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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20%28operating%20system%29 | Ghost is an open-source hobbyist operating system and kernel. It has been under development since 2014 and is currently compatible with the x86 platform.
The system is based on a microkernel and features symmetric multi-processing and multitasking. Most of the kernel and system program are written in C++.
Design
The architectural concept is a micro-kernel design. Many of the functionalities that are usually integrated in the kernel in a monolithic or hybrid system are implemented as user-level applications. All system drivers are running as user-space processes. This approach attempts to improve stability and to avoid crashes due to faulty access or memory corruption. The system supports 32-bit ELF binary and shared object loading.
The kernel provides a system call API that is used for all inter-process communications and system commands. Driver processes access this interface to manage memory or request direct resource access. The window manager provides a messaging interface to other processes
Compatibility
The libc implementation is partially POSIX.1 compatible. The implementation incorporates the libm from the musl C library. The C++ standard library libstdc++ is supported. This was introduced to allow porting of third-party software, especially from the GNU environment, which heavily depend on standard C and POSIX functions.
See also
TempleOS – another operating system developed largely from scratch
ToaruOS – similar hobbyist operating system by K. Lange
References
Free software operating systems
Free software programmed in C++
Hobbyist operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Self-hosting software
X86 operating systems
Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DBenchy | The 3DBenchy is a 3D computer model specifically designed for testing the accuracy and capabilities of 3D printers. The 3DBenchy is described by its creator, Creative Tools, as "the jolly 3D printing torture-test" and was released (STL only) in April 2015, with a multi-part, multi-color model released in July 2015.
Due to its status as a common benchmark, it is believed to be the world's most 3D printed object. The popular 3d-printing website Thingiverse (where the model was originally uploaded) has the 3DBenchy marked as its most popular model of all time. The model itself is a tugboat design, and, as with many 3D prints, actually floats in water given the right conditions in printing.
Gallery
See also
Standard test image
Stanford bunny
Utah teapot
Suzanne (3D model)
References
External links
Download 3DBenchy
3DBenchy Thingiverse Page
DIY culture
Computing output devices
Engineering projects
3D graphics models
Test items
Fused filament fabrication
3D printing
Boats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect%20%28computer%20system%29 | Connect is a new social network analysis software data mining computer system developed by HMRC (UK) that cross-references business's and people's tax records with other databases to establish fraudulent or undisclosed (misdirected) activity.
History
HMRC introduced Connect in the summer of 2010; it was not fully functioning. Around 350 HMRC employees are involved with Connect, who work with an analytical compliance environment. Connect was developed by BAE Systems Applied Intelligence (former Detica in Surrey) for £45m.
From September 2016, Connect has interfaced with financial information from British Overseas Territories; these have been known tax havens. From 2017 Connect has interfaced with around sixty other OECD countries.
Sources of information
Connect cross-references information from many other UK government databases, including:
Adverts on the internet e.g. Rightmove and Zoopla
Bank accounts and pensions
Council tax
Credit and debit card transactions, going back four years
Companies House
DVLA
DWP (former Benefits Agency)
eBay and other internet marketplaces
The electoral roll
Gas Safe Register
Insurance companies
Land Registry - for capital gains tax
HMRC also independently looks at Google Earth.
Technology
The system deploys the chi-squared test and Benford's law to look for anomalous tax receipts. The system is operated by the Risk and Intelligence Service (RIS) division of HMRC. The software combines analytic tools (Enterprise Guide) from SAS Institute, which collects the information, and NetReveal from BAE Systems AI, which collates it into meaningful information.
It deploys predictive analytics similar to credit scoring, and has dynamic benchmarking. It looks for correlation of income with lifestyle, by comparing with multivariate statistical models; outliers from expected variance will be investigated.
Definition of data
Undeclared work is plotted on mapping software, allowing undeclared work to be seen at a street by street level.
Purpose
Connect looks for income disparities, often caused by undeclared income. If someone drives an expensive car, but does not have the income to run one or afford one, Connect can discover this.
See also
Mosaic (geodemography)
National Border Targeting Centre, UK Government computing centre in south Manchester that traces illegal and suspicious immigration into the UK, via cross-border databases
Government Connect, part of Government Secure Intranet, a computer communications systems between UK local authorities
Tax information exchange agreement
References
External links
Telegraph: "Connect computer system" (June 2015)
HMRC Digital blog
SAS Enterprise Guide
BAE Systems.com: Financial Crime
BAE Systems
Big data products
Computer-related introductions in 2010
Corruption in the United Kingdom
Data analysis software
Fraud in the United Kingdom
Geodemographic databases
Geographical databases in the United Kingdom
Government databases in the United Kingdom
HM Revenue and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric%20Systems%20Corporation | Metric Systems Corporation (MSC) is an American company that develops, manufactures and sells wireless networking equipment and systems. Based in Carlsbad, California, MSC focuses on White spaces (radio) and other equipment and systems for the commercial, industrial, and government market place.
History
In the late 2000s Metric Systems Corporation was tasked by Microsoft to provide White Space test equipment for use by the Federal Communications Commission in its decision to allow unlicensed use of White Space. Following the FCC's release of final rules for the use of TV-band devices in late 2010, Metric Systems began developing its line of VHF/UHF White Space Broadband Radios.
Patents and technology
Metric Systems Corporation holds several patents in the United States and Canada which focus on Dynamic Spectrum Management and wide area wireless networking. Key patents include methods and apparatuses for adaptively setting frequency channels in a multi-point wireless networking system and maintain connectivity in the presence of noise and interference.
Product use and field trials
MSC's White Space products have been evaluated by a number of domestic and international agencies and companies. In February 2013 MSC's first generation White Space VHF/UHF Broadband Radios were delivered to Brazil's CPqD for evaluation.
In July 2013, Metric Systems Corporation's White Space equipment was used by the Port of Pittsburgh for testing inland waterways.
The first carrier-class TV Band White Space Radio, the RaptorX, was certified by the FCC for unlicensed use in 2015.
In Summer 2016, MSC's production White Space Infrastructure Radio, the RaptorXR, began field trials in the mid-western United States for educational, financial, and public safety applications.
References
Wireless network organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engen%20Botswana%20Limited | Engen Botswana Limited is a downstream petroleum company. Engen's principal activity includes petrochemical investments and property operations. They market through a retail network.
Board of directors
The current board of directors includes:
Dr S Ndzinge-Chairman
AM Bryce
C Monga-Managing Director
A Siwawa
F Kotze
V Bvumbi
R. Mathews
C. Mareka
References
External links
Company Website
Botswana Stock Exchange
https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=4&aid=7&dir=2008/June/Thursday12/
Oil companies of Botswana
Companies listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christos%20Kozyrakis | Christos (Christoforos) Kozyrakis (; born 1974) is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he leads the multi-scale architecture & systems team (MAST). His current research interests are on resource efficient cloud computing, energy efficient compute and memory systems, and architectural support for security. Kozyrakis was the 2015 ACM Maurice Wilkes Award for outstanding contributions to transactional memory systems.
Kozyrakis holds a Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley (advised by David A. Patterson) and a B.Sc. from University of Crete. He is an IEEE fellow and an ACM fellow.
References
External links
Christos Kozyrakis homepage
Christos Kozyrakis profile at Google Scholar
The Maurice Wilkes Award
Living people
Greek computer scientists
Computer designers
University of Crete alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Stanford University faculty
Stanford University Department of Computer Science faculty
Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Scientists from Heraklion
1974 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%202501 | The IBM 2501 is a punched-card reader from IBM with models for the System/360 and System/370 mainframe systems and for the IBM System/360 Model 20, the IBM 1130 and IBM System/3 minicomputers. 2501 models can read 80-column cards at either 600 or 1000 cards per minute (CPM).
The 2501 is no longer sold, but is simulated in software on current IBM systems.
Models
The 2501 comes in four models depending on speed and attachment features. Models for mainframe use come with an integrated control unit that performs the functions of a control unit required by other devices.
The A1 and A2 are for the IBM 1130.
Usage
The 2501 uses a photoelectric sensor to read the data punched in the card. Cards are read serially (column by column) and the reader uses a simplified "straight through" card path. "Each column is read twice and the two readings are compared to check reading accuracy."
In a mainframe environment the 2501 was frequently used for mainframe input in an "open shop" environment where users submitted their own jobs.
On an 1130 system the 2501 can be used in addition to the IBM 1442. Since the 1442 has a maximum speed of 300 or 400 CPM attaching a 2501 provides a significant increase in read speed and lower CPU usage.
The System/3 normally processes 96-column punched card; the 2501 provides alternative input for shops that require the ability to read 80-column cards.
Features
A special feature (RPQ) is available for all models to allow them to read optically marked (OMR) cards.
See also
Punched card input/output
Computer programming in the punched card era
References
Computer peripherals
IBM mainframe peripherals
2501 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabdella%20Lakes | Cabdella Lakes is a set of lakes in the Spanish Pyrenees. They are connected by tunnels at the head of the Fosca Valley, at Lleida. The network of lakes provide water to Lake Gento (Estany Gento) where there are two hydroelectric plants, Sallente Reservoir, and Central Hidroelectrica de Cabdella. This system is located in the municipality of La Torre de Cabdella, in the county of Pallars Jussà.
Geography
Cabdella Lakes is a complex system of water storage and resources, which is used by area consumers. It incorporates the Flamisell River, which is part of the Noguera Pallaresa basin. The system was created by the interconnection of approximately 30 glacial lakes, many of which were enlarged with the erection of a small dam which increased the lakes' original capacity. The Sallente Reservoir regulates the system at Lake Gento. The Central Hidroelectrica de Cabdella was constructed in 1985. This hydroelectric plant uses the water collected by a large network of underground channels which were built in the early 20th century. The hydroelectric plant is reversible, using the surplus electricity produced at certain times of the day.
Trail
A walking trail follows with the route of the old narrow-gauge railway used to transport materials and workers when construction began in 1912. The trail includes several tunnels, long loops, the dammed Lake Gento, the Sallente Reservoir, and views of granite peaks.
Larger lakes within the system
Gento Lake ()
Mar ()
Colomina ()
Xic de Colomina ()
Saburó ()
Petit de Saburó ()
Saburó d’Amunt ()
Tort ()
Vidal ()
Vidals d’Amunt ()
Frescau ()
Mariolo ()
Cubieso ()
Etserola ()
Castieso ()
Morto ()
Carbonera ()
Fosser ()
Morera ()
Grenut ()
Cogomella ()
Travessan ()
Reguera ()
Salado ()
Francí ()
Ribanegra ()
Castell ()
References
Bibliography
External links
http://www.unioviedo.net/reunido/index.php/RCG/article/viewFile/957/883 (in Spanish)
http://www.pallarsjussa.net/es/vive-la-naturaleza/embalses-y-lagos (in Spanish)
http://www.patrimonihidroelectric.com/es/fitxers/BIBLIOGRAFIA%20VALL%20FOSCA.pdf (in Spanish)
http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/Simposio/cBoneta_Lasconstrucciones.pdf (in Spanish)
http://www.vallfosca.net/ca/coses-per-fer-i-veure/museu-hidroelectric-de-capdella/ (in Spanish)
http://sortidesambgracia.com/2013/05/16/el-museu-hidroelectric-de-capdella-2/ (in Spanish)
Geography of the Province of Lleida
Lakes of Catalonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS-CBN%20Regional%20Channel | ABS-CBN Regional Channel was a Philippine pay television channel which aired programming from the regional television and radio stations owned by ABS-CBN. The channel was launched as a test broadcast on August 1, 2016, and was officially launched on March 20, 2017.
ARC was the network's second attempt to have a subscription-television channel solely dedicated to regional programming. In 1996, when the then-Sarimanok Channel 37 (now ABS-CBN News Channel) was launched, 80% of its programming were produced in the network's regional operations centers located in Baguio, Bacolod, Cagayán de Oro, Cebú, Davao, Naga, Zamboanga, among others. The programming consists of newscasts which is aired live via satellite, public affairs shows such as Banat Visayas, Sulong Mindanao, drama, comedy and musical programs.
On January 10, 2018, ABS-CBN Corporation and Creative Programs announced that the channel would closedown on January 14, 2018, alongside Tag. Meanwhile, ABS-CBN Regional Channel on Sky Direct was rebranded as Liga, a sports channel that complements the programming of S+A with international football and local sports events, which was silently launched earlier on January 1.
Though it ceased broadcasting locally, ABS-CBN Regional Channel continued its international broadcast via iWantTFC until January 1, 2021.
Final programming
Newscasts
TV Patrol Regional versions
Luzon
TV Patrol North Luzon (Baguio/Dagupan/Laoag/Isabela/Pampanga)
Delivered in Filipino - Anchored by Dobie de Guzman, Cris Zuñiga, Grace Alba, Harris Julio and Gracie Rutao.
TV Patrol Southern Tagalog (Batangas)
Delivered in Filipino - Anchored by Jonathan Magistrado.
TV Patrol Bicol (Naga)
Delivered in Bicolano - Anchored by Gerard Lorbes and Rizza Mostar.
Visayas
TV Patrol Panay (Iloilo)
Delivered in Ilonggo - Anchored by Regi Adosto.
TV Patrol Negros (Bacolod)
Delivered in Ilonggo - Anchored by Barbara Mijares
TV Patrol Central Visayas (Cebu)
Delivered in Cebuano - Anchored by Leo Lastimosa.
TV Patrol Eastern Visayas (Tacloban)
Delivered in Waray - Anchored by Ranulfo Docdocan.
Mindanao
TV Patrol Chavacano (Zamboanga)
Delivered in Chavacano - Anchored by Jewel Reyes.
TV Patrol North Mindanao (Cagayan de Oro)
Delivered in Cebuano - Anchored by PJ dela Peña.
TV Patrol Southern Mindanao (Davao)
Delivered in Cebuano - Anchored by Paul Palacio and Melanie Severino.
TV Patrol South Central Mindanao (General Santos)
Delivered in Filipino - Anchored by Jay Dayupay.
Current affairs reruns
Ano Ngani? (Tacloban)
Delivered in Waray - Hosted by Ranulfo Docdocan.
Arangkada (Cagayan de Oro)
Delivered in Cebuano - Hosted by PJ dela Peña.
Bida Kapampangan (Pampanga)
Delivered in Kapampangan - Hosted by Richie Bondoc.
Salandigan (Bacolod)
Delivered in Hiligaynon - Hosted by Ryan Gamboa'''.
Magazine shows
Agri Tayo Dito (Available on Knowledge Channel)
Mag TV Na
Mag TV Na, Amiga! (Bacolod)
Mag TV Na, Atin 'To! (Baguio)
Mag TV Na, Oragon! (Naga)
Mag TV Na, Asenso Ta! (Cagayan de Oro)
Mag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20as%20a%20service | Function as a service (FaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage application functionalities without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app. Building an application following this model is one way of achieving a "serverless" architecture, and is typically used when building microservices applications.
FaaS was initially offered by various start-ups circa 2010, such as PiCloud.
AWS Lambda was the first FaaS offering by a large public cloud vendor, followed by Google Cloud Functions, Microsoft Azure Functions, IBM/Apache's OpenWhisk (open source) in 2016 and Oracle Cloud Fn (open source) in 2017.
Use cases
Use cases for FaaS are associated with "on-demand" functionality that enables the supporting infrastructure to be powered down and not incur charges when not in use. Examples include data processing (e.g., batch processing, stream processing, extract-transform-load (ETL)), Internet of things (IoT) services for Internet-connected devices, mobile applications, and web applications.
Another real-world use case can be creating APIs for already built applications without breaking down or modifying the current or existing functionality of the application.
Comparison with PaaS application hosting services
Platform as a service (PaaS) application hosting services is similar to FaaS in that they also hide "servers" from developers. However, such hosting services typically always have at least one server process running that receives external requests. Scaling is achieved by booting up more server processes, which the developer is typically charged directly for. Consequently, scalability remains visible to the developer.
By contrast, FaaS does not require any server process constantly being run. While an initial request may take longer to be handled than an application hosting platform (up to several seconds), caching may enable subsequent requests to be handled within milliseconds. As developers only pay for function execution time (and no process idle time), lower costs at higher scalability can be achieved (at the cost of latency).
See also
Serverless computing
Serverless Framework
AWS Lambda
References
Serverless computing
As a service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20the%20Presidents%20of%20the%20Supreme%20Judicial%20Courts%20of%20the%20European%20Union | The Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union is the association of the Presidents and Chief Justices of the Supreme Judicial courts of the member states of the European Union.
The Network was created on 10 March 2004 at the French Court of Cassation in Paris. Its members meet to discuss matters of common interest and shared concern and to exchange ideas and information. It is meant to provide a forum through which European institutions can request the opinions of Supreme Courts. The Network has an observer status at the European Law Institute.
The members of the Network hold an annual colloquium and other meetings. Since 2007, the Network has also been running a shared portal which allows access to the case law of the Supreme Courts. Also, the Network organizes internships for members of the Supreme Courts.
The Network has its seat at the French Court of Cassation in Paris and is supported financially by the European Union. Priit Pikamäe, president of the Supreme Court of Estonia, became chair of the network in 2017, following Susan Denham, the then Chief Justice of Ireland, who had been president since 2015.
The presidents of the Supreme Courts of Liechtenstein, Montenegro and Norway enjoy an observer status. The Presidents of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights also participate in the general assemblies and colloquiums of the Network.
External links
Website
International judicial organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarah%20Wheeler | Tarah Marie Wheeler (born February 12, 1979) is an American technology and cybersecurity author, public speaker, computer security professional, and executive. She is currently CEO of Red Queen Dynamics and Senior Fellow of Global Cyber Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and she is the author of Women in Tech.
Early life and education
Wheeler received a Master of Science degree from Portland State University.
Career
Wheeler was a systems architect at mobile encryption firm Silent Circle.
In 2016, Wheeler was named a Cybersecurity Passcode Influencer by Christian Science Monitor and spoke to the Federal Trade Commission on information security in tech startups.
After a Kickstarter campaign, Wheeler published Women in Tech, a book dedicated to teaching women how to succeed in tech careers. The book was published with several contributors, including Esther Dyson and Brianna Wu, one of the targets of the Gamergate controversy.
Wheeler served as the Website Cybersecurity Czar at Symantec, until her position was eliminated in August 2017.
Wheeler and her husband Deviant Ollam helped cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins with his bail in August 2017 and to house him in Los Angeles during his arraignment period while he was investigated by the FBI on charges related to the Kronos rootkit; Hutchins later pleaded guilty to two of ten charges.
In 2021, Wheeler became a Fulbright Scholar in Cybersecurity at the University of Oxford.
Wheeler has been cited in national media on issues relating to cybersecurity such as cyberterrorism, malware and data breaches and has written about cyberwar policy.
Bibliography
Books
Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack, Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories, 2016, Hardback ISBN 978-1-63217-140-5
Poker
Wheeler has competed in the World Series of Poker with $4,722 in lifetime cashes. In Women in Tech, Wheeler notes that interests such as poker can be useful in business, the same way golf can be.
References
External links
Personal site
1979 births
Living people
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
Activists from Washington (state)
American business writers
Women business writers
American computer businesspeople
American feminist writers
American technology chief executives
American technology writers
Businesspeople from Portland, Oregon
Businesspeople from Seattle
People associated with computer security
Gen Digital people
Splunk people
Writers from Portland, Oregon
Writers from Seattle
American women non-fiction writers
Fulbright alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20MTV%20Classic | This is a list of programs that are currently and formerly broadcast by MTV Classic (formerly known as VH1 Classic).
