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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Prize%20in%20Computing | The ACM Prize in Computing was established by the Association for Computing Machinery to recognize individuals for early to mid-career innovative contributions to computing. The award carries a prize of $250,000. Financial support is provided by an endowment from Infosys Inc.
The ACM Prize in Computing was previously known as the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences for award years 2007 through 2015. In 2016 it was announced that ACM Prize in Computing recipients are invited to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF).
Recipients
See also
List of computer science awards
References
Computer science awards
Awards of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20History%20Working%20Group | The Military History Working Group (Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte, AKM) is a German professional association and research network formed in 1995 in Freiburg. It focuses on the interdisciplinary war studies and military history.
The Group's activities are coordinated out of the Historical Institute of the University of Bern. Initially chaired by historian Wilhelm Deist, it is chaired by historian as of 2017. In cooperation with Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, the association produces the War in History (book series) (Krieg in der Geschichte).
Purpose and organisation
The Military History Working Group was founded in 1995. Wilhelm Deist, chief historian at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) was one of the founding members and, from 1995 to 2002, its chairman of the association. From 2002 to 2003, he was the honorary chairman of the association. Its intention, according to Jörg Echternkamp, is to "contribute to the development of this current and important field of historical science, which is hardly represented at universities in German-speaking universities".
The Group's scientific work integrates several areas of historical science are such as politics, government, economics, and social, cultural and gender history. In addition to the Working Group on Historical Peace Research and the , it is one of the most important workplaces for military history in the German-speaking world.
The association currently has over 500 members, including historians such as , , , Alaric Searle and Jens Westemeier. As of 2016, the organisation's chairman was . With 500 historians, it's one of the largest associations of this kind.
Wilhelm Deist Prize for Military History
The Wilhelm Deist Prize for Military History, awarded by the association, recognises the research of young scientists in the field of military history. Established in 2006, it was named after Wilhelm Deist in his honour. The prize is awarded annually for outstanding contributions to historical sciences. Its recipients included (2007) and (2008). Jury members include Stig Förster from the University of Bern and Sönke Neitzel from the University of Potsdam.
War in History book series
The Military History Working Group, in cooperation with Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, publishes War in History (book series) (Krieg in der Geschichte). The series is edited by historians of the University of Bern, of the University of Potsdam, and Bernd Wegner of the Helmut Schmidt University. Select publications in the series include:
Rüdiger Overmans (Ed.): In der Hand des Feindes. Kriegsgefangenschaft von der Antike bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg. Böhlau, Köln u.a. 1999, .
Thomas Kühne, Benjamin Ziemann (Eds): Was ist Militärgeschichte? (Krieg in der Geschichte, Band 6). Schöningh, Paderborn u.a. 2000, .
Karen Hagemann, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Eds): Heimat – Front. Militär- und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege (Reihe Geschichte und Geschlechter, Band 35). Campus, Frankfurt am Main |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bachelorette%20%28Australian%20season%203%29 | The third season of The Bachelorette Australia premiered on Network Ten on 20 September 2017. The season features Sophie Monk, a 37-year-old model and radio personality from Gold Coast, Queensland, courting 22 men.
Contestants
The season began with 18 contestants. In episode 5, four "intruders" were brought into the competition, bringing the total number of contestants to 22.
Notes
Call-out order
Color Key
The contestant received the Double Delight rose, granting them two single dates.
The contestant received a rose during a date.
The contestant was eliminated outside the rose ceremony.
The contestant was eliminated during a date.
The contestant was eliminated.
The contestant quit the competition.
The contestant won the competition.
Episodes
Episode 1
Original airdate: 20 September 2017
Episode 2
Original airdate: 21 September 2017
Episode 3
Original airdate: 27 September 2017
Episode 4
Original airdate: 28 September 2017
Episode 5
Original airdate: 4 October 2017
Episode 6
Original airdate: 5 October 2017
Episode 7
Original airdate: 11 October 2017
Episode 8
Original airdate: 12 October 2017
Episode 9
Original airdate: 18 October 2017
Episode 10
Original airdate: 19 October 2017
Episode 11
Original airdate: 25 October 2017
Episode 12
Original airdate: 26 October 2017
Ratings
References
2017 Australian television seasons
2017 in Australian television
Australian (season 03)
Television shows filmed in Australia
Television shows filmed in Fiji |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll%20Over%20Beethoven%20%28TV%20series%29 | Roll Over Beethoven is a British television sitcom produced by Central Independent Television and transmitted on the ITV network in 1985.
Written by the duo Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, the series starred Nigel Planer as millionaire pop star Nigel Cochrane, who turns life in a sleepy Surrey village upside down when he purchases the manor house, installing a recording studio in his new home and planning to record his first solo album there.
He enlists the help of local piano teacher Belinda Purcell (Liza Goddard) to help him master the keyboard. An unlikely friendship – then romance – develops between the two as they collaborate on the album, much to the disapproval of Belinda's father, retired schoolmaster Oliver (Richard Vernon). As the series progresses, Nigel briefly leaves to go on a promotional tour of the album, while Belinda develops her talent for composing by working on an album of her own.
ITV screened all thirteen episodes in one go with a week's break in April 1985, but Roll Over Beethoven was in fact recorded in two separate production blocks. The first six episodes were directed by Derrick Goodwin, whilst Nic Phillips took over for episodes 7–13.
In The Confessional with Stephen Mangan broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Nigel Planer revealed that he chose to go on tour rather than doing a second series of Roll Over Beethoven, bringing an abrupt end to the program.
Cast
Liza Goddard – Belinda Purcell
Nigel Planer – Nigel Cochrane (eps. 1–8 & 12)
Richard Vernon – Oliver Purcell
Desmond McNamara – Lem
Emlyn Price – Marvin Sertleman (eps. 9–13)
References
External links
1980s British sitcoms
1985 British television series debuts
1985 British television series endings
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
Television shows produced by Central Independent Television
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows set in Surrey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vejdirektoratet | Vejdirektoratet or the Danish Road Directorate is responsible for the national road network of Denmark, which comprises motorways, a number of main roads and many of the country's bridges – a total of about 4,000 kilometres.
Tasks
Road Directorate's work consists primarily of three elements:
Planning
Construction and operation
Traffic and management
Organisation
The structure of the Directorate includes;
General Directorate (including procurement and supplier management, human resources, and communication)
Planning (including safety and environment)
Construction
Traffic operations
Resources (including finance and IT)
The Danish Road Directorate is based at six service centres across the country and forms part of the Danish Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing.
References
External links
Official website
Official ministry website
Road authorities
Government agencies of Denmark
Government agencies established in 1949
1949 establishments in Denmark
Transport organizations based in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hahamakin%20ang%20Lahat%20episodes | Hahamakin ang Lahat (International title: Love and Defiance / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. It aired from October 31, 2016, to February 17, 2017, on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Sinungaling Mong Puso and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV.
Urban Luzon and NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
October 2016
November 2016
December 2016
January 2017
February 2017
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twakka%20Tukka%20Returns | Twakka Tukka Returns is a Nepali sitcom which airs in Kantipur Television Network every Friday. This sitcom features Dinesh D C as a host he tells what is going to happen next on the show.
The program is based on the original comedy series Twakka Tukka popular in 1990s aired by the Nepal Television.
Cast
Dinesh D.C. as host
Mahadev Tripathi as Premcharo and Jadugar
Sivashankhar Rijal as Jogindar
Surendra KC as Mulako Sag
Gopal Dhakal as Chhande and Mr Funny
Sushila Niraula as Bimli
Prem Pandey
Ashim Suresh
Janak Khadka as an actor/writer and Chief Assistant Director
Giri Raj
Yesoda Giri
Binod Pariyar
References
Nepalese television series
Kantipur Television series
Nepalese television sitcoms
Television shows set in Nepal
2010s Nepalese television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuching%20Urban%20Transportation%20System | The Kuching Urban Transportation System (KUTS) is an under-construction autonomous rail rapid transit (ART) system network in Kuching, Malaysia. It is the first metro rail system to be built in the state of Sarawak which was touted as one of the methods to ease traffic congestion in the city of Kuching. The project is to be constructed using state funds provided by the Development Bank of Sarawak (DBOS). The proposed ART lines will connect Kuching to Samarahan and Serian as well as future lines to other parts of Greater Kuching. The Premier of Sarawak, Abang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg had initially promised to build the first Kuching ART soon to avoid rising costs, with Chinese companies offering their expertise to collaborate in the construction.
Initial plan - Light Rapid Transit
The proposed construction of a RM10.8 billion Kuching LRT project was expected to commence by 2019 and was scheduled to be operational by 2024. It was proposed that the LRT will use hydrogen fuel cell rolling-stock with a travel speed of 70–140km/h.
The hydrogen fuel cell trains were in line with the state government’s vision to develop a hydrogen economy, as part of its green initiative. Aside from hydrogen-powered trains, Kuching will also be the first city in the country to have hydrogen-powered buses.
Planned routes
On 29 March 2018, the Chief Minister of Sarawak released the routes and stations of three of the six lines with 155.2 kilometers of track to be completed in 2024, while the remaining three lines to be implemented at a later stage. A Government-linked company (GLC) called Sarawak Metro Sdn Bhd has been registered to manage the LRT system.
Samarahan Line (Line 1)
Serian Line (Line 2)
Shelving
However, on 1 September 2018, the Chief Minister of Sarawak announced that the project has been placed on hold, citing that the funds allocated to the project will instead be used to build basic amenities for Sarawak's rural areas.
Revised plan - Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART)
In July 2019, the Chief Minister of Sarawak said that the LRT project will be built using artificial intelligence (AI) technology which will remove the need for conventional rails and bringing down the cost of the project.
In September 2019, the government of Sarawak ultimately decided to go with China's Automated Rapid Transit (ART) system than LRT due to its more affordable cost where the state transport minister said it will be ready by 2022. The ART is a type of guided bus running on batteries. In April 2022, Premier Abang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg disclosed to the Singaporean English daily newspaper, The Straits Times that the ART system will likely consist of 52.6 km of route and is expected to begin construction in the third quarter of the same year, with a projected operational date of 2025.
In August 2023, the state received its first hydrogen-powered ART vehicle prototype and will be going through an engineering run for two months until September, where it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAFacts | USAFacts is a not-for-profit organization and website that provides data and reports on the United States population, its government's finances, and government's impact on society. It was launched in 2017.
History and background
USAFacts was founded by former Microsoft CEO and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Steve Ballmer. Ballmer invested his own money in the project. USAFacts was launched on April 18, 2017 Tax Day, with the goal of making government data about tax revenues, expenditures, and outcomes more accessible and understandable. USAFacts's platform is designed to provide information to the public about government spending and impact at all levels, from federal to local. It includes information about border apprehensions, climate, immigration, active shooters, medicare, education, military spending and opioids. It also helps entrepreneurs to figure out the best location to launch or invest in businesses.
At launch, the website gathered data from over 70 government agencies and pulls data from more than 130 US government statistical databases and reports. Only official government data is included in the site.
In September 2018, USAFacts launched a new Voter Center. This compares government data with the positions members of Congress state publicly and shares information about education, healthcare, tariffs, jobs, immigration, economy, guns, etc. Partners of the Vote Center are Countable, BallotReady and TurboVote.
In November 2018 USAFacts partnered with GeekWire, to produce the podcast Numbers Geek.
In October 2019, USAFacts linked up with U.S. News & World Report. This provided an outlet to share their data in visual form and in the context of the relevant daily matters to and at the same time increasing U.S. News' 2020 election coverage.
In November 2019, USAFacts in cooperation with AP-Norc, conducted a poll which showed that more than 50% of Americans glean their government-related news from social media, while only 11% would trust its correctness and 64% saw it as untrustworthy information.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, USAFacts launched its USAFacts COVID-19 impact and Recovery Hub. It uses information of government sources, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Department of Labor. On March 20, 2020, USAFacts announced its Coronavirus Hub and Map which gives a frequently updated metrics on the daily spread and effect of COVID-19 throughout America.
In 2020, USAFacts partnered with the global nonprofit Earth Day Network.
President Poppy MacDonald testified in front of the United States House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress in an October 2021 hearing called Strengthening the Lawmaking Process: How Data Can Inform and Improve Policy. She urged the government for more datasets are timely, contextual and relevant to Americans, and the need for more cross-agency and cross-government collaboration.
Awards and recognition
In May 2020, USAFacts won the 2020 Webby Award for Government & Civil Innovation in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Centurion | Cyber Centurion is a cyber security competition for secondary school children, run in the United Kingdom by STEM Learning. It mirrors CyberPatriot, the US version run by the Air Force Association. Cyber Centurion is sponsored by Northrop Grumman in an initiative to try to build awareness for cyber security among school children.
History
Cyber Centurion was set up in 2014 after the success of its US counterpart CyberPatriot and its first final took place at The National Museum of Computing on 17 April 2015. The main aim of Cyber Centurion is the same as its US counterpart; to excite, educate and motivate children towards careers in STEM subjects, with an emphasis on Cyber Security. It is also due to the large deficit in Cyber Security professionals. Northrop Grumman, the sponsors of both CyberPatriot and CyberCenturion hope that it will inspire youths towards choosing Cyber Security as a career.
Competition format
Tracks and categories
CyberCenturion is split into two age categories, each with four 'tracks'. This is done to encourage more diversity in the competition. The younger age category is for students in English year groups 7 to 9 (or equivalent) and the older category is for students in English year groups 10 to 13 (or equivalent).
Within the age categories, the tracks split teams into four more groups, with a boys-only track, a girls-only track, a mixed team track and a cadet track.
Places for the final are awarded in the following number of ways:
"Junior category: one place for the top team of each category (girls, boys, mixed and cadets) and the highest scoring team from all tracks combined"
"Senior category: one place for the top team of each category (girls, boys, mixed and cadets) and the highest six scoring teams from all tracks combined"
Rounds
There are four main rounds with Rounds 1, 2 and 3 being online qualifying rounds where "teams will be provided with a mixture of Windows and Linux virtual machines with the aim to find and fix the vulnerabilities along with answering forensics questions".
Round 4 is the National Finals round, where qualifying teams compete face to face to win the top prize.
Prior to the four main rounds, there are up to four other 'introductory' rounds where teams play but do not score any points. These are as follows:
Exhibition Round 1
Exhibition Round 2
Training Round
Practice Technical Round
General rules
"The competition is played by teams of between two and four competitors, with up to one reserve who is used in the case of illness, and a responsible adult acting as the liaison between the organisers and the participants, and every team participant must be in English year groups Year 7 - Year 13 (Or equivalent). The competition is open to anyone in Europe that meets the age requirements and has the correct team format (including leader). Each team must play a series of online qualifying rounds, which will challenge them to learn about networking, coding and cyber security. If the t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%2011 | iOS 11 is the eleventh major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iOS 10. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 5, 2017, and released on September 19, 2017. It was succeeded by iOS 12 on September 17, 2018.
Overview
iOS 11 was introduced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address on June 5, 2017. The first developer beta version was released after the keynote presentation, with the first public beta released on June 26, 2017.
iOS 11 was officially released by Apple on September 19, 2017.
It brought many changes to iOS. Some major highlights were:
The lock screen and Notification Center were combined, allowing all notifications to be displayed directly on the lock screen.
The control center was completely redesigned, combining all pages into a single unified page. It also brought the ability to rearrange the position of the controls, some of which could be used with 3D Touch for quick access to additional options.
The App Store received its first major design overhaul since iOS 7 to focus on editorial content and daily highlights.
A "Files" file manager app allowed access to files stored locally on-device and in iCloud and other cloud services. With this addition, users could also for the first time save files downloaded using Safari right on their iPhone without any third-party apps.
Siri was updated to translate between languages and use a privacy-minded "on-device learning" technique to better understand a user's interests and offer suggestions.
The camera introduced new settings for improved portrait-mode photos and utilized new encoding technologies to reduce file sizes on newer devices.
In a later release of iOS 11, Messages was integrated with iCloud to better synchronize messages across iOS and macOS devices. A previous point release also added support for person-to-person Apple Pay payments.
It introduced the ability to record the screen, which could be enabled by adding it to the control center in Settings.
It also introduced rudimentary forms of drag-and-drop functionality.
Support for augmented reality. Allowing users to "place" virtual objects in the real world and interact with them using their iPhone.
For the first time, certain new features were only available on iPad. Some of these features were:
An always-accessible application dock that could be access by dragging up from the bottom of the screen.
Cross-app drag-and-drop allowing users to share photos, files, and links easier than ever.
Adding a new easier way to split-screen apps by simply dragging an app from the dock on to another already open app. The "split" could then be resized to make one app bigger or small depending on what the user wanted.
iOS 11 was also the first version of iOS to drop support for 32-bit apps and for 32-bit processors, meaning iOS 11 only supported devices with a 64-bit processor. Upon installing iOS 11, if a user tried to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Originals%20%28website%29 | The Originals is a database website founded and run by Arnold Rypens in 2000 and based on a radio show and book series originally launched in 1982. It offers lists of the original versions of thousands of songs and musical compositions and adds every cover and sample made of it since. As of 2017 the site counts more than 15.000 titles.
Concept
The Originals was established to track down the original version of every possible song, melody, composition or sample. In many cases the tune listeners would recognize as "the original version" turns out to be much older and far more obscure. Visitors can use a search engine to type in the name of a musical work or artist and find the corresponding article. Articles about artists or bands provide a list of all of their songs which are covers and/or songs which have been covered. Articles about songs or melodies list all possible musical covers and versions. In both cases the names of each artist, composer, band, songwriter and year of recording are listed. Whenever possible, historical context and background is provided as well. The info is made available both in Dutch as well as English.
History
The project is the brainchild of Flemish radio host Arnold Rypens (1952) who established a radio show, Domino The Originals in February 1982 aired on Omroep Brabant(nowadays Radio 2). It aired nothing but original versions of hits of the day. The emissions sparked interest from listeners who were often surprised and intrigued how old certain songs were and how they sounded in their earliest embryonic versions. As such the show kept running and spawned a special book named The Originals - Prequel of the Hits (1987) by Arnold Rypens. This first edition listed some 12.000 music titles, tracing back their earliest versions predating hit version(s) and other relevant covers. Since then up to five new book editions have been published, completely updated and expanded. In 2010 an English version has been published as well.
