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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RocketCake | RocketCake is a proprietary WYSIWYG editor for building websites using responsive web design. The program creates and publishes websites without any programming. Functionality such as video players, galleries, contact forms, and animated slide shows can be added to websites through the software.
The editor generates W3C standards-compliant HTML, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript. It was built using C++ and the WxWidgets tools library, making it cross platform and working on macOS and Microsoft Windows.
Professional edition
Developer Ambiera provides a professional edition of the otherwise free editor which adds support for custom CSS/ HTML/ PHP/ JavaScript, user-defined breakpoints and premium support.
Reception
A Softpedia review found the software was user-friendly, straightforward and intuitive to use.
References
External links
Web Page Design
Red Deer Web Design
Small Business Web Design
Web design
Responsive web design
Portable software
HTML editors
Automated WYSIWYG editors
Web development software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Perrin | Dominique Pierre Perrin (b. 1946) is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to coding theory and to combinatorics on words. He is a professor of the University of Marne-la-Vallée and currently serves as the President of ESIEE Paris.
Biography
Perrin earned his PhD from Paris 7 University in 1975. In his early career, he was a CNRS researcher (1970–1977) and taught at the University of Chile (1972–1973). Later, he worked as a professor at the University of Rouen (1977–1983), Paris 7 University (1983–1993), and École Polytechnique (1982–2002). Since 1993, Perrin is a professor at the University of Marne-la-Vallée, and since 2004, he is the President of ESIEE Paris.
Perrin is a member of Academia Europaea since 1989.
Scientific contributions
Perrin has been a member of the Lothaire group of mathematicians that developed the foundations of combinatorics on words. He has co-authored three scientific monographs: "Theory of Codes" (1985), "Codes and Automata" (2009), and "Infinite Words" (2004), as well as the three Lothaire books.
Perrin has published around 50 research articles in formal language theory.
References
External links
French mathematicians
French computer scientists
Members of Academia Europaea
1946 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20electoral%20systems | Comparison of electoral systems is the result of comparative politics for electoral systems. Electoral systems are the rules for conducting elections, a main component of which is the algorithm for determining the winner (or several winners) from the ballots cast. This article discusses methods and results of comparing different electoral systems, both those that elect a unique candidate in a 'single-winner' election and those that elect a group of representatives in a multiwinner election.
Various electoral systems can be judged using expert opinions, pragmatic considerations, and candidacy effects.
As well, there are 4 main types of reasoning that have been used to try to determine the best voting method:
Results of simulated elections
Adherence to logical criteria
Results of real elections
Argument by example.
Systems can be by judged according to advantages or disadvantages of different ballot formats or district formats, whether single-member districts or multi-member districts.
Considerations
One intellectual problem posed by voting theory is that of devising systems that are accurate in some sense. However, there are also practical reasons why one system may be more socially acceptable than another.
The important factors include:
Intelligibility, which Tideman defines as "the capacity of the rule to gain the trust of voters" and "depends on the reasonableness and understandability of the logic of the rule".
Ease of voting. Different forms of ballot make it more or less difficult for voters to fill in ballot papers fairly reflecting their views.
Ease of counting. Voting systems that make their decisions from a small set of counts derived from ballots are logistically less burdensome than those that need to consult the entire set of ballots. Some voting systems require powerful computational resources to determine the winner. Even if the cost is not prohibitive for electoral use, it may preclude effective evaluation.
Other considerations include barriers to entry to the political competition and the proportionality of the seats-to-votes ratio.
Candidacy effects
A separate topic is the fact that different candidates may be encouraged to run for election under different voting systems. For example, in a first-past-the-post (FPTP) system, the fear of wasted votes grants substantial power to the groups who select candidates. A different voting system might lead to more satisfactory decisions without necessarily being fairer in any abstract sense. This topic has received little analytic study.
An example of this is the 2018 London, Ontario municipal election. In 2018, the instant-runoff election in Ward 13 was won by Arielle Kayabaga. Although Kayabaga would have won the election under FPTP (assuming only first-place votes were recorded), she has stated that she would not have run at all under a FPTP system.
Evaluation by simulation
Models of the electoral process
Voting methods can be evaluated by measuring their accuracy under |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20Data%20Set | A linear data set (LDS) is a type of data set organization used by IBM's VSAM computer data storage system.
The LDS has a control interval size of 4096 bytes to 32768 bytes in increments of 4096. A LDS does not have embedded control information, because it does not contain control information, the LDS cannot be accessed as if it contained individual records.
Addressing within an LDS is by Relative Byte Address (RBA), which allows it to be used by systems such as IBM Db2 or the Operating system. The benefit of this is that systems such as the OS can access multiple disk spindles and view it as a single storage implementation. The limitations of this, though, is that this does not make this particularly useful to higher level abstraction levels. Data In Virtual (DIV) and Window services provide an alternative method to direct use of VSAM to access an LDS with a CI size of 4096.
See also
Key Sequenced Data Set
Entry Sequenced Data Set
Relative Record Data Set
References
ASMGUIDE
Other citations
Computer file systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20Pocztowy | Bank Pocztowy SA () is a commercial bank in Poland, offering financial services for individual customers with a complementary offering for micro and small enterprises using its network and facilities of the Polish Post.
In 1990 was the bank founded in Bydgoszcz. The idea behind its creation was to reactivate the traditional banking post in Poland. Shareholders of the bank are: Polish Post SA (75% minus 10 shares) and PKO BP (25% plus 10 shares). Bank Pocztowy has the largest bank network in Poland providing the financial services via the strategic partnership with its majority shareholders.
The number of current accounts for individual clients in the second quarter of 2016 amounted to approx. 863 thousand pieces. This gives the bank the 11th place in Poland.
In July 2017, it launched its Internet brand EnveloBank, which in 2021 was used to migrate customers to the new mobile and internet banking system.
Digital transformation
The bank offers personal accounts "Accounts in order". Apple Pay, Google Pay, Xiaomi Pay, Garmin Pay are available for all cards. Detailed information is published on LinkedIn by the spokesman of Bank Pocztowy, Bartek Trzcinski.
Since December 2020, the Bank has pursued accelerated digital transformation and business model change :
- migration clients to the new online and mobile banking platform EnveloBank,
- issued Mastercard cards to all its customers (in lieu of VISA cards),
- implementation "a selfie" loan,
- first bank in Poland implemented a biometric card,
- implemented virtual cards for holders of personal accounts,
- launched Microsoft's CRM Dynamics in the Azure cloud.
- started cooperation with credit comparison websites
Services in preparation [as of 2022.06.27]:
- onboarding to a personal account (3Q 22),
- myID (1Q 23).
According to the declarations of the Bank's representatives on internet forums - the Bank will finish work on BLIK on the phone by the end of 2022. The mobile application received high customer ratings 4.7 - July 2022 (Android)
Branch network (2022)
Bank Pocztowy offers its services throughout the country. It has 132 points of contact (including 103 micro-branches (branches) located in post offices - as of 2022.07 . An important role is played by the network of Poczta Polska, with over 4,700 points, where you can use the services and products of Bank Pocztowy. Within its branches, it has 200 separate customer service points (PPD) with dedicated financial services (loans) and insurance employees - in total with the bank's micro-branches at the Post Office there is a network of 330 professional banking and insurance branches .
References
Article contains translated text from Bank Pocztowy on the Polish Wikipedia retrieved on 15 March 2017.
External links
Profile on ECBS.org
Banks of Poland
Banks established in 1990
Polish companies established in 1990
Postal savings system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larkinella%20insperata | Larkinella insperata is a Gram-negative bacterium from the genus of Larkinella.
References
External links
Type strain of Larkinella insperata at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Cytophagia
Bacteria described in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emamode%20Edosio | Emamode Edosio, popularly known as Ema, is a Nigerian filmmaker and film director. She obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer science from Ogun State University. She studied digital film making at New York Film Academy (NYFA) and motion pictures at the Motion Pictures Institute of Michigan, United States. She received the best Film and Director of the year by sisterhood award.
In 2013, she returned to Nigeria. She worked with film production company like 66 Dimension is 2007. She later worked with Hip Hop TV, Clarence Peters at Capital Dreams Pictures, EbonyLife TV and as editor at BBC.
Ema returned to school in Abuja to further study cinematography. She have produced many films like “Joy Ride”, “Ochuko” and directed Kasala.
Early life and education career
Edosio was born into a Christian home. She is the third child of the seven children in her family. Her father is a retired architect and her mother was a lawyer. She started her education at Loral Nursery and Primary School, Festac town, Lagos after which she proceeded to the Federal Government College, Odogbolu for a few years before concluding her secondary education at S-tee Private Academy, Festac Town.
She obtained a B.Sc. in computer science from Olabisi Onabanjo University, before she went to study digital film making at NYFA and motion pictures at the Motion Picture Institute of Michigan.
Professional career
She returned to Nigeria in 2013 after her education program in the US. In Nigeria, Ema worked with 66 Dimension, Hip Hop TV, Clarence Peters at Capital Dreams Pictures, Ebonylife TV and BBC. As a director, Ema has worked with notable artists like 2Baba, 9ice, Lord of Ajasa, Terry da Rapmanand and many others. Her first job at Ebonylife TV is called "Heaven"
See also
List of Nigerian film producers
List of Nigerian cinematographers
References
Living people
Nigerian film directors
Nigerian cinematographers
Nigerian music video directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Nigerian documentary filmmakers
Nigerian music industry executives
Olabisi Onabanjo University alumni
Federal Government College, Odogbolu alumni
New York Film Academy alumni
Nigerian women film directors
Nigerian film producers
Nigerian women film producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeuwenhoekiella%20aequorea | Leeuwenhoekiella aequorea is a bacterium from the genus of Leeuwenhoekiella.
References
External links
Type strain of Leeuwenhoekiella aequorea at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Flavobacteria
Bacteria described in 2005
Leeuwenhoekiella |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Laundromat | The Russian Laundromat was a scheme to move $20–80 billion out of Russia from 2010 to 2014 through a network of global banks, many of them in Moldova and Latvia. The Guardian reported that around 500 people were suspected of being involved, many of whom were wealthy Russians. The money laundering scheme was uncovered by Global Laundromat, an investigation. The New Yorker says that that operation was known as "The Russian Laundromat," "The Global Laundromat," or "The Moldovan Scheme." The Herald wrote that the scheme is "thought to be the world's biggest and most elaborate money-laundering scheme."
Novaya Gazeta news investigation
Internal bank documents detailing around 70,000 transactions between 2011 and 2014 were obtained by the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which then shared data from the documents with various media companies in March 2017. The term "Russian Laundromat" was coined by the OCCRP. The analyzed documents contained the details of approximately 70,000 banking transactions, according to Bloomberg, with 1,920 firms in the UK and 373 in the US involved. The alleged architect of the scheme is Veaceslav Platon, a Moldovan businessman and former MP. Platon is one of the wealthiest people in Moldova, with businesses in the field of sugar and banking in Moldova, and atomic energy in Ukraine. In 1994, Platon became vice-president of the administrative board of the Moldovan private bank Moldindconbank, which, on 25 October 1991 became Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Construction, BC "Moldindconbank" S.A, is the second largest bank in Moldova according to its assets and was established on 1 January 1959 as a branch of the Soviet Stroybank () to primarily finance Moldovan industries and construction businesses, and later became vice-president of the board of another Moldovan bank, Investprivatbank. In 1998, he was elected as a member of the Municipal Council of Chișinău on the lists of the electoral bloc of agrarians. Igor Putin (Vladimir Putin's cousin) has also been named in connection with this scheme. The scheme allowed Russia's elite to funnel out at least $20 billion from Russia.
Laundered money by region
Global banks and other
The investigation revealed that $20.8 billion had been laundered in 96 countries. According to money laundering experts, the money was moved initially to a network of 21 shell companies in the UK, Cyprus, and New Zealand, after which further payments went to wider group of companies, many of which were fictitious.
Eleven companies registered in the UAE were named in the investigation as possible shell companies filtering the laundered money, and the data said that the UAE registered companies total received $434,076,385.
Global banks that touched the laundered money included Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, and Barclays.
British territories
Afterwards, it was reported that $740 million had been processed by British banks as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuelson%E2%80%93Berkowitz%20algorithm | In mathematics, the Samuelson–Berkowitz algorithm efficiently computes the characteristic polynomial of an matrix whose entries may be elements of any unital commutative ring. Unlike the Faddeev–LeVerrier algorithm, it performs no divisions, so may be applied to a wider range of algebraic structures.
Description of the algorithm
The Samuelson–Berkowitz algorithm applied to a matrix produces a vector whose entries are the coefficient of the characteristic polynomial of . It computes this coefficients vector recursively as the product of a Toeplitz matrix and the coefficients vector an principal submatrix.
Let be an matrix partitioned so that
The first principal submatrix of is the matrix . Associate with the Toeplitz matrix
defined by
if is ,
if is ,
and in general
That is, all super diagonals of consist of zeros, the main diagonal consists of ones, the first subdiagonal consists of and the th subdiagonal
consists of .
The algorithm is then applied recursively to , producing the Toeplitz matrix times the characteristic polynomial of , etc. Finally, the characteristic polynomial of the matrix is simply . The Samuelson–Berkowitz algorithm then states that the vector defined by
contains the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of .
Because each of the may be computed independently, the algorithm is highly parallelizable.
References
Linear algebra
Polynomials
Numerical linear algebra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20sampling | In statistics, in flow sampling, as opposed to stock sampling, observations are collected as they enter the particular state of interest during a particular interval. When dealing with duration data (such as employment spells or mortality outcomes), the data sampling method has a direct impact on subsequent analyses and inference. An example in demography would be sampling the number of people who die within a given time frame (e.g. a specific calendar year); a popular example in economics would be the number of people leaving unemployment within a given time frame (e.g. a specific quarter). Researchers imposing similar assumptions but using different sampling methods, can reach fundamentally different conclusions if the joint distribution across the flow and stock samples differ.
Typically, flow samples suffer from right censoring. After a certain amount of time, as the sampling interval ends, the individuals in the sample are not followed any longer, outcomes are recorded and the data is analyzed. In the unemployment example outlined above, we observe the exact duration for individuals leaving unemployment within the time frame. For people that haven't left unemployment yet, we only observe the lower bound of the unemployment spell. The difference between stock and flow sampling can also help explain why certain statistics that measure similar duration measures can differ in important ways. Consider, for instance, the Average Interrupted Duration (AID), the average period for which people that are currently unemployed have been unemployed, and ACD, the average duration of the complete unemployment spell for employed people. Salant shows that heterogeneity in hazard rates between the stock and the flow distribution provides a key to understanding why these two statistics differ. For instance, if the probability of getting a job offer goes down with time unemployed, E[T] < E[S], where S and T stand for observed and actual duration respectively.
Renewal theory is the appropriate tool for handling these issues, and a wide range of estimators have been proposed. These estimators range from fully parametric models such as the Mixed Proportional Hazard model, to nonparametric and semiparametric methods.
References
Sampling (statistics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne%20%28supercomputer%29 | The Cheyenne supercomputer at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming began operation as one of the world’s most powerful and energy-efficient computers. Ranked in November 2016 as the 20th most powerful computer in the world by Top500, the 5.34-petaflops system is capable of more than triple the amount of scientific computing performed by NCAR’s previous supercomputer, Yellowstone. It also is three times more energy efficient than Yellowstone, with a peak computation rate of more than 3 billion calculations per second for every watt of energy consumed.
The National Science Foundation and the State of Wyoming through an appropriation to the University of Wyoming funded Cheyenne to provide the United States with a major new tool to advance understanding of the atmospheric and related Earth system sciences. High-performance computers such as Cheyenne allow researchers to run increasingly detailed models that simulate complex processes to estimate how they might unfold in the future. These predictions give resource managers and policy experts valuable information for planning ahead and mitigating risk. Cheyenne’s users advance the knowledge needed for saving lives, protecting property, and enabling U.S. businesses to better compete in the global marketplace.
Scientists across the country will use Cheyenne to study phenomena ranging from weather and climate to wildfires, seismic activity, and airflows that generate power at wind farms. Their findings lay the groundwork for better protecting society from natural disasters, lead to more detailed projections of seasonal and longer-term weather and climate variability and change, and improve weather and water forecasts that are needed by economic sectors from agriculture and energy to transportation and tourism.
The supercomputer’s name was chosen to honor the people of Cheyenne, Wyoming, who supported the installation of the NWSC and its computers there. The name also commemorates the 150th anniversary of the city, which was founded in 1867 and named for the Native American Cheyenne Nation.
System Description
The Cheyenne supercomputer was built by Silicon Graphics International Corporation (SGI) in coordination with centralized file system and data storage components provided by DataDirect Networks (DDN). The SGI high-performance computer is a 5.34-petaflops system, meaning it can carry out 5.34 quadrillion calculations per second. The new data storage system for Cheyenne is integrated with NCAR’s existing GLADE file system. The DDN storage provides an initial capacity of 20 petabytes, expandable to 40 petabytes with the addition of extra drives. This, combined with the current 16 petabytes of GLADE, totals 36 petabytes of high-speed storage as of February 2017.