Current programming
Music video blocks
All programming listed is currently 6 hour-long automated blocks of videos:
Special events
Award shows
Former programming
Former programming by VH1 Classic
Former programming by MTV Classic
Music video blocks
Music series
Comedy series
Reality series
Animated series
Celebrity series
Competitive series
See also
List of programs broadcast by MTV
List of programs broadcast by MTV2
MTV Classic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa%20Shevinsky | Elissa Shevinsky is an American technology executive, entrepreneur, cybersecurity expert, public speaker, and author.
Education
Shevinsky attended Benjamin Cardozo High School, before studying for a Political Theory major at Williams College, where she also took classes in Computer Science, graduating in 2001.
Early career
In 2010, Shevinsky defended her company against The New York Times, as co-owner of Neighborhoodies, over the use of the "New York Herald Tribune" logo on T-shirts. Shevinsky argued that the trademark had been abandoned. In 2012, she founded two NYC-focused dating sites, MakeOut Labs and JoinJspot.
Shevinsky co-founded Glimpse, an encrypted photo and video-sharing app, with Pax Dickinson in 2013. At Glimpse, Shevinksy served as chief executive of the company.
In 2015 Shevinsky was funded by MACH37 for Jekudo Privacy Company, co-organized information security conference SecretCon, and edited Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-up Culture.
In 2016, Shevinsky joined Brave as Head of Product.
Current career
Shevinsky has spoken and written on enterprise security policy. She spoke on the potential for social media to influence election outcomes at HOPE XI. Shevinsky continues to be an organizer of SecretCon.
In 2018 Shevinsky spoke on information security at universities and infosec conferences. She served as chief operating officer of SoHo Token Labs, building developer tools for smart contracts.
In 2019 Shevinsky started serving as CEO at Faster Than Light. Shevinsky taught a course titled "Introduction to Tech Entrepreneurship" at the Computer Science Department of Williams College."
Honors
Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-up Culture was listed by Inc. Magazine as one of the 100 best business books of 2015.
In 2018, Shevinsky was named "Woman of the Decade" by Williams College in a speech where she announced she wanted to lead the way for the development and protection of privacy for the following decade.
Personal life
Shevinsky advocates for niceness and inclusivity in the workplace, especially within the tech and security industries. In a 2015 post on harassment and trolling in Silicon Valley, Shevinsky wrote: "I'd like to see less harassment. That's my position. Less harassment, for everyone. I do hope this isn't a controversial statement." When James Damore was fired by Google, Shevinsky was widely quoted saying that speech "questioning the technical qualifications of people based on race or gender" was potentially within the purview of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. As a Press Lead for the 2018 HOPE conference in NYC, Shevinsky called for stronger enforcement of the Code of Conduct.
Bibliography
Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-up Culture: OR Books, 2015.
Social Entrepreneurship: How Businesses Can Transform Society: Praeger |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic%20data%20and%20information | Geographic data and information is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as data and information having an implicit or explicit association with a location relative to Earth (a geographic location or geographic position). It is also called geospatial data and information, georeferenced data and information, as well as geodata and geoinformation.
Approximately 90% of government sourced data has a location component. Location information (known by the many names mentioned here) is stored in a geographic information system (GIS).
There are also many different types of geodata, including vector files, raster files, geographic databases, web files, and multi-temporal data.
Spatial data or spatial information is broader class of data whose geometry is relevant but it is not necessarily georeferenced, such as in computer-aided design (CAD), see geometric modeling.
Fields of study
Geographic data and information are the subject of a number of overlapping fields of study, mainly:
Geocomputation
Geographic information science
Geographic information science and technology
Geoinformatics
Geomatics
Geovisualization
"Geospatial technology" may refer to any of "geomatics", "geomatics", or "geographic information technology".
The above is in addition to other related fields, such as:
Cartography
Geodesy
Geography
Geostatistics
Photogrammetry
Remote sensing
Spatial data analysis
Surveying
Topography
See also
Earth observation data
Geographic feature
Georeferencing
Geospatial intelligence
Ubiquitous geographic information
References
Further reading
Roger A. Longhorn; Michael Blakemore (2007). Geographic Information: Value, Pricing, Production, and Consumption. CRC Press.
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20search | Discovering communities in a network, known as community detection/discovery, is a fundamental problem in network science, which attracted much attention in the past several decades. In recent years, with the tremendous studies on big data, another related but different problem, called community search, which aims to find the most likely community that contains the query node, has attracted great attention from both academic and industry areas. It is a query-dependent variant of the community detection problem. A detailed survey of community search can be found at ref., which reviews all the recent studies
Main advantages
As pointed by the first work on community search published in SIGKDD'2010, many existing community detection/discovery methods consider the static community detection problem, where the graph needs to be partitioned a-priori with no reference to query nodes. While community search often focuses the most-likely communitie containing the query vertex. The main advantages of community search over community detection/discovery are listed as below:
(1) High personalization. Community detection/discovery often uses the same global criterion to decide whether a subgraph qualifies as a community. In other words, the criterion is fixed and predetermined. But in reality, communities for different vertices may have very different characteristics. Moreover, community search allows the query users to specify more personalized query conditions. In addition, the personalized query conditions enable the communities to be interpreted easily.
For example, a recent work, which focuses on attributed graphs, where nodes are often associated with some attributes like keyword, and tries to find the communities, called attributed communities, which exhibit both strong structure and keyword cohesiveness. The query users are allowed to specify a query node and some other query conditions: (1) a value, k, the minimum degree for the expected communities; and (2) a set of keywords, which control the semantic of the expected communities. The communities returned can be easily interpreted by the keywords shared by all the community members. More details can be found from.
(2) High efficiency. With the striking booming of social networks in recent years, there are many real big graphs. For example, the numbers of users in Facebook and Twitter are often billions-scale. As community detection/discovery often finds all the communities from an entire social network, this can be very costly and also time-consuming. In contrast, community search often works on a sub-graph, which is much efficient. Moreover, detecting all the communities from an entire social network is often unnecessary. For real applications like recommendation and social media markets, people often focus on some communities that they are really interested in, rather than all the communities.
Some recent studies have shown that, for million-scale graphs, community search often takes less than |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20GMA%20Pictures%20films | This is a list of films produced or distributed by GMA Pictures, founded in 1995 as Cinemax Studios. It is the main motion picture production and distribution arm of GMA Network.
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2019
2023
Upcoming films
List of Backyard Productions films
2019
References
External links
Website |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNLD | RNLD may refer to:
Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity, an organisation aiming to advance the sustainability of the world's Indigenous languages
Registered Nurse Learning Disabilities, the title used to designate nurses who are registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) one of 4 fields of nursing in the United Kingdom
See also
RNL Architecture, formerly known as RNL Design, American company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Congressional%20Campaign%20Committee%20cyber%20attacks | On Friday July 29, 2016 the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reported that its computer systems had been infiltrated. It is strongly believed by US intelligence sources that the infiltrator groups are Russian foreign intelligence groups that breached the Democratic National Committee's computer systems. These groups are known as Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear (or "Sofacy").
CrowdStrike assisted with efforts to deal with the DCCC breach. There was significant concern that the Russian Government was attempting to influence the 2016 Presidential campaign. Russian cyber intrusions into United States government and private sector computer systems significantly increased after the U.S, imposed sanctions on Russia after its invasion of the Crimea in Ukraine. It was President Obama's preference to publicize cyber attacks.
See also
Cold War II
Democratic National Committee cyber attacks
Foreign electoral intervention
Russian espionage in the United States
Russian interference in the 2018 United States elections
Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election
References
Computer security
Espionage in the United States
Russian intelligence agencies
2016 scandals
Data breaches in the United States
Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election
Hacking in the 2010s
2016 in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Goodfellow | Ian J. Goodfellow (born 1987) is an American computer scientist, engineer, and executive, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. He was previously employed as a research scientist at Google Brain and director of machine learning at Apple and has made several important contributions to the field of deep learning including the invention of the generative adversarial network (GAN). Goodfellow co-wrote, as the first author, the textbook Deep Learning (2016) and wrote the chapter on deep learning in the authoritative textbook of the field of artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries).
Education
Goodfellow obtained his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University under the supervision of Andrew Ng (co-founder and head of Google Brain), and his Ph.D. in machine learning from the Université de Montréal in April 2014, under the supervision of Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville. Goodfellow's thesis is titled Deep learning of representations and its application to computer vision.
Career
After graduation, Goodfellow joined Google as part of the Google Brain research team. In March 2016 he left Google to join the newly founded OpenAI research laboratory. Barely 11 months later, in March 2017, Goodfellow returned to Google Research but left again in 2019.
In 2019 Goodfellow joined Apple as director of machine learning in the Special Projects Group. He resigned from Apple in April 2022 to protest Apple's plan to require in-person work for its employees. Goodfellow then joined DeepMind as a research scientist.
Research
Goodfellow is best known for inventing generative adversarial networks (GAN), using deep learning to generate images. This approach uses two neural networks to competitively improve an image's quality. A “generator” network creates a synthetic image based on an initial set of images such as a collection of faces. A “discriminator” network tries to detect whether or not the generator's output is real or fake. Then the generate-detect cycle is repeated. For each iteration, the generator and the discriminator use the other's feedback to improve or detect the generated images, until the discriminator can no longer distinguish between the fakes generated by its opponent and the real thing. The ability to create high quality generated imagery has increased rapidly. Unfortunately, so has its malicious use, to create deepfakes and generate video-based disinformation.
At Google, Goodfellow developed a system enabling Google Maps to automatically transcribe addresses from photos taken by Street View cars and demonstrated security vulnerabilities of machine learning systems.
Recognition
In 2017, Goodfellow was cited in MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35. In 2019, he was included in Foreign Policy's list of 100 Global Thinkers.
References
American computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Google |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris%20Rinne | Kris Rinne is a technology person and retired Senior VP of network technology at AT&T Labs. She was an inductee to the 2013 Wireless Hall of Fame and the 2014 Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. She has been described as a key person in wireless technologies for her AT&T work.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
AT&T people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bridge%20%28Russian%20TV%20series%29 | The Bridge (Russian: Мост; Most, Estonian: Sild) is an Estonian-Russian crime drama television series, developed by Konstantin Statskiy, broadcast on the NTV network in Russia and TV3 in Estonia, and based on the Danish-Swedish series Broen/Bron. The show stars Lithuanian actress Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė and Russian actor Mikhail Porechenkov in pivotal roles. The complete series consists of two seasons of 10 episodes each. The series debuted on NTV in the Russian Federation in 2018, also on TV3 in Estonia in 2019. The show is broadcast in both Estonian and Russian languages.
The second series start on May 22, 2020. The final episode was posted on July 24, 2020 and ended with a cliffhanger.
The series begins with the discovery of a dead body exactly on the centre of the Friendship Bridge, which links Narva with Ivangorod, necessitating a joint investigation. Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, as the Estonian police detective Inga Veermaa, stars in all two series. In the first and second, her Russian counterpart, Maksim Kazantsev, is played by Mikhail Porechenkov. It was broadcast on the Russian NTV Channel during the spring of 2018.
Background
The Russian version takes place on the Russian and Estonian border where a murdered body on a bridge between Narva and Ivangorod (the Friendship Bridge (Narva) on the Russo-Estonian border over the Narva River) and brings together Narva detective, Inga Veermaa (Dapkūnaitė) who is mentored by Saint-Petersburg detective Maksim Kazantsev (Porechenkov), while Dapkūnaitė's character was originally called Inga Savisaar.
Series overview
Plot
The action of the series takes place on the border of Russia and Estonia. The centerpiece of the film is the bridge on the border, and a discovery of a female corpse. The body is found between the Russian town of Ivangorod and the Estonian city of Narva. The police forces of the two countries investigating the incident find that the upper part of the corpse belongs to a politician from Estonia and the lower part to a student from St. Petersburg. The Russian Investigator is Maxim Kazantsev, the Estonian is Inspector Inga Veermaa. Together they investigate a series of crimes that are well prepared, skillfully executed and contain a "message" to society on the subject of social injustice.
Gradually Inga and Maksim understand that the perpetrator is only posing as a fighter for the truth. At the heart of the action is the motive of personal revenge, while the main enemy is Maksim himself.
Cast
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Detective Chief Inspector Inga Veermaa
Mikhail Porechenkov as Detective Maksim Kazantsev
Mariya Skuratova as Lena
Alyona Kuchkova as Sveta
Yury Kovalev as Nikolai
Denis Portnov as doctor
Yury Utkin as Poletaev
Dmitry Novikov as owner of a strip club
Igor Papylev as reporter
Stanislav Nikolaev
Daniil Kokin
Sofya Mironova as girl hostage
See also
The Bridge (2011 TV series)
The Bridge (2013 TV series)
The Tunnel (TV series)
References
External links
В Петербурге |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tregaye%20Fraser | Tregaye Fraser (born September 6, 1984) is an American chef.
Professional History
She trained at Le Cordon Bleu
Fraser was the winner of the twelfth season of the Food Network television series Food Network Star. She also has previously made appearances as a winner on Cutthroat Kitchen and Guy's Grocery Games, Steve Harvey, Good Morning America.
In January 2017, Fraser became a regular co-host of the second season of Kitchen Sink, which lasted three episodes before it was removed from the Food Network schedule.
As of January 2021, Fraser started a new series called Tregaye's Way in the Kitchen. The series is produced by OWN and is on Discovery+. She was previously a host of Food Network's “Cakealikes“.
References
External links
1984 births
African-American chefs
Chefs from Georgia (U.S. state)
American television chefs
Food Network chefs
Food Network Star winners
Living people
Television personalities from Atlanta
American women chefs
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
20th-century African-American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20%28serialization%20format%29 | Ion is a data serialization language developed by Amazon. It may be represented by either a human-readable text form or a compact binary form. The text form is a superset of JSON; thus, any valid JSON document is also a valid Ion document.
Data types
As a superset of JSON, Ion includes the following data types
: An empty value
: Boolean values
: Unicode text literals
: Ordered heterogeneous collection of Ion values
: Unordered collection of key/value pairs
The nebulous JSON 'number' type is strictly defined in Ion to be one of
: Signed integers of arbitrary size
: 64-bit IEEE binary-encoded floating point numbers
: Decimal-encoded real numbers of arbitrary precision
Ion adds these types:
: Date/time/time zone moments of arbitrary precision
: Unicode symbolic atoms (aka identifiers)
: Binary data of user-defined encoding
: Text data of user-defined encoding
: Ordered collections of values with application-defined semantics
Each Ion type supports a null variant, indicating a lack of value while maintaining a strict type (e.g., , ).
The Ion format permits annotations to any value in the form of symbols. Such annotations may be used as metadata for otherwise opaque data (such as a blob).
Implementations
Amazon supported library implementations
C#
Go Lang
Python
JS
Examples
Sample document
// comments are allowed in Ion files using the double forward slash
{
key: "value", // key here is a symbol, it can also be a string as in JSON
nums: 1_000_000, // equivalent to 1000000, use of underscores with numbers is more readable
'A float value': 31415e-4, // key is a value that contains spaces
"An int value": .int,
annotated: age::35, // age here is the annotation to number 35
lists : 'hw grades'::[80, 85, 90], // any symbol can be used as an annotation
many_annot: I::have::many::annotations::true, // annotations are not nested, but rather, a list of annotations
sexp: (this (is a [valid] "Ion") last::value 42) // Ion S-expressions,
_value: {{OiBTIKUgTyAASb8=}},
_value: {{"a b"}}
}
Uses
Amazon's Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) stores data in Ion documents.
PartiQL, an open source SQL-based query language also by Amazon, is built upon Ion. PartiQL supported queries are used by QLDB, S3Select.
Tooling and extensions
Ion Path Extractor API aims to combine the convenience of a DOM API with the speed of a streaming API.
IDE support
Eclipse
IntelliJ
Jackson data format module for Ion
Apache Hive SerDe for Ion
Ion Schema
Specification
Implementations
Ion Hash defines an algorithm for constructing a hash for any Ion value.
Specification
Implementations
References
External links
Ion specification
Amazon supported language implementations
Java API documentation
C# implementation
Data serialization formats
Markup languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Kunz%20Mejri | Benjamin Kunz Mejri (born 6 May 1983) is a German IT security specialist and penetration tester. His areas of research include vulnerabilities in computer systems, bug bounties, the security of e-payment payment services and privacy protection. Mejri is known for uncovering new zero-day vulnerabilities and making them transparent to the public.
Life
Kunz Mejri grew up in the city of Kassel in Hessen. From 2003 to 2005 he was at the Fachoberschule Kassel in the field of business informatics. In 2005, at the Cebit in Hannover, he published for the first time a report about a Secure Sockets Layer zero-day vulnerability in the Mozilla Firefox Browser Engine with the company F-Secure. Mejri has been head of research at the Vulnerability Lab since 2008 and became managing director of Evolution Security GmbH in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe in 2014. T to in 2022
Research
Evolution Security
Kunz Mejri started Evolution Security in 2010 with the developer Pim Campers from the Netherlands. The company is known for manual security checks and the detection of back doors in operating systems, hardware or software. In 2014, the company changed its legal form and officially became a limited liability company with its registered office in the Technology Centre in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe.
Vulnerability Laboratory
In 2005 Kunz Mejri opened the first laboratory as a portal for researchers to record bug bounty vulnerabilities.[1] The public vulnerability laboratory has over 1,000 active researchers from around the world and lists over 2,000 specially reported vulnerabilities with technical details. In addition, the laboratory has documents, videos and analyses from the field of IT security relating to security vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Laboratory is the first internationally registered vulnerability portal for independent IT security researchers.
Securityanalysis of Skype (VoIP)
In 2011 Kunz Mejri published one of the first reports on vulnerabilities in Skype-software and architecture at the Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The release took place in cooperation with Skype. In the presentation, Kunz Mejri explained his own found vulnerabilities to other researchers.
Airport security
In 2012, Kunz Mejri reported several critical security gaps in the infrastructure of German airports. The vulnerabilities allowed the SQL database entries of the airports Düsseldorf, Köln/Bonn and München to be read out. This also affected related airlines such as Lufthansa and Air Berlin. After the publication of two security vulnerabilities in the airport service pages, the digital security architecture of the affected companies changed permanently.
Microsoft- & Skype-Account-System
In 2012, Kunz Mejri released four critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft via Skype that allowed access to any Hotmail - Live - Xbox - Skype account without permission. His analysis with security article flowed into the production of the new account systems and improved the infrastruct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo%20H%C3%A4rder | Theo Härder (born August 28, 1945 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern.
Life and career
Theo Härder studied electrical Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, earning his doctorate there in 1975. In 1976 he moved to the IBM Research - Almaden in San Jose, California. In 1977 he returned to TU Darmstadt as a professor at the Department of Computer Science. In 1980 he accepted an appointment at the University of Kaiserslautern in computer science.
Accomplishments
Härder has received numerous awards for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of databases. He participated in the development of System R, the first relational database management system.
In 1983, he and Andreas Reuter coined the acronym ACID to describe the essential characteristics of a distributed relational database (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability).
