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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuperhero | Tsuperhero () is a Philippine television action situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by LA Madrijeros and Rado Peru, it stars Derrick Monasterio in the title role. It premiered on November 13, 2016 replacing Ismol Family on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line up. The series concluded on April 23, 2017 with a total of 23 episodes. It was replaced by Daig Kayo ng Lola Ko in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Nonoy, a jeepney driver turned superhero who has super strength and teleportation powers which came from an object, that came from the crashed spaceship of an alien from the planet Ganernia. Nonoy will eventually develops feelings for the barker Eva, and will eventually turn out to be his true love.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Derrick Monasterio as Nonoy / Tsuperhero
Bea Binene as Eva / Tsupergirl
Supporting cast
Gabby Concepcion as Sergeant Cruz
Alma Moreno as Martha
Valeen Montenegro as Jennifer
Andre Paras as Pedro
Philip Lazaro as Pedi
Analyn Barro as Anna
Betong Sumaya as Julius
Jemwell Ventinilla as Choy
Valentin as Polding
Kuhol as Barker/Maku
Gardo Versoza as Apo Amasam
Miggs Cuaderno as Bokutox / Bok
Benjie Paras as Makutox / Maku
Rhian Ramos as Espie / Espirikitik
Ina Raymundo as Bakite
Gabby Eigenmann as Markano
Terry Gian as Katipar
Jacob Briz as Totorox
Symon De Leña as Iskobotox
Lexter Capili as Tom Tox
David Remo as Kokorokotox
Guest cast
Lou Veloso as Taong Grasa
Arianne Bautista as Pinky Salcedo
Juancho Trivino as Obet / Thunder Man
Liezel Lopez as Isa
Archie Adamos as Manager
Ryan Yllana as Henry / Killer Clown
Kim Belles as Daisy
Lucho Ayala as Estong / Buhawi
Kim Domingo as Erica / Ice Queen
Rodjun Cruz as Ricky
Mikael Daez as Han / Han Hangin
Martin del Rosario as Cellphone Man
John Feir as Andy
Diego Llorico as Tikboy Kutsero
Epy Quizon as Lamparaz
Jeric Gonzales as Dannilo
Michael Angelo as Samuel
Pen Medina as Pikoy / Piccololo
Jerald Napoles as Boy Takatak
JC Tiuseco as Ahmed
Ken Anderson as Budoy
Katrina Halili as Gloria
Vince Gamad as Kargador Zombie
Rolando Inocencio as Kiko
Erlinda Villalobos as Ising
Jake Vargas as Demitri
Kim Idol as Kanor
Will Devaughn as Echanted Tom
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Tsuperhero earned a 22.7% rating. While the final episode scored a 6.5% rating in Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes.
Accolades
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2017 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine comedy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan%20Stafford%20Page | Ewan Stafford Page (born 17 August 1928) is a British academic and computer scientist, and former vice-chancellor of the University of Reading.
Ewan Page was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA and PhD and won the Rayleigh Prize. After a period of National Service, he was a research student in the field of statistics at the University of Cambridge between 1951 and 1954, at a time when the EDSAC computer was new. In 1957, he was appointed as director of the Durham University's Computing Laboratory, located at King's College, Newcastle. When King's College became Newcastle University, the Computing Laboratory became part of that University, and eventually Ewan Page was appointed a pro-vice-chancellor. In 1976, when the then incumbent died unexpectedly, he served as acting vice-chancellor of Newcastle University.
In 1979, Ewan Page was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Reading, a position he held until 1993. He served as president of the British Computer Society in 1984/5.
Books
References
Page, Ewan Stafford
British computer scientists
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
Page, Ewan Stafford
Page, Ewan Stafford |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF%20Guianas | WWF (World Wildlife Fund) Guianas is an international conservation NGO, part of the WWF global network.
Mission and objectives
WWF's main mission is "to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature."
The regional office of WWF Guianas is also involved in a plurality of site specific objectives, often in partnership with civil society organizations and government institutions such as Conservation International and Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development. These range from the protection and management of ecological landscapes, to educational and awareness campaigns on climate change, biodiversity and conservation.
Notable programs and initiatives
Earth Hour
Protected Areas and Sound Land use Planning
Payment for Ecosystem Services
Gold Mining Pollution Abatement
Marine Turtle Conservation
Sustainable fisheries
The Guianas' conservation significance
The three Guianas (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) have between 80 and 98% pristine forest cover and are part of the complex ecosystem of The Guiana Shield freshwater ecoregion, which provides 15% of the world's freshwater reserves.
The forests, wetlands, savannah, waters and biodiversity make the Guiana Shield "essential to enriching and replenishing the world's biodiversity and, consequently, essential to the planet's survival" as Brigadier David Granger - President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana pointed out during his speech at the Opening Ceremony of the IVth International Congress on Biodiversity of the Guiana Shield.
It is also the home of incredible wildlife creatures such as jaguars, anteaters, anacondas, caimans, bats, and sea turtles. A phenomenal variety of fishes populate its waters, and a prodigious amount of different bird species inhabits its trees and skies.
The coasts of the Guianas are home to one of the largest populations of the endangered leatherback turtle in the world and hosts millions of migratory birds from North America. Typical Guiana birds include the red ibis and the cock-of-the-rock.
Multiple Indigenous communities live in key parts of the Shield such as the Iwokrama Forest or the Rupununi region.
Offices and staff
The regional office of WWF Guianas is located in Paramaribo, Suriname. Country offices are also located in Georgetown, Guyana, and Cayenne, French Guiana.
David Singh is the Director of WWF Guianas, Aiesha Williams runs the WWF Guyana Country Office and Laurent Kelle the WWF French Guiana Country Office.
References
External links
WWF Guianas website
Nature conservation organizations based in South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B4n%20Las%20Ogwen | Lôn Las Ogwen is a cycle route in the National Cycle Network which runs south from the NCN 5 at Porth Penrhyn on the north coast of Wales to Llyn Ogwen in Snowdonia. Lôn Las is Welsh for "blue lane".
From Porth Penrhyn to Penrhyn Quarry it follows the former Penrhyn Quarry Railway trackbed. After Tregarth the route climbs about to Ogwen Cottage.
Route
Porth Penrhyn | Glasinfryn | Tregarth | Bethesda | Nant Ffrancon | Ogwen Cottage | Llyn Ogwen
See also
Rail trail
References
External links
Recreational Routes, Gwynedd Council
Lon Las Ogwen, Sustrans
Lon Las Ogwen to Capel Curig, Mud & Routes
NCN 82 on Open Cycle Map
Ogwen Trail route description with photos
Light at end of the tunnel for scenic Gwynedd path, Daily Post, 24 Feb 2017
Are Wales' disused railway tunnels an untapped resource for tourism?, BBC News, Jan 2017
Cycleways in Wales
Transport in Gwynedd
Rail trails in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Halloween%20Baking%20Championship%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes for the reality television cooking series Halloween Baking Championship on Food Network. Judges Sherry Yard (season 1), Ron Ben-Israel (Season 1), Sandra Lee(Season 2), Damiano Carrara(Season 2), Zac Young (Season 3+), Lorraine Pascal (Season 3–4), Katie Lee (Season 5), Stephanie Boswell (Season 6+), and Carla Hall.
Series overview
Season 1 (2015)
Seven bakers and chefs competed in a four-episode baking tournament. One person got eliminated every week until the final episode where one person was eliminated early on and the final three compete for the grand prize of $25,000. Judges for this season are Carla Hall, Ron Ben-Israel, and Sherry Yard.
Contestants
1st - Rudy Martinez, Home Bakery Owner from Queens, New York
2nd - Scott Breazeale, Executive Chef from Plymouth, Michigan
3rd - Jason Hisley, Bakery Owner and chef from Baltimore, Maryland
4th - Ashlee Prisbrey, Baker from Salt Lake City, Utah
5th - Audrey Alfaro, Home Baker from Spokane, Washington
6th - Erin Cooper, Baker from Owings Mills, Maryland
7th - Jennifer Petty, Home Bakery Owner from West Covina, California
Episodes
Results
: Ashlee was eliminated after the finale Preheat.
(WINNER) The contestant won the whole competition.
‡ The contestant won the Pre-Heat challenge.
(WIN) The contestant won the Main Heat challenge.
(HIGH) The contestant had one of the best dishes for that week.
(IN) The contestant performed well enough to move on to the next week.
(LOW) The contestant had one of the bottom dishes for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was eliminated for worst dish.
Season 2 (2016)
Seven bakers competed in a five-episode baking tournament. In this season they incorporated midround twists (usually an ingredient the contestants had to add to their confection). The winner got $25,000. Judges for this season are Carla Hall, Sandra Lee, and Damiano Carrara.
Contestants
1st - Michelle Antonishek, Executive Pastry Chef from Cotulla, Texas
2nd - Tamara Brown, Home Baker from Baldwin Park, California
3rd - Veronica von Borstel, Cake Designer from San Diego, California
4th - John Schopp, Pastry Instructor from Roanoke, Virginia
5th - Amy Strickland, Bakery Owner from Lake City, Florida
6th - Damien Bagley, Pastry Instructor from Las Vegas, Nevada
7th - Brad Rudd, Bakery Manager from Encino, California
: Amy Strickland withdrew from the competition, just before the start of the third episode, due to stress concerns since she was 6 months pregnant.
Episodes
Results
: No one was eliminated at the end of Week 3.
(WINNER) The contestant won the whole competition.
‡ The contestant won the Pre-Heat challenge.
(WIN) The contestant won the Main Heat challenge.
(HIGH) The contestant had one of the best dishes for that week.
(IN) The contestant performed well enough to move on to the next week.
(LOW) The contestant had one of the bottom dishes for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was eliminated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20Relational%20Assessment%20Procedure | The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) is a computer-based psychological measure. It was heavily influenced by the implicit-association test, and is one of several tasks referred to as indirect measures of implicit attitudes. The IRAP is one of relatively few indirect measures that can includes relational or propositional rather than associative information. The IRAP was conceptualised by Dermot Barnes-Holmes, and originally published in 2006. A meta analysis of clinically-relevant criterion effects suggest that the IRAP has good validity. However, a second meta analysis suggests that it has poor reliability, like many reaction time based measures. Research using the IRAP is often linked to relational frame theory, a functional-analytic theory of language.
Application and use
Procedure
A computer-based measure, the IRAP requires individuals to accurately and quickly respond to the relation between two stimuli presented on screen (e.g., to "dog" and "woof") using one of two response options (e.g., "similar" and "different"). Across pairs of blocks, individuals must respond using two contrasting response patterns, for example "dog-woof-similar" versus "dog-woof-different". Reaction times are then compared between these blocks. Any difference in response time between the two block types is defined as an IRAP effect. According to the creators, "the basic hypothesis is that average response latencies should be shorter across blocks of consistent relative to inconsistent trials. In other words, participants should respond more rapidly to relational tasks that reflect their current beliefs than to tasks that do not".
Implementations
The IRAP was first implemented in Visual Basic 6, and distributed for free for academic use but under a closed source by Dermot Barnes-Holmes. A multi-platform, open-source implementation written in PsychoPy is also available on the Open Science Framework.
See also
Implicit association test
References
Psychological tests and scales
Social psychology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%205%20Restaurants | Top 5 Restaurants is an American food-themed television series that aired on Food Network. The series was presented by chefs Sunny Anderson and Geoffrey Zakarian; and it featured the chefs counting down the top food items from across the United States that the network's "food experts" were able to find.
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
Season 2 (2015–2016)
Season 3 (2016)
References
External links
2015 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Food reality television series
Television series by Authentic Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INFLIBNET%20Centre | INFLIBNET Centre (Information and Library Network Centre) is an Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission (India) under the Ministry of Education (India). The organisation promotes and facilitates libraries and information resources for Indian further education. Its premises are in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Shodhganga, the digital repository of theses and dissertations submitted to universities in India is maintained by INFLIBNET Centre. INFLIBNET also performed an important role as an online learning resources by HRD Ministry during COVID-19 lockdown in India.
History
INFLIBNET is a major National Programme initiated by the University Grants Commission (India) in March 1991 as a project under the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). It became an independent Inter-University Centre in June 1996. INFLIBNET runs a nationwide high speed data network connecting university libraries and other information centres.
INFLIBNET is involved in modernizing university libraries in India using the state-of-art technologies for the optimum utilisation of information. In 2022, University Grants Commission (India) launched an initiative with the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre to assist research scholars and their supervisors in conducting their research.
Activities
The Shodhganga portal of Inflibnet Centre displays the achievement of the competing universities with a detailed index of number of theses contributed by several departments of study. Calcutta University, Savitribai Phule Pune University and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) have become largest contributors of theses to the Shodhganga portal of Inflibnet Centre.
The Centre leads projects for the development of library services in Indian universities. These have included:
Financial support for automation of university libraries
Development of a database of resources in libraries in India
Development of a library management application named SOUL (Software for University Libraries)
UGC-Infonet, an Internet connectivity programme
Open access initiatives include:
OJAS, a platform for faculty and researchers in universities to host journals
Shodhganga, a digital repository of theses and dissertations by research scholars in universities in India
Shodhgangotri, a digital repository of synopses of research topics submitted to universities in India
IR@INFLBNET, an repository of papers
Creation of R&D facilities and working groups to study and contribute to the open source movement
Maintenance of a database of scientists, researchers and faculty members at academic institutions and organisations involved in teaching and research in India
Bibliometric and scientometric studies
e-PG Pathshala, a gateway to Postgraduate courses
Training courses in Library Management and Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Publications
INFLIBNET publishes a quarterly newsletter and annual report which are distributed to the academic commun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniTool%20Partition%20Wizard | MiniTool Partition Wizard is a partition management program for hard disk drives developed by MiniTool Solution.
The 'free' version cannot save any of the data that the software may find.
From version 12 all free features have been removed, except for resizing capabilities.
See also
Disk partitioning
List of disk partitioning software
References
External links
Utility software
Utilities for Windows
Disk partitioning software
Disk partitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20node%20search | Best node search (BNS), originally known as fuzzified game tree search, is a minimax search algorithm, developed in 2011. The idea is that the knowledge that one subtree is relatively better than some (or all) other(s) may be propagated sooner than the absolute value of minimax for that subtree. Then a repetitive search narrows until a particular node is shown to be relatively best.
First an initial guess at the minimax value must be made, possibly based on statistical information obtained elsewhere. Then BNS calls search that tells whether the minimax of the subtree is smaller or bigger than the guess. It changes the guessed value until alpha and beta are close enough or only one subtree allows a minimax value greater than the current guess. These results are analogous, respectively, to "prove best" and "disprove rest" heuristic search strategies.
The search result is the node (move) whose subtree contains the minimax value, and a bound on that value, but not the minimax value itself. Experiments with random trees show it to be the most efficient minimax algorithm.
Pseudocode
function nextGuess(α, β, subtreeCount) is
return α + (β − α) × (subtreeCount − 1) / subtreeCount
function bns(node, α, β) is
subtreeCount := number of children of node
do
test := nextGuess(α, β, subtreeCount)
betterCount := 0
for each child of node do
bestVal := −alphabeta(child, −test, −(test − 1))
if bestVal ≥ test then
betterCount := betterCount + 1
bestNode := child
(update number of sub-trees that exceeds separation test value)
(update alpha-beta range)
while not (β − α < 2 or betterCount = 1)
return bestNode
The default nextGuess function above may be replaced with one which uses statistical information for improved performance.
Generalization
Tree searching with Murphy Sampling is an extension of Best Node Search to non-deterministic setting.
External links
fuzzy minimax algorithms
References
Search algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Marrs | Margaret Marrs (née Lewin; born 1929) is an English computer programmer who was the Senior Operator of the original Electronic delay storage automatic computer (EDSAC). EDSAC was an early British computer constructed at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England, and the second electronic digital stored-program computer to go into regular service.
Education
Born in Lancashire, Marrs grew up in a village called Simonstone. She attended the Clitheroe Royal Grammar School where she completed maths, Latin, and French as her Higher School Certificate subjects. She studied maths at the Girton College in Cambridge, graduating in 1948.
Career
In 1951, Marrs worked as a computer programmer for Ferranti, a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm based in Manchester. Her work focused on adapting 39 differential equations for automatic computers. She accomplished this by working from a paper published in the late 1940s by Stanley Gill, adapting the Runge–Kutta method of solving differential equations for automatic computers.
In 1952, Marrs returned to Cambridge where she was employed by University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory as the Senior Operator for EDSAC. Her job included punching tape into the computer to run programs.
In 2016, Marrs and other former EDSAC computer scientists, including Joyce Wheeler and Liz Howe, assisted the National Museum of Computing's efforts to recreate the EDSAC by providing information on the EDSAC's machinery. Marrs and other EDSAC veterans visited the reconstruction team to celebrate the 70th anniversary of EDSAC.
References
1929 births
Living people
People educated at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
British women computer scientists
20th-century British women scientists
British computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20albums%20of%202014%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly digital sales of albums and EPs.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2014 in music
ARIA Charts
List of number-one singles of 2014 (Australia)
References
Digital 2014
Australia albums
Number-one albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20high-speed%20railway%20lines%20in%20China | China's high-speed railway network is by far the longest in the world. As of December 2022, it extends to 31 of the country's 33 provincial-level administrative divisions and exceeds in total length, accounting for about two-thirds of the world's high-speed rail tracks in commercial service. Over the past decade, China’s high-speed rail network grew rapidly according to ambitious railway plans issued by the State. The "Mid- to Long-Term Railway Network Plan" ("Railway Network Plan") approved by the State Council in 2004 called for of passenger-dedicated HSR lines running train at speeds of at least by 2020. The 2008 Revisions to the Railway Network Plan increased the year 2020 passenger-dedicated HSR network target length to and removed the 200 km/h speed standard to allow new lines to be built to standards that can accommodate faster trains.
Overview
In 2008, the Ministry of Railways announced plans to build of high-speed railways with trains reaching normal speeds of 350 km/h. China invested $50 billion on its high-speed rail system in 2009 and the total construction cost of the high-speed rail system is $300 billion. The main operator of regular high-speed train services is China Railway High-Speed (CRH).
China's conventional high-speed railway network is made up of four components:
a national grid of mostly passenger dedicated HSR lines (PDLs),
other regional HSRs connecting major cities,
certain regional "intercity" HSR lines, and
other newly built or upgraded conventional rail lines, mostly in western China, that can carry high-speed passenger and freight trains.
