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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability%20assessment%20%28computing%29 | Vulnerability assessment is a process of defining, identifying and classifying the security holes in information technology systems. An attacker can exploit a vulnerability to violate the security of a system. Some known vulnerabilities are Authentication Vulnerability, Authorization Vulnerability and Input Validation Vulnerability.
Purpose
Before deploying a system, it first must go through from a series of vulnerability assessments that will ensure that the build system is secure from all the known security risks. When a new vulnerability is discovered, the system administrator can again perform an assessment, discover which modules are vulnerable, and start the patch process. After the fixes are in place, another assessment can be run to verify that the vulnerabilities were actually resolved. This cycle of assess, patch, and re-assess has become the standard method for many organizations to manage their security issues.
The primary purpose of the assessment is to find the vulnerabilities in the system, but the assessment report conveys to stakeholders that the system is secured from these vulnerabilities. If an intruder gained access to a network consisting of vulnerable Web servers, it is safe to assume that he gained access to those systems as well. Because of assessment report, the security administrator will be able to determine how intrusion occurred, identify compromised assets and take appropriate security measures to prevent critical damage to the system.
Assessment types
Depending on the system a vulnerability assessment can have many types and level.
Host assessment
A host assessment looks for system-level vulnerabilities such as insecure file permissions, application level bugs, backdoor and Trojan horse installations. It requires specialized tools for the operating system and software packages being used, in addition to administrative access to each system that should be tested. Host assessment is often very costly in term of time, and thus is only used in the assessment of critical systems. Tools like COPS and Tiger are popular in host assessment.
Network assessment
In a network assessment one assess the network for known vulnerabilities. It locates all systems on a network, determines what network services are in use, and then analyzes those services for potential vulnerabilities. This process does not require any configuration changes on the systems being assessed. Unlike host assessment, network assessment requires little computational cost and effort.
Vulnerability assessment vs penetration testing
Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing are two different testing methods. They are differentiated on the basis of certain specific parameters.
References
External links
List of known Vulnerabilities
Information technology
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledvance | Ledvance GmbH is a German multinational LED lighting and smart home technology company, with headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany. Ledvance specializes in lighting products and networked light applications that evolved from the divestment of Osram Licht AG in July 2016. According to the company's LinkedIn page, Ledvance employs roughly 8,000 employees in over 140 countries. Since April 2018, Ledvance has been owned by Chinese lighting company, MLS.
History
In April 2015, it was announced that Osram would divest its lamp business for general lighting with just over one-third of its employees. In June 2015, the supervisory board of Osram Licht AG agreed to the divestment of their lamp division with products such as LED lamps, halogen lamps, and compact fluorescent lamps. Since July 1, 2016, Ledvance has operated as a legally independent company. The company is permitted continued use of the brand names Osram and Sylvania in the United States and Canada. At the end of July 2016, Osram announced that Ledvance would be sold for more than €400 million to a Chinese consortium. The new owners, each with one-third stake, were expected to be the Chinese light source manufacturer MLS and the Chinese finance investors Yiwu and IDG. The sale was assessed by the regulatory authorities. The conclusion of the transaction was expected during the fiscal year 2017, pending regulatory approval. The sale of Ledvance by Osram to the Chinese investment consortium, consisting of investor IDG Capital, LED packaging manufacturer MLS, and Yiwu, was completed on March 3, 2017, with economic effect as of March 1, 2017. Since April 2018, MLS is the sole owner of Ledvance.
Products
Following the divestment, the product portfolio of Ledvance consists of LED lamps, over-the-counter (OTC) luminaires, lighting products for the Smart Home and Smart Building sectors, and traditional lamps. The products are distributed via wholesale and retail, as well as online platforms.
Locations
The company is active in more than 140 countries worldwide.
References
Lighting brands
German brands
Garching bei München
Companies based in Upper Bavaria
Manufacturing companies established in 2016
German companies established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm%20Centriq | Centriq ( ) is a brand of system on a chip (SoC) semiconductor products designed and marketed by Qualcomm for data centers. The Centriq central processing unit (CPU) uses the ARM RISC instruction set, with multiple CPU cores in a single chip.
History
Pre-release
In November 2014, Qualcomm announced it was developing an ARM ARMv8-A microarchitecture based CPU that was purpose-built for data centers. In December 2016, the company announced and demonstrated the first multi-core CPUs based on a custom ARM ARMv8-A microarchitecture.
Early products
The first Centriq 2400 series of products were made available to server manufacturers in November 2017. With these first products, Qualcomm introduced its "Falkor" ARMv8-A microarchitecture. The chip has up to 48 of Qualcomm's custom designed "Falkor" cores at up to 2.6GHz, with six-channel DDR4 memory and a 60 MB L3 cache.
Market environment
A number of reviews have noted at its release that the Centriq is expected to face significant competition from established x86-64 data-center CPU manufacturers Intel and AMD, and ARM microarchitecture server products such as Cavium's ThunderX2. In addition to competitive pressures, it has been noted that running established workloads on ARM microarchitectures requires re-optimizing and recompiling the software, or x86-64 emulation, presenting a barrier to entry for some potential customers.
References
External links
ARM-based systems on chips
Computer-related introductions in 2017
Qualcomm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%201994 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 1994, only two charts were published, both with "Always" by Bon Jovi at number one. The third published chart of the year covers the period between 23 October 1994 and 21 January 1995, and lists Van Halen's "Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)" as number one for the entire period.
Chart history
See also
1994 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 1994
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
1994 in British music
UK Rock and Metal Singles
Rock 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsteroidOS | AsteroidOS is an open source operating system designed for smartwatches. It is available as a firmware replacement for some Android Wear devices. The motto for the AsteroidOS project is "Free your wrist."
Wareable.com reviewed version 1.0 and gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Software Architecture
AsteroidOS is built like an embedded Linux distribution with OpenEmbedded. It works on top of the Linux kernel and the systemd service manager. AsteroidOS also includes various mobile Linux middlewares originally developed for Mer and Nemo Mobile such as lipstick and MCE.
The user interface is completely written with the Qt5 framework. Applications are coded in QML with graphic components coming from Qt Quick and QML-Asteroid. An SDK with a cross-compilation toolchain integrated to Qt Creator can be generated from OpenEmbedded for easier development.
Asteroid-launcher is a Wayland compositor and customizable home screen managing applications, watchfaces, notifications and quick settings. Asteroid-launcher runs on top of the libhybris compatibility layer to make use of Bionic GPU drivers.
AsteroidOS offers Bluetooth Low Energy synchronization capabilities with the asteroid-btsyncd daemon running on top of BlueZ5. A reference client named AsteroidOS Sync is available for Android users. There is also a Companion App for Sailfish OS(Starship) and one for Ubuntu Touch(Telescope), but it has not yet been updated to the current release of Ubuntu Touch. An app for Linux-based smartphones like the Librem 5 distributed by Purism is also in the making(Buran), but cannot be used due to a currently still unfixed bug in QT5.
Shipped Applications
As of the 1.1 nightly release, the following applications are shipped and pre-installed by default in AsteroidOS:
Agenda: Provides simple event scheduling capabilities
Alarm Clock: Makes the watch vibrate at a specific time of day
Calculator: Allows basic calculations
Compass: A functional Compass app (only preinstalled on devices with supported sensors)
Diamonds: A game, which is inspired by 2048.
Flashlight: A simple flashlight app where the screen acts as a light source.
Heart Rate: An app for heart-rate-monitor bpm retrieval
Music: Controls a synchronized device's music player
Settings: Configures Time, Date, Language, Bluetooth, Brightness, AOD(on supported devices), Nightstand, Wallpapers, Custom Launchers, Watch faces and USB Modes (Charging,ADB ,SSH ,MTP)
Stopwatch: Measures an elapsed time
Timer: Counts down a specified time interval
Weather: Provides weather forecast for five days
See also
Wear OS
Sailfish OS
Ubuntu Touch
OpenEmbedded
Hybris (software)
Qt (software)
Linux(Kernel)
References
Smartwatches
Wearable computers
Free software operating systems
Mobile operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpia%20%28journalist%29 | Scorpia is the pseudonym of a video game journalist who was active from the early 1980s through the late 1990s. She wrote for Computer Gaming World, reviewing role-playing video games and adventure games. Scorpia was known for her harsh criticism of video games she disliked. She was fired after CGW was sold to Ziff-Davis in 1999, and subsequently retired from games journalism. Her pseudonym is based on a character she created in a role-playing game.
Career
Scorpia became interested in computers after attending a computer expo. Her initial aim was to become a programmer, and she said she bought her first computer games to learn how to program. In November 1982, while working as a data processing consultant, Scorpia co-founded an early gaming-related Special Interest Group on CompuServe. It became the group's eighth-most-popular forum, and Scorpia received free access to their subscription service in return for maintaining it. As a system operator, she ran online conferences and hosted games. The following year, Computer Gaming World (CGW) owner Russell Sipe contacted her on CompuServe and invited her to write for the magazine. Scorpia agreed, though she admitted she had never read it. She reviewed role-playing video games and adventure games there for 16 years.
Scorpia became a prominent reviewer in the industry. In addition to her writing and online presence, she provided game hints to players who contacted her through a post office box. She became known for harsh criticism of video games she disliked. CGW thus billed her as "controversial" and often published a Scorpia review together with another of the same game by a different reviewer. Scorpia's review of Ultima VIII: Pagan was highlighted by GameSetWatch as one of the harshest video game reviews ever written. Her review of Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World resulted in an angry response from the game's designer, Jon Van Caneghem, who named a monster after Scorpia in his next game. While usually a fan of Infocom, she disliked Infidel so much that she never mentioned it in print, although she did lambast the game by name during an online chat with creator Mike Berlyn.
CGW editor Johnny Wilson described Scorpia as "one of the most refreshing people you could ever meet", and he praised her encyclopedic knowledge of games' puzzles. However, he also cited one example where the two clashed over the role-playing game Darklands. Scorpia wrote a negative review criticizing the game's bugs, and Wilson attached an editorial sidebar with a more positive view. Wilson later acknowledged this was a bad idea, saying that Scorpia's fans correctly criticized him for undercutting her review and overlooking the game's flaws. Because the magazine required a reviewer to finish any game before publishing a review, Wilson said Scorpia favored linearity, resulting in unwarranted criticism of some open-ended works. CGW thus sometimes did not assign her such games.
Scorpia was fired after CGW was sold |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%20The%20Action%20Is%20%28Australia%29 | Where The Action Is was an Australian television show that aired from January to November 1966. It starred Johnny O'Keefe and was produced by the newly launched TEN Network. The concept revolved around O'Keefe traveling to locations around Sydney, and later in the show's run, around Australia. Each episode would feature guest stars that would sing many of their current hits.
The show marked O'Keefe's return to Australian television following the cancellation of his previous show Sing, Sing, Sing in 1965. A combination of O'Keefe's waning popularity, budget constraints, and technical limitations at the new station meant the show was unsuccessful and was cancelled within the same year it commenced. It was the last television series to be hosted by O'Keefe. Only two episodes are known to still exist.
References
1960s Australian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20MXNet | Apache MXNet is an open-source deep learning software framework used to train and deploy deep neural networks. It is scalable, allowing for fast model training, and supports a flexible programming model and multiple programming languages (including C++, Python, Java, Julia, MATLAB, JavaScript, Go, R, Scala, Perl, and Wolfram Language). The MXNet library is portable and can scale to multiple GPUs as well as multiple machines. It was co-developed by Carlos Guestrin at the University of Washington (along with GraphLab).
Features
Apache MXNet is a scalable deep learning framework that supports deep learning models, such as: convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and long short-term memory networks (LSTMs).
Scalable
MXNet can be distributed on dynamic cloud infrastructure using a distributed parameter server (based on research at Carnegie Mellon University, Baidu, and Google). With multiple GPUs or CPUs the framework approaches linear scale.
Flexible
MXNet supports both imperative and symbolic programming. The framework allows developers to track, debug, save checkpoints, modify hyperparameters, and perform early stopping.
Multiple languages
MXNet supports Python, R, Scala, Clojure, Julia, Perl, MATLAB and JavaScript for front-end development, and C++ for back-end optimization.
Portable
Supports deployment of a trained model to low-end devices for inference, such as mobile devices (using Amalgamation), Internet of things devices (using AWS Greengrass), serverless computing (using AWS Lambda) or containers. These low-end environments can have only weaker CPU or limited memory (RAM), and should be able to use the models that were trained on a higher-level environment (GPU based cluster, for example).
Cloud Support
MXNet is supported by public cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Amazon has chosen MXNet as its deep learning framework of choice at AWS. Currently, MXNet is supported by Intel, Baidu, Microsoft, Wolfram Research, and research institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, MIT, the University of Washington, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
See also
Comparison of deep learning software
Differentiable programming
References
Deep learning software
Free statistical software
MXNet
Cross-platform free software
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTNET | Korea Trade Network (KTNET) is a South Korean paperless trade service provider. KTNET is designated as the National Paperless Trade Platform Operator, Customs Network Service Operator, and electronic Bill of Lading Registry and Purchase Certificate Issuing Agency by the Korean government. In accordance with the Korean government's basic plan for comprehensive trade automation, KTNET was established in 1990 with funding from the Korea International Trade Association (KITA).
KTNET, which the government designated as a trade automation business (presently known as National Paperless Trade Infrastructure Operator) in 1992, has contributed to the innovative improvement of trade processes and reduction of trade-related expenses by realizing automation services for all complex processes of export & import businesses through establishment of paperless trade infrastructure. It affects US$5.57 billion annually in trade and services.
Through a trade system linking about 97,000 customers and trade-related organizations, including trading companies, banks, customs brokers, shipping companies, insurance firms, forwarders, and bonded storages, KTNET has digitized c. 614 types of export & import documents in the G2B and B2B sectors, and processes an annual average of 370 million cases of paperless documents.
Service Area
Paperless Trade Service
Electnoric Trade Financing
Transport and Logistics
Customs Clearance
TradeSign Certified Certificate Authority(TradeSign)
Paperless Trade Platform Export
References
External links
Korea Trade Network
Korea International Trade Association
Financial services companies of South Korea
Financial services companies established in 1990
South Korean companies established in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberPowerPC | CyberPowerPC, also known as CyberPower, is an American personal computer retailer. It specializes in building and selling a wide range of (custom-built) gaming computers.
Business
CyberPowerPC was founded and incorporated on February 17, 1998, in the City of Industry, California.
In 2003, the company was listed as the fastest growing privately owned business in the Los Angeles area by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
From 2011 to 2016, CyberPowerPC has been consistently ranked within the top 150 largest privately owned companies headquartered in Los Angeles County by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Products
CyberPowerPC produces and sells PCs primarily for use in computer gaming. Their products feature third-party components prepared into the complete ready-to break
packages. CyberPowerPC offers the option to users to choose their custom components for building PC.
Desktop PCs
With the advent of VR gaming in 2014, CyberPowerPC, with support from Oculus VR, released the most inexpensive computer capable of running the Oculus Rift virtual reality system, according to Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe. Later, CyberPowerPC became notable for developing a PC build for the express purpose of streaming video games.
All desktops released by the company are built to user specifications with several pre-selected builds available. In general, these computers are not given a model name (contrary to laptops) due to the variable nature of each design. CyberPowerPC, however, offers many exclusive series, such as Elgato Stream Machine or Luxe, that range anywhere from one to eight thousand US Dollars.
Laptops
CyberPowerPC laptops fall under the 'Tracer' series. As of 2023, all CyberPowerPC laptops use Intel Core and AMD Ryzen CPUs and Nvidia GeForce GPUs.
Models as of August 2023:
Low Tier
Tracer VII Gaming I16G (100, 200, 300, 400)
Mid Tier
Tracer VII Edge I17E LC (100, 200)
Tracer V Edge Pro I15X 550
High Tier
Tracer VII Gaming I16G LC (100, 200)
Tracer VI Gaming I17GLC 600
Tracer VII Edge I17E LC 500
Gaming consoles
In 2014, CyberPowerPC released a Steam Machine designed to compete with the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 platforms.
eSports
CyberPowerPC participates in the esports form of competitive gameplay by sponsoring and hosting occasional tournaments, such as its Summer 2016 Pro CS:GO Series. Notable eSports team Team SoloMid is sponsored by the business. Additionally, the company sells several lines of custom PC builds designed for eSports.
References
Computer companies of the United States
Computer hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavanya%20Nalli | Lavanya Nalli is an Indian businesswoman. She is vice-chairman of her family's business, the Nalli Group of Companies, which manufactures saris.
Education
Nalli has an engineering degree in computer science at Anna University in Chennai She is a graduate from Harvard Business School.
Career
After graduation, Nalli moved to Chicago and took a job with McKinsey & Company from 2011 to 2013.
In 2014 Nalli returned to India and joined Myntra.com where she was vice president for revenue and shopping experience.
References
Living people
Anna University alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Indian women business executives
McKinsey & Company people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Sibande | Rachel Sibande (born January 9, 1986, in Lilongwe, Malawi) is a Malawian computer scientist and social entrepreneur. She is the Founder of mHub, a technology hub and incubator for innovators and emerging entrepreneurs.
She is a technology advocate, a recipient of a Google Anita Borg Scholarship. In 2016, she was named one of Africa's 30 most promising entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by Forbes.
Sibande has championed the development and deployment of innovative technology solutions in agriculture, public health, election monitoring, citizen engagement, disaster management and Digital Financial Services in 18 countries. She has over ten years of industry experience spanning academia, development and social enterprise domains.
Early life and education
At age 15, she attended the University of Malawi's Chancellor College. She graduated with a bachelor's degree, majoring in computer science.
Sibande attained a Master of Science in information theory, coding, and cryptography from Mzuzu University in 2007 with a distinction.
She attained a PhD in computer science from Rhodes University in 2020 as a Google Scholar.