Awards
Konrad Zuse Medal, 2001
Honorary doctorate from Universität Oldenburg, 2002
References
German computer scientists
1945 births
Living people
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal%20News%20Network | The Tribal News Network, known on air as TNN, is a radio and internet news agency based in Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
TNN produces radio bulletins in the Pashto language, about news, current affairs and social issues. These bulletins are broadcast on ten partner radio stations throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Balochistan and into the border regions of Afghanistan. News is also reported in Urdu and in English on TNN’s website. In August 2016, TNN also began broadcasting 2 minute news bulletins via mobile phone.
TNN produces two main news bulletins each day and employs 35 local journalists including 6 women. It has correspondents reporting from all districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA.
History
TNN’s first bulletin went to air on November 9, 2013. TNN is officially registered under the Companies Ordinance, 1984 with the Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan. In 2015, TNN was runner-up in the special award category of the One World Media Awards. In 2015, TNN was recognised by the Geuzenpennning Foundation as a tribute to individuals or institutions that have “devoted themselves to fighting for democracy or against dictatorship, discrimination and racism.”
Availability
TNN's bulletins are broadcast on:
Radio Tehzeeb – FM 91.6 in Khyber Agency
Radio Dilber – FM 93 in Charsadda district
Radio Dilber – FM 94 in Swabi district
Radio Lakki – FM 88 in Lakki Marwat district
Radio Global – FM 91 in Dera Ismail Khan district
[Radio Chiltan] – FM 88 in Quetta
Radio Voice of Time – FM 105.6 Hassan Abdal district
Radio Shamal – FM 98.6 Bajaur Agency
Radio Tawheed – FM 89.3 Kunar province, Afghanistan
Radio Speenghar – FM 89.4 Nangarhar Afghanistan
See also
Al Jazeera Documentary
TERP University of Maryland
Free Press Unlimited
Dawn TV
Christian Science Monitor
LA Times
References
Radio stations in Pakistan
2013 establishments in Pakistan
Mass media in Peshawar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythraella | Erythraella is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains only one species, Erythraella bicuspidata, which is endemic to Socotra. The genus and species were described by Stefano Zoia in 2012. The genus name comes from the Latin name for the Arabian Sea, "mare Erythraeum". The species name, meaning "double pointed" in Latin, refers to the double point of the apex of the aedeagus. The genus is related to Lypesthes and Trichotheca.
References
Eumolpinae
Beetles of Asia
Endemic fauna of Socotra
Monotypic Chrysomelidae genera
Insects of the Arabian Peninsula
Beetles described in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactriola%20circumdata | Bactriola circumdata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins and Galileo in 1992. It is known from Brazil.
References
Forsteriini
Beetles described in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20Drive | Internal Drive may refer to:
Internal drive propulsion, a form of marine propulsion commonly used in recreational boating
ID Tech Camps, a computer camp, formerly referred to as "Internal Drive" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitava%20Ghosh | Amitava Ghosh is an IEEE Fellow and Head of North America Radio Systems Research at Nokia Networks Technology and Innovation since 2011.
Career
Amitabha (Amitava) Ghosh is a Nokia Fellow and Head of Small Cell Research at Nokia Bell Labs. Prior to this, he was Senior Director and Fellow of Technical Staff at Motorola Networks. He is widely cited in the field of wireless technology and has over 60 issued patents as well as 30 patents pending with USPTO. In addition, he is the co-author of the book titled "Essentials of LTE and LTE-A" and have written chapters in other field specific books. He is the author or co-author of approximately 90 IEEE conference and journal papers, which have received more than 3,000 citations. He is currently working on 3GPP LTE-Pro and 5G technologies. His research interests are in the areas of digital communications, digital signal processing and wireless communications.
Dr. Ghosh was named an IEEE Fellow in 2014 for his accomplishments in the telecommunications industry. He is also a Nokia Fellow since 2015 and regular speaker and organizer of the Brooklyn Summit 5G Conference. Telecommunications industry leaders like Adam Koeppe Vice President of Verizon Wireless, Andrew D. Hamilton President of New York University, among others have spoken at this conference.
Education
Ghosh received his Phd in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, a master's degree from El Paso University, and his bachelor's degree in Calcutta, India.
Personal life
Ghosh resides in Buffalo Grove with his wife, son, and daughter. Apart from digital technology, he is interested in food and travel.
Selected publications
Ghosh, Amitava, Rapeepat Ratasuk, Bishwarup Mondal, Nitin Mangalvedhe, and Tim Thomas. "LTE-advanced: Next-generation Wireless Broadband Technology [Invited Paper." IEEE Wireless Commun. IEEE Wireless Communications 17.3 (2010): 10-22. Web.
Ghosh, Amitava, Rapeepat Ratasuk, Bishwarup Mondal, Nitin Mangalvedhe, and Tim Thomas. "LTE-advanced: Next-generation Wireless Broadband Technology [Invited Paper." IEEE Wireless Commun. IEEE Wireless Communications 17.3 (2010): 10-22. Web.
Ghosh, Amitava, Timothy A. Thomas, Mark C. Cudak, Rapeepat Ratasuk, Prakash Moorut, Frederick W. Vook, Theodore S. Rappaport, George R. Maccartney, Shu Sun, and Shuai Nie. "Millimeter-Wave Enhanced Local Area Systems: A High-Data-Rate Approach for Future Wireless Networks." IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 32.6 (2014): 1152-163. Web.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American people of Indian descent
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Motorola employees
Nokia people
Southern Methodist University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TouchDesigner | TouchDesigner is a node based visual programming language for real time interactive multimedia content, developed by the Toronto-based company Derivative. It's been used by artists, programmers, creative coders, software designers, and performers to create performances, installations, and fixed media works.
History
Greg Hermanovic, Rob Bairos, and Jarrett Smith founded the Canadian company Derivative. In 2000, Hermanovic used the Houdini 4.1 code base as the initial scaffolding for the TouchDesigner. From 2002 to 2007, TouchDesigner's release title adopted the trailing 007 to 017 digits to indicate its versioning. In 2008, Derivative released a beta version of the platform as TouchDesigner 077, a rewrite of its previous versions that incorporated a fully procedural OpenGL compositing and effects pipeline.
Features
TouchDesigner covers several major areas of 2D and 3D production, including:
Rendering and compositing
Workflow and scalable architecture
Video and audio in and out
Multi-display support
Video mapping
Animation and control channels
Custom control panels and application building
3D engine and tools
Device and software interoperability
Scripting and programming
Operators
Operators are the building blocks in a TouchDesigner project. These objects are represented as Nodes in the user interface and are connected in order to create procedural effects and animation. Each operator is customized with a unique set of parameters and flags that control its operation and processing. Operators, often referred to as ops, come in six varieties:
COMP Components represent 3D objects, panel components, and other various operators. These components can house entire networks of other operators.
TOP Texture operators handle all 2D image operations.
CHOP Channel operators are used for motion, audio, animation, and control signals.
SOP Surface operators are the native 3D objects of TouchDesigner responsible for 3D points, polygons, and other 3D "primitives"
MAT Materials are used for applying materials and shaders to the 3D rendering pipeline.
DAT Data operators are for ASCII text as plain text, scripts, XML, and tables.
COMP
Channel operators serve as the backbone of the control system in TouchDesigner. They are used to process motion data, audio, on-screen controls, MIDI data, and other input devices. These operators organize data as a series of channels. According to the derivative wiki entry about CHOPs, they were designed to reduce the tedium of motion editing and to help build and manage more complex motion.
TOP
Texture operators are image-based operations that are GPU accelerated. Data in TOPs can be scaled to any resolution, limited only by the amount of RAM available on a system's graphics card.
CHOP
Channel operators are the backbone of the control system in TouchDesigner. Used for processing motion data, audio, on-screen controls, MIDI data, and other input devices, these operators organize data as a series of channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN%20Awards | The ATN Awards is an annual music award ceremony held by Ariana Television Network. Viewers cast votes via SMS and online. Bassir Bayat is the executive producer of ATN Awards along with his team in Afghanistan, India, the United States and the UAE.
References
Asian music awards
Afghan music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1%20%28Italian%20TV%20channel%29 | VH1 Italia is a 24-hour music entertainment channel operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA which launched on 1 July 2016, replacing the Italian version of MTV Music which launched on 1 March 2011 on digital terrestrial television. VH1 Italia is available over-the-air across Italy.
The channel uses the slogan 'Music 4 Life' on all online and on-air branding. The channel uses the existing VH1 branding and idents from VH1's international creative campaign. The channel uses a mix of domestic and non-domestic music videos and artists. Italian artists are used in segments in order to promote the new channel - VH1 Italia: Music 4 Life.
Logos
Shows
Current programmes
Classics and Pearls
Top Chart
Wake Up
Top Chart Right Now
Right Now
Simply The Best
Top Chart 2 Anni Fa
VH1 Official Chart
Previous programmes
Best Of ...
Past vs. Present
Top 10 Right Now
Top 10 Italians
See also
MTV (European TV channel)
Paramount Networks EMEAA
References
External links
VH1 Italia
Television channels in Italy
Television channels and stations established in 2016
VH1
Music organisations based in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST%20Cybersecurity%20Framework | NIST Cybersecurity Framework is a set of guidelines for mitigating organizational cybersecurity risks, published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) based on existing standards, guidelines, and practices. The framework "provides a high level taxonomy of cybersecurity outcomes and a methodology to assess and manage those outcomes", in addition to guidance on the protection of privacy and civil liberties in a cybersecurity context. It has been translated to many languages, and is used by several governments and a wide range of businesses and organizations.
A 2016 study found that 70% of organizations surveyed see the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as a popular best practice for computer security, but many note that it requires significant investment.
Overview
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is designed for individual businesses and other organizations to assess risks they face.
Version 1.0 was published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2014, originally aimed at operators of critical infrastructure. In 2017, a draft version of the framework, version 1.1, was circulated for public comment. Version 1.1 was announced and made publicly available on April 16, 2018. Version 1.1 is still compatible with version 1.0.
The changes include guidance on how to perform self-assessments, additional detail on supply chain risk management, guidance on how to interact with supply chain stakeholders, and encourages a vulnerability disclosure process.
The framework is divided into three parts, "Core", "Profile" and "Tiers". The "Framework Core" contains an array of activities, outcomes and references about aspects and approaches to cybersecurity. The "Framework Implementation Tiers" are used by an organization to clarify for itself and its partners how it views cybersecurity risk and the degree of sophistication of its management approach. A "Framework Profile" is a list of outcomes that an organization has chosen from the categories and subcategories, based on its needs and risk assessments.
An organization typically starts by using the framework to develop a "Current Profile" which describes its cybersecurity activities and what outcomes it is achieving. It can then develop a "Target Profile", or adopt a baseline profile tailored to its sector (e.g. infrastructure industry) or type of organization. It can then define steps for switching from its current profile to its target profile.
Functions and categories of cybersecurity activities
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework organizes its "core" material into five "functions" which are subdivided into a total of 23 "categories". For each category, it defines a number of subcategories of cybersecurity outcomes and security controls, with 108 subcategories in all.
For each subcategory, it also provides "Informative Resources" referencing specific sections of a variety of other information security standards, including ISO 27001, COBIT, NIST SP 800-53, ANSI/ISA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataFlow%20Group | DataFlow Group is a global provider of Employment Verification Services, including background screening and immigration compliance.
History
DataFlow Group, founded in 2006, has its headquarters in Dubai. The company has a network of 100,000 issuing authorities throughout more than 200 countries, in addition to 620 experts and researchers. Applicants that require PSV to support equalisation applications from several governmental or quasi-governmental entities in the UAE and the GCC are effectively forced to use this service as their PSV format is the only acceptable format for submission. For example: "The Ministry of Education UAE has partnered with Dataflow to provide a fast track verification service for individuals applying for the equivalency of their degrees obtained outside of UAE". Despite the claimed benefits of such a partnership, numerous complaints from applicants are easily accessible online citing lack of customer support, poor communication, lack of timely response to applications.
Through its worldwide locations, DataFlow Group serves a client database spanning 200 countries. Among the company's clients are government, quasi-government, regulatory, and multinational organizations across the globe.
In 2014, EQT Mid Market - a leading private equity group in Northern Europe, with portfolio companies in Northern and Eastern Europe, Asia, and the US - acquired DataFlow Group to expand the company's services.
Services
DataFlow Group accepts payments with the promise to offer background check and document verification solutions for public and private sector organizations in adherence with Joint Commission International (JCI) guidelines and Service Organization Controls (SOC) compliance standards. The company also provides proprietary databases and international watch lists for organizations to use in their own screening processes.
See also
Background check
Data verification
References
Business services companies established in 2006
Companies based in Dubai
Service companies of the United Arab Emirates
Emirati companies established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Africa | RED | For Africa (written RED) is an African media company based in Nigeria and Ghana. RED | For Africa is a content, consulting and data company. Its headquarters is in Lagos, Nigeria.
RED | For Africa owns the brands YNaija, Red Media Africa, The Future Awards Africa and StateCraft.
Its founders are Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams. They were awarded Young Business Leader of the Year in the All Africa Business Leaders Awards in 2014.
Divisions
RED | For Africa has three divisions: Content, Consulting and Data.
Red Media Africa
Red Media Africa (RMA) is a public relations and customer experience company.
StateCraft Inc.
Its governance communication company, StateCraft, was the official communications agency for Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari during the Nigerian general election, 2015. Deploying over 3,000 volunteers and reaching over 77 million people, the digitally driven campaign communication built a media-driven national movement that is now being replicated across West Africa.
Generation Y!
Red's content arm includes the TV shows Rubbin’ Minds (Nigerian talk show for young people airing on Channels TV), eXploring! (ONTV Nigeria); the online magazines: YNaija (a newspaper for young Nigerians), The SeptemberStandard.com and TechAfri.ca.
Its events include The Black Ball, and The Red Summit.
The Future Project
The development arm has The Future Project (a social enterprise with a commitment to human and capital development especially in Africa) which houses The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) and The Future Enterprise Support Scheme (TFESS).
TFAA is an annual award that recognises young people between the ages of 18 and 31, who have made an outstanding achievement. Forbes described the Awards as the "Most important awards for outstanding young Africans."
TFESS is a series of seminars, workshops and conferences that help young professionals, graduates and undergraduates increase their knowledge and capacity. Code2Earn, Aiki Nigeria (an employability portal created with Microsoft), Intern4Jobs, and Startups4Africa are some of these.
Church Culture
Church Culture is a media company under RED | For Africa. Church Culture aims to attract more people to the church. The sub-company specializes in Advertising, Media Planning and Buying, Crisis Communication, Social Media Management and Monitoring amongst others. Launched in 2017 via an Easter Show that aired on Channels TV, the platform continues to communicate through the Church Blog. Church Culture is aimed at spotlighting the church in Nigeria and its impact in Africa, and discussing how the Church can consolidate influence in society.
References
Mass media companies of Nigeria
Companies based in Lagos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acaiatuca%20denudata | Acaiatuca denudata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Galileo and Martins in 2001. It is known from Brazil.
References
Hemilophini
Beetles described in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%20%28Unix%29 | The command command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems is a utility to execute a command. It is specified in the POSIX standard. It is present in Unix shells as a shell builtin function. The argument(s) passed is a command with its arguments. The passed command is run with the normal shell function lookup suppressed.
Examples
In the following, the ls command is run without any shell functions or aliases that may exist with the same name:
$ command ls
See also
List of Unix commands
External links
Standard Unix programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely%20functional%20programming | In computer science, purely functional programming usually designates a programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs—that treats all computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions.
Program state and mutable objects are usually modeled with temporal logic, as explicit variables that represent the program state at each step of a program execution: a variable state is passed as an input parameter of a state-transforming function, which returns the updated state as part of its return value. This style handles state changes without losing the referential transparency of the program expressions.
Purely functional programming consists of ensuring that functions, inside the functional paradigm, will only depend on their arguments, regardless of any global or local state. A pure functional subroutine only has visibility of changes of state represented by state variables included in its scope.
Difference between pure and impure functional programming
The exact difference between pure and impure functional programming is a matter of controversy. Sabry's proposed definition of purity is that all common evaluation strategies (call-by-name, call-by-value, and call-by-need) produce the same result, ignoring strategies that error or diverge.
A program is usually said to be functional when it uses some concepts of functional programming, such as first-class functions and higher-order functions. However, a first-class function need not be purely functional, as it may use techniques from the imperative paradigm, such as arrays or input/output methods that use mutable cells, which update their state as side effects. In fact, the earliest programming languages cited as being functional, IPL and Lisp, are both "impure" functional languages by Sabry's definition.
Properties of purely functional programming
Strict versus non-strict evaluation
Each evaluation strategy which ends on a purely functional program returns the same result. In particular, it ensures that the programmer does not have to consider in which order programs are evaluated, since eager evaluation will return the same result as lazy evaluation. However, it is still possible that an eager evaluation may not terminate while the lazy evaluation of the same program halts.
An advantage of this is that lazy evaluation can be implemented much more easily; as all expressions will return the same result at any moment (regardless of program state), their evaluation can be delayed as much as necessary.
Parallel computing
Purely functional programming simplifies parallel computing since two purely functional parts of the evaluation never interact.
Data structures
Purely functional data structures are persistent. Persistency is required for functional programming; without it, the same computation could return different results. Functional programming may use persistent non-purely functional data structures, while those data structures may not be used |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Love%20Game%20%28game%20show%29 | The Love Game is an Australian dating game show aired on the Seven Network in 1984. It was hosted by Mark Holden.
Gameplay
A panel of three (later two) asked four contestants (two men & two women) a series of Love Game questions for an unmentioned amount of time. When the time was up, the panel voted for which two contestants (one man & one woman) should be the best together. In the two panelist era, the panel chose which girl they liked the best and then after asking one question to the fellas, choose whom to be with. The woman also won a $250 bonus if her choice matched the panel's. The newly-formed couple then went into what's called "The Love Machine". The Love Machine measures how attractive they really are. The bigger the attraction, the bigger the trip.
Midway through the show, a previously formed couple returned to the show to talk about their date.
References
Seven Network original programming
1980s Australian game shows
Australian dating and relationship reality television series
1984 Australian television series debuts
1984 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Open%20Data%20for%20Agriculture%20and%20Nutrition | Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) is an initiative that seeks to "support global efforts to make agricultural and nutritionally relevant data available, accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide. The initiative focuses on building high-level policy as well as public and private institutional support for open data."
The initiative was launched in 2013, one year after the G8 summit in 2012 where G-8 leaders "committed to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition as the next phase of a shared commitment to achieving global food security."
According to the Open Data Institute, farmers and other stakeholders on the agriculture supply chain can make more informed decisions resulting in improved yields and efficiency – from farm to fork, when they have free access to useful information on agriculture and nutrition.
Partners
GODAN and its partners aim to support the open data revolution and hosted the 2016 GODAN summit in New York in September. GODAN has over 400 partners from government, international and private organisations around the world. In the bid to support the open data revolution, the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs made over 8,000 data sets available for free use in June 2015.
In 2021, GODAN became a member of Global Waste Cleaning Network (GWCN).
Secretariat
The GODAN secretariat has been hosted by CABI in Wallingford, UK since 2014. Its research and partnerships offices are based in Wageningen, Netherlands and Rome, Italy.
Resources and financing
"The GODAN Secretariat states that it has an estimated five year budget of $8.5 million, with five full time employees. GODAN also states that its activities and Secretariat are financially supported by the US Government, the UK Department for International Development (maximum of £2.5 over 5 years), the Government of the Netherlands, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), The Open Data Institute (ODI), the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the CABI."