Rypens travelled the entire world, researched various libraries, audio collection, museums, archives of country, blues and soul and interviewed collectors and archivists like Joel Whitburn and Alan Lomax. Rypens' radio show has been broadcast on Omroep West-Vlaanderen, Studio Brussel and the regional channel Radio L1. To this day Rypens still has a daily segment in the radio program Pili Pili where he talks about one particular song whose origins he has discovered and mapped out. The show was also broadcast on Radio 3 in the Netherlands by Dutch host Hubert van Hoof. In 2000 Rypens established a website around the project.
Sources
External links
Official website
Article about the history of the project
Interview (in Dutch) with the author
A review (in Dutch)
Belgian music websites
Online music and lyrics databases
Music search engines
Internet properties established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Sik-Sang%20Yau | Stephen Sik-Sang Yau (also known as Stephen Yau or S.S. Yau) is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Early life and Education He was born on August 6, 1935, in Wusei, Kiangsu, China. As a result of the Chinese Civil War, his family moved to Taiwan. He obtained a B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University, Taipei in 1958 in electrical engineering. He arrived in USA to join University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1958, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from in 1961, where his advisor was Mac Elwyn Van Valkenburg.
Academic Career In 1961, he joined Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. as a faculty member and later became the Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science there. During 1988–1994, he was with the Computer and Information Sciences Department at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He joined Arizona State University in 1994. He served as the President of the IEEE Computer Society during 1974–1975.
His first research publication was in 1962. He has continued to be an active researcher as of 2022 at age 87, with a span of 60 years. His most recent research contributions are in blockchain.
Recognitions He served as the editor-in-chief of the Computer magazine of the IEEE Computer Society during 1981–1984 and an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He was awarded the Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, the Richard E. Merwin Award of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Centennial Medal, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Silver Core Award.
Personal life He married Vickie Liu on June 14, 1964. They have two sons Andrew Yau and Philip Yau.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Arizona State University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotiris%20Xantheas | Sotiris S. Xantheas (Σωτηρης Ξανθεας) is a Laboratory Fellow in the Advanced Computing, Mathematics and Data Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA (https://www.pnnl.gov/science/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=5610) and an Affiliate Professor, UW - PNNL Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA (http://depts.washington.edu/chem/people/faculty/xantheas.html). He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Washington State University in Pullman, WA, USA (http://www.math.wsu.edu/faculty/sxantheas/), and a specially appointed professor in the World Research Hub Initiative (WRHI) at the Tokyo Technological Institute in Tokyo, Japan (https://www.irfi.titech.ac.jp/wrhi-archive/en/people/xantheas-sotiris/index.html).
At PNNL he is the Director of the Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Institute (CTCI)(https://www.pnnl.gov/projects/computational-and-theoretical-chemistry-institute). He also directs the Center for Scalable Predictive Methods for Excitations and Correlated Phenomena (SPEC), (https://spec.labworks.org/), a project that is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division as part of the Computational Chemical Sciences (CCS) program. He runs PNNL's Open Call Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, an effort that is intended to enable Early Career Science & Engineering staff to pursue innovative ideas that lie outside major Laboratory investments.
Xantheas is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS), a Marie Curie Fellow, a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and a visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University of Munich at Garching, Germany. He is the recipient of the "Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel" Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany, and the Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement at PNNL (twice). In 2022 he was awarded a Gauss Professorship from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/xantheas-honored-gauss-professorship)
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
21st-century American physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20villages%20in%20Charkhi%20Dadri%20district | This is a list of villages in the Charkhi Dadri district of the Indian state of Haryana sorted by tehsil. Population data is from the 2011 Census of India.
Badhra tehsil
Charkhi Dadri tehsil
References
Lists of villages in India
Districts of India-related lists
Haryana-related lists
Lists of villages in Haryana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud-based%20quantum%20computing | Cloud-based quantum computing is the invocation of quantum emulators, simulators or processors through the cloud. Increasingly, cloud services are being looked on as the method for providing access to quantum processing. Quantum computers achieve their massive computing power by initiating quantum physics into processing power and when users are allowed access to these quantum-powered computers through the internet it is known as quantum computing within the cloud.
In 2016, IBM connected a small quantum computer to the cloud and it allows for simple programs to be built and executed on the cloud. In early 2017, researchers from Rigetti Computing demonstrated the first programmable cloud access using the . Many people from academic researchers and professors to schoolkids, have already built programs that run many different quantum algorithms using the program tools. Some consumers hoped to use the fast computing to model financial markets or to build more advanced AI systems. These use methods allow people outside a professional lab or institution to experience and learn more about such a phenomenal technology.
Application
Cloud based quantum computing is used in several contexts:
In teaching, teachers can use cloud-based quantum computing to help their students better understand quantum mechanics, as well as implement and test quantum algorithms.
In research, scientists can use cloud-based quantum resources to test quantum information theories, perform experiments, compare architectures, amongst other things.
In games, developers can use cloud-based quantum resources can create quantum games to introduce people to quantum concepts.
In digital transformation where terabytes of big data available to process and forecast valuable future outcomes.
Used in cloud based quantum app development to build customized applications for small businesses.
Existing platforms
qBraid Lab by qBraid is a cloud-based platform for quantum computing. It provides software tools for researchers and developers in quantum, as well as access to quantum hardware. qBraid provides cloud based access to IBM and Amazon Braket devices including IBM, Xanadu, OQC, QuEra, Amazon Braket simulators, Rigetti, and IonQ as of August 2023. The cloud quantum computing platform comes with a free tier where unlimited hardware and simulator access is available with the purchase of credits.
Quandela Cloud by Quandela is the first cloud-accessible European photonic quantum computer. The computer is interfaced using the Perceval scripting language, with tutorials and documentation available online for free.
Xanadu Quantum Cloud by Xanadu which consists of cloud-based access to three fully programmable photonic quantum computers.
Forest by Rigetti Computing, which consists of a tool suite for quantum computing. It includes a programming language, development tools and example algorithms.
LIQUi> by Microsoft, which is a software architecture and tool suite for quantum computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesam | Sesam, SESAM or SeSaM may refer to:
SESAM (database), a relational database developed by Fujitsu Siemens
SESAM (FEM), a structural analysis software
Sesam (search engine), a Scandinavian internet search engine
SeSaM-Biotech GmbH, a biotechnology company focusing on protein engineering
Semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror, a component used in some lasers
Sequence saturation mutagenesis (SeSaM), a molecular biology method for diversity creation by random mutagenesis
See also
Sesame (disambiguation)
Various wild and cultivated plants in the genus Sesamum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Child%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth and final season of the Australian drama television series Love Child, began airing on 2 May 2017 on the Nine Network. The season consisted of ten episodes airing on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 pm.
Cast
Main
Jessica Marais as Joan Millar
Mandy McElhinney as Matron Frances Bolton
Harriet Dyer as Patricia Saunders
Sophie Hensser as Viv Maguire
Miranda Tapsell as Martha Tennant
Recurring
Andrew Ryan as Dr Simon Bowditch
Dan Hamill as Dr Andrew Patterson
Sophia Forrest as Debbie
Danielle Catanzariti as Elena
Darcie Irwin-Simpson as Rita
Ronan Keating as Dr Lawrence Faber
Episodes
References
2017 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Terrestrial%20Network%20for%20Permafrost | The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN‐P) is the primary international programme concerned with monitoring permafrost parameters. GTN‐P was developed in the 1990s by the International Permafrost Association (IPA) under the Global Climate observing System (GCOS) and the Global Terrestrial Observing Network (GTOS), with the long-term goal of obtaining a comprehensive view of the spatial structure, trends and variability of changes in the active layer thickness and permafrost temperature.
GCOS and GTOS established 50 Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), of which one is permafrost. Within the GTN-P, involving the senior and young permafrost scientific community, two permafrost key variables have been identified as ECV's:
the Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP), which is permafrost temperature, long-term monitored by an extensive borehole network
the Active Layer Thickness (ALT), which is the annual thaw depth of permafrost, mostly referring to the monitoring network of Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM)
Network Coordination
Permanent monitoring in GTN-P has been coordinated by the IPA since its establishment. TSP was originally based at the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa (GSC), Canada. The TSP observatories in the United States and Russia have been supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and managed by the Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Permafrost temperature data from these observatories are freely available at the dedicated US-Russian TSP website (www.permafrostwatch.org) and from the NSF Arctic Data Center. The latter provides preservation and access for all projects funded by NSF's Arctic Science Program. The CALM program was initially affiliated with and supported by the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) in 1991. CALM has had operational bases at Rutgers University (1991–94), the State University of New York (1994-97), the University of Cincinnati (1998-2003), the University of Delaware (2003–09) and is currently headquartered at George Washington University. Long-term support for data collection in Alaska and Russia has been provided by the U.S. NSF and data from all CALM sites are available through a dedicated CALM web site and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
Governance Structure
The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) governance structure aims to coordinate, manage, support and promote the GCOS and IPA initiative to monitor the thermal state of permafrost, which currently includes the active layer thickness and ground temperature in all permafrost regions of the Earth. GTN-P frames and adapts the best monitoring strategies and standards for permafrost monitoring in the context of existing and new developments in nature, science and technology. Members of the GTN-P governing board represent a wide palette of specialties involved in permafrost observation as well as specialists of data management.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20Chef%20Gauntlet | Iron Chef Gauntlet is a television series on Food Network that began airing on April 16, 2017. The series is a reboot of the Iron Chef and Iron Chef America series that gained popularity on Food Network and is hosted by Alton Brown, who also takes over as the series' Chairman. Seven chefs from around the country battle each other in an elimination contest, with the last chef remaining then facing a "gauntlet" challenge of defeating three other Iron Chefs in order to earn the title of Iron Chef. In the first season, the Iron Chefs forming the Gauntlet were Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, and Michael Symon. The second season of Iron Chef Gauntlet began airing April 4, 2018 and was scheduled for six episodes. The Gauntlet Iron Chefs for the second season were Alex Guarnaschelli, Gauntlet season one winner Stephanie Izard, and Michael Symon.
Overview
Each regular episode consists of two challenges. The first is the Chairman's Challenge, with Brown announcing a theme in which all chefs must cook a dish for him to judge. The loser of this round is entered into the second round; the winner is safe from elimination for the week and may nominate one other chef to compete in the second round.
The second round is the Secret Ingredient Showdown, in which the two chefs have one hour to prepare three dishes featuring a mystery ingredient. The dishes are evaluated by a panel of two judges, who can each award up to 20 points (10 for taste, five each for plating and originality). The chef with the lower total is eliminated, while the winner advances to the next episode.
During the next-to-last episode of the season, which features three chefs, the loser of the Chairman's Challenge is automatically eliminated and the remaining two chefs compete in the Secret Ingredient Showdown.
In the season finale, the last remaining chef competes in three Secret Ingredient Showdowns, one against each of the three Iron Chefs. If the chef's overall score is higher than the combined total of the three, he/she is awarded the title of Iron Chef. If the chef's overall score falls short, no new Iron Chef is named for the season.
Season 1: 2017
Contestants
Nyesha Arrington (Los Angeles, California); Former Executive Chef/Owner, Leona
Jason Dady (San Antonio, Texas); Executive Chef/Owner, Tre Trattoria
Sarah Grueneberg (Chicago, Illinois); Executive Chef/Owner, Monteverde
Michael Gulotta (New Orleans, Louisiana); Executive Chef/Owner, MOPHO
Stephanie Izard (Chicago, Illinois); Executive Chef/Owner, Girl & the Goat; Izard lost to Iron Chef Michael Symon in Battle Bread on Iron Chef America.
Shota Nakajima (Seattle, Washington); Executive Chef/Owner, Adana
Jonathon Sawyer (Cleveland, Ohio); Executive Chef/Owner, The Greenhouse Tavern; Sawyer was Iron Chef Michael Symon's sous chef in his early battles, and later lost to Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian in Battle Mint.
Judges
Episode 1: Geoffrey Zakarian and Donatella Arpaia Stewart
Episode 2: Jose Garces and Anne Burrell
Ep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taff%20Acre | Taff Acre is a television soap opera produced by Harlech Television (HTV) Wales for the ITV network.
Taff Acre was a fictional village in South Wales, set just outside Cardiff. The series dealt with the lives of the Johnson family.
Transmitted twice a week between September and December 1981, the series was not renewed beyond its initial run of 26 episodes.
Cast
Richard Davies - Max Johnson
Rhoda Lewis - Beth Johnson
Sue Jones-Davies - Sian Johnson
Dewi Morris - Gareth Johnson
Beth Morris - Cilla Johnson
Stuart Davis - Wayne Johnson
Myfanwy Talog - Jan Evans
Robert Blythe - Danny Evans
See also
List of Welsh television series
References
External links
1980s British television soap operas
1980s Welsh television series
1981 British television series debuts
1981 British television series endings
British television soap operas
English-language television shows
ITV soap operas
Television shows produced by Harlech Television
Television shows set in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Processing%20in%20Medical%20Imaging | Information Processing in Medical Imaging, or IPMI, is a conference held every two years focused on the fields of applied mathematics, computer science, image processing and image analysis (particularly of medical images); applied results in neuroscience, cardiology, and microscopy are also frequently considered. IPMI is the longest standing conference focused on medical images having first met, organized by Dr. Francois Erbsmann, in Brussels in 1969. IPMI 2021 is scheduled to be held in Bornholm, Denmark in June 2021.
History
The Information Processing in Medical Imaging conference – IPMI - was first organized by Francois Erbsmann and collaborators in Brussels in 1969. That first conference was held under the title, “Information Processing in Scintigraphy” as at the time the meeting was focused on restoration of those images derived by nuclear medicine. Since that first instance, the conference has successfully met every two years. The third instance of the meeting, organized by Stephen Pizer and Charles Metz, was its first appearance in the United States and since that occasion IPMI has alternated its venue between the U.S. and Europe. It was the 1977 meeting organized by Randy Brill in Nashville that first used the name IPMI to reflect the broadening community of physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and biologists interested in medical image computing in its many manifestations and applications who now contributed to the meeting. Commemorating his contribution as the conference founder, beginning with IPMI 1987 the Francois Erbsmann prize is awarded by the IPMI board each conference to one young investigator for outstanding contribution to the field. This investigator must have given their first oral presentation at the current IPMI.
Standing with tradition, IPMI includes a single track of presentations on novel methodology wherein speakers are allotted sufficient time to describe their contributions in thorough detail. Discussions following each presentation have no time-limit permitting stimulating debate and resolution of any questions or comments regarding the work, alternatives to it, additional possible applications, etc. Further, the paper associated with each presentation is assigned a study-group of attendees in advance rendering a portion of the community prepared to provide real time peer discussion in high technical detail. Study groups often pair younger researchers with field experts encouraging an exchange of experience and new ideas. Often, discussions and debates are continued through meals and social activities uniting the community through vigorous evaluation of avant-garde developments in medical imaging. To permit such depth the conference is limited to a maximum of 120 participants.
Reflecting its focus on depth and community, IPMI is often held in a relatively small and sometimes remote location. Attendees are accommodated together in collective housing in campus or university dorms, meals are typically |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EverBlock%20Systems | EverBlock Systems, LLC. is a modular construction materials company headquartered in New York City, New York, with distribution networks worldwide. It develops, produces and markets the modular plastic blocks which are used in a variety of construction applications, both personal and commercial.
EverBlock Systems primarily manufactures oversized polypropylene blocks which interlock with each other in order to create furniture, modify interior space, or create new structures. The blocks are similar in structure and utility to the toy bricks manufactured by The Lego Group, which has generated significant interest among customers who played with the plastic bricks as children.
Applications
The building materials can be assembled in any way they builder chooses. The company provides some templates which would allow the builders to create household furniture such as shelving units, tables, desks, catering stations, and bars. Some commercial applications have included using the blocks to construct interior building partitions, where larger spaces can be divided into multiple workspaces, cubicles, and entire offices.
The blocks are also marketed as potentially having utility as a way to establish disaster relief shelters which can be quickly created and later dis-assembled for reuse in another location. In an interview with Wired Magazine, company founder, Arnon Rosan, stated "You could drop two pallets of these by helicopter and the next thing you know you have a solid, rigid structure."
References
Further reading
External links
Companies based in New York City
Building materials companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatori%20i%20Shp%C3%ABrndarjes%20s%C3%AB%20Energjis%C3%AB%20Elektrike | Operatori i Shpërndarjes së Energjisë Elektrike Sh.A, or OSHEE, is an energy company engaged in constructing, operating, maintaining, and developing the electricity distribution network serving households and private clients throughout Albania. Formerly known as CEZ Shpërndarje Sh.A, the company changed its name to "Operatori i Shpërndarjes së Energjisë Elektrike Sh.A." in July 2014. It is a subsidiary of the Albanian Government under the supervision of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy.
See also
KESH (Albanian Power Corporation)
OST (Transmission System Operator)
ERE (Energy Regulatory Authority)
Electricity distribution companies by country
References
Electric power distribution network operators
Electric power companies of Albania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20of%20secure%20erasure | In computer security, proof of secure erasure (PoSE) or proof of erasure is a remote attestation protocol, by which an embedded device proves to a verifying party, that it has just erased (overwritten) all its writable memory. The purpose is to make sure that no malware remains in the device. After that typically a new software is installed into the device.
Overview
The verifying party may be called the verifier, the device being erased the prover.
The verifier must know the device's writable memory size from a trusted source and the device must not be allowed to communicate with other parties during execution of the protocol, which proceeds as follows. The verifier constructs a computational problem, which cannot be solved (in reasonable time or at all) using less than the specified amount of memory, and sends it to the device. The device responds with the solution and the verifier checks its correctness.
