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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Compression%20Forum | The Stanford Compression Forum (SCF) is a partnership between academic and industrial leaders in the fields of data compression . The Forum's mission is to facilitate research and collaborations, to expedite the transfer of academic research into technology, to supply academia with timely research problems, and to support learning and training in the field of compression.
References
External links
https://compression.stanford.edu
Data compression
Digital television
Film and video technology
Video compression
Videotelephony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth%20mesh%20networking | Bluetooth Mesh is a computer mesh networking standard based on Bluetooth Low Energy that allows for many-to-many communication over Bluetooth radio. The Bluetooth Mesh specifications were defined in the Mesh Profile and Mesh Model specifications by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG). Bluetooth Mesh was conceived in 2014 and adopted on .
Overview
Bluetooth Mesh is a mesh networking standard that operates on a flood network principle. It's based on the nodes relaying the messages: every relay node that receives a network packet that authenticates against a known network key that is not in message cache, that has a TTL ≥ 2 can be retransmitted with TTL = TTL - 1. Message caching is used to prevent relaying messages recently seen.
Communication is carried in the messages that may be up to 384 bytes long, when using Segmentation and Reassembly (SAR) mechanism, but most of the messages fit in one segment, that is 11 bytes. Each message starts with an opcode, which may be a single byte (for special messages), 2 bytes (for standard messages), or 3 bytes (for vendor-specific messages).
Every message has a source and a destination address, determining which devices process messages. Devices publish messages to destinations which can be single things / groups of things / everything.
Each message has a sequence number that protects the network against replay attacks.
Each message is encrypted and authenticated. Two keys are used to secure messages: (1) network keys – allocated to a single mesh network, (2) application keys – specific for a given application functionality, e.g. turning the light on vs reconfiguring the light.
Messages have a time to live (TTL). Each time message is received and retransmitted, TTL is decremented which limits the number of "hops", eliminating endless loops.
Architecture
Bluetooth Mesh has a layered architecture, with multiple layers as below.
Topology
Nodes that support the various features can be formed into a mesh network.
Theoretical limits
The practical limits of Bluetooth Mesh technology are unknown. Some limits that are built into the specification include:
Mesh models
As of version 1.0 of Bluetooth Mesh specification, the following standard models and model groups have been defined:
Foundation models
Foundation models have been defined in the core specification. Two of them are mandatory for all mesh nodes.
Configuration Server (mandatory)
Configuration Client
Health Server (mandatory)
Health Client
Generic models
Generic OnOff Server, used to represent devices that do not fit any of the model descriptions defined but support the generic properties of On/Off
Generic Level Server, keeping the state of an element in a 16-bit signed integer
Generic Default Transition Time Server, used to represent a default transition time for a variety of devices
Generic Power OnOff Server & Generic Power OnOff Setup Server, used to represent devices that do not fit any of the model descriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudHealth%20Technologies | CloudHealth Technologies, now CloudHealth by VMware, is a privately held software company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company provides cloud computing services related to cost management, governance, automation, security, and performance.
History
CloudHealth Technologies was founded by Joe Kinsella in 2012. Dan Phillips joined as CEO and co-founder in late 2012, and Dave Eicher joined as co-Founder in January 2013. In May 2016, the company announced plans to expand from its Boston headquarters with branch offices in San Francisco, London, Washington, D.C., Sydney, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, and Singapore. Headquarters moved in Boston from Fort Point to 100 Summer Street in the Spring of 2018, tripling in square footage.
In September 2017, Tom Axbey—who was previously at Rave Mobile Safety—joined as the new CEO and President. VMware announced its intention to acquire CloudHealth Technologies on August 27, 2018. The acquisition is "part of the information technology company's continued push into cloud-based software services" according to Reuters. The deal closed on October 4, 2018, and was reported to be in excess of $500 million.
Technology
Delivered through a software as a service (SaaS) model, CloudHealth Technologies's platform collects and analyzes data from cloud computing services and other IT environments so clients can report on costs, inform their business models, and project future trends. CloudHealth Technologies is compatible with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, multicloud, and hybrid cloud environments. CloudHealth Technologies has received Amazon Web Services(AWS) Education Competency status, AWS Migration Competency status and achieved SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance.
Funding
As of June 2017, CloudHealth Technologies has raised a total of $85.7 million through four rounds of funding.
In March 2013, CloudHealth Technologies announced that it had secured $4.5 million in Series A funding. This round was led by .406 Ventures and Sigma Prime Ventures.
In January 2015, CloudHealth Technologies secured $12 million in Series B funding. This round was led by Scale Venture Partners, .406 Ventures, and Sigma Prime Ventures, and was followed by a $3.2 million extension round.
In May 2016, CloudHealth Technologies announced $20 million in Series C funding, led by Sapphire Ventures, .406 Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Sigma Prime Ventures.
In June 2017, CloudHealth Technologies secured $46 million in Series D funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with participation from Meritech Capital Partners, Sapphire Ventures, 406 Ventures, and Scale Venture Partners.
Reception
In April 2016, Gartner recognized CloudHealth Technologies as a Cool Vendor, stating that "with the rise in public and private cloud computing, infrastructure and operations leaders are investing more in management, governance and policy enforcement." In September 2016, CloudHealth Technologies was named to InformationWeek's list of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum-Pairs%20Protocol | The minimum-pairs (or MP) is an active measurement protocol to estimate in real-time the smaller of the forward and reverse one-way network delays (OWDs). It is designed to work in hostile environments, where a set of three network nodes can estimate an upper-bound OWD between themselves and a fourth untrusted node. All four nodes must cooperate, though honest cooperation from the fourth node is not required. The objective is to conduct such estimates without involving the untrusted nodes in clock synchronization, and in a manner more accurate than simply half the round-trip time (RTT). The MP protocol can be used in delay-sensitive applications (such as placing content delivery network replicas) or for secure Internet geolocation.
Methodology
The MP protocol requires the three trusted network nodes to synchronize their clocks, and securely have access to their public keys, which could be achieved through a closed public key infrastructure (PKI) system. The untrusted node need not follow suit because it is not assumed to cooperate honestly. To estimate an upper bound to the smaller of the forward and reverse OWD between node A and the untrusted node X (see figure for notation), X first establishes an application-layer connection to all three nodes. This could be done transparently over the browser using, e.g., WebSockets. The three nodes then take turns in exchanging digitally-signed timestamps.
Assuming node A begins, it sends a signed timestamp to X. Node X forwards that message to the other two nodes. When the message is received, its receiving time is recorded. The receiving node then verifies the signature, and calculates the time it took the message to traverse the network from its originator to the recipient passing by the untrusted node. This is done by subtracting the timestamp in the message from the receiving time. Node B then repeats the process, followed by node C. After all three nodes have taken turns, they end-up with six delay estimates corresponding to the links:
A → X → B and B → X → A
A → X → C and C → X → A
B → X → C and C → X → B
To estimate the smaller of the forward and reverse OWDs on the three network links between A, B, C and X, the minimum of each such pairs above is taken (i.e., the larger is discarded). Each of the three pairs then represents an approximate to the smaller OWD on each link, which generates a system of three equations in three unknowns. Solving those simultaneously for a, b, and c (see figure) gives the delay estimate.
Numerical example
Assume the actual delays (e.g., in millisecond) to node X from nodes A, B and C and vice versa are as follows:
Those are the unknown delays. We need to estimate the smaller of the forward and reverse on each of the three links. In this example, the smaller is 5 ms, 4 ms, and 2 ms on the links between X and the three trusted nodes respectively (A, B, and C). When the nodes exchange the timestamp messages, they can only see the following:
A → X → B = 9 ms and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PatientBank | PatientBank is a platform for gathering and sharing medical data. Headquartered in San Francisco, PatientBank enables patients to gather their medical records electronically. PatientBank allows users to manage their own healthcare data through: medical record retrieval, secure online storage, and sharing. Users can order medical records electronically from any doctor or hospital.
History
The startup was founded in 2015 by Paul Fletcher-Hill, Feridun Mert Celebi, Kevin Grassi, MD and Graham Kaemmer who all met at Yale University.
PatientBank has received funding from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Spectrum 28 and Data Collective.
References
Y Combinator companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoque | A monoque is a linear data structure which provides dynamic array semantics. A monoque is similar in structure to a deque but is limited to operations on one end. Hence the name, mono-que. A monoque offers O(1) random access and O(1) push_back/pop_back. Unlike a C++ vector, the push_back/pop_back functions are not amortized and are strictly O(1) in time complexity. Because the block list is never reallocated or resized, it maintains strictly O(1) non-amortized worst case performance. Unlike C++'s deque, the O(1) performance guarantee includes the time complexity of working with the block list, whereas the C++ standard only guarantees the deque to be O(1) in terms of operations on the underlying value type.
The monoque consists of a size variable and a fixed-size block list of blocks with exponentially increasing sizes. Thus, the size of the monoque in bits is roughly proportional to the square of the system pointer size. Though arguably O(lg N) in size, because lg(pointer_size) is constant on any particular machine the block list is O(1) in size and is an upper bound to O(lg(N)), it bounds the space complexity of the structure by a constant.
Data structures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18%20rating | 18 rating refers to a type of age-based content rating that applies to media entertainment, such as films, television shows and computer games. The following articles document the rating across a range of countries and mediums:
Ratings
18 (British Board of Film Classification), a prohibitive rating used to regulate age based admission to films in the United Kingdom and Ireland
R18 (British Board of Film Classification), a more restrictive rating used for hardcore pornography in the United Kingdom
X rating, a common variant of the UK's 18 and R18 ratings used across many countries
Classification organizations
Australian Classification Board (R18+ and X18+)
Brazilian advisory rating system (18)
British Board of Film Classification (18 and R18)
Canadian motion picture rating system
Canadian Home Video Rating System (18A, R and A – 18 equivalents)
Manitoba Film Classification Board (18A, R and A)
Maritime Film Classification Board (18A, R and A)
British Columbia Film Classification Office (18A, R and A)
Saskatchewan Film and Video Classification Board (18A, R and A)
Ontario Film Review Board (18A, R and A)
Régie du cinéma (Quebec) (18+)
Central Board of Film Certification (A – 18 equivalent)
Common Sense Media (18+)
Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (Z – 18 equivalent)
Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (18)
Dirección General de Radio, Televisión y Cinematografía (C and D – 18 equivalents)
Eirin (R18+)
Entertainment Software Rating Board (Adults Only – 18 equivalent)
Film Censorship Board of Malaysia (18)
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (18)
Hong Kong motion picture rating system (III – 18 equivalent)
Irish Film Classification Office (18)
Korea Media Rating Board (R – 18 equivalent)
Media Development Authority (M18)
Motion Picture Association of America film rating system (NC17 – 18 equivalent)
Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (R-18)
National Audiovisual Institute (Finland) (18)
National Bureau of Classification (NBC) (18+ and 18+R)
National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (18)
Norwegian Media Authority (18)
Office of Film and Literature Classification (New Zealand) (R18 and RP18)
Pan European Game Information (18)
Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (18)
Systems
Motion picture content rating system, a range of classification systems for films that commonly use the age 18 as part of its regulatory criteria
Television content rating system, a range of classification systems for television broadcasts that commonly use the age 18 as part of its regulatory criteria
Video game content rating system, a range of classification systems for video games that commonly use the age 18 as part of its regulatory criteria
Mobile software content rating system, a range of classification systems for mobile software that commonly use the age 18 as part of its regulatory criteria
See also
Adults Only (disambiguation)
R18 (disambiguation)
Censorship in France
rating systems
Ce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%20Language%20Foundation | The D Language Foundation (DLF) is a nonprofit organization devoted to the D programming language launched on October 16, 2015.
The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the D community and is responsible for various processes within the D community, including developing the D programming language, managing intellectual rights, and raising funds.
The foundation awards scholarships to students allowing them to work on high-impact projects related to the D programming language.
The D Language Foundation also organizes developer conferences including the yearly D Programming Language Conference (DConf)
and is an official organization in the Google Summer of Code
.
In 2015, Andrei Alexandrescu seeded the D Language Foundation's budget from his royalties and started to work for the D Language Foundation.
Notes
External links
D Language Foundation
Official incorporation announcement
Recognition as a non-profit organization
501(c)(3) organizations
Free software project foundations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimegalai | Manimegalai is an Indian television presenter and video jockey who is working in Tamil television industry for almost 12 years. Since 2010, she has regularly been a host for shows on Sun Network before joining Star Vijay in 2019. She gained followers for her boldness in expressing her thoughts and for raising her voice against odds.
She participated as comali in Cook with comali along with hosting programs on Vijay TV.
Personal life
Manimegalai was born in Tiruppur district, Tamil Nadu to businessman Ramaayyappan and Jothimani. She has a younger sibling, Gunamani, who is a Visual Communications graduate. Until class 3, Manimegalai studied in Coimbatore, and then moved to Chennai with her family and continued her schooling at Shanthosh Vidyala Matriculation School. She completed her MBA(dual) in HR & Finance from SRM university (Vadapalani Campus).
While at college she started performing as a video jockey on Sun Music. She met assistant choreographer Hussain Shaik Kadhar in 2017, and the couple married the same year.
Career
Television
Manimegalai debuted as a Video Jockey on 30 December 2009 at the age of 17 and hosted her first program called Super Hits on Sun Music. She then hosted live shows and reality shows on Sun Music, namely Franka Sollata, Black, Kollywood Diaries, etc.
She rose to fame as a television anchor after hosting several live shows and celebrity interviews.
In 2016, Manimegalai was awarded the Best Anchor by the World Human Integration Council. She received the award from the then governor of Tamil Nadu Dr.K.Rosaiah. She was nicknamed Anchor Superstar by her fans.
She left Sun Network in January 2019 after working there for 9 years to participate in a reality show named Mr. And Mrs. Chinnathirai along with her husband on Vijay Television.
Manimegalai and Hussain were awarded the 2nd runner up and were appreciated for their finale performance in Mr. and Mrs. Chinnathirai. After which, she hosted some special shows and a reality show on Vijay Television. She also participated in the fun-filled cooking reality show Cooku with Comali and turned out to be one of the most celebrated Comalis for her apt comedy timing.
Public Shows/Events
Manimegalai also other events like college culturals,audio launches and award functions.She hosted her first audio launch of the movie Tik Tik Tik in Jan 2018, and continued hosting numerous other audio launches and success meets of Kollywood movies, including '96 success meet.
She also participates in comedy debate talk shows. Her first debate talk show was on 31 May 2019 where she received appreciation for her humorous and bubbly speech.
Acting
Manimegalai was initially chosen for the serial Bharathi Kannamma by director Praveen Bennet for the role of Venba (now played by Farina) which she turned down. On request by the director, she accepted to make a single shot appearance confronting the male lead's mother character. Manimegalai has no interest to act but wants to concentrate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20M.%20Bender | Emily Menon Bender (born 1973) is an American linguist who is a professor at the University of Washington. She specializes in computational linguistics and natural language processing. She is also the director of the University of Washington's Computational Linguistics Laboratory. She has published several papers on the risks of large language models.
Education
Bender earned an AB in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 1995. She received her MA from Stanford University in 1997 and her PhD from Stanford in 2000 for her research on syntactic variation and linguistic competence in African American Vernacular English (AAVE). She was supervised by Tom Wasow and Penelope Eckert.
Career
Before working at University of Washington, Bender held positions at Stanford University, UC Berkeley and worked in industry at YY Technologies. She currently holds several positions at the University of Washington, where she has been faculty since 2003, including professor in the Department of Linguistics, adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, faculty director of the Master of Science in Computational Linguistics, and director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory. Bender is the current holder of the Howard and Frances Nostrand Endowed Professorship.
Bender was elected VP-elect of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2021. Bender will serve as VP-elect in 2022, moving to Vice-President in 2023, President in 2024, and Past President in 2025. Bender was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2022.
Contributions
Bender has published research papers on the linguistic structures of Japanese, Chintang, Mandarin, Wambaya, American Sign Language and English.
Bender has constructed the LinGO Grammar Matrix, an open-source starter kit for the development of broad-coverage precision HPSG grammars. In 2013, she published Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing: 100 Essentials from Morphology and Syntax, and in 2019, she published Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II: 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics with Alex Lascarides, which both explain basic linguistic principles in a way that makes them accessible to NLP practitioners.
In 2021, Bender presented a paper, "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜" co-authored with Google researcher Timnit Gebru and others at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency that Google tried to block from publication, part of a sequence of events leading to Gebru departing from Google, the details of which are disputed. The paper concerned ethical issues in building natural language processing systems using machine learning from large text corpora. Since then, she has invested efforts to popularize AI ethics and has taken a stand against hype over large language models.
The Bender Rule, which originated from the question Bender repeatedly asked at the re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20z14%20%28microprocessor%29 | The z14 is a microprocessor made by IBM for their z14 mainframe computers, announced on July 17, 2017. Manufactured at GlobalFoundries' East Fishkill, New York fabrication plant. IBM stated that it is the world's fastest microprocessor by clock rate at 5.2 GHz, with a 10% increased performance per core and 30% for the whole chip compared to its predecessor the z13.