Governance
The GODAN Secretariat is governed by a group of GODAN partners including the US Government, the UK's DFID, the Netherlands Government, the Open Data Institute, FAO, CTA, CABI, CGIAR and GFAR.
Activities
GODAN Summit 2016
In September 2016, GODAN held a two-day summit in New York described as “the largest event of its kind”, with the aim of raising awareness of the call for making agricultural and nutrition data open. The event featured high profile guests including then U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Willy Bett, Kenyan Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries.
References
External links
Open Data Institute
Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International
Non-profit organisations based in the United Kingdom
Agricultural databases
Organisations based in Oxfordshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Kozhikode%20district | Kozhikode district has an extensive network of road, rail and air travel services. Kozhikode city is the epicenter of the district. Vatakara and Thamarassery are other transport hubs.
Road
The city has a reasonably well-developed transport infrastructure. A large number of buses, predominantly run by individual owners, ply on the major routes within the city and to nearby locations. City buses are painted green. Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) runs regular services to many destinations in the state and to the neighbouring states. The city has three bus stands. All private buses to the suburban and nearby towns ply from the Palayam Bus Stand. Private buses to adjoining districts start from the Mofussil Bus Stand (one of the largest bus stand in Kerala) on Indira Gandhi Road (Mavoor Road). Buses operated by the KSRTC drive from the KSRTC bus stand on Indira Gandhi Road. KSRTC Bus Stand Kozhikode is the biggest bus stand in Kerala having a size of 36,036.47-meter square. There are also KSRTC depots in Thamarassery, Thottilpalam, Thiruvambady and Vatakara in the district.
There are two routes available to Bangalore. One is Kozhikode–Gundlupet–Mysore–Bangalore; this road is most preferred one but is very busy. Another route, less used, is Kozhikode–Gundlupet–Chamarajanagar–Kollegal–Bangalore.
Private tour operators maintain regular luxury bus services to Mumbai, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Chennai, Vellore, Ernakulam, Trivandrum, Ooty etc. and mainly operate from the Palayam area. These are usually night services.
National Highways
National Highway 66 connects Kozhikode to Mumbai via Mangalore, Udupi and Goa to the north and Kochi and Kanyakumari near Thiruvananthapuram to the south along the west coast of India. This highway connects the city with the other important towns like, Uppala, Kasaragod, Kanhangad, Payyanur, TaliparambaKannur, Thalassery, Mahe, Vadakara, Koyilandy, Vengalam,
Ramanattukara, Kottakkal, Kuttippuram, Ponnani, (Guruvayoor) Chavakkad, Kodungallur, North Paravur, Edapally and proceed to Kanyakumari.
National Highway 766 connects Kozhikode to Bangalore through Kollegal in Karnataka via Tirumakudal Narsipur, Mysore, Nanjangud, Gundlupet, Sulthan Bathery, Kalpetta and Thamarassery. This highway also connects the city with the suburbs like Malaparamba, Kunnamangalam and premier institutes like IIMK, NIT-C, IISR and CWRDM.
National Highway 966 connects Kozhikode to Palakkad via Malappuram. It covers a distance of . At Ramanattukara, a suburb of Kozhikode, it joins NH 66. It also passes through towns like Kondotty, Malappuram, Perinthalmanna, and Mannarkkad. This stretch also connects the city and Calicut International Airport.
State Highways
SH 54 is connecting city and Kalpetta. The highway is long. It connects SH 38, Kuttiady, Thottilpalam, Korome, Vellamunda, Tharuvana and Padinharethara.
SH 68 starts from Kappad and ends in Adivaram. The highway passes through Atholi, Nanminda, Narikkuni, Padanilam, Koduvall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROSA%20Linux | ROSA Linux is a Linux operating system distribution, developed by the Russian company 'LLC NTC IT ROSA'. It is available in three different editions: ROSA Desktop Fresh, ROSA Enterprise Desktop, and ROSA Enterprise Linux Server, with the latter two aiming at commercial users. Its desktop computer editions come bundled with closed-source software such as Adobe Flash Player, multimedia codecs, and Steam.
ROSA Desktop Fresh 12.4, the latest desktop release as of 28 March 2023, is available with four different desktop environments: KDE Plasma 5, GNOME, LXQt and Xfce. It also contains open source software developed in-house by ROSA, such as ROSA Image Writer or ROSA Media Player. ROSA Linux has been certified by the Ministry of Defence of Russia.
ROSA originated as a fork of now defunct French distribution Mandriva Linux and has since then been developed independently. The ROSA company was founded in early 2010 and released the first version of its operating system in December 2010. It initially targeted enterprise users only, but in late 2012, ROSA started its end-user oriented distribution, Desktop Fresh. Before its bankruptcy, Mandriva developed its last releases jointly with ROSA. Mandriva 2011 was also based on ROSA. Also MagOS Linux, is based on ROSA.
Although its main popularity is in the Russian language market, ROSA Desktop also received favorable reviews by several non-Russian online publications. German technology website Golem.de praised ROSA for its stability and hardware support, while LinuxInsider.com called ROSA "a real Powerhouse".
Version history
Reception
LinuxBSDos.com reviewed ROSA Desktop Fresh R2 with GNOME. He wrote:
LinuxBSDos.com also reviewed same version with KDE, and have the review about earlier version — Fresh and Marathon 2012.
In October 2012, Dedoimedo wrote review about ROSA Marathon 2012:
Dedoimedo also wrote review about ROSA Desktop Fresh R7.
Jesse Smith reviewed ROSA Desktop Fresh 2012 R1 for DistroWatch Weekly:
Smith also reviewed Fresh R9 version.
References
External links
ROSA Linux Wiki
ROSA Linux Bugzilla
ROSA Linux Forum
ROSA Linux in DistroWatch
Computer-related introductions in 2010
KDE
Mandriva Linux
RPM-based Linux distributions
x86-64 Linux distributions
Linux distributions
Russian-language Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech%20Zaremba | Wojciech Zaremba (born 30 November 1988) is a Polish computer scientist, a founding team member of OpenAI (2016–present), where he leads both the Codex research and language teams. The teams actively work on AI that writes computer code and creating successors to GPT-3 respectively. The mission of OpenAI is to build safe artificial intelligence (AI), and ensure that its benefits are as evenly distributed as possible.
Early life
Zaremba was born in Kluczbork, Poland. At a young age, he won local competitions and awards in mathematics, computer science, chemistry and physics. In 2007, Zaremba represented Poland in the International Mathematical Olympiad in Vietnam, and won a silver medal.
Zaremba studied at the University of Warsaw and École Polytechnique mathematics and computer science, and graduated in 2013 with two master's degrees in mathematics. He then began his PhD at New York University (NYU) in deep learning under the supervision of Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus. Zaremba graduated and received his PhD in 2016.
Career
During his bachelor studies, he spent time at NVIDIA during the pre deep learning era (2008).
His PhD was divided between Google Brain where he spent a year, and Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research where he spent another year.
During his stay at Google, he co-authored work on adversarial examples for neural networks. This result created the field of adversarial attacks on neural networks.
His PhD is focused on matching capabilities of neural networks with the algorithmic power of programmable computers.
In 2015, Zaremba became one of the co-founders of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) research company. The aim of the project is to create safe artificial intelligence. In OpenAl, Zaremba works as robotics research manager. Zaremba sits on the advisory board of Growbots, a Silicon Valley startup company aiming to automate sales processes with the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Honors and awards
Listed among the most influential Polish under 30s, Polish edition of Forbes magazine 2017
Google Fellowship 2015
Silver Medal in 48th International Mathematical Olympiad, Vietnam
References
Artificial intelligence researchers
Polish computer scientists
People from Kluczbork
Polish mathematicians
Polish expatriates in the United States
University of Warsaw alumni
New York University alumni
1988 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS-4%20%28programming%20language%29 | CS-4 is a programming language and an operating system interface. It was developed in the early 1970s at Intermetrics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The first published manual was released in December 1973, entitled "CS-4 Language Reference Manual and Operating System Interface". The document had three parts: CS-4 Base Language Capabilities; CS-4 Operating System Interface; and Overview of Full CS-4 Capabilities.
History
Little is known about the CS-4 language, but it was developed for the United States Navy in the 1970s, and was an ongoing research project, which was continuing the study of extensibility and abstraction techniques to develop a requirement of the language to be simple and compact. The language was first documented in 1973 by Miller et al., and was revised in 1975 to allow "data abstractions and more powerful extension facilities".
Descendants
Praxis explicitly refers to CS-4 as a predecessor language.
References
Procedural programming languages
Programming languages created in 1973
Concurrent programming languages
Systems programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Beam | Apache Beam is an open source unified programming model to define and execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream (continuous) processing. Beam Pipelines are defined using one of the provided SDKs and executed in one of the Beam’s supported runners (distributed processing back-ends) including Apache Flink, Apache Samza, Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow.
History
Apache Beam is one implementation of the Dataflow model paper. The Dataflow model is based on previous work on distributed processing abstractions at Google, in particular on FlumeJava and Millwheel.
Google released an open SDK implementation of the Dataflow model in 2014 and an environment to execute Dataflows locally (non-distributed) as well as in the Google Cloud Platform service.
Timeline
Apache Beam makes minor releases every 6 weeks.
See also
List of Apache Software Foundation projects
References
Apache Software Foundation
Apache Software Foundation projects
Big data products
Cluster computing
Distributed stream processing
Google software
Hadoop
Java platform
Free software programmed in Java (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remi%20El-Ouazzane | Remi El-Ouazzane (born June 4, 1973) is a French businessman and embedded systems engineer who has led various initiatives in mobile computing, machine vision and embedded artificial intelligence. El-Ouazzane currently serves as STMicroelectronics (ST) President, Microcontrollers and Digital ICs Group and has held this position since January 1st 2022. He is a member of ST’s Executive Committee.
Early life and education
El-Ouazzane was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on June 4, 1973. He was born to a Tunisian (Tozeur) father and French (Avallon) mother. El-Ouazzane grew up with three brothers in Épinay-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. In 1996, he obtained a master's degree in semiconductor physics engineering from Grenoble Institute of Technology. The following year, El-Ouazzane graduated in economics and finance from the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies. In 2004, he graduated from Harvard Business School’s General Management (GMP) program. El-Ouazzane lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and two children.
Career
Texas Instruments
In 1997, El-Ouazzane joined Texas Instruments (TI) as part of the TI Young Leader Program. After graduating from the Young Leaders program, he has served in various business units within Texas Instruments, including the Broadband Communications Group and the Wireless Business Group before becoming the Vice President and Worldwide General Manager of the Open Multimedia Applications Platform (OMAP) Business Unit.
Notable Achievements at Texas Instruments
2009: Pioneered the first OMAP application processor for the Android platform and spearheaded the development of the OMAP 4 platform. The OMAP architecture powered many of the first notable Android smartphone devices such as the Motorola Droid line of phones and Galaxy Nexus smartphone co developed with Google and Samsung.
2012: Created a partnership with iRobot to develop robotic technologies using TI's OMAP architecture.
2012: Spearheaded a deal with global audio and infotainment group Harman to incorporate TI's OMAP 5 processors into premium automotive platforms.
Movidius
In early 2013, El-Ouazzane accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer of Movidius. After having repositioned the company in the fields of embedded machine vision and artificial intelligence, he has led the company's technology into products from companies like Google, Lenovo and DJI, as well as raising over $40 million in funding to accelerate adoption of Movidius technology.
Notable Achievements at Movidius
2013: Built partnership with Google's Project Tango group.
2014: Launched the Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit (VPU).
2015: Raised $40 million in funding to accelerate adoption of Movidius technology.
2016: Closed deals with major technology companies including Google, DJI, FLIR Systems, and Lenovo, bringing Movidius technology to mainstream consumer devices.
Intel
In November 2016, El-Ouazzane joined the New Technology Group at Intel following the acquisition of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACTF | PACTF was an annual web-based computer security Capture the Flag (CTF) competition for middle and high school students. It was founded by a group of students at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. The competition's sponsors include the Abbot Academy Association at Phillips Academy; the Information Networking Institute and CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University; the Hariri Institute for Computing, Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project, and Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project at Boston University; and other entities.
This competition follows the Jeopardy CTF format, where teams “hack, decrypt, reverse, and do whatever it takes to solve increasingly challenging security puzzles." Once a team successfully determines the security vulnerability purposefully left in the problem material and executes an attack, they can obtain an answer string called a "flag." By submitting the correct flag, teams can receive feedback and points that improve their ranking.
In April 2016, more than 1000 teams from the United States and other countries participated in the competition. The second and third PACTF competitions took place in the Spring of 2017 and 2018 at similar scales. The fourth PACTF competition took place in May 2019.
References
Hackathons
Competitions in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Yakel | Elizabeth Yakel is an archivist, researcher, and educator in information science. Yakel is known for work advancing archival practice, the use of primary sources in archives education, studies of data reuse practices, and digital curation. Yakel is the senior associate dean for academic affairs and a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, where she has been on the faculty since 2000. She is the former coordinator of the Preservation of Information specialization in the Master of Science in Information program and teaches in the Archives and Record Management area. She specializes in digital archives and digital preservation and has developed five such graduate level courses at UM, including "Economics of Sustainable Digital Information" and "Practical Engagement Workshop in Digital Preservation."
Education
She holds an A.B. from Brown University (1980), an A.M.L.S. from the University of Michigan (1982), and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1997). Her dissertation, Recordkeeping in Radiology: The Relationships Between Activities and Records in Radiological Processes, won the 1997 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association of Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE). After graduation, she became an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences from 1997 to 2000 before returning to her alma mater.
Notable research projects
2015-2018: Research Experience for Master’s Students (REMS); principal investigator; funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.
2014-2017: Qualitative Data Reuse; principal investigator; funded by IMLS grant.
2010-2014: Dissemination Information Packages for Information Reuse (DIPIR); co-principal investigator; funded by IMLS National Leadership Grant for Libraries.
2010-2012: Preservation and Access Virtual Education Laboratory (PAVEL) for Digital Humanities; co-principal investigator; funded by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Preservation and Access Education and Training Program.
2009-2011: Archival Metrics and User Evaluation for Government Archives; principal investigator; funded by a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) grant.
2008–present: Archival and Education Research Initiative (AERI); founding member & co-principal investigator; funded from 2008-2016 by IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.
2008-2012: Engaging Communities to Foster Internships for Preservation and Digital Curation; principal investigator; funded by IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarians Program.
Awards and honors
2013: International Digital Curation Conference Best Research Paper Award for “Trust in Digital Repositories” (with Ixchel Faniel, Adam Kriesberg, and Ayoung Yoon).
2012: UM School of Information Michael D. Cohen Outstanding Service Award.
2012: iConference Best Paper Award for “Managing Fixity and Fluidity in Data Repositories” (with Mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Ice is an American television series created by Robert Munic. The project, set to air in late 2016 on Audience Network was ordered straight-to-series with an order of 10 episodes on August 2, 2016. The project was originally ordered in 2014 but was dropped for creative reasons. The series was then released on November 16, 2016. On June 16, 2017, the series was renewed for a second season.
On July 30, 2018, the series' cancellation was confirmed via a comment from the show's official Facebook page.
Plot
Season One
The series follows the lives of a Los Angeles diamond trader’s family business called Green & Green Diamond after recent events in which one of the patriarch’s sons has killed a prominent diamond dealer, while his step-brother has to bail him out and save the family business. The Green family, however, is trapped between doing a clean and dirty business. Lady Rah, a diamond dealer and philanthropist from Sierra Leone has huge a interest in working with Green & Green. She forcefully integrates herself into Green & Green by blackmailing Jake Green that she needs an account of $25 million or he risks losing his daughter. As the season proceeds, the ailing cooperation between Isaac Green (Jake's father and the owner of Green & Green Diamond) weakens progressively and begins losing the appropriate mental judgement. Lady Rah continues blackmailing Jake into cooperating with her. This forces Jake and his step-brother, Freddy Green, to transport illegal diamonds over the border for a buyer who was willing to settle at an amount of $20 million. They lose the diamonds to one of Lady Rah’s trusted operatives, however Isaac succumbs to the pressure and in the process enters into a huge conflict with longtime associate and former brother-in-law, Cam Rose.
The two men struggle and Isaac collapses hitting his head really hard. He later dies in hospital after fading while on life support. After the will is read, it turns out that the Isaac split the shares of Green & Green equally to four people: his granddaughter, Willow (daughter to Jake and his ex-wife Ava Green); his two sons; and his ailing sister, who happens to be Cam Rose's ex-wife. The will distribution greatly affects Cam expectations, and as a result he embarks on a mission to capture the easiest 25% from his ex-wife. However, the 25% assigned to his granddaughter are assigned to Ava, her mother with custody. Jake continues trying to repay Lady Rah, however, in the meantime, Lady Rah's boss Peter appears.
Apparently, Peter is blackmailing Lady Rah by kidnapping her daughter. Lady Rah is in the process of using all her savings to save her daughter's life and return to Sierra Leone. Peter becomes relentless with Cam promises that he will use his supposed 25% to capture the Green & Green business. As such, he kidnaps Ava Green to get an opportunity to blackmail Jake into giving him the company by force. The FBI advances their case based on the taped information from Cam's office. Jake event |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Year%20of%20Volunteers | International Year of Volunteers was designated for 2001 by the United Nations General Assembly. The initiative aimed at increased recognition, facilitation, networking and promotion of volunteering, to highlight the achievements of the millions of volunteers worldwide who devote their time to serving others, and to encourage more people globally to engage in volunteering.
Origins and goals
The concept for a United Nations year to recognize volunteerism first emerged within the UN system at a 1996 policy forum in Japan by UNV and United Nations University (UNU). A February 1997 proposal of the Government of Japan was transmitted through the UN Secretary General be placed on the agenda of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in July 1997. ECOSOC, in its resolution 1977/44 of 22 July 1997, recommended to the UN General Assembly that it adopt the resolution proclaiming 2001 the International Year of Volunteers. The UN General Assembly, in its 52nd session on 20 November 1997 in Resolution 52/17, co-sponsored by 123 countries, passed the ECOSOC resolution, thereby proclaiming 2001 as the International Year of Volunteers. The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV), part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was designated in the resolution as the international focal point.
Objectives of IYV were:
increased recognition of volunteers and their contributions
increased facilitation and support for volunteerism
promoting the achievements of volunteers
"attracting more requests for the deployment of volunteers, at attracting offers of service from new candidates with a view to enhancing operational activities, and generally creating a climate of public and official opinion even more supportive of voluntary action"
Administration
Sharon Capeling-Alakija was the Executive Coordinator of United Nations Volunteers during IYV 2001. As the international focal point, UNV, based in Bonn, Germany, took the lead in all organizing and promotion regarding the year internationally.
The www.iyv2001.org website, launched in December 1998 by UNV, provided resources for United Nations organizations, non-governmental organizations and governments to recognize the year in some way. The resources provided by the site included:
an IYV overview slide presentation
a slide presentation on IYV national committees
a side presentation on planning
IYV banners / graphics for web pages
suggestions on local IYV activities and partnerships
The IYV logo was a creation and volunteer contribution from Argentine designer Sandra Rojas, and was provided in the six official UN languages as well as a composite logo that combines all six in one.
