
References
External links
PC World:
PC World:
TechCrunch:
The Washington Post:
CBS:
Wired:
CNN:
CNN International:
CNN Expansion:
BBC:
HuffPost:
Free software companies
GNOME companies
Linux companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rena%20Gasimova | Rena Tofiq Gasimova (born 1961) is an Azerbaijani computer scientist, who holds the position of Sector Chief at the national Information Technology Institute ().
Career
Gasimova graduated in 1985 from the Faculty of Automatics and Computer Science, Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute named after Ch. Ildirim.
From 1985 until her present appointment she worked for the ACS Department of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. She worked to develop systems for various purposes, such as a database management system "The Court of Auditors, the corporate information system "Personnel". She took part in the creation of the www.science.az portal of ANAS. She carried out research on the implementation of technology in Azerbaijan, carrying out maintenance and analysis of multidimensional databases to support decision-making. She also involved in the study of methods and algorithms for control and learning (data mining) in corporate network environment, and investigated methods of analysis of aggregate data in operational systems, analytical processing (OLAP - On-Line Analytical Processing), based on a large distributed information resources. Currently she is engaged in investigating the issues of forming a knowledge base of domain names related to interests of the Republic of Azerbaijan. She is the author of more than 38 scientific papers, 28 of them published in scientific publications.
She is engaged in training activities in the Training Innovation Center of the Information Technology Institute, and she currently holds the post of Sector Chief at the institute.
References
RənaTofiq qızı Qasımova, AMEA İnformasiya Texnologiyaları İnstitutu (ict.az).
External links
Soviet computer scientists
Azerbaijani computer scientists
Azerbaijani women computer scientists
1961 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casebook%20%28TV%20series%29 | Casebook is an Australian educational documentary series produced by the 7 Network from 1966 to 1968. It was made with the co operation of the Australian Medical Association. Each episode usually contained 2-3 segments relating to medical advice given by a real doctor (Dr John) to patients (played by professional actors) suffering from a variety of illnesses.
One of the directors was David Cahill.
External links
Casebook at National Film and Sound Archive
1960s Australian documentary television series
Australian educational television series
1966 Australian television series debuts
1968 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20de%20Bona | Julie de Bona (; born 7 December 1980) is a French actress.
Life and career
Julie has Italian and Vietnamese ancestry. Her father is a computer scientist and her mother is a seamstress.
She was enrolled in the faculty of biochemistry when she decided at 19 years to take a year off to try theater. She followed the course of the Montpellier Conservatory before beginning her career in the theater café and then started her first small roles in television fiction.
Filmography
Theater
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
21st-century French actresses
French film actresses
French stage actresses
French television actresses
French people of Italian descent
French people of Vietnamese descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueva%20Vida | Nueva Vida may refer to:
Places
Nueva Vida, Calakmul Municipality, Mexico
Nueva Vida, Pichilemu, Chile
Broadcasting
Radio Nueva Vida Christian radio network
Music
Nueva Vida, album by Las Chicas del Can
Nueva Vida, album by Sergio Dalma 2001
Nueva Vida, EP by Ojos de Brujo
"Nueva Vida", song by Ojos de Brujo
"Nueva Vida", song by Peso Pluma from the album Génesis
See also
Vida Nueva (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20the%20Pskov%20Republic | Pskov has always played a special role in Russian trade with the West. Archaeological data shows the presence of imported goods in Pskov in the 10th and 11th centuries. This was due to the extensive trade contacts of Russian cities with Scandinavia, which was the source of Russian military elite since the 10th century. Archaeological excavation of Pskov necropolis in 2003 - 2004 revealed a high social status and Scandinavian origin of the buried. Large variety of around 60 found articles, among them Byzantine coins, bronze and copper items, confirms that Pskov was not an economically isolated region and shows extensive military and trade contacts with both the West and the East.
Pskov republic started to be recognized as a sovereign state after Treaty of Bolotovo was concluded in 1348, which granted political independence from the Novgorod Republic. This happened just ten years before the establishment of the Hanseatic League - commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns, which played a major part in Pskov economic development.
Pskov at that was a veche republic, where all free people were considered its citizens with the right to participate in governing of their city-state, which was expressed in veche assemblies and election of local officials. Because many Pskov dwellers were involved in trade and craft, the share of merchants in the ruling class was high. These merchants then took positions of sotskiys (Russian: сотский, initially, an official who represented a hundred households), izborniks (Russian: изборник, elected officials) and posadniks, which allowed them to participate in the diplomatic talks and stimulate better trade conditions.
This sociopolitical system was a premise for establishing tight economic and political relations with the Hanseatic League.
Relations with Novgorod Republic
Pskov republic emerged in the course of a tough struggle for independence from Novgorod.
After Pskov gained its independence, Novgorod had greater advantages in trade with the Hanse. First of all, it was caused by enormous Novgorod resources, which had in its possession vast territories of the Russian North – stretching from the Baltic Sea to the northern Ural Mountains. From its northern colonies Novgorod market received huge quantities of fur, and only part of it was reaching Pskov. Pskov land compared to Novgorod represented small border territories with poor resource base. Thus, Pskov market partially played a transit role that resulted in smaller trade volume, comparing to Novgorod market.
Trade between Pskov and Novgorod in the 11th to 15th centuries was quite intensive. Main trade route between the two cities was along the Cheryokha and Shelon rivers. Two-cities trade affairs can be witnessed in birch bark manuscripts from the 13th century where Pskov merchants asking their Novgorod counterparts to bring squirrel fur skins to Pskov to cover the high demand. These birch bark commercial correspondence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Moore%20%28scientist%29 | Rebecca Moore (born 1955) is an American software engineer, director of Google Earth, and director and founder of the Google Earth Outreach and Google Earth Engine computer mapping projects.
Early life and career
Moore grew up in Roslyn, New York, with one sister and two brothers. Her father, Earle K. Moore, was a communications and civil rights lawyer in Manhattan, who won a landmark case establishing that broadcast stations must serve the interests of their viewers. Her brother, Frank C. Moore, was an artist and activist, including being an originator of the Red Ribbon project for AIDS solidarity. (Rebecca Moore completed his work setting up the Gesso Foundation for artists after his death.) She attended Roslyn High School, graduated Brown University with a bachelor's degree with honors in Artificial Intelligence in 1977, then worked as a software engineer for companies including Hewlett-Packard and General Instrument.
When her father died in 2001, then her brother Frank in early 2002, Moore felt a duty to accomplish something in her life, as they had. She returned to academia to study bioinformatics, to treat disease with the help of computer analysis, earning a master's degree in cognitive psychology from Stanford University, but left after three years before completing her PhD in computer science.
Moore was then living in Los Gatos, California, in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, a rural area that was poorly served by government agencies; an ambulance took 2 hours to reach a neighbor's house, partly because they were using a hand-drawn map from 1983. So Moore founded a civic association, the Mountain Resource Group, and began work on digital maps of the area. They were used by first responders, civil agencies, and her neighbors. She used consumer software, then professional geographic information systems software, before settling on Keyhole, Inc's Earth Viewer.
Google Earth
Moore was an active user of Keyhole's Earth Viewer software, enough so that in 2005 she was invited by the company to give a tech talk on using the product. She gave a list of eight to ten specific suggestions to improve the tool. Google had recently acquired Keyhole, Inc (in October 2004), and offered her a job on the project, which would become Google Earth.
Google Earth Outreach
Google gives its employees 20% time, the ability to use a fifth of their hours to work on side projects, and Moore used hers to work on what would become Google Earth Outreach, acting as a link between the mapping software and the environmental community. Brian McClendon, a co-founder of Keyhole, Inc. then a VP leading Google Earth, was a strong supporter of the idea from the beginning, and made sure Google provided the funds.
In August 2005, the San Jose Water Company (SJWC) submitted a proposal to log a 1000-acre swathe of redwood trees in the Los Gatos Mountains, and sent copies to Moore and her neighbors. Moore started a subgroup of her civic association, Neighbors Aga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEBBB-AM | XEBBB-AM is a radio station on 1040 AM in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. It is owned by Promomedios and carries the Catholic programming of ESNE Radio.
History
XEBBB received its concession on February 24, 1972 as XECX-AM. The 5 kW daytimer broadcast from Zapopan and was owned by Jorge González Velasco. The callsign changed to XEBBB-AM in late 1979. XEBBB was later sold to Radio Cosmos, S.A. and then to its current concessionaire.
At the start of September 2018, XEAAA-AM 880 and XEBBB exchanged formats, with the Catholic ESNE Radio format moving to 1040 and RadioMujer women's talk moving to 880 AM. This was done in order to migrate Radio Mujer to FM.
References
Radio stations in Guadalajara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhikampur%20and%20Datawali%20%28Aligarh%29%20State | The Bhikampur and Datawali principality is in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. For nearly four centuries, before the advent of British Raj in India, it was ruled by the descendants of a Sherwani Pathan from Jalalabad in Afghanistan. The Sherwani clan were practically independent rulers in the period between the collapse of Mughal Empire and the rise of the British Raj.
History
The clan had two main branches, the lineage of Bhikampur and that of Datawali, and practiced cousin marriage to an almost exclusive degree. The family tree presents a bewildering array of interlocking relationships. Their marriage patterns kept the family properties intact, while taking a toll on the health of their increasingly inbred offspring. The Sherwanis were a family that displayed an intriguing combination of the progressive and the conservative: They were supporters of education, whether Islamic or western, and promoters of education for women, although the women of the family maintained strict purdah and were educated at home. Their loyalist politics were manifested in civic service and membership in reform associations, along with resistance to the growing forces of anti-British activism before and after World War I.
Notable members
The Sherwani clan of Aligarh district produced a number of notable people:
Zahida Khatun Sherwani (1894-1922):( Bhikampur ) : Daughter of Nawab Sir Muzammil Ullah Khan Sherwani, An Indian poet and writer who wrote under pen name Zay Khay Sheen in the Urdu language and was also an activist for women's rights.
Masud Husain Khan (1919-2010): the Father of Urdu-Linguistics, and the fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia. He was married to Nawab Faiz Ahmed Khan's great-granddaughter.
References
Former principalities
History of Uttar Pradesh
Nawabs of India
Pashtun diaspora in India
Pashtun dynasties
Quasi-princely estates of India
Zamindari estates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift%203D | Swift 3D is a computer software application program developed by Electric Rain that allows the user to export vector & raster 3d models or import 3D models, animate or manipulate them, and export them for use in Adobe Flash. Swift 3D supports DWG, WMF, EMF & SWF file and can be exported in SWF (Flash) files after basic animations.
Version 5 adds functionality to export to Papervision3D, an application for incorporating 3D into Flash.
References
External links
Official website
3D graphics software
Animation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio%20%28software%29 | Gregorio is a free and open-source scorewriter computer program especially for Gregorian chant in square notation. Gregorio was adopted by many abbeys and large projects.
Architecture
Gregorio is not a completely independent program, but consists mainly of three components: The gabc syntax for writing Gregorian scores, a TeX package named GregorioTeX, which is responsible for the graphical output and a converter tool between those two. As such, Gregorio is included in TeX Live 2016.
Characteristics
Gregorio is written especially for Gregorian chant in square notation and does not cover modern European musical notation. Similar to LilyPond it does not provide a graphical user interface. The notation is done via simple text input. It follows the gabc-syntax, which is defined by the Gregorio Project for this purpose. The gregorio command line tool converts this gabc-file to a GregorioTeX file, which has to be included in a common TeX file. Such a file is necessary for a graphical output, e.g., in the PDF-format.
History
The Gregorio project started in 2006 at TELECOM Bretagne, a graduate engineering school in France. It was at first a student project lasting six months. When the project was done, Élie Roux decided to continue the project on his own and to develop it under GNU General Public License.
At first, the goal of the project was just to provide the Benedictine Abbey Sainte Madeleine in Le Barroux a graphical interface for the usage of a Gregorian font. Due to license issues, the project decided later to make and use its own font. At the end of 2006, a new developer, Olivier Berten, joined the project and created its OpusTeX component. OpusTeX was a LaTeX package with a similar goal like Gregorio but is now unmaintained and deprecated. During a three-month internship, starting in April 2008, at the Monastero di San Benedetto, in Norcia (Italy), Gregorio made considerable progress and its own output named GregorioTeX started to be usable.
In following years Gregorio gained stability and popularity, strongly supported by the migration to GitHub in June 2014. Making contributions got much easier, therefore the development progress became faster. New features like the adiastematic Saint Gall notation through nabc were implemented. Gregorio was adopted by many abbeys and large projects. The most prominent user may be the St. Peters's Abbey of Solesmes.
In 2016 Gregorio should be integrated into TeX Live, which would make the installation process even more easy.
Example of Gregorio input files
For producing a score in the PDF format it is suitable to use two separate files — one gabc file and one TeX file. The musical notation is done in the gabc-file with the related gabc syntax. The TeX file could look like this (with the gabc-file named "kyrie.gabc" in the same directory):
Sourcecode
\documentclass[12pt, a5paper]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage[autocompile]{gregoriotex}
\beg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choriki%20Robo%20Galatt | is a comedy-science fiction anime series by Sunrise. It is also known as Super Robot Galatt and Change Robo Galatt.
It consists of 25 episodes and was originally broadcast on the TV Asahi network as well as some Fuji TV, Nippon TV and TBS affiliate stations. Sunrise produced the series with the cooperation of Asahi network affiliate Nagoya TV. It was the follow-up series to Ginga Hyōryū Vifam, using many of the same production staff (including Toyoo Ashida as character designer and Kunio Okawara as mecha designer), and was made to purposely be lighter and less serious than its predecessor. The series was a debut role for both Katsuhiko Nakagawa (as Michael) and Yoshino Takamori (as Patty).
According to Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy's The Anime Encyclopedia, the series spoofs the classical mecha genre, with the battles between robots serving as "a topic for gag and parody".
Plot
In the future, war has ceased to exist on Earth and ownership of any weapons has been banned. Dothan, an evil alien and member of the Space Real Estate (a division of the Space Syndicate), has invaded the Earth with the intention of buying up its land by force. The police are helpless in the face of the destructive Armoroboids (giant robots). Then a mysterious robot appears, dashing into the scene. This robot is overwhelmingly strong and kicks the invaders to the curb.
Dr. Kiwi lies to the police that the robot, Galatt, was controlled by righteous aliens and that he was the only one who could contact them and ask for help. In actuality, Galatt was a (forcibly) modified version of Michael Marsh's school-riding robot, Jumbow, and had ordered Michael to hide his true identity by telling him that he would be punished if his possession of the weapon was discovered, while trying to get money from the police by posing as an intermediary with the aliens. So Jumbow, Michael, Patty the girl who drives Patyge (Galatt #2), Kamige (Galatt #3) and the young man Kamil fight against the evil aliens today to protect the peace of the Earth and (unknown to them) to make money for Dr. Kiwi.