Career
Rachel Sibande serves as Senior Director, Data for Development. She pioneered initiatives to advance digital skills among children, girls, youth, and women. She has previously served as Director for USA-based non-profit entities ACDI/VOCA, Agribusiness Systems International, and Palladium Group on socio-economic growth projects in East Africa.
Honors and awards
2019: Recipient of 'Forbes Woman Africa Gen Y Award', at the Forbes Africa Woman Summit, South Africa
2019: New Wealth Creator, Forbes Woman Africa, South Africa
2018: Won Climate-Smart track innovate to invent award at the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Global Gathering in Rwanda for creating a thermal chemical process that generates light for rural microgrids.
2016: Malawi's Ambassador to the Next Einstein Forum (NEF), Senegal
2015:Google Anita Borg Scholarship, London
2012:Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Washington DC
Personal life
Sibande is married to Chrispine Sibande, a Malawian human rights lawyer. They have three children.
References
1986 births
Living people
Malawian women computer scientists
People from Lilongwe
University of Málaga alumni
Mzuzu University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus%20Constantine%20Sinclair | Augustus Constantine Sinclair (c. 1834 – 27 January 1891) was the head of the Government Printing Office in Jamaica in the nineteenth century and the compiler with Laurence R. Fyfe of the annual Handbook of Jamaica, first published in 1881. He is credited with the idea of the Jamaica International Exhibition of 1891 but died on its opening day.
Early life and family
Augustus Sinclair was born in Jamaica around 1834. He was christened at St. Catherine's, Middlesex, Jamaica, on 31 December 1834. He married Catherine Ann Rosetta Graham in 1886 and they had a daughter, Amy Louise Graham Sinclair, born 1888, and a son, Cyril Augustus Graham Sinclair, born in 1890.
Career
As head of the Government Printing Office, Sinclair was responsible for printing government publications, including the proceedings of the Jamaican Parliament. He was also the joint compiler with Laurence R. Fyfe of the Colonial Secretary's Office, of the first editions of the long-running Handbook of Jamaica, from 1881.
Also with Fyfe, he wrote Jamaica: Outlines of its Geography and History for schools (1883, at least five later editions) and prepared a report of the Jamaican exhibits at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 for the governors of the Jamaica Institute which was reprinted and bound into C. Washington Eves' own account of the exhibits. In 1889, Sinclair and Fyfe produced a history of Jamaica during the governorship of Sir Henry Wylie Norman (1883–89) which, typically of their historical works, concentrated on chronology and fact-based material rather than analysis.
Jamaica International Exhibition
Sinclair is credited with the idea of the Jamaica International Exhibition of 1891 which he based on the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. For many years he was unable to drum up sufficient support for his project for a Jamaican equivalent, but in 1889 Sir Henry Blake arrived as the new governor of Jamaica and gave the idea his blessing. It opened less than two years later.
Death
Sinclair died, aged 58, at 106 King Street, Kingston, on 27 January 1891, on the day of the opening of the Jamaica International Exhibition. The cause of death was stated to be disease of the heart and liver.
Selected publications
Jamaica: Outlines of its Geography and History. Kingston, 1883. (With Laurence R. Fyfe) (4th, 1888, 5th 1890)
The Jamaica Court at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition: Handbook compiled for the Governors of the Jamaica Institute. Jamaica, 1886. (With Laurence R. Fyfe) (Reprinted and bound into C. Washington Eves' Jamaica at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886, Spottiswoode, London, 1886.)
A Chronological history of Jamaica during the government of His Excellency Sir Henry Wylie Norman. Government Printing Establishment, Jamaica, 1889. (With Laurence R. Fyfe)
References
1830s births
1891 deaths
Jamaican civil servants
Jamaican historians
Historians of the Caribbean
Jamaican non-fiction writers
Year of birth uncertain
Deaths from liver disease |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP%20injection | In computer security, LDAP injection is a code injection technique used to exploit web applications which could reveal sensitive user information or modify information represented in the LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) data stores. LDAP injection exploits a security vulnerability in an application by manipulating input parameters passed to internal search, add or modify functions. When an application fails to properly sanitize user input, it is possible for an attacker to modify an LDAP statement.
Technical Implementation
LDAP injection occurs when user input is not properly sanitized and then used as part of a dynamically generated LDAP filter. This results in potential manipulation of the LDAP statements performed on the LDAP server to either view, modify, or bypass authentication credentials.
Prevention
LDAP injection is a known attack and can be prevented by simple measures. All of the client supplied input must be checked/sanitized of any characters that may result in malicious behavior. The input validation should verify the input by checking for the presence of special characters that are a part of the LDAP query language, known data types, legal values, etc. White list input validation can also be used to detect unauthorized input before it is passed to the LDAP query.
Example
In the below example a query is constructed to validate a user's credentials for the purpose of logging in.
String filter = “(&(USER = ” + user_name + “) (PASSWORD = “ + user_password + “))”;
In a typical use case, a user would provide their user credentials and this filter would be used to validate these credentials. However, an attacker can enter a crafted input for the variable user_name such as johnDoe)(&) and any value for password. The finished query will then become (&(USER = johnDoe)(&))(PASSWORD = pass)). Only the first portion of this query is processed by the LDAP server (&(USER = johnDoe)(&), which always evaluates to true allowing the attacker to gain access to the system without needing to provide valid user credentials.
See also
SQL injection, a similar malicious attack method
References
Injection exploits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20albums%20of%202011%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
2011 in music
ARIA Charts
List of number-one singles of 2011 (Australia)
References
Digital 2011
Australia albums
Number-one albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th%20Annual%20Grammy%20Awards | The 60th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on January 28, 2018. The CBS network broadcast the show live from Madison Square Garden in New York City. The show was moved to January to avoid coinciding with the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, as was the case in 2010 and 2014. James Corden returned as host.
The ceremony recognizes the best recordings, compositions and artists of the eligibility year, which ran from October 1, 2016, to September 30, 2017. The nominations were announced on November 28, 2017. The "pre-telecast" ceremony (officially named The Premiere Ceremony) was held on the same day prior to the main ceremony.
Bruno Mars was nominated for six awards and won all six on the night.
Performers
Premiere ceremony
Main ceremony
Presenters
John Legend and Tony Bennett – presented Best Rap/Sung Performance
Kelly Clarkson and Nick Jonas – presented Best New Artist
Jim Gaffigan – introduced Little Big Town
Jon Batiste, Gary Clark Jr., and Joe Saylor – presented Best Pop Solo Performance
Sarah Silverman and Victor Cruz – introduced Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Zuleyka Rivera
Dave Chappelle – presented Best Rap Album
Katie Holmes – introduced Bruno Mars and Cardi B
Trevor Noah – presenting Best Comedy Album
Donnie Wahlberg and Hailee Steinfeld – presenting Best Country Album
Janelle Monáe – introduced Kesha, Camila Cabello, Cyndi Lauper, Julia Michaels, Andra Day and Bebe Rexha
Camila Cabello – introduced U2
Sting – presenting Song of the Year
Anna Kendrick – introduced Elton John and Miley Cyrus
Shemar Moore and Eve – introduced SZA
Alicia Keys – presenting Record of the Year
U2 – presenting Album of the Year
Nominations and winners
Nominees list adapted from the Recording Academy's website.
General
Record of the Year
"24K Magic" – Bruno Mars
Shampoo Press & Curl, producers; Serban Ghenea, John Hanes & Charles Moniz, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer
"Redbone" – Childish Gambino
Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, producers; Donald Glover, Ludwig Goransson, Riley Mackin & Ruben Rivera, engineers/mixers; Bernie Grundman, mastering engineer
"Despacito" – Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber
Josh Gudwin, Mauricio Rengifo & Andrés Torres, producers; Josh Gudwin & Jaycen Joshua, Chris "TEK" O’Ryan, Mauricio Rengifo, Juan G Rivera "Gaby Music", Luis "Salda" Saldarriaga & Andrés Torres, engineers/mixers; Dave Kutch, mastering engineer
"The Story of O.J." – Jay-Z
Jay-Z & No I.D., producers; Jimmy Douglass & Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, engineers/mixers; Dave Kutch, mastering engineer
"Humble" – Kendrick Lamar
Asheton Hogan & Mike Will Made It, producers; Derek "MixedByAli" Ali, James Hunt & Matt Schaeffer, engineers/mixers; Mike Bozzi, mastering engineer
Album of the Year
24K Magic – Bruno Mars
Shampoo Press & Curl, producers; Serban Ghenea, John Hanes & Charles Moniz, engineers/mixers; Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence & Bruno Mars, songwriters; Tom Coyne, mastering engine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne%20Internet | Airborne Internet is a concept that overlays network theory and principles into the transportation realm. The system goal is to establish information connectivity. To reach that goal, the system must create a scalable, general purpose, multi-application data channel for people in transit.
Airborne Internet, the new science of bringing network connectivity to aircraft, is a technology that has the potential to integrate and support a myriad of activities, in both the cockpit and cabin environments. The original concept proposed in 1999 suggested an open system with a scalable architecture: one that is a general purpose, multi-application data channel, for all communications, navigation and surveillance exchanges. Airborne Internet sees all the participating aircraft acting as air-to-air relays, each operating in a peer-to-peer relationship with other aircraft, and supporting the network, even if an aircraft is not consuming bandwidth for its own purposes. Every aircraft is a node on the network.
Airborne Internet for the cockpit offers many possibilities: digital air traffic communications that enables the pilot to have better access to digital information sources, air transport operations and administration, enhanced weather information, 4-dimensional trajectory flight plan management from the air traffic control system, safety and security. Safety will be enhanced when the flight crew is better able to access information sources faster than before. Digital verification techniques can be employed to ensure the security of the information. Airborne Internet also provides the potential to be used by the Federal Air Marshals, airline operations, and flight crew for security information purposes. Aircraft maintenance functionality can use the network to provide important status information to the air carrier.
Airborne Internet for the cabin offers communications for passengers, in-flight entertainment, and other non-critical information sources.
The end-state Airborne Internet system is envisioned as a network of ground stations, specially equipped aircraft, satellites and unmanned aircraft systems to carry two-way broadband communications traffic to aircraft for use by passengers, operators and air traffic control centers.
It has the potential to change how aircraft are monitored and tracked by air traffic control systems, and how they exchange information with and about other aircraft (peer-to-peer). Critical information such as weather, turbulence, and landing conditions can be exchanged, as well as the distance between aircraft and the ground. This information becomes even more critical for aircraft that are beyond line of sight range. There would also be the capability to allow aircraft passengers to go online to check their e-mails, pay bills and surf the web without interference with radio and aircraft control signals.
Background
The fundamental premise of Airborne Internet is that network capability to aircraft will improve the way o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padhraic%20Smyth | Padhraic Smyth is a Professor of Computer Science in UC Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. He also serves as Director of UC Irvine's Data Science Initiative and Associate Director for UC Irvine's Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems. He was elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2010 "for significant contributions to the theory and practice of statistical machine learning".
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Living people
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1962 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Brass | William Brass (5 September 1921 – 11 November 1999) was a Scottish demographer. He developed indirect methods for estimating mortality and fertility in populations with inaccurate or incomplete data, often dubbed "Brass methods" after him.
Early life and education
Brass was born in Edinburgh, where he went to school at the Royal High School and earned a Master's degree in mathematics and natural philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 1947; during the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy Scientific Service.
Career
Brass's career as a demographer began in 1948 when he worked as a statistician, then as deputy director, for the East African Statistical Department in Nairobi, which collected and analysed data on Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar. During his time there, the department conducted the first comprehensive census in East Africa, and Brass designed and analysed the East African Medical Survey.
From 1955 to 1964 he was a lecturer in statistics at the University of Aberdeen; he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1963. He spent a sabbatical year at Princeton University, where he worked with Ansley J. Coale and others at the Office of Population Research on methods for overcoming the unsatisfactory demographic data for Africa, leading to The Demography of Tropical Africa, published in 1968.
From 1965 until retiring in 1988, he was Reader in Medical Demography and then Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; the first demographer there, he established the Centre for Population Studies, established a master's course in medical demography and taught many of its courses, headed the Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology from 1977 to 1981 and was chairman of the division from 1981 to 1985.
In retirement he spent time working at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Australian National University, and chaired the working group on Kenya for the Committee on Population and Demography of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Research contributions
Beginning with his work in East Africa, Brass developed what he called indirect estimation, techniques for deriving statistics on fertility, mortality and population growth from imperfect and incomplete data, including devising and working from simple questions such as the number of living children and living parents a respondent has. These form the basis of modern estimates of world population growth and are informally called "Brass methods", "Brass techniques" or "Brass estimates" after him.
He also worked on population modelling and on British demography, for example analysing the role of female employment and predicting that the high birth rate amongst immigrants in the 1970s would not continue.
Selected publications
1953. "The derivation of fertility and reproduction rates from restricted data on reproductive histories," Population Studies, 2: 137-166.
1954. "The estimation of fertility rates from ratios of total to first births, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20%28video%20game%29 | Timeline is a 2000 adventure/puzzle video game published by Eidos Interactive for the Microsoft Windows. The game was developed by author Michael Crichton's Timeline Computer Entertainment (initially formed as Timeline Studios), and is based on Crichton's 1999 novel of the same name. Crichton was directly involved in the game's creation.
Gameplay
Timeline is played from a first-person perspective, with a focus on adventure and puzzle-solving. The plot of Timeline is largely similar to the novel, with some changes that include the absence of the novel's scientific aspect and character development, and the removal of characters such as Andre Marek.
In the game, a group of scientists discover a method of time travel and ventures to 14th-century France to conduct research. When one of the scientists, Edward Johnston, does not return from the trip, a graduate student named Christopher Hughes travels to the time era to search for Johnston. The player controls Hughes, and is accompanied by Kate, who provides hints to the player throughout the game. The game is divided into various chapters, which include the player participating in a jousting tournament. Enemies cannot be killed in the game, as doing so could disrupt Hughes' future timeline. Killing an enemy results in the player being forced to restart from the last save point. The game includes a free-roaming tour mode, in which the player can observe the environment while Michael Crichton provides narration to explain the history of the area.
Development and release
In April 1999, Crichton announced the formation of his own video game development company, Timeline Studios, which would develop games based on Crichton's previous projects. In May 1999, publishing company Eidos Interactive announced that it had invested a stake in Timeline Studios as part of a publishing deal. Development began that month on Timeline's first project, an unspecified video game planned for the first half of 2000. On June 21, 2000, Eidos announced that the company's first game with Timeline Computer Entertainment would be Timeline, based on Crichton's 1999 novel of the same name. Eidos had hoped that Timeline would break new ground with its emphasis on diverse environments, interactivity, and story.
Crichton worked on the game as director and as a game designer. Crichton often held video conferences with the development team to approve and disapprove of gameplay elements. On the game's official website, Crichton described Timeline as "a game for people that don't usually play games." The development team hoped to create a game that would be easy enough for new players, but still challenging enough for more experienced players. Paul Wirth, a producer on the game, said, "One of the design objectives was making it so the average person could finish the whole experience." An orchestral score was composed for the game by Bill Brown. Timeline was released on November 13, 2000. Copies of the game included a free copy of the no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimsby%20GO%20Station | Grimsby GO Station is a proposed commuter rail station on the GO Transit train and bus network in Southern Ontario, Canada. Located in the town of Grimsby in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, it would be a stop on the Lakeshore West line, east of the proposed Confederation GO Station in Hamilton. It was expected to open in 2021 and would have been the first station to open in the planned Niagara extension, which will also include stops at and stations.
Three potential sites for the station along the Grimsby Subdivision Canadian National Railway track were considered. The three sites were at Bartlett Avenue in the east, at Victoria Avenue in the town centre adjacent to the Grimsby railway station used by Via Rail, and at Casablanca Boulevard in the west.
In November 2018, Metrolinx sent a letter to the government of the Regional Municipality of Niagara stating that it was halting the delivery process for this station and other stations in the Niagara extension, as the Government of Ontario was instead seeking private financing of their construction.
Site research
As part of an environmental assessment for the broader rail expansion project to Niagara Region, three potential sites in Grimsby were evaluated for the cultural heritage impact of construction of a train station building and associated facilities such as parking and platforms. This included reviewing the book 1876 illustrated Historical Atlas of the Counties of Lincoln and Welland, Ontario, for features in Lincoln County and Welland County, historic counties in the province now part of Niagara Region; none of the three sites were found to have features of historic value requiring preservation by document review.
Field reviews were undertaken in January and March 2010 to identify and photograph cultural heritage resources within or near each potential station site. These identified six cultural heritage resources that may incur an impact from a railway station, all adjacent to the Victoria Avenue site.
The April 2011 Niagara Rail Service Expansion Environmental Study Report recommended the Casablanca Avenue site as the preferred option for a train station in Grimsby. Among the reasons cited were that adjacent lands are primarily commercial, there are no cultural or natural heritage features to protect, no watercourses are impacted, and GO Transit already operates a GO Bus service at the site.
Bartlett Avenue site
The Bartlett Avenue site (LA8) is part of Lots 1 and 2 of Concession 1 of the historic Lincoln
County. The vacant site is on the east side of Bartlett Avenue and south of the Queen Elizabeth Way, at mile 25.67 of the Grimsby Subdivision. The site is within the provincial Greenbelt of the Golden Horseshoe, officially designated as "Tender Fruit and Grape Lands" provincially and a "Specialty Crop Area" municipally.
Victoria Avenue site
The Victoria Avenue site (LA9) is adjacent to the site of the Grimsby railway station built in the 1990s, on the site of the second a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Schneider%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Steve Schneider FBCS, CITP is an English computer scientist and Professor of Security. He is Director of the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security and Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) at the University of Surrey.
Biography
Steve Schneider studied at Oxford University, joining the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science) to study for a Doctorate on CSP, which was awarded in 1989, supervised by Mike Reed. He joined Royal Holloway, University of London as a lecturer in 1994, becoming a senior lecturer in 1999 and a professor in 2002. He moved to the University of Surrey in 2004, and was head of the Department of Computer Science from 2004 until 2010.
Schneider is an expert in formal methods, including Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and the B-Method, and computer security.