Cheyenne is an SGI ICE XA system with 4,032 dual-socket scientific computation nodes running 18-core 2.3-GHz Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 processors with 203 [now 315] terabytes of memory. Interconnecting these nodes is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hany%20Rashwan | Hany Rashwan (; born May 7, 1990) is an Egyptian businessman, entrepreneur, and computer engineer. He is the founder of crypto company 21.co, which is the parent company of 21Shares. He previously founded social commerce company Ribbon and enterprise fintech company Payout.
Early life and education
Rashwan was born in Cairo, Egypt and grew up in Alexandria. His grandfather, a career intelligence officer in the Egyptian army and an expert at cryptography and programming, bought Rashwan his first computer aged 11 and taught him basic programming. After moving to the United States for high school, he built two gaming sites aged 14, with one attracting 600,000 unique annual visitors and advertising revenue.
He attended Ohio State University to study economics and computer science, before transferring to Columbia University. In 2017, he was named to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Enterprise Technology category for his work on Payout.
Companies
Kolena
While an undergraduate, Rashwan built Kolena (meaning "all of us" in Arabic), an online interactive town-hall using Facebook Connect that was used by tens of thousands of Egyptians during the Egyptian revolution. In an interview, Rashwan envisioned Kolena serving as “Egypt’s online interactive Town Hall Meeting…a place for people to go to submit and vote on ideas for change."
Ribbon
Ribbon was a payments startup that let users sell online using a shortened URL that can be shared across email, social media and a seller's own website. The service focuses on bringing integrated checkouts directly to platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter letting buyers purchase without leaving those services. Ribbon has been featured in publications including Techcrunch, Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, The Next Web, and ArsTechnica.
After the company announced support for "in-stream" payments on Twitter, allowing buyers to purchase items without leaving the Twitter.com stream, Twitter shut down Ribbon's API access after approximately an hour and a half.
Payout
Founded in late 2014, Payout provides online lenders with a payouts, disbursements and compliance API that is used by top online lenders such as LendUp and Prosper. Lenders are able to push money to consumers' credit cards in real-time. The company moved more than $50 million in loans by its second year. Payout went through the AngelPad accelerator and subsequently raised $4.75 million, led by Tim Draper of Draper Associates.
21.co
Founded in 2018, 21.co (formerly Amun) aims to build bridges into the cryptocurrency world. Its subsidiary 21Shares AG launched the first physically-backed cryptocurrency Exchange-traded product (ETP) called HODL in November 2018 on the SIX Swiss Exchange. The company is today one of the largest issuers of crypto exchange-traded products.
In addition to 21Shares ETFs, 21.co also owns tokens platform Amun as well as its own proprietary platform Onyx, which is used to issue and operate crypto ETPs for the company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TickerTags | TickerTags is a social data intelligence company, located in the US.
The company was founded in 2015, by the American investor Chris Camillo.
History
The company was founded in 2015, as a technology startup in Dallas, Texas. It was first launched as a free beta for entrepreneurs and regular people.
TickerTags gather data from Twitter and other social media channels, and use the information for generating predictive models. In 2016, the company made several predictions that forged its name, including accurate predictions about the results of the 2016 Brexit referendum and Netflix. Recently, it also made predictions regarding sales figures of Starbucks.
In 2018, TickerTags was acquired by M-Science.
References
Technology companies established in 2015
Companies based in Dallas
Online companies of the United States
Social information processing
American companies established in 2015
2015 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Fleming | Sir Jeremy Ian Fleming was the Director of the Government Communications Headquarters, the UK's intelligence, cyber and security agency. He was appointed in 2017 and was the 16th person to hold the role. He left the post in May 2023.
Education and early career
Fleming studied economic and social history at the University of Bristol before training as a chartered accountant in the City of London. He later worked for the government practice arm of Deloitte, and was seconded from there in 1993 to MI5 under the pretext of a role at the Ministry of Defence.
MI5
His initial role upon secondment was to make MI5's finances more transparent to parliamentary scrutiny. He later gained extensive operational, investigative and leadership experience across the full range of national security work. He helped shape MI5's response to the London terrorist attacks in 2005, led the revision and publication of the Government's counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST and was promoted to Assistant Director General to lead MI5's preparations for the London 2012 Olympics. He then spent four years as Deputy Director General with responsibility for all investigations and operations.
He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2017 New Year Honours.
GCHQ
In GCHQ, Fleming has overseen the further development of the National Cyber Security Centre with a mission to make the UK the safest place to live and do business online. It has become a world leader in bringing together Government, industry and international partners to address cyber threats and inform the public. Fleming has overseen a significant period of growth in the Agency, with the development of a strategic base in Manchester and a focus on diversity and inclusion. In 2019 he led GCHQ's centenary celebrations with the publication of a landmark official history. And in 2020, a new partnership with the Ministry of Defence was announced to create a National Cyber Force charged with delivering cyber operations.
He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to national security.
He was Honorary Colonel of the Joint Service Signal Unit (Reserves) of the Royal Corps of Signals until August 2023.
Notable speeches and Interviews
Cyber
In October 2018, Fleming described how the UK must continue to think strategically about its national response to the new generation of technology. As part of the International Institute for Strategic Studies Fullerton Lecture Series in February 2019, he described the concept of cyber power - what that requires of a country, and the rules, regulations and ethics needed to exercise such power responsibly. Fleming built on this the following month when speaking to 29 member states at the NATO Cyber Defence Pledge conference, talking of the need to work together to tackle common threats and to be prepared for cyber attacks against their countries. He stressed that a framework was needed that promo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20Queue | In Computer Architecture, While Branch predictions Branch queue takes place. When Branch Predictor predicts if the branch is taken or not, Branch queue stores the predictions that to be used later.
Branch queue consists 2 values only. Taken or Not Taken.
Branch queue helps other algorithms to increase parallelism and optimization. It is not software implemented or Hardware one, It falls under hardware software co-design.
References
Computer architecture
fa:صف پرش |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Instrument%20Company | The Ford Instrument Company was a U.S. corporation known for being the primary supplier of fire control Rangekeepers and analog computers for the United States Navy before and during World War II.
A personal blog, Doug Coward's Analog History Museum, includes a page with details for the Ford Instrument Company Computer Mark I that was used after 1939 on WW II naval guns up to 5 inch and anti-aircraft guns. This page has a background stating that the Ford Instrument Company is a subsidiary of Sperry Rand, indicating that the displayed page was supplied by Sperry while operating as Sperry Rand, 1955 and 1978.
References
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Military computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juhani%20Karhum%C3%A4ki | Eero Urho Juhani Karhumäki (born 1949) is a Finnish mathematician
and theoretical computer scientist
known for his contributions to automata theory.
He is a professor at the University of Turku.
Biography
Karhumäki earned his doctorate from the University of Turku in 1976.
In 1980–1985, he was a junior researcher of Academy of Finland.
Since 1986, he has held teaching positions at the University of Turku,
attaining full professorship in 1998.
In 1998–2015,
Karhumäki was the head of the mathematics department at the University of Turku.
He has authored altogether around 200 research papers.
Karhumäki is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 2000
and of Academia Europaea since 2006.
A festschrift in his honour was published in 2009
as a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science.
Research contributions
Karhumäki has been a member of the Lothaire group of mathematicians
that developed the foundations of combinatorics of words. In 1991, jointly with Tero Harju, he solved the long-standing equivalence problem for multitape finite automata in automata theory.
Karhumäki contributed to different areas of formal language theory, such as word equations,
language equations
and descriptional complexity of finite automata.
References
External links
Finnish mathematicians
Finnish computer scientists
University of Turku alumni
Members of Academia Europaea
Members of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
People from Turku
Living people
1949 births
Theoretical computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable%20Data%20Protocol | The Reliable Data Protocol (RDP) is a network transport protocol defined in RFC 908 and was updated in RFC 1151. It is meant to provide facilities for remote loading, debugging and bulk transfer of images and data.
The Reliable Data Protocol is located on the Transport Layer of the OSI model next to protocols like TCP and UDP. It is number 27 in the list of IP protocol numbers.
Similar to TCP, the Reliable Data Protocol is connection oriented, but, contrary to TCP, it does not require sequenced delivery of segments.
The Reliable Data Protocol has not gained popularity, though experimental implementations for BSD exist.
References
See Also
Reliable Data Transfer
Transport layer protocols
Internet protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UsNIC | usNIC (user-space NIC) is Cisco's low-latency computer networking product for MPI over 10 Gigabit Ethernet in high-performance computing. It operates at the OSI model's data link layer (Ethernet frames) or the network layer (UDP packets) to eliminate the overhead of TCP within a data center. usNIC is shipped as firmware (with associated device drivers) for Cisco's "VIC" (virtual interface card) series of converged network adapters, and support has been contributed to Open MPI.
References
Ethernet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopussy%20%28software%29 | Octopussy, also known as 8Pussy, is a free and open-source computer-software which monitors systems, by constantly analyzing the syslog data they generate and transmit to such a central Octopussy server (thus often called a SIEM solution). Therefore, software like Octopussy plays an important role in maintaining an information security management system within ISO/IEC 27001-compliant environments.
Octopussy has the ability to monitor any device that supports the syslog protocol, such as servers, routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and its important applications and services. The main purpose of the software is to alert its administrators and users to different kinds of events, like system outages, attacks on systems or errors in applications. However, unlike Nagios or Icinga, Octopussy is not a state-checker and therefore problems cannot be resolved within the application. The software also makes no prescription whatsoever on which messages must be/must not be analyzed. As such, Octopussy can be seen as less powerful than other popular commercial software in the same category (event monitoring and log analysis).
Octopussy is compatible with many Linux system distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS, RHEL and even meta-distributions as Gentoo or Arch Linux. Although Octopussy was originally designed to run on Linux, it could be ported to other Unix variants like FreeBSD with minimal effort. Octopussy has extensive report generating features and also various interfaces to other software, like e.g. NSCA (Nagios), Jabber/XMPP and Zabbix. With the help of software like Snare even Windows EventLogs can be processed.
Octopussy is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Characteristics
Although Octopussy is free and open-source software it has a variety of characteristics also found in some professional enterprise applications like Splunk, SAWMILL or Kiwi Syslog.
Octopussy features
At the time of writing, Octopussy comes with the following set of features:
Basic LDAP support (v1.0+) for Octopussy users and contacts with filter mechanism
Alert sending by email, IM (Jabber), NSCA (Nagios) and Zabbix
Map functionality to show the system infrastructure known to Octopussy
Exportable reports by email, FTP and SCP
Input & output plugins for manual and automatic reports
Report scheduling and automated report generation based on parameters
A log viewer to search for syslog messages received by Octopussy
An RRDtool to provide data graphing of syslog activity for enabled services
Comprehensive service definitions (Apache 2, BIND, BSD Kernel ...)
A wizard to easily create new services and/or message patterns for existing services
An option to enable or disable services and alerts for every system under surveillance
Online updates for services, tables and l18n (language support)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20%285th%20generation%29 | The iPad 9.7-inch (officially iPad (5th generation)) is a tablet computer designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. After its announcement on March 21, 2017, conflicting naming conventions spawned a number of different names, including "seventh-generation iPad" or "iPad (2017)".
The device was released five years after the previous iPad (4th generation), as the iPad Air was released in 2013 as the successor to the iPad lineup. The iPad Air lineup continued as a separate, higher-end device, while the iPad was positioned as an entry-level model.
Unlike the iPad Air 2, this iPad does not have a fully laminated display, and also lacks an anti-reflective coating.
On March 27, 2018, Apple announced its successor, the sixth-generation iPad. This also marked the discontinuation of the 2017 iPad.
History
This iPad model was announced by Apple on March 24, 2017 in a press release. There has been confusion around its naming, being referred to as just "iPad" in marketing, but called the "fifth-generation iPad" in official statements and specifications sheets, a title previously taken by 2013's iPad Air. Other sources refer to it as the "seventh-generation iPad", when including the iPad Air and iPad Air 2 as the fifth- and sixth-generation iPads respectively. It has also been referred to as "iPad 2017".
Pricing strategies
Matt Kapko of CIO wrote that Apple's introductory pricing of $329 in the United States for the iPad, a $70 price reduction vs the iPad Air 2, appeared to be designed to fend off the encroachment of Google's Chromebook laptops in the education sector and to foster wider adoption in customer-facing terminals. Kapko also wrote that the device is designed to appeal to businesses that require inexpensive tablets for undemanding use, including as kiosks, checkout terminals, and hospitality screens.
Specifications
Hardware
The fifth generation iPad shares most design elements with the iPadAir, with a 9.7-inch (25 cm) screen, thickness, and differences such as the lack of the physical mute switch, smaller microphone holes and only a single row of speaker holes, and storage. Compared to the iPad Air 2, the processor is updated from the Apple A8X to the A9 with the embedded Apple M9 motion co-processor. The fifth generation iPad has 2 gigabytes of RAM. Unlike other iPad models available, this iPad's display is not fully laminated and does not have anti-reflective coating. However, this iPad has a brighter screen than the iPad Air 2 (25% brighter according to Apple). It is available in 32 and 128 GB storage options. Contrasting with the iPad Pro lineup, this iPad features only two speakers (as opposed to four), has no Smart Connector support, and has no camera flash. It is offered in silver, gold, and space grey colors. Despite its use of the Apple A9 processor and accompanying M9 motion co-processor, introduced with the iPhone 6S in 2015, the iPad does not feature support for always-on "Hey Siri" voice input, a feature advertised as b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Roth%20%28cyberneticist%29 | Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at :de:Michael Roth (Kybernetiker); see its history for attribution.
Michael Roth (18 June 1936 – 23 July 2019) was a German engineer and professor of automation, specializing in microprocessor technology, computer science and sociology as well as philosophy of science. He was one of the pioneers in the area of computer engineering in Germany.
Life
Roth was born in Lomnička, and originally completed his vocational training as a mechanic for agricultural machinery and as a programmer. He started his university studies in 1957 at the then Hochschule fuer Elektrotechnik Ilmenau in electrical engineering, with a specialization in control engineering under Karl Reinisch. He received his academic degree as a Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) in 1963. After that, he worked at the institute for computer engineering ("maschinelle Rechentechnik") as a scientific assistant. He successfully completed this work in 1967 earning a Doctorate degree as a Doktoringenieur (Dr.-Ing.). His dissertation was in the domain of computer engineering, focussing on the design of hybrid computers. This constituted an essential foundation for his later research. Subsequently, he finished additional studies at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1967/68.
Roth was appointed associate professor at the TH Ilmenau in 1970, in the department Technical and Biomedical Cybernetics ("Technische und Biomedizinische Kybernetik", TBK, Director: Karl Reinisch). In cooperation with expert committees from the Chamber of Technology ("Kammer der Technik", KdT, the organization of engineers, technicians and researchers of the GDR) and the electronics industry of Thuringia, he developed the new special field of microcomputer technology, which he also introduced as an independent subject, publishing specialized reference books in several editions.
Roth stimulated the launch of this technology not only through his research and development work, but also through his involvement in continuous education for this industrial technology as well as through the publication of specialized books. As a researcher, he focused on questions concerning the development of components and tools for intelligent automation systems.
In 1978, he was appointed Professor for Automation and Technical Cybernetics ("Automatik und Technische Kybernetik") at the TH Ilmenau. This appointment spoke highly of his knowledge and his wealth of experience. His lectures and his textbooks extended the training of engineers with degrees in microprocessor technology – at the time, microprocessor technology was a rare specialization in the German-speaking area.
His cooperation with other professors – one of them being in the data centre with its director, Reinhold Schönefeld – led to extensive industry-level research and internship opportunities in microprocessor technology with the TH Ilmenau. These opportunities were considered unique when compared t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Oreo | Android Oreo (codenamed Android O during development) is the eighth major release and the 15th version of the Android mobile operating system. It was first released as an alpha quality developer preview in March 2017 and released to the public on August 21, 2017.
It contains a number of major features, including notification grouping, picture-in-picture support for video, performance improvements, and battery usage optimization, and support for autofillers, Bluetooth 5, system-level integration with VoIP apps, wide color gamuts, and Wi-Fi Aware. Android Oreo also introduces two major platform features: Android Go – a software distribution of the operating system for low-end devices – and support for implementing a hardware abstraction layer.
As of August 2023, Android Oreo (which has ceased receiving security updates as of October 2021) ran on a combined 4.36% of Android devices (1.07% on Android 8.0 and 3.21% on Android 8.1).
History
Android Oreo was internally codenamed "Oatmeal Cookie." On March 21, 2017, Google released the first developer preview of Android "O", available for the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus Player, Pixel C, and both Pixel smartphones. The second, considered beta quality, was released on May 17, 2017. The third developer preview was released on June 8, 2017 and offered a finalized version of the API. DP3 finalized the release's API to API level 26, changed the camera UI, reverted the Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity levels in the status bar back to Wi-Fi being on the left, added themed notifications, added a battery animation in Settings: Battery, a new icon and darker background for the Clock app, and a teardrop icon shape for apps.
