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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Parscale | Brad Parscale (born January 3, 1976) is an American digital consultant and political advisor who served as the senior adviser for data and digital operations for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign. He previously served as the digital media director for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and as campaign manager for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign from February 2018 to July 2020, being replaced by Bill Stepien. In September 2020, he stepped away from his company and the Trump campaign.
Parscale began working for the Trump Organization in 2011, developing and designing websites and creating and managing digital media strategies. In early 2015, Trump hired Parscale and his firm, Giles-Parscale, to create a website for his exploratory campaign. When Trump declared himself a Republican candidate in 2015, he asked Parscale to update the exploratory campaign site into a "full-fledged presidential campaign website."
Throughout the Republican primary, Parscale was responsible on behalf of Trump for managing the website, as well as digital media strategies and online fundraising campaigns. In June 2016, Parscale was officially named digital media director for the Trump for President campaign, overseeing all aspects of digital media and online fundraising, as well as traditional media strategy, like radio and television placements.
In January 2017, Parscale, along with senior Trump aide, Nick Ayers, launched America First Policies, an organization that promotes President Trump's agenda and White House initiatives.
Early life and education
Parscale was born in Topeka, Kansas. His father, Dwight Parscale, was an assistant attorney general in Kansas who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1974 at age 28 as a Democrat. Dwight Parscale owned a restaurant and operated a string of other businesses over the years, with Brad's mother, Rita. In the 1990s, Dwight Parscale was the CEO of NewTek, a computer products company.
Parscale, who is , played basketball at Shawnee Heights High School in Tecumseh, Kansas, graduating in 1994. He then attended two junior colleges, playing basketball well enough to get an athletic scholarship at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His father relocated NewTek to San Antonio while Parscale was playing basketball there.
Parscale left UT-San Antonio after one year; a knee injury cost him his sports scholarship. He transferred to Trinity University, also in San Antonio, where he earned a bachelor's degree in finance, international business and economics, graduating in 1999.
Career
Early years
Parscale moved to Orange County, California, following graduation from college, to work for his father, then the CEO of animation-software company Electric Image; Parscale worked as the sales manager. The company filed for bankruptcy in August 2002, and Parscale and his parents returned to San Antonio. Electric Image animation software was reconstituted as Electric Image Animation System 3D (eias3d.com).
In San An |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20Matinee | Club Matinee is an American old-time radio variety show. It was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network from 1937 to 1943 and on ABC from 1945 to 1946.
Format
Club Matinee featured comedy and music, with the two sometimes combined in the form of "comedic arrangements of musical classics, played slightly out of tune."
Francis Chase Jr., in his book Sound and Fury: An Informal History of Broadcasting, described Club Matinee as being unique in its approach to comedy. He wrote, "Here is a zany piece of merriment, inauspiciously insinuated
into your afternoon listening, which has become the most haphazard, the screwiest, the most anything-can-happen-affair to hit the air waves." He added that the program discovered, developed and built "new and different comedy which, sooner or later, finds its way onto the big commercial shows."
Personnel
Ransom Sherman was the first host of the program, with Garry Moore (who was added in 1939) eventually becoming co-host.
Moore's stage name changed during his time on Club Matinee, and the change involved the program. When he decided that Thomas Garrison Morfit (his real name) was too cumbersome for broadcasting, he had a contest on the program, asking listeners to send in suggestions for a name that he could use. A woman in Pittsburgh won the $50 prize with her suggestion of Garry Moore.
Singers who appeared on the program included Annette King, Nancy Martin, Clark Dennis, Johnny Johnston, Evelyn Lynne, Phil Shukin, the Escorts and Betty, the Three Romeos, and Sam Cowling. Durward Kirby was the announcer, and Rex Maupin provided the music.
References
1937 radio programme debuts
1946 radio programme endings
ABC radio programs
1930s American radio programs
1940s American radio programs
American variety radio programs
American music radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Hsiung | Wayne Hsiung (born June 18, 1981) is an American attorney and activist. Hsiung is a co-founder of The Simple Heart Initiative and previously led the animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), which he also co-founded. Hsiung was a lawyer with the law firms DLA Piper and Steptoe & Johnson, a Searle Fellow and visiting assistant professor at the Northwestern University School of Law, and a National Science Foundation-funded graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Due to his activism, trespassing on factory farms to investigate animal cruelty and rescue individual animals, he has been found guilty of two felonies; in other jurisdictions he is facing charges of up to 60 years in prison. In the most serious case, Hsiung was offered resolution that involved no prison time, on the condition that he refrain from criticizing the company he had investigated, Smithfield Foods; he and co-defendant Paul Picklesimer refused the offer and were acquitted after trial in October 2022. Hsiung ran for mayor of Berkeley, California, in 2020, largely focused on the issue of animal rights, and earned 24% of the vote, defeated by incumbent Jesse Arreguin.
Early life and education
Hsiung grew up in Indiana. His parents emigrated from Taiwan in the 1970s. His father did work involving vivisection for several years, which left a lasting impact on Hsiung and motivated him to become an animal rights activist. He also was influenced by Patty Mark, founder of Animal Liberation Victoria.
Hsiung attended DePauw University when he was 16, graduating from the University of Chicago in 2001 with a Bachelor's degree in political science. He received a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship to study economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but he went on leave after his first year to pursue a joint JD/PhD. He attended the University of Chicago Law School with a focus on behavioral law and economics. After graduating, Hsiung taught at Northwestern's Pritzker School of Law as a visiting assistant professor for one year.
Career
Law
As a lawyer, Hsiung was involved in environmental activism and studied with economists Eric Posner and Mark Duggan. He coauthored an analysis of the effect of climate change on nonhuman animals with behavioral law and economics scholar Cass Sunstein.
Direct Action Everywhere
In January 2015, Hsiung organized an "open rescue/investigation" on a certified humane egg farm in Petaluma, California. Hsiung and Direct Action Everywhere protesters climbed over a barbed wire fence to enter an egg farm and take video of alleged animal abuses such as confinement, preening from stress, and lack of water. In January 2015, DxE released a video narrated by Hsiung that showed him and other activists rescuing a hen. In the video there are birds with blisters and missing feathers. These hens were from a "cage-free" egg farm at Petaluma Farms, a major west-coast supplier to Whole Foods and Organic Valley. Hsiung, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201987%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1987, according to the Notitas Musicales magazine with data provided by Radio Mil(which also provided charts for Billboard's "Hits of the World" between 1969 and 1981).
Notitas Musicales was a bi-weekly magazine that published two record charts:
"Canciones que México canta" ("Songs that Mexico sings"), which listed the Top 10 most popular Spanish-language songs in Mexico, and
"Hit Parade", which was a Top 10 of the most popular songs in Mexico that were in languages other than Spanish.
Chart history
See also
1987 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Notitas Musicales magazine.
1987 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SnpEff | SnpEff is an open source tool that annotates variants and predicts their effects on genes by using an interval forest approach. This program takes pre-determined variants listed in a data file that contains the nucleotide change and its position and predicts if the variants are deleterious. This program was first created by Pablo Cingolani to predict effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in Drosophila, and is now widely used at many universities such as Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Stanford University etc. SnpEff has been used for various applications – from personalized medicine at Stanford University, to profiling bacteria. This annotation and prediction software can be compared to ANNOVAR and Variant Effect Predictor, but each use different nomenclatures
Usage
SnpEff has the capability to work on Windows, Unix or Mac systems, although the installation steps differ. For all systems, SnpEff is first downloaded as a ZIP file, decompressed and then copy-pasted into the desired software (Windows) or requires an additional command line (Unix and Mac). Once the software is installed, the user inputs a VCF or TXT file into the tool kit that contains the tab-separated columns: Chromosome name, Position, Variant’s ID, Reference genome, Alternative, Quality score, Quality filter and Information.
The chromosome name and position columns describe where the variant is located – chromosome number and nucleotide position. If the variant has a previously determined name (example: rs34567), it goes in the ID column. The reference column provides the specific nucleotide in the reference genome – differentiations from the reference are noted in the Alternative section. How accurate the variant is will be the Quality column and its readout from Quality filters are included in the filter column. Any other genomic information is put in the INFO column, which is altered to display the output after running SnpEff.
The output in the INFO section includes: the effect of the variant (stop loss, stop gain, etc.), effect impact on gene (High, Moderate, Low or Modifier), functional class of the variant (nonsense, missense, frameshift etc.), codon change, amino acid change, amino acid length, gene name, gene biotype (protein coding, pseudogene, rRNA, etc.), coding information, transcript information, exon information and any errors or warnings detected. The Effect impact is what SnpEff uses to determine how deleterious the variant is on genes. For example, a HIGH impact output means that SnpEff predicts that the variant causes deleterious gene effects.
SnpEff is typically used for research and academic purposes at institutions and companies - and in some instances, personalized medicine. However, Pablo Cingolani now recommends that ClinEff (a combination of SnpEff and SnpSift) be used for medical purposes.
Advantages and Limitations
SnpEff Advantages:
Fast tool that can analyze all variants from the 1000 Genome Project in less than 15 m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every%20Life%20Counts | Every Life Counts is a campaign and support network for families whose child is diagnosed with fatal foetal abnormalities, and an anti-abortion campaign group in the Republic of Ireland. They campaign for the creation of a perinatal hospice in Ireland, as an opposition to abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities, claiming it is not a "pathway to healing", and that abortion causes depression and distress.
They are opposed to the term "fatal foetal abnormalities" or "incompatible with life" calling it an "ugly term", preferring the term "life limiting condition". They point out that some people diagnosed with "fatal foetal abnormalities" (e.g. Patau syndrome Trisomy 13), live for many years after birth.
After the 2016 Mellet v Ireland UN case, they claimed the United Nations Human Rights Committee "deliberately ignored the experiences of families who had received great joy and love from carrying their babies to term".
They made a submission to the Citizens' Assembly, which discussed Ireland's abortion laws, where they claimed that abortion is not a solution to a fatal foetal abnormalities diagnosis. They were selected as one of the groups to make a presentation to the members of the Citizens' Assembly.
See also
Abortion in the Republic of Ireland
Termination for Medical Reasons (advocacy group), a pro-choice equivalent organisation
References
Anti-abortion organisations in the Republic of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%20Solved | Case Solved is a 2017 Philippine television drama documentary anthology broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Dingdong Dantes, it premiered on February 18, 2017 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Hapon line up replacing Hashtag Like. The show concluded on March 25, 2017 with a total of 6 episodes. It was replaced by Ika-6 na Utos in its timeslot.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement, the pilot episode of Case Solved earned a 14.2% rating.
References
External links
2017 Philippine television series debuts
2017 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series
Philippine television docudramas
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20busiest%20airports%20in%20Taiwan | The tables below contains data published by the Civil Aeronautics Administration on the busiest airports in Taiwan by total passenger traffic.
In graph
2018 statistics
The 17 airports in Taiwan in 2018 ordered by total passenger traffic, according to statistics of Taiwan Civil Aeronautics Administration.。
2016 statistics
The 17 airports in Taiwan in 2016 ordered by total passenger traffic, according to statistics of Taiwan Civil Aeronautics Administration.。
References
Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tty%20%28Unix%29 | In computing, tty is a command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems to print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input.
tty stands for TeleTYpewriter.
Usage
The tty command is commonly used to check if the output medium is a terminal. The command prints the file name of the terminal connected to standard input. If no file is detected (in case, it's being run as part of a script or the command is being piped) "not a tty" is printed to stdout and the command exits with an exit status of 1. The command also can be run in silent mode (tty -s) where no output is produced, and the command exits with an appropriate exit status.
See also
Pseudoterminal
Teleprinter
References
External links
Unix software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Gare | Josh Gare (born 20 September 1992) is an English computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known for facilitating the Emoji keyboard outside of Japan on iOS, which is a keyboard that can be used to send messages with emoticons. He studied Economics at the University of Bristol. During his time in Bristol he was named as "Bristol's best budding entrepreneur" by Epigram (newspaper).
He is now a co-founder of a Shopify mobile app development company called Venn Apps.
Personal life
Gare was born in Ascot, Berkshire, England in 1992 to Anthony Gare and Wendy Gare.
He was a student at the family's local Academy (English school), Ranelagh School in Bracknell, where he completed his A-levels in Summer 2011. Having completed his A level exams, he went on to study Economics at the University of Bristol whilst continuing his entrepreneurial activities.
Emoji
Gare created the Emoji application for iOS in February 2010, which altered the Settings app to allow access to the emoji keyboard. Before the existence of Gare's Emoji app, Apple had intended for the emoji keyboard to only be available in Japan in iOS version 2.2. The only way to access the emoji keyboard in iOS was to use Gare's Emoji app, up until Apple made the keyboard available to those outside of Japan in iOS version 5.0.
See also
Emoji
References
External links
Official Website
Emoji on iOS App Store
Josh Gare on Twitter
1992 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Businesspeople from London
Businesspeople in computing
English computer programmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yong%20Tan | Yong Tan is the Neal and Jan Dempsey Professor of Information Systems at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. He is the director of Center for Data Analytics at USTC-UW Institute for Global Business and Finance Innovation and proved instrumental in establishing the Institute with the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Tan’s alma mater. He was named a Chang Jiang Scholar by the Chinese Ministry of Education and Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Foundation, serving as a chair visiting professor at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. In 2016, he won the INFORMS ISS Distinguished Fellow Award. He received the 2017 Best Paper Award in Information Systems from Management Science. Tan received the Best Publication Award from the Association of Information Systems.
Yong Tan received Bachelor of Science in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1987, and was selected as one of the 915 students in the CUSPEA program created by Nobel laureate Tsung-Dao Lee. Yong Tan received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington in 1993, advised by Nobel laureate David J. Thouless. He joined the Foster School faculty full-time after earning his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Washington in 2000, where Vijay Mookerjee was his doctoral advisor.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Information systems researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeggieTales%20in%20the%20City | VeggieTales in the City is an American computer-animated children's comedy streaming television series produced by Big Idea Entertainment. The series is a sequel to VeggieTales in the House. It premiered on Netflix on February 24, 2017 with the release of 13 episodes. A second season was released on September 15, 2017. The series was removed from Netflix on September 16, 2023.
Cast
Main
Bob the Tomato (voiced by Phil Vischer) – One of the main characters of VeggieTales, he is best friends and roommates with Larry the Cucumber. He works part-time at Pa Grape's store doing various jobs and tasks. He enjoys doing things like reading, studying the weather with his weather machine, and helping out his friends in the city.
Larry the Cucumber (voiced by Mike Nawrocki) – Best friends and roommates with Bob the Tomato, Larry is scatterbrained and has an energetic, childlike personality. He enjoys doing very silly things, like singing silly songs, eating large amounts of sardines, and riding his bicycle on the ceiling. He works driving the town's ice-cream cart and does odd jobs at Pa Grape's store. He secretly protects the city from crime as the superhero LarryBoy, making use of a LarryMobile and a secret lair underneath the apartment he shares with Bob.
Laura Carrot (voiced by Tress MacNeille) – A young carrot girl who is friends with Bob and Larry and Junior Asparagus, her best friend. She loves playing with her friends, including baseball and jump rope. She eventually gained a superheroine alter ego dubbed "Night Pony", where she helps fight crime with LarryBoy and the other super heroes of the house.
Junior Asparagus (voiced by Tress MacNeille) – Best friends with Laura, Junior is a typical child and looks up to Larry. Like Larry, he also has a superhero altermego, "Junior Jetpack," using a jet pack given to him by Ichabeezer. Junior is often a superhero duo with LarryBoy.
Archibald Asparagus (voiced by Phil Vischer) – The Mayor of the town with an upper crust British accent. He enjoys being the mayor and leader of the city, but more often than not, he can be overwhelmed by the amount of work he does. He often acts as a judge/impartial third party whenever something is wrong.
Recurring
Petunia Rhubarb (voiced by Tress MacNeille) – Good friends with Bob, Larry, and Tina Celerina. She often enjoys hanging out with them and often offers them advice whenever they get into a fight or face personal problems. She worked part-time at Pa Grape's store, but followed her love of plants and has opened a flower shop.
Madame Blueberry (voiced by Tress MacNeille) – A female blueberry with a slight British accent. She lives in a blue, teapot shaped house, where she spends most of her time drinking tea and enjoying the "fancier" things in life. She has been known to win various contests and events around town such as karaoke and pie baking. She has an especially lovely singing-voice and has a specialty for singing "the blues."
Pa Grape (voiced by Phil Vischer) – |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civis%20Analytics | Civis Analytics is a US data science software and consultancy company founded by Dan Wagner in 2013, with backing by Eric Schmidt. Wagner had served as the Chief Analytics Officer for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
Civis Analytics helps businesses "understand their data, use that data to make predictions, and get recommendations on what steps to take next". Civis works with Fortune 500 companies and the country's largest organizations, including Verizon, Airbnb, Discovery, FEMA, Boeing and the American Red Cross.
In 2020, the company faced controversy for firing employee David Shor after he tweeted a short summary of an academic paper by Omar Wasow, a black political scientist at Princeton University. Wasow's study contended that nonviolent protests had historically been more effective at driving political change than violent protests, which led some critics to argue that Shor's tweet could be interpreted as criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. After the firing, Civis Analytics initially released a statement claiming that had not fired any employees for tweeting academic papers, but later retracted that statement and replaced it with a new statement that omitted that claim. In 2021, Wasow was quoted as having concluded from his conversations with Civis Analytics and Shor that "at the heart of it was how [Shor] was treated on Twitter by people who essentially shot the messenger"; Wasow dismissed accusations of racism or otherwise acting improperly as "baseless".
Eleven employees were laid off on October 30, 2020. In December, seven of them filed unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB for wrongful termination. In July 2021, the NLRB dismissed the claim.
See also
Dan Wagner (data scientist)
ORCA (computer system)
Project Houdini
Project Narwhal
Psychographic
Predictive Analytics
References
External links
Big data companies
Technology companies established in 2013
Predictive analytics
Technology forecasting
Transaction processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Wagner%20%28data%20scientist%29 | Dan Wagner served as chief analytics officer on Barack Obama's 2012 election campaign and is the founder of Civis Analytics.
Previous to Civis Analytics, Wagner worked in Chicago under David Axelrod on Obama's reelection campaign. The campaign was numbers and data driven. Wagner used big data in a hub composed of 54 statisticians, engineers, data scientists, and organizers from all over the world. Their numbers helped them drive every decision they made about TV, working in the field, raising money, and their communication strategy. They took big data from their disparate sources of data, and put it into one place to drive decision making, on TV, communication, fundraising, digital etc. His department's work was credited with "reinventing how national campaigns are done" and has been highlighted in Time, MIT Technology Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, and Harper's Magazine.