Protocol constructions
Naive approach
In the simplest implementation the verifier sends a random message as large as the device's memory to the device, which is expected to store it. After the device has received the complete message, it is required to send it back. Security of this approach is obvious, but it includes transfer of a huge amount of data (twice the size of the device's memory).
This can be halved if the device responds with just a hash of the message. To prevent the device from computing it on the fly without actually storing the message, the hash function is parametrized by a random value sent to the device after the message.
Communication-efficient constructions
Avoiding the huge data transfer requires a suitable (as stated in Overview) computational problem, whose description is short. Dziembowski et al. achieve this by constructing what they call an (m − δ, ε)-uncomputable hash function, which can be computed in quadratic time using memory of size m, but with memory of size m − δ it can be computed with at most a negligible probability ε.
Communication- and time-efficient constructions
Karvelas and Kiayias claim to have designed the first PoSE with quasilinear time and sublinear communication complexity.
Relation to proof of space
Proof of space is a protocol similar to proof of secure erasure in that both require the prover to dedicate a specific amount of memory to convince the verifier. Nevertheless, there are important differences in their design considerations.
Because the purpose of proof of space is similar to proof of work, the verifier's time complexity must be very small. While such property may be useful for proof of secure erasure as well, it is not fundamental to its usefulness.
Proof of secure erasure on the other hand requires the prover to be unable to convince the verifier using less than the specified amount of memory. Even this may be useful for the other protocol, however proof of space is not harmed if the prover may succeed even with significantly less space.
References
Data erasure
Comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Wives%20Club | Second Wives Club is an American reality television series that premiered on the E! Network on May 4, 2017. The show documents the personal and professional lives of a group of several women who are already or are to become the second, third, fourth or fifth wives of wealthy and successful men.
Cast
Shiva Safai - fiancée to Mohamed Hadid.
Veronika Obeng - Wife to Michael Obeng.
Morisa Surrey - Wife to Mark W. Surrey.
Shawna Craig - The fifth wife to Lorenzo Lamas.
Katie Cazorla - fiancée to Walter Afanasieff.
Tania Mehra - Wife to Dean Bornstein.
Guest appearances
Eli Hammond - Himself, (a Certified Family Law Specialist, from Claery & Hammond, LLP.) Note: Attorney Hammond appeared as a guest on Second Wives Club, Season one, Episode 8, "Game Over".
Production
The show was announced and production began in 2015. Since then, it has undergone name changes but is now officially called Second Wives Club.
The trailer was released in April 2017. The show premiered on May 4, 2017.
On October 5, 2017 it was announced the show had ended after one season. A fan asked cast member Katie Cazorla on Twitter if there would be a second season and she stated that "I think E! is going in a different direction. So we're not coming back. It sucks because we rated well in the end and have awesome fans."
Episodes
Lawsuit
Michael Obeng says his wife Veronika Obeng agreed to do the series which originally was called Second Wives Club in 2015. Michael agreed to participate in the show in hopes to promote his business, and because he thought it would spotlight their happy marriage. Veronika officially filed for divorce in 2016. Michael filed a lawsuit against the network in January 2016. The lawsuit states "The series was nothing about the couple's happy marriage." Obeng claimed that he was required to display an "unrealistic and manufactured personality" which could harm his business if the show is allowed to air. In a letter from his lawyer which was sent to E! Entertainment in August 2016, Obeng demanded that his children not to be included in the show. The letter identified the show under a new name Famously Married. Obeng is suing NBCUniversal the parent company of the E! Network. The suit seeks an injunction barring the network from airing or promoting the episode in which Obeng appears.
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2017 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20B.%20Shah | Viral B Shah () is an Indian computer scientist, best known for being a co-creator of the Julia programming language. He was also actively involved in the initial design of the Aadhaar project in India which provides a 12-digit unique identity number to each Indian resident based on their biometric and demographic data. Based on his experiences implementing Aadhaar and other complex technology projects in government, he co-authored the book Rebooting India with Nandan Nilekani.
Shah is currently the CEO of JuliaHub (former company name Julia Computing), which he co-founded as Julia Computing with Julia co-creators, Jeff Bezanson, Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski as well as Keno Fischer and Deepak Vinchhi. In July 2021, Julia Computing raised $24 Million in Series A round led by Dorilton Ventures, with participation from Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, and HighSage Ventures.
Awards
In 2013, Shah received The Spatial Ecology and Telemetry Working Group (SETWG) award for co-creating Circuitscape with Brad McRae.
In 2019, Shah was awarded the J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software with Jeff Bezanson and Stefan Karpinski for their work on the Julia programming language.
References
Living people
Indian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20engine | A metadata engine collects, stores and analyzes information about data and metadata (data about data) in use within a knowledge domain. It virtualizes the view of data for an application by separating the data (physical) path from the metadata (logical) path so that data management can be performed independently from where the data physically resides. This expands the domain beyond a single storage device to span all devices within its namespace.
The main use of a metadata engine is to enable flexible IT infrastructure or environments, by making applications more storage aware and conversely, a storage device application or data aware.
Purpose
Metadata engines virtualize the view of data. Combined with client access protocols such as NFS v4.2 and SMB 2.1 or SMB 3.0 (Samba), a metadata engine can create a global namespace to allow applications to see a logical view of their data, and can orchestrate data movement between different types or tiers of storage without disrupting the application's access to its data.
References
Metadata registry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akvo%20Foundation | Akvo Foundation is a non-profit internet and software development foundation, headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The foundation specializes primarily in building and operating data collection and visualization systems, to be used in international development and aid activity. Akvo also operates the sustainable development wiki-inspired Akvopedia, which as of 2017, has one-thousand nine hundred fifty six content pages about water, sanitation, and agriculture. Akvo was initially started as a project under the Netherlands Water Partnership in 2006.
Akvo operates from 11 offices worldwide; it has hub offices based in a number of different locations, including Stockholm, London, Washington, DC, Nairobi, and New Delhi. As of 2017, Akvo operates in 93 countries and works with more than 1,800 organizations around the world from NGOs to national governments and multilateral aid organizations who use Akvo's tools to report, publish, monitor and evaluate their work. Much of the foundation's work is concentrated within the water and sanitation sector. However, since 2010 it has widened its focus to areas such as health, education, technology, agriculture, and economic development.
The foundation's mission is "to build a highly effective, open, online platform, and a trusted partner network."
History
Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson and Jeroen van der Sommen met at the Stockholm World Water Week in 2006. At this time, it was becoming clear that the Millennium Development Goals on water was going to be difficult to achieve and as a result there was the need to develop new ideas. Shortly thereafter, the idea of using open source software and open data for the development sector was developed. Consequently, in 2008 the Akvo Foundation was formed by the Netherlands Water Partnership and several other co founders, including Bjelkeman-Pettersson and van der Sommen as well as Mark Nitzberg, Mark Charmer, Gabriel von Heijne and Peter van der Linde.
Early timeline
September 2006 - Seed funding is provided by Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP). The partner organizations that participate in brainstorming about what Akvo should become are UNESCO-IHE, IRC International Resource Centre for Water and Sanitation (IRC) and the Movement Design Bureau.
April 2007 – Partners for Water and NWP provide the first batch of funding.
August 2007 – Akvopedia is shown for the first time at World Water Week.
In 2015, Akvo was named as the winner of the Water and Sanitation Award. The award was in recognition of Akvo's innovation within the water and sanitation sector in Latin America. Also, in November 2015, Akvo was awarded the Dutch Water Innovation Prize. Akvo won the award for the development of a smart irrigation inlet sensor that measures the salinity of surface water.
Products and services
Akvo designs and builds Software as a Service software as well as offering services that complement them, such as training and consulting. All Akvo's software is released as open s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saksi%20%28disambiguation%29 | Saksi may refer to:
Television/Media
Saksi, a Philippine television late-night news broadcasting program of GMA Network.
Saksi sa Dobol B, a Philippine morning news and talk program on DZBB-AM.
Saksi Kunci, an Indonesian television crime news broadcasting program of Kompas TV.
People
Saksi Sbong, a Cambodian actress
Places
Saksi, Estonia, a village in Tapa Parish, Lääne-Viru county, Estonia
Saksi Parish, a former municipality in Lääne-Viru county, Estonia
Saksi (mountain), a mountain in Lom municipality in Innlandet county, Norway
Saksı, Pasinler, a neighbourhood in the Pasinler District of Erzurum Province, Turkey
See also
Sakshi (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conor%20Russomanno | Conor Russomanno is an entrepreneur, creative technologist, and lecturer, specializing in the development of advanced human-computer interfaces. He is the co-founder and CEO of OpenBCI, a company dedicated to open source innovation of brain-computer interface technologies. Russomanno has also taught graduate level courses at Parsons School of Design and NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Early life
Conor Russomanno was born in Livingston, NJ, but grew up in Falls Church, Virginia. After attending Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, he was recruited to Columbia to play NCAA college football. After playing college football for a year, he quit and joined Columbia's rugby club, CURFC, serving as the club's president and was voted first-team all-Ivy fullback as a senior.
Career
As an undergraduate at Columbia University, Russomanno studied civil engineering & engineering mechanics while teaching computer graphics and developing Unity-based virtual environments under NSF funding. He later studied brain-computer interfacing (BCI) as a Design & Technology MFA student at Parsons School of Design. After graduating from Parsons, he led two successful Kickstarter campaigns, raising close to $500,000, allowing him to develop OpenBCI.
Russomanno has also worked as adjunct faculty at Parsons School of Design and NYU's Interactive Telecommunication Program (ITP), where he has taught Creative Coding, Brain Hacking, Designing Consciousness, and a number of other courses. He now teaches a course titled "Neuromachina: Man & Machine" at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Russomanno now serves as a "Something In Residence" in the ITP program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Speaking engagements & workshops
"Brain-Computer Interfaces & Apparel" – Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator (BF+DA) (Brooklyn, NY), February 21, 2017
"Brain-Computer Interface" – NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) (New York, NY), February 2, 2017
"AR Human Computer Interfaces" (Panel) – AR in Action, MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA), January 17, 2017
Guest Lecture for Topics in Computational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering: Brain-Computer Interfaces, Columbia University Biomedical Engineering (New York, NY), November 1, 2016
"An Introduction to BCI" – Columbia University Neuroscience Society (New York, NY), October 24, 2016
"Dawn of The Neurorevolution" – SuperHuman Summit 2016 (Vancouver, Canada), October 22, 2016
"The Democratization of Neurotechnology" – NeuroTech NYC 2016 (New York, NY), June 8, 2016
"An Introduction to BCI" – Xtech & Neurogaming Hackathon 2016 (San Francisco, CA), May 14, 2016
"DIY Cyborgia" – BodyHacking Con 2016 (Austin, TX), February 20, 2016
"Neural Interfaces for Makers and Biohackers" – MakerCon Bay Area (San Francisco, CA), May 12, 2015
"Future of Augmented Reality Panel" – NeuroGaming 2015, (San Francisco, CA), May 8, 2015
"The Digital Self: Interfacing the Body" – Eyebeam Studio (Brooklyn, NY), April 25, 2015
"BCIs for th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behnam%20Malakooti | Behnam Malakooti , is professor of systems engineering of department of electrical engineering and computer science at the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Ohio, US. He has been affiliated with CWRU since 1982. He is a pioneer researcher in risk, operations management, manufacturing systems, multiple criteria optimization.
He developed artificial neural networks for predicting decision-making behavior for out-of-sample data. He also pioneered the theory of multiple-objective optimization for solving decision making, operations and manufacturing systems, machinability of materials, artificial neural networks, facility layout, and group technology and clustering.
Education
Ph.D. in industrial engineering (1982), Purdue University
MS in industrial engineering (1979), Purdue University
MS in economics (1978), Purdue University
Honor and awards
Malakooti has received several awards, including
Fellow, Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE); one of twelve recipients, 1997.
Fellow, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), one of ten international recipients, 1996
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since 1998 .
Divisional Professional Leadership Award, one of three national recipients, IEEE, 2000–2001 .
Exceptional Research Achievement, department of electrical engineering and computer science, Case Western Reserve University, 2004 .
Selected publications
Malakooti, B, "Operations and production systems with multiple objectives" John Wiley & Sons, 2013
Malakooti, B. "Decision Making Process: Typology, Intelligence, and Optimization" Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing , DOI: 10.1007/s10845-010-0424-1, Volume 23, Issue 3 (2012), Page 733-746.
Brian J. Barritt, Shaya Sheikh, Camelia Al-Najjar- Behnam Malakooti, “Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Broadcasting: A Multi-Criteria Approach”, International Journal of Communication Systems, DOI: 10.1002/dac.1162,2010, Volume 24, Issue 4 (2011), Page 438-460.
Malakooti, B., Y. Zhou, "An Adaptive Feedforward Artificial Neural Network with Application to Multiple Criteria Decision Making," Management Science, Vol. 40,11, Nov. 1994, pp. 1542–1561.
Malakooti, B. "Ranking and Screening Multiple Criteria Alternatives with Partial Information and use of Ordinal and Cardinal Strength of Preferences", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A, Vol. 30, 3, 355-369, 2000.
Malakooti, B., "Multi-Objective Facility Layout: A Heuristic Method to Generate All Efficient Alternatives," International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 27, No. 7, 1989, pp. 1225–1238.
Malakooti, B., J. Deviprasad, "An Interactive Multiple Criteria Approach for Parameter Selection in Metal Cutting," Operations Research, Vol. 37, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 1989, pp. 805–8l8.
Malakooti, B., A. Tsurushima, "An Expert System Using Priorities for Solving Multiple Criteria Facility Layout Problems," International Journal of Production Research Vol. 27, No. 5, 1989, pp. 793–808.
Malak |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Zee%20Tamil%20%28India%29 | Zee Tamil is an Indian Tamil general entertainment private broadcast television network owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises.
This is a list of original programs that have been broadcast on Zee Tamil.
Current programming
Drama series
Reality shows
Former programming
Drama series
Anandham (2014)
Annakodiyum Aindhu Pengalum (2015–2016)
Anbe Sivam (2021–2022)
Avalukendru Oru Manam (2008–2009)
Azhagana Ratchasee (2014)
Azhagiya Tamil Magal (2017–2019)
Chithiram Pesuthadi (2021–2022)
Darling Darling (2016–2017)
Deivam Thantha Poove (2021-2023)
Devathaiyai Kanden (2017–2020)
Endrendrum Punnagai (2020–2022)
Gayathri (2014)
Gokulathil Seethai (2019–2022)
Kandukondain Kandukondain (2019–2020)
Kannathil Muthamittal (2021–2023)
Lakshmi Vandhachu (2015–2017)
Mamiyar Thevai (2013–2014)
Merku Mambalathil Oru Kaadhal (2012–2013)
Mella Thirandhathu Kadhavu (2015–2017)
Mullum Malarum (2017–2019)
My Name Is Mangamma (2012–2013)
Nachiyarpuram (2019–2020)
Nalla Neram (2013–2014)
Neethane Enthan Ponvasantham (2020–2021)
Nenjathai Killadhe (2014–2015)
Niram Maaratha Pookal (2017–2020)
Oru Kai Osai (2014–2015)
Oru Oorla Oru Rajakumari (2018–2021)
Oru Oorla Rendu Rajakumari (2021–2022)
Pava Mannippu (2014)
Piriyadha Varam Vendum (2019–2020)
Priyasaki (2015–2016)
Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal (2021–2022)
Puguntha Veedu (2012–2014)
Poove Poochudava (2017–2021)
Raja Magal (2019–2021)
Rajini (2021–2023)
Ramani Vs Ramani (2013)
Rekka Katti Parakkudhu Manasu (2017–2019)
Rettai Roja (2019–2023)
Rudra (2008–2009)
Sathya 1 (2019–2021)
Sathya 2 (2021–2022)
Sembaruthi (2017–2022)
Siva Ragasiyam (2014–2015)
Sri Vishnu Dasavatharam (2018)
Sollathaan Ninaikkiren (2009–2011)
Suryavamsam (2020–2021)
Thalayanai Pookal (2016–2018)
Thavamai Thavamirunthu (2022-2023)
Thiru Mangalyam (2014–2015)
Thirumathi Hitler (2020–2022)
Thulasi (2011–2013)
Uyirmei (2014–2015)
Yaaradi Nee Mohini (2017–2021)
Yathumagi Nindrai (2010)
Dubbed series
Chinna Poove Mella Pesu
Chinna Marumagal
CID
Crime Patrol
Devi Parasakthi
Fear Files
Iniya Iru Malargal
Jodha Akbar
Kaadhalukku Salaam
Kaatrukkenna Veli
Mahabharatham
Mahamayi
Mapillai
Marumanam
Moondru Mugam
Naagarani
Naanum Oru Penn
Puratchiyalar Dr. Ambedkar
Radha Kalyanam
Ramayanam
Sivanum Naanum
Thamarai
Thenali Raaman
Veera Marthandan
Inya Iru Malargal
Veera Shivaji
Vishnu Puranam
Reality and non-scripted shows
Aaha Enna Porutham
Aaha Maamiyar Oho Marumagal
Aayirathil Oruvan (Season 1 and 2)
Anjarai Petti
Athirshta Lakshmi
Chutti Champions
Comedy Khiladis
Dance Jodi Dance
Dance Jodi Dance 2
Dance Jodi Dance Juniors
Dance Jodi Dance Reloaded
Dance Tamizha Dance
Dance Tamizha Dance Little Masters
Dancing Khilladies
En Autograph
Genes (Season 1, 2, and 3)
Home Minister
Jil Jung Juk
Junior Senior
Junior Super Star (Season 1 and 2)
Junior Super Star 3.0
Konjam Coffee Niraya Cinema
Lucka Kicka Season 1 & 2
Mr & Mrs Khiladis (Season 1 and 2)
Nanb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border%20Network%20for%20Human%20Rights | The Border Network for Human Rights, or BNHR, is a nonprofit organization based in El Paso, Texas, that advocates for immigration reform and human rights to create the political, economic, and social conditions in which every human being is equal in dignity and rights. The organization also documents cases of the abuse of immigrants by United States Government authorities. Efforts by BNHR to systematically document and report abuse of immigrants has led to fewer incidents in the El Paso area, according to the group. BNHR is working to make its approach a national model for reform. The Network had organized many events for the safeguarding of human rights that include Hugs Not Walls, Annual Abuse Documentation Campaigns, and Human Rights Promoters Campaigns.
