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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc%20Piron | Luc Piron (born 5 January 1952 Willebroek, Belgium) is a Belgian artist. He is a painter and printmaker. He is also a photographer and experiments with the possibilities of computer art.
Art school
Luc Piron studied art at the Mechelen Royal Academy of Fine Arts and at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen). While in art school, the young artist received the “Prijs Singer-Frieden voor monumentale schilderkunst” in 1970 and the “prijs Pro Civitate Kleur, lijn, volume” in 1971.
Early recognition in the 1970s
Luc Piron had his first important group exhibition – with three other artists – in 1974 in the Provinciaal Centrum Arenberg, in Antwerp (= Antwerpen), Belgium. Again in 1974, the well-known poet Herman De Coninck chose him to illustrate a bibliophile book of poems entitled Puur Natuur (Pure Nature). In 1975, the young artist received the “state prize” for engraving – a price awarded to fine artists every three years. In the same year, Piron took part in the 3rd Triennale of the Lalit Kaba Akademi (National Academy of Arts) in New Delhi, India.
The following year Piron had a solo exhibition in the renowned Lens Fine Art Gallery in Antwerp.
In 1977, Piron was invited to take part in an exhibition called Rubens Now at the ICC, the International Cultural Center, in Antwerp. “The Internationaal Cultureel Centrum (ICC) in Antwerp is the first official institution for contemporary art in Flanders. In the 1970s and the early 1980s it contributed decisively to the reception of Belgian and international avant-garde art,” according to a statement of the other major art museum in Antwerp, the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp or M HKA.
A year later he cooperated with the composer and sound artist Baudouin Oosterlynck in a performance and environment, the Bondage Room.
The Bondage Room performance was an advanced intervention, by Luc Piron and Baudouin Oosterlynck, that reflected his thirst for radical experimentation, but it also reflected the spirit of the times.
Middle and late period
In 1980 Piron had several exhibitions, including one exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art known as the Centraal Museum in Utrecht (The Netherlands). He was featured in several publications, including a radio broadcast. The next year, he exhibited in the gallery Pieter Celie.
In addition to many exhibitions in Belgium and The Netherlands, Luc Piron exhibited in such countries as Spain, Germany, Italy, and India. Thus, he had an exhibition in Bilbao (Spain) in 1982. In the same year, his work was discussed in the book Kunstbeeld in Vlaanderen vandaag – “100 Vlaamse kunstenaars.”
There were other notable exhibitions, such as the one discussed in 1986 by Willem Elias in the journal VUB Nieuw Tijdschrift.
In 1992, his exhibition “Initialen vaan een verloren landschap” took place in the renowned Lens Fine Art Gallery in Antwerp. In that year, Piron was also invited to take part in the Euregionale int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Swap%20%282016%20film%29 | The Swap is a 2016 American television teen film that premiered on Disney Channel as a part of the network's annual "Monstober" event on October 7, 2016. The film is based on the young adult novel of the same name written by Megan Shull and is written by Charlie Shahnaian and Shari Simpson and directed by Jay Karas. The movie stars Peyton List and Jacob Bertrand.
Plot
High school sophomores Jack Malloy and Ellie O'Brien are going through hard times. Jack's mother has recently died, leaving him with his roughhousing older brothers and cold seemingly heartless dad, who puts pressure on his sons to be macho men, with all fighting and no crying. Ellie's own dad has walked out on her and her "helicopter" mom, and her best friend since kindergarten, Sassy, has started ignoring her in favor of the more feminine yet nastier new girl, Aspen. Jack and Ellie have big sports events coming up over the weekend. Jack is trying out for the varsity hockey team but has to deal with the bullying Porter, who has always lost the last spot on varsity to one of Jack's brothers. Ellie's rhythmic gymnastics team has to win big at the upcoming tournament, or budgets cuts at school will have it demoted from "team" to "club".
On Friday, they both end up in the nurse's office, after Jack is hurt in a scuffle with Porter, and Ellie starts crying after hearing Aspen say mean things about her to Sassy behind her back. They start fighting, with Ellie saying boys have it better than girls by not having to deal with friend drama, but Jack says girls have it easier because they can be as emotional as they want. The tired nurse gets them to continue their fighting via text, and they text each other on how they wished they had each other's lives. Suddenly, magic lightning strikes and knocks them out, and when they get up, they realize that they have swapped bodies. Ellie remembers something her mom said about how "investing too much emotional energy into an object gives it power over you." In this case, their respective cell phones, which they cherished because each had once belonged to their now absent parent, had the power to grant their texted wish. After failing to swap back, they decide to look for a book belonging to Ellie's mom to reverse the spell. However, they find out their time is limited since Ellie's dad will be canceling their family phone plan, starting on Sunday.
Cast
Ratings
During its premiere in the 8:00 PM time slot, The Swap attracted a total of 2.64 million viewers with a 0.48 rating for people aged 18–49.
See also
List of films about ice hockey
References
External links
2016 television films
2016 films
2010s teen comedy films
American teen comedy films
Body swapping in films
Disney Channel Original Movie films
Films about wish fulfillment
Films based on American novels
Films based on young adult literature
Films shot in Toronto
American ice hockey films
Television shows based on American novels
Films directed by Jay Karas
2010s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Jorel%27s%20Brother%20episodes | Jorel's Brother () is a Brazilian animated television series created by Juliano Enrico and produced by Copa Studio for Cartoon Network Brazil since 2012. The series debuted on September 22, 2014, and is notable for being the first animated production exclusively produced by Cartoon Network Latin America (although their first very original production was the short series Santo vs The Clones), in which was confirmed that the show premiere in the region on February 2, 2015.
On December 8, 2015, it was announced that Jorel's Brother had been renewed for a second season. On May 25, 2017, the series was renewed for a third season.
Series overview
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Episodes
Season 1 (2014-15)
Season 2 (2016-17)
Shorts (2017)
References
Lists of Brazilian television series episodes
Lists of animated television series episodes
Lists of children's television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi%20Masuda%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | is a Japanese computer scientist. He was born in Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1939.
Masuda graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1963, and received his MS degree in 1956 there. From 1956 to 1977, he worked at Hitachi's Central Research Center and then Systems Laboratory, studying from 1969 at Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science School on a sabbatical. He received his PhD from University of Tokyo. His doctorate thesis was on the "Analysis and Evaluation of the Computer System Which Uses Virtual Memory".
From 1977, Masuda taught at Tsukuba University, moving to University of Tokyo's Engineering School as a professor of computer science in 1988, and becoming the head of the Engineering School in 1995. He then moved to University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, as a professor in 2000 and became the president there in 2004. He retired from the university in 2008.
From 2003 to 2005, Masuda served as president of the Information Processing Society of Japan. From 2008, he has served as an executive of the Funai Foundation, which helps those who study abroad to get PhD.
References
External links
University of Electro-Communications
Funai Foundation
Japanese engineers
Japanese computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
1939 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroaki%20Shimizu | is a former Japanese professional darts player.
Career
World Championship results
BDO
2014: Preliminary round (lost to Christian Kist 2–3) (sets)
External links
Player profile at dartsdatacase.co.uk
References
Living people
Japanese darts players
British Darts Organisation players
1979 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20%28TV%20series%29 | Greatest Hits is an American television program on the ABC network that aired from June 30 to August 4, 2016, featuring famous musical performers from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The show was hosted by Arsenio Hall and Kelsea Ballerini.
Episodes
All songs are listed in order of the episodes.
References
2010s American music television series
2016 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Charles%20Steinbrecher | Edwin Charles Steinbrecher (April 4, 1930 – January 26, 2002), was an American astrologer, lecturer, teacher, metaphysician and an astrological data collector, noted for works related to meditation and his precise Steinbrecher Collection, entered on John Woodsmall's Pathfinder Program. He taught and lectured on the occult sciences, specifically in relation to practising meditation and wrote the book titled, The Inner Guide to Meditation. The book has been referred in works of authors, in their books on esoteric subjects, meditation and intuition .
Biography
Steinbrecher was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Edwin E. Steinbrecher and Helen Clara (Siska) Steinbrecher. He was raised in a family of astrologers, including his mother, several aunts and uncles. He learned the language of astrology from the age of five and took classes with his aunt and godmother, Josephine Siska. A restless youth, he joined the Army as a conscientious objector, serving in the medical corps. On April 23, 1953, he volunteered for experiments in lowering body temperature, in order that army medics could find how best to readjust the temperature of soldiers after freezing-trauma. During the procedure, he "flat-lined" in an NDE. During the few minutes when he was clinically dead, he experienced such bliss that it changed him forever and affirmed his life direction.
He founded D.O.M.E., the Inner Guide Meditation Center, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1975. The center moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1984. Steinbrecher died of emphysema on January 26, 2002.
Shortly before his death, he sold his data collection to Lois Rodden's Astrodatabank, where his collection was completely integrated. His collection of original birth records has been scanned by the current owner of Astrodatabank, the Swiss company Astrodienst AG, in 2014, and is available to researchers in PDF firmat.
Personal life
Ed married Suzanne Gross on June 17, 1955. Suzanne May Gross and Edwin Charles Steinbrecher exchanged marriage vows in St. Mary's rectory Saturday afternoon. They later divorced. Apparently, Ed Steinbrecher was bisexual and later a celibate, according to his interview ('Sex with God') to Mark Thompson published in Gay Soul (Harper San Francisco, 1995).
Notable work
The Inner Guide Meditation - A Primer for the 21st Century. 288 pages. Dome Foundation, Santa Fe, NM 1977; Blue Feather Press, Santa Fe U.S.A, 1975; 1978; Thorsons, 1982; HarperCollins, 1982; Red Wheel/Weiser, York Beach (Maine, U.S.A.), 1987; 1988; 1994; 2006; 2010; ; Aquarian Press, Wellingborough (UK) 1988 ; Motilal Banarsidass (New Age Books), New Delhi 2002 )Online at Scribd
External links
http://www.dome-igm.com/
Ed Steinbrecher's biographical page at Astrodatabank site
References
1930 births
2002 deaths
20th-century astrologers
21st-century astrologers
American astrologers
Astrological data collectors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred%20Heart%20School%20in%20Tokyo | is a private school for girls in Shirokane, Minato, Tokyo. Founded in 1908, it serves grades 1–12, from elementary school through senior high school. It is a part of the Sacred Heart Schools network, affiliated with the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo.
Notable alumni
Momoko Abe, Miss Universe Japan 2017
Empress Michiko, Empress consort of Japan to Emperor Akihito.
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa
Hisako, Princess Takamado
Yasuko Konoe (kindergarten), former member of the Imperial House of Japan
Hidé Ishiguro, philosopher
Sadako Ogata, diplomat
Ayako Sono, writer
Maria Mori, singer
Yūko Nakagawa, politician
Akie Abe, Japanese socialite and widow of Shinzo Abe
Naomi Tokashiki, politician
Kaori Ishikawa, politician
Miyako Tanaka, swimmer
Rina Kitagawa, voice actress
Mariko Oi, BBC reporter
Myoui Mina, singer and dancer
References
External links
Sacred Heart School in Tokyo
Sacred Heart School in Tokyo
High schools in Tokyo
Schools in Tokyo
Catholic schools in Japan
Women in Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%20of%20ecological%20interest | Area of ecological interest may refer to:
Area of relevant ecological interest (Brazil), a type of conservation unit in Brazil
Area of Special Conservation Interest, part of the Emerald network of conservation units in Europe and North Africa
Site of Special Scientific Interest, a type of conservation unit in the United Kingdom
Site of Special Scientific Interest (Hong Kong), a type of conservation unit in Hong Kong
Zone naturelle d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique, a type of conservation unit in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20games%20using%20procedural%20generation | Procedural generation is a common technique in computer programming to automate the creation of certain data according to guidelines set by the programmer. Many games generate aspects of the environment or non-player characters procedurally during the development process in order to save time on asset creation. For example, SpeedTree is a middleware package that procedurally generates trees which can be used to quickly populate a forest. Whereas most games use this technique to create a static environment for the final product, some employ procedural generation as a game mechanic, such as to create new environments for the player to explore. The levels in Spelunky are procedurally generated by rearranging premade tiles of geometry into a level with an entrance, exit, a solvable path between the two, and obstacles to that path. Other games procedurally generate other aspects of gameplay, such as the weapons in Borderlands which have randomized stats and configurations.
This is a list of video games that use procedural generation as a core aspect of gameplay. Games that use procedural generation solely during development as part of asset creation are not included.
List
Roguelike games
Games in the roguelike genre all have at least procedurally generated levels.
Other
References
Procedural generation
Procedural generation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon%20Climber | Canyon Climber is a video game designed by Steve Bjork and James Garon for the TRS-80 Color Computer and published by Tandy Corporation in 1982. Ports to other home computers were published by Datasoft. Canyon Climber is a three-screen platform game with an American Southwest theme. Two of the screens are direct analogs of those in Donkey Kong.
The game was ported to the Atari 8-bit family by Tim Ferris, the Apple II by Brian Mountford, and PC-6001. The box art is by Scott Ross.
Gameplay
Canyon Climber consists of three non-scrolling screens that are endlessly cycled through. In the first, similar to the rivet screen from Donkey Kong, the goal is to place explosive charges on both ends of each of four bridges, using ladders to climb between them, then trigger a detonator. Goats pursue the player and can be jumped over. The second screen resembles Donkey Kong's opening level, with angled platforms and connecting ladders. Native Americans ("Indians" in the manual) on each platform shoot arrows which can be jumped or avoided. The goal is to reach the top. The objective of the third screen is to climb to the top while avoiding bricks dropped by birds.
The soundtrack of the first screen is a musical adaptation of the Prelude section from Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847.
Reception
The 1983 book The Creative Atari stated, "Canyon Climber achieves a cartoon-like atmosphere in the rendering of its various screens, to very pleasing effect," concluding "You will spend a while with Canyon Climber." In a review of four Atari 8-bit Datasoft games (alongside Pacific Coast Highway, Clowns and Balloons, and Shooting Gallery), Charles Brannon of COMPUTE! wrote, "the overall animation and execution are perhaps the best of the four." Electronic Fun with Computers & Games described Canyon Climber as "not quite as demanding as Donkey Kong, but the concept is appealingly bizarre," and called the game "short-term addictive." ANALOG Computing wrote, "The details and playability of the game are very good" and rated the graphics a 10 out of 10.
Reviewing the TRS-80 Color Computer version for Creative Computing, Stephen B. Gray warned, "Canyon Climber is a game for the expert or the masochist."
Long after the game's initial release, Keita Iida noted the low difficulty level, calling the game "perfectly suited for beginning players who are just getting into platform/climbing games." Mark Sabbatini, looking at the Color Computer version, agrees: "as soon as you've completed the levels a few times the challenge is pretty much gone." He also disliked the randomness of the rocks and goats, stating "all too often whether you live or die is all about luck and not about skill and planning."
Legacy
One section of Llamasoft's 2011 GoatUp game for iOS is an homage to Canyon Climber.
References
External links
Canyon Climber at Atari Mania
1982 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Apple II games
Datasoft games
NEC PC-6001 games
Platformers
TRS-80 Color Computer games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Australian%20Spelling%20Bee%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of The Great Australian Spelling Bee premiered on Network Ten on 3 August 2015. The season was hosted by Grant Denyer and Chrissie Swan, and also starred Chris Edmund as pronouncer.
Anirudh won the season, receiving a $50,000 education scholarship, $10,000 worth of equipment for his school, a Macquarie Dictionary, a Sprout computer, and a HP Pro Slate 8 tablet in prizes. In addition, the five runners-up received scholarships worth $10,000, a HP Pro Slate 8 tablet, and $1,000 of education goods for their school.
Contestants
The series began with 52 contestants aged 8–13 years old which was cut down to the Top 26.
Episodes
Episode 1
This episode consisted of 4 person heats, with 2 in each group winning a spot in the top 26.
Episode 2
At the beginning of the episode it was announced that Emma had to quit the competition due to family reasons. Because of this Harpith (as the most successful eliminated contestant) was brought back into the competition. In the first challenge of the season Speed Spell, the spellers had to spell as many words as they could in a limited amount of time. The top 10 spellers would win immunity. The people that won immunity were Ben, Mica, Grace D, Anirudh, Marko, Amanda, Jack B, Amelia, Bella, Aimee in no particular order. In the second competition Speed Spell 1v1 writing competitions happened the winner of the 1v1 would win immunity. In the final competition before the spelling bee the 8 remaining spellers had to see if the word was misspelled if it was then the speller had to spell correctly that word. If they got it right for the misspelled word and spelled the word correctly they would get immunity.
The spelling bee lasted 1 round because Jack and Joshua got their words wrong round 1.
Episode 3
Episode 4
At the end of Speed Spell, the Top 6 were deemed safe from elimination. In no particular order, those spellers were Marko, Anirudh, Mica, Tej, Grace D and Jack B. The remaining 12 spellers went head-to-head in Flash Cards, where the theme was technology. The winning spellers, Harrison, Aimee, Amelia, Amanda, Holly R and Stuart were then safe from elimination. In the final spelling bee, 6 spellers spelling in multiple rounds to determine the 2 spellers who would be safe from elimination (Jye and Grace P). The other 4 spellers, Ben, Bella, Timothy and Josie were sent home.
Episode 5
In the Final Spelling Bee, Yellow Team was facing defeat against Green Team. It was a three-on-one situation, as Green Team had three members and Yellow Team only had Mica as their last member. However, Mica rallied in an impressive showing to obtain an astounding come-from-behind victory and gain immunity for her team.
Ratings
Colour key:
Highest rating episode during the series
Lowest rating episode during the series
References
2015 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Australian%20Spelling%20Bee%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of The Great Australian Spelling Bee premiered on 17 July 2016 on Network Ten. The season sees Grant Denyer and Chrissie Swan return as hosts.
Poor ratings for the four initial episodes of the season resulted in the series being moved from Sundays to the lesser viewed Saturday from its fifth episode. From its seventh episode, the show was moved to Network Ten's sister channel, Eleven.
Format
This is the structure of the series for season two:
Laser Letters
In Laser Letters, a new challenge for 2016, each team stand behind a buzzer podium facing the big
screen. The pronouncer will read out four words that appear via a laser projection on the big screen,
visible for a short amount of time. To keep the spellers on their toes, one word will be spelt incorrectly.
Once a speller thinks they have identified the mistake they must buzz in and spell the word correctly.
When they identify and spell the word correctly they win a point for their team. The first two teams to get three points are safe and the other teams will go into the Spelling Bee.
Letter by Letter Knock-Out
Each speller takes a turn to give one letter at a time to spell a given word. When a speller gives the last letter of the word, the next speller states that word to signal that it is finished.
The pronouncer then gives the next word, and the next speller spells out the first letter of that new word. The challenge continues until a speller makes a mistake. That speller is then out of the round and the challenge continues until there is one speller standing. Three rounds of Letter by Letter Knock Out are played to determine the three spellers to compete in the Ultimate Spelling Bee. The winner of the Ultimate Spelling Bee is the Spelling Bee champion. Tristan won the Great Australian Spelling Bee Champion for 2016.
Show and Spell
Each team member must line up behind a buzzer. Clues and letters are revealed
until a speller buzzes to identify the word that the clues point to. If a speller spells a
correctly identified word accurately, they gain a point for their team. The first two teams to reach a score
of three are safe. The third and final team must face an individual Spelling Bee, where two members will
be sent home.