National High Speed Rail Grid
"Four Vertical and Four Horizontal" network
The centerpiece of the MOR's expansion into high-speed rail is a national high-speed rail grid that is overlaid onto the existing railway network. The 2004 Railway Network Plan called for four lines running north-south (verticals) and four lines running east-west (horizontals) by the year 2020 that would connect population centers in economically developed regions of the country. The 2008 Revisions to the Railway Network Plan extended the length of the Beijing-Shenzhen HSR to Hong Kong and the Shanghai-Changsha HSR to Kunming. Each line in the 4+4 national HSR grid is over 1,400 km in length, except the Qingdao-Taiyuan Line which is 873 km in length. Apart from the Hangzhou–Shenzhen HSR (Ningbo-Shenzhen section) and Shanghai–Chengdu HSR (Nanjing-Chengdu section), which were the first railways to connect those cities and carry both passenger and freight, the other six lines are all passenger-dedicated lines. With the exception of the Yichang-Chengdu section of the Shanghai-Chengdu HSR with speed limits of , all other lines in the 4+4 national grid were built to accommodate trains at speeds of .
With the completion of the Beijing–Shenyang high-speed railway, this backbone network was fully completed in January 2021.
Completed lines Partially completed lines.
Four North-South HSR corridors an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beglitched | Beglitched is a 2016 match three video game. It won Best Student Game at the 2016 Independent Games Festival Awards.
Gameplay
Beglitched is a match three game with themes of hacking, computer viruses, and spam.
Development
Jenny Jiao Hsia and Alec Thompson developed Beglitched within the NYU Game Center's incubator. The game released for macOS and Windows in October 2016. An iOS release followed in March 2017.
Reception
Beglitched won the Best Student Game category at the 2016 Independent Games Festival Awards.
See also
Fortune-499
References
Further reading
2016 video games
Hacking video games
IOS games
Linux games
MacOS games
Tile-matching video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Independent Games Festival winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama%20annotation | Drama annotation is the process of annotating the metadata of a drama. Given a drama expressed in some medium (text, video, audio, etc.), the process of metadata annotation identifies what are the elements that characterize the drama and annotates such elements in some metadata format. For example, in the sentence "Laertes and Polonius warn Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet." from the text Hamlet, the word "Laertes", which refers to a drama element, namely a character, will be annotated as "Char", taken from some set of metadata. This article addresses the drama annotation projects, with the sets of metadata and annotations proposed in the scientific literature, based markup languages and ontologies.
Drama across media and genres
Drama encompasses different media and languages, ranging from Greek tragedy and musical drama to action movies and video games: despite their huge differences, these examples share traits of the cultural construct that we recognise as drama. drama can be considered as a form of intangible cultural heritage, since it is characterised by an evolving nature, with form and function that change in time: for example, consider the difference between the Greek Tragedy Oedipus and the modernist play Six Characters in Search of an Author. The exponential spread of drama in contemporary culture has led Martin Esslin to forge the definition of “dramatic media", i.e. media that display characters performing live actions, such as theatre, cinema and videogames.
The discrete manifestations of drama are documented in different media, including text, score, video, audio, etc. The dramatic content underlying these manifestation, however, does not depend on the specific medium: take, for example, the Arden edition of the written drama of Hamlet and Laurence Olivier's movie Hamlet, two examples of the drama heritage which share the same drama content despite the differences of the media support. The annotation of the content of media that convey dramatic content requires the use of an annotation schema expressed in a formal language, which makes the annotation comparable, and, possibly, machine readable.
The first attempts at attaching content metadata to media concerned text documents and were carried out by using markup languages, such as XML, which allow embedding content tags into the document text. With the advent of the Semantic Web project, descriptive tools have evolved towards the use of ontologies, thanks to the languages and resources provided by the Semantic Web project. In particular, semantic annotation relies on the use of the Resource Description Framework language, specifically designed to described Web content of any type.
The semantic annotation of drama consists of representing the knowledge about drama in a machine-readable format to serve the task of annotating the dramatic content coherently across different media and languages, abstracting at the same time from the technicalities of signals and text encoding. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABICOMP%20character%20set | The ABICOMP Character Set was an encoded repertoire of characters used in Brazil. It was devised by the Associação Brasileira de Indústria de Computadores, a Brazilian computer industry association defunct in 1992. It was used on Brazilian-made computers and several printers brands. This code page is known by Star printers and FreeDOS as Code page 3848.
Coverage
The ABICOMP Character Set obviously contained the characters to cover Portuguese. It also contained characters to cover other languages such as Spanish, French, Italian and German. However, the quotation marks "«" and "»" for (European) Portuguese, (European) Spanish, French and Italian are missing.
This character set was different from the Brazilian Standard BraSCII, which was very similar to ISO 8859-1. Although once very used in Brazil, this character set became less and less used because of the ubiquity of other character sets (ISO 8859-1 and later Unicode).
Character set
References
Character sets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie%20Rieback | Melanie R. Rieback (born 26 October 1978) is a computer scientist, chiefly known for her work regarding the privacy and security of radio-frequency identification technology.
Personal life
Melanie Rieback was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 26, 1978. and raised in Florida. Her parents are David John Rieback and Eileen Sharon Rieback who worked at Bell Labs.
Education
She obtained her Bachelor of Science in both Computer Science and Biology from the University of Miami in 2000. She received her Master‘s in Computer Science from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2003. In 2008, she completed her PhD in Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Work
RFID Guardian
In an interview, Rieback stated the importance of the radio-frequency identification security, she stated ″If you are using RFID on cows, who cares? But, with a passport, it takes one breach at the wrong time and it could wreck it for the RFID industry.″
The RFID Guardian was developed when Rieback was a graduate student at the Vrije Universiteit. She was supervised by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. She created the first RFID virus to show the loopholes in its security. The technology "jams" the signal so that the tags cannot be read from a certain distance. However, this technology still has limitations because it can block only the responses but not kill the queries of the tags. However, they have no intentions of mass-producing the technology.
Although there was concern about publishing the different ways that RFID tags could be exploited online, it causes the threats to this technology to no longer be theoretical. Also, it allows these concerns to be approached rather than proceeding with the idea that these threats do not exist.
Girl Geek Dinner NL
Girl Geek Dinner NL was founded as the Dutch chapter of Girl Geek Dinners. It is meant as a way to promote the idea of women pursuing fields that are typically male-dominated. Each dinner consists of talks from women who are exceptional in their field followed by a Q&A Session. Additionally, men are allowed to attend if they are invited by a female.
Radically Open Security
Radically Open Security was co-founded by Rieback, now its CEO. It is a non-profit organization that helps make the cyberworld more secure. They do only "non-fishy" jobs and provide step-by-step procedures in order for companies to do the same work without the company interfering. They also provide the tools and source code on their website to help others perform the same tasks that they do even if "it costs [them] repeat business". Radically Open Security provides services regarding code audits, cryptographic analysis, forensics, malware reversing, and more. Radically Open Security is also part of ACE Venture Lab
Other work
At the MIT Center for Genome Research/ Whitehead Institute, she worked on the Human Genome Project and co-authored the paper "Initial Sequencing and Analysis of the Human Genome".
Awards
In 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20finding%20attacks | Key Finding Attacks are attacks on computer systems that make use of cryptography in which computer memory or non-volatile storage is searched for private cryptographic keys that can be used to decrypt or sign data. The term is generally used in the context of attacks which search memory much more efficiently than simply testing each sequence of bytes to determine if it provides the correct answer. They are often used in combination with cold boot attacks to extract key material from computers.
Approaches
In their seminal paper on Key Finding attacks, Shamir and van Someren proposed two different approaches to key finding: statistical or entropic key finding and analytical key finding. The former relies on detecting differences in the statistical properties of the data that make up cryptographic keys while the later relies on determining specific byte patterns that must necessarily exist in the target key material and looking for these patterns.
Statistical key finding
In general for most cryptographic systems the cryptographic keys should be as random as possible. For most symmetric ciphers the keys can and should be a truly random set of bits. For most asymmetric ciphers the private keys are either numbers chosen at random with certain constraints (such as primality or being generators in a group) or are the result of computations based on a set of random numbers with some constraints. In either case the key material exhibits high entropy. In contrast to this, most uncompressed data in a computer's memory has relatively low entropy. As a result, if a key is known to exist in memory in its raw form then it is likely to stand out against the background of non-key data by virtue of its high entropy and an attacker needs to only test for matching keys in areas of memory or storage that have high entropy.
The contrast between the low entropy of most data and the high entropy of key data is sufficient as to be apparent by visual inspection. The image to the right shows an example of this.
Analytical key finding
While statistical key finding can be effective for reducing the amount of memory that needs to be searched, it still requires high-entropy areas to be tested to check if they contain the correct key material. In certain cases, particularly in the context of public key encryption systems, it is possible to determine patterns that must occur in the key material and then limit the search to areas where these patterns are found.
Shamir and van Someren demonstrated one example of this analytical approach for finding private RSA keys where the public key is known and has a small public exponent. In the RSA system the public key is a pair , where with p and q being two large primes. The corresponding private key is (or sometimes or some variant thereof) where , which is to say that e multiplied by d is equivalent to 1, modulo where φ represents Euler's totient function and is the size of the multiplicative group modulo n. In the case o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet%20%28radio%29 | Freenet is a personal mobile radio network in Germany. It was originally introduced in 1996 as a product name of Motorola and uses part of the frequency spectrum of the former B-Netz carphone network.
History
The original frequency allocation for Freenet encompassed three channels, each with a 12.5 kHz spacing. In January 2007, three additional channels were added, bringing the total up to six.
The ordinance only permits handheld transceivers which must not permit an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1 W.
Originally, the Freenet frequencies were allocated until the end of 2005. The Federal Network Agency has extended this allocation until 31 January 2025.
Specification and Radios
With the maximum permitted ERP of 1W, a range of 3 km can be assumed. Due to the lower frequencies in the VHF band, signal attenuation from objects, such as houses and trees, is not as high as in the UHF band used by SRD and PMR446 radios.
Only specially certified and licensed transceivers may be used; the manufacturer must provide a declaration of conformity as well as a concise manual in German and a CE mark. The user is not permitted to modify the device. The Federal Network Agency has laid out strict parameters for modulation, bandwidth and channel spacing in its ordinance.
To be observed is, that relatively high prices for Freenet devices have kept away domestic users from the service. All radios, which can transmit optional on other frequencies or / and switchable power are prohibited by the Federal Network Agency. So the number of legal available devices is mutch smaller than in UHF PMR. Only a small number of companies produce radio for the Freenet-service, due to the small market. Kenwood, Motorola, Retevis and a German re-seller, selling modified Wouxun radios under the brand "Team Tecom" are the only companies for Freenet devices.
Channel table
Freenet channels are within the 2 meter band business radio allocations.
FM-analog mode
Digital Modes
Freenet abroad
Freenet is a national radio allocation that is used in Germany only. Foreign regulatory bodies usually do not permit use of Freenet devices since the frequencies are often already allocated for different radio services. Instead, PMR446 has been harmonised on a European level.
Due to possible interference with Swiss military networks, it is not permitted to use the Freenet frequencies in the Black Forest and on the Swabian Alb at elevations of 600 metres or above.
References
External links
Frequenzzuteilung für Freenet (PDF-Datei; 12 kB)
Verfügung 5/2015 (PDF-Datei; 74 kB)
Bandplans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripos%20%28disambiguation%29 | Tripos may refer to:
Tripos, a course system at the University of Cambridge
TRIPOS, a computer operating system
Tripos (dinoflagellate), a genus of marine organisms in the family Ceratiaceae
Tripos, in mathematics, a higher-order fibration over the category Set for which the products and coproducts induced by functions satisfy the Beck-Chevalley condition. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20Network%20of%20Excellence%20on%20Cybersecurity%20Research | The Spanish Network of Excellence on Cybersecurity Research (RENIC), is a research initiative to promote cybersecurity interests in Spain.
Members
Board of Directors (2018)
President: Universidad de Málaga
Vice president: CSIC
Treasurer: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Secretary: Universidad de Granada
Vocals: Tecnalia, Universidad de La Laguna and Universidad de Modragón
Board of Directors (2016)
President: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Vice president: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Treasurer: Universidad de Granada
Secretary: Universidad de León
Vocals: Gradiant, Tecnalia, Universidad de Málaga
Founding Members
Centro Andaluz de Innovación y Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (CITIC).
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).
Centro Tecnolóxico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (Gradiant).
Instituto Imdea Software.
Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad (INCIBE).
Mondragón Unibertsitatea.
Tecnalia.
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Universidad Castilla la Mancha.
Universidad de Granada.
Universidad de la Laguna.
Universidad de León.
Universidad de Málaga.
Universidad de Murcia.
Universidad de Vigo.
Universidad Internacional de la Rioja.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
Members
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).
Centro Tecnolóxico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (Gradiant).
Instituto Imdea Software.
Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad (INCIBE).
Mondragón Unibertsitatea.
Tecnalia.
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.
Universidad de Granada.
Universidad de la Laguna.
Universidad de León.
Universidad de Málaga.
Universidad de Murcia.
Universidad de Vigo.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
IKERLAN.
Honorary Members
Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI). (2017)
Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad (INCIBE). (2016)
Initiatives and Participations
RENIC is ECSO member, and is also a member of its board of directors.
A collaboration agreement between RENIC and the Innovative Business Cluster on Cybersecurity (AEI Cybersecurity) has been signed.
RENIC is pleased to sponsor the Cybersecurity Research National Conferences (JNIC) JNIC2017 edition, organized by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
RENIC is pleased to announce the publication of the online version of the Catalog and knowledge map of cybersecurity research
References
Computer security
Development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motu%20Patlu%3A%20King%20of%20Kings | Motu Patlu: King of Kings is a 2016 Indian 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Suhas D. Kadav and produced by Ketan Mehta. The film was inspired by the popular TV series Motu Patlu, which itself was adapted from characters published by Lotpot magazine. It is the first feature-length film based on the characters. The film was released on 14 October 2016 and became a successful venture at the box office. It received mixed reviews from critics, who appreciated its voice performances, humor, and animation but criticized its plot, violence and editing.
Plot
The movie begins in a circus, where the ringmaster announces the arrival of a "poet from Misaj, who only eats vegetarian food". Hundreds of people were crowded to see the ringmaster introducing Guddu Ghalib, a vegetarian lion, who comes on stage riding a unicycle, juggling carrots and radishes and singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". Guddu successfully jumps over a ring of fire and continues cycling, much to the delight of the crowd. However, after two rats fighting over cheese scare Guddu, he accidentally knocks over the ring of fire, which starts a fire and causes chaos within the audience.
Guddu flees using his unicycle and jumps into the open trunk of a car, which drives to Furfuri Nagar. Guddu leaves the car and starts exploring, but scares some of the residents in the process. Guddu realizes that the people are afraid of him and starts to purposefully scare and chase the residents. Chingum tries to stop the lion but is too ridden with fear. He calls Motu and Patlu, who inform him that they are already running away from the lion.
After running away from the lion several times, Motu notices Guddu's circus skills and assumes that Guddu is a person trying to scare people. Motu tries to tickle Guddu and to remove his "costume", not realizing that Guddu is a real lion. Motu uses some sticks to trap Guddu.
Dr. Jhatka appears with an invention called the ALTG, which stands for "Animal Language Translating Gadget" to help Motu and his friends understand Guddu. Guddu introduces himself to Motu and Patlu and asks them to take him to the jungle. Patlu realizes that Guddu won't be able to survive in the jungle because he doesn't know how to hunt. Chingum informs Patlu of a national park where Guddu can stay. Guddu does not initially want to go to the National Park but eventually agrees.
Meanwhile, a fawn named Heeru, a foal, and a bunny playing together in the jungle. Suddenly, many trucks enter the scene. The hunters on the trucks start throwing nets at the animals, trying to capture them. Heeru's mother is captured, but Heeru escapes the ordeal along with many other animals. The animals go to their king, King Singha, to inform him of the ordeal. King Singha confronts the hunters and attacks them, along with the other animals. As the animals are about to subdue the hunters, a helicopter arrives and releases a net to capture King Singha. The man inside the helicopter, Narasimh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiFi%20Master%20Key | WiFi Master (formerly WiFi Master Key) is a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi sharing mobile application software for free Wi-Fi access developed by LinkSure Network. It uses cloud computing, big data and principles of the sharing economy.
The company's founder and CEO, Chen Danian, was previously CEO and co-founder of Shanda.
WiFi Master was first released in 2012, and by 2016 had become the world’s largest Wi-Fi sharing app, with over 900 million users and 520 million monthly active users.
In terms of combined iOS and Android app downloads, WiFi Master is ranked 5th in the world, after WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Facebook Messenger. WiFi Master is the 3rd largest software app in China after WeChat and Tencent QQ.
History
WiFi Master was created by Chen Danian in hopes of 'bridging the digital divide and to help people achieve self-actualization by granting them access to free Internet'.
Chen Danian shared in an interview with Forbes that 'he was born into poverty in rural China, and using the Internet, he realized that it was a tool to change destinies and pursue happiness by exploring opportunities'.
In September 2012, WiFi Master was first launched in China.
In 2015, its operating company, LinkSure closed its A round funding of USD $52 million, and became a unicorn company in the mobile internet industry. In May 2015, LinkSure bought the domain name wifi.com and established a branch in Singapore to expand its overseas services. WiFi Master was launched worldwide, rapidly gaining popularity in Southeast Asia.
In 2016, WiFi Master became the world’s largest WiFi sharing community, providing over 4 billion daily average connections with a successful connection rate of over 80% worldwide. WiFi Master is available in 223 countries, and is the top Tools app on the Google Play Store in 49 countries.
In 2019, WiFi Master Key rebranded as WiFi Master.
Features
WiFi Search
The application's core function, Wifi Search, allows for users to find and connect to available nearby Wi-Fi hotspots.
WiFi Security Matrix
WiFi Master introduced an all-round WiFi Security Matrix for heightened security during the connection.
Before connection
WiFi Master designed a Cloud Security Detection System (Chinese: 安全云感知系统) to help users detect possible Wi-Fi security risks in advance based on big data tracking. The system also applies machine learning algorithms in real-time to track predicted 'risky' Wi-Fi hotspots.
During connection
WiFi Master developed a Security Tunnel Protection System (Chinese: 安全隧道保护系统) to provide users with fundamental protection during each Wi-Fi connection. The system uses encrypted hierarchical transmission, malicious attack real-time monitoring, and attack interception to encrypt users’ information.