About
The Network's strengths lie in organizing and working within the system to combat human rights and civil rights abuses, and to bring about change within the broken United States immigration system. Cases of abuse and misconduct along the United States-Mexico border between US authorities and persons subject to their authority are pervasive, according to the Immigration Policy Center. Reports include cases where customs officers at the border have committed acts of verbal and physical abuse. Cases at the border allegedly committed by Border Patrol agents against illegal immigrants have been described as hate crimes by the Los Angeles Times. In addition, many agents who have committed acts of abuse against people crossing at the border are often not disciplined. The Network is participating in a nationwide effort to push forward immigration reforms like the Texas-Wide Reform Immigration for Texas Alliance, by educating government officials on the needs of border communities. With over 1,000 families and 7,000 individuals participating each day in West Texas and Southern New Mexico, the Network's members speak firsthand of their mistreatment and suffering under the laws of the United States government, advocate for reform, and reach out to be heard amidst the debilitating effects placed on them each day by US immigration policies.
Background
Fernando Garcia, founder and executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights, was one of the first coordinators of the group originally known as the Border Rights Coalition, or BRC, which was created in the early 1990s by lawyers, civil rights activists, and church groups in El Paso. The BRC began documenting cases of alleged abuse carried out by Border Patrol, US Customs, and other immigration law enforcement agencies in the area, and was also active in protesting the treatment of immigrants. It transformed into the Border Network for Human Rights in 2001. That same year BNHR instituted its first campaign of documenting abuses, led by members of the community with the support of attorneys in the area. Within three years, the network held its first public event on February 22, 2003 memorializing the death of Juan Patricio Pereza Quijada.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Entrance%20Screening%20Test | Joint Entrance Screening Test is a screening test in India conducted to shortlist candidates for admission to MSc, Integrated PhD and PhD programmes in Physics, Theoretical Computer Science, Neuroscience and Computational Biology at twenty public research institutes.
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Eligibility
Please see the websites/advertisements of the participating institutes for their eligibility criteria in details.
Listed below are tentative eligibility criteria of admission to M.Sc., Ph.D., and Integrated / M.Sc. / M.Tech. - Ph.D. programs in the participating institutes.
Ph.D. Programme
Physics
M.Sc. in physics (all participating Institutes).
Additionally, some institutes accept B.E. / B.Tech. / M.Sc. / M.E. / M.Tech. in disciplines of Applied Physics and Mathematics, as listed below.
M.Sc. in Mathematics / Applied Physics / Applied Mathematics / Optics and Photonics / Instrumentation / Electronics will also be considered at IIA.
B.E. or B.Tech. will be considered at IISc, IMSc, ICTS-TIFR, IUCAA, JNCASR, NCRA-TIFR, TIFR-TCIS, RRI, IISER Mohali, IISER Pune, IISER Thiruvananthapuram.
M.Sc. in Physics / Electronics / Astronomy / Applied Mathematics will be considered at IUCAA.
M.Sc. in physics, Engineering Physics or Applied Physics will also be considered at IPR.
M.Sc. in physics, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics, Biophysics or Biochemistry will be considered at SNBNCBS.
B.Tech. Eng. Phys.will be considered at TIFR.
M.E./ M.Tech. in Applied Physics will be considered at NISER.
Theoretical Computer Science at IMSc
M.Sc./ M.E. / M.Tech. in Computer Science and related disciplines, and should be interested in the mathematical aspects of computer science.
Ph D in Neuroscience at NBRC
M.Sc. (Physics/ Mathematics), B.E/ B.Tech/ M.C.A in Computer Science
Ph D in Computational Biology at IMSc
M.Sc./ M.E. / M.Tech. / MCA in any engineering or science discipline, with good mathematical skills and strong interest in biological problems.
Integrated M.Sc. / M.Tech. - Ph.D. Programme (Physics)
B.Sc. (Physics / Mathematics) will be considered at SNBNCBS.
B.Sc. (Physics) will be considered at IMSc.
B.Sc. (Physics / Mathematics) / B.E. / B.Tech. in Electrical / Instrumentation / Engineering Physics / Electronics and Communications / Computer Science and Engineering / Optics and Photonics will be considered in IIA.
B.Sc. (Physics) or B.E./B. Tech in Engineering Physics, with a minimum of first class marks, will be considered at NISER.
B.Sc. (Physics) will be considered at IISER-Pune, ICTS-TIFR, NCRA-TIFR, and TIFR-TCIS.
B.Sc. (Physics / Mathematics) / B.E. / B.Tec. will be considered for Integrated M.Sc. - PhD at Bose Institute.
Integrated Ph.D. Programme in Theoretical Computer Science at IMSc
B.Sc./B.E./B.Tech./M.C.A. in Computer Science or related disciplines and should be interested in the mathematical aspects of computer science.
Integrated M.Tech. - Ph.D. Programme at IIA
M.Sc. (Physics / Applied Physics) / Post-B.Sc. (Hons) in Optics and Optoelectronics / Radio Physics a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20S.%20Woodward | Carol San Soucie Woodward is an American computational mathematician who works in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2017, "for the development and application of numerical algorithms and software for large-scale simulations of complex physical phenomena".
Carol Ann San Soucie did her undergraduate studies at Louisiana State University (LSU), earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Her undergraduate honors thesis at LSU was supervised by Guillermo Ferreyra.
She did her graduate studies at Rice University, with Clint Dawson and Mary Wheeler as her doctoral advisor. When Wheeler moved from Rice to the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, San Soucie moved with her,
but she earned her doctorate from Rice in 1996, with a dissertation on Mixed Finite Element Methods for Variably Saturated Flow. She joined LLNL in the same year. At LLNL, she is in charge of the SUNDIALS project, a package of time integration and nonlinear equation solving software for use in simulations.
Woodward has been an active member of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). She was elected to the executive committee of AWM and served on that committee from 2016 to 2020. In addition, she chaired the AWM Awards Committee from 2016 to 2018. Woodward was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the Class of 2021 "for her sustained commitment to supporting and promoting women in the mathematical sciences through the AWM, including her leadership of the AWM Awards Committee, and through her work with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences".
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Louisiana State University alumni
Rice University alumni
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sydney%20Metro%20stations | The Sydney Metro is a rapid transit rail system in Sydney, New South Wales. The first section of the network, the North West line, opened in 2019. The City & Southwest extension along with the Western Sydney Airport and Western lines are currently under construction, with a scheduled opening date in 2024, 2026 and 2030 respectively
Current
Planned or under construction
References
External links
Sydney Metro official website
Sydney
Sydney, metro
Railway stations, Sydney
Lists of buildings and structures in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Winsborough | William H. Winsborough was an American computer scientist, having taught at University of Texas at San Antonio and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
American computer scientists
University of Texas at San Antonio faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Veach | Eric Veach is a Canadian computer scientist known for his research on improvements to Monte Carlo sampling in Computer Graphics, which won him two technical academy awards.
Education and career
Veach obtained a Bachelor of Mathematics degree in 1990 at the University of Waterloo. In 1997, he graduated with a PhD from Stanford University. His thesis is titled Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation, a highly cited paper in Computer Graphics.
After graduating from Stanford, Veach worked for Pixar from 1998 to 2000, collaborating with colleague Tom Lokovic to create realistic hair for animated movie Monsters, Inc.. They also published a paper titled Deep Shadow Maps, which will win them an academy award in 2014. He joined Google in 2000, where he was the technical leader for AdWords and AdSense and contributed to route-planning algorithms in Google Maps. He is also the primary developer of Google's S2 geometry library for geohashing.
In 2008, the University of Waterloo awarded him a J. W. Graham Medal, an annual award granted to a distinguished alumnus who had studied computer science there.
Veach won a 2014 Academy Scientific and Engineering Award for "foundational research on efficient Monte Carlo path tracing for image synthesis", especially on multiple importance sampling, described in his 1997 thesis. He also won a 2014 Academy Award for Technical Achievement together with Thomas Lokovic for contributions to deep shadowing technologies. Veach told CTV News he hadn't done any work in computer graphics for 15 years, but was pleasantly surprised to see his old works gain recognition.
Personal life
Veach is a strong believer in environmental causes and serves as the chair of the Rainforest Trust board.
Journalist Farhad Manjoo mentioned Veach and two of his non-American colleagues at Google in an article titled "Why Silicon Valley Wouldn't Work Without Immigrants". Manjoo's article attempted to explain why newly inaugurated President Donald Trump's attempts to squeeze off the flow of immigrants to the US was dangerous. He argued that America disproportionately benefits from allowing foreigners like Veach to work in the US.
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerDirector | PowerDirector () is a video editing program developed by CyberLink. The software is available on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.
See also
List of video editing software
References
Reviews (tested version in brackets):
Tom's Guide (15)
CNET (15)
PC Advisor (14)
PC Magazine (14)
PC Advisor (13)
PC Advisor (13)
Maximum PC (6)
PC Magazine (2)
External links
Google Playstore Page
App Store Page
Video editing software for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinalCode | FinalCode, Inc. is a multi-national software company that provides data-centric security and information rights management (IRM) to help enterprises mitigate data leakage and meet compliance requirements. FinalCode allows users to securely collaborate and share files using any communication channel, including existing Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Cloud Storage and collaboration applications.
FinalCode is privately held and headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional offices in Singapore, Japan, Australia and United Kingdom.
History
FinalCode, Inc was founded in 2014.
As part of an international expansion FinalCode opened a regional headquarters in Singapore in May 2016.
In September 2016 an additional regional headquarter was opened in London, UK, to cover the EMEA region.
FinalCode also has additional offices and presence in Japan and Australia.
Features
FinalCode provides AES-256 encryption, granular permission sets, corporate and user policy templates, file lifecycle activity analytics, dynamic policy modification, and the ability to remotely delete files after they have been shared.
Patented Technology
FinalCode's patented CryptoEase technology adds a layer of file protection that remains persistent whether the file circulates internally or outside an organization. Offering a comprehensive file-based Information Rights Management (IRM) that allows organizations and file owner retains comprehensive file control and auditing capability with the means recipients and usage permissions or delete files remotely.
Industry Standards
FinalCode achieved Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) certification for FinalCode Crypto Module and FinalCode Crypto Module for Mobile.
FinalCode is also Suite-B compliant.
These standards are integrated into the current FinalCode solution.
Awards and recognition
In 2017, FinalCode was named "Hot Product" at RSA Conference 2017. In 2016, FinalCode earned Ovum "on the radar" award.
Gartner designated FinalCode as a "Cool Vendor" in 2015.
References
External links
Official Website
Software companies based in California
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Data security
Companies based in Silicon Valley
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaTeX |
The computer program AmigaTeX is a port of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written in WEB and translated to C by Tomas Rokicki. This translation was necessary because of the lack of a suitable Pascal compiler for the Amiga computer.
Features
AmigaTeX has several features not available in standard TeX:
ARexx port for example with CygnusEd
Preview
Interchange File Format graphics integration
See also
LuaTeX
XeTeX
References
External links
Review
A Brief History of LaTeX.
Demo version
TeX
Amiga software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Stack | Carol B. Stack (born 1940) is an Urban American anthropologist who specialized in studies of African American networks, minority women, and youth. Stack has taken a strong role in several social sciences, and is Professor Emerita of Education in the Graduate School of Education at University of California, Berkeley.
She taught at Boston University and Duke University before becoming Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at Berkeley.
She is the author of All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community and Call To Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South.
Education
Stack received her Masters in 1968 and her PhD in anthropology in 1972.
Accomplishments and awards
Carol B. Stack was awarded the Prize for Critical Research in 1995 from the Society for the Anthropology of North America. She has also received many fellowships such as the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Russel Sage Fellowships.
Publications
All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community (1974, Harper and Row: ; latest reissue 2003, Basic Books: )
Call To Home: African-Americans Reclaim The Rural South (1996, Basic Books: ; latest reissue 2003: )
All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
Carol Stack's All Our Kin is a classic ethnography from the early 1970s. Her 1974 book All Our Kin has been described as "a classic of urban sociology", "one of the earliest and most popular accounts of how [black kinship] all works" and "influential". All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. The Book tore down stereotypes and opened the way for research on families and social structure in American communities. The book portrays of the social networks and value systems that evolved within African-American communities to combat grinding poverty. In communities plagued by single-parent families and joblessness, the book chronicles intense loyalties and an intricate trading system that ensures survival. All Our Kin challenges white America to reevaluate its notion of family.
Call To Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South
Call To Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South is a poignant saga of a reverse exodus: the return of half a million black Americans to the rural South.There have been many books focusing on the black migration out of the South into Northern cities. But few people are aware that over the past 20 years the trend has been in the other direction, with African-Americans moving back south, to some of the least promising places in all of America—places the Department of Agriculture calls “Persistent Poverty Counties.” Carol Stack brings their stories to life in this captivating book. Interweaving a powerful human story with a larger economic and social analysis of migration, poverty, and the urban underclass, Call to Home offers a rare glimpse of African-American |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Organization%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Organization is a British television drama series, produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1972.
The series, written by Philip Mackie, was set in the offices of the fictional Greatrick Organization, a faceless multi-million pound corporation dedicated solely to profits and more profits.
Peter Egan starred as new junior executive Richard Pershore, struggling to navigate his way through the corporate minefield, surrounded by more experienced and ambitious players. Through the course of seven episodes, The Organization features all the executive members of the public relations team at Greatrick.
The series was repeated on Channel 4 in 1987
Cast
Peter Egan as Richard Pershore
Anton Rodgers as Peter Frame
Donald Sinden as David Pulman
Bernard Hepton as Rodney Spurling
Elaine Taylor as Veronica
Jill Melford as Eve Manship
Norman Bird as Ken Grist
Episodes
All seven episodes were written by Philip Mackie.
Home media
The Organization is available on DVD in the UK.
References
External links
1970s British drama television series
1972 British television series debuts
1972 British television series endings
English-language television shows
ITV television dramas
Television series by Yorkshire Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Jaillet | Patrick Jaillet is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He is the Dugald C. Jackson Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include online and data-focused optimization.
Jaillet was elected to the 2013 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He gave the Wasserstrom Lecture at Northwestern University in 2014, the Warren Lecture at the University of Minnesota in 2008, and the Tow Lecture at the University of Iowa in 2008.
Education
Jaillet received a PhD from MIT in 1985.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
MIT School of Engineering faculty
American electrical engineers
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Visakhapatnam | Transport in Visakhapatnam is the network of roads, railways, rapid transit system in the largest city of Andhra Pradesh . The city of Visakhapatnam also serves as the central hub of transport and logistics on the East coast of India and hence it is called as City Of Destiny.
There are various modes of transportation available in Visakhapatnam. It includes auto rickshaws, bicycles to mass transit systems such as buses and trains. Visakhapatnam is also home for a Seaport and an International Airport.
Roadways
Visakhapatnam is integrated into the National Highway Network of India through NH 16, NH 516C, NH 516D, NH 516E, while two State Highways SH38, SH39 originate/terminate in Vizag. Visakhapatnam has a vehicle population of nearly 12 lakhs and is the highest in the state.
The city has a total road length of , covering of municipal roads, of Roads & Buildings department roads and of National highways. There are several arterial roads and ten junctions in the city, where Beach Road, Dabagardens Road, Dwarakanagar road, Sampath Vinayak Temple Road (also known as VIP road), Scindia Road, Chitralaya Road and waltair Main road are some of them. Jagadamba Centre, Maddilapalem Junction, Siripuram Junction, Madhurawada Junction, Gajuwaka Junction, Gopalapatnam Junction and NAD X Road are major junctions in the city.
There are plans to upgrade National highway NH 16 that is presently passing through city and shift it to newly constructing Anakapalle - Anandapuram Highway, so that unnecessary traffic passing through city can be regulated.
Public transport
Bus
Bus Transit is the major mode of passenger transport in the city. Within the municipal limits of the city, APSRTC plies nearly 600 City bus services in the region which serve lakhs of commuters in city daily from Dwaraka Central Bus Station Complex, Maddilapalem bus station, MVP Colony bus station, Gajuwaka Bus station, Simhachalam bus station, Kurmannapalem bus station and Madhurawada bus station.
Also APSRTC plies various interstate and distant buses from Dwaraka Central Bus Station Complex, Maddilapalem bus station, Simhachalam bus station and Madhurawada Bus Station to major parts of the State and neighboring states like Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Chhattisgarh. There are kinds of buses that ply in city namely:
Metro Express Low Floor (non air-conditioned)
Metro Express
Metro Luxury (air-conditioned)
City Ordinary
Visakhapatnam Bus Rapid Transit System was completely operational.
Cabs
Vehicle for hire companies serving localities daily are Ola and Uber, While Rapido gives rides for one person only. Private tour operators serve for commuting in major lines. Also there are Mini Vans that commute people from short and long distances ranging from 10 km to 100 km.
Others
Cycle rickshaws are only confined to a very small area of the city and are almost disappeared, which were one of the major means of transport. Cycling paths are under construction in Vizag. By 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chassis%20management%20controller | A chassis management controller (CMC) is an embedded system management hardware and software solution to manage multiple servers, networking, and storage.
A CMC can provide a secure browser-based interface that enables an IT system administrator to take inventory, perform configuration and monitoring tasks, remotely power on/off blade servers, and enable alerts for events on servers or components in the blade chassis. It has its own microprocessor and memory and is powered by the modular chassis it is plugged into. The inventory of hardware components is built-in and a CMC has a dedicated internal network. The blade enclosure, which can hold multiple blade servers, provides power, cooling, various interconnects, and additional systems management capabilities. Unlike a tower or rack server, a blade server cannot run by itself; it requires a compatible blade enclosure.