Description
The Processor Unit chip (PU chip) has an area of 696 mm2 (25.3 × 27.5 mm) and consists of 6.1 billion transistors. It is fabricated using GlobalFoundries' 14 nm FinFET silicon on insulator fabrication process, using 17 layers of metal and supporting speeds of 5.2 GHz, which is higher than its predecessor, the z13. The PU chip has 10 cores but can have 7–10 cores (or "processor units" in IBM's parlance) enabled depending on configuration. The z14 cores support two-way simultaneous multithreading for more applications than previously available.
The PU chip is packaged in a single-chip module, which is the same as its predecessor, but a departure from previous designs which were mounted on large multi-chip modules. A computer drawer consists of six PU chips and one Storage Controller (SC) chip containing the L4 cache.
The cores implement the CISC z/Architecture with a superscalar, out-of-order pipeline. New in z14 is a cryptographic coprocessor, called CPACF, attached to each core, used for random number generation, hashing, encryption and decrypting and compression. Further enhancements include an optimization of the core's pipeline, doubling the on-chip caches, better branch prediction, a new decimal arithmetic SIMD engine designed to boost COBOL and PL/I code, a "guarded storage facility" that helps Java applications during garbage collection, and other enhancements that increase the cores' performance compared to the predecessors.
The instruction pipeline has an instruction queue that can fetch 6 instructions per cycle; and issue up to 10 instructions per cycle. Each core has a private 128 KB L1 instruction cache, a private 128 KB L1 data cache, a private 2 MB L2 instruction cache, and a private 4 MB L2 data cache. In addition, there is a 128 MB shared L3 cache implemented in eDRAM.
The z14 chip has on board multi-channel DDR4 RAM memory controller supporting a RAID-like configuration to recover from memory faults. The z14 also includes two GX bus as well as two new Gen 3 PCIe controllers for accessing host channel adapters and peripherals. The PU chips has three X-buses for communications to three neighboring PU chips and the SC chip.
Storage Controller
A compute drawer consists of two clusters. Each cluster comprises either two or three PU chips. The two clusters share a single Storage Controller chip (SC chip). Even though each PU chip has 128 MB L3 cache shared by the 10 cores and other on-die facilities, the SC chip adds 672 MB off-die eDRAM L4 cache shared by the six PU chips in the drawer. The SC chips also handle the communications between the sets of three P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvyn%20Jones | Kelvyn Jones, (born ) is a British professor (Emeritus) of human quantitative geography at the University of Bristol. He focuses on the quantitative modelling of social science data with complex structure through the application of multilevel models; especially in relation to change and health outcomes. Uniquely he is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of the Social Sciences and the Learned Society of Wales.
Academic controversies
He has been involved in a number of academic controversies, and these debates have been of a methodological and substantive nature. They include:
He has disagreed with the Wilkinson inequality hypothesis that within country differences in health and mortality are driven by invidious comparison; instead arguing that there is a materialist argument based on poverty even in advanced economies. The argument is based on critique of Wilkinson's use of aggregate data and supports the ideas of Hugh Gravelle that if there is a non-linear individual relationship between income and ill-health then the aggregate relationship will necessarily involve the 'spread' (standard deviation) of country income that is inequality.
He has argued against Growth in a Time of Debt thesis and (with Andy Bell) re-analyzed the Reinhart and Rogoff data to show that the evidence for many counties is that the relationship is around the other way - the lack of growth produces debt, and that the relationship between debt and growth varies significantly between countries, meaning that an average "rule", such as that suggested by Reinhart and Rogoff, has little meaning or policy relevance.
With colleagues, he has argued against Trevor Phillips that the UK is 'sleep walking to segregation', finding that ethnic residential segregation in London for example is decreasing. They dispute that Muslim ghettoes are developing in British cities, and that Australian suburbs are being 'swamped' by Asians and Muslims.
He has argued that quantitative analysis in the form of quantitative geography has an important role in emancipatory human geography (see critical geography). He has argued that this involves adopting a realist philosophy of science distinguished as critical realism and not positivism. The arguments are made in "The Practice of Quantitative Methods" and are further developed and exemplified with colleagues in "Mutual misunderstanding and avoidance, misrepresentations and disciplinary politics: spatial science and quantitative analysis in (United Kingdom) geographical curricula" and a subsequent extended reply to critics in "One step forward but two steps back to the proper appreciation of spatial science". One commentator described this as "an extraordinary contribution. This is a panoramic survey of the legacy of half a century of innovation in spatial science—put into a critical, constructive engagement with half a century of innovation in critical social theory".
He (with colleagues) has challenged the 'gold standard' that f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermodel%20%28film%29 | Supermodel is a 2015 film directed by Shawn Baker and Datari Turner and starring Tyson Beckford, Sessilee Lopez, Tatyana Ali, Fat Joe and Roger Guenveur Smith. It was produced by Datari Turner.
Notes
External links
2015 films
American drama films
Films about fashion
2015 drama films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate%20%28TV%20series%29 | Confederate was a planned American alternate history drama television series developed for the network HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, who had previously developed the HBO series Game of Thrones. The series was to be set in a timeline where the American Civil War ended in a stalemate. The announcement of Confederate was followed by anger and criticism on social media with some describing it as slavery fan fiction. This led to the hashtag #NoConfederate, which trended number one in the United States and number two worldwide on Twitter in mid 2017. Although development of the series continued after the controversy, plans for the series were ultimately confirmed as canceled in January 2020.
Premise
Entertainment Weekly reported that Confederate:
chronicles the events leading to the Third American Civil War. The series takes place in an alternate timeline, where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution. The story follows a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone – freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate and the families of people in their thrall.
Show developer David Benioff said he was inspired to explore this concept by "the famous story of when Robert E. Lee was invading the North. Not the Gettysburg invasion, but an earlier one. And the set of orders got misplaced and were found by a Northern soldier. And it ended up ruining Lee's invasion. A lot of people think if the orders hadn't been lost, things might have been different: the Confederates might've sacked Washington, D.C., it's possible the South could've won the war". Co-creator D. B. Weiss added "it goes without saying slavery is the worst thing that ever happened in American history. It's our original sin as a nation. And history doesn't disappear. That sin is still with us in many ways. Confederate, in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show."
Production
Conception and development
On July 19, 2017, David Benioff announced that he and D. B. Weiss would begin production on a new HBO series, titled Confederate, after the final season of Game of Thrones aired in 2019. Benioff and Weiss said, "We have discussed Confederate for years, originally as a concept for a feature film... But our experience on Thrones has convinced us that no one provides a bigger, better storytelling canvas than HBO." Joining as executive producers would be Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Malcolm Spellman, Carolyn Strauss, and Bernadette Caulfield. The series would be written by Benioff, Weiss, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, and Malcolm Spellman. The Spellmans, who are Black, indicated initial hesitance to work on this project before concluding that the show would benefit from having Black writers. Malcolm Spellman stated "Me and Nichelle are not props being used to p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20University%2C%20Myeik | Computer University (Myeik) () is a university in Myeik, Taninthayi Region, Myanmar, offering courses in computer science and information technology. The total area is .
History
Government Computer College (Myeik), Government Computer College (Myeik) was opened in the National Solidarity and Development Association Hall in 4 September, 2000. On 20 January 2017, it was promised into University Level. So, it has become Computer University (Myeik). On 15 May 2012, it was transferred into Shwe-du Village. It is a three-storey building and it is situated by the side of the Union of Myeik-Tanin-thar-yi Highway Road.
Bachelor Degree
BCSc (Bachelor of Computer Science)
BCTech (Bachelor of Computer Technology)
References
Technological universities in Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computing%20mascots | This is a list of computing mascots. A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity. In case of computing mascots, they either represent software, hardware, or any project or collective entity behind them.
See also
List of video game mascots
References
Notes
Citations
Mascots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%208 | The Nokia 8 is a flagship Nokia-branded smartphone running the Android operating system. Announced on 16 August 2017 in London, England by HMD Global, the phone began sales in Europe in September 2017. Nokia 8 is the first high-end Nokia-branded device since the Nokia Lumia 930 in 2014. An improved version, the Nokia 8 Sirocco, was announced on 25 February 2018 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Specifications
Design
The Nokia 8 has a 5.3-inch display and averages 7.3 mm thick and 4.3 mm thick at the edges. It is available in four colors: Polished Blue, Polished Copper, Tempered Blue, and Steel. The device features a full-length graphite-shielded copper cooling pipe for efficient cooling. The phone is not water-resistant, but is IP54 splash-resistant.
Hardware
The Nokia 8 comes with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 CPU, backed by either 4 or 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage (Tempered Blue, Steel, and Polished Copper-coloured models), or 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage (Polished Blue). Both are expandable with microSD cards. The QHD display is protected by Gorilla Glass 5. The device has a USB-C port.
Cameras and multimedia
The Nokia 8 is the first Nokia-branded phone to feature a dual-lens camera system. The rear camera module includes a set of two 13 MP sensors, of which one is an RGB sensor, and the other a monochrome sensor. The rear camera is equipped with optical image stabilization (OIS), f/2.0 aperture, PDAF, an IR rangefinder, and a dual-LED flash.
The front and rear cameras' combined standout feature is an advanced dualphotographic image camera (rebranded "Bothie" by Nokia), where the cameras can be used simultaneously by dividing the screen into a split-image setup, a technology Nokia calls Dual-Sight mode. Both the front and main cameras use ZEISS optics.
Video recording can be done in resolutions of 2160p at 30fps (4K) and 1080p at 30fps (FHD), with single-touch live streaming to social networks. The cellphone contains several microphones able to record spatial audio 360° with binaural audio codecs, providing high fidelity playback through OZO Audio technology, which was derived from the Nokia OZO camera. The phone is equipped with a single bottom mounted loudspeaker, so is not fully Dolby Atmos compatible.
It is equipped with Bluetooth and a 3.5mm headphone jack. These audio outputs use OZO spatial audio playback to produce high quality 360° surround sound from stereo speakers (or ear buds) and use decoding standards compatible with Dolby Atmos and other earlier surround sound standards.
Software
Like the Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6, the device ran a near-stock version of Android 7.1.1 "Nougat" on release. One difference is the camera mobile app, so as to cater for the phone's Dual-Sight feature. It also comes with an always-on display, similar to Nokia's previous Glance Screen on the Nokia Lumia series.
On 24 November 2017, HMD started rolling out a partial (excluding the Treble feature for devic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Late%20Show%20with%20Ewen%20Cameron | The Late Show with Ewen Cameron, (also known as The Late Show) is a late-night talk show television programme that originally was broadcast in Scotland on the STV2 network channel presented by comedian and television personality Ewen Cameron. The show began broadcasting in January 2016, originally on the STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh networks, until both channels were axed in 2017 and merged to form the new STV2 channel, where the programme aired at 10:30 pm.
On 16 May 2018, it was announced that STV2 would close and all of its original programming including The Late Show with Ewen Cameron would be axed in June 2018. The final episode aired on 28 June 2018 ahead of the STV2 closure on 30 June 2018.
Show set up
When first broadcast, The Late Show shared a studio and set equipment with that of Live at Five which was being broadcast on STV Glasgow, the only differences being the names were changed at the back of the set from Live at Five to The Late Show. The show originally began broadcasting at a later time of 11 pm, however, along with the stations revamp, was brought forward to 10:30 pm. When the programme first began to air, it was recorded live from STV Edinburgh studios at Fountainbridge Studios.
Show format
First inception (2016–17)
Before the programme's revamp on STV2, it had a small set with a small audience. It had two couches and a small table with ornaments situated on the set, Cameron would sit on one couch whilst guests would sit on the other couch where the guests are interviewed by Cameron.
Second inception (2017–18)
The programme, since its revamp, had followed the format of other late night programmes, most notably from the United States, such as The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in which Cameron came out and spoke to the studio audiences and greeted them before talking to them. After doing so, Cameron then introduced the first guest and interviewed them and interviewed the second guest. The programme featured regular sketches which involve Cameron interacting and talking with members of the public. Rather than live music, at the end of the programme, a music video was usually shown of a band whilst the end credits roll.
The format of interviewing guests are again very similar to that of other late night talk shows, where the guests sat to the right of Cameron, but left to the viewing audience, whilst Cameron sat behind a desk with a laptop and a microphone situated on the desk.
See also
Live at Five
References
External links
Launch at STV Glasgow
2010s British television talk shows
2010s Scottish television series
2016 Scottish television series debuts
2018 Scottish television series endings
British television talk shows
Television series by STV Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow%20Up | Glow Up is a Philippine television lifestyle informative show broadcast by GMA News TV. Hosted by Winwyn Marquez, Thia Thomalla and Michelle Dee, it premiered on June 9, 2019, on the network's Sunday evening line up. The show concluded on March 15, 2020.
Premise
The show features tips and guides regarding fashion and lifestyle. Each episode will also feature a make-over transformation.
Hosts
Winwyn Marquez
Thia Thomalla
Michelle Dee
Production
The production was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Accolades
References
External links
2019 Philippine television series debuts
2020 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA News TV original programming
Philippine television shows
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20the%20Royal%20Residences%20of%20Europe | Association of the Royal Residences of Europe is an international organisation.
The main goal is "develop and manage the network of European Royal Residences", like they put online.
The network was created in 1996 by the Chateau de Versailes and in 2001 between 19 former royal institutions. Each year a meeting is organised for the members.
19 members
Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany
Schloss Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H., Austria
Palais de Charles Quint asbl, Belgium
De Danske Kongers Kronologiske saml Rosenborg Slot, Denmark
Patrimonio Nacional, Spain
Etablissement Public du musée et du domaine national de Versailles, France
Établissement public du domaine national de Chambord, France
Gödöllői Királyi Kastély Kht, Hungary
Regione Piemonte (Direzione Cultura, Turismo e Sport), Italy
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Italy
Paleis Het Loo Nationaal Museum, The Netherlands
Muzeum Pałac w Wilanowie, Poland
Palácio Nacional de Mafra, Portugal
Historic Royal Palaces, United Kingdom
Royal Collections Kungl. Slottet, Sweden
Website
https://web.archive.org/web/20171029141626/http://dehrr.patrimonionacional.es/en_index.html
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadpick | Cadpick, a digital media market-place for 3D models, 2D blueprints and print-ready models, is used in a wide variety of industries, including but not limited to architecture, computer graphics games, manufacturing, augmented reality and much more. The Cadpick online platform allows 3D modelers, artists and design studios to upload their 3D assets for sale or share them for free.
E-commerce and Blog Service
3D modelers, artists and design studios can upload their products detailing such information like file name, category, price, files, texture maps and renders. The product price is solely at the discretion of the seller.
Anonymous buyer system is supported at Cadpick which allows users to either purchase or download 3D models without registration. Buyers can also contact sellers for questions or comment before purchase of a 3D asset through the ‘Question to vendor’ feature.
Cadpick also has a blog called the Jobs board where custom 3D model requests by buyers are posted by site administrators in order to receive bids from seller artists. Through the Cadpick blog, users can also engage each other through forum discussions and upload and browse tutorials and other educational content in the General Topics.
Downloads for free digital files start immediately while downloads for purchased digital files are done through link delivered via email.
Royalty system
Cadpick sellers get a flat rate 75% royalty of the price listed. Cadpick does not require seller artist to exclusively post their works on to the portal.
Founder
Cadpick was founded in 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya by Tiberius Mogaka, an Engineering Designer and 3D modeler. Cadpick was officially launched in February 2017 and is hosted in the United States.
Acquisition and closure
Cadpick.com was acquired by a private consortium in late 2019 that later turned out to be a hostile take-over as posted by sources intimate to the acquisition negotiations
References
Companies based in Nairobi
Online marketplaces of Kenya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Hart%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Professor Emma Hart, FRSE (born 1967) is an English computer scientist known for her work in artificial immune systems (AIS), evolutionary computation and optimisation. She is a professor of computational intelligence at Edinburgh Napier University, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press), and D. Coordinator of the Future & Emerging Technologies (FET) Proactive Initiative, Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems.
Early life and education
Hart was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1967. In 1990 she graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class BA(Hons) in Chemistry. She then continued her studies at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence in 1994, followed by a PhD that explored the use of immunology as an inspiration for computing, examining a range of techniques applied to optimization and data classification problems. Her dissertation was titled Immunology as a metaphor for computational information processing: Fact or fiction?, and her doctoral advisor was Peter Ross.
Career
In 2000 Hart took a position as a lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, and was promoted to a Reader, Professor, and in 2008 Chair in Natural Computation. She is now director of the Centre of Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems (CAVES) group in the School of Computing. She continues to research in the area of developing novel bio-inspired techniques for solving a range of real-world optimisation and classification problems, as well as exploring the fundamental properties of immune-inspired computing through modelling and simulation. She is also involved in editorial activity and currently occupies the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press).