Speed Spell Duo
With rules similar to Speed Spell Relay, this Speed Spell involves two spellers from the same team stepping into the Spell Gate together. The duo is given 60 seconds to spell as many words
correctly as possible. The spellers will each spell one word at the time taking turns. When a speller makes a mistake that speller will step out of the Spell Gate and the other speller continues spelling. The challenge ends when 60 seconds have passed or both team members have made a mistake. Once all teams have had a turn, the bottom two teams will go into Spelling Bee.
Speed Spell Relay
This Speed Spell is a team relay challenge. One team at a time steps into the super-sized Spell Gate and is given 60 seconds to correctly spell as many words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPD%20Win | GPD Win is a Windows-based palmtop computer equipped with a keyboard and video game controls. It is an x86-based device that runs Windows 10. It is capable of running any x86 Windows-based application that can run within the confines of the computer's hardware. First announced in October 2015, it was crowdfunded via Indiegogo and two other crowdfunding sites in Japan and China. The GPD Win was released in October 2016.
History
GamePad Digital (GPD) is a technology company based in Shenzhen, China. Among other products, they have created several handheld video game consoles which run Android on ARM architecture; for instance, GPD XD. GPD Win was meant to be a way to play PC games, PC-based video game console emulators, and hypervisors (such as VMware and VirtualBox clients) on a handheld device.
GamePad Digital first explored the idea of GPD Win in October 2015. In December 2015, the physical design and hardware specifications were determined. In March 2016, initial prototypes were finished, debugged, and shipped. GPD started accepting pre-orders in June 2016 through several online retailers, including the Indiegogo page. Pre-order backers were offered the device for a discounted price of $330, with an estimated final retail price of $499, but settling on a price of $330 after release. The initially stated goal was $100,000. In August 2016, a small batch shipment to industry personnel was shipped. GPD started shipping the final product by October 2016.
Software
The GPD Win runs Windows 11 Home and is able to run most x86 Windows applications that can be run on desktops and laptops.
As of April 2017, several patches are available for the Linux kernel that allows mostly complete functionality of the Win with a full desktop Linux distribution like Ubuntu.
Technical and physical specifications
The computer has a full typical QWERTY keyboard, which includes 67 standard keys and 10 expanded function keys. For gaming, the controller has a stylized similarly to the OpenPandora and DragonBox Pyra style keyboard and controller layout of one D-pad, two analog sticks, four face buttons, and four shoulder buttons (two on each shoulder).
It was initially intended to use the Intel Atom x5-Z8500 Cherry Trail CPU.
The graphics processor is an Intel HD Graphics integrated GPU with a base clock speed of 200 MHz and a turbo boost of up to 600 MHz.
It uses 4GB of LPDDR3-1600 RAM, with 64GB of eMMC 4.51 ROM. It has a single microSD slot that can support storage cards up to 256GB.
The device is 15.5×9.7 cm in size. It has a 5.5-inch 1280×720 (720p) H-IPS multi-directional touch screen in a 16:9 ratio, reinforced by Gorilla Glass 3.
The audio system consists of a built-in speaker using the Realtek ALC5645 driver, and a microphone jack. It supports typical audio/video/image formats, such as MP3, MP4, JPG, PNG, and GIF.
The device has a 6700mAh polymer lithium-ion battery with a USB-C charging interface (5 V/2.5 A). It has support for Bluetooth 4.0 and 802.11 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20Disarm%20%26%20Reconstruction | Content Disarm & Reconstruction (CDR) is a computer security technology for removing potentially malicious code from files. Unlike malware analysis, CDR technology does not determine or detect malware's functionality but removes all file components that are not approved within the system's definitions and policies.
It is used to prevent cyber security threats from entering a corporate network perimeter. Channels that CDR can be used to protect include email and website traffic. Advanced solutions can also provide similar protection on computer endpoints, or cloud email and file sharing services.
There are three levels of CDR; 1) flattening and converting the original file to a PDF, 2) stripping active content while keeping the original file type, and 3) eliminating all file-borne risk while maintaining file type, integrity and active content. Beyond these three levels, there are also more advanced forms of CDR that is able to perform "soft conversion" and "hard conversion", based on the user's preference in balancing usability and security.
Applications
CDR works by processing all incoming files of an enterprise network, deconstructing them, and removing the elements that do not match the file type's standards or set policies. CDR technology then rebuilds the files into clean versions that can be sent on to end users as intended.
Because CDR removes all potentially malicious code, it can be effective against zero-day vulnerabilities that rely on being an unknown threat that other security technologies would need to patch against to maintain protection.
CDR can be used to prevent cyber threats from variety of sources:
Email
Data Diodes
Web Browsers
Endpoints
File Servers
FTP
Cloud email or webmail programs
SMB/CIFS
Removable media scanning (CDR Kiosk)
CDR can be applied to a variety of file formats including:
Images
Office documents
PDF
Audio/video file formats
Archives
HTML
Open Source Implementations
DocBleach
ExeFilter
See also
Advanced persistent threat
Computer security
Cyber threats
Deep Content Inspection
Internet security
Content Threat Removal
References
Computer security
Cloud computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya%20Sutskever | Ilya Sutskever (; ; born 1985/86) is a Russian-born Israeli-Canadian computer scientist working in machine learning, who co-founded and serves as Chief Scientist of OpenAI.
He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network. Sutskever is also one of the many co-authors of the AlphaGo paper.
Early life and education
Sutskever was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, then called "Gorky", at the time part of the Soviet Union, and at age 5 immigrated with his family to Israel. He spent his formative years in Jerusalem.
Sutskever attended the Open University of Israel between 2000 and 2002 before moving with his family to Canada and transferred to the University of Toronto, where he then obtained his BSc (2005) in mathematicsand his MSc and PhD in computer science under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton.
Career and research
After graduation in 2012, Sutskever spent two months as a postdoc with Andrew Ng at Stanford University. He then returned to University of Toronto and joined Hinton's new research company DNNResearch, a spinoff of Hinton's research group. Four months later, in March 2013, Google acquired DNNResearch and hired Sutskever as a research scientist at Google Brain.
At Google Brain, Sutskever worked with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Viet Le to create the sequence-to-sequence learning algorithm. He is also a co-inventor of AlexNet and has worked on TensorFlow.
At the end of 2015, he left Google to become cofounder and chief scientist of the newly founded organization OpenAI.
In 2023, he announced that he will co-lead OpenAI's new "Superalignment" project, which tries to solve the alignment of superintelligences in 4 years. He wrote that even if superintelligence seems far off, it could happen this decade.
Awards and honours
2015, Sutskever was named in MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35.
2018, Sutskever was the keynote speaker at Nvidia Ntech 2018 and AI Frontiers Conference 2018.
2022, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
References
OpenAI
Living people
1985 births
Russian expatriates in the United States
University of Toronto alumni
Stanford University alumni
Canadian Fellows of the Royal Society
Machine learning researchers
Google employees
Canadian computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Israeli expatriates in the United States
Canadian expatriates in the United States
People from Nizhny Novgorod
Fellows of the Royal Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Zemel | Richard Stanley Zemel (born 1963) is a Canadian-American computer scientist and professor at Columbia University, Department of Computer Science, and a leading figure in the field of Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
Zemel studied the history of science at Harvard University and obtained his B.A. in 1984. He continued his study at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Toronto under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton. He obtain his M.Sc. and Ph.D. both in computer science in 1989 and 1994, respectively.
See also
Helmholtz machine
References
External links
Artificial intelligence researchers
Harvard University alumni
American computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Living people
Machine learning researchers
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Canada Research Chairs
Canadian cognitive scientists
University of Toronto alumni
1963 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20Kiwi | Electric Kiwi is an independent online New Zealand electricity retailer.
Established in 2014, Electric Kiwi has a focus on using cloud computing and smart meters to service customers in major urban areas around the country. Its services depend on the presence of smart meters in the customer's home. Over one million households in New Zealand were equipped with smart meters as of January 2014.
Electric Kiwi is owned by Energy Collective Limited. 66.8% of the stock is owned by Scientific Investors LPP, a holdings firm based in the United Kingdom, and the other 33.2% is owned by private investors.
Electric Kiwi offers a free off-peak hour of power to its customers between 9am-5pm and 9pm-7am daily. As of November 30, 2020, Electric Kiwi had 70,900 customers, giving it a 3.2% share of the retail market and making it the 10th-largest retailer in New Zealand. Nearly all (69,800, or 98.4%) of its customers are classified as residential.
History
Electric Kiwi was established in mid-2014 and took on its first ‘test’ customers in December of that year before launching to the public in May 2015. The company's founders, which are: Julian Kardos, Phillip Andreson and Huia Burt, saw an opportunity in the electricity retailing market for a provider which leveraged the capabilities of smart meters which it and Consumer advocacy group Consumer NZ believed were being under utilised at that time.
Electric Kiwi used the information gathered from smart meters to determine the exact purchase of electricity from wholesalers with the intent of passing on those savings to its customers.
In April 2017, Electric Kiwi accused competitor Trustpower of intentionally slowing the uptake of smart meters with their customers to prevent them shifting to retailers that rely on smart meter technology. The Electricity Authority said they were satisfied with efforts by retailers to roll out smart meter use.
In July 2018, it was reported that Electric Kiwi's free hour of power was causing local lines in northern Dunedin to overload, causing regular outages. The area is home to a large number of students from the University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic, many of whom had chosen the same hour for free power. Electric Kiwi claimed the issue was due to inadequate local lines infrastructure and low-quality housing in the areas, while local lines company Aurora Energy claimed that it would be uneconomical to provide extra capacity to deal with short term spikes and that retailers should ensure any promotion does not cause disruptions on their network. In September 2019 the Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority launched the 'Gen Less' campaign targeted at this demographic to encourage less energy use.
During an October 2018 spike in prices in the New Zealand wholesale electricity market, Electric Kiwi announced a halt on customers switching from spot-price providers. Electric Kiwi CEO Luke Blincoe stated "Choosing a spot-based retailer is similar to not insuring your car. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Cyber%20Grand%20Challenge | The 2016 Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) was a challenge created by The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in order to develop automatic defense systems that can discover, prove, and correct software flaws in real-time.
The event placed machine versus machine (no human intervention) in what was called the "world's first automated network defense tournament."
The final event was held on August 4, 2016 at the Paris Hotel & Conference Center in Las Vegas, Nevada within the 24th DEF CON hacker convention.
It resembled in structure the long-standing "capture the flag" (CTF) security competitions, and the winning system indeed competed against humans in the "classic" DEF CON CTF held in the following days.
The Cyber Grand Challenge featured, however, a more standardized scoring and vulnerability-proving system: all exploits and patched binaries were submitted and evaluated by the referee infrastructure
Background
Races develop between criminals attempting to abuse vulnerabilities and analysts who assess, remediate, check, and deploy a patch before significant damage can be done. Experts adhere to a process that involves complicated reasoning followed by manual creation of each security signature and software patch, a technical process that requires months and dollars. This has resulted in various software insecurities favoring attackers. Devices such as smart televisions, wearable technologies, and high-end home appliances that are connected to the internet aren't always produced with security in mind and moreover utility systems, power grids, and traffic lights could be more susceptible to attacks, says the DARPA.
To help overcome these challenges, DARPA launched in 2014 the Cyber Grand Challenge: a two-year competition seeking to create automatic defensive systems capable of reasoning about flaws, formulating patches and deploying them on a network in real time. The competition was split into two main events: an open qualification event to be held in 2015 and a final event in 2016 where only the top seven teams from the qualifiers could participate. The winner of the final event would be awarded $2 million and the opportunity to play against humans in the 24th DEF CON capture the flag competition.
Technology
Challenge binaries
Challenge Binaries ran on the full 32-bit Intel x86 architecture, albeit with a simplified ABI.
Reducing external interaction to its base components (e.g., system calls for well-defined I/O, dynamic memory allocation, and a single source of randomness) simplified both modeling and securely running the binaries in isolation to observe their behavior.
Internal complexity was however unrestricted, with challenges going as far as implementing
a particle physics simulator,
chess,
programming/scripting languages,
parsing of huge amounts of markup data,
vector graphics,
just-in-time compilation,
VMs, etc.
The challenge authors were themselves scored based on how well they distinguished the players' relative pe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba%20Cloud | Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun (), is a cloud computing company, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services to online businesses and Alibaba's own e-commerce ecosystem. Its international operations are registered and headquartered in Singapore.
Alibaba Cloud offers cloud services that are available on a pay-as-you-go basis, and include elastic compute, data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks (CDN).
It is the largest cloud computing company in China, and in Asia Pacific according to Gartner. Alibaba Cloud operates data centers in 24 regions and 74 availability zones around the globe. As of June 2017, Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries' quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for cloud infrastructure as a service, worldwide.
History
September 2009 – Alibaba Cloud is founded and R&D centers and operation centers are subsequently opened in Hangzhou, Beijing, and Silicon Valley.
November 2010 – Supported the first Single's Day (11.11) Taobao shopping festival, with 2.4 billion PV in 24 hours.
November 2012 – Became the first Chinese cloud service provider to pass ISO27001:2005 (Information Security Management System).
January 2013 – Merged with HiChina (founded by Xiangning Zhang) for www.net.cn business as one of the largest acquisitions in the company's history at the time.
August 2013 – ApsaraDB architecture supported 5000 physical machines in a single cluster.
December 2014 – Defended a 14-hour long DDoS attack, peaking at 453.8Gbit/s.
May 2014 – Hong Kong data center went online.
October 2015 – Two US data centers went online.
July 2015 – Alibaba Group invested a further US$1 billion to Alibaba Cloud.
August 2015 – Alibaba Cloud's first Singapore data center opened. Singapore is announced as Alibaba Cloud's overseas headquarters.
October 2015 – MaxCompute took the lead of the Sort Benchmark, sorting 100TB data in 377s compared with Apache Spark's previous record of 1406s.
October 2015 – Alibaba Cloud Computing Conference was held in Hangzhou and attracted over 20,000 developers.
November 2015 – Supported the 11.11 shopping festival with a record of $14.2 billion transactions in 24 hours.
April 2016 – Alibaba Cloud partnered with SK Holdings C&C to provide cloud services to Korean and Chinese companies.
May 2016 – Alibaba Group and SoftBank formalized joint venture to launch cloud services in Japan that utilize technologies and solutions from Alibaba Cloud.
June 2016 – Alibaba Cloud expanded its data center operations in Singapore with the establishment of a second availability zone. Alibaba Cloud also achieved two new certifications overseas: Singapore Multi-Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) standard Level 3, and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).
November 2016 - Alibaba Cloud partnered with Vodafone Germany for Data Center operation and to provide cloud services to German and European companies.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20D.%20Warner | Brian Dale Warner (born 1952) is an American amateur astronomer and computer programmer. In 2006 he was awarded the inaugural Chambliss Amateur Achievement Award by the American Astronomical Society.
From the 1990s to 2011 Warner operated from the Palmer Divide Observatory at his home near Colorado Springs, Colorado. Since 2011 he has operated from the Palmer Divide Station at the Center for Solar System Studies in Landers, California.
Warner's astronomy has included extensive use of photometry to record the light curves of asteroids and variable stars. His identification of five pairs of binary asteroids in the main belt contributed to the abandonment of the theory that binary asteroids only form through tidal interactions with planets. He discovered the asteroids 70030 Margaretmiller, 34366 Rosavestal and 34398 Terryschmidt.
Warner is the developer of the Minor Planet Observer (MPO) suite of astronomy software used for photometry observations of asteroids and variable stars. He also authored the 2006 book A Practical Guide to Lightcurve Photometry and Analysis, published by Springer, on using photometry to study asteroids and variable stars.
Warner studied undergraduate physics at the University of Colorado. In 2005 he was awarded a masters degree in astronomy from James Cook University in Queensland, Australia.
The wide main belt asteroid 8734 Warner is named in his honor.
Books
References
Living people
1952 births
Amateur astronomers
American astronomers
American computer programmers
Discoverers of minor planets
University of Colorado alumni
James Cook University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhuru%20Mobile | Uhuru Mobile is a secure Android-based operating system.
An operating system is the principal program allowing Smartphones, Tablets and PCs to run. This central tool connects and coordinates all the components such as kernel, computers programs, software or device drivers, letting users managing their devices.
Uhuru Mobile is a solution composed with its application encryption market, a modified Android-based OS, a virtual private network and a SMS encryption solution.
The purpose of Uhuru Mobile is to prevent physical attacks.
History
The name Uhuru comes from the Swahili language and means freedom and independence.
Uhuru Mobile is the result of a research and development project initiated in 2012 to promote digital sovereignty.
As an Android-based operating system, Uhuru Mobile focuses on security and privacy for end-users, individuals or businesses, on mobile devices.
The operating system is currently developed by a software Editor company called Teclib’.
System architecture
Software Overview
Multi-layers Protection
Kernel: The system core is protected against malicious or unknown code as well as physical attacks or access.
System protection: Critical resources are dynamically protected from malware and vulnerability exploits ensuring the integrity of the operating system’s components.
Data protection: User’s data on the device are encrypted. User’s authentication resources are protected by using certificates.
Application protection: The applications that can be installed on the device are exclusively coming from a market of certified applications. All those applications are validated and certificated before being available within the Uhuru applications market.
Additional Features
To ensure the OS protection and security while using applications, a dedicated market has been installed (replacing the Google Play Store). Uhuru Mobile’s applications market only provides apps approved and certified by a team of security experts. Companies can also customize the Uhuru marketplace providing their in-house applications.
Uhuru mobile is provided with a deception system, sending fake GPS location coordinates to applications. This decoy geolocation tool allows users to fool some applications using geolocation. IT administrators can define the redirecting coordinates. For example in the demo version, the NSA headquarters coordinates were sent by the deception system.
A mobile device management tool for the administration of mobile devices is provided without any additional setup. IT administrators have access to a web-console in order to manage the Uhuru Mobile fleet and all linked applications (such as the remote apps installation/suppression or the set up of user accounts).
See also
Operating system
Mobile device management
Security-focused operating system
References
External links
Teclib Edition/Uhuru Mobile
Uhuru Mobile
Bibliography
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Mobile operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innsbruck%20Nature%20Film%20Festival | The Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (INFF) is an annually held film competition on the topics of nature and environment based in Innsbruck, Austria. The festival is part of the Green Film Network, an international association of environmental film festivals with the common goal to raise the awareness of environmental topics. The festival was founded in 2013 by festival director Johannes Kostenzer.
Awarded films
2013: Schnee by August Pflugfelder
2014: Virunga by Orlando von Einsiedel
2015: Yellowstone by & and Banking Nature by Sandrine Feydel & Denis Delestrac
References
Film festivals in Austria
Festivals in Innsbruck |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime%20Emmy%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Costumes%20for%20a%20Variety%2C%20Nonfiction%2C%20or%20Reality%20Programming | The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming is presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. To be eligible, the costumes must have been designed specifically for television.
Winners and nominations
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Programs with multiple awards
3 awards
RuPaul's Drag Race
So You Think You Can Dance
Tracey Takes On...