Programs
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan opened IYV in November 2000 in New York. Other speakers at the event included Capeling-Alakija; Felipe VI of Spain (then Prince of Asturias; Nadia Comaneci, Olympic Gold Medalist; representatives from the governments of Japan, Uganda and Brazil; Dr. Astrid Heiberg, then Pres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision%20Tech%20Camps | Vision Tech Camps is a Bay Area company offering summer computer camps and after-school activities, teaching students between the ages of 7-17 at Vision Tech centers and local schools throughout the Bay Area.
History
Vision Tech Camps was founded in San Ramon, California by Anita Khurana in 2000, where after school programs and tech camps were initially offered to schools at schools within the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. Vision Tech later opened its first center in Danville, California, and expanded to another center in Saratoga, California in 2014. In 2017, Vision Tech Camps announced a new location in El Cerrito, California serving the Berkeley area.
Courses
Vision Tech courses include video game design, programming, engineering, robotics, minecraft camps and 3d printing.
References
External links
https://www.visiontechcamps.com
Summer schools
Summer camps in California
2000 establishments in California
Companies based in Danville, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylance | Cylance Inc., is an American software firm based in Irvine, California, that develops antivirus programs and other kinds of computer software that prevents viruses and malware.
In February 2019, the company was acquired by BlackBerry Limited. After the acquisition, it continues to operate as an independent subsidiary and will remain headquartered in Irvine, California.
Founding
Cylance was founded by Stuart McClure and Ryan Permeh in 2012. McClure was previously co-founder of Foundstone, a security consultancy. He sold Foundstone to McAfee in 2004, and became that firm's Chief Tech Officer.
Cylance's founding came about as a result of McClure's speeches on cybersecurity. In them, he was often asked how he protected his own computer. He noted that he lacked trust in any security technology since it was all reactive in nature (for example, legacy antivirus technology), meaning it only cleaned up after an attack or prevented it a second time. Consequently, McClure began developing a technology based on "proactive protection".
Funding
A July 2015 report indicated that Cylance had raised $42 million from investors including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Dell, Capital One, and TenEleven Ventures. It received another $100 million in June 2016 with lead investors Blackstone Tactical Opportunities (part of The Blackstone Group) and Insight Venture Partners. They received an investment from In-Q-Tel in September 2015.
Product Features
McClure claims that Cylance's antivirus product does not use security features, such as unique signatures, heuristics, behavioral analysis, sandboxing, virtualization, or blacklisting. Rather, the product claims to use artificial intelligence to identify and stop attackers. McClure claims that its security features are similar to the human brain's way of identifying threats, wherein it "teaches" computers to identify indicators of an attack.
Operation Cleaver
Operation Cleaver was a covert cyberwarfare operation allegedly carried out by the Iranian government against targets worldwide, specifically critical infrastructure entities. Cylance published a report about the operation in late 2014. Iranian officials rejected Cylance's conclusions, but the FBI tacitly confirmed them.
MOTEX Collaboration
In May 2016, Cylance announced a new collaboration with MOTEX, an Osaka-based firm, to integrate MOTEX LanScope, an endpoint security management, and CylancePROTECT, Cylance's leading product, which claims to proactively detect and prevent malware. The end product will be called CylancePROTECT Cat.
Acquisition by BlackBerry Limited
In February 2019, the company was acquired by BlackBerry Limited for $1.4 billion.
Controversies
Malware Scandal
In November 2016, a systems engineer evaluated 48 files of malware samples provided by Cylance for testing their protection system "Protect", and found that 7 of them weren't malware. This led to an accusation that Cylance was using the test to look superior to it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynold%20Xin | Reynold Xin is a computer scientist and engineer specializing in big data, distributed systems, and cloud computing. He is a co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks. He is best known for his work on Apache Spark, a leading open-source Big Data project. He was designer and lead developer of the GraphX, Project Tungsten, and Structured Streaming components and he co-designed DataFrames, all of which are part of the core Apache Spark distribution; he also served as the release manager for Spark's 2.0 release.
Biography
Berkeley
Xin started his work on the Spark open source project while he was a doctoral candidate at the AMPLab at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley, where his advisors were Michael J. Franklin and Ion Stoica.
The first research project, Shark, created a system that was able to efficiently execute SQL and advanced analytics workloads at scale. Shark won Best Demo Award at SIGMOD 2012. Shark was one of the first open source interactive SQL on Hadoop systems, with claims that it was between 10 and 100 times faster than Apache Hive. Shark was used by technology companies such as Yahoo, although it was replaced by a newer system called Spark SQL in 2014.
The second research project, GraphX, created a graph processing system on top of Spark, a general data-parallel system. GraphX at the same challenged the notion that specialized systems are necessary for graph computation. GraphX was released as an open source project and merged into Spark in 2014, as the graph processing library on Spark.
Databricks
In 2013, along with Matei Zaharia and other key Spark contributors, Xin co-founded Databricks, a venture-backed company based in San Francisco that offers data platform as a service, based on Spark.
In 2014, Xin led a team of engineers from Databricks to compete in the Sort Benchmark and won the 2014 world record in Daytona GraySort using Spark, beating the previous record held by Apache Hadoop by 30 times. Xin claimed that Spark was the fastest open source engine for sorting a petabyte of data.
While at Databricks, he also started the DataFrames project, Project Tungsten, and Structured Streaming. DataFrames has become the foundational API while Tungsten has become the new execution engine.
References
Living people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tsitsiklis | John N. Tsitsiklis (; born 1958) is a Clarence J. Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves as the director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and is affiliated with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), the Statistics and Data Science Center and the MIT Operations Research Center.
Education
Tsitsiklis received a B.S. degree in Mathematics (1980), and his B.S. (1980), M.S. (1981), and Ph.D. (1984) degrees in Electrical Engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Awards and honors
Tsitsiklis was elected to the 2007 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
He won the "2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of his fundamental contributions to decentralized control and consensus, approximate dynamic programming and statistical learning."
In 2018 he won the IEEE Control Systems Award "for contributions to the theory and application of optimization in large dynamic and distributed systems" as well as the John von Neumann Theory Prize, with Dimitri Bertsekas, "for contributions to Parallel and Distributed Computation as well as Neurodynamic Programming."
External links
Publications and citations from Google Scholar.
Publications from DBLP.
References
1958 births
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Greek electrical engineers
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Engineers from Thessaloniki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Hajek | Bruce Edward Hajek (born August 20, 1955) is a Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. He does research in communication networking, auction theory, stochastic analysis, combinatorial optimization, machine learning, information theory, and bioinformatics.
Background, education, and positions
Bruce Hajek attended Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois. In 1973, he won the USA Mathematical Olympiad. In the same year, he graduated from high school. He entered the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) to study computer science, but later he switched his major to mathematics. After working in Summer 1975 at Brookhaven National Laboratory with Herbert Robbins, he graduated in 1976 with a BS in mathematics from UIUC and received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He completed his MS degree in electrical engineering in 1977, again from UIUC, and then took his Fellowship to UC Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 1979 under Eugene Wong. The same year, he returned to the department of UIUC in Electrical & Computer Engineering, starting as an assistant professor and then becoming an associate professor (1982) and then a professor (1985). He was named the Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Chair in Engineering in 2006.
Since 1986, he has been a recurring visitor at Cambridge University. In the 2009-2010 academic year, he was appointed a Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge.
In 1989, Bruce Hajek was elevated to IEEE fellow for contributions to stochastic systems, communication networks, and control systems.
Service and leadership
From 1990 to 1993, Hajek served as the editor-in-chief for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. In 1995, he served as the president of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He has mentored 18 PhD students, including IBM CEO Arvind Krishna.
Research
Random fields
Bruce Hajek's PhD dissertation, titled Stochastic Integration, Markov Property and Measure Transformation of Random Fields, studied random fields of three types: continuous-parameter Markov random fields, continuous-parameter random fields admitting stochastic-integral representations, and random fields "arising from transformations of absolutely continuous measures". This work on random fields has been recognized by others. In 1987, Hajek and Toby Berger showed that, under weak assumptions, a Markov random field whose entries take values in a finite-order field can be written as a component-wise sum of two independent random fields with -valued components, with one of these two random fields being independent and identically distributed according to a nondegenerate probability measure.
Communication networks
Hajek's work has significantly furthered the integration of computers and communicat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20social%20choice | Computational social choice is a field at the intersection of social choice theory, theoretical computer science, and the analysis of multi-agent systems. It consists of the analysis of problems arising from the aggregation of preferences of a group of agents from a computational perspective. In particular, computational social choice is concerned with the efficient computation of outcomes of voting rules, with the computational complexity of various forms of manipulation, and issues arising from the problem of representing and eliciting preferences in combinatorial settings.
Winner determination
The usefulness of a particular voting system can be severely limited if it takes a very long time to calculate the winner of an election. Therefore, it is important to design fast algorithms that can evaluate a voting rule when given ballots as input. As is common in computational complexity theory, an algorithm is thought to be efficient if it takes polynomial time. Many popular voting rules can be evaluated in polynomial time in a straightforward way (i.e., counting), such as the Borda count, approval voting, or the plurality rule. For rules such as the Schulze method or ranked pairs, more sophisticated algorithms can be used to show polynomial runtime. Certain voting systems, however, are computationally difficult to evaluate. In particular, winner determination for the Kemeny-Young method, Dodgson's method, and Young's method are all NP-hard problems. This has led to the development of approximation algorithms and fixed-parameter tractable algorithms to improve the theoretical calculation of such problems.
Hardness of manipulation
By the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, all non-trivial voting rules can be manipulated in the sense that voters can sometimes achieve a better outcome by misrepresenting their preferences, that is, they submit a non-truthful ballot to the voting system. Social choice theorists have long considered ways to circumvent this issue, such as the proposition by Bartholdi, Tovey, and Trick in 1989 based on computational complexity theory. They considered the second-order Copeland rule (which can be evaluated in polynomial time), and proved that it is NP-complete for a voter to decide, given knowledge of how everyone else has voted, whether it is possible to manipulate in such a way as to make some favored candidate the winner. The same property holds for single transferable vote.
Hence, assuming the widely believed hypothesis that P ≠ NP, there are instances where polynomial time is not enough to establish whether a beneficial manipulation is possible. Because of this, the voting rules that come with an NP-hard manipulation problem are "resistant" to manipulation. One should note that these results only concern the worst-case: it might well be possible that a manipulation problem is usually easy to solve, and only requires superpolynomial time on very unusual inputs.
Other topics
Tournament solutions
A tournament solution is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Switch | Code Switch is a race and culture outlet and a weekly podcast from American public radio network NPR. It began in 2013 with a blog as well as contributing stories to NPR radio programs. The Code Switch podcast launched in 2016. In the wake of the George Floyd protests, it became one of NPR's top ranked podcasts.
History
Code Switch was launched in 2013 with a $1.5 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; it developed as a blog and contributed stories to a variety of NPR programs. Harvard's Neiman Lab describes the project as "designed to increase coverage of race issues and reach out to new audiences" at NPR and affiliated media outlets.
The blog began publishing on April 7, 2013, with Gene Demby's introductory essay "How Code-Switching Explains The World".
The outlet's name refers to the linguistic phenomenon of code-switching, when speaker moves between multiple languages or dialectics. Demby's introductory essay said the project construed the concept broadly, with the linguistic concept also serving as means of analyzing aspects of race and culture in identity: "Many of us subtly, reflexively change the way we express ourselves all the time. We're hop-scotching between different cultural and linguistic spaces and different parts of our own identities—sometimes within a single interaction."
Content
Harvard's Neiman Lab described the Code Switch project as a "forward-thinking effort given the rapidly changing demographics in the U.S.[;] Code Switch has grown into a place where reporters tries to consider issues around race with nuance, whether that's the myth of the colorblind millennial, or going deep on the hit Broadway musical Hamilton." The outlet has also drawn notice for reporting and commentary on topics ranging from sports and reality television, to the Supreme Court.
Code Switch founder and reporter Kat Chow has also described the project as especially interested in the "second beat" of a story: "If there is breaking news, we want to take a step back and see what this actually means. What is there to report on that hasn't already been said?"
Staff
Team members have included Gene Demby, who is lead blogger and cohosts the podcast with reporter Shereen Marisol Meraji; Tasneem Raja, senior digital editor; supervising senior producer Alicia Montgomery; Matt Thompson and Kat Chow.
Podcast
In May 2016, the Code Switch team launched a podcast by the same name. Episodes are released weekly on Wednesdays.
The Guardian characterized the podcast as "courageous conversations." Wired said Code Switch'''s July 14, 2016, episode "Black and Blue" offered "thoughtful conversation about race and policing." Los Angeles Magazine said, "NPR's 'Code Switch' began as a popular blog, but its evolution into a podcast seems natural...it explores issues of race, culture, and politics in a personal way that flourishes in an audio format."
Awards and reception
Code Switch won the Online News Association for best online commentary at a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie%20Mellon%20CyLab | The Carnegie Mellon CyLab Security and Privacy Institute is a computer security research center at Carnegie Mellon University. Founded in 2003 as a university-wide research center, it involves more than 50 faculty and 100 graduate students from different departments and schools within the university. It is "one of the largest university-based cyber security research and education centers in the U.S."
CyLab works with the CERT Coordination Center as well as US-CERT on matters relating to cybersecurity. The institute is often cited for its security and privacy research.
picoCTF
picoCTF is a cybersecurity capture the flag competition hosted by CyLab. Established in 2013, the event is run annually over a period of two weeks and is geared towards high schoolers, billing itself as the largest high school cybersecurity event in the United States; the inaugural edition had 6,000 participants and 39,000 people competed in 2019. The challenges, which are modeled around real-life cybersecurity problems, are themed around a different storyline each year. The program aims to get high schoolers interested in computer security, offering cash prizes.
References
Schools and departments of Carnegie Mellon
Computer security organizations
2003 establishments in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 2003
External links
CyLab website |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gueldaman%20caves | The Gueldaman caves (Adrar Gueldaman) are a prehistoric mountain ridge on the right bank of the Soummam valley in Algeria. The ridge consists of a large karst network with several natural caves, which is situated near the town of Akbou, Béjaïa Province, in the western part of the Babor Mountains in the Tell Atlas range. The location spans over and varies in altitude between to . Adrar is a Berber (Amazigh) term for mountain, possibly a cognate of the toponym Atlas. Gueldaman is a Numidian water deity.
Overview
On the South-Eastern side of the ridge sit six caves. The long cave GLD1 lying above sea level was first excavated during the 1920s by de Beaumais and Royer. Deposits of human occupation were identified and due to the discovery of a set of polished stone tools the site was associated with the early Neolithic although without chrono-stratigraphic analysis and without regard for the regional cultural context at the time. Only since 2010, when excavations resumed by CNRPAH (National Center of prehistoric anthropological and historical research in Algiers) was the regional process of "Neolithisation" investigated methodically. First reflected in the results of the zooarchaeological analysis of the macro-mammals as a shift in the management of the livestock herds takes place from mere production of meat towards the production of meat and the use of secondary products.
GLD1 deposits are more than 5 m deep, remains (mammal bones, mollusc shells and plant-remains), cultural material (ceramics, lithic and bone tools) and ornaments (gastropod shells, bird bones, tortoise shells and ostrich eggshells) are well preserved. Some of these objects suggest long distance trade. Human occupation ranges from 1484 BP to 17.031 BP. The vast majority of artifacts and the introduction of sheep/goat domestication dates to the 6th and 7th millennia BP.
In 2010 to 2012 the caves GLD2 and GLD3 were investigated for the first time and indices of human occupation collected, similar to those of GLD1. As Holocene cultures are unknown in the region, further excavations have to determine, whether Gueldaman is the key to regional acculturation from hunters/gatherers towards herding/cultivation.
The excavations carried out in 2011 and 2012 were mainly focused on two areas of 7 m2 in Sector 2 and 1 m2 in Sector 3. The excavations in S2 were split into two parts. The first excavation started in the second part, but the process was slowly advancing because of the firmness of the residues and clay floor. Soon after reaching 20 cm depth, the investigation was finished. During the excavations in the Section 3, an area at a depth of 2 meters was investigated, but bedrock was not reached.
In 2015, several international geologic and meteorologic sciences institutes published a joint study in which a prolonged drought in the Mediterranean and northern Africa about 4200 years ago was identified. The study supported the hypothesis that past climate anomaly may have played an imp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Kannur%20district | Kannur has a good road network connecting to Bangalore, Mangalore, Kodagu and Cochin. The railway station is also well connected to all parts of India. There is new International airport from Kannur opened on 9 December 2018, other nearest airports are at Calicut and Mangalore. Thalassery, Payyanur, Taliparamba and Iritty are the other transport hubs.
Air Transport
Kannur International Airport located at Mattanur in Kannur District, Kerala, India opened for commercial operations on 9 December 2018. It is the fourth international airport in Kerala. The airport will have a 4,000m runway (the longest in the State) and state of the art passenger terminal as well other amenities. Domestic routes include Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Goa and Hubli while international routes include Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Doha and Riyadh.
Kannur port
Kannur is an ancient seaport. The nearest all-weather seaport is Mangaluru in Karnataka state. Azhikkal port in Kannur has been included for developing coastal shipping by the Government of India under the National Maritime Development Programme (NMDP). A detailed project report (DPR) has been prepared by ICICI-KINFRA for the development of Azhikkal port. Azhikal port was allocated ₹ 50cr for development in the interim budget of 2016 by the Government of Kerala.
Transport by Road
Kannur is on National Highway 66 or (formerly National Highway 17) between Kozhikode and Mangalore. This highway is scheduled to be expanded to four lanes. A bypass for Kannur city is proposed under the NH widening project. Kannur is connected to Kodagu, Mysore and Bangalore in Karnataka by the Thalassery–Coorg–Mysore interstate highway.
Kannur has several private and KSRTC buses plying places inside and outside the district. Kannur is well-connected to its suburbs through several city buses. Kannur city has four bus terminals — Kannur Central Bus Terminal at Thavakkara which is Kerala's biggest private bus terminal, Old Bus Stand near the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, City Bus Stand near the District HQ Hospital and the KSRTC bus depot at Caltex Junction (on NH-66). The busiest section of the National Highway 66 is between the towns of Puthiyatheru and Thazhe Chovva (about 10.5 km). There are also KSRTC Depots at Payyanur and Thalassery.
National Highways
National Highway 66 connects Kannur to Mumbai via Mangalore, Udupi and Goa to the north and Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Kanyakumari to the south along the west coast of India. This highway connects the city with the other important towns like, Uppala, Kasaragod, Kanhangad, Payyanur, Taliparamba, Thalassery, Mahe, Vadakara, Koyilandy, Kozhikode, Vengalam,
Ramanattukara, Kottakkal, Kuttippuram, Ponnani, (Guruvayoor) Chavakkad, Kodungallur, North Paravur, Edapally and proceed to Kanyakumari.
State Highways
SH 59, the longest state highway in Kerala passes through hilly areas of Kannur district like Cherupuzha, Alakode, Payyavoor, Ulikkal, Iritty, Edoor, Peravoor and Kottiyoor.
SH 3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement%20for%20Black%20Lives | The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is a coalition of more than 50 groups representing the interests of black communities across the United States. Members include the Black Lives Matter Network, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. They are endorsed by groups such as Color of Change, Race Forward, Brooklyn Movement Center, PolicyLink, Million Women March Cleveland, and ONE DC, and the coalition receives communications and tactical support from an organization named Blackbird.
On July 24, 2015 the movement first convened at Cleveland State University where between 1,500 and 2,000 activists gathered to participate in open discussions and demonstrations. The conference initially attempted to "strategize ways for the Movement for Black Lives to hold law enforcement accountable for their actions on a national level". However, the conference resulted in the formation of a much more significant social movement. At the end of the three day conference, on July 26, the Movement for Black Lives initiated a year long "process of convening local and national groups to create a United Front". This year long process ultimately resulted in the establishment of an organizational platform that articulates the goals, demands, and policies for which the Movement for Black Lives supports in order to achieve the "liberation" of black communities across America.
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Following the murder of George Floyd, M4BL released the BREATHE Act, which called for sweeping legislative changes surrounding policing. The policy bill included calls to divest from policing and reinvest funds directly into community resources and alternative emergency response models.
In 2020, the Movement for Black Lives released policy demands in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organization
The Movement for Black Lives was described by Deva Woodly, Professor of Politics at The New School, during the George Floyd protests as "an umbrella organization that consists of a coalition of movement organizations across the nation" which allowed people to "connect the dots between the symptoms of the present crisis and their structural causes."
Platform
The movement's platform, published in August 2016, entitled A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice, has six demands:
End the war on black people.
Reparations for past and continuing harms.
Divestment from the institutions that criminalize, cage and harm black people; and investment in the education, health and safety of black people.
Economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure our communities have collective ownership, not merely access.
Community control of the laws, institutions and policies that most impact us.
Independent black political power and black self-determination in all areas of society.
M4BL believes that reparations are a possible and credible goal, precedented by reparations paid to African-American farmers in 2012.
Funding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-Bahn%20Chemnitz | The City-Bahn Chemnitz is a railway company operating regional train services in Chemnitz area, Saxony, Germany. Most services run both on railway network around Chemnitz as well as on the urban tram network in Chemnitz. City-Bahn Chemnitz was founded on March 10, 1997.
See also
References
External links
Company's official homepage
Railway companies of Germany
Transport in Saxony
Transport in Chemnitz
Companies based in Chemnitz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothocalais%20cuspidata | Nothocalais cuspidata, the prairie false dandelion, is a herbaceous perennial with yellow flowers and long slender leaves, native to the Great Plains.
References
External links
cuspidata
Flora of the Great Plains (North America) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Gerla | Mario Gerla (1943–2019) was an Italian computer scientist and engineer, Distinguished Professor, Jonathan B. Postel Chair and Chair of the Department (2015 – 2018) of Computer Science of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He co-authored 11 books. He died in 2019.
Academic career
He attended and graduated with an engineering degree (1966) from Polytechnic University of Milan and received his Master's (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) degrees in Computer Science from UCLA, studying under faculty advisor Leonard Kleinrock. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1976. At UCLA, he was the director of Center for Autonomous Intelligent Networks and also Network Research Lab.
Gerla was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to design and analysis of mobile wireless protocols for vehicular safety and traffic applications".
In 2003, Gerla was elevated to IEEE fellow for contributions to ad hoc wireless networks.
References
1943 births
Italian electrical engineers
Italian computer scientists
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Polytechnic University of Milan alumni
2019 deaths
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric%20numeral%20systems | Asymmetric numeral systems (ANS) is a family of entropy encoding methods introduced by Jarosław (Jarek) Duda from Jagiellonian University, used in data compression since 2014 due to improved performance compared to previous methods. ANS combines the compression ratio of arithmetic coding (which uses a nearly accurate probability distribution), with a processing cost similar to that of Huffman coding. In the tabled ANS (tANS) variant, this is achieved by constructing a finite-state machine to operate on a large alphabet without using multiplication.
Among others, ANS is used in the Facebook Zstandard compressor (also used e.g. in Linux kernel, Android operating system, was published as RFC 8478 for MIME and HTTP), Apple LZFSE compressor, Google Draco 3D compressor (used e.g. in Pixar Universal Scene Description format) and PIK image compressor, CRAM DNA compressor from SAMtools utilities,
Dropbox DivANS compressor, Microsoft DirectStorage BCPack texture compressor, and JPEG XL image compressor.
The basic idea is to encode information into a single natural number . In the standard binary number system, we can add a bit of information to by appending at the end of , which gives us . For an entropy coder, this is optimal if . ANS generalizes this process for arbitrary sets of symbols with an accompanying probability distribution . In ANS, if the information from is appended to to result in , then . Equivalently, , where is the number of bits of information stored in the number , and is the number of bits contained in the symbol .
For the encoding rule, the set of natural numbers is split into disjoint subsets corresponding to different symbols like into even and odd numbers, but with densities corresponding to the probability distribution of the symbols to encode. Then to add information from symbol into the information already stored in the current number , we go to number being the position of the -th appearance from the -th subset.
There are alternative ways to apply it in practice direct mathematical formulas for encoding and decoding steps (uABS and rANS variants), or one can put the entire behavior into a table (tANS variant). Renormalization is used to prevent going to infinity transferring accumulated bits to or from the bitstream.
Entropy coding
Suppose a sequence of 1,000 zeros and ones would be encoded, which would take 1000 bits to store directly. However, if it is somehow known that it only contains 1 zero and 999 ones, it would be sufficient to encode the zero's position, which requires only bits here instead of the original 1000 bits.
Generally, such length sequences containing zeros and ones, for some probability , are called combinations. Using Stirling's approximation we get their asymptotic number being
called Shannon entropy.
Hence, to choose one such sequence we need approximately bits. It is still bits if , however, it can also be much smaller. For example, we need only bits for .
An entropy coder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinean%20passport | The Guinean passport is issued to citizens of the Guinea for international travel.
Languages
The data page/information page is printed in French and English.
See also
List of passports
Visa requirements for Guinean citizens
References
Passports by country
Government of Guinea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onshape | Onshape is a computer-aided design (CAD) software system, delivered over the Internet via a software as a service (SAAS) model. It makes extensive use of cloud computing, with compute-intensive processing and rendering performed on Internet-based servers, and users are able to interact with the system via a web browser or the iOS and Android apps. As a SAAS system, Onshape upgrades are released directly to the web interface, and the software does not require maintenance work from the user.
Onshape allows teams to collaborate on a single shared design, the same way multiple writers can work together editing a shared document via cloud services. It is primarily focused on mechanical CAD (MCAD) and is used for product and machinery design across many industries, including consumer electronics, mechanical machinery, medical devices, 3D printing, machine parts, and industrial equipment.
Company history
Onshape was developed by a company with the same name. Founded in 2012, Onshape was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), with offices in Singapore and Pune, India. Its leadership team includes several engineers and executives who originated from SolidWorks, a popular 3D CAD program that runs on Microsoft Windows. Onshape’s co-founders include two former SolidWorks CEOs, Jon Hirschtick and John McEleney.
In November 2012, former SolidWorks CEOs Jon Hirschtick and John McEleney led six co-founders launching Belmont Technology, a placeholder name that was later changed to Onshape. The company’s first round of funding was $9 million from North Bridge Venture Partners and Commonwealth Capital.
In March 2015, Onshape released the public beta version of its cloud CAD software, after pre-production testing with more than a thousand CAD professionals in 52 countries. Included in the beta launch was Onshape for iPhone.
In August 2015, the company released its Onshape for Android app.
In December 2015, Onshape launched its full commercial release. The company also launched the Onshape App Store, offering CAM, simulation, rendering and other cloud-based engineering tools. The Onshape App Store was launched with 24 developer partners.
In April 2016, Onshape introduced its Education Plan, with a free version of Onshape Professional geared for college students and educators.
In May 2016, Onshape released FeatureScript, a new open source (MIT licensed) programming language for creating and customizing CAD features.
In October 2019, Onshape agreed to be acquired by PTC. The acquisition closed in November 2019 for $470 million.
Funding
Onshape was a venture-backed company with investments from firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and North Bridge Venture Partners. Total venture funding amounted to $169 million.
Supported file formats
Modelling
Importing
As of April 2022, the Onshape supported importing (opening) the following common CAD file formats:
STEP (ISO 10303)
ISO JT (ISO 14306)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas%20Press%20Club%20%28radio%20program%29 | The Overseas Press Club aired a variety of programming on WNYC from the 1940s to the mid-1970s, including an regularly scheduled self-titled series in the 1960s.
The OPC was established in 1939 by a group of past and present foreign correspondents. Its stated purpose was to "bring together men and women whose past and present activities in the service abroad of the American press has given them common professional and social interests; to provide facilities for the expression of those interests; to promote good fellowship among its members, and to encourage the highest standards of independence, democracy and professional skill in the American foreign press services." The Overseas Press Club first hit WNYC airwaves the following year, with an awards program honoring Leland Stowe, Hallett Abend, and Edward R. Murrow. The Overseas Press Club would air programming intermittently over the years, but would begin broadcasting regularly under the OPC Presidency of Barrett McGurn of the New York Herald Tribune in 1963. During that run, the Overseas Press Club would broadcast speeches and interviews from Günter Grass, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Josephine Baker, future mayor Abraham Beame, future president Richard Nixon, and future Amiri Baraka LeRoi Jones, among many others. The OPC's presence on WNYC would lessen with the municipal budget crises of the late1960s and 70s.
External links
The Overseas Press Club at The WNYC Archives
References
American talk radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen%20Veterans%20Network | Cohen Veterans Network (CVN) is a not-for-profit philanthropic organization that serves post-9/11 veterans and their families through a nationwide system of mental health clinics. CVN's headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, United States.
Cohen Veterans Network is the vision of philanthropist Steven A. Cohen, and was conceived after his son was deployed to Afghanistan from August, 2010 to February, 2011.
The organization's goal is to strengthen mental health outcomes and complement existing support with a particular focus on post-9/11 veterans. It aims to overcome barriers to care such as access to care and stigmas about mental health.
History
From August 2010 to February 2011, Steven A. Cohen's son was deployed to Afghanistan. In 2011, Cohen became involved in veterans' mental health while serving on the board of Robin Hood Foundation, a charitable organization focused on alleviating problems caused by poverty in New York City.
In 2013, the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Cohen's family foundation, began underwriting the Military Family Clinic at NYU Langone. That year, the foundation also gave the largest individual, single private gift in the nation to fund post-traumatic stress disorder research at NYU Langone.
In 2015, Cohen launched Cohen Veterans Bioscience to accelerate the research and development of biomarker tests and drug-based therapies for post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury.
In 2016, Cohen launched Cohen Veterans Network with a pledge of $275 million to fund the project, and announced the first four Military Family Clinic locations. In 2017, new clinics launched in Fayetteville, N.C., El Paso, TX with an additional clinic opening in Washington, D.C. The network had already helped more than 5,600 veterans and family members as of April 2018. New clinics in Denver, CO, Killeen, TX, and Clarksville, TN opened by the end of summer 2018. The Tacoma, WA location publicly opened in March 2019, at which point the network had served more than 10,000 veterans and family members. Clinics in Tampa, FL, Virginia Beach, VA and San Diego, CA will also open in 2019.
By 2020, the organization aims to grow the network to comprise 25 clinics in the U.S.
Cohen Veterans Network and the Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) announced a partnership to increase veterans' access to mental health in 2018.
Benefits and eligibility
CVN provides services for all veterans who have served in the United States Armed Services, irrespective of role while in uniform, discharge status, or combat experience. This includes the National Guard and Reserves.
Veterans' families are also eligible for care at CVN clinics, including parents, siblings, spouses or partners, children, caretakers, and others, regardless of whether their military loved ones seek treatment. CVN provides all services regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Clinics
The first Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic was opened in the NYU Langone Medical Cent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Zelikovsky | Alexander Zelikovsky is a professor of computer science at Georgia State University. He is known for an approximation algorithm for the minimum Steiner tree problem with an approximation ratio 1.55, widely cited by his peers and also widely held in libraries.
References
Georgia State University faculty
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20supply%20%28disambiguation%29 | A power supply is an electronic device that supplies electric energy to an electrical load.
Power supply may also refer to:
Power supply unit (computer) a computer component
Electricity delivery to households and industry via electric power generation and distribution networks
Power Supply (album), a 1980 album of Budgie
Power Supply (EP), a 2006 album of Anamanaguchi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runestone%20G%20319 | Runestone G 319 is the Rundata catalog number for a runic inscription on a runestone made from limestone that is located in the Rute church in Gotland, Sweden.
Description
The runestone, which is 1.76 meters tall and 0.765 meters wide, is dated to the years 1200 – 1250. Similar to many runestones, it was repurposed and used in the construction of a church. It was first described as being in the Rute church in a runestone survey published 1749. The stone was hidden under a wooden floor in the 1870s, and removed to its current location during a church restoration in 1951. It is the only Gotland runestone that mentions Finland. The word "Aglia" at the end of the inscription is problematic, but it has been interpreted as focusing the place of death of Audvalds.
This runestone is considered to be one of the Baltic area runestones, which are Varangian runestones raised in memory of men who took part in peaceful or warlike expeditions across the Baltic Sea, where Finland and the Baltic states are presently located.
Inscription
Original inscription:
si[h]tris : aruar[r] : litu : giera : st[a]en : yfir : auþu-l- : broþur : sin : a : finlandi : do : aglia...
Translation to Old West Norse:
Sigtryggs(?) arfar létu gera stein yfir Auðv[a]l[d](?), bróður sinn, á Finnlandi dó 〈aglia...〉.
Translation to English:
Sigtryggr's(?) heirs had the stone made over Auðvaldr(?), their brother, who died in Finland ...
References
G319
13th-century inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Queens%20and%20Women%20Cultural%20Leaders%20Network | The African Queens and Women Cultural Leaders Network (AQWCLN) is a voluntary network of female cultural leaders across Africa that seeks to advocate for the advancement and improve the lives of women and girls across the continent.
History
The AQWCLN was formed in September 2013 when more than forty queens, queenmothers and other female cultural leaders from sixteen different African countries met in Kampala, Uganda, supported by UN Women and the African Union. The Network was established in response to the 2012 "Harare Call to Action" at a meeting hosted by the GlobalPower Women Network Africa, which sought to establish meaningful networks with religious, traditional and cultural leaders in the implementation of programs to protect and promote the rights of women and girls in the African Union. The launch was hosted by Queen Sylvia Nagindda of Buganda Kingdom and Queen Best Kemigisa, the Queenmother of Tooro Kingdom.
The network has chapters in various African countries including Ghana, Uganda, and Malawi.
Commitments
The AQWCLN has resolved to eradicate negative cultural practices, especially female genital mutilation and early marriages. They have issued calls for the release of the victims of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping as well as other girls kidnapped by Boko Haram.
Notable members
Queen Sylvia of Buganda
Queen Best Kemigisa
NanaHemaa Adjoa Awindor
References
External links
(Facebook)
Organizations established in 2013
Women's rights organizations based in Africa
Pan-African organizations
Feminist organizations in Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowland%20Shale | The Bowland Shale or Bowland Shale Formation is a Carboniferous geological formation of Asbian (Visean) to Yeadonian (Bashkirian) age. It is known from outcrop and subsurface borehole data in the north of England, the Isle of Man, parts of North Wales and the Midlands. It is an organic-rich shale which, according to the British Geological Survey, is the source rock where "oil and gas matured before migration to conventional fields in the East Midlands and the Irish Sea", for example, the Formby oil field.
The Bowland Shale, together with other organic-rich Carboniferous shale units, is being considered for exploitation for shale gas.
In 2015, research by the University of Aberdeen discovered "high levels of selenium in rock samples from the Bowland shale". In May 2022, a paper published in the Energy Policy journal described the extraction of shale gas at Bowland shale as a "carbon bomb"a fossil fuel extraction project with the potential to emit more than 1Gt of CO2 over its lifetime.
See also
Geology of Lancashire
Shale gas in the United Kingdom
Unconventional (oil & gas) reservoir
References
Carboniferous System of Europe
Stratigraphy of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabbles | Tabbles is a file-tagging application and relational file manager for Windows which is used to organize contents. It can tag any file type in any file system locally or over a network.
The name "Tabbles" is portmanteau of tag and bubbles.
Overview
Tabbles generates in real-time a tag-based relational file system, where tags can be accessed as folders or used as keywords for search. Unlike Windows tagging system, it supports any kind of files and documents on local and shared drives, as well as many cloud storage or file synchronization systems like Dropbox. Tabbles allows users to collaboratively tag files on network drives, through group and user policy management.
Data management model
Tabbles implements a relational approach to file and data management, as an extension to the traditional file management being hierarchically structured, similar to Microsoft's WinFS. Files, emails and bookmarks are categorized by labeling them with tags, instead of placing them in hierarchical folders or containers. The data is then browsed, sorted and retrieved by navigating and searching through tags, or combination of tags. Tags are visualised and browsed as virtual folders. A relational file system is generated dynamically, independently from the physical location of the data. This allows for files or emails physically stored in different folders or machines, to be grouped and browsed together at once.
Technology
Tabbles was among the first commercial software developed in F# and WPF, and was featured on F# creator's blog. It has a client-server architecture, requires a Microsoft SQL Server to run and relies on stored procedures for the core logic and the security management. Tabbles is tightly integrated with Windows and Windows Explorer using several APIs: FileSystemWatcher, IFileOperationProgressSync, Overlay Handlers, ContextMenu Handlers, Win32 API, Office interop, Outlook interop. It uses VSTO to integrate into Microsoft Outlook.
Features
Tagging files in local folders, network drives, removable drives, optical disks
Auto-tagging files and folders, local and remote, based on user defined rules
Tagging files from the application's GUI, Windows Explorer, from 3rd party file managers, from command line and via APIs
Tags on files and folders managed by file synchronization tools (such as Dropbox) are synchronized
User and groups privileges for tagging on shared folder and network drives
Graphically browse through single tags or combinations, as if in virtual folders
Tag emails (in Microsoft Outlook) and bookmarks
Administrator management window for user and groups creation and management
In the media
Tabbles received multiple reviews, among others from the Washington Post, Lifehacker, Chip and several paper magazines. Reviews were typically mildly positive and focused on the innovative side of the application.
See also
Virtual folder
Windows Explorer
WinFS
References
External links
File managers for Microsoft Window |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20August%20Meissner | Heinrich August Meissner (, January 3, 1862 – January 14, 1940) was a German engineer who was largely responsible for the railway network in the Ottoman Empire, and later helped manage the network in Turkey. He attained the high-ranking honorary title of pasha in the empire.
Personal life
Meissner was born in Leipzig in 1862. He studied at the Dresden University of Technology. Interested in the public works being planned in Turkey, he studied the Turkish language, and at the age of 24 moved to the Ottoman Empire. Meissner died in 1940 in Istanbul.
Railway work
Early works
Starting in 1886, Meissner served in a number of important posts related to civil engineering in the Ottoman Empire. He worked on railways in southern Bulgaria, Macedonia, Antalya and Thrace.
Hejaz and Baghdad railways
Meissner was invited to manage the construction of the Hejaz Railway, the largest public works undertaking in the empire. In the eight years from 1900 to 1908, he was able to build the main section, from Damascus to Medina, including the Jezreel Valley railway. In 1904 he received the title of pasha from the Sultan for his work on the railway, stretching only from Damascus to Ma'an at the time. After the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, the Hejaz Railway project was abandoned, and Meissner moved on to the Baghdad Railway project, funded by the German Empire.
In 1910 Meissner was chosen to manage the Aleppo section of the railway, and later moved on to Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) for the Baghdad section.
World War I
In World War I, Meissner served under Djemal Pasha, who was his personal friend from their time in Mesopotamia. He helped build the Ottoman military railway system in Palestine in the war. After the war he went back to Germany.
After the war
In 1924 Meissner was invited by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to continue his railway work. He oversaw the reconstruction and maintenance of many railway lines in Turkey and later taught at the Istanbul Technical University.
See also
Ottoman Palestine railways
Eastern Railway, Ottoman WWI line, Tulkarm to Hadera and Tulkarm to Lydda; connected to Jezreel Valley, Jaffa–Jerusalem, and Beersheba lines
Railway to Beersheba or the 'Egyptian Branch', Ottoman WWI line headed towards the Suez Canal; two lines: (Lidda–) Wadi Surar–Beit Hanoun, and Wadi Surar–Beersheba
Mandate Palestine & Israel railways
Palestine Railways, government-owned company and rail monopolist in Mandate Palestine (1920-1948)
Rail transport in Israel
Israel Railways, the state-owned principal railway company in Israel
Coastal railway line, Israel, main line in Mandate Palestine and Israel
Syria and Jordan
Chemin de Fer de Hedjaz Syrie (CFH), successor to the Hedjaz Railway in Syria
Hedjaz Jordan Railway (HJR), successor to the Hedjaz Railway in Jordan
References
Bibliography
German railway mechanical engineers
Engineers from Leipzig
1862 births
1940 deaths
Pashas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Standard%20Authority%20Data%20Number | The International Standard Authority Data Number (ISADN) was a registry proposed by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to provide and maintain unique identifiers for entities described in authority data. Having such a unique number would have the benefits of being language-independent and system-independent.
Francoise Bourdon was a major proponent of such a standard, proposing a structure for the ISADN and recommending that the number uniquely identify authority records, rather than their subjects.
A 1989 article by Delsey described the work on the IFLA Working Group on an International Authority System, spending a good portion of time on conceptualizing an international standard number "that will facilitate the linkage of variant authorities for the same identity." Their discussion was very complex in its discussion of which agencies would actually assign such numbers. For example, a national library might be tasked with assigning identifiers to authors within its country, but this would lead to duplicate identifiers for authority data that describe transnational people.
The project was ultimately determined to be unfeasible. Tillett suggested that the cluster identifiers used by the Virtual International Authority File might meet the needs expressed in the proposal.
The concept of an ISADN continues to be relevant to the information science community, as it could be a great help in the problem of measuring an individual author's research output.
See also
Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
References
Library cataloging and classification
Unique identifiers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot%20algorithm | A snapshot algorithm is used to create a consistent snapshot of the global state of a distributed system. Due to the lack of globally shared memory and a global clock, this is not trivially possible.
Example
Several computers work together in a distributed system. Each of them represents a bank account holding a certain amount of money. The participants can transfer money between their accounts by exchanging the messages.
Assume the overall balance shall be calculated. Just requesting the balance of each participant can lead to an incorrect result, if one of them just sent a transfer message to another one (and thus has already decreased its own balance), which did not yet receive it.
A snapshot algorithm avoids such inconsistencies.
Algorithms
Chandy–Lamport algorithm
Lai–Yang algorithm
Spezialetti–Kearns algorithm
Mattern's algorithm
References
Distributed algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pombola | Pombola is free open source software by mySociety for running a parliamentary monitoring website.
Pombola's development was funded by the Omidyar Network to relaunch the Mzalendo site in Kenya.
The IndigoTrust funded roll-out to further countries, with a particular focus on the provision of transparency websites for sub-Saharan Africa.
Among other features, Pombola allows for websites that publish parliamentary transcripts, hold a database of information about politicians, and, using the mySociety software MapIt, can match a user's home location to their constituency.
The site was inspired by TheyWorkForYou – mySociety's UK parliamentary monitoring site.
Sites running on Pombola
Ghana – Odekro
Kenya – Mzalendo
Nigeria – Shine Your Eye
South Africa – People's Assembly
Zimbabwe – Kuvakazim
References
External links
MySociety: Pombola
MySociety
Software using the GNU AGPL license
Open government
2013 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual%20participant%20data | Individual participant data (also known as individual patient data, often abbreviated IPD) is raw data from individual participants, and is often used in the context of meta-analysis.
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has stated that sharing of deidentified individual participant data is an ethical obligation.
IPD meta-analysis
In an IPD meta-analysis, patient-level data from multiple studies or settings are combined to address a certain research question. IPD meta-analyses tend to be common for large-scale and international projects, and they are less limited than aggregate data (AD) meta-analyses in terms of the availability and quality of data they can use. Due to the high level of precision and consistency this approach allows for (which in turn makes it easier for researchers to minimize heterogeneity), it is considered the gold standard of evidence synthesis.
Common aims for an IPD meta-analysis are
to evaluate the safety or efficacy of medical interventions
to identify modifiers of treatment effect
to evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic tests
to evaluate the association of prognostic markers
to develop multivariable prediction models (rules)
to evaluate the predictive performance of prognostic models
Over the past few decades, meta-analyses conducted with IPD (also known as IPD meta-analyses) have become increasingly popular.
References
External links
Individual participant data meta-analysis information at the Cochrane website
Meta-analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Voronkov%20%28disambiguation%29 | Andrei Voronkov may refer to:
Andrei Voronkov (born 1959), Russian computer scientist
Andrei Voronkov (volleyball) (born 1967), Russian volleyball coach and former player
Andrey Varankow (born 1989), Belarusian football forward |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadertoy | Shadertoy.com is an online community and tool for creating and sharing shaders through WebGL, used for both learning and teaching 3D computer graphics in a web browser.
Overview
Shadertoy.com is an online community and platform for computer graphics professionals, academics and enthusiasts who share, learn and experiment with rendering techniques and procedural art through GLSL code. There are more than 52 thousand public contributions as of mid-2021 coming from thousands of users. WebGL allows Shadertoy to access the compute power of the GPU to generate procedural art, animation, models, lighting, state based logic and sound.
History
Shadertoy.com was created by Pol Jeremias and Inigo Quilez in January 2013 and came online in February the same year.
The roots of the effort are in Inigo's "Shadertoy" section in his computer graphics educational website. With the arrival of the initial WebGL implementation by Mozilla's Firefox in 2009, Quilez created the first online live coding environment and curated repository of procedural shaders. This content was donated by 18 authors from the Demoscene and showcased advanced real-time and interactive animations never seen in the Web before, such as raymarched metaballs, fractals and tunnel effects.
After having worked together in several real-time rendering projects together for years, in December 2012 Quilez and Pol decided to create a new Shadertoy site that would follow the tradition of the original Shadertoy page with its demoscene flavored resource and size constrained real-time graphics content, but would add social and community features and embrace an open-source attitude.
The page came out with the live editor, real-time playback, browsing and searching capabilities, tagging and commenting features. Content wise, Shadertoy provided a fixed and limited set of textures for its users to utilize in creative ways. Over the years Shadertoy added extra features, such as webcam and microphone input support, video, music, Virtual Reality rendering and multi-pass rendering.
There are over 31 thousand contributions in total from thousands of users, several of which are referenced in academic papers. Shadertoy also hosts annual competitions and events for its community to enjoy, such as the Siggraph 2015 Shadertoy Competition
Features
Editing: syntax highlighted editor with immediate visual feedback
Social: commenting on shadertoys, voting (liking)
Sharing: permanent URLs, embedded in other websites, private shader sharing
Rendering: floating point buffer based multipass and history
Media inputs: microphone, webcam, keyboard, mouse, VR HMDs, soundcloud, video, textures
Usage
An example of a procedural animation created in Shadertoy could be the following square tunnel:
void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord )
{
// input: pixel coordinates
vec2 p = (-iResolution.xy + 2.0*fragCoord)/iResolution.y;
// angle of each pixel to the center of the screen
float a = a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello%20%28social%20network%29 | Hello, stylized as hello, was a social networking service founded by Orkut Büyükkökten, the creator of Orkut. The service used to support access via a mobile app and was available for Android and iOS. It was launched May 1, 2016, as a replacement to Orkut, which was shut down on September 30, 2014. Hello is owned by Hello Network.
As of September 2019, Hello had been downloaded approximately 1 million times, compared to Orkut's 300 million active users. Hello.com has been shut down.
References
American social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
Internet properties established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCem | PCem (short for PC Emulator) is an IBM PC emulator for Windows and Linux that specializes in running old operating systems and software that are designed for IBM PC compatibles. Originally developed as an IBM PC XT emulator, it later added support for other IBM PC compatible computers as well.
A fork known as 86Box is also available, which includes a number of added features, such as support for SCSI and additional boards.
On 14 June 2021, lead developer Sarah Walker announced her departure from the project. A new maintainer, Michael Manley, was appointed on 18 December 2021. During the interim period with no maintainer, the project's forums were closed.
Features
Hardware
PCem is capable of emulating Intel processors (and its respective clones, including AMD, IDT and Cyrix) from Intel 8088 through the Pentium Tillamook MMX/Mobile MMX processors from 1997 until 1999. A recompiler has been added in v10.1, being mandatory for P5 Pentium and Cyrix processors and optional for i486 processors and IDT WinChip processors. Yet a rather fast processor is needed for full emulation speed (such as an Intel Core i5 at 4 GHz). However, the current developer of PCem has a main concern that the recompiler is not fast enough to emulate the Intel Pentium Pro/Pentium II processors yet.
PCem emulates various IBM PC compatible systems/motherboards from 1981 until 1996, this includes almost all IBM PC models (including the IBM PS/1 model 2121 and the IBM PS/2 model 2011), some American Megatrends BIOS clones (from 1989 until 1994), Award BIOS systems (Award 286 clone, Award SiS 496/497 and Award 430VX PCI), and Intel Premiere/PCI and Intel Advanced/EV motherboards. However, unofficial builds of PCem (PCem-X and PCem-unofficial) also supports IBM PC compatible systems/motherboards (from 1996 until 2000) that supports Intel Pentium Pro/Pentium II processors. PCem simulates the BIOS cache, which relies on the processor rather than on system memory.
PCem can emulate different graphic modes, this includes text mode, Hercules, CGA (including some composite modes and the 160 × 100 × 16 tweaked modes), Tandy, EGA, VGA (including Mode X and other tweaks), VESA, as well as various video APIs such as DirectX and 3Dfx's Glide. PCem can also emulate various video cards such as the ATI Mach64 GX and the S3 Trio32/64/Virge series.
PCem also emulates some sound cards, such as the AdLib, Sound Blaster (including the Game Blaster), Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster AWE32, Gravis UltraSound, Innovation SSI-2001, Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro 16, Windows Sound System, Ensoniq AudioPCI 64V/ES1371, and Sound Blaster PCI 128.
Voodoo cards are also emulated since PCem v10 and PCem v12, which added support for Voodoo 2 and various optimizations. However, there are some shortcomings regarding Voodoo emulation such as the lack of mipmapping, slightly wobbling triangles, lack of speed limiting, and inaccurate refresh rates on almost every resolution (except 640 × 480@60 Hz). A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2016–17 network television schedule for the five major English commercial broadcast networks in Canada covers primetime hours from September 2016 through August 2017. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2015-16 television season, for Canadian, American and other series.
CBC Television was first to announce its fall schedule on May 26, 2016, followed by CTV and CTV Two, as well as City on May 30, 2016, and Global on June 9, 2016. As in the past, the commercial networks' announcements come shortly after the networks have had a chance to buy Canadian rights to new American series.
CTV Two and Global are not included on Saturday as they do not carry network programming.
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold. Series that have changed network are not highlighted as new series.
All times given are in Canadian Eastern Time and Pacific Time (except for some live events or specials).
Most CBC programming airs at the same local time in all time zones, except Newfoundland time (add 30 minutes).
For commercial stations in the Central Time Zone, subtract one hour.
For commercial stations in the Atlantic and Mountain time zones, add one hour for programming between 8:00 and 10:00 PM. Programs airing at 10:00 PM ET/PT will generally air at 8:00 PM local on stations in these areas. For viewers in the Newfoundland time zone, add an additional 30 minutes to the Atlantic time schedule.
Notwithstanding the above, timeslots may occasionally vary further in some areas due to local simultaneous substitution considerations, compliance with watershed restrictions, or other factors.
Legend
Light blue indicates Local Programming.
Grey indicates Encore Programming.
Light green indicates sporting events.
Orange indicates movies.
Red indicates Canadian content shows, which is programming that originated in Canada.
Magenta indicates series being burned off and other irregularly scheduled programs, including specials.
Cyan indicates various programming.
Light yellow indicates the current schedule.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
By network
CBC
City
CTV/CTV Two
Comedies
American Housewife (October 11, 2016 – present)
The Big Bang Theory (September 23, 2007 – present)
The Goldbergs (September 26, 2013 – present)
Dramas
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (September 24, 2013 – present)
Arrow (September 24, 2012 – present)
Blindspot (September 21, 2015 – present)
Blue Bloods (September 24, 2010 – present)
Castle (September 29, 2009 – present)
Code Black (September 29, 2015 – present)
Conviction (October 3, 2016 – present)
Criminal Minds (September 21, 2005 – present)
Designated Survivor (September 23, 2016 – present)
The Exorcist (September 23, 2016 – present)
The Flash (January 17, 2015 – present)
Gotham (September 22, 2014 – present)
Grimm (October 28, 2011 – present)
How to Get Away With Murder (September 25, 2014 – present)
Law & Order: Special Victims U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID-0 | is a 2017 cyberpunk Japanese anime television series produced by Sanzigen. The anime was announced through a teaser video on August 7, 2016. followed by the official website on January 26, 2017. The series is produced by Sanzigen and directed by Goro Taniguchi, and aired from April 9, 2017, to June 25, 2017. The series is set when humanity has developed I-Machines, robots that can operate in extreme environments in space, in which the human pilot's consciousness can be transferred into the robot's operating system. An astrogeology student named Maya Mikuri joins the Excavate Company, a crew who illegally mine for the new mineral Orichalt, which is used for interstellar travel. However, Maya soon learns about a crew member with no identity named Ido, and his connection to a little girl named Alice found inside an Orichalt deposit within the core of the wandering planet known as Rajeev.
Plot
In the distant future, the discovery of the new mineral has allowed humanity to expand beyond the Solar System. On the constant lookout for Orichalt, humanity has developed , giant robots that can operate in extreme environments. I-Machines function by using Orichalt to transfer the human pilot's consciousness into the robot's operating system; in that sense, the human becomes the machine. While Alliance Academy student Maya Mikuri is in the middle of operating an I-Machine, she gets involved in an incident with mining pirates, and ends up serving as a crew member on their mining spaceship. Soon after, she and the rest of the crew begin to discover that the government has been hiding secrets about destructive forces concerning Orichalt. Worse, these same forces are on the verge of destroying human civilization, and the crew might be the only ones who can stop them.
Characters
Excavate Company
The is a band of Orichalt miners who often act illegally, being compared to space pirates. Their base of operations is the mining ship (Latin for "foolish"), which is built to accommodate I-Machines and is equipped with four large manipulator arms featuring various tools. The ship is capable of utilizing Orichalt chunks to achieve faster than light warp-based travel through a process known as Miguel Jumping (probably referencing the Alcubierre Drive proposed by Mexican Physicist Miguel Alcubierre). Aside from Maya Mikuri and Clair Hojo, Stultis entire crew consists of , people whose consciousness permanently resides within an I-Machine, having lost or discarded their flesh-and-blood bodies in the past. Existing as an Evertrancer, willingly or otherwise, is noted to be illegal and highly unethical within galactic society.
A student at the Planet Alliance Academy with a knack for astrogeology. After an accident, she finds herself working with the members of Excavate. Keen and sharp-witted, but also a little timid and willing to let events unfold around her. Having been framed for illegally sharing information about a large Orichalt deposit, she is forced to sign on wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorehami | Dorehami (, ) is an Iranian Telecast currently directed by Mehran Modiri. It aired on cable network IRIB Nasim on Thursdays at 21:00 and Fridays and Saturdays at 23:00 (IST) from March 18 to October 1, 2016 and continue from November 4.
The show's first season finale aired on April 6, 2018, featuring Adel Ferdosipour as the guest.
Cast and characters
The first story
Siamak Ansari as Peyman
Shaghayegh Dehghan as Mehrnaz
Elika Abdolrazzaghi as Homa
Mohammad Naderi as Capitan
Amir Mahdi Jule as Nader
Mehran Ranjbar as Sepehr
The second story
Siamak Ansari as Arsalan
Mohammad Naderi as Janiyar "Johnny"
Elika Abdolrazzaghi as Leyayul
Ramin Nasernasir as Changiz Khan
Leyla Irani as Darya
Mehran Ranjbar as YoYo
Amir Janani as LaLa
Soroush Jamshidi as Gheymat
The third story
Siamak Ansari as Arsalan
Soroush Jamshidi as Gheymat
Mahlagha Bagheri as Alieh "Annie"
The fourth story
Soroush Jamshidi as Gheymat
Sahar Valadbeigi as Shamsee (later left the show)
Episodes
2016
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2010s Iranian television series
2016 Iranian television series debuts
2018 Iranian television series endings
Iranian television series
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting original programming
Persian-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Voronkov | Andrei Anatolievič Voronkov (born 1959) is a Professor of Formal methods in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.
Education
Voronkov was educated at Novosibirsk State University, graduating with a PhD in 1987.
Research
Voronkov is known for the Vampire automated theorem prover, the EasyChair conference management software, the Handbook of Automated Reasoning (with John Alan Robinson, 2001), and as organiser of the Alan Turing Centenary Conference 2012.
Voronkov's research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Awards and honours
In 2015, his contributions to the field of automated reasoning were recognized with the Herbrand Award. He has won 25 division titles in the CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) at the Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE) since 1999.
Personal life
Voronkov is married and has three children. A son and two daughters.
He lives in Bramhall with his family.
References
Academics of the University of Manchester
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Living people
1959 births
Academic staff of Novosibirsk State University
Novosibirsk State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist.com%20%28company%29 | Scientist.com (formerly known as Assay Depot) is a network of public and private e-commerce marketplaces that connect buyers and sellers of scientific research services. The company was founded in 2007 by Kevin Lustig, Chris Petersen and Andrew Martin and launched its first public research marketplace in September 2008.
History
Research marketplaces make it possible for scientists to use contract research organizations (CROs) to outsource an entire pharmaceutical drug discovery project without requiring physical access to a laboratory. The company has been referred to as the “Amazon.com for medical research,” “A Home Depot for science and medicine” and the “EBay for drug discovery services." In 2011 and 2012, Scientist.com launched outsourcing marketplaces for the large pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and AstraZeneca, respectively. The marketplace was featured in a 2012 TEDMED talk given by then-Stanford University professor Atul Butte. In 2013, the company launched a private academic marketplace for the National Cancer Institute. By June 2016, when the company rebranded as Scientist.com, it operated private research marketplaces for 10 pharmaceutical companies and the US National Institutes of Health. In 2017, Scientist.com rolled out a series of new marketplace features to attract more customers, including COMPLi®, a comprehensive process that oversees the sourcing of regulated services for scientific research, such as the legal and ethical acquisition of biological specimens, animal welfare, toxicology studies, secondary real world evidence (RWE), health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), and GxP services. By the end of 2017, the company operated private marketplaces for most of the world's major pharmaceutical companies and entered into a collaboration with VWR International to create an end-to-end research solution. In 2018, Scientist.com launched DataSmart, a platform to ensure data integrity; DataSmart is based on proprietary blockchain technology developed by Scientist.com. The company also opened an office in Tokyo, Japan in 2018 in order to work more closely with Japanese pharma companies. In 2019, Scientist.com unveiled its first original service offering, Trial Insights, a digital reporting platform that aggregates publicly available clinical trials data into usable online dashboards. Later in 2019, Scientist.com launched SciPay, an early-payment program for the thousands of registered suppliers on its marketplace. In late 2020, Scientist.com acquired HealthEconomics.Com, the world’s leading ConnectedCommunity in the Value, Evidence and Access space. Then, in 2021, Scientist.com completed three additional acquisitions, one of which was InsideScientific, an online environment that facilitates the exchange of scientific information via webinars, podcasts, and more. Next, was Notch8, which provides software and app development services, and have since rebranded as Scientist.com Software Solutions. Lastly, is BioPharmCatalyst, an o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Waking%20Dead | "The Waking Dead" is the 21st episode of season 2 of supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 43rd episode overall, which premiered on May 14, 2013, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by series creators Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt, and was directed by Steven DePaul.
Plot
Opening quote: "Papa Ghede is a handsom fellow in his hat and coat of black. Papa Ghede is going to the palace! He'll eat and drink when he gets back!"
In Vienna, Adalind's (Claire Coffee) and Eric's (James Frain) intimate encounter is interrupted when the King, his father, calls him. Adalind hears the conversation and finds out he is planning on travelling to Portland to meet with a man named Baron Samedi.
Wu (Reggie Lee) and Sgt. Franco (Robert Blanche) are called to a disturbance in a house. A man, Richard Mulpus (Solomon Brende), attacks them but is killed by Franco. His nose is oozing a green substance and a woman is dead. Stefania (Shohreh Aghdashloo) brings a contract for Adalind to sign but, as she is suspicious, Stefania uses a spell to make her hand sign it.
Hank (Russell Hornsby) discovers that Mulpus had a death certificate signed just three days ago. He and Nick talk to the doctor who signed the certificate, who claims that he was officially pronounced dead but gets shocked when he finds out that the corpse is not in its place. Nick notices there's a man with a top hat (Reg E. Cathey) following them. Dr. Harper (Sharon Sachs) is about to perform surgery on the dead woman when she suddenly awakes and her body later disappears.
Juliette decides to go with Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) to find what Nick was trying to show her the night she lost her memories. At first hesitation, he along with Bud (Danny Bruno) take her to the spice shop. After a debate with Rosalee (Bree Turner), they finally agree to woge into their respective Wesen in front of her. Renard's (Sasha Roiz) spy notifies him that Frau Pech has told him that someone else is carrying Royal blood, convincing Renard that the baby would be sold and he would offer money for the baby.
Finding that the man in the top hat took the woman, Nick and Hank discover he is a Cracher-Mortel. This Wesen have a spit that can make a deathlike experience, like a zombie. In a bus, the man woges and kills many people, planning to make an army of zombies. Eric arrives at Portland, calling Renard to taunt him. He then meets with Baron, who is revealed to be the man with the top hat. The episode ends with a title reading, "To be continued".
Reception
Viewers
The episode was viewed by 5.36 million people, earning a 1.7/5 in the 18-49 rating demographics on the Nielson ratings scale, ranking first on its timeslot and eighth for the night in the 18-49 demographics, behind Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, a rerun of The Voice, New Girl, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS, and The Voice. This was a 6% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 5.67 million viewers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Xin%20%28news%20anchor%29 | Liu Xin (; born 10 November 1975) is a host and journalist for the English-language Chinese government-broadcaster China Global Television Network (CGTN), now hosting the opinion show named The Point with Liu Xin on weekdays at CGTN. She is fluent in Mandarin, English and French, and conversational in German and Turkish.
Biography
Liu was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China. She attended Nanjing University, one of the top universities in China, between 1993 and 1997. She majored in English language and literature. In 1996, Liu became the first Chinese student to participate in and win the International Public Speaking Competition in London. After graduating from college, she joined CCTV and later became an anchorwoman on CCTV's English language channel. In 2011, she was posted to Geneva, where she served as the Geneva Bureau Chief of CCTV, for nearly six years.
Since the foundation of CGTN in 2016, she returned to China and began the opinion program The Point with Liu Xin in 2017.
In 2019, she criticized Fox News host Trish Regan's coverage of the US-China Trade Conflict as “all emotion” and “little substance.” Subsequently, Regan invited Liu to a debate on her program. An article on Reuters published prior to the debate said that "China’s war of words with the United States over their escalating trade dispute will reach a crescendo of sorts" with the exchange. The debate garnered a lot of attention in China, with posts about the debate receiving 260 million views and more than 53,000 comments on micro-blogging site Sina Weibo. The debate was later described as "polite, dull and condescending" in a media account.
Personal life
Liu is married to a German citizen of Turkish descent. They have two children.
References
External links
Liu Xin reporting for CCTV-News
Liu Xin's speech:"The Mirror and I"
1975 births
Living people
China Global Television Network people
CCTV newsreaders and journalists
Nanjing University alumni
Chinese women journalists
Chinese journalists
People from Zhenjiang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindful%20Education | "Mindful Education" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Steven Universe, which premiered on August 25, 2016 on Cartoon Network. The episode was written and storyboarded by Colin Howard, Jeff Liu, and by Takafumi Hori. The episode was watched by 1.334 million viewers.
The episode focuses on Steven and Connie training as their fusion, Stevonnie. However, when their respective personal problems interfere with the stability of the fusion, Garnet, a permanent fusion herself, steps in to help them.
Plot
The episode opens with Connie (Grace Rolek) arriving at Steven (Zach Callison)'s house for training, distracted and in a bad mood. Steven and Connie go to the Sky Arena to practice fighting while fused as Stevonnie (AJ Michalka), under the supervision of Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall) and Garnet (Estelle).
Stevonnie's first practice fight is interrupted when a vision of a boy causes them to panic and defuse. Connie confesses that the boy is a classmate she accidentally beat up after bumping into him at school. Steven tells her that when you hurt someone by accident you just have to "try not to think about it"; but Garnet decides to educate them on healthier ways of dealing with difficult emotions.
On the beachside, Garnet tells the two that an emotional imbalance causes a fusion to lose touch with reality; if one of them is falling apart, their fusion will as well. She leads Stevonnie in a guided meditation, singing the song "Here Comes a Thought". The song encourages Stevonnie to mindfully pay attention to and contextualize their emotions: "Take a moment to think of just flexibility, love, and trust." The process of dealing with emotions is visualized by scenes of Ruby and Sapphire, and then Connie and Steven, being overwhelmed by swarms of butterflies, but helping each other to drive them off or accept them.
The next day, Connie returns for training, having made amends with the boy she beat up. Stevonnie performs well in practice battles until they again begin to have visions driven by guilt and anxiety. This time, the guilt is Steven's; they see images of Bismuth, Jasper, and Eyeball, three recent adversaries with whom Steven, despite his best efforts, was unable to make peace. The cloud of butterflies then takes the shape of a stern and disapproving-looking Rose Quartz. Overwhelmed, Stevonnie falls from the Sky Arena.
As they fall, Steven and Connie split again. Connie calls for Steven to fuse so they can float to the ground, but Steven is too wrapped up in guilt to pay attention. Connie tells Steven that he has to be honest with himself about how bad he feels in order for him to move on. Accepting this, Steven fuses with Connie once again and Stevonnie regains stability, managing to safely float down. Stevonnie falls to the ground laughing in relief, and contently proclaims, "I'm here".
Production
Episodes of Steven Universe are written and storyboarded by a single team. "Mindful Education" was w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Council%20of%20Women%27s%20Societies | National Council of Women's Societies, also known by its acronym NCWS, is a Nigerian non-governmental and non-partisan women's organization composed of a network of independent women organizations in Nigeria binding together to use NCWS' platform to advocate gender welfare issues to the government and society.
Though criticized by some for its lukewarm opposition and warm reception to government policies, Justice Nzeako, a former NCWS president emphasized that the organization is "apolitical but acts as a pressure group to make the government amend its ways".
History
The formation of the National Council of Women's Societies (NCWS) was prompted by the large number of women's organizations in the Western region during the nation’s First Republic. The regional minister in charge of social welfare, Oba Akran, called on these organizations to unite and present a common platform in their rapport with governmental and international institutions. In March 1958, members of these women organizations attended a meeting in Ibadan to discuss the establishment of an umbrella organization to unite women in the country. The NCWS was formally inaugurated in 1959 as an organization for women's group in the country.
Key organizations that came together to form NCWS include the Women's Cultural and Philanthropic Organization in Eastern Nigeria, Women's Improvement Society, Women's Movement, Nigerian Women's Union and Federation of Women's Societies. Between 1961 and 1962, the organization established regional branches in Kaduna, Enugu and Lagos.
In the formative years, NCWS was a group of elite women interested in promoting their interest and the interests of less privileged women.
In the early 1960s, NCWS took an active role in promoting initiatives to increase the participation of women in the Economy of Nigeria through training classes and credit programmes. Economic lectures on self-sustenance were delivered by individuals such as Aduke Alakija and other elite women. In the early 1980s, after the crash of oil prices, NCWS organized economic literacy programmes for the market women community.
NCWS goal of affecting national life through active participation of women has led the organization to support women's suffrage in Northern Nigeria during the First Republic. In the late 1950s, it started a voting rights campaign to allow women to vote and be voted for and visited regional leaders such as Ahmadu Bello to press on those interests. The NCWS was also involved in mobilizing women to participate in the political process during the short-lived Third Republic.
Affiliates
Some organizations that have been affiliated with NCWS are:
Association of Professional Women Bankers.
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA).
Young Women's Christian Association (YCWA).
Zonta International.
The Nigerian Guides Association.
Medical Women's Association.
Amata Progressive Women's League.
Ward Women's Vanguard.
Ibibio Women's Cooperative Societies.
Muslim Mothers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Cloud%20Datastore | Google Cloud Datastore (Cloud Datastore) is a highly scalable, fully managed NoSQL database service offered by Google on the Google Cloud Platform. Cloud Datastore is built upon Google's Bigtable and Megastore technology. Google Cloud Datastore allows the user to create databases either in Native or Datastore Mode. Native Mode is designed for mobile and web apps, while Datastore Mode is designed for new server projects.
History
Originally released as a feature in Google App Engine in 2008, Cloud Datastore was announced as a standalone product in 2013 during Google I/O. In 2018 at the Google Cloud Next conference, the second-generation Firestore database was opened to general availability, with a backward-compatibility mode. Google provides a path for automatically upgrading a legacy Datastore database to Firestore in Datastore mode.
GQL
Google Cloud Datastore database has a SQL-like syntax called "GQL" (Google Query Language). GQL does not support the Join statement. Instead, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships can be accomplished using ReferenceProperty(). This shared-nothing approach allows disks to fail without the system failing. Switching from a relational database to Cloud Datastore requires a paradigm shift for developers when modeling their data.
See also
Azure Cosmos DB
Amazon DynamoDB
Oracle Cloud NoSQL DB
References
External links
Official website
Google Cloud Platform site
Cloud Datastore
Cloud storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie%20%28website%29 | Winnie is a marketplace for child care that helps parents find daycare and preschool. It contains data about child care providers including descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, and availability data. Parents also use Winnie to ask questions and share their experiences. It is backed by a blend of automated data collection, curation, and crowdsourcing.
Background
Winnie is a startup based in San Francisco and was founded in early 2016 by Sara Mauskopf and Anne Halsall. The Winnie iPhone app was launched in June 2016. In October 2016, Winnie announced that it raised $2.5 million in seed funding. Winnie launched their Android app in March 2017. In May 2017, Winnie launched a daycare and preschool finder.
References
Further reading
Forbes - May 2020 - Interview With Melinda Gates: How Revolutionizing Our Caretaking System Is ‘The Key To Reopening The Economy’
Parents - May 2018 - This Is the Only App You Need to Find Quality Child Care & Kid-Friendly Places All Over the Country
TechCrunch - October 2016 - Winnie grabs $2.5 million for its directory of family-friendly places
Bloomberg - June 2016 - Interview on Bloomberg West: Meet Winnie
External links
Official Website
American review websites
Geosocial networking
Parenting websites
Consumer guides
IOS software
Internet properties established in 2016
Proprietary cross-platform software
Online companies of the United States
Recommender systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish%20School%20Search | Fish School Search (FSS), proposed by Bastos Filho and Lima Neto in 2008 is, in its basic version, an unimodal optimization algorithm inspired on the collective behavior of fish schools. The mechanisms of feeding and coordinated movement were used as inspiration to create the search operators. The core idea is to make the fishes “swim” toward the positive gradient in order to “eat” and “gain weight”. Collectively, the heavier fishes have more influence on the search process as a whole, what makes the barycenter of the fish school moves toward better places in the search space over the iterations.
The FSS uses the following principles:
Simple computations in all individuals (i.e. fish)
Various means of storing information (i.e. weights of fish and school barycenter)
Local computations (i.e. swimming is composed of distinct components)
Low communications between neighboring individuals (i.e. fish are to think local but also be socially aware)
Minimum centralized control (mainly for self-controlling of the school radius)
Some distinct diversity mechanisms (this to avoid undesirable flocking behavior)
Scalability (in terms of complexity of the optimization/search tasks)
Autonomy (i.e. ability to self-control functioning)
Algorithm
FSS is a population based search algorithm inspired in the behavior of swimming fishes that expand and contract while looking for food. Each fish -dimensional location represents a possible solution for the optimization problem. The algorithm makes use of weights for all the fishes which represents cumulative account on how successful has been the search for each fish in the school. FSS is composed of the feeding and movement operators, the latter being divided into three sub-components, which are:
Individual component of the movement
Every fish in the school performs a local search looking for promising regions in the search space. It is done as represented below:
where and represent the position of the fish before and after the individual movement operator, respectively. is a uniformly distributed random number varying from -1 up to 1 and is a parameter that defines the maximum displacement for this movement. The new position is only accepted if the fitness of the fish improves with the position change. If it is not the case, the fish remains in the same position and .
Collective-instinctive component of the movement
An average of the individual movements is calculated based on the following:
The vector represents the weighted average of the displacements of each fish. It means that the fishes that experienced a higher improvement will attract fishes into its position.
After the vector computation, every fish will be encouraged to move according to:
Collective-volitive component of the movement
This operator is used in order to regulate the exploration/exploitation ability of the school during the search process. First of all, the barycenter of the school is calculated based on the position and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CopperheadOS | CopperheadOS is a mobile operating system for smartphones, based on the Android mobile platform. It adds privacy and security features to the official releases of the Android Open Source Project by Google. CopperheadOS is developed by Copperhead, a Canadian information security company. It is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0, although its source code is not available for public download.
CopperheadOS supports smartphones in the Google Pixel product line; other devices are not targeted in order to preserve the resources of the development team. It has several security features not found in stock Android, such as a hardened version of the Linux kernel, and the ability to use separate passwords for unlocking the device and for encryption. Rather than use the Google Play Store found on most Android devices, CopperheadOS ships with the F-Droid store in order to reduce the risk of users installing malicious apps.
Development of CopperheadOS began in 2014, and the operating system had an initial alpha release in August 2015. This was followed by a beta release in February 2016, followed by several other releases targeting the Google Nexus and Pixel phones. The project was initially released under the GNU General Public License, with the project's source code publicly available on GitHub. In October 2016 the license was changed to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA), and as of June 2020 access to the source code was restricted to members of Copperhead's partner network.
History
Project inception and initial releases
The CopperheadOS project was started in 2014 by Copperhead, an information security company based in Toronto, Canada. The company was founded in the same year by James Donaldson, the CEO, and Daniel Micay, the CTO and lead developer, and initially served clients in the Canadian legal and intelligence industries. During this work, the founders noticed an absence of secure, open-source operating systems for mobile devices, and they created CopperheadOS under an open source license to try to address this need.
Copperhead announced the development of CopperheadOS in April 2015. According to the announcement, the operating system was designed to be a "secure-by-default version of Android" aimed at privacy-conscious users. At first, CopperheadOS was licensed under the GNU General Public License, and the project's code was located on GitHub. Copperhead contributed several of their bug fixes and improvements developed for CopperheadOS to the Android Open Source Project, the main project for Android development by Google.
In August 2015, Copperhead released the first alpha version of CopperheadOS. At this point, the project was based on CyanogenMod, and included support for the Google Nexus 5 and Samsung Galaxy S4. This was followed by a beta version in February 2016, with support for the Nexus 5, Nexus 9 and Nexus 5X. The beta was based directly on the Android Open Source Project instead of using Cyano |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight%2C%20Sweet%20Grimm | "Goodnight, Sweet Grimm" is the 22nd episode of season 2, the 44th overall, and season finale of the supernatural drama television series Grimm which premiered on May 21, 2013, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by series creators Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt, and was directed by Norberto Barba.
Plot
Opening quote: "And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."
Eric (James Frain) meets with the Baron (Reg E. Cathey) to discuss their move. Eric then lets him spit his substance on one of his bodyguards, severely beginning his transformation into a zombie. Baron then makes a ritual to lead all the zombies to Portland. Nick's (David Giuntoli) and Juliette's (Bitsie Tulloch) relationship begins to build up now that she knows about the Grimm world.
Renard (Sasha Roiz) is told by his informant that Eric possessed death certificates and passports. In Vienna, Adalind (Claire Coffee) is knocked unconscious by Frau Pech (Mary McDonald-Lewis), who uses a potion to impersonate her appearance. Nick and Wu (Reggie Lee) are called to a building where the zombies were sent. Nick is attacked by a zombie driver, Al (Timothy Whitcomb), whom he knocks unconscious. He and Hank (Russell Hornsby) take Al to the spice shop, where Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) and Rosalee (Bree Turner) state that to cure him, they have to stimulate the central nervous system through the use of a substance.
Eric meets with Renard to discuss his mother and asks Renard to come with him to Europe. While inspecting a car that was left in the road, Nick senses something and notices containers at the port. Stefania (Shohreh Aghdashloo) meets with "Adalind", and then explains that, for their purposes, they will take Frau Pech's heart. Stefania and her henchmen knock out "Adalind" and take her heart from the stomach. Adalind returns to her normal form, certain that her powers are back.
The antidote works and Al is restored to normal, but he can't remember what happened while he was in that state but he remembers that a man with a top hat may be responsible. Adding that his car was found near containers, Nick deduces that the zombies could be being kept on the harbor. They decide to go to the harbor to give them the antidote but not before Nick gives Rosalee the key to hide. Nick, Monroe, Rosalee and Juliette arrive at the harbor and Baron begins opening containers, unleashing the zombies onto them.
Rosalee manages to give the antidote to some zombies but as there are too many, they are forced to escape. Nick then hears Baron and decides to go after him on the top of a container. They fight on it until both fall inside the container. Baron flees and Nick finds a coffin with a passport for a man named "Thomas Schirach" and a picture of himself. Baron then appears and spits his substance onto him. Monroe, Rosalee and Juliette are forced to flee when the zombies surround them. Eric arrives at the container with Baron where they are planning on transporting the coffin, which contai |
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