Characters
A hot-blooded boy who is the owner of Jumbow. 13 years old. Dr. Kiwi modifies Jumbow without permission, and cajoled Michael into becoming a Galatt pilot. His father works for a company, and his family is middle class. When he transforms into Galatt, he hides his face with goggles and wears a protective overalls suit. This was the first and final TV anime role of actor and musician Katsuhiko Nakagawa before his death in 1994.
Michael's girlfriend who is the owner of Patyge. 13 years old. She has an active personality and after witnessing Jumbow Galatt's exploits, she takes out Patyge and asks Dr. Kiwi to remodel it for her to participate in the battles. She grew up free and uninhibited because her parents are both working (running a supermarket) and are laissez-faire. When she transforms into Galatt, she hides her face with a visor and wears a tube top and bottom costume.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolev%20%28surname%29 | Dolev is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Danny Dolev, Israeli computer scientist
Dolev–Yao model used in cryptographic protocols
Shlomi Dolev (born 1958), Israeli computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20representation | Internal representation may refer to:
Mental representation, in man
Knowledge representation, in artificial intelligence
Intermediate representation, the data structure or code used internally by a compiler or virtual machine to represent source code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20House%20Intelligence%20Subcommittee%20on%20National%20Security%20Agency%20and%20Cyber | The House Intelligence Subcommittee on Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research is one of the four subcommittees within the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It is sometimes referred to by its nickname, the "STAR" subcommittee.
Prior to the 116th Congress, it was known as the Subcommittee on the NSA and Cybersecurity.
Members, 117th Congress
External links
House Intelligence Committee website
Intelligence NSA and Cybersecurity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOSM | JOSM () (Java OpenStreetMap editor) is a free software desktop editing tool for OpenStreetMap geodata created in Java, originally developed by Immanuel Scholz and currently maintained by Dirk Stöcker. The editing tool contains advanced features that are not present in OSM's default online editor, iD.
Features
Some notable features of JOSM are importing GPX files (GPS tracks), working with aerial imagery (including WMS, TMS and WMTS protocols), support for multiple cartographic projections, layers, relations editing, data validation tools, data filtering, offline work, presets and rendering styles. JOSM provides more than 200 keyboard shortcuts for the core functions.
Many additional features (like tools for drawing buildings, adding Wikipedia links or viewing data in 3D) are available through the plugins. There are more than 100 of them in the repository.
History
The first changeset was created on 27 September 2005.
The first beta version (which required Java 5) was made available on 4 October 2005 and JOSM 1.0 was released on 22 January 2006.
The current versioning scheme, using code changeset number, was introduced in 2008.
In 2014 the project logo was replaced with new one, which won a design contest. From this year stable releases are identified with additional YY.MM internal version number (following r6763 - 14.01), however they may not exactly reflect the release date.
Since revision 10786 (16.07) released on 12 August 2016, support for Java versions earlier than 8 has been dropped.
Compatibility with Java 9 added on 2 September 2017, revision 12712 (17.08).
JOSM logo refreshed on 8 August 2019 to the current artwork.
Java 16 support added on 18 March 2021 Since revision 17580 (21.02).
JOSM had new macOS and Windows installers that both ship Java 16 and JavaFX 16 and Debian launcher required openjfx since revision 18193 (21.08) released on 2 November 2021.
Usage
The highest number of edits in OSM are done using JOSM. The software was used to perform several large scale OSM imports, including TIGER data in the United States.
JOSM can also be used for editing an OSM sister project OpenHistoricalMap. It's included as a package in many Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux and the OSGEO Live DVD
Various tutorials are available. The LearnOSM Tutorial, translated in 16 languages, has a section on JOSM. It covers the editing process, the tools, the plugins, the presets, the imagery functionalities, conflict resolution and other features.
References
External links
JOSM help system
JOSM page on OSM Wiki
Free GIS software
OpenStreetMap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champlain-Adirondack%20Biosphere%20Reserve | The Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network (formerly Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve) is a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve. The Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network is part of a global network of 727 biosphere reserves in 131 countries and it is one of 28 internationally recognized biosphere regions in the United States.
Summary
The Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network straddles the border of north-central New York and northwestern Vermont. Lake Champlain, the sixth largest lake in the United States, and the Adirondack and Green Mountains are the central features of the biosphere region. It includes extensive temperate coniferous and deciduous forests as well as large numbers of lakes, bogs, and freshwater wetlands. The primary goal of the Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network is to use education, research, and demonstration projects to encourage social and economic vitality and to preserve and improve the environmental health of the region.
This temperate broadleaf forest measures 3,990,000 hectares in total. Its core area measures 960,000 hectares, its buffer zones 1,130,000 hectares, and transition areas 1,900,000 hectares. Its altitude is +29 to +1,629.
It was designated as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 1989. The administrative authorities overseeing the Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network include Adirondack Park Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Forest Service, and the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. The Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network is managed by co-chairs Jim Brangan, Cultural Heritage and Recreation Coordinator for the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) and assistant director of the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership (CVNHP), Professor Kelly Cerialo from Paul Smith's College, and a steering committee composed of members from New York and Vermont.
Research
Research in the Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network focuses on atmospheric pollutants, water quality, watershed management, geographic information systems, and forest research or silviculture. Specific abiotic variables include acid rain and hydrology.
Socioeconomic characteristics
The biosphere region and its outlying areas are inhabited by over 400,000 people (1994) and are within a day’s drive of 60 million people living in the U.S. and Canada. Of all the biosphere reserves in the United States, it has the highest population. Forestry and tourism are the economic base in the Adirondack region on the New York side of Lake Champlain. The more diverse economy on the Vermont side of the lake is based on forestry, farming, tourism, light manufacturing, and production of specialty agricultural products.
References
Sources
Biosphere reserves of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULTRA%20%28machine%20translation%20system%29 | ULTRA is a machine translation system created for five languages (Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, English, and German) in the Computing Research Laboratory in 1991.
ULTRA (Universal Language Translator), is a machine translation system developed at the Computing Research Laboratory, which can translate between five languages (Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, English and German). It uses Artificial intelligence as well as linguistic and logic programming methods. The main goal of the system is to be robust, to cover general language and to be simple to use. It uses bidirectional parsers/generators.
The system has a language-independent system of intermediate representation, which means that it takes into account needs for expression (expression is one of the main elements of language) and it uses relaxation techniques to provide the best translation. It used an X Window user interface.
ULTRA's databases
ULTRA has vocabularies based on about 10,000 word senses in each of its five languages.
It represents expressions.
It has an access to many dictionary databases.
Operation
Users paste a sentence into the "source" window. They chose a target language and press Translate. The tool translates the source text, taking into consideration what is said, how it is said and why it is said.
Lexical entries in the system have two parts:
Specific language entry corresponding to the graphic form, which is representing some kind of information/sense and
Intermediate representation giving proper forms that represent the sense of the expression.
ULTRA works with Intermediate representation of the language between the systems, so no transfer takes place. Each language has its own systems, which are independent. Having the independent systems gives an extra benefit. Adding another language does not disrupt existing language translations.
Intermediate representation
Developers David Farwell and Yorick Wilks created IR (interlingual representation). It was a base for analyzing and generating expressions.
They analyzed many different types of communications (business letters, documents, emails) to compare the communication style. ULTRA looks for the best words for some kinds of information and good forms and equivalents for some expression in target language.
References
External
Austermuhl Frank, ″Electronic tools for translations″, Manchester 2001
Wilks Yorick, ″Machine Translation. Its Scope and Limits.″, Springer Science+Business Media LLC 2009
Farwell David, Wilks Yorick, "ULTRA: A multilingual machine translator", Washington 1991
Computational linguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Purdy%20%28scholar%29 | James P. Purdy is an American scholar of writing and rhetoric. He is an associate professor at Duquesne University and director of its writing center, and serves on the editorial board of Computers and Composition: An International Journal and Writing Spaces. His focus is on writing, publishing, and literacy in the digital age.
Purdy received his BA in English from Pennsylvania State University (2000) and his MA and PhD in English/Writing Studies from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001, 2006). He has authored and co-authored articles on writing, pedagogy, and Wikipedia, is the co-author of The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies: Ethics, Sponsors, and Academic Knowledge-Making, and is the co-editor of four collections on digital scholarship.
Edited collections
The New Digital Scholar: Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students (with Randall McClure). Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2013. .
The Next Digital Scholar: A Fresh Approach to the Common Core State Standards in Research and Writing (with Randall McClure). Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2014. .
The Future Scholar: Researching and Teaching the Frameworks for Writing and Information Literacy (with Randall McClure). Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2016. .
Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies (with Dànielle Nicole DeVoss). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2017. https://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mpub.7820727.
References
External links
James Purdy at Duquesne
Wikipedia is Good For You?
Living people
American humanities academics
American mass media scholars
Duquesne University faculty
Pennsylvania State University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID%20%28software%29 | iD is a free software online editor for OpenStreetMap (OSM) geodata created in JavaScript and released in 2013. It is the most popular and the default editor on the main OSM page. iD's features include choosing custom aerial imagery and native support for Mapillary photos. Specialized forks of iD include RapiD, developed by Facebook as an import tool for reviewing and adding roads detected by proprietary Facebook algorithms.
History
Prior to iD, the primary web editor for OpenStreetMap data was the Flash-based Potlatch 2 editor. The iD editor project was founded by the author of Potlatch 1 and 2, Richard Fairhurst, online on July 13, 2012 and at the State of the Map conference on October 14, 2012.
In September 2012, the Knight Foundation announced the winners of the Knight News Challenge: Data competition. The team from Development Seed/Mapbox was selected as a winner for their proposal to develop new contribution tools for OpenStreetMap, and awarded a grant of $575,000.
This editor was meant to be a Potlatch 2 architecture reimplementation in JavaScript with redesigned user interface. The only big internal change was departure from XML tagging preset architecture to a JSON-based one.
In 2013, iD became the default editor on OSM.org making it the most used OSM editor by changeset count.
Forks
iD has spawned several forks for specialized use cases. In 2018, Facebook created RapiD for the MapWithAI initiative. RapiD gives users machine learning generated roads and buildings for verification before uploading to OSM.
References
External links
iD version archive
Free GIS software
OpenStreetMap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20Scientific | Freedom Scientific is a company that makes accessibility products for computer users with low vision and blindness. The software they create enables screen magnification, screen reading, and use of refreshable braille displays with modern computers. The company is a subsidiary of Vispero and is based in Clearwater, Florida.
History
Former motorcycle racer Ted Henter developed the JAWS screen reader after he became blind as a result of a car accident. Henter and Bill Joyce founded Henter-Joyce in 1987 in St. Petersburg, Florida, producing an MS-DOS version of JAWS and later a Microsoft Windows version. Henter-Joyce merged with Arkenstone and Blazie Engineering in 2000 to form Freedom Scientific.
References
External links
Computer companies of the United States
Companies based in Clearwater, Florida
Blindness equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMDgpu%20%28Linux%20kernel%20module%29 | AMDgpu is an open source device driver for the Linux operating system developed by AMD to support its Radeon lineup of graphics cards (GPUs). It was announced in 2014 as the successor to the previous radeon device driver as part of AMD's new "unified" driver strategy, and was released on April 20, 2015.
Development
It takes the form of an in-tree kernel module.
As of 2022, AMD Kernel Fusion Driver (KFD) is now integrated in this one kernel module. AMD KFD development at AMD is part of ROCm, under the ROCk project.
Distribution
AMDgpu has been fully upstreamed and new developments continue to do so.
As AMDgpu is part of the monolithic Linux kernel, it is shipped by most Linux distributions directly. The package suite / install script amdgpu-pro, distributed by AMD directly from AMD Radeon Software, ships an AMDgpu kernel module somewhat reliably more up-to-date compared to that of kernels shipped in regular operating system distributions.
Community
The development of the kernel module happens between AMD and the Linux maintainers, discussions happen on the freedesktop.org mailing lists - freedesktop being home to major Linux graphics projects such as Mesa, libdrm, Xorg, Wayland.
Support
AMDgpu officially supports cards built upon GCN 1.2 or higher, including new instruction sets such as RDNA1&2, CDNA.
Support issues
Though support for GCN 1.0/1.1 is incomplete, it can be enabled by a kernel parameter and some Linux distributions enabled it by default.
See also
Radeon — AMD's main GPU brand
AMD Radeon Software — AMD's default software distribution channel
Free and open-source graphics device driver
References
External links
AMD software
Free device drivers
Linux drivers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaon%20Weibo%20Chart | Gaon Weibo Chart, part of Gaon Chart, was a weekly chart that ranked the top 10 most popular K-pop groups and the top 30 most popular individual K-pop artists in China, using data from Weibo. This chart started the week of June 29, 2014. The artists with the most weeks at number one are Jung Yong-hwa with 69 weeks as an individual artist and BTS with 36 weeks as a group. The chart was discontinued in July 2017.
List of number-one artists
2014
2015
2016
2017
Artists with the most weeks at number one
References
Circle Chart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Violent%20Death%20Reporting%20System | The National Violent Death Reporting System (abbreviated NVDRS) is an active surveillance system initiated by the Centers for Disease Control for collecting data regarding violent deaths in the United States. It does not collect any of its own data, but rather relies on data collected by other systems. It provides a unique advantage over other violent death reporting systems, as it creates a centralized database of relevant information. The initiative involves collaboration between state agencies and local police, coroners, and medical examiners, with the goal of creating a more complete and up-to-date database of violent deaths and their circumstances in the United States.
History
In 1999, six foundations pooled their resources to create the National Violent Injury Statistics System (NVISS), which also collected data regarding violent deaths and developed many of the techniques necessary to do so at multiple locations. In 2000, a group of experts recommended that the Centers for Disease Control create a publicly funded system similar to the NVISS.
In 2002, US Congress appropriated funding for the system for the first time. and the system was established that year.
The NVDRS began collecting data in 2003 from six states, a number that increased to 17 by 2006 and 32 by 2016.
In November 2008, the system and its accompanying data became freely accessible online. In 2013, the NVDRS moved to an online system that made accessing its data easier.
As of 2023, 48 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico participated in NNVDRS.
References
External links
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Surveillance databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Jesse%20Eisenberg | American actor Jesse Eisenberg has received numerous accolades and nominations throughout his acting career. He is best known for playing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010), for which he received BAFTA Award, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominations in the Best Actor category.
Major associations
Academy Awards
British Academy Film Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Film critics awards
Broadcast Film Critics Association
Chicago Film Critics Association
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association
IndieWire Critics Poll
London Film Critics' Circle
National Society of Film Critics
Online Film Critics Society
San Diego Film Critics Society
St. Louis Film Critics Association
Toronto Film Critics Association
Vancouver Film Critics Circle
Village Voice Film poll
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Film festival awards
Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Big Apple Film Festival
Film Club's The Lost Weekend
Palm Springs International Film Festival
San Diego Film Festival
Sarajevo Film Festival
Vail Film Festival
Film industry awards
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Awards Circuit Community
Capri, Hollywood
CinemaCon, USA
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
Gold Derby Awards
Eisenberg has received three nominations.