References
Embedded systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20IP | A cluster IP is a term in cloud computing to refer to a proxy that represents a computer cluster with a single IP address. It is a term used by the cloud computing system Kubernetes (stylised as ClusterIP) to provide load balancing to IP addresses for devices in the internal network.
References
Internet Protocol
Internet terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford%20Corporation%20Tramways | Bradford Corporation Tramways were a tramway network in the city of Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England which operated trams from 1882 until 1950 and trolleybuses from 1911 until 1972. The track gauge of the tramways was .
History
Origins
In 1880 the Bradford Corporation had gained parliamentary approval under the Bradford Corporation Tramways Order to construct a tramway system in the city. Construction of the first section of single-line track tram line on Manningham Lane started in September 1881. The finished line ran from Rawson Square in the city centre to Lister Park Gates. Since at that time local councils were not allowed to operate their own tramway system, the line was leased to the Bradford Tramways Company (later the Bradford Tramways and Omnibus Company). The line was opened to the public after a Board of Trade inspection took place on 31 January 1882. The first service ran at 8 am on 2 February 1882. The first additional line opened on 8 August 1882 along Leeds Road to Stanningley and was operated using steam traction because of the gradients involved. A further other radial line, also steam operated, was built to Tong Cemetery, Allerton via Four Lane Ends, and the horse-drawn line was extended from Manningley to Undercliffe. Another new line was constructed in 1884 from the Town Hall Square to Shelf, together with a branch line from Odsal to Wyke. Although the Bradford Tramways and Omnibus Company was offered the operating lease, it did not show sufficient interest. The Corporation therefore invited offers and leased the new line to the newly formed Bradford and Shelf Tramways Company for 19 years. This lease expired on the same date (31 January 1903) as those of the Bradford Tramways and Omnibus Company.
When an 1896 Act of Parliament removed the prohibition on local authorities operating their own tramways, Bradford Council constructed and operated its own electric tramway. On 30 July 1898 an electrified line to Bolton Junction opened, and a line to Great Horton on 27 August 1898.
Consolidation and extension
An expansion of the tramway network was prepared by laying more tracks. A comprehensive system could, however, not be developed until the leases of the Bradford Tramways and Omnibus Company and of the Bradford and Shelf Tramway Company expired. The Corporation obtained therefore statutory powers to terminate the Companies leases before their expiry date, and purchased them on 1 February 1902, after which date both tramway companies went into liquidation. Some of the steam engines and cars from the former tramway companies were hired until the electric system was fully operational. The horse trams on the Manningham Lane line were retired on 31 January 1902. In 1903 steam services on the former Bradford and Shelf Tramway lines ceased, and the Bradford tramway system became fully electrified.
By 1905, there were demands from the public for trams to run between Bradford and Leeds, despite the fact that Bradford |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20most%20common%20passwords | This is a list of the most common passwords, discovered in various data breaches. Common passwords generally are not recommended on account of low password strength.
List
NordPass
NordPass conducted the most breached passwords research in 2021. The company gathered top 200 worst passwords this year from a database of 275,699,516 passwords.
SplashData
The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year. In the 2016 edition, the 25 most common passwords made up more than 10% of the surveyed passwords, with the most common password of 2016, "123456", making up 4%.
Keeper
Password manager Keeper compiled its own list of the 25 most common passwords in 2016, from 25 million passwords leaked in data breaches that year.
National Cyber Security Centre
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) compiled its own list of the 20 most common passwords in 2019, from 100 million passwords leaked in data breaches that year.
See also
Password cracking
10,000 most common passwords
Notes
References
External links
Skullsecurity list of breached password collections
Security
Password authentication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro%E2%80%93Francia%20test | The Shapiro–Francia test is a statistical test for the normality of a population, based on sample data. It was introduced by S. S. Shapiro and R. S. Francia in 1972 as a simplification of the Shapiro–Wilk test.
Theory
Let be the -th ordered value from our size- sample. For example, if the sample consists of the values , , because that is the second-lowest value. Let be the mean of the th order statistic when making independent draws from a normal distribution. For example, , meaning that the second-lowest value in a sample of four draws from a normal distribution is typically about 0.297 standard deviations below the mean. Form the Pearson correlation coefficient between the and the :
Under the null hypothesis that the data is drawn from a normal distribution, this correlation will be strong, so values will cluster just under 1, with the peak becoming narrower and closer to 1 as increases. If the data deviate strongly from a normal distribution, will be smaller.
This test is a formalization of the older practice of forming a Q–Q plot to compare two distributions, with the playing the role of the quantile points of the sample distribution and the playing the role of the corresponding quantile points of a normal distribution.
Compared to the Shapiro–Wilk test statistic , the Shapiro–Francia test statistic is easier to compute, because it does not require that we form and invert the matrix of covariances between order statistics.
Practice
There is no known closed-form analytic expression for the values of required by the test. There, are however, several approximations that are adequate for most practical purposes.
The exact form of the null distribution of is known only for . Monte-Carlo simulations have shown that the transformed statistic is nearly normally distributed, with values of the mean and standard deviation that vary slowly with in an easily parameterized form.
Power
Comparison studies have concluded that order statistic correlation tests such as Shapiro–Francia and Shapiro–Wilk are among the most powerful of the established statistical tests for normality. One might assume that the covariance-adjusted weighting of different order statistics used by the Shapiro–Wilk test should make it slightly better, but in practice the Shapiro–Wilk and Shapiro–Francia variants are about equally good. In fact, the Shapiro–Francia variant actually exhibits more power to distinguish some alternative hypothesis.
References
Statistical tests
Normality tests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Anstey | Dan Anstey (born 19 December 1984 in Brisbane, Queensland), is an Australian radio and television presenter.
He is known for hosting Weekend Today, the Nine Network television series ManSpace, the 7mate Stihl Timbersports Series, various radio shows across the Nova and Southern Cross Austereo networks, and also appearances on The Project.
Personal life
After graduating as dux of Nambour State High School in 2001, Anstey attained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with Honours from the University of Queensland in 2005.
He has a verified IQ of 134, making him eligible to join Mensa.
On Christmas Day, 2017 he became engaged to his long-term girlfriend Clare Dufty. They married on the Gold Coast on 25 August 2018, and have a daughter named name Halle Ann born 14 April 2019 and a son named August Matthew born 31 August 2021.
Career
Radio
Anstey began his radio career in 2007 as part of Brisbane's Nova 106.9 promotional street team, of which Scott Tweedie was also a member.
In 2011 he was named as co-host of the Nova 106.9 breakfast show alongside Ashley Bradnam, David Lutteral and Camilla Severi. When Kip Wightman returned to station in 2012 Anstey was shifted to "The Dan Anstey Show" which aired weekday afternoons, before again being moved to Melbourne sister station Nova 100 as anchor of the breakfast show Hughesy & Kate.
When Hughesy & Kate ended in 2013 Anstey was hired by rival Melbourne station Fox FM to anchor its new breakfast show Fifi & Dave. In 2015, Fox FM announced he would be leaving the show and was to be replaced by Byron Cooke.
On 27 May 2022, Anstey announced his resignation from 90.9 Sea FM and from the breakfast show with Bianca Dye and Ben Hannant after six years with the station. He later announced that he will join Triple M to anchor breakfast with Greg 'Marto' Martin and Margaux Parker.
Television
In 2007, Anstey began presenting short film reviews on Reel2Reel, a film review program broadcast by the Brisbane community television station Briz31 (now known as Queensland Online TV).
He has been a regular contributor to The Project since 2010, reporting from Brisbane, Melbourne and the Gold Coast.
In 2014, Anstey was named as host of the Nine Network television series ManSpace, alongside Shane Jacobson and Dale Vine. He hosted two seasons of the program.
In January 2022, Anstey joined Weekend Today as weather presenter.
Other
Along with Leon Murray he hosted the internet series Add a Motor to it in 2011. The show featured various everyday items that had been motorised, including a couch that set the world record for fastest sofa at 163 km/h (101 mph).
In 2014, Anstey was part of an MLC advertising campaign that tasked him with delivering a plate of Australian lamb to Julian Assange, at the time a political refugee in the Ecuadorian Embassy of London. He was unsuccessful in his duty.
Awards and honours
In 2023 the Brisbane Lions named him as their number-one ticket holder.
Anstey was named one of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpooned | Harpooned is a video game by Australia-based Irish developer Conor O'Kane for Windows and Macintosh computers. It is a serious game which questions the Japanese government's claim that their whaling program is scientific in nature. The game's website describes Harpooned as a "Cetacean Research Simulator, where you play the role of a Japanese scientist performing research on whales around Antarctica".
Gameplay
The player controls a Japanese whaling vessel. The game opens with the instruction "Perform research on the whales by shooting them with your explosive harpoons". After killing a whale the ship collects its meat and the player is rewarded with a higher score for collecting more meat before a timer runs out, triggering a "scientific combo". At the end of each stage the player's ship offloads its meat onto a research vessel which then performs research on the meat, producing various whale-meat products such as pet-food and cosmetics. Additional discoveries are then announced highlighting the hypocrisy of killing vast numbers of whales in the name of science, such as "Juvenine whales are greatly reduced in number. We must kill more pregnant female whales to determine the cause of this reduction".
Hazards that the player must avoid include icebergs, protestors and news helicopters.
The game does not have an ending, however after about fifteen minutes of play there are no more whales remaining and the player finds that they are sailing through the icebergs alone.
Release
Harpooned was first released in January 2008. In 2009 it was updated with new features. The 2009 update included an online leaderboard and the ability to capture protestors. This feature allowed players to recreate the capture of Sea Shepherd protestors Benjamin Potts and Giles Lane who were held on the Japanese whaling vessel the Yushin Maru No. 2 for two days during the 2008 Antarctic campaign.
Reception
Games For Windows Magazine said Harpooned is "...a darkly funny, quality shooter with a soundtrack that's both as sad and energetic as the game itself. This is actually the best possible kind of 'activist' game: one that succeeds not despite its message but because of it".
Harpooned was featured on G4tv's Attack of the Show! as their Number one around the net on January 24, 2008. Olivia Munn said "This is the coolest protest ever... Besides getting the message across, it’s actually a fun game".
In a segment on serious games, ABC Television's Good Game show featured an interview with Conor O'Kane, the developer of Harpooned, where they said "Australian serious games aren't just limited to training either, we're also making some of the best social issue games that are taking important messages to the rest of the world."
David Wildgoose of Kotaku wrote "Politics and games rarely mix. But when you add biting satire, actual gameplay and loads and loads of blood, you get the genuinely entertaining Harpooned".
Derek Yu of TIGSource said "Harpooned is a socially conscious shoo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emogenius | Emogenius is an American game show that is broadcast by Game Show Network. The series features two teams of contestants who compete as teams against each other by decoding emoji-themed messages. The main game consists of three rounds of various themes. The team that accumulates the most money in the main game wins the game, keeps their bank, and advances to a bonus round, where their winnings can be increased to up to $10,000 if they can solve five messages within the time limit (60 seconds). The series was first announced March 17, 2017, it premiered nearly three months later on June 14, 2017. It is hosted by Hunter March, grandson of The $64,000 Question host Hal March.
Gameplay
Two teams of two contestants compete in the main game, which consists of three rounds. In the opening round, called “Get the Message (or Texting with the Stars on some episodes),” each team is given two questions based on fictional text message conversations, each consisting of a question being asked and a reply being a series of emojis. The team has 15 seconds to decipher what the reply means. Each team's first question is worth $100, while the second question is worth $200. If the team fails to decipher the reply, their opponents have five seconds to decipher the same message for half of the question's original value.
In the second round, called “In-App Purchase” each team is shown a category and an emoji-based clue. The opening value of the question is $300. The team may swipe upwards on their touchscreen up to two times to receive clues in assistance in solving the puzzle; however, each additional clue reduces the value by $100 (the so-called “in-app purchase” which gives the round its name). The team must solve the clues within 20 seconds to earn the remaining money. If they fail to do so, the other team has five seconds to solve for the remaining money. Each team is given two questions in this round.
The leading team goes first in the third round, called “Hit Send.” One member of each team is designated the sender, while the other is the receiver. The sender is shown a message to send, as the host announces the category, and uses the emoji on their touchscreen to communicate the message to their partner, who must decode the message. Either member of the team may pass at any time. Each message successfully communicated is worth $400. Each team has 45 seconds to communicate as many messages as possible. Whoever has more money at the end of the round is the champion, keeps their money, and plays the final round for $10,000. If the team that was originally trailing overtakes their opponents, they are allowed to finish out their round in an effort to win additional money. In the event of a tie at the end of this round, both teams are shown a sudden-death emoji message. Whoever buzzes in by touching their screen is given the opportunity to answer, if they are correct, they are the champions, otherwise, their opponents could guess it and if they're right, they are th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield%20Junction | Westfield Junction is a railway switching junction on the Auckland railway network in New Zealand. It is north of Otahuhu station and is surrounded by the industrial area of Westfield.
Westfield Junction defines the southernmost extremity of the North Auckland Line (NAL) via Penrose and the point where the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) line via Glen Innes intersects with the NAL. The NIMT continues south from Westfield Junction toward Otahuhu and Papakura.
Two suburban passenger train services pass through Westfield Junction: Southern Line services between Papakura and Britomart, and Eastern Line services between Manukau and Britomart. The junction is also used by Northern Explorer services between Wellington and Auckland, excursion passenger trains, and freight trains.
Westfield station, a few hundred metres south of Westfield Junction, was closed in March 2017.
See also
List of Auckland railway stations
References
Rail transport in Auckland
Public transport in Auckland
Rail junctions in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based%20recommendation | Location-based recommendation is a recommender system that incorporates location information, such as that from a mobile device, into algorithms to attempt to provide more-relevant recommendations to users. This could include recommendations for restaurants, museums, or other points of interest or events near the user's location.
These services take advantage of the increasing use of smartphones that store and provide the location information of their users alongside location-based social networks (LBSN), like Foursquare, Gowalla, Swarm, and Yelp. In addition to geosocial networking services, traditional online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are using the location information of their users to show and recommend upcoming events, posts, and local trends.
In addition to its value for users, this information is valuable for third-party companies to advertise products, hotels, places, and to forecast service demand such as the number of taxis needed in a part of a city.
Background
Recommender systems are information filtering systems which attempt to predict the rating or preference that a user would give, based on ratings that similar users gave and ratings that the user gave on previous occasions. These systems have become increasingly popular and are used for movies, music, news, books, research articles, search queries, social tags, and products in general.
Recommending new places
The main objective of recommending new places is to provide a suggestion to a user to visit unvisited places like restaurants, museums, national parks or other points of interest. This type of recommendation is quite valuable, especially for those who are traveling to a new city and want the best experience during their trip. Location-based social networks or third-party advertising companies are willing to provide a recommendation not only based on previous check-ins and preferences but also using social links to suggest a not-visited point-of-interest. The implicit goal of this type of recommendation is to lift the user's burden of searching for an interesting place.
One of the first studies in this area was conducted in 2011. The idea behind this work was to leverage social influence and location influence and provide recommendations. The authors provide three types of scores:
Similar users: this score is proportional to the similarity in behavior of users for visiting places. Mathematically, the similarity score between two users is computed as follows:Where denotes the probability of visiting place by user . This value could be computed based on the idea of user-based collaborative filtering as below:
Similar friends: this score is calculated by the cosine similarity of users based on their mutual connections (i.e.: friendships) in social media. This similarity is proportional to the number of friends that two users have in common. It is calculated as:Where represent the set of friends and is the place set of user (i.e.: places the user v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20%26%20Jurisdiction%20Policy%20Network | The Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, also known as "I&J Policy Network", "Internet & Jurisdiction, or simply "I&J", is the multistakeholder organization fostering legal interoperability in cyberspace. Its Secretariat facilitates a global policy process between key stakeholders to enable transnational cooperation and policy coherence. Participants in the Policy Network work together to preserve the cross-border nature of the Internet, protect human rights, fight abuses, and enable the global digital economy. Since 2012, the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network has engaged more than 300 key entities from different stakeholder groups around the world, including governments, the world's largest Internet companies, the technical community, civil society groups, leading universities and international organizations.
The Secretariat of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network is based in Paris, France. It was founded in 2012 by Executive Director Bertrand de La Chapelle and Deputy Executive Director Paul Fehlinger.
Enabling multistakeholder cooperation
The Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network bridges relevant stakeholder groups and policy silos in order to enable transnational cooperation. It strives to fill the institutional gap in Internet governance at the intersection of digital economy, human rights, and cybersecurity. Through global, regional, and thematic meetings, its Secretariat facilitates a neutral dialogue process with the mission of building trust among the different actors and help them develop the operational solutions necessary for the coexistence of diverse laws on the cross-border Internet.
The Internet & Jurisdiction Secretariat reports every year on progress at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) organized by the United Nations. At the IGF 2016, The Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network was granted for the first time an "Open Forum", a format traditionally reserved to treaty-based organizations. In June 2016 at the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy in Cancún, Mexico, the Background Report Economic and Social Benefits of Internet Openness, cited the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network's multistakeholder process as being exemplary: "The [Principles for Internet Policy Making of the 2011 OECD Council Recommendation] endorse the development of voluntary codes of conduct through multi-stakeholder processes, such as the Internet & Jurisdiction [Policy Network]." In April 2018, the G7 Cyber Group expressed its support for the ongoing work of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network. The organization was selected as one of 40 worldwide initiatives to be showcased with a dedicated session to the inaugural Paris Peace Forum on November 11-13, 2018, which was attended by over 70 heads of state. The United Nations Secretary General Report on "Progress made in the implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society" referenced the work of the Internet & Jurisdiction P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpyHunter%20%28software%29 | SpyHunter is an anti-spyware computer program for the Microsoft Windows (Windows XP and later) operating system. It is designed to remove malware, such as trojan horses, computer worms, rootkits, and other malicious software.
Details
SpyHunter is currently at version 5, and receives daily definition updates. SpyHunter has a free version, which allows the user to scan their computer. Purchase is required to remove found malware. EnigmaSoftware also offers a service on its website called "ESG MalwareTracker", it shows the most infected countries where SpyHunter has detected malware.