Eric Schmidt approached Wagner after the election regarding his algorithms and the two discussed options regarding Wagner's future and Wagner's desire to start a company that would keep together the analytics team they had built. Wagner was simultaneously being approached by nonprofit organizations with big data and that wanted to make better decisions with their data. Schmidt then became an investor and adviser to Wagner.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign
Henry Crown Fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Greene%20%28journalist%29 | Richard Greene (born February 25, 1954) is an American media personality, author and journalist. In 2007, Air America Radio Network launched his weekly radio program, Clout (also known as Hollywood Clout) which he created and hosted. The show ran until the closing of the network in January 2010. He is also the author of Words that Shook the World first published in 2001 by Penguin Press’ Prentice Hall Press. The book’s foreword was written by self help guru Tony Robbins.
Greene, who is also known as a celebrity speech coach, with clients that include the late Princess Diana of Wales has been a regular columnist for The Huffington Post, with articles dating back to July 2008. Greene was also a celebrity judge on The Learning Channel’s series The Messengers.
Author
Richard Greene is the author of the book Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events, which was published by Penguin Publishing’s Prentice Hall Press and features an introduction from Tony Robbins, whom he worked with at the start of Robbin’s career as a business advisor and attorney. He is also the author of The Five Communication Secrets that Swept Obama to the Presidency, a training DVD and a workbook and "E=MC2 and The.New Definition of God" a children's book.
References
1954 births
Living people
Speech coaches |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPOP | IPOP (IP-Over-P2P) is an open-source user-centric software virtual network allowing end users to define and create their own virtual private networks (VPNs). IPOP virtual networks provide end-to-end tunneling of IP or Ethernet over “TinCan” links setup and managed through a control API to create various software-defined VPN overlays.
History
IPOP started as a research project at the University of Florida in 2006. In its first-generation design and implementation, IPOP was built atop structured P2P links managed by the C# Brunet library. In its first design, IPOP relied on Brunet’s structured P2P overlay network for peer-to-peer messaging, notifications, NAT traversal, and IP tunneling. The Brunet-based IPOP is still available as open-source code; however, IPOP’s architecture and implementation have evolved.
Starting September 2013, the project has been funded by the National Science Foundation under the SI2 (Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation) program to enable it as open-source “scientific software element” for research in cloud computing. The second-generation design of IPOP incorporates standards (XMPP, STUN, TURN) and libraries (libjingle) that have evolved since the project’s beginning to create P2P tunnels – which we refer to as TinCan links. The current TinCan-based IPOP implementation is based on modules written in C/C++ that leverage libjingle to create TinCan links, and exposing a set of APIs to controller modules that manage the setup, creation and management of TinCan links. For enhanced modularity, the controller module runs as a separate process from the C/C++ module that implements TinCan links and communicate through a JSON-based RPC system; thus the controller can be written in other languages such as Python.
See also
OpenConnect, implements a TLS and DTLS-based VPN
OpenSSH, which also implements a layer-2/3 "tun"-based VPN
OpenVPN, SSL/TLS based user-space VPN
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Microsoft method for implementing VPN
Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) Microsoft method for implementing PPP over SSL VPN
Social VPN, an open-source VPN based on relationships
SoftEther VPN, an open-source VPN server program which supports OpenVPN protocol
stunnel encrypt any TCP connection (single port service) over SSL
UDP hole punching, a technique for establishing UDP "connections" between firewalled/NATed network nodes
References
External links
Peer-to-peer-based VPN Alternatives - Linux Magazine
Tutorial: Deploying Your Own P2P Overlay for IPOP VPNs - FutureGrid
Install package network:vpn:ipop / ipop
Google Summer of Code > 2015 > IP-over-P2P Project
Free security software
Tunneling protocols
Unix network-related software
Virtual private networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leun/Braunfels%20station | Leun/Braunfels is a heritage-listed station in the district of Lahnbahnhof in the town of Leun in the German state of Hesse. It is in the network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) and is located on the Lahn Valley Railway (Lahntalbahn). Directly next to the entrance building was the Braunfels terminus of the Ernst Railway (Ernstbahn) to Philippstein of which only a few remains are visible. It operated from 1875 to 1962.
History
The station was opened under the name of Braunfels (Lahn) on 10 January 1863 with the completion of the third stage of the Lahn Valley Railway.
In September 2010, the station was modernised and the station was reclassified as a Haltepunkt (halt). The old island platform was removed and was replaced a new side platform connected by a pedestrian subway. Both platforms have barrier-free access.
The building was sold to a Dutch bidder at an auction for €34,000 on 7 December 2012.
Infrastructure
The station building is located in the Leun district of Lahnbahnhof (“Lahn station”) on Burgsolmser Straße near the old Leun bridge. The neo-classical building was designed by Heinrich Velde and resembles the station buildings of Weilburg and Diez, which also derive from his designs.
It has its windows and doors along seven vertical axes of a side-gabled and plastered building with tower-like elevated avant-corps at each end. These have hip roofs and adjoin the side-gabled structure. While the western avant-corps has four windows, the eastern one has only one window axis; a further side building has been added later.
Connections
The fares of services at the station are set by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).
Trains
Deutsche Bahn operates Regionalbahn services on the Lahn Valley Railway between Limburg and Gießen, some continuing to Alsfeld and Fulda. These services were operated by Deutsche Bahn until December 2011. Since the timetable change of 2011/2012 on 11 December 2011, the RB services on this section of the Lahn Valley Railway have been operated by Hessische Landesbahn. Alstom Coradia LINT 41 (class 648) sets are used. The Regional-Express (RE 25) services run through the station without stopping. The Regional-Express (RE 25) services are operated with LINT 27 and 41 (class 640 and 648) railcars and Bombardier Talent (class 643) sets. The cities of Limburg, Weilburg, Wetzlar and Gießen can be reached from here without changing trains.
The following service stops in Leun/Braunfels station:
Buses
Bus route 180 serves Leun and Braunfels. The departure times are coordinated with rail services on the Lahn Valley Railway. Connections are available from Monday to Friday and on Saturday afternoons. In addition, bus route 120 operates several times a day between Holzhausen and Solms and stops at the station.
References
Railway stations in Hesse
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1863
Buildings and structures in Lahn-Dill-Kreis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous%20procedure%20call | Asynchronous procedure call is a unit of work in a computer. Usually a program works by executing a series of synchronous procedure calls on some thread. But if some data are not ready (for example, a program waits user to reply), then keeping thread in wait state is impractical, as a thread allocates considerable amount of memory for procedure stack, and this memory is not used. So such a procedure call is formed as an object with small amount of memory for input data, and this object is passed to the service which receive user inputs. When the user's reply is received, the service puts it in the object and passes that object to an execution service. Execution service consists of one or more dedicated worker threads and a queue for tasks. Each worker thread reads in a loop task queue and, when a task is retrieved, executes it. When there is no tasks, worker threads are waiting and so their memory is not used, but the number of worker threads is small enough (no sense to have more threads than there are processors on the machine).
So life cycle of an asynchronous procedure call consists of 2 stages: passive stage, when it passively waits for input data, and active state, when that data is calculated in the same way as at usual procedure call.
The object of the asynchronous procedure call can be reused for subsequent procedure calls with new data, received later. This allows to accumulate computed output data in that object, as it is usually done in objects, programmed with Object-oriented programming paradigm. Special care should be paid to avoid simultaneous execution of the same procedure call in order to keep computed data in consistent state. Such reusable asynchronous procedure is named Actor. Programming using Actors is described in Actor model and Dataflow programming. The difference is that Actor in the Actor model has exactly two ports: one port to receive input data, and another (hidden) port to provide serial handling of input messages, while Actor in Dataflow programming can have many, and goes to execution service when all inputs contain data or permissions.
Some specific implementations
In Windows, an asynchronous procedure call (abbreviated APC) is a function that executes asynchronously in the context of a specific thread. APCs can be generated by the system (kernel-mode APCs) or by an application (user mode APCs).
See also
Signal
References
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20George%27s%20Church%20%28Sandata%29 | St. George's Church is a Russian Orthodox church in the village of Sandata, Salsky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia. It belongs to Volgodonsk Diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate and was built in the early 20th century.
History
Sandata village was founded in 1805, and the first church there was established almost half a century later, the Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin, constructed in 1851. It also had a Sunday school.
The Church of St. George, according to longtime residents, was built in 1912 (although there is no accurate data about it).
In 1960, during the anti-religious campaign of Nikita Khrushchev, the church was closed after the death of the church's priest; St. George's was the only remaining church in the village. Local residents tried to defend the structure and would not let party representatives in. The authorities falsely promised locals that the church and its equipment would be preserved; the bell tower was demolished, but the main church building survived.
In the 1970s, the church housed a grain warehouse, which subsequently burnt down (probably due to spontaneous combustion). In 1989, the church began to be repaired, and the main works were finished two years later.
References
Churches in Rostov Oblast
Christian organizations established in 1912
Churches completed in 1912
1851 establishments in the Russian Empire
Russian Orthodox church buildings in Russia
Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Rostov Oblast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandre%20software | Cassandre is a free open source software for computer assisted qualitative data analysis and interpretation in humanities and social sciences. Although it refers, like other CAQDAS-software, to Grounded Theory Method, it also allows to conduct discourse analysis or quantitative content analysis. The software is designed as a server to support collaborative work. Formerly focused on semi-automatic coding, it now provides diaries assisting qualitative analysis.
In academia, Cassandre is used by social scientists in sociology, psychology, management, communication studies, education and political science. Some researchers also use it in computer science, namely in knowledge management, design, human-computer interaction and topic mapping. Many of the Cassandre users are academics and PhD students. The software tool is also used in public services (police and government departments) and in the industry (namely by Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie).
In 2010, in the so-called KWALON experiment, representatives of selected CAQDAS-Software were invited to analyze a dataset composed of newspapers articles and videos related to the 2008 financial crisis. The software packages Atlas.ti, MAXQDA, NVivo, Transana and Cassandre were taking part in the experiment. Commentators depicted Cassandre as the only software limited to text material and as an integrated approach between algorithms and hand-made coding. The experiment, however, suggested that the outcome of the analysis depended more of the analysis strategy than the software.
Features
Its features include:
Semi-automatic coding (through registers)
Collaborative writing (through shared diaries)
Participative research (through shared memos)
Organizing memos
Diagramming
History
Christophe Lejeune created Cassandre's first version in 2006 after his post-doctoral stay in the University of Technology of Troyes where he involved in the Social Semantic Web team and participated the definition of the Hypertopic protocol. This protocol was used by Cassandre to exchange data with other software tool from the Hypertopic suite. As a server, Cassandre was storing texts and provided a semi-automated coding feature. Rather than highlighting excerpts (like in most of QDA software), the user highlights keywords or idioms (markers) that instantly match several excerpts of material. These markers are gathered in into registers, which represent analysis categories. Markers and registers are created, managed and browsed with Porphyry's Portfolio, a Hypertopic client developed in Java by Aurélien Bénel. Cassandre also provided meta-data and some lexical analysis (words counts) accessible through the Porphyry sidebar, a Firefox add-on.
Cassandre second version surfaced in 2010. Initially designed as PHP/SQL server (first MySQL then PostgreSQL), Cassandre was refactored as a CouchDB application. Lexical analysis was optimized and included in the per text view. Coding was integrated to the browser thanks to a Firefox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Valasek | Chris Valasek is a computer security researcher with Cruise Automation, a self-driving car startup owned by GM, and best known for his work in automotive security research. Prior to his current employment, he worked for IOActive, Coverity, Accuvant, and IBM . Valasek holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from University of Pittsburgh. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Valasek has publicly demonstrated many security vulnerabilities, with particular focus on Microsoft Windows heap exploitation. His 2009 presentation "Practical Windows XP/2003 Heap Exploitation" at BlackHat presented a novel approach to gaining elevated access in a Windows environment. Later research, such as his 2010 paper "Understanding the Low Fragmentation Heap: From Allocation to Exploitation" demonstrated ways to circumvent vendor mitigations to the approaches outlined in his prior work.
In 2013, he and Charlie Miller demonstrating a number of attack vectors against ECUs in automotive control networks. Together with Miller, they have produced a survey of remote attack surfaces in then-current model year automobiles, an important first step in establishing the state of the art of automotive security and safety research.
References
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/31/gms-self-driving-car-unit-cruise-hires-famous-car-hackers/525651001/
External links
Living people
University of Pittsburgh alumni
People associated with computer security
1982 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Aviation%20Network | The European Aviation Network is a hybrid-network built by Deutsche Telekom and Inmarsat in cooperation with their technological partner Nokia. It is used as a backhaul for in-flight WiFi for domestic flights within Europe and contains a LTE ground network supported by a satellite connection. Because of the LTE technology the network can achieve data rates up to 75 Mbit/s downstream and 20 Mbit/s upstream per airplane, with a total capacity of 50Gbps.
History
The European Aviation Network was first announced in 2015 by Deutsche Telekom and Inmarsat. At this point, the technological partner was still unknown. In 2017, Inmarsat launched the satellite for the network with an Ariane 5 rocket into the orbit and began shortly after with the testing. In January 2018 the three companies announced the commercial launch with the International Airlines Group as launch partner.
Technology
The ground network contains 300 LTE cell sites, which are spread across the 27 member states of the European Union, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Norway. The custom EAN technology is adapted to the usage with aircraft, supporting ground speeds up to 1,200 km/h - way above the 500 km/h supported by LTE - and a maximum flight level (User height) of 12 km and the cell radius of up to 75 km. The remote radio heads inside the aircraft have been modified to compensate the frequency shift caused by the Doppler effect.
If the ground network is not available, e.g. over the sea, a satellite back-up takes over the connection. The aircraft are equipped with antennas on top (for the satellite connection) and at the bottom (for the EAN ground connection) of their fuselage in order to support the network. Deutsche Telekom uses LTE frequency band 65 (2,100 MHz) for their ground network and Inmarsat the S band satellite spectrum over Europe. The LTE network is completely independent and not linked with the national cell phone networks operated by DT group. It’s the first and only pan-European LTE network.
The network uses the MCC/MNC tuple 901-53 assigned by the ITU to Deutsche Telekom.
Adoption
Airlines that already support the EAN on some aircraft:
Aegean Airlines
Aer Lingus (IAG)
British Airways (IAG)
Iberia (IAG)
Lufthansa
Vueling (IAG)
References
External links
Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier
European Aviation Network
Telecommunications infrastructure
Deutsche Telekom
Nokia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despedida%20de%20Solteros | Despedida de Solteros (English: Bachelor Party) is a reality show produced and broadcast by the Argentinian television network Telefe. The show is hosted by Marley and the actress Carina Zampini. It was first aired on January 22, 2017.
Format and rules
Twelve couples with a main goal of getting married are divided into two different houses: a "loft in the sky" and a "PH in the ground". In there, they are isolated from their partners and the outside world in order to live with strangers. Each week they nominate each other, and contestants with most points face the audience's eviction.
The winning couple win a big wedding party, a honeymoon trip and a house as prizes.
Hosts and segments
Despedida de Solteros: Main Show hosted by Carina Zampini and Marley every Sunday
Despedida de Solteros: Daily hosted by Carina Zampini and Marley, featuring the "Specialists" (Ivana Nadal, Fabián Medina Flores, Connie Ansaldi, Bernardo Stamateas and Gabriel Cartañá) and eliminated contestants, Monday to Tuesday
Despedida de Solteros: After Hours hosted by Miki Lusardi, Sunday to Tuesday. Broadcast by MTV.
Contestants
Contestant lives in the Loft in the Sky.
Contestant lives in the PH in the Ground.
General results
Couple enters or returns to the competition.
Couple is safe because it didn't receive enough votes in "The Sentence".
Couple is sentenced by participants voting.
Couple is sentenced for breaking the rules.
Couple is exempt from eviction that week.
Couple is saved from eviction by Specialists' decision.
Couple is saved from eviction by audience vote.
Couple competes in a repechage by audience vote.
Couple leaves the competition by voluntary decision.
Couple is ejected for breaking the rules.
Couple is evicted by audience vote.
Wildcards
Crystal room
The crystal room is a room divided by glass where contestants can make an appointment with their partners, but they can only communicate by telephone and without physical contact. It can be used once by participants through the whole game.
Spy room
The spy room isf a room where each participant can see images or videos from their partners and the other house. It is used several times a week on the producer's decision and criterion.
Tree house
The tree house is a space between the PH and the Loft. Each couple can request it once in the whole game. It lasts a few hours in which they can communicate and have physical contact with each other, as long they don't talk about the Sentence and votes.
Switch
The "Switch" is an instance which allows the couples to exchange houses for 24 hours. It can be used once per couple in the whole game.
Nominations table
Ratings
Most viewed departure.
Least viewed departure.
Rating average: 8.0
References
2017 Argentine television seasons
2017 Argentine television series debuts
Argentine reality television series
2017 Argentine television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous%20eating%20algorithm | A simultaneous eating algorithm (SE) is an algorithm for allocating divisible objects among agents with ordinal preferences. "Ordinal preferences" means that each agent can rank the items from best to worst, but cannot (or does not want to) specify a numeric value for each item. The SE allocation satisfies SD-efficiency - a weak ordinal variant of Pareto-efficiency (it means that the allocation is Pareto-efficient for at least one vector of additive utility functions consistent with the agents' item rankings).
SE is parametrized by the "eating speed" of each agent. If all agents are given the same eating speed, then the SE allocation satisfies SD-envy-freeness - a strong ordinal variant of envy-freeness (it means that the allocation is envy-free for all vectors of additive utility functions consistent with the agents' item rankings). This particular variant of SE is called the Probabilistic Serial rule (PS).
SE was developed by Hervé Moulin and Anna Bogomolnaia as a solution for the fair random assignment problem, where the fraction that each agent receives of each item is interpreted as a probability. If the integral of the eating speed of all agents is 1, then the sum of fractions assigned to each agent is 1, so the matrix of fractions can be decomposed into a lottery over assignments in which each agent gets exactly one item. With equal eating speeds, the lottery is envy-free in expectation (ex-ante) for all vectors of utility functions consistent with the agents' item rankings.
A variant of SE was applied also to cake-cutting, where the allocation is deterministic (not random).
Description
Each item is represented as a loaf of bread (or other food). Initially, each agent goes to their favourite item and starts eating it. It is possible that several agents eat the same item at the same time.
Whenever an item is fully eaten, each of the agents who ate it goes to their favorite remaining item and starts eating it in the same way, until all items are consumed.