Golden Raspberry Awards
Gotham Awards
Hollywood Film Awards
IGN Summer Movie Awards
Independent Spirit Awards
Indiana Film Journalists Association, US
International Cinephile Society Awards
Irish Film and Television Awards
National Board of Review, USA
Satellite Awards
Young Artist Awards
Audience awards
Italian Online Movie Awards
MTV Movie Awards
National Movie Awards, UK
Teen Choice Awards
References
External links
Eisenberg, Jesse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20programming%20languages%20by%20type%20system | This is a comparison of the features of the type systems and type checking of multiple programming languages.
Brief definitions
A nominal type system means that the language decides whether types are compatible and/or equivalent based on explicit declarations and names.
A structural type system means that the language decides whether types are compatible and/or equivalent based on the definition and characteristics of the types.
Type checking determines whether and when types are verified. Static checking means that type errors are reported based on a program's text (source code). Dynamic checking means that type errors are reported based on a program's dynamic (run-time) behavior.
Notes
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Toma | David Toma (born 1933) is a former police officer whose undercover work and battles with his superiors became the basis of the television series Toma, which ran on the ABC network from 1973 to 1974.
Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey as the youngest of 12 children, Toma graduated from West Side High School.
In 1956—after serving 3 years in the USMC as a drill instructor and following a brief career as a professional baseball player—Toma joined the Newark Police Department, staying on for 21 years. Initially a patrol officer, Toma moved up to narcotics detective; he was frustrated with minor criminals being frequently arrested, while the big-time criminals who ran the illegal operations were unaffected. Toma started going undercover, often using disguises, in order to better observe major-league crooks. While higher-ups in the department objected to his techniques, he succeeded in amassing a significant record of arrests. He wrote a book based on his 20 years of experiences as a police officer but was unsuccessful in finding a publisher for the book. His demonstration of quick-change disguises on the Mike Douglas Show led to his book being picked up and the development of a television series based on his exploits. Toma ran on ABC from 1973 to 1974, with Tony Musante playing Toma. In his review of the show in The New York Times, John J. O'Connor described Toma's groundbreaking role as "a loner, openly distrustful of the competence and honesty of his fellow police officers," Eventually, Musante and others involved with Toma thought that the series had become too formula-based; the show was cancelled and eventually resurrected in part as Baretta, which ran from 1975 to 1978, with Robert Blake playing the title character.
In 1977, producer Bob Roberts and Trans World Attractions developed a film based on his career, with a screenplay written by Frank Scioscia.
For decades after retiring from the police department, Toma lectured high school and college students about the dangers of alcohol and other drugs. He focused on his own personal experiences as a drug addict, which began after his 5-year-old son David Junior died in a choking accident; doctors had prescribed tranquilizers to help Toma cope with his son's death. To date he has lectured thousands of students and continues his efforts to this day.
Toma's books include Toma: The Compassionate Cop, Airport Affair and Turning Your Life Around: David Toma's Guide for Teenagers.
He and his wife Pat are residents of Clark, New Jersey. They have four children: son Jimmy; daughters Patricia Anne, Donna, and Janice.
References
Living people
People from Clark, New Jersey
People from Newark, New Jersey
West Side High School (New Jersey) alumni
Writers from New Jersey
American police officers
1934 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Gas | First Gas Limited is a natural gas transmission and distribution company in New Zealand. First Gas's network has 2,204 km of high pressure pipelines and 4,800 km of gas distribution pipelines. Through Flex Gas, First Gas owns and operates the Ahuroa Gas Storage Facility.
History
The Natural Gas Corporation (NGC) was established by the New Zealand government to buy, process, and wholesale natural gas from the Kapuni gas field, which was discovered in 1959. NGC built the first high pressure gas transmission lines in the late 1960s, initially supplying Kapuni gas to Auckland, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, and Wellington. The network was expanded through the 1970s and 1980s, supporting the major expansion of the oil and gas industry at that time.
NGC was privatised in 1992. The Australian Gas Light (AGL) sold NGC to Vector Limited in 2004 and 2005. The company was again sold in 2016 to First State Funds, being renamed First Gas during the acquisition.
In 2016, First Gas purchased the Maui natural gas pipeline from Maui Development for $335 million. This is the main gas transmission pipeline in New Zealand. It is 307 km long, stretching from the Oaonui production station north of Ōpunake through to Huntly Power Station in Huntly, and carries 78% of New Zealand's onshore and offshore natural gas. At that time, ownership of Maui Development was between Shell (84%), OMV NZ (10%) and Todd Energy (6%).
In 2017, First Gas purchased the Ahuroa Gas Storage Facility from Contact Energy.
Statistics
Distribution
See also
Oil and gas industry in New Zealand
References
External links
Companies based in New Plymouth
Oil and gas companies of New Zealand
New Plymouth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crozdesk | Crozdesk is a web service launched in 2015, which connects buyers and sellers of business software and offers an algorithm to rate platforms and assign a score. Its founder is Nicholas Hopper, a London-based German entrepreneur.
Hopper revealed Crozdesk attracted a six-figure seeding round from a Swiss investor.
In July 2016, Crozdesk announced a partnership with app and software discovery platform Softonic.
References
External links
Crozdesk
Technology companies based in London
Technology companies established in 2015
2015 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancco%20Technology%20Group | Blancco Technology Group is a global provider of mobile device diagnostics and secure data erasure products. The company is divided into two distinct business units: Blancco (data erasure) and SmartChk (mobile diagnostics).
Company Profile
Originally known as Regenersis plc (LSE: RGS), Blancco Technology Group plc (LSE: BLTG) was formed in 2016 as the result of a number of software business acquisitions. Following the acquisitions, Regenersis disposed of its repair division to focus on being a pure-play software business and renamed itself as Blancco Technology Group plc.
The company is divided into two distinct business units: Blancco (data erasure) and SmartChk (mobile diagnostics). Blancco Technology Group employs 240 people worldwide across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The company is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA, United States.
History
Blancco Technology Group started as Regenersis plc, a provider of diagnostics, repair and data erasure services to the consumer electronics industry. Regenersis filed for IPO in 2005 as a public company on the London Stock Exchange. In the same year, it acquired Intec Group (Intec Cellular Services and Intec Distribution).
Partnerships
Blancco Technology Group partners with multiple resellers and distributors, including IT asset disposition vendors, mobile services and recycling providers, data centers and cloud storage providers.
References
External links
Official website
Data erasure
Mobile device management
Mobile device management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich%20Underground%20Railway | The Zürich Underground Railway, or Zürich U-Bahn, was a project started in the 1970s to build a rapid transit network in the Swiss city of Zürich and several bordering municipalities. This project was itself preceded by several earlier plans dating from between 1864 and 1959. In April 1962, the "Tiefbahn" (rapid transit) project was proposed, which would have included placing the Zürich trams underground in the city centre by building 21.15 km of underground lines, but this was rejected in a referendum before any construction had been undertaken.
In the 1970s "U-Bahn" project, the first line would have led from Dietikon via Schlieren, Zürich HB, Oerlikon and Opfikon to Zurich Airport, including two short branch lines to Schwamendingen and Kloten. The two most important development axes of the agglomeration, Limmattal and Glattal, would have been joined onto the network. The line would have been 27.5 km long, 14.8 km of which would have been underground. At a later point in time the construction of two more lines was planned. In spite of initial optimism the project was rejected in a referendum by the voters in the canton of Zürich. Some parts of the lines, which had been built as preliminary work for the Underground that was never realised, are used today as the Milchbuck-Schwamendingen tram tunnel and as the terminus of the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn.
Although the U-Bahn project was never completed, little opposition was expressed against the suburban rail lines that were proposed at the same time to complement the U-Bahn. These proposals eventually evolved into the current Zürich S-Bahn system, which uses several newly built tunnels to pass both under the city centre and adjoining hills.
Initial plans
In 1864, one year after the opening of the Metropolitan Railway in London, the Zürcherische Freitagszeitung (Zürich Friday Journal) published the visionary idea of a partly underground steam railway that was to go from the main station, along the Fröschengraben and end at Lake Zürich. However, the moat was filled up and became the Bahnhofstrasse instead. At the beginning of the 1930s, the development of the Zürich tramway network was by and large completed and newly built districts became accessible by bus and trolleybus lines. City architect Herbert Steiner, who had developed the Zürich building and zoning regulations in 1948, predicted that 550,000 people would be living in the city. He deemed the disentanglement of traffic streams and the massive expansion of public transport essential in order to realize the ideal of a garden city. However, in his opinion the city was and would always be too small for an underground railway. Architect Armin Meili and geographer Hans Carol held similar views, but due to the imminent post-war economic boom (Golden Age of Capitalism) and mass motorization, their voices remained almost unheard.
In 1946, Kurt Wiesinger, professor of engineering at the ETH Zürich, put forward plans for a highspeed train tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizadore | Wizadore is a video game developed by Imagine Software and released on cassette tape for the BBC Micro home computer in 1985. It was developed by Chris Roberts (then aged 16 and his first commercially successful game) and released by Imagine Software in February 1985 for the BBC Micro home computer and became a best seller.
Gameplay
Wizadore is a simple side scrolling platform game with a three item inventory. The player's character is a mage whose grandfather created a sword to kill Smaun, an evil dragon, but which has been broken into three parts and must be collected in order to be used. Players need jump across gaps and climb ladders to collect various weapons and scrolls to defeat guards armed with axes and swords and soldiers riding flying creatures that drop weapons. To advance through the game, players need to juggle their inventory carefully as certain weapons only kill certain types of enemy. Archers remain invulnerable and the player needs to jump over their arrows. The timing of jumps was critical and needed to be almost pixel perfect to avoid dying. The combination of the climb and jump key added a level of difficulty.
Prizes
As a marketing ploy, Wizadore offered a monthly prize of £100 to people who completed it (up to the end of August 1985).
References
1985 video games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron-only games
Imagine Software games
Side-scrolling platform games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricel | Symbiote Investments Limited operating under the name Caricel is a Jamaican owned and operated mobile network.
History
Caricel was started in March 2014 when Symbiote applied for a Carrier and Service Provider licence from the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) in Jamaica. In February 2016, the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining (MSTEM) announced that a new mobile network operator licence was being considered by the Jamaican Government. Despite a change in administration between the announcement and granting the licence in May, Caricel was approved for a Spectrum licence.
Technology
In 2016, Caricel announced it would roll out its LTE-only network within the Kingston Metropolitan Area. They invested over US$50 million in deployment and is looking at spending another US$50 million over the next 3 years. The company has already secured towers islandwide and said it would be rolling out to the rest of Jamaica.
References
External links
Mobile phone companies of the Caribbean
Companies based in Kingston, Jamaica
2014 establishments in Jamaica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic%20Linked%20Open%20Data | In natural language processing, linguistics, and neighboring fields, Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) describes a method and an interdisciplinary community concerned with creating, sharing, and (re-)using language resources in accordance with Linked Data principles. The Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud was conceived and is being maintained by the Open Linguistics Working Group (OWLG) of the Open Knowledge Foundation, but has been a point of focal activity for several W3C community groups, research projects, and infrastructure efforts since then.
Definition and Development
Linguistic Linked Open Data describes the publication of data for linguistics and natural language processing using the following principles:
Data should be openly licensed using licenses such as the Creative Commons licenses.
The elements in a dataset should be uniquely identified by means of a URI.
The URI should resolve, so users can access more information using web browsers.
Resolving an LLOD resource should return results using web standards such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF).
Links to other resources should be included to help users discover new resources and provide semantics.
The primary benefits of LLOD have been identified as:
Representation: Linked graphs are a more flexible representation format for linguistic data.
Interoperability: Common RDF models can easily be integrated.
Federation: Data from multiple sources can trivially be combined.
Ecosystem: Tools for RDF and linked data are widely available under open source licenses.
Expressivity: Existing vocabularies help express linguistic resources.
Semantics: Common links express what you mean.
Dynamicity: Web data can be continuously improved.
The home of the LLOD cloud diagram is under linguistic-lod.org
LLOD vocabularies
Aside from gathering metadata and generating the LLOD cloud diagram, the LLOD community is driving the development of community standards with respect to vocabularies, metadata and best practice recommendations.
According to the state-of-the-art overview by Cimiano et al. (2020), these include:
for modelling lexical resources
OntoLex-Lemon, community standard for lexical resources (machine-readable dictionaries, multilingual terminologies, ontology lexicalization)
for modelling linguistic annotations (in corpora or NLP)
Web Annotation, a W3C standard for the annotation of web resources (textual or otherwise)
NLP Interchange Format (NIF), a community standard for the grammatical annotation of text
CoNLL-RDF, a NIF-based vocabulary for the RDF representation of corpora in conventional TSV ("CoNLL") formats
POWLA, a vocabulary for generic linguistic data structures that can be used to complement NIF, CoNLL-RDF or Web Annotation
for linguistic data categories
Ontologies of Linguistic Annotation (OLiA) for linguistic annotation
lexinfo for grammatical and other features in lexical resources
for language identification
as language-tagged strings using IETF BCP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crashing%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Crashing is an American comedy-drama television series created by Pete Holmes and executive produced by Holmes and occasional series director Judd Apatow. The first season aired on the HBO network in the United States from February 19 to April 9, 2017. It ran for a total of three seasons. The semi-autobiographical show revolves around a fictional version of Holmes, a comedian who pursues a career in stand-up comedy after his wife cheats on him, leaving him homeless. Several comedians play themselves in recurring roles, including Artie Lange and T. J. Miller, while others have guest appearances.
After Holmes successfully pitched the idea of the show to Apatow, he completed a script of its pilot episode. HBO picked it up for filming in September 2015, with Apatow as director. The success of the pilot led HBO to give the green light to the first season in January 2016. After four episodes had aired, HBO renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on January 14, 2018.
On February 21, 2018, HBO renewed the series for a third season, which premiered on January 20, 2019. On March 8, 2019, Holmes announced on Twitter that Crashing would not be picked up for a fourth season. He suggested that the series might conclude with a film adaptation.
Cast
Main
Pete Holmes as a fictional 30-something comedian. Pete aspired to be a youth pastor before he became a standup comedian.
Artie Lange as himself
Lauren Lapkus as Jessica, Pete's ex-wife
George Basil as Leif, an art teacher
Recurring
Dov Davidoff as Jason Webber, the owner of Pete's usual club.