2 awards
MADtv
The Masked Singer
Portlandia
Programs with multiple nominations
11 nominations
Saturday Night Live
7 nominations
MADtv
6 nominations
Dancing with the Stars
5 nominations
RuPaul's Drag Race
4 nominations
In Living Color
Tracey Takes On...
3 nominations
The Masked Singer
Portlandia
2 nominations
Drunk History
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Notes
References
Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajeenkya%20DY%20Patil%20University | Ajeenkya DY Patil University (ADYPU) is a private University located in Lohegaon, Pune, Maharashtra, India and belongs to the DY Patil group, a network of educational institutions in India.
President
Ajeenkya DY Patil is the university's president as well as chairman of Ajeenkya DY Patil Group.
References
External links
Ajeenkya D.Y. Patil University
Private universities in India
Universities in Maharashtra
Education in Pune
Universities and colleges established in 2015
2015 establishments in Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accolades%20received%20by%20Eat%20Bulaga%21 | Eat Bulaga! is a Philippine television variety show that premiered on Radio Philippines Network on July 30, 1979. The show features a disparate set of segments. It initially featured Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, Joey de Leon, Chiqui Hollman, and Richie D'Horsie; the show's cast changed significantly during its run.
Since its premiere, Eat Bulaga! is the longest-running variety show in the Philippines. It has enjoyed consistently high viewership on broadcast television, according to AGB Nielsen Philippines and Kantar Media Philippines. The show's impact on television resulted in the creation of the international spin-off programs and the supercouple nicknamed AlDub, which inspired various Internet memes, other mediums, and the global popularity on social media.
The show has received various awards and nominations. These include the Asian Television Awards, PMPC Star Awards for Television, Box Office Entertainment Awards, and Golden Screen TV Awards.
Aliw Awards
The Aliw Awards is an awards ceremony organized by the Aliw Awards Foundation, Inc. that gives recognition to entertainers who perform live in the Philippines and abroad. The SexBomb Girls and EB Babes have been nominated as the Best Modern Dance Company in 2007 and 2008.
Anak TV Seal Awards
The Anak TV Seal Awards are awarded annually to honor wholesome and family-friendly television shows and personalities who exemplify good values to children. Eat Bulaga! has been included for three consecutive years as one of the most well-liked television program and some of its hosts have also been admired as child-friendly television personalities.
Asian Television Awards
The Asian Television Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognizes programming, performance, and production excellence in the Asian television industry. Eat Bulaga! won once for the special episode of its 25th anniversary celebration, becoming the first award won by the show from an international award-giving body.
Box Office Entertainment Awards
The Box Office Entertainment Awards is an annual awards ceremony organized by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Inc. that honors stars and performers simply for their popularity and commercial success in the Philippine entertainment industry. In 2007, Eat Bulaga!s former mainstay SexBomb Dancers were elevated to the Hall of Fame due to their five consecutive wins as the Most Popular Dance Group. In addition to multiple awards, Eat Bulaga! also received a special citation for its special episode, "AlDub: Sa Tamang Panahon," for gaining the highest record rating of a noontime show of all time.
Catholic Social Media Awards
The Catholic Social Media Awards are given by church-based organizations Youth Pinoy and Areopagus Communications during the annual Catholic Social Media Summit to recognize personalities and groups in the entertainment industry who are promoting Christian values. In 2015, the production company and the stars behind Kalyeserye became the first rec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian-optimal%20pricing | Bayesian-optimal pricing (BO pricing) is a kind of algorithmic pricing in which a seller determines the sell-prices based on probabilistic assumptions on the valuations of the buyers. It is a simple kind of a Bayesian-optimal mechanism, in which the price is determined in advance without collecting actual buyers' bids.
Single item and single buyer
In the simplest setting, the seller has a single item to sell (with zero cost), and there is a single potential buyer. The highest price that the buyer is willing to pay for the item is called the valuation of the buyer. The seller would like to set the price exactly at the buyer's valuation. Unfortunately, the seller does not know the buyer's valuation. In the Bayesian model, it is assumed that the buyer's valuation is a random variable drawn from a known probability distribution.
Suppose the cumulative distribution function of the buyer is , defined as the probability that the seller's valuation is less than . Then, if the price is set to , the expected value of the seller's revenue is:
because the probability that the buyer will want to buy the item is , and if this happens, the seller's revenue will be .
The seller would like to find the price that maximizes . The first-order condition, that the optimal price should satisfy, is:
where the probability density function.
For example, if the probability distribution of the buyer's valuation is uniform in , then and (in ). The first-order condition is which implies . This is the optimal price only if it is in the range (i.e., when ).
Otherwise (when ), the optimal price is .
This optimal price has an alternative interpretation: it is the solution to the equation:
where is the virtual valuation of the agent. So in this case, BO pricing is equivalent to the Bayesian-optimal mechanism, which is an auction with reserve-price .
Single item and many buyers
In this setting, the seller has a single item to sell (with zero cost), and there are multiple potential buyers whose valuations are a random vector drawn from some known probability distribution. Here, different pricing methods come to mind:
Symmetric prices: the seller sets a single price for the item. If one or more buyers accept this price, then one of them is selected arbitrarily.
discriminatory prices: the seller sets a different price for each buyer. If one or more buyers accept this price, then the buyer who accepted the highest price is selected. Discriminatory pricing can be implemented sequentially by ordering the prices in decreasing order and giving the item to the first buyer who accepts the price offered to him.
In the multiple-buyer setting, BO pricing is no longer equivalent to BO auction: in pricing, the seller has to determine the price/s in advance, while in auction, the seller can determine the price based on the agents' bids. The competition between the buyers may enable the auctioneer to raise the price. Hence, in theory, the seller can obtain a higher revenue in a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataiku | Dataiku is an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning company which was founded in 2013. In December 2019, Dataiku announced that CapitalG—the late-stage growth venture capital fund financed by Alphabet Inc.—joined Dataiku as an investor and that it had achieved unicorn status. As of 2021, Dataiku is valued at $4.6 billion. Dataiku currently employs more than people worldwide between offices in New York, Denver, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Munich, Frankfurt, Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo, and Dubai.
History
Dataiku was founded in Paris in 2013 by Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Thomas Cabrol and Marc Batty. In 2015, Dataiku established itself in the United States in New York City.
In January 2015, Dataiku raised $3.6 million from Serena Capital and Alven Capital, two French technology venture capital funds. This was followed by $14 million raised with FirstMark Capital, a New York City-based venture capital firm in October 2016.
In September 2017 the company raised a $28 million Series B investment from Battery Ventures, as well as historic investors.
In December 2018, Dataiku announced a $101 million Series C funding round led by ICONIQ Capital. Other investors included Alven Capital, Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital and FirstMark Capital. In September 2019, the company was included in the Forbes Cloud 100, a ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world.
In December 2019, one day after releasing Dataiku 6, Dataiku announced that CapitalG—the late-stage growth venture capital fund financed by Alphabet Inc.—purchased some of the shares previously owned by Serena Capital in a secondary round that valued Dataiku at $1.4 billion, making it a unicorn.
In August 2020, Dataiku announced an additional $100 million Series D funding round led by Stripes and Tiger Global Management, and participation from existing investors including Battery Ventures, CapitalG, Dawn Capital, FirstMark Capital, and ICONIQ. The company did not disclose its new valuation, but said that it was "still a unicorn".
In August 2021, Dataiku announced another $400 million raise Series E by Tiger Global Management, bringing its total valuation to $4.6 billion.
In December 2022, Dataiku announced a $200 million Series F led by new investor Wellington Management.
Products
The Dataiku software: Dataiku Data Science Studio (Dataiku DSS) was announced in 2014, it supports predictive modelling to build business applications. Later versions of Dataiku also include other features.
Dataiku offers a free edition and enterprise versions with additional features, such as multi-user collaboration or real-time scoring.
In June 2021, Dataiku released Dataiku Online, a fully new managed version of Dataiku. This new product targets smaller companies such as high-growth startups.
References
External links
Big data companies
Data analysis software
Privately held companies based in New York City
American companies established in 2013
French comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisma%20%28app%29 | Prisma is a photo-editing mobile application that uses neural networks and artificial intelligence to apply artistic effects to transform images.
The app was created by Alexey Moiseenkov (), Oleg Poyaganov, Ilya Frolov, Andrey Usoltsev, and Aram Hardy. It was launched in June 2016 as a free mobile app. It debuted on iOS on Apple App Store during the first week of June and it became the leading app at the App Store in Russia and other neighboring countries. A week after its launch, the app received over 7.5 million downloads. It had over 1 million active users as of July 2016. On 19 July, 2016, the developer launched a beta version of the app for Android, which the developers closed a few hours later after receiving feedback from users. This version was released publicly on 24 July, 2016 on Google Play.
In July 2016, the developer announced a video and virtual reality version of the app was under development.
On 7 July, 2017, Prisma launched a new app called Sticky which turns selfies into stickers for sharing to social feeds.
History
The app was created by the team led by Alexey Moiseenkov who also founded the Prisma Labs, based in Sunnyvale, California. Moiseenkov previously worked at Mail.Ru and later resigned from his job to dedicate his time to the development of the app. He has said that the development of the app took one and a half months and the team did not do anything to promote the app.
The algorithm that powers the app is based on the open source programming and algorithms behind DeepArt.
Features
Users can upload pictures and select a variety of filters to transform the picture with an artistic effect. At launch, the app offered twenty different filters. Additional filters are added daily. In July 2016, Moiseenkov stated that the app will offer forty filters by the end of the month.
The image rendering takes place in Prisma Labs' servers and uses a neural network with artificial intelligence to add the artistic effect. The result is delivered back to the user's phone. Unlike other photo editing apps, Prisma renders the image by going through different layers and recreating the image rather than inserting a layer over the image.
In August 2016, the iOS version of the app was updated to edit image offline by utilizing the phone's processor for image rendering.
Reception
Downloads
One week after its debut on iOS App Store, the app was downloaded over 7.5 million times and received over 1 million active users. It also became the top listed app in Russia and its neighboring countries. In the end of July 2016, it was installed over 12.5 million devices with over 1.5 million active users worldwide. According to App Annie, it was listed in the top 10 apps on the App Store in 77 different countries.
On the first day of the Android version release, it received over 1.7 million downloads with 50 million pictures processed by the app.
Research and technology
The research paper behind the Prisma App technology is called "A Neural Al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard%20Ku%C4%8Dera | Eduard Kučera (born 11 January 1953) is a Czech software engineer and an entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of the computer security company Avast along with Pavel Baudiš. Kučera is the 10th wealthiest person in the Czech Republic as of 2022 according to Forbes, with a net worth of more than 32.4 billion Czech koruna.
Kučera studied in Charles University before co-founding Alwil Software with Baudiš. The company was renamed to Avast Software and Avast Antivirus became one of the most used computer security software applications.
References
1953 births
Living people
Charles University alumni
Czech company founders
Czech business executives
Czech billionaires
Czech software engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox%20Sigma%209 | The Xerox Sigma 9, also known as the XDS Sigma 9, was a high-speed, general purpose computer.
Xerox first became interested in office automation through computers in 1969 and purchased Scientific Data Systems or SDS. They then renamed the division Xerox Data Systems or XDS; they saw limited success, and the division was ultimately sold to Honeywell at a significant loss.
The Sigma 9 was announced in 1970 and the first delivery was made in 1971. There were 3 models built, the Sigma 9, the Sigma 9 Model 2 and the Sigma 9 Model 3. The original was the most powerful and was universally applicable to all data processing applications at the time. The Model 2 was able to process in multi-programmed batch, remote batch, conversational time-sharing, real-time, and transaction processing modes. The Model 3 was designed for the scientific real-time community.
Features of the Basic Systems
All models featured a CPU with at least a floating-point arithmetic unit, Memory map with access protection, Memory write protection, Two real-time clocks, a Power fail-safe, an External interface, Ten internal interrupt levels. Also a Multiplexor input/output processor (MIOP) featuring Channel A with eight sub-channels.
Listed below are the individual specifications
Sigma 9
CPU featuring:
Decimal arithmetic unit
Two 16-register general purpose register blocks
Interrupt control chassis with eight external interrupt levels
Memory reconfiguration control unit
Main Memory of 64K words
Motor generator set
Model 2
CPU featuring:
Decimal arithmetic unit
Two 16-register general purpose register blocks
Interrupt control chassis with two external interrupt levels
Main Memory of 32K words
Model 3
CPU featuring:
One 16-register general purpose register blocks
Interrupt control chassis with two external interrupt levels
Main Memory of 32K words
Interesting facts
The Sigma 9 had a very long run, about 10 years, and around 1980 other companies started building computers that could emulate the Sigma 9. Telefile was first and Modutest was shortly behind.
Motorola paired the Sigma 9 with the IBM 370/168 for improved function and avoidance of duplicate hardware costs.
In 1976 the Mississippi State Central Data Processing Authority published multiple requests for Proposals to lease or purchase of a Sigma 9 to help with daily office tasks.
In February 1975 the first Sigma 9 went online at the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). In October 1976 the 3rd Sigma 9 went online and 2 million records were added to the database. This continued on until 1986 when the fifteenth Sigma 9 was connected and the database contained 15 million bibliographic records.
The Xerox Sigma 9 worked very well for library databases and was used in quite a few University libraries around the country.
References
Further reading
Sigma 8, 9 Withdrawal Pains Eased With Independent Memory. (1979). DM, Data Management, 17(2), 24.
Mainframe computers
Computer-related introductions in 1971
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Rolapp | Brian Rolapp is the Chief Media and Business Officer of the National Football League.
Rolapp is responsible for the NFL's media businesses including digital media, NFL Network, advertising sales, NFL sponsorships, NFL media assets, television contracts, and digital media rights. Rolapp graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) with a degree in English and completed a Master of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Professional career
Rolapp began as an analyst at CIBC World Markets for their Media and Entertainment Group. In 2000, Rolapp joined NBC Universal as the Director of Business Development in New York City. His concentration included NBC's cable and new media strategies and their acquisition of all properties of Vivendi Universal Entertainment, which include USA Network, Sci-Fi and Trio. After three years with NBC Universal, Rolapp moved to the NFL Network in 2003 where he became the Director of Finance and Strategy. In 2005, he was promoted to Vice President of Media Strategy and Digital Media. In 2007, his title was changed to Senior Vice President. He was promoted to COO of NFL Media in 2011 and in 2014 became the Executive Vice President of NFL Media and the CEO and president of the NFL Network, succeeding Steve Bornstein.
Brian has been named to the Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 Hall of Fame. He has been named as a potential successor to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Personal life
Rolapp lives in Darien, Connecticut with his wife, Cindy, and their four children. Rolapp grew up outside of Washington, D.C. and his father was Rich Rolapp, the long‑time president of the American Horse Council. He is a practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is a national trustee for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and a member of the National Advisory Council at the Marriott School of Business at BYU.
References
External links
Marriott School of Business National Advisory Council
Brian Rolapp Twitter Account
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Harvard Business School alumni
American chief operating officers
American chief executives in the media industry
Brigham Young University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20oriented%20software%20development | Information Oriented Software Development is a software development methodology focused on working with information inside a computer program as opposed to working with just data. A significant difference exists between data and information. Information Oriented Software Development relies on data structures specifically designed to hold information, and relies on frameworks that support those data structures. Information oriented software development focuses on the conceptual needs of users and customers rather than the data storage models and object models.
Information data structures
Information data structures are data structures specifically intended to support information inside a computer program. Two common ones are as follows:
Data structures to support Fuzzy logic.
Data structures to support concept combinations and concept Permutations.
See also
Knowledge representation
Domain-driven design
Information model
Data science
References
Software development
Software development process
Information |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2016–17 daytime network television schedule for four of the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2016 to August 2017. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, and any series canceled after the 2015–16 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with Fox (as the network does not air a daytime network schedule or network news), MyNetworkTV (as the programming service also does not offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
Notes:
CBS owned-and-operated and affiliate stations have the option of airing Let's Make a Deal at either 10:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. Eastern, depending on the station's choice of feed.
(†) Today aired its last edition as a standard four-hour broadcast on September 22, 2017. Afterwards, it was split into three structurally differing programs with the fourth hour turning into Kathie Lee & Hoda.
Saturday
On September 30, 2017, The CW returned the 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. hours to its owned-and-operated stations and affiliates.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC World News Tonight
The Chew
General Hospital
Good Morning America
The View
CBS
Returning series:
The Bold and the Beautiful
CBS Evening News
CBS This Morning
Let's Make a Deal
The Price is Right
The Talk
The Young and the Restless
CBS Dream Team
Lucky Dog
The Henry Ford Innovation Nation with Mo Rocca
Chicken Soup for the Soul's Hidden Heroes
The Inspectors
Dr. Chris: Pet Vet
Not returning from 2015–16:
CBS Dream Team
Game Changers with Kevin Frazier
The CW
New series:
The Robert Irvine Show
One Magnificent MorningRescue Me with Dr. LisaDinner SpinnerUnlikely Animal Frie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Greg | "Mr. Greg" is the eighth episode of the third season of American animated television series Steven Universe, which premiered on July 19, 2016 on Cartoon Network. It was written and storyboarded by Joe Johnston and Jeff Liu. The episode was viewed by 1.549 million viewers. It is the series' first fully musical episode, and features seven songs, more than any other Steven Universe episode.
The episode shows Steven traveling to Empire City with Pearl and his father Greg, who received a check for $10 million in the previous episode "Drop Beat Dad" after one of his songs became a success. However, Pearl still heavily resents Greg since Rose, Steven's mother and the love of her life, chose him over her. To improve their relationship, Steven tries to show Pearl and Greg that they have more in common than they think.
Plot
Steven (Zach Callison) and Greg (Tom Scharpling) are in awe to discover that Greg's song "Comet" has been used as the basis of a successful burger commercial jingle ("Like a Burger"). The two debate what they should do with the $10 million Greg received for the jingle, mutually believing the best things in life to be free ("Don't Cost Nothin'"). Eventually, they decide to take a vacation to Empire City, and Steven suggests that Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall) accompany them ("Empire City"). Pearl and Greg are reluctant to vacation together, but Steven is optimistic.
In Empire City, the trio book a stay at Le Hotel, where the staff joins them in a song about the hotel's opulence and the fun they are having there ("Mr. Greg"). Greg asks Pearl to dance with him, but she refuses, abruptly ending the song. Later that night, while Steven and Greg are asleep, Pearl sings about her feelings for Rose Quartz and her jealousy for Rose and Greg's love, expressing her regrets and her inability to move on since Rose ultimately chose Greg and created Steven ("It's Over, Isn't It"). Steven and Greg awaken during the song, and Greg, lamenting that his relationship with Pearl is beyond repair, flees to the hotel bar.
Steven reveals to Pearl that he invited her along so that she and Greg could work out their differences. Getting them together, he plays a song on the piano, urging them to talk to each other about their feelings for Rose ("Both of You"). Once they have discussed their feelings, they are cheered by the hotel staff, and Greg is presented with the bill for their service. The three depart from Empire City; Greg and Pearl chat amiably while Steven happily observes that they are on better terms ("Don't Cost Nothing (Reprise)").