Her interests lie in the area of bio-inspired computing, in particular artificial immune systems (AIS). She also undertakes research in three main areas: optimisation, self-organising/self-adaptive systems, and artificial intelligence.
Hart is D. Coordinator of Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems (FoCAS), a Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive Initiative funded by the European Commission under FP7.
Selected works
Conference talks
TED talk 2021.
Journal articles
"An immune system approach to scheduling in changing environments". E.Hart, P.Ross. 1999. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (2), 1559-1566.
"Exploiting the analogy between immunology and sparse distributed memories: A system for clustering non-stationary data". E.Hart, P.Ross. 2002. 1st International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems.
"Evolutionary scheduling: A review". E Hart, P Ross, D Corne. 2005. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 6(2), 191-220. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10710-005-7580-7
"Application areas of AIS: The past, the present and the future". E.Hart, J.Timmis. 2008. Applied soft computing 8(1), 191-201. DOI: https://doi.org/ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Basketball%20Tournament%202017 | The Basketball Tournament 2017 was the fourth edition of The Basketball Tournament, a 5-on-5, single elimination basketball tournament broadcast by the ESPN family of networks. The tournament involved 64 teams; it started on July 8 and continued through August 3, 2017. The winner of the final, Overseas Elite, received a two million dollar prize.
Format
The main tournament field consisted of 64 teams, organized into four regions of 16 teams each. The sixteen teams in each region were nine teams selected by fans via the tournament's website, six teams selected at-large, and one team selected via a play-in "Jamboree". The Jamboree consisted of 16 teams, each of which paid a $5000 entry fee. After two rounds of play, the surviving four teams advanced to the main field of 64 (one per region), and were refunded their entry fees. Jamboree games used an experimental "Mensa Rules" ending, now known as the Elam Ending.
The winning team (its players, coaches, general manager, and boosters) received 90% of the $2 million prize, while the remaining 10% was split amongst the team's top 100 fans (based on points earned online).
Venues
The Basketball Tournament 2017 took place in six locations; all play-in ("Jamboree") games were held in Philadelphia.
Red dots mark regional locations, the blue dot marks the Super 16 location, and the green dot marks the semifinal and finals location.
Alumni Teams
Multiple teams in the tournament were composed mostly or exclusively of alumni of a particular school. These teams are listed below.
Bracket
All times Eastern.
Northeast Region – Philadelphia, PA
Northeast Regional final
Midwest Region – Peoria, IL
Midwest Regional final
South Region – Charlotte, NC
South Regional final
West Region – Las Vegas, NV
West Regional final
National semifinals – Baltimore, MD
Semifinals
National championship
Awards
Marshall was both a player and the general manager for Team Challenge ALS
Source:
References
External links
2017 TBT Championship Recap - #6 Team Challenge ALS vs #1 Overseas Elite via YouTube
2017 TBT Semifinals Recap - #6 Team Challenge ALS vs #2 Scarlet & Gray via YouTube
2017 TBT Semifinals Recap - #1 Overseas Elite vs #3 Boeheim's Army via YouTube
The Basketball Tournament
2017–18 in American basketball
2017 in sports in California
2017 in sports in Illinois
2017 in sports in Maryland
2017 in sports in Nevada
2017 in sports in New York City
2017 in sports in North Carolina
2017 in sports in Pennsylvania
2010s in Baltimore
21st century in Las Vegas
2017 in Los Angeles
2017 in Philadelphia
2010s in Brooklyn
July 2017 sports events in the United States
August 2017 sports events in the United States
Basketball competitions in New York City
Downtown Brooklyn
Basketball competitions in Baltimore
Basketball competitions in Charlotte, North Carolina
Basketball competitions in Illinois
Basketball competitions in Philadelphia
Sports in Peoria, Illinois
Basketball competitions in the Las Vegas Valley
Basketball |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Iliffe | John Iliffe may refer to:
John Iliffe (dentist) (1846–1914), British-born Australian dentist
John Iliffe (computer designer) (born 1931), inventor of the Iliffe vector and pioneer of descriptor-based computer architectures
John Iliffe (historian) (born 1939), British professor of African history
John Wesley Iliff (1831-1878), cattle rancher and founder of the Iliff School of Theology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20Channel%20Nebraska | News Channel Nebraska (NCN) is an independent, in-state network of commercial radio and television stations in the U.S. state of Nebraska and Sioux City, Iowa. It is operated by Flood Communications, which was founded by attorney, businessman and Congressman Mike Flood. The television stations are all members of the NCN network.
History
News Channel Nebraska was founded in 2015 at Norfolk, Nebraska. In 2017, Flood Communications announced the addition of Spanish-language network Telemundo, also called Telemundo Nebraska.
In addition to commercial advertising, NCN holds pledge drives and solicits donations in the same manner as non-commercial broadcasters.
Programming
News Channel Nebraska primarily focuses on rolling news coverage similar to the original CNN Headline News and the current NewsNet, whose owner and founder helped establish the format on the News Channel Nebraska stations. Newscasts air every hour and focus primarily on rural Nebraska stories with some coverage of the two major cities, Lincoln and Omaha, and weather forecasts every 10 minutes including former WTNH meteorologist Geoff Fox broadcasting from his home studio in Irvine, California. The network also includes extensive coverage of high school and small college sports with two broadcast trucks covering rural football and basketball games. There is a "north" and "south" feed which show different sports programs, with the other feed's game rebroadcast on delay. High school sports programming requires a subscription when viewed online. In order to avoid conflicts of interest, articles and news coverage involving Flood are written by the Associated Press or Gray Television affiliates in Nebraska.
In March 2020, NCN launched Quarantine Tonight, a show featuring live music from local musicians originally produced as a service to viewers during the COVID-19 pandemic that proved popular enough to continue well past its original planned ending date. Flood was the host of Quarantine Tonight until he began his run for Congress, since then the program has been hosted by former News Channel Nebraska reporter Austen Hagood.
NCN carries some limited syndicated lifestyle programming on weekend mornings, including AgPhD, Ron Hazelton's HouseCalls and P. Allen Smith Garden Style.
Network stations
NCN consists of seven low-power TV stations that make up the network, all stations have callsigns beginning with a "K", as licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Combined, they reach almost all of eastern and central Nebraska, as well as parts of Siouxland.
Technical information
Subchannels
The signals of the NCN stations are multiplexed:
References
Television stations in Nebraska |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansa%20%28market%29 | Hansa was an online darknet market which operated on a hidden service of the Tor network.
On July 20, 2017, it was revealed that it had been compromised by law enforcement for several weeks before closing shortly following AlphaBay as a culmination of multinational law enforcement cooperation in Operation Bayonet.
Compromise
Dutch police discovered the true location of the site after a 2016 tip from security researchers who had discovered a development version. The police quickly began monitoring all actions on the site, and discovered that the administrators had left behind old IRC chat logs including their full names and even a home address, and they began to monitor them. Although the administrators soon moved the site to another unknown host, they got another break in April 2017 by tracing bitcoin transactions, which allowed them to identify the new hosting company, in Lithuania.
On June 20, 2017, German police arrested the administrators (two German men) and the Dutch police were able to take complete control of the site and to impersonate the administrators. Their plan, in coordination with the FBI, was to absorb users coming over from the upcoming AlphaBay shutdown. The following changes were made to the Hansa website to learn about careless users:
All user passwords were recorded in plaintext (allowing police to log into other markets if users had re-used passwords).
Vendors and buyers would communicate via PGP-encrypted messages. However, the website provided a PGP encryption convenience feature which the police modified to record a plaintext copy.
The website's automatic photo metadata removal tool was modified to record metadata (such as geolocation) before being stripped off by the website.
Police wiped the photo database, which enticed vendors to re-upload photos (now capturing metadata).
Multisignature bitcoin transactions were sabotaged, which at shutdown would allow police to confiscate a larger amount of illicit funds.
Police enticed users to download a Microsoft Excel file (disguised as a text file) that, when opened, would attempt to ping back to a police webserver and unmask the user's IP address.
Shutdown
AlphaBay was then shut down on July 4, and as expected a flood of users came to Hansa, until its shutdown on July 19/20. During this time, the police allowed the Hansa userbase (then growing from 1000 to 8000 vendors per day) to make 27000 illegal transactions in order to collect evidence for future prosecution of users. Local cybercrime prosecutor Martijn Egberts claimed to have obtained around 10,000 addresses of Hansa buyers outside of the Netherlands.
After shut down, the site displayed a seizure notice and directed users to their hidden service to find more information about the operation.
References
Defunct Tor hidden services
Defunct darknet markets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Kempe | Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. She is currently the Director of the Center for Data Science at NYU and Professor at the Courant Institute.
Education and career
Kempe was born in East Berlin, to a family of Russian descent. She moved to Austria in 1990, and did her undergraduate studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna from 1992 to 1995, with a year as an exchange student in physics at the University of Technology Sydney. She then earned two Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) degrees in France: one in mathematics in 1996 from Pierre and Marie Curie University and another in 1997 in physics from the École normale supérieure. She completed two doctorates in 2001. The dissertation for her Ph.D. in computer science from the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications was entitled Quantum Computing: Random Walks and Entanglement, and was supervised by Gérard Cohen. Her second Ph.D., in mathematics, was from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation entitled Universal Noiseless Quantum Computation: Theory and Applications and was jointly supervised by Elwyn Berlekamp and chemist K. Birgitta Whaley.
She joined CNRS at the University of Paris-Sud in 2001
(overlapping with postdoctoral studies at Berkeley and the Berkeley Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), joined the Tel Aviv University faculty in 2007, and moved her CNRS position from Paris-Sud to Paris Diderot in 2010.. Between 2011 and 2018 she was a researcher in finance. She became director of the Center of Data Science at NYU and a professor at the Courant Institute in September 2018.
Awards and honors
In 2006, Kempe won the bronze medal of CNRS and the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize of the French government. In 2009 she won the Krill Prize of the Wolf Foundation, and in 2010 she won the Trophée des femmes en or (English: ) for her research. In 1998 she received a reward from Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (English: "German Academic Scholarship Foundation") which was awarded to only 0.25% of students at the time. She became a knight in the National Order of Merit in 2010. In 2018, she was elected to the Academia Europaea.
Selected publications
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century German mathematicians
21st-century German physicists
German computer scientists
21st-century French mathematicians
21st-century French physicists
French computer scientists
21st-century women mathematicians
French women physicists
German women physicists
French women computer scientists
German women computer scientists
German people of Russian descent
People from East Berlin
University of Vienna alumni
Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni
École Normale Supérieure alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
New York University faculty
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
Quantum information scientists
Members of Acade |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigetti%20Computing | Rigetti Computing, Inc. is a Berkeley, California-based developer of quantum integrated circuits used for quantum computers. The company also develops a cloud platform called Forest that enables programmers to write quantum algorithms.
History
Rigetti Computing was founded in 2013 by Chad Rigetti, a physicist who previously worked on quantum computers at IBM, and studied under Michel Devoret. The company emerged from startup incubator Y Combinator in 2014 as a so-called "spaceshot" company. The company also went through enterprise revenue-focused The Alchemist Accelerator in 2014.
By February 2016, the company had begun testing a three-qubit (quantum bit) chip made using aluminum circuits on a silicon wafer. In March, the company raised Series A funding of US$24 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. In November, the company raised Series B funding of $40 million in a round led by investment firm Vy Capital, along with additional funding from Andreessen Horowitz and other investors. Y Combinator was a smaller investor in both rounds.
By Spring of 2017, the company was testing eight-qubit computers, and in June, the company announced the public beta availability of a quantum cloud computing platform called Forest 1.0, which allows developers to write quantum algorithms.
In October of 2021, it was announced that the company planned to go public via a SPAC merger, with estimated valuation around $1.5 billion. This process was expected to raise an addition $458 million in funding, in addition to the $200 million raised previously. With this funding, Rigetti planned to scale its systems from 80 qubits to 1,000 qubits by 2024, and to 4,000 by 2026. The SPAC deal closed on 2 March, 2022, and the company shares began trading on the NASDAQ exchange.
In December of 2022, Subodh Kulkarni became President and CEO of the company.
In July 2023 Rigetti launched a single chip 84qubit quantum processor that can scale to larger systems.
Products and technology
Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company, a term that indicates that the company designs and fabricates quantum chips, integrates them with a controlling architecture, and develops software for programmers to use to build algorithms for the chips.
Forest cloud computing platform
The company hosts a cloud computing platform called Forest, which gives developers access to quantum processors so they can write quantum algorithms for testing purposes. The computing platform is based on a custom instruction language the company developed called Quil, which stands for Quantum Instruction Language. Quil facilitates hybrid quantum/classical computing, and programs can be built and executed using open source Python tools. As of June 2017, the platform allows coders to write quantum algorithms for a simulation of a quantum chip with 36 qubits.
Fab-1
The company operates a rapid prototyping fabrication ("fab") lab called Fab-1, designed to quickly create integrated circuits. Lab engi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVB%20Network%20Vision | TVB Network Vision was previously known as TVB Pay Vision and was a satellite pay-television platform in Hong Kong provided by TVB. The company was renamed Big Big Channel Limited on 23 May 2017, and the satellite pay-TV platform ceased operation on 1 June 2017. When the closure of the satellite pay-TV platform was announced in January 2017, online piracy and internet television were cited as some of the reasons.
References
Satellite television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Test%20System | The Vienna Test System (VTS) is a test system for computerized psychological assessments. It was developed in the 1980's by the Schuhfried Company, founded by Dr. Felix Schuhfried in 1947.
VTS allows digital psychological tests to be administered while also providing automatic and comprehensive scoring. It includes classical questionnaires and tests that can only be scored by a computer, such as time-sensitive test presentation, multi-media presentation, adaptive tests, psychomotricity, combinations of tests for specific purposes (test sets) and differentiated scoring of individual responses,
History
Initial developments of a computerized test system at Schuhfried Company date back to the 1970s and were based on the company's experience in the field of apparative assessments. An important strand of apparative assessments in psychology was the development of devices for measuring brief and very brief stimulus presentation and reaction times, such as the tachistoscope for assessing perception and attention. Schuhfried was one of the first companies to realize that computers could replace test-specific electro-mechanical instruments.
In the 1980s, VTS was introduced. It initially had its own hardware and operating system components designed in particular to ensure real-time control and measurement. Electro-mechanical devices were controlled by computer; individual tests required a control module and a special respondent interface for stimulus presentation and input of responses. Standardized respondent desks providing additional optical and acoustic stimulus presentation options and multiple response keys (including number keys) and pedals then supplemented and replaced the individual devices. Presentation was shifted more to the screen.
In 1986 the first VTS was launched. It used a personal computer as hardware. For many years the VTS was the only available system in this field to achieve professional application acceptance. Competing systems gradually emerged as the now widespread practice of internet-based psychological diagnostic grew, leading to wide diversification.
The present system
In 2013, Schuhfried launched a new VTS. Four specialist versions are available for use in HR, Neuro, Sport, and Traffic psychology. Interactive interfaces enable the new VTS to be integrated into existing workflows and computer programs such as applicant management systems and hospital IT environments.
Many psychological tests can be administered online without the need to install software.
Tests
More than 120 tests are now available, Every year some 13 million tests in more than 68 countries and 30 languages are administered using VTS . These include:
DT: The Determination Test (DT) is a test of reactive stress tolerance and the associated ability to react. The respondent is presented with color stimuli and acoustic signals. He/she reacts by pressing the appropriate buttons on the response panel.
RT: The Reaction Test (RT) provides a measurement o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20C.%20Mayville%20Jr. | William Charles Mayville Jr. is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as Deputy Commander, United States Cyber Command. After his military retirement, Mayville joined Korn Ferry consulting firm.
Military career
Mayville graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1982, branched Infantry and began his career as a Weapons Platoon Leader, Rifle Platoon Leader, and Company Executive Officer with the 1st Battalion, 75th Rangers at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia.
Following attendance at the Infantry Officers Advance Course, Mayville served as a Maintenance Officer and Company Commander in the 1st Battalion (Mechanized), 7th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division. He served as the Brigade Adjutant for the 3d Brigade, 82d Airborne Division and later, the Battalion Operations Officer for 3d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He subsequently served in the 75th Ranger Regiment as the Logistics Officer (S‐4) and Regimental Executive Officer before taking command of the 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division from 1997 to 1999. Following battalion command, he was assigned as Chief of Plans and Training, J3 Operations, at the Joint Special Operations Command.
In June 2002, Mayville assumed command of the 173d Airborne Brigade in Vicenza, Italy and commanded the brigade during its airborne assault in northern Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003. Following brigade command, he served as Chief of Staff for United States Army Southern European Command and the Combined Joint Task Force 76, Operation Enduring Freedom.