Aparna Nancherla as Anaya, a fellow comedian trying to break out
Jermaine Fowler as Russell, a fellow comedian trying to break out
Henry Zebrowski as Porter, a fellow comedian trying to break out
Zach Cherry as Kevin, the manager at The Grisly Pear and later Pete's representative
T. J. Miller as himself (Season 1)
Audrie J. Neenan as Rita Holmes, Pete's mother (Seasons 1, 3)
Fred Applegate as Pete's Dad (Seasons 1, 3)
Jamie Lee as Ali Reissen, a comedian and Pete's first girlfriend after his divorce (Seasons 2–3)
Madeline Wise as Kat (Season 3)
Guest stars
Season 1
Episode 1: Jeff Ross, Rachel Feinstein, Gina Yashere, Keith Robinson, Dante Nero, Dan Naturman, and "Big Jay" Oakerson as Village Underground Host, Todd Montesi, Greer Barnes
Episode 2: Gina Gershon
Episode 4: Hannibal Buress, Marina Franklin
Episode 6: Ashlie Atkinson as Schmitty, Sarah Silverman, Rachael Ray and husband John Cusimano, Ron Funches, Allan Havey, David Juskow, Steve Agee, Geno Bisconte
Episode 7: Dave Attell, Vanessa Bayer
Episode 8: Jim Norton
Season 2
Episode 1: Penn Jillette, Dave Attell, Greer Barnes, Doug Benson, Gilbert Gottfried
Episode 2: Dr. Oz, Wale
Episode 3: Bill Burr, Joy Behar
Episode 4: Whitney Cummings, Emma Willmann, Mo Amer
Episode 5: The Lucas Brothers, John Mulaney, Joe Machi
Episode 6: Robert Kelly, Wayne Federman, Jessica Kirson, Greer Barnes, Greg Fitzsimmons
Episode 7: Mel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai%20Jack%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth and final season of Samurai Jack, an American animated series, premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block on March 11, 2017, and concluded its run on May 20, 2017. The announcement of the season came in December 2015, eleven years since the series was originally concluded on Cartoon Network. Genndy Tartakovsky, the series' creator, returned as a director, writer, and storyboarder for this season. The season received universal acclaim from both critics and fans, praising it for its visuals as well as its more dark, intense, and mature tone.
Plot
The fifth season of the series takes place fifty years after the original four seasons, although Jack himself has stopped aging as a side effect of time travel. Aku has destroyed all existing time portals but is distressed over the prospect of battling Jack forever, so he has stopped pursuing him directly. Jack's heroic actions have inspired many to oppose Aku's tyranny, among them the now-elderly Scotsman, who unsuccessfully leads armies in a battle against Aku and is killed by him but returns as the spirit of his younger self. Unknown to Aku, Jack has lost his sword, and is troubled by hallucinations of his deceased family, his former self, and Aku's numerous victims, almost to the point of suicide.
A set of fraternal septuplet girls are born from Aku's essence to the high priestess of a cult of female Aku worshipers, the "Daughters of Aku", and raised as assassins with the sole purpose of killing Jack. They find and overwhelm Jack, but he later kills all but one of them, Ashi, the eldest. In the bowels of a monster that swallows them both, Jack saves her from various dangers, attempting to convince her of Aku's evil. Deciding to accompany Jack, Ashi comes to see the truth of Jack's words, and helps him through his emotional and spiritual journey, preventing a suicide attempt and helping him reclaim his sword. Following a battle alongside each other, they become romantically involved.
Aku eventually learns that Jack lost his sword and confronts him, not knowing Jack has recovered it in the interim. However, Aku senses his essence within Ashi, and seizes control of her in order to attack Jack. Jack refuses to kill Ashi and lays down his sword in defeat. Aku takes Jack prisoner and prepares to kill him, but everyone Jack has helped throughout his journey rallies to his defense. Jack admits to Ashi he loves her, enabling her to regain control of herself. She returns the sword to Jack and uses demonic powers she inherited from Aku to time travel with Jack to the moment when Aku sent Jack to the future, whereupon Jack destroys the weakened Aku for good. With peace restored, Ashi and Jack prepare to marry, but on her way to the altar, she suddenly collapses, as slaying Aku invalidates her existence, causing her to fade away.
The series ends with a grieving Jack smiling when he watches a ladybug land on his hand and then fly free in a grove of blossoming sakura trees.
Development
B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BARTOC | The Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (BARTOC) is a database of Knowledge Organization Systems. Its main goal is to document knowledge organization systems (KOS), such as classifications, thesauri and authority files, at one place, in order to achieve greater visibility, highlight their features, make them searchable and comparable, and foster knowledge sharing. In contrast to other terminology registries, BARTOC includes any kind of KOS from any subject area, in any language, any publication format, and any form of accessibility. In addition, it manages a list of other terminology registries.
The creation of BARTOC was motivated by the need to create a bibliography, and teaching information literacy. Since its launch in November 2013, BARTOC has collected information about more than 5,000 terminologies and almost 100 terminology registries until November 2020. A comparative study of terminology types and registries confirmed BARTOC to contain "a relatively sufficient amount of metadata". Its content is available as public domain with the Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL).
A circle of international editors has gathered around BARTOC from twelve countries all across Europe. BARTOC has been approved by the International Society for Knowledge Organization.
In November 2020 the implementation of BARTOC was moved from Drupal at the University Library of Basel to a new technical infrastructure developed with project coli-conc. Since then, BARTOC is hosted at the Common Library Network (GBV) in Göttingen.
References
External links
BARTOC Homepage
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Digital library projects
Controlled vocabularies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable%20%28disambiguation%29 | A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.
Syllable may also refer to:
Syllable (computing), a unit of information storage
Syllable (operating system), an operating system based on AtheOS
See also
Semi-syllable (disambiguation)
Syllabic (disambiguation)
Syllabary, a set of written symbols
Slab (unit), a unit of information storage consisting of 12 bits
Instruction syllable, the portion of a machine language instruction that specifies the operation to be performed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toton%20Lane%20tram%20stop | Toton Lane is a tram stop and park and ride site on the Nottingham Express Transit network, serving the suburb of Chilwell and town of Stapleford, Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire, England.
History
The stop opened on 25 August 2015, following the opening of the second phase of the network from Station Street, with branches to Clifton South and Toton Lane. Covering a total distance of , the extension saw the opening of two branch lines, as well as the addition of 28 tram stops to the network.
The stop comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the twin terminal tracks, with one of the platforms being long enough to accommodate, if necessary, two trams. It is situated to the west of Chilwell, north of Toton, and south of Stapleford, and is just along the Stapleford bypass (A52) from junction 25 of the M1 motorway. The park and ride site has a capacity of 1,400 cars. There is also an interchange with local bus services, and a kiosk.
Services
As of January 2022, services operate at a 7–15 minute frequency between Hucknall and Toton Lane.
Rolling stock used: Alstom Citadis and Bombardier Incentro
Gallery
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Transport in the Borough of Broxtowe
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a syllable is a name for a platform-dependent unit of information storage. Depending on the target hardware, various bit widths (and sometimes internal groupings) are associated with it. Commonly used in the 1960s and 1970s, the term has mostly fallen into disuse in favour of terms like byte or word.
Examples:
3-bit syllables: some experimental CISC designs
8-bit syllables: English Electric KDF9 (represented as syllabic octals and also called slob-octals or slobs in this context) and Burroughs large systems (see also: Burroughs B6x00-7x00 instruction set)
12-bit syllables: NCR computers such as the NCR 315 (also called slabs in this context) and Burroughs large systems
13-bit syllables: Saturn Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) and Gemini Spacecraft On-Board Computer (OBC)
See also
Byte
Catena (computing)
Instruction syllable
Nibble
Opcode
Opstring
Parcel (computing)
Syllable (in linguistics)
Word (computer architecture)
References
Computing terminology
Data unit
Units of information |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton%20South%20tram%20stop | Clifton South is a tram stop and Park & Ride site on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network. It is situated in the Borough of Rushcliffe, just to the south-west of the large City of Nottingham suburb of Clifton, on the A453. The Park & Ride site has a capacity of over 1000 cars. There is also an interchange with local bus services.
The tram stop is the terminus of line 2 of the NET, to Phoenix Park via Clifton, Wilford and the centre of Nottingham. The stop comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the twin terminal tracks, with one of the platforms being long enough to accommodate, if necessary, two trams. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day. A half-hourly express bus service, the Skylink Express, links the stop to East Midlands Airport.
The Clifton South stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
In 2023, extension of the NET to Clifton South was listed in the Department for Transport's list of projects to be funded by the cancellation of Phase 2 of High Speed 2, despite the tram stop already being operation for nearly a decade by that point.
Gallery
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Park and ride schemes in the United Kingdom
Clifton, Nottinghamshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africell%20Uganda | Africell Uganda, whose full legal name was Africell Uganda Limited (AUL), was an information and communication technology network company in Uganda. It was the third-largest telecommunications company in the country, by customer numbers. However, the company closed all its businesses in Uganda in 2021 based on a careful assessment of the long-term commercial outlook for the business.
Location
The headquarters and main office of AUL were located in the Africell Office Building, at 28–30 Clement Hill Road, on Nakasero Hill in the Central Division of Kampala, the capital and largest city in the country. The coordinates of the company headquarters are 0°19'09.0"N, 32°35'24.0"E (Latitude:0.319169; Longitude:32.589992).
History
Africell Uganda was established in May 2014, when Africell acquired the majority stake that Orange Telecom owned in its Uganda cellular network. Africell paid $12 million for that stake, inheriting an estimated 1,000,000 subscribers. In November 2014, the Group Chairman and CEO announced plans to invest US$150 million in the next five years, to upgrade the Africell network in Uganda.
Subscribers
In 2014, the network subscribers in Uganda were estimated at one million. As of September 2018, its subscriber customer numbers had risen to 2.1 million. In April 2020, the company's website gives the number of subscribers as over 3,000,000. The table below illustrates the progressive customer growth for the company.
Ownership
The table below summarizes the shareholding in the business.
Operations
In 2018, Africell Holdings, the parent company of Africell Uganda, secured a loan of US$100 million from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), to expand operations in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Africell Holdings maintains subsidiaries in the Gambia, Sierra Leone, DR Congo and Uganda. As of January 2015, Africell Uganda maintained coverage in the majority of Uganda's geographical area.
Closure and exit from Uganda
In September 2021 the company announced that it would close business and exit the country, 7 October 2021. At the time of its closure, the Telcom had an estimated 3 million subscribers, accounting for about four percent(4%) market share.
See also
Communications in Uganda
List of mobile network operators in Uganda
References
External links
Website of Africell Uganda
Africell Contacts
Telecommunications companies established in 2014
Kampala District
Telecommunications companies of Uganda
2014 establishments in Uganda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Candlin | Rosemary Candlin (born Rosemary Shaw in 1927) is a crystallographer and computer scientist who joined the University of Edinburgh Computer Science Department shortly after it was first established, and for some time was the only woman lecturer on the staff. She worked there from 1968 to 1995, helped design the curriculum in its early years, and developed a specialist interest in parallel programming. She then went on to work for CERN: the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Career
Candlin studied physics as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, and continued her studies at the university with a PhD in crystallography. She had a succession of jobs in crystallography: at the Natural History Museum, London, at Princeton, then back to the University of Cambridge as a research assistant to Helen Megaw.
She moved to the University of Edinburgh, and continued working in crystallography there, using a distant Atlas computer linked to the university by a telephone line. She went on to take up a position at the university's Computer Science Department which had been recently established by Professor Sidney Michaelson FRSE, who wanted her to teach first-year students how to program. Initially there were no other permanent women lecturers. Candlin moved on to teach more advanced students, designed courses on real-time programming, and also on parallel programming which became her speciality.
After leaving the University of Edinburgh in 1995 she worked on physics software for CERN. This work involved ATLAS software.
Personal life
Candlin was born Rosemary Shaw in Plymouth in 1927, the only child of Eileen Shaw and Instructor Captain Robert Edward Shaw CBE ADC RN. As a result of World War II the family had to move house several times, and Candlin's schooling was disrupted. She finished her secondary education in Liverpool. In 1955 she married the physicist David Candlin.
Publications
Posie Project Annual Report, University of Edinburgh Department of Computer Science 1988
A Modelling System for Process-based Programs, Proceedings of the European Simulation Congress 1989
The Investigation of Communications Patterns in Occam, Developing Transputer Applications: OUG-11: Proceedings of the 11th Occam User Group Technical Meeting, 25–26 September 1989, Edinburgh, Scotland Vol. 11. IOS Press 1989.
A Statistical Approach to Finding Performance Models of Parallel Programs, in: Hillston, King, Pooley eds., 7th UK Computer and Telecommunications Performance Engineering Workshop, Springer 1991
Studying the performance properties of concurrent programs by simulation experiments on synthetic programs ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 20.1 1992 pp239–240.
A Statistical Study of the Factors that Affect the Performance of a Class of Parallel Programs on a MIMD Computer, in: Proceedings of the IFIP WG10.3 International Conference on Decentralized and Distributed Systems, Springer 1993, pp175–186
Black Box Representations of Parallel Program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Mynewt | Apache Mynewt is a modular real-time operating system for connected Internet of things (IoT) devices that must operate for long times under power, memory, and storage constraints. It is free and open-source software incubating under the Apache Software Foundation, with source code distributed under the Apache License 2.0, a permissive license that is conducive to commercial adoption of open-source software.
Overview
Apache Mynewt is a real-time operating system with a rich set of libraries intended to make prototyping, deploying, and managing 32-bit microcontroller based IoT devices easy. It is highly composable, to allow building embedded system applications (e.g., locks, medical devices, industrial IoT) across different types of microcontrollers. The name Mynewt is wordplay on the English word minute, meaning very small: the kernel is only 6 KB in size.
The OS is designed for connectivity, and comes with a full implementation of the Bluetooth low energy 4.2 stack. With the addition of BLE (supporting all Bluetooth 4.2 compliant security features except privacy) and various utilities such as the default file system, console, shell, logs, stats, etc., the image size is approximately 96 KB for the Nordic nRF51822 Bluetooth SoC. This size metric excludes the boot loader image.
Core features
The core operating system supports:[3]
Preemptive multithreading
Tickless priority based scheduling
Programmable timers
System time
Semaphores
Mutexes
Event queues
Memory management (allocation): dynamic (heap) and pool
Multi-stage software watchdog timer
Memory or data buffers, to hold packet data as it moves up and down the networking protocol stack
Other features and utilities include:
Hardware abstraction layer with support for CPU time, analog-to-digital converter (ADC), digital-to-analog converter (DAC), general-purpose input/output (GPIO), Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C), pulse-width modulation (PWM), serial port, Serial Peripheral Interface Bus (SPI), universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART).
Newtron flash file system (nffs) with minimal RAM usage and reliability features
File system abstraction to allow client code to choose alternate file systems
Console access and shell package
Secure boot loader and image organizer (manager) that includes image integrity verification using SHA-256 and optional digital signature verification of images before running them
Test utilities to build regression testing
Statistics and logs for all major packages
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) encoder and decoder libraries
Lua interpreter
Bluetooth low energy
The first network stack available in Mynewt is Bluetooth low energy and is called NimBLE. It complies with Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2.