After connection
Since September 2015, WiFi Master’s users in China have been insured by WiFi Security Insurance (WiFi安全险), launched by LinkSure in partnership with ZhongAn Insurance (), in the event of a network security issue.
Discover |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trops | Trops () is a Philippine television drama romance comedy series, broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Linnet Zurbano, it stars Kenneth Medrano, Miggy Tolentino, Joel Palencia, Jon Timmons, Tommy Peñaflor, Kim Last and Taki Saito. It premiered on October 24, 2016 on the network's afternoon line up replacing Calle Siete. The series concluded on September 22, 2017 with a total of 238 episodes. It was replaced by The Lolas' Beautiful Show in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Taki Saito as Martha Tanya Kiera "Taki" P. Masson-Mercado
Kenneth Medrano as Kenneth "Ken" Garcia-Mercado
Miggy Tolentino as Angelo Miguelito "Miggy" Tolentino
Kim Last as Kim Michael Park
Tommy Peñaflor as Tommy "Taba" Fernando
Joel Palencia as Joel "Jo" Santos
Jon Timmons as Jonathan "Jon" P. Masson
Supporting cast
Toni Aquino as Joanna "Liempo" Santos
Krystal Reyes as Zoey Sevilla
Shaira Diaz as Amanda "Mandy" Santiago-Tolentino
Benjie Paras as Fred Fernando
Irma Adlawan as Sheena "Momskie" Tolentino
Rey "PJ" Abellana as Armando Santiago
Juan Rodrigo as Kevin Mercado
Dexter Doria as Armida Santiago
Ces Quesada as Aurora Agoncilio
Leo Martinez as Eli
Allysa de Real as Sandra
Jace Flores as Mars
Archie Adamos as Bien
Guest cast
Ai-Ai Delas Alas as Rosa Mystica "Rose" Carpio Vda. de Roxas
Ina Raymundo as Almalyn Macauba
Glenda Garcia as Cecelia Celia Garcia-Mercado
Maureen Mauricio as Rebecca Silangkuan
Gilleth Sandico as Zita Sevilla
Marco Alcaraz as Bastie
Lou Veloso as Uge / Noy
Ermie Concepcion as Ces
Rolando Inocencio as Mr. Sarmiento
Kate Lapuz as Pia Angelie Avela
Francis Mata as Mr. Chua
VJ Mendoza as a school pageant host
Emma Viri as Sylvia Peneda-Masson
Andrew Gan as Carlo
Afi Africa as Mr. Kulote
Rhett Romero as Zoey's father
Myka Flores as Mariah
Ryan Arana as Loren Jaime
Therese Malvar as Veronica "Roni / Nica" Sanchez
Kenken Nuyad as Renato "Nato" Monteza
Yasser Marta as Drew
Phytos Ramirez as Diego
Jan Marini as Ces
Jojo Alejar as Dindo Soterio
Empress Schuck as Monette Soterio
Super Tekla as Tiffany
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Trops earned a 15.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 4.1 rating in Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes.
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2017 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series by TAPE Inc.
Television shows set in Manila
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Maness | Ryan Maness is an American cybersecurity expert and an assistant professor at the Defense Analysis Department of Naval Postgraduate School. He is the co-author of Cyber War Versus Cyber Realities: Cyber Conflict in the International System, which won widespread critical acclaim.
Education
Ryan Maness double majored in political science and history from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2008, before receiving Master of Arts in political science from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2011. He received his PhD in the same stream from the same university, in 2013.
Career
Maness is an assistant professor at the Defense Analysis Department of Naval Postgraduate School and is a Visiting Fellow of security and resilience studies at the Political Science Department in the Northeastern University.
Books
He is the co-author of three books:-
and has contributed a chapter over
In Cyber Wars versus Cyber Realities, he argues that the era of cyberwar has been characterized by "restraint". In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, he expressed the opinion that Russia would not tamper with US voter machines.
Reception
Cyber War Versus Cyber Realities: Cyber Conflict in the International System
Francis C. Domingo praised the book in Journal of Information Technology & Politics as a groundbreaking empirical work that provided multiple significant contributions to the literature in international relations. Joe Burton, reviewing for H-Net, declared it to be an essential contribution to the cyber security literature, one that took a meticulous and quantitative approach to dispel the hyperbole of mis-characterization, overstatement, and outright fear-mongering around the locus of cyber-attacks. Julien Nocetti, in International Affairs viewed it as a comprehensive and sobering book. John E. Gudgel, reviewing for Small Wars & Insurgencies, saw the book as providing a new perspective on cyber conflict and praised the authors' construction of a database of cyber incidents and disputes between countries—the Dyadic Cyber Incident and Dispute Dataset (DCID), as one of the first viable attempts to quantify the impact of cyber actions. Overall, he concluded that the authors had built a strong case for cyber policy. Courteney J O’Connor, reviewing for Political Studies Review, extensively praised the book and their construction of a data-set, for the purpose. He considered it to be a well-researched, accessible and referenced text, that brought much needed scrutiny and development to the field of theory around the domain of state-based cyber interactions.
Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy: Energy, Cyber, and Maritime Policy as New Sources of Power
David W. Rivera, reviewing the book for Perspectives on Politics, judged that it had its moments of brilliance as well as weaknesses. Whilst Rivera praised the authors' knowledge of Russia's foreign policy and found the chapters on cyber warfare and the multilateral diplomacy surrounding ownership |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny%20Moiseev | Evgeny Moiseev (; 7 March 1948 – 25 December 2022) was a Russian mathematician, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at Moscow State University (MSU CMC), Head of the Department of Functional Analysis and its Applications at MSU CMC, Professor, Dr.Sc.
Biography
Evgeny Moiseev was born in Odintsovo, Moscow region on 7 March 1948, and attended a school with specialized training in programming in Reutov. In 1965, after graduating from high school, he entered Moscow State University, the Faculty of Physics.
After graduating from the Faculty of Physics in 1971, he became a postgraduate student at the MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics and received his Candidate of Sciences (PhD) degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1974 for a thesis entitled «On the uniqueness of solutions of the second boundary value problem for an elliptic equation».
Moiseev worked at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics from 1974. He was an assistant (1974-1979), an assistant professor (1979-1983), a professor at the Department of General Mathematics (1983-2008). He was awarded a degree of Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics for his doctoral thesis «Some problems of mixed type equations spectral theory» in 1981. In 1999 Evgeny Moiseev was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics. Since 2008 he has been a professor and the Head of the Department of Functional Analysis and its Applications. He has also worked part-time at the Computational center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, most recently in the position of Chief Researcher.
In Moscow State University Evgeny Moiseev delivered the following lecture courses: Functional Analysis, Mathematical Analysis, Applied Functional Analysis, Mixed Equations, Singular Integral Equations, and Spectral Methods for Non-Classical Mathematical Physics Problems Solution. He also conducted special seminars.
Moiseev supervised 7 Doctors of Science and 15 PhDs in Mathematics and Physics.
Moiseev headed MSU Young Researchers Council for five years (1983–1988). He worked as Academic Secretary of CMC Council. He was a Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission, the Editor in Chief of the journal “Integral Transforms and Special Functions”, the Editor in Chief of the series “Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics” in “MSU Vestnik”, an editorial board member of the journals “Differential Equations” and “RFBR Vestnik”.
Moiseev died on 25 December 2022, at the age of 74.
Research career
Moiseev`s research spans areas including computer science, mathematical modeling, spectral theory, and differential equations.
He has found the sectors on the complex plane which encompass the Tricomi problem spectrum for mixed equations in the gas dynamics theory. The solution of the Tricomi, Frankl and Gellersterdt problem has been efficiently presented in the form of bio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon%20Lin | Sharon Lin (born November 14, 1998) is a Chinese-American high school entrepreneur. She was recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change for her work in developing computer science programs for marginalized girls.
References
External links
White House Champions of Change
Living people
1998 births
Stuyvesant High School alumni
People from Queens, New York
American computer businesspeople
Businesspeople in information technology
American company founders
American women company founders
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcin%20Kleczynski | Marcin Kleczynski (born November 1, 1989) is the chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder of American Internet security company, Malwarebytes. After a period working as a computer repairer and being involved in forums in the mid 2000s, Kleczynski co-founded Malwarebytes with Bruce Harrison in January 2008. By 2014, Malwarebytes had treated over 250 million computers worldwide, with a range of popular products including Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit, and more recently, advanced anti-ransomware package Endpoint Security. Kleczynski was named one of Forbes Magazine's '30 Under 30' Rising Stars of Enterprise Technology in 2015.
Early life and background
Kleczynski was born in Łódź, Poland in 1989. His family emigrated to the United States when he was just 3 years old. Despite moving from Poland at such a young age, he speaks fluent Polish. As a child he had aspirations to be a train conductor, and later, an airline pilot. He has retained his fascination with flying—in 2011 he obtained his pilot's license. Kleczynski attended Fenton High School in Bensenville, Illinois and received his B.S. from the University of Illinois, where he was a member of the Theta Chi fraternity, in 2012.
Career
As a teenager, Kleczynski found a job working as a technician in a computer repair shop in Chicago. It was while working at the repair shop in Chicago that Kleczynski noticed that whenever infected computers arrived, they would generally reformat the computer, regardless if the infection was only minor. It was only when his mother's computer became infected that Kleczynski learned more about why the virus wasn't directly attacked, finding that neither McAfee nor Symantec would remove the malware from his system. He later recalled "I've never been as angry as when I got my computer infected", and professed that his mother told him to fix it "under penalty of death". It was only after Kleczynski posted on the forum SpywareInfo, popular at the time, that he was able to learn how to cure it, which took three days. The company was unofficially founded after this, when Kleczynski conversed and became friends with several of the editors of the forum, who tempted him to buy an unused domain from them. As a result, Malwarebytes was informally established in 2004.
Kleczynski began writing his own free software tools in Visual Basic. With one of the site's regulars, Bruce Harrison, Kleczynski wrote the inaugural version of the company's software. In 2006, worked with a college roommate to produce a freely available program called "RogueRemover", a utility which specialized in fighting against a type of infection known as "rogues", which scam computer users into giving away their credit card information through fake anti-virus software. RogueRemover proved instrumental in developing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and Kleczynski was able to set up a forum which enabled him to improve the software through feedback. Kleczynski and Harrison formally launch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzy%20%28film%29 | Ozzy is a 2016 computer-animated comedy film. The film stars Guillermo Romero, José Mota, Fernando Tejero, and Michelle Jenner.
The English dub consists of Jeff Foxworthy, Rob Schneider, Frankie Quinones, and introducing Lexi Walker.
Plot
When the Martins are not allowed to bring their beloved beagle Ozzy with them on vacation to Japan, they drop him off at Blue Creek, which is supposed to be a spa and resort for dogs run by Grunt, the villainous St. Bernard. Little do they know, it’s actually a prison for dogs. A month after they return home from their trip to pick him up, they’re told that Ozzy passed away as he and his friends Chester the elderly Fox terrier, Fronky the Dachshund and Doc the Old English Sheepdog need to work together to break out and reunite with their families again.
Cast
Guillermo Romero as Ozzy
Dani Rovira as Fronki
José Mota as Vito
Carlos Areces as Nathaniel Robbins
Michelle Jenner as Paula
Fernardo Tejero as Radar
Elsa Pataky as Madden
Pablo Espinosa as Mike
Selu Nieto as Dominic
English cast
Jeff Foxworthy as Grunt
Rob Schneider as Vito
Frankie Quinones as Radar
Lexi Walker as Paula
Jeff Espinoza as Jeff
Stephen Hughes as Ted, Nathaniel Robbins, Twin #1, Carlin, Mike
Robbie K. Jones as Tex, Dominic, Twin 2
José Luis Martinez as Remy, Afghan Commentator, Additional Voices
Jonathan D. Mellor as Chester
Benjamin Nathan-Serio as Ozzy, Eddie, Fronky
Amanda J. Nolan as Susan
Kurt Schiller as Bob
Jimmy Shaw as Decker
Colleen Terry as Maddie, Reporter
Garrett Wall as Flash
Additional voices by Jeff Espinoza, Stephen Hughes, Robbie K. Jones, José Luis Martinez, Kurt Schiller, and Garrett Wall
Crew
English dub
Joseph Wilka - Voice Director
Production
The film was co-produced by Spain's Arcadia Motion Pictures, Capitán Araña, and Pachacamac, and Winnipeg's Tangent Animation. Pre-production was done in Spain, and animation was produced in Canada using Blender software.
Executive producer, Jeff Bell described the movie as a "Pixar-like quality that falls into the prison movie genre with funny tributes to the great prison classics. It's a story about friendship, loyalty, courage and the ability to find the best in ourselves when facing a tough situation".
The film had a budget of 8.5 million dollars.
Release
Disney released the film in Spain on 14 October 2016. The film was released by Signature in the U.K. on 21 October 2016, and Entertainment One in Canada.
References
External links
Ozzy at Library and Archives Canada
2016 films
2016 comedy films
2016 computer-animated films
2010s Canadian animated films
2010s children's comedy films
2010s children's animated films
2010s prison films
2010s English-language films
Canadian computer-animated films
Canadian children's comedy films
Canadian prison films
Spanish computer-animated films
Spanish children's films
Prison comedy films
English-language Canadian films
English-language Spanish films
Animated films about dogs
Films about pets
Films set |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex%20Coastal%20Scenic%20Byway | The Essex Coastal Scenic Byway is a 90-mile-long scenic road network running through 14 coastal communities in Essex County, Massachusetts. The byway, which runs along the North Shore of Massachusetts, from the City of Lynn to the Town of Salisbury, passes scenic vistas, historic sites and structures, and recreational destinations The Byway was initiated by Essex Heritage and the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
References
Roads in Massachusetts
Scenic highways in the United States
Transportation in Essex County, Massachusetts
Lynn, Massachusetts
Salisbury, Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue | Thue may refer to:
Axel Thue, a Norwegian mathematician
Thue (programming language)
Thue (food), a Tibetan dessert |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20updating | In computer programming, suppose we have a data item A whose value depends on data item B, i.e., the value of A must be changed after the value of B changes and before the value of A becomes necessary. Active updating is updating A immediately after B changes, while passive updating or lazy updating (lazy evaluation) is updating A immediately before its value is fetched. And example of this distinction is, e.g., in the implementation of GUI applications: the list of submenu items may depend on the state of the application; this list may be updated either as soon as the state of the application changes ("active") or only when the menu is invoked ("passive").
Another example is update a visual display as soon as the underlying data change as opposed to clicking the "redraw" button. In this situation active update may create a problem to deal with: an abrupt change of some part of the display may coincide in time with the saccadic movement of the eye, and the change may go unnoticed by a human observer.
See also
Direct updating vs. deferred updating in transaction processing.
References
Programming idioms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%20Computer%20Council | The Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) is a statutory government organization operating under the Information and Communication Technology Division of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB). Its headquarters are situated in Agargaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was initially known as the National Computer Committee (NCC) in 1983 and transformed into the Bangladesh Computer Council through Act No. 9 of the National Parliament in 1990.
Since its inception, the BCC has been an important advocate for the country's technological development, specifically in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In collaboration with government organizations in Bangladesh, this organization is responsible for developing national ICT plans, strategies, and policies, empowering Digital Bangladesh, implementing e-government, and collaborating with various government organizations and private sector partners. They also set ICT standards and specifications, develop ICT infrastructure, provide advice on IT technology utilization and security measures, identify issues related to national cyber security and cybercrimes, and investigate, remediate, prevent, and suppress these issues.
The BCC has undertaken numerous projects to improve the country's ICT infrastructure, such as BanglaGovNet, Info-Sarker Phases II and III, Connected Bangladesh, and others, many of which have already been completed. It has also significantly contributed to human resource development by providing training to thousands of individuals, including the disabled, transgender and third-gender communities, and women entrepreneurs.
The BCC has been organizing various competitions and events to promote information technology education in the country, including the National Children and Youth Programming Contest, the International Blockchain Olympiad, and the International Collegiate Programming Contest. These events provide opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to showcase their skills and passion for this field, advance the country's startup ecosystem, and increase computer programming's popularity among the younger generation. In 2022, the BCC organized the 45th Annual International Collegiate Programming Contest World Final in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The organization has received several awards and recognitions for its achievements in promoting ICT in Bangladesh, such as the WITSA award, WSIS Winner Prize, ASOCIO Digital Government Award, Open Group President Award, Public Administration Award 2017, etc.
History
The Government of Bangladesh established the National Computer Committee (NCC) in 1983. Nevertheless, the National Computer Board (NCB) took over the role of the NCC in 1988. In 1989, the "Bangladesh Computer Council Ordinance" was put into effect. The following year, the National Parliament enacted Act No. 9, "Bangladesh Computer Council Act, 1990", which transformed the National Computer Board into a statutory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule-based%20machine%20learning | Rule-based machine learning (RBML) is a term in computer science intended to encompass any machine learning method that identifies, learns, or evolves 'rules' to store, manipulate or apply. The defining characteristic of a rule-based machine learner is the identification and utilization of a set of relational rules that collectively represent the knowledge captured by the system. This is in contrast to other machine learners that commonly identify a singular model that can be universally applied to any instance in order to make a prediction.
Rule-based machine learning approaches include learning classifier systems, association rule learning, artificial immune systems, and any other method that relies on a set of rules, each covering contextual knowledge.
While rule-based machine learning is conceptually a type of rule-based system, it is distinct from traditional rule-based systems, which are often hand-crafted, and other rule-based decision makers. This is because rule-based machine learning applies some form of learning algorithm to automatically identify useful rules, rather than a human needing to apply prior domain knowledge to manually construct rules and curate a rule set.
Rules
Rules typically take the form of an '{IF:THEN} expression', (e.g. {IF 'condition' THEN 'result'}, or as a more specific example, {IF 'red' AND 'octagon' THEN 'stop-sign}). An individual rule is not in itself a model, since the rule is only applicable when its condition is satisfied. Therefore rule-based machine learning methods typically comprise a set of rules, or knowledge base, that collectively make up the prediction model.
See also
Learning classifier system
Association rule learning
Associative classifier
Artificial immune system
Expert system
Decision rule
Rule induction
Inductive logic programming
Rule-based machine translation
Genetic algorithm
Rule-based system
Rule-based programming
RuleML
Production rule system
Business rule engine
Business rule management system
References
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20cache | In computer architecture, a trace cache or execution trace cache is a specialized instruction cache which stores the dynamic stream of instructions known as trace. It helps in increasing the instruction fetch bandwidth and decreasing power consumption (in the case of Intel Pentium 4) by storing traces of instructions that have already been fetched and decoded. A trace processor is an architecture designed around the trace cache and processes the instructions at trace level granularity. The formal mathematical theory of traces is described by trace monoids.