Mayville's assignments as a general officer include Director of the Joint Staff, Director for Operations, J-3 for the Joint Staff; Deputy Director for Operations, J‐3 and Deputy Director for Plans and Policy, J‐5, for United States European Command; Deputy Commanding General for Support, 82d Airborne Division and Combined Joint Task Force 82, Operation Enduring Freedom, and the Director of Operations for HQ, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Mayville commanded the 1st Infantry Division, deploying to Operation Enduring Freedom and commanding coalition operations in Regional Command East.
Mayville was one of the leading candidates to replace Admiral Michael S. Rogers as the commander of U.S. Cyber Command. He was appointed as one of Cyber Command's deputy commanders, which was a temporary position created for him, in order to manage the tasks necessary to elevate Cyber Command into a unified combatant command, and to transition into Cyber Command's next four-star commander. When he was passed over in favor of Lieutenant General Paul M. Nakasone, he opted to retire from the Army, after serving less than eight months as deputy commander.
Education
Mayville's military and civilian education includes the Command and General Staff College, the Naval War College, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Awards and decorations
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalaya%20Roadies | Himalaya Roadies is an adventure based Nepalese reality show. It is franchise of the MTV Roadies series. The series is broadcast by the Nepalese network Himalaya TV and airs every week for an hour. The participants receive difficult tasks to complete to become a roadie. Only people of 18 and over are allowed to participate in the show. The last season (Season 4), with the theme of Season of Survival followed the former format of the MTV Roadies. Now, the makers are preparing for fifth season of the television reality show. Famous TV host and personality Suraj Singh Thakuri replaced Raymon Das Shrestha as the host of the show in season 5. Fifth season is titled as “Power of five”.In previous seasons there were four gang leaders namely, Anoop Bikram Shahi, Saman Shrestha (Extreme Athlete), Deeya Maskey and Ashish Rana aka Laure. However, from the fifth season Actress Priyanka Karki, will replace Saman Shrestha as gang leader whereas other leaders will remain intact in their respective positions.
The show was previously directed by Aman Pratap Adhikari but fourth season onwards director and producer Simosh Sunwar is directing the show
Plot
Himalaya Roadies is a reality show based on the popular Indian TV show MTV Roadies. The series is focused on young adults of Nepal seeking adventure. Contestants are given seemingly impossible tasks to push them to their limits. They travel to scenic locations all over Nepal, and the last one to survive is crowned a Himalaya Roadie.
Series
Season 1
Destination
Mustang, Nepal – Episode 6 – 8
Pokhara, Nepal – Episode 9 – 12
Chitwan, Nepal – Episode 13 – 15
Nawalparasi, Nepal – Episode 16 – 17
Audition
Judges
Rannvijay Singha made his special appearance in the grade finale of
Himalaya Roadies season-1
Contestants
There were originally 17 contestants at the beginning of the journey. However, in Episode 6, Aashish, Faruk, Gaurav, and Neelam were eliminated after receiving the most votes from their fellow contestants.
Roadies’ presence
Episode 1-5 was the Audition Round and from Episode 6 onwards, the competition officially started.
= indicates that Roadie was present in the episode.
= indicates that Roadie was absent in the episode.
= indicates that Roadie was present in the episode but as a part of the audience for watching the Finale rather than as a contestant for the title.
Season 2
Destination
Mustang, Nepal – Episode 6 – 8
Pokhara, Nepal – Episode 9 – 12
Chitwan, Nepal – Episode 13 – 15
Nawalparasi, Nepal – Episode 16 – 17
Audition
Judges
Actor Karma and Nepali boxing champion Maxx was seen in the journey round of Himalaya Roadies Season-2.
Contestants
Roadies’ presence
Episode 1-5 was the Audition Round and from Episode 6 onwards, the competition officially started.
Notes:
Indicates the contestant was won the task that week.
Indicates the contestant was safe that week.
Indicates the contestant was immune that week.
Indicates the contestant was in the danger that week.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoTrellis | GeoTrellis is an open source, geographic data processing library designed to work with large geospatial raster data sets. It is written in Scala and has an open-source Apache 2.0 license.
Description
GeoTrellis' core competency is raster data processing: enabling distributed processing of large geospatial raster data sets using the techniques of map algebra. In addition to support for raster data operations, GeoTrellis includes some support for operations using vector and point cloud data.
GeoTrellis leverages Apache Spark for distributed processing. Distributed processing relies on indexing large datasets based on a multi-dimensional space-filling curve (SFC). SFCs enable the translation of multi-dimensional indices into a single-dimensional one, while maintaining geospatial locality. This allows for efficient reading and writing of large datasets to be performed in parallel across multiple computers.
Python bindings have been developed for GeoTrellis as a sub-project called GeoPySpark that enables Python developers to access and use the GeoTrellis library.
Project History
GeoTrellis started as a research project at Azavea, a geospatial software company based in Philadelphia. A precursor software component, DecisionTree, was developed beginning in 2006 with support from a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 2009, with financial support from the William Penn Foundation and Stroud Water Research Center, Azavea embarked on early development of GeoTrellis.
GeoTrellis was released as an open source project in 2011 with the goal of supporting fast processing of geospatial raster data at scale.
GeoTrellis initially supported distributed computation through Akka, a Scala framework for building concurrent and distributed applications. The need to support additional use cases and features such as caching and sharding datasets across a storage cluster led to a search for a new distribution framework. GeoTrellis moved to Apache Spark as its distribution engine in 2014 in order to leverage management, scheduling, and other features in the Spark framework. One key use case that drove this phase of development was the need to efficiently process large, spatiotemporal datasets like those used for many earth science applications, such as climate change. The move to Apache Spark enabled efficient support for large climate change forecast datasets published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
GeoTrellis was submitted to the Eclipse Foundation's LocationTech working group in 2013 and graduated from incubation with a 1.0 release in December 2016.
GeoTrellis has been used in a number of geospatial domains including: satellite and aerial image processing, forest growth simulation, agricultural yield predictions, planning, digital humanities, government infrastructure investment, and machine learning to support crime risk forecasting. It is currently integrated into other open source softw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Frank%20Witulski | Arthur Frank Witulski is an American electrical engineer. He is the Research Associate Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, where his research activities focus on microelectronics and semiconductor devices. He is affiliated with the Radiation Effects and Reliability Group at Vanderbilt University, where he works on the effects of radiation on semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. He also serves as an engineer at the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics at Vanderbilt. He is best known for his work in the field of Power electronics and ionizing radiation response of DC-to-DC converter.
Early life and education
Witulski completed his high school in 1977 and joined the University of Colorado at Boulder for his BS degree. After graduating in 1981, he joined Storage Technology Corporation.
Career
University of Arizona
After graduating in 1989, he joined the University of Arizona in 1989 as an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering. He rose through the ranks and became an associate professor when he left the university in 2000.
Return to Academia - Vanderbilt University
In 2003, following a few other professors such as Ron Schrimpf, Witulski moved to Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Along with Kenneth Galloway and Shera Kerns, they established the Radiation Effects and Reliability Group at Vanderbilt, which is now the largest of its type at any US University.
Selected publications
N. E. Ives, J. Chen, A. F. Witulski, R D. Schrimpf, D. M. Fleetwood, R. W. Bruce, M. W. McCurdy, E. X. Zhang, and LW. Massengill, “Effects of Proton-Induced Displacement Damage on Gallium Nitride HEMTs in RF Power Amplifier Applications,” Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on, Volume: 62, Issue: 6, Pages: 2417 - 2422, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2015.2499160, Dec. 2015.
Z. J. Diggins, N. Mahadevan, E. B. Pitt, D. Herbison, G. Karsai, B. D. Sierawski, E. J. Barth, R. A. Reed, R.D. Schrimpf, R. A Weller, M. A. Alles, A. F. Witulski, “Bayesian Inference Modeling of Total Ionizing Dose Effects on System Performance,” Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on, Volume: 62, Issue: 6 Pages: 2517 - 2524, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2015.2493882, Dec. 2015.
Diggins, Z.J.; Mahadevan, N.; Pitt, E.B.; Herbison, D.; Karsai, G.; Sierawski, B.D.; Barth, E.J.; Reed, R.A.; Schrimpf, R.D.; Weller, R.A.; Alles, M.L.; Witulski, A.F., “System Health Awareness in Total-Ionizing Dose Environments,” Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on, Year: 2015, Volume: 62, Issue: 4, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2015.2440993, Pages: 1674 – 1681. 3 Gaspard, N. J. ; Witulski, A. F. ; Atkinson, N. M. ; Ahlbin, J. R. ; Holman, W. T. ; Bhuva, B. L. ; Loveless, T. D. ; Massengill, L. W. ; “Impact of Well Structure on Single-Event Well Potential Modulation in Bulk CMOS,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Nov. 2011.
DasGupta, S.; Witulski, A.F.; Bhuva, B.L.; Alles, M.L.; Reed, R.A.; Amusan, O.A.; Ahlbin, J.R.; Schrimpf, R.D.; Massengill, L.W.; Effect of Well and Substrate Potential |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20the%20Stations | All the Stations is a documentary series published on YouTube, which sees Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe visit all 2,563 stations on Great Britain's National Rail rail network, and all 198 stations in Ireland, on the railway networks of Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland. The journey across Great Britain took fourteen weeks and six days, starting at Penzance station on 7 May 2017 and finishing at Wick station on 19 August.
All videos are hosted on YouTube. An 80-minute documentary, which has additional content, along with interviews, was released on 19 May 2018.
Funding
All the Stations was crowdfunded via Kickstarter, raising a total of £38,654 in 40 days (from 15 February to 27 March 2017) for the Great Britain series in 2017, and £26,350 for the Ireland series in 2019. Every contributor who donated £10 or more to the Kickstarter campaign was able to adopt a station, and their name appeared on the map on the project's website.
For travelling in Great Britain, Marshall and Pipe used All Line Rover tickets. The money raised from the crowdfunding allowed four main documentary episodes to be published each week on YouTube – there were 59 episodes in total – and also paid for 11 'bonus' episodes. Marshall also hosted further content on his channel, and there was one longer video episode paid for by sponsorship from The Trainline.
Method
The rules set out before the trip were that all 2,563 stations on the National Rail network in Great Britain were to be visited (i.e. every station which appears on the Office of Rail and Road's website).
To visit a station, they had to be on a train that stopped at the station, but they did not have to alight from the train. In the case of request stops, the train had to be scheduled to stop if required; for a number of request stops, they used other transport to get to the station and then requested the train to stop (hence the title of the first episode "Make Your Intent Clear", referring to the instructions given to passengers using request stops).
It was estimated that if they had been required to get off the train at every station, the journey would have taken almost a year to complete.
Stations opened subsequently
After they had visited all 2,563 stations, Kenilworth station was scheduled to open on 10 December 2017, on which day Marshall and Pipe visited the station, although it did not actually open until April 2018. Corfe Castle and Maghull North later became stations numbers 2,565 and 2,566. The pair visited Corfe in August 2018, and Kenilworth and Maghull on 21 December 2018. Originally planned to open on 20 May 2019, Meridian Water opened on 3 June 2019, replacing the nearby Angel Road, which had closed on 31 May. Marshall and Pipe visited Meridian Water on the day it opened, catching the first train to call at the station.
In July 2019, Great Western started a Saturday-only service from Taunton to Bishops Lydeard on the West Somerset Railw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Cyber%20Security%20Centre | The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the successor to the Cyber Security Operations Centre, is the Australian Government's lead agency for cyber security. The ACSC is part of the Australian Signals Directorate and is based at the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation headquarters in Brindabella Business Park in Canberra. The Centre is overseen by the Cyber Security Operations Board and is the joint responsibility of the Minister for Defence.
History
The Australian Cyber Security Centre was established in 2014, replacing the Cyber Security Operations Centre, also housed by the Australian Signals Directorate. In line with the recommendations of the 2017 Independent Review of the Australian Intelligence Community led by Michael L'Estrange and Stephen Merchant, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that the role of the Australian Cyber Security Centre would be strengthened and that the Prime Minister's Special Adviser on Cyber Security, Alastair MacGibbon, would assume the responsibilities as the Head of the Centre within the Australian Signals Directorate, which was established as a statutory agency.
Role and responsibilities
The role of the Australian Cyber Security Centre is to:
lead the Australian Government’s operational response to cyber security incidents
organise national cyber security operations and resources
encourage and receive reporting of cyber attacks and cyber security incidents
raise awareness of the level of cyber threats to Australia
study and investigate cyber threats
The ACSC integrates the national security cyber capabilities across the Australian Signals Directorate cyber security mission, cyber security experts from the Digital Transformation Agency, the Defence Intelligence Organisation strategic intelligence analysts, the Computer Emergency Response Team, the Cyber Security Policy Division of the Department of Home Affairs, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation cyber and telecommunications specialists, Australian Federal Police cyber crime investigators, and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission cybercrime threat intelligence specialists. The Centre is also a hub for collaboration and information sharing with the private sector and critical infrastructure providers, state and territory governments, academia and international partners.
Governance
The Head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre is a concurrent Deputy Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate. The Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cyber Security within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet previously served concurrently as the Head of the Centre. The Special Adviser then became the National Cyber Coordinator within the Department of Home Affairs.
See also
Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre
Australian Intelligence Community
ECHELON
National Cyber Security Centre (disambiguation)
References
External links
Australian Cyber Security Centre official website
Australian intelligence agenci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX%20character%20set | MSX character sets are a group of single- and double-byte character sets developed by Microsoft for MSX computers. They are based on code page 437.
Character sets
The following table shows the MSX character set. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent if available. Control characters and other non-printing characters are represented by their names.
Character set differences exist, depending on the target market of the machine. These are the variations:
Arabic
Brazilian
German DIN
International
Japanese
Korean
Russian
The German DIN and International character sets are identical, apart from the style of zero (0) character. The international character set has a zero with a slash, while the DIN character set has a dotted zero.
The MSX terminal is compatible with VT52 escape codes, plus extra control codes shown below.
Brazilian variants
Gradiente custom charset
The Brazilian manufacturer Gradiente have initially included a modified MSX character set on their v1.0 machines to allow writing correct Portuguese. Differences are shown boxed. The symbol at 0x9E (158) is the currency symbol for the Brazilian cruzado which is not used anymore.
BRASCII
Later Brazilian MSX models (v1.1 or higher) included a standardized character set named BRASCII, which solved the accentuation incompatibility problems amongst the different makers.
References
Character sets
MSX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%20Line%20%28Namma%20Metro%29 | The Pink Line of Namma Metro is under construction and will form part of the metro rail network for the city of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The line connects Kalena Agrahara station (previously named Gottigere) on Bannerghatta road in the south with Nagawara station on Outer Ring road in the north. The Pink Line is mostly underground () but also has a elevated section and a at-grade (surface) section. There are 18 stations on the line of which 12 are underground and 6 are elevated. Pink Line will have an interchange with the Purple Line at MG Road station. It will also have interchanges with the Yellow line at Jayadeva Hospital station and with the Blue Line at Nagawara. Both these lines are under construction. The entire line is planned to open at the end of March 2025.
History
In 2007, as follow up to the Metro Phase that was about to begin construction then, RITES had recommended several mono-rail routes totaling . These recommendations were made as Government of Karnataka requested a survey of feeder routes for Phase l of metro that was to begin construction. One of the routes was entirely on Bannerghatta Road from Bannerghatta National Park up to its northern end at Hosur Road (near Adugodi). At that stage, Bannerghatta Road was not expected to have high growth and dense population, hence the recommendation for Monorail. However, by 2010 itself, it became apparent that Bannerghatta Road would need a higher capacity system than a monorail. Also, Karnataka government did not favor a monorail system and preferred expansion of the Metro system. Accordingly, for its Phase ll, BMRC had requested DMRC for a DPR for the route between Bannerghatta to Yelahanka via:
Jayadeva Underpass, Hosur Road, Brigade Road, MG Road,
Kamaraj Road, Tannery Road, Nagavara Junction (along Outer Ring Road), Sahakara Nagar, Vidyaranyapura to Yelahanka.
Jayamahal Extension, RT Nagar, Nagavara Junction (along Outer Ring Road), Sahakara Nagar to Yelahanka.
The DPR had noted that the Metro Alignment may have to go underground after Jayadeva flyover (along Bannerghatta Road) up to Nagawara junction (along Outer Ring Road). The remaining portion could be elevated.
Planning
Since there were plans for a line along Outer Ring Road and also the possibility that a link to Airport may have to be routed along Airport Road (passing Yelahanka), BMRC opted to terminate the Pink Line in Phase ll at Nagawara.
Land requirement was estimated at and Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) was tasked with acquiring land on behalf of BMRC. A total of 690 trees were to be cut to build the line (438 trees for the elevated section and 252 trees for the underground stretch).