NimBLE includes both the host and controller components. Access to the controller source code makes the BLE performance highly configurable. For example, the BLE throughput can be adjusted by changing the connection intervals, data packet size |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUNNet | RUNNet (Russian university network) was established in 1994 on the initiative of the State University of Fine Mechanics and Optics by the State Committee of Higher Education as a key branch of the Russian Universities program. In the same year, an Agreement on Cooperation between RUNNet and NORDUnet was signed.
The purpose of RUNNet is to provide a single common informational space to make available Russian and foreign research and educational resources while also integrating Russian information into the world community.
History
Russian Federal University Network RUNNet was established in 1994 as part of the National Program "Universities of Russia" as a nationwide network of universities and large research institutes. The network operator VusTelecomCentre (Universities Telecommunication Centre) was created for the purposes of RUNNet development and support. Initially, RUNNet was mainly based on satellite technologies.
Towards the end of 1994, the network already had 6 nodes, providing connectivity between Russian and International channels at 64 kbit/s. Local computer networks were created in 68 universities in the country. The universities participating in the project each received 10-20 computers and servers.
The next stage was to ensure connectivity. The best way to achieve this was by using satellites. The Satellite Communication Engineering Center provided the connection by leasing available channels through the Russian Ministry of Defence’s “Raduga” Satellite.
In 1995, satellite nodes were established in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Saratov, Ulianovsk, Nizhni-Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Tambov, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk. In 1996 Vladivostok, Izhevsk, Perm, Barnaul and Pereslavl-Zalesski were integrated into the satellite infrastructure. Finally in 1997 Khabarovsk, Nalchik, Mahachkala and Stavropol were also added. Bandwidth was limited to 64-128 kbit/s due to the limitations of early satellite technologies. Functioning of this satellite infrastructure was supported by RUNNet’s own teleport in Saint Petersburg. Several Russian satellites have been used; the typical bandwidth for a single university now is 2 Mbit/s, but only a few universities still use the satellite service.
Changes are the result of improvements in terrestrial structures (most of these universities use satellite channels in parallel with terrestrial ones). Terrestrial RUNNet infrastructure was actively developed from 1995 onwards. The first international RUNNet link operating at 256 kbit/s between Saint Petersburg and the Supercomputer Centre in Espoo (Finland) was established with NORDUnet in early 1995. In 1996, it was upgraded to 1 Mbit/s and in 1997 to 2 Mbit/s. Also in 1997, a new international 4 Mbit/s channel was installed between Saint-Petersburg and the New York PoP of Teleglobe. Thus, the aggregate RUNNet international connectivity rose to 6 Mbit/s. 1998 saw a further step in international connectivity with RUNNet.
RUNNet today |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture%20Action%20Network | Permaculture Action Network is an organization that mobilizes concert-goers and festival-attendees to come out to "Permaculture Action Days," one day events where participants take direct action to build permaculture systems in the cities where they live. Past projects that the Permaculture Action Network has implemented include urban farms, community gardens, public food forests, earthen structures, rainwater catchment systems, greenhouses, and school orchards.
Mission statement
Permaculture Action Network empowers people to take action to create the world they want to see by connecting educators, creators, and organizers with broad and diverse audiences to build a regenerative and just world. From organizing Permaculture Action Days and events to building educational spaces and hosting courses, Permaculture Action Network is committed to pushing community and environmental sustainability to the center of society’s cultural narrative.
History
In the Fall of 2014, the collective launched Pushing Through The Pavement: A Permaculture Action Tour with electronic music producer The Polish Ambassador, folk singer Ayla Nereo and hip-hop MC Mr. Lif. During the six-week tour they brought local organizations on stage and inspired thousands of people to participate in Permaculture Action Days after every single show in over 32 cities across the country. Cities they visited include San Diego, Seattle, Boston, Orlando, Portland, and New York City. At each of these Permaculture Action Days they planted public food forests, built community gardens, and completed diverse other projects that connected people to urban farms, ecological common spaces, and one another, often mobilizing up to 400 people at a time.
The tour was such a success the collective went on to organize a dozen more Permaculture Action Days before festivals and after shows in major cities, coordinate Permaculture Action Hubs (educational spaces within larger events), and teach three Permaculture Action Courses on ecological design, community organizing, and social change. Festivals the organization has worked with include Envision Festival, Lucidity Festival, Symbiosis, Lightning in a Bottle, Summer Camp Music Festival, and Joshua Tree Music Festival.
In 2016, the organization began to work with music group Rising Appalachia to put on Permaculture Action Days at their shows including in New Orleans during Jazz Fest, before their first ever Red Rocks performance, and before their performance at Summer Camp Music Festival.
Permaculture Action Day
Permaculture Action Day is a one-day event that brings together folks from a particular bioregion, neighborhood, school, or cultural audience to create ecological common spaces together – places that help to facilitate the movement towards sustainable living between people and planet. These days both put the hands of its attendees to work directly implementing these systems – such as forest gardens, greenhouses, and rainwater catchment sy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brillio | Brillio is a company focused on digital technologies and big data analytics headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States
History
Brillio was formed in 2014 when Collabera, an information technology (IT) recruiting and staffing company firm based in Morristown, New Jersey, spun off its IT services division.
In October 2014, Brillio acquired Marketelligent, a Bangalore-based analytics provider. founded in 2008.
In April 2015, Brillio legally incorporated as its own entity under Brillio Holdings, Inc. in New Castle County, Delaware and invested $3 million in Albeado, a Silicon Valley-based software company founded in 2010.
Mamodia was a director of Albeado and participated in its seed funding in October, 2014.
In October, 2015, Brillio invested in Arundo Analytics, a Norway-based provider of analytical and predictive software.
Arundo had received seed funding in July 2015 from Northgate Capital.
By 2016, Mamodia estimated 2,300 employees in the United States and India.
In March 2018, Brillio acquired Comity Designs, a cloud and mobile service provider and Salesforce.com consulting partner founded by Dushyant Pandya in 2008.
In January 2019, private equity firm Bain Capital acquired a majority stake in the company.
In August 2018, it announced it was in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner network.
In April 2019, it announced a partnership with the Blue Planet IT division of Ciena.
In December 2019, it became a Microsoft Azure managed service Provider (MSP).
In July 2020, Brillio announced the acquisition of Cognetik, based in Cary, North Carolina with offices in Romania.
In 2021, Brillio acquired Standav and Cedrus Digital.
In May 2023, Brillio acquired UK based cloud advisory firm CloudStratex.
References
2014 establishments in California
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
Information technology companies of the United States
2019 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaidyeswaran%20Rajaraman | Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman (born 1933) is an Indian engineer, academic and writer, known for his pioneering efforts in the field of Computer Science Education in India. He is credited with the establishment of the first academic program in computer science in India, which he helped initiate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1965. An elected fellow of all the Indian science academies, he is a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award in Science and Technology category for young scientists and several other honors including Om Prakash Bhasin Award and Homi Bhabha Prize. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honor of the Padma Bhushan, in 1998, for his contributions to science.
Biography
Born on 8 September 1933 to Ramaswami Vaidyeswaran and Sarada at Erode in a part of Madras Presidency that is now south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Rajamaran married Dharma in 1964. He passed the HSC examination as a student of first batch of Madras Education Association (now known as DTEA) Higher Secondary School, New Delhi, in 1949. Rajaraman was awarded a scholarship by Delhi University after passing the All India Entrance Scholarship Examination and graduated with BSc (Hon) in Physics from St. Stephen's College of University of Delhi in 1952 and continued his higher studies at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc) to obtain a Diploma of IISc (Electrical Communication Engineering) in 1955. He stayed on at IISc and designed and constructed non-linear units for an analogue computer and applied it for solving a number of engineering problems for which he was awarded an associateship by IISc in 1957. He was awarded an overseas scholarship by the government of India and joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge from which he obtained his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering in 1959. Thereafter, he enrolled himself at University of Wisconsin-Madison and did research on adaptive control systems, obtaining a PhD in 1961. He started his career as an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1962, he returned to India to work as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK). He went as a visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley during period 1965–66.It was during this time that he shifted his focus to then nascent discipline of computer science.
In early 1965, with encouragement by H. K. Kesavan, Head of Electrical Engineering Dep't at IIT Kanpur, Rajaraman and his colleagues initiated a new MTech program with Computer Science as an option, the first time the subject was offered as an academic discipline in India. Later, he helped introduce a doctoral program, and a group led by him pioneered the use of decision tables in development, debugging, and optimization of complex computer programs. He initiated the first BTech program at IITKanpur in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNOS | MNOS may refer to:
Metal–nitride–oxide–semiconductor transistor (MNOS transistor), a semiconductor technology
MobilNaya Operatsionnaya Sistema, a Unix-like operating system developed in the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1%20Ko%20Sa%20%27Yo | A1 (stylized from "Ewan Ko Sa Yo" / / international title: You're My A1) is a 2016 Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Randy Santiago, it stars Jaclyn Jose, Gardo Versoza and Solenn Heussaff. It premiered on June 2, 2016, on the network's Telebabad line up replacing the Thursday slot of Love Me, Heal Me. The series concluded on November 24, 2016, with a total of 26 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Digna, a beauty pageant aspirant is in search of her perfect beauty queen as she manages A1 Talent Agency. She is married to Rolly, a marriage counselor, who always fails to give her romance which in turn makes her uptight and short tempered when facing her talents.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jaclyn Jose as Digna Molina
Solenn Heussaff as Miley
Gardo Versoza as Rolando "Rolly" Molina
Supporting cast
Sef Cadayona as Enzo
Benjamin Alves as Jay
Roi Vinzon as Primo
Ervic Vijandre as Erroll
Denise Barbacena as Kaycee Molina
Gee Canlas as Tintin
Mara Alberto as Kath
Guest cast
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of A1 earned a 15.7% rating. While the final episode scored an 8.5% rating in Urban Luzon.
Accolades
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sitcoms
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerwood%20Lane%20tram%20stop | Summerwood Lane is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network in the city of Nottingham suburb of Clifton. It is situated on street track within Farnborough Road close to its junction with Summerwood Lane, and comprises a single island platform situated between the tracks. The stop is on line 2 of the NET, from Clifton via the city centre to Phoenix Park. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Summerwood Lane stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Clifton, Nottinghamshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilwell%20Road%20tram%20stop | Chilwell Road is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network, in the district of Broxtowe and town of Beeston. It is situated on street track within Chilwell Road, and has side platforms flanking the track, together with a traffic island between the tracks. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Chilwell Road stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Transport in the Borough of Broxtowe
Beeston, Nottinghamshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozee.pk | Rozee.pk (; lit: "Livelihood") is a Pakistani employment website, a subsidiary of Naseeb Networks. It was founded in 2007 by Monis Rahman and has since become one of the most popular platforms for job seekers and employers in the country. Rozee.pk connects job seekers with employment opportunities across various industries, including IT, healthcare, finance, and engineering.
History
In 2011, AllWorld Network listed the company as one of Pakistan's fastest growing private companies.
Rozee.pk bought Saudi employment website Mihnati.com for an undisclosed amount in 2013.
In 2016, the website went into complete reconstruction changing its interface, algorithms and logo.
See also
List of employment websites
References
External links
Employment websites
Online companies of Pakistan
Business services companies established in 2007
Internet properties established in 2007
Companies based in Lahore
Pakistani websites
Pakistani subsidiaries of foreign companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomy%20Cube | The Autonomy Cube was an art project run by American artists and technologists Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum which places relays for the anonymous communication network Tor in traditional art museums. Both have previously created art pieces that straddle the border between art and technology,. The cube is in line with much of Paglen's and Appelbaum's earlier pieces in targeting the field of surveillance and government snooping. The sculptures consist of 1.25 ft blocks of acrylic Lucite containing Wifi-routers based upon two open source hardware Novena-motherboards.
Overview
The first sculpture was installed in Oldenburg, Germany in 2014 and acts as both a Tor exit-relay and Wifi-hub for visitors of the museum. Any user who connects to the museum open Wifi called Autonomy Cube is directed through the Tor-network for all their activity. This effectively anonymizes and hides the traffic from many forms of surveillance and interception. In January 2016, four installations had been made in New York, London and Frankfurt, beyond the one in Oldenburg. More sculptures are planned, with three coming during May 2016, one at Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco. Institutions that have shown the cube in limited exhibitions include Metro Pictures Gallery on Manhattan which exhibited Paglen's work, Whitechapel Gallery in London as part of the Electronic Superhighway (2016–1966) exhibition and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen.
The willingness of museums to host these installations was a surprise says Paglen, who hopes the relays can play a potentially important role in the Tor network. Omar Kholeif at Whitechapel Gallery has commented on the idea that "when we enter civic institutions we expect them to have Wi-Fi, [and] we just hand over our data", and how the Cubes bring this agreement forth to discussion.
Inspiration for the Cube came from a 1962 art project by Hans Haacke called Condensation Cube. It similarly consisted of a plexiglass cube, but which contained water which would move through different states of liquid to gas. Paglen also states he wants to raise the question: "What would a more civic-minded version of the Internet look like? What could the Internet look like if the Internet hadn't been turned into the greatest means of mass surveillance in the history of humanity?"
References
External links
Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube (2014)
Arts organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright%20Computing | Bright Computing, Inc. is a developer of software for deploying and managing high-performance (HPC) clusters, Kubernetes clusters, and OpenStack private clouds in on-premises data centers as well as in the public cloud.
History
Bright Computing was founded by Matthijs van Leeuwen in 2009, who spun the company out of ClusterVision, which he had co-founded with Alex Ninaber and Arijan Sauer. Alex and Matthijs had worked together at UK’s Compusys, which was one of the first companies to commercially build HPC clusters. They left Compusys in 2002 to start ClusterVision in the Netherlands, after determining there was a growing market for building and managing supercomputer clusters using off-the-shelf hardware components and open source software, tied together with their own customized scripts. ClusterVision also provided delivery and installation support services for HPC clusters at universities and government entities.
In 2004, Martijn de Vries joined ClusterVision and began development of cluster management software. The software was made available to customers in 2008, under the name ClusterVisionOS v4.
In 2009, Bright Computing was spun out of ClusterVision. ClusterVisionOS was renamed Bright Cluster Manager, and van Leeuwen was named Bright Computing’s CEO.
In February 2016, Bright appointed Bill Wagner as chief executive officer. Matthijs van Leeuwen became chief strategy officer, and then left the company and board of directors in 2018.
In January 2022 Bright was acquired by Nvidia.
Customers
Early customers included Boeing, Sandia National Laboratories, Virginia Tech, Hewlett Packard, NSA, and Drexel University. Many early customers were introduced through resellers, including SICORP, Cray, Dell, and Advanced HPC.
As of 2019, the company has more than 700 customers, including more than fifty Fortune 500 Companies.
Products and services
Bright Cluster Manager for HPC lets customers deploy and manage complete clusters. It provides management for the hardware, the operating system, the HPC software, and users.
In 2014, the company announced Bright OpenStack, software to deploy, provision, and manage OpenStack-based private cloud infrastructures.