Production
Episodes of Steven Universe are written and storyboarded by a single team. "Mr. Greg" was written and storyboarded by Joe Johnston and Jeff Liu, being Johnston's final episode as a storyboarder before he became the show's supervising director full-time, while Ki-Yong Bae and Jin-Hee Park provided animation direction and Jasmin Lai served as art director. The scene during "It's Over, Isn't It?" in which the camer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%20Independent%20Fiscal%20Institutions%20Network | The EU Independent Fiscal Institutions Network (EU IFIs) is a voluntary and inclusive institution open to all independent fiscal oversight bodies operating in the EU. It provides a platform to exchange views, expertise and pool resources in areas of common concern. It was formally created in September 2015 following the meeting of EU fiscal oversight bodies.
The Network supports the efforts to review and reinforce the EU fiscal framework, seeking to better exploit the synergies between rules and institutions, as well as between different levels of administration whilst respecting the principle of subsidiarity and enhancing local ownership and accountability.
The network is currently headed by Sander van Veldhuizen, Chair of the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. The Secretariat is managed by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).
Chairs
José Luis Escrivá (2015–2019)
Seamus Coffey (2019–2020)
Sander van Veldhuizen (2020–2021)
Richard van Zwol (2021–)
Participating bodies
See also
Parliamentary Budget Office (Australia)
Court of Audit (Belgium)
Parliamentary Budget Officer (Canada)
National Assembly Budget Office (Korea)
Congressional Budget Office (United States)
CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (Netherlands)
Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (Spain)
Office for Budget Responsibility (United Kingdom)
References
External links
Official website
Eurozone
Policy and political reactions to the Eurozone crisis
Fiscal federalism
2015 in the European Union
Multi-speed Europe
United Kingdom budgets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/270th%20Engineering%20Installation%20Squadron | The 270th Engineering Installation Squadron (270th EIS) is a cyberspace engineering & installation unit located at Biddle Air National Guard Base, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
History
The 270th Engineering Installation Squadron was originally activated at Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the 603rd Signal Light Construction Company on 12 April 1949. Federal recognition of the unit was extended on 17 May 1949 when the unit's manpower consisted of 2 officers and 11 Airmen.
By 1 Jan. 1951, the unit reached strength of 5 officers and 86 Airmen. When the 111th Bombardment Group, the unit's Pennsylvania Air National Guard host, was mobilized on 10 April 1951 for the Korean War, the 603rd was left as the only Air Guard unit in Philadelphia. Due to the large amount of military air traffic in the area, one officer and six Airmen were placed on permanent duty with a mission to refuel and service military aircraft; maintain operational service and logging record on a 24-hour, 7-day per week basis. The wire construction mission continued with the unit winning several awards for military professionalism.
On 1 Oct. 1952 the unit was reorganized and designated as the 270th Communications Squadron, Operations. The mission was changed from installation to operation of base communications equipment facilities to include telephone and teletype equipment. During annual training periods, unit members were integrated with active-duty Air Force communications units. When the 111th Bombardment Group returned to Philadelphia International Airport from Spokane, Washington, the 270th was relocated to the First Regiment Armory of the National Guard at 335 – 347 North Broad and Callowhill Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The unit then returned to the Philadelphia International Airport and occupied temporary hangars where Atlantic Aviation, now Macquarie Infrastructure Company operates a Fixed-Base Operator Facility. In October 1960 the unit was reorganized and designated the 270th Ground Electronics Engineering Installation Agency (GEEIA) Squadron, and returned to the fixed communications installation mission. The gaining command at the time was the Air Materiel Command.
They were then relocated to Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia until 1963 when the 111th Air Transport Group was reestablished to Willow Grove Naval Air Station, in Horsham, Pennsylvania. At that time, the 270th returned to the Philadelphia International Airport to become the sole military occupant and only Air National Guard unit in Philadelphia.
In May 1970, GEEIA was absorbed into the Air Force Communications Service, which later became the Air Force Communications Command (AFCC). The 270th was designated the 270th Electronics Installation Squadron at that time.
The unit was then rebranded in December 1982, to the designation of the 270th Engineering Installation Squadron with no change in mission or command. The 270th was relocated from Philadelphia Interna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20coding | Open coding in grounded theory method is the analytic process by which concepts (codes) to the observed data and phenomenon are attached during qualitative data analysis. It is one of the 'procedures' for working with text as characterized by Strauss (1987) and Strauss and Corbin (1990). Open coding aims at developing substantial codes describing, naming or classifying the phenomenon under consideration. Open coding is achieved by segmenting data into meaningful expressions and describing them in single word to short sequence of words. Further, relevant annotations and concepts are then attached to these expressions.
Details
Open coding may be applied in varying degrees of detail. The codes can be linked to a line, a sentence, a paragraph or wholesome text (protocol, case, etc.). The application of the alternatives depends on the research question, on the relevant data, personal style of analyst and the stage of research. However, while coding, the main aim of coding should be in sight i.e. to break down and understand the text and develop categories to be put in order in the course of time.
The result of open coding should be a list characterising codes and categories attached to the text and supported by code notes that were produced to explain the content of codes. These notes could be striking observations and thoughts that are relevant to the development of theory.
Although codes are exclusive to the research material and the style of the analyst, it is suggested researchers should address the text with the following questions:
What? – Identify the underlying issue and the phenomenon
Who? – Identify the actors involved and the roles they play.
How? – Identifying the aspects of phenomenon
When? How long? Where? – Time, course and location
How much? How long? – Identifying the intensity
Why? – Identifying the reasons attached to the phenomenon
What for? – Identifying intention or purpose
By which? – Strategies and tactics to achieve the goal
See also
Grounded theory
Axial coding
References
Data analysis
Qualitative research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad%20Cazorla | Soledad Cazorla Prieto (19 February 1955 – 4 May 2015) was a jurist and the first Spanish prosecutor against gender violence. She directed a network of fiscal specialists who worked in this field in Spain after the creation of the 2004 Integral Law against Gender Violence. She held the position for a decade, from 2005 until her death. Remembered as a defender of equality, her professional career was closely linked to the development of this law.
Biography
Cazorla was born in 1955 in Larache, then a Spanish protectorate in Morocco, where her family had emigrated at the close of the 19th century. Her father was a military officer of high rank. Her older brother, Luis María Cazorla, is also a jurist. She started her career in 1981 at the Fiscalía of Girona. In 1984, she moved to Valladolid. In 1985, she joined the Audiencia Territorial de Madrid, followed by the Inspection Office of the Fiscalía General del Estado in 1993, and afterwards, the Secretaría Técnica.
In September 1996, she was appointed public prosecutor of the High Court, where she gained, between other responsibilities, a public indictment against Mario Conde in the Banesto case.
In 2005, she rose to Public Prosecutor in the Section against Violence towards Woman she had proposed to the fiscal general of the State, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, and in October 2010, she was re-appointed. The section formed part of the Observation Against Gender Violence.
Cazorla participated in international meetings in defence of women's rights (France, United Kingdom, Morocco, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Ecuador, China or Niger) as a national jurist, collaborating in publications and articles concerning different matters related with Penal Laws.
As a defender of equality, and with a high personal commitment and professional interest in the fight against gender violence, her professional career was closely linked to the development of this law in Spain, especially, in the need to protect children who coexist with the hard reality of violence against mothers.
Cazorla was married to the journalist Joaquín Tagar and had 3 children. She died of stroke in Madrid on 4 May 2015
Recognition
2014: Medal of Honour from the School of Lawyers of Madrid.
November 2008: recognition of her work in the fight against Gender Violence awarded by the Ministry of Equality.
October 2015, inaugurated of the third Summit of Women Jurists
February 2016, the XI Edition of the Prizes of the Observatory against the domestic Violence and of gender 2016, were allocated to recognise her work.
February 2016, a scholarship fund was created for the personal development, educational support and life improvement of girls and boys who have lost their mother owing to gender violence.
References
1955 births
2015 deaths
Spanish feminists
Spanish prosecutors
Spanish jurists
People from Larache
Domestic violence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAUO-LD | KAUO-LD, virtual channel 15 (UHF digital channel 14), is a low-powered Country Network-affiliated television station licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States. Owned by HC2 Holdings, it is a sister station to Estrella TV affiliates KLKW-LD (channel 22) and KNKC-LD (channel 29).
History
The station's construction permit under the callsign K14NO-D was originally owned by EICB TV, LLC. The construction permit was granted by the FCC on February 25, 2010.
The station sale to DTV America Corporation was instituted in early 2016. DTV America signed on KAUO-LD upon the station's callsign change in June 2016. It became a Bounce TV affiliate. The Doctor Television Channel (DrTV) returned to the Amarillo area through KAUO-LD2, and the Katz Broadcasting-operated comedy network Laff became available on the third subchannel (the network can also be seen on NBC affiliate KAMR-TV's third digital subchannel). DrTV was previously available via KLKW-LD2 until December 2015. In March 2018, the station added Quest programming to its seventh digital subchannel. In June 2018, the station's fourth digital subchannel replaced Cozi TV with Justice Network.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed, as of July 16, 2021, as follows:
References
External links
DTV America
True Crime Network affiliates
AUO
Innovate Corp.
AUO-LD
2016 establishments in Texas
Television channels and stations established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate%20Data%20Format | Intermediate Data Format (IDF) files are used interoperate between electronic design automation (EDA) software and solid modeling mechanical computer-aided design (CAD) software.
The format was devised by David Kehmeier at the Mentor Graphics Corporation.
The EMN File contains the PCB-Outline, the Position of the Parts, Positions of Holes and milling, keep out regions and keep in regions.
The EMP file contains the outline and height of the parts.
Some CAD software allows the use of a map file to load more detailed part models.
Compared to STEP
STEP - also known as ISO 10303-21 - has both advantages and disadvantages over IDF.
If both MCAD and ECAD software support STEP, both programs can interchange more detailed models (at the cost of increased file size).
Step models that are rendered correctly in the ECAD software can cause problems in the MCAD.
IDF does allow the communication of keep out areas and part placements more directly.
IDF is a very simple and robust format. If necessary, the files can be edited by hand in a text editor.
External links
IDF V3.0 Specification (PDF)
IDF V4.0 Specification (PDF)
References
Computer-aided design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Time%20%28season%209%29 | The ninth season of Adventure Time, an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on the Cartoon Network on April 21, 2017 and concluded on July 21, 2017, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios. The season follows the adventures of Finn (a human boy) and his best friend and adoptive brother, Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other main characters of the show: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess.
The season was storyboarded and written by Adam Muto, Sam Alden, Polly Guo, Seo Kim, Somvilay Xayaphone, Laura Knetzger, Steve Wolfhard, Tom Herpich, Graham Falk, Kent Osborne, Hanna K. Nyström, and Aleks Sennwald. During this season the miniseries Elements aired, which follows Finn, Jake, and BMO after they return home to discover that extreme elemental magic has turned Ooo into a dystopia. Finn and Jake join Ice King (voiced by Tom Kenny), Betty (voiced by Felicia Day), and Lumpy Space Princess (voiced by Pendleton Ward) to set things straight. The season also features guest animators Alex and Lindsay Small-Butera, who worked on "Ketchup".
It began with "Orb", which was watched by 0.71 million viewers (a decrease from the previous-season finale, "Islands Part 8: The Light Cloud", which was seen by one million viewers). The ninth-season finale, "Three Buckets", was watched by 0.85 million (the lowest-rated Adventure Time season finale at the time). Critical reception of the season was mainly positive, with the episodes making up Elements largely well-received. For her work on the episode "Ketchup", Lindsay Small-Butera won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. A set containing the entire season was released on September 4, 2018.
Development
Concept
The series follows the adventures of Finn the Human (a boy) and his best friend, Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape, grow, and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other major characters: Princess Bubblegum, the Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess. Common storylines revolve around Finn and Jake discovering strange creatures, dealing with the antagonistic-but-misunderstood Ice King, and battling monsters to help others. Multi-episode story arcs for this season include Finn and Jake undoing extreme elemental magic which had transformed Ooo into a dystopia while they were away at sea, and Fern (Finn's grass-based doppelgänger) struggling with his identity and eventually succumbing to evil impulses.
Production
This season's episodes were originally ordered as part of the series' eighth season. With the release of the seventh season DVD, Cartoon Network began re-arranging the sea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Computing%20Edge | ComputingEdge is a monthly magazine published by the IEEE Computer Society since 2015. It contains curated articles from 13 IEEE publications and also features original content related to hot technology topics, providing information regarding current research developments, trends, and changes in the computing technology. Subscriptions of the magazine are provided free of cost as printed copies in the United States and as electronic copies worldwide.
References
External links
Computer magazines published in the United States
Monthly magazines published in the United States
IEEE magazines
Magazines established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCDS | FCDS may refer to:
Fairfield Country Day School, in Connecticut, United States
Forsyth Country Day School, in North Carolina, United States
Family Computer Disk System, an add-on for Nintendo's Family Computer game console
See also
FCD (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20National%20Committee%20cyber%20attacks | The Democratic National Committee cyber attacks took place in 2015 and 2016, in which two groups of Russian computer hackers infiltrated the Democratic National Committee (DNC) computer network, leading to a data breach. Cybersecurity experts, as well as the U.S. government, determined that the cyberespionage was the work of Russian intelligence agencies.
Forensic evidence analyzed by several cybersecurity firms, CrowdStrike, Fidelis, and Mandiant (or FireEye), strongly indicated that two Russian intelligence agencies separately infiltrated the DNC computer systems. CrowdStrike, which removed the hacking programs, revealed a history of encounters with both groups and had already named them, calling one of them Cozy Bear and the other Fancy Bear, names which are used in the media.
On December 9, 2016, the CIA told U.S. legislators that the U.S. Intelligence Community had concluded Russia conducted the cyberattacks and other operations during the 2016 U.S. election to assist Donald Trump in winning the presidency. Multiple U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that specific individuals tied to the Russian government provided WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the DNC, as well as stolen emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, who was also the target of a cyberattack. These intelligence organizations additionally concluded Russia hacked the Republican National Committee (R.N.C.) as well as the D.N.C., but chose not to leak information obtained from the R.N.C.
Cyber attacks and responsibility
Cyber attacks that successfully penetrated the DNC computing system began in 2015. Attacks by "Cozy Bear" began in the summer of 2015. Attacks by "Fancy Bear" began in April 2016. It was after the "Fancy Bear" group began their activities that the compromised system became apparent. The groups were presumed to have been spying on communications, stealing opposition research on Donald Trump, as well as reading all email and chats. Both were finally identified by CrowdStrike in May 2016. Both groups of intruders were successfully expelled from the DNC systems within hours after detection. These attacks were part of a group of attacks targeting U.S. government departments and several political organizations, including 2016 campaign organizations.
On July 22, 2016, a person or entity going by the moniker "Guccifer 2.0" claimed on a WordPress-hosted blog to have been acting alone in hacking the DNC. He also claimed to send significant amounts of stolen electronic DNC documents to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has not revealed the source for their leaked emails. However, cybersecurity experts and firms, including CrowdStrike, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Mandiant, SecureWorks, ThreatConnect, and the editor for Ars Technica, have rejected the claims of "Guccifer 2.0" and have determined, on the basis of substantial evidence, that the cyberattacks were committed by two Russian state-sponsored groups (Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear).
According to separate reports in The New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Sydney%20Design%20Lab | The University of Sydney Design Lab, formerly the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, is a teaching and research centre of the University's School of Architecture, Design and Planning, established in 1968. The aim of the centre is to apply human-centred design to products, services and systems.
The Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition was founded in 1968 by John Gero (its Foundation Director) to research computers in design as a way of modeling and understanding designing. In 2007, after the departure of its co-directors John Gero and Mary Lou Maher, it changed its name to the Design Lab. During the intervening years its ambit grew to embrace teaching. The KCDC’s research is founded on the use of a scientific approach to the development of models, theories and methods to understand designs and designing.
Naming history
1968 Computer Applications Research Unit (Gero 1972)
1973 Renamed Architectural Computing Unit
1982 Renamed Design Computing Unit
1990 Renamed Key Centre of Design Computing
1998 Renamed Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition
2007 Renamed Design Lab
Research
The KCDC from 1968-2007 had four overlapping foci in its design research:
The first phase (1968-1975) researched design via simulation (Gero 1970).
The second phase (1972-1983) researched design via optimization.
The third phase (1979-2007) researched design using artificial intelligence and knowledge-based approaches, with a focus on design theory, design synthesis and computational creativity (Gero and Maher 1996a; Gero and Maher 1996b).
The fourth phase (1992-2007) researched cognitive aspects of designing as a basis for models of design and as foundations for design computing.
Teaching
Undergraduate architecture student teaching of computational approaches to design, introduced in 1966 (predating the establishment of the Centre)
Professional courses for practicing designers on computational approaches to design, introduced in 1969
PhD program in design research, introduced in 1969 (Gero 2004)
Master of Architectural Computing, introduced in 1978
Graduate Diploma in Architectural Computing, introduced in 1978 (Gero 1980)
Master of Design Science (Design Computing), introduced in 1988
Bachelor of Design Computing, introduced in 2003
Conferences
The Key Centre was very active in organizing conferences and workshops as a means of both creating a research community and producing a broader impact.
References
External links
University of Sydney website
Design Lab
1968 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Koch%20Institute | The Charles Koch Institute is a libertarian-oriented public policy research, programming, grant-making, and fellowship-funding organization based in Virginia. Named after Charles Koch, its founder and primary financier, it pursues conservative economic policies and a non-interventionist foreign policy that has been characterized as anti-neoconservative.
History
The Charles Koch Institute was established in 2011 and is housed in a building which it shares with the Charles Koch Foundation. According to Charles Koch, the institute is the beneficiary of a majority of his personal political donations, or those separate from what originates from Koch Industries.
Governance
The institute is governed by a board of directors composed of Charles Koch, Chase Koch, Elizabeth Koch, and Richard Fink. Its president is Brian Hooks.
Programs
Domestic policy
According to the institute, it funds "research that furthers an understanding of how cronyism and corporate welfare affect individual and societal well-being".
In 2015 the organization partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union to study the implications of legislation limiting asset forfeiture in New Mexico. The institute has also developed a Prison Entrepreneurship Program that sponsors business classes and a business plan competition for U.S. prison inmates.
Foreign policy
The institute finances research, forums, and speaking tours regarding U.S. foreign policy, describing its worldview as one that "emphasizes the need to defend our territorial integrity from aggression, promote free trade, peacefully engage with the world, and serve as an exemplar of liberal values".
In 2016 The Intercept described the institute's foreign policy agenda as emblematic of "how foreign policy no longer neatly aligns with party politics", observing one event the organization hosted that appeared more like "a left-wing anti-war rally than a gathering hosted by a longtime right-wing institution". The same year it hosted a conference headlined by Chas Freeman, Stephen Walt, and John Mearsheimer.
Professional education
According to the organization, it underwrites several professional education programs, including the "Koch Associate Program", a fellowship which funds the placement of selected applicants into management positions at partner organizations, which include the Acton Institute, the Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University, the James Madison Institute, and others.
References
Koch network
Libertarian organizations based in the United States
Libertarian think tanks
Non-interventionism
Organizations established in 2011
Political and economic think tanks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy%20DBL | Synergy DBL (Data Business Language) is a compiled, imperative programming language designed for business use. The language was originally called DBL; later it was referred to as Synergy Language; as of 2012 the official name is Synergy DBL. It is based on Digital Equipment Corporation’s DIBOL programming language.