On 14 July 2017, BMRC unveiled the alignment of the underground section of the line. The alignment included a modification from the original plan - Cantonment metro station had been proposed to be constructed on Indian Railways land next to Cantonment railway station. Due to technicalities (steep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20Line%20%28Namma%20Metro%29 | The Yellow Line of Namma Metro is under construction and will form part of the metro rail network for the city of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The line connects R.V. Road with Bommasandra and is fully elevated with 16 stations. R.V. Road station is the terminal station on the city side where an interchange is being provided with the Green Line. Jayadeva Hospital station will, in the future serve as another elevated interchange station with the Pink Line that is also under construction in Phase ll of Namma Metro's expansion. Upon its opening, Jayadeva Station will be the tallest and largest metro station in Bengaluru, with 5 levels of transport, including the metro lines. Central Silk Board station will be another interchange station between the Yellow Line and Blue Line. The other end of the Yellow Line will terminate at Bommasandra.. The line was scheduled to open in June 2023, but due to construction delays, it was scheduled around December 2023, and finally, after an inspection by MP Tejasvi Surya, the line will be open around February 2024.
Planning
Namma Metro's Phase ll includes forty-five new lines - Yellow and Pink Lines, as well as extensions of Purple Line and Green Line. Phase II spans a length of ( underground, at grade and elevated) and adds 61 stations to the network of which 12 are underground.
Tenders for the construction of the Yellow Line (between R V Road and Bommasandra) were floated in 3 packages. On 9 December 2016, BMRC floated tenders for the construction of stretch from Bommasandra to Hosa Road station. The work involves the construction of a viaduct with five stations and includes the construction of the depot entry line leading to Hebbagodi depot. Tenders for the stretch from Hosa Road to Bommanahalli (previously HSR Layout) were floated the next day. Both packages were awarded to Thai-based ITD Cementation India in May 2017 for ₹511.35 and 485.52 crores (US$140 mil totally). Civil works began in November 2017.
The third tender for construction of the elevated section and 5 stations was awarded to a joint venture between Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) and URC Construction Pvt Ltd. on 3 July 2017 for .
Funding
For Phase-2 of Namma Metro, the Central and State Governments will fund around ₹15,000 crore. The State and Central Governments will bear 30% and 20% of the project cost respectively. The remaining will be obtained through senior term loans. BMRCL is permitted to raise up to ₹9,000 crore through loans.
Indian firms Biocon and Infosys announced that they would provide funding construction of the Hebbagodi and Konappana Agrahara metro stations respectively on the Yellow Line. Each firm will contribute towards the project. Biocon CMD Kiran Mazumdar Shaw stated that the company wanted to fund the project because it would help de-congest the city. Both Biocon and Infosys have offices located near the stations.
Infrastructure
Rolling stock
BMRC plans to operate driverless trains on the Yellow Line w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20to%20explanation | In the regulation of algorithms, particularly artificial intelligence and its subfield of machine learning, a right to explanation (or right to an explanation) is a right to be given an explanation for an output of the algorithm. Such rights primarily refer to individual rights to be given an explanation for decisions that significantly affect an individual, particularly legally or financially. For example, a person who applies for a loan and is denied may ask for an explanation, which could be "Credit bureau X reports that you declared bankruptcy last year; this is the main factor in considering you too likely to default, and thus we will not give you the loan you applied for."
Some such legal rights already exist, while the scope of a general "right to explanation" is a matter of ongoing debate. There have been arguments made that a "social right to explanation" is a crucial foundation for an information society, particularly as the institutions of that society will need to use digital technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning. In other words, that the related automated decision making systems that use explainability would be more trustworthy and transparent. Without this right, which could be constituted both legally and through professional standards, the public will be left without much recourse to challenge the decisions of automated systems.
Examples
Credit scoring in the United States
Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B of the Code of Federal Regulations),
Title 12, Chapter X, Part 1002, §1002.9, creditors are required to notify applicants who are denied credit with specific reasons for the detail. As detailed in §1002.9(b)(2):
The official interpretation of this section details what types of statements are acceptable. Creditors comply with this regulation by providing a list of reasons (generally at most 4, per interpretation of regulations), consisting of a numeric (as identifier) and an associated explanation, identifying the main factors affecting a credit score. An example might be:
32: Balances on bankcard or revolving accounts too high compared to credit limits
European Union
The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (enacted 2016, taking effect 2018) extends the automated decision-making rights in the 1995 Data Protection Directive to provide a legally disputed form of a right to an explanation, stated as such in Recital 71: "[the data subject should have] the right ... to obtain an explanation of the decision reached". In full:
However, the extent to which the regulations themselves provide a "right to explanation" is heavily debated. There are two main strands of criticism. There are significant legal issues with the right as found in Article 22 — as recitals are not binding, and the right to an explanation is not mentioned in the binding articles of the text, having been removed during the legislative process. In addition, there are significant restrictions on the types of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadrinsk%20Telephone%20Plant | Shadrinsk Telephone Plant () is a company based in Shadrinsk, Russia.
The Shadrinsk Telephone Plant makes telephone apparatus, personal computers, and other communications and computer-related equipment for civil use. It also makes long-distance communications equipment including radio-relay systems for the military.
Established in 1941, the plant made field telephones for the Soviet military, producing 247,000 of them during World War II. In 1975 the plant provided the communication systems for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. The company was declared bankrupt in May 2017.
References
External links
Official website (archived)
Electronics companies of Russia
Companies based in Kurgan Oblast
Manufacturing companies of the Soviet Union
Ministry of the Communications Equipment Industry (Soviet Union)
Electronics companies of the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambra%20Health | Ambra Health (formerly DICOM Grid), is a software company that provides solutions for medical image sharing of DICOM and non-DICOM data between patients, physicians, and hospitals.
History
The company was founded as DICOM Grid, Inc. in 2004 to make digital medical imaging on a cloud based platform. DICOM Grid launched their cloud based platform as DG Suite, that allows to store diagnostic imaging and health data in its platform that can be accessed and shared by the healthcare providers and patients. The platform was later approved under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It received best in KLAS awards continuously from 2014 to 2017 and also received 2016 SIIA CODiE award.
In September 2016, the company re-branded itself to Ambra Health a DBA of DICOM Grid, Inc. As of 2017, the company claims to have 750 healthcare providers using its platform.
Products and Services
DICOM and non-DICOM image viewer
Medical Image Sharing
Image routing
Vendor Neutral Archive
Cloud computing based Picture & Archiving Communications System
Funding
March 2010- $11.88 million
Nov, 2010- $7.5 million
May, 2012- $5 million
July, 2014- $6 million
Nov, 2015- $3 million
March, 2016- $6 million
September, 2016- $6 million
Partnerships
Athenahealth
drchrono
Modernizing Medicine
Radiological Society of North America
RSNA Image Share
CommonWell Health Alliance
References
Medical imaging
DICOM software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Alyas%20Robin%20Hood%20characters | Alyas Robin Hood ( / English title: Bow of Justice) is a Philippine drama-action series broadcast by GMA Network starring Dingdong Dantes, Megan Young, Andrea Torres and Solenn Heussaff. It premiered on September 19, 2016 on GMA Telebabad primetime block and also aired worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV. The first season ended its 23-week run on February 24, 2017, with a total of 115 episodes, and was replaced by Destined to be Yours. A second and final season premiered on August 14, 2017 replacing My Love from the Star, and ended its 15-week run on November 24, 2017, with a total of 75 episodes, and was replaced by Kambal, Karibal.
Cast and Characters (Season 1)
Main cast
Dingdong Dantes as Jose Paulo "Pepe" de Jesus Jr./Alyas Robin Hood/Christopher "Chris" Bonifacio
Megan Young as Sarri Acosta
Andrea Torres as Venus Torralba/Clara Bonifacio
Supporting cast
Sid Lucero as Dean Balbuena
Jaclyn Jose as Judy de Jesus
Cherie Gil as Margarita "Maggie" Balbuena
Lindsay De Vera as Lizzy de Jesus
Dave Bornea as Julian Balbuena
Gary Estrada as Carlos "Caloy" de Jesus
Dennis Padilla as Wilson Chan
Gio Alvarez as Jericho "Jekjek" Sumilang
Paolo Contis as S/Insp. Daniel Acosta
Recurring cast
Rey "PJ" Abellana as Leandro Torralba
Ces Quesada as Mayor Anita "Cha" Escano
Antonette Garcia as Frida
Luri Vincent Nalus as Junior "Junjun" Aguilar
Prince Villanueva as Rex
Erlinda Villalobos as Julia "Huling" Sumilang
Caprice Cayetano as Erica "Ecai" Sumilang
Rob Moya as SPO4 Alex Cruz
Michael Flores as
Llama Pineda
Jorrel Pineda
Anthony Falcon as Chino
Jade Lopez as Chef Pop/Ariana Grenade
Pauline Mendoza as Betchay
John Feir as Armando Estanislao
Guest cast
Christopher de Leon as Jose Paolo de Jesus Sr.
Julius Escarga as young Pepe
Arjan Jimenez as young Caloy
Will Ashley de Leon as young Jekjek
Charles Jacob Briz as young Jojo
Vic Trio as Tomas Mayuga
Jay Arcilla as Louie Mayuga
Tanya Gomez as Chairman Adelita Mayuga
Sue Prado as Cynthia De Jesus
Joko Diaz as Mayor Ramon Arguelles
James Teng as Miggy Arguelles
Ryza Cenon as Nancy Benitez
Marnie Lapuz as Maria Benitez
Dina Bonnevie as Mama Daisy
Liezel Lopez as Miaka
Marlann Flores as Honey
Lucho Ayala as Councilor Paras
Leanne Bautista as Angela
Catherine Remperas as Rose
Diva Montelaba as Amaya
Joross Gamboa as Jojo
Tammy Brown as Ariana
Jenny Catchong as Beyonce
Crissy Marie Rendon as Rihanna
Aaron Yanga as Ipe
Cast and Characters (Season 2)
Main cast
Dingdong Dantes as Atty. Jose Paulo "Pepe" de Jesus Jr./Atty. Jose Paulo Albano/Alyas Robin Hood
Andrea Torres as Venus Torralba/Marla Mendoza/Aphrodite Marcelo
Ruru Madrid as Andres Silang/Yoyo Boy
Solenn Heussaff as Iris Rebecca Lizeralde
Supporting cast
Jaclyn Jose as Kapitana Judy de Jesus/Lola SadAko/Victorina Deogracia y Villadolid
Edu Manzano as Governor Emilio Albano
Rey "PJ" Abellana as Leandro Torralba
Gio Alvarez as Jericho "Jekjek" Sumilang
Paolo Contis as Senior Inspector Daniel Acosta
Lindsay de Vera as Lizzy de Jesus
Dave Bornea as Julian Balb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muuss | Muuss is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bobby Muuss (born 1976), American college soccer coach
Mike Muuss (1958–2000), American computer programmer
Rolf Muuss (1924–2020), German-American psychologist and academic
See also
Muus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok%20%28JPEG%202000%29 | In computer software, Grok is a library to encode and decode images in the JPEG 2000 format. It fully implements Part 1 of the ISO/IEC 15444-1 technical standard. It is designed for stability, high performance, and low memory usage. Grok is free and open-source software released under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3.
Features
High performance - grk_decompress is currently over 1/2 the speed of Kakadu, one of the leading commercial JPEG 2000 libraries
Fast sub-tile decode
Supports decoding to stdout for png, jpeg, bmp, pnm, and raw output formats
Supports TLM code stream marker for fast single-tile and sub-tile decoding of large tiled images
Supports PLT code stream marker for fast sub-tile decoding of large single-tile images
Full support for ICC profiles and other meta-data such as XML, IPTC and XMP
Supports new Part 15 of the standard, aka High Throughput JPEG 2000, which promises up to a 10x speed up over the original Part 1 of the JPEG 2000 standard
Integration
Grok has been integrated into a number of other open source projects, including:
Cantaloupe image server
IIPSrv image server
Horos medical image viewer
References
Further reading
"JPEG2000 Image Compression Fundamentals, Standards and Practice", by David S. Taubman, Michael W. Marcellin.
External links
User guide
See also
OpenJPEG
Kakadu
JPEG
C++ libraries
Graphics libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20Live | Football Live was the name given to the project and computer system created and utilised by PA Sport to collect Real Time Statistics from major English & Scottish Football Matches and distribute to most leading media organisations. At the time of its operation, more than 99% of all football statistics displayed across Print, Internet, Radio & TV Media outlets would have been collected via Football Live.
Background
Prior to implementation of Football Live, the collection process consisted of a news reporter or press officer at each club telephoning the Press Association, relaying information on Teams, Goals and Half-Time & Full Time.
The basis for Football Live was to have a representative of the Press Association (FBA - Football Analyst) at every ground. Throughout the whole match they would stay on an open line on a mobile phone to a Sports Information Processor (SIP), constantly relaying in real time statistical information for every :
Shot
Foul
Free Kick
Goal
Cross
Goal Kick
Offside
This information would be entered in real time and passed to our media customers.
The Football Live project was in use from Season 2001/02 until the service was taken over by Opta in 2013/14
Commercial Customers
The most famous use for the Football Live data was for the Vidiprinter services on BBC & Sky Sports, allowing goals to be viewed on TV screens within 20 seconds of the event happening.
League competitions
From its inception in 2001/02 season, the following leagues/competitions were fully covered by Football live
English Premier League
Championship
League One
League Two
Conference
Scottish Premier League
English FA Cup
English Football League Cup
World Cup
European Championships
Champions League
Europa League
Football Analysts (FBA's)
During the early development stages, the initial idea was to employee ex-referees to act as Football Analysts, but this was soon dismissed in favour of ex-professional Footballers. The most famous of which were Brendon Ormsby, Mel Sterland, Jimmy Case, Neil Webb , John Sitton , Imre Varadi , Brian Kilcline , Gary Chivers , Micky Gynn . All the FBA's were supplied and managed by the Professional Football Association (PFA), with day-to-day responsibility lying with Paul Allen and Chris "Jozza" Joslin from the PFA.
References
Computer systems
Statistical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-channel%20video | Single-channel video is a video art work using a single electronic source, presented and exhibited from one playback device. Electronic sources can be any format of video tape, DVDs or computer-generated moving images utilizing the applicable playback device (such as a VCR, DVD player or computer) and exhibited using a television monitor, projection or other screen-based device. Historically, video art was limited to unedited video tape footage displayed on a television monitor in a gallery and was conceptually contrasted with both broadcast television and film projections in theatres. As technology advanced, the ability to edit and display video art provided more variations and multi-channel video works became possible as did multi-channel and multi-layered video installations. However, single-channel video works continue to be produced for a variety of aesthetic and conceptual reasons and the term usually now refers to a single image on a monitor or projection, regardless of image source or production.
History
Artists began working with video technology in the 1960s. The earliest works used television sets as sculptural objects but by the late 1960s video recorders became readily available and artists began experimenting with the potential to record performances and conceptual works addressing the medium itself and critiquing broadcast television and commercial film. As more artists worked with video as a medium the problem of exhibition arose. Not being able to project the image as with film, the playback of video tapes was left to monitors placed in galleries and alternative art spaces. Theoretically and commercially, the video tape created problems as tapes were easily duplicated, with no "original" (although a master did usually exist). Video cooperatives and distribution centres emerged following the experimental film model. Unlike film, however, the gallery became the primary venue for video art. As multiple channels became possible, artists continued to work in single-channel, exhibiting in a number of venues beyond the gallery and the term single-channel video has expanded from a video tape played back on a monitor to any work produced from a single electronic source or, in fact, any work consisting of a single moving image regardless of source. Single-channel works that are produced explicitly for playback on a monitor are primarily concerned with narrative or directly addressing the audience rather than providing an immersive experience found in installation works.
Notable single-channel video works
Double Vision (1971), Peter Campus
Television Delivers People (1973), Richard Serra
Birthday Suit – with scars and defects (1974), Lisa Steele
Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975), Martha Rosler
Kiss The Girls: Make Them Cry (1979), Dara Birnbaum
Reverse Television (1983), Bill Viola
Me & Rubyfruit (1989 or 1990), Sadie Benning
References
Further reading
Elwes, Catherine. Video Art, A Guided Tour. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 2005.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Klemmer | Scott Klemmer is a human-computer interaction, user-centered design, usability, and computer science researcher and educator. He co-founded the Design Lab with Don Norman and Jim Hollan at the University of California San Diego in 2013. Klemmer is a professor in the Departments of Cognitive Science and Computer Science and Engineering, and formerly at Stanford University. His former advisees include the founders of the unicorn startups Instagram and Instabase.
Klemmer has researched Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)s, and peer learning and feedback, design thinking, prototyping, iterative design, research ethics and methods, crowdsourcing, and coordination, among other things. He leads the Interaction Design specialization on Coursera.
Education
Klemmer attended Brown University from 1995-1999, and received undergraduate degrees in Art-semiotics and Computer Science. He went on to pursue art and graphic design, and worked in Palo Alto, CA at Interval Research Lab.
He attended the University of California Berkeley, where he received a Masters and completed his PhD in 2004.
Awards and honors
Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize
Sloan Research Fellowship
National Science Foundation Career award
Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship
Editorial board for the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Previous program co-chair for UIST, the CHI systems area, and HCIC
References
External links
Postcards from the future Scott Klemmer at TEDxSanDiego, 2016.