Selected books
References
External links
Steve Schneider's University of Surrey home page
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Computer security academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackNurse | The BlackNurse attack is a form of denial of service attack based on ICMP flooding. The attack is special because a modest bandwidth of 20Mbit/s can be effective for disrupting a victim's network.
The attack consists of sending ICMP Destination Unreachable packets to a destination. This works because these packets caused the destination to consume resources at a relatively high rate relative to the traffic.
Discovery
The attack was first discovered by researchers Lenny Hansson and Kenneth Bjerregard Jørgensen at the Security Operations Center of the Danish Telecom operator TDC. The researchers' goal is to protect customers on that telecom network from DDoS attacks and other cyber threats.
The team noted in their release about the attack:
The BlackNurse attack attracted our attention, because in our anti-DDoS solution we experienced that even though traffic speed and packets per second were very low, this attack could keep our customers' operations down. This even applied to customers with large internet uplinks and large enterprise firewalls in place. We had expected that professional firewall equipment would be able to handle the attack.
DOS attacks
Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled.
Commonly, such an attack is done in a distributed manner, where many clients will send requests to a given server. The sum of all the client's traffic is often enough to overwhelm the destination and cause the service to go offline or become unavailable.
Attack
In the case of the BlackNurse attack, instead of flooding a remote system's internet traffic with superfluous traffic, the attack takes advantage of an imbalance between the resources required to send traffic and the resources required to process it.
Namely, the BlackNurse attacks uses ICMP with Type 3 Code 3 packets.
This is a packet that is meant to be sent when a destination's port is unreachable.
Unlike previous attacks using the ICMP protocol--Smurf attack, ping flood, ping of death--BlackNurse does not flood the destination with traffic. Instead, the researchers realized that the "Destination Port Unreachable" packet causes high CPU usage in the firewall that processes it. Using a relatively small bandwidth of 15-18Mbit/s, an attacker can cause CPU usage to spike in a target firewall, causing that firewall to become unable to process more requests.
Determining vulnerability
To test if your device is vulnerable, you can send the ICMP packet to your network using hping. It is recommended to run these commands from the WAN side of your firewall.
hping3 -1 -C 3 -K 3 -i u20 <target ip>
hping3 -1 -C 3 -K 3 --flood <target ip>
While running the test, attempt to use the network normally while watching the CPU usage of the firewall.
Reasons for efficacy
Because of the history of ICMP attacks, many ICMP packets are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81d%C3%A1m%20Kor%C3%A1nyi | Ádám Korányi (born July 13, 1932, in Szeged) is a Hungarian and American mathematician. He is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman College, City University of New York and at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research interests include complex analysis, harmonic analysis, and quasiconformal mappings.
Life and career
Korányi earned his doctorate in 1959 from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Marshall Stone.
He has been an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2001.
Korányi advised 7 doctoral students, including Howard L. Resnikoff.
Selected publications
References
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20th-century American mathematicians
20th-century Hungarian mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
21st-century Hungarian mathematicians
Living people
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University of Chicago alumni
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CUNY Graduate Center faculty
Lehman College faculty
Complex analysts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20multidimensional%20digital%20signal%20processing | Parallel multidimensional digital signal processing (mD-DSP) is defined as the application of parallel programming and multiprocessing to digital signal processing techniques to process digital signals that have more than a single dimension. The use of mD-DSP is fundamental to many application areas such as digital image and video processing, medical imaging, geophysical signal analysis, sonar, radar, lidar, array processing, computer vision, computational photography, and augmented and virtual reality. However, as the number of dimensions of a signal increases the computational complexity to operate on the signal increases rapidly. This relationship between the number of dimensions and the amount of complexity, related to both time and space, as studied in the field of algorithm analysis, is analogues to the concept of the curse of dimensionality. This large complexity generally results in an extremely long execution run-time of a given mD-DSP application rendering its usage to become impractical for many applications; especially for real-time applications. This long run-time is the primary motivation of applying parallel algorithmic techniques to mD-DSP problems.
Motivation, problem statement, and basic concepts
Due to the end of frequency scaling of processors, which is largely attributed to the effect of Dennard scaling around the year 2005, a common trend of processor manufacturers was to continue to exploit Moore's law by increasing the number of processors on a single chip, which are termed multi-core processors as opposed to uniprocessors.
mD-DSP algorithms exhibit a large amount of complexity, as described in the previous section, which makes efficient implementation difficult in regard to run-time and power consumption. This article primarily addresses basic parallel concepts used to alleviate run-time of common mD-DSP applications. The concept of parallel computing can be applied to mD-DSP applications to exploit the fact that if a problem can be expressed in a parallel algorithmic form, then parallel programming and multiprocessing can be used in an attempt to increase the computational throughput of the mD-DSP procedure on a given hardware platform. An increase in computational throughput can result in a decreased run-time, i.e. a speedup of a specific mD-DSP algorithm.
In addition to increasing computational throughput, a generally considered equally important goal is to maximally utilize the memory bandwidth of a given computing memory architecture. The combination of the computational throughput and memory bandwidth usage can be achieved through the concept of operational intensity, which is summarized in what is referred to as the roofline model. The concepts of operational intensity and the roofline model in general have recently become popular methods of quantifying the performance of mD-DSP algorithms.
Increasing throughput can be beneficial to strong scaling of a given mD-DSP algorithm. Another possible benefit of in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20rendezvous%20problem | The deterministic rendezvous problem is a problem in computer science and robotics that involves two or more robots or players that must find each other by following a predetermined set of instructions. The goal is for the robots to meet at a specific location, or rendezvous point, without knowing the location of the other robot or robots.
In the deterministic rendezvous problem, each robot follows the same set of instructions, but each robot is assigned a unique label or identifier to differentiate them from each other [2]. This unique label is used to break the symmetry of the problem, as it allows the robots to distinguish themselves from each other and to follow the instructions in a specific order [3].
The deterministic rendezvous problem is typically solved by the robots acting synchronously, meaning that they all follow the instructions at the same time [4]. However, there are also non-synchronous versions of the problem, where the robots may act at different times or may have different internal clocks [5].
The deterministic rendezvous problem has applications in a wide range of fields, including robotics, distributed systems, and computer networks [6]. It is often used as a benchmark for evaluating the performance of algorithms and protocols for rendezvous and coordination in these fields [7].
Overview
In the synchronous version of the deterministic rendezvous problem, both robots are initially placed at arbitrary nodes in a finite, connected, undirected graph. The size and structure of the graph is unknown to the robots.
The information known by a robot is as follows:
T, the number of time steps since it has been activated
d, the degree of the node currently occupied by the robot
L, the label of the robot (typically taking the form of a bit string)
To solve the deterministic rendezvous problem, both robots must be given a sequence of deterministic instructions which allow the robots to use their known information to find each other. The robots are considered to have found each other if they are both occupying the same node in the graph during the same time step.
Solutions
A number of algorithms exist to solve the deterministic rendezvous problem. Some of the solutions are listed below:
Dessmark et al.
In 2006, Dessmark et al. presented a solution which solves the deterministic rendezvous problem in time proportional to , where:
n is the number of nodes in the graph
τ is the difference in activation time between the two robots
l is the length of the shorter of the labels of the robots
This solution is not ideal, since τ is an input parameter of the deterministic rendezvous problem and can therefore be arbitrarily large.
Kowalski and Malinowski
In 2008, Kowalski and Malinowski presented a solution which solves the problem in time. This is a significant improvement, since this time complexity is not dependent on τ. This solution has one major drawback, though. It makes use of backtracking, where the robots must keep track |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destined%20to%20be%20Yours | Destined to be Yours is a 2017 Philippine television drama romance comedy broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Irene Villamor, it stars Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza. It premiered on February 27, 2017 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Alyas Robin Hood. The series concluded on May 26, 2017 with a total of 63 episodes. It was replaced by My Love from the Star in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The story revolves around Benjie and Sinag. When Benjie gets assigned to a job project in Pelangi, he meets Sinag. They both end up falling in love with each other.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Alden Richards as Benjamin "Benjie / Benj" Rosales
Maine Mendoza as Sinag "DJ Sunshine / DJ Madam Damin" Obispo
Supporting cast
Boots Anson-Roa as Helen Rosales
Gardo Versoza as Teddy Obispo
Lotlot de Leon as Amanda Rosales
Tommy Abuel as Vicente Rosales III
Ronnie Henares as Dante Escobar
Sheena Halili as Ninay Baltazar
Ina Feleo as Catalina Rosales
Dominic Roco as Jason Abesamis
Juancho Trivino as Badong Baltazar
RJ Padilla as Arman Melendez
Koreen Medina as Marjorie Escobar
Janice de Belen as Sally Obispo
Recurring cast
Will Ashley de Leon as Sol Obispo
Kim Belles as Tala Obispo
Ervic Vijandre as Elton Vasquez
Thea Tolentino as Patricia "Trish" Villanueva
Jackie Lou Blanco as Ramona Villanueva
Guest cast
Luz Valdez as Delia
Lou Veloso as Elvis
Matthew Mendoza as Gabriel
Joe Gruta as Doro
Nova Villa as Puring
Mark Herras as Eboy
Marita Zobel as Charito
Marco Sison as Ka Henry
Lee Danes as Clarissa
Nicole Dulalia as Tina
Tonio Quiazon as Lakay
Chromewell Cosio as Rex
Meann Espinosa as Teresing
Sachi Manahan as Affie
Sofia Pablo as Lala
Divine Aucina as Tetay
Marnie Lapuz as Bem
Maey Bautista as Mema
Tammy Brown as Mamaru
Kim Rodriguez as Fiona
James Teng as James
Episodes
February 2017
March 2017
April 2017
May 2017
Production
In August 2016, Alden Richards stated that their series with Maine Mendoza was in the works. While GMA Films President, Annette Gozon-Abrogar said that the upcoming series was the "network's top priority". She further mentioned that the long process was due to the several concepts being submitted and was in need of approval by both of Richard's and Mendoza's managements, GMA Artist Center and Triple A respectively.
The story conference happened on December 12, 2016 at the GMA Executive Lounge, in which the show's title and the director were revealed. The cast, production team and GMA Network's executives were present at the conference.
Principal photography commenced on December 21, 2016 in Quezon province with Richards started his first filming day while Mendoza started on January 5, 2017 with Gardo Versoza and Janice de Belen.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement, the pilot episode of Destined to be Yours earned a 22.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 10.8% rating on Nati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulawin%20vs.%20Ravena | Mulawin vs. Ravena is a 2017 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series served as a sequel to the 2004 Philippine television series Mulawin and the 2005 Philippine film Mulawin: The Movie. Directed by Dominic Zapata and Don Michael Perez, it stars Dennis Trillo. It premiered on May 22, 2017 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Encantadia. The series concluded on September 15, 2017 with a total of 85 episodes. It was replaced by Alyas Robin Hood in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Ever since Ravena's breakaway from Avian, Mulawin and Ravena have been at war, fighting against each other over humans. Both have had histories of love affairs with humans, which resulted to half-blood offspring. The dilution of their race has made Mulawins and Ravenas mortal like humans. The desire for immortality leads to the next chapter of the Mulawin-Ravena war.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dennis Trillo as Gabriel Montenegro - son of Ravenum and Alwina's childhood friend.
Heart Evangelista as Alwina - Gabriel's childhood friend and the mother of Almiro and Tak.
Lovi Poe as Magindara - daughter of Sandawa and Mandarangan.
Carla Abellana as Aviona - Rodrigo's wife and Anya's mother.
Miguel Tanfelix as Pagaspas / Gas / Paggy / Bogart - Lawiswis' childhood friend and Lourdes' adoptive son.
Bianca Umali as Lawiswis / Wis / Emily - Tuka's adoptive daughter and Pagaspas' childhood friend.
Kiko Estrada as Rafael Montenegro - Savanna's son.
Bea Binene as Anya Manalastas - daughter of Aviona and Rodrigo.
Derrick Monasterio as Almiro / Rodrigo Manalastas - son of Alwina and Aguiluz.
Supporting cast
Regine Velasquez as Sandawa - Mandarangan's wife and the mother of Magindara, Lumad and Dakila. The guardian of Eden and the Balasik.
Roi Vinzon as Daragit - a Mulawin and member of the Council of Elders.
Ariel Rivera as Panabon - half Mulawin.
Chynna Ortaleza as Rashana - Gabriel's wife, Wak's mother and Tak's stepmother.
TJ Trinidad as Greco - Gabriel's right-hand man.
Martin del Rosario as Aramis - Lourdes' son.
Dion Ignacio as Siklab / Tayag - son of Vultra and Daragit.
Wynwyn Marquez as Ribay - Rashana's right-hand woman.
Valerie Concepcion as Tuka - Lawiswis' adoptive mother.
JC Tiuseco as Tangos - Daragit's henchman.
Juan Rodrigo as tandang Lumbas - eldest of the Mulawins.
Shermaine Santiago as Maningning - leader of the Tagubas.
Joey Paras as Dakdak - leader of the Periko tribe.
David Licauco as Malik - Anya, Lawiswis, Pagaspas, and Almiro's childhood friend.
Angelu De Leon as Lourdes - Pagaspas and Alwina's adoptive human mother and Aramis' mother.
Bobby Andrews as Dionisio - member of the Lumad group.
Joko Diaz as Antonio - Savanna's accomplice.
Charee Pineda as Savannah Montenegro - Rafael's mother.
Dexter Doria as Rosing - a human member of the Council of Elders.
Nova Villa as Consuelo "Elo" Manalastas - Almiro's adoptive human mother and Rodrigo's mother.
Re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ%20Salakhutdinov | Ruslan "Russ" Salakhutdinov () is a Canadian researcher of Tatar origin working in the field of artificial intelligence.
He specializes in deep learning, probabilistic graphical models, and large-scale optimization.
Life
Salakhutdinov's doctoral advisor was Geoffrey Hinton. Salakhutdinov was considering quitting the field of artificial intelligence when he met Hinton in 2014, but changed his mind after Hinton asked him to take part in a project focused on a new way to train artificial neural networks, which he dubbed "deep belief networks." This research made a large impact on the field of deep learning.
He received his PhD in 2009.
He is well known for having developed Bayesian Program Learning.
Career
Salakhutdinov is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Since 2009, he has published at least 42 papers on machine learning.
His research has been funded by Google, Microsoft and Samsung. In 2016, Salakhutdinov joined Apple as its director of AI research.
In June 2023, Salakhutdinov joined Felix Smart which is a company that uses AI to take care for plants and animals as Board Director.
Awards
He is a CIFAR fellow.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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Carnegie Mellon University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DryvIQ | DryvIQ is a software application that enables businesses to migrate on-site system files and associated data across storage and content management platforms, as well as create synchronized hybrid storage systems.
History
Before it was DryvIQ, the software SkySync was released in 2013 by Ann Arbor, Michigan based company, Portal Architects, Inc. The company created SkySync, a back-end, administrative application designed to transfer content across storage platforms, after abandoning 18 months of development on a desktop application called SkyBrary in 2011.
Between 2014 and 2015, Portal Architects established partnerships with the following companies: Autodesk, Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, EMC, Google, Syncplicity, Huddle, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle, Citrix ShareFile, Hightail and Internet2.
SkySync (currently DryvIQ) was named a "Cool Vendor in Content Management" by Gartner in 2015.
In 2022, SkySync changed its name to DryvIQ, which is now what the company is currently known as.
Overview
DryvIQ is a software application that syncs, migrates or backs up files including their associated properties, metadata, versions, user accounts and permissions across on-premises and Cloud-based storage platforms. The software deploys on a server, virtual machine or within Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services or other cloud computing services.
References
External links
Official website
Application software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20G.%20Gouda | Mohamed G. Gouda is an American computer scientist, currently the Mike A. Myers Centennial Professor at University of Texas at Austin.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Texas at Austin faculty
York University alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshav%20K%20Pingali | Keshav K Pingali is an American computer scientist, currently the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing at the University of Texas at Austin, and also a published author. He previously also held the India Chair of Computer Science at Cornell University and also the N. Rama Rao Professorship at Indian Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 2020, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Academia Europeana.
Keshav Pingali is the co-founder and CEO of Katana Graph, which is building a high-performance, scale-out platform for graph querying, graph analytics, graph mining and graph AI workloads. Katana Graph announced its 28.5 million in Series A funding in February 2021, and in April of that year, the startup also announced its partnership with Intel to optimize their graph engine for the new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (IceLake) and for Optane, Intel's non-volatile memory system. Keshav was also the keynote speaker at the 2021 Knowledge Graph Conference.
Awards and honors
2023. IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, for contributions to high-performance compilers and graph computing
2023. ACM/IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award, for contributions to programmability of high-performance parallel computing on irregular algorithms and graph algorithms
2020. Member of Academia Europaea
2013. Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kanpur
2012. ACM Fellow, for contributions to data-centric parallel programming and to parallel compilation theory and practice
2010. Fellow, IEEE Computer Society, for contributions to compilers and parallel computing
1998. Russell Teaching Award, Cornell Arts and Science
1997. Ip-Lee Teaching Award, Cornell Engineering
1989. NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Cornell Engineering
1986. IBM Faculty Development Award, Cornell Engineering
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Texas at Austin faculty
American computer scientists
Indian computer scientists
Cornell University faculty
American chief executives
American academics of Indian descent
Indian emigrants to the United States
IIT Kanpur alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizy%20John | Lizy Kurian John is an Indian American electrical engineer, who is currently the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in computer engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1993. She joined The University of Texas Austin faculty in 1996. Her research is in the areas of computer architecture, multicore processors, memory systems, performance evaluation and benchmarking, workload characterization, and reconfigurable computing.
Professor John's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), DARPA, Lockheed Martin, AMD, Oracle, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Freescale, Dell, Samsung, Texas Instruments, etc.. She is recipient of NSF CAREER award (1996), UT Austin Engineering Foundation Faculty Award (2001), Halliburton, Brown and Root Engineering Foundation Young Faculty Award (1999), University of Texas Alumni Association Teaching Award (2004), The Pennsylvania State University Outstanding Engineering Alumnus (2011) etc.