DBL has an English-like syntax that was designed to be self-documenting and highly readable, but not verbose. The language is procedural and, since 2007 (version 9.1), object-oriented. Support for Microsoft’s .NET Framework was added in 2010 (version 9.5).
Code is split into two divisions (data and procedure) and uses a rigid hierarchy. The language includes a standard library consisting of 240 built-in subroutines and functions, 10 built-in classes, and 11 APIs that provide functionality such as access to XML from within DBL programs and sending and receiving data via HTTP/HTTPS.
Synergy DBL is cross-platform, with the current version running on all modern Windows platforms (Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 and higher), as well as on HP-UX, IBM AIX, Oracle Solaris, several varieties of Linux and OpenVMS. Applications can be developed on one platform and ported to other platforms.
Traditional DBL is implemented as bytecode, which is executed by the Synergy Runtime. Synergy .NET programs are CLS-compliant and run under the .NET Framework.
DBL is distributed as part of a suite of programming tools sold as Synergy/DE Professional Series by Synergex International Corporation.
History
Synergy DBL is based on Digital Equipment Corporation’s DIBOL. DBL was developed by Digital Information Systems Corporation (DISC; the company name was changed to Synergex in 1996) in the late 1970s as a DIBOL alternative, targeting system integrators who combined DEC hardware with third-party peripherals. DIBOL ran only on DEC hardware, while DBL ran on most major business computer platforms.
By mid-1979, DBL was being sold as a DIBOL-compatible compiler for PDP-11 (and compatibles) running RT-11 and RSTS/E.
November 1980: DBL 2.0 released for DEC’s PDP-11- based systems. It compiled and executed programs written in DBL 1.3 or Dibol-11, and ran on RT-11, TSX, RSTS, and RSX-11M. This was the first structured version of DBL. New features included an INCLUDE facility, global storage definition, and fixed-length binary I/O.
January 1983: VMS native-mode version of DBL released to run on VAX. At this time, DBL was also available for DEC RT-11, TSX/TSX-Plus, RSTS, and RSX-11M/M-Plus.
Summer 1984: Initial version 4 released for MS-DOS. (Other platforms were released in 1985, including VMS and TSX-Plus.) The language was rewritten in C and included support for virtual memory, multi-dimensional arrays, and the ability to bind two or more programs together into one executable.
December 1984: DBL version 4 released for the AT&T Unix operating system. It included the ability to chain to non-DBL programs and interface to subroutines written in other languages.
Decemb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit%20Lal | Amit Lal is an American academic, a Robert M. Scharf 1977 Professor of Engineering at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Cornell University and director of SonicMEMS laboratory.
He served as a Program Manager at DARPA in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO), from 2005 to 2009. At DARPA he managed ten and started six new programs in the area of navigation, low-energy computation, bio-robotics, and atomic microsystems.
References
External links
https://www.ece.cornell.edu/
http://sonicmems.ece.cornell.edu/
Cornell University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ekspress%20satellites | Ekspress (Russian: , literally Express) is a communication and broadcasting system developed and operated by Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC). It is the largest network of Russia and its slots cover an arc in geostationary orbit from 14.0° West to 145.0° East. This allows it to cover the whole territory of Russia, the CIS, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, North and South America, and Australia.
The only other Russian civilian satellite operator is Gazprom Space Systems with its Yamal constellation.
Ekspress satellite series
While the Ekspress constellation started with a single model, during the years it has used many suppliers and many models.
See also
Telecommunications in Russia
Russian Satellite Communications Company – Satellite communication company of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation and owner of the Ekspress satellite series.
Gazprom Space Systems – Satellite communication division of the Russian oil giant Gazprom and owner of the Yamal system and the only other Russian satellite operator.
Yamal (satellite constellation) – The only other Russian civilian communications satellite constellation.
References
External links
Russian Satellite Communications Company
Communications satellites of Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Crimes%20Act%201997 | The Computer Crimes Act 1997 (), is a Malaysian law which was enacted to provide for offences relating to the misuse of computers.
Structure
The Computer Crimes Act 1997, in its current form (1 January 2006), consists of 3 Parts containing 12 sections and no schedule (including no amendment).
Part I: Preliminary
Part II: Offences
Part III: Ancillary and General Provisions
References
External links
Computer Crimes Act 1997
1997 in Malaysian law
Malaysian federal legislation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%20Protect%20and%20Serve%20Man | "To Protect and Serve Man" is the 11th episode of the supernatural drama television series Grimm of season 2 and the 33rd overall, which premiered on November 9, 2012, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by Dan E. Fesman, and was directed by Omar Madha.
Plot
Opening quote: "The beast was simply the Call of the Wild personified... which some natures hear to their own destruction."
In a flashback to 7 years earlier, Hank (Russell Hornsby) and his partner are called to a fight in a house. At the scene, they find one man dead and another wounded. A third man, Craig Ferren (Jason Gedrick), flees but Hank catches and arrests him while he yells about "monsters" wanting to eat him.
In the present, it is one day before Ferren's execution. Knowing what he now does about Wesen, Hank thinks that Ferren may have been telling the truth, and asks Nick (David Giuntoli) for help to prove his innocence. They find a drawing of what Ferren saw, which Nick identifies as a Wendigo—a cannibalistic type of Wesen that kills humans and buries the bodies in a pit. They go to the location of the house intending to search for bodies, but discover that a grocery store has been built on the site.
Nick and Hank visit the address of the wounded man, John Kreski (Jamie McShane). They find bodies under the house, but Kreski arrives and attacks them: he traps Nick in the body pit and escapes. Nick calls DA Lauren Castro (Lisa Vidal) to convince her to stay the execution. Kreski confronts Nick and is killed by Hank. The authorities inspect the grocery store and find more bodies. Castro announces that Ferren is to be released pending further investigation.
Renard (Sasha Roiz) arrives at the spice shop hoping to collect the potion to reverse his obsession, bringing Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) with him. Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) walks in on them kissing and is shocked to recognize Juliette.
Reception
Viewers
The episode was viewed by 5.21 million people, earning a 1.7/5 in the 18-49 rating demographics on the Nielson ratings scale, ranking second on its timeslot and fourth for the night in the 18-49 demographics, behind Malibu Country, Undercover Boss, and Shark Tank. This was an 8% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 5.64 million viewers with a 1.8/5. This means that 1.7 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 5 percent of all households watching television at that time watched it. With DVR factoring in, the episode was watched by 8.08 million viewers with a 2.9 ratings share in the 18-49 demographics.
Critical reviews
"To Protect and Serve Man" received positive reviews. The A.V. Club's Les Chappell gave the episode a "B+" grade and wrote, "'To Protect And Serve Man' doesn't do much to break this trend — with the exception of one promising development I'll get to later — but as a case of the week it's above duller installments like 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Other Side.' This is largely because it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20Language%20Workshop | The Physical Language Workshop (PLW) was a research group at the MIT Media Laboratory from 2003 to 2008. The group led by John Maeda and designed tools for creating digital art in a networked environment. The primary impact targets of the Physical Language Workshop were in the areas of digital media service architectures, distance education, and information visualisation systems.
One major group research of PLW was OPENSTUDIO, an experimental online micro-economy for arts, where participants created and sold artwork in an online marketplace using a virtual currency. The OPENSTUDIO platform was active from 2005 to 2008. OPENSTUDIO was developed and maintained by the PLW researchers Burak Arikan, Luis Blackaller, Annie Ding, Brent Fitzgerald, Amber Frid-Jimenez, Kate Hollenbach, Kelly Norton as well as contributions by Noah Fields, Carlos Rocha, Marc Schwartz.
On the OPENSTUDIO's community-based economic system, participants created, bought, and sold artwork with free creative tools, a flexible network infrastructure, supported by an open web services API. Draw was the first application run on OPENSTUDIO to make simple vector illustrations and stored drawing data in the SVG format. When you bought a drawing from someone, you could open it in Draw and make a new work of your own derived from the modified piece. The versions of the drawings, its connections between the modified art works, and previous owners of the works known as provenance were kept and openly presented on the platform interfaces.
The OPENSTUDIO Archive lives in a GitHub repository and contains SVG files and info to retrieve 5 years of meta-data.
Another group project was E15 (software), an OpenGL-based web environment for creating rich interactions with existing web content. E15 was developed by Kyle Buza, Takashi Okamoto, Luis Blackaller, and Kate Hollenbach.
History
The origins of Physical Language Workshop lies in the research of the Aesthetics and Computation Group (1996 - 2003) also led by John Maeda, as well as the Visible Language Workshop (1974 - 1994) led by Muriel Cooper at the MIT Media Laboratory.
In 1985, the Visible Language Workshop joined the MIT Architectural Machine Group, and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) to form the MIT Media Lab, which was instituted by Professor Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President and Science Advisor to President John F. Kennedy, Jerome Wiesner.
References
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Media Lab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISOCELL | The ISOCELL CMOS camera sensors are a family of sensors produced by Samsung and available for purchase by other companies. They are used in a wide variety of products including mobile phones, computers and digital cameras.
Design
These sensors use one of the following pixel type technologies:
FSI: frontside-illuminated. The light that reaches the photosensitive area is reduced because it needs to pass through multiple metal and dielectric layers.
BSI: backside-illuminated.The metal wiring shifted to backside of photosensitive area(photodiode). The light reaches the photosensitive area directly.
ISOCELL: ISOCELL combines 3D-BSI with Front-side, Full-depth, Deep-Trench Isolation (F-DTI) and Vertical Transfer Gate (VTG). This provides increased light sensitivity and higher color fidelity even in poor lighting conditions.
ISOCELL Plus: ISOCELL Plus replaces ISOCELL's metal grid barriers with an innovative new material developed by Fujifilm. This minimizes optical loss and light reflection, providing higher color fidelity and up to a 15% enhancement in light sensitivity compared to ISOCELL.
ISOCELL 2.0: ISOCELL 2.0 builds on ISOCELL Plus technology by additionally replacing the lower portion of the color filter barriers with a more reflective material. It further reduces optical loss in each pixel and drastically improves light sensitivity producing even more vivid pictures with reduced noise.
These sensors can be configured with one of the following chroma technologies:
BW also known as Monochrome. No color filter array.
RGB also known as Bayer filter or RGGB. Features a repeating 2×2 pattern with 1 red, 2 green and 1 blue pixels.
Tetracell also known as Quad Bayer or 4-cell. For darker scenes, signal processing can combine data from 2x2 pixel groups to essentially act like a larger pixel with a repeating 4×4 subpixel pattern with 4 red, 8 green and 4 blue subpixels. For brighter scenes, signal processing can convert the Tetracell into a conventional RGB filter to achieve 4x higher resolution. Resolution & pixel size listed below is after re-mosaic signal processing.
Nonacell is similar to Tetracell, but with 3x3 pixel groups and a 6×6 pattern with 9 red, 18 green and 9 blue subpixels.
ChameleonCell is similar to Tetracell and Nonacell, but with 4x4 pixel groups and a 8x8 pattern with 16 red, 32 green and 16 blue subpixels.
List of sensors
1: The Galaxy S7 family utilizes either one of two sensors: the Samsung S5K2L1 or the Sony IMX260. They are regarded as nearly identical sensors.
2: The Galaxy S6 family and Note 5 utilizes either one of two sensors: the Samsung S5K2P2 or the Sony IMX240. They are regarded as nearly identical sensors.
3: The Xiaomi Mi 4C and Oneplus X utilize either one of two sensors: the Samsung S5K3M2 or the Sony IMX258. They are similar sensors, but the IMX258 is a newer unit.
4: The Galaxy S8 family utilizes either one of two sensors: the Samsung S5K2L2 or the Sony IMX333. They are regarded as nearly identical sens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Nelson%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Charles Gregory Nelson (27 March 1953 – 2 February 2015) was an American computer scientist.
Biography
Nelson grew up in Honolulu. As a boy he excelled at gymnastics and tennis. He attended the University Laboratory School. He received his B.A. degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1976. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1980 under the supervision of Robert Tarjan. He lived in Juneau, Alaska for a year before settling permanently in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Notable work
His thesis, Techniques for Program Verification, influenced both program verification and automated theorem proving, especially in the area now named satisfiability modulo theories, where he contributed techniques for combining decision procedures, as well as efficient decision procedures for quantifier-free constraints in first-order logic and term algebra. He received the Herbrand Award in 2013:
He was instrumental in developing the Simplify theorem prover used by ESC/Java. He made significant contributions in several other areas. He contributed to the field of programming language design as a member of the Modula-3 committee. In distributed systems he contributed to Network Objects. He made pioneering contributions with his constraint-based graphics editors (Juno and Juno-2), windowing system (Trestle), optimal code generation (Denali), and multi-threaded programming (Eraser).
See also
List of computer scientists
List of programmers
References
1953 births
2015 deaths
Harvard University alumni
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists
American computer scientists
American computer programmers
Programming language researchers
Programming language designers
Formal methods people
Scientists from Hawaii
Scientists at PARC (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Cutler | Terry Cutler is a Canadian cyber security expert and teacher, often described as an "ethical hacker" for his long term work with cyber security and protection. Cutler is the founder, former CTO, and current CEO of Cyology Labs and the vice-president of cyber security at SIRCO. He is also the creator of "The Course On Internet Safety". Cyology Labs's focal point is cyber security and data safety. Prior to founding Cyology Labs in 2015, Cutler founded Digital Locksmiths, Inc. focusing on data security of cloud and mobile solutions. Cutler is an often cited source on Cyber security and has been featured on various televisions shows across Canada. He describes himself as a "cyologist", a trademarked term of his own invention for a person who works in cyber security.
Cyber security work
From 2005 on Terry Cutler has worked in cyber security, starting out working with companies such as Novell Canada. As part of his work he became a Certified Ethical Hacker, leaning the methods of how hackers work and putting that knowledge to work to prevent illegal access to data or systems. Over the years his expertise in cyber security has led to him being featured on news shows across Canada when talking about online safety, identity theft, hacking and the rise of cyber bullying in the latter part of the 2000s and the 2010s. He would also become a member of both High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), and the Center for Internet Security (CIS). Over the years Cutler has been a regular contributor for Securityweek.com as part of their expert panels.
In 2011 Cutler left Novell Canada and founded Digital Locksmiths, Inc., a Montreal-based company that focuses on data security and defense, especially in cloud and mobile solutions, and also served as its Chief Technology Officer. In 2013 the company introduced a product known as S.P.E.C., (Security, Privacy, Electronic, Concierge) designed to help keep data safe. Cutler was asked to use his expertise to assist author Robert Beggs as a technical reviewer for his book "Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing", later calling it "a must have for your IT security library". He would go on to create "The Course On Internet Safety" e-learning online courses, promoted under the umbrella of the "Internet Safety University". The courses are designed to teach individuals how to keep their data safe and how to avoid unintentional breaches of personal data when online. The course also addresses subjects such as sexting and cyberbullying, advising parents on how to identify it and how to deal with it if it happens to their children. Cutler later described this initiative as "giving back to the community".
In 2015 Cutler left Digital Locksmiths, Inc. to found Cyology Labs in Montreal, Quebec. Cyology Labs focuses on cyber security and security testing, with Cutler serving as company's Chief Executive Officer. On his website he describes himself and his co-workers as "the white hats" as they fight crim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoh | Odoh may refer to:
Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH), a computer network protocol
Ohio Department of Transportation, formerly known as the Ohio Department of Highways
Abraham Odoh, English footballer
Diego Odoh Okenyodo, Nigerian writer, activist, and pharmacist
Uche Odoh, Nigerian photographer
Igbo-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer%202.0 | "Guccifer 2.0" is a persona which claimed to be the hacker(s) who gained unauthorized access to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) computer network and then leaked its documents to the media, the website WikiLeaks, and a conference event. Some of the documents "Guccifer 2.0" released to the media appear to be forgeries cobbled together from public information and previous hacks, which had been mixed with disinformation. According to indictments in February 2018, the persona is operated by Russian military intelligence agency GRU. On July 13, 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 GRU agents for allegedly perpetrating the cyberattacks.
The U.S. Intelligence Community assessed with high confidence that some of the genuine leaks from "Guccifer 2.0" were part of a series of cyberattacks on the DNC committed by two Russian military intelligence groups, and that "Guccifer 2.0" is actually a persona created by Russian intelligence services to cover for their interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. This conclusion is based on intelligence analysis and analyses conducted by multiple private sector cybersecurity individuals and firms, including CrowdStrike, Fidelis Cybersecurity, FireEye's Mandiant, SecureWorks, ThreatConnect, Trend Micro, and the security editor for Ars Technica. The Russian government denies involvement in the theft, and "Guccifer 2.0" denied links to Russia.
In March 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller took over investigation of Guccifer 2.0 from the FBI while it was reported that forensic determination had found the Guccifer 2.0 persona to be a "particular military intelligence directorate (GRU) officer working out of the agency's headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow".
Identity
On June 21, 2016, in an interview with Vice, "Guccifer 2.0" said he is Romanian, which is the nationality of Marcel Lazar Lehel, the Romanian hacker who originally used the "Guccifer" pseudonym. On June 30, 2016, and January 12, 2017, "Guccifer 2.0" stated that he is not Russian. However, despite stating that he was unable to read or understand Russian, metadata of emails sent from Guccifer 2.0 to The Hill showed that a predominantly-Russian-language VPN was used. When pressed to use the Romanian language in an interview with Motherboard via online chat, "he used such clunky grammar and terminology that experts believed he was using an online translator." Linguistic analysis by Shlomo Engelson Argamon showed that Guccifer 2.0 is most likely "a Russian pretending to be a Romanian". When asked about Guccifer 2.0's leaks, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said "These look very much like they’re from the Russians. But in some ways, they look very amateur, and almost look too much like the Russians."
Some cybersecurity experts have concluded that "Guccifer 2.0" is likely a creation of the Russian state-sponsored hacking groups thought to have executed the attack, invented to cover up Russian responsibility. The cybersecurity f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamsong | "Dreamsong" is a 1978 recording created by American computer music musician and composer Michael McNabb at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in Stanford University. The composition has been discussed by numerous composers and book authors, one of them including Adrian Moore who labeled it a "pioneering work" of electroacoustic music. It is significant for being one of the earliest examples of works that combine natural and non-natural "new" sounds in a sophisticated manner with digital processing. MUS10, a compiler developed from Max Mathews' Music IV synthesis software that had a huge amount of flexibility in designing and synthesizing sounds, was used for the instrument design and synthesis of "Dreamsong", a project primarily intended to create an unlimited amount of obtainable new sounds.
Production
"Dreamsong" was composed and produced by McNabb at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics between 1977 and 1978. It was produced with the compiler MUS10, a version of Tovar's MUSCMP developed by Leland Smith from Max Mathews' Music IV synthesis software. MUS10 was used for making the instruments because it allowed for much more control over the design and synthesis of a sound than any other synthesizer or program available during the late 1970s; given that the compiler was programmed with the language ALGOL, a user could control the initialization-time and run-time functions. The fundamental purpose of making "Dreamsong" was to create an unlimited amount of obtainable new sounds, and the amount of flexibility in designing and synthesizing the instruments MUS10 could offer was a necessity in achieving this goal. Composer Loren Rush's program EDSND and the program S by James A. Moorer were used for analysing, filtering and editing the sounds, while notes from some parts of the composition were inputted with the scorewriter SCORE. A DEC KL-10 was used for carrying out all computations for "Dreamsong".