Higher Learning via Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). University of California Television.
Scott Klemmer. Interviewing: Human-Computer Interaction. Daily Motion.
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Human–computer interaction researchers
Brown University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpEther | ExpEther is a System Hardware Virtualization Technology that expands standard PCI Express beyond 1 km having thousands of roots and endpoint devices together on a single network connected through the standard Ethernet. Abundant commodities of PCI Express-based software and hardware can be utilized without any modification. It also provides software-defined re-configurability to make a disaggregated computing system with device-level.
Overview
ExpEther enables a unique "PCI Express switch over Ethernet" architecture that distributes functional blocks of a PCI Express switch over Ethernet, maintaining a logical equivalency with the standard PCI Express switch.
By leveraging Ethernet connectivity, ExpEther can expand the number of port-count to more than 1000, and the working distances to over 1000m. Ethernet is transparent to the OSes, driver, software, thus ExpEther can work with enormous commodity standard OS, drivers, PCIe devices, Ethernet switches without any modification.
It can also control the logical connection of PCI Express among a root and endpoint devices remotely by a management software. I/O devices can be attached/detached with software-defined manner with following PCI Express standard Hot-Plug sequence.
By adding PCI Express device with a certain function, the computing system can be scale-up for the function required for the user application run on the system.
From the data communication point of view, ExpEther realizes reliable communication over standard Ethernet with original congestion control and multi-path communication mechanism. Then DMA (Direct Memory Access) can be directly executed over Ethernet. It can transfer a large amount of data with low latency and high throughput without software stacks of TCP/IP.
Specification
The following implementation forms are provided as products.
History
ExpEther was firstly announced in December 2006 by a research and development group of NEC as a computer scale-up technology that virtualizes PCI Express over Ethernet.
In November 2008, the ExpEther Consortium has been established aiming at promotional activities to expand the market of ExpEther for both academic and industrial area, bringing researchers, developers, resellers of computing system software, device, chip together. (Chair: Professor Hideharu Amano of Keio University. Member: 26 organizations are participated (as of July 2017).)
In December 2008, one of the implementation of the ExpEther technology as a PCI Add-In card was passed the PCI-SIG (PCI Express standardizing body) compliant test and interoperability tests, and then posted on the integrator’s list.
After that Iventure (acquired by Synopsy) released an evaluation kit.
In 2009, Nethra Imaging announced an ASIC development of Expether.
In 2009, the QCN method proposed by Professor Balaji Prabhakar of Stanford University for standardization of IEEE 802.1Qau was proved by the experiment using the ExpEther card.
In 2009, interview articles on ExpEther were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Operations%20Command%20%28Italy%29 | The Network Operations Command (, COR) is an Italian cyberwarfare Joint military unit. Until its merger with the Comando C4 Difesa in 2020, it was called Joint Cybernetic Operations Command (, CIOC)
History
The project of an Italian cyber command, modelled on the United States Cyber Command was envisaged in the 2015 Defence White Paper. The Joint Cybernetic Operations Command, established on 30 September 2017, is intended to achieve initial operational capability by the end of 2018 and full operational capability by 2019. In 2020 CIOC was merged with Comando C4 Difesa and redenominated COR.
Tasks
The Network Operations Command has tasks in the areas of information security, computer network operations, cyber warfare and cyber security. It is designed to be a force provider.
According to the former CIOC Commander, Air Force Brigadier General Francesco Vestito, the Command has two operational focus: cyber-defence and cyber network-defence. The cyber defence is related to the static defence and protection of the network, carried out in cooperation with the rest Italian military, in order to ensure the integrity of the network and the availability of the data flows. The cyber network-defence is related to the ability to carry out the vulnerability assessment and penetration test, in order to provide a quick intervention.
Cooperation
The Network Operations Command supports and protects military operations, conducts offensive operations, and functions as a coordinating body between the Italian Armed Forces and other Italian cyber security institutions.
According to Defence Undersecretary Gioacchino Alfano, the Command is intended to operate mainly in joint, inter-agency and NATO contexts, as well as in coordination with university and economic worlds.
With regard to the domestic cyber security organization, the Department of Information Security has the leadership, via the Deputy Director responsible for cyber security; the operational arms are the Joint Cybernetic Operations Command and the State Police CNAIPIC (Centro Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture Critiche, Critical Facilities Anti-Informatic Crime Protection Centre), as well as the national CERT. Some other Ministries are linked to the national CERT through their own cyber infrastructures.
Organization
The Command is directly dependent on the Chief of the Defence Staff of the Italian Armed Forces; in particular, it depends on the Deputy Commander for Operations.
The Network Operations Command is currently organized as follows:
Command (Comando)
Administrative Office (Ufficio Amministrazione)
Prevention and Protection Service (Servizio Prevenzione e Protezione)
C4 Unit (Reparto C4), controls the Italian Defense Communication Network (DIFENET) and provides technical, logistical and configuration support to the Italian Joint C4 structure as a whole. It is organized on:
Networks and Data Center Office (Ufficio Reti e Data Center)
Centralized Systems an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teknomo%E2%80%93Fernandez%20algorithm | The Teknomo–Fernandez algorithm (TF algorithm), is an efficient algorithm for generating the background image of a given video sequence.
By assuming that the background image is shown in the majority of the video, the algorithm is able to generate a good background image of a video in -time using only a small number of binary operations and Boolean bit operations, which require a small amount of memory and has built-in operators found in many programming languages such as C, C++, and Java.
History
People tracking from videos usually involves some form of background subtraction to segment foreground from background. Once foreground images are extracted, then desired algorithms (such as those for motion tracking, object tracking, and facial recognition) may be executed using these images.
However, background subtraction requires that the background image is already available and unfortunately, this is not always the case. Traditionally, the background image is searched for manually or automatically from the video images when there are no objects. More recently, automatic background generation through object detection, medial filtering, medoid filtering, approximated median filtering, linear predictive filter, non-parametric model, Kalman filter, and adaptive smoothening have been suggested; however, most of these methods have high computational complexity and are resource-intensive.
The Teknomo–Fernandez algorithm is also an automatic background generation algorithm. Its advantage, however, is its computational speed of only -time, depending on the resolution of an image and its accuracy gained within a manageable number of frames. Only at least three frames from a video is needed to produce the background image assuming that for every pixel position, the background occurs in the majority of the videos. Furthermore, it can be performed for both grayscale and colored videos.
Assumptions
The camera is stationary.
The light of the environment changes only slowly relative to the motions of the people in the scene.
The number of people does not occupy the scene for the most of the time at the same place.
Generally, however, the algorithm will certainly work whenever the following single important assumption holds: For each pixel position, the majority of the pixel values in the entire video contain the pixel value of the actual background image (at that position).As long as each part of the background is shown in the majority of the video, the entire background image needs not to appear in any of its frames. The algorithm is expected to work accurately.
Background image generation
Equations
For three frames of image sequence , , and , the background image is obtained using
The Boolean mode function of the table occurs when the number of 1 entries is larger than half of the number of images such that
For three images, the background image can be taken as the value
Background generation algorithm
At the first level, three fra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langley%2C%20Queensland | Langley is a rural locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.
There is no census data for Langley; it is included with neighbouring Tellebang which had a combined population of 60 in the .
Geography
The Burnett River bounds the locality to the south and east.
The Burnett Highway enters the locality from the north (Tellebang) and exits to the south-west (Abercorn). Splinter Creek runs roughly parallel and east of the highway, both entering from Tellebang and exiting to Abercorn.
Gin Gin–Mount Perry–Monto Road runs through from south-east to north.
The terrain ranges from above sea level. The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation with a small amount of irrigated crop growing near the creek and river.
History
Langley Flat Provisional School opened in 1927, becoming Langley Flat State School in 1927. It closed temporarily on two occasions before finally closing in 1947. It was on the corner of the Burnett Highway and Cooks Road () with Splinter Creek to the east.
Education
There are no schools in Langley. The nearest primary school is Abercorn State School in neighbouring Abercorn to the south-west. The nearest secondary schools are Eidsvold State School in Eidsvold to the south and Monto State High School in Monto to the north.
Amenities
There is a camping reserve on the Burnett Highway ().
References
North Burnett Region
Localities in Queensland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Cyberspace%20Command | The Joint Cyberspace Command (MCCE), known until 2020 as Joint Cyber-Defence Command (MCCD), is a Spanish cyberspace service of the Defence Staff responsible for planning and carrying out the actions related to cyber defence in networks and information and telecommunications systems of the Ministry of Defense or others that might be entrusted, as well as contributing to the adequate response in cyberspace to threats or aggressions that may affect to the National Defense.
In this sense, the MCCD directs and coordinates, in the matter of cyber defense, the activity of the centers of response to incidents of security of the information of the different branches of the Armed Forces; it exercises the timely, legitimate and proportionate response in cyberspace to threats or aggressions that may affect the National Defense and defines, directs and coordinates awareness, training and specialized training in this area. In addition, he is responsible for the development and detail of the Information Security policies in the Information and Telecommunications Systems (SEGINFOSIT) and the direction of execution and control of compliance with these policies, within the scope of the Ministry of Defense.
The MCCD was created on February 19, 2013 by a Defence Ministry Order 10/2013, by which the Joint Cyber-Defence Command is created. In 2020, it was renamed Joint Cyberspace Command. The current Chief Commander of the MCCD is divisional general Rafael García Hernández.
Functions
The functions of the Joint Cyberspace Command are:
Ensure free access to cyberspace, in order to fulfill the missions and tasks assigned to the Armed Forces, through the development and use of the necessary resources and procedures.
Guarantee the availability, integrity and confidentiality of the information, as well as the integrity and availability of the networks and systems that manage and have it commissioned.
Guarantee the operation of the critical services of the Armed Forces' information and telecommunications systems in a degraded environment due to incidents, accidents or attacks.
Obtain, analyze and exploit information on cyber attacks and incidents in networks and systems of their responsibility.
Exercise the timely, legitimate and proportionate response in cyberspace to threats or aggressions that may affect the Defence of Spain.
To direct and coordinate, in the matter of Cyberdefence, the activity of the centers of response to incidents of security of the information of the Armed Force and the one of operations of security of the information of the Ministry of Defence.
To exercise the representation of the Ministry of Defence in the matter of military cyber defence in the national and international sphere.
Cooperate, in the area of cyber-defence, with the national centers for response to information security incidents, in accordance with the Spanish cybersecurity strategies and policies in force, as well as with other military centers to respond to security infor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citymapper | Citymapper is a public transit app and mapping service which displays transport options, usually with live timing, between any two locations in a supported city. It integrates data for all urban modes of transport, including walking, cycling and driving, in addition to public transport. It is free of charge to users, and is supported by a mobile app on devices such as mobile phones, and by an Internet website.
The underlying data is pulled from a variety of sources, including open data (usually GTFS-files provided by transport authorities) and local transit authorities. Some data is user-generated or collected by local employed personnel.
Citymapper started in 2011 in London. Its second city was New York. In August 2020 travel in 58 cities and metropolitan areas was covered. Citymapper was founded by Azmat Yusuf, a former Google employee, who also serves as Citymapper's CEO.
In December 2019 the app added a feature which allows users to choose between a "fast" route or "main roads" which avoid dimly-lit areas.
As of 2023, the company provides its services to more than 50 million users across 100 cities.
Other services
In September 2017, Citymapper launched a night bus service in the East End of London.
The service in various iterations was called Smartbus, SmartRide, and Ride.
The service used eight-passenger vans, as London's transit authority, Transport for London, did not allow Citymapper to operate full-size buses.
Citymapper discontinued this service in July 2019.
In February 2019, Citymapper launched Pass, a weekly subscription that gave users access to some forms of public transit in London, at lower cost than other weekly passes.
Corporate finances
In 2019, Citymapper earned £5.8 million in revenue but had net losses in excess of £9 million.
As of May 2021, Citymapper has raised £45 million in venture capital funding. In May 2021, the company launched a crowdfunding campaign targeted at retail investors. The company plans to use the funds to expand services into additional cities.
In March 2023, Citymapper was acquired by Via Transportation for undisclosed terms.
See also
Transit (app)
Moovit
References
External links
Citymapper website
Mobile route-planning software
Transport organisations based in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberabad%20Metropolitan%20Police | Cyberabad Metropolitan Police, popularly known as Cyberabad Police, is the police commissionerate located in Gachibowli, Rangareddy district, Telangana, India. It was created in 2003 by bifurcating Rangareddy District Police.
Current structure
Currently the Cyberabad Metropolitan Police has 5 DCP zones.
Rajendranagar DCP Zone (New)
Chevella ACP Division
Chevella Police Station
Shabad Police Station
Moinabad Police Station
Rajendranagar ACP Division
Rajendranagar Police Station
Mailardevpally Police Station
Attapur Police Station (New)
Narsingi ACP Division (New)
Shankarpally Police Station
Narsingi Police Station
Mokila Police Station (New)
Madhapur DCP Zone
Madhapur ACP Division
Madhapur Police Station
Raidurgam Police Station
Gachibowli Police Station
Women Police Station
Miyapur ACP Division
Chandanagar Police Station
Miyapur Police Station
RC Puram Police Station
Kolluru Police Station (New)
Balanagar DCP Zone
Balanagar ACP Division
Balanagar Police Station
Sanath nagar Police Station
Jeedimetla Police Station
Jagadgirigutta Police Station
Kukatpally ACP Division
Kukatpally Police Station
KPHB Colony Police Station
Bachupally Police Station
Allapur (New)
Medchal DCP Zone (New)
Medchal ACP Division (New)
Medchal Police Station
Dundigal Police Station
Suraram Police Station (New)
Pet-basheerabad ACP Division
Pet-basheerabad Police Station
Shamirpet Police Station
Alwal Police Station
Genome Valley Police Station (New)
Shamshabad DCP Zone
Shamshabad ACP Division
Shamshabad Police Station
RGI Airport Police Station
Kothur Police Station
Nandigama Police Station
Shadnagar ACP Division
Shadnagar Police Station
Shadnagar Rural Circle
Keshampet Police Station
Kondurg Police Station
Chowdariguda Police Station
Amangal Circle
Amangal Police Station
Talakondapally Police Station
Kadthal Police Station
Traffic wing
Rajendranagar Division
Chevella Traffic Police Station
Rajendranagar Traffic Police Station
Narsingi Traffic Police Station (New)
Balanagar Division
Balanagar Traffic Police Station
Jeedimetla Traffic Police Station
Kukatpally Traffic Police Station
KPHB Traffic Police Station (New)
Madhapur Division
Madhapur Traffic Police Station
Miyapur Traffic Police Station
Gachibowli Traffic Police Station
Raidurgam Traffic Police Station (New)
Shamshabad Division
Shamshabad Traffic Police Station
Shadnagar Traffic Police Station
Medchal Division
Medchal Traffic Police Station (New)
Alwal Traffic Police Station
Police Commissioners
1. Mahendar Reddy, IPS. (2003-2006 Dec)
2. Prabhakar Reddy, IPS. (2007 Jan - 2010 Dec)
3. Tirumala rao, IPS. (2011 Jan - 2013 May)
4. C.V Anand, IPS. (2013 May 2016 Jun)
5. Naveen Chand, IPS.
6. Sandeep sandilya, IPS.
7. V.C Sajjanar, IPS
8. Stephen Ravindra, IPS*.
Controversies
Cyberabad Police drew a lot of flak after the Supreme Court of India Enquiry Commission headed by Justice V. S. Sirpurkar declared that the encounter killing of the four accused persons in the 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream%20Market | Dream Market was an online darknet market founded in late 2013. Dream Market operated on a hidden service of the Tor network, allowing online users to browse anonymously and securely while avoiding potential monitoring of traffic. The marketplace sold a variety of content, including drugs, stolen data, and counterfeit consumer goods, all using cryptocurrency. Dream provided an escrow service, with disputes handled by staff. The market also had accompanying forums, hosted on a different URL, where buyers, vendors, and other members of the community could interact. It is one of the longest running darknet markets.
Administrator and prolific vendor Gal Vallerius was arrested in August 2017. The site shut down on April 30, 2019.
History
Following the seizures and shutdowns of the AlphaBay and Hansa markets in July 2017 as part of Operation Bayonet, there was much speculation that Dream Market would become the predominant darknet marketplace. Formerly, Dream Market had been considered the second-largest darknet marketplace, with AlphaBay being the largest and Hansa the third-largest. Many vendors and buyers from AlphaBay and Hansa communities registered on Dream Market in the aftermath of Operation Bayonet. Rumors at the time suggested that Dream Market was under law enforcement control.
At the time, Dream Market was reported to have "57,000 listings for drugs and 4,000 listings for opioids".
Dream Market administrator and prolific vendor Gal Vallerius was arrested in August 2017, after a border search of his laptop confirmed his identity as online drug dealer OxyMonster. The equivalent of US$500,000 in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin was also discovered on this device. Vallerius is the subject of an ongoing investigation regarding large online narcotics purchases which began in February 2016.