Professor John holds 15 U. S. patents and has published 16 book chapters, approximately 300 journal and conference and workshop papers. She has coauthored books on Digital Systems Design using VHDL (Cengage Publishers 2007, 2017), Digital Systems Design using Verilog (Cengage Publishers, 2014) and has edited a book on Computer Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (CRC Press). She has also edited three books on workload characterization.
Professor John is the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of IEEE MICRO and has served in the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Computers, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimizations (TACO), IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, and IEEE Transactions on VLSI. She is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and ACM SIGARCH.
John was named a Fellow of IEEE in 2009, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2020, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (Class of 2020)
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3. Charles Roth and Lizy K. John, Digital Systems Design using VHDL, Cengage Learning, 2017, 3rd edition, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Digital_Systems_Design_Using_VHDL/5-e5DQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Abraham | Jacob A. Abraham is an American computer scientist and engineer who is currently the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery.
Early life and education
He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kerala in 1970. He received an M.S. degree, also in electrical engineering, and Ph.D., in electrical engineering and computer science, from Stanford University.
Awards and recognition
Abraham is a recipient of numerous awards including the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, the Jean-Claude Laprie Award, and the IEEE TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal. He also was a fellow of both IEEE and ACM.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne%20Barber | Suzanne Barber is an American engineer, who is currently the AT&T Foundation Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananth%20Dodabalapur | Ananth Dodabalapur is an Indian-American engineer, currently the Motorola Regents Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and previously the Ashley H. Priddy Centennial Professor, at University of Texas at Austin and a published author. He was formerly with Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ for more than 10 years.
Research
His research has been in the areas of organic and inorganic semiconductor devices. His recent research is on nanoscale devices for 3D integrated circuits and new device architectures for displays, neuromorphic computing, printed electronics, and light emission. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of Organic LEDs, transistors, and Photonic Crystal Lasers. He has also worked on chemical sensors and Nano-Optics. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Flexible and Printed Electronics. His research work has been cited more than 30,000 times. His H-index is approximately 95. He holds 27 US patents and these have been cited more than 2000 times. He has co-founded two companies - OrganiciD and Sensorbit Systems. OrganicID was acquired by Weyerhaeuser in 2006.
Awards and recognition
He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE. He was listed in Who's Who in America and Who's who in Science and Engineering. He is a recipient of the 2002 National Award for Team Innovation from the American Chemical Society. His work on Organic Transistors has been listed in a compilation of key achievements in Electronics for the 20th century National Academy of Engineering#Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century in the category of Electronics. He has also made pioneering contributions to the fields of Organic LEDs and Photonic Crystal Lasers. In March 2007, he was conferred honorary citizenship of the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He has received an "Old Cottonian of Eminence" Award from his alma mater, Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore in 2022.
Personal and Family
Dodabalapur was born in Bangalore, India in 1963. He attended Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (where he received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering), and University of Texas at Austin, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990.
His paternal grandfather, Dr. D. Hari Rao, was a doctor who was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburg. His father, D Krishna Rao, was an engineer who was an executive in HMT Bangalore for most of his professional career. His Mother, Vatsala Rao, has been teaching music to women for more than four decades and founded an organization called Stuthivahini.org which teaches religious music. His maternal grandfather, Baily Vittal Murthy, was an England-educated Civil Engineer who worked for the City of Bangalore and was Chief Engineer. His maternal grandmother, Kamala Bai, is descended from two prominent Madhwa Br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Chen%20%28engineer%29 | Ray Chen is an American engineer, who is currently the Keys and Joan Curry/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, The Optical Society and SPIE.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo%20Alvisi | Lorenzo Alvisi is an Italian computer scientist and Tisch University Professor at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, he was a University Distinguished Teaching Professor and the holder of the Endowed Professorship #5 at University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on distributed systems and dependability. He holds a laurea in Physics from the University of Bologna (1987), and an MS and PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University (1994 and 1996, respectively). He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery since 2010 and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers since 2016.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo%20de%20Veciana | Gustavo de Veciana is an American computer scientist and engineer, who is currently a Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a 1993 Ph.D. graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in telecommunication networks, probability and random processes, analysis and design of communication networks, digital communications, and information theory. His research focuses on the analysis and design of communication and computing networks, data-driven decision-making in man-machine systems, and applied probability and queueing theory. In 2009, he was designated a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to the analysis and design of communication networks.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Cline | Alan Cline is an American computer scientist, and as of 2016 was the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor #2 at the University of Texas at Austin.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Batory | Don Batory is an American computer scientist, currently the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor at University of Texas at Austin.
Don Batory was the first person to receive the most influential paper award which was established by the Software Product Line Conference in 2016
He received a B.S. (1975) and M.Sc. (1977) degrees from Case Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. (1980) from the University of Toronto. He was a faculty member at the University of Florida in 1981 before he joined the University of Texas in 1983. He was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (1999-2002), Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (1986-1992), member of the ACM Software Systems Award Committee (1989-1993; Committee Chairman in 1992), Program Co-Chair for the 2002 Generative Programming and Component Engineering Conference. He is a proponent of Feature Oriented Software Development (FOSD).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inderjit%20Dhillon | Inderjit S. Dhillon is the Gottesman Family Centennial Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also the Director of the ICES Center for Big Data Analytics. His main research interests are in machine learning, data analysis, parallel computing, network analysis, linear algebra and optimization.
Biography
Dhillon received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1989. He subsequently worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a Research Staff Member under Dr. Narendra Karmarkar. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997 under the direction of Beresford Parlett and James Demmel. Dhillon joined the Computer Science faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1999.
Academic works
Dhillon's main research interests are in machine learning, data analysis and computational mathematics. His emphasis is on developing novel algorithms that respect the underlying problem structure and are scalable to large data sets. In computational mathematics, he is best known for his work on developing the first numerically stable O(n^2) algorithm for the symmetric tridiagonal eigenvalue problem. His software is now part of LAPACK, and is the method of choice in various software packages, such as the function "eigen" in R. In machine learning, Dhillon is well known for his work on clustering and co-clustering high dimensional data sets, metric and kernel learning, inverse covariance estimation, divide-and-conquer methods, and NOMADic methods for large-scale problems in machine learning.
Honors and awards
Dhillon is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In addition, he has received the ICES Distinguished Research Award, the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, the Moncrief Grand Challenge Award, the SIAM Linear Algebra Prize, the University Research Excellence Award, and the NSF Career Award.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayadev%20Misra | Jayadev Misra is an Indian-born computer scientist who has spent most of his professional career in the United States. He is the Schlumberger Centennial Chair Emeritus in computer science and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. Professionally he is known for his contributions to the formal aspects of concurrent programming and for jointly spearheading, with Sir Tony Hoare, the project on Verified Software Initiative (VSI).
Education and early career
Misra received a B.Tech. in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, India in 1969 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland in 1972. After a brief period working for IBM, he joined the University of Texas at Austin in 1974 where he has remained throughout his career, except for a sabbatical year spent at Stanford University during 1983–1984. He retired from active teaching in 2015.
Major professional contributions
Misra and K. Mani Chandy have made a number of important contributions in the area of concurrent computing. They developed a
programming notation and a logic, called UNITY, to describe concurrent computations. Leslie Lamport says: "The first major step in getting beyond traditional programming languages to describe concurrent algorithms was Misra and Chandy's Unity" and
"Misra and Chandy developed proof rules to formalize the style of reasoning that had been developed for proving invariance and leads-to properties. Unity provided the most elegant formulation yet for these proofs."
Misra and Chandy (and, independently, Randy Bryant) have developed a conservative algorithm for distributed discrete-event simulation, which is now commonly used in a variety of areas. They also developed a number of fundamental algorithms for resource allocation (the drinking philosophers problem), deadlock detection, graph algorithms, and a theory of knowledge transmission in distributed systems. In collaboration with David Gries, Misra proposed the first algorithm for the heavy-hitters problem. Misra proposed a set of axioms for concurrent memory access that underlie the theory of linearizability.
Misra's most recent research project, called Orc, attempts to develop an algebra of concurrent computing that will help integrate different pieces of software for concurrent execution.
Awards and honors
Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2018.
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, IEEE, 2017.
Doctor Honoris Causa, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, Cachan, France, 2010.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1988.
Identified as a "highly cited researcher"" by Thomson Reuters ISI, 2004.
ACM Fellow, 1995.
IEEE Fellow, 1992.
Distinguished alumnus, IIT Kanpur, India,
Member, TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas), 2018.
Selected publications
Effective Theories in Programming Practice, ACM Books, 2023
Parallel Program Design - a Foundation (with K.M. Chandy), 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Fussell | Don Fussell is an American computer scientist, currently the Trammell Crow Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and the chairman of its computer science department.
His research interests are in computer architecture, computer graphics, and computer systems. Dr. Fussell is the Director of the UT Laboratory for Realtime Graphics and Parallel Systems and an IC2 Fellow. He holds memberships with the Computer Engineering Research Center, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Don Fussell earned his Bachelor of Science from Dartmouth College, attending from 1969-1973, and the MS and PhD in Applied Mathematics from The University of Texas at Dallas in 1977 and 1980 respectively.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20K.%20Garg | Vijay K. Garg is an American computer scientist and engineer, who is currently the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor #5 at the University of Texas at Austin.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijaya%20Ramachandran | Vijaya Ramachandran is an Indian-American theoretical computer scientist known for her research on graph algorithms and parallel algorithms. She is the William Blakemore II Regents Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Education and career
Ramachandran earned her Ph.D. in 1983 from Princeton University, with a dissertation Studies in VLSI Layout and Simulation supervised by Richard Lipton.
She joined the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor in 1983, and moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. She was named the William Blakemore II Regents Professor in 1995.
Recognition
In 2013, the University of Delhi named Ramachandran as an honorary professor.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Mok | Aloysius "Al" Mok is an American computer scientist, currently the Quincy Lee Centennial Professor at University of Texas at Austin, and also a published author.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization%20in%20cybernetics | Self-organization, a process where some form of overall order arises out of the local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system, was discovered in cybernetics by William Ross Ashby in 1947. It states that any deterministic dynamic system automatically evolves towards a state of equilibrium that can be described in terms of an attractor in a basin of surrounding states. Once there, the further evolution of the system is constrained to remain in the attractor. This constraint implies a form of mutual dependency or coordination between its constituent components or subsystems. In Ashby's terms, each subsystem has adapted to the environment formed by all other subsystems.
The cybernetician Heinz von Foerster formulated the principle of "order from noise" in 1960. It notes that self-organization is facilitated by random perturbations ("noise") that let the system explore a variety of states in its state space. This increases the chance that the system will arrive into the basin of a "strong" or "deep" attractor, from which it then quickly enters the attractor itself. The biophysicist Henri Atlan developed such a concept by proposing the principle of "complexity from noise" () first in the 1972 book L'organisation biologique et la théorie de l'information and then in the 1979 book Entre le cristal et la fumée. The thermodynamicist Ilya Prigogine formulated a similar principle as "order through fluctuations" or "order out of chaos". It is applied in the method of simulated annealing for problem solving and machine learning.
Wiener regarded the automatic serial identification of a black box and its subsequent reproduction (copying) as sufficient to meet the condition of self-organization. The importance of phase locking or the "attraction of frequencies", as he called it, is discussed in the 2nd edition of his "Cybernetics". Drexler sees self-replication (copying) as a key step in nano and universal assembly. In later work he seeks to lessen this constraint.
By contrast, the four concurrently connected galvanometers of W. Ross Ashby's Homeostat hunt, when perturbed, to converge on one of many possible stable states. Ashby used his state counting measure of variety to describe stable states and produced the "Good Regulator" theorem which requires internal models for self-organized endurance and stability (e.g. Nyquist stability criterion).
Warren McCulloch proposed "Redundancy of Potential Command" as characteristic of the organization of the brain and human nervous system and the necessary condition for self-organization.
Heinz von Foerster proposed Redundancy, R = 1 − H/Hmax, where H is entropy. In essence this states that unused potential communication bandwidth is a measure of self-organization.
In the 1970s Stafford Beer considered this condition as necessary for autonomy which identifies self-organization in persisting and living systems. He applied his viable system model to management. It consists of five parts: the monito |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPIC | XPIC, or cross-polarization interference cancelling technology, is an algorithm to suppress mutual interference between two received streams in a Polarization-division multiplexing communication system.
The cross-polarization interference canceller (known as XPIC) is a signal processing technique implemented on the demodulated received signals at the baseband level. It is typically necessary in Polarization Division Multiplexing systems: the data sources to be transmitted are coded and mapped into QAM modulating symbols at the system's symbol rate and upconverted to a carrier frequency, generating two radio streams radiated by a single dual-polarized antenna (see feed pattern of Parabolic antenna). A corresponding dual-polarized antenna is located at the remote site and connected to two receivers, which downconvert the radio streams into baseband signals (BB H, BB V).
This multiplexing/demultiplexing technique is based on the expected discrimination between the two orthogonal polarizations (XPD):
an ideal, infinite XPD of the whole system guarantees that each signal at the receivers contains only the signal generated by the corresponding transmitter (plus any thermal noise);
any real, finite, level of XPD instead manifests itself as a partial recombination between the two signals, so that the receivers observe an interference due to the cross-polarization leakage. Some of the factors causing such cross-polarization interference are listed in Polarization-Division Multiplexing.
As a practical consequence, at the receiving site the two streams are received with a residual mutual interference. In many practical cases, especially for high-level M-QAM modulations, the communication system cannot tolerate the experienced levels of cross-polarization interference and an improved suppression is necessary. The two received polarizations at the antenna outputs, normally linear horizontal H and vertical V, are routed each to a receiver whose baseband output is further processed by an ad-hoc cross-polarization cancelling scheme, commonly implemented as a digital stage. The XPIC algorithm attains the correct reconstruction of H by summing V to H to cancel any residual interference, and vice versa.
The cancelling process is typically implemented using two blocks: a baseband equalizer and the baseband XPIC. The output from the latter is subtracted from the former and then sent to the decision stage, responsible for yielding the estimation of the data stream. The equalization and XPIC blocks are normally adaptive for a correct tracking of the time-variant channel transfer function: XPIC must provide a shaping of the received cross signal equal to the portion of the cross interference affecting the main one. The feedback control to drive the adapting criteria comes from the measure of the residual error across the decision block.
In the example, both blocks are based on the typical structure of the Finite Impulse Response digital filter and whose the coe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20College%20of%20Cyber%20Security | The College of National Security (also referred to as the National College of Cyber Security) was a proposed cyber security school for 16-19 year-olds, scheduled to open in September 2020 at Bletchley Park.
Founding
The initiative to create the school emerged from Qufaro, a nonprofit organisation created by representatives of Raytheon, BT Security and the Institute of Information Security Professionals.
The college was to be located in Block G of Bletchley Park which was being renovated in 2017 with funding by the Bletchley Park Science and Innovation Centre. Bletchley Park Trust had no involvement in the cyber security college.
The opening of the college, originally planned for 2016, was pushed back to 2020 as the application to open as a college in the Department for Education's Free Schools program had yet to be granted. However, in April 2020 Bletchley Park Capital Partners (a private company run by Tim Reynolds) announced plans to sell off the freehold to the site for commercial development. Offers of between £4m and £6m were reportedly being sought for the three acre plot, for which planning permission for employment purposes had been granted in 2005.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair%20MacWillson | Dr. Alastair Carmichael MacWillson is a British cyber security professional. MacWillson is chair of the Institute of Information Security Professionals, and of Qufaro, and a founding director of Cambridge Analytica. He is, additionally, a principal at the Chertoff Group.
MacWillson spent 17 years in the British Foreign Service, working on technical and political risk analysis in the former USSR, the Middle East and the United States.
Biography
Alastair Carmichael MacWillson is a British intelligence, security and cyber security professional. MacWillson is chair of the Institute of Information Security Professionals, and of Qufaro, and a founding director of Cambridge Analytica. He is, additionally, a principal at the Chertoff Group.
MacWillson is referenced as spending 16 years in the British Foreign Service, working on technical and political risk analysis in the former USSR, the Middle East and the United States.
However, this was a cover for his real job, as an officer in MI6. He was a direct recruit into the SIS from university, when Oldfield was Chief, and initially specialised in the terrorist threat in Northern Ireland. In 1980, he was posted as a senior intelligence officer in the Oman Research Department (Now Internal Security Service) which was then staffed by several senior SIS and GCHQ personnel, and was Director of Operations until 1989. During that time, he worked with the CIA in establishing a joint US/UK Rapid Deployment Force to combat terrorist events.
He returned to the UK in late 1989. In 1990, he published an HMG sanctioned book entitled Hostage-Taking Terrorism.
Since 1990, MacWillson had a roving HQ brief as a problem solver and was alleged to have set up a special operations group within SIS.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft%20bus%20%28James%20Webb%20Space%20Telescope%29 | The spacecraft bus is a carbon fibre box that houses systems of the telescope and so is the primary support element of the James Webb Space Telescope, launched on . It hosts a multitude of computing, communication, propulsion, and structural components. The other three elements of the JWST are the Optical Telescope Element (OTE), the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) and the sunshield. Region 3 of ISIM is also inside the spacecraft bus. Region 3 includes the ISIM Command and Data Handling subsystem and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) cryocooler.
The spacecraft bus must structurally support the 6.5 ton space telescope, while weighing only . It is made primarily of graphite composite material. It was assembled by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California by 2015, and then it had to be integrated with the rest of the space telescope leading up to its planned 2018 launch. The bus can provide pointing precision of one arcsecond and isolates vibration down to two milliarcseconds. The fine pointing is done by the JWST fine guidance mirror, obviating the need to physically move the whole mirror or bus.
The spacecraft bus is on the Sun-facing "warm" side and operates at a temperature of about 300 kelvins (80°F, 27°C). Everything on the Sun-facing side must be able to handle the thermal conditions of JWST's halo orbit, which has one side of continuous sunlight and the other shaded by the spacecraft sunshield.