The composition consisted of both natural sounds tracked digitally that were recognizable to the human listener and non-natural sounds made with synthesizers that were described by McNabb as "totally new" and took the song into "the dream realm of the imagination, with all that that implies with regard to transitions, recurring elements, and the unexpected". "Dreamsong" includes numerous forms of processed digital recordings of soprano vocals by Marilyn Barber. The soprano singing ten held notes of various pitches and syllables, as well as a glissando, were recorded. Some of the soprano tones were resynthesized with additive synthesis based on a Fourier transform of original firm wave functions, and these resynthesized tones replaced the original signals. This was done for better harmonic control of the waves. Additive synthesis was also the primary utility for creating a drone-sounding instrument that performs another principal melody in the piece. The instrument randomly makes its own formants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Ninja%20Warrior | Australian Ninja Warrior is a sports entertainment competition spin-off of the Japanese television series Sasuke which premiered on 9 July 2017 on the Nine Network. It features hundreds of competitors attempting to complete series of obstacle courses of increasing difficulty, in hopes of advancing to the finals and becoming the season's "Australian Ninja Warrior."
On 15 September 2022, the series was cancelled by Nine and wouldn't return in 2023.
History
The series was announced in 2016 with applications open until 9 September 2016, with filming between November & December 2016 on Cockatoo Island. The series was officially confirmed at Nine's upfronts in November 2016 with Rebecca Maddern announced as host. A few days after the announcement, Ben Fordham was announced as second host & Freddie Flintoff as the series' sideline reporter. The series began airing on 9 July 2017.
The series was renewed for a second season during the season one final which was filmed between December 2017 & January 2018, with applications that closed by 3 September 2017. On 11 October 2017, the series was officially confirmed for renewal at Nine's upfronts, also confirming Fordham, Maddern & Flintoff returning for the second season. The second season began airing on 8 July 2018.
On 17 October 2018, the series was officially renewed for a third season at Nine's upfronts, also confirming Fordham, Maddern & Flintoff returning for the third season. Filming for the series was relocated to Spotswood in Melbourne with filming commencing 15 November until 1 December. The third season began airing on 8 July 2019.
On 17 October 2019, the series was officially renewed for a fourth season at Nine's upfronts, also confirming Fordham, Maddern & Flintoff returning for the fourth season. The series will again be relocated, filming will take place at Melbourne Showgrounds in Ascot Vale. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nine has introduced Audience Lock-out meaning members of the public can not attend as audience, only family members of contestants will be allowed to attend, as well as co-host Rebecca Maddern, who was put in self-isolation, was temporarily replaced by Shane Crawford for two heats, she has since been cleared and returned to filming. Crawford returned to the season as sideline commentator for the Semis and Grand Final after Freddie Flintoff had to fly back to the UK before coronavirus pandemic measures came into effect. The fourth season began airing on 26 July 2020.
Ben Polson became the first contestant to win after four seasons. His prize was $400,000 and the title of ‘Australian Ninja Warrior’.
Nine Network announced a fifth season on 16 September 2020. Casting applications are open until 30 November 2020. The series was again relocated, filming took place in Homebush, New South Wales. In June 2021, Nine announced Nick Kyrgios would be joining the series as a sideline commentator alongside Shane Crawford; Freddie Flintoff will not be returning due to travel challen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20sigmoid | In artificial intelligence, especially computer vision and artificial neural networks, a hard sigmoid is non-smooth function used in place of a sigmoid function. These retain the basic shape of a sigmoid, rising from 0 to 1, but using simpler functions, especially piecewise linear functions or piecewise constant functions. These are preferred where speed of computation is more important than precision.
Examples
The most extreme examples are the sign function or Heaviside step function, which go from −1 to 1 or 0 to 1 (which to use depends on normalization) at 0.
Other examples include the Theano library, which provides two approximations: ultra_fast_sigmoid, which is a multi-part piecewise approximation and hard_sigmoid, which is a 3-part piecewise linear approximation (output 0, line with slope 0.2, output 1).
References
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Sampson%27s%20Body%20Hack | Todd Sampson's Body Hack (also known as Body Hack) is an Australian documentary television series which first premiered on 4 October 2016 on Network Ten.
The series was renewed for a second season in November 2016 which was set to air in 2017, however the series aired in 2018 and was titled Todd Sampson's Body Hack 2.0.
A third season was officially renewed by Network 10 in November 2018 and premiered on 25 June 2019 at 8:40 pm.
Season four commenced on Tuesday, 15 September 2020.
Broadcast
The series first premiered on Tuesday, 4 October 2016 at 9:00pm. The second season premiered on Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 8:45pm. The third season premiered on Tuesday, 25 June 2019 at 8:40pm. The fourth season premiered on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 7:30pm.
Synopsis
Filmed around the world over a period of six months, Todd will take on some of the biggest challenges of his life as he embarks on an epic exploration, investigating some of the world's most extraordinary people. He deconstructs and decodes how these incredible people live, what they do differently from the rest of us and how this impacts the human body.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2018)
Season 3 (2019)
Season 4 (2020)
References
External links
2010s Australian documentary television series
2016 Australian television series debuts
Network 10 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise%20Mode | Cruise Mode is an Australian motoring magazine television series which screened on Network Ten from 23 July 2016 at 3pm Saturdays. It is hosted by Shannon Noll and Charli Robinson and is about special cars, special places and special road trips.
From the beach to bush a classic car and classic destination Cruise Mode is a relaxed way to explore all that great motoring has to offer
Network 10 original programming
Automotive television series
2016 Australian television series debuts
2017 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Market%20Kitchen | My Market Kitchen is an Australian cooking television series which debuted on Network Ten on 22 August 2016, currently hosted by Matt Sinclair, Laura Sharrad and Mike Reid. It was previously hosted by Emma Dean and Lynton Tapp from 2016 to 2018, then Elena Duggan and Khanh Ong for the 2019 series and Ben O'Donoghue for the 2020 series.
Presenters
References
External links
My Market Kitchen HQ at Instagram
My Market Kitchen TV
My Market Kitchen - About Us
Network 10 original programming
Australian cooking television series
2016 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOHOware%20Incorporated | SOHOware Incorporated is an American companythat produces computer networking devices. SOHOware, Inc. was founded in 1990 as NDC Communications, changing its name to SOHOware in March 2000. It produces consumer and commercial products, including wireless LANs, ethernet hubs, wireless mesh networks, wireless hotspots, and firewall residential gateways.
Partnerships
SOHOware claimed strategic partnerships with Intel, Comcast, Cox, and others. In August 2004, Airgo Networks first announced that they would be partnering with SOHOware, among others. September 2005, it was announced that Airgo Networks would be shipping their Wi-Fi chips with network products by several companies, which included SOHOware.
References
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California
Electronics companies established in 1990
Consumer electronics retailers in the United States
1990 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum%20Classic | Ethereum Classic is a blockchain-based distributed computing platform which offers smart contract (scripting) functionality. It is open source and supports a modified version of Nakamoto consensus via transaction-based state transitions executed on a public Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
Ethereum Classic maintains the original, unaltered history of the Ethereum network. The Ethereum project's mainnet initially released via Frontier on 30 July 2015. However, due to a hack of a third-party project, The DAO, the Ethereum Foundation created a new version of the Ethereum mainnet on 20 July 2016 with an irregular state change implemented that erased the DAO theft from the Ethereum blockchain history. The Ethereum Foundation applied their trademark to the new, altered version of the Ethereum blockchain; Ethereum (code: ETH). The older, unaltered version of Ethereum was renamed and continued on as Ethereum Classic (code: ETC).
Ethereum Classic's native Ether token is a cryptocurrency traded on digital currency exchanges under the currency code ETC. Ether is created as a reward to network nodes for a process known as "mining", which validates computations performed on Ethereum Classic's EVM. Implemented on 11 December 2017, the current ETC monetary policy seeks the same goals as bitcoin of being mechanical, algorithmic, and capped. ETC can be exchanged for network transaction fees or other assets, commodities, currencies, products, and services.
Ethereum Classic provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes. The virtual machine's instruction set is Turing-complete in contrast to others like bitcoin script. Gas, an internal transaction pricing mechanism, is used to mitigate spam and allocate resources on the network.
Milestones
Frontier
Several codenamed prototypes of the Ethereum platform were developed by the Ethereum Foundation, as part of their proof-of-concept series, prior to the official launch of the Frontier network. Ethereum Classic followed this codebase after the DAO incident.
The DAO bailout
On 20 July 2016, as a result of the exploitation of a flaw in The DAO project's smart contract software, and subsequent theft of $50 million worth of Ether, the Ethereum network split into two separate blockchains – the altered history was named Ethereum (ETH) and the unaltered history was named Ethereum Classic (ETC).
The new chain with the altered history was branded as Ethereum (code: ETH) with the BIP-44 Coin Index 60 and EVM Chain ID 1 attributed to it by the trademark-owning Ethereum Foundation. On this new chain, the history of the theft was erased from the Ethereum blockchain.
Some members of the Ethereum community ignored the change and continued to participate on the original Ethereum network. The non-fork chain with an unaltered history continued on as Ethereum Classic (code: ETC) with the BIP-44 Coin Index 61 an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calum%20Chace | Calum Chace (born 20 March 1959) is an English writer and speaker, focusing on the likely future impact of Artificial Intelligence on people and societies.
He is the author of Surviving AI, The Economic Singularity, and the philosophical science fiction novels Pandora's Brain, and its sequel, Pandora's Oracle.
Education
Chace studied at Maidstone Grammar School in Kent, England. He later studied philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) at Oxford University. His interest in AI stems from his reading of science fiction, which he describes as philosophy in fancy dress.
Career
Prior to becoming a full-time writer and speaker in 2012, Chace had a 30-year career in journalism and business. He trained as a journalist with the BBC, and later he wrote a column for the FT. He is now a contributor to Forbes magazine. He moved into business, and ran a media practice at KPMG before serving as director and CEO for a number of entrepreneurial businesses.
He has published five books on Artificial Intelligence.
In 2017, Chace co-founded the Economic Singularity Club, "a loose group of technologists, academics and writers who think the threat of mass technological unemployment is worth taking seriously". In January 2019 the group published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories by some of its members speculating on what the world might look like in 2045.
Publications
Talks
In July 2019, Chace was listed among the top 50 futurist speakers in the world.
Economic Singularity
Chace describes the economic singularity as the time when technological unemployment becomes a reality. He argues that "it is at least a serious possibility that within a generation, many or even most people will be unemployable because machines will be able to do whatever they could do for money better, cheaper and faster. We should be taking this possibility seriously and working out what we would do about it."
“In the past, automation hasn’t caused lasting unemployment and has raised the level of wealth in the economy and created new jobs, but past examples of automation have replaced our muscle power and we had our cognitive abilities.” So what will happen when robots automate our cognitive work? "When they start seeing cars driving around with no one driving them, people will realise how impressive computers are. If we don't have a plan, people will panic."
“I think our best hope going forward is figuring out how to live in an economy of radical abundance, where machines do all the work, and we basically play.” “A world where machines do all the jobs could be a world where humans do more important things, like playing, learning and having fun, but paying for that is going to be tricky.”
External links
Website
References
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
English science fiction writers
1959 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-Map | Field-Map is a proprietary integrated tool designed for programmatic field data collection from IFER – Monitoring and Mapping Solutions, Ltd.
It is mainly used for the allocation of forest ecosystems and data collection during field analysis. This application is able to work with relational databases, and provides seamless communication with external devices such as GPS, laser rangefinders and for national forest inventories in Ireland, Cape Verde, Czech Republic, Belgium, Slovakia, Hungary and Russia
References
In Transcarpathia, Ukraine, GIS Aids Statistical Forest Inventory. Retrieved on 2009-13-3.
External links
IFER page for the product
Topography techniques
Forestry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Haanstra | John Wilson Haanstra (May 12, 1926 – August 16, 1969) was an electrical engineer and a computer industry executive. Haanstra was notable for his chairmanship of IBM's SPREAD task force whose work led to the creation of the System/360 product line.
Early career
Born in San Francisco, California, Haanstra graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949 with a degree in electrical engineering. In 1950 he went to work for IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York. During the Korean War he was recalled to serve in the Navy. Following his discharge he rejoined IBM in 1952 in the San Jose Laboratory. He was responsible for designing the IBM 305 RAMAC, "the first commercial computer that used a moving-head hard disk drive", announced in 1956.
1401 and System/360
In 1957 he was promoted to assistant general manager of General Products Division (GPD), and in 1961 he became president of the division. There he oversaw the deployment of the highly successful 1401 computer system. Also in 1961 IBM vice president T. Vincent Learson established the 12-person SPREAD task group, with Haanstra as chairman and Bob O. Evans as vice chairman. The result, a 26-page report, was published in December, 1961, and "became the basis for the System/360 series and its operating system." Haanstra agreed that GPD would produce the low-end model of System/360 that became the Model 30. However, he was not fully on board with the "New Product Line" (NPL) as System/360 was known at the time. To compete with the newly announced 1401-compatible Honeywell 200 system, Haanstra had GPD secretly produce a plan for a much faster 1401S system, which he presented to IBM President Thomas Watson Jr. in January, 1964, along with a suggestion that he delay the introduction of the Model 30. Although Watson praised the plan, in the event Haanstra was removed as president of GPD, and the 360 project continued as planned.
Later career at IBM
Despite his demotion (Evans calls it "IBM purgatory"), in 1965 Haanstra was appointed president of IBM's newly formed Systems Development Division (SDD), responsible for all IBM computer research and development. Later that year, however, delays in System/360 manufacturing caused Watson to remove Haanstra from SDD and assign him to a committee called the "four horsemen" along with John Gibson, Clarence E. Frizzell, and Henry E. Cooley. The committee was to coordinate all IBM manufacturing and laboratory locations and "decide how to meet System/360 manufacturing commitments." In 1966 Bob Evans lobbied and had Haanstra appointed vice president of the IBM Federal Systems Division (FSD) Federal Systems Center.
General Electric
In August 1967 Haanstra left IBM and went to work for General Electric's computer division in Phoenix, Arizona as special assistant to the head of GE's Information Systems Division, and in 1968 he was appointed head of advanced planning
At General Electric Haanstra contributed to the design of Project Charlie, a line of medium size |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne%20Vanel | Eugène Vanel was a 19th-century French playwright, journalist and writer.
Director of the Mandataire, journal des employés et des administrations and of L'Intervention universelle (1849) then of the political newspaper the Frondeur, he was sentenced in 1845 to one month in prison and 200 francs fine for "Having treated of political matters without first filing a bond".
Author of polemical works, his plays were presented among others at the Théâtre du Panthéon and the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin.
In 1869–70, he directed the Journal de la parfumerie.
Works
1838: 19 coups de canon ! ! !, À propos in 1 act mingled with couplets
1839: Les Belles femmes de Paris, comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Ange-Jean-Robert Eustache Angel
1840: La Chambre des députés, satire en vers à l'occasion de la translation des cendres de Napoléon
1840: Deux Secrets, one-act drama, mingled with couplets
1840: La Colonne de Juillet, chant patriotique sur l'air du Chant du départ
1840: L'Ombre de Napoléon, ou l'Arrivée de ses cendres, chant national sur l'air de la Marseillaise
1841: Le roi d'Yvetot, légende historique et burlesque
1841: Histoire populaire de tous les théâtres de Paris
1841: Histoire de la censure
1843: Pendu ou fusillé !, comedy mingled with singing, with Ernest Brisson
1844: Le 12 et le 13 juillet
1853: À Napoléon III, le tombeau de l'anarchie
1856: À l'enfant de France, naissance et Te Deume
References
External links
List of his plays on data.bnf.fr
19th-century French journalists
French male journalists
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
19th-century French male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundcity%20Radio%20Network | Soundcity Radio Network is a Nigerian FM radio and nationwide digital radio station that follows a Top 40 music format and is owned by Alphavision Multimedia, a subsidiary of the Consolidated Media Associates (CMA). Headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, Soundcity Radio Network broadcasts nationally to a youth audience.
Soundcity Radio Network music quota leans more to Nigerian music with over 70% of music played from local artists and 30% split between other African and Foreign music.
98.5 Lagos Launch
Test transmissions for the first station for the Soundcity Radio Network, in Lagos, began in the first quarter of 2016, but programming and OAPs went on-air on 18 July. Other OAPs followed with four hour shifts each.
Coverage areas and frequencies
Soundcity has transmitters serving these areas:
Notable current presenters
Sheye Banks (What's Up Lagos)
Moet Abebe (The TakeOver)
Pearl Cardy (The WKND Central)
Dj Kaywise (Thursday nights)
Osato EDK (What's Up Abuja, Top 20 Nigeria)
Blessing Imonikhe (Home Run ABJ)
References
External links
Radio stations in Nigeria
Radio stations in Lagos
Radio stations established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Woman%20%28TV%20series%29 | American Woman is an American sitcom inspired by the childhood of actress and reality star Kyle Richards that premiered on June 7, 2018, on Paramount Network. The series was created by John Riggi and stars Alicia Silverstone, Mena Suvari, Jennifer Bartels, Makenna James, and Lia McHugh. On September 5, 2018, it was announced that the series had been cancelled after one season.
Premise
American Woman follows "Bonnie, an unconventional mother struggling to raise her two daughters after leaving her husband amid the rise of second-wave feminism in the 1970s. With the help of her two best friends, Kathleen and Diana, these three women each discover their own brand of independence in a glamorous and ever-changing world reluctant to give it."
Cast and characters
Main
Alicia Silverstone as Bonnie Nolan
Mena Suvari as Kathleen Callahan
Jennifer Bartels as Diana Vaughan
Makenna James as Becca Nolan, Bonnie and Steve's elder daughter
Lia McHugh as Jessica Nolan, Bonnie and Steve's younger daughter
Recurring
James Tupper as Steve Nolan, Bonnie's husband whom she throws out after catching him with another woman
Cheyenne Jackson as Greg, Kathleen's boyfriend who is secretly gay
Sam Morgan as Adam
Diandra Lyle as Louise
Tobias Jelinek as Mr. Bishop
Patrick Bristow as Randall
Jonathan Chase as Alan
Christine Estabrook as Peggy, Diana's Mother
Guest
Sam Anderson as Raymond Turner ("Changes and The New Normal")
Elizabeth Bogush as Sherry ("Changes and The New Normal")
Audrey Wasilewski as Anne ("Changes and The New Normal")
Chosen Jacobs as William ("The Heat Wave")
Jon Prescott as Barry ("The Agreement")
Carter MacIntyre as Harris ("The Agreement")
Matt Knudsen as Dr. Taylor ("Jack")
Peta Sergeant as Hannah ("Jack")
Cullen Douglas as Philip ("The Breakthrough")
Bob Glouberman as Mr. Knave ("The Breakthrough")
Matthew Glave as Cal ("Obstacles and Assets")
Laura Regan as Carol ("I Will Survive")
Episodes
Production
Development
On June 2, 2015, it was announced that TV Land was developing a television pilot inspired by the life of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards. The pilot was set to be produced by John Wells Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television. Executive producers included John Wells and John Riggi, who wrote the pilot script.