Background
The earliest academic publication of trace cache was "Trace Cache: a Low Latency Approach to High Bandwidth Instruction Fetching". This widely acknowledged paper was presented by Eric Rotenberg, Steve Bennett, and Jim Smith at 1996 International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) conference. An earlier publication is US patent 5381533, by Alex Peleg and Uri Weiser of Intel, "Dynamic flow instruction cache memory organized around trace segments independent of virtual address line", a continuation of an application filed in 1992, later abandoned.
Necessity
Wider superscalar processors demand multiple instructions to be fetched in a single cycle for higher performance. Instructions to be fetched are not always in contiguous memory locations (basic blocks) because of branch and jump instructions. So processors need additional logic and hardware support to fetch and align such instructions from non-contiguous basic blocks. If multiple branches are predicted as not-taken, then processors can fetch instructions from multiple contiguous basic blocks in a single cycle. However, if any of the branches is predicted as taken, then processor should fetch instructions from the taken path in that same cycle. This limits the fetch capability of a processor.
Consider these four basic blocks (A, B, C, D) as shown in the figure that correspond to a simple if-else loop. These blocks will be stored contiguously as ABCD in the memory. If the branch D is predicted not-taken, the fetch unit can fetch the basic blocks A, B, C which are placed contiguously. However, if D is predicted taken, the fetch unit has to fetch A,B,D which are non-contiguously placed. Hence, fetching these blocks which are non contiguously placed, in a single cycle will be very difficult. So, in situations like these, the trace cache comes in aid to the processor.
Once fetched, the trace cache stores the instructions in their dynamic sequence. When these instructions are encountered again, the trace cache allows the instruction fetch unit of a processor to fetch several basic blocks from it without having to worry about branches in the execution flow. Instructions will be stored in the trace cache either after they have been decoded, or as they are retired. However, instruction sequence is speculative if they are stored just after decode stage.
Trace structure
A trace, also called a dynamic instruction sequence, is an ent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20A1%20Ko%20Sa%20%27Yo%20guest%20cast | This is a list of the guest cast of characters of the Filipino sitcom A1 Ko Sa 'Yo broadcast by GMA Network.
List of guest cast
Lists of guest appearances in television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Zambian%20census | The 2010 Zambian census was conducted in Zambia in 2010 under the approval of the Government of Zambia, which recorded demographic data from 13 million people and 3.2 million households. The 2010 Census of Population and Housing was conducted between 16 October and 15 November 2010, with all parts of the country covered by 30 November 2010. It was the fifth national population census exercise of Zambia since its independence in 1964, with the previous censuses conducted in 1969, 1980, 1990 and 2000. A total of 3.2 million questionnaires were used for data collection and the processing started in April 2011 by the Central Statistical Office. Optical Mark Reading (OMR) and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) technology were used for data capture. The census was funded by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Kingdom AID (UKAID-formerly DFID), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), who contributed close to 60 per cent of the total expenditure and rest contributed by the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Zambia.
As per the census, Zambia had a total population of 13,092,666 including 6,454,647 males (49.2%) and 6,638,019 females (50.8%) with a sex-ratio of 102.84. The total literacy of the population above the age of five stood at 70.2 per cent. Urban population constituted 39.51 per cent and the remaining 61.49 per cent resided in rural areas. The density of population was 17.4 persons per km2 and the decadal growth of population was 2.8 per cent. There were 22 major languages spoken in Zambia of which 33.5 per cent of the population spoke Bemba, making it the largest spoken language. Out of the seven broad ethnic groups, Bemba was the most prevalent tribal group (21.0%), followed by Tonga (13.6%). The national average of active people stood at 55.5 per cent with 50.2 in rural areas and 65.3 per cent in urban areas. Unemployment rate was 13 per cent as of 2010. Agriculture was the major occupation with 66.5 per cent involved in it. The proportion of people living under poverty line was 60.5 per cent, while the extremely poor formed 42.3 per cent of the total population.
A Post Enumeration Survey (PES) was carried out to find the common issues to be considered into account for future census enumeration activities. The results of the PES indicated that 92.7 per cent of total Zambian residents were captured in the 2010 census, leaving an undercount of 7.3 per cent. The undercount was more in rural areas with an estimated 9.5 per cent of the total population and 3.8 per cent in the urban areas.
Background
The first complete census of Africans in Zambia was carried out in Zambia during May 1963, when the country was a British colony, while the enumeration of non-African people was performed during 1961. Before the 2010 census enumeration, there were four census enumeration exercises carried out in independent Zambia during 1969, 1980, 1990 and 2000. Around 60 per |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfido | Onfido is a technology company that helps businesses verify people's identities using a photo-based identity document, a selfie and artificial intelligence algorithms. It was founded in July 2012 by three former students at Oxford University: Co-founder Husayn Kassai, Co-founder Eamon Jubbawy, and Chief Architect Ruhul Amin. Onfido is headquartered in London and has over 650 employees in offices in San Francisco, Albuquerque, New York, Lisbon, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Singapore.
History
Husayn Kassai, Eamon Jubbawy, and Ruhul Amin first met when they were students at Oxford University. Kassai met Jubbawy when they co-ran the university's Oxford Entrepreneurs society. At one point, the three entered discussions of forming a new company after they had identified the inefficient process of getting identity checks completed in order to secure jobs in the finance industry. Each went through a check that took from 2 to 6 weeks. The idea of Onfido came about to solve the inefficient process of identity checks. They wanted to create a solution that set a new standard by moving away from manual checks to a technological solution based on machine learning. The idea was built with four key aims: to help people gain access to digital services, to protect businesses from fraud, to create a better user experience, and to uphold user privacy. They decided to build a technological solution to the problem and secured seed funding of £20,000 from Oxford University's Saïd Business School, launching Onfido in August 2012. The three secured initial deals with around 10 small companies. In January 2013, Onfido secured its first major client, Hassle.com.
In February 2015, Onfido raised $4.5 million from a Series A funding round to help expand the business. By April 2016 it had done almost ten million identity and background checks. The most recent funding round in April 2020 raised $100 million from TPG Growth.
While initially focused on doing identity and background checks for businesses hiring large numbers of permanent staff and contractors, by September 2016 it had shifted its focus to financial services and e-commerce companies. These companies are required to verify the identities of people with whom they do business as part of "Know Your Customer" (KYC) regulations and to help prevent fraud. Onfido helps them to do this without onerous identity verifications. The company also wants to help get people who don't currently have bank accounts into the banking system. Almost 40% of the world's adult population is excluded from opening a bank account, most often due to having thin credit files, or being new migrants without the requisite documents needed for in-person verification and legally required Anti-Money Laundering checks.
In 2019 the company had 1,500 customers.
Service
Onfido (pronounced "On-Feed-Oh") helps businesses prove their users’ real identities through its online platform. If a person has a smartphone with a built |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage%20TV%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | Vintage TV was a Canadian English language exempt Category B specialty channel broadcasting music-related programming, including music videos, concerts, interviews, and more from an array of genres including rock, pop, country, soul, R&B, blues, folk, and more, primarily dating from the 1940s to 1990s. Its name and majority of programming are licensed from the U.K.-based television channel, Vintage TV. The channel is owned by Vintage Entertainment Canada Limited, a consortium owned by Nathalia Browning Ribeiro, Koa Padolsky, Blue Wolverine Media and Arts Ltd., and Brain Dead Dog Productions Inc. all owning a 16.75% interest in the service, and Vintage Entertainment Limited, the parent company of the UK channel, owning a 33% interest.
History
The channel launched in standard definition on October 20, 2016, on Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct in Canada, despite being previously listed on the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) website for launched exempted television services. The channel achieved wider coverage in June 2017, when it was added to Rogers Cable lineup.
After passing the 200,000 subscribers mark, Vintage TV was granted a CRTC broadcast licence on January 23, 2018.
In August 2018, The UK channel was shut down after being dropped by all UK service providers. This meant that the Canadian channel lost its only source to new programming.
Without warning, on September 29, 2018, the channel dropped all programming and became a de facto 24-hour infomercial for Sessions X, an on-demand video service, continually repeating the same programming and single commercial block which first aired on that day. In October 2018, the UK channel went into administration.
In November 2018 without warning, the channel stopped broadcasting. A Shaw-generated graphic has been shown in the channel's space on Shaw Cable & Direct. As of February 2019, Shaw's program guide has shown 'No Data'. The channel space once occupied by Vintage was removed from both Shaw and Roger's systems later that month.
References
External links
Music video networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2016
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
English-language television stations in Canada
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Defunct television networks in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Watermark | ABC Watermark was a radio syndication entity that existed from 1982 until 1995.
History
The company came to be as the result of ABC Radio Networks' purchase of Watermark Inc. from its founders Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs. The acquisition gave ABC control of Watermark's two major syndication properties, the Casey Kasem and Don Bustany creations American Top 40 and American Country Countdown. ABC would later launch another show under the American brand, the oldies-themed American Gold, in 1991.
Current status
Watermark ceased to exist after the cancellation of American Top 40 in 1995; it would later be revived by Kasem in 1998 and is currently distributed by Premiere Radio Networks. American Country Countdown has aired continuously since its premiere and continues to be distributed by ABC successor Cumulus Media, now under the Nash FM brand (it is now hosted by Kix Brooks; longtime host Bob Kingsley hosted the identically formatted Country Top 40) from New Year's weekend 2005/2006 until shortly before his death on Thursday, October 17, 2019. American Gold ended in 2009, with host Dick Bartley now hosting the similarly formatted Classic Countdown for United Stations Radio Networks.
References
Durkee, Rob. American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century. Schriner Books, New York City, 1999. .
1982 establishments in the United States
Mass media companies established in 1982
Defunct mass media companies of the United States
American Top 40
Mass media companies disestablished in 1995
1995 disestablishments in the United States
Radio stations established in 1982
Radio stations disestablished in 1995
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production%20data%20of%20the%20Citro%C3%ABn%202CV | The Citroën 2CV ( is an air-cooled front-engine, front-wheel-drive economy car introduced at the 1948 Paris Mondial de l'Automobile and manufactured by Citroën for model years 1948–1990. This page excludes production data for the mechanically similar Citroën Ami, Citroën Dyane, Citroën Acadiane, Citroën Méhari, Citroën Bijou, and Citroën FAF models.
Production data by year
Engines
Standard saloon
Utility
Sahara
References
Sources
Citroën 2CV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20agreement%20subtree%20problem | The maximum agreement subtree problem is any of several closely related problems in graph theory and computer science. In all of these problems one is given a collection of trees each containing leaves. The leaves of these trees are given labels from some set with so that no pair of leaves in the same tree sharing the same label, within the same tree the labelling for each leaf is distinct. In this problem one would like to find the largest subset such that the minimal spanning subtrees containing the leaves in , of are the "same" while preserving the labelling.
Formulations
Maximum homeomorphic agreement subtree
This version requires that the subtrees are homeomorphic to one another.
Rooted maximum homeomorphic agreement subtree
This version is the same as the maximum homeomorphic agreement subtree, but we further assume that are rooted and that the subtrees contain the root node. This version of the maximum agreement subtree problem is used for the study of phylogenetic trees. Because of its close ties with phylogeny this formulation is often what is mean when one refers to the "maximum agreement subtree" problem.
Other variants
There exits other formulations for example the (rooted) maximum isomorphic agreement subtree where we require the subtrees to be isomorphic to one another.
See also
Frequent subtree mining
References
Computational problems in graph theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mademoiselle%20Zazie | Mademoiselle Zazie (also known as Miss Zazie) is a CGI-animated television series produced by Cyber Group Studios and Scrawl Studios. It debuted on France 5's Zouzous block on August 24, 2013.
The series is about 7-year-old best friends Zazie and Max, who live by the seaside with the others and have fun together.
Characters
Main
Zazie, She has red hair in twintails
Cindy, She has blonde hair, blue eyes and wears glasses
Abigail
Max, He is tall and thin with black hair
Pedro, He is short and chubby with brown hair
Tarek
Alfredo
Clodomir
Episodes
Broadcast
Mademoiselle Zazie debuted on France 5's Zouzous block on August 24, 2013. It also aired on France 4 and TV5Monde in France, and TFO and Yoopa in Canada. In the United States, the English dub of Mademoiselle Zazie premiered on Kabillion's Kabillion Girls Rule! on March 15, 2015. By December 2021, this series was also aired by TVRI in Indonesia.
References
External links
Mademoiselle Zazie on TFO
Mademoiselle Zazie on Yoopa
Mademoiselle Zazie on Zouzous
2013 French television series debuts
2010s French animated television series
French children's animated adventure television series
French children's animated comedy television series
French computer-animated television series
French-language television shows
Animated television series about children |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl%20Programming%20Documentation | Perl Programming Documentation, also called perldoc, is the name of the user manual for the Perl 5 programming language. It is available in several different formats, including online in HTML and PDF. The documentation is bundled with Perl in its own format, known as Plain Old Documentation (pod). Some distributions, such as Strawberry Perl, include the documentation in HTML, PDF, and pod formats.
perldoc is also the name of the Perl command that provides "access to all the documentation that comes with Perl", from the command line.
See also
Outline of Perl – overview of and topical guide to the Perl programming language
Raku – Perl 5's sister language
man page – form of software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system, invoked by issuing the man command. Perl documentation is sometimes available as man pages.
PerlMonks – community website covering all aspects of Perl programming and other related topics such as web applications and system administration. Includes forums where perl users may seek answers to their questions, and answer the questions of others.
RTFM – Internet slang for "Read the Frickin' Manual"
External links
Official documentation for Perl 5 – displays the documentation, and also includes links to download the HTML and PDF files for off-line use.
The perldoc help page – covers use of the perldoc command
Perl documentation documentation – documentation about perl's documentation
Official documentation for Perl 6
Software documentation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroedura%20pongola | Afroedura pongola, also known as the Pongola rock gecko, is a species of African geckos, first found in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa.
References
External links
Reptile database entry
Afroedura
Reptiles described in 2014
Endemic reptiles of South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroedura%20leoloensis | Afroedura leoloensis, also known as the Leolo rock gecko, is a species of African gecko, first found in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa.
References
External links
Reptile database entry
Afroedura
Reptiles described in 2014
Endemic reptiles of South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroedura%20pienaari | Afroedura pienaari, also known as Pienaar's rock gecko, is a species of African geckos, first found in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa.
References
External links
Reptile database entry
Afroedura
Endemic reptiles of South Africa
Reptiles described in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafford%20Park%20Line | The Trafford Park Line is a light rail line on the Manchester Metrolink network in Greater Manchester, England, running from Pomona to The Trafford Centre. Its name derives from Trafford Park, an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, and the first planned industrial estate in the world. The line opened in March 2020.
History
Between July and September 2014, Transport for Greater Manchester conducted a public consultation to build the line. In November 2014, the agency applied for power under the Transport and Works Act 1992 to build and operate the line. In October 2016, power to build the line was granted by the Secretary of State for Transport. Construction commenced in January 2017.
The final stretch of track was laid in November 2019, with the first test trams running soon after. The line opened on 22 March 2020, eight months earlier than originally planned, despite suggestions that it might be delayed as part of a review of all Metrolink services because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Route description
The line branches off from the Eccles Line immediately south of Pomona, where provision was made for a future junction at the south–western end when the viaduct on which it sits was built in the late 1990s. Stops have been built at Wharfside, Imperial War Museum, Village, Parkway, Barton Dock Road and the Trafford Centre. Future provision has been made to extend the line to Port Salford.
Services operate as a self-contained shuttle between Cornbrook and The Trafford Centre.
Rolling stock
To provide rolling stock for the line and other service expansions, 27 Bombardier M5000 trams were ordered; these incorporate modifications to the existing fleet including new touch screen Vecom units for drivers.
References
External links
Manchester Metrolink lines
Railway lines opened in 2020
Trafford
2020 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akita%20Television | is a TV station affiliated with Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS) in Akita, Akita, Japan.
History
In 1967, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (currently the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) announced that it would open UHF bands for television use, and in October of the same year, it was decided that 18 UHF stations would be allowed to open, but there was no quota for the Tohoku region. The Ministry of Posts requested the then Governor of Akita Prefecture Isajiro Obata to consolidate the license applications. In the end, all parties agreed to apply for Akita UHF TV, with each applicant's contribution to the capital of the new company limited to 10%.
On October 5, 1968, Akita UHF TV held its first founders' meeting and was granted a license on November 1. On December 26 of the same year, Akita UHF TV held its general meeting and decided to call the company "AKT" and use "Akita TV" as a common name. On May 30, 1969, Akita UHF TV changed its company name to Akita Television.On September 10 of the same year, Akita TV started test broadcasts.
At 07:45am on October 1, 1969, Akita TV started broadcasting becoming the first UHF TV station in Tohoku region, and initially joined FNN on its first broadcast. On April 1, 1981, Akita TV joined ANN and became a dual affiliated station (FNN being their primary affiliate and ANN their secondary affiliate). Akita TV withdrew from ANN in 1987, which led to the opening of Akita Asahi Broadcasting in 1992.
Digital broadcasting started on October 1, 2006; analog broadcasts ended on July 24, 2011.
Technical information
Location map
Announcers
Toshifumi Takeshima
Former announcers
Yoetsu Suzuki
References
1969 establishments in Japan
Akita Northern Happinets
Akita Prefecture
Companies based in Akita Prefecture
Fuji News Network
Japanese-language television stations
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1969
Mass media in Akita (city) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrecisionHawk | PrecisionHawk is a commercial drone and data company. Founded in 2010, PrecisionHawk is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina with another global office in Toronto, Canada and satellite offices around the world. PrecisionHawk is a manufacturer of drones (Lancaster) and has more recently focused heavily on developing software for aerial data analysis (DataMapper) and drone safety systems (LATAS). PrecisionHawk is a member of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Pathfinder Initiative and the NASA UTM Program. An angel investor in the company, Bob Young, founder of Red Hat, became CEO in August 2015. In August 2016, PrecisionHawk became the first U.S. company to receive an FAA exemption to commercially fly drones beyond the operator's visual line of sight.