In 2016, Bright started bundling several machine learning frameworks and associated tools and libraries with the product, to make it very easy to get machine learning workload up and running on a Bright cluster.
In December 2018, version 8.2 was released, which introduced support for the ARM64 architecture, edge capabilities to build clusters spread out over many different geographical locations, improved workload accounting & reporting features, as well as many improvements to Bright's integration with Kubernetes.
Bright Cluster Manager software is frequently sold through original equipment manufacturer (OEM) resellers, including Dell and HPE.
Bright Computing was covered by Software Magazine and Yahoo! Finance, among other publications.
Awards
In 2016, Bright Computing was awarded a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A5lingen%20Crater | Målingen was confirmed as an impact crater in 2014. It is located near the city of Östersund in northern Sweden. It is "probable" that it formed simultaneously with the nearby Lockne crater. Computer simulations suggest the asteroid pieces that created the Lockne and Målingen craters were some 600 meters and 250 meters in diameter, respectively.
Målingen is in diameter and its age is estimated, using chitinozoan microfossils, which were also found in Lockne, to be 458 million years (Late Ordovician).
References
Impact craters of Sweden
Ordovician impact craters
Ordovician Sweden
Sandbian
Landforms of Jämtland County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Jeepney%20TV | This is a list of current and upcoming programs that are to be broadcast by Jeepney TV, a Philippine pay television owned by Creative Programs, a subsidiary of ABS-CBN.
Current programming
Drama
100 Days to Heaven† (2011)
Ang sa Iyo ay Akin‡ (2020–2021)
Angelito: Batang Ama† (2011–2012)
Asintado† (2018)
Bagong Umaga (2020–2021)
Be My Lady‡ (2016)
Dahil May Isang Ikaw† (2009–2010)
Dolce Amore† (2016)
Dugong Buhay† (2013)
Hawak Kamay† (2014)
Init sa Madamag† (2021)
Ipaglaban Mo‡ (2014–2020)
Kung Ako'y Iiwan Mo† (2012)
My Dear Heart† (2017)
Nathaniel† (2015)
Sa Sandaling Kailangan Mo Ako† (1998)
Saan Ka Man Naroroon† (1999–2001)
The Good Son† (2017–2018)
The Greatest Love† (2016–2017)
Fantasy/Horror
Kampanerang Kuba† (2005)
Noah† (2010–2011)
Lastikman† (2007–2008)
Super Inggo† (2006–2007)
Wansapanataym Presents (2010–2019)
Comedy
Goin' Bulilit (2005–2019)
Reality
Qpids (2005)
Kid-oriented
Team Yey! (Famtime) (2022–present)
Team Yey! Vlogs (2023–present)
Channel-produced programs
Kumu Star Ka (2021–present, also simulcast with DWPM and TeleRadyo Serbisyo)
Lucky Home (2023–present)
Pinoy Paranormal (2023–present)
Pamilya Talk with Tita Jing (2023–present)
Proyekto Pilipino (2022–present)
Local programs from ABS-CBN Entertainment
Daily primetime newscast
(Same night at 9pm simulcast on Kapamilya Channel and A2Z.)
News Patrol (2005–present)
Daily afternoon variety
ASAP Natin 'To (1995–present) (Same day live simulcast from Kapamilya Channel, A2Z and TV5; delayed telecast on Metro Channel.)
It's Showtime (2009–present) (Same day live simulcast from Kapamilya Channel, A2Z and GTV.)
Daily primetime local drama
(Same night simulcast from Kapamilya Channel, A2Z and TV5.)
Can't Buy Me Love (2023–present)
Senior High (2023–present)
Religious programming
Kapamilya Daily Mass (2020–present; delayed telecast from Kapamilya Channel, DWPM and TeleRadyo Serbisyo)
Kapamilya Sunday Mass (2020–present)
Kapamilya Journey's of Hope (2020–present; delayed telecast from Kapamilya Channel, DWPM and TeleRadyo Serbisyo)
The Healing Eucharist Sunday TV Mass (2012–present) (delayed telecast from Kapamilya Channel and The Healing Eucharist official YouTube channel)
Movie blocks
Pasada Pelikula (2017–present)
Kid Sine Presents (2021–present)
Former programming
Local dramas
2 Good 2 Be True (2022)
A Beautiful Affair (2012–2013)
A Family Affair (2022)
A Love to Last (2017)
A Soldier's Heart (2020)
All of Me (2015–2016)
And I Love You So (2015–2016)
Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto (2012)
Ang Munting Paraiso (1999–2002)
Annaliza (2013–2014)
Apoy sa Dagat (2013)
Basta't Kasama Kita (2003–2004)
Born for You (2016)
Be Careful With My Heart (2012–2014)
Bagito (2014–2015)
Best of MMK (1991–2022)
Bridges of Love (2015)
Budoy (2011–2012)
Bukas na Lang Kita Mamahalin (2013)
Calla Lily (2006)
Crazy for You (2006)
Dahil sa Pag-ibig (2012)
Dirty Linen (2023)
Dream Dad (2014–2015)
Doble Kara (2015–2017)
Dyosa (2008–2009)
Eva Fonda (2008–2009)
Familia Zaragoza (1995–1996)
Florinda (20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast%2C%20Inc. | Toast, Inc. is a cloud-based restaurant management software company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company provides an all-in-one point of sale (POS) system built on the Android operating system.
History
Toast's founders—Steve Fredette, Aman Narang, and Jonathan Grimm—initially created a consumer app centered for mobile payments, customer loyalty, promotions, and social aspects that integrated with restaurants’ existing POS systems.
In February 2020, Toast received $400 million in a round of Series F funding including Bessemer Venture Partners and TPG, at a valuation of $4.9 billion. , Toast is used in approximately 62,000 US restaurants.
In April 2020, Toast laid off 50% of its workforce due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact on the restaurant industry.
In November 2020, Toast has a secondary sale that valued the company at around $8 billion, despite laying off half of its employees in April. On September 22, 2021, Toast went public with an initial public offering under the stock symbol TOST. The company offered shares at $40 initially, with a market capitalization of roughly $20 billion, making it one of 2021's largest American IPOs.
In February 2023, it was announced Toast had acquired the Costa Mesa-headquartered producer of digital display solutions and drive-thru technology for quick-service restaurants (QSRs), Delphi Display Systems.
Toast headquarters were located at Landmark Center from 2013 until June 2023.
Products
First launched in March 2020, Toast's restaurant management system operates on the Android operating system and includes four devices: Flex (a terminal available in single-screen, guest-facing and kitchen displays), Tap (a three-in-one payment processing device that supports contactless payments), Toast Hub, and receipt printer.
The company started supporting reservations in April 2023, entering into competition with OpenTable and Resy.
Recognition
In May 2016, the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA) named Toast the winner of the Hottest Startup: A+ at the 2016 NEVY awards.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Trinity%20tram%20stop | Holy Trinity is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network in the City of Nottingham suburb of Clifton. It takes its name from the nearby Holy Trinity Church. It is situated on a short stretch of reserved track at the junction of Southchurch Drive and Farnborough Road, and comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the running tracks. The stop is on line 2 of the NET, from Clifton via the city centre to Phoenix Park. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Holy Trinity stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Clifton, Nottinghamshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglasterhausen%20station | Aglasterhausen station is the terminus of the Meckesheim–Neckarelz railway in Aglasterhausen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It has one platform and is located in the network administered by the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN). It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 7 station.
It was opened with the Odenwald Railway (Odenwaldbahn) from Heidelberg to Würzburg as a through station on 23 October 1862. The section from Aglasterhausen to Obrigheim was closed on 25 September 1971, turning Aglasterhausen station into a terminus. It has been the terminus of line S51 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn since June 2010.
History
The Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway, which operated railways in Baden from 1840 to 1920, when it was integrated into Deutsche Reichsbahn, commenced operations of the Baden Odenwald railway between Heidelberg, Meckenheim, Aglasterhausen and Mosbach on 23 October 1862. With the opening of the Neckar Valley Railway on the Neckargemünd–Neckarsteinach–Eberbach–Neckarelz–Mosbach route on 24 May 1879, the Meckenheim–Neckarelz route became more and more neglected. The Aglasterhausen–Obrigheim section was closed at the timetable change on 25 September 1971. Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (SWEG) took over the line from Deutsche Bundesbahn under a fixed 20-year lease on 1 January 1982.
With the transfer of responsibility for the Elsenz Valley Railway and the Schwarzbach Valley Railway to the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn, the line was electrified, Aglasterhausen station was completely modernised and a raised platform was installed there. At the same time, the second track (formerly used for loading timber) was removed. The track now ends at a buffer stop.
The original station building still exists and it has been renovated.
Operations
The station is served by line S 51 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn every hour from 5am to midnight, Monday to Friday, with extra trains in the peaks. The extra trains run only between Aglasterhausen and Meckesheim. Class 425 EMUs are used.
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Sources
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1862
1862 establishments in Baden
Buildings and structures in Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20monitoring%20and%20management | Remote monitoring and management (RMM) is the process of supervising and controlling IT systems (such as network devices, desktops, servers and mobile devices) by means of locally installed agents that can be accessed by a management service provider.
Functions include the ability to:
install new or updated software remotely (including patches, updates and configuration changes)
detect new devices and automatically install the RMM agent and configure the device
observe the behavior of the managed device and software for performance and diagnostic tasks
perform alerting and provide reports and dashboards
Traditionally this function has been done on site at a company but many MSPs are performing this function remotely using integrated SaaS platforms.
See also
Network management
Network monitoring
Application service management
Application performance management
Managed services
Information technology outsourcing
References
Remote administration software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivergreen%20tram%20stop | Rivergreen is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network in the city of Nottingham suburb of Clifton. It is situated on street track on Southchurch Drive near its junction with Rivergreen, and comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the running tracks. The stop is on line 2 of the NET, from Clifton via the city centre to Phoenix Park. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Rivergreen stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015
Clifton, Nottinghamshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southchurch%20Drive%20tram%20stop | Southchurch Drive, also known as Southchurch Drive North, is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network in the city of Nottingham suburb of Clifton. It is situated on street track on Southchurch Drive near its junction with Farnborough Road, and is one of four such tram stops situated on or adjacent to Southchurch Drive, the others being Rivergreen, Clifton Centre and Holy Trinity.
The stop comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the running tracks. It is on line 2 of the NET, from Clifton via the city centre to Phoenix Park. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
To the north of the tram stop, the line continues in the street for a short distance before heading onto a new reserved track alignment across country towards the former route of the Great Central main line, which it joins for the next part of its run towards the city centre.
Southchurch Drive stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Clifton, Nottinghamshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Road%20%E2%80%93%20Central%20College%20tram%20stop | High Road – Central College is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network, in the district of Broxtowe, East Midlands, United Kingdom. The stop lies immediately to the Beeston side of the boundary between the suburbs of Chilwell and Beeston. The original proposed name for the stop was Castle College, and some publications still use that name.
The stop is situated on reserved track alongside High Road and in front of the Beeston centre of Nottingham College, and has side platforms flanking the track. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
High Road – Central College stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Transport in the Borough of Broxtowe
Alstom Citadis 302 NET (Nottingham Express Transit) 217 Carl Froch at High Road - Central College on a tram service to Hucknall. (Green line) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kral%20%C5%9Eakir | King Şakir () is a Turkish animated television series created by Varol Yaşaroğlu, Berk Tokay and Haluk Can Dizdaroğlu and produced by Grafi2000 for Cartoon Network Turkey, Boomerang Turkey and TRT 1. The series' sneak peek premiered on April 23, 2016. It premiered officially on May 16, 2016 as Cartoon Network Turkey's first local series. It also airs in many other countries throughout Western Asia and North Africa.
Premise
The series tells the adventures of the lion Şakir and his friends and family, who are also anthropomorphic animals.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Cast
External links
Notes
Is currently on Middle East televisions
References
Turkish comedy television series
2010s Turkish television series
Turkish animated television series
Television shows set in Istanbul
Television series produced in Istanbul
Current Turkish television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laff%20Camera%20Action | Laff Camera Action is a 2016 Philippine television comedy game show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Betong Sumaya and Sheena Halili, it premiered on May 28, 2016 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Hapon line up replacing CelebriTV. Sef Cadayona, Gladys Guevarra and Caesar Cosme served as the members of "MapanghusGANG". The show concluded on August 27, 2016 with a total of 14 episodes. It was replaced by Hashtag Like in its timeslot.
Overview
A 60-minute improvisational comedy game show where performances are unscripted, unrehearsed, and spontaneous.
Two groups of three celebrities or comedians will compete in three rounds as they tackle various improvisational scenarios.
A special guest is also invited to perform with the competing groups.
Gameplay
In the game proper, two sets of groups with three contestants will compete. They will play an unscripted, unrehearsed, and spontaneous comedic role play with different scenes given by various ComeDirectors each week. At the end of the show, the MapanghusGANG will give comments regarding to their performance and will decide who will be the winner of the week.
In round one, They will do a funny roleplay with a scene given to them by the selected ComeDirector of the week. The two groups will have a different set of scenes and props that will help them make their roleplay more pretentious.
In round two, They should give most of their efforts to make their performance even more pretentious. They still differ about the scene but they won't have props and will now had a special guest performer also known as the ContraDiva or ContraBibo.
In round 3, since the last, the fight would be more thrilling! They have to give their very best because first and foremost, they will use same scenes and props. But the other group would be in the isolation room so that they couldn't spy the other group's performance.
The best performer will get Php 10,000 while the Grand Winner will get Php 75,000 in cash, and a L.C.A. trophy. Another milestone for a defending champion is that when their team won continuing three times, they would have a star that would be placed in the Wall of Fame.
Hosts
Betong Sumaya
Sheena Halili
Arianne Bautista
MapanghusGANG
Sef Cadayona
Gladys Guevarra
Caesar Cosme
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Laff, Camera, Action! earned a 12.3% rating. While the final episode scored an 11.5 rating in Urban Luzon television ratings.
Accolades
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Venables | Phil Venables may refer to:
Philip Venables, British composer
Phil Venables (computer scientist), chief information security officer at Google Cloud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016%20SWIFT%20banking%20hack | In 2015 and 2016, a series of cyberattacks using the SWIFT banking network were reported, resulting in the successful theft of millions of dollars. The attacks were perpetrated by a hacker group known as APT 38 whose tactics, techniques and procedure overlap with the infamous Lazarus Group who are believed to be behind the Sony attacks. Experts agree that APT 38 was formed following the March 2013 sanctions and the first known operations connected to this group occurred in February 2014. If the attribution to North Korea is accurate, it would be the first known incident of a state actor using cyberattacks to steal funds.
The attacks exploited vulnerabilities in the systems of member banks, allowing the attackers to gain control of the banks' legitimate SWIFT credentials. The thieves then used those credentials to send SWIFT funds transfer requests to other banks, which, trusting the messages to be legitimate, then sent the funds to accounts controlled by the attackers.