In the paid version, the user is able to receive support from a built-in HelpDesk. SpyHunter also has a custom fix from the Spyware Helpdesk team.
Critical reception
PC Magazine gave SpyHunter a 2 out of 5 star rating in March 2004, saying it was good at spyware detection, but complained about the performance and usability.
PC Magazine gave SpyHunter a "GOOD" rating, 3 out of 5 stars, in March 2016. The reviewer concluded, "Enigma SpyHunter 4 does what it promises, eliminating active malware and killing malware that launches at startup. But competitors deliver much more."
Lawsuits
In February 2016, Enigma Software filed a lawsuit against Bleeping Computer, a computer support website. It alleged that the latter engaged in a smear campaign with the purpose of driving potential customers away from SpyHunter to affiliate competing products. In turn, Bleeping Computer filed a lawsuit against Enigma Software also for an alleged smear campaign. In March 2017, Enigma Software announced in a press release that a settlement had been reached in the lawsuit against Bleeping Computer, and that both cases would be dismissed.
In October 2016, Enigma Software filed a lawsuit against popular security software vendor, Malwarebytes, for anti-competitive behavior. The lawsuit arose after Malwarebytes' software began targeting SpyHunter as a potentially unwanted program. On November 7, 2017, Enigma's case was dismissed by the US District Court. Engima appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the court reversed the lower court's decision. A panel of judges voted 2-1 that, "We hold that the phrase "otherwise objectionable" does not include software that the provider finds objectionable for anti-competitive reasons." Despite this, Malwarebytes won the case on its merits after the Supreme Court denied their writ of certiorari on the immunity issue.
Controversies
SpyHunter is often labeled an Potentially Unwanted Program due to its misleading results of always showing infections, including on clean computers, and injects tracking cookies into a users browser, raising concern whether it is legitimate or not. The company also floods web search results when searching for a specific threat, linking a download to SpyHunter, even if the product is not able to remove it.
References
Spyware removal
Proprietary cross-platform software
Windows security software
R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ark%20and%20the%20Aardvark | The Ark and the Aardvark (originally titled Noah's Ark) is an upcoming computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by John Stevenson and written by Philip LaZebnik and Glen Dolman. The film tells the story of an aardvark who becomes the leader of a group of misfit animals in order to bring all the animals onto Noah's Ark. The film stars the voices of Miles Teller, Aubrey Plaza, Jenny Slate, Rob Riggle, Craig Robinson and Stephen Merchant.
Premise
The story follows an outcast aardvark by the name of Gilbert, who becomes the reluctant leader of a ragtag group of misfit animals that need to be led to the mighty ark before the impending flood. Along their journey, they band together to conquer unforeseen obstacles, and ultimately, Gilbert discovers within himself the inner strength and ingenuity to prove that in a world of "twos", he was truly destined to be "the one".
Cast
Miles Teller as Gilbert, an aardvark
Aubrey Plaza as Brain, an intelligent spider
Jenny Slate as Mitzy, a clumsy ostrich
Rob Riggle as Todd, a short-tempered elephant who is the captain of the ark
Craig Robinson as Clyde, an arrogant bullfrog
Stephen Merchant as Croc, an evil crocodile
Production
It was revealed that Philip LaZebnik would write the screenplay for the computer-animated movie Noah's Ark, which Unified Pictures would produce. ElectroAge would handle the animation. The studio selected Cameron Hood as co-director and John Stevenson as the creative lead for the movie in March 2013. Later, on August 20, 2014, it was revealed that the movie's script, written by LaZebnik and Glen Dolman, had been given to Stevenson, who would now direct it. On October 3, 2016, it was planned for Miles Teller to voice the movie's protagonist Gilbert in The Ark and the Aardvark, which Keith Kjarval and Kurt Rauer would direct for Unified in collaboration with Watson Enterprises.
In October 2016, the film's production started in Los Angeles. The film is financed by I Do Culture Corporation, which is funded by the Zhejiang-based diamond brand Hiersun (恒信). while the animation is handled by Stellar Creative Lab in Vancouver.
References
External links
Upcoming films
American computer-animated films
American children's animated comedy films
Animated adventure films
Canadian animated feature films
Canadian comedy films
Fictional aardvarks
Chinese children's films
Films about spiders
Chinese animated films
Noah's Ark in film
Animated films about birds
Animated films about elephants
Animated films about reptiles
Films directed by John Stevenson
Films with screenplays by Philip LaZebnik |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%20Happens%20at%20The%20Abbey | What Happens at The Abbey is an American reality television series that premiered on the E! cable network on May 14, 2017. The show follows the lives of the employees who work at the West Hollywood, California nightclub, The Abbey.
Cast
David Cooley, the owner
Brandon Winn, David's assistant
Brandi Andrews, a VIP Host
Lawrence Carroll, a VIP Host
Murray Swanby, a VIP Host
Cory Zwierzynski, a bartender
Chelsea Jeffers, a management trainee
Billy Reilich, a VIP server
Ashlee Lian, Chelsea's friend
Kim Senser, a server
Elizabeth Steinle, a server
Kyle Clarke, a bartender
Marissa Chykirda, a new server
Daniel Eid, a server
Production
A preview trailer for What Happens at The Abbey was released on March 28, 2017.
The show premiered on May 14, 2017.
During a live video on Instagram, on June 22, Lawrence announced that What Happens At The Abbey was not picked up for a second season.
Episodes
References
2017 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
2010s American reality television series
E! original programming
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Los Angeles
West Hollywood, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Siewiorek | Daniel P. Siewiorek is an American computer engineer and computer scientist, currently the Buhl University Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
His research focuses on electronic design automation, reliability computing, and context aware mobile computing; he has also done research in wearable computing, computer-aided design, rapid prototyping, fault-tolerant computing, and computer architecture. At Carnegie Mellon University, he initiated and guided the Cm* project, which culminated in an operational 50-processor multiprocessor system. He has designed or been involved with the design of nine multiprocessor systems, and has also been a key contributor to the dependability design of over two dozen commercial computing systems. He currently leads an interdisciplinary team that has designed and constructed over 20 generations of mobile computing systems. He has written nine textbooks in addition to over 475 papers.
He is the former Director of Carnegie Mellon University's Quality of Life Technology NSF Engineering Research Center, Director of the Engineering Design Research Center, cofounder of its successor organization, the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, and Department Head of the Human Computer Interaction Institute. He has also served as Chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing, and founding Chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems.
He has been the recipient of the AAEE Terman Award, the IEEE/ACM Eckert–Mauchly Award, the ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contributions Award. In February 2018, he was awarded the IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award for "contributions to computer architecture, wearable computing, and human computer interaction education through his pioneering textbooks, mentoring, and leadership."
He is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for contributions to wearable computers, multiprocessor design, reliable systems, and automated design synthesis.
Education
Daniel P. Siewiorek received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1968. He then attended Stanford University, graduating with an Master of Arts (M.A.) in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science in 1969, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), also in Electrical Engineering, in 1972.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
American computer scientists
21st-century American engineers
Stanford University alumni
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Data%20Protection%20Act%202012 | The Personal Data Protection Act 2012 ("PDPA") sets out the law on data protection in Singapore. The PDPA regulates the processing of personal data in the private sector.
Overview
The PDPA establishes a general data protection regime, originally comprising nine data protection obligations which are imposed on organisations: the Consent Obligation, the Purpose Limitation Obligation, the Notification Obligation, the Access and Correction Obligation, the Accuracy Obligation, the Protection Obligation, the Retention Limitation Obligation, the Transfer Limitation Obligation and the Openness Obligation (now referred to as the Accountability Obligation).
Major amendments to the PDPA were proposed and passed in 2020. Among other changes, a tenth data protection obligation was added, namely, the Data Breach Notification Obligation.
The PDPA also governs telemarketing in Singapore. It establishes the Do Not Call Registers, on which telephone numbers may be registered. There are three Do Not Call Registers: (i) the No Fax Message Register; (ii) the No Text Message Register; and (iii) the No Voice Call Register. Generally, if a telephone number is listed on a Do Not Call Register (e.g. the No Text Message Register), then it is not permitted to send a marketing message of the relevant kind to that telephone number.
Personal Data Protection Commission
The PDPA establishes the Personal Data Protection Commission ("PDPC") as the regulatory authority governing data protection in Singapore. The PDPC enforces the PDPA and publishes advisory guidelines on the interpretation of the PDPA. To date, the PDPC has enforced the PDPA against a number of organisations. Notable cases include SingHealth, which was implicated in the 2018 SingHealth data breach.
References
External links
Official text of the Act
2012 in law
2012 in Singapore
Singaporean legislation
Privacy legislation
Data laws of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongmae%20station | Dongmae Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 in Sinpyeong-dong, Saha District, Busan, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jangnim%20station | Jangnim Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 in Jangnim-dong, Saha District, Busan, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Railway stations in Busan
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinjangnim%20station | Sinjangnim Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 in Jangrim-dong, Saha District, Busan, South Korea.
Station Layout
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natgae%20station | Natgae Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 in Dadae-dong, Saha District, Busan, South Korea.
Station Layout
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadaepo%20Harbor%20station | Dadaepo Harbor Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 in Dadae-dong, Saha District, Busan, South Korea.
Station Layout
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadaepo%20Beach%20station | Dadaepo Beach Station () is a station of the Busan Metro Line 1 in Dadae-dong, Saha District, Busan, South Korea.
Station Layout
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synack | Synack is an American technology company based in Redwood City, California. The company uses a crowdsourced network of white-hat hackers to find exploitable vulnerabilities and a SaaS platform enabled by AI and machine learning to identify exploitable vulnerabilities. Customers include government agencies and businesses in retail, healthcare and the manufacturing industry.
Overview
Synack was founded in 2013 by former NSA agents, Jay Kaplan and Mark Kuhr. Synack uses a network of freelance security analysts, or hackers, in over 80 countries to check vulnerability and security problems.
In 2018, Synack worked with the US Department of Defense to strengthen the Hack the Pentagon[10] initiative, by vetting ethical hackers for continual assessment of defense websites, hardware, and physical systems. In June 2020, the company partnered with DARPA to check for data leakage and buffer errors in their new security prototype developed through the System Security Integration Through Hardware (SSITH) program. In July 2020, the Colorado secretary of state's office partnered with Synack to conduct penetration tests of its election systems ahead of the presidential vote.
Funding
Synack is funded by 16 investors. In April 2014, the company announced it had secured Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Google Ventures, Allegis Capital, and Derek Smith of Shape Security. In February 2015, the company raised US$25 million in Series B funding.
In April 2017, it raised $21M from Microsoft Ventures, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Singtel and prior investors.
Achievements
By April 11, 2017, Synack had 100 employees as well as a growing network of freelance hackers.
CNBC named Synack a "CNBC Disruptor" company four times in a row, from 2015 to 2019. In 2019, the company was again named among CNBC Disruptor 50 for Innovative Crowdsourced Security Platform. According to Bloomberg, Synack is "the most trusted crowdsourced penetration testing platform." It is valued at $500M as of May 2020, as per Fortune Magazine.
In 2020, the company was featured in America's Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies list by Forbes magazine and was also named in Gartner’s Top 25 Enterprise Software Startups.
See also
Security hacker
References
External links
synack.com
2013 establishments in California
American companies established in 2013
Security companies of the United States
Computer security companies
Companies based in Menlo Park, California
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20J%20%26%20Big%20Cuz | Little J & Big Cuz is an Australian animated television series first screened on the NITV network in 2017. The 13-part series is directed by Tony Thorne and produced by Ned Lander and developed with the Australian Council for Educational Research. It was written by Beck Cole, Jon Bell, Erica Glynn, Danielle MacLean, Bruce Pascoe and Dot West, with creative input from Margaret Harvey, Leah Purcell and Adrian Wills.
In May 2018, the show was renewed for a second series to air on NITV and ABC Kids in 2019. The series won the 2018 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Children's Program.
Plot
Little J is five and has just started school. His older female cousin, Big Cuz, is ten. They are a couple of Aboriginal Australian kids living with their Nanna and Old Dog, who also narrates. The gaps in Nanna's ramshackle fence lead to Saltwater, Desert and Freshwater Country. With the help of Nanna and their teacher Miss Chen, Little J and Big Cuz are finding out all about culture, community and country.
Educational value
Designed as a school readiness initiative, the series was accompanied by the publication of educational resources designed for preschool and early years teachers. In 2018, educational researchers reviewed the use of Little J and Big Cuz in early childhood, preschool and junior primary settings, producing a series of case studies about the use of the series as a transition to school resource. The research was funded by the Dusseldorp Forum.
Versions
22 episodes are available in various Aboriginal languages, including:
Djambarrpuyngu
Pitjantjatjara
Arrernte
Walmajarri
Yawuru
Palawa kani
Gija
Warlpiri
Noongar
Cast
Miranda Tapsell as Little J
Deborah Mailman as Big Cuz
Ningali Lawford-Wolf as Nanna
Aaron Fa'aoso as Old Dog
Ursula Yovich as Levi
Shari Sebbens as Sissy/B Boy
Renee Lim as Miss Chen
Mark Coles Smith as Mick
Katie Beckett as George/Jacko
Kylie Farmer as Ally
Miah Madden as Monti
References
External links
Education studies
National Indigenous Television original programming
2010s Australian animated television series
2017 Australian television series debuts
Animated television series about children
Australian children's animated adventure television series
Australian preschool education television series
Animated preschool education television series
2010s preschool education television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataplex | Dataplex (stylized as dataplex) is a 2005 album by Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda. It was released in December 2005 by independent record label Raster-Noton on CD.
Background
Dataplex was Ryoji Ikeda's first full-length release since his 2002's orchestral Op. It is the first part in the Datamatics series, which "interrogates and interprets the mass of raw computer data surrounding us all." Overall, it is the musician's seventh solo album. The last track, "data.adaplex", causes intentional playback errors when played on some CD players.
Reception
BBC Musics Peter Marsh praised its composition stating the tracks are "arranged with surgical precision into short slices of minimalist art-techno; funky in a very cerebral, molecular sort of fashion, they're immersive (and by track 19) almost lush and strangely beautiful." Comparing it to Autechre, PopMatterss Tim O'Neil found "everything is once again falling apart in the most remarkable fashion. The computer is rebooting."
Reflecting on Datamatics as a series, Dusted Magazines John Seelbach called Dataplex "a surprising and enthralling start". AllMusics Rob Theakston also said it was "a promising start to what could be one of the most ambitious projects of the post-glitch movement." Brainwasheds Jon Whitney revered the album with "rather rhythmic, challenging, and completely enjoyable: something most computer musician types have failed at."
Track listing
References
2005 albums
Ryoji Ikeda albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen%20Fontaine | Kathleen Fontaine (born 22 March 1962) is an adjunct professor of international policy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research areas include ethics, data policy, and applied public policy.
Career
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Fontaine received a BS in physics and astrophysics from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1984. In 2002 she completed her Master of Arts in Science, Technology, and Public Policy from The George Washington University. In 2013 she completed her PhD in Public Policy and Public Administration from Walden University. Fontaine's dissertation topic for her PhD was entitled, "Group on Earth Observations: A Case Study of an International Organization."
Fontaine's career has included work at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global Change Data Center from 2003 to 2005 where she managed the Earth Science Data Systems Working Groups. Starting in 2005, Fontaine worked as a policy analyst for NASA until 2014. From 2014 to 2015 she was the Managing Director of RDA/US at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she became an adjunct professor in 2016.
Fontaine has been involved in policy work with several international scientific organizations. She participated in the Committee on Earth Observations Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS); in the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). She is also a member of the Research Data Alliance and the Deep Carbon Observatory, where she is on the Data Science Team.
References
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American physicists
American astrophysicists
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
1962 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Gutin | Gregory Z. Gutin (born 17 January 1957) is a scholar in theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics. He received his PhD in Mathematics in 1993 from Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Noga Alon. Since September 2000 Gutin has been Professor in Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Gutin's research interests are in algorithms and complexity, access control, graph theory and combinatorial optimization. He co-authored with Joergen Bang-Jensen two editions of a monograph The first edition is available for free. The monograph has already attracted over 3100 citations in papers in such diverse areas as physics, biology, economics, ecology, meteorology and computer science. Gutin co-edited with Abraham Punnen the book Gutin also co-edited with Jørgen Bang-Jensen the book
He has more than two hundred fifty papers and an estimated h-index of 41.
Gutin was the recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2014, and the best paper awards at SACMAT 2015, 2016 and
2021. In January 2017 there was a workshop celebrating Gutin's 60th birthday. In 2017, he became a member of Academia Europaea.
References
External links
British computer scientists
Living people
Tel Aviv University alumni
British mathematicians
1957 births
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli mathematicians
Members of Academia Europaea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Biosafety%20Network%20of%20Expertise | The African Biosafety Network of Expertise describes a continental network hosted by Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Origin
The African Biosafety Network of Expertise was launched on 23 February 2010 with the signing of a host agreement between the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the Government of Burkina Faso.
It was conceptualized in Africa’s Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action (2005) and fulfils the recommendation of the High-Level African Panel on Modern Biotechnology, entitled Freedom to Innovate. The network is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Mission and activities
The network serves as a resource for regulators dealing with safety issues related to the introduction and development of genetically modified organisms. In addition to providing regulators with access to policy briefs and other relevant information online in English and French, the network organizes national and subregional workshops on specific topics. For instance, one-week biosafety courses for African regulators were run by the network in Burkina Faso in November 2013 and in Uganda in July 2014, in partnership with the University of Michigan (USA). Twenty-two regulators from Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe took part in the latter course.
In April 2014, the network ran a training workshop in Nigeria at the request of the Federal Ministry of Environment for 44 participants drawn from government ministries, regulatory agencies, universities, and research institutions. The aim was to strengthen the regulatory capacity of institutional biosafety committees. This training was considered important to ensure continued regulatory compliance for ongoing confined field trials and multilocation trials for Maruca-resistant cowpea and biofortified sorghum. The workshop was run in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute's Program for Biosafety Systems.