On March 24, 2019, a banner was added to the Dream Market site announcing its shutdown on April 30, 2019, with the addition that it "is transferring its services to a partner company" followed by an .onion link. Some users believe this to be the owner's reaction to ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks while others doubt the credibility of the message and suspect a connection to law enforcement, scammers or competing marketplaces.
Security issues
Shortly after the recent seizures of other markets, the accounts of a number of Dream Market vendors came under the control of Dutch law enforcement. Since no official statement has been released by Dutch authorities regarding this matter, it is unclear how these accounts were compromised, though some researchers suggest that shared credentials are to blame.
On September 13, 2017, Dream users reported the loss of funds from their accounts in posts to forums such as Reddit. In a post to the market's news page, staff later confirmed that a hard drive loss caused the issue and promised to refund the lost funds.
References
See also
Retail companies established in 2013
Internet properties established in 2013
D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vricon | Vricon was an American geospatial-intelligence data and software provider. It was a joint venture between Saab and DigitalGlobe and was headquartered in McLean, Virginia.
Vricon's 3D geo-data and 3D visualization use stereophotogrammetry for visualization. The system used hundreds of images, typically from commercial satellite imagery.
Vricon used automated 3D image processing algorithms to produce high resolution 3D data for government and commercial clients.
On July 1, 2020, Vricon was acquired by Maxar Technologies for approximately $140 million USD.
References
American companies established in 2015
Geographic data and information companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15%20rating | 15 rating refers to a type of age-based content rating that applies to media entertainment, such as films, television shows and computer games. The following articles document the rating across a range of countries and mediums:
Classification organizations
Australian Classification Board (MA15+ and M)
British Board of Film Classification (15)
Common Sense Media (15+)
Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (C – 15 equivalent)
Dirección General de Radio, Televisión y Cinematografía (B-15)
Eirin (R15+)
Irish Film Classification Office (15 and 15A)
Korea Media Rating Board (15)
National Bureau of Classification (NBC) (15+)
Norwegian Media Authority (15)
Office of Film and Literature Classification (New Zealand) (R15)
Systems
Motion picture content rating system, a range of classification systems for films that commonly use the age 15 as part of its regulatory criteria
Television content rating system, a range of classification systems for television broadcasts that commonly use the age 15 as part of its regulatory criteria
Video game content rating system, a range of classification systems for video games that commonly use the age 15 as part of its regulatory criteria
Mobile software content rating system, a range of classification systems for mobile software that commonly use the age 15 as part of its regulatory criteria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Guard | Night Guard or night guard may refer to:
Night Guard, a television series on the Fox Crime network
"Night Guard", a song on Stan Rogers' 1981 album Northwest Passage
Model 325 Night Guard, a discontinued handgun; see Smith & Wesson Model 625
Night Guard, code name for a 1991 Croatian military operation; see Banija villages killings
A mouthguard worn at night |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christin%20Baker | Christin Marie Baker is an American producer, director, and screenwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. She is the founder and CEO of Tello Films, a streaming network, production, and distribution company of films and web series with a lesbian focus.
Early life and education
Baker is originally from Indiana but grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She attended Middle Tennessee State University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Television Production. In addition, Baker earned a Master's of Organizational Development and Management for Non-Profit Organizations from Springfield College.
Career
Baker was interested in broadcast journalism and held an internship at a local station, but after a spell on a movie set as an extra shifted toward film-based storytelling. She worked for Regency Productions in Los Angeles, before moving to a television credits position with the Writers Guild of America. She worked for the YMCA of the USA, overseeing the arts and humanities programs.
In 2007, Baker co-founded Tello Films as an open platform that supported filmmakers who made content for the lesbian community. The site moved to a premium subscription service in 2009 and Baker started producing and directing content for it.
Personal life
Baker married Deborah ("Deb") Mell, an American politician from Chicago, in 2011. They divorced in 2014.
Filmography
Film
Television
See also
List of female film and television directors
List of lesbian filmmakers
List of LGBT-related films directed by women
References
External links
21st-century American LGBT people
21st-century American women writers
Living people
American television producers
American television writers
American lesbian artists
American lesbian writers
American LGBT screenwriters
LGBT film producers
LGBT television producers
Lesbian screenwriters
American women television producers
American women television writers
Screenwriters from Tennessee
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Kruszewski | Paul Kruszewski (born 1967) is a Canadian AI technologist and serial entrepreneur known for his work in artificial intelligence and computer graphics. He is the founder and CEO of , an AI and computer vision software engineering company based in Montreal, Quebec. He has founded three AI startups, including , specializing in crowd simulation, NPC behaviours, and human pose estimation. His projects have gradually gotten more complex as he's moved from developing AI software capable of understanding many people doing simple tasks to fewer people engaged in more complex tasks to perfect knowledge of individual body language.
Academic life
Kruszewski completed his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Alberta. While attending U of A, he was president of the Computer Science Association. After graduating, he went on to obtain an MA and PhD in computer science from McGill University. For graduate school, Kruszewski received a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Science and Engineering scholarship in 1992. His PhD thesis on random binary trees suggested a method to produce realistic images of trees digitally. His work was inspired by The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants by Przemysław Prusinkiewicz. After completing his thesis, Kruszewski developed and commercialized the software, naming it the "Tree Druid."
Professional life
Work in industry
After obtaining his PhD, Kruszewski held various positions across North America, Europe, and Asia. During this time he developed the first cloud-based human simulator at My Virtual Model. He also developed both the PS2 and Xbox game engines at Behaviour Interactive.
Entrepreneurial initiatives
BioGraphic Technologies Inc.
Kruszewski founded BioGraphic Technologies (BGT) in 2000. BGT is best known for developing "AI.implant", a crowd simulation program. Working from his previous experience in video game development, Kruszewski focused BGT's vision on the film and gaming industries, collaborating with such companies as Lucas Films, Disney and Sony Computer Entertainment. Engenuity Technologies, now Presagis, a modeling and simulation software provider, saw the benefits of simulating large civilian crowds for training purposes, purchasing the company in 2005. Kruszewski became the CTO of Engenuity.
GripHeavyIndustries
In July 2007, Kruszewski founded GripHeavyIndustries, better known as Grip Entertainment, which created complex AI characters for a range of game developers, such as EA, Disney, and BioWare. The company is credited on such titles as Army of Two: The 40th Day and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
In 2011, the company experienced some controversy when gamers rallied against Grip's boss fights at the end of the game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Eidos Montreal had outsourced the development of the game's boss fights to Grip due to time constraints and the complex nature of the open-ended gameplay. Players felt that the fights were inflexible when compared with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard%20Public%20Library | Maynard Public Library is a public library at 77 Nason Street in Maynard, Massachusetts. The library is part of the Minuteman Library Network. The Maynard Public Library was founded in 1881. The library building at 77 Nason Street – formerly Roosevelt Elementary School (built in 1918) – was renovated and reopened as a library in 2006.
History
The original library location, opening day April 4, 1881, was inside the Acton Street School. Mary Reed was the first librarian. From 1885 to 1918 the library was a room inside the Riverside Cooperative Building, at the southwest corner of Nason and Summer Streets. From there, it moved on July 13, 1918 to a second floor space in the Naylor Block building, at the corner of Nason and Main Streets. Town of Maynard Annual Reports mention that in 1891 the collection had consisted of 3,416 books, and had reached 15,000 books by 1960. In 1960 there was a proposal for the Town of Maynard to build a town hall and adjoining library. The dedication ceremony for the library was July 29, 1962. Originally only on one floor, it occupied both floors of the building by 1974, totaling 6,000 square feet, with a collection size of approximately 30,000 items.
The library became a full member of the Minuteman Library Network in the summer of 1995. In 1999, under the direction of Library Trustees William Cullen, Elizabeth Binstock, and AnneMarie Lesniak-Betley and Director Stephen Weiner, a movement to build a new library facility began. In 2002 a grant of 2 million dollars was awarded to the Town by the state of Massachusetts, while the Friends of the Maynard Public Library secured 600,000 dollars in donations. The abandoned Roosevelt school on Nason Street was chosen as the new library site. The plan was to retain the entrances and brick walls of the school building, but construct an entirely new structure within the exterior shell. Construction began in September 2004 and was completed in May 2006. Total cost came to 5.7 million dollars. The new Maynard Public Library, three stories, 24,000 square feet, opened its doors on July 16, 2006.
Services and resources
The Library offers programs for children and adults, provides access to electronic resource collections, and has meeting rooms available for town organizations. Friends of the Maynard Public Library is a volunteer, non-profit organization that supports the library, its collections, and its services.
References
External links
Official library website
Maynard Public Library Youtube Channel
Public libraries in Massachusetts
Libraries in Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef%20Australia%20%28series%2010%29 | The tenth series of the Australian cooking game show MasterChef Australia premiered on 7 May 2018 on Network Ten. Judges Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston returned from the previous series, with Shannon Bennett as the contestants' mentor.
This series was won by Sashi Cheliah in the grand finale against Ben Borsht, on 31 July 2018.
Changes
This season introduced a change in the Mystery Box Challenge. The winner will be going straight into the Immunity Challenge, which means he/she will not be cooking in the invention test and will be safe from the Pressure Test on the following day.
Week 10 featured the remaining contestants competing for a special "10-Year Superpower" apron, which works similar to an immunity pin and a Power Apron but allows the bearer to withdraw during any stage of any individual challenge up to tasting.
Contestants
Top 24
The Top 24 were announced on 7–8 May 2018. Contestant Jo Kendray was a returning auditionee after two previous attempts to make it into the Top 24
Future appearances
Khanh Ong, Jess Liemantara, Reece Hignell, Brendan Pang and Sarah Clare appeared on Series 12. Sarah was eliminated on May 19, 2020, finishing 14th. Jess was eliminated on May 31, 2020, finishing 12th. Khanh was eliminated on June 14, 2020, finishing 9th. Brendan was eliminated on June 21, 2020, finishing 8th and Reece was eliminated on July 12, 2020, finishing 5th.
In Series 14 Aldo Ortado appeared for another chance to win the title, along with Sashi Cheliah who is competing to win the title for the second time. Sashi was eliminated on May 15, 2022, finishing 19th and Aldo was eliminated on June 26, 2022, finishing 8th.
In Series 15 Sashi appeared as a guest team captain for a service challenge.
Guest chefs
Elimination chart
Episodes and ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating during the series
– Lowest rating during the series
References
External links
MasterChef Australia
2018 Australian television seasons
2018 in Australian television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective%20linear%20programming | Multi-objective linear programming is a subarea of mathematical optimization. A multiple objective linear program (MOLP) is a linear program with more than one objective function. An MOLP is a special case of a vector linear program. Multi-objective linear programming is also a subarea of Multi-objective optimization.
Problem formulation
In mathematical terms, a MOLP can be written as:
where is an matrix, is a matrix, is an -dimensional vector with components in , is an -dimensional vector with components in , is an -dimensional vector with components in , is an -dimensional vector with components in
Solution concepts
A feasible point is called efficient if there is no feasible point with , , where denotes the component-wise ordering.
Often in the literature, the aim in multiple objective linear programming is to compute the set of all efficient extremal points..... There are also algorithms to determine the set of all maximal efficient faces. Based on these goals, the set of all efficient (extreme) points can seen to be the solution of MOLP. This type of solution concept is called decision set based. It is not compatible with an optimal solution of a linear program but rather parallels the set of all optimal solutions of a linear program (which is more difficult to determine).
Efficient points are frequently called efficient solutions. This term is misleading because a single efficient point can be already obtained by solving one linear program, such as the linear program with the same feasible set and the objective function being the sum of the objectives of MOLP.
More recent references consider outcome set based solution concepts and corresponding algorithms. Assume MOLP is bounded, i.e. there is some such that for all feasible . A solution of MOLP is defined to be a finite subset of efficient points that carries a sufficient amount of information in order to describe the upper image of MOLP. Denoting by the feasible set of MOLP, the upper image of MOLP is the set . A formal definition of a solution is as follows:
A finite set of efficient points is called solution to MOLP if
("conv" denotes the convex hull).
If MOLP is not bounded, a solution consists not only of points but of points and directions
Solution methods
Multiobjective variants of the simplex algorithm are used to compute decision set based solutions and objective set based solutions.
Objective set based solutions can be obtained by Benson's algorithm.
Related problem classes
Multiobjective linear programming is equivalent to polyhedral projection.
References
Linear programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%2C%20Our%20Mother%3A%20Her%20Life%20and%20Legacy | Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy is a 2017 documentary film broadcast in the United Kingdom by ITV on 24 July 2017 and the United States by HBO on 24 July 2017. It will also air on Seven Network in Australia, CBC in Canada, Three in New Zealand, NRK in Norway, YLE in Finland and TV2 in Denmark. It aired on 20 August 2017 on CBC News Network.
The documentary was one of two documentaries commissioned by Prince William and Prince Harry to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, and features interviews from the two princes, as well as the late princess' friends and family such as Sir Elton John and Charles Spencer. It includes previously unseen photographs, archival footage and home movies from Diana's childhood. The film focuses on the impact of Diana on her two sons and on numerous causes she was involved in her adult life such as AIDS, landmines, homelessness and cancer.
The documentary drew around seven million viewers in the UK – the most watched show television programme of the day in the United Kingdom and also the most watched factual of ITV since 2009.
Cast
Diana, the late Princess of Wales, née Spencer
Prince William, Prince of Wales
Prince Harry
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
Sir Elton John
Harry Herbert
Lady Carolyn Warren
William van Straubenzee
Gerard McGrath
Jayne Fincher
Anna Harvey
Victor, Lord Adebowale
Prof. Jerry White
Dr. Ken Rutherford
Graham Dillamore
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 90% based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 77 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
See also
Diana, 7 Days, the second 2017 documentary commissioned by the sons.
References
Documentary films about British royalty
British documentary films
Films set in the United Kingdom
Films set in the 20th century
2017 television films
2017 films
Films about Diana, Princess of Wales
2010s British films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature%20chaining | Temperature chaining can mean temperature, thermal or energy chaining or cascading.
Temperature chaining has been introduced as a new concept at Datacentre Transformation in Manchester by the company Asperitas as part of a vision on a Datacentre of the Future. It is a method of transforming electrical consumption in datacentres into usable heat. The concept is based on creating high temperature differences in a water based cooling circuit in a datacentre. The premise is that every system in a datacentre can be equipped with a shared water infrastructure which is divided into multiple stages with different temperatures. The different temperatures are achieved by setting up different liquid cooling technologies with different temperature tolerances in a serial cooling setup as opposed to a single parallel circuit. This creates high temperature differences with a low water volume. This results in a datacentre environment which is capable of supplying constant temperature water to a re-user, thus transforming the facility from an electrical energy consumer into a thermal energy producer.
History
Temperature or energy chaining is applied in heating systems where hydraulic designs allow for return loops and serial heaters.
The temperature chaining principle is also used in refrigeration systems which adopt cascading circuits.
The Amsterdam Economic Board has presented the 4th generation of district heating networks which will adopt thermal cascading to increase flexibility and to make the district networks future proof.
Within datacentres, the traditional approach towards the critical IT load is cooling. Temperature chaining works on the basic premise that the IT is a heating source. To harvest this heat, liquid cooling is used, which allows the application of hydraulic heating designs to the datacentre.
Liquid cooling infrastructure in datacentres
Introducing water into the datacentre whitespace is most beneficial within a purpose-built set-up. This means that the focus for the design of the datacentre must be on absorbing all the thermal energy with water. This calls for a hybrid environment in which different liquid based technologies are co-existing to allow for the full range of datacentre and platform services, regardless of the type of datacentre.
The adoption of liquid cooled IT in datacentres allows for more effective utilisation or reduction of the datacentre footprint. This means that an existing facility can be better utilised to allow for more IT.
The higher heat capacity of liquids allows for more dense IT environments and higher IT capacity. With most liquid technologies, the IT itself becomes more efficient. This is caused by the reduced or eliminated dependence on air handling within the IT chassis. Individual components are cooled more effectively and can therefore be used with higher amounts of energy and closer to each other. When liquid penetrates the IT space, internal fans are reduced or completely eliminated which save |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Braverman%20%28mathematician%29 | Mark Braverman (born 1984) is an Israeli mathematician and theoretical computer scientist.
He was awarded an EMS Prize in 2016 as well as Presburger Award in the same year. In 2019, he was awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award. In 2022 he won the IMU Abacus Medal.
He earned his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2008, under the supervision of Stephen Cook.
After this, he did post-doctoral research at Microsoft Research and then joined the faculty at University of Toronto.
In 2011, he joined the Princeton University department of computer science. In 2014 he was an Invited Speaker with talk Interactive information and coding theory at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul.
Braverman is the son of mathematician Elena Braverman and, through her, the grandson of his co-author, mathematical statistician .