On November 7, 2016, it was announced that TV Land had given the production a series order for a first season consisting of 12 episodes, but a premiere date had not been set.
On March 30, 2017, it was revealed that the series had been shifted from TV Land to the newly rebranded Paramount Network. On August 14, 2017, it was announced that John Riggi had departed the series citing creative differences. Replacing him in the role of showrunner was fellow executive producer John Wells. On January 16, 2018, it was announced at the annual Television Critics Association's winter press tour that the series would premiere on June 7, 2018. On September 5, 2018, it was anno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STARlight | STARlight is a computer simulation (Monte Carlo) event generator program to simulate ultra-peripheral collisions among relativistic nuclei. It simulates both photonuclear and two-photon interactions. It can simulate multiple interactions among a single ion pair, such as vector meson photoproduction accompanied by mutual Coulomb excitation.
These reactions are currently the primary method of studying photo-nuclear and two-photon interactions.
History
STARlight was initially written in the late 1990s, in FORTRAN. After a period of expansion to include additional final states, etc. it was recoded into C++ in the early 2000s. The code is now hosted on the Hepforge code repository.
Reactions simulated
Two-photon production of lepton pairs
Two-photon production of single mesons
Photonproduction of vector mesons
Generalized photoproduction (via an interface to DPMJet)
STARlight has been used by both STAR and PHENIX, at RHIC, and at the ALICE, CMS, ATLAS and LHC-b experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, for simulations of ultra-peripheral collisions.
STARlight is designed to handle complex reactions involving multiple photon exchange between a single ion pair. These reactions are important at heavy ion colliders, because, with the large nuclear charges, the probability of multi-photon interactions in near grazing collisions (impact parameter b just slightly above twice the nuclear radius) is large. STARlight does this by calculating cross-sections in an impact-parameter dependent formalism.
One of its major successes was the successful prediction of the cross-sections for ρ0 photoproduction at both RHIC and the LHC. It also accurately predicted the cross-section for e+e− pair production at RHIC and the LHC, using lowest order quantum electrodynamics. The latter reaction is important because it shows that there are no large higher order corrections, as could be expected because of the large nuclear charge. In both of the RHIC results, the presence of neutrons in downstream zero-degree calorimeters was used in the trigger, selecting events with impact parameters less than about 40 fermi; these events were then searched for photoproduced ρ0.
A detailed description of the code is available.
References
Computational particle physics
Nuclear physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Flight%20Plus | Night Flight Plus is a video-on-demand service offering original episodes of the 1980s USA Network TV show Night Flight. In addition to archived episodes of the show, the service features films in the music documentary, concert, horror and cult genres. The channel is currently available on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast and online at their website. The site launched with subscriptions offered at $4.99 a month and $39.99 a year. Describing the launch of the channel, Stuart Shapiro told The A.V. Club, “Our goal with Night Flight PLUS is to resurrect the editorial spirit of Night Flight with the same original curatorial edge we had in the ’80s for a new digital generation.”
References
External links
Internet television channels
Video on demand services
1980s in American television
Internet properties established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Along%20Comes%20Mary%20%28Pretty%20Little%20Liars%29 | "Along Comes Mary" is the fifth episode of the seventh season of the American mystery drama television series Pretty Little Liars, which aired on July 16, 2016, on the cable network Freeform. The hundred and forty-fifth episode on the series, it was directed by Norman Buckley and written by Bryan M. Holdman. The episode received a Nielsen rating of 0.6 and was viewed by 1.17 million viewers. It received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
The series focuses on a group of five women, collectively known as Liars, whose receive anonymous messages in form of threats from an unknown person, while they struggle to survive a life with danger. In this episode, the girls come together to find out who is the partner of the deceased Elliott Rollins — or Archer Dunhill. Aria (Lucy Hale) and Ezra's (Ian Harding) relationship takes a new step, and the same happens with Emily (Shay Mitchell) and Sabrina (Lulu Brud). Meanwhile, Spencer (Troian Bellisario) teams up with Hanna (Ashley Benson) to find out where Caleb is, and Jenna (Tammin Sursok) befriends Sara (Dre Davis), putting them on the top of the list of suspects. An old inhabitant returns to Rosewood.
Plot summary
Alison (Sasha Pieterse) comes home and meets Aria (Lucy Hale) waiting in her garden. Aria learns that Mary (Andrea Parker) is Alison's supervisor while she is not on the care of the psychiatric hospital. Inside the house, Mary reveals that Elliott contacted her when she was London, and he reported that Charlotte had been murdered. When confronted by Alison for letting Elliott torture her, Mary says she was vulnerable, but she did not know his real intentions. Emily (Shay Mitchell) wakes up after a night of conversation with Sabrina (Lulu Brud), and ends up realizing that she's delayed for a test. Ezra (Ian Harding) returns after a trip, and reveals to Aria that he visited the parents of the deceased Nicole in New York, and he allege that they're happy to see Ezra moving on. Emily loses the opportunity to take the exam.
Hanna (Ashley Benson) and Spencer discovers that the police found out Elliott's car. The girls learn that Elliott knew that Alison didn't killed Charlotte, and that he was taking Alison to somewhere else in the night he was run over. Emily, Aria and Alison discuss on a burner apartment that Elliott had; then, Alison discovers that all her money is gone. Aria finds Ezra's cellphone ringing, and she answers a call from Nicole. Across the line, a Jamaican music is playing, insinuating that someone is with Nicole's cell. Aria decides to delete the calling from the log. While preparing a type of drink, Emily receives a message, which alleges that she scored 92% in the exam. Sequentially, a message from "A.D." is received, revealing that he took the exam for Emily. Spencer reveals to Hanna that Caleb is missing, and Hanna gives her some hints of where he could possible be. They found out that Jenna is still in town.
Emily contacts the mysterious person who was helping Elliott th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixa | Sixa, Inc. is a cloud-computing startup company, which lets the users on-demand access to a personal virtual computer. The company was founded in September 2015, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
The company offers custom computers for developers, designers, and gamers with the relevant preinstalled software. The service allows users to access a powerful cloud computer from any device and eliminates the need to buy new hardware, when more computational power is needed.
The service is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Android operating systems.
Sixa has been backed by Y Combinator to join its Summer 2016 batch, and as of July 2016, raised more than $261,000 funding from Startupbootcamp Istanbul, WS Investments, and Y Combinator.
Starting from December 2016, the Sixa service is publicly available for usage. As part of its launch, the company has raised a $3.5 million seed investment in a round led by Tandem Capital.
References
External links
Sixa Official Website
American companies established in 2015
Cloud computing providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haanstra%20%28surname%29 | Haanstra is a surname, and may refer to:
Bert Haanstra (1916 – 1997), Dutch film director
John Haanstra (1926 – 1969), electrical engineer and a computer industry executive
Surnames of Dutch origin
Dutch-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearFoundation | ClearFoundation is a privately held company that develops and manages the source code and repository of its flagship operating system, ClearOS. The organization is headquartered in New Zealand
History
The ClearFoundation is a New Zealand company which, according to their website, was created in 2009 with the purpose of developing and maintaining ClearOS under an open source model.
From January 2012 to September 2015, ClearFoundation was registered as a technology research company. Later, in March 2019 it was registered as an internet consultancy service, until September of 2021.
As of August 2023, they were not registered on the SEC EDGAR database, the New Zealand non-profit registry, or the IRS tax exempt organization database.
Community
The ClearFoundation community has over 103,100 members from more than 150 countries. Community members can earn recognition (badges) by participating in community projects, forums, and other tasks associated to ClearOS.
Projects
ClearOS Server
ClearOS is an open-source Linux distribution based on CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Initially, the software was launched as ClarkConnect in 2002 and got its present name in 2009. Paid versions of ClearOS and the ClearOS Marketplace are developed and supported by ClearCenter. ClearOS is specifically designed for small and medium enterprises as a network gateway and network server with web-based administration interface.
References
Linux companies
Software companies of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirker | Pirker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hubert Pirker (born 1948), Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament
Johanna Pirker (born 1988), Austrian computer scientist
Pero Pirker (1927–1972), Croatian and Yugoslav politician
Thomas Pirker (born 1987), Austrian footballer
See also
Parker (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAD%20Overlay | CAD Overlay is a commercial software application for raster-to-vector translation in 2D computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting — available between 1988 and 1996 as a third-party application for AutoCAD and other CAD systems.
Developed and marketed by Image Systems Technology, CAD Overlay was first released in January 1988 running on AutoCAD Version 2.6. CAD Overlay replaced the previous generation of automatic raster-to-vector translation systems by embedding scanned documents and images directly in the CAD system.
History
CAD Overlay was derived from a custom AutoCAD application developed using the Nth Engine graphics board in 1987 by David Chassin for Image Integration Technology, a scanning service bureau in Schenectady, New York. In January 1988 Bob Godgart, David Chassin and Michael Mayernik formed Image Systems Technology in Troy, New York.
The first version of CAD Overlay was demonstrated at A/E/C trade show in Chicago in May 1988. Subsequent versions include CAD Overlay ESP, CAD Overlay GSX, and CAD Overlay LFX.
In 1995, Softdesk Inc. acquired Image Systems Technology and in 1996 Autodesk acquired Softdesk,. CAD Overlay was subsequently rebranded as Autodesk CADOverlay.
See also
Autodesk
AutoCAD
References
External links
|CADylist Magazine Article "CAD Overlay 2001i"
Computer-aided design software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubber | Dubber is a cloud based call recording software which operates as a software-as-service (SaaS) and voice data offering. Dubber was founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2011 by James Slaney, Steve McGovern and Adrian Di Pietrantonio, and predominantly sells to Telecommunications Service Providers and Enterprise customers.
History
In 2013 Dubber raised $6M in angel investment. In 2015, Dubber listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) under the code DUB.
In May 2015, Dubber passed a series of interoperability tests with BroadSoft's unified communications software. This combined solution allowed users to deploy call recording on top of their BroadSoft network without the need of any additional hardware. Following this news, in June 2015, Dubber announced growth of 141% in users for the first half of that year.
In 2016 Dubber announced a partnership with Cisco Broadsoft. A year later, in October of 2017, Cisco announced that they would acquire Broadsoft.
Dubber’s technology is used by many large service providers and cloud communication and collaboration providers around the world to embed call recording and voice data services into their unified communication and other services, including AT&T, IBM, Optus, Telstra, Cox Communications, Sprint, the UK’s 02, and others.
Technology
Dubber's call recording and voice data solutions are natively hosted in the cloud, allowing its services to be embedded in third party telecommunication and cloud collaboration (UCaaS) solutions. Dubber utilises API's to integrate call recording data into third party software and telecommunications services.
Dubber’s call recording services achieved certification for compliance call recording on Microsoft Teams, in February 2021.
In April 2021, Dubber announced that its call recording and voice AI service would interoperate with Zoom and Zoom Phone.
In June of 2021, Dubber launched its foundation partner program, a significant expansion of its product model whereby telecommunications carriers and UCaaS services can embed the Dubber call recording service in all user accounts. Cisco Webex Calling and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Cloud (UCM) were the first such services launched on the program.
On 2 Dec 2021, the company announced an agreement with BT (formerly British Telecom) whereby BT would use Dubber as their default recording and conversational solution in the BT Meetings suite of managed services, including Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex Calling and Zoom Phone.
On 13 December 2021, Dubber and Optus announced that they would include the Dubber platform on the Optus Mobile network to provide the Dubber platform for enterprise customers in Australia.
Acquisitions
Dubber announced its first acquisition in May of 2020, acquiring Australian-based on-premise call recording company CallN. CallN was previously partly owned by Telstra.
Dubber acquired UK based Speik, a leading provider of PCI compliance and call recording solutions in t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mergers%20and%20acquisitions%20by%20Amazon | Amazon.com, Inc., is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to grow quickly, making its first three acquisitions on April 27, 1998, less than a year after the company had gone public.
After the dot-com bubble burst on March 11, 2000, several companies that Amazon had invested in went bankrupt, with Amazon's stock price itself sinking to record lows. Despite Amazon's survival, the company made very few investments for the next several years, only acquiring two companies between 2000 and 2004. The company returned to making multiple acquisitions per year in 2005, focusing on acquiring digital retailers and media websites. Starting in 2011, Amazon began shifting its focus to buying technology startups to develop and improve Amazon Echo and grow its Amazon Web Services division.
Amazon has diversified its acquisition portfolio into several market sectors, with its largest acquisition being the purchase of the grocery store chain Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion on June 16, 2017.
Acquisitions
Stakes
Divestitures
See also
List of largest mergers and acquisitions
Lists of corporate acquisitions and mergers
Notes
References
Amazon (company)
Amazon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Wielemaker | Jan Wielemaker (1960, Koudekerke) is a Dutch computer scientist. He initiated the SWI-Prolog implementation of the Prolog programming language in 1987 while employed at the University of Amsterdam, and he continued its development after moving to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since 2017, he has been associated with the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. In 2020, he became the Director of SWI-Prolog Solutions b.v.
He is known for being the original author and one of the most extensive contributors to the SWI-Prolog, as well as the SWI-Prolog reference manual.
References
1960 births
Dutch computer scientists
Living people
21st-century Dutch scientists
Logic programming researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steemit | Steemit is a blockchain-based blogging and social media website. Users can gain a cryptocurrency, more specifically STEEM, for publishing and curating content (i.e. posts). Users can also be rewarded with STEEM based on their comments. The company is owned by Steemit Inc., a privately held company based in New York City and a headquarters in Virginia.
Operating principle
Steemit is designed as a decentralized application (DApp) built upon the Steem blockchain, using the eponymous cryptocurrency STEEM to reward users for their content. By voting on posts and comments, users get to decide the payout of those posts. Users also get so-called "Curation Rewards" for finding and upvoting content that gets upvoted by other users afterwards.
History
On 4 July 2016, Steemit, Inc., a company founded by Ned Scott and blockchain developer Daniel Larimer, launched the social media platform Steemit as the first application built upon Steem blockchain.
On 14 July 2016, Steemit announced on their website that they were hacked. The attack, according to them, has compromised about 260 accounts. About US$85,000 worth of Steem Dollars and STEEM are reported to have been taken by the attackers.
In March 2017, Daniel Larimer stepped back as Steemit's chief technology officer and left the company.
With the STEEM price dropping during the 2018 cryptocurrency crash, Steemit faced financial difficulties and had to lay off 70% of its staff.
In 2020, Steem successfully 'forked' and the HIVE blockchain was created in the process. HIVE is the official cryptocurrency on this fork of the main Steem blockchain. In addition, this fork has many of the features of the main Steem blockchain as well as a series of original ones, such as badges.
References
External links
American social networking websites
Cryptocurrencies
American entertainment websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalant | Catalant Technologies, Inc., formerly HourlyNerd, is a freelance marketplace that uses a machine-learning algorithm to recommend independent consultants whose skills and expertise are needed for client projects. More than 70,000 independent consultants are listed on Catalant. Catalant is based in Boston, MA.
History
The company, styled as "HourlyNerd", was launched in 2013 as part of a Harvard Business School's course.
HourlyNerd was founded by Rob Biederman, Patrick Petitti, Peter Maglathlin, and Joe Miller. In September 2013, HourlyNerd received $750,000 in seed money from a group led by Mark Cuban, and quickly became a global online marketplace that connected companies of varying sizes with over 25,000 independent business consultants for project-based work. By 2016, the company's online marketplace included 17,500 freelance consultants and over two hundred boutique consulting firms.
Business model
The Catalant platform enables clients to post projects, receive bids, interview and select experts, track projects, and make payments all in the same place. Clients use Catalant's software platform to access and deploy people in different talent pools who will work both inside and outside of their organizations. These talent pools include: employees, alumni and retirees, and independent consultants and firms. More than 70,000 independent experts and 1,500 boutique firms are listed in Catalant's "Expert Marketplace."
Company details
Catalant is headquartered in Boston. The company opened its second office in London in 2018. As of 2018, Catalant served more than 30% of the Fortune 100 and 20% of the Fortune 1000, including GE, Pfizer, Staples, and Shell.
References
Further reading
External links
Software companies established in 2013
Companies based in Boston
Software companies based in Massachusetts
2013 establishments in Massachusetts
Privately held companies based in Massachusetts
Software companies of the United States
2013 establishments in the United States
Companies established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20%28web%20browser%29 | Light, formerly known as Firefox Light, is a free and open-source web browser based on Firefox. Light is available for the Windows, OS X and Linux operating systems. It differs from Firefox by being built for performance, which it achieves by removing several of Firefox's built in components, including the crash reporter, safe browsing, spell checker, development tools, and support for various types of video and audio media.
References
Cross-platform free software
Free software programmed in C++
Free web browsers
Gecko-based software
MacOS web browsers
POSIX web browsers
Software using the Mozilla license
Linux web browsers
Windows web browsers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Security%20Authority%20%28Czech%20Republic%29 | National Security Authority (, NBÚ) is a Czech government agency responsible for maintaining security clearances, protection of classified information and cyber security of the Czech Republic. NBÚ is also charged with protection of the Czech government communications and information systems against penetration and network warfare.
Government agencies of the Czech Republic
Organizations established in 1998
Government agencies established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20metaphor-based%20metaheuristics | This is a chronologically ordered list of metaphor-based metaheuristics and swarm intelligence algorithms, sorted by decade of proposal.
Algorithms
1980s-1990s
Simulated annealing (Kirkpatrick et al., 1983)
Simulated annealing is a probabilistic algorithm inspired by annealing, a heat treatment method in metallurgy. It is often used when the search space is discrete (e.g., all tours that visit a given set of cities). For problems where finding the precise global optimum is less important than finding an acceptable local optimum in a fixed amount of time, simulated annealing may be preferable to alternatives such as gradient descent.
The analogue of the slow cooling of annealing is a slow decrease in the probability of simulated annealing accepting worse solutions as it explores the solution space. Accepting worse solutions is a fundamental property of metaheuristics because it allows for a more extensive search for the optimal solution.
Ant colony optimization (ACO) (Dorigo, 1992)
The ant colony optimization algorithm is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems that can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs. Initially proposed by Marco Dorigo in 1992 in his PhD thesis, the first algorithm aimed to search for an optimal path in a graph based on the behavior of ants seeking a path between their colony and a source of food. The original idea has since diversified to solve a wider class of numerical problems, and as a result, several problems have emerged, drawing on various aspects of the behavior of ants. From a broader perspective, ACO performs a model-based search and shares some similarities with the estimation of distribution algorithms.
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) (Kennedy & Eberhart, 1995)
Particle swarm optimization is a computational method that optimizes a problem by iteratively trying to improve a candidate solution with regard to a given measure of quality. It solves a problem by having a population of candidate solutions, dubbed particles, and moving these particles around in the search space according to simple mathematical formulae over the particle's position and velocity. Each particle's movement is influenced by its local best known position but is also guided toward the best-known positions in the search space, which are updated as better positions are found by other particles. This is expected to move the swarm toward the best solutions.