Another important aspect of the spacecraft bus is the central computing, memory storage, and communications equipment. The processor and software direct data to and from the instruments, to the solid-state memory core, and to the radio system which can send data back to Earth and receive commands. The computer also controls the pointing and movement of the spacecraft, taking in sensor data from the gyroscopes and star tracker, and sending the necessary commands to the reaction wheels or thrusters.
Overview
The bus is a carbon fibre box that houses a large number of major systems that keep the telescope functioning, such as the solar panels and computers. It also contains the MIRI cooler and some ISIM electronics.
There are six major subsystems in the spacecraft bus:
Electrical Power Subsystem
Attitude Control Subsystem
Communication Subsystem
Command and Data Handling Subsystem (C&DH)
Command Telemetry Processor
Solid State Recorder (SSR)
Propulsion Subsystem
Thermal Control Subsystem
The spacecraft bus has two star trackers, six reaction wheels, and the propulsion systems (fuel tank and thrusters). Two major tasks are pointing the telescope and performing station keeping for its metastable L2 halo orbit.
Command and Data Handling (C&DH)
The Command and Data Handling system includes a computer, the Command Telemetry Processor (CTP), and a data storage unit, the Solid State Recorder (SSR), with a capacity of 58.9 GB.
Communications
The communications dish which can point at Earth is attached to the bus. There is Ka- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divyank%20Turakhia | Divyank Turakhia (born January 29, 1982) is an Indian-born computer-programmer, businessman, billionaire, serial entrepreneur, and investor. His net worth is estimated at $1.76 billion (as of Sept 2017). He founded Media.net, which he sold in 2016 to a Chinese consortium for $900 million, the third-largest ever ad-tech deal.
Early life and education
Divyank Turakhia, was born on Jan 29, 1982 in India. He was interested in coding from young age.
Divyank started coding at the age of eight. He received his early education from Arya Vidya Mandir in Bandra, Mumbai and later graduated from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics (University of Mumbai).
Awards and recognition
#2 in the IIFL Wealth and Hurun India 40 & Under Self-Made Rich List (2020)
#9 in India's Richest Tech Billionaires by IIFL Hurun Rich List (2020)
Youngest Indian Billionaire (2018, 2017, 2016)
Youngest self-made Gulf billionaire (2017)
#27 in the Global 40 under 40 Self-made Rich List (2017)
40 Most Influential Indians Under 40 by AsiaOne (2017)
Ranked #95 on the Forbes list of India's 100 Richest People (2016)
The ET Panache Trendsetter Award by The Economic Times (2016)
Most Respected Indian Entrepreneur for 2016, Hurun Report
"Winning Warrior" Bloomberg Television (2010)
Enterprise Twenty20: 20 new business leaders in their 20s, Financial Express (2008)
Asia's Best Entrepreneurs Under 25, BusinessWeek Magazine (2006)
Personal life
Turakhia splits his time between homes in Dubai, Los Angeles, London, and San Francisco. Forbes called him a 'thrillionaire' because of his passion for aerobatic flying. He has one sibling, Bhavin Turakhia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86Box | 86Box is an IBM PC emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac based on PCem that specializes in running old operating systems and software that are designed for IBM PC compatibles. Originally forked from PCem, it later added support for other IBM PC compatible computers as well.
Features
Hardware
The main goal of 86Box is to emulate various IBM PC compatible systems/motherboards from 1981 until 1999, which includes almost all IBM PC models (including the IBM PS/1 model 2121 and the IBM PS/2 model 2011) and supports IBM PC compatible systems/motherboards.
86Box is capable of emulating Intel processors (and its respective clones, including AMD, IDT and Cyrix) from Intel 8088 through the Pentium Tillamook MMX/Mobile MMX processors and Pentium Pro/Pentium II processors from 1997 until 1999. A recompiler is mandatory for P5 Pentium and Cyrix processors and optional for i486 processors and IDT WinChip processors.
86Box can emulate different graphic modes, this includes text mode, Hercules, CGA (including some composite modes and the 160 × 100 × 16 tweaked modes), Tandy, EGA, VGA (including Mode X and other tweaks), VESA, as well as various video APIs such as DirectX and 3Dfx's Glide. 86Box can also emulate various video cards such as the ATI Mach64 GX and the S3 Trio32/64/Virge series. Voodoo cards are also emulated and added support for Voodoo 1/2/3 and various optimizations. A separate recompiler has been added for Voodoo emulation, making it faster to emulate the Voodoo graphics card.
86Box also emulates some sound cards, such as the AdLib, Sound Blaster (including the Game Blaster), Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster AWE32, Gravis UltraSound, Innovation SSI-2001, Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro 16, Windows Sound System, Ensoniq AudioPCI 64V/ES1371, and Sound Blaster PCI 128.
Operating system support
Similar to Virtual PC, Bochs and QEMU, it emulates almost all versions of Microsoft Windows until Windows 7 (including Service Pack 1); MS-DOS, FreeDOS and CP/M-86 are also supported. Earlier versions of OS/2 requires the hard drive to be formatted prior to installation, while OS/2 Warp 3 until Warp 4.5 requires an unaccelerated video card to run. Other operating systems are also supported on 86Box, such as versions of Linux that supports the Pentium processor, BSD derivatives (e.g. FreeBSD), and BeOS 5, which only works on the Award SiS 497 motherboard.
Host operating system support
Initially exclusive to Windows, it was ported to Linux in version 3.2 and macOS in version 3.4.
Manager
For easier handling of multiple virtual machines at the same time and the change of its parameters, it is recommended to use 86Box with a GUI manager application. Some of them are 86Box Manager, 86Box Manager Lite and WinBox for 86Box, all available as free software too.
See also
PCem
DOSBox
DOSEMU
QEMU
Bochs
Parallels
VirtualBox
VMware Fusion
VMware Workstation
Windows Virtual PC
References
DOS emulators
DOS on IBM PC compatibles
Free emulatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20D.%20Cooper | Keith D. Cooper is an American computer scientist, currently the L. John and Ann H. Doerr Professor of Computational Engineering at Rice University. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Rice since July 1989 and served as the chair of that department from 2002 to 2008. As
of July 2019, he serves as the Chair of the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics. His primary research area has been program analysis and optimization. He was one of the founding members of the compiler group at Rice. He and Linda Torczon co-authored the book Engineering a Compiler.
Dr. Cooper’s primary research area has been program analysis and optimization. He has more than 75 technical publications and has produced 18 Ph.D.s.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Rice University alumni
Rice University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20Anthony%20Gorry | George Anthony Gorry is an American computer scientist, who served as the Friedkin Professor Emeritus of Management at Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University and a member of National Academy of Medicine and Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics.
Gorry graduated from Yale University with a degree in engineering in 1962 before completing a master's in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. He completed a PhD in computer science at MIT in 1967. He worked as faculty at MIT before moving to Houston to serve as vice president for information technology at Baylor in 1975. He joined the faculty at Rice University in 1992.
Through his research career, Gorry published in fields including knowledge management, management, education, applied math, and other areas. His early research focused on the use of artificial intelligence in clinical settings.
In addition to scholarly works, Gorry published fiction and memoir. Notably, Paul Dry Books published his memoir, Memory's Encouragement, in 2017. Gorry chronicled his efforts to learn Greek both in Memory's Encouragement and in an article published in The Classical Journal.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Rice University faculty
American computer scientists
Members of the National Academy of Medicine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20M.%20Rebeiz | Gabriel M. Rebeiz is a Lebanese-American electrical and computer engineer, currently the Wireless Communications Industry Chair Chair and Professor at University of California, San Diego. He is the first to introduce MEMS and micromachining to the RF/microwave field by developing several novel components with this technology. He is also the pioneer of the integrated phased arrays for communication and defense systems. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2016 for contributions to radio frequency microelectromechanical systems (RF MEMS) and phased array technologies. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Rice University faculty
American electrical engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Neikirk | Dean Neikirk is an American engineer, who is currently the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering #7 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
Background and academic career
Neikirk pursued undergraduate studies at Oklahoma State University, where he earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from in 1979. He later received an M.S. and Ph.D. in applied physics from California Institute of Technology.
In 2013, Neikirk was appointed associate dean for graduate studies at the University of Texas. Neikirk was involved in the development of the "electric tongue" which could detect nutrition and other properties of materials using advanced sensor technologies.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American engineers
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Oklahoma State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin%20Sandberg | Irwin Sandberg is an American engineer, who is currently the Cockrell Family Regents Chair Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Life Fellow). In 1981, Sandberg was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering for fundamental contributions to the understanding and analysis of nonlinear systems and for applying new methods to nonlinear engineering problems. He is also a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Texas at Austin faculty
21st-century American engineers
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
American electrical engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewayne%20E.%20Perry | Dewayne E. Perry is an American engineer. He was formerly the Motorola Regents Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and SIGSOFT. He is the co-author, with Alexander L. Wolf, of the most-cited paper in software engineering since 1999.
Personal life
Over the past decades, Perry and his wife, Faith, have assembled a world-class collection of medieval and Renaissance prints, etchings, woodcuts, and engravings.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Texas at Austin faculty
21st-century American engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rillsoft%20Project | Rillsoft Project is project management software, developed and sold by Rillsoft GmbH. That runs under the Windows operating systems.
Features
Project management
Creating/presenting the project schedule from different angles, either by using a Gantt chart, a network diagram or a bar-network diagram. Calculation of critical path and contingency reserve highlights any bottlenecks the project may have.
Multi-project management
Multi-project management allows to summarize multiple projects by theme, department or other criteria in portfolio, to edit parallel and to detect resource conflicts better. Cross-project links make different projects dependent on each other, but without automatic date adjustment by changes in foreign plans. Capacity planning is taking into account the resources already assigned to other projects.
Capacity planning
Capacity planning provides a detailed overview of the coverage of personnel requirements with existing labour capacity taking into account the necessary skills, nonworking time and scheduling in other parallel running projects. It is important that a capacity alignment of actual employee assignment occurs.
Resource planning
Comprising functions for personnel, machinery and materials management allow you to plan the use and utilization of your resources and enable to control them in the course of the project.
Personnel placement planning
Personnel placement planning enables a flexible and demand-optimized assignment of personnel resources for the individual work steps. An employee utilization view ensures that all overloads and shortages can be detected in time.
Project controlling
Project controlling is represented by feedback, execution status of tasks, financial control and variance analysis. In addition, email notification feature helps to keep the important due dates in mind.
Language support
Rillsoft Project is available in English, German and Russian.
Editions
Rillsoft Project is available in four editions, Freeware, Education, Light, Standard, Professional and Enterprise; all editions are available either as 32 or 64bit options:
The Professional and Enterprise edition can be connected to Rillsoft Integration Server.
History
The first commercial version of Rillsoft Project was released in 2002.
Rillsoft Project 2007 was released in 2007
Rillsoft Project 5 was available in 2009
Rillsoft Project 6 was released in 2015
Screen Shots
See also
List of project management software
Project management software
Project management
Project planning
Project Portfolio Management
Resource Management
References
External links
Alles auf dem Schirm
Schlanker Projekthelfer
A New Multi-Project Server For a Proven Planning Tool
Project management software
Critical Path Scheduling
2016 software
Projects established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20reality%20sex | Virtual reality sex (VR sex) is a technology that allows the user to receive tactile sensations from remote participants, or fictional characters through the use of computer-controlled sex toys. Usually the user also wears a virtual reality headset so they can see and interact with the partner. The very first VR Porn experiences were filmed by an award-winning studio called VR Bangers. Two entrepreneurs decided to leave their jobs and create an adult studio that films virtual reality sex. They have opened their site vrbangers.com in 2014 and released 21 films that became the very first VR Porn experience in the world. Since then, the studio has been pushing VR technology to another level with more camera and sound innovations for virtual reality.
Examples
BKK Cybersex Cup
The BKK Cybersex Cup consists of a virtual reality headset and masturbation cup. It also comes with a mobile app which allows the users to customize their own 3D girlfriend based on their preferred body, skin tone, hairstyle and outfit. The masturbation cup has a built in motion sensor which is capable of simulating the movement and transmission of the action via Bluetooth to any smartphone that runs the 3D girlfriend app.
VirtuaDolls
The American company Eos created the VirtuaDolls which consists of a silicone sheath into which a man inserts his penis. In concert with a mechanized gripper for “intelligent stroke movement”, this allows for the VirtuaDolls controller to sync up the sensation to the action. For immersive experience, it also comes with six interchangeable sleeves with different textures to allow for varying sensations and contains a pressure sensor that determines the occupant's position within the sheath. An optional vacuum attachment adds suction capabilities and an easy-clean system. The VirtuaDolls controller is also bundled with a video game titled Girls of Arcadia in which users carry out missions to rescue girls and are rewarded by the end of the missions in having sex with them. In January 2016, the company launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for the product, but after being swamped with orders, the creators suspended the campaign. In February 2016, it was relaunched on Indiegogo.
VR Porn and Interactive Sex Toys
This is a niche that is starting to get traction. According to the statistics published on VRSelector, in 2020, in conjunction with virtual reality porn only 3.2% of users use sex toys (Teledildonics like Fleshlight or Kiiroo products). SexLikeReal officials are noticing an uptrend for interactive sex toys use on their platform and are expecting this to keep growing. With the past pandemic of the world, virtual reality sex saw a noticeable increase in users.
There are also many (27%) VR headset owners that don't know that they can sync teledildonics with adult VR content. Another aspect that is keeping this industry from exploding, as regular 2D porn, is that the prices of VR headsets and interactive sex toys are quite high for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreELEC | LibreELEC (short for Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a non-profit fork of OpenELEC as an open source software appliance, a Linux-based Just enough operating system for the Kodi media player. This fork of OpenELEC announced in March 2016 as a split from the OpenELEC team after "creative differences", taking most of its active developers at the time to join the new LibreELEC project.
This is a conservative fork of the OpenELEC project with a stronger focus on pre-release testing and post-release change management.
History
Because of the end of Python 2 support in 2020, LibreElec version 10 with Kodi 19 switches to Python 3. Therefore, addons created for prior versions with python 2 need to be updated by developers for Kodi 19 because python code is not backward compatible.
References
External links
ARM operating systems
Embedded Linux distributions
Free media players
Linux distributions used in appliances
Linux-based devices
Linux distributions
Just enough operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLM%20protocol | The KLM scheme or KLM protocol is an implementation of linear optical quantum computing (LOQC), developed in 2000 by Emanuel Knill, Raymond Laflamme, and Gerard J. Milburn. This protocol allows for the creation of universal quantum computers using solely linear optical tools. The KLM protocol uses linear optical elements, single-photon sources, and photon detectors as resources to construct a quantum computation scheme involving only ancilla resources, quantum teleportations, and error corrections.
Overview
The KLM scheme induces an effective interaction between photons by making projective measurements with photodetectors, which falls into the category of non-deterministic quantum computation. It is based on a non-linear sign shift between two qubits that uses two ancilla photons and post-selection. It is also based on the demonstrations that the probability of success of the quantum gates can be made close to one by using entangled states prepared non-deterministically and quantum teleportation with single-qubit operations. Without a high enough success rate of a single quantum gate unit, it may require an exponential amount of computing resources. The KLM scheme is based on the fact that proper quantum coding can reduce the resources for obtaining accurately encoded qubits efficiently with respect to the accuracy achieved, and can make LOQC fault-tolerant for photon loss, detector inefficiency and phase decoherence. LOQC can be robustly implemented through the KLM scheme with a low enough resource requirement to suggest practical scalability, making it as promising a technology for quantum information processing as other known implementations.
Elements of LOQC in the KLM scheme
Qubits and modes
To avoid losing generality, the discussion below does not limit itself to a particular instance of mode representation. A state written as means a state with zero photons in mode (could be the "vertical" polarization channel) and one photon in the mode (could be the "horizontal" polarization channel).
In the KLM protocol, each of the photons is usually in one of two modes, and the modes are different between the photons (the possibility that a mode is occupied by more than one photon is zero). This is not the case only during implementations of controlled quantum gates such as CNOT. When the state of the system is as described, the photons can be distinguished, since they are in different modes, and therefore a qubit state can be represented using a single photon in two modes, vertical (V) and horizontal (H): for example, and . It is common to refer to the states defined via occupation of modes as Fock states.
Such notations are useful in quantum computing, quantum communication and quantum cryptography. For example, it is very easy to consider a loss of a single photon using these notations, simply by adding the vacuum state containing zero photons in those two modes. As another example, when having two photons in two separated modes (e.g. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levich%20constant | A Levich constant (B) is often used in order to simplify the Levich equation. Furthermore, B is readily extracted from rotating disk electrode experimental data.
The B can be defined as:
where
n is the number of moles of electrons transferred in the half reaction (number)
F is the Faraday constant (C/mol)
A is the electrode area (cm2)
D is the diffusion coefficient (see Fick's law of diffusion) (cm2/s)
v is the kinematic viscosity (cm2/s)
C is the analyte concentration (mol/cm3)
References
Electrochemical equations
Electrochemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20Labs | Link Labs is an American company based in Annapolis, Maryland, that develops computer network technology for business and industrial customers. Link Labs technologies are marketed for Internet of things (IoT) applications and devices.
History
The company was founded in 2014 by Brian Ray and 3 engineers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
In August 2015, it announced a venture capital investment of $5.7 million. The investment round was led by TCP and joined by the Maryland Venture Fund, Blu Venture, Inflection Point Partners, and others.
Products
Symphony Link is a low power, wide-area wireless network (LPWAN) that allows for monitoring and two-way communication with sensor devices. According to Link Labs, Symphony Link can support up to 250,000 endpoints on each gateway, and ranges up to 7 miles. Additionally, Symphony Link supports upgrading firmware over the air and allows for sending and receiving compressed bidirectional message acknowledgements.