History
PrecisionHawk, originally "WineHawk," was founded in Toronto, Canada by Ernest Earon and Gabriele D'Eleuterio in 2010 as a manufacturer of autonomous, hand-launched, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles used to dispel predatory birds over vineyards. Christopher Dean joined later that year as the company's first CEO. The direction of the company soon shifted with the addition of cameras to the aircraft that could provide clients with an aerial view of their fields.
The company rebranded itself as PrecisionHawk in 2012 as one of the first commercial drone companies focused on agricultural aerial data. Since then, PrecisionHawk began drone servicing for enterprise clients (2011), released its Lancaster drone (2012), founded DataMapper (2014), launched LATAS (2015), acquired TerraServer (2015), partnered with drone giant DJI (2016) and began manufacturing sensors (2016). Closing a series C round of investment in May 2016, PrecisionHawk's global investors include Intel, Dupont, Verizon, Yamaha, USAA and NTT Docomo. While agriculture continues to be a major market for PrecisionHawk, top industries also include energy, insurance, mining, construction, emergency response and environmental monitoring. Red Hat Inc. cofounder Bob Young, who served as PrecisionHawk's CEO from July 2015 till January 2017, handed over the reins of the company to another veteran of enterprise software, Michael Chasen, a cofounder and former CEO of education tech giant Blackboard Inc.
In January 2018 PreicisionHawk announced that the company raised $75 million in a round of funding led by Third Point Ventures, with participation from a number of other investors, including Intel Capital, Comcast Ventures, Verizon Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures, Senator Ventures, Yamaha Motor, Constellation Technology Ventures, and Syngenta Ventures, the VC arm of agricultural giant Syngenta. According to the company's CEO the investment would be used to build upon its lead in the commercial drone space by expanding its team, developing its products, and making “strategic acquisitions." Shortly after, the company also announced that it was acquiring two commercial drone pilot networks, Droners and AirVid, thus creating a massive n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Sulawesi%20Railway | The Trans-Sulawesi Railway (), is a railway network in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The first phase includes 146 kilometers route from Makassar to Parepare, which was completed in November 2022 and has been operating ever since. The total plan for the railway would be around 2,000 kilometres spanning from Makassar to Manado. Most of other sections are still under construction.
The Trans-Sulawesi Railway are built with standard gauge which is wider than the cape gauge used in Java and Sumatra to accommodate more weight and speed.
Routes
Makassar–Parepare
The ground breaking of Makassar–Parepare route was conducted on 18 August 2014 in, Siawung Village, Barru District, Barru Regency. On early November 2022, 66 kilometres of railway from Barru to Pangkep was inaugurated and operational. As of 2022, it is the only operational part of the railway.
References
Standard gauge railways in Indonesia
Railway lines in Indonesia
Rail transport in Indonesia
Rail infrastructure in Indonesia
Transport in South Sulawesi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization%20%28computer%20programming%29 | Privatization is a technique used in shared-memory programming to enable parallelism, by removing dependencies that occur across different threads in a parallel program. Dependencies between threads arise from two or more threads reading or writing a variable at the same time. Privatization gives each thread a private copy, so it can read and write it independently and thus, simultaneously.
Each parallel algorithm specifies whether a variable is shared or private. Many errors in implementation can arise if the variable is declared to be shared but the algorithm requires it to be private, or vice versa.
Traditionally, parallellizing compilers could apply privatization to scalar elements only.
To exploit parallelism that occurs across iterations within a parallel program (loop-level parallelism), the need grew for compilers that can also perform array variable privatization. Most of today's compilers can performing array privatization with more features and functions to enhance the performance of the parallel program in general. An example is the Polaris parallelizing compiler.
Description
A shared-memory multiprocessor is a "computer system composed of multiple independent processors that execute different instruction streams". The shared memory programming model is the most widely used for parallel processor designs. This programming model starts by identifying possibilities for parallelism within a piece of code and then mapping these parallel tasks into threads.
The next step is to determine the scope of variables used in a parallel program, which is one of the key steps and main concerns within this model.
Variable scope
The next step in the model groups tasks together into bigger tasks, as there are typically more tasks than available processors. Typically, the number of execution threads that the tasks are assigned to, is chosen to be less than or equal to the number of processors, with each thread assigned to a unique processor.
Right after this step, the use of variables within tasks needs to be analyzed. This step determines whether each variable should be shared-by-all or private-to-each thread. This step is unique to shared-memory programming. (An alternative is message passing, in which all variables are private.)
According to their behavior, the variables are then categorized as:
Read-Only: when a variable is only read by all the parallel tasks.
Read/Write Non-conflicting: when a variable is read, written, or both by only one task. If the variable is not scalar, different elements may be read/written by different parallel tasks.
Read/Write Conflicting: when a variable is written by a task and may be read by another. If the variable is not scalar, different elements are read/written by different parallel tasks.
As it appears from their definition, Read/Write Conflicting variables introduce dependencies between different execution threads and hence prevent the automatic parallelization of the program. The two major techn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi-Ai%20Parrish | Mi-Ai Parrish is an American journalist and media executive, including former president and publisher of USA TODAY NETWORK Arizona, The Arizona Republic, a daily newspaper, and azcentral.com in Phoenix, Arizona, the first person of color in the role. The company won a Pulitzer Prize during her tenure.
She leads Arizona State University Media Enterprise and holds an endowed chair at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications as Sue Clark-Johnson Professor of Media Innovation and Leadership. She is CEO and President of MAP Strategies Group.
She was the first woman and person of color to serve as president and publisher of The Kansas City Star and kansascity.com. She was president and publisher of The Idaho Statesman, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in breaking news. She was a journalist at Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, (Minneapolis) Star Tribune, Virginian-Pilot and Arizona Republic.
She is a graduate of the University of Maryland and named to its Hall of Fame. Parrish has served four times as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize.
Awards and honors
Parrish is a 2020 Women of Distinction honoree, 2018 winner of the Ocotillo Award for Legislative Advocacy, 2017 winner of the ATHENA Businesswoman of the Year, recipient of the Asian Corporate Entrepreneur Leader Corporate Champion, and PSA Behavioral Health Corporate Champion award winner. She was 2016 Best Opinion Writer in the USA TODAY Network for work on the First Amendment and freedom of speech. Parrish was honored with Gannett Company's annual award for company Purpose. A four-time Pulitzer juror, she is in the University of Maryland Hall of Fame.
She is on the board of directors of the Associated Press, is vice chairwoman of the Banner Health board, secretary of the Greater Phoenix Leadership board, appointed by Gov. Doug Ducey as a Zanjero, and serves on the boards of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, O'Connor Institute for American Democracy, Poynter Institute Advisory Board, The 19th* News, Common Sense Media, and Arizona Community Foundation.
Parrish has provided commentary on free speech and the First Amendment to outlets including ABC World News Tonight, CNN, Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, CBS Evening News, Sky TV, UnoTV, BBC and others. Her work has been covered in the Washington Post, USA TODAY, New York Times and more.
2016 U.S. presidential race
Parrish has been the focus of politically motivated threats of physical violence based on The Arizona Republic, a Republican-supporting newspaper, endorsing Hillary Clinton, the Democratic president nominee. The newspaper staff have been threatened with physical violence.
2017 Arizona Legislature Sex Harassment Investigations
After a female member of the Arizona State House of Representatives lodged allegations of harassment by another Arizona house member, other women spoke out. Parrish published an account of an encounter with the accused legislator that had been witnessed by her attorney.
Reference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-T.V. | K-T.V. (also known as Kids TV) was a children's network broadcast in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Cyprus and South Africa as a programming block on M-Net and later on FilmNet. It was owned by Multichoice. In Greece, it used to air in the morning and afternoon on Alfa TV exclusively for NOVA.Its sister programming block was K-TV World (also known as K-World), which aired mostly in the afternoon, while K-T.V. aired in the morning.
History
Scandinavia and the Netherlands: It was a programming block on Filmnet (temporary called FilmNet Plus and renamed later as FilmNet 1 in Sweden), from January 1, 1993 to January 11, 1997. It was broadcasting in the mornings and the noon/afternoon. It had a sister programming block called "K-TV mini".
Greece: The network was replaced on October 1, 2001, by Fox Kids. However, the site and the club were still active.
Cyprus: It was a programming block on Alfa TV, until January 2002, when it was replaced by a Nickelodeon one. The block is not to be confused with Kids TV, the K-T.V. block's spiritual successor, independently managed by the channel itself.
Playback
Playback was a weekly K-T.V. original TV show, presented by Jenna Dover. There, you could vote for your favourite video each week and win prizes.
Ti Paizei
Ti Paizei (Greek: Τι Παίζει) was an original production for the Greek counterpart of the network, presented by Banta Rapti, George Menediatis and Mary Blaxou.
Music Mail
Music Mail (Greek: Μουσικό Μήνυμα) was an original production for the Greek counterpart of the network, similar to Playback. It featured video clips, tributes, news and exclusive interviews from singers; it was presented by Banta Rapti.
See also
M-Net
Filmnet
SuperSport (South African TV channel)
References
External links
Greek-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1990
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1997
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2001
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2002
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
Defunct mass media in South Africa
Defunct television channels in Greece
Defunct television channels in Cyprus
Defunct television channels in Sweden
Defunct television channels in Norway
Defunct television channels in Denmark
Defunct television channels in Finland
Defunct television channels in the Netherlands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Ferrer | Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (; January 14, 1859 – October 13, 1909), widely known as Francisco Ferrer (), was a Spanish radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around Barcelona. His execution, following a revolt in Barcelona, propelled Ferrer into martyrdom and grew an international movement of radicals and libertarians, who established schools in his model and promoted his schooling approach.
Ferrer was raised on a farm near Barcelona, where he developed republican and anti-clerical convictions. As a train conductor, he transmitted messages for the republican leader Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, exiled in France. Following a failed republican uprising in 1885, Ferrer, too, moved to Paris with his family, where they stayed for 16 years. Ferrer began to explore anarchism and education. At the turn of the century, Ferrer had resolved to open a libertarian school modeled on Paul Robin's Prévost orphanage school. A large inheritance from a Parisian tutee provided the means to do so.
Upon returning to Barcelona in 1901, Ferrer founded the Barcelona Modern School, Escuela Moderna, which sought to provide a secular, libertarian curriculum as an alternative to the religious dogma and compulsory lessons common within Spanish schools. Ferrer's pedagogy borrowed from a tradition of 18th century rationalism and 19th century romanticism. He held that children should wield freewheeling liberties at the expense of conformity, regulation, and discipline. His school eschewed punishments, rewards, and exams, and encouraged practical experience over academic study. The school hosted lectures for adults, a school for teacher training, and a radical printing press, which printed textbooks and the school's journal. Around 120 offshoots of the school spread throughout Spain. The rapidity of Ferrer's rise troubled Spanish church and state authorities, who viewed the school as a front for insurrectionary activity. Ferrer was held in association with the 1906 assassination attempt on the Spanish King, which was used as a pretext for closing the school, but was ultimately released without conviction under international pressure a year later. Ferrer traveled Europe as an advocate of the Spanish revolutionary cause, founded a libertarian education advocacy organization, and reopened his press.
In mid-1909, Ferrer was arrested and accused of orchestrating a week of insurrection known as Barcelona's Tragic Week. Though Ferrer's involvement was likely not as blameless as intimated by his peers, he did not mastermind the events as charged. The ensuing court case, remembered as a show trial by a kangaroo court, resulted in Ferrer's execution and triggered international outcry, as Ferrer was widely believed to be innocent at the time of his death. He was prominently memorialized in writing, monuments, and demonstrations across three continents. The protest became a movement to propagate his educational ideas, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaniv%20Altshuler | Yaniv Altshuler, (born 1978) is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, at the Human Dynamics group headed by professor Alex Pentland.
In 2014 he co-founded Endor, an MIT spinoff, financially backed by Eric Schmidt, that offers analytics to help understand, predict, and influence the dynamics of human behavior.
Together with Pentland, Altshuler is one of the creators of Social Physics – a theory that describes mathematical laws that govern the behavior of human crowds.
Biography
Altshuler received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the Technion in Israel, under the supervision of Prof. Alfred Bruckstein and Dr. Israel Wagner, focusing on the optimization of Drone Swarms. After graduating from the Technion and before arriving to MIT he was a post-doctoral researcher at Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories
at Ben-Gurion University, working with the lab’s director, Prof. Yuval Elovici.
He is also an alumnus of the Technion Rothschild Excellence program.
He spent 2011-2013 as a post-doctoral researcher at MIT studying networks and the way they evolve and act as a medium which people use to interact. Together with Prof. Pentland he took part in the creation of the new science of Social Physics.
Work
Altshuler’s research interests include machine intelligence, swarm systems, urban computing and collaborative security. He edited the book Security and Privacy in Social Networks, and is a co-author on the book Swarms and Network Intelligence.
In 2007 he has co-founded Memoraze, a start-up company in the field of behavior analysis in computer games.
His work on the way social networks can be used for improving financial trading returns, known as “Network Tuning”, was the first to demonstrate how an efficient integration of a large number of insights from retail investors can significantly outperform the returns of professional investors, as reported by Financial Times and Harvard Business Review.
Altshuler was also the leading researcher in the “Stealing Reality” project that had shown how anonymized phone data can be used to accurately reveal personal information about the phone users, as well as the “Social Amplifier” project, that demonstrated the usage of real-time analysis of billions of phone calls for homeland security. This research was covered by AOL news, PC World, the Communications of the ACM, and other publications.
In 2014 he co-founded Endor, an MIT spinoff that uses Social Physics for an automatic on-demand prediction of consumer behaviors, and provides answers to plain language business questions. The company was funded among others by Eric Schmidt.
Altshuler has published over 60 academic papers, and 15 patents.
References
External links
MIT Home Page of Altshuler
Social Physics homepage at MIT Media Lab
Social Physics research and videos
Social Physics in Finance - video of Altshuler discussing the new science
Social Physics YouTube video channel
Stealing Realit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral%20Audio | Feral Audio was an independent podcast network and production company, founded in 2012 as a podcasting collective by Dustin Marshall after Dustin left Earwolf. Feral launched from Executive Producer's Shadi Petosky's apartment in Franklin Village to be near the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Shadi, through her studio PUNY Entertainment, financed Feral and PUNY artists created Feral's brand identity, website, and cover art for Feral's first slate of podcasts. In 2013 Feral moved to Starburns Industries in Burbank, CA. Feral Audio LLC was formed in January 2016 as a partnership between Dustin Marshall, Jason Smith, Dan Harmon, and Starburns Industries.
Feral Audio billed itself as a "Fiercely Independent Podcast Network", offering its shows' creators 100% ownership and creative control over their content. Since its inception, Feral Audio produced high rated and critically acclaimed shows such as Harmontown, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Hour of Goon, and My Favorite Murder.
In July 2016, Feral Audio became the first podcast network to have a panel in San Diego Comic Con's Hall H.
On January 2, 2018, it was announced that Feral Audio was shutting down in the wake of claims of abuse against its founder Dustin Marshall. Some of the podcasts produced by Feral Audio have since moved to the then newly created Starburns Audio podcast network.
References
External links
Podcasting companies
2012 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colegio%20De%20Marta | Colegio Italo-Venezolano Angelo De Marta is an Italian private school in Puerto La Cruz (Venezuela).
Data
The Colegio Angelo De Marta has nearly one thousand students. It is located in the metropolitan area "Puerto la Cruz-Barcelona" that has more than a million inhabitants, of which nearly 50000 are Italians and/or their descendants. It is the second most important Italo-venezuelan school in Venezuela.
The school is an italo-venezuelan unidad educativa and has "kinder", "elementary" and "bachelor" (or high school) sections, where the Italian language lessons are mandatory.
History
On October 12, 1956, they began the activities in Venezuela the Italian School "Angelo De Marta", with the vision of keeping alive the Italian language for the Italian future generations grown in Venezuelan territory.
Subsequently, on November 25, 1959, a philanthropic group of Italian entrepreneurs of Venezuela began the construction of campus facilities, supported by Mr. Angelo De Marta, consul of Italy at the time, who donated the land where now are the headquarters of the institution. Initially the school was only in Italian language, but in the late 1960s started to be bilingual. Later was created the Unidad Educativa Colegio Italovenezolano Angelo De Marta, that actually has courses of Italian language even for relatives of students.
The first graduation of the College Italo-Venezolano "Angelo De Marta" was held on September 25, 1971, with the graduation of 29 bachelors of Science and 10 in Humanities. Recently there were the celebrations of the 59th years of existence of the Colegio De Marta
Notes
See also
Colegio Agustín Codazzi
Colegio Amerigo Vespucci
Colegio Antonio Rosmini
Italo-Venezuelans
Italian language in Venezuela
Italian international schools in South America
International schools in Venezuela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey%20Belan | Alexey Alexeevich Belan (; born June 27, 1987) is a Latvian and Russian hacker on the FBI's list of most wanted criminals.
He has been accused of illegal access to the computer networks of three US companies in the states of Nevada and California. As a result of breaches committed in 2012 and 2013, a hacker stole personal data of company employees and several million registered users of their services, which was later sold through the Internet.
He is known under the pseudonyms Abyr Valgov, Abyrvalg, Fedyunya, Magg, М4G, and Moy.Yavik.
References
External links
Charges Announced in Massive Cyber Intrusion Case - Two of the Perpetrators Believed to be Russian Intelligence Officers (FBI)
Living people
Latvian computer scientists
Latvian people of Russian descent
1987 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodinGame | CodinGame is a technology company editing an online platform for developers, allowing them to play with programming with increasingly difficult puzzles, to learn to code better with an online programming application supporting twenty-five programming languages, and to compete in multiplayer programming contests involving timed artificial intelligence, or code golf challenges.
CodinGame also serves as a recruiting platform, allowing developers to get noticed by companies based on their performance on the contests.
History
Activity
CodinGame's business model is based on sponsoring by companies wanting to get in touch with developers. CodinGame helps these companies to recruit developers through worldwide contests hosted every three months, or private hackathons. The startup was also seeded through several fundraisings in 2013 and 2015.
CodinGame for Work also sells turnkey tech screening solutions to help companies assess the level of their programmer candidates through coding tests.
Available programming languages for solving puzzles or taking part in contests are: Bash, C, C++, C#, Clojure, D, Dart, F#, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python (v3), Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, TypeScript, and Visual Basic .NET.
See also
HackerRank
CodeFights
Competitive programming
References
Further reading
External links
Programming contests
Computer science competitions
French educational websites
Problem solving
Puzzles
Programming games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201961%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1961, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Rubén Machado's "Escalera a la fama".