On July 24, 2017, a fourth developer preview was released which included the final system behaviors and the latest bug fixes and optimizations. Android "O" was officially released on August 21, 2017 under the name "Oreo". Its lawn statue was unveiled at a promotional event across from Chelsea Market in New York City—a building which formerly housed a Nabisco factory where Oreo cookies were first produced. Factory images were made available for compatible Pixel and Nexus devices later that day. The Sony Xperia XZ1 and Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact were the first devices available with Oreo pre-installed.
Android 8.1 was released in December 2017 for Pixel and Nexus devices, which features minor bug fixes and user interface changes.
Features
User experience
Notifications can be snoozed, and batched into topic-based groups known as "channels". The 'Major Ongoing' feature orders the alerts by priority, pinning the most important application to the top slot. Android Oreo contains integrated support for picture-in-picture modes. The "Settings" app features a new design which has been reduced in size, with a white theme and deeper categorization of different settings, while its ringtone, alarm and notification sound settings now contain an option for adding custom sounds to the list.
The Android 8.1 u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2090003 | ISO/IEC 90003 Software engineering -- Guidelines for the application of ISO 9001:2008 to computer software is a guidelines developed for organizations in the application of ISO 9001 to the acquisition, supply, development, operation and maintenance of computer software and related support services.
This standard was developed by technical committee ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 Software and systems engineering.
ISO/IEC 90003 originally published as ISO 9000-3 for the first time in December 1997, was issued for the first time as an ISO/IEC 90003 in February 2004.
The review cycle of ISO 90003 is every 5 years.
Main requirements of the standard
The ISO/IEC 90003:2014 adopts the ISO structure in 8 chapters in the following breakdown:
Scope
Normative references
Terms and definitions
Quality management system
Management responsibility
Resource management
Product realization
Measurement, analysis and improvement
See also
List of ISO standards
List of IEC standards
International Organization for Standardization
References
External links
ISO/IEC 90003—Software engineering -- Guidelines for the application of ISO 9001 to computer software
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7—Software and systems engineering
90003
Software quality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint%20Mobile | Mint Mobile, LLC is a mobile virtual network operator in the United States. It requires the purchase of a physical SIM card or eSIM online and, except for a trial period, prepayment for at least three months of service. In March of 2023, T-Mobile US agreed to acquire Mint mobile subject to regulatory approval.
History
The company was founded in 2015 as Mint SIM, a subsidiary of Ultra Mobile, by Ultra Mobile founder David Glickman, and Rizwan Kassim.
In November 2019, the corporate spin-off of the company from Ultra Mobile was completed and Ryan Reynolds acquired 20–25% ownership in it. Reynolds and founder Glickman both served on the board of directors for The Michael J. Fox Foundation, and Glickman was impressed with Reynolds' marketing for Deadpool.
In March 2023, T-Mobile US agreed to acquire Ka’ena Corporation and its subsidiaries and brands, including Mint Mobile. It was announced that Reynolds would stay on as a spokesperson in his “creative role on behalf of Mint". T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert assured customers that Mint's current $15-per-month plan would remain in place, and that Mint's founders would remain to manage what “will generally operate as a separate business unit.”
Awards and recognition
In 2021, it was named "the fastest growing company in America", and listed among the best places to work by American City Business Journals.
It was ranked by U.S. News & World Report 2nd for Best Cell Phone Plans of 2022, behind Tello Mobile, and "best for overall value" by TechRadar.
See also
List of United States mobile virtual network operators
"Winnie-the-Screwed"
References
External links
2015 establishments in California
American companies established in 2015
Companies based in Costa Mesa, California
Internet service providers of the United States
Mobile phone companies of the United States
Mobile virtual network operators
Privately held companies based in California
Telecommunications companies established in 2015
T-Mobile US |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient%20Technologies | Sentient Technologies was an American artificial intelligence technology company based in San Francisco. Sentient was founded in 2007 and received over $143 million in funding at different points after its inception. As of 2016, Sentient was the world's most well-funded AI company. It focused on e-commerce, online content and trading.
The company was dissolved in 2019.
History
Sentient originally operated in stealth mode as Genetic Finance Holding Ltd. The company was founded in 2007 by Antoine Blondeau, Babak Hodjat and Adam Cheyer who created the natural language technology that led to Siri, Apple's voice recognition software. Sentient raised a $2 million Series A round of funding, and $38 million in a Series B round led by Horizons Ventures. Sentient emerged from stealth mode in November 2014 with $103.5 million in Series C funding.
Sentient worked with Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to analyze blood pressure to predict the likelihood of sepsis in ICU patients. The technology was researched in association with Saint Michael's Hospital at the University of Toronto. The platform was also used to successfully automate financial services for Sentient's subsidiary, Sentient Investment Management.
In 2015, Sentient launched an AI powered visual intelligence and personalization platform leveraging deep learning and online learning. In 2016, Sentient recruited Mark Elfenbein to be its Chief Revenue Officer. Shoes.com, a Vancouver-based online shoe retailer, was Sentient's first retail customer for this service. Since its launch, Sentient had other retailer customers.
Sentient Ascend was launched in September 2016 as a SaaS AI based conversion rate optimization platform, largely based on the same AI methods used in its financial technology IP.
In 2019, Sentient Technologies was dissolved, selling off Sentient Ascend to Evolv and much of its AI intellectual property to Cognizant.
Technology
Sentient's platform combined evolutionary computation, which mimics biological evolution, and deep learning, which is based on the structure of nervous systems. Sentient's algorithms worked across as many as two million CPU cores and 5000 GPU cards across 4,000 physical sites around the world, making it one of the largest known systems dedicated to AI.
References
Technology companies established in 2007
Companies based in San Francisco
2007 establishments in California
Artificial intelligence laboratories
Technology companies disestablished in 2019
2019 disestablishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Women%27s%20Educational%20Association | The Swedish Women's Educational Association, referred to as SWEA but officially designated SWEA International, Inc., is a global non-profit organization and a network for Swedish and Swedish-speaking women who reside or have resided outside of Sweden.
SWEA is represented in many locations throughout the world and plays a major role in the Swedish State Department's emergency management plan.
SWEA is a politically and religiously independent organization.
Organization
SWEA International is the largest non-profit organization promoting Sweden outside of Sweden with the goal of promoting the Swedish language and spreading Swedish culture and tradition.
Each year, SWEA International awards three scholarships of US$10,000 each:
The Scholarship for Research Related to the Swedish Language, Literature, and Society
The Agneta and Gunnar Nilsson Scholarship for the Study of Intercultural Relations
The Sigrid Paskell Scholarship in the Performing Arts
In addition, SWEA International selects a Swedish Woman of the Year annually.
Locally, SWEA International's chapters make donations and present scholarships that total about 2 million Swedish kronor (US$250,000) per year.
SWEA International offers its members assistance during the process of relocating and transitioning between countries. Additionally, the organization extends a warm welcome and provides support to members upon their return to Sweden.
SWEA International has approximately 7,000 women members in approximately 70 local chapters in about 30 countries on five continents.
SWEA International's chairman since 2016 is Christina Hallmert.
History
In 1979, SWEA International was founded in Los Angeles by Agneta Nilsson. Princess Christina Mrs. Magnuson is the association's honorary president.
Swedish Woman of the Year
Since 1989, SWEA International has selected a Swedish Woman of the Year (abbreviated ÅSK, for Årets Svenska Kvinna) annually. The recipient is announced during SWEA's annual meeting each spring and is recognized during the annual "Sweden dinner" organized each summer by one of the chapters located in Sweden. The recipient must be a Swedish woman who, through her accomplishments, has represented and brought attention to the Sweden of today in the greater world.
The following women have been recognized as Swedish Woman of the Year:
1989: Ulla Wachtmeister
1990: Birgitta Wistrand
1991, 1992: Undistributed
1993: Anne-Marie De Geer and Ingrid Croneborg-Bergman
1994: Lise-Lotte Lübeck-Erixon
1995: Ingrid Karlsson
1996: Undistributed
1997: Ulla-Brita Palm
1998: Dorothea Rosenblad
1999: Kerstin Nordquist-Lane
2000: Maria Nyström Reuterswärd
2001: Drottning Silvia
2002: Eva Olofsson
2003: Ewa Kumlin
2004: Barbro Sachs-Osher
2005: Ingrid le Roux
2006: Tina Nordström
2007: Marianne Forssblad
2008: Inger Schuberth
2009: Agneta Nilsson, founder of SWEA International, Inc.
2010: Kjerstin Dellert
2011: Christina Lampe Önnerud
2012: Filippa Knutsson
2013: Mona Henning
2014: Nina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kousha%20Etessami | Kousha Etessami is a professor of computer science at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He has received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1995. He works on theoretical computer science, in particular on computational complexity theory, game theory and probabilistic systems.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer scientists
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Theoretical computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela%20obliquigradata | Bela obliquigradata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 4 mm. The short shell has an ovate-fusiform shape. It has a pale reddish color. It contains six whorls. The two protoconch whorls are large, smooth, and white. In the third and fourth whorls the spiral lirations are about two or three in number, one encircling the angulation and the rest below it. They are rather stronger than the longitudinal ribs (about 20) and give the whorls a cancellated aspect. In the body whorl these lirae are much finer, very numerous, and closely packed. The aperture is small, narrow. The siphonal canal is short and narrow.
Distribution
References
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Zootaxa. 682:1-1295.
obliquigradata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20complexity | State complexity is an area of theoretical computer science
dealing with the size of abstract automata,
such as different kinds of finite automata.
The classical result in the area is that
simulating an -state
nondeterministic finite automaton
by a deterministic finite automaton
requires exactly states in the worst case.
Transformation between variants of finite automata
Finite automata can be
deterministic and
nondeterministic,
one-way (DFA, NFA)
and two-way
(2DFA, 2NFA).
Other related classes are
unambiguous (UFA),
self-verifying (SVFA)
and alternating (AFA) finite automata.
These automata can also be two-way (2UFA, 2SVFA, 2AFA).
All these machines can accept exactly the regular languages.
However, the size of different types of automata
necessary to accept the same language
(measured in the number of their states)
may be different.
For any two types of finite automata,
the state complexity tradeoff between them
is an integer function
where is the least number of states in automata of the second type
sufficient to recognize every language
recognized by an -state automaton of the first type.
The following results are known.
NFA to DFA: states. This is the subset construction by Rabin and Scott, proved optimal by Lupanov.
UFA to DFA: states, see Leung, An earlier lower bound by Schmidt was smaller.
NFA to UFA: states, see Leung. There was an earlier smaller lower bound by Schmidt.
SVFA to DFA: states, see Jirásková and Pighizzini
2DFA to DFA: states, see Kapoutsis. Earlier construction by Shepherdson used more states, and an earlier lower bound by Moore was smaller.
2DFA to NFA: , see Kapoutsis. Earlier construction by Birget used more states.
2NFA to NFA: , see Kapoutsis.
2NFA to NFA accepting the complement: states, see Vardi.
AFA to DFA: states, see Chandra, Kozen and Stockmeyer.
AFA to NFA: states, see Fellah, Jürgensen and Yu.
2AFA to DFA: , see Ladner, Lipton and Stockmeyer.
2AFA to NFA: , see Geffert and Okhotin.
The 2DFA vs. 2NFA problem and logarithmic space
It is an open problem whether all 2NFAs can be converted to 2DFAs
with polynomially many states, i.e. whether there is a polynomial
such that for every -state 2NFA
there exists a -state 2DFA.
The problem was raised by Sakoda and Sipser,
who compared it to the P vs. NP problem
in the computational complexity theory.
Berman and Lingas discovered a formal relation between this problem
and the L vs. NL open problem.
This relation was further elaborated by Kapoutsis.
State complexity of operations for finite automata
Given a binary regularity-preserving operation on languages
and a family of automata X (DFA, NFA, etc.),
the state complexity of
is an integer function such that
for each m-state X-automaton A and n-state X-automaton B there is an -state X-automaton for , and
for all integers m, n there is an m-state X-automaton A and an n-state X-automaton B such that every X-automaton for must have at least states.
Analogous definition applies for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Fernandes | Jason Fernandes is an Indian blockchain entrepreneur and technology columnist hailing from Goa. As a teenager, Fernandes founded the internet portal ZeoCities.com, the non-profit LDKids.org and wrote for CHIP Magazine. Later, while studying at the University of Texas, Austin, Fernandes co-invented the Internet-based DVR, InstantTV, and was part of the founding team at PerceptiveI (a company that developed ECRM software). After moving to Goa in 2012, Fernandes began working as a monthly technology columnist for GlobeAsia Magazine, Indonesia. He has also founded the IoT company SmartKlock Inc and two Blockchain companies, FUNL Corp, and Malta-based AET Ventures (AEToken), of which he is presently the COO. Fernandes has advised state governments and political parties on IT and education policies. He also writes for various technology media publications and has spoken at TEDx events.
Early life
Jason Fernandes was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai) to artists Thomas and Jeanette Fernandes. Fernandes was a teenager when he was diagnosed with dyslexia. It was then that he was given access to the family computer, which started his journey into technology.
Career
Teenage years
In 1998, Fernandes bought his first website domain, www.jasonsoftware.com, which later became ZeoCities.com: a web portal offering free email, websites, search engine, news, and chat. He also became a writer and technology troubleshooter for one of India’s most widely read computer publications, CHIP Magazine (christened Dr. Chip). In 1999, Fernandes created Learning Disabled Kids, a non-profit website, as a way of helping others better understand dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, attention deficit disorder and other learning disabilities. For this, in 1999, he was awarded the Childnet International Award (UK).
College years
Fernandes moved to the United States to study at the University of Texas, Austin. While studying there, he was among the founding members of RecordTV.com (now known as InstantTV), where he holds a patent for a Network DVR; he also part of the founding team of PerceptiveI, a company that developed patented ECRM software for clients.
Return to India and subsequent career
After completing his education, Fernandes moved back to India, residing in Goa. He then started working as a technology columnist for Indonesia’s GlobeAsia Magazine. Over the years, his writings have appeared in The Jakarta Globe, CHIP, DNA India, The Goan and Man's World Magazine, among others.
Fernandes helped develop SmartKlock, a "smart" clock that gave its users only important notifications. For this product, he ran a Kickstarter campaign. Eager to hear more opinions on it, he wrote to Steve Wozniak in September 2014. Wozniak replied with an encouraging note and an autographed photograph of the Apple co-founders sitting with the Apple I prototype. This venture slowly grew into FUNL Corp, which offers an app designed to block out unnecessary notifications, with a reward-based system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy%20of%20Crime | Anatomy of Crime is an American television series that aired on the Court TV (now truTV) network. The show first aired on January 17, 2000, and ran for two seasons, ending on March 5, 2002, with a total of twenty-six episodes, thirteen per season. The show was a series of one-hour documentaries that took viewers onto the streets and behind the scenes of crime. The series included footage from the police and the courts, covering everything from high-speed police chases and sting operations to sex trafficking and the impact of the media’s coverage. Each episode showcased a particular aspect of crime, and the issues and controversies surrounding it, including the perspectives of the country's foremost sociologists, psychologists and representatives of leading organizations in each area.
The show was produced by John Langley and his production company, Langley Productions. The episodes originally appeared irregularly as part of Court TV's signature crime series, Crime Stories. The series was narrated by Phil Crowley, known as being the narrator of Shark Tank.
Some of the content that aired in Anatomy of Crime was occasionally graphic for television. Some of the episodes that aired featured filmed murders that weren't censored. A number of these filmed murders included: Gary Plauché killing pedophile Jeff Doucet, Emilio Nuñez murdering his ex-wife Maritza Martin at a cemetery and the murder of Lea Mek, which was a gang related shooting between the Asian Boyz gang and the Wah Ching gang at a pool hall. All of these cases were filmed murders. None of this footage was censored and was still aired on television, despite the graphic nature of this footage. The video of Plauché that aired on Anatomy of Crime has been uploaded to YouTube and has received over 19 million views.
In Europe, the show was aired on Reality TV (now known as CBS Reality) from 2002 until 2005.
The show was also aired on Bravo in the United Kingdom.
See also
Cops
Jail
Most Shocking
Video Justice
References
External links
2000s American crime television series
TruTV original programming
2000 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
2000s American reality television series
English-language television shows
True crime television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMAP | SIMAP or simap may refer to:
Similarity Matrix of Proteins, a database of protein similarities
simap.ch, the official gazette for Swiss government procurement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat%20Them%21 | Eat Them! is a video game developed by FluffyLogic and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released for PlayStation 3 on December 21, 2010. The game is a spiritual successor to Rampage.