AirFinder is a product division of Link Labs and a real-time location system (RTLS). It utilizes open-source iBeacon and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology to track assets and individuals. According to Link Labs, AirFinder is used to improve efficiencies through location tracking in healthcare organizations, manufacturing plants, and transport hubs.
Marketing
In August 2015, Link Labs partnered with Stream Technologies, allowing customers a more robust subscription, billing, and data management platform.
In June 2016, the Stanley Mechanical Solutions unit division of Stanley Black & Decker unveiled its Shelter system, an IoT-enabled school safety system. Link Labs worked in partnership with Stanley Mechanical to create a technological solution with extended battery life, quick response time, and long-range signal capability.
In October 2016, M2M Spectrum Networks announced plans to purchase up to 10,000 base stations.
In November 2016, Link Labs announced via press release that it is developing a Cat M1 fully integrated sensor suite—using Sequans Monarch chipsets—for Verizon's LTE network.
See also
LPWAN
References
Information technology companies of the United States
Internet of things companies
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Forshaw | Jeffrey Robert Forshaw (born 1968) is a British particle physicist with a special interest in quantum chromodynamics (QCD): the study of the behaviour of subatomic particles, using data from the HERA particle accelerator, Tevatron particle accelerator and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Since 2004 he has been professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
He is the co-author of five books, including the popular science books Why Does E=mc²?, The Quantum Universe and Universal: A guide to the cosmos, co-written with physicist Brian Cox. He has also written over 100 peer reviewed papers published in scientific journals and speaks at international science festivals for children and adults. He frequently acts as science consultant to the BBC and other media and is a columnist for The Observer.
Forshaw is a recipient of the Maxwell Medal and Prize for his contribution to particle physics, and the Kelvin Prize from the Institute of Physics for his contribution to the public understanding of physics.
Education
Forshaw attended Hesketh Fletcher High School and studied A levels at Wigan and Leigh College where he considered his teachers, Jim Breithaupt, Alan Skinner and Jean Wadsworth an important influence on his future career. He went on to study physics at Oriel College, Oxford graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in physics in 1989, followed by a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Manchester in 1992 for research on the parton content of the photon and photon-induced minijets.
Career and research
From 1992 to 1995 he worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Didcot in Oxfordshire, in the group led by noted particle physicist Frank Close. While studying he intended to become a school teacher but began lecturing at university level after his PhD. He began his friendship and eventual collaboration with Brian Cox around 1995 when he was Cox's lecturer in Advanced Quantum Field Theory as they were the same age, despite being student and teacher.
In 2004 he became professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester School of Physics and Astronomy. At Manchester he engaged in experimental and theoretical research in the field of particle physics, with particular interest in the behaviours of particles in high energy colliders as at the ATLAS experiment and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiments, part of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator research at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. He said of his theoretical physics research,
He has written over 100 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, including papers on ordering gluon emissions, quantum field theory and holographic wavefunction of mesons. Forshaw and his frequent co-author Cox have stated the peer review process of science results publishing is important because it ensures that minimum standards are met in the scientific community a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarSketch | EarSketch is a free educational programming environment. Its core purpose is to teach coding in two widely used languages, Python and JavaScript, through music composing and remixing. This learning environment was developed first at Georgia Institute of Technology, (from 2011) under Prof. Jason Freeman (School of Music) and Prof. Brian Magerko (School of Literature, Media, and Communication).
EarSketch is web-based, which means users can access it with their web-browsers, and with no installation. No account is required to create projects or view existing projects.
EarSketch comprises different elements: a curriculum, a digital audio workstation (or DAW), a code editor, console, and a sound browser. EarSketch's sound library was created by Young Guru, Jay Z's sound engineer, and famous sound designer Richard Devine.
Purpose
EarSketch has two main goals: to make computer science more engaging for students, and to diversify the population of students interested in computer science.
Engagement in computer science at school
The US has a shortage of computer science students, not only because not all schools are offering CS classes, but also because students do not enroll in such classes. A study published in 2009 states: "The percentage of U.S. high school students taking STEM courses has increased over the last 20 years across all STEM disciplines except computer science where it dropped from 25% to 19%". Considering this, and the fact that all fields of the economy incorporate computing in their operations, EarSketch proposes to motivate students to enroll in CS classes and to pursue CS studies in higher education.
EarSketch attempts to reach this goal by adding a musical side to coding. This strategy is a STEAMs approach to education that integrates arts into STEM teaching. A study conducted at Georgia Tech showed statistically significant results in this domain: students who study with EarSketch have been shown to make progress both in content knowledge and attitude towards CS (self-confidence, motivation, intent to persist, etc.).
Participation in computing
Today female and minority students in CS classes are, like in other engineering fields, underrepresented (with 22% of female students, 13% of African American students in US classes in 2015). EarSketch has demonstrated success in tackling this issue, partly because of the focus on popular genres of music such as dubstep, and because EarSketch provides a creative, expressive, and authentic environment (since students compose their own music).
History
Origin of the name EarSketch
The name EarSketch originated in a different project from co-creators Freeman and Magerko focused on collaborative composition and music analysis via drawing. That project never came to fruition, but the idea of collaborative music-making (and the name) remained in a new project focused more on coding and computer science education. Though sketching is no longer a focus of EarSketch, the environment does off |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Podcast%20on%20the%20Left | The Last Podcast on the Left is a weekly podcast on the Last Podcast Network featuring podcast producer and researcher Marcus Parks and comedian and actor Henry Zebrowski, two longtime friends. Episodes have explored the topics of serial killers, cults, conspiracy theories, UFO sightings, ghosts, cryptids, the occult, and readings of fan-submitted creepypastas. The name is a reference to the 1972 horror movie The Last House on the Left.
Premise
Episodes explore real and imagined horror, with a typical runtime of one to two hours. The show releases two episodes weekly: a main episode and a side story episode.
Main episodes, hosted by Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski, and formerly hosted by Ben Kissel, are focused on a singular topic and multiple episodes may be dedicated to one topic. Side Stories are typically hosted by Parks and Zebrowski (previously only Kissel and Zebrowski) and cover weekly true crime and other unusual news stories, with an additional “Hero of the Week” segment and often a “Listener Emails” segment. Occasionally, guests are invited onto the show for interviews, including Dan Aykroyd.
The opening theme of the podcast features snippets from serial killers, such as Jeffrey Dahmer who utters the line, "That's when the cannibalism started." It also includes the line and subsequent advertisement transition "Rise from your grave!" uttered by Zeus from the Sega action game Altered Beast. The closing theme is Al Bowlly's "Midnight, the Stars and You", a reference to The Shining.
Several repeat characters are present on the podcast (primarily voiced by Zebrowski) such as "Detective Popcorn" (the semi-erotic food-focused and incompetent police detective); Charles Ng (a notorious serial killer); "Terry the Gnome", "The Bone-Slicer"; and Minnie and Nannie Williams (victims of serial killer H. H. Holmes).
History
The Last Podcast on the Left was launched in 2011 as a conversation between friends who love horror movies. The name was inspired by horror movie “The Last House on the Left.” The podcast's discussions have delved into topics including aliens, cryptids and other macabre topics.
In 2017, The Last Podcast on the Left received the People's Voice Webby in the Podcasts & Digital Audio (Comedy) category.
In 2018, they filmed their first live show at Thalia Hall in Chicago, IL. In 2019, they filmed their second live show in New Orleans, LA. The hosts have toured extensively in the US and internationally for live events.
On November 19, 2019, it was announced that the show was moving exclusively to Spotify for ad-sponsored episodes. This arrangement was short-lived, ending in October 2021.
In 2020, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt released The Last Book on the Left, written by Kissel, Parks, and Zebrowski, and illustrated by Tom Neely.
The book debuted at number three on the New York Times Bestseller List under Hardcover nonfiction.
On September 13, 2023, it was announced that co-host Ben Kissel would be "going into treatment" for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accolades%20received%20by%20Zootopia | Zootopia (known as Zootropolis in some regions) is a 2016 American computer-animated buddy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore and was based on a screenplay written by Jared Bush (who also co-directed) and Phil Johnston. Zootopia focuses on the unlikely partnership between an ambitious rabbit police officer, Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and a crafty red fox con artist, Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) as they uncover a conspiracy behind the mysterious disappearance of predators from a mammalian metropolis.
Zootopia premiered on February 11, 2016, in Denmark before going into wide release in more than 3,800 theaters in the United States and Canada on March 4. Made on a production budget of $150million, Zootopia grossed a worldwide total of over $1 billion at the box office. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews.
Zootopia has received various awards and nominations. At the 89th Academy Awards, the film won Best Animated Feature. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, losing to Kubo and the Two Strings. At the 44th Annie Awards, Zootopia received eleven nominations and won six including Best Animated Feature and Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production for Bateman. The film won Best Animated Motion Picture at the 28th Producers Guild of America Awards. Goodwin received the Best Animated Female award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and received nominations from the People's Choice Awards, and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. Musician Sia and music producers Stargate garnered a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media for "Try Everything", performed by Shakira. The American Film Institute included Zootopia in their list of the top ten of 2016.
Accolades
Notes
References
External links
Lists of accolades by film
Disney-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20largest%20trading%20partners%20of%20Australia | This is a list of the largest trading partners of Australia. According to data obtained in the 2018 calendar year, China was the largest partner followed by Japan and the European Union.
The largest trading partners
The 10 largest trading partners of Australia with their total trade (sum of imports and exports) in millions of Australian dollars and the total trade for all countries for the 2018 calendar year were as follows:
Top export markets
The 15 largest export markets of Australia in millions of Australian dollars for the 2019–20 financial year were as follows:
Top import sources
The 15 largest import sources to Australia in millions of Australian dollars for the 2018–19 financial year were as follows:
See also
List of the largest trading partners of the ASEAN
List of the largest trading partners of Canada
List of the largest trading partners of China
List of the largest trading partners of the European Union
List of the largest trading partners of Germany
List of the largest trading partners of Italy
List of the largest trading partners of the Netherlands
List of the largest trading partners of India
List of the largest trading partners of Russia
List of the largest trading partners of United Kingdom
List of the largest trading partners of the United States
References
Economy of Australia-related lists
Foreign trade of Australia
Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candid%20%28app%29 | Candid was a mobile app for anonymous discussions. It used machine learning to create personalized newsfeeds of opinions and real conversations, and also for moderation and filtering. Users posted under pseudonyms such as "HyperMantis", "SincereGiraffe", "GroundedTurtle" and "ExuberantRaptor", that are unique for each thread.
Founder and CEO Bindu Reddy said that she needed "a place to express myself and engage in discussions where ideas can be debated on their own merits instead of being used to attack me as a person", which Candid tried to solve by redirecting off-topic comments to their appropriate groups, removing spam and flagging negative posts. They used natural language processing to identify hate speech, slander and threats, and removed them accordingly with human intervention. Candid software analyzed topics and tried to flag rumors and lies as such. Users could flag problematic posts and a team of ten contractors would review them individually. With time the system analyzed a user's interactions and give them labels, such as socializer, explorer, positive, influencer, hater, gossip, etc.
In June 2017, Candid announced that it would be shut down because its parent company, Post Intelligence, was being acquired. The app was forecast to close on June 23, 2017, but didn't actually close until June 25, 2017. The company was bought out by Uber in June 2017.
Notes
References
Mobile applications
IOS software
Anonymous social media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie%20Grant | Valerie Grant is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. The character was created by Pat Falken Smith and introduced as the black love interest for white character David Banning. The role was originated by Tina Andrews on October 27, 1975. Andrews was replaced by Rose Fonseca in the summer of 1977. Valerie and her family take David in when he is injured in a car accident and they soon fall in love. David and Valerie become engaged in the summer of 1976 but the romance is plagued by his infidelity, his ex-girlfriend Brooke Hamilton and her mother Helen's unwillingness to accept the relationship. When David's affair with Trish Clayton results in pregnancy, Valerie ends the relationship and takes a scholarship to medical school at Howard University in 1978. Actress Diane Sommerfield took over the role in 1981 when Valerie returns as a medical intern at the hospital. She becomes involved with Abe Carver which is plagued by Val's residual feelings for David and Abe's unwillingness to get married one day. The character is written out in 1982.
In 2016, after a nearly 35-year absence, the character was reintroduced with veteran actress Vanessa A. Williams in the role, when cardiologist Valerie is enlisted to help save Abe Carver. Valerie rekindles her romance with Abe despite disapproval from his teenage son Theo Carver. In 2017, after David's sudden death, it is revealed that Valerie had secretly given birth to his son — Eli Grant. Valerie's romance with David is recognized as the first interracial love story in daytime television history. The refusal of certain viewers to accept the relationship would make Valerie one of the most controversial characters in the history of Days of Our Lives.
Storylines
1975–1978
In October 1975, Valerie (Tina Andrews), a young nurse, is shocked when her brother Danny (Michael Dwight Smith) brings home a mysterious stranger after a car accident. Val examines him and realizes he is severely dehydrated. When he awakens, the stranger introduces himself as David Smith (Richard Guthrie) and they their parents agree to let him stay. When David begins drinking heavily, Val's mother Helen (Ketty Lester) wants to put him out but her father Paul (Lawrence Cook) refuses to abandon David. The Grants are shocked when David confesses that he is actually the presumed dead David Banning and he is hiding from his family and swears them to secrecy. Val informs David that he has been calling out the name "Brooke" in his sleep but David claims the name isn't special. Brooke (Adrienne LaRussa) turns out to be David's girlfriend, who comes looking for him and Val initially denies that David is living there until Brooke accuses her of wanting money. David is furious that Brooke has found him and Paul confesses to telling the Horton family of his whereabouts. Val warns David that Brooke is trouble and David later dumps her. David reconciles with his grieving mother Julie Anderson (Susan Sea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20in%20healthcare | Artificial intelligence in healthcare is a term used to describe the use of machine-learning algorithms and software, or artificial intelligence (AI), to copy human cognition in the analysis, presentation, and understanding of complex medical and health care data, or to exceed human capabilities by providing new ways to diagnose, treat, or prevent disease. Specifically, AI is the ability of computer algorithms to approximate conclusions based solely on input data.
The primary aim of health-related AI applications is to analyze relationships between clinical data and patient outcomes. AI programs are applied to practices such as diagnostics, treatment protocol development, drug development, personalized medicine, and patient monitoring and care. What differentiates AI technology from traditional technologies in healthcare is the ability to gather larger and more diverse data, process it, and produce a well-defined output to the end-user. AI does this through machine learning algorithms and deep learning. Because radiographs are the most common imaging tests conducted in most radiology departments, the potential for AI to help with triage and interpretation of traditional radiographs (X-ray pictures) is particularly noteworthy. These processes can recognize patterns in behavior and create their own logic. To gain useful insights and predictions, machine learning models must be trained using extensive amounts of input data. AI algorithms behave differently from humans in two ways: (1) algorithms are literal: once a goal is set, the algorithm learns exclusively from the input data and can only understand what it has been programmed to do, (2) and some deep learning algorithms are black boxes; algorithms can predict with extreme precision, but offer little to no comprehensible explanation to the logic behind its decisions aside from the data and type of algorithm used.
As widespread use of AI in healthcare is relatively new, research is ongoing into its application in various fields of medicine and industry. Additionally, greater consideration is being given to the unprecedented ethical concerns related to its practice such as data privacy, automation of jobs, and representation biases. Furthermore, new technologies brought about by AI in healthcare are often resisted by healthcare leaders, leading to slow and erratic adoption.
History
Research in the 1960s and 1970s produced the first problem-solving program, or expert system, known as Dendral. While it was designed for applications in organic chemistry, it provided the basis for a subsequent system MYCIN, considered one of the most significant early uses of artificial intelligence in medicine. MYCIN and other systems such as INTERNIST-1 and CASNET did not achieve routine use by practitioners, however.
The 1980s and 1990s brought the proliferation of the microcomputer and new levels of network connectivity. During this time, there was a recognition by researchers and developers that AI systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreatConnect | ThreatConnect is a cyber-security firm based in Arlington, Virginia. They provide a Threat Intelligence Platform for companies to aggregate and act upon threat intelligence.
History
The firm was founded in 2011 as Cyber Squared Inc. by Adam Vincent, Richard Barger, Andrew Pendergast and Leigh Reichel. They renamed to ThreatConnect after their series A funding of $4 million in 2014, and in December 2015 obtained series B funding of $16 million.
The company gained attention when it linked the Anthem medical data breach to Chinese government-sponsored entities. According to cybercrime expert Brian Krebs, ThreatConnect identified domains used by the group that were intentionally similar to legitimate domains used by Anthem.
They also linked Guccifer 2.0, responsible for the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak, to the Russian-backed cyberespionage group Fancy Bear. Further cyberattacks they attributed to Fancy Bear include against a group investigating the Malaysia Airlines 17 crash, and the World Anti-Doping Agency who had recently issued a report about state-sponsored doping.
In September 2020, ThreatConnect acquired Virginia-based software company Nehemiah Security.
References
External links
Computer security companies
American companies established in 2011
Organizations associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Sanctuary%20%28UK%29 | City of Sanctuary is a charity supporting a network of groups across the UK and Ireland working to build a culture of welcome and hospitality within their communities. Although this welcome spreads to anyone who may need it, this movement mainly focuses on the inclusion of asylum seekers and refugees. They celebrate the skills refugees and asylum seekers bring with them and provide a platform for their engagement with their local area, and for their voices to be heard. City of Sanctuary is a movement built by the grassroots, from the communities who wish to change things where they are, rather than a top down approach.
History
City of Sanctuary began in the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire in 2005 by Craig Barnett and Inderjit Bhogal. In 2007, with the support of the City Council and over 70 local community organisations, Sheffield became the UK’s first ‘City of Sanctuary’ – "a city that takes pride in the welcome it offers to people in need of safety." With the success of Sheffield, the movement then spread, with cities such as Leeds, Hull and Swansea starting their own groups to try and make refugees and asylum seekers living there feel more welcomed. As the movement grew, City of Sanctuary became a registered charity, helping to spread the movement and to connect groups to support one another.