From 28 April to 2 May 2014, Togo's Ministry of Environment and Forest Resources organized a stakeholders’ consultative workshop to validate Togo's revised biosafety law. Around 60 participants took part, including government officials, researchers, lawyers, biosafety regulators and civil society representatives; the workshop was chaired by a member of the National Biosafety Committee. The aim of the draft bill was to align Togo's biosafety law signed in January 2009 with international biosafety regulations and best practices, especially the Nagoya Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress that Togo had signed in September 2011. The validation workshop was a critical step before the new bill could be tabled at the National Assembly for adoption later that year.
In June 2014, the network organized a four-day study tour to South Africa for ten regulators and policy-makers from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. The main objective was to allow them to interact directly with their |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Offset%20Table | The Global Offset Table, or GOT, is a section of a computer program's (executables and shared libraries) memory used to enable computer program code compiled as an ELF file to run correctly, independent of the memory address where the program's code or data is loaded at runtime.
It maps symbols in programming code to their corresponding absolute memory addresses to facilitate Position Independent Code (PIC) and Position Independent Executables (PIE) which are loaded to a different memory address each time the program is started. The runtime memory address, also known as absolute memory address of variables and functions is unknown before the program is started when PIC or PIE code is run so cannot be hardcoded during compilation by a compiler.
The Global Offset Table is represented as the .got and .got.plt sections in an ELF file which are loaded into the program's memory at startup. The operating system's dynamic linker updates the global offset table relocations (symbol to absolute memory addresses) at program startup or as symbols are accessed.
It is the mechanism that allows shared libraries (.so) to be relocated to a different memory address at startup and avoid memory address conflicts with the main program or other shared libraries, and to harden computer program code from exploitation.
References
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993%20NCAA%20Division%20I-AA%20football%20rankings | The 1993 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the Sports Network poll of Division I-AA head coaches, athletic directors, sports information directors and media members. This is for the 1993 season.
Legend
The Sports Network poll
References
Rankings
NCAA Division I FCS football rankings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%20NCAA%20Division%20I-AA%20football%20rankings | The 1994 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the Sports Network poll of Division I-AA head coaches, athletic directors, sports information directors and media members. This is for the 1994 season.
Legend
The Sports Network poll
References
Rankings
NCAA Division I FCS football rankings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venganza%20%28TV%20series%29 | Venganza is a Colombian telenovela based on the television series of Mike Kelley titled Revenge. Produced by Vista Productions Colombia, through Disney Media Networks Latin America, for RCN Televisión. The series premiered on March 6, 2017.
Plot
A terrorist attack puts Ramón Piedrahíta and his firm in charge of washing the cartel's money. Faced with this situation, he is forced to choose a scapegoat among his employees and discovers that his wife, Victoria is unfaithful to David Santana, executive in his firm. Ramón, to get revenge he buys the silence of many of his relatives and David is betrayed by the people he trusted the most, including his beloved Victoria. David is unjustly sentenced to 45 years in prison and is murdered in jail.
Thus begins the story of Amanda Santana, the daughter of David Santana, a man who was betrayed by Ramón and Victoria Piedrahita, and blamed for having been responsible for a terrorist attack on a commercial airliner. This fact destroyed Amanda's life; was separated from her father and forced to believe that she was the daughter of a murderer. When Amanda turned 18, she discovered the truth about what happened; the revelations in David Santana's diaries are the trigger of hatred and anger that move Amanda to want to destroy the lives of every person who betrayed her father. To do this, she builds her new identity, and now with the identity of "Emilia Rivera", will make all those involved in the betrayal of her father pay the consequences of their actions.
Cast
Margarita Muñoz as Amanda Santana / Emilia Rivera
María Elena Döehring as Victoria Piedrahíta
Andrés Toro as Adrián Lozano
Guillermo Blanco as Sergio Lozano
Jason Day as Daniel Piedrahíta
Jacques Touckmanian as Martín Lanz
Javier Gómez as Ramón Piedrahíta
Greeicy Rendón as Gabriela Piedrahíta
Sebastián Eslava as Enrique "Kike" Castaño
Emmanuel Esparza as Cesar Riaño
Silvia de Dios as Cristina Ochoa
Luis Fernando Bohórquez as Vicente Salinas
Didier van der Hove as Sebastián Arboleda
Franártur Duque as Gael (Young executive)
Ratings
References
External links
2017 telenovelas
2017 Colombian television series debuts
RCN Televisión telenovelas
2017 Colombian television series endings
Spanish-language telenovelas
Colombian television series based on American television series
Television shows set in Colombia
Television shows based on The Count of Monte Cristo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed%20Islam | Mohammed Islam is an American professor of Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan and an Elected Fellow of the IEEE and Optical Society.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellow Members of the IEEE
University of Michigan faculty
21st-century American engineers
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20NCAA%20Division%20I-AA%20football%20rankings | The 1995 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the Sports Network poll of Division I-AA head coaches, athletic directors, sports information directors and media members. This is for the 1995 season.
Legend
The Sports Network poll
References
Rankings
NCAA Division I FCS football rankings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Gentsch | Peter Gentsch (born 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German academic, researcher, author, management consultant, and entrepreneur specialising in digital management and data science.
Career
After obtaining his doctorate at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Peter Gentsch was, (from 2002 to 2004) Professor at the Technical University of Cologne (TH Cologne). Since 2004, Peter Gentsch has held the professorship for International Business Administration with a focus on digital management and data science at the Technical and Economic University of Applied Sciences in Aalen. In addition, he works as a docent and reviewer at the University of St. Gallen and at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Gentsch is the author of several publications.
Entrepreneurial Activities
In 2002, Peter Gentsch founded B.I.G. – Business Intelligence Group in Berlin, which now supports various companies (ConversionBoosting, intelliAd, etc.), as a shareholder and investor. In 2006, he took over TextTech GmbH. In 2012 the stock-exchange-registered USU Software AG acquired B.I.G. Social Media GmbH, founded by Peter Gentsch, which continues to operate as an independent unit after the takeover.
Peter Gentsch is also founder and executive board member of DATAlovers AG and founder and managing partner of Diva-e Digital Transformation Consulting GmbH.
In 2000, Peter Gentsch founded the Social Media Excellence-Circle (SME). This initiative currently has over 400 members from 180 companies. The initiative has set itself the aim of developing practice-derived solutions for core themes and problems relating to Social Media.
In addition, Peter Gentsch is the co-initiator of the Chief Digital Officer-Club (CDO), and of the Institute for Customer Experience Management i-CEM. From 2000 to 2008, Peter Gentsch was a member of the jury of the Data Mining Cup.
Peter Gentsch also founded the Digital Transformation Group, which in the meanwhile has been acquired by Diva-e.
In February 2020, Peter Gentsch was speaker on the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos.
In 2021, Peter Gentsch founded the Institute for Conversational Business at Aalen University. The institute analyses and evaluates methods, technologies and procedures in the areas of messenger, chatbots, smart speakers and conversational AI on an empirically sound basis in order to enable clear expectation management and objective orientation for companies. on September 30, 2021, the Institute for Conversational Business hosted „The Conversational Business Summit“ as a hybrid event and attracted over 400 participants from 5 nations.
Awards
German Market Research Innovation Award: In 2010, Peter Gentsch, together with Lufthansa, won the German Market Research Innovation Award. The study Insight Mining – Modern Data Management Based on Text Mining Technology deals with the efficient handling of the multitude of information sources with which in-house market researchers are confronted on a daily bas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animax%20India | Animax India was an Indian television channel owned by Sony Pictures Networks India that launched in 2004. The channel primarily aired anime series and films dubbed in Hindi and, for a period, English, as well as with subtitles. It was the only channel in India to simulcast anime series on the same day as Japan. On 18 April 2017, Animax ceased broadcasting in India, with Sony Yay ultimately replacing the network.
Animax's Asian feed would later be made available in India on digital platform SonyLIV, until 8 May 2020, after several Sony-branded networks were acquired by KC Global Media. On 20 January 2023, Animax Asia resumed broadcasting in India via JioTV.
History
Original format
Animax began operations across India and the rest of Indian subcontinent from 5 July 2004 with Irfan Pathan as a brand ambassador. It was operated and broadcast from Singapore by Animax Asia and distributed by Sony Pictures Networks India Pvt. Ltd. It was also the first animation channel that targets the age 15–25 demographic and was the only channel in India to simulcast anime in the same week and on the same day as Japan. Animax India started with 12 hours Hindi feed that targeted young kids and teens ages 7–14 and it had planned to launch Hindi and English language audio tracks.
From 15 August 2006, Animax entirely shut down its Hindi feed but kept its English one, since it changed its target audience to the ages 15–24 group.
In 2007, the network would begin airing live-action content like Tech Max, Game Max, Animax Press Play, Imagination and Speak Out and movies like Spider-Man 2, Kung Fu Hustle and Hellboy.
On 1 January 2008, Animax South Asia merged with Animax Asia's but had separate feed for india. Animax India rebranded its logo along with Singapore on 4 May 2010. Animax became the first channel to simulcast Tears to Tiara on April 6, 2009, Animax also aired Korean entertainment shows like Live Power Music, Pretty Boys & Girls and Comedy Boot Camp in Korean audio with English subtitles. Animax added American reality shows to their list with the premiere of Scare Tactics. Animax also simulcasted the yearly Video Game Awards hosted by Spike TV.
With the premiere of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Animax stopped dubbing anime and started airing them in Japanese audio with English subtitles instead. However, Animax continued to dub a few anime shows like the second season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Animax continued to simulcast all the shows aired on AXN, its sister channel. The Shows Ghost Adventures, Chuck and Fear Itself were originally aired on AXN India. In 2012, the channel stopped airing such shows and reverted to its old logo, focusing only on anime. Moreover, all DTH providers in India delisted Animax as the channel couldn't pay carriage fees. Animax made its way back into the DTH networks in 2016 with its addition on Tata Sky at LCN 686.
Closure
Animax ceased broadcasting in India on 18 April 2017. The Asian feed would launch on Sony' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%20Park%20%28Calgary%29 | Baker Park is a urban park on the bank of the Bow River in the west edge of the city of Calgary. It is part of the pedestrian and bicycle Bow River pathway that links a vast network of urban parks on both sides of the river. Baker Park is situated across the river from Bowness Park east of the Bearspaw Water Intake Pump Station. With its river observation point overlooking the Bow River and Bowness Park and its archways and arbours, it is the "most popular" park in Calgary for outdoor weddings.
History
Baker Park is named after Dr. Albert Henry Baker (1883–1953), the director of a tuberculosis (TB) sanitorium located on the same site from 1920 to 1979 and demolished in 1989 by Alberta Public Works. The federal government's Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment Department constructed the first buildings in 1918. Established in 1919 for returning World War I veterans who suffered from TB, the Central Alberta Sanatorium as it was then called, was typical of its era, "isolated, treed and divided into many separate buildings." It was "downstream from the old Alberta Ice Company warehouse" (now the Shriner's storage area for antiques). In 1916 Dr. A. H. Baker served on a medical advisory committee investigating the prevalence of TB among Canadian indigenous populations and in 1917, as a member of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, he served in China. In 1918, following a diagnosis of TB he was discharged—though he never required hospitalization. He came to Alberta where he served as Medical Superintendent of the Central Alberta Sanatorium from 1920 to 1950 and as the Alberta Department of Health's director of the tuberculosis division. When Baker retired in 1950 after thirty years of service, the sanitorium was renamed the Baker Memorial Sanatorium in his honour. The site was nearest what would become the village of Bowness and eventually many Bowness villagers worked at the Sanitorium. By 1962—as more accommodations for TB patients were created elsewhere—the Sanitorium was gradually converted to the Baker Center for the Services of the Handicapped.
One of the legacies of the Baker Centre that is part of Baker Park, is the stand of 1,800 mature trees planted by gardeners from the former sanitorium.
Features
Unlike most Calgary parks Baker Park's "old-fashioned formality" with its "geometrical walkways" and "arrow-straight" tree-lined avenues, reflects its history as a World War I sanitorium.
Along with the riparian native plants and shrubs, Alberta author Terry Bullick noted that the list of family trees include White Spruce, Green Ash, Colorado Spruce, Manitoba Maple, Lodgepole Pine, Bur Oak, Scots Pine, Aspen, Douglas Fir, Larch, Poplar, May Day Tree, Paper Birch, Mountain Ash, Weeping Birch, Hawthorn, Manchurian Elm, and Flowering Crabtree.
Asids from the usual picnic areas and pathways, Baker Park also has a disc-golf course. Its promenades, archways, arbour, grass amphitheater, and river observation point make it a prized area for wedding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%20NCAA%20Division%20I-AA%20football%20rankings | The 1996 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the Sports Network poll of Division I-AA head coaches, athletic directors, sports information directors and media members. This is for the 1996 season.
Legend
The Sports Network poll
References
Rankings
NCAA Division I FCS football rankings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20E.%20Rutter | David E. Rutter is an American financial services executive. He is the founder and CEO of enterprise blockchain technology company R3, and the founder and owner of US Treasuries trading platform LiquidityEdge.
Career
David E. Rutter served for ten years as the CEO of electronic broking at ICAP Plc, where he led the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms.
Before joining ICAP Plc, he was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane. His tenure at Prebon began in 1988, after the company entered into a joint venture with the Chicago Board of Trade that led to the introduction of trading on computer screens.
In 2014 Rutter founded R3, an enterprise software firm that built the blockchain platform Corda.
Rutter founded LiquidityEdge in 2015 to provide an alternative trading model for the US Treasuries market. LiquidityEdge was acquired by MarketAxess on 1 November 2019 for $150 million, including $100 million in cash and 146,450 shares of MarketAxess stock.
In 2020 Rutter launched LedgerEdge, a new company that uses blockchain technology to digitise corporate bond trading.
Education
David E. Rutter received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Villanova University in 1984.
References
Living people
American financial businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc%20Mouse | The Arc Mouse is a family of portable computer mice produced by Microsoft. A mobile mouse, the device has evolved over a number of years, including special editions designed to coordinate with the company's Surface family of computers. All versions of the Arc Mouse are folding and include scrolling capability, and the first version was released in 2008.
Versions
Arc Mouse
Initially release in 2008, Microsoft positioned the Arc Mouse as a fashionable, portable mouse. Available in black or red, the mouse featured a folding design. Wireless communication was provided over 2.4 GHz, and the mouse used a laser for tracking.
Arc Touch Mouse
An updated version, the Arc Touch Mouse, changed the design and main interface points, and was released in 2010. Instead of folding for portability, the Touch Mouse flattens from its curved "in-use" shape. In place of the scroll wheel on the original, the second version features a capacitive touch strip for scrolling. The touch strip is speed sensitive, includes 3 buttons (1 each for page up and page down, and 1 programmable), and features haptic feedback.
Arc Touch Bluetooth Mouse
To match its Surface devices, Microsoft updated the design of the Arc Touch Mouse. The new design is grey and features a new touch strip. Bluetooth is used for connectivity.
Surface Arc Mouse/Microsoft Arc Mouse
Announced along with the Surface Laptop in 2017, the Surface Arc Mouse replaces the buttons and touch strip with a large capacitive touch surface, and it's available in colors that match the new laptop. As of December 2019, the mouse is available on the Microsoft Store for $69.99.
References
Microsoft hardware
Computer mice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whinston | Whinston is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andrew B. Whinston (born 1936), American economist and computer scientist
Michael Whinston (born 1959), American economist
See also
Winston (disambiguation)
Winston (name) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20W.%20J.%20Williams | John William Joseph (Bill) Williams (1930 – 29 September 2012) was a computer scientist best known for inventing heapsort and the binary heap data structure in 1963 while working for Elliot Bros. (London) Ltd.
Personal life
He was born in England to William Henry Williams.
On 3 March 1962, John William Joseph Williams (mathematician, age 31) married Ann Zerny (nurse, age 23) at Christ Church in Chorleywood Parish in Hertfordshire County. They had children named Peter (Carey), Rob (Rick) and Richard (Charlotte), who had children named Rowan, Derek, Emmett, Reed, and Seth.
In 1974, he moved to Ottawa, Canada. He volunteered for Kanata Theatre, helping construct sets, design lighting, and occasionally act on stage.
On 29 September 2012, he died and was 82 years old; on October 6, he had a Celebration of Life at the Ron Maslin Playhouse, requesting donations in his memory to be given to Kanata Theatre and Ottawa Heart Institute.
Career
In 1952, he received a B.Sc. in mathematics from King's College, University of London.
In England, he worked for Elliot Bros. (London) Ltd., English Electric, and GEC. While working at Elliott Brothers, he published papers about heapsort and the Elliott Simulator Package (ESP).
After moving to Canada in 1974, he worked for Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa (BNR) and Nortel until retiring in 1995. At BNR, he worked on various software and hardware systems such as the DMS-100 digital telephone switch.
References
2012 deaths
British computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
British emigrants to Canada
1930 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20NCAA%20Division%20I-AA%20football%20rankings | The 1997 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the Sports Network poll of Division I-AA head coaches, athletic directors, sports information directors and media members. This is for the 1997 season.
Legend
The Sports Network poll
References
Rankings
NCAA Division I FCS football rankings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Laptop%20%281st%20generation%29 | The Surface Laptop is a laptop computer designed by Microsoft as part of the company's Surface line of personal computing devices. When it debuted, the laptop was intended to compete with Apple's MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.
The laptop was announced at the #MicrosoftEDU event by Microsoft on 2 May 2017, alongside Windows 10 S and an updated version of Surface Arc Mouse that includes a large capacitive surface. It became available for pre-order on the same day, and began shipping on 15 June 2017.
Configuration
Features
7th generation Intel Kaby Lake CPU.