Reception
Video Gamer thought the title was "brilliant", though felt it could use more variation in its gameplay. Gamesradar thought the game was "fresh, fun, and satisfying". IGN thought the game had a "cool" idea, but that it was let down by its repetitive "smash stuff" game mechanics. Eurogamer thought the visual style was reminiscent of beautiful comic books. GameSpot felt that the stagnancy of the objectives and difficulty held the game back. Game Zone was disappointed by the game's multiplayer and health system, but appreciated the attention to detail by the developers.
References
2010 video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEZY%20Computing | PEZY Computing is a Japanese fabless computer chip design company specialising in the design of manycore processors for supercomputers.
History
PEZY Computing was founded in 2010.
The company's first manycore processor the PEZY-1 was launched in 2012. A successor the PEZY-SC launched 2014.
In 2015, computers using PEZY processors occupied the top 3 slots on the Green 500 supercomputer list the most efficient was RIKEN's Shoubu computer with 7.03 GFLOPS/Watt.
In late 2016, PEZY and Imagination Technologies announced a partnership to use Imagination's 64-bit MIPS "Warrior" CPUs together with PEZY's SC2 manycore processors in future high performance computing applications.
In early 2017, the PEZY-SC2 chip was launched. In Nov 2017 the Gyoukou supercomputer was unveiled, incorporating PEZY-SC2 chips.
In December 2017, PEZY President Motoaki Saito, and PEZY employee, Daisuke Suzuki, were arrested on a charges of fraud that is padding expenses claims to Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) to the amount of $3.8 million. (¥431 million) In January 2018, further criminal activity was reported as being under investigation by the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office that is a further ¥191 million extracted illegally as subsidies. In July 2018 Daisuke Suzuki received a suspended prison sentence of three years, for his involvement in the fraud - was found to have played a minor associative role to Saito.
Notes
The name PEZY is an acronym derived from the Greek derived metric prefixs peta-, exa-, zetta-, and yotta-.
References
Coprocessors
Fabless semiconductor companies
Manycore processors
Supercomputing in Japan
Technology companies established in 2010
Japanese companies established in 2010
Semiconductor companies of Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisha%27s%20Southern%20Kitchen | Trisha's Southern Kitchen is an American cooking television series that aired on Food Network from April 14, 2012 to January 29, 2022. It is presented by singer and chef Trisha Yearwood; and the series features Yearwood cooking southern-inspired meals for her family and friends.
In 2013, the series won a Daytime Emmy Award (along with fellow Food Network series The Best Thing I Ever Made) for Outstanding Culinary Program.
Episodes
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2010s American cooking television series
2020s American cooking television series
2012 American television series debuts
2022 American television series endings
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program winners
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Food reality television series
Television series by Relativity Media
Television shows filmed in Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere%20%28science%20fiction%20convention%29 | HELIOsphere is an annual science fiction and fantasy convention organized by the New Amsterdam Science Fiction and Fantasy Fandom, Inc. first held in March, 2017.
The programming is a typical fan convention, including panel discussions on writing, science, fantasy, gaming, and craft workshops, a games room, and a dance event.
HELIOsphere 2017
The HELIOsphere 2017 Guests of Honor were writers Jacqueline Carey, David Gerrold, and Danielle Ackley McPhail.
Special Guests were author Dr. Charles E. Gannon, and artist Heidi Hooper.
It was held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Tarrytown, New York on the weekend of March 10–12, 2017
Notable Guests and Panelists
Alex Shvartsman science fiction and fantasy writer and editor, and former professional American Magic: The Gathering player
Paul Levinson a writer and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham
Keith DeCandido science fiction, fantasy, and comic book writer
Laura Antoniou a writer and editor known for her work in erotic fiction
HELIOsphere 2018
HELIOsphere 2018 took place at the DoubleTree Hotel in Tarrytown, New York March 9–11, 2018.
Guests of Honor were Eric Flint, Charles Gannon, Cecilia Tan, and Mark Oshiro. The featured artist was Tom Kidd.
HELIOsphere 2019
HELIOsphere 2019 took place April 5–7, 2019 at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Tarrytown, New York.
Guests of honor were Charlie Jane Anders, Laura Antoniou, and Tom Smith, with featured artist Alan F. Beck.
References
External links
HELIOsphere - The Adventure Continues
NASF3 - New Amsterdam Science Fiction & Fantasy Fandom Inc.
Science fiction conventions in the United States
Festivals in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Artificial%20Neural%20Network | Fast Artificial Neural Network (FANN) is cross-platform programming library for developing multilayer feedforward artificial neural networks (ANNs). It is free and open-source software licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Characteristics
FAN supports cross-platform execution of single and multilayer networks. It also supports fixed-point and floating-point arithmetic. It includes functions that simplify the creating, training and testing of neural networks. It has bindings for over 20 programming languages, including commonly used languages such as PHP, C# and Python.
On the FANN website multiple graphical user interfaces are available for use with the library such as FANNTool, Agiel Neural Network, Neural View, FannExeplorer, and others. These graphical interface facilitate the use of FANN for users less familiar with programming or seeking a simple out-of-the box solution.
Training for FANN is carried out through backpropagation. The internal training functions are optimized to decrease the training time.
Trained artificial neural networks can be stored as files to quickly saved and load ANNs for future use or future training. This allows dividing the training into multiple smaller steps, which can be useful when dealing with large training datasets or large neural networks.
History
FANN was originally written by Steffen Nissen. Its original implementation is described in Nissen's 2003 report Implementation of a Fast Artificial Neural Network Library (FANN). This report was submitted to the computer science department at the University of Copenhagen (DIKU). In his original report, Nissen stated that one of his main motives in writing FANN was to develop a neural network library that was friendly to both fixed point and floating point arithmetic. Nissen wanted to develop an autonomous agent that can learn from experience. His goal was to use this autonomous agent to create a virtual player in Quake III Arena that can learn from gameplay.
Since its original 1.0.0 version release, the library's functions have been expanded by the creator and its many contributors to include more practical constructors, different activation functions, simpler access to parameters and bindings to multiple programming languages. It has been downloaded 450,000 times since its move to SourceForge in 2003; 29,000 times in 2016 alone.
The source code is now hosted on GitHub. The project was inactive from Nov 2015 to May 2018; in the issue section some users mentioned that the author was no longer contactable. Since 2018, development has become active again with contributions from several collaborators.
Research
The original FANN report written by Steffen Nissen has been cited 526 times per Google Scholar. The library has been used for research in image recognition, machine learning, biology, genetics, aerospace engineering, environmental sciences and artificial intelligence.
Notable publications that cite FANN include:
Language bind |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esko%20Ukkonen | Esko Juhani Ukkonen (born 1950) is a Finnish theoretical computer scientist
known for his contributions to string algorithms,
and particularly for Ukkonen's algorithm
for suffix tree construction.
He is a professor emeritus of the University of Helsinki.
Biography
Ukkonen earned his PhD from the University of Helsinki in 1978,
where he has been a full professor since 1985.
He was the head of the computer science department at the University of Helsinki
in 1998--1999 and in 2010--2013,
and an Academy professor of the Academy of Finland in 1999--2004.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Computing since 1993.
Ukkonen is a First Class Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (2000).
He is a member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 2000,
and a foreign member of Estonian Academy of Sciences.
A festschrift in his honour was published by Springer
in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series.
He holds an honorary doctorate from Aalto University (2014).
References
External links
Finnish computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Helsinki
University of Helsinki alumni
Members of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
People from Savonlinna
Living people
1950 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VugaPay | VugaPay is a cross-platform payment service owned by Vuga Ltd, a Rwandan company. It allows businesses and users to transfer money across major payment systems, including credit card networks, mobile money and Bitcoin via an application programming interface, unstructured supplementary service data interface, a mobile phone app, or a web interface. It processed over 5 million transactions in 2016. As of December 2016, VugaPay offers instant payments to and from 40 different mobile money networks/carriers in Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Niger, Malawi, Congo Democratic Republic, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia.
Service
VugaPay is a cross-platform payment service that lets businesses and users transfer money across major payment systems. It follows a similar business model to PayPal. VugaPay describes itself as a "digital wallet". Users sign up and create an account by providing basic information and bank account information using their mobile app, USSD for feature phones or on the VugaPay website and they can find others who have created an account. Friends and recipients of transactions can be found via phone number, VugaPay username, or email.
Users have a VugaPay balance that is used for their transactions. They can link their mobile money, bitcoin, PayPal bank accounts, debit cards, or credit cards to their VugaPay account. Paying with mobile money is free, but credit cards, bitcoin, PayPal and Bank accounts have a 3% fee for each transaction. If a user does not have enough funds on VugaPay itself when making a transaction, it will automatically withdraw the supplemental funds from the registered mobile money, bank account or card.
History
VugaPay was founded by two Rwandan brothers, Patrick Muhire and Cedrick Muhoza.
After a few years of watching M-pesa evolve from a small transfer platform into a full-blown payment solution, Patrick wondered what it might look like if it were redesigned from the ground up; purely for all countries.
According to Patrick, the idea of VugaPay originated when Patrick wanted to transfer money from one mobile network operator to another. The process of sending money from one mobile network operator to another was a hassle, so they started working on a way to send money across all mobile network operators, interoperability for mobile money. Their original prototype sent money through MTN, TIGO, AIRTEL in Rwanda, but they eventually transitioned from Rwanda to the whole of East Africa, connecting telecoms in those regions. The app went public during the 2015 Transform Africa Summit (TAS) in Kigali.
Initially, VugaPay was based on mobile money. VugaPay interoperable transfers are considered a hack through mobile money carriers and can be conducted on any carrier with mobile money services. These transfers are instant, with a large number of carriers from Africa. The East African reports some Confidence trick exploit this on mobile money systems and other services.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neev%20%28TV%20series%29 | Neev (lit. Foundation) is an Indian television series broadcast on the Indian Doordarshan network in 1992. The show was 13-episode long, and based on life of students in a boarding school.
The show, shot in Scindia School, Gwalior, was directed by Madan Kumar and produced by Sanjay Khanna. Title song of the show was Dharti par sooraj ki kirnein, sung by Amit Kumar, composed by Sapan Jagmohan and lyrics by Naqsh Layalpuri.
Plot summary
The television show portrays life of students in a higher secondary boarding school (up to class XII). Headboy of the school is Rakesh Kapoor. His friends are Chatterjee, a geek, and Sabby and they have a rival group with schoolmate Francis.
Satish and Anurag Sharma are newcomer students to the school. Shahnaz is their dominating classmate, whose father Mr Khan is a kind and understanding housemaster. Actor Ali Asgar also plays a student.
Lives of students, their pranks, academics, inter-house rivalry, sports, how they adjust to life in a boarding school, and separation from family.
References
External links
Watch title song of Neev
DD National original programming
1990 Indian television series endings
Indian teen drama television series
Television shows set in Madhya Pradesh
1990 Indian television series debuts
Television series about teenagers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20K.%20Ramesh | S. K. Ramesh is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and former Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Northridge, United States.
Education
Ramesh graduated with the Bachelor of Engineering degree (Honors) in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1981 from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now known as National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli), formerly affiliated to University of Madras, India and received the Master of Science and Doctorate of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1983 and 1986 respectively from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, United States.
Career
Ramesh began his professional career as professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at California State University, Sacramento and served as the Department Chair beginning in 1994. He served as Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Northridge from 2006-2017, and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at CSUN from 2017 to the present. Ramesh was elected president of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) in 2021.
Ramesh is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world's largest technical professional organization.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli alumni
American people of Indian descent
California State University, Northridge faculty
Southern Illinois University Carbondale alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20machine%20learning | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to machine learning:
Machine learning – subfield of soft computing within computer science that evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence. In 1959, Arthur Samuel defined machine learning as a "field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed". Machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data. Such algorithms operate by building a model from an example training set of input observations in order to make data-driven predictions or decisions expressed as outputs, rather than following strictly static program instructions.
What type of thing is machine learning?
An academic discipline
A branch of science
An applied science
A subfield of computer science
A branch of artificial intelligence
A subfield of soft computing
Application of statistics
Branches of machine learning
Subfields of machine learning
Computational learning theory – studying the design and analysis of machine learning algorithms.
Grammar induction
Meta-learning
Cross-disciplinary fields involving machine learning
Adversarial machine learning
Predictive analytics
Quantum machine learning
Robot learning
Developmental robotics
Applications of machine learning
Applications of machine learning
Bioinformatics
Biomedical informatics
Computer vision
Customer relationship management –
Data mining
Earth sciences
Email filtering
Inverted pendulum – balance and equilibrium system.
Natural language processing (NLP)
Named Entity Recognition
Automatic summarization
Automatic taxonomy construction
Dialog system
Grammar checker
Language recognition
Handwriting recognition
Optical character recognition
Speech recognition
Text to Speech Synthesis (TTS)
Speech Emotion Recognition (SER)
Machine translation
Question answering
Speech synthesis
Text mining
Term frequency–inverse document frequency (tf–idf)
Text simplification
Pattern recognition
Facial recognition system
Handwriting recognition
Image recognition
Optical character recognition
Speech recognition
Recommendation system
Collaborative filtering
Content-based filtering
Hybrid recommender systems (Collaborative and content-based filtering)
Search engine
Search engine optimization
Social Engineering
Machine learning hardware
Graphics processing unit
Tensor processing unit
Vision processing unit
Machine learning tools
Comparison of deep learning software
Machine learning frameworks
Proprietary machine learning frameworks
Amazon Machine Learning
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio
DistBelief – replaced by TensorFlow
Open source machine learning frameworks
Apache Singa
Apache MXNet
Caffe
PyTorch
mlpack
TensorFlow
Torch
CNTK
Accord.Net
Jax
MLJ.jl – A machine learning framework for Julia
Machine learning libr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorin%20Comaniciu | Dorin Comaniciu (born 1964) is a Romanian-American computer scientist. He is the Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation at Siemens Healthcare.
Research
Comaniciu is known for his work in computer vision, medical imaging and machine learning. His academic publications have 54,000 citations with an H-index of 85. As of 2022, he holds 308 US patents and 550 international patent applications. He joined Siemens in 1999 as a senior research scientist with a focus on computer vision applications for automotive systems. Since 2004, he has served in various research and leadership positions, directing technology development in diagnostic imaging and image-guided surgery
Most recently, his team's research has focused on artificial intelligence, hyper-realistic visualization, and precision medicine.
Together with his team and clinical collaborators, he has helped pioneer many clinical products, including efficient bone reading, vascular analysis, cardiac function assessment, trans-esophageal 3D heart valve assessment, guidance for aortic valve implantation, enhanced stent visualization, compressed sensing for Magnetic Resonance, and automatic patient positioning for Computed Tomography.
Awards and honors
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Best Paper Award 2000 (together with Visvanathan Ramesh and Peter Meer)
IEEE Longuet-Higgins Prize 2010, for 'Fundamental contributions in Computer Vision'
IEEE Fellow 2012, for contributions to medical image analysis and computer vision
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow 2013, for technical contributions to medical imaging using machine learning, and for leadership in imaging technology
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) Society Fellow 2015, for contributions to the theory and practice of medical imaging and image-guided interventions
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow 2017, for contributions to machine intelligence, diagnostic imaging, image-guided interventions, and computer vision
Honorary doctorate awarded in 2018 from Titu Maiorescu University, Romania
Member of the National Academy of Medicine 2019
References
1964 births
Living people
Computer vision researchers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Members of the National Academy of Medicine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pani%20Makuluwo | Pani Makuluwo is a 2017 Sri Lankan Sinhala cyber crime thriller film directed by Isuru Weerasinghe Mudali and produced by U.A. Palliyaguru for Cloud Films. It stars Sanath Gunathilake and Aishara Athukorala in lead roles along with Dineth de Silva and Bangladeshi actress Priota Farelin. Music composed by Nadeeka Guruge. Music composed by Seneth Dayantha. It is the 1275th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema.
Plot
Cast
Sanath Gunathilake as Ranaweera
Aishara Athukorala as Nilu
Dineth de Silva as Cyber boyfriend
Priota Farelin as Shashi
Duminda Harshana as Spy
Thilini Jayamali as Servant
Chalith Manuranga as CID agent
Raseli Chandrajithya as CID agent
Poornima Vidushika as Cyber love interest
Song
References
External links
චිත්රපටය කළාට පසුව පැත්තකට වෙන්න මං කැමැතියි
2010s Sinhala-language films
2017 films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Pighizzini | Giovanni Pighizzini is an Italian theoretical computer scientist known for his work in formal language theory and particularly in state complexity of two-way finite automata. He earned his PhD in 1993 from the University of Milan, where he is a full professor since 2001. Pighizzini serves as the Steering Committee Chair of the annual Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems academic conference since 2006.
Research contributions
Pighizzini obtained optimal state complexity tradeoffs between different types of finite automata over a one-letter alphabet, In particular, in his joint paper with Geffert and Mereghetti he presented the first simulation of two-way nondeterministic finite automata by two-way deterministic finite automata using Savitch's theorem, contributing to the 2DFA vs. 2NFA open question. Jointly with Jirásková, he determined state complexity of self-verifying finite automata.
He also contributed to the computational complexity theory by results on sublogarithmic space complexity classes and on the complexity of searching for a lexicographically maximal string.
References
External links
Italian mathematicians
Italian computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Colcombet | Thomas Colcombet (born March 6, 1975) is a French theoretical computer scientist known for settling major open problems on tree walking automata jointly with Mikołaj Bojańczyk. Colcombet is currently a CNRS Research Director at Paris Diderot University.
Biography
Colcombet earned his undergraduate degree from École normale supérieure de Lyon (2000) and his doctorate from University of Rennes 1 (2004). Since 2004, he is a CNRS researcher, and a Research Director since 2016. He received the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2010.
Besides his work on tree walking automata, Colcombet contributed to ω-automata, particularly to state complexity of Büchi automata, and to various topics in logic in computer science.
He was involved in the development of the videogame Liquid War.
References
External links
French computer scientists
1975 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcuts%20%28app%29 | Shortcuts (formerly Workflow) is a visual scripting application developed by Apple and provided on its iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS operating systems. It allows users to create macros for executing specific tasks on their device(s). These task sequences can be created by the user and shared online through iCloud. A number of curated shortcuts can also be downloaded from the integrated Gallery.
Shortcuts are activated manually through the app, shortcut widgets, the share sheet, and Siri. They can also be automated to trigger after an event, such as the time of day, leaving a set location, or opening an app.
Shortcuts was originally created by DeskConnect, Inc. (Ari Weinstein, Conrad Kramer, Veeral Patel, and Nick Frey) for MHacks Winter 2014 competition and was awarded first place for Best iOS App.
History
Workflow originally began as a project at The University of Michigan's MHacks.
In 2015, Workflow received an Apple Design Award for its integration with iOS accessibility features such as VoiceOver.
On March 22, 2017, Apple acquired Workflow for an undisclosed amount. Following the purchase, the software was made available for free. An accompanying update also changed some of the service providers used within the app to those owned or preferred by Apple, such as Apple Maps and Microsoft Translator, and closed submissions of workflows to Gallery.
On September 17, 2018, the Workflow app became the Shortcuts app, which runs shortcuts with Siri, along with iOS 12. The app was announced on June 4, 2018, at WWDC 2018.
On September 19, 2019, with the public launch of iOS 13, the Shortcuts app became a default app installed on all iOS 13 devices.
On June 7, 2021, at WWDC 2021, a desktop version of the Shortcuts app was announced for macOS.
On September 12, 2022 Apple launched an update to the Shortcuts app as a part of iOS 16. This update included the ability to integrate Siri voice assistant with Shortcuts.
URL scheme
Shortcuts also supports a URL scheme. This works as follows:
shortcuts://Opens the Shortcuts app.
shortcuts://galleryOpens the Gallery with Shortcuts that have been premade by Apple.
shortcuts://gallery/search?query=[search words] Searches the gallery for the search word. URL encoding is required to use multiple search words.
shortcuts://create-shortcutCreates a new shortcut and opens that shortcut in the editor.
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=[name]Opens the shortcut in the editor that has the specified name. Spaces are URL encoded using %20.
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=[name]&input=[see note]&text=[see note]Executes a shortcut, optionally including an input.Note: The parameters "input" and "text" are optional. If you pass "clipboard" to input, the clipboard is passed as input. If you pass "text" to input, the parameter "text" is retrieved and the text stored there is passed as input. There, spaces must be replaced by %20.
See also
AppleScript
Automator
References
External links
Workflow Website & Documentation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administraci%C3%B3n%20de%20Parques%20Nacionales | The National Parks Administration of Argentina () is a public agency in charge of maintaining the network of national parks, created in 1934 to preserve the biological diversity and the cultural resources of the country. It is managed by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development.
History
The administration was established in 1934 by the federal law Nº 12 103/34 as the National Parks Department, together with creating Argentina's second national park, Iguazú. The first one, Del Sur, now known as Nahuel Huapi, preceded the department's creation by 12 years.
References
External links
Government agencies established in 1934
National park administrators
National parks of Argentina
1934 establishments in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Berstel | Jean Berstel (born 1941) is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to combinatorics on words and formal language theory. He is a currently a professor emeritus at the University of Marne-la-Vallée.
Biography
Berstel earned his doctorate (doctorat d'État) at Paris Diderot University in 1973. In 1973–1995 he was a professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University, and in 1995–2005 a professor at the University of Marne-la-Vallée, where he has been a professor emeritus since 2005.
In 2006, Berstel was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Turku, Finland. A festschrift in his honour was published in 2003 as a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science.
Research contributions
Berstel has been a member of the Lothaire group of mathematicians that developed the foundations of combinatorics of words. He has published several scientific monographs, including
Transductions and Context-free Languages (1979),
Theory of Codes (1985, jointly with Dominique Perrin), and Codes and Automata (2009; jointly with Dominique Perrin and Christophe Reutenauer)
as well as the three Lothaire books.
References
External links
20th-century French mathematicians
French computer scientists
1941 births
Living people
21st-century French mathematicians
Academic staff of Pierre and Marie Curie University
Paris Diderot University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric%20Bompard | Éric Bompard SA is a French high-fashion cashmere wool goods manufacturer established in 1984.
History
Éric Bompard, an entrepreneur and former computer technician, created the company in 1984 following a trip to Asia where he learned about cashmere weaving.
In the 2010s, Éric Bompard began passing over leadership to his daughter, Lorraine de Gournay, for her to later become the chief executive officer (CEO).
In 2018, Xavier Marie, the founder of Maisons du Monde, together with Apax Partners and BPI France, announced their acquisition of Éric Bompard.
The company subsequently launched an advertising campaign in late 2019, promoting its image through a "Cachemire Family".
In March 2020, Barbara Werschine was announced as the company's new CEO.
References
Clothing retailers of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Computer%20Language%20Benchmarks%20Game | The Computer Language Benchmarks Game (formerly called The Great Computer Language Shootout) is a free software project for comparing how a given subset of simple algorithms can be implemented in various popular programming languages.
The project consists of:
A set of very simple algorithmic problems
Various implementations to the above problems in various programming languages
A set of unit tests to verify that the submitted implementations solve the problem statement
A framework for running and timing the implementations
A website to facilitate the interactive comparison of the results
Supported languages
Due to resource constraints, only a small subset of common programming languages are supported, up to the discretion of the game's operator.
Metrics
The following aspects of each given implementation are measured:
overall user runtime
peak memory allocation
gzip'ped size of the solution's source code
sum of total CPU time over all threads
individual CPU utilization
It is common to see multiple solutions in the same programming language for the same problem. This highlights that within the constraints of a given language, a solution can be given which is either of high abstraction, is memory efficient, is fast, or can be parallelized better.
Benchmark programs
It was a design choice from the start to only include very simple toy problems, each providing a different kind of programming challenge.
This provides users of the Benchmark Game the opportunity to scrutinize the various implementations.
binary-trees
chameneos-redux
fannkuch-redux
fasta
k-nucleotide
mandelbrot
meteor-contest
n-body
pidigits
regex-redux
reverse-complement
spectral-norm
thread-ring
History
The project was known as The Great Computer Language Shootout until 2007.
A port for Windows was maintained separately between 2002 and 2003.
The sources have been archived on GitLab.
There are also older forks on GitHub.
The project is continuously evolving. The list of supported programming languages is updated approximately once per year, following market trends. Users can also submit improved solutions to any of the problems or suggest testing methodology refinement.
Caveats
The developers themselves highlight the fact that those doing research should exercise caution when using such microbenchmarks:
Impact
The benchmark results have uncovered various compiler issues. Sometimes a given compiler failed to process unusual, but otherwise grammatically valid constructs. At other times, runtime performance was shown to be below expectations, which prompted compiler developers to revise their optimization capabilities.
Various research articles have been based on the benchmarks, its results and its methodology.
See also
Benchmark (computing)
Comparison of programming languages
References
External links
Programming language comparisons
Benchmarks (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGLM%20algorithm | FGLM is one of the main algorithms in computer algebra, named after its designers, Faugère, Gianni, Lazard and Mora. They introduced their algorithm in 1993. The input of the algorithm is a Gröbner basis of a zero-dimensional ideal in the ring of polynomials over a field with respect to a monomial order and a second monomial order. As its output, it returns a Gröbner basis of the ideal with respect to the second ordering. The algorithm is a fundamental tool in computer algebra and has been implemented in most of the computer algebra systems. The complexity of FGLM is O(nD3), where n is the number of variables of the polynomials and D is the degree of the ideal. There are several generalization and various applications for FGLM.
References
Computer algebra
Commutative algebra
Polynomials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURES | EURES (European Employment Services) is a cooperation network formed by public employment services.
It is an agency of the EU set up to facilitate employment mobility among the member states
and it maintains a database of jobs as a useful means to search and apply for jobs in the EU, EEA and Switzerland.
Notes
External links
EURES Network, Europa.eu
Regional policies of the European Union
Institutions of the European Union
Recruitment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel%20%28TV%20series%29 | Tunnel () is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Choi Jin-hyuk, Yoon Hyun-min and Lee Yoo-young. It replaced Voice and aired on cable network OCN on Saturdays and Sundays in the 22:00 (KST) time slot from March 25 to May 21, 2017 for 16 episodes. The series was inspired by the Hwaseong serial murders.
The series was a hit in China. It received a Thai remake in 2019, and an Indonesian remake was announced in 2020.
Synopsis
In 1986, Park Gwang-ho works as a successful detective in an enthusiastic manner. However, his life changes when he takes the lead in a serial homicide case and when he passes through a tunnel while chasing the "culprit". He time travels 30 years into the future (2016), where he meets a new partner, Kim Seon-jae, an eccentric elite detective that has a high ability in investigation. When the serial killer continues his "modus operandi" of his murders that happened 30 years ago, the detective duo works together with a Criminal psychologist, Professor Shin Jae-yi to solve the unsolved murders and to catch the murderer.
Cast
Main
Choi Jin-hyuk as Park Gwang-ho
Hwayang police station's criminal sergeant detective mysteriously disappeared in 1986 and appears in 2016.
Yoon Hyun-min as Kim Seon-jae
Kim Seul-woo as child Seon-jae (Ep. 16)
Hwayang police station's elite criminal lieutenant detective in 2016.
Lee Yoo-young as Shin Jae-yi
Kim Se-hee as Park Yeon-ho (Jae-yi's name in the childhood)
Lee Da-kyung as teenage Jae-yi
Park Gwang-ho and Shin Yeon-sook's only daughter. University professor and criminal psychological counselor in 2016.
Supporting
Criminal Team 1
Jo Hee-bong as Jeon Sung-sik
Kim Dong-young as young Jeon Sung-sik
Hwayang police station's criminal team 1 leader in 2016, previously a criminal corporal detective and the youngest of his team in 1986.
Kim Byung-chul as criminal detective Kwak Tae-hee
Kang Ki-young as criminal detective Song Min-ha
Extended
Lee Si-a as Shin Yeon-sook
Park Gwang-ho's wife in 1986. She died in a car accident in 1991.
as Mok Jin-woo
Choi Seung-hoon as child Jin-woo
as teenage Jin-woo (Ep. 12)
Hwayang University's Faculty of Medicine forensic doctor in 2016. He was actually the real culprit of the mysterious 1986 Hwayang serial killings.
as reporter Oh / Oh Ji-hoon
Reporter Oh who often searched for information at Hwayang police station in 1986; now as a taxi driver in 2016 who wants to become a police officer, named Oh Ji-hoon.
Cha Hak-yeon as Park Gwang-ho
Criminal corporal police in 2016 with three years of experience, also named Park Gwang-ho but born in 1988, the youngest of team 1 but missed since the first day of transferring work and entangled in an unexplained pursuit leading to his death.
as leader Oh
Hwayang police station's criminal department leader in 1986.
Moon Sook as Hong Hye-won
Psychologist and the president of Hwayang University in 2016.
Yoo Ji-soo as Lee Nan-young, Kim Seon-jae's stepmother (Ep. 5, 7, 8)
Case characters
W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba%20C.%20Vemuri | Baba C. Vemuri is the Wilson and Marie Collins Professor of Engineering and a Distinguished Professor at the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Department of the University of Florida. He is also the Director of Laboratory for Vision Graphics and Medical Imaging at University of Florida.
Education
Baba Vemuri received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli in 1979. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Texas at Austin in 1982 and 1987 respectively.
Career
He was a visiting faculty at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York and visiting research scientist at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, Germany.
His research interests span, High-dimensional Geometric Statistics, Information Geometry, Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis. He has published over 200 journal and refereed conference papers in these fields.
Awards
IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, for “Pioneering and sustaining contributions to Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis,” 2017.
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, 2015-16.
ACM Fellow, 2009.
IEEE Fellow, 2001.
Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2008 by National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.
Whitaker Foundation Award in 1994.
US National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award (NSF RIA) in 1988.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American people of Indian descent
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli alumni
University of Florida faculty
Cockrell School of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20E.%20Ladner | Richard Emil Ladner is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to both theoretical computer science and assistive technology. Ladner is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington.
Biography
Richard Ladner was born as one of four children of deaf parents. Both of his parents were teachers at the California School for the Deaf when it was in Berkeley, California, and used American Sign Language and speech for communication. He grew up around deaf people and ASL but did not become fluent until he took some ASL classes in his early thirties. Ladner earned his undergraduate degree from St. Mary's College of California in 1965, and his doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. Among other work, he obtained important results in computational complexity theory and in automata theory. Since 1971, he has been a professor at the University of Washington.
In 1985, Ladner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1995 Ladner was appointed an ACM Fellow, and in 2009 an IEEE Fellow. He has served as an Area Editor for the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, Editor for SIAM Journal on Computing, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and Theory of Computing Systems. He is currently on the Editorial Boards for ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing and Communications of the ACM.
References
External links
My Path from to Becoming an Accessibility Researcher
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
University of Washington faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Saint Mary's College of California alumni
Living people
1943 births
SIGACCESS award winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxime%20Crochemore | Maxime Crochemore (born 1947) is a French computer scientist known for his numerous contributions to algorithms on strings. He is currently a professor at King's College London.
Biography
Crochemore earned his doctorate (PhD) in 1978 and his Doctorat d'état (DSc) in 1983 from the University of Rouen. He was a professor at Paris 13 University in 1985–1989, and moved to a professorship at Paris Diderot University in 1989. In 2002–2007, Crochemore was a senior research fellow at King's College London, where he is a professor since 2007. Since 2007, he is also a professor emeritus at the University of Marne-la-Vallée.
Crochemore holds an honorary doctorate (2014) from the University of Helsinki. A festschrift in his honour was published in 2009 as a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science.
Research contributions
Crochemore published over 100 journal papers on string algorithms. He in particular introduced new algorithms for pattern matching, string indexing and text compression. His work received a significant number of academic citations.
Crochemore has co-authored three well-known scientific monographs on the design of algorithms for string processing: "Text Algorithms" (1994; jointly with Wojciech Rytter), "Jewels of Stringology" (2002, jointly with Wojciech Rytter), and "Algorithms on Strings" (2007, jointly with Christophe Hancart and Thierry Lecroq).
References
French computer scientists
French expatriates in the United Kingdom
1947 births
Living people
Theoretical computer scientists
Academics of King's College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko%C5%82aj%20Boja%C5%84czyk | Mikołaj Bojańczyk (born 1977) is a Polish theoretical computer scientist and logician known for settling open problems on tree walking automata jointly with Thomas Colcombet, and for contributions to logic in automata theory. He is a professor at Warsaw University.
Biography
Bojańczyk earned his doctorate from Warsaw University in 2004. In 2004–2005, he spent a year at Paris Diderot University. He got his habilitation from Warsaw University in 2008 and has been a full professor there since 2014. Bojańczyk became the first recipient of the Presburger Award in 2010.
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External links
Polish computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Warsaw
University of Warsaw alumni
1977 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Gordon%20Stanton | Ralph Gordon Stanton (21 October 1923 – 21 April 2010) was a Canadian mathematician, teacher, scholar, and pioneer in mathematics and computing education. As a researcher, he made important contributions in the area of discrete mathematics; and as an educator and administrator, was also instrumental in founding the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, and for establishing its unofficial mascot of the pink tie.
Life and education
Stanton was born in Lambeth, Ontario, Canada on 21 October 1923. He was the eldest of four children.
Stanton received his BA in Mathematics and Physics in 1944 from the University of Western Ontario. He went on to receive his MA in 1945 and PhD in 1948, both from the University of Toronto. His PhD dissertation was on the topic "On The Mathiew Group M(Sub 24)", under advisor Richard Dagobert Brauer. He received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the University of Queensland in 1989, and from the University of Natal in 1997. He also received an honorary D. Math from the University of Waterloo in 1997.
Career
Faculty positions
From 1946 to 1957 Stanton taught at the University of Toronto. In 1957, he moved to Kitchener-Waterloo to work at what was then Waterloo College, which was undergoing expansion, and became what is currently the University of Waterloo. At the time of his arrival he constituted the entirety of the Mathematics Department. Stanton became the university's first Dean of Graduate Studies in 1960. He turned the Department of Mathematics into the Faculty of Mathematics, which when it opened on January 1, 1967 was the first of its kind in North America. In 1967 he moved to York University to found their Graduate program in Mathematics. In 1970 he moved to the University of Manitoba's Department of Computer Science, serving successively as Head, Professor, and Distinguished Professor.
Research
Stanton's main areas of research were in statistics and applied statistics; algebra; mathematical biology; combinatorial design theory, including pair-wise balanced designs, difference sets, covering and packing designs, and room squares; graph theory, including graph models of networks; and algorithms.
Teaching and other influences
Stanton's influence on the young University of Waterloo extended to many areas. He hired Wes Graham, who Stanton had taught as an undergraduate. Graham became one of the first professors of computer science at the university, and the first Director of its Computing Centre in 1962. Stanton was one of five members of the Academic Advisory Committee that, in 1958, urged the board of governors to buy the Schweitzer farm on the outskirts of Waterloo that today houses the main campus. He introduced computers to classroom teaching in 1960, and introduced co-op programs in applied mathematics and computer science.
His interest in teaching extended to the secondary school level. He encouraged teaching of computing science and mathematics in high schools, serving as editor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine%20Art%20%28software%29 | Fine Art () is a Go-playing computer program created by Chinese media company Tencent.
Development reportedly started in early 2016, around the time AlphaGo's successes, first against Fan Hui and later against Lee Sedol, showed that deep-learning neural networks combined with Monte Carlo algorithms were effective in computer Go. Fine Art reached the strength of human professionals by the end of 2016.
In March 2017, it won the Computer Go UEC Cup, against a field that included Zen, Crazy Stone and 27 others. AlphaGo did not participate. After its win, it played an exhibition game against Ichiriki Ryo, the Japanese 7-dan professional Go player. This game was played without handicap, and Fine Art won by resignation.
Fine Art has played many games on Fox, an Internet Go server, including several victories over Ke Jie, the world-number-1 Go player.
In the final match of the first AI Ryusei, Fine Art defeated DeepZenGo and won the championship on 10 December 2017.
References
Go engines
2016 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play%20Magnus%20%28mobile%20app%29 | Play Magnus is a commercial computer chess mobile app available for the iOS and Android mobile operating systems. The software is named after former World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen and features adjustable difficulty levels for chess players of various skills. It has been available since 2014 and is developed by the Norwegian company Play Magnus AS, which was co-founded by Carlsen.
Description
The program is a chess engine tuned to play at 30 different skill levels based on Magnus Carlsen's ability at given ages.
Users earn points by playing chess, or can purchase points for money. Points can be spent on querying the engine for move suggestions, and on the undo function (the cost of this is higher at the higher levels). With a large points balance, it used to be possible to win a chance of playing Magnus in person but this is no longer mentioned by the app.
After each game, the app gives the user a chance to "share" their result on Facebook or Twitter, or to save the game as PGN. It also includes various quotes from Magnus that are presented between games.
The first skill level ("age 5") plays moves predominantly at random.
History
The development of Play Magnus began after Carlsen founded Play Magnus AS and invested his own money and funds from investors into the company. It was developed by a team including Tord Romstad, one of the creators of Stockfish, who said he based the engine on his Stockfish predecessor "Glaurung" to avoid copyright issues with Stockfish itself. Romstad also said they "intentionally made the progression up to about age 14 a bit more linear than it was in reality (in an attempt to make the progression not be too steep, but user feedback indicates that it might be too steep nevertheless)".
Play Magnus was released in January 2014 for iOS and late 2014 for Android. It received close to one million downloads by November 2016. It had risen to 2.8 million downloads as of December 2017.
In August 2022, the Play Magnus Group accepted an offer of acquisition from Chess.com, for nearly $83 million.
References
External links
2014 software
Android (operating system) games
Chess software
IOS games
Magnus Carlsen
2022 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados%20Tramway%20Company | The Barbados Tramway Company operated a network of horse-drawn narrow gauge trams in Bridgetown, capital of Barbados, with an unknown gauge of approximately 1,067 mm (3 feet 6 inch).
History
In 1882 a horse-drawn tramway, the Barbados Tramway Company, was constructed in Bridgetown by the Scottish railway engineer Robert Fairlie.
Robert Fairlie obtained permission to construct and operate a street railway in Bridgetown, and registered Barbados Tramway Company on 5 December 1882. The Barbados Tramway Company opened the first 2 miles (3.2 km) of its St. Lawrence tram line, as far as Hastings Rocks, on 5 December 1885.
The main hub was near Nelson's Column at Trafalgar Square. The line toward south crossed the harbour in the Constitution River on Chamberlain Bridge one block approx. 700 ft (200 m) away from the terminus of the Barbados Railway, a narrow gauge steam railway that had been inaugurated on 20 October 1881.
The tram network consisted of five lines, ending in Fontabelle, Belfield, Hindsbury, Belleville and St. Lawrence. The network had up to 10 miles (16 km) of track. The Barbados Tramway Company operated up to 25 horse-drawn tramcars. Instead of numbers the trams had names, such as ACTIVE, ALERT and JUBILEE.
Gasoline-powered buses began to attract more and more passengers with effect of 1907. There were several bus companies by 1908 competing against the slower trams. Thus the tramway was sold in 1910 to U.S. investors and renamed to Bridgetown Tramway Company. The American investors initially wanted to build extensions north to Speightstown and south to Oistins Town, but their plans did not get realized. Instead, the tramway ceased to operate in 1925.
See also
Barbados Railway
St. Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway
Rail transport in Barbados
References
External links
Rail transport in Barbados
Bridgetown
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in Barbados
Defunct town tramway systems by city
Horse-drawn railways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelhard%20Roidinger | Adelhard Roidinger (28 November 1941 – 22 April 2022) was an Austrian jazz musician (bass, electronic), composer and computer graphic designer.
Life and Works
Roidinger, who was from a musician family, learned first piano, violin and guitar. When he was 16, he started to play double bass. From 1960 to 1967, he studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology and studied simultaneously double bass and jazz composing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in this city.
Since 1969, Roidinger has played double bass with Joachim Kühn and Eje Thelin and afterwards with Karl Berger and from 1971 to 1975 in Hans Kollers Free Sound. He founded the European Jazz Consensus with Alan Skidmore, Gerd Dudek and Branislav Lala Kovačev. The 'European Jazz Consensus' recorded also the albums 'Four for Slavia' and Memory Rise. Then, the International Jazz Consensus was formed by him along with Kovačev, Allan Praskin and John D. Thomas. In Austria3, which made the core of his ECM album Shady side, he performed with Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner. in addition, he worked also with Herbert Joos, Albert Mangelsdorff, Yosuke Yamashita, George Russell, Maria João, Anthony Braxton, Tone Janša and Melanie Bong. After additional education at IRCAM in Paris, his activity field of music reaches to performances with symphony orchestras and solo concerts with computer and visual components.
After working as a docent for Cybernetic Designing (TU Graz since 1967), Roidinger started to teach at Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance in Linz. He was the director of its jazz department since 1988 and moreover since 1994 the director of the Music and Media Technology department of the same university. He wrote lessons for double bass (1980) and bass guitar (1981) as well as a detailed publication about jazz improvisation and pentatonic scale (1984).
Awards and honours
In 1988, he was awarded Ernst Koref Composition Prize for his computer composition Siamesic Sinfonia.
References
Austrian jazz musicians
1941 births
Living people
Jazz bass guitarists
20th-century classical composers
Academic staff of the Graz University of Technology
20th-century jazz composers
Academic staff of Anton Bruckner Private University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Gallier | Jean Henri Gallier (born 1949) is a researcher in computational logic at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the Computer and Information Science Department and the Department of Mathematics.
Biography
Gallier was born January 5, 1949, in Nancy, France, and holds dual French and American citizenship. He earned his baccalauréat at the Lycée de Sèvres in 1966, and a degree in civil engineering at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1972.
He then moved to the University of California, Los Angeles for his graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in computer science in 1978 under the joint supervision of Sheila Greibach and Emily Perlinski Friedman. His dissertation was entitled Semantics and Correctness of Classes of Deterministic and Nondeterministic Recursive Programs.
After postdoctoral study at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he joined the University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science in 1978. At Pennsylvania, he was promoted to full professor in 1990, gained a secondary appointment to the Department of Mathematics in 1994, and directed the French Institute of Culture and Technology from 2001 to 2004.
Contributions
Gallier's most heavily cited research paper, with his student William F. Dowling, gives a linear time algorithm for Horn-satisfiability.
This is a variant of the Boolean satisfiability problem: its input is a Boolean formula in conjunctive normal form with at most one positive literal per clause, and the goal is to assign truth values to the variables of the formula to make the whole formula true. Solving Horn-satisfiability problems is the central computational paradigm in the Prolog programming language.
Gallier is also the author of five books in computational logic,
computational geometry,
low-dimensional topology,
and discrete mathematics.
Selected publications
Research papers
Books
References
External links
Home page
Living people
American computer scientists
French computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
French mathematicians
Mathematical logicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Theoretical computer scientists
École des Ponts ParisTech alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Mathematicians at the University of Pennsylvania
1949 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQHU-LP | KQHU-LP, (98.1 FM), is a new non-commercial FM outlet serving the urban portion of the Honolulu, Hawaii area, which signed on in March 2017 with Chinese-language programming. The station is owned by New Dynasty Cultural Center and is licensed to Honolulu.
External links
QHU-LP
QHU-LP
Radio stations established in 2017
2017 establishments in Hawaii |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octad | Octad ('group of 8') or octade may refer to:
Octad (chord), octachord in music theory
Octad (computing), a group of 8 bits in computing
Octad (biology), an ascus containing eight ascospores
See also
Heptad (disambiguation) ('group of 7')
Ennead (disambiguation) ('group of 9') |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoecia%20circumdata | Phytoecia circumdata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Kraatz in 1882. It is known from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Iran.
References
Phytoecia
Beetles described in 1882 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%2014%29 | The fourteenth season of Australian reality television series The Block premiered on August 5, 2018, on the Nine Network. Hosts Scott Cam and Shelley Craft, site foreman Keith Schleiger with Dan Reilly, and judges Neale Whitaker, Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer, all returned from the previous season, with special guests William Schirripa and Roshan Abraham.
Production
In June 2017, The Block producers lodged renovation plans for The Gatwick Hotel with Port Phillip City Council. In October 2017, the fourteenth season and location of The Block were officially confirmed at Nine's upfronts.
Applications for the fourteenth season of the series opened in August 2017 until 10 September 2017, looking for couples aged between 18 and 65 years old being sought by casting agents. Filming for the season was originally slated to occur between January 2018 and April 2018, however filming didn't begin until early February.
Contestants
This is the sixth season of The Block to have five couples instead of the traditional four couples.
Score history
Weekly Room Prize
Challenge Apartment
Results
Judges' scores
Colour key:
Highest Score
Lowest Score
Challenge scores
Domain Prize
Each week during the weekly walkthrough, Alice Stolz from Domain will judge each team's current room. She judges each room on suitability, continuity and flow, functionality, progress & budget. The weekly winner will be awarded a $10,000 weekly prize that is split equally in cash and marketing with domain. Each week the points are tallied and the team at the end with the highest score will have themselves and their property featured on the cover of Domain Magazine.
Auction
Ratings
Notes
Ratings data is from OzTAM and represents the live and same day average viewership from the 5 largest Australian metropolitan centres (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide).
In Apartment 1 resided a secret vault of which the contents were unknown until it was opened. Whoever selected Apartment 1 (Kerrie & Spence) were able to open it and take ownership of the contents within. The vault contained a 1 point gnome, $10,000 Suncorp budget card, $5,000 TV Mirror voucher, $50,000 Sub Zero voucher, $50,000 Gaggenau voucher, $6,300 Reece voucher, $15,000 Freedom Furniture voucher, $10,000 Beacon Lighting voucher, and a Domain Masterclass for feedback and advice on their apartment.
Real Estate Agent, John McGrath, filled in Darren Palmer during week three's Master Ensuite judging reveal.
Kerrie and Spence originally scored 26½ for their Master Ensuite, but used the bonus point they received as part of the safe in week one. Their score was changed to 27½, which gave them a half point overall win over Bianca and Carla.
Kerrie and Spence called a body corporate meeting to skip this challenge due to issues they were having back at the block. The challenge guest judges, Ronnie & Georgia Caceres, took their place and styled the 5th room.
Along with creating their 2nd Guest Bedroom, each contestan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serixia%20sedata | Serixia sedata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1862.
Subspecies
Serixia sedata occidentalis Breuning, 1950
Serixia sedata gigantea Breuning, 1950
Serixia sedata sedata Pascoe, 1862
References
Serixia
Beetles described in 1862 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20John%20Mathews | V John Mathews is an Indian-American engineer and educator who is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Oregon State University, United States.
Early life and education
Mathews grew up in India. He obtained Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) with honors in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1980 from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now known as National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli), formerly affiliated to University of Madras, India. He then received his Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City in 1981 and 1984, respectively.
Career
Mathews was a teaching/research Fellow from 1980 to 1984 and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering during the 1984 - 1985 academic year at the University of Iowa. He was with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah from 1985 till 2015. He served as the Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at University of Utah from 1999 to 2003. He joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University in 2015; He was the School Head of EECS from 2015 to 2017. He has also held short-term/visiting appointments at AT&T Bell Labs (1991), IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (2000), Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (2003-2004), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (2016, 2017) and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2018).
Awards and honors
Elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2002 "for contributions to the theory and application of nonlinear and adaptive filtering."
Recipient of the 2008-09 Distinguished Alumni Award from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India.
IEEE Utah Section’s Engineer of the Year Award in 2010.
Utah Engineers Council’s Engineer of the Year Award in 2011.
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for 2013 and 2014.
Recipient of the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award.
Research and publications
Mathews’ research interests are in nonlinear and adaptive signal processing and machine learning, and their applications in neural engineering, biomedicine, structural health monitoring, audio, and communication systems. He is the author of a book, Polynomial Signal Processing and more than 170 technical papers, and is the inventor on ten patents. He has contributed to the development of adaptive nonlinear filters and performance analysis of adaptive filters. He has developed nonlinear signal processing approaches for image enhancement and mitigation of nonlinear distortions in audio. In recent years, he has focused on neuroprosthetic systems, where he is working on evoking movements in paralyzed limbs via functional neuromuscular stimulation and decoding movement intent of a person from neural and other biological sign |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madaline | Madaline may refer to:
Computing
MADALINE (from "Many ADALINE"), a neural network architecture
People called Madaline
Madaline Lee (1912–1974), American actress
Madaline A. Williams (1894–1968), American politician
Madlaine Traverse (1875-1964), sometimes Madaline Traverse, American actress
See also
Maddy
Madeleine (disambiguation)
Magdalene (disambiguation)
Madeline (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday%20%28TV%20series%29 | Someday () is a 2006 South Korean television series starring Bae Doona, Kim Min-jun, Lee Jin-wook, and Oh Yoon-ah. It aired on cable network OCN at 22:00 every Saturdays and Sundays, starting November 11, 2006, but on November 24, 2006, switched to 23:00 every Friday night.
Cast
Main cast
Bae Doona as Yamaguchi Hana
Kim Min-jun as Go Jin-pyo
Lee Jin-wook as Lim Seok-man
Oh Yoon-ah as Jung Hye-young
Supporting
Choi Family
Yoon Won-suk as Choi Jae-deok (Seok-man's friend)
Lee Eun as Choi Yoon-deok / Sammy (sister)
Kim Mi-kyung as Ms Choi (mother)
Kang Shin-il as Mr Choi (father)
Other people
Jung Young-sook as Ha-na's grandmother
Ahn Yeo-jin as Sook-hyun (Ha-na's aunt)
Kim So-ra as Sachiko (Ha-na's friend, Sook Hyun's daughter, 22)
Shin Goo as Oh Bong-soo (Hye-young's boss)
Park Dong-bin as Hyung-in (Dr Go's friend, doctor co-worker)
Song Ji-young as Baek Eun-joo (Dr Go's nurse)
Oh Jung-se as Seo Jung-joon (private loan collector)
Ye Soo-jung as Gumiko (Ha-na's Japanese neighbor)
Jun Sung-hwan as Jun Young-gil (street cleaner)
Park Joo-hyung
Lee Moo Saeng
References
External links
OCN television dramas
Korean-language television shows
South Korean melodrama television series
2006 South Korean television series debuts
2006 South Korean television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarajan%20Ranganathan | Nagarajan Ranganathan (30 Mar 1961 – 25 October 2018) was a Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida, Tampa, United States. He was elected as a Fellow of IEEE in 2002 for his contributions to algorithms and architectures for VLSI systems. He was elected Fellow of AAAS in 2012. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems.
Education
Nagarajan Ranganathan received Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree with honors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now known as National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli), formerly affiliated University of Madras, India and Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, Orlando in 1988.
Career
He was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso during 1998–99. He has co-authored over 295 papers in refereed journals and conferences, five book chapters and co-owns eight U.S. patents and two pending.
Awards
University of South Florida Distinguished University Professor honorific title and the university gold medallion honor (2007).
Distinguished Alumnus Award, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli), India, 2009.
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award (2009).
Served as the Faculty Liaison on the Academics and Campus Environment (ACE) Group of the University Of South Florida Board of Trustees (2011-2013).
References
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli alumni
American people of Indian descent
University of Central Florida alumni
University of South Florida faculty
1961 births
2018 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink | Neuralink Corp. is an American neurotechnology company that is developing implantable brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), based in Fremont, California, as of 2022. Founded by Elon Musk and a team of seven scientists and engineers, Neuralink was launched in 2016 and was first publicly reported in March 2017.
Since its founding, the company has hired several high-profile neuroscientists from various universities. By July 2019, it had received $158 million in funding (of which $100 million was from Musk) and was employing a staff of 90 employees. At that time, Neuralink announced that it was working on a "sewing machine-like" device capable of implanting very thin (4 to 6 μm in width) threads into the brain, and demonstrated a system that reads information from a lab rat via 1,500 electrodes. They had anticipated starting experiments with humans in 2020, but have since moved that projection to 2023. As of May 2023, they have been approved for human trials in the United States.
Company
History
Neuralink was founded in 2016 by Elon Musk and a founding team of seven scientists and engineers. The group of initial hires consisted of experts in areas such as neuroscience, biochemistry and robotics. The trademark "Neuralink" was purchased from its previous owners in January 2017.
In April 2017, Neuralink announced that it was aiming to make devices to treat serious brain diseases in the short-term, with the eventual goal of human enhancement, sometimes called transhumanism. Musk had said his interest in the idea partly stemmed from the science fiction concept of "neural lace" in the fictional universe in The Culture, a series of 10 novels by Iain M. Banks.
Musk defined the neural lace as a "digital layer above the cortex" that would not necessarily imply extensive surgical insertion but ideally an implant through a vein or artery. He said the long-term goal is to achieve "symbiosis with artificial intelligence", which he perceives as an existential threat to humanity if it goes unchecked. He believes the device will be "something analogous to a video game, like a saved game situation, where you are able to resume and upload your last state" and "address brain injuries or spinal injuries and make up for whatever lost capacity somebody has with a chip."
As of 2020, Neuralink was headquartered in San Francisco's Mission District, sharing the Pioneer building with OpenAI, another company co-founded by Musk.
As of 2022, Neuralink's headquarters were in Fremont, California. Jared Birchall, the head of Musk's family office, was listed as CEO, CFO and president of Neuralink in 2018. As of September 2018, Musk was the majority owner of Neuralink but did not hold an executive position. By August 2020, only three of the eight founding scientists remained at the company, according to an article by Stat News which reported that Neuralink had seen "years of internal conflict in which rushed timelines have clashed with the slow and incremental pace of science."
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daig%20Kayo%20ng%20Lola%20Ko | ( / international title: My Fairy Grandmother) is a Philippine television drama fantasy anthology series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Rico Gutierrez, it stars Gloria Romero. It premiered on April 30, 2017 on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line-up replacing Tsuperhero.
Premise
Narrating the adventures of Lola Goreng, and her grandchildren Alice and Elvis, who find themselves living with Moira, a kid who they found on the streets.
Cast and characters
Gloria Romero as Gloria "Goreng" Espino
Jillian Ward as Alice Espino
Chlaui Malayao as Moira Villavicencio
David Remo as Elvis Espino
TG Daylusan as Pipoy
Julius Miguel as Jorrel
Angelica Ulip as Tintin
Frances Makil-Ignacio as Mila / Metring
Nova Villa as Dee
Production
Principal photography was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The series resumed its programming on July 18, 2021.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of earned an 8.5% rating. The show got its highest rating on October 29, 2017 with a 12.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2017 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series
Philippine children's television series
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Soda | Giuseppe Soda (born 2 April 1967, in Gorgonzola) is Full Professor of Organization Theory & Social Network Analysis at Università Bocconi and at SDA Bocconi School of Management where he served as Dean from 2016 to 2022.
Career
Soda is Professor of Organization Theory and Design, and Network Analysis at Bocconi University, Milan. The Board of Trustees of Bocconi University appointed Soda as Dean of SDA Bocconi School of Management in 2016, role fulfilled until the year 2022. Prior to the appointment as Dean, Soda was elected in 2013 as the Director of the Management & Technology Department at Bocconi University, and appointed as the Head of Research Division at SDA Bocconi School of Management for the period 2006-2013.
Soda's research has investigated the performance consequences of the dynamic interplay between organizational architectures and organizational networks. His contribution on the origins and evolution of organizational networks is considered seminal. His works has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Organization, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management and Organization Studies.
References
1967 births
Living people
Bocconi University alumni
Academic staff of Bocconi University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Most%20Beautiful%20Villages%20in%20Russia | The Most Beautiful Villages in Russia () is an association established in Russia in 2014 to promote rural tourism. It is part of an international network including Les Plus Beaux Villages de France and The Most Beautiful Villages in Japan. It is affiliated to the international association The Most Beautiful Villages in the World.
List of villages
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Buryatia
Karelia
Novgorod Oblast
Leningrad Oblast
Pskov Oblast
Tver Oblast
Vologda Oblast
Yaroslavl Oblast
References
External links
Krasa Derevni - List of villages
Russia
Tourism in Russia
2014 establishments in Russia
Organizations established in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%20machine%20%28disambiguation%29 | A Turing machine is an abstract mathematical computational device named after Alan Turing; see the box for variants of this meaning. Turing machine may also refer to:
Automatic Computing Engine, an early computer designed by Turing using vacuum tubes and mercury delay lines
Bombe, a machine built by Turing and others to decipher German codes during World War II
Turing Machine (band), New York based instrumental rock band founded in 1998
See also
Turing test, a test of whether a machine has human-level intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20element | An information element, sometimes informally referred to as a field, is an item in Q.931 and Q.2931 messages, IEEE 802.11 management frames, and cellular network messages sent between a base transceiver station and a mobile phone or similar piece of user equipment. An information element is often a type–length–value item, containing 1) a type (which corresponds to the label of a field), a length indicator, and a value, although any combination of one or more of those parts is possible. A single message may contain multiple information elements.
The abbreviation IE is found in many technical specification documents from 3GPP. It is not uncommon for a single specification document to contain thousands of references to IEs.
See also
Mobile telephony
References
Telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%B6bner%20fan | In computer algebra, the Gröbner fan of an ideal in the ring of polynomials is a concept in the theory of Gröbner bases. It is defined to be a fan consisting of cones that correspond to different monomial orders on that ideal. The concept was introduced by Mora and Robbiano in 1988.
The result is a weaker version of the result presented in the same issue of the journal by Bayer and Morrison. Gröbner fan is a base for the nowadays active field of tropical geometry.
One implementation of the Gröbner fan is called Gfan, based on an article of Fukuda, et al. which is included in some computer algebra systems such as Singular, Macaulay2, and CoCoA.
See also
Gröbner basis
Tropical geometry
References
Computer algebra
Algebraic geometry
Commutative algebra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary%20Cat | Imaginary Cat () is an 8-episode South Korean television series starring Yoo Seung-ho. It aired on cable network MBC Every 1, every Tuesday at 20:50 (KST) from November 24, 2015, to January 12, 2016.
Synopsis
The series tells the story of Hyun Jong-hyun, a stubborn part-time worker who dreams of being a webtoon writer, and his confidant, a stray cat named Bokgil.
Cast
Main
Yoo Seung-ho as Hyun Jong-hyun
Han Ye-ri as Bokgil (voice only)
Supporting
Cho Hye-jung as Oh Na-woo
Park Chul-min as Team Leader Ma Joo-im
Lee El as Dokgo Soon
Kim Min-seok as Yook Hae-gong
Solar as Jung Soo-in
Kim Hyun-joon as Park Jin-sung
Choi Tae-hwan as Lee Wan
Shim Min as Heo Gong-joo
Jun Hun-tae
References
External links
South Korean comedy-drama television series
MBC TV television dramas
2015 South Korean television series debuts
2016 South Korean television series endings
Television shows based on South Korean webtoons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ika-6%20na%20Utos%20episodes | Ika-6 na Utos was a Philippine television drama broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on GMA Afternoon Prime block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from December 5, 2016 to March 17, 2018, replacing Oh, My Mama!. Since April 1, 2017, the program expanded to Saturdays due to its immense popularity and high viewership, replacing Case Solved.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
The series ended, but its the 63rd-week run, and with 383 episodes. It was replaced by Contessa.
Series overview
Episodes
December 2016
January 2017
February 2017
March 2017
April 2017
May 2017
June 2017
July 2017
August 2017
September 2017
October 2017
November 2017
December 2017
January 2018
February 2018
March 2018
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Chuzhoy | Julia Chuzhoy is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, known for her research on approximation algorithms and graph theory.
Education and career
Chuzhoy earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1998, 2000, and 2004 respectively. Her dissertation, on approximation algorithms, was supervised by Seffi Naor. She has been at the Toyota Technological Institute since 2007, and also holds a position in the Computer Science Department of the University of Chicago.
Contributions and recognition
Chuzhoy won the best paper award at the 2012 Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science for her paper with Shi Li on approximating the problem of connecting many given pairs of vertices in a graph by edge-disjoint paths.
She is also known for her work showing a polynomial relation between the size of a grid graph minor of a graph and its treewidth. This connection between these two graph properties is a key component of the Robertson–Seymour theorem, is closely related to Halin's grid theorem for infinite graphs, and underlies the theory of bidimensionality for graph approximation algorithms.
She was an Invited Speaker at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians, in Seoul.
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli mathematicians
Women mathematicians
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Graph theorists
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
University of Chicago faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vu%C4%8Dipolje%2C%20Zadar%20County | Vučipolje () is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D1 road.
Population
According to the 2011 census, Vučipolje had 1 inhabitant.
Napomena: In census period 1857–1880 data is include in the settlement of Grab.
1991 census
According to the 1991 census, settlement of Vučipolje had 66 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as this:
Austro-Hungarian 1910 census
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Vučipolje had 387 inhabitants in 5 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
Literature
Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine.
Knjiga: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880–1991: po naseljima, author: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
References
External links
Populated places in Zadar County
Lika
Serb communities in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Tapscott | Alex Tapscott (born 1986) is a Canadian business author, and advisory board member. His work revolves around the applications of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
He was the CEO and founder of NextBlock Global, a cryptocurrency investment company, and is the co-founder, with his father Don Tapscott, of the Blockchain Research Institute.
Early life and education
Tapscott was born in Toronto and attended Upper Canada College. He holds a BA in Law, Jurisprudence and Social thought from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts where he graduated in 2008.
Tapscott represented Canada as a member (and captain) of the Canadian Men's Rugby Under-21 Team in numerous tournaments in 2006 and 2007.
Career
Tapscott co-authored, with his father Don Tapscott, the 2016 book Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World. The book became a The Globe and Mail as well as Toronto Star bestseller. Financial Times reviewed the book and wrote "The Tapscotts provide a thorough, balanced and enlightening guide to the next big thing",.
In October 2016, Tapscott gave his first TEDx Talk at TEDxSanFrancisco. He currently sits on the Advisory Board to Elections Canada, the independent, non-partisan agency responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums. He also serves as an advisory board member at early-stage start-ups, including Paycase and nuco.
In the summer of 2016, Tapscott co-convened a meeting of blockchain stakeholders in Muskoka, Ontario to discuss governance of the whole blockchain ecosystem.
On November 5, 2017, he announced that NextBlock was forced to scrap IPO plans due to being dropped by their underwriter, CIBC, after the company is reported to have made false and misleading statements in its marketing materials.
Bibliography
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World, PenguinRandomHouse, 2016. .
To the Breaking Point: Law and Political Emergency, UD-ALO Publishing, 2010.
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
Upper Canada College alumni
Amherst College alumni
Canadian technology writers
People associated with cryptocurrency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter%27s%20constant | In mathematics, Porter's constant C arises in the study of the efficiency of the Euclidean algorithm. It is named after J. W. Porter of University College, Cardiff.
Euclid's algorithm finds the greatest common divisor of two positive integers and . Hans Heilbronn proved that the average number of iterations of Euclid's algorithm, for fixed and averaged over all choices of relatively prime integers ,
is
Porter showed that the error term in this estimate is a constant, plus a polynomially-small correction, and Donald Knuth evaluated this constant to high accuracy. It is:
where
is the Euler–Mascheroni constant
is the Riemann zeta function
is the Glaisher–Kinkelin constant
See also
Lochs' theorem
Lévy's constant
References
Mathematical constants
Analytic number theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2017–18 network television schedule for the five major English commercial broadcast networks in Canada covers primetime hours from September 2017 through August 2018. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2016-17 television season, for Canadian, American and other series.
CBC Television was first to announce its fall schedule on May 24, 2017, followed by Global on June 5, 2017, City on June 6, 2017, and CTV and CTV Two on June 7, 2017. As in the past, the commercial networks' announcements come shortly after the networks have had a chance to buy Canadian rights to new American series.
CTV Two and Global are not included on Saturday as they normally only schedule encore programming in primetime on Saturdays.
Legend
Light blue indicates Local Programming.
Grey indicates Encore Programming.
Light green indicates sporting events.
Red indicates Canadian content shows, which is programming that originated in Canada.
Magenta indicates series being burned off and other irregularly scheduled programs, including specials.
Cyan indicates various programming.
Light yellow indicates the current schedule.
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold. Series that have changed network are not highlighted as new series.
All times given are in Canadian Eastern Time and Pacific Time (except for some live events or specials, including most sports, which are given in Eastern Time).
Most CBC programming airs at the same local time in all time zones, except Newfoundland time (add 30 minutes).
For commercial stations in the Central Time Zone, subtract one hour.
For commercial stations in the Atlantic and Mountain time zones, add one hour for programming between 8:00 and 10:00 PM. Programs airing at 10:00 PM ET/PT will generally air at 8:00 PM local on stations in these areas. For viewers in the Newfoundland time zone, add an additional 30 minutes to the Atlantic time schedule.
Notwithstanding the above, timeslots may occasionally vary further in some areas due to local simultaneous substitution considerations, compliance with watershed restrictions, or other factors.
From February 8 to February 25, 2018, CBC coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea live in all time zones, encompassing all of primetime those days.
Sunday
Note: CTV aired the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery in simulcast with CBS on September 24.
Monday
Note: The Bachelor runs from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern when City has The Resident in simulcast.
Tuesday
Note: Until November 14, NCIS: New Orleans aired on Global at 7 pm eastern.
Note: Ellen's Game of Games debuted on December 18 on CTV at 10 pm and airs back to back episodes on January 2.
Note: CTV has Roseanne scheduled for pre-release at 7:30 pm eastern.
Wednesday
Note: Big Brother Canada airs at 7 p.m. Eastern, outside of Primetime hours.
Thursday
Note: As of November 2, CTV airs Grey's Anatomy airs at 7 p.m. Eastern.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20dams%20and%20reservoirs%20in%20Minnesota | This is a list of dams and reservoirs in the U.S. state of Minnesota and pertinent data in a sortable table. There are more than 1,250 dams in the state. Over 800 are public facilities and of these 430 are owned by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
This list includes the most notable structures, namely all that generate hydroelectricity, any operated by the Mississippi Valley Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and all dams with reservoirs larger than 100,000 acre feet according to the USACE National Inventory of Dams Notable structures in popular recreation areas are also included, in particular those at the headwaters of the Mississippi and along the North Shore of Lake Superior. Historically significant structures as well as dams whose removal have sparked media interest are also included. Furthermore, there are many dams that have yet to be listed that call Minnesota home.
List of Minnesota dams and reservoirs
Data definitions
Unless referenced differently, all information in the table above is from the USACE National Inventory of Dams (NID) Specific data fields are defined as follows:
Failed and removed dams
Berning Mill Dam, St. Michael, Minnesota – Crow River (removed after failure 1986)
Broken Down Dam, Fergus Falls, Minnesota – Otter Tail River (built 1908, collapsed 1909 - ruins remain in the river for recreation)
Flandrau Dam, New Ulm, Minnesota – Cottonwood River (built 1930, removed 1995 after repeated damage from floods)
Hanover Dam, Hanover, Minnesota – Crow River (removed after failure 1984)
Lac qui Parle Dam, Montevideo, Minnesota – Chippewa (built 1958, removed 2012)
Lake Florence Dam, Stewartville, Minnesota – Root River (built 1910s, damaged 1993, removed 1994 - Lake Florence no longer exists)
Meeker Island Lock and Dam – Mississippi River (built 1907, became obsolete and removed 1920)
Mill Pond Dam, Appleton, Minnesota – Pomme de Terre River (removed after being damaged in a 1997 flood)
Minnesota Falls Dam, Granite Falls, Minnesota – Minnesota River (built 1909, removed 2010)
Nevers Dam, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota – St. Croix River (built 1889, removed 1954 after being damaged)
Sandstone Dam, Sandstone, Minnesota – Kettle River (20 ft tall hydropower dam built 1908, removed 1999)
Shady Lake Dam (Oronoco Dam), Oronoco, Minnesota – Zumbro River (built in 1937, removed 2015 after dam failure in 2010)
Stockton Dam, Stockton, Minnesota – Garvin Brook (30 ft high mill structure built 1910, removed 1994)
Welch Dam, Welch, Minnesota – Cannon River (built 1890s, removed 1994)
Notes
References
See also
List of locks and dams of the Upper Mississippi River
External links
Minnesota DNR Dam Finder (Interactive)
NPDB Dams Database National Performance of Dams Program, Stanford University
Dams in Minnesota
Reservoirs in Minnesota
Minnesota
Dams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef%20Australia%20%28series%209%29 | The ninth series of the Australian cooking game show MasterChef Australia premiered on 1 May 2017 on Network Ten. Judges Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston from the previous series returned.
This series was won by Diana Chan in the grand finale against Ben Ungermann, on 24 July 2017.
Changes
This series introduced the "Power Pin" in the seventh week. The pin granted the wearer an extra 15 minutes of cooking time in any one challenge until the finals.
Contestants
Top 24
The Top 24 contestants were announced on 1–3 May 2017. Chosen contestant Josh Clearihan was a previous auditionee from the eighth series who failed to reach the auditions when he was hospitalized with brain damage after a run-in with a car thief. The series featured other previous auditionees: Pia Gava, Benita Orwell and Eloise Praino.
Future appearances
Ben Ungermann was a guest judge of MasterChef Indonesia (season 5).
Ben Ungermann and Sarah Tiong appeared on Series 12. Ben withdrew from the competition on May 18, 2020, finishing 16th and Sarah was eliminated on June 9, 2020, finishing 10th.
Guest Chefs
Elimination chart
Episodes and ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating during the series
– Lowest rating during the series
References
MasterChef Australia
2017 Australian television seasons
Television shows filmed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20Island%20%28TV%20series%29 | Fire Island is an American reality television series from the LGBT-interest network Logo that began airing on April 27, 2017. It is produced by Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Albert Bianchini, and Lenid Rolov. The show was not renewed for a second season.
Synopsis
Six gay men share a beachfront house for the summer on Fire Island.
Cast
Khasan Brailsford, a dancer and choreographer who has performed with artists like Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, P!nk, and Jennifer Lopez
Jorge Bustillos, Khasan's best friend, a marketing strategist who left a career as a doctor in Venezuela
Cheyenne Parker, an entrepreneur and model
Justin Russo, an artist and illustrator
Patrick McDonald, a Fire Island bartender
Brandon Osorio, a New York University student and aspiring photographer
Production
Fire Island is produced by Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Albert Bianchini, and Lenid Rolov. Ripa and Consuelos said of the show, "We fell in love with Fire Island years ago the minute we stepped off the ferry. We’re excited to share the long-standing magic of the island with this new series and to be working again with our Logo family."
Logo ordered the series from Ripa and Consuelos in July 2016. Taped in Summer 2016, Fire Island cast members were announced on March 6, 2017. Saturday Night Live subsequently parodied the series in a skit about a lesbian reality show called Cherry Grove.
The beachfront house used in the series is located at 150 Ocean Front Walk in Fire Island Pines. The listing by Fire Island Properties describes it as "4 bedroom – 4 bath ocean front home is complete with 2 fireplaces, gunite pool and hot tub. All bedrooms have private bathroom." Per Newsday, the listing price for a July to August season in 2017 was $155,000.
Broadcast
A 90-second teaser trailer was released for Fire Island in on March 6, 2017. On March 14, 2017, Logo announced an April 27 premiere date for the series.
The first episode was previewed in the US on VH1 on April 21, 2017, at 9 pm after RuPaul's Drag Race. Fire Island premiered on Logo at 8 pm on April 27, 2017, with the first two episodes back-to back.
Reception
Following the release of a 90-second teaser for Fire Island, a March 2017 op-ed by personal trainer Jason Wimberly in The Advocate suggested that the series "contributes to gay America's moral decline" by glamorizing behavior that negatively impacts the perception of the LGBT community. Fire Island cast members defended the series, calling it "lighthearted" and noting that "we're not harming anyone", and cast members from MTV's controversial reality series Jersey Shore commented that "bad press is good press" and advised the Fire Island cast to "take the criticism with a grain of salt".
Episodes
References
External links
2017 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
2010s American reality television series
2010s American LGBT-related television series
American LGBT-related reality television series
Logo TV original programming
2010s L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Quantum%20Platform | IBM Quantum Platform (previously as IBM Quantum Experience) is an online platform allowing public and premium access to cloud-based quantum computing services provided by IBM. This includes access to a set of IBM's prototype quantum processors, a set of tutorials on quantum computation, and access to an interactive textbook. As of February 2021, there are over 20 devices on the service, six of which are freely available for the public. This service can be used to run algorithms and experiments, and explore tutorials and simulations around what might be possible with quantum computing.
IBM's quantum processors are made up of superconducting transmon qubits, located in dilution refrigerators at the IBM Research headquarters at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Users interact with a quantum processor through the quantum circuit model of computation. Circuits can be created either using graphically with the Quantum Composer, or programmatically within the Jupyter notebooks of the Quantum Lab. Circuits are created using Qiskit and can be compiled down to OpenQASM for execution on real
quantum systems.
History
The service was launched in May 2016 as the IBM Quantum Experience with a five-qubit quantum processor and matching simulator connected in a star shaped pattern. At this time, users could only interact with the hardware through the quantum composer GUI. Quantum circuits were also limited to the specific two-qubit gates available on the hardware.
In July 2016, IBM launched the IBM Quantum Experience community forum. This was subsequently replaced by a Slack workspace.
In January 2017, IBM made a number of additions to the IBM Quantum Experience, including increasing the set of two-qubit interactions available on the five-qubit quantum processor, expanding the simulator to custom topologies up to twenty qubits, and allowing users to interact with the device and simulator using quantum assembly language code.
In March 2017, IBM released Qiskit to enable users to more easily write code and run experiments on the quantum processor and simulator. A user guide for beginners was also added.
In May 2017, IBM made an additional 16-qubit processor available on the IBM Quantum service.
In January 2018, IBM launched a quantum awards program, which it hosted on the IBM Quantum Experience.
In May 2019 a large overhaul of the service was made, including the addition of web-hosted Jupyter notebooks and integration with the online and interactive Qiskit textbook.
After a redesign in March 2021, a greater distinction was made between the composer GUI and the Jupyter notebooks. The IBM Quantum Experience name was retired in favour of the separate names IBM Quantum Composer and IBM Quantum Lab. Now its collectively called IBM Quantum Platform.
IBM Quantum Composer
The Quantum Composer is a graphic user interface (GUI) designed by IBM to allow users to construct various quantum algorithms or run other quantum experiments. Users may see the res |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochariesthes%20fuscocaudata | Isochariesthes fuscocaudata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Fiedler in 1939.
References
fuscocaudata
Beetles described in 1939 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributional%E2%80%93relational%20database | A distributional–relational database, or word-vector database, is a database management system (DBMS) that uses distributional word-vector representations to enrich the semantics of structured data.
As distributional word-vectors can be built automatically from large-scale corpora, this enrichment supports the construction of databases which can embed large-scale commonsense background knowledge into their operations. Distributional-Relational models can be applied to the construction of schema-agnostic databases (databases in which users can query the data without being aware of its schema), semantic search, schema-integration and inductive and abductive reasoning as well as different applications in which a semantically flexible knowledge representation model is needed. The main advantage of distributional–relational models over purely logical / semantic web models is the fact that the core semantic associations can be automatically captured from corpora in contrast to the definition of manually curated ontologies and rule knowledge bases.
Distributional–relational models
Distributional–relational models were first formalized as a mechanism to cope with the vocabulary/semantic gap between users and the schema behind the data. In this scenario, distributional semantic relatedness measures, combined with semantic pivoting heuristics can support the approximation between user queries (expressed in their own vocabulary) and data (expressed in the vocabulary of the designer).
In this model, the database symbols (entities and relations) are embedded into a distributional semantic space and have a geometric interpretation under a latent or explicit semantic space. The geometric aspect supports the semantic approximation between entities from different databases or between a query term and a database entity. The distributional relational model then becomes a double layered model where the semantics of the structured data provides the fine-grained semantics intended by the database designer, which is extended by the distributional semantic model which contains the semantic associations expressed at a broader use.
These models support the generalization from a closed communication scenario (in which database designers and users live in the same context, e.g. the same organization) to an open communication scenario (e.g. different organizations, the Web), creating an abstraction layer between users and the specific representation of the conceptual model.
References
Computer data
Database management systems
Natural language processing software
Heuristics
Language modeling
Computational linguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20calendar | The resource calendar is the timetable that shows how material and labor are consumed during the course of a project. This data might be at activity or project level.
Project schedule
Making a schedule relies on upon knowledge of every individual's accessibility and schedule limits, including:
Time zones
Work hours
Get-away time
See also
Schedule (project management)
Project planning
Resource allocation
References
External links
Creating Resource Calendars
Time management
Schedule (project management) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule%20network%20analysis | Schedule Network Analysis is a strategy that is commonly used in project management. The strategy consists of visualising the different project tasks and making connections between them in the project management plan.
For making a final schedule, a schedule network analysis is finished utilizing a draft schedule. Numerous strategies may be utilized to make the final schedule, for example:
Defining critical and non-critical tasks using critical path method
Ascertaining and analyze possible events that can take place in the future using scenario analysis
Shortening the schedule using a schedule compression
Considering activity interdependence and resource constraints using critical chain project management
Overlooking resource allocation using resource leveling
See also
Computer network diagram
Project network
Precedence diagram method
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Whale%20Challenge | "Blue Whale" (), also known as the "Blue Whale Challenge", is a social network phenomenon dating from 2016 that is claimed to exist in several countries. It is a "game" reportedly consisting of a series of tasks assigned to players by administrators over a 50-day period, initially innocuous before introducing elements of self-harm and the final challenge requiring the player to kill themselves.
"Blue Whale" first attracted news coverage in May 2016 in an article in the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta that linked many unrelated child suicides to membership of group "F57" on the Russian-based VK social network. A wave of moral panic swept Russia. However, the piece was later criticised for attempting to make a causal link where none existed, and none of the suicides were found to be a result of the group activities. Claims of suicides connected to the game have been reported worldwide, but none have been confirmed.
Background
In November 2015, a Russian teenager posted a selfie with the caption "nya bye" before dying by suicide; her death was then discussed in internet forums and groups, becoming mixed with scare stories and folklore. Further suicides were added to the group stories. Soon after, Russian journalist Galina Mursaliyeva first wrote about these "death groups" in an article published in the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta in April 2016. The article described the "F57" groups on Russian social media site VK, which she claimed had incited 130 teenagers to kill themselves. Mursaliyeva's article was criticised at the time of its release for lacking credible data and balance, with the 130 cases of suicide cited being particularly problematic. The number was originally suggested by the father of one of the teenagers, Sergey Pestov, who came to the figure 130 by using Russian media sources to look for child suicides he believed were linked to online groups; he then produced a brochure which implied that foreign intelligence operatives were responsible for encouraging Russian children to die by suicide. After an investigation by Evgeny Berg for Meduza, Mursaliyeva responded by saying in fact there had been at least 200 suicides.
The origin of the name "Blue Whale" is uncertain. Some reports say that it comes from a song by the Russian rock band Lumen. Its opening lines are "Why scream / When no one hears / What we're talking about?" and it features a "huge blue whale" that "can't break through the net." Others believe it to be a reference to beaching, where whales become stranded on beaches and die.
The game is said to run on different social media platforms and is described as a relationship between an administrator and participant. Over a period of fifty days the administrator sets one task per day; the tasks seem innocuous to begin with ("get up at 4:30a.m.", "watch a horror movie"), and move on to self-harm, leading to the participant killing themselves on the final day. As professor at Russian State University for the Humanities, Alexan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enkenbach%20station | Enkenbach station is the only station in Enkenbach-Alsenborn in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It has two platforms tracks and is located in the network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar transport association, VRN) and belongs to fare zone 828. Its address is Bahnhofstraße 2.
It is located on the Alsenz Valley Railway (Alsenztalbahn, Hochspeyer–Bad Münster) and was put into service on 29 October 1870 with the opening of the section from Hochspeyer to Winnweiler. On 16 May of the following year it was opened over its whole length. In 1875, the station became the eastern end of the Kaiserslautern–Enkenbach railway, which formed a shorter route for trains from the Alsenz line to Kaiserslautern. In 1932, the Eis Valley Railway (Eistalbahn, Grünstadt–Eisenberg), which was opened in 1876, was extended through to Enkenbach. Between Eiswoog and Enkenbach, the latter line has now been closed.
Location
The station is located on the eastern edge of the Enkenbach district of the Enkenbach-Alsenborn municipality of Rhineland-Palatinate. The local streets of Bahnhofstraße and Klosterbach run to the west of and parallel to it. Rosenhofstraße – which is also marked as state route 395 – crosses the southern station area. Just east of the station is the village of Alsenborn. It has parking, bicycle parking, a bus stop and a barrier-free entrance.
Railway lines
The Alsenz Valley Railway runs in the station area from the south-southeast to the north-northwest. South of Enkenbach the otherwise two-track line has only one track. The Kaiserslautern–Enkenbach railway reaches the station from a south-west direction in a 90-degree curve. The Eis Valley Railway, which has been closed in this area, crossed the Alsenz line north of the station, and then entered the Stumpfwald via Alsenborn.
History
Planning, construction and early years
Around 1860, there were the first plans for a railway line along the Alsenz. This would have connected with the Neustadt–Wissembourg railway (Maximiliansbahn) and the section of the Palatine Ludwig Railway (Pfälzischen Ludwigsbahn, now mainly the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway) immediately west of Neustadt as a through route in the north-south direction. Since Enkenbach itself is not on the river, it was unclear whether the line would have passed through it. The town of Otterberg, which lies further west, sought, for example, a route through its territory. However, the competent engineer rejected this and recommended a route through Enkenbach to Hochspeyer, since this was topographically easier.
The Hochspeyer–Winnweiler section was opened on 29 October 1870 and on 16 May of the following year, the line to Münster was completed. In the beginning, Enkenbach was a stop for long-distance trains towards Neustadt and Kaiserslautern.
Although the line connected towards Kaiserslautern at Hochspeyer station, the municipality felt the route through Hochspeyer was inconvenient. Therefore, the Kaiserslautern–Enkenbac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Harkness | Peter Martin Harkness (born May 1949) is a British media entrepreneur and investor. A former journalist, he is a director of the business data specialist GlobalData plc.
Early life
Peter Martin Harkness was born in May 1949.
Career
After a 15-year spell as a journalist in the West Midlands, Harkness became deputy editor of the Sunday Mercury when he switched to newspaper management. He became managing director of the London Newspaper Group after acquiring it from Yattendon Investment Trust in a 1985.
Harkness joined media company Magicalia in the early 2000s and led management teams which acquired and sold a series of media companies, including the Butler Group, which was sold to Datamonitor for £11 million; the Midlands magazine group WHY Publications, sold to the Daily Mail group for £14 million; and Precise Media, sold to Phoenix Equity Partners for £42 million.
In 2006, he co-founded, with Owen Davies, the publishing and e-commerce group MyTime Media Ltd.
In 2009, concerned at the continuing dominance of privately educated pupils from the South of England being accepted at Oxbridge colleges, Harkness and his wife Sarah founded a series of bursaries and prizes to encourage applicants from Yorkshire and the North East to apply for places at Mansfield College, Oxford University. This initiative was in support of Mansfield's "Widening Access" campaign, through which the college had by 2019 seen the percentage of state school pupils admitted to Mansfield rise to 96.1%.
Harkness served as a Trustee of York Museums Trust from 2010 to 2014. He served as chairman of The Cheltenham Trust, an arts charity that manages five iconic arts, performance and leisure venues in Cheltenham, from 2014 to 2020. As of November 2021, he has been a trustee for Cogges Heritage Trust.
He retired after nine years as Chairman of the listed investment fund, Chrysalis VCT in October 2017. He resigned his chairmanship of MyTime Media on 28 February 2018.
Harkness is director of the business data specialist GlobalData plc.
References
1949 births
Living people
British business executives
People from the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
Trustees of York Museums Trust |
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