PSO is originally attributed to Kennedy, Eberhart and Shi and was first intended for simulating social behaviour as a stylized representation of the movement of organisms in a bird flock or fish school. The algorithm was simplified, and it was observed to be performing optimization. The book by Kennedy and Eberhart describes many philosophical aspects of PSO and swarm intelligence. An extensive survey of PSO applications is made by Poli. A comprehensive review of theoretical and experimental works on PSO has been published by Bonyadi and Michalewic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsensing | Crowdsensing, sometimes referred to as mobile crowdsensing, is a technique where a large group of individuals having mobile devices capable of sensing and computing (such as smartphones, tablet computers, wearables) collectively share data and extract information to measure, map, analyze, estimate or infer (predict) any processes of common interest. In short, this means crowdsourcing of sensor data from mobile devices.
Background
Devices equipped with various sensors have become ubiquitous. Most smartphones can sense ambient light, noise (through the microphone), location (through the GPS), movement (through the accelerometer), and more. These sensors can collect vast quantities of data that are useful in a variety of ways. For example, GPS and accelerometer data can be used to locate potholes in cities, and microphones can be used with GPS to map noise pollution.
The term "mobile crowdsensing" was coined by Raghu Ganti, Fan Ye, and Hui Lei in 2011. Mobile crowdsensing belongs to three main types: environmental (such as monitoring pollution), infrastructure (such as locating potholes), and social (such as tracking exercise data within a community). Current crowdsensing applications operate based on the assumption that all users voluntarily submit the sensing data leading to extensive user participation. It can also indicate the way mobile device users form microcrowds based on a specific crowdsensing activity.
Types
Based on the type of involvement from the users, mobile crowdsensing can be classified into two types:
Participatory crowdsensing, where the users voluntarily participate in contributing information.
Opportunistic crowdsensing, where the data is sensed, collected, and shared automatically without user intervention and in some cases, even without the user's explicit knowledge.
Taking advantage of the ubiquitous presence of powerful mobile computing devices (especially smartphones) in recent years, it has become an appealing method to businesses that wish to collect data without making large-scale investments. Numerous technology companies use this technique to offer services based on the big data collected, some of the most notable examples being Facebook, Google, and Uber.
Process
Mobile crowdsensing occurs in three stages: data collection, data storage, and data upload.
Data collection draws on sensors available through the Internet of things. There are three main strategies for collecting this data:
The user of a device collects data manually. This can include taking pictures or using smartphone applications.
The user can manually control data collection, but some data can be collected automatically, such as when a user opens an application.
Data sensing is triggered by a particular context that has been predefined (e.g., a device begins to collect data when the user is in a particular place at a particular time).
The data collection phase can also involve a process called deduplication, which involves removing redunda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Smart%20%28journalist%29 | James Obuya Smart is a Kenyan Journalist and news anchor currently working for Nation Television Networks. He has worked for other major networks like Capital FM Kenya and KTN. He pioneered the popular show on NTV called ‘The Trend’. After he left NTV, Larry Madowo took over.
Early life and education
James Smart grew up in Korogocho Slums.
He went to St Paul's Lugari High School. He holds an MA in International Journalism from Cardiff University
Career
James, initially worked as a sports journalist at Capital FM Kenya before moving to television as a news anchor and reporter at NTV (Kenya). Most recently, he has collaborated with the BBC to create its "Focus on Africa" broadcast, a flagship TV news program that highlights stories from across the African continent.
He is now at KTN and he hosts a show alongside Dennis Onsarigo called News Sources.
Personal life
He is married and has a son.
References
External links
James Smart Official Website
Living people
Kenyan television journalists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CenterPOS%20Malware | CenterPOS (also known as "Cerebrus") is a point of sale (POS) malware discovered Cyber Security Experts. It was discovered in September 2015 along with other kinds of POS malware, such as NewPOSThings, BlackPOS, and Alina. There are two versions which have been released by the developer responsible: version 1.7 and version 2.0. CenterPOS 2.0 has similar functionality to CenterPOS version 1.7. The 2.0 variant of CenterPOS malware added some more effective features, such as the addition of a configuration file for storing information in its command and control server.
Overview
CenterPOS has been used to target retailers in order to illegally obtain payment card information using a memory scraper. It uses two distinct modes to scrape and store information: a "smart scan" and a "normal scan". At the normal scan mode, the malware looks at all of the processes on a device and determines which ones are not currently running processes, are not named "system", "system idle process" or "idle", and do not contain keywords such as Microsoft or Mozilla. If the process meets the criteria list, the malware will search all memory regions within the process, searching for credit card data with regular expressions in the regular expression list. In smart scan mode, the malware starts by performing a normal scan, and any process that has a regular expression match will be added to the smart scan list. After the first pass, the malware will only search the processes that are in the smart scan list. The malware contains functionality that allows cybercriminals to create a configuration file.
Process Details
CenterPOS malware searches for the configuration file that contains the C&C information. If unable to find the configuration file, it asks for a password. If the password entered is correct, then it payloads the functions to create a configuration file. This malware is very different from other point of sale system malware in that it has a separate component called builder to create a payload.
The CenterPOS malware looks for the credit and debit card information through smart scan mode and then encrypts all the scraped data using Triple DES encryption. Then the memory scraped data is sent to the operator of the malware through a separate HTTP POST request.
See also
Point-of-sale malware
Cyber security standards
List of cyber attack threat trends
Cyber electronic warfare
Malware
References
Carding (fraud)
Cyberwarfare
Windows trojans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%20%28Unix%29 | read is a command found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It reads a line of input from standard input or a file passed as an argument to its -u flag, and assigns it to a variable.
In Unix shells, like Bash, it is present as a shell built in function, and not as a separate executable file.
References
Standard Unix programs
Unix process- and task-management-related software
IBM i Qshell commands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selman | Selman may refer to:
People with the surname
Alan Selman (1941-2021), American mathematician
Bart Selman, American computer scientist
Bill Selman, American ice hockey coach
Carol Selman, American historian
Courtenay Selman (born 1945), Barbadian cricketer
David Selman (1878–1937), American film director
Hafız Selman İzbeli, Turkish militiawoman
Jim Selman (born 1942), American consultant, coach, and author
JoAnn Dayton-Selman, American politician
John Selman (disambiguation), multiple people
Joshua Selman, Nigerian televangelist
Manuel Selman (born 1989), Chilean surfer
Matt Selman, American writer and producer
Matty Selman, American lyricist
Nick Selman (born 1995), English cricketer
Redžep Selman (born 1986), Macedonian triple jumper
Robert L. Selman (born 1942), American psychologist
Rubén Selman (born 1963), Chilean football referee
Sam Selman (born 1990), American baseball pitcher
Shakera Selman (born 1989), West Indian cricketer
William Selman (disambiguation), multiple people
People with the first name
Selman Ada (born 1953), Turkish composer, conductor and pianist
Selman Akbulut (born 1949), Turkish mathematician
Selman Kadria (1906-1938), Albanian land worker, folk singer and independence fighter in Kosovo
Selman Kaygusuz (born 1963), Turkish wrestler
Selman Mesbeh (born 1980), Quatari footballer
Selman Reis (fl. 16th century), Ottoman admiral and former corsair
Selman Riza (1908-1988), Albanian linguist and Albanologist
Selman Selmanagić (1905-1986), Bosnian-German architect
Selman Sevinç (born 1995), Dutch-Turkish footballer
Selman Stërmasi (1908-1976), Albanian football player and coach
Selman Uranues, Austrian physician and professor of surgery
Selman Waksman (1888-1973), Jewish Russian Empire-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist
Places
United States
Selman, Florida
Selman, Oklahoma
Selman City, Texas
Mount Selman, Texas
Other places
Selman, Eğil, Turkey
Wadi es-Selman, Arabic name of Ayalon Valley, Israel
See also
Sleman, capital of Sleman Regency, Indonesia
Selma (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Television%20%28Peruvian%20TV%20network%29 | Global Televisión (known as Global), is a television network owned by Grupo ATV that transmits to all of Peru. It was founded in 1986 and is one of the six networks with national coverage.
History
The Channel 13 frequency ranging between 210 and 216 MHz (NTSC-M system) in Lima was initially operated by Panamericana Televisión that remained at that frequency until 1965, when it changed to frequency of channel 5 (76-82 MHz). Later that frequency was assigned to the University of Lima and donation of equipment by Panamericana Televisión, "Panamericana de Teleducación - Canal 13" is founded, which operated the frequency until 1974, when the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado decided to close.
In 1983, with a discrete advertising campaign in Lima, Favorita de Televisión - Canal 13 announced the start of its operations for 1984 but never materialized.
By late 1985 and early 1986, Compañía Radiodifusora Univisión S.A. (unrelated to US Hispanic network Univisión, at the time still known as SIN) launched a test signal for a few months. Its programming as a test signal carried feature films and a one-minute news summary (Micronoticiero), in addition to a half-hour main bulletin (Edición Central), with the clear intention of giving its news team a warm-up. Conversations were also established with actors from the media for the realization of future national series and soap operas. Its studios were located on the first block of Av. Grau, where the Vía Expresa begins; in a seven-story building, which looks abandoned and until a few years ago, kept its transmission antenna.
Due to problems in the importing of its equipment, the Peruvian government withdraws the operating license of the nascent company. Finally, it will be assigned to Empresa Radiodifusora 1160 S.A. in 1989, which operated Stereo 33 Televisión to relaunch said station as Canal 13.
On July 1, 1986, it started broadcasting on UHF channel 33 as Stereo 33 Televisión, using the then-new stereo technology. The switch to VHF channel 13 happened at the start of 1989 and, in 1990, it was sold to Vittorio de Ferrari. During this transitory phase, it was known as Canal 13.
The name Global Televisión was adopted in 1991 in time for the launch of their satellite connections in order to cover the whole country. It wasn't considered a "hot" channel and most of their programming was imported content. In 1995, Vittorio de Ferrari signs a deal with Antena 3 and started to show their productions as well as imported films and cartoons. Following the death the channel's owner, his son, Roberto de Ferrari, revokes the contract with Antena 3 and sold it to Genaro Delgado Parker. The name changed to Red Global. At this stage, it showed programming from his production company, Astros. Said production company and Julio Vera Abad entered a dispute over the ownership of the channel over payment issues. In July of that year, Genaro and Vera Abad confronted each other at the entrance of Astros, suspending al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janos%20Sztipanovits | Janos Sztipanovits is an electrical engineer and computer scientist. He is the E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the founding director of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt.
Research
Sztipanovits led the research group that created a novel area in computer engineering called Model Integrated Computing (MIC) in the 1990s well before other model-based approaches appeared in computer science. MIC applies metamodeling to define domain-specific modeling languages and to automatically configure the corresponding domain-specific visual modeling environment. The domain models then are used to automatically generate and/or configure the software of the modeled system. MIC and its primary software tool called Generic Modeling Environment (GME, a kind of MetaCASE tool) have been successfully applied to embedded software, car manufacturing and medical systems, among many other areas.
Sztipanovits was one of the key promoters of a new research direction called Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), which integrates physical systems with computational ("cyber") systems to provide novel capabilities. He is the Principal Investigator of a National Science Foundation initiative to create a web portal called CPS Virtual Organization (CPS VO) with the goal of facilitating interaction and information exchange among CPS researchers in academia, government and industry across a broad range of institutions, programs, disciplines and even countries.
Awards
Before moving to the United States in 1983, Sztipanovits received a number of prestigious awards in Hungary, including the National Prize in 1985 and the Golden Ring of the Republic in 1982 for scientific and engineering achievements.
He received the Medal for Exceptional Public Service from the Office of the Secretary for Defense in 2002 and the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award Medal and a Citation in 2010. He has been an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2010. Sztipanovits is a Fellow of the IEEE.
In 2018, he became an honorary John von Neumann Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
References
External links
The Institute for Software Integrated Systems webpage
WebGME homepage
Living people
American computer scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
1946 births
Vanderbilt University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Classics%20%28Japanese%20TV%20channel%29 | Fox Classics (formerly known as Fox Crime) was a Japanese pay television channel owned by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific. Its programming consisted of the American dramas from the 1980s to the 1990s.
The channel was renamed as Fox Classics on 1 August 2015.
The channel ceased broadcasting as of 30 September 2018.
References
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
Defunct television channels
Fox Networks Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding%20Steel | Bleeding Steel is a 2017 Chinese science fiction cyberpunk action film directed and written by Leo Zhang and starring Jackie Chan.
Bleeding Steel was released in China on 22 December 2017. In the US, Lionsgate Premiere released the film in theaters and on VOD on 6 July 2018. The film received mixed reviews and it grossed US$48.8 million and was a box office bomb.
Plot
While racing to the hospital to see his daughter Xixi, who has leukemia and whose condition has become critical, Hong Kong Special Agent Lin Dong is informed by his colleague Xiao Su that Dr. James, an important witness, is in danger. Lin stops right outside the hospital, hesitates, and drives off to meet up with Xiao Su and their unit.
Before the unit arrives, Dr. James injects himself with a chemical substance and brings along a mechanical heart with him. As the unit escorts him away, they are ambushed by a squad of men in exotic black armor and high-tech weaponry led by a monstrous-looking man named Andre, who kills off most of the unit and severely injures Lin Dong and Xiao Su. Before Andre can capture Dr. James, Lin Dong pins him against an oil tank using his car. When Andre survives the car's impact, Lin shoots the oil tank, causing a huge explosion. As he lies gravely injured, Lin receives a phone call that Dr. James answers: Xixi has died at the hospital. However both Lin Dong and Andre are later shown to have survived, although Andre's injuries have him turned into a cyborg.
13 years later in Sydney, Australia, author Rick Rogers has recently released a book titled Bleeding Steel about a US Marine implanted with a mechanical heart. A young man named Li Sen, disguised as a female prostitute, pays a visit to Rogers at his hotel, drugs him, and downloads information about the book from his computer. A black-clad woman storms the building and tortures Rogers to reveal the source of his inspiration for the book. While Li Sen hides in the suite's bathtub, the Woman in Black is attacked by Lin Dong, who has also come to find out the same answer. Rogers is killed by the Woman in Black, and the arrival of the police forces everyone to retreat.
The Woman in Black returns to a high-tech airship that serves as Andre's headquarters and briefs him about the failed operation. He identifies Lin Dong and Li Sen from CCTV footage and sends the Woman after the latter, but Li Sen has already fled. Acting upon the data he had taken from Rogers, Li Sen tracks down Nancy, a young woman who is plagued by nightmares about a laboratory where strange experiments were conducted. In order to deal with them, she has been visiting a spiritualist, who in turn told Rogers about the dreams. She is tracked down by the Woman in Black, but is rescued and taken to safety by Lin Dong and Li Sen's combined efforts.
Nancy is revealed to be Xixi, resurrected by Dr. James, who had been working on the genetic enhancement of human beings, and specifically regeneration, to create immortal bioroid soldiers. Jame |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNNExT | The United Nations Network of Experts for Paperless Trade and Transport in Asia and the Pacific (UNNExT) is a community of trade facilitation specialists and practitioners focusing on simplifying import, export and transit procedures by enabling traders and governments to exchange information electronically and through automated and integrated systems, including national and regional Single window. The Network has made significant contributions to the development of Trade facilitation and Paperless trade in the region.
History and evolution
Launched by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in cooperation with United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in 2009, early work of the Community focused on building capacity of developing countries on fundamental issues associated with single window and paperless trade system development, such as business process analysis of trade procedures, data harmonization, and legal framework development.
Initially referred to as the UN Network of Experts for Paperless Trade in Asia-Pacific “Transport” was added to the full name of the network in 2014 in recognition of the importance of transit facilitation and transport-related procedures for the many landlocked developing countries members of ESCAP, particularly those in Central Asia. Taking into account the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises and agriculture for the sustainable and inclusive development of the region, recent work of the Network has increasingly focused on these two sectors since 2012.
With the growing interest and investment of Governments in the development of national single window and related paperless trade systems, addressing the issue of system interoperability and the need to enable electronic exchange and legal recognition of data and documents across borders has become more pressing. A UNNExT Advisory Group dedicated to this issue was set up in 2013 and provided significant support in the development of the “Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-Border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific”, a new United Nations treaty open for signature to 53 ESCAP member states starting 1 October 2016.
The continuous demand for capacity building on paperless trade and trade facilitation has led the network to develop online training and certification programmes, with a first e-learning series on "Business Process Analysis for Trade Facilitation" launched in 2015.
As emphasized in the UNNExT-supported 7th Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum held in Wuhan, China in 2015, there are strong linkages between paperless trade and e-commerce and future work of the network is expected to address procedural bottlenecks to cross-border e-commerce.
References
Paper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn%20Sports%20Network | The Auburn IMG Sports Network is the sports radio network for the Auburn Tigers, the athletic programs of Auburn University. Headquartered in Auburn, Alabama, United States, the radio network includes a maximum of 50 radio stations in Alabama, eastern Mississippi, the Florida Panhandle, and Western Georgia. It is the main rival of the Crimson Tide Sports Network, the radio network of University of Alabama athletics.
The network's television division provides the coaches’ television shows to certain TV stations serving the state of Alabama.
Radio affiliate list
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
Elsewhere
References
External links
Auburn Tigers website
Auburn IMG Sports Network
Auburn Tigers
College basketball on the radio in the United States
College football on the radio
Radio stations in Alabama
Sports radio networks in the United States
Learfield IMG College sports radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Terhal | Barbara M. Terhal (born 1969) is a theoretical physicist working in quantum information and quantum computing. She is a professor in the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics at TU Delft, as well as leading the Terhal Group at QuTech, the Dutch institute for quantum computing and quantum internet, founded by TU Delft and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). Her research concerns many areas in quantum information theory, including entanglement detection, quantum error correction, fault-tolerant quantum computing and quantum memories.
Education and early life
Barbara Terhal was born in Leiden in 1969. Already in her early school days, she enjoyed mathematics, physics and solving puzzles.
Terhal completed her PhD Cum Laude on "Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Entanglement" at the University of Amsterdam in 1999, making her the first person to receive a PhD in quantum computing in the Netherlands. As part of her thesis, she coined the term entanglement witness and proposed their use as alternatives to Bell tests for entanglement detection.
Career and research
After her PhD, Terhal joined the IBM Watson Research Centre in Yorktown Heights, New York and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as a postdoctoral researcher. Between 2001 and 2010, she worked at IBM on a number of topics, including low-depth quantum circuits or stoquastic Hamiltonians, perturbative gadgets for quantum simulation and quantum complexity theory. She also developed quantum protocols for remote state preparation, quantum locking and quantum data hiding.
In 2010, Terhal became a professor in theoretical physics at RWTH Aachen University. In addition, she held another position at the Forschungszentrum Jülich from 2015 - 2022. In 2017 she moved to Delft, becoming a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) at TU Delft and group leader at QuTech.
Since 2007, Terhal has been a fellow of the American Physical Society and has held the post of Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada, since 2014.
Terhal's current research focuses on quantum error correction and its realisation in solid-state qubits. She is also interested in quantum complexity theory and how it can be used to demonstrate the power of a quantum computer.
Awards
Barbara Terhal has received the following awards:
Awarded the Outstanding Innovation Award by IBM Research in 2007
Elected a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada in 2014
Selected as Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society in 2015
Elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.
Publications
Her publications include:
B.M. Terhal, “Bell Inequalities and The Separability Criterion”, Physics Letters A 271, 319 (2000)
B.M. Terhal and D.P. DiVincenzo, “Adaptive quantum computation, constant depth quantum circuits, and Arthur Merlin g |
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