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
Israeli mathematicians
University of Toronto alumni
Princeton University faculty
Nevanlinna Prize laureates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo%20Fan%20Network | The Nintendo Fan Network was an interactive software program created by Nintendo in 2007, that gives visitors to T-Mobile Park access to baseball game stats, video, and remote food ordering during Seattle Mariners games via their Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi, and later, Nintendo 3DS. It was created due to Nintendo's former ownership of the team.
The Fan Network initially required a $5 fee to access, with a $30 discounted rate for 10 baseball games. However, it became free in 2008. In 2009, the program was updated with additional ESPN news, columns, closed captioning for PA announcements, and a photo-matching game.
Upon the release of the Nintendo DSi, it was announced that the first 150 visitors to home games would receive a free DSi rental to try out the service. The program also became a permanent DSi application instead of being temporarily downloaded onto the system.
When food and drinks are ordered, progress can be viewed on the system.
The service is now defunct. In addition, the DSi application was removed from the DSi Shop with its discontinuation, and was removed from the Nintendo 3DS eShop at a unknown date.
References
Nintendo DSi
Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo DS software
2007 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Grefenstette | Gregory Grefenstette is a French and American researcher and professor in computer science, in particular artificial intelligence and natural language processing. , he is the chief scientific officer at Biggerpan, a company developing a predictive contextual engine for the mobile web. Grefenstette is also a senior associate researcher at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC).
Biography
Grefenstette was born in Pittsburgh in 1956. He started M.I.T. as an undergraduate and received his bachelor's degree at Stanford in 1978. He received a master's degree from Paris-Sud 1983 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1993. From 1984 to 1989, he was an assistant professor at the University of Tours.
Grefenstette's research primarily focuses on natural language processing. Following his PhD work on "Exploring Automatic Thesaurus Generation", he mostly addressed large-scale natural language processing problems and co-edited with Adam Kilgarriff a special issue of Computational Linguistics on using the Internet as a corpus for machine learning. Previous to his position at Biggerpan, Grefenstette was an Advanced Researcher at INRIA, the French national research institute in computer science, working on personal semantics. Prior to that, he was the chief science officer of Exalead, a search engine company, managing the OSEO QUAERO CMSE program on innovative multimedia indexing technologies. Grefenstette is also a former chief scientist at the Xerox Research Centre Europe (1993-2001), at Clairvoyance Corporation (2001-2004), and with the French CEA (2004-2008).
Grefenstette has received 20 US patents, mostly based on his work at Xerox. With his research team, he has received awards for his work on semantic maps and won a three-year grant from the Lagardere Foundation in 2007. He has also authored four books and has been part of several journal publications. Referenced in many natural language processing research papers, Grefenstette is especially known for his work on cross-language information retrieval and distributional semantics.
Selected works
Books
Major publications
Grefenstette, Gregory and Lawrence Muchemi. 2016. Determining the Characteristic Vocabulary for a Specialized Dictionary using Word2vec and a Directed Crawler, 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Grefenstette, Gregory. 2016. Extracting Weighted Language Lexicons from Wikipedia.
Awards
2010 ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge Bronze award
2009 ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge, most practical system award
2007 three-year grant by Lagardere Foundation for work on semantic maps
1978 ITT International Fellow to Belgium
References
Artificial intelligence researchers
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition people
1956 births
Living people
Natural language processing researchers
American computer scientists
French computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange%20to%20exchange | Exchange to exchange (sometimes Exchange-to-exchange, abbreviated E2E) is integration, between certain pairs of computer systems. To qualify as E2E, each of the paired systems must have a primary use of acting as an exchange, or gateway, among its own customers.
A common example is a connection between stock brokerage firms' internal systems and systems of a stock market in which the broker trades. These connections are often facilitated by middleware services, such as object request brokers.
Each E2E partner system has a primary function to its own clients of allowing them to transfer information or conduct other transactions, This is a form of the business to business (B2B) commerce model, as each E2E partner is a B2B gateway for its clients, and in turn exchanges information with at least one other B2B gateway. The connection between the two B2B systems (exchanges) is then an exchange to exchange integration.
E2E is an alternative to direct application to application integration (A2A), though some A2A can be classified as E2E.
References
Systems engineering
Systems analysis
Interoperability |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene%20text | Scene text is text that appears in an image captured by a camera in an outdoor environment. The detection and recognition of scene text from camera captured images are computer vision tasks which became important after smart phones with good cameras became ubiquitous. The text in scene images varies in shape, font, colour and position. The recognition of scene text is further complicated sometimes by non-uniform illumination and focus.
To improve scene text recognition, the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) conducts a robust reading competition once in two years. The competition was held in 2003, 2005 and during every ICDAR conference. International association for pattern recognition (IAPR) has created a list of datasets as Reading systems.
Text detection
Text detection is the process of detecting the text present in the image, followed by surrounding it with a rectangular bounding box. Text detection can be carried out using image based techniques or frequency based techniques.
In image based techniques, an image is segmented into multiple segments. Each segment is a connected component of pixels with similar characteristics. The statistical features of connected components are utilised to group them and form the text. Machine learning approaches such as support vector machine and convolutional neural networks are used to classify the components into text and non-text.
In frequency based techniques, discrete Fourier transform (DFT) or discrete wavelet transform (DWT) are used to extract the high frequency coefficients. It is assumed that the text present in an image has high frequency components and selecting only the high frequency coefficients filters the text from the non-text regions in an image.
Word recognition
In word recognition, the text is assumed to be already detected and located and the rectangular bounding box containing the text is available. The word present in the bounding box needs to be recognized. The methods available to perform word recognition can be broadly classified into top-down and bottom-up approaches.
In the top-down approaches, a set of words from a dictionary is used to identify which word suits the given image. Images are not segmented in most of these methods. Hence, the top-down approach is sometimes referred as segmentation free recognition.
In the bottom-up approaches, the image is segmented into multiple components and the segmented image is passed through a recognition engine. Either an off the shelf Optical character recognition (OCR) engine or a custom-trained one is used to recognise the text.
References
Computer vision
Image processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Walsh | Sophie Walsh (born 24 October 1985) is an Australian television news presenter journalist.
Walsh is currently based at the Nine Network, where is a presenter and reporter for Nine News and a news presenter on breakfast program Weekend Today
Career
Early in her career Walsh worked as a news reporter and head of newsroom at WIN Television in Bundaberg, where she helped launch a new news bulletin in the Wide Bay area.
In October 2009, she joined the Nine Network in Sydney, where she became a reporter for Nine News, and a fill-in presenter on the network's national bulletins. She also presented newsbursts on Nine's sister channel, 9Go!, in 2010.
In September 2011, she moved to the Brisbane newsroom, which had just been rocked by the sacking of two reporters for their roles in a faked live helicopter cross during a nightly bulletin the previous month. One of the stories she covered was the deportation of four Italian girls from Brisbane to their father's home in Florence, Italy. She also received a Clarion Award nomination for her DMAA investigation into an amphetamine-type chemical used in sports supplements, which resulted in a blanket ban on all products by the Therapeutic Goods Administration on Australian shelves. In addition to her reporting duties, she became the weekend weather presenter in 2014, replacing Davina Smith, and occasionally filled in as weekend news presenter.
In July 2016, after filling in for Alison Ariotti as the weekend co-presenter of Nine News Queensland in the first half of the year whilst she was on maternity leave, Walsh returned to the Sydney newsroom, retaining her roles as a reporter and fill-in weather presenter.
During her time in Sydney, she presented other national bulletins, and has also appeared on the Today and Weekend Today as a reporter and fill-in news presenter. She was also a fill-in presenter on Nine News Sydney. Walsh presented Nine News Sydney on Christmas Day, 2018.
In June 2019, Walsh was appointed European correspondent for Nine News, replacing Michael Best who returned to Australia to become News Director on Nine News Perth. In June 2020, while covering the George Floyd protests in the United Kingdom, Walsh was in the middle of a live cross to Brenton Ragless on Nine's Adelaide evening news bulletin when she was attacked by a bystander on-camera (the attack itself was not seen on air). She was unharmed from the incident.
Walsh returned to Sydney in October 2020, with Carrie-Anne Greenbank replacing her as European correspondent.
In April 2023, Walsh was appointed as news presenter on Weekend Today.
References
Australian reporters and correspondents
Australian television journalists
Living people
Nine News presenters
1985 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TF%20algorithm | TF algorithm may refer to:
Teknomo–Fernandez algorithm, an algorithm for generating the background image of a given video sequence
TensorFlow, an open-source software library for machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12%20rating | 12 rating refers to a type of age-based content rating that applies to media entertainment, such as films, television shows and computer games. The following articles document the rating across a range of countries and mediums:
Classification organizations
Brazilian advisory rating system (12)
British Board of Film Classification (12 and 12A)
Central Board of Film Certification (UA – 12 equivalent)
Common Sense Media (12+)
Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (B – 12 equivalent)
Dirección General de Radio, Televisión y Cinematografía (B – 12 equivalent)
Eirin (PG-12)
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (12)
Irish Film Classification Office (12 and 12A)
Korea Media Rating Board (12)
National Audiovisual Institute (Finland) (12)
National Bureau of Classification (NBC) (12+)
Netherlands Institute for the Classification of Audiovisual Media (12)
Norwegian Media Authority (12)
Pan European Game Information (12)
Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (12)
General Commission for Audiovisual Media (Saudi Arabia) (12+)
Systems
Motion picture content rating system, a range of classification systems for films that commonly use the age 12 as part of its regulatory criteria
Television content rating system, a range of classification systems for television broadcasts that commonly use the age 12 as part of its regulatory criteria
Video game content rating system, a range of classification systems for video games that commonly use the age 12 as part of its regulatory criteria
Mobile software content rating system, a range of classification systems for mobile software that commonly use the age 12 as part of its regulatory criteria
See also
12A (disambiguation)
History of British film certificates (PG-12)
Censorship in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELeague%20CS%3AGO%20Premier | ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier was the fourth season of ELEAGUE that started on September 1, 2017, and ended on October 13, 2017. It was broadcast on the U.S cable network TBS. The season featured 16 teams from across the world competing in a season, which included a regular season and a playoffs. The broadcast were simultaneously available on the online streaming service Twitch and YouTube Gaming, but when on television, a limited broadcast would appear on Twitch and YouTube.
The season kicked off with FaZe Clan defeating Renegades in Group A and the first televised match of the season featured FaZe Clan defeating Natus Vincere. The season concluded with FaZe Clan defeating Astralis in the finals 2–0 as FaZe dropped zero games throughout the whole tournament.
Format
The format reflected that of ELEAGUE Season 2. A total of 16 teams will compete in the tournament. 12 teams will be invited and a four teams, two from the Americas qualifier and two from the Europe qualifier, will have to qualify for the tournament.
The 12 teams will be invited based on their past performances from the previous ELEAGUE seasons. Each closed qualifier will be played online and will be held from August 26, 2017, to August 27, 2017. One team, OpTic Gaming, would later have its invite taken away due to violation of ELEAGUE rules after roster changes.
The group stage featured four groups, making four teams per group. Teams will play in a double elimination group stage. The highest seed in the group will play against the lowest seed and the other two teams will play against each other in best of one games. The two winners and two losers will then play against each other. The winners match was a best of one and the loser's match was a best of three. The winner of the winners match will move on to the Playoffs and the loser of the winners match will play a third match against the winner of the losers match. The loser of the losers match is eliminated from the tournament. The last two teams in the group will play in a best of three; the winner of the match will get a spot in the Playoffs and the loser will head home. The top two teams in each group will advance to the Playoffs.
The Playoffs will consist of the eight teams. Teams will play in a single elimination, best of three bracket and will keep playing until a winner is decided. Each group winner will face off against a group runner-up in the quarterfinals. In addition, each team will not face another team from the same group until the finals if it ever reaches that point.
Qualifiers
A maximum of 512 teams each competed in the European and Americas qualifiers. Both qualifiers took place online and were completed within two days. Shown below are the top 16 teams of each qualifier, with two from the European qualifier and three from the Americas qualifier moving on. Teams played in a single elimination bracket.
European Qualifier
Americas Qualifier
Teams Competing
Eleven invited teams from will be joined by five other teams, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXGL | DXGL (88.7 FM), broadcasting as 88.7 Real Radio, is a radio station owned and operated by PEC Broadcasting Corporation. It serves as the flagship station of Real Radio network. The station's studio is located at PECBC Broadcast Center, Capitol-Bonbon Rd., Imadejas Subdivision, Butuan.
References
Radio stations in Butuan
Radio stations established in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXKA | 90.1 Power Radio (DXKA 90.1 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Kaissar Broadcasting Network. The station's studio is located along Ochoa St., Brgy. Limaha, Butuan.
The station first went on air on January 31, 2014, as KA90 with a Soft AC format. At that time, its studios were located along Jose C. Aquino Ave. near the Police Regional Office XIII Headquarters. It went off the air sometime around late 2016. In January 2019, it went back on air, this time airing a mix of music, news and talk. In August 2020, it rebranded as Radyo Kaibigan.
References
External links
Power Radio Butuan FB Page
Radio stations in Butuan
Radio stations established in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXMK | DXMK (97.5 FM), broadcasting as 97.5 Magik FM, is a radio station owned and operated by Century Broadcasting Network. The station's studio is located at the 5th floor, D&V Plaza Bldg., Jose C. Aquino Ave., Butuan.
References
Radio stations in Butuan
Radio stations established in 1984 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDDS | MDDS may refer to:
MDDS (document), an official Indian document of common metadata standards regarding e-governance
Mal de debarquement (MdDS), a rare neurological condition
Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, a group of autosomal recessive disorders
See also
MDD (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YooHoo%20to%20the%20Rescue | YooHoo to the Rescue is a computer animated children's television series produced by Aurora World and Mondo TV. It is the third TV series based on the YooHoo & Friends franchise, and serves as a revival of the franchise. The show is the first Netflix original series for children from South Korea.
In a series of magical missions, quick-witted YooHoo and his can-do crew travel the globe to help animals in need. It was released March 15, 2019 on Netflix.
Plot
YooHoo to the Rescue follows the adventures of five animal friends who live in the magical land of YooTopia, a land far outside the Milky Way. In each episode, they travel to a new destination to help animals in trouble and make new friends along the way. When there is a problem on YooTopia, the colorful fruits of the Sparkling Tree begin to fade. The friends get their special gadgets and board their ship Wonderbug, a ladybug-like aircraft. They use wit, teamwork, and special gadgets to solve problems and help animals in need. Over the course of their adventures, they learn fun facts about a wide variety of environments and make friends with animals.
Characters
YooHoo (voiced by Kira Buckland; John Hasler in the UK dub) is a male cream-and-gray Senegal bushbaby. He is the captain of the crew.
Pammee (voiced by Ryan Bartley; Jenny Bryce in the UK dub) is a female pink and white fennec fox. She is the navigator.
Lemmee (voiced by Bryce Papenbrook; David Holt in the UK dub) is a male gray ring-tailed lemur. He is the doctor.
Chewoo (voiced by Cassandra Lee Morris; Harriet Kershaw in the UK dub) is a female red squirrel. She is the photographer.
Roodee (voiced by Lucien Dodge; Steven Kynman in the UK dub) is a male blond capuchin monkey. He is the inventor.
Slo (voiced by Kyle Hebert; David Rintoul in the UK dub) is a male sloth. He is the caretaker of the Sparkling Tree.
Lora (voiced by Erica Mendez; Tamsin Heatley in the UK dub) is a female scarlet macaw. She is YooTopia's messenger.
Production
YooHoo to the Rescue is produced by Aurora World in South Korea and Mondo TV in Italy. Unlike the previous TV series based on the YooHoo & Friends toy franchise, this series is computer animated. The series is recorded at Bang Zoom! Studios.
A British dub by VSI Studios was produced and released to Netflix.
Episodes
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2019)
Season 3 (2020)
Release
YooHoo to the Rescue was released on March 15, 2019, on Netflix with the first 26 episodes.
Media information
Mondo TV secured a global licensing and merchandising deal with Panini that will market a line of products that include stickers, trading cards and photocards, set to launch in early 2018.
References
External links
YooHoo to the Rescue on Mondo TV Iberoamerica
YooHoo to the Rescue on Netflix
2010s South Korean animated television series
Italian children's animated adventure television series
Italian children's animated comedy television series
Italian children's animated fantasy television series
South Kor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICEM%20Surf | ICEM Surf is a computer-aided industrial design (a.k.a. CAID) software used for creating 3D digital surfaces for automotive design and industrial design. This software is used to create class A surfaces using the Bézier surface modeling method. ICEMSurf was later purchased by Dassault Systemes. Its similar rival is Autodesk Alias.
History
ICEM Surf, originally known as VW Surf, was developed by Volkswagen in the 1980s for advanced 3D surface modelling class A surfaces, visualization and analysis for use in the vehicle body development process.
Later, VW Surf was made commercially available to other automotive companies and was renamed as ICEM Surf and a