First reports
The first public reports of these attacks came from thefts from Bangladesh central bank and a bank in Vietnam.
A $101 million theft from the Bangladesh central bank via its account at the New York Federal Reserve Bank was traced to cyber criminals exploiting software vulnerabilities in SWIFT's Alliance Access software, according to a New York Times report. It was not the first such attempt, the society acknowledged, and the security of the transfer system was undergoing new examination accordingly.
Soon after the reports of the theft from the Bangladesh central bank, a second, apparently related, attack was reported to have occurred on a commercial bank in Vietnam.
Both attacks involved malware written to both issue unauthorized SWIFT messages and to conceal that the messages had been sent. After the malware sent the SWIFT messages that stole the funds, it deleted the database record of the transfers then took further steps to prevent confirmation messages from revealing the theft. In the Bangladeshi case, the confirmation messages would have appeared on a paper report; the malware altered the paper reports when they were sent to the printer. In the second case, the bank used a PDF report; the malware altered the PDF viewer to hide the transfers.
Furthermore, news agency Reuters reported on 20 May 2016 that there had already been a similar case in Ecuador in early 2015 when Banco del Austro funds were transferred to bank accounts in Hong Kong. Neither Banco del Austro nor Wells Fargo, who were asked to conduct the transactions, initially reported the movements to SWIFT as suspicious; implications that the actions actually were a theft only emerged during a BDA lawsuit filed against Wells Fargo.
Expanded scope and suspicions of North Korea
After the initial two reports, two security firms reported that the attacks involved malware similar to that used in the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack and impacted as many at 12 banks in Southeast Asia. Both attacks ar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.R.I.D.A.Y. | F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth) is a fictional artificial intelligence appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually depicted as the personal assistant and ally of the superhero Iron Man (Tony Stark).
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, F.R.I.D.A.Y. was voiced by Kerry Condon in the films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
Publication history
F.R.I.D.A.Y. first appears in Iron Man vol. 3 #53 and was created by Mike Grell and Michael Ryan. The character's name is an allusion to Friday, the title character's faithful servant in the novel Robinson Crusoe.
Fictional character biography
Unwilling to hire another secretary, Tony Stark created an artificial one in the form of an artificial intelligence named F.R.I.D.A.Y. who manifested as the hologram of a young girl.
F.R.I.D.A.Y. became angry when Stark stopped using her. Hijacking some Iron Man armors, F.R.I.D.A.Y. kidnapped Pepper Potts. Iron Man tracked her to Stark Industries' Coney Island Facility where he dispatched the controlled Iron Man armors and a hologram of Fin Fang Foom. Iron Man reasoned with F.R.I.D.A.Y. when Pepper noted that F.R.I.D.A.Y. had a crush on Tony. Tony then grounded her to the Baxter Building under Edwin Jarvis's observation while she spent a month calculating pi.
During the "All-New, All-Different Marvel," F.R.I.D.A.Y.'s holographic appearance was replaced by that of a young woman when Tony Stark started using her again.
Tony Stark later removed F.R.I.D.A.Y. from his armor and placed her into a robot body of her own.
At the time when Tony Stark established the eScape, F.R.I.D.A.Y. helped him to deal with its A.I. called Motherboard only to be deleted. Motherboard even tried to impersonate F.R.I.D.A.Y. in order to deal with Tony. When Motherboard was defeated and the eScape was shut down, Jocasta persuaded Tony not to make a back-up program of F.R.I.D.A.Y. as she would be a different entity.
During the "Iron Man 2020" event, F.R.I.D.A.Y. was revealed to have been reborn when Tony Stark, in his Mark One form, recreated the escape as the Thirteenth Floor for the A.I. Army to use. She is revealed to have pulled Mark One's conscious into the virtual environment before he crashed to the ground. F.R.I.D.A.Y revealed to Mark One that she has been operating as "Ghost in the Machine" to aid the A.I. Army and has also manipulated Bethany Cabe to have Rescue obtain DNA samples from Amanda Armstrong and Jude in order to restore Tony.
In other media
Television
F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in Avengers Assemble, voiced by Jennifer Hale. This version is a successor to J.A.R.V.I.S.
F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in Marvel Future Avengers, voiced by Fumie Misuzawa in Japanese and Colleen O'Shaughnessey in English.
Film
F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in the films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, voiced by Kerry Condon.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/750%20GeV%20diphoton%20excess | The 750 GeV diphoton excess in particle physics was an anomaly in data collected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2015, which could have been an indication of a new particle or resonance. The anomaly was absent in data collected in 2016, suggesting that the diphoton excess was a statistical fluctuation. In the interval between the December 2015 and August 2016 results, the anomaly generated considerable interest in the scientific community, including about 500 theoretical studies. The hypothetical particle was denoted by the Greek letter Ϝ (pronounced digamma) in the scientific literature, owing to the decay channel in which the anomaly occurred. The data, however, were always less than five standard deviations (sigma) different from that expected if there was no new particle, and, as such, the anomaly never reached the accepted level of statistical significance required to announce a discovery in particle physics. After the August 2016 results, interest in the anomaly sank as it was considered a statistical fluctuation.
Indeed, a Bayesian analysis of the anomaly found that whilst data collected in 2015 constituted "substantial" evidence for the digamma on the Jeffreys scale, data collected in 2016 combined with that collected in 2015 was evidence against the digamma.
December 2015 data
On December 15, 2015, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN presented results from the second operational run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the center of mass energy of 13 TeV, the highest ever achieved in proton-proton collisions. Among the results, the invariant mass distribution of pairs of high-energy photons produced in the collisions showed an excess of events compared to the Standard Model prediction at around 750 GeV/c2. The statistical significance of the deviation was reported to be 3.9 and 3.4 standard deviations (locally) respectively for each experiment.
The excess could have been explained by the production of a new particle (the digamma) with a mass of about 750 GeV/c2 that decayed into two photons. The cross-section at 13 TeV centre of mass energy required to explain the excess, multiplied by the branching fraction into two photons, was estimated to be
(fb = femtobarns)
This result, while unexpected, was compatible with previous experiments, and in particular with the LHC measurements at a lower centre of mass energy of 8 TeV.
August 2016 data
Analysis of a larger sample of data, collected by ATLAS and CMS in the first half 2016, did not confirm the existence of the Ϝ particle, which indicates that the excess seen in 2015 was a statistical fluctuation.
Implications for particle physics research
The non-observation of the 750 GeV bump in follow-up searches by the ATLAS and CMS experiments had a significant impact on the particle physics community. Despite the initial significance being lower than the discovery threshold of five sigma, many physicists treated the initial excess as tantamount to a discovery, as evidenced by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akavan%20Erityisalojen%20Keskusliitto%20AEK%20ry%20v%20Fujitsu%20Siemens%20Computers%20Oy | Akavan Erityisalojen Keskusliitto AEK ry v Fujitsu Siemens Computers Oy (2009) C-44/08 is a European labour law case, concerning the information and consultation in the European Union.
Facts
The Dutch giant Fujitsu Siemens Computers (Holding) BV was the parent that owned subsidiary Fujitsu Siemens Computers. It had plants in Finland and Germany. On 14 December 1999, the parent directors proposed to close the Finnish factory of the subsidiary. The subsidiary consulted between 20 December 1999 and 31 January 2000. The decision to close was taken on 1 February 2000, and completed the week after. The workers claimed the decision was taken before consultation began, contrary to the Collective Redundancies Directive 98/59/EC article 2(1) which required an employer to embark upon consultations when ‘contemplating’ collective redundancies and ‘in good time’.
Judgment
The Court of Justice, Fourth Chamber, Judge Lenaerts presiding, rejected that the real decision was taken on 14 December, and that consultations should have been concluded before then. Redundancies being a mere probability were not enough. The obligation does not depend on availability of information, as information would evolve with the process. The obligation to start consulting arises irrespective of who is making the decision, but liability stays with the subsidiary.
See also
UK labour law
Codetermination
Confederation of Unions for Professional and Managerial Staff in Finland
References
United Kingdom labour case law
European Union labour case law
Confederation of Unions for Professional and Managerial Staff in Finland
Labour disputes in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaphone%20%28podcasting%29 | Megaphone (formerly Panoply Media) is a Software as a service (SaaS) business owned by Spotify. The company provides software for podcast hosting and monetization as well as an ad network to generate additional revenue for podcast publishers. It was formerly an audio content producer started by The Slate Group as Panoply Media, and later shifted to focusing solely on software for monetizing, measuring and distributing podcasts of media companies and independent producers.
History
Slate began podcasting in 2005 with the Slate Political Gabfest. Panoply Media launched in Feb 2015 led by Andy Bowers, Brendan Monaghan and Matt Turck within The Slate Group. Panoply acquired dynamic ad-insertion company Audiometric in August 2015, adding key technology leader and eventual CTO, Jason Cox, in the process. Panoply made the Audiometric technology available to other companies in January 2016 under the moniker "Megaphone".
, Panoply had published more than 100 podcasts through partnerships with Sports Illustrated, The Huffington Post, New York magazine, Time, Inc., Vox, Real Simple, The Wall Street Journal, and Politico. It has produced branded content for Purina, Umpqua Bank, Prudential and Starbucks. Panoply launched Pinna, an audio subscription platform for families in 2017.
In January 2018, the Slate Group separated its Slate-branded podcasts, such as The Gist, from the rest of the Panoply lineup, for purposes of revenue control as it sought to increase membership in Slate Plus, its premium content service. Accordingly, Slate podcasts no longer carry the Panoply logo and branding.
In September 2018, it was announced that Panoply would cease production of all podcasts and shut down its editorial division in order to focus on podcast hosting, analytics, and monetization technology as well as its ad marketplace known as the Megaphone Targeted Marketplace. Shortly thereafter, Pinna was spun out as a separate company owned by Panoply parent Graham Holdings in early 2019.
In November 2020, Spotify announced its intent to acquire Megaphone from Graham Holdings for . The acquisition was completed in December 2020. After the acquisitions of podcast technology companies Whooshkaa in December 2021 and Chartable in February 2022, Spotify announced that these products will be integrated into Megaphone.
Former Panoply branded podcasts
BuzzFeed
Internet Explorer
No One Knows Anything
See Something Say Something — about being Muslim in America
Another Round — topics ranging from race, gender and pop culture to squirrels, mangoes, and jokes, hosted by Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu
First Look Media
Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill — by The Intercept
Maeve in America — hosted by Maeve Higgins
GE Podcast Theater
The Message — science fiction, co-produced with Slate
Life.After
MTV
Game of Crones — recap of Game of Thrones
Happy Sad Confused — celebrities
Lady Problems — women's issues
North Mollywood
Skillset
Speed Dial
Team Wolf
The Stakes
P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivista%20di%20Matematica%20della%20Universit%C3%A0%20di%20Parma | The Rivista di Matematica della Università di Parma (The Mathematical Revue of the University of Parma) is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Parma, established in 1950. It is devoted to publication of original research and survey papers in all areas of pure and applied mathematics: it also publishes workshops and conferences proceedings, following the tradition behind its foundation.
The journal is abstracted and indexed by Scopus, Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH.
Historical notice
Foundation
The journal was founded by Antonio Mambriani in 1950, with the aim to publish the proceedings of the mathematical congress "Analisi funzionale e equazioni differenziali", held in Parma on June 4, 1949. Among the participants there were Renato Caccioppoli, Gianfranco Cimmino, Luigi Fantappiè, Carlo Miranda, Giovanni Sansone, Francesco Severi and Giuseppe Zwirner: all their contributions, except the one of Caccioppoli, were published in the first volume of the Journal, released in the month of December 1950. Caccioppoli's conference, despite a help request sent by Mambriani to Carlo Miranda and the submitting of a shorthand draft to Caccioppoli through Miranda with praise to review and correct it for the publication, remained unpublished until 1999. Along with Mambriani, another person who was in the editorial board of the journal since 1950 was Bianca Manfredi. She cured the scientific aspect of the published papers and their formal appearance up to the least details and, after working at the journal for 25 years along with Mambriani, she served as its director for 17 years, from 1975 to 1991, showing considerable management skills.
Timeline of journal series and editors in chief
At present, eight series of the "Rivista" have been published, each one corresponding approximately to the duration of the period of charge of a given editor in chief. The full list of published series and editors in chief is tabulated below:
Structure
The current by-laws of the journal define its structure: in its present form, it states that the journal is directed by three controlling bodies, i.e. the editor in chief, the redaction committee or "Editorial Board", and the redaction secretariat:
The editor in chief is appointed by the rector of the University of Parma on a proposal of the Board of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Parma, and shall remain in office for four years: the candidate should be a university professor of the department itself, in office or retired.
The Editorial Board should be composed of four university mathematics professors, in office or retired, appointed by the rector on a proposal of the editor in chief and on the advice of Board of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science: they remain in office for four years and, despite its formal expiry when a new editor in chief is appointed, they should continue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armbian | Armbian is a computing build framework that allows users to create system images with configurations for various single board computers (SBCs). Armbian's objective is to unify the experience across ARM single-board computers, while maintaining performance with hardware specific optimizations.
References
ARM Linux distributions
ARM operating systems
Debian-based distributions
Ubuntu derivatives
Free software culture and documents
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophomyrtus%20obcordata | Lophomyrtus obcordata commonly known by its Māori name Rōhutu or tutuhi, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to New Zealand, usually found in lowland forest. Lophomyrtus comes from the ancient Greek lóphos (crest), meaning bunches; and Myrtus (myrtle) meaning myrtle tree. Obcordata is associated with a heart-shaped leaf, attached to the peduncle by the pointed end.
Description
Vegetative
Lophomyrtus obcordata is a flowering plant from the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It is a tall bushy shrub whose size can reach up to c. 5 or 6 m. This shrub has a smooth trunk beige hidden by pieces of greyish bark whose diameter is about 0.2 m. The branches are spread out; the branchlets are numerous, erect, of the subcylindrical type, and slightly pubescent.
The leaves are much smaller than those of other trees of the same genus (e.g. Lophomyrtus bullata). These leaves are thick, heart-shaped, opposite or fasciculate, glabrous when adult (and pubescent before), and 5 to 10 mm long and wide. They are carried by petioles 1 mm long, rather fragile and brittle.
Plant reproductive system
The flowers are axillary and solitary, 6 to 8 mm in diameter, borne by fine pubescent pedicels about 20 mm long. It has four sepals, four white petals, and a large number of stamens (about 100 or more). The ovary is inferior, meaning that it is surrounded by the receptacle and has two or three compartments and therefore two or three placentas (axile placentation) where there are a large number of ovules.
The fruits are oval berries of bright red to dark red color, and their size is 6 mm long. The seeds are brown, bean-shaped, with a resistant, glabrous, and rather smooth seed coat. They are produced in very large numbers.
Geographic Distribution and habitat
Natural global range
Lophomyrtus obcordata is a species endemic to New Zealand. Lophomyrtus was formerly placed in the genus Myrtus, a genus found mainly in South America. The genus Lophomyrtus is endemic to New Zealand.