Intel HD and Iris Graphics GPU
Alcantara fabric keyboard with a 1.5mm travel backlit keys
Windows 10 S operating system
13.5-inch PixelSense display with a 3:2 aspect ratio
14.5 hour battery life
110.6 Mbit/s SSD
Integrated vapor chambers into the aluminum finish
Hardware
The Surface Laptop is the 5th addition to Surface lineup, following the Surface Pro, Surface Hub, Surface Book, and the Surface Studio. Unlike the other products, the Surface Laptop is aimed toward students. Microsoft claims a 14.5-hour battery life when running Windows 10 S, but testing suggests that the battery can be depleted to 50% in just 2.5 hours. It comes in four colors: Platinum, Graphite Gold, Burgundy, and Cobalt Blue as advertised.
It has a 13.5-inch "PixelSense" Display at 2256 × 1504 using a 3:2 aspect ratio. It features a 10-point touch screen along with Surface Pen support. Unlike other ultra-portables by Microsoft, this does not feature any sort of detachment mechanism from the keyboard.
The Surface Laptop uses seventh-generation "Kaby Lake" processors, with both Intel Core i5 and i7 variants. It uses Intel HD Graphics 620 on the Core i5 version, while the Core i7 model uses Intel Iris Plus 640.
Three system memory options are available at purchase: 4, 8, and 16 GB and three SSD options: 128, 256, and 512 GB. These cannot be upgraded in the future. The SSD has a transfer speed of 110.6 Mbit/s, which is quite slow when compared to its competitors.
The Surface Laptop cannot be opened without destroying it, making it impossible to repair or upgrade by anyone except Microsoft.
It has an unremovable battery with a capacity of 45.2 Wh. All other parts are either glued or soldered.
Software
Surface Laptop models used to ship with Windows 10 S, a feature-limited edition of Windows 10 with restrictions on software usage which has now been replaced with Windows 10 in S Mode; users may only install software from Windows Store, and system settings are locked to only allow Microsoft Edge as the default web browser with Bing as its search engine, since third-party web browsers using custom layout engines are banned from Windows Store.
The device may be upgraded to Windows 10 Pro for free, which removes these restrictions.
Timeline
References
External links
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Computer-related introductions in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20urban%20local%20bodies%20in%20Andhra%20Pradesh | The article lists all the urban local bodies, covering municipal corporations, municipalities and nagar panchayats in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The statistical data is based on Directorate of Town and Country Planning, Government of Andhra Pradesh. The state of Andhra Pradesh with 26 districts has a total of 125 urban local bodies. It includes, 17 municipal corporations, 79
municipalities and 30 nagar panchayats.
According available data, Bheemunipatnam is oldest municipality in Andhra Pradesh and second oldest municipality in India after Chennapatnam [ Chennai ]. Now, Bheemunipatnam is a part of GVMC and Adoni in Kurnool district is the oldest municipality in Rayalaseema region, followed by Kurnool.
The hierarchy in Urban Local Body
Urban Development Authority
Municipal Corporation
Municipality
Selection Grade Municipality
Grade - 1 Municipality
Grade - 2 Municipality
Grade - 3 Municipality
Nagar Panchayat
Municipal corporations
The state of Andhra Pradesh has a total of 17 municipal corporations in 26 districts. Guntur district has the most corporations with two and all the other districts have one each. GVMC is the largest municipal corporation with greater status. Out of 17 corporations, 16 are district headquarters, except Mangalagiri-Tadepalli.
Note:
Machilipatnam, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram were upgraded as municipal corporations on 9 December 2015.
In March 2021 former municipalities Mangalagiri Municipality and Tadepalli Municipality of Guntur district were merged to form Mangalagiri Tadepalli Municipal Corporation.
Source: Statistical Information of ULBs and UDAs
Municipalities
Municipalities in the state of Andhra Pradesh are categorised into 4 types. They are in the following hierarchy
Selection Grade Municipality- 15
Grade - 1 Municipality- 15
Grade - 2 Municipality- 31
Grade - 3 Municipality- 18
Guntur district has the most municipalities with 12.
Source: Statistical Information of ULBs and UDAs
Nagar panchayats
The state of Andhra Pradesh has a total of 29 nagar panchayats.
Prakasam district has the most nagar panchayats of four.
Municipalities formation year
source of website is placed at the bottom of table.
Above 28 are the municipalities formed before Independence.
In 2005 Government of Andhra Pradesh have upgraded 12 areas as municipalities.
In 2011 Government of Andhra Pradesh have upgraded 21 areas as municipalities.
In 2012, 6 more Towns were upgraded as Municipal Bodies
In 2020 Government of Andhra Pradesh has upgraded 10 areas as Municipal Bodies
In 2021 Government of Andhra Pradesh has created 1 Municipal Corporation and 1 Municipality.
Source of Formation Year
http://dtcp.ap.gov.in/dtcpweb/ulbs/List%20of%20ULBs-27-2-2019.pdf
http://dtcp.ap.gov.in/dtcpweb/ULBS.html
Source:
Directorate of town and country planning website.
See also
List of municipal corporations in Andhra Pradesh
References
Lists of populated places in Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh-related list |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20urban%20local%20bodies%20in%20Telangana | The article lists all the urban local bodies, covering municipal corporations, municipalities and nagar panchayats in the Indian state of Telangana. The statistical data is based on the 2011 Census of India, conducted by The Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Some of the Nagar Panchayats were upgraded to municipalities in 2011.
Municipal Corporations
The state of Telangana has a total of 13 municipal corporations.
Source:
Population 2011 The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 27 March 2018
Cantonment Boards
The state of Telangana has one Cantonment Board in Hyderabad Dist
Municipalities
The state of Telangana has a total of 128 municipalities.
Source:
Statistical Year Book
Statistical Information of ULBs and UDAs
Commissioner and Directorate of Municipal Administration
References
Lists of populated places in Telangana
Telangana-related lists
Local government-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Cyber%20Range | The Virginia Cyber Range is an educational and research institute funded by a $4-million grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia to promote education in cybersecurity across the state. Currently, the Cyber Range is based out of the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center.
History
The idea of a cyber range for education in cybersecurity in Virginia was first proposed by Governor Terry McAuliffe in late 2015. The 2017 - 2018 Commonwealth of Virginia Biennial Budget provided initial funding for the Virginia Cyber Range. Specifically, $4 million over two years was "designated to support a cyber range platform to be used for cyber security training by students in Virginia's public high schools, community colleges, and four-year institutions," with Virginia Tech identified as the lead agency for the cyber range platform.
The Virginia Cyber Range was initially funded on July 1, 2016, with David Raymond selected as the Director, and in February 2017, named Amazon Web Services as a primary partner in the design of the Cyber Range.
As of early 2019, the Cyber Range supports over 200 high schools, colleges, and universities in Virginia with infrastructure and courseware for cybersecurity classes and clubs. It also supports the annual Virginia CyberFusion Cyber Cup competition. The Virginia Cyber Range hosted the Inaugural Virginia Cybersecurity Education Conference at James Madison University in August 2018. The second annual Virginia Cybersecurity Education Conference took place on George Mason University's Fairfax campus in August 2019. In July 2019, the Cyber Range expanded
its services beyond the Commonwealth of Virginia by launching the US Cyber Range. This courseware is offered as a service center of Virginia Tech
References
Cyber ranges
Virginia Tech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20NCAA%20Division%20I-AA%20football%20rankings | The 1998 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the Sports Network poll of Division I-AA head coaches, athletic directors, sports information directors and media members. This is for the 1998 season.
Legend
The Sports Network poll
References
Rankings
NCAA Division I FCS football rankings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan%20%28newspaper%29 | Leviathan was a New Left radical underground newspaper published in a tabloid newspaper format and distributed through the underground press network in the US in the years 1969-1970. Fairly serious in content with a focus on radical organizing issues, it was loosely aligned with the SDS movement. The first issue was dated March, 1969, with two editorial offices in New York, where Carol Brightman, Beverly Leman, and Kathy McAfee were listed on the first masthead, later to be joined by a number of others including Marge Piercy and Sol Yurick; and San Francisco, where the collective included Peter Booth Wiley, Carole Deutch, Danny Beagle, Matthew Steen, Bob Gavriner, Al Haber, Bruce Nelson, Todd Gitlin and David Wellman. Part of the inspiration for the paper was a desire to fill the gap created by the demise of the influential New Left organ Studies on the Left, and the core group included people from the antiwar newsletter Viet Report.
Responsibility for producing successive issues alternated between the San Francisco and New York offices. Initially planned to appear on a regular monthly schedule, by the end of the first year the publication schedule had cut back to 9 issues a year, appearing at roughly 6 week intervals. In San Francisco the paper occupied space at 330 Grove Street that it rented for $25 a month, in a building which also housed underground comics publisher Don Donahue, a group that produced rock concert light shows, the Black Writers Workshop, underground newspapers Dock of the Bay and The Movement, the San Francisco office of Liberation News Service, and other tenants; it later relocated into a new space at 968 Valencia Street. Due in part to factional stresses in the post-SDS Weatherman Underground era, the paper folded in late 1970 after a run of 13 issues, with its last issue dated vol. 2, no. 4, Fall 1970.
Notable articles that appeared in the paper during its run included Marge Piercy's "The Grand Coolie Damn", "You Do Need a Weatherman" by Shin'ya Ono, and an interview with Carlos Marighella shortly before his death.
See also
List of underground newspapers of the 1960s counterculture
References
Underground press
Defunct newspapers published in California
1969 establishments in California
Newspapers published in San Francisco
1970 disestablishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repenning | Repenning is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alexander Repenning, American computer scientist
Charles Repenning (1922–2005), American paleontologist and zoologist
Nelson Repenning, American business scholar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%20of%20Time%20%28novel%29 | Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
The work was praised by Financial Times for "tackling big themes—gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness—with brio."
It was selected from a shortlist of six works and a total pool of 113 books to be awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction of the year in August 2016. The director of the award program appraised the novel as having "universal scale and sense of wonder reminiscent of Clarke himself."
In July 2017, the rights were optioned for a potential film adaptation.
The next in the series, Children of Ruin, was published in 2019, followed by Children of Memory in 2022.
In 2023 the series was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Series.
Plot
In the far future, Dr. Avrana Kern is the head of a science team that has terraformed an uninhabitable planet and released a genetically designed nanovirus to speed the evolution of monkeys. Back home, a war stirs, and there are multiple factions opposing this kind of genetic engineering including "non ultra natura" (nothing greater than nature) terrorists. Unfortunately, Kern discovers there is an opposing faction on their very ship, and she takes the escape pod before anyone else can - the terrorist belonging to the faction is about to melt the reactor and destroy the ship. The monkeys jettison from the ship in a landing craft, but it burns up in atmospheric reentry. With no monkeys on Kern's World (the terraformed planet), the virus spends its time infecting a multitude of living creatures, a notable example being jumping spiders (Portia labiata) - referred to in the book as Portiids. Meanwhile, the last human remnants of a dying Earth are en route to the promised paradise planet unaware of the uplifted spiders. The work plays off the contrast between the rapid advancement of the spiders and the barbaric descent of the starship crew of the last humans, eventually converging into an orbital conflict after the starship (Gilgamesh) arrives at Kern's World, which the Portiids win. The Portiids decide to unite and invite the humans to live with them, drawing on past "Understandings" or memories where collaboration was the better option in the end.
Characters
Old Empire
Dr. Avrana Kern
A cynical and egotistic woman determined to "beget new sentient life" in humanity's own image. She escapes the destruction of her ship and spends millennia in suspended animation inside an observation satellite, hovering above the only world she managed to seed with the gene-editing nano-virus as it works its wonders on the population below.
Gilgamesh Key Crew
Commander Guyen
Leader of the Gilgamesh who exercises often autocratic authority over the expedition and its human cargo. After Kern forces his hand, Guyen leads the ship to another terraformed world and discovers experimental old empire tech capable of uploading a human mind to a sufficiently sized computer. He eventually becomes dedicated to a new mission, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHK%20algorithm | The GHK algorithm (Geweke, Hajivassiliou and Keane) is an importance sampling method for simulating choice probabilities in the multivariate probit model. These simulated probabilities can be used to recover parameter estimates from the maximized likelihood equation using any one of the usual well known maximization methods (Newton's method, BFGS, etc.). Train has well documented steps for implementing this algorithm for a multinomial probit model. What follows here will apply to the binary multivariate probit model.
Consider the case where one is attempting to evaluate the choice probability of where and where we can take as choices and as individuals or observations, is the mean and is the covariance matrix of the model. The probability of observing choice is
Where and,
Unless is small (less than or equal to 2) there is no closed form solution for the integrals defined above (some work has been done with ). The alternative to evaluating these integrals closed form or by quadrature methods is to use simulation. GHK is a simulation method to simulate the probability above using importance sampling methods.
Evaluating is simplified by recognizing that the latent data model can be rewritten using a Cholesky factorization, . This gives where the terms are distributed .
Using this factorization and the fact that the are distributed independently one can simulate draws from a truncated multivariate normal distribution using draws from a univariate random normal.
For example, if the region of truncation has lower and upper limits equal to (including a,b = ) then the task becomes
Note: , substituting:
Rearranging above,
Now all one needs to do is iteratively draw from the truncated univariate normal distribution with the given bounds above. This can be done by the inverse CDF method and noting the truncated normal distribution is given by,
Where will be a number between 0 and 1 because the above is a CDF. This suggests to generate random draws from the truncated distribution one has to solve for giving,
where and and is the standard normal CDF. With such draws one can reconstruct the by its simplified equation using the Cholesky factorization. These draws will be conditional on the draws coming before and using properties of normals the product of the conditional PDFs will be the joint distribution of the ,
Where is the multivariate normal distribution.
Because conditional on is restricted to the set by the setup using the Cholesky factorization then we know that is a truncated multivariate normal. The distribution function of a truncated normal is,
Therefore, has distribution,
where is the standard normal pdf for choice .
Because the above standardization makes each term mean 0 variance 1.
Let the denominator and the numerator where is the multivariate normal PDF.
Going back to the original goal, to evaluate the
Using importance sampling we can evaluate this integral,
This |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Dumontier | Michel Justin Dumontier (born 1975) is a Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University. His research focuses on methods to represent knowledge on the web with applications for drug discovery and personalized medicine. He was previously an Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at the Stanford University School of Medicine and an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at Carleton University. He is best known for his work in biomedical ontologies, linked data and biomedical knowledge discovery. He has taught courses on biochemistry, bioinformatics, computational systems biology, and translational medicine. His research has been funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Mitacs Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, CANARIE, and the US National Institutes of Health. Dumontier has an h-index of over 30 and has authored over 125 scientific publications in journals and conferences. He lives in Maastricht with his wife Tifany Irene Leung and their lionhead rabbit Storm.
Biography
Dumontier received his Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of Manitoba in 1998. In his second year of undergraduate study, he joined the lab of James D. Jamieson where he developed a computational method to reconstruct the Golgi Apparatus. He then worked as research assistant at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich to investigate cellular dynamics of Rac1 protein of small GTPases. He defended his PhD in the department of biochemistry at the University of Toronto on the subject of "Species-specific optimizations of sequence and structure.". After a brief postdoctoral fellowship at the Blueprint Initiative, a project funded by Genome Canada and hosted in the Mount Sinai Hospital Research Institute, he joined the department of biology at Carleton University as an assistant professor in 2005. He was subsequently cross-appointed to the school of computer science and the Institute of Biochemistry and promoted to associate professor in 2009. In 2013, he joined the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research in the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2017, he was appointed as a distinguished professor at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
References
1975 births
Living people
Canadian biochemists
Internet culture
University of Toronto alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan.Win32.DNSChanger | Trojan.Win32.DNSChanger is a backdoor trojan that redirects users to various malicious websites through the means of altering the DNS settings of a victim's computer. The malware strain was first discovered by Microsoft Malware Protection Center on December 7, 2006 and later detected by McAfee Labs on April 19, 2009.
Behaviour
DNS changer trojans are dropped onto infected systems by other means of malicious software, such as TDSS or Koobface. The trojan is a malicious Windows executable file that cannot spread towards other computers. Therefore, it performs several actions on behalf of the attacker within a compromised computer, such as changing the DNS settings in order to divert traffic to unsolicited, and potentially illegal and/or malicious domains.
The Win32.DNSChanger trojan is used by organized crime syndicates to maintain click fraud. The user's browsing activity is manipulated through various means of modification (such as altering the destination of a legitimate link to then be forwarded to another site), allowing the attackers to generate revenue from pay-per-click online advertising schemes. The trojan is commonly found as a small file (+/- 1.5 kilobytes) that is designed to change the NameServer registry key value to a custom IP address or domain that is encrypted in the body of the trojan itself. As a result of this change, the victim's device would contact the newly assigned DNS server to resolve names of malicious webservers.
Trend Micro described the following behaviors of Win32.DNSChanger:
Steering unknowing users to malicious websites: These sites can be phishing pages that spoof well-known sites in order to trick users into handing out sensitive information. A user who wants to visit the iTunes site, for instance, is instead unknowingly redirected to a rogue site.
Replacing ads on legitimate sites: Visiting certain sites can serve users with infected systems a different set of ads from those whose systems are not infected.
Controlling and redirecting network traffic: Users of infected systems may not be granted access to download important OS and software updates from vendors like Microsoft and from their respective security vendors.
Pushing additional malware: Infected systems are more prone to other malware infections (e.g., FAKEAV infection).
Alternative aliases
Win32:KdCrypt[Cryp] (Avast)
TR/Vundo.Gen (Avira)
MemScan:Trojan.DNSChanger (Bitdefender Labs)
Win.Trojan.DNSChanger (ClamAV)
variant of Win32/TrojanDownloader.Zlob (ESET)
Trojan.Win32.Monder (Kaspersky Labs)
Troj/DNSCha (Sophos)
Mal_Zlob (Trend Micro)
MalwareScope.Trojan.DnsChange (Vba32 AntiVirus)
Other variants
Trojan.Win32.DNSChanger.al
F-Secure, a cybersecurity company, received samples of a variant that were named PayPal-2.5.200-MSWin32-x86-2005.exe. In this case, the PayPal attribution indicated that a phishing attack was likely. The trojan was programmed to change the DNS server name of a victim's computer to an IP address in the 193.227 |
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