By early 2015 there were around 30 groups across the UK and Ireland, and the organisation had built a Sanctuary Alliance with other notable organisations in the UK sector, such as Refugee Council, British Red Cross, Refugee Action, Student Action for Refugees. They had also successfully arranged an event in Parliament, Sanctuary in Parliament, which allowed refugees and asylum seekers to share their stories and to invite MPs to come and listen and talk to them. They had also been a major part of organising the Sanctuary Summit in 2014, where The Birmingham Declaration was written.
British human rights activist and journalist William Gomes has criticised a local city of sanctuary and the national city of sanctuary movement in his article titled "York City of Sanctuary: its achievements and the seismic shift necessary"
In September 2015, when the picture of Aylan Kurdi hit the media, City of Sanctuary was overwhelmed with new groups wishing to help in the refugee crisis. The charity was chosen to be included in the 2015 Guardian Christmas Appeal, and over the next few months the movement grew to over 60 groups, although groups were also based in villages and boroughs,
Streams of Sanctuary
City of Sanctuary has "Streams" of Sanctuary around a particular theme. This happens in schools, Colleges, universities, local authorities, Health, Maternity, Faiths and arts. Anyone can set up a Stream of Sanctuary to help welcome refugees.
Sanctuary Awards
The Sanctuary Awards recognise and celebrate the organisations who go above and beyond to welcome people seeking sanctuary. Any community group, private organisation, public sector service or other bodies whic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom%20Championship%20Tournament%20%282017%29 | The 2017 United Kingdom Championship Tournament was a two-day professional wrestling streaming event and tournament promoted by the American promotion WWE. It aired exclusively on the WWE Network. The first round took place on 14 January 2017, while the finals occurred on 15 January. The tournament was held at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, Lancashire, England and crowned the inaugural WWE United Kingdom Champion. Tyler Bate won the tournament to become the inaugural champion.
Background
In a press conference at The O2 Arena on 15 December 2016, Triple H, an executive for the American professional wrestling promotion WWE and head of the promotion's NXT brand, revealed that there would be a 16-man tournament to crown the inaugural WWE United Kingdom Champion. A United Kingdom Championship Tournament: Preview show aired on the WWE Network on 9 January 2017, with a behind-the-scenes look at the creators of the event and the 16 competitors. The tournament was held over a two-day period, 14 and 15 January 2017, at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, Lancashire, England and aired exclusively on the WWE Network. The championship later became the top championship of the NXT UK brand and its show, NXT UK, a WWE Network show produced in the United Kingdom that premiered on 17 October 2018.
Participants
Alternates
These competitors were initially announced for the tournament, but were not selected as part of the final 16. They were backup competitors if there were any injuries to the final 16, which there were not.
Results
14 January
15 January
Tournament bracket
On 9 January 2017, WWE.com announced the full bracket for the tournament.
The following time limits were in place:
Round one: 15 minutes
Quarterfinals: 20 minutes
Semifinals: 30 minutes
Final: no time limit
Broadcast team
Aftermath
On 15 May 2017, a follow-up to the United Kingdom Championship tournament was announced by WWE, titled the United Kingdom Championship Special, the event aired on 19 May 2017. In April 2018, a second WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament was announced, to be held on 18 and 19 June 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall.
See also
Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom
References
External links
2017 WWE Network events
January 2017 events in the United Kingdom
2017
Tournament 2017
2017 in England
Blackpool |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20children%27s%20radio%20networks | Children's radio networks are radio networks which are targeted to children.
Children's Radio Network
Children's Radio Network was the first children's radio network which went to the air twice.
Children's Radio Network started broadcasting from its flagship station in Jacksonville in 1984. It was founded and funded by William Osewalt. The network built up to six affiliated stations. Osewalt ran into some personal financial problems, forcing a shutdown of the network in 1986.
Osewalt relaunched the network on WWTC in Minneapolis in May 1990 as Radio AAHS. As of May 1991, the network had no addition affiliates but expected to add some by the end of the year.
Imagination Station Network
Imagination Station Network, also called Kids' Choice Broadcasting Network, was a children's radio network. Most of the programming was music with the rest being stories, call-ins from children and radio host chatter.
In 1988, Matt Leibowitz approached his friend Peter Yarrow about how a kid's radio network would be designed. They were initially joined by three other primary investors. Leibowitz became the network's chairman while Yarrow was appointed vice president for creative programming. Yarrow wrote and performed original music for the network, including the station's march song and theme songs for its seven daily program segments. He then moved into promoting the network and seeking investors. The network projected to have 100 affiliates at the end of its first year. WPRD station owner, Metroplex Communications, invested in the network.
Kids' Choice Broadcasting Network started broadcasting in late March 1990 on WPRD, its originating and only station. The network changed its name to match the branded name of its originating station, Imagination Station Network. A second affiliate, KSCO in Santa Cruz, signed up by September 1990. 20 stations were expected to affiliate by the end of the first year. The network added another affiliate in Salt Lake City, KKDS, which was an affiliate to the network's first sign off.
Audience-survey companies like Arbitron Ratings Co. rarely interview kids under age 12. With only two affiliates, the network did not attract national advertising, and thus lacked the funds to get more affiliates. Additional equity funding could not be found. On February 27, 1991, the Imagination Station Network stopped broadcasting. Metroplex withdrew as an investor from the network. However, KKDR continued using the Imagination Station format.
Grassroots efforts began with kids offering the station, WPRD, their piggy bank money. Two six-year-old girls set up a fundraising booth on their front lawn. The founder and president of the Orlando-based National Association for the Rights of Children, Bob McCarthy, teamed up with the network's former programming executives to bring a new children's radio network to Orlando. Leibowitz was still receiving forwards entries for the network's kid's club.
On April 1, 1991, a reorganized Imagination Stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20Boavida | Fernando Boavida (Full name: Fernando Pedro Lopes Boavida Fernandes; born June 5, 1959, in Pinhal Novo, Palmela, Portugal) is a Portuguese computer scientist, informatics engineer, university professor, and writer, recognized as a pioneer of network science research and internet in the University of Coimbra and in Portugal.
Life and career
Fernando Boavida received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1982, from the University of Coimbra, where he ranked first in his course. He subsequently concluded his M.Sc. in Telecommunications in 1986 and his PhD in Informatics Engineering in 1990, both from the referred university. He currently is Full Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering (DEI) of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra.
Still as an Electrical Engineering student, he was one of the winners of the first Portuguese Mathematics Mini-Olympics, organized by the Portuguese Mathematics Society in 1980. Also as a B.Sc. student, he was involved in the design of the first Portuguese personal computer, ENER 1000, in the early 1980s, and later, during his M.Sc., developed the network interface card for this computer, which implemented a token bus medium access control protocol entirely developed by him.
Due to his early involvement in computer networking and the Internet in the late 1980s, through associations such as IFIP, RARE (Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne, later named TERENA), and EWOS (European Workshop for Open Systems), he was, along with his colleague Edmundo Monteiro. In 1990 he was appointed responsible for the University of Coimbra point of presence in the national academic network, RCTS, and in the Internet.
He was co-proposer and co-founder of the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, created by deliberation of the university's Senate on December 13, 1994. He was the founder, in 1991, of the Laboratory of Communications and Telematics (LCT) of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, (CISUC), the Strategic Director for Communications and Information Technology of the University of Coimbra from October 2003 to December 2015, the Director of the Department of Informatics Engineering from February 2004 to January 2008, the chairman of the Board of the Coimbra Digital Region Association from June 2009 to October 2010, and the Director of CISUC from October 2013 to September 2015.
Fernando Boavida participated in or directed 40 advanced research projects, mainly in the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development of the European Union ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS, IST and ICT. He was co-founder of the ACM CoNEXT conference series, and chaired prestigious international conferences such as QofIS 2001, IDMS-PROMS 2002, NETWORKING 2006, WWIC 2007, FMN 2008, EWSN 2010, FMN 2012, IWQoS 2012, ACM SIGCOMM FhMN 2013, Mobiquitous 2015, and WoWMoM 2016. He authored/co-authored more than 170 international publications (bo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News24%20%28Bangladeshi%20TV%20channel%29 | News24 is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable pay television channel dedicated to news programming. It began broadcasts on 28 July 2016, and is owned by East West Media Group, a subsidiary of Bashundhara Group. News24 is based in the Bashundhara Residential Area in Baridhara.
History
In November 2013, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission granted Bashundhara Group's East West Media Group a broadcasting license to operate News24. It received its frequency allocation in January 2015. Its logo was officially revealed in February 2016. The channel began test broadcasts on 26 March 2016. News24 was one of the nine Bangladeshi television channels to sign an agreement with Bdnews24.com to subscribe to a video-based news agency run by children called Prism in May 2016. The channel officially went on the air on 28 July 2016. News24 commenced high-definition broadcasts on 1 February 2021. News24 revamped its logo on 26 March 2021.
Organisation
Sayem Sobhan is the managing director of News24. Shahnaz Munni is the chief news editor. Naem Nizam was the CEO of this tv channel since its starting telecast. On Nov, 2021 he was relieved from his position.
See also
List of television stations in Bangladesh
References
Television channels and stations established in 2016
Television channels in Bangladesh
2016 establishments in Bangladesh
Mass media in Dhaka
24-hour television news channels in Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20log | XML log or XML logging is used by many computer programs to log the programs operations. An XML logfile records a description of the operations done by a program during its session. The log normally includes: timestamp, the programs settings during the operation, what was completed during the session, the files or directories used and any errors that may have occurred. In computing, a logfile records either events that occur in an operating system or other software running. It may also log messages between different users of a communication software. XML file standard is controlled by the World Wide Web Consortium as the XML file standard is used for many other data standards, see List of XML markup languages. XML is short for eXtensible Markup Language file.
See also
List of XML markup languages
List of XML schemas
Comparison of data serialization formats
Binary XML
EBML
WBXML
XHTML
XML Protocol
References
External links
W3C XML homepage
XML 1.0 Specification
Retrospective on Extended Reference Concrete Syntax by Rick Jelliffe
XML, Java and the Future of the Web (1997) by Jon Bosak
http://validator.w3.org/ The Official [W3C] Markup Validation Service
The XML FAQ originally for the W3C's XML SIG by Peter Flynn
Computer file formats
Computer logging
Markup languages
Open formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIVO%20%28software%29 | VIVO is a web-based, open-source suite of computer software for managing data about researchers, scientists, and faculty members. VIVO uses Semantic Web techniques to represent people and their work. As of 2020, it is used by dozens of universities and the United States Department of Agriculture.
History
The Cornell University Library originally created VIVO in 2003 as a "virtual life sciences community". In 2009, the National Institutes of Health awarded a $12.2 million grant to University of Florida, Cornell University, Indiana University, Ponce School of Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, and Weill Cornell Medical College to expand the tool for use outside of Cornell.
Data ingest
VIVO can harvest publication data from PubMed, CSV files, relational databases, or OAI-PMH harvest. It then uses a semi-automated process to match publications to researchers. It also harvests information about researchers from Human Resources systems and student information systems.
Ontology
The VIVO ontology incorporates elements of several established ontologies, including Dublin Core, Basic Formal Ontology, Bibliographic Ontology, FOAF, and SKOS. The ontology can be used to describe several roles of faculty members, including research, teaching, and service.
The Dutch Data Archiving and Networked Services and Indiana University worked to develop the ontology to enable bilingual modeling of researchers.
References
Semantic Web
Ontology (information science)
Bibliometrics software
Free library and information science software
Scholarly databases
2003 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20bot | A social bot, also described as a social AI or social algorithm, is a software agent that communicates autonomously on social media. The messages (e.g. tweets) it distributes can be simple and operate in groups and various configurations with partial human control (hybrid) via algorithm. Social bots can also use artificial intelligence and machine learning to express messages in more natural human dialogue.
Uses
To persuade people, e.g. to advertise a product, support a political campaign, or boost social media engagement.
To offer affordable customer service agents who can promptly and accurately address any inquiries that our clients' users may have. We strive to provide an exceptional service experience that meets or exceeds the expectations of our clients and their customers alike.
To provide automatic responses to frequently asked questions on social media platforms like Discord.
Lutz Finger identifies five immediate uses for social bots:
foster fame: Simulating real success by having fake followers is unethical.
spamming: Having advertising bots in online chats is similar to email spam, but more direct.
mischief: For example, one unethical tactic is signing up an opponent with multiple fake identities and spamming the account to discredit them.
public opinion bias: Countless messages with similar content but different phrasings have the power to influence fads or trends.
limit free speech: Allow automated bot messages to bury important messages.
to phish passwords or other personal data.
Some of another examples, such as:
Algorithmic curation: The curation (organizing and maintaining a collection) of online media using computer algorithms. This form of curation has changed how creators & businesses can escape social media algorithms to reach consumers.
Algorithmic radicalization: Users are led toward increasingly extreme content, generating polarizing media and self-confirmation of radicalized political views.
Collective influence algorithm: This algorithm has been effective in finding influential nodes in a variety of networks, including social networks, communication networks, and biological networks. It has been used to identify influential users on social media, to identify key nodes in transportation networks, and to identify potential drug targets in biological networks.
Influence-for-hire: The term "influencer economy" refers to the buying and selling of influence on social media platforms.
Ghost followers: Users on social media who don't interact through likes, comments, messaging, or posts are considered inactive.
Social influence bias: This refers to a phenomenon where users tend to overcompensate for negative ratings while amplifying positive ones.
History
Bots have coexisted with computer technology since its creation. Social bots have therefore risen in popularity simultaneously with the rise of social media. Social bots, besides being able to (re-)produce or reuse messages autonomously, also share many trai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug%20%28disambiguation%29 | Debugging is the process of finding and resolving of defects that prevent correct operation of computer software or a system.
Debug may also refer to:
Debug (command), a command in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows
Debug (magazine) or De:Bug, 1997–2014, a German magazine
Debug (film), a 2014 Canadian science fiction horror film
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Coalition%20Against%20Poverty | Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty also known as ECAP, is a left-wing organisation which aims to be a solidarity network for working-class people particularly the unemployed and disabled. It is independent from government and operates by direct democracy.
It is one of many similar claimants groups set up with similar political purposes.
ECAP's website hosts benefit advice and articles about the group's activities.
The group has frequently been involved in opposition to benefit sanctions, opposition to workfare and fighting for the right to be accompanied at jobcentres ECAP has drawn inspiration from the advocacy of the Scottish Unemployed Workers Network and supported their member Tony Cox during his trial.
ECAP have held presentations alongside speakers like Lynne Friedli and the IWW.
Its affiliate, Edinburgh Claimants has been acting as an independent advocacy group and claimants union since the 1980s as part of the Edinburgh Unemployed Workers Centre. It has been based at the autonomous centre of Edinburgh since 1997.
ECAP is a member of the Action Against Austerity network and signatory to "From Yes to Action"
The group is featured in the end credits of Ken Loach's film I Daniel Blake due to its role in helping script writer Paul Laverty with researching the film.
References
Poverty in Scotland
Politics of Scotland
Organisations based in Edinburgh
Poverty-related organizations
Left-wing politics in the United Kingdom
Left-wing activism
Unemployment in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%27s%20Super%20Food | Jamie's Super Food is a UK food lifestyle programme which was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2014.
Episodes
External links
The TVDB.com
Channel 4 original programming
British cooking television shows
2014 British television series debuts
2014 British television series endings
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20K.%20Aggarwal | Jagdishkumar Keshoram Aggarwal (born 1936) is an American computer scientist, who is currently retired and is Cullen Trust Endowed Emeritus Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. He is known for his contributions in the fields of computer vision, pattern recognition and image processing focusing on human motion and activities. He served in various positions in the Department of Electrical and Computer of the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions.
A Fellow of IEEE (1976), IAPR (1998) and AAAS (2005), he received the Senior Research Award of the American Society of Engineering Education in 1992, the 1996 Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Computer Society, and the graduate teaching award at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. More recently, he is the recipient of the 2004 King-Sun Fu Prize of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, the 2005 Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award of the IEEE, and the 2007 Okawa Prize of the Okawa Foundation of Japan. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a Golden Core member of IEEE Computer Society. He has authored and edited a number of books, chapters, proceedings of conferences, and papers. According to his Google Scholar profile, he has an h-index of 86.
Biography
J. K. Aggarwal received his Bachelor of Science in 1957 from the University of Bombay, Bombay. He received a Bachelor of Engineering in 1960 from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool. He obtained his MS (1961) and PhD (1964) from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign under Nelson Wax. Since then, he has served in various positions as delineated below.
Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, September 1990–2014.
John J. McKetta Energy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, September 1981–August 1990.
Visiting Professor, Media Lab. MIT Spring 1995.
Visiting Professor, Kobe University, Japan, Spring 1976.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 1972–2014.
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 1968–1972.
Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, September 1969–June 1970
Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Dynamical Systems, Brown University, Providence, R.I., February 1968–June 1968.
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 1964–August 1968.
Research Assistant, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Illinois, June 1961–August 1964
Fellow, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Illinois, September 1960–May 1961
Research Assistant, Marconi's Research Lab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Mack%20Grady | W. Mack Grady is an American engineer, currently the Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Baylor University, Josey Centennial Professor Emeritus in Energy Resources at Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin and also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellow Members of the IEEE
21st-century American engineers
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Baylor University faculty
American electrical engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anytime%20A%2A | In computer science, anytime A* is a family of variants of the A* search algorithm. Like other anytime algorithms, it has a flexible time cost, can return a valid solution to a pathfinding or graph traversal problem even if it is interrupted before it ends, by generating a fast, non-optimal solution before progressively optimizing it. This ability to quickly generate solutions has made it attractive to Search-base sites and AI designs.