For each item, the fraction of that item eaten by each agent is recorded. In the context of random assignments,these fractions are considered as probabilities. Based on these probabilities, a lottery is done. The type of lottery depends on the problem:
If each agent is allowed to receive any number of items, then a separate lottery can be done for each item. Each item is given to one of the agents who ate a part of it, chosen at random according to the probability distribution for that item.
If each agent should receive exactly one item, then there must be a single lottery that picks an assignment by some probability distribution on the set of deterministic assignments. To do this, the n-by-n matrix of probabilities should be decomposed into a convex combination of permutation matrices. This can be done by the Birkhoff algorithm. It is guaranteed to find a combination in which the number of permutation matrices is at most n2-2n+2.
An important parameter to SE is the eating speed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20Language%20Engineering | Natural Language Engineering is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press which covers research and software in natural language processing. Its aim is to "bridge the gap between traditional computational linguistics research and the implementation of practical applications with potential real-world use". Other than original publication on theoretical and applied aspects of computational linguistics, the journal also contains Industry Watch and Emerging Trends columns tracking developments in the field. The editor-in-chief is Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University). The journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.5. It will become fully open access starting in 2024.
References
External links
Natural language processing
Computational linguistics journals
Cambridge University Press academic journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20capitalism | In information economics, data capitalism denotes a "genus" of capitalism where data is the source of monetization and often the currency and the final value.
A typical application of the principles of data worth is found in surveillance capitalism. The methodology for processing such mass data is usually summarized in the buzzword 'big data'.
The general concept of monetization of data is described in data monetization.
See also
Information society
Neuromarketing
References
Capitalism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Hayes%20%28crossword%20compiler%29 | Sarah Hayes, usually known as Arachne, is a British cryptic crossword setter. She sets puzzles for The Guardian, The Independent (as Anarche), the Financial Times (as Rosa Klebb), the New Statesman (as Aranya), and The Times, and advanced cryptics for The Listener crossword (The Times), Enigmatic Variations (The Daily Telegraph) and the Inquisitor (The Independent). Hayes's clues are often smutty or political and make frequent use of the generic she.
Biography
Hayes holds an MPhil in Russian and between 1979 and 1997 was a lecturer in Russian studies at the Victoria University of Manchester, where she published A Study of English Nautical Loanwords in the Russian Language of the Eighteenth Century. Hayes's first crossword was published in the Independent Saturday Magazine on 25 May 1996, and after setting some advanced barred grid cryptics for various papers on a freelance basis, she was hired by The Guardian to help set up their beginner-level "Quiptic" crossword. From there, she got a regular slot in The Guardian and other broadsheets. Hayes also took part in the BBC Radio 4 series David Baddiel Tries to Understand..., setting a beginner's crossword for the show and putting together a guide to solving cryptics.
After retiring as a lecturer in 1997, Hayes studied for a diploma in intelligence and international relations. She currently lives in Burnage, Manchester, and for several years ran an online bookshop with her husband Nick.
Style
Hayes describes herself as an "anarcho-horizontalist" and her crosswords often reflect her political leanings – one of her most often cited clues reads "Throw shoe! Bugger invaded Iraq! (6,4)", which has the solution GEORGE BUSH (an anagram of "shoe bugger") and references the Bush shoeing incident. Her other political crosswords have commented on current affairs, such as a puzzle in The Independent during the Leveson inquiry that referenced many of the main players in the case, or drawn attention to injustices: one puzzle included hidden messages "JUSTICE NOT DONE" and "DANIEL MORGAN" in the form of ninas as part of a campaign against police corruption, while another included the names of undercover police officers from the Special Demonstration Squad who had deceived protesters into sexual relationships.
After her clue "Woman in charge of automobile club (6)" (DRIVER, a double definition of "motorist" and "golf club") proved surprisingly controversial, Hayes has also made a point of including women and the generic she where possible in clues.
Arachne puzzles often use sexual innuendo, to the extent that she is sometimes reined back by her editors.
Pseudonyms
Her Guardian pseudonym, also used in The Listener and other puzzles, is drawn from the mythical Greek weaver Arachne, and references her hobby of amateur weaving. "Anarche", used in The Independent, is an anagram of "Arachne" and hints at her political views. "Rosa Klebb", used in the Financial Times, is taken from the James Bond villain, and referenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo%20Switch%20system%20software | The Nintendo Switch system software (also known by its codename Horizon) is an updatable firmware and operating system used by the Nintendo Switch video game console. It is based on a proprietary microkernel. The UI includes a HOME screen, consisting of the top bar, the screenshot viewer ("Album") Icons, and shortcuts to the Nintendo eShop, News, and Settings.
Technology
OS
Nintendo has released only limited information about the Switch's internals to the public. However, computer security researchers, homebrew software developers, and the authors of emulators have all analyzed the operating system in great depth.
Notable findings include that the Switch operating system is codenamed Horizon, that it is an evolution of the Nintendo 3DS system software, and that it implements a proprietary microkernel architecture. All drivers run in userspace, including the Nvidia driver which the security researchers described as "kind of similar to the Linux driver". The graphics driver features an undocumented thin API layer, called NVN, which is "kind of like Vulkan" but exposes most hardware features like OpenGL compatibility profile with Nvidia extensions. All userspace processes are sandboxed and use Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), a computer security technique involved in preventing exploitation of memory corruption vulnerabilities.
Nintendo made efforts to design the system software to be as minimalist as possible, with the home menu's graphical assets using less than 200 kilobytes. This minimalism is meant to improve system performance and launch games faster.
As early as July 2018, Nintendo has been trying to counter Switch homebrewing and piracy. Measures include an online ban, and on the hardware side, patching of the Tegra to prevent exploits. On 11 December 2018, Nintendo sued Mikel Euskaldunak for selling a Switch modification that can play pirated games. Since August 2019, the difficulty of homebrewing has gone up, as the new Mariko chip replaced the old Erista chip. After the release of the Lite in late 2019, tools for hacking all Switch consoles were announced. In September 2020, Gary Bowser was arrested in the Dominican Republic, and later appeared in court in the USA afterwards. The prosecution alleges that Bowser was a piracy group leader.
Open source components
Despite popular misconceptions to the contrary, Horizon is not largely derived from FreeBSD code, nor from Android, although the software licence and reverse engineering efforts have revealed that Nintendo does use some code from both in some system services and drivers. For example, the networking stack in the Switch OS is derived at least in part from FreeBSD code. Nintendo's use of FreeBSD networking code is legal as it is made available under the permissive BSD licence, and not even particularly unusual – for instance, the Microsoft Windows TCP/IP stack was originally derived from BSD code in a similar fashion.
Components derived from Android code include the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta%20H.%20Teller | Augusta Maria "Mici" Teller (originally Schütz-Harkányi; 30 April 1909 – 4 June 2000) was a Hungarian-American scientist and computer programmer, involved in the development of the Metropolis algorithm.
Life and career
Teller was born as Auguszta Mária Harkányi in Hungary, the daughter of Ella/Gabriella (Weiser) and Ede Harkányi, originally Hirsch Sámuel. Her parents were Jewish, but had converted to Christianity. Known as "Mici," she and her brother, Ede, were adopted by their foster father after their biological father's death, who gave them their second last name. In 1924, Ede "Szuki" Schütz-Harkányi introduced Mici to his childhood friend, Edward Teller, who would become her future husband and an important scientist for the Manhattan Project.
In 1931, Mici earned her teacher's diploma after studying mathematics at the University of Budapest.
During 1932–1933, Mici spent two years at the University of Pittsburgh with a scholarship to study sociology and psychology earning her Masters in Personnel Work in 1933. When she returned to Hungary, she married her longtime friend, Teller, on February 24, 1934. The Tellers emigrated to the United States in 1935, after Russian-born physicist George Gamow invited Edward to teach at the George Washington University. She and her husband became American citizens on March 6, 1941. The Tellers had two children: Paul and Wendy.
In April 1943, Mici joined Edward at Los Alamos National Laboratory. There, she worked in the computations division part-time along with other wives of Los Alamos scientists and workers. The group fell under the Theoretical Division headed by physicist Hans Bethe.
In the late 1940s, the Teller family moved from Los Alamos, New Mexico to Chicago so they could work at Argonne National Laboratory. Mici wrote an early version of the code for the MANIAC I computer. She also was a co-author of the first paper introducing Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation, though the final code used in the publication was written in entirety by Arianna Rosenbluth.
The Tellers made a final move in the 1950s to California. At 91, on June 4, 2000, Augusta "Mici" Teller died from lung disease.
References
External links
'Marshall Rosenbluth and the Metropolis algorithm', J. E. Gubernatis, Physics of Plasmas 12, 057303 (2005); doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1887186
Atomic Heritage Foundation biography
1909 births
2000 deaths
American nuclear physicists
Monte Carlo methodologists
Hungarian women computer scientists
Women nuclear physicists
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work alumni
Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
Argonne National Laboratory people
Budapest University alumni
Manhattan Project people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20metadata | Business metadata is data that adds business context to other data. It provides information authored by business people and/or used by business people. It is in contrast to technical metadata, which is data used in the storage and structure of the data in a database or system. Technical metadata includes the database table name and column name, data type, indexes referencing the data, ETL jobs involving the data, when the data was last updated, accessed, etc.
Concept
According to noted author and columnist Lowell Fryman, "The essence of business metadata is in reducing or eliminating the barriers of communication between human and human, as well as human and computer, so that the data conveyed from reports, information systems, or business intelligence applications can be crystal clear, can facilitate business operations, and can be leveraged for all business decision-making processes."
Dan Linstedt, creator of the data vault methodology, says business metadata "...provide[s] definition of the functionality, definition of the data, definition of the elements, and definition of how the data is used within business...business metadata includes business requirements, time-lines, business metrics, business process flows, and business terminology."
Business metadata is important because it can greatly facilitate the usefulness of the data to business people. A simple example of business metadata is a glossary entry. Hover functionality in an application or web form can enable a glossary definition to be shown when cursor is on a field or term.
Other examples of business metadata include annotation ability within applications. For example, a business user may be viewing a business intelligence (BI) report and notice a trend in the data. The user may have background knowledge as to why this trend occurs. Some business intelligence tools enable the user to create an annotation within the report that explains the trend. Such an annotation can enhance other users' understanding of the data. This example is especially powerful because it is created by a business user for the use of other business people.
Examples
Other examples of business metadata are:
Business rules
Data quality rules
Valid values for reference data
Wikis
Collaboration software
References
Business terms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail%20C.%20Murphy | Gail C. Murphy is a Canadian computer scientist who specializes in software engineering and knowledge worker productivity. Murphy is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. In 2016, she was named Associate Vice President Research pro tem and assumed the role of Vice-President, Research & Innovation on August 14, 2017. Murphy is co-founder and was Chief Scientist at Tasktop Technologies Incorporated.
Biography
Murphy received her B.Sc. from the University of Alberta in 1987 and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Washington, in 1994 and 1996 respectively. Murphy has served on editorial boards for Communications of the ACM, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Software Engineering.
Awards
2010: Named ACM Distinguished Member
2014: University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Alumni Achievement Award
2015: Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
2016: ICSE Most Influential Paper Award (10 years after publication) (co-authored with John Anvik and Lyndon Hiew)
2017: ACM Fellow
2023: ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
References
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
University of Alberta alumni
University of Washington alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian women scientists
Canadian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avonmore%20stop | Avonmore stop is a tram stop under construction in the Edmonton Light Rail Transit network in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It will serve the Valley Line, and is located in 83 Street, staggered on either side of 73 Avenue, in Avonmore. Northbound passengers will board the train north of 73 Avenue, while southbound passengers will board south of 73 Avenue. The stop was scheduled to open in 2020; however, it is now scheduled to open on November 4, 2023.
Around the station
Avonmore
Argyll Velodrome
References
External links
TransEd Valley Line LRT
Future Edmonton Light Rail Transit stations
Valley Line (Edmonton) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaik%20Solutions | Mosaik Solutions (formerly American Roamer) was a company that specializes in wireless coverage data and wireless coverage maps, based in Memphis, Tennessee before being acquired by Ookla.
The company collects and crowdsources carrier signal quality from major telecommunications providers or users who have its consumer or enterprise mobile application installed. The data is used to provide insights into places around the world without access to cellular coverage and the development of new coverage patterns, as well as to provide maps showing what provider offers the best service in an area.
In 2011, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), recognized Mosaik Solutions as the "industry standard" for the presence of wireless service at the census-block level.
History
In 2016, Mosaik purchased Sensorly, a free app developed to crowdsource cellular network performance service and provide coverage mapping for wireless networks worldwide.
Products and services
MapELEMENTS
MapELEMENTS software is a visualization tool that allows users to analyze data from the largest cellular coverage database in the world.
CellMaps
CellMaps is an interactive mapping solution that allows companies to show their network coverage directly on their website through an iframe or API. In 2013 Mosaik launched an android app for CellMaps that provides data directly from carriers so that users can determine what carrier meets their needs in a given area. On the map you can overlay multiple carriers, zoom to street-view level, and drop a pin onto any given spot to get a breakdown of carrier service in that area.
Signal Insights App
Signal Insights is an SaaS platform service available for android users that measures and analyzes the customer's experience in cellular or Wi-Fi networks. Indoor mode allows a user to upload a building floor plan and then map and test specific points in the building for cellular or Wi-Fi connectivity.
Sensorly App
Sensorly is a free app that crowdsources cellular network performance to provide coverage mapping worldwide and mobile speed data to help consumers make informed decisions when choosing a cellular carrier. In February 2017, Sensorly launched Map Trip, a feature that allows users to map their routes and share with others their signal data at a particular point in real time.
TowerSource
TowerSource is a resource for locating cell towers and identifying ownership, availability, fiber routes, type and height. It was acquired by Mosaik Solutions in September 2014.
Network Validator
Network Validator is a SaaS solution designed for users to quickly determine whether global cellular networks exist - by country, operator and wireless technology.
CoverageRight
CoverageRight is composed of licensed GIS file datasets that identify the marketed coverage of wireless operators in the United States and worldwide. It enables users to perform spatial analyses, monitor competitive build-outs, analyze coverage trends and assemble roaming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Channel | Star Channel may refer to:
Star Channel, the original name (1973–1979) of The Movie Channel, an American premium cable and satellite television network
Star Channel (Greek TV channel), a television network
Star Channel (Japan), a satellite pay television station group
Star Channel: a group of television channels owned by The Walt Disney Company
Star Channel (Bulgarian TV channel), a pay television channel in Bulgaria owned by The Walt Disney Company, formerly known as Fox
Star Channel (Dutch TV channel), a free-to-air television channel in The Netherlands owned by The Walt Disney Company, formerly known as Fox
Star Channel (Finnish TV channel), a free-to-air television channel in Finland owned by The Walt Disney Company, formerly known as Fox
Star Channel (Latin American TV channel), a pay television channel in Latin America owned by The Walt Disney Company, formerly known as Fox Channel
Star Channel (Serbian TV channel), a pay television channel in Balkans owned by The Walt Disney Company, formerly known as Fox
See also
Star TV (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Spradling | Carol Spradling is an American professor, computer scientist who served as the first Director of the School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. She is known for her work with computer ethics, profession-based education, interactive media, and expanding the involvement of underrepresented groups and women in computing. Dr. Spradling taught computer science courses and served as a provost fellow and a liaison to the Northland Center For Advanced Professional Studies program. Spradling served on the Missouri Department of Higher Education Panel on The Role of Faculty in Establishing and Implementing a Blueprint for
Missouri Higher Education.
Spradling is the co-founder of the Missouri Iowa Nebraska Kansas Women in Computing Conference, a regional meeting that coincides and is modeled after the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Started in 2011 and held biannually, the conference gathers students, faculty, and technology leaders as part of a nationwide effort to address the decline of women in the computer science professions and discuss strategies for improving representation in the field from underrepresented groups. She is active in the National Center for Women & Information Technology Academic Alliance.
She is the recipient of the 2012 Missouri Governor's Award for Excellence in Education and received the Dean's Faculty Award for Service in 2014.
Selected publications
2014. Using interdisciplinary teams to develop comprehensive integrated digital marketing communication campaigns, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 29(5), Pages 208–218.
2013. Computer science curriculum 2013: social and professional recommendations from the ACM/IEEE-CS task force, Proceedings of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education.
2012. Proposed revisions to the social and professional knowledge area for CS2013, Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education.
2009. A comprehensive survey on the status of social and professional issues in United States undergraduate computer science programs and recommendations., Computer science education, 19.3, Pages 137–153.
2009. From the man on the moon to 2001 and beyond: the evolving social and ethical impact of computers a session to commemorate SIGCSE' 40 anniversary, Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, Volume 41, Issue 1.
2008. Ethics training and decision-making: do computer science programs need help?, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 40.1, Pages 153–157.
2008. Examining the data on computer ethics in the classroom, ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society: Volume 38 Issue 2.
2008. An interdisciplinary major emphasizing multimedia, ACM SIGCSE Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, Pages 388–391.
2007. A study of social and professional ethics in undergraduate computer science programs: Faculty perspectives , |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Percival | Colin A. Percival (born 1980) is a Canadian computer scientist and computer security researcher. He completed his undergraduate education at Simon Fraser University and a doctorate at the University of Oxford. While at university he joined the FreeBSD project, and achieved some notoriety for discovering a security weakness in Intel's hyper-threading technology. Besides his work in delta compression and the introduction of memory-hard functions, he is also known for developing the Tarsnap online backup service, which became his full-time job.
Education
Percival began taking mathematics courses at Simon Fraser University (SFU) at age 13, as a student at Burnaby Central Secondary School. He graduated from Burnaby Central and officially enrolled at SFU in 1998. At SFU he studied number theory under Peter Borwein, and competed in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, placing in the top 15 in 1998 and as a Putnam Fellow (in the top six) in 1999. From 1998 to 2000 he ran the PiHex project, organizing contributors from all over the world to help calculate specific bits of pi. Percival graduated from SFU in 2001 and was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to the University of Oxford.
In Oxford, Percival set out to do research in distributed computing, building on his experience with PiHex. When a serious illness in 2003 interrupted this work for months, he turned his attention to the problem of building a software update system for the FreeBSD operating system. At the time, FreeBSD updates were distributed only as source code patches, making it difficult to keep systems updated. After a commenter on a mailing list suggested using xdelta to reduce the size of the files to be transferred, Percival began working on a more efficient delta compression algorithm. This new algorithm, called bsdiff, became the new focus of his doctoral research, and later a widely-used standard, and his freebsd-update became a part of FreeBSD. In 2004 he contributed portsnap, which uses bsdiff to distribute snapshots of the FreeBSD ports tree.
His 2006 doctoral thesis, supervised by William F. McColl and Richard P. Brent, is called "Matching with Mismatches and Assorted Applications". It describes further improvements to the compression of bsdiff.
Career
After joining the FreeBSD Security Team in 2004, Percival analyzed the behaviour of hyper-threading as then implemented on Intel's Pentium 4 CPUs. He discovered a security flaw that would allow a malicious thread to use a timing-based side-channel attack to steal secret data from another thread executing on the same processor core and sharing its cache. Some months after reporting the problem to Intel and operating system vendors, with suggestions on how to mitigate it in system software, he made the details public in May 2005. Having finished his thesis, he returned to SFU as a visiting researcher. He went on to serve as the FreeBSD Security Officer, from August 2005 to May 2012. He was also elected to the Free |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Hayes | Sarah Hayes may refer to:
Sarah Hayes (crossword compiler), British crossword setter also known as Arachne
Sarah Hayes (musician), British folk artist
Sarah Hayes (writer), author of books illustrated by Barbara Firth including The Grumpalump (1991)
See also
Sara Hayes (born 1982), Irish camogie player
Sarah Hay (born 1987), American actress and ballet dancer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTL8710 | The RTL8710 is a low-cost Wi-Fi chip with full TCP/IP stack and MCU (Micro Controller Unit) capability produced by Taiwanese manufacturer, Realtek.
References
Wireless networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2C | A2C may refer to:
Jingmen A2C Ultra Seaplane
Abbreviation for Airman Second Class, a rank in the United States Air Force
Advantage Actor Critic, a reinforcement learning algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6neiche%20bei%20Berlin%20tramway | The Schöneiche bei Berlin tramway is the tramway network of the city of Schöneiche bei Berlin, Germany.
Route
The route starts at the Friedrichshagen S-Bahn station, located on line S3. It also connects to lines 60 and 61 of the Berlin trams here. It then runs alongside Schöneicher Landstraße, before diverging from the road, and entering Brandenburg, and the town of Schöneiche. It then runs on street, through Kirschenstraße and Puschkinstraße, before passing the depot, at which point it returns to a single track running alongside Dorfstraße. It then makes a 90 degree turn at a roundabout, and travels past the centre of Schöneiche. After leaving Schöneiche, and following Kalkberger Straße, passing under the A10 road, the line then enters the town of Rüdersdorf, terminating at a loop located at Marienstraße.
Ticketing
The line is route 88 in the VBB system, with the majority of the line being located in the Berlin C fare zone. VBB tickets can be purchased that allow travel on the tramway, along with other transport in the VBB scheme. For passengers only travelling on the tram, the line also sells single, 10 journey, and monthly tickets, only valid on the tram. For these tickets the line is divided into three zones: Berlin, Schöneiche, and Rüdersdorf.
Rolling stock
The tramway currently operates three types of vehicle in regular use.
The oldest vehicles in use are four Düwag GT6 trams, purchased from Heidelberg. These were originally built in 1966 and 1973, and do not provide low floor access. The other main part of the fleet are three Tatra KT4DNF trams, which were purchased from Cottbus and Szeged, and were built in 1987 and 1990. These do provide low floor access to the middle section of the tramcar.
Recently, the tramway has purchased two prototype Transtech Artic low floor articulated trams from Helsinki. Tram 51 (Helsinki No. 401) entered service in September 2018. Tram 52 (Helsinki No. 402) was delivered in early 2019. The first entirely low floor service was operated on May 1, 2019. A third Artic-Tram, numbered 53 (new built), entered service on March 25, 2020.
References
External links
SRS official website
Track plan of the Berlin tram system, including the Schöneiche tramway
Tram transport in Germany
Transport in Brandenburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20profiling | Social profiling is the process of constructing a social media user's profile using his or her social data. In general, profiling refers to the data science process of generating a person's profile with computerized algorithms and technology. There are various platforms for sharing this information with the proliferation of growing popular social networks, including but not limited to LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook and Twitter.
Social profile and social data
A person's social data refers to the personal data that they generate either online or offline (for more information, see social data revolution). A large amount of these data, including one's language, location and interest, is shared through social media and social network. Users join multiple social media platforms and their profiles across these platforms can be linked using different methods to obtain their interests, locations, content, and friend list. Altogether, this information can be used to construct a person's social profile.
Meeting the user's satisfaction level for information collection is becoming more challenging. This is because of too much "noise" generated, which affects the process of information collection due to explosively increasing online data. Social profiling is an emerging approach to overcome the challenges faced in meeting user's demands by introducing the concept of personalized search while keeping in consideration user profiles generated using social network data. A study reviews and classifies research inferring users social profile attributes from social media data as individual and group profiling. The existing techniques along with utilized data sources, the limitations, and challenges were highlighted.
The prominent approaches adopted include machine learning,
ontology, and fuzzy logic. Social media data from Twitter and Facebook have been used by most of the studies to infer the social attributes of users. The literature showed that user social attributes, including age, gender, home location, wellness, emotion, opinion, relation, influence are still need to be explored.
Personalized meta-search engines
The ever-increasing online content has resulted in the lack of proficiency of centralized search engine's results. It can no longer satisfy user's demand for information. A possible solution that would increase coverage of search results would be meta-search engines, an approach that collects information from numerous centralized search engines. A new problem thus emerges, that is too much data and too much noise is generated in the collection process.
Therefore, a new technique called personalized meta-search engines was developed. It makes use of a user's profile (largely social profile) to filter the search results. A user's profile can be a combination of a number of things, including but not limited to, "a user's manual selected interests, user's search history", and personal social network data.
Social media profiling
According to Samuel D. War |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are%20You%20Watching%20This%3F%21 | Are You Watching This?! (RUWT?!) is an Austin, Texas-based Sports Excitement Analytics company that uses algorithms to identify sporting events that viewers would find exciting or compelling. It was founded by Mark Phillip, an American MIT Computer Science Major.
Overview
RUWT?! was founded in 2006, launched publicly in 2007, and was bootstrapped by Phillip, its sole employee.
The service uses algorithms to analyze live game data to determine if games are exciting, identifying events like rivalries or upsets. The opinions of the service's 25,000 "Super Fans" add a subjective influence to the overall excitement rating of each game. The ratings for each game range from zero to infinity, bucketed into OK, GOOD, HOT, and EPIC ranges. When a game hits an excitement "crescendo", the website sends email and text alerts to subscribers. Their sole competitor is Thuuz.
Despite having a consumer-facing website, the company focuses on licensing excitement data via its API to larger companies. Comcast is one such customer, and the company's data is used by millions of Xfinity X1 subscribers. The API also includes DVR Extender, Natural Language, and Video Highlight functionality. Other customers include Bleacher Report, CBS Sports, Telstra Communications, and Turner Sports.
A patent for a Rating system for identifying exciting sporting events and notifying users was filed by RUWT?! in 2007 and was granted on August 23, 2016. The patent expires on July 17, 2033. As of July 2017, Are You Watching This?! was in patent licensing discussions with Thuuz.
References
External links
Privately held companies based in Texas
Companies based in Austin, Texas
American sport websites
Internet properties established in 2006
2006 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka-Istanbul%20freight%20corridor | The Dhaka-Istanbul freight corridor project is a proposed 6,000 km transcontinental integrated freight railway network connecting Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey.
The code name of this corridor is ITI-DKD-Y
It is considered that a major boost for trade and economic development of the Asia Pacific region, a trans-container goods train link from Dhaka to Istanbul covering Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. Although Bhutan and Afghanistan are not connected with railway route, Bhutan is connected by road to Kolkata and containers may be served to Afghanistan by road from railway station Quetta. Nepal is also connected to this corridor from Birgunj to Kolkata.
References
Proposed rail infrastructure in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Documentation%20of%20Electroacoustic%20Music | The International Documentation of Electroacoustic Music (EMDoku) is an extensive online database, which contains detailed information on over 51000 works, 11000 authors as well as media (CD, DVD, tape, etc.), labels and studios. Electroacoustic music is understood as an umbrella term for tape music, acousmatic music, electronic music, musique concrète, field recordings, computer music, radio art, sound art, sound installations, live electronics etc., and includes performances and venues such as concert hall, radio, film, installation, media and internet.
In addition to music and media science research, the documentation is intended to enable historically informed performance practice and interpretation research. It is considered as an "essential initiative" for the preservation of electroacoustic music.
History
On the occasion of the project Berlin Kulturstadt Europas, E88, Folkmar Hein, head of the electronic studios of the TU Berlin, initiated the work on this documentation. With the collaboration of Golo Föllmer and Roland Frank, it was published in book form for the first time in 1992 ("Dokumentation elektroakustischer Musik in Europa"). In 1996, an extended version titled "Internationale Dokumentation elektroakustischer Musik" was published by Pfau-Verlag under the direction of Folkmar Hein and Thomas Seelig. Another version can be found on the DEGEM CD-ROM Klangkunst in Deutschland, which was published in 2000 as a supplement to the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik Since 1996, the database is accessible online.
The documentation is supported by the .
References
External links
Project Overview
Music databases
German music websites
Internet properties established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake%20in%20Fright%20%28miniseries%29 | Wake in Fright is an Australian miniseries based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, which first aired on Network Ten in October 2017. Directed by Kriv Stenders and written by Stephen M. Irwin, the series features an ensemble cast that includes Sean Keenan, Alex Dimitriades, Caren Pistorius, David Wenham, Anna Samson, Gary Sweet, and Robyn Malcolm.
It is the second filmed adaptation of Cook's novel, following Ted Kotcheff's 1971 film version. As with earlier versions of the story, the series depicts the psychological journey of John Grant, a schoolteacher who has been marooned in an isolated outback town. Although it occasionally makes closer references to the novel than the film, the overall story was largely reworked for the series to fit a contemporary setting.
Plot
Part One
John Grant is a young schoolteacher stationed in Tiboonda, an isolated "dry-town" in the outback. After finishing the school year in time for the Christmas holidays, he begins driving to Sydney to take up a new teaching position at Neutral Bay, as well as seemingly marry his girlfriend Robyn. John's car is damaged when he collides with a kangaroo, forcing him to take a stopover in the mining town of Bundayabba – referred to by the locals as "The Yabba" – to await repairs. At a pub, he meets the enigmatic Sergeant Jock Crawford, who introduces him to the illegal but sanctioned game of two-up. After a winning streak, John loses all of his money, as well as some borrowed from former MMA fighter Mick Jaffries and her brother Joe, who subsequently demand that he pay them back.
John befriends real estate agent Tim Hynes, who invites him to have dinner with his family, including his wife Ursula and daughter Janette, the town nurse. The encounter is shaken by the arrival of Evan "Doc" Tydon, the disgraced town doctor; Doc and Janette begin to interrogate secrets in John's character, which culminates in Janette attempting to seduce him. Afterwards, Tim tries to sell a house to John, hoping to generate cash in the wake of the decline in the mining business on which The Yabba was built; when John instead asks for a loan to pay off his debts, Tim throws him out.
John awakens in Doc's ramshackle caravan. In his recollections of the previous night, he believes that Doc initiated a drunken homosexual encounter between them. Doc seemingly betrays John to Mick and Joe, who take them to their car-wrecking yard and prepare to embark on a feral pig hunt, giving John a chance to pay off his debts. Before departing, the Jaffries discover that John has found their secret drug laboratory, leading John to believe that they intend to kill him during the hunt.
Part Two
The pig hunt turns into a riotous expedition fuelled by drugs and alcohol. Eventually, John falls unconscious and awakens to discover that Doc has been shot dead. Recalling earlier tensions between Doc and Mick, he assumes that the siblings killed Doc to set him up. After fleeing the scene, John encounters Crawford an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra%20Perry | Sondra Perry is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, computer-based media, installation, and performance. Perry's work investigates "blackness, black femininity, African American heritage" and the portrayal or representation of black people throughout history, focusing on how blackness influences technology and image making. Perry explores the duality of intelligence and seductiveness in the contexts of black family heritage, black history, and black femininity. "Perry is committed to net neutrality and ideas of collective production and action, using open source software to edit her work and leasing it digitally for use in galleries and classrooms, while also making all her videos available for free online. This principle of open access in Perry's practice aims to privilege black life, to democratize access to art and culture, and to offer a critical platform that differentiates itself from the portrayal of blackness in the media". For Perry, blackness is a technology which creates fissures in systems of surveillance and control and thus creates inefficiency as an opportunity for resistance.
Career
Sondra Perry received a BFA from Alfred University in 2012, and an MFA from Columbia University in 2015. Perry has been an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University School of the Arts as of 2019, where she has taught Advanced Video to both graduate and undergraduate students. Perry has had multiple solo exhibitions, including at The Kitchen, for her work "Resident Evil", and at the Institute for New Connotative Action. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1 The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and online at Rhizome. Perry's video work has been screened at Tribeca Cinemas in New York, Les Voutes in Paris, France, LuXun Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Shenyang, China, and at the LOOP Barcelona Media Arts Festival. From January to May 2017, Sondra Perry had a solo exhibition, flesh out, at Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center in Buffalo, New York. Perry was awarded a 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and the 2017 Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize, which includes a solo show at the Seattle Art Museum and a $10,000 stipend. She has also received the Worldstudio AIGA Scholarship and a scholarship from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, an artists residency in Maine. Perry is the first recipient of MOCA Cleveland's Toby's Prize, valued at $50,000. In 2018 Perry also won the $28,000 Nam June Paik Award given by the Kunststiftung NRW arts foundation to honor artists working in media art.
Black Girl as a Landscape (2010)
In Perry's single-channel video installation, Black Girl as a Landscape, the camera slowly pans over the silhouette of a horizontally framed girl, abstracting her body. Perry states this intended to reflect her interest in "the possibility of abstraction as a way of creating dimensionality that connections individual bodies to larger visual and environmental ecologies."
Red Summ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20rescue | Data rescue is a movement among scientists, researchers and others to preserve primarily government-hosted data sets, often scientific in nature, to ward off their removal from publicly available websites. While the concept of preserving federal data existed before, it gained new impetus with the election in 2016 of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The concept of harvesting and preserving federal web pages began as early as 2008, at the conclusion of President George W. Bush's second term, under the name "End of Term Presidential Harvest."
Soon after Trump's election, scientists, librarians and others in the U.S. and Canada—fearing that the administration of Trump (who had denied the validity of the scientific consensus on the existence of climate change) would act to remove scientific data from government websites—began working to preserve those data.
Quickly, the concept of data rescue became a grassroots movement, with organized "hackathon" events at cities across the U.S. and elsewhere, often hosted at universities and other institutions of higher education.
Guerrilla Archiving Event: Saving Environmental Data from Trump
The Guerrilla Archiving Event: Saving Environmental Data from Trump was a meeting arranged by two professors at the University of Toronto in December 2016, in an effort to pre-emptively preserve US government climate data from possible deletion by the Trump Administration.
Background
During his run for presidency, President Trump had expressed, in various occasions, climate change denialism calling the climate change as Chinese hoax "in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive", and voiced his hostility towards climate science and Paris climate agreement. In early December 2016, a prominent climate change denier, Scott Pruitt was selected as a new administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). These proceeding had raised concerns among academic community that the scientific opinion on climate change might be suppressed during Trump's presidency. Indeed, according to Reuters sources, on 25 January 2017, Trump's administration instructed United States Environmental Protection Agency to remove climate change page from their website.
The event
Fearing for possible deletion, or alteration of the US government websites containing the government climate data, as happened in Canada, people from various academic backgrounds and training such as coders, environmental scientists, social scientists, archivists, and librarians gathered together in order to save US government websites at risk of changing or disappearing during or after government transition. The event collaborated with the Internet Archive's End of Term project.
Climate Mirror
Climate Mirror is "an open project to mirror public climate datasets", that is, an open access project to mirror (to back up) the data of publicly owned datasets from climate science, such as data from U.S. federally funded research. Datasets from the National Oc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20Girls%20Code | Native Girls Code (NGC) is a Seattle-based program that focuses on providing computer coding skills with grounding in traditional Indigenous knowledge for Native American girls aged 12 to 18 through workshops, coaching, teaching and role modeling.
Native Girls Code is organized by the nonprofit organization Na'ah Illahee Fund (Mother Earth in the Chinook language), in partnership with University of Washington Information School Digital Youth Lab and the Washington NASA Space Consortium, as a way to support and perpetuate traditional knowledge, build leadership of women and encourage greater participation of Native American students in STEM fields.
The program was designed specifically to give Native girls from tribes throughout the United States a place to develop a strong foundation in Native culture, Native science, and build the skills needed to use modern computer technologies, resulting in the creation of websites, online games and virtual worlds. Leaders hope Native Girls Code will enrich both the girls and their communities.
Awards and grants
In 2016 NGC was awarded a grant through the City of Seattle's Technology Matching Fund, aimed at increasing digital equity among underrepresented Seattle citizens. Google has been a major funder of the program and Facebook has donated laptops and filming equipment to NGC.
See also
Girls Who Code
Black Girls Code
I Look Like an Engineer
References
Organizations for women in science and technology
Computer science education
Women in computing
Native American women's organizations
Native Americans in Washington (state)
Organizations based in Seattle
Native American scientists
Native American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicite | Explicite is a French online media. It has been created in January 2017 by a group of 50 journalists after they left I-Tele (now CNews).
Explicite is broadcast via social networks such as Facebook live, Twitter, Periscope, YouTube and Yahoo portal.
Explicite is a non-profit organization (Les Journalistes associés — Explicite) featuring Olivier Ravanello (president), Élodie Safaris, Antoine Genton and Laurent Bazin
References
French broadcasters
Online publishing companies
Online nonprofit organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie%20Doon%20stop | Bonnie Doon stop is a tram stop under construction in the Edmonton Light Rail Transit network in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It will serve the Valley Line, and is located on the west side of 83 Street, south of 84 Avenue, between Bonnie Doon and Idylwylde. The stop was scheduled to open in 2020; however, it is now scheduled to open on November 4, 2023.
Around the station
Bonnie Doon
Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre
École Maurice-Lavallée
Idylwylde
King Edward Park
University of Alberta Campus Saint-Jean
Vimy Ridge Academy
References
External links
TransEd Valley Line LRT
Future Edmonton Light Rail Transit stations
Valley Line (Edmonton) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative%20binary%20search | In computer science, multiplicative binary search is a variation
of binary search that uses a specific permutation of keys in an array instead of the sorted order used by regular binary
search.
Multiplicative binary search was first described by Thomas Standish in 1980.
This algorithm was originally proposed to simplify the midpoint index calculation on small computers without efficient division or shift operations.
On modern hardware, the cache-friendly nature of multiplicative binary search makes it suitable for out-of-core search on block-oriented storage as an alternative to B-trees and B+ trees. For optimal performance, the branching factor of a B-tree or B+-tree must match the block size of the file system that it is stored on. The permutation used by multiplicative binary search places the optimal number of keys in the first (root) block, regardless of block size.
Multiplicative binary search is used by some optimizing compilers to implement switch statements.
Algorithm
Multiplicative binary search operates on a permuted sorted array. Keys are stored in the array in level-order sequence of the corresponding balanced binary search tree.
This places the first pivot of a binary search as the first element in the array. The second pivots are placed at the next two positions.
Given an array A of n elements with values A0 ... An−1, and target value T, the following subroutine uses multiplicative binary search to find the index of T in A.
Set i to 0
if i ≥ n, the search terminates unsuccessful.
if Ai = T, the search is done; return i.
if Ai < T, set i to 2×i + 1 and go to step 2.
if Ai > T, set i to 2×i + 2 and go to step 2.
See also
Citations
Search algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid%20Chameleon | Kid Chameleon is a 1992 platform game developed and published by Sega released for the Sega Genesis. In the game, a boss character with artificial intelligence in a virtual reality video game begins abducting players and the main protagonist Casey goes in to beat the game and rescue them. He does this by using masks to shapeshift into different characters in order to use different abilities. It was later released in Japan as . After its initial release in 1992 for the Genesis, it was later re-released a number of times in the 2000s, including part of the Sega Smash Pack 2 for the PC in 2000, the Sega Genesis Collection for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2 in 2006, as a digital release on the Wii's Virtual Console in 2007, Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2009 and for the Sega Forever service in 2017.
Gameplay
The player, as Kid Chameleon, progresses through a series of levels, containing an array of deadly enemies and obstacles. Most levels contain a flag, which is the primary goal of each level, from which the player progresses to the next level. However, a number of teleporters throughout the game can warp the player not only to different places in the same level, but also to different levels, and sometimes to an entirely different path through the game. At the end of the game, Kid fights and defeats the final boss, Heady Metal. Kid Chameleon contains 103 levels, of which only about half are on the "main path" (traversing levels only by flags). Thirty-two of these 103 levels are smaller, unnamed levels simply called "Elsewhere". Despite the game's considerable length, there is no password system or other method of saving the game (although re-releases in compilations and the Virtual Console include their own save features). There are several bonuses that can be earned at the end of certain levels (in which the flag is touched), including beating a time limit, not getting hit and not collecting any prizes.
As Kid Chameleon moves through the game's levels, he gains access to masks that alter him into different characters. Each character has different special abilities and varying numbers of hit points. Collecting a mask that the player is already wearing will restore its health. The sheer amount of variety in gameplay due to the various characters is part of what gives Kid Chameleon such an addictive style; few levels repeat the same structure and they usually have specific strategies and characters to be beaten. In addition to the offensive abilities of each form, the Kid can also defeat enemies by jumping on them, although he may take damage from some enemies by doing so. Each form can also make use of Diamond Powers that require diamonds collected in the game to use, accessed by pressing A + Start. Players lose a life if Kid Chameleon loses all his hit points in human form, is crushed, falls into bottomless pits or lava, touches the drill wall which appears in certain levels, or if time runs out |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20BBC%20Earth | Sony BBC Earth is an Indian pay television channel owned by BBC Studios and Culver Max Entertainment. The channel broadcasts BBC programming in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu through its four audio tracks available. The BBC entered into a joint venture with Multi Screen Media to launch the channel in India, which was finally launched on 6 March 2017, following regulatory approval of the joint venture.
See also
BBC Earth (TV channel)
References
External links
Sony BBC Earth Official Website
Watch Sony BBC Earth LIVE on Sony Liv
International BBC television channels
Television stations in India
2017 establishments in Maharashtra
English-language television stations in India
Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Networks India
Television channels and stations established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201988%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1988, according to the Notitas Musicales magazine with data provided by Radio Mil(which also provided charts for Billboard's "Hits of the World" between 1969 and 1981).
Notitas Musicales was a bi-weekly magazine that published two record charts:
"Canciones que México canta" ("Songs that Mexico sings"), which listed the Top 10 most popular Spanish-language songs in Mexico, and
"Hit Parade", which was a Top 10 of the most popular songs in Mexico that were in languages other than Spanish. For reasons unknown, the magazine stopped publishing the "Hit Parade" chart after April 1; the chart was again published on the 1 December issue, and then it was again discontinued until Notitas Musicales revived it in 1993.
Chart history
See also
1988 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Notitas Musicales magazine.
1988 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Data%20eXchange | FDX, short for Fast Data eXchange is a proprietary maritime communication protocol by Nexus Marine AB.
It describes how data points from sensors are to be sent across an RS485 serial bus to displays. FDX was originally developed in the 1990s, and is now mostly seen as a legacy protocol. The GND10 gateway from Garmin translates FDX into NMEA 2000, to be able to continue using Nexus sensors on more recent NMEA 2000 networks.
References
External links
FDX introduction from Nexus Marine
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f13/nexus-bus-or-fdx-protocol-164575.html
Github: Reverse engineered FDX parser
Global Positioning System
Computer buses
Marine electronics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal%20Analytics | Fractal Analytics Private Limited is an American multinational artificial intelligence company that provides services in consumer packaged goods, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, retail and technology, and the financial sector. Headquartered in New York, it has a presence in the United States, India and United Kingdom along with fifteen other locations.
History
Fractal Analytics was founded in 2000 by Abhicine, Pranay Agrawal, Nirmal Palaparthi, Pradeep Suryanarayan and Ramakrishna Reddy.Fractal was founded in 2000 in Mumbai and later moved to the US in 2005. In 2015 they acquired Imagna Analytics and Mobius Innovations.
In 2016, Fractal Analytics appointed Pranay Agrawal as the CEO to replace co-founder Srikanth Velamakanni, the new Group Chief Executive and Executive Vice-Chairman. It also expanded its operations including the creation of two new subsidiaries Qure.ai and Cuddle.ai.
In August 2016, they partnered with KNIME, an open source data analytics. In June 2017, they acquired Chicago-based strategy & analytics firm, 4i Inc. In September 2017, they partnered with Final Mile to combine data science with behavioral science In March 2018, Fractal Analytics acquired behavioural architecture company Final Mile. In January 2019, Fractal received a $200 Million funding from Apax Partners, a leading global private equity advisory firm.
See also
Data analysis
References
Analytics companies
Companies established in 2000
Technology companies established in 2000
International information technology consulting firms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20and%20LGBT%20youth%20of%20colour%20in%20the%20United%20States | In the United States, LGBT youth of colour are marginalized adolescents in the LGBT community. Social issues include homelessness; cyberbullying; physical, verbal and sexual abuse; suicide; drug addiction; street violence; immigration surveillance; engagement in high-risk sexual activity; self-harm, and depression. The rights of LGBT youth of colour are reportedly not addressed in discussions of sexuality and race in the larger context of LGBT rights.
Specific issues primarily stem from the framework of intersectionality. LGBT youth of colour may experience sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, heterosexism, white supremacy or poverty, sometimes simultaneously. Concerns for marginalized individuals in an already-marginalized community include intercultural competence, the school-to-prison pipeline, and school expulsions.
Activities aimed at providing safe spaces and support for LGBT youth of colour activities are generally held in libraries, schools, non-profit agencies and designated community spaces. These activities, which provide practical sex education, mental-health support, empowerment and positive role models, usually require state funding as HIV/AIDS prevention.
Bullying
LGBT youth are two times more likely to be involved in cyberbullying and face to face bullying encounters, than youth who do not identify with the LGBT community. Bullying takes a toll on youth lower self-esteem, and lower GPA's have been reported effects of LGBT youth subjected to such encounters. Bullying that LGBT youth have reported being involved in include but are not limited to physical, verbal, relational, and sexual forms. For youth that come out and identify themselves within the LGBT community lose their sense of safety within their schools and homes. It is not unusual for LGBT youth of color to lose friends or be bullied. Several youth who are a part of the LGBT community have reported having suicidal thoughts and actions as a result of bullying (online or in person). Within the United States there is anti-bullying legislation, however, no anti-bullying law. This means that bullying within schools is not illegal. In many cases bullying is also referred to as harassment on various levels. By participating in the act harassment you are breaking a federal law. Counselors work to defend LGBT youth on a day-to-day basis, with no concrete legislation to back them up to make major changes within bullied children's lives. There is limited support offered to the LGBT students of colour.
Activism through media
The rise of activism within our society today has become incredibly prevalent through various media platforms. Social movements that are primarily based, or heavily advertise themselves through media are proven to reach a greater amount of youth. This increased connection with youth results in greater organizational involvement, as youth are quite active on social media.
Theater, drag shows and street theater have been used as resources for queer communi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena%20tram%20stop | Arena tram stop may refer to:
Arena tram stop (Croydon), on the Tramlink network
Arena tram stop (Sheffield), on the Yellow Line of the Sheffield Supertram network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20McBay | Shirley Ann Mathis McBay (May 4, 1935November 27, 2021) was an American mathematician who was the founder and president of the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, a nonprofit dedicated to improving minority education. She was the dean for student affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1980 to 1990. She was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia (1966, mathematics). McBay was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.
Early life and education
Shirley Ann Mathis was born in Bainbridge, Georgia, on May 4, 1935. She received a B.A. in chemistry from Paine College in 1954, graduating summa cum laude. While also teaching chemistry at Spelman College, McBay earned an M.S. in chemistry (1957) and M.S. in mathematics (1958) from Atlanta University. In 1964, she earned a United Negro College Fund Fellowship, sponsored by the IBM Corporation, that allowed her to study at the University of Georgia and earn a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1966. Her Ph.D. was advised by Thomas Roy Brahana with a dissertation on The Homology Theory of Metabelian Lie Algebras.
Career
McBay spent 15 years at Spelman College as a faculty member and administrator. McBay's leadership at Spelman led to the creation of the division of natural sciences and an increase in an emphasis on the sciences at the institution. She served as chairman of the division until 1975 and as associate academic dean at Spelman from 1973 to 1975. During this time, she created pre-freshman summer programs to increase interest in science majors, which led to the creation of a chemistry department and the renovations of existing science buildings.
She left Spelman in 1975 and took a position at the National Science Foundation for five years. While at the National Science Foundation, she became program director of the Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program. She then worked for ten years at MIT as the dean for student affairs. Thirty months of this time included being the director of the QEM Project, a study of minority education problems. The QEM Project was the impetus for the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network that McBay founded and was president of from 1990 to 2016.
In December 2021, the University of Georgia's Science Library was renamed the Shirley Mathis McBay Science Library in her honor.
Personal life and death
Her husband, chemistry professor Henry C. McBay, died in 1995. The couple had married in 1954. McBay died from complications of diabetes on November 27, 2021, in Los Angeles, at the age of 86.
References
External links
Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
1935 births
2021 deaths
American nonprofit chief executives
Women nonprofit executives
Spelman College faculty
20th-century American mathematicians
University of Georgia alumni
Atlanta University alumni
Paine College alumni
American women chief executives
21st-century American mathematicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20M.%20Thompson | Juan M. Thompson (born 1985) is a former African-American journalist who was later convicted for cyberstalking and making several bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers in the U.S.
Personal background
Thompson is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and was connected to the student newspaper. However, Thompson failed to graduate. He was a summer intern with DNAinfo Chicago and an intern for a WBEZ talk show for four months.
In November 2016, Thompson announced plans to run for mayor of St. Louis, but failed to raise money in an online campaign, only raising $25 from a single donation.
Reporting scandal and termination from The Intercept
Thompson was a staff reporter for The Intercept, but was fired in February 2016 for fabricating quotes and attributions in news articles. This included a false claim, purportedly made by a cousin of Dylann Roof, that Roof was motivated to commit the Charleston church shooting because a former love interest chose black men over Roof. A note from editor Betsy Reed indicated that Thompson had been fired recently after his editors discovered "a pattern of deception" in his reporting. According to Reed, he had "fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account in my name".
The site's investigation into Thompson's reporting had found that he had, on multiple occasions, attributed quotes to people who said he had not interviewed them or did not remember him doing so, people whom they could not reach to verify the quote or whose identity could not be confirmed. In the retracted story, Roof's family said they did not know of a cousin whom Thompson had quoted as saying Roof's interest in white supremacy took off after a woman to whom he was attracted began dating a black man. He also used "quotes that we cannot verify from unnamed people whom he claimed to have encountered at public events". To prevent his fabrications from being discovered, she continued, he lied to editors about how he had gotten the quotes, and in one case created an email account in the name of one of his sources. When editors discovered his actions, she added, he stood by his published work and, while admitting to creating the email accounts, refused to assist in the review otherwise.
In an email to Reed he shared with various news outlets, Thompson said he was being treated for testicular cancer and for that reason had not had access to his notes when the site had asked to review them. He explained his methods as "writing drafts of stories, placing the names of [people] I wanted to get quotes from in there, and then going to fetch the quotes ... If I couldn't obtain a quote from the person I wanted, I went somewhere else, and must've forgot to change the names—clearly." While he admitted this was "sloppy", he faulted The Intercept for lacking "a sustained and competent editor to guide me," alluding to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedrich%20Benes | Bedrich Benes (born Bedřich Beneš 10 November 1967) is a computer scientist and a researcher in computer graphics.
Academic positions
He is a professor of computer science at Purdue University. He was a member of numerous program committees of various conferences, including ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics and he was a papers chair of Eurographics 2017. Dr. Benes is editor-in-chief of Graphical Models journal and he was editor-in-chief of Computer Graphics Forum (2018-2021). He is associate editor of Computers & Graphics., IEEE Transactions on Games, and in Silico Plants. He worked at Purdue Computer Graphics Technology from 2005-2021, where he held a named professorship (George W. McNelly Professor of Technology in 2019-2021). He is known for his work in geometric modeling, procedural modeling, scientific visualization, and software optimizations in digital manufacturing.
Education
Benes received his Ph.D. in 1998 from Czech Technical University where he studied computer science and computer graphics and his M.S. degree in 1991 from the same institution in the same fields.
Honors and awards
2022 Eurographics Fellow
2020 Elsevier Computers & Graphics Associate Editor of the Year 2020
2019 - 2022 Purdue University George W. McNelly Professor of Technology
2019 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Senior Member
2018-2021 Computer Graphics Forum Editor in Chief
2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member
2017 Eurographics Annual Conference - honorable mention from the Best Papers Committee for the paper " Interactive Modeling and Authoring of Climbing Plants"
2017 Eurographics Annual Conference Papers Chair
2012 Purdue University Outstanding Award in Discovery
2011 Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2011 Purdue University Outstanding Award in Discovery
2009 Purdue University Early Faculty Discovery Award
2005 Outstanding faculty award in discovery and technical development (Premio Rómulo Garza) of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Books
Jiří Žára, Bedřich Beneš, Jiří Sochor, Petr Felkel (1998) "Moderní počítačová grafika" (Computer press)
George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Song Wang, Kim Kyungnam, Bedrich Benes, Stephen DiVerdi, Kenneth Moreland, Chiang Yi-Jen, Christoph Borst and Jiang Ming editors (2006) "Advances in Visual Computing: 7th International Symposium", Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Selected works
Guo, J., Jiang, H., Benes, B., Deussen, O., Zhang, X., Lischinski, D., & Huang, H. (2020). Inverse Procedural Modeling of Branching Structures by Inferring L-Systems. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) PDF
Benes, B., Guan, K., Lang, M., Long, S. P., Lynch, J. P., Marshall‐Colón, A., Bin, P., Schnable, J., Sweetlove, L.J., & Turk, M. J. (2020). Multiscale computational models can guide experimentation and targeted measurements for crop improvement. The Plant Journal PDF
Graciano, A., Rueda-Ruiz, A. J., Pospisil, A., Bittner, J., & Benes, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%20Vallor | Shannon Vallor is a philosopher of technology. She is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She was at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California where she was the Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor of Philosophy at SCU.
Education and career
Vallor earned her PhD in philosophy from Boston College in 2001.
While obtaining her PhD at Boston College, Vallor was a teaching fellow from 1997–1999 in the department of philosophy. She was a lecturer at the University of San Francisco from 2001–2003. Vallor has been a professor in the philosophy department of Santa Clara University since 2003.
In addition to her academic career, Vallor also serves as a consulting AI Ethicist for Google's Cloud AI program. She has formerly served as president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, is a member of the advisory board for Capita Social, and co-director and Secretary of the Board of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, a not for profit non-government organization that advocates for the ethical design and production of robots. Vallor is also a scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, where she and Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan created a free, online module called "An Introduction to Software Engineering Ethics." She received the World Technology Award in Ethics in 2015, and in 2017 received both the Public Intellectual Award and President's Special Recognition Award from Santa Clara University.
Vallor has authored numerous articles on ethical issues in emerging technology, as well as a book, "Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting".
In October 2019, it was announced that Vallor would be joining the faculty of the University of Edinburgh as the first Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI).
Selected works
Books
Vallor, Shannon (2016). Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting. Oxford University Press.
Journal articles
Vallor, Shannon (2010). "Social Networking Technology and the Virtues," Ethics and Information Technology 12:2, 157-170.
Vallor, Shannon (2011). "Knowing What to Wish For: Human Enhancement Technology, Dignity and Virtue," Techne 15:2, 82-100.
Vallor, Shannon (2011). "Carebots and Caregivers: Sustaining the Ethical Ideal of Care in the 21st Century," Philosophy and Technology 24:3, 251-268.
Vallor, Shannon (2012). "Flourishing on Facebook: Virtue Friendship and New Social Media," Ethics and Information Technology 14:3, 185-199.
Vallor, Shannon (2014). "Armed Robots and Military Virtue," in The Ethics of Information Warfare, eds. Floridi and Taddeo (Springer)
Vallor, Shannon (2015). "Moral Deskilling and Upskilling in a New Machine Age: Reflections on the Ambiguous Future of Character," Philosophy and Technology. 28: (2015), 107-124.
Encyclopedia articles
Vallor, Shannon (2012; Rev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarters%20stop | Quarters stop is a tram stop under construction in the Edmonton Light Rail Transit network in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It will serve the Valley Line, and is located on the south side 102 Avenue, west of 96 Street, in Boyle Street. The stop was scheduled to open in 2020; however, it is now scheduled to open on November 4, 2023.
Around the station
The Quarters, also known as Boyle Street
Chinatown and Little Italy
Edmonton Chinatown Multicultural Centre
DoubleTree Hotel Edmonton Downtown
References
External links
TransEd Valley Line LRT
Future Edmonton Light Rail Transit stations
Valley Line (Edmonton) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20program%20synthesis | In programming languages and machine learning, Bayesian program synthesis (BPS) is a program synthesis technique where Bayesian probabilistic programs automatically construct new Bayesian probabilistic programs. This approach stands in contrast to routine practice in probabilistic programming where human developers manually write new probabilistic programs.
The framework
Bayesian program synthesis (BPS) has been described as a framework related to and utilizing probabilistic programming. In BPS, probabilistic programs are generated that are themselves priors over a space of probabilistic programs. This strategy allows automatic synthesis of new programs via probabilistic inference and is achieved by the composition of modular component programs.
The modularity in BPS allows inference to work on and test smaller probabilistic programs before being integrated into a larger model.
This framework can be contrasted with the family of automated program synthesis fields, which include programming by example and programming by demonstration. The goal in such fields is to find the best program that satisfies some constraint. In traditional program synthesis, for instance, verification of logical constraints reduce the state space of possible programs, allowing more efficient search to find an optimal program. Bayesian program synthesis differs both in that the constraints are probabilistic and the output is itself a distribution over programs that can be further refined.
Additionally, Bayesian program synthesis can be contrasted to the work on Bayesian program learning, where probabilistic program components are hand-written, pre-trained on data, and then hand assembled in order to recognize handwritten characters.
See also
Probabilistic programming language
References
External links
Commentary on BPS by David Garrity: Artificial Intelligence to see Significant Progress in 2017
Probability
Computer programming
Probability interpretations
Philosophy of mathematics
Philosophy of science
User interfaces
Programming paradigms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megginson | Megginson is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
David Megginson (born 1964), Canadian computer consultant
Leon C. Megginson (born 1921), American business academic
Mitchel Megginson (born 1992), Scottish footballer
Robert Megginson (born 1948), American mathematician
See also
Ernest Megginson House, historic home in Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Work%20Is%20Not%20Yet%20Done | My Work Is Not Yet Done is a horror novella by American author Thomas Ligotti, collected with two short stories, "I Have a Special Plan for This World" and "The Nightmare Network", and subtitled Three Tales of Corporate Horror.
The stories themselves have their own subtitles; respectively, "The Wages of Life", "The Second Coming of the Dead", and "Going Out of Business".)
This subtitle indicates the shared theme of the stories: the modern corporate workplace and its effect on those who sustain it at the lower levels. The narrators of the first two stories are low-level employees of large corporations with inner-city offices.
Stories
"My Work Is Not Yet Done"
Constantly afraid, Frank Dominio is a junior manager in a company which does not respect him. He's routinely called to meetings by what he calls "The Seven": seven other managers led by Richard, nicknamed "The Doctor" for dark and mysterious reasons that an employee could lose their job for enquiring about. Richard calls Dominio "Domino" in what the latter believes is a deliberate mistake made as a power play. The other managers are Barry, Harry, Mary, Perry, Sherry, and Kerrie, their similarities of name leading Dominio to think of them, Richard aside, as the Seven Dwarves.
When Dominio proposes a new product idea which could bring in a great deal of money, The Seven conspire to have him demoted then fired so they can steal it for themselves. A depressed Dominio visits a gun shop, planning to return to the company the next day and kill them one by one. However, as he's preparing for this, a strange, dark force operating within and behind the scenes of life envelops him, putting him in a psychic position between life and death, where he can spy on The Seven while using supernatural powers to craft ironic punishments for them.
"I Have a Special Plan for This World"
Blaine Company moves to a city once known as Murder Town for its high crime rate, but since a re-branding effort has been designated the Golden City. The city is permeated by a strange yellowish haze which may be responsible for some of the murders. Supervisors at the Blaine Company start falling victim to the murder rate until none are left, and a change in management style leads the story's narrator to reveal the dark secret at work in the company.
"The Nightmare Network"
This story is told in a series of classified ads, commercials, memos, private emails, journal entries, and segments of movie scripts, which chart the decline and fall of a major company, Oneiricon, once its ambitious, acquisitive nature has reached its apex, leaving nothing left to achieve in the corporate world. As a result, Oneiricon attempts one last merger, with the so-called Nightmare Network.
Reception
My Work Is Not Yet Done won the Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award. S. T. Joshi, a scholar of H. P. Lovecraft and the weird fiction genre, said that the book "displays a Thomas Ligotti at the height of his form". Interzone said th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Marie%20Kermarrec | Anne-Marie Kermarrec (born 1970) is a French computer scientist. She is Professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), where she heads the Scalable Computing Systems Laboratory at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences. Her research concerns distributed computing, epidemic algorithms, peer-to-peer networks, and systematic support for machine learning.
Previously she was director of research at INRIA in Rennes.
In 2015, she founded Mediego, a startup company that provides systems for real-time online content personalization.
Recognition
Kermarrec won the of the French Academy of Sciences in 2011, and the Dassault Systèmes Innovation Award of the Academy and the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in 2017.
She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2013. In 2017 she became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
References
External links
Living people
French computer scientists
French women computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Members of Academia Europaea
1970 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efros | Efros is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Alexei A. Efros, American computer scientist
Alexei L. Efros, American physicist
Anatoly Efros, Russian and Soviet theatre producer
Cristian Efros, Moldavian footballer
Leonid Efros, Russian painter
See also
Mirele Efros, an 1898 Yiddish play by Jacob Gordin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20ViuTVsix | This is a list of television programmes broadcast by Hong Kong English language television channel ViuTVsix.
Current programming
Drama
HBO Originals
Other
Documentary, lifestyle and factual television
Kids/Teens
Music
News, politics and finance
Sports
Notes
See also
HK Television Entertainment
References
External links
ViuTVsix EPG
ViuTVsix
ViuTVsix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20data%20%28finance%29 | Alternative data (in finance) refers to data used to obtain insight into the investment process. These data sets are often used by hedge fund managers and other institutional investment professionals within an investment company. Alternative data sets are information about a particular company that is published by sources outside of the company, which can provide unique and timely insights into investment opportunities.
Alternative data sets are often categorized as big data, which means that they may be very large and complex and often cannot be handled by software traditionally used for storing or handling data, such as Microsoft Excel. An alternative data set can be compiled from various sources such as financial transactions, sensors, mobile devices, satellites, public records, and the internet. Alternative data can be compared with data that is traditionally used by investment companies such as investor presentations, SEC filings, and press releases. These examples of "traditional data" are produced directly by the company itself.
Since alternative data sets originate as a product of a company's operations, these data sets are often less readily accessible and less structured than traditional sources of data. Alternative data is also known as "data exhaust". The company that produces alternative data generally overlooks the value of the data to institutional investors. During the last decade, many data brokers, aggregators, and other intermediaries began specializing in providing alternative data to investors and analysts.
Types
Examples of alternative data include:
Geolocation (foot traffic)
Credit card transactions
Email receipts
Point-of-sale transactions
Web site usage
Mobile App or App Store analytics
Crowdsourcing
Obscure city hall records
Satellite images
Social media posts
Online browsing activity
Shipping container receipts
Product reviews
Price trackers
Shipping trackers
Internet activity and quality data
Uses
Alternative data is being used by fundamental and quantitative institutional investors to create innovative sources of alpha. The field is still in the early phases of development, yet depending on the resources and risk tolerance of a fund, multiple approaches abound to participate in this new paradigm.
The process to extract benefits from alternative data can be extremely challenging. The analytics, systems, and technologies for processing such data are relatively new and most institutional investors do not have capabilities to integrate alternative data into their investment decision process. However, with the right tools and strategy, a fund can mitigate costs while creating an enduring competitive advantage.
Most alternative data research projects are lengthy and resource intensive; therefore, due-diligence is required before working with a data set. The due-diligence should include an approval from the compliance team, validation of processes that create and deliver this data set, and identific |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine%20Lives%20Media | Nines Lives Media is a Manchester-based television production company in the United Kingdom. It was formed in September 2007 by Cat Lewis. The company makes a range of television programming including documentaries, factual entertainment formats, drama documentaries, children's programs, and current affairs for all the major UK broadcasters, as well as some American channels. Nine Lives Media is one of two companies with an output deal for Channel 4's current affairs strand, Dispatches.
TV current affairs programming
Dispatches (Channel 4) including the following episodes:
Britain's Benefit Experiment (Investigation into the UK government's plans to cut working tax credits);
Aldi's Supermarket Secrets (An undercover investigation into Aldi's supermarket);
999, Where's my Ambulance? (An investigation into how ambulance trusts massage their figures);
Where's My Missing Mail? (An undercover investigation into damaged deliveries, late arrivals, and missing parcels).
Panorama (BBC One) including the following episodes:
Jobs For the Boys? (Former England and Arsenal footballer Sol Campbell investigates the low unemployment rate for young black British men).
Gangs, Guns & The Police (An investigation into Salford's gang wars);
Can You Trust Your Bank? (An undercover investigation into Britain's high street banks following penalties for mis-selling insurance and investment products).
Failed by the NHS (BBC Three) (An investigative documentary following Jonny Benjamin, who suffers from schizophrenia and depression, as he meets other young people with mental health problems who feel they have not been given adequate care by Britain's national health service).
The Anti-Social Network (BBC Three) (Broadcaster Richard Bacon pursues and confronts online bullies – including his own – and discovers that unmasking 'trolls' can be a dangerous pursuit).
A&E: When Patients Attack (Channel 5) (About the security guards who protect the staff and patients at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham).
TV documentaries
My Life (CBBC) including:
I am Leo (13-year-old Leo tells the story of his journey to get his first 'male' passport and be accepted as a boy).
Me, My Dad and His Kidney (Follows Raphael Havard and his father as they go through a kidney organ transplant operation).
Marvelous Messy Minds (Libby, Ethan, and Oliver attempt to control their mental health to achieve some simple goals).
The Trouble with Mobility Scooters (BBC One) (Britain has 300,000 mobility scooters on its roads and pavements - more than any other country in Europe. This program explores how the mobility scooters give independence to their many users).
Ruby Wax's Mad Confessions (Channel 4) (Filmed at The Priory clinic, comedian Ruby Wax supports three successful businesspeople as they come to terms with their mental health problems).
Small Teen, Bigger World (BBC Three) (Follows 16-year-old Jasmine Burkitt who is 3'8" tall and wears clothes designed for seven- to eight-year-olds) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20Files%20II | Forensic Files II is an American true crime documentary series revival of Forensic Files. Broadcast by HLN for its first three seasons, its fourth season is being broadcast by sister network Investigation Discovery. The series has been promoted as a separate continuation of the franchise to differentiate it from the original series, with Bill Camp succeeding Peter Thomas as narrator.
The series premiered on February 23, 2020, with a 16-episode first season. On May 12, 2020, the series was renewed for a second and third season. The second season premiered on July 11, 2021, followed by the third on February 27, 2022.
Development
The last episode of the original Forensic Files series ("Expert Witness") originally aired on June 17, 2011. After the 2016 death of Forensic Files narrator Peter Thomas, the show's executive producer Paul Dowling ruled out the possibility of reviving the series, as he considered Thomas to be "irreplaceable". In October 2019, it was announced that the show would be revived with new episodes to air first-run on HLN in early 2020, with Bill Camp later announced as the new narrator.
Production
The revival was clarified as being the first season of a new show, rather than the 15th season of Forensic Files, explained by series producer Nancy Duffy as having been done to "differentiate the new episodes from those that came before". Duffy explained: "When we talked about bringing back Forensic Files, a lot of people thought we just meant that we were gonna be [airing] old shows that we didn't previously air on HLN and there seemed to be a confusion about that, so [we changed the title so] there could be no confusion." Series creator Paul Dowling confirmed on Twitter that Forensic Files II was a new, separate show from the original Forensic Files.
Event reenactments
Unlike in the original Forensic Files program, actors were not hired to participate in reenactments of the cases dramatized in Forensic Files II. Instead, various employees of CNN and HLN were utilized to portray victims, suspects, and other individuals for dramatic recreations of real life events. Series producer Nancy Duffy explained that the reenactments are filmed in a more "impressionistic" way than in the original series, so that the individuals used in the recreations "don't have to look identical" to the people they are portraying. As a result, faces are not shown in the recreations in the first season, only bodies from the neck down. The second season occasionally shows faces similar to the people involved in the depicted events with the camera out of focus. Duffy elaborated that employees would approach her and ask to participate in the reenactments, saying that many were "excited" at the prospect of portraying individuals involved in killing, hiding, kidnapping, or the use of physical restraint.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2020)
The series premiere began with two back-to-back new episodes on February 23, 2020 beginning at 10:00 p.m. Eastern tim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20TBD | TBD is an American digital multicast television network owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. Launched on February 13, 2017, and aimed at teenagers and young adults ages 16 to 34, the network focuses on internet-based series and other digital content (including showcases of user-generated music, animation and comedy videos, eSports, and compiled half-hour and hour-long episodes of short-form web series), along with some feature films. The following article is a list of current, upcoming and past programs aired by the network, organized in alphabetical order by title and including the dates of their syndication runs on TBD.
Current programming
Unscripted series
Because Science (February 13, 2017–present) – Nerdist Industries-produced series featuring explanations of the science and physics behind fandom and fantasy figures; hosted by Kyle Hill
Best of the Week (February 13, 2017–present) – a showcase of the week's best viral videos compiled from the Jukin Media sites FailArmy, Jukin' Video, The Pet Collective and People are Awesome
This Week in Fails (February 13, 2017 – November 7, 2018, first-run; November 10, 2018–present, reruns) – FailArmy's showcase of epic fails (e.g. stunt mishaps and general blunders) caught on videotape
TBD Fitness (February 13, 2017–present) – hour-long weekly program featuring health tips and exercise instruction compiled from various online fitness video channels
TBD Food (February 14, 2017–present) – hour-long weekly program featuring recipes and culinary-themed story segments compiled from various food-focused online video channels
While You Were... (February 14, 2017 – November 7, 2018, first-run; November 10, 2018–present, reruns) – recaps of the week's top online news stories and viral video compilations from Jukin' Video; hosted by Rick Carrera and Ashley Chavez (originally Ricardo Marquez and Ellyse O'Halloran)
10 Up (February 15, 2017–present) – series from ZoominGames featuring information and "top ten lists" covering online gaming and eSports; hosted alternatingly by either TamTu Bui, Callum Stamp or Denise Doornebosch
Big Red Lazor (February 15, 2017–present) – a hybrid talk show and video game competition produced by ZoominGames; hosted by TamTu Bui, Callum Stamp and Denise Doornebosch
Pranks Network After Dark (August 30, 2017–present) – half-hour program featuring compilations of practical jokes from various YouTube pranksters.
FBE: React (November 13, 2017–present) – half-hour compilation program of the Fine Brothers-produced video series featuring reacting to viral videos, trends, film trailers, or music videos.
FBE: React Gaming (November 17, 2017–present) – half-hour compilation program of the Fine Brothers-produced video series featuring reacting to videos game.
The Extreme World of Devin Super Tramp (November 27, 2017–present) – half-hour compilation program featuring adventure and extreme sport videos shot by videographer Devin Graham.
FBE: Try Again (November 29, 2017–present) – h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million%20Dollar%20Cold%20Case | Million Dollar Cold Case is an Australian true crime and documentary television show that first screened on the Seven Network on 15 March 2017. The series presents cold cases and appeals to viewers to help provide any leads or clues that could help solve a past crime, with a 1 million reward on offer. Details about the victim, the original investigation and interviews with witnesses and relatives of the victims are featured, as well as information about potential suspects.
The program was first announced at Seven's upfronts in 2016 and has cooperation with the Homicide Squad Cold Case Team.
Broadcast
The series debuted in Australia on the Seven Network on 15 March 2017.
Episodes
References
2017 Australian television series debuts
2017 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian crime television series
Australian non-fiction television series
Seven Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Zumbo | Bruno D. Zumbo is a Canadian mathematical scientist trained in the tradition of research that combines pure and applied mathematics with statistical and algorithmic techniques to develop theory and solve problems arising in measurement, testing, and surveys in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. He is currently Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, the Canada Research Chair in Psychometrics and Measurement (Tier 1), and the Paragon UBC Professor of Psychometrics & Measurement at University of British Columbia.
His research in the mathematical sciences reflects a wide range of research in mathematics and statistics aimed at developing and exploring the properties and applications of mathematical structures of measurement, survey design, testing, and assessment.
Education
He completed his B.Sc. at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) and his MA and Ph.D. from Carleton University (Ottawa, ON). His doctoral dissertation titled "Statistical Methods to Overcome Nonindependence of Coupled Data in Significance Testing" was under the direction of Donald W. Zimmerman (Carleton University, Ottawa).
Career
Zumbo teaches in the graduate Measurement, Evaluation, & Research Methodology Program with an additional appointment in the Institute of Applied Mathematics, and earlier also in the Department of Statistics, at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Prior to arriving at UBC in 2000, he held professorships in the Departments of Psychology and of Mathematics at the University of Northern British Columbia (1994-2000), and earlier in the Faculty of Education with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Ottawa (1990-1994).
His research interests have been focused on the mathematical sciences of measurement and scientific methodology with a blend of mathematics, social sciences like psychology, philosophy of science and measurement in science.
He is known for his contributions in the fields of statistics, psychometrics, validity theory, and studies of the mathematical basis of classical test theory, item response theory, and measurement error models. His program of research is actively engaged in psychometrics for language testing, quality of life and wellbeing, and health and human development.
Awards and recognition
Distinguished University Scholar, 2017
Pioneer in the Psychometrics of Quality of Life, 2018 by the International Society for Quality of Life Studies
Centenary Medal of Distinction, awarded in 2019 by the UBC School of Nursing
Paragon UBC Professorship in Psychometrics and Measurement
Tier 1 - Canada Research Chair in Psychometrics and Measurement, held at the University of British Columbia, awarded in 2020
References
External links
List of publications
1966 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Canadian mathematicians
Carleton University alumni
University of Alberta alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip%20ni%20Kris | Trip ni Kris (lit. Kris' Trip) was a travel-themed, lifestyle television special in the Philippines produced by APT Entertainment and broadcast by GMA Network. It is hosted by the "Queen of All Media" Kris Aquino.
The show marks Kris' first TV comeback after almost a year of hiatus upon leaving ABS-CBN.
Host
Kris Aquino
See also
List of GMA Network specials aired
References
GMA Network television specials
2017 television specials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg%20Gutsol | Oleg Gutsol (born February 3, 1982) is a Ukrainian-Canadian Internet entrepreneur, co-founder and former CEO of the photography social network and photo distribution platform 500px.
Education
Gutsol was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and moved to Canada as a teenager. He studied Applied Computer Science at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 2002 to 2005, and dropped out from his senior year to run the company he started, GSM Toronto, full-time.
Career
Gutsol started learning to write software at the age of 9, after receiving a ZX Spectrum computer as a birthday gift.
In 2000, he became interested in website design and development. In 2003 he launched GSM Toronto, a company specializing in distributing, modifying and unlocking GSM phones and development of mobile games for Nokia Series 40, Series 60 and Symbian platforms.
In late 2007 he joined Evgeny Tchebotarev to create 500px out of a LiveJournal community that Evgeny was curating at that time.
While working on 500px, Gutsol also took a software development contract with Filemobile, SaaS video platform.
500px went live on Halloween 2009, launched from Gutsol's apartment in downtown Toronto.
The company saw exponential growth for the inception and raised a seed round from ffVC and other early stage NYC venture funds in May 2011.
The company raised additional $8.8M in August 2013 in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz,
and $13M Series B in July 2015, led by Visual China Group. Beta Kit reported that currently, 500px is used by over 4 million photographers and has over 50 million images on its site.
In September 2014 Gutsol was ousted from 500px, following a disagreement within the leadership team about the direction 500px should take.
In May 2015, together with his wife, he launched Pickapaw, a global community for responsible animal breeders.
In addition to building software companies, Gutsol works with early stage companies through their partnership, O2 Ventures.
In December 2016, following his passion for machine learning and artificial intelligence, Gutsol started working on the collective governance algorithm company, Consensus. In 2019, Consensus launched a blockchain-based feedback tool for the government of South Burlington, Vermont.
Awards
Under Gutsol's leadership, 500px won a PwC Up-and-Coming Technology Company award in November 2012.
Personal life
Gutsol is an amateur Ironman triathlete, having competed in 2014 Ironman North American Championship, 2015 Ironman Muskoka and a number of other races. Additionally, his personal interest is in yoga and meditation.
Appearances
Gutsol was a guest speaker at the EBE conference in Seville, Spain, 2012
Grow Conference in Vancouver in 2013
The Next Web conference in Amsterdam, 2015
iForum Conference in Kyiv, 2015
Gutsol also appeared on the episode of the Chase Jarvis LIVE in 2012 with Lawrence Lessig and Richard Kelly, discussing the future of photo sharing.
References
External links
Official website
Living |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christel%20Hamann | Christel Bernhard Julius Hamann (born February 27, 1847, in Hammelwarden, Oldenburg – died June 9, 1948, in Berlin, Germany) was a German-born inventor of Computing Machines.
Early life and education
Hamann's father was an Oldenburg border guard and ambassador in Ellwitz. Hamann completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic at the Nautical Institute in Bremerhaven and visited the pilot school there. Afterwards he attended the mathematical-mechanical institute of A. Ott in Kempten (Allgäu) in the workshops of Carl Zeiss in Jena and in the workshop of Carl Bamberg in Berlin.
Career
In 1896 he founded the Mathematical-Mechanical Institute in Berlin-Friedenau, where he developed and built mathematical instruments and surveying instruments. In 1900, he received the gold medal for his instruments at the World Exposition in Paris. Around 1889 he developed the calculation machines Gauss and Berolina inspired in part by the Gauss computing machine of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the stepped reckoner drum.
In 1907, his institute was taken over by Mercedes Büromaschinen in Berlin. There, he designed the Mercedes Euklid computing machine with the Proportional Lever principle developed by Hamann. He also improved machines for accounting.
In 1909 he built a difference engine.
From 1922 he worked for Deutsche Telephonwerke und Kabelindustrie in Berlin (DeTeWe). From 1925 onwards, he developed the shifting system as a propulsion system for computing machines. As chief designer, Christel Hamann and his colleague Heinrich Wilhelm created the essential foundations for the DeTeWe computing machines built as far back as the 1960s, Before the electronics displaced the electromechanics.
In 1933 he became an honorary doctor at the TH Berlin.
He was married to Hedwig Schindler (1872–1949) but had no children.
References
Rolf Stümpel (Editor): Büromaschinen from Berlin, Museum of Transport and Technology, Berlin 1988
Hartmut Petzold, Modern composer. The Industrialization of Computing Technology in Germany, CH Beck 1992
Petzold Computing Machine, VDI Verlag 1985
Ulf Hashagen, The computing machine Gauss – a failed innovation? , In U. Hashagen, O. Blumritt, H. Trischler (Editor) Circa 1903: Scientific and technical artefacts in the founding period of the German Museum, Munich, 2003, pp. 371–98
Werner Lange, The work of Christel Hamann, The Büromaschinen-Mechaniker, Issue 11, May 18, 1960, pp. 83–85
Werner Lange, A brief look into the Hamann calculation machines, the office machine mechanic, issue 19, 1960, p. 245–46, issue 23, 1961, p. 65–66, issue 27, 1961, p. 168–69, issue 68, 1964, p. 186–88
Werner Lange An interesting outsider: Hamann computing machines, the office machine mechanic, issue 127, 1969, p. 66 – 67
Heinz Nix's profile: Hamann, Christel Bernhard Julius.In: New German Biography (NDB). Vol. 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, , p. 573 (digitalisat).
Reese, Martin: Personal: The Unknown Chr. Hamann. In: Historische WBürowelt, No. 97 (Sept. 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datang%20Telecom%20Technology | Datang Telecom Technology Co., Ltd., known as Datang Telecom or DTT, is a Chinese listed company based in Beijing, China. It is a subsidiary of state-owned "China Academy of Telecommunications Technology" (CATT), which had a trading name Datang Telecom Group.
History
In 1998 "China Academy of Telecommunications Technology" had transformed from a research institute to both research institute and holding company, by incorporating a subsidiary Datang Telecom Technology (DTT) on 21 September 1998 under the Companies Law of China. On 21 October 1998 DTT became a public company in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The research institute also had a new trading name Datang Telecom Group.
In 2012 Datang Telecom Technology acquired 75.88% stake of Leadcore Technology from the parent entity.
In 2017, Leadcore formed a Sino-foreign joint venture with Qualcomm and other investors. It was approved by the Chinese regulator in 2018.
In May 2018, due to heavy net loss in 2017 financial year, the company was marked as *ST (* special treatment) by the Shanghai Stock Exchange. It was reported that the company facing delist from the exchange.
References
External links
Companies based in Beijing
Chinese companies established in 1998
Telecommunication equipment companies of China
Government-owned companies of China
Chinese brands
Companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banque%20Nagelmackers | Nagelmackers is a private bank in Belgium, the oldest in the country and the 14th oldest bank in the world. It focuses on individuals and provides a wide network of independent and integrated offices in Belgium.
History
Nagelmackers is the oldest Belgian bank, founded in Liège by Pierre Nagelmackers in 1747. During 18th and 19th centuries it was successful as a bank of the Liège industry. In the early 20th century, the first office in Brussels opened.
BNP
In 1990, after 243 years as an independent bank, Nagelmackers Bank became part of the Banque Nationale de Paris group.
Delta Lloyd
The name Nagelmackers disappeared from the Belgian streets after a takeover by Delta Lloyd Bank in 2005.
Anbang
In October 2015 the name was changed back to Bank Nagelmackers after the bank was taken over by Anbang.
Offices
As of March 2017, Nagelmackers had over 3,800 employees working in 115 branches.
References
Article contains translated text from Bank Nagelmackers on the Dutch Wikipedia retrieved on 7 March 2017.
External links
Homepage
Banks of Belgium
Companies based in Brussels
Companies established in the 18th century
Establishments in the Austrian Netherlands
Banks established in 1744
1744 establishments in the Habsburg monarchy
1744 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Bertolucci | Sergio Bertolucci (born 1 January 1950) is an Italian particle physicist, and a former Director of Research and Scientific Computing at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire).
Early life
He was born in La Spezia. He studied Particle Physics at the University of Pisa. He did further research at DESY in Germany.
Career
LNF
From 2002-04 he worked at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF), where he was Director.
INFN
From 2005-08 he worked at Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Italy.
CERN
He served as CERN Director of Research from 2009 to 2015.
References
External links
CERN
1950 births
20th-century Italian physicists
People associated with CERN
People from La Spezia
University of Pisa alumni
Living people
21st-century Italian physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddbods | Oddbods (also known as The Oddbods Show) is a Singaporean computer-animated comedy television series produced by One Animation, a subsidiary of Candle Media company Moonbug Entertainment since 2022. The series centers on seven bean-shaped creatures—Bubbles, Pogo, Newt, Jeff, Slick, Fuse and Zee—wearing furry suits of different colors. The characters make sounds but there is no dialogue, making the series easily translatable and international.
The series debuted in 2013, and the first season ended in 2015. Each season has 60 episodes. Season two followed in 2016. Season three released in April 4, 2022 on Netflix. Each episode is relatively short, and various formats have been broadcast, including one-, five-, and seven-minute episodes.
The series has won several awards since its debut, including the Asian Television Awards, Apollo Awards, Gold Panda Awards, and Web TV Asia Awards. In 2017, it was nominated for an international Kids Emmy Award.
Plot
The series focuses on seven human-like creatures in colorful furry suits called the Oddbods: Fuse, Pogo, Newt, Slick, Bubbles, Jeff and Zee.
The storyline of each episode depicts how these characters "survive the perils of everyday life, unintentionally turning ordinary situations into unexpected, extraordinary and always humorous events." Episodes typically employ physical comedy and pranks played out between the characters, and the events that follow.
The series was conceived as a non-dialogue comedy, which the series' creators and writers say, "captures the madcap yet charming antics of the Oddbods, who celebrate success where they find it and take failure in their stride. To turn 'different' into a positive; celebrating individuality in a humorous, warm and unexpected way."
The series' strapline is "Embrace Your Inner Odd, There's a Little Odd in Everyone!"
Characters
Main
Fuse (Red; voiced by Marlon Dance-Hooi): He's the hot-headed Oddbod. He can instantly change from serene to enraged, which makes his friends avoid him whenever he is in a bad mood, but admire his 'heart of gold'. He is always willing to play sports, but only if he wins.
Slick (Orange; voiced by Chio Su Ping): He believes in YOLO. But suffers from FOMO. He likes to dance, and tries to act as the cool person in the group.
Bubbles (Yellow; voiced by Chio Su Ping): She energetically performs experiments with an obsession of discovering interesting objects, such as insects to UFOs. Her friends like her for her personality, although they do not like being excluded from her personal experiments.
Zee (Green; voiced by Jeremy Linn): He always takes naps, even while eating. His laid-back attitude serves as both strength and weaknesses when it comes to his friendships with the others.
Pogo (Blue; voiced by Marlon Dance-Hooi): He does not follow common etiquette as he is dubbed the 'ultimate prankster'. His friends like his practical jokes if they are not aimed at them.
Jeff (Purple; voiced by Jeremy Linn): He is finicky in tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHI%20International%20Corp | SHI International Corp. (commonly referred to as SHI), headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, is a privately owned provider of IT infrastructure, end-user computing, cybersecurity, and IT optimization products and services. SHI has customers in the non-profit, private, and public sectors. It has 6,000 employees across more than 35 offices in the United States, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. SHI has amassed 17,000 customers, including companies such as Boeing, Johnson & Johnson and AT&T.
SHI operates two integration centers in Piscataway, New Jersey (Knox – 305,000-sq. ft. and Ridge – 400,000-sq. ft.), along with three international integration centers (Nexus in the U.K., Tiel in the Netherlands, and Tampines in Singapore).
History
SHI was founded on November 1989 by Thai Lee and Leo KoGuan (co-founder and chairman of the board).
In 2016, SHI acquired Eastridge, a Microsoft services provider.
In Q1 of 2017, SHI launched AWS Support Services for public cloud and forecasts, managing over $1 billion in customers' Microsoft Cloud assets in 2017.
In 2017, SHI acquired Solutions, Inc. (ESI), the maker of the cloud-based Technology Asset Management (TAM) platform.
In 2018, Sonde Health Inc., an affiliate of PureTech Health appointed SHI's president and CEO, Thai Lee, to its board of directors.
In 2019, SHI signed a seven-year naming rights partnership with Rutgers University's football stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey (now known as SHI Stadium).
In 2020, SHI's Austin, Texas, office moved into Garza Ranch to keep pace with the company's growth.
In 2020, SHI launched Stratascale, a new subsidiary focused on delivering digital agility and technology consulting.
In July 2022, SHI was shut down for a week due to a cyber attack.
In 2022, SHI Healthcare launched.
In 2022, SHI became an official technology partner of the LPGA Tour.
In 2023, LPGA Tour golfers Allisen Corpuz and Annie Park became official SHI brand ambassadors.
Operations
Recent public contracts
2022
In July 2022, SHI signed a multi-year NASPO ValuePoint Software Value-Added Reseller (SVAR) contract enabling states, cities, counties, municipalities, special districts, K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and quasi-government and nonprofit organizations full access and ability to procure SHI software and a range of supporting services.
2021
In October 2021, SHI signed a four-year contract with the Indiana Department of Administration to provide desktops, laptops, tablets, monitors, printers, peripherals, and lifecycle management services to the state's government agencies and educational institutions.
2020
In August 2020, SHI was awarded a prime contract for Army ITES-SW2, which allows the Army to procure software and related services.
In May 2020, SHI was awarded a prime contract for NASA SEWP V Category A&D, which allows all federal agencies to procure IT services, hardware, software, and a variety of speciality IT offerings.
In Marc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InteGraphics%20Systems | InteGraphic Systems is a former computer graphics chip company, created in 1993 in Santa Clara, California. The name was changed to IGS Technologies in 1997. In 2000, the name was changed again to TVIA after the company changed directions and went into making display processors and converters for TVs and other devices.
Products
IGA 1680
IGA 1682 with software MPEG playback
IGA 1683
CyberPro 2000
CyberPro 2000A
CyberPro 2010 (also sold with the Tvia logo)
Video ExcelPro 2000
CyberPro 3000 - PixelSquirt engine
CyberPro 5000
External links
TVIA website
Overview of the CyberPro 3000 chipset
References
Computer hardware companies
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
American companies established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaxis | Plaxis (sometimes stylised PLAXIS, Plane strain and axial symmetry, indicating the geometric types handled in the original code) is a computer program that performs finite element analyses (FEA) within the realm of geotechnical engineering, including deformation, stability and water flow. The input procedures enable the enhanced output facilities provide a detailed presentation of computational results. PLAXIS enables new users to work with the package after only a few hours of training.
Plaxis BV was acquired by the American Bentley Systems, Inc. in 2018.
References
Further reading
External links
Computer-aided design software for Windows
1982 software
Finite element software
Geotechnical engineering software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit%20%28app%29 | Transit is a mobile app providing real-time public transit data. The app functions in over 175 metropolitan areas around the world. Transit was designed for aggregating and mapping real-time public transit data, crowdsourcing user data to determine the true location of buses and trains. Transit was first released in 2012 for iPhone and soon after launched the Android-compatible version. It offers users schedules and alerts for multiple modes of transportation where available, including bus and rail. Transit was developed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by Sam Vermette and Guillaume Campagna with the goal of minimizing the need for individuals to own vehicles in cities. Transit is in direct competition with other transit mapping services such as Moovit and Citymapper, as well as general mapping services that also provide transit data such as Google Maps, Bing Maps, and Apple Maps.
Current Transit app executives are Chief Executive Officer Sam Vermette and Chief Business Officer David Block-Schachter.
Features
Transit is compatible with car-sharing and ride-hailing apps such as Uber, Lyft, Via, and Ola, along with multiple bike-share systems. In April 2018, the app expanded to include scooter-sharing systems in four American cities. The app provides users with a color-coded system that matches colors with modes of transportation in order for users to quickly associate a color with the mode of transportation they are monitoring.
In February 2019, the Transit app released an update that allows users to look up bus and train schedules for their whole city even without a data connection, or determine if a bike-sharing station has bikes available. Even when users are offline, they are able to find the nearest public transport stops and map their journey.
Supported regions
Transit is supported in 16 countries across the globe including Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Within the United States, Transit can be used in 270 regions.
Partners
Transit supports multiple mobile ticketing platforms including Token Transit and Masabi. Users are only required to input their payment information into the app one time, and then able to purchase ride and bike-share passes within the app's interface.
Endorsers
Transit has partnered with public agencies around the world to become their official or endorsed multimodal app. Agencies that have endorsed the app include:
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
BC Transit
Central Ohio Transit Authority
Capital Area Transportation Authority
Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation
Société de transport de l'Outaouais
OC Transpo
Halifax Transit
Los Angeles Metro (Metro)
Maryland Transit Administration
Société de transport de Montréal
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority
Pittsburgh Regional Transit
TransLink
Utah Transit Authority
Calgary Transit
Invest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20Jetson | Nvidia Jetson is a series of embedded computing boards from Nvidia. The Jetson TK1, TX1 and TX2 models all carry a Tegra processor (or SoC) from Nvidia that integrates an ARM architecture central processing unit (CPU). Jetson is a low-power system and is designed for accelerating machine learning applications.
Hardware
The Jetson family includes the following boards:
In late April 2014, Nvidia shipped the Nvidia Jetson TK1 development board containing a Tegra K1 SoC in the T124 variant and running Ubuntu Linux.
The Nvidia Jetson TX1 development board bears a Tegra X1 of model T210.
The Nvidia Jetson TX2 board bears a Tegra X2 of microarchitecture GP10B (SoC type T186 or very similar). This board and the associated development platform was announced in March 2017 as a compact card design for low power scenarios, e.g. for the use in smaller camera drones. A matrix describing a set of performance modes was provided by the media along with that. Further a TX2i variant, said to be rugged and suitable for industrial use cases, is mentioned.
The Nvidia Jetson Xavier was announced as a development kit in end of August 2018. Indications were given that a 20x acceleration for certain application cases compared to predecessor devices should be expected, and that the application power efficiency is 10x improved. Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX has a 6-core Nvidia Carmel ARMv8.2.
The Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier is the 8-core version on the same core architecture (Carmel Armv8.2).
The Nvidia Jetson Nano was announced as a development system in mid-March 2019 The intended market is for hobbyist robotics due to the low price point. The final specs expose the board being sort of a power-optimized, stripped-down version of what a full Tegra X1 system would mean. Only half of the CPU (only 4x A57 @ 1.43 GHz) and GPU (128 cores of Maxwell generation @ 921 MHz) cores are present and only half of the maximum possible RAM is attached (4 GB LPDDR4 @ 64 bit + 1.6 GHz = 25.6 GB/s) whilst the available or usable interfacing is determined by the baseboard design and is further subject of implementation decisions and specifics in an end user specific design for an application case.
The Nvidia Jetson Nano Developer Kit is an AI computer for makers, learners, and developers that brings the power of modern artificial intelligence to a low-power, easy-to-use platform, to start quickly with out-of-the-box support for many popular peripherals, add-ons, and ready-to-use projects.
In September 2022 Nvidia announced the Jetson Orin Nano. The modules have the same 260-pin SO-DIMM connector and 69.6 mm x 45 mm dimensions, and come in two variants. The 4 GB variant provides 20 Sparse or 10 Dense TOPs, using a 512-core Ampere GPU with 16 Tensor cores, while the 8 GB variant doubles those numbers to 40/20 TOPs, a 1024-core GPU and 16 Tensor cores. Both have 6 Arm Cortex-A78AE cores. The 4 GB module starts at $199 and the 8 GB variant for $299, when purchasing 1000 units.
Performance
The pu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXKD | DXKD (1053 AM) Radyo Ronda is a radio station owned and operated by Radio Philippines Network. The station studios are located at the 2nd floor of Sagario Building, National Highway, Turno, Dipolog. It is the pioneer AM radio station in the province. The station also airs a handful of programs from DWIZ 882 Manila. It operates daily from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM.
Incidents and controversies
In 2012, DXKD station manager and news anchor Leo Cimafranca was reprimanded by the Dipolog City Council for accusing then-Mayor Evelyn Uy and her allies of terrorism in relation to the upcoming 2013 local elections.
References
Radio Philippines Network
RPN News and Public Affairs
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1968
Radio stations in Zamboanga del Norte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartet%20%28Japanese%20TV%20series%29 | is a Japanese television drama, broadcast from January 2017 to March 2017 on the TBS television network. It stars Takako Matsu, Hikari Mitsushima, Issei Takahashi, and Ryuhei Matsuda.
Synopsis
Four musicians meet at a karaoke bar in Tokyo and decide to form a quartet. They move into a house in Karuizawa to rehearse and perform at a local restaurant and music hall.
Cast
Takako Matsu as Maki Maki, first violin, whose husband disappeared a year earlier
Hikari Mitsushima as Suzume Sebuki, cellist, with mysterious past
Issey Takahashi as Yutaka Iemori, violist
Ryuhei Matsuda as Tsukasa Beppu, second violin, whose grandfather owns the house they are living in.
Riho Yoshioka as Alice Kisugi, a waitress at Nocturne Restaurant and Music Hall
Takeshi Tomizawa as Daijiro Tanimura, chef at Nocturne restaurant and music hall
Akiko Yagi as Takami Tanimura, manager of Nocturne Restaurant & Music Hall
Mummy-D as Atsushi Handa
Masako Motai as Kyoko Maki, Maki Maki's mother-in-law who thinks Maki killed her son and hires Suzume to spy on her
Awards
References
External links
Japanese romance television series
Thriller television series
2017 Japanese television series debuts
2017 Japanese television series endings
Works about music and musicians
Television shows written by Yûji Sakamoto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifakis | Sifakis () is a Greek surname that may refer to
George Sifakis, American government official
Joseph Sifakis (born 1946), Greek-French computer scientist
Myron Sifakis (born 1960), Greek football goalkeeper
Michalis Sifakis (born 1984), Greek football goalkeeper
Greek-language surnames
Surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20Night%20%28Philippine%20TV%20program%29 | CNN Philippines News Night (alternately titled as News Night kasama si Pia Hontiveros or simply News Night) is the flagship national network news program of CNN Philippines, anchored by its Chief Correspondent Pia Hontiveros. The hour-long newscast, which broadcasts in the Tagalog vernacular, airs at 6:00 PM on weekdays.
The show is streaming online on Facebook and is also simulcast on RPN Radyo Ronda stations. Previously, it was simulcast on ALLTV (which serves as the pre-program of flagship program Wowowin), until April 5, 2023.
History and development
News Night was first unveiled at an intimate network meeting on March 7, 2017, as a replacement for CNN Philippines Network News and as a part of CNN PH President Armie Jarin-Bennett's continuing program restructuring. Prior to the reformat, Network News had been the sole holdover from its premiere under Solar News but had been embattled by mounting viewer criticism over retaining the name despite the network-affiliation rebranding thrice during its near 5-year run.
Network promotional material tagged News Night as a newscast that goes "above and beyond the headlines".
News Night premiered on March 27, 2017, replacing Network News at its prime 6:00 pm slot. The newscast name and format were derived from the defunct CNN news program of the same name anchored by Aaron Brown from 2001 to 2005.
by February 2019, Tuesday and Thursday 7 pm editions give way for the channel's weekly current affairs programs Politics as Usual (which airs on Tuesdays) and On The Record (which airs Thursdays). On May 18, 2020, the 7 pm edition was finally ended to give way for the return of News.PH Kasama si Pia Hontiveros as the first Filipino-language primetime newscast.
On September 2, 2022, the network announced the return of News Night in 1-hour format (6 pm to 7 pm) and will be broadcast in the Filipino language which was aired on September 5, competing with other Filipino-language newscasts such as A2Z/ANC/Kapamilya Channel/TeleRadyo Serbisyo's TV Patrol, PTV's Ulat Bayan, CLTV36's Balen at Balita, TV5/One PH's Frontline Pilipinas, IBC's Tutok 13, UNTV's Ito Ang Balita, Net 25's Mata ng Agila, SMNI's Newsblast and GMA Network/GTV's 24 Oras.
On September 6, CNN Philippines partnered with Advanced Media Broadcasting System to broadcast News Night on its flagship television station ALLTV, which debuted from September 13, 2022 until April 5, 2023.
Inaugural broadcast
Its first guest on its inaugural broadcast is PNP Chief Ronald dela Rosa. Dela Rosa talked to Hontiveros about the government's second attempt at its war on drugs.
Special editions
During news of urgent nature such as scheduled events, severe weather and breaking news, News Night runs two hours. However, when the direst situations warrant, News Night will serve as a lead-in to uninterrupted coverage at 8:00 pm. This was notably applied during the Battle of Marawi. Hontiveros anchored for a cumulative of four hours monitoring the unfolding situation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalyr | Dataset Inc, formerly known as Scalyr, Inc. is a server log monitoring tools provider based in San Mateo, California. It was incorporated in 2011 and was founded by Steve Newman, the former chief engineer and founder of Writely, whose technology was acquired and became Google Docs. Led by CEO Christine Heckart, the company offers an integrated suite of server monitoring, log management, visualization and analysis tools that aggregates all the metrics into a centralized system in real time, which can be integrated with cloud services.
History
Founder Steve Newman had the idea for Scalyr while working at Google, drawing on his experience with performance-tracking and server diagnostic tools. He also founded Writely in 2005, which went on to become Google Docs.
After its start in 2011, Scalyr has resorted to venture capital to expand its operations. In 2015, the company raised a $2.1 million seed round led by Susa Ventures. The other investors in the round were Bloomberg Beta, Google Ventures, Sherpalo Ventures and Othman Laraki.
Acquisition by SentinelOne
In February 2021, SentinelOne announced the acquisition of Scalyr for $155 million in cash and equity.
References
Companies based in San Mateo, California
Software companies established in 2011
American companies established in 2011
2011 establishments in California
Defunct software companies of the United States
System administration
Web log analysis software
2022 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20dispersion | In computational mathematics, numerical dispersion is a difficulty with computer simulations of continua (such as fluids) wherein the simulated medium exhibits a higher dispersivity than the true medium. This phenomenon can be particularly egregious when the system should not be dispersive at all, for example a fluid acquiring some spurious dispersion in a numerical model.
It occurs whenever the dispersion relation for the finite difference approximation is nonlinear. For these reasons, it is often seen as a numerical error.
Numerical dispersion is often identified, linked and compared with numerical diffusion, another artifact of similar origin.
Explanation
In simulations, time and space are divided into discrete grids and the continuous differential equations of motion (such as the Navier–Stokes equation) are discretized into finite-difference equations; these discrete equations are in general unidentical to the original differential equations, so the simulated system behaves differently than the intended physical system. The amount and character of the difference depends on the system being simulated and the type of discretization that is used.
See also
Numerical diffusion
Von Neumann stability analysis
References
dispersion
Numerical differential equations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%20Unlimited%20Media | Wow Unlimited Media (stylized as WOW! Unlimited Media) is a Canadian animation and media holding company. It was formed as a result of a merger between Rainmaker Entertainment, Frederator Networks and Ezrin Hirsh Entertainment (EHE). The company is currently a subsidiary of US-based Kartoon Studios.
History
On October 26, 2016, a three-way merger was announced between Rainmaker and Frederator, with the addition of EHE. On December 16 of that year, the merger was completed.
On June 7, 2017, the company announced its intent to acquire an unspecified category B specialty television service from Bell Media, later revealed by company president Randy Lennox to be Comedy Gold, to form a television channel that will carry programs targeting children and young adults. The company also entered into agreements to provide content for Bell Media's over-the-top content services (including CraveTV). In exchange for the channel, Bell Canada will acquire 3.4 million common voting shares in the company. Bell confirmed the deal in September 2017, further stating that it had agreed to provide operational services for the channel, and co-develop content.
The sale of Comedy Gold to Wow Unlimited Media was approved on July 9, 2018, and CraveTV launched "Wow! Preschool Playdate" and "Wow! World Kids" collections in September. However, on March 12, 2019, Wow issued a press release announcing an extension to the transfer of the channel's license "to pursue sponsorships and partnerships".
On July 24, 2019, a representative of Bell Support revealed that Comedy Gold would be shutting down anywhere between August 30 and September 1; Comedy Gold was ultimately shuttered on September 1, 2019. Wow would reveal in their Q2 financial report that they would have completed their acquisition of Comedy Gold's broadcast license on August 30, 2019. However, the license was revoked on February 5, 2021 before it could ever be launched.
On October 27, 2021, Genius Brands (now Kartoon Studios) announced that it had agreed to acquire Wow Unlimited Media for C$66 million (US$53 million), with the transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022. The acquisition was completed on April 7, 2022.
Assets
Mainframe Studios
Frederator Networks, Inc.
Frederator Studios
Frederator Films
Channel Frederator Network
StashRiot
Cartoon Hangover
Frederator Flux
The Leaderboard Network
Cinematica
MicDrop
Átomo Network (Spanish-language YouTube channel joint venture with Ánima Estudios)
Frederator Books
Thirty Labs
Ezrin Hirsh Entertainment (EHE)
References
External links
Official website
2016 establishments in Ontario
2022 mergers and acquisitions
Canadian animation studios
Companies based in Toronto
Companies formerly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Canadian companies established in 2016
Mass media companies established in 2016
Canadian subsidiaries of foreign companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Spirakis | Paul Spirakis is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool, specialising in Algorithms, Complexity and Algorithmic Game Theory. He has been a professor at the University of Liverpool since 2013 and, he also is a professor at Patras University. He leads the Algorithms Research section in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. He is a Fellow of EATCS and a Member of Academia Europaea.
He is the Editor in Chief (Track A) of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.
He completed his S.M in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) at Harvard University in 1979 followed by a PhD in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) also at Harvard University in 1982 (supervised by John Reif).
References
Greek computer scientists
English computer scientists
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
National Technical University of Athens alumni
Academics of the University of Liverpool |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20regression | Functional regression is a version of regression analysis when responses or covariates include functional data. Functional regression models can be classified into four types depending on whether the responses or covariates are functional or scalar: (i) scalar responses with functional covariates, (ii) functional responses with scalar covariates, (iii) functional responses with functional covariates, and (iv) scalar or functional responses with functional and scalar covariates. In addition, functional regression models can be linear, partially linear, or nonlinear. In particular, functional polynomial models, functional single and multiple index models and functional additive models are three special cases of functional nonlinear models.
Functional linear models (FLMs)
Functional linear models (FLMs) are an extension of linear models (LMs). A linear model with scalar response and scalar covariates can be written as
where denotes the inner product in Euclidean space, and denote the regression coefficients, and is a random error with mean zero and finite variance. FLMs can be divided into two types based on the responses.
Functional linear models with scalar responses
Functional linear models with scalar responses can be obtained by replacing the scalar covariates and the coefficient vector in model () by a centered functional covariate and a coefficient function with domain , respectively, and replacing the inner product in Euclidean space by that in Hilbert space ,
where here denotes the inner product in . One approach to estimating and is to expand the centered covariate and the coefficient function in the same functional basis, for example, B-spline basis or the eigenbasis used in the Karhunen–Loève expansion. Suppose is an orthonormal basis of . Expanding and in this basis, , , model () becomes
For implementation, regularization is needed and can be done through truncation, penalization or penalization. In addition, a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) approach can also be used to estimate and in model ()
Adding multiple functional and scalar covariates, model () can be extended to
where are scalar covariates with , are regression coefficients for , respectively, is a centered functional covariate given by , is regression coefficient function for , and is the domain of and , for . However, due to the parametric component , the estimation methods for model () cannot be used in this case and alternative estimation methods for model () are available.
Functional linear models with functional responses
For a functional response with domain and a functional covariate with domain , two FLMs regressing on have been considered. One of these two models is of the form
where is still the centered functional covariate, and are coefficient functions, and is usually assumed to be a random process with mean zero and finite variance. In this case, at any given time , the value of , i.e., , depends on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20Tinker%20Board | The ASUS Tinker Board is a single-board computer launched by ASUS in early 2017. Its physical size and GPIO pinout are designed to be compatible with the second and third-generation Raspberry Pi models. The first released board features 4K video, 2GB of onboard RAM, gigabit Ethernet and a Rockchip RK3288 processor running at 1.8 GHz.
Specifications
History
ASUS's intent to release a single-board computer was leaked shortly after CES 2017 on SlideShare. ASUS originally planned for a late February 2017 release, but a UK vendor broke the embargo and began advertising and selling boards starting on 13 February 2017, before ASUS's marketing department was ready. ASUS subsequently pulled the release; the Amazon sales page was changed to show a 13 March 2017 release date, but was later removed entirely. However, , the Tinker Board again became available on Amazon. ASUS assured reviewer websites that the board is now in full production.
Benchmarks
In January 2017 tests showed the Tinker Board has roughly twice the processing power of the Raspberry Pi Model 3 when the Pi 3 runs in 32-bit mode. Because the Pi 3 has not released a 64-bit operating system yet, no comparisons are available against a Pi 3 running in 64-bit mode.
In March 2017 benchmark testing found that while the WLAN performance is only around 30Mbit/s, the Gigabit Gthernet delivers a full 950Mbit/s throughput. RAM access tested using the mbw benchmark is 25% faster than the Pi 3. SD card (microSD) access is about twice as fast at 37MiB/s for buffered reads (compared to typically around 18MiB/s for the Pi 3) due to the Tinker Board's SDIO 3.0 interface, while cached reads can reach speeds up to 770MiB/s.
References
External links
ASUS Tinker board product page
Official support page for kernel and OS distribution download
ASUS Tinker Board site
Asus products
Single-board computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenonina | Zenonina is a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae. It was first described in 1898 by Simon. , it contains 6 species.
Species
Zenonina comprises the following species:
Zenonina albocaudata Lawrence, 1952
Zenonina fusca Caporiacco, 1941
Zenonina mystacina Simon, 1898
Zenonina rehfousi Lessert, 1933
Zenonina squamulata Strand, 1908
Zenonina vestita Simon, 1898
References
Lycosidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIRPASS | AIRPASS was a British airborne interception radar and fire-control radar system developed by Ferranti. It was the world's first airborne monopulse radar system and fed data to the world's first head-up display. The name is an acronym for "Airborne Interception Radar and Pilot's Attack Sight System". In the Royal Air Force (RAF) it was given the official name Radar, Airborne Interception, Mark 23, normally shortened to AI.23. AIRPASS was used on the English Electric Lightning throughout its lifetime.
The basic AIRPASS electronics system was later adapted as the basis for a terrain following radar for navigation and targeting for air-to-ground attacks. This AIRPASS II was originally intended for the BAC TSR.2, but when that aircraft was cancelled in 1965, it was subsequently used in the Blackburn Buccaneer. Elements of the AIRPASS design were used on many subsequent radars from Ferranti, while its head-up display was licensed for use in the United States where it was quickly adopted for many aircraft.
History
Development of the monopulse radar underlying AIRPASS began in 1951. The AIRPASS system was announced to the public in late June 1958. It was initially tested on Douglas DC-3 TS423 (later civilian registered as G-DAKS) and later on an English Electric Canberra WJ643 for higher speed trials, replacing the nose sections of these aircraft. After testing use, WJ643 was renamed T.Mk 11 and used as a trainer aircraft for the radar operators of the Gloster Javelin. Several further T.Mk 11 were produced, but these mounted the AI.17 from the Javelin. The first flight on the English Electric Lightning took place on airframe XG312 on 29 December 1958.
It entered service on interceptor aircraft from the early 1960s. It was initially linked to the de Havilland Firestreak air-to-air missile. AIRPASS was developed by Ferranti Ltd on Ferry Road in Edinburgh. It introduced the HOTAS (Hands On Throttle-And-Stick) system whereby the radar and gun sight controls were situated on the control column and throttle lever instead of elsewhere in the cockpit, eliminating the need for the pilot to take his hands off the controls while making an interception.
The radar entered service with the RAF in 1960 in the English Electric Lightning interceptor. The next version of the system was called AIRPASS II, or "Blue Parrot", and was a system optimised for use at low-level and originally developed for the cancelled BAC TSR.2 and subsequently used in the Blackburn Buccaneer.
Design
AIRPASS was based on a magnetron source which provided pulses of about 100 kW peak. Pulses were about one microsecond in duration and sent 1000 times a second. To make the system as compact as possible, Ferranti invested in a numerical control system to mill the waveguides from single blocks of aluminium. The signal was sent and received from feedhorns that were split vertically to produce two outputs, one on either side of the reflector centerline. The reflector was shaped as two partial parab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman%20Tool%20Set | Raman Tool Set is a free software package for processing and analysis of Raman spectroscopy datasets. It has been developed mainly aiming to Raman spectra analysis, but since it works with 2-columns datafiles (Intensity vs Frequency) it can deal with the results of many spectroscopy techniques.
Beyond the spectra preprocessing steps, such as baseline subtraction, normalization of spectra, smoothing and scaling, Raman Tool Set allows the user for chemometric analysis by means of principal component analysis (PCA), extended multiplicative signal correction (EMSC) and cluster analysis. Chemometric and multivariate data analysis can also be applied to hyperspectral maps, using PCA, independent component analysis (ICA) and cluster analysis.
Raman Tool Set is currently developed at BioNEM Lab of the University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy.
References
External links
Raman Tool Set download site
BioNEM Lab website
Science software
Raman spectroscopy |
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