Chart history
See also
1961 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine.
1961 in Argentina
Argentina
1961 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20road%20from%20Trier%20to%20Cologne | The Roman road from Trier to Cologne is part of the Via Agrippa, a Roman era long distance road network, that began at Lyon. The section from Augusta Treverorum (Trier) to the CCAA (Cologne), the capital of the Roman province of Germania Inferior, had a length of 66 Roman leagues (= 147 km). It is described in the Itinerarium Antonini, the itinerarium by Emperor Caracalla (198–217), which was revised in the 3rd century, and portrayed in the Tabula Peutingeriana or Peutinger Table, the Roman map of the world discovered in the 16th century, which shows the Roman road network of the 4th century.
Route
The route of the Roman road is described in the Itinerarium Antonini as passing through seven stations, whose distance is given in leagues.
1 Gallic league corresponds to 1.5 milia passum = ca. 2,200 metres, where 1 milia passum = 1,000 passus = ca. 1,480 metres
The later Peutinger Table describes the same places with the exception of Tolbiacum (Zülpich) and Belgica (Billig), but without the addition of the word vicus. However, the entries about the route vary considerably from those of the Antonine itinerary and are often interpreted as transcription errors.
Recent research and archaeological surveys of a corridor up to 250 metres wide along the road have shown that at intervals of no more than every three or four kilometres, and in densely populated areas often as little as a few hundred metres, there were sites of various vici (settlements), mansiones (inns) and mutationes, (coaching inns), stationes beneficiarium (military road posts) and religious votive stones, immediately by the road. This is especially true of crossroads, road junctions and river crossings. This road infrastructure was encouraged by the cursus publicus, a sort of national postal system.
References
Literature
Michael Rathmann, Untersuchungen zu den Reichsstraßen in den westlichen Provinzen des Imperium Romanum, Darmstadt, 2003.
Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt, edited by Ernst Schmidt: Forschungen über die Römerstrassen etc. im Rheinlande. In: Jahrbücher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande 31 (1861), pp. 1–220 (online resource, retrieved 3 March 2012)
Carl von Veith: Die Römerstrasse von Trier nach Köln. In: Jahrbücher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande. Heft 83-85, Bonn, 1883-85
Joseph Hagen: Die Römerstraßen der Rheinprovinz. Bonn, 1931
Hermann Aubin: Geschichtlicher Handatlas der Rheinprovinz. Cologne,1926
Charles Marie Ternes: Die Römer an Rhein und Mosel. Stuttgart, 1975
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (publ.): Führer zu vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Denkmälern, Bd. 26: Nordöstliches Eifelvorland. Mainz, 1976
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (publ.): Führer zu vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Denkmälern, Bd. 33 Südwestliche Eifel. Mainz, 1977
Heinz Günter Horn: Die Römer in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Stuttgart, 1987
Roman roads in Germania
Germania Inferior
Eifel in the Roman era
Roads in Germany
Former buildings and structures in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colegio%20Amerigo%20Vespucci | Colegio Amerigo Vespucci is an Italian private school in Caracas, Venezuela.
Data
The college is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Old Worlders: even because of this demonstration the name "America" of this landmass is derived from him.
The school is an italo-venezuelan Unidad educativa in the capital Caracas and has "kinder", "elementary" and "bachelor" (or high school) sections, where the Italian language lessons are mandatory. The Colegio Vespucci was home of the Italian Istituto tecnico per geometri "Luigi Einaudi", mainly during the 1970s and 1980s.
History
The Colegio Italo venezolano "Amerigo Vespucci" (called "Scuola Vespucci" by the Italians) was created on May 27, 1958 in the urbanization "La Carlota", Caracas, by famous professor Maria Cerolini with a group of thirty-five (35) Italian students, distributed between preschool and basic education from first through fourth grade (the courses were only in Italian language).
In 1962 it changed its headquarters to the urbanization "Los Chorros" of eastern Caracas in a bigger building. The students were now three hundred (300), divided between preschool, primary and middle school with classes in Italian and Spanish language.
By 1967 the third stage of Basic Education was created, and the First and Second year of "Diversificado" (Italian and Venezuelan high school) with the area of "Sciences". In the 1970s it was the second most important Italian school in Caracas (after the Colegio Agustín Codazzi), with the Istituto tecnico per geometri "Luigi Einaudi" di Caracas.
In the 1960s and 1970s it was one of the two main Italian schools of Caracas, with the Colegio Agustín Codazzi. In those decades the majority of students in the Italian community of Caracas attended mainly these two "scuole", with rivalry also in sport matches (like soccer).
The Directors of the Vespucci in 1981 created the University Institute of Technology "Amerigo Vespucci" (UITAV) and in 1988 from the UITAV there were graduates in "Senior Technical Business Administration of Business Administration and of Accounting & Finance" (in the next fourteen years the IUTAV did two additional courses: Computers and Advertising & Marketing).
Actually the Colegio Vespucci is a "Unidad Educativa" with more than 2000 students. In the Venezuelan "bachillerato" of the Colegio Vespucci the courses of Italian language are mandatory.
See also
Colegio Agustín Codazzi
Colegio De Marta
Italian Venezuelans
Italian language in Venezuela
References
Italian international schools in South America
International schools in Venezuela
1958 establishments in Venezuela
Educational institutions established in 1958 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halcyon%20%28TV%20series%29 | Halcyon is a science fiction television series that debuted September 2016 on the Syfy network. The show was billed as a "virtual reality series,” consisting of both traditional televised content and 3D/VR media which could be experienced on devices such as the Oculus Rift and Gear VR. The series was produced by production company Secret Location and directed by Benjamin Arfmann. The show ran for 15 episodes, including ten "short form" traditional digital broadcasts, and an additional five episodes of interactive virtual reality. The show stars Lisa Marcos as Jules Dover, a detective using a VI implant to solve murders.
Series details
The series takes place at a Virtual Reality company in 2058, called Halcyon, but will be a crime/murder mystery drama, with character Jules Dover (Lisa Marcos) as the detective of a "VR Crimes Unit".
While there have been virtual reality "shows" that were simply shot in 360° and/or 3D, Halcyon is billed as actually including interaction between the user and "clues" for each murder mystery.
Cast & Characters
Jules Dover (Lisa Marcos) is a highly capable homicide detective fully committed to her work—solving crimes that take place in the virtual world. She’s got some very real skeletons in her closet and is haunted by a painful past. Regardless, Jules is the kind of brass you assign to impossible cases because she has a knack for figuring out even the most twisted mysteries and solving the unsolvable. Where others fail, Jules Dover will succeed.
Asha (Harveen Sandhu) is a Virtual Intelligence (VI), a fully functioning digital person with her own thoughts, feelings, and motivations. As Jules' assistant on cases, Asha is visible to anyone able to access VR through Halcyon's implant technology. Asha is a smart and valuable ally to Jules, yet she is hyper-aware of the limitations associated with being virtual, namely, that she is physically untouchable.
Blake Creighton (Michael Therriault) knows how to take an idea and sensationalize, package and sell it to the public. He is the main driving force behind nanotechnology in VR being adopted on a global scale. Blake is a hero of the tech-world and force to be reckoned with, making it worldwide news when he's found dead in his apartment, with no apparent cause of death.
Gavin Spencer (Victor Ertmanis) is the co-founder and former CEO of Halcyon. A brilliant technological philosopher, he is responsible for the advent of nanotechnology in VR, and his work has influenced the way people live their day-to-day lives. Once a vocal advocate for virtual life, Gavin has since disappeared, and not even his former confidants know where or how to find him.
Alan (Cody Ray Thompson) is Blake Creighton’s Virtual Intelligence (VI) assistant. He's highly intelligent, servile, and accommodating; in fact, he’s a model virtual citizen and many wish other VIs would follow his lead. Having been so close to Halcyon's co-founder and CEO since the company’s infancy, Alan understands the inner worki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201962%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1962, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Rubén Machado's "Escalera a la fama".
See also
1962 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine.
1962 in Argentina
Argentina
1962 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiable%20neural%20computer | In artificial intelligence, a differentiable neural computer (DNC) is a memory augmented neural network architecture (MANN), which is typically (but not by definition) recurrent in its implementation. The model was published in 2016 by Alex Graves et al. of DeepMind.
Applications
DNC indirectly takes inspiration from Von-Neumann architecture, making it likely to outperform conventional architectures in tasks that are fundamentally algorithmic that cannot be learned by finding a decision boundary.
So far, DNCs have been demonstrated to handle only relatively simple tasks, which can be solved using conventional programming. But DNCs don't need to be programmed for each problem, but can instead be trained. This attention span allows the user to feed complex data structures such as graphs sequentially, and recall them for later use. Furthermore, they can learn aspects of symbolic reasoning and apply it to working memory. The researchers who published the method see promise that DNCs can be trained to perform complex, structured tasks and address big-data applications that require some sort of reasoning, such as generating video commentaries or semantic text analysis.
DNC can be trained to navigate rapid transit systems, and apply that network to a different system. A neural network without memory would typically have to learn about each transit system from scratch. On graph traversal and sequence-processing tasks with supervised learning, DNCs performed better than alternatives such as long short-term memory or a neural turing machine. With a reinforcement learning approach to a block puzzle problem inspired by SHRDLU, DNC was trained via curriculum learning, and learned to make a plan. It performed better than a traditional recurrent neural network.
Architecture
DNC networks were introduced as an extension of the Neural Turing Machine (NTM), with the addition of memory attention mechanisms that control where the memory is stored, and temporal attention that records the order of events. This structure allows DNCs to be more robust and abstract than a NTM, and still perform tasks that have longer-term dependencies than some predecessors such as Long Short Term Memory (LSTM). The memory, which is simply a matrix, can be allocated dynamically and accessed indefinitely. The DNC is differentiable end-to-end (each subcomponent of the model is differentiable, therefore so is the whole model). This makes it possible to optimize them efficiently using gradient descent.
The DNC model is similar to the Von Neumann architecture, and because of the resizability of memory, it is Turing complete.
Traditional DNC
DNC, as originally published
Extensions
Refinements include sparse memory addressing, which reduces time and space complexity by thousands of times. This can be achieved by using an approximate nearest neighbor algorithm, such as Locality-sensitive hashing, or a random k-d tree like Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors from UBC. Addin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20hierarchy | Cache hierarchy, or multi-level caches, refers to a memory architecture that uses a hierarchy of memory stores based on varying access speeds to cache data. Highly requested data is cached in high-speed access memory stores, allowing swifter access by central processing unit (CPU) cores.
Cache hierarchy is a form and part of memory hierarchy and can be considered a form of tiered storage. This design was intended to allow CPU cores to process faster despite the memory latency of main memory access. Accessing main memory can act as a bottleneck for CPU core performance as the CPU waits for data, while making all of main memory high-speed may be prohibitively expensive. High-speed caches are a compromise allowing high-speed access to the data most-used by the CPU, permitting a faster CPU clock.
Background
In the history of computer and electronic chip development, there was a period when increases in CPU speed outpaced the improvements in memory access speed. The gap between the speed of CPUs and memory meant that the CPU would often be idle. CPUs were increasingly capable of running and executing larger amounts of instructions in a given time, but the time needed to access data from main memory prevented programs from fully benefiting from this capability. This issue motivated the creation of memory models with higher access rates in order to realize the potential of faster processors.
This resulted in the concept of cache memory, first proposed by Maurice Wilkes, a British computer scientist at the University of Cambridge in 1965. He called such memory models "slave memory". Between roughly 1970 and 1990, papers and articles by Anant Agarwal, Alan Jay Smith, Mark D. Hill, Thomas R. Puzak, and others discussed better cache memory designs. The first cache memory models were implemented at the time, but even as researchers were investigating and proposing better designs, the need for faster memory models continued. This need resulted from the fact that although early cache models improved data access latency, with respect to cost and technical limitations it was not feasible for a computer system's cache to approach the size of main memory. From 1990 onward, ideas such as adding another cache level (second-level), as a backup for the first-level cache were proposed. Jean-Loup Baer, Wen-Hann Wang, Andrew W. Wilson, and others have conducted research on this model. When several simulations and implementations demonstrated the advantages of two-level cache models, the concept of multi-level caches caught on as a new and generally better model of cache memories. Since 2000, multi-level cache models have received widespread attention and are currently implemented in many systems, such as the three-level caches that are present in Intel's Core i7 products.
Multi-level cache
Accessing main memory for each instruction execution may result in slow processing, with the clock speed depending on the time required to find and fetch the data. In order to hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201963%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1963, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Rubén Machado's "Escalera a la fama".
See also
1963 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine.
1963 in Argentina
Argentina
1963 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Corps%20%28United%20States%20Army%29 | The Cyber Corps is the newest branch of the United States Army.
The US Army describes it as "a maneuver branch with the mission to conduct defensive and offensive cyberspace operations (DCO and OCO). Cyber is the only branch designed to directly engage threats within the cyberspace domain."
It was established on 1 September 2014 by then-Secretary of the Army, John M. McHugh.
References
Military units and formations established in 2014
Branches of the United States Army |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201964%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1964, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Rubén Machado's "Escalera a la fama".
See also
1964 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine.
1964 in Argentina
Argentina
1964 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cisco%20products | Cisco Systems' products and services focus upon three market segments—enterprise and service provider, small business and the home.
Corporate market
"Corporate market" refers to enterprise networking and service providers.
Enterprise networks Products in this category are Cisco's range of routers, switches, wireless systems, security systems, WAN acceleration hardware, energy and building management systems and media aware network equipment.
Collaboration IP video and phones, TelePresence, HealthPresence, unified communications, call center systems, enterprise social networks and Mobile applications
Datacenter and Virtualization unified computing, unified fabric, data centre switching, storage networking and cloud computing services.
IP NGN (Next Generation Networks) High-end routing and switching for fixed and mobile service provider networks, broadcast video contribution/distribution, entitlement and content delivery systems.
Security
Stealthwatch, Identity Services Engine (ISE), Tetration, Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Firewall Management Center (FMC), SecureX, Umbrella, CloudLock, Duo, Secure Email, Cisco Cloud Mailbox Defense, Secure Web Appliance, Cloud Secure Email, Secure Email and Web Manager, AnyConnect, Virtual Private Network, Intrusion Detection Prevention System (IDPS), TALOS.
Note: Cisco is the biggest security company in the world.
Small businesses
Small businesses include home businesses and (usually technology-based) startups.
Routers and switches The machines that route and redirect packets across a network, including those for networks of smart meters.
Security and surveillance IP cameras, data and network security etc.
Voice and conferencing VOIP phones and gateway-systems, WebEx, video conferencing
Wireless Indoor Wi-Fi Access points, Wireless Controller
Network storage systems Persistent people storage on networks, either in the traditional sense or in a cloud-like manner.
Home user
"Home user" refers to individuals or families who require networking services in the home. (Link to cited archived page broken, incorrect, or otherwise nonfunctional)
Broadband Broadband refers to cable modems.
Flip Video With the acquisition of Pure Digital Technologies, Cisco began to sell a line of video-recording devices called "Flip Video" that had been Pure Digital's only line of products. This line of products was not as popular as Cisco had thought it would have been, and on April 12, 2011, Cisco announced they were discontinuing all Flip camera production. Cisco's ūmi product line, video conferencing for the home, also proved to be a short-lived bid for the consumer multimedia market and sales were discontinued.
Hardware
Data
Datacenter products: Nexus Switches (1000v, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000,7000, 9000), MDS, Unified Computing System (UCS), Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
Routers, including: 800 Series, Integrated Services Router (ISR) (1800, 2800, 3800), ISR G2 (1900 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20companies%20based%20in%20Ottawa | This is an alphabetical list of companies that have at one-point or another been based in Ottawa:
Abacus Data
Alterna Savings
Atkinson Film-Arts
Bank of Ottawa
Bell-Northern Research
BreconRidge
Bridgewater Systems
Brookstreet Pictures
Bruised Tongue
Campeau Corporation
Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Canada Post
Canadian Bank Note Company
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Commercial Corporation
Ciel Satellite Group
Cognos
Corel
CPAC (TV channel)
CPCS Transcom Limited
Defence Construction Canada
Doyle Salewski Inc
DragonWave
Ekos Research Associates
ENCON Group Inc.
Epiphan Systems
Eurocom Corporation
Export Development Canada
Farm Boy
First Air
Freimans
Fuel Industries
Funbag Animation Studios
Gabriel Pizza
Gandalf Technologies
Giant Tiger
Granite Ottawa
Halogen Software
Hydro Ottawa
Ingenia Communications Corporation
International Development Research Centre
Iogen Corporation
Kelp Records
Klipfolio
Knight Enterprises
Kongsberg Gallium Ltd.
KRP Properties
Lacewood Productions
Lee Valley Tools
Level Platforms
Loeb (supermarket)
Lumenera
Magma Communications
Market Fresh
Marshes Golf Club
MediaMiser
Mercury Filmworks
MicroSystems International
Minto Group
Mitel
MKC Networks
NABU Network
Neptec Design Group
Newbridge Networks
Nordion
Le Nordir
Ogilvy's
Ottawa Car Company
Ottawa Central Railway
Ottawa Central Railway
Ottawa Dumpster
Ottawa Home Pros
Ottawa Renovation Pro Ltd.
PlaSmart
Pleora
Pronexus
ProntoForms
Protecode
Protus
Public Sector Pension Investment Board
Pure Spring Company
QNX Software Systems
Quickie Convenience Stores
Red Quill Books
SAW Video Mediatheque
Shopify
Siemens Healthineers
Signority
Skycron
Solace
Solidum Systems
Spiderwort
Tablo (DVR)
Telesat
Ten Broadcasting
Tundra Semiconductor
Versaterm
Wilderness Tours
Zarlink
Ottawa
Companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qsub | qsub is an IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 Unix command for submitting jobs to a job scheduler, usually in cluster or grid computing. The qsub command is used to submit jobs to Slurm Workload Manager, to TORQUE, and to Oracle Grid Engine; HTCondor calls it condor_qsub.
References
Job scheduling
Unix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201965%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1965, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Rubén Machado's "Escalera a la fama".
See also
1965 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine.
1965 in Argentina
Argentina
1965 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Venable | David "Dave" Venable (born January 11, 1978) is a former intelligence officer with the United States National Security Agency, and current cyber security professional and businessman. He is an author and speaker on the topics of cyber security, cyberwarfare, and international security; has developed security-related internet protocols; is a US patent holder; and has been named as one of the most influential people in security.