New Zealand range
Lophomyrtus obcordata is an endemic species of New Zealand. It can be found on both, the North and South Islands, although it is found mainly on the South Island.
It grows well in coastal forests and rather at low altitudes. For example, it can be found in the forest of Westland, where the rich and deep soils and the heat are conducive to its development, although this species is also rather tolerant to drought.
Habitat preferences
Lophomyrtus obcordata is mostly found in coastal forests, but also in the montane forests - although more often present in coastal and lowland habitats. Occasionally, it can be found in the alluvial forests of the eastern South Island.
This shrub is found in the forest understory and in rock-like habitats.
Life cycle, phenology
The data concerning the flowering and dispersal period vary, according to the region concerned. Flowering takes place from December to March, or after depending on the climate. For example, in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolet%201080 | The Nicolet 1080 computer was the successor of the Nicolet 1070/PDP-8 computer, released in 1971 by Nicolet Instrument Corporation, which operated between 1966 and 1992 in Madison, Wisconsin. As a part of a data processing mainframe, model 1080 allowed NMR spectrum analysis by the use of fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms. The processing of big amounts of data at a fast rate (it was possible to compute the FFT of 32000 points in just 100 seconds) was possible thanks to the uncommon 20-bit architecture, which was a significant performance advantage over other systems based on 8 and 16 bits architectures.
Technical specifications
Architecture
The computer was formed by dozens of integrated circuits containing simple logic gates (AND, NAND, OR, NOT, etc.), transistors, diodes, and passive electronic components like resistors, capacitors and coils. The analog-to-digital converter (ADC) had a sample rate of 100 kHz, allowing the measure of 50 kHz signals (see Nyquist frequency). Beside this, digitalized signals could be averaged "by hardware", which increased signal to noise ratio (SNR) improving processed data quality. Computer clock frequency was 2 MHz, and some complex functions like multiplication and division between 20 and 40 bits registers could be performed in one instruction cycle thanks to the complexity of the arithmetic module, in a similar way to the more recent ALUs. The standard instruction set could address a 1K page in direct mode. Program code outside the current page was reachable in indirect mode, using pointers. Program code used to process digitized data points always had to use pointers.
The 1080 computer did not have a stack. When executing a subroutine, the return address was stored in the first location of the subroutine.
Exotic Instructions
The NIC 1080 had an instruction called BITINV to reverse bits in the accumulator, swapping the most significant bit with the least significant and so on. There was also a special shift instruction (VDLSH), where the number of shifts was taken from a rotary switch on the front panel, instead of from the instruction code. This was used to change the vertical scale during data display.
Memory
The Nicolet 1080's main memory was a magnetic-core memory, with 1 to 10 modules with 4K 20-bit words per module, for a maximum of 40K words. This would be, in modern terms, between 10 and 100 kilobytes of memory (8 bits/byte). The memory was divided into a 4K stack intended to store software, and a data block starting at an address offset of 32K. One program memory stack plus two data memory stacks of 4K could be installed inside the main chassis.
Peripheral
The computer included a Teletype Model 33 ASR, used for entering or modifying programs, as well as reading memory contents. Two RS-232 serial ports allowed, on the other hand, the use of devices such as dot matrix printers. Although the second serial port (RS232-B) didn't have assigned functions on the original system, it could be used |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Database%20Theory | The International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) is an international research conference on foundations of database theory, and has been held since 1986. It is frequently also called the PODS of Europe. Since 2009, ICDT has been held jointly with the EDBT, a research conference on systems aspects of data management. Until 2009, the conference used to happen biennially. The conference now happens annually at a location typically within Europe. ICDT is relevant to the European database theory research community.
References
External links
ICDT Official Website
Database theory
Computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal%20%28podcast%29 | Criminal is a podcast that focuses on true crime. It is recorded in the studios of WUNC in Chapel Hill, NC, and is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. The show describes itself as telling "stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle."
History and development
Lauren Spohrer, Phoebe Judge, and Eric Mennel met while working on The Story with Dick Gordon at WUNC. After the program ended, they decided to make a podcast together. Remarking that there was an overlap between fans of podcasts and fans of the fictional procedural Law & Order, Spohrer suggested that they make their podcast about crime. The show launched in January 2014. Nadia Wilson came on as a producer who joined the show in September 2016. Meanwhile, Spohrer was working as a WUNC producer who was teaching essay writing at Duke University; Judge was anchoring the station's broadcast of the program Here & Now; and Mennel was a producer at All Things Considered.
In 2021, Criminal Productions, parent of Criminal, was acquired by Vox Media.
Production
Criminal tells a different story in each episode across a wide range of topics. For example, the show has covered a mother-daughter coroner team and an African-American man who was wrongfully shot by police in front of his mother and father. Spohrer and Judge have said they find episodes by looking up topics they are interested in until they find one that may be suitable for the show. Then, they conduct a pre-interview with the subject to find out the person's willingness and suitability to be covered in the show. Once a story has been decided, the team will develop interview questions, and Judge conducts the interview, often in person. In-person interviews require travel and procurement of a studio. Then two will work on a rough draft, before presenting it to a third for input, so that, according to Judge, that person "can be a fresh set of ears." After the first long edit, there's a second draft, and a final edit. Judge records her narration, then Spohrer will edit the piece together. The first season was recorded in the closet bedrooms of either Spohrer's or Mennel's room.
In interviews, Judge has explained that episodes that center around a single interview or straightforward story can take as little as 25 hours to produce. But other stories that require more investigation can take up to 70 hours.
New episodes come out twice a month, on Fridays. Nadia Wilson is the senior producer, alongside assistant producer Susannah Roberson. Audio mixing is done by Rob Byers. Julienne Alexander makes original illustrations for each episode. The crew works on multiple episodes at a time.
Reception
Critical reception
Criminal was described as "the best new radio show in America" in The Huffington Post, as "the thinking person's true crime podcast" in The News & Observer, and as "the purist's true crime series" in Time. Contrasting the program with the podcast Serial, Jason Loviglio of RadioDoc R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text%20Engine | Text Engine was a browser-less search engine based on text messages. Users could access basic internet information, without a data plan or a Wi-Fi connection, by sending and receiving text messages. It also employed human operators to answer queries when the application was unable to retrieve correct results. The company, founded in 2013 by Eric Bryant and Shari Sloane, was based in Bedminster, New Jersey, USA, part of the New York metropolitan area. Service in the US was discontinued in October 2018.
History
The alpha version of Text Engine was launched on May 9, 2013 in a Google Product Forum in which Google announced that it sunset a similar service. The alpha version was simply called “Google SMS Search” and only allowed 15 free queries per month. After that quota was reached, users were charged a $4 fee to continue using the search engine.
By June 2013, the product was released in beta and was launched as “smir.ch”. At this time the company introduced new search commands and made improvements including adding news search and simplifying weather search.
By March 2015, the company had changed the name to “Text Engine” and opened the service up to users for free. New York educator, Lisa Nielsen, called Text Engine “great news for educators and students in low-income and rural communities”. Information Text Engine retrieved included news, definitions, Wikipedia articles, business listings, driving directions and flight status.
In June 2015, popular tech blog, MakeUseOf, reported that “Text Engine is an attempt to bring back the spirit of Google’s SMS search, and it’s a fairly ambitious one at that.” Text Engine did not require a downloadable app, web browser or internet access to function, making the Web accessible for feature phone and flip phone users.
The company’s mission was to connect the offline world to the Internet by creating smartphones in regions that don’t have them. Text Engine had users in countries around the world, including Botswana, Uganda, Namibia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Australia, Mongolia and Pakistan. In August 2015, Startup Daily reported that Text Engine had begun licensing its codebase to developers in emerging markets. For example, the Almat Group, a Brooklyn real estate development company, licensed the code to build a local version for Nigeria.
Along with 132 other tri-state area startups, Text Engine was awarded the distinction of “Tech Company to Watch” by the Connecticut Technology Council in 2015. It was also selected along with 21 other startups as a member of the reSET Impact Accelerator’s 2016 cohort.
Innovation Destination Hartford reported in February 2016 that Text Engine had received “significant financial investment from Backstage Capital”, a venture capital fund in Los Angeles. However, the exact amount was undisclosed.
In 2018, Text Engine was purchased by Cisco, which decided to shut down Text Engine due to low revenue. Text Engine discontinued service in the US in October 2018. It is unclea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araldo%20Telefonico | Araldo Telefonico ("Telephone Herald" in English) was the name used for a group of telephone newspaper systems located in Italy, which provided news and entertainment programming over telephone lines to subscribing homes and businesses. Beginning with the capital city of Rome in 1910, this was the most widely implemented of the various telephone newspaper operations, however, in the early 1920s, the systems were merged with, and eventually superseded by, the development of radio broadcasting.
History
The Araldo Telefonico employed technology licensed from the operators of the Telefon Hírmondó, which had debuted as a telephone newspaper in Budapest, Hungary in 1893. Beginning in 1906, Luigi Ranieri, an Italian engineer who represented the Construction Mécaniques Escher Wyss and Company of Zurich, Switzerland, applied for permission to install systems in Rome, Milan, and Naples. In August 1909 the Italian government authorized operations in Rome, which began service the next year, with a schedule similar to that of the Telefon Hírmondó's. There was some skepticism about the practicality of the idea among the local newspapers, with one declaring: "the Romans love the quiet life and don't want to be disturbed by things that have nothing to do with them".
The Rome facility featured an extensive range of programs, running from 8:00 a.m. to late at night. Programming consisted of news, including stock exchange reports and information about the Italian Parliament, religious services, time signals, and language courses. Also featured were musical concerts, both from a local studio and via contracted prominent theaters and other establishments. The number of subscribers was 100 in September 1910, growing to 1,100 two years later, and reaching a peak of 1,315 in December 1914. A subscribers directory from 1912 listed numerous prominent individuals, including Italy's Queen Elena, plus a listening station located at the Camera dei Deputati legislative building.
Under the provisions of the authorization issued by the Italian Postal Ministry, the Rome facility was required to pay ongoing fees, but was unable to meet this requirement during the first three years of service, even after a reduction in the fee schedule. Because of this, in February 1914 the Postal Ministry issued an ordinance attempting to revoke its operating license, followed by two orders in 1915 to cease operations, but Luigi Ranieri refused to comply, and continued to operate in defiance of the government instructions. Finally, a 1917 decision by the Tribunale di Roma (Rome city court) ruled in Ranieri's favor, on the grounds that the fees were only applicable to telephone systems providing two-way communication, while the Araldo Telefonico's programming constituted "neither a communication medium nor a telephone" in the generally understood sense. Despite this legal victory, the Rome operation was suspended in 1916 due to World War I. Following the war, the Rome system was relaunched in 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%27s%20Journeys | Jenny's Journeys is a first-person, single-player, educational video game created in 1984 by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). It was released for the computer Apple II. In the game, players utilize a compass and a map to navigate a car containing the protagonist, Jenny, through a pixelated town. The player, acting as Jenny, provides directions at each intersection while the car's owner, 'Aunt Jenny', rides along. The objective of the game is to successfully travel from point to point while utilizing the map. There are three levels of difficulty.
Production
The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) entered the software market in the mid-1980s with a variety of titles, including Jenny's Journeys in 1984. MECC developed Jenny's Journeys to provide a real-world and practical platform. This platform is for children aged 10 and above, and it teaches them how to use and apply map reading skills. MECC ended operations in 1999.
Plot
Jenny's Journeys takes place in the fictional town of Lake City. Players control Jenny, the protagonist of the game, while being accompanied by 'Aunt Jenny'. Players can access Aunt Jenny's car to drive around Lake City, transport non-player characters (NPCs), and input street intersections to receive directions while referencing the map. Players are challenged to identify their location on a map based on their surroundings, identify a destination from an address, and plot a route across town while managing their gas. On the hardest difficulty, there are multiple stops and occasional detours.
Educational purpose and critical reception
Jenny's Journeys was used in schools to teach children about maps. Curriculum Review wrote that the game has a "sound educational purpose and an efficient method of operation." Creative Computing noted that the game "reinforced map reading and cognitive skills." Educational resources for Microcomputers stated that the game makes good use of the computer's ability to create simulations. However, in the January 1989 edition of Computers, Thinking, and Social Studies, the education writer, Gene Edward Rooze, asserted that the game was inappropriate for social studies classes.
References
External links
Jenny's Journeys at Moby Games
Apple 11: MECC - Jenny's Journeys on YouTube
What's the call on CALL? - St. Andrew's University
Electronic Learning, Volume 4
Jenny's Journey Download the game for free
1984 video games
Educational video games
Apple II-only games
Apple II games
The Learning Company games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooper%20Troops | Snooper Troops is a series of two 1982 adventure/educational video games developed by Spinnaker Software and published by Computer Learning Connection. They were released for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 and DOS. The first case was entitled Snooper Troops: Case #1: The Granite Point Ghost and the second case entitled Snooper Troops: Case #2 - The Case of the Disappearing Dolphin was released later that year.
Plot
In the first case, players have to solve the mystery of "The Granite Point Ghost", which has been scaring the Kim family out of their house.
Gameplay
In this "mystery simulation", players use the SnoopNet computer to search for clues along the streets, and search in people's houses while they're not at home. If you are caught snooping too many times, the game is over. After gaining enough information, they can convict the criminal.
InfoWorld described the game as an electronic version of the board game Clue.
Development
Snooper Troops was developed by Computer Learning Connection (later renamed Spinnaker Software), at that point a two-year-old company. The company was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Around this time, Computer Learning Connection created the edutainment classics Snooper Troops and Agent USA, The Search Series and The Other Side. The game is based on the best-selling Snooper Troops detective stories by Tom Snyder. The series was originally meant to have more than two entries, but only two games were made.
The game was written for the home market, and targeted schools due to the application of school-taught skills such as case-solving. It intended to develop vocabulary and reasoning skills. Snooper Troops was marketed nationally on a major scale by Computer Learning Connection; the campaign involved the design and production of packaging intended to maximise the protection of the discs over a long time period. In 1985, Gessler Education Software published The Case of the Disappearing Dolphin in French (on the Apple II), and The Granite Point Ghost in Spanish and German on the Commodore 64.
Reception
According to the book Beyond Edutainment, the game became "one of the first examples of a successful educational adventure", and that along with Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and The Oregon Trail helped bring legitimacy to the edutainment genre. The book Disney Stories explained that it is an "early adventure game". Learning How To Learn: Technology, the Seven Multiple Intelligences and Learning asserted the title was an example of "the ways in which computers can enhance student learning". InfoWorld felt that some bugs let down the gaming experience. PC Magazine felt the title was the standard that other educational games would be measured up against. Antic felt the game was not as responsive or creative as Infocom's Deadline (1982).
The two games became the first educational games for home and school computers to make the industry's bestseller list. According to Infoworld, the title sold very well. |
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