Background and history
Running the optimal A* algorithm to completion is too expensive for many purposes. A*'s optimality can be sacrificed in order to reduce the execution time by inflating the heuristic, as in weighted A* from 1970. Iteratively reducing the degree the heuristic is "inflated" provides a naive anytime algorithm (ATA*, 2002), but this repeats previous work. A more efficient and error-bounded version that reuses results, Anytime Repairing A* (ARA*), was reported in 2003. A dynamic (in the sense of D*) modification of ARA*, Anytime Dynamic A* (ADA*) was published in 2005. It combines aspects of D* Lite and ARA*. Anytime Weighted A* (1997, 2007) is similar to weighted A*, except that it continues the search after finding the first solution. It finds better solutions iteratively and ultimately finds the optimal solution without repeating previous work and also provides error bounds throughout the search. Randomized Weighted A* (2021) introduced randomization into Anytime Weighted A* and demonstrated better empirical performance.
Difference from A*
A* search algorithm can be presented by the function of , where is the last node on the path, is the cost of the path from the start node to , and is a heuristic that estimates the cost of the cheapest path from to the goal. Different than the A* algorithm, the most important function of Anytime A* algorithm is that, they can be stopped and then can be restarted at any time. Anytime A* family of algorithms typically build upon the weighted version of the A* search: where one uses , , and performs the A* search as usual, which eventually happens faster since fewer nodes are expanded.
ATA* involves running weighted A* multiple times with gradually lowering each time until =1 when the search just becomes plain A*. Although this could work by calling A* repeatedly and discarding all previous memory, ARA* does this by introducing a way of updating the path. The initial value of determines the minimal (first-time) runtime of ATA*.
Anytime weighted A* turns weighted A* into an anytime algorithm as follows. Each goal test is done at node generation instead of node expansion, and the current solution becomes the best goal node so far. Unless the algorithm is interrupted, the search continues until the optimal solution is found. During the search, the error bound is the cost of the current solution minus the least f-value in the open list. The optimal solution is detected when no more nodes with remain open, and at that point the algorithm terminates with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose%20Luis%20Mateos | Jose Luis Mateos Trigos (born 13 July 1961) is a theoretical physicist working at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), doing research on Complex Systems, Network Science and Statistical Physics.
Education
Born in Mexico City, Mateos obtained his PhD in Physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM in Mexico City, with a thesis on earthquakes and seismic waves, in particular the seismic response of the Valley of Mexico during the earthquakes of September 1985. Then, he went to Boston, Massachusetts, to have a postdoctoral stay as a Visiting Professor at the Physics Department of Northeastern University. There he started to work on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos. Back in Mexico City, in the Department of Complex Systems of the Institute of Physics UNAM, he continued his research on interdisciplinary and statistical physics and non linear dynamics: more specifically on transport on nonlinear chaotic systems with or without noise (ratchets) and Brownian motors. Later on, he started to work on anomalous diffusion and Lévy flights in physics and biology. More recently, he has been interested in Network Science, doing research on Lévy random walks on networks.
Honors and awards
Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (1998)
Humboldt Fellowship Recipient. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany ( 2002)
Member of the C3 Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics IUPAP
Personal life
Jose Luis Mateos has made many media appearances both in radio and TV, and host a radio show, together with Luis Manuel Guerra, on Radio Red 1110 AM.
Selected publications
J. L. Mateos, J. Flores, O. Novaro, T. H. Seligman y J. M. Alvarez-Tostado. Resonant response models for the Valley of Mexico-II; the trapping of horizontal P waves. In Geophysical Journal International,1993. Vol. 113, pp. 449–462.
G. García-Calderón, J. L. Mateos y M. Moshinsky. Resonant Spectra and the Time Evolution of the Survival and Nonescape Probabilities. In Physical Review Letters, 1995. Vol. 74, pp. 337–340.
José L. Mateos. Chaotic Transport and Current Reversal in Deterministic Ratchets. In Physical Review Letters, 2000. Vol. 84, pp. 258–261.
Gabriel Ramos-Fernández, José L. Mateos, Octavio Miramontes, Germinal Cocho, Hernán Larralde and Bárbara Ayala-Orozco. Lévy walk patterns in the foraging movements of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi), In Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004. Vol. 55 (Number 3), pp. 223–230.
Marcin Kostur, Peter Hänggi, Peter Talkner and José L. Mateos. Anticipated synchronization in coupled inertial ratchets with time-delayed feedback: A numerical study, In Physical Review E, 2005. Vol. 72, 036210.
Denis Boyer, Gabriel Ramos-Fernández, Octavio Miramontes, José L. Mateos, Germinal Cocho, Hernán Larralde, Humberto Ramos, and Fernando Rojas. Scale-free foraging by primates emerges from their interaction with a complex environment. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2006. Vol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20interpolation%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | Motion interpolation is a programming technique in data-driven character animation that creates transitions between example motions and extrapolates new motions.
Example motions are often created through keyframing or motion capture. However, keyframing is labor-intensive and lacks varieties of motion, and both processes result in motions that are time-consuming to alter.
Motion interpolation provides a much faster alternative to creating new motions through the same means.
Implementation
Formerly, a popular method of simulating a character's movement involved storing a variety of motions and choosing the most appropriate one during run-time.
Unfortunately, storage limitations resulted in repetitive or imperfect results.
Instead, with some additional computation, new, desired motions can be created by interpolating preexisting, similar motions.
Using interpolation, motions can be generated in real time while preserving the realistic qualities of the example motions.
Simulated figure
The simulated figure that is manipulated to show the motion is represented as a hierarchical connection of rigid links by joints.
The root of the hierarchy has six degrees of freedom: three degrees for the figure's position and three degrees for the figure's rotation.
This representation is sufficient, because knowing only the degrees for each joint and the root, the figure can be rendered at any time.
Interpolation
Suppose that for a desired motion, "walk," there exist two example motions that convey different moods (e.g., happy and sad). A happy walking motion may be characterized by a simulated figure's posture being upright and its gait being energetic and fast-paced. A sad walking motion may be characterized by a slouched posture and a slow gait.
To interpolate these motions, they must be in canonical form. This means that their times must be made generic so that significant structural events occur simultaneously. To elaborate, the two example walking motions may vary in time, as the happy walk is described as fast-paced and the sad walk is described as slow. However, scaling their lengths of time to be equivalent is not sufficient for interpolation. This is because the slow walking motion is not simply an elongation of the happy walking motion. These motions must have their walk cycle key frames aligned, so that at a given generic time, both motions make a forward point contact.
For a neutral walking motion that is neither (or equally) happy or sad, the corresponding degrees of freedom for the existing motions are used for interpolation. As a result, a tuple of degrees of freedom is created for a simulated figure walking a neutral walking motion at a generic time.
Alternatively, if the mood of the simulated figure were to change in real time from happy to sad, the interpolation would be more influenced by the happy walking motion at the start of the transition. Towards the end of the transition, the interpolation would be more influenced by the sad walkin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo%20Report | The Menlo Report is a report published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, Cyber Security Division that outlines an ethical framework for research involving Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
The 17-page report was published on August 3, 2012. The following year, the Department of Homeland Security published a 33-page companion report that includes case studies that illustrate how the principles can be applied.
The Menlo Report adapted the original Belmont Report principles (Respect for Persons, Beneficence, and Justice) to the context of cybersecurity research & development, as well as adding a fourth principle, "Respect for Law and Public Interest."
The Menlo Report was created under an informal, grassroots process that was catalyzed by the ethical issues raised in ICT Computer security research. Discussions at conferences and in public discourse exposed growing awareness of ethical debates in computer security research, including issues that existing oversight authorities (e.g., Institutional Review Boards) might have been unaware of or determined were beyond their purview. The Menlo Report is the core document stemming from the series of working group meetings that broached these issues in an attempt to pre-empt research harms and galvanize the community around common ethical principles and applications.
This report proposes a framework for ethical guidelines for computer and information security research, based on the principles set forth in the 1979 Belmont Report, a seminal guide for ethical research in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The Menlo Report describes how the three principles in the Belmont report can be applied in fields related to research about or involving information and communication technology. ICT research raises new challenges resulting from interactions between humans and communications technologies. In particular, today's ICT research contexts contend with ubiquitously connected network environments, overlaid with varied, often discordant legal regimes and social norms.
The Menlo Report proposes the application of these principles to information systems security research although the researchers expect the proposed framework to be relevant to other disciplines, including those targeted by the Belmont report but now operating in more complex and interconnected contexts. The Menlo Report details four core ethical principles, three from the original Belmont Report.
respect for persons
beneficence
justice
It has an additional principle - respect for law and public interest. The report explains each of these in the context of ICT research.
Principles of the Menlo Report
The Menlo Report attempts to summarize a set of basic principles to guide the identification and resolution of ethical problems arising in research of or involving ICT. The report believes that ICT has increasingly become integrated into individual and collective daily lives and a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20albums%20of%202017%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 physical and digital sales of albums and EPs. In 2017, 24 albums claimed the top spot, including Michael Bublé's Christmas, and seven acts, The xx, Dune Rats, Busby Marou, The Waifs, Harry Styles, Paul Kelly and Gang of Youths, achieved their first number-one album in Australia.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2017 in music
List of number-one singles of 2017 (Australia)
List of top 10 albums in 2017 (Australia)
References
2017
Australia albums
Number-one albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202017%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly physical and digital sales and streams of singles. In 2017, eleven singles claimed the top spot, including Clean Bandit's "Rockabye", which started its peak position in 2016, and Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You", which spent 15 non-consecutive weeks at number one, breaking the long standing record in chart history previously held by ABBA's "Fernando in 1976. Twelve acts, Harry Styles, DJ Khaled, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Sam Smith, Post Malone, 21 Savage, Camila Cabello and Young Thug, reached the top spot for the first time. Pink achieved her ninth number one with "What About Us", and Taylor Swift achieved her fifth number one with "Look What You Made Me Do".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2017 in music
List of number-one albums of 2017 (Australia)
List of top 10 singles in 2017 (Australia)
References
Australia singles
Number-one singles
2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20200%20number-one%20albums%20of%202017 | The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of its individual tracks.
In 2017, a total of 38 albums claimed the top position of the chart. Beginning with vocal group Pentatonix's Christmas album, A Pentatonix Christmas, issue dated January 7, another one of which, Canadian singer The Weeknd's third studio album, Starboy returned to the top slot a week later after three weeks from the slot, issue dated December 17, 2016.
Ed Sheeran's third studio album, ÷ (Divide) was the most consumed album of 2017 with 2.764 million equivalent album units with 1.1 million of that sum coming from traditional album sales according to Nielsen Music. Kendrick Lamar's fourth studio album Damn was the second best-selling album of 2017 with 2.747 million equivalent album units according to Nielsen Music. Taylor Swift's sixth studio album, Reputation, was the best-selling album of 2017 with 1.9 million sales, and the third most consumed, with 2.336 million units moved in 2017.
Rapper Future also made Billboard history releasing two different albums in a week apart: his fifth self-titled album and sixth follow-up, Hndrxx. Both managed to peak atop the chart. Aside from A Pentatonix Christmas, Starboy, ÷, More Life, Damn and Reputation, the only two number-ones with extended chart runs include: Grateful by DJ Khaled and 4:44 by Jay-Z, four of which spent only two weeks at the top position.
Chart history
See also
2017 in American music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2017
References
2017
United States Albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%202017 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each song's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as the amount of airplay received on American radio stations and streaming on online digital music outlets.
During 2017, eleven singles reached number one on the Hot 100; a twelfth single, "Black Beatles" by Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane, began its run at number one in November 2016. Of those eleven number-one singles, six were collaborations. In total, nineteen acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists, with twelve—Daft Punk, Migos, Lil Uzi Vert, Ed Sheeran, DJ Khaled, Quavo (as a solo act), Chance the Rapper, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Cardi B, Post Malone, and 21 Savage—achieving their first Hot 100 number-one single. "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber was the longest-running number-one of the year, leading the chart for sixteen weeks and tying the then-record for longest-running number-one single in the history of the chart; despite this, Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100.
Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber were the only acts to have multiple number ones, with both gaining two.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2017 in American music
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2017
List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2017
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2017
References
United States Hot 100
2017
Hot 100 number-one singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Ho | Victor Ho () is a Taiwanese-American businessman, who was the co-founder and CEO of FiveStars, a customer loyalty network for small and medium businesses.
Early life and career
Ho grew up in Southern California. His parents are immigrants from Taiwan. His father is an engineer and his mother an artist, both of whom met while working at Rockwell Automation.
After graduating from college, Ho started his career at Goldman Sachs. Next, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York.
Whilst at McKinsey, Ho interviewed for jobs at private equity firms. One day, while stuck at San Francisco airport from a flight delay, the idea of creating a company based on improving customer loyalty for local merchants occurred to him. He called prospective employers and told them he had changed his mind.
In December 2010 Ho launched FiveStars with Matt Doka, whom he knew from working at McKinsey. In July, 2011 the company launched its product, a universal customer loyalty card called FiveStars and found early success. They proceeded to raise $16 million in venture financing to grow the company. By August 2013, Five Stars employed 100 people and has in excess of a million cardholders. By 2016, the company has raised $105M in funding from investors.
References
Living people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American people of Taiwanese descent
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Privacy%20Commission | The National Privacy Commission, or NPC, is an independent body created under Republic Act No. 10173 or the Data Privacy Act of 2012, mandated to administer and implement the provisions of the Act, and to monitor and ensure compliance of the country with international standards set for data protection. It is attached to the Philippines' Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) for purposes of policy coordination, but remains independent in the performance of its functions. The Commission safeguards the fundamental human right of every individual to privacy, particularly Information privacy while ensuring the free flow of information for innovation, growth, and national development.
In order to fulfill its mandate, the commission is vested with a broad range of powers, from receiving complaints and instituting investigations on matters affecting personal data protection to compelling entities to abide by its orders in matters affecting data privacy. It also represents the Philippine Government internationally on data protection related issues. The Commission formulates and implements policies relating to the protection of personal data, including the relevant circulars and advisory guidelines, to assist organisations in understanding and complying with the Data Privacy Act. The commission also reviews organizational actions in relation to data protection rules and issue decisions or directions for compliance where necessary. It is mandated to work with relevant sector regulators in exercising its functions.
Beyond regulating data protection issues, the NPC also undertakes public and sector-specific educational and outreach activities to help organizations adopt good data protection practices and to help individuals to better understand how they may protect their own personal data from misuse.
History
The Data Privacy Act of 2012 is the first law in the Philippines which acknowledges the rights of Individuals over their Personal Data and Enforcing the responsibilities of entities who process them.
The initial definition was offered first in Republic Act 8792, Section 32 better known as the eCommerce Act of the Philippines and was formally introduced by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on its Department Administrative Order #08 – Defining Guidelines for the Protection of Personal Data in Information Private Sector. Along with the Anti-Cybercrime Bill (now RA 10175), The first draft of the law started in 2001 under the Legal and Regulatory Committee of the former Information Technology and eCommerce Council (ITECC) which is the forerunner of the Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT). It was headed by former Secretary Virgilio "Ver" Peña and the committee was chaired by Atty. Claro Parlade. It was an initiative of the Information Security and Privacy Sub-Committee chaired by Albert Dela Cruz who was the President of PHCERT together with then Anti-Computer Crime and Fraud Division Chief, Atty. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou%20Zhi-Hua | Zhou Zhihua (; born November 20, 1973) is a Chinese computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at Nanjing University. He is the Standing Deputy Director of the National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, and Founding Director of the LAMDA Group. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining.
Biography
Zhou Zhi-Hua received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Nanjing University in 1996, 1998 and 2000, respectively, all with the highest honor. He joined the Department of Computer Science & Technology of Nanjing University as an Assistant Professor in 2001, promoted to Associate Professor in 2002 and Full Professor in 2003. He was appointed as Cheung Kong Professor in 2006.
Research
Zhou is known for significant contributions to ensemble learning, multi-label learning, and learning with partial supervision (semi-supervised learning, multi-instance learning, etc.). He has authored two books and published more than 150 scientific articles in premium journals/conferences. According to Google Scholar, his h-index is 102. He also holds 18 patents.
Services
Zhou founded the ACML (Asian Conference on Machine Learning), and served as Advisory Committee member of IJCAI (2015-2016), General co-chair of ICDM'2016, Program Committee Co-Chair of IJCAI'2015 Machine Learning track, etc. He served for editorial boards of many journals, including Executive Editor-in-Chief for Frontiers of Computer Science. He is/was Chair of CCF-AI (2012-), Chair of the IEEE CIS Data Mining Technical Committee (2015-2016), Chair of the CAAI Machine Learning Technical Committee (2006-2015). He founded the LAMDA, a famous research group in machine learning and data mining in China.
Awards
Zhou received various award/honors including the National Natural Science Award of China (premium science award in China),
the IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award,
the PAKDD Distinguished Contribution Award,
the IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award, the Microsoft Professorship Award, etc.
He is a Fellow of the ACM,
AAAS,
AAAI,
IEEE,
IAPR,
IET/IEE
and CCF.
Books
Ensemble Methods: Foundations and Algorithms. 2012
Machine Learning. (in Chinese). 2016
References
External links
Zhi-Hua Zhou homepage
Artificial intelligence researchers
1973 births
Living people
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Members of the 14th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%20reporting | In computational geometry and database theory, a range reporting query asks for a list of the points that match the query. The query is often specified by a geometric shape, containing all the points that should match, and is called a range. Range reporting is a special case of range searching, in which queries may return other kinds of aggregate information about points in a range.
Range reporting queries are often handled by building a data structure from a collection of points that can answer queries efficiently. Because the worst case output size for a range reporting query, measured as a function of the data set size , can be itself, much of the research on range reporting data structures has investigated output-sensitive algorithms, where the query time is analyzed in terms of both and the number of reported points (often denoted ).
For example, for one-dimensional (numeric) data with query ranges that are intervals, range reporting queries can be handled by storing the data in a sorted array. With this structure, one can use binary search to find the point closest to the start of a query interval, and then scan the array from that point forwards to list all of the points in the interval. Storing this data structure uses (linear) space, and it handles queries in time per query.
References
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Geometric data structures
Database theory |
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