Early life and education
Venable was born in and grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and later attended the University of Arkansas, majoring in mathematics. After college, he joined the United States Air Force and studied Korean at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, a Department of Defense educational and research institution which provides linguistic and cultural instruction to the DoD and other Federal Agencies. Venable has also pursued graduate education in mathematics at the University of Texas, and international relations at Harvard University.
Career
Until 2005 Venable served in several intelligence roles with the National Security Agency, including Computer Network Exploitation, Cyberwarfare, Information Operations, and Digital Network Intelligence in support of global anti-terrorism operations. He has also taught about these subjects while serving as adjunct faculty at the National Cryptologic School, a school within the National Security Agency that provides training to members of the United States Intelligence Community.
After leaving federal service Venable founded and served as CEO of Vanda Security, a Dallas-based security consultancy, which ultimately became the security professional services practice of Comcast Business Masergy, where he served as CISO for eight years. Venable regularly speaks at industry and government conferences including Black Hat Briefings and the Warsaw Security Forum, serves as a cyber security expert with think tanks and policy research institutes, serves on The Colony, Texas technology board, and is a cybersecurity expert and speaker with the United States Department of State.
Bibliography
Venable frequently contributes to and appears in Forbes, BBC, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg Businessweek, InformationWeek, IDG Connect, and other media outlets in matters pertaining to cyber security, cyberwarfare, and international security.
Patents
References
1978 births
Living people
American technology writers
People associated with computer security
Writers from Little Rock, Arkansas
Businesspeople from Little Rock, Arkansas
Military personnel from Little Rock, Arkansas
National Security Agency people
United States Air Force airmen
Defense Language Institute alumni
University of Texas alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
American technology chief executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20derivative | In mathematics, the Hadamard derivative is a concept of directional derivative for maps between Banach spaces. It is particularly suited for applications in stochastic programming and asymptotic statistics.
Definition
A map between Banach spaces and is Hadamard-directionally differentiable at in the direction if there exists a map such that for all sequences and . Note that this definition does not require continuity or linearity of the derivative with respect to the direction . Although continuity follows automatically from the definition, linearity does not.
Relation to other derivatives
If the Hadamard directional derivative exists, then the Gateaux derivative also exists and the two derivatives coincide.
The Hadamard derivative is readily generalized for maps between Hausdorff topological vector spaces.
Applications
A version of functional delta method holds for Hadamard directionally differentiable maps. Namely, let be a sequence of random elements in a Banach space (equipped with Borel sigma-field) such that weak convergence holds for some , some sequence of real numbers and some random element with values concentrated on a separable subset of . Then for a measurable map that is Hadamard directionally differentiable at we have (where the weak convergence is with respect to Borel sigma-field on the Banach space ).
This result has applications in optimal inference for wide range of econometric models, including models with partial identification and weak instruments.
See also
- generalization of the total derivative
References
Directional statistics
Generalizations of the derivative |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20performance%20measurement%20and%20metric | A CPU cache is a piece of hardware that reduces access time to data in memory by keeping some part of the frequently used data of the main memory in a 'cache' of smaller and faster memory.
The performance of a computer system depends on the performance of all individual units—which include execution units like integer, branch and floating point, I/O units, bus, caches and memory systems. The gap between processor speed and main memory speed has grown exponentially. Until 2001–05, CPU speed, as measured by clock frequency, grew annually by 55%, whereas memory speed only grew by 7%. This problem is known as the memory wall. The motivation for a cache and its hierarchy is to bridge this speed gap and overcome the memory wall.
The critical component in most high-performance computers is the cache. Since the cache exists to bridge the speed gap, its performance measurement and metrics are important in designing and choosing various parameters like cache size, associativity, replacement policy, etc. Cache performance depends on cache hits and cache misses, which are the factors that create constraints to system performance. Cache hits are the number of accesses to the cache that actually find that data in the cache, and cache misses are those accesses that don't find the block in the cache. These cache hits and misses contribute to the term average access time (AAT) also known as AMAT (average memory access time), which, as the name suggests, is the average time it takes to access the memory. This is one major metric for cache performance measurement, because this number becomes highly significant and critical as processor speed increases.
Another useful metric to test the performance is Power law of cache misses. It gives you the number of misses when you change the size of the cache, given that the number of misses for one of the cache sizes is known. Similarly, when you want to test the performance of the cache in terms of misses across different associativities, Stack distance profiling is used.
Introduction to types of cache misses
Processor performance increase due to cache hierarchy depends on the number of accesses to the cache that satisfy block requests from the cache (cache hits) versus those that do not. Unsuccessful attempts to read or write data from the cache (cache misses) result in lower level or main memory access, which increases latency. There are three basic types of cache misses known as the 3Cs and some other less popular cache misses.
Compulsory misses
Each memory block when first referenced causes a compulsory miss. This implies that the number of compulsory misses is the number of distinct memory blocks ever referenced. They are sometimes called cold misses too. Cold misses cannot be avoided unless the block is prefetched.
It has been observed that an increase in block size to a certain extent to exploit spatial locality leads to a decrease in cold misses. Increasing block size leads to prefetching of nearby words in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai%20%28malware%29 | Mirai (from the Japanese word for "future", 未来) is malware that turns networked devices running Linux into remotely controlled bots that can be used as part of a botnet in large-scale network attacks. It primarily targets online consumer devices such as IP cameras and home routers. The Mirai botnet was first found in August 2016 by MalwareMustDie, a white hat malware research group, and has been used in some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, including an attack on 20 September 2016 on computer security journalist Brian Krebs' website, an attack on French web host OVH, and the October 2016 Dyn cyberattack. According to a chat log between Anna-senpai and Robert Coelho, Mirai was named after the 2011 TV anime series Mirai Nikki.
The software was initially used by the creators to DDoS Minecraft servers and companies offering DDoS protection to Minecraft servers, with the authors using Mirai to operate a protection racket. The source code for Mirai was subsequently published on Hack Forums as open-source. Since the source code was published, the techniques have been adapted in other malware projects.
Malware
Devices infected by Mirai continuously scan the internet for the IP address of Internet of things (IoT) devices. Mirai includes a table of IP address ranges that it will not infect, including private networks and addresses allocated to the United States Postal Service and Department of Defense.
Mirai then identifies vulnerable IoT devices using a table of more than 60 common factory default usernames and passwords, and logs into them to infect them with the Mirai malware. Infected devices will continue to function normally, except for occasional sluggishness, and an increased use of bandwidth. A device remains infected until it is rebooted, which may involve simply turning the device off and after a short wait turning it back on. After a reboot, unless the login password is changed immediately, the device will be reinfected within minutes. Upon infection Mirai will identify any "competing" malware, remove it from memory, and block remote administration ports.
Victim IoT devices are identified by “first entering a rapid scanning phase where it asynchronously and “statelessly” sent TCP SYN probes to pseudo-random IPv4 addresses, excluding those in a hard-coded IP blacklist, on telnet TCP ports 23 and 2323”. If an IoT device responds to the probe, the attack then enters into a brute-force login phase. During this phase, the attacker tries to establish a telnet connection using predetermined username and password pairs from a list of credentials. Most of these logins are default usernames and passwords from the IoT vendor. If the IoT device allows the Telnet access, the victim's IP, along with the successfully used credential is sent to a collection server.
There are a large number of IoT devices which use default settings, making them vulnerable to infection. Once infected, the device will monito |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Indian%20bank%20data%20breach | The 2016 Indian bank data breach was reported in October 2016. It was estimated 3.2 million debit cards were compromised. Major Indian banks, among them SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI, YES Bank and Axis Bank, were among the worst hit. The breach went undetected for months and was first detected after several banks reported fraudulent use of their customers’ cards in China and the United States, while these customers were in India.
This resulted in one of the India's biggest card replacement drives in banking history. The biggest Indian bank, the State Bank of India, announced the blocking and replacement of almost 600,000 debit cards.
An audit performed by SISA Information Security reports that the breach was due to malware injected into the payment gateway network of Hitachi Payment Systems.
See also
2016 Bangladesh Bank heist
List of cyber-attacks
Data breaches in India
References
Cyberattacks on banking industry
Banking in India
2016 in Indian economy
Data breaches
Cybercrime in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201966%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1966, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Rubén Machado's "Escalera a la fama".
See also
1966 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine.
1966 in Argentina
Argentina
1966 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliometrix | Bibliometrix is a package for the R statistical programming language for quantitative research in scientometrics and bibliometrics.
Bibliometrics is the application of quantitative analysis and statistics to publications such as journal articles and their accompanying citation counts. Quantitative evaluation of publication and citation data is now used in almost all science fields to evaluate growth, maturity, leading authors, conceptual and intellectual maps, trend of a scientific community. Bibliometrics is also used in research performance evaluation, especially in university and government labs, and also by policymakers, research directors and administrators, information specialists and librarians, and scholars themselves.
The package is written in R, an open-source environment and ecosystem. The existence of substantial of good statistical algorithms, access to high-quality numerical routines, and integrated data visualization tools are perhaps the strongest qualities to prefer R to other languages for scientific computation.
Bibliometrix supports scholars in key phases of analysis:
Data importing and conversion to R data-frame;
Descriptive analysis of a publication dataset;
Network extraction for co-citation, coupling, and collaboration analyses. Matrices are the input data for performing network analysis, factorial analysis or multidimensional scaling analysis;
Text mining of manuscripts (title, abstract, authors' keywords, etc.);
Co-word analysis.
Main functions of Bibliometrix package
The following table lists the main functions of bibliometrix package:
References
External links
Official website
R (programming language)
Quantitative research
Bibliometrics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Sheeky | Mark Sheeky (born 1972) is a Cheshire-based British artist, computer game developer, music artist, and author.
From childhood Sheeky designed and developed computer games, and began painting in 2004.
In 2010, he donated the 2008 painting "Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone" to the Grosvenor Museum collection, and won First Prize in the Grosvenor Art competition in 2012 for his work "The Paranoid Schizophrenia of Richard Dadd".
Radio
ArtsLab (2016–2018)
Books
As author
As illustrator
As contributing author or illustrator
Discography
Singles
2007: Gunstorm (collaboration with Tor James Faulkner), Cornutopia Music
2018: House Of Glass, Cornutopia Music
2018: Masculinity Two, Cornutopia Music
EP
2007: Gunstorm (collaboration with Tor James Faulkner), Cornutopia Music
2017: Finnegans Judgement, Cornutopia Music
2018: A Walk In The Countryside, Cornutopia Music
Albums
The Arcangel Soundtrack (2000), Cornutopia Music
Synaesthesia (2002), REV Records
The Incredible Journey (2002), Cornutopia Music
The Spiral Staircase (Original) (2004), Cornutopia Music
Animalia (2004), Pravda
Flatspace (The Official Soundtrack) (2007), Cornutopia Music
The Spiral Staircase (2008), Cornutopia Music
The End And The Beginning (collaboration with Tor James Faulkner) (2009), Cornutopia Music
The Twelve Seasons (2009), Cornutopia Music
The Infinite Forest (2010), Cornutopia Music
Once Upon A Time (2010), Cornutopia Music
Pi (2010), Cornutopia Music
Flatspace II (The Official Soundtrack) (2012), Cornutopia Music
The Love Symphony (2012), Cornutopia Music
Bites of Greatness (2013), Cornutopia Music
Synaesthesia (2015), Cornutopia Music
The Anatomy of Emotions (2016), Cornutopia Music
Cycles & Shadows (2017), Cornutopia Music
Genesis (2017), Cornutopia Music
Tree Of Keys (2019), Cornutopia Music
Music Of Poetic Objects (2019), Cornutopia Music
Video games
Flatspace (2003), together with Andrew Williams, Cornutopia Software, released for Microsoft Windows. The player assumes the role of a spaceship captain. The game use 3D graphics with a top-down view and combines features from space trading simulators and action role-playing games. Play is open-ended: activities available include trading, missions, exploration, bounty hunting, space piracy, and police work. Game Tunnel rated Flatspace 9.5 out of 10, and were impressed with the tracking of every individual ship, found the battle with different scale ships to be "exhilarating" and the varied, open-ended gameplay to be enjoyable.
Flatspace II: The Rise of the Scarrid (2005).
Flatspace IIk: The Scarrid Dominion (2012).
References
External links
Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone in the Public Catalogue Foundation
British surrealist artists
Indie game developers
Artists from Cheshire
Living people
1972 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20Accelerator%20Processor%20Interface | Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI), is a high-speed processor expansion bus standard for use in large data center computers, initially designed to be layered on top of PCI Express, for directly connecting central processing units (CPUs) to external accelerators like graphics processing units (GPUs), ASICs, FPGAs or fast storage. It offers low latency, high speed, direct memory access connectivity between devices of different instruction set architectures.
History
The performance scaling traditionally associated with Moore's Law—dating back to 1965—began to taper off around 2004, as both Intel's Prescott architecture and IBM's Cell processor pushed toward a 4 GHz operating frequency. Here both projects ran into a thermal scaling wall, whereby heat extraction problems associated with further increases in operating frequency largely outweighed gains from shorter cycle times.
Over the decade that followed, few commercial CPU products exceeded 4 GHz, with the majority of performance improvements now coming from incrementally improved microarchitectures, better systems integration, and higher compute density—this largely in the form of packing a larger numbers of independent cores onto the same die, often at the expense of peak operating frequency (Intel's 24-core Xeon E7-8890 from June 2016 has a base operating frequency of just 2.2 GHz, so as to operate within the constraints of a single-socket 165 W power consumption and cooling budget).
Where large performance gains have been realized, it was often associated with increasingly specialized compute units, such as GPU units added to the processor die, or external GPU- or FPGA-based accelerators. In many applications, accelerators struggle with limitations of the interconnect's performance (bandwidth and latency) or with limitations due to the interconnect's architecture (such as lacking memory coherence). Especially in the datacenter, improving the interconnect became paramount in moving toward a heterogeneous architecture in which hardware becomes increasingly tailored to specific compute workloads.
CAPI was developed to enable computers to more easily and efficiently attach specialized accelerators. Memory intensive and computation intensive works like matrix multiplications for deep neural networks can be offloaded into CAPI-supported platforms. It was designed by IBM for use in its POWER8 based systems which came to market in 2014. At the same time, IBM and several other companies founded the OpenPOWER Foundation to build an ecosystem around Power based technologies, including CAPI. In October 2016 several OpenPOWER partners formed the OpenCAPI Consortium together with GPU and CPU designer AMD and systems designers Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to spread the technology beyond the scope of OpenPOWER and IBM.
On August 1, 2022, OpenCAPI specifications and assets were transferred to the Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium.
Implementation
CAPI
CAPI is implemented as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuvolo | Nuvolo (born Giorgio Ascani, October 12, 1926 – October 10, 2008) was an Italian painter, pioneer of pictorial techniques applied to screen printing and computer graphics.
Biography and works
Early life
Nuvolo was born on October 12, 1926, in Città di Castello, one of the major centers for typographic industry in Italy. His parents involved him in their printing workshop early in his life.
The nickname “Nuvolo” (cloud) was given to him during the Second World War, when as teenage partisan his peers compared his quick appearances to a sudden cloud in the sky.
As a young artisan in the first years after the war, he soon showed manual dexterity in various fields, from decoration to set design, and gradually he focused his attention on silkscreen and its potential uses, working either in his family workshop or at the local graphic arts school, where he found teachers who fostered his disposition toward exploration.
In Rome with Alberto Burri
In 1949, Nuvolo moved to Rome, at the suggestion of his friend and fellow countryman Alberto Burri. Nuvolo primarily became Burri's collaborator at his Via Margutta studio, matching his work as an advertising artist with a first series of screen printing, the first foray into the field of visual arts.
Although silk screen tools were very poor at the times, he was the first in Italy, to adopt this technique for artistic goals. He created abstract figures by silk screen, utilizing dichromate gel, adopted from the rotogravure printing technique.
If in such graphic experiments he was initially influenced by his friend's matter research, Nuvolo would soon find his own creative autonomy in this medium as an innovator himself.
The “informal” climate
Working as an aid for Burri, Nuvolo got more and more in touch with a group of informal painting artists who characterized that decade. He associated with the (short lived) "Gruppo Origine", founded between 1949 and 1950 and formed by Corrado Cagli, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Mario Balocco, Ettore Colla and Burri himself, sharing an interest for new materials to connect to painting and a progressive departure from the use of paintbrush.
The “serotipie”
Around the middle of the Fifties, the quality of silk screens improved and helped Nuvolo to achieve new results in terms of printing and graphic experimentation: in 1954, “Arti Visive”, innovative art journal (alternitavely directed by Ettore Colla and by poet and Biblicist Emilio Villa along with his brother Ascanio Ascani), displayed his first official works on its covers and within its pages.
The name “Serotipie” was coined by Emilio Villa, who found a new artistic meaning for the silk screen abstract works, not intending them as reproduction series but unique printing works, made by an industrial tool and elaborated by acrylic and other materials.
Interested on the role of causality in arts, similar to Pollock’s dripping, and focusing on various fields like physic, astronomy and mathematics, Nuvolo gave a new status to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep%20Maria%20Ganyet | Josep Maria Ganyet i Cirera (Vic, 1965) is a Catalan computer engineer. Graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1988, he then specialized in artificial intelligence.
He began his career with IBM and Deutsche Bank in designing human interactions. He also worked with online advertising agency El Sindicato (now part of Havas) and created the website Hoymesiento.com. In 1994 founded his first Internet company, Ars Virtualis. Currently, he is CEO and co-founder of Mortensen.co study and participates in the start-up Soundkik. In parallel, he is professor of new media studies of the Audiovisual Communication degree at the Pompeu Fabra University. He collaborates in radio broadcasting show El món a RAC 1, La Vanguardia and Barcelona TV, and works with Kelly Goto at Gotomedia. In 1998 he published the book Interacción humana con los ordenadores (UOC).
He is also known for creating the 2012 campaign Keep Calm and Speak Catalan, based on the poster keep calm and carry on, against the education reform project undertaken by the Spanish Minister of Education, José Ignacio Wert (after its threat to "hispanize Catalan students"), a fact considered by most of the Catalan parliamentary spectrum as a threat to education in Catalan language.
References
1965 births
Living people
Autonomous University of Barcelona alumni
Academic staff of Pompeu Fabra University
People from Vic
Computer engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killik%20%26%20Co | Killik & Co is a British retail investment company and independent Partnership, providing advice on savings, planning and investment to retail investors through a network of branches in the UK, managing assets on behalf of 19,000 clients.
History
Killik & Co was founded in the late 1980s as a stockbroking firm by entrepreneurs Paul Killik and Matthew Orr. It is one of the few remaining independent Partnerships in the UK retail investing market following consolidation amongst European, Japanese and American investment banks following the Big Bang in the late 1980s. The company is formatted "on traditional lines to provide a personal advisory service to clients from the day they first walk through the door".
Killik & Co is headquartered in Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, with 6 branches.
Awards
The company has won multiple awards, including the 2021 Investors Chronicle & Financial Times Reader's Choice Investor Champion of the Year.
References
Investment companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rami%20Levy%20Communications | Rami Levy Communications () is a mobile virtual network operator in Israel, using the network from Pelephone. Founded in 2011, it is owned by Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing. The prefix assigned to Rami Levy Communications is 0556.
History
In September 2010, Rami Levy became the fourth company in Israel to receive a mobile virtual network operator license from the Israel Ministry of Communications. The company previously announced in a 2010 statement to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that upon receiving this license, it would open a new subsidiary, Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing Communications Ltd., and sell advanced mobile telephone services in its supermarkets.
In February 2011 Rami Levy signed an agreement with the mobile network provider Pelephone, allowing the supermarket chain to use Pelephone's infrastructure to provide cellular phone services. In December 2011 Rami Levy Communications went live with the opening of two branches in Jerusalem. Rami Levy Communications is the first MVNO to buy blocks of minutes from other cellular companies and resell them to consumers for less than the providing company charges.
In 2021 the company was convicted of misuse of databases and was fined 600,000 ILS. Senior employees of the company were convicted of additional offenses.
See also
Economy of Israel
References
Mobile phone companies of Israel
Israeli brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201967%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1967, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Rubén Machado's "Escalera a la fama".
See also
1967 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine.
1967 in Argentina
Argentina
1967 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20and%20Communications%20Center%2C%20Cornell%20University | The Computing and Communications Center is a building of Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York. It was built in 1911 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was designed by Green & Wicks.
Originally built by New York State for the Home Economics program, the building was renamed Comstock Hall in 1934 when the Entomology Department relocated there. In the 1980s, it was sold to Cornell so that mainframe computers could be relocated from Langmuir Laboratory. As a result, a new, state-funded Entomology Department building was named Comstock Hall in 1985, and the historic building was given its present name. The building was named in honor of John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock.
References
External links
Facilities information page
Cornell University buildings
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Tompkins County, New York
1911 establishments in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201968%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1968, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Rubén Machado's "Escalera a la fama".
See also
1968 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine.
1968 in Argentina
Argentina
1968 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid%20Ant%20algorithm | The Humanoid Ant algorithm (HUMANT) is an ant colony optimization algorithm. The algorithm is based on a priori approach to multi-objective optimization (MOO), which means that it integrates decision-makers preferences into optimization process. Using decision-makers preferences, it actually turns multi-objective problem into single-objective. It is a process called scalarization of a multi-objective problem. The first Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization (MOACO) algorithm was published in 2001, but it was based on a posteriori approach to MOO.
The idea of using the preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation to integrate decision-makers preferences into MOACO algorithm was born in 2009.
So far, HUMANT algorithm is only known fully operational optimization algorithm that successfully integrated PROMETHEE method into ACO.
The HUMANT algorithm has been experimentally tested on the traveling salesman problem and applied to the partner selection problem with up to four objectives (criteria).
References
Nature-inspired metaheuristics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon%20Lloyd | Manon Lloyd (born 5 November 1996) is a Welsh Global Cycling Network YouTube presenter. Lloyd is a former road and track cyclist and rode professionally for UCI Women's Team in 2018 and 2019. Representing Great Britain at international competitions, Lloyd won the bronze medal at the 2016 UEC European Track Championships in the team pursuit. Lloyd finished third in the individual competition at the 2017 Matrix Fitness Grand Prix.
On 24 December 2019, the announcement was made that Lloyd would be joining the Global Cycling Network YouTube channel as a presenter.
Biography
Lloyd is the elder of two children, raised on her family's sheep farm near Kidwelly. She attended Ysgol y Fro in the nearby village of Llangyndeyrn. Having enjoyed swimming and running as a child, Lloyd wanted to try triathlon, therefore joined the local club, Towy Riders, taking up cycling around the age of 14, at Carmarthen Park velodrome.
Major results
2014
UEC European Junior Track Championships
1st Team pursuit
1st Points race
2016
UCI Track World Cup
1st Madison (Glasgow)
1st Team pursuit (Glasgow)
1st Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
2017
UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
1st Madison (with Ellie Dickinson)
3rd Points race
1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships
Track Cycling Challenge
1st Madison (with Emily Kay)
2nd Scratch race
2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
3rd Team pursuit, Round 1 (Pruszków), Track Cycling World Cup (with Neah Evans, Emily Kay and Emily Nelson)
References
External links
1996 births
Living people
Welsh female cyclists
Welsh track cyclists
Sportspeople from Carmarthen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler%20Young%20%28actor%29 | Tyler Matthew Young (born December 17, 1990) is an American actor, known for his role as Philip Shea in the USA Network drama limited series Eyewitness. He portrayed Connor Bell in the horror film Polaroid (2019).
Early life
Young was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in the suburb of Kildeer. He was educated at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, and graduated from DePaul University with a degree in advertising and public relations. Young studied acting at The Theatre School at DePaul and improvisational theatre at The Second City. He is of Jewish descent.
Career
In 2016, Young was cast in a leading role in USA Network's drama limited series Eyewitness. He portrayed Philip Shea, a gay teenager in the foster care of a small town sheriff (Julianne Nicholson), who witnesses a triple murder. Young has also starred in the Dimension Films horror film Polaroid (2019) as Connor Bell, opposite Kathryn Prescott and Madelaine Petsch.
He has appeared in guest roles on episodes of NBC's Chicago Fire and Fox's Empire, as well the show Code Black and the mini-series When We Rise.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1990 births
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop%20%28programming%29 | In computer programming, a flip-flop is a seldom-used syntactic construct which allows a boolean to flip from false to true when a first condition is met and then back to false when a second condition is met. The syntax is available in the programming languages Perl and Ruby. Similar logic is available in sed and awk.
A flip-flop with first condition A and second condition B is not equivalent to "if A and not B", as the former has persistent state and is true even if A is no longer true, as long as at some point in the past A was true and B has always been false.
Example
The following Ruby code prints the numbers 4 through 6:
(1..10).each do |x|
puts x if (x == 4 .. x == 6)
end
The first instance of ".." is the range operator, which produces the enumeration of integers 1 through 10. The second ".." is the flip-flop operator, otherwise known as the flip floperator. Note that the number 5 is printed even though both "x == 4" and "x== 6" are false. This is because the expression remembers that "x == 4" was true on a previous iteration, and that "x == 6" had at that point never been true.
Pitfalls
The flip-flop operator needs to store its current state.
There is no way for the programmer to explicitly define where this state is stored and what its lifetime is.
The lifetime makes a difference when the same code is used by several threads, or in recursive functions.
These concurrent accesses to the state of the flip-flop operator can lead to undefined behavior, or at least surprising results, depending on the programming language.
For example, in Perl each flip-flop operator has its own state, shared among all the threads, the other programming languages do the same.
To work around this limitation, the flip-flop operator would have to be modeled as an abstract data type, parameterized with:
a predicate that tells whether to switch the flip-flop on,
a predicate that tells whether to switch the flip-flop off.
This flip-flop data type would provide a function that queries and updates its state at the same time.
This function gets the actual data on which the switching predicates depend and passes that data to the two predicates, if necessary.
Due to this inherent complexity, only few programming languages have adopted the flip-flop operator.
References
Operators (programming) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20%281982%20film%29 | We () is a 1982 German science fiction film written by , directed by Vojtěch Jasný and produced by German TV network ZDF. The film presents a world of harmony and conformity within a united state of technocratic progressivism. It is based on the 1921 novel We by the Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin.
Plot
One thousand years after the One State's conquest of the entire world, the spaceship Integral is being built in order to invade and conquer extraterrestrial planets. Meanwhile, the project's chief engineer, D-503, begins a diary that he intends to be carried upon the completed spaceship.
Cast
Dieter Laser as D-503
Sabine von Maydell as I-330
Gert Haucke as S-4710
Joachim Dietmar Mues as Erster Arzt
Susanne Altschul as O-90
Giovanni Früh as R-13
Wolfgang Kaven as D-504
Dieter G. Knichel as Zweiter Arzt
Kurt Lambrigger as Delinquent
Marga Maasberg as Altes Weib
Heinz Moog as Wohltäter
Hanna Ruess as U-27
See also
The Glass Fortress, a 2016 film based on the same novel
References
External links
1982 television films
1982 films
Dystopian films
Films based on Russian novels
Films based on science fiction novels
Films based on works by Yevgeny Zamyatin
1980s German-language films
German-language television shows
German science fiction television films
West German films
ZDF original programming
1980s German films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty%20COW | Dirty COW (Dirty copy-on-write) is a computer security vulnerability of the Linux kernel that affected all Linux-based operating systems, including Android devices, that used older versions of the Linux kernel created before 2018. It is a local privilege escalation bug that exploits a race condition in the implementation of the copy-on-write mechanism in the kernel's memory-management subsystem. Computers and devices that still use the older kernels remain vulnerable.
The vulnerability was discovered by Phil Oester.
Because of the race condition, with the right timing, a local attacker can exploit the copy-on-write mechanism to turn a read-only mapping of a file into a writable mapping. Although it is a local privilege escalation, remote attackers can use it in conjunction with other exploits that allow remote execution of non-privileged code to achieve remote root access on a computer. The attack itself does not leave traces in the system log.
The vulnerability has the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures designation . Dirty Cow was one of the first security issues transparently fixed in Ubuntu by the Canonical Live Patch service.
It has been demonstrated that the vulnerability can be utilized to root any Android device up to (and excluding) Android version 7 (Nougat).
History
The vulnerability has existed in the Linux kernel since version 2.6.22 released in September 2007, and there is information about it being actively exploited at least since October 2016. The vulnerability has been patched in Linux kernel versions 4.8.3, 4.7.9, 4.4.26 and newer.
The patch produced in 2016 did not fully address the issue and a revised patch was released on November 27, 2017, before public dissemination of the vulnerability.
Applications
The Dirty COW vulnerability has many perceived use cases including proven examples, such as obtaining root permissions in Android devices, as well as several speculated implementations. There are many binaries used in Linux which are read-only, and can only be modified or written to by a user of higher permissions, such as the root. When privileges are escalated, whether by genuine or malicious means – such as by using the Dirty COW exploit – the user can modify usually unmodifiable binaries and files. If a malicious individual could use the Dirty COW vulnerability to escalate their permissions, they could change a file, such as /bin/bash, so that it performs additional, unexpected functions, such as a keylogger. When a user starts a program which has been infected, they will inadvertently allow the malicious code to run. If the exploit targets a program which is run with root privileges, the exploit will have those same privileges.
Remedies and recourse
At the dawn of its discovery, anyone using a machine running Linux was susceptible to the exploit. The exploit has no preventative work around, the only cure is a patch or running a newer version which is not vulnerable anymore. Linus Torvalds committed a patch on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20Pandurangan | Vijay Pandurangan is a Canadian computer scientist and internet entrepreneur and expert on online privacy, known for his work in scientific software education and early technical contributions at Google. He is now based in Virginia. As an adjunct professor at Stanford University, he teaches a course on Software Engineering for Scientists, emphasizing the critical importance of software skills in modern scientific research. In addition to his academic work, Pandurangan has made numerous early-stage investments in various technology startups.
Early life
Pandurangan was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec.
Career
Google, Twitter, and Benchmark
Pandurangan was an early engineer at Google from 2002-2009 and published papers on data storage technologies. He co-founded Mitro in 2013 which was then sold to Twitter. Pandurangan then became head of the Twitter New York engineering office. In this role at Twitter he was responsible for the launch of Twitter products such as the highly anticipated Twitter Moments. He also posted about the high use of Google Hangouts inside Twitter and their usefulness to remote teams. He and his teams also contributed bug fixes to the Linux kernel.
He departed Twitter in 2016 along with several other senior Twitter executives as the company struggled to turn itself around in the face of declining user growth.
In October 2016 Pandurangan was hired as entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark and he relocated from New York to San Francisco. He is an occasional guest writer for Wired and has written on topics such as the success of Snapchat's success in the context of Twitter's stumbles.
Adjunct Professor at Stanford
Since 2022, Pandurangan has been an adjunct professor at Stanford University, teaching Software Engineering for Scientists (BIODS253) .This course emphasizes the importance of coding, using standard tools, writing and testing well-designed programs, and collaborating with peers, as these skills are critical for modern scientists but are generally not taught in academia. Vijay gave a keynote speech in 2022 at the 14th Annual Alberta Prostate Cancer Research Initiative Fall Symposium in Banff, Alberta on how better software engineering improves scientific and medical research. In 2023, Pandurangan gave a talk at the Pacific Systems Biology conference on the impact of poor software engineering on science
Other projects
Pandurangan is regularly cited in the press for his various projects in big data. These projects included a 2014 successful attempt at de-anonymizing New York City taxicab data which led to New York City then tightening up access to the taxicab data. This data was used to identify possible religious backgrounds of particular drivers as well as to determine the tipping behaviors of celebrities.
He also conducted an exposé in 2016 showing that Google's SMS-based account recovery can reduce the security of a Google account.
In 2012 he also used big data to analyze color composition of movie poste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20T.%20Martin | Harold Thomas Martin III (born November 1964) is an American computer scientist and former contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton who pleaded guilty to illegally removing 50 terabytes of data from the National Security Agency. The United States government reportedly failed to note or effectively respond to a number of issues with Martin's security practices and behaviors over a period of 10 to 20 years. The motive for the crime has been a subject of debate, investigators reportedly had difficulty determining if Martin was engaged in conventional espionage or digital hoarding since throughout his decades of work, he appeared not to have ever accessed any of the files once he removed them from government facilities.
Career
Martin earned a bachelor's degree in economics and math from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, and commissioned as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy upon graduation. He served in the Navy from 1987 until 2000, deploying to the Gulf during Operation Desert Storm. During the later part of his military service he transferred to a part time role in the Navy Reserve, which was when he first received access to classified data. Upon leaving the military, Martin remained in the D.C. metro area, continuing his education with a master's degree in information systems from George Mason University in 2004, and maintaining his security clearance working for government contractors including Computer Sciences Corporation and Tenacity Solutions. He was later hired by defense staffing giant Booz Allen Hamilton, tasked to the National Security Agency from 2012 to 2015, during which time he worked with the elite Tailored Access Operations unit, albeit in a support capacity. In 2015, while still a contractor for Booz Allen, Martin moved to the Pentagon's Office of Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L), working at a Department of Defense facility in Alexandria, Virginia up until his arrest in 2016.
At the time of his arrest, Martin was pursuing a Doctor of Computer Science degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His research area was "Virtual Interfaces for Exploration of Heterogeneous & Cloud Computing Architectures." Roy Rada, a retired professor at UMBC who mentored Martin early in his doctoral research, told The New York Times that Martin had been very interested in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and how to diagnose it quickly using eye tracking. Rada reported that Martin believed that he had many of the symptoms of PTSD, possibly a result of his service in the Gulf, and sought funding from military health agencies to carry out a major research project on PTSD diagnoses, though his proposals were not funded.
The New York Times described Martin as an "introverted loner," citing a former colleague's description of a man with a "sort of Walter Mitty-complex" which drove him to engage in fantasticism and grandiose delusions. The source recounted that Martin once traveled to Georgia to purchase a retir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201969%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1969, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Rubén Machado's "Escalera a la fama".
See also
1969 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine.
1969 in Argentina
Argentina
1969 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation%20%28Grimm%29 | "Revelation" is the 13th episode of season 3 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 57th episode overall, which premiered on February 28, 2014, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by series creators Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt, and was directed by Terrence O'Hara.
Plot
Opening quote: "Still, after a short time the family's distress again worsened, and there was no relief anywhere in sight."
Nick (David Giuntoli) fights Monroe's (Silas Weir Mitchell) father. Monroe manages to stop the fight but his parents are now upset that their son has a friendship with a Grimm and leave. Monroe also tells Nick to leave. Rosalee (Bree Turner) is now in the spice shop, crying, until Monroe arrives to help her and planning on cutting ties with his parents for not letting them stay together.
In Vienna, Stefania (Shohreh Aghdashloo) is revealed to have been working for Prince Viktor (Alexis Denisof) all along to get Adalind's (Claire Coffee) baby. Renard (Sasha Roiz) is notified of this by Sebastien (Christian Lagadec) and warns Adalind to go with Sebastien and Meisner (Damian Puckler). A park ranger is killed by Woden (Matt Lasky) and Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) worries that Nick could be next as he is a police officer.
Meisner kills Viktor's guards to help Adalind get out of the room. They and Sebastien go on a car, with Meisner and Adalind leaving on foot into a forest to an old building belonging to Meisner where they will stay. Nick, Hank (Russell Hornsby) and Wu (Reggie Lee) are called to investigate the park ranger's death, deducing that Woden worked with someone else to retrieve the vehicles. They also find that the owner of one of the vehicles is a soldier who was A.W.O.L. Nick meets in Monroe's house, where both apologize to each other and find that a possible way to weaken Woden is by taking his hair, although this has never been confirmed.
When Nick and Monroe leave the trailer, they're attacked by Woden and two other Wildesheers. They're nearly killed when Bart helps them to cut their hair and kill them. While tending Adalind, she begins to have severe pain and tells Meisner that the baby is coming. The episode ends as Nick, Juliette, Monroe, Bart, Alice and Rosalee dine together although there continues to be tension among them.
Reception
Viewers
The episode was viewed by 5.32 million people, earning a 1.4/5 in the 18-49 rating demographics on the Nielson ratings scale, ranking third on its timeslot and fifth for the night in the 18-49 demographics, behind Blue Bloods, Hawaii Five-0, 20/20, and Shark Tank. This was a 10% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 5.88 million viewers with a 1.5/5. This means that 1.4 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 5 percent of all households watching television at that time watched it. With DVR factoring in, the episode was watched by 8.15 million viewers with a 2.6 ratings share in the 18-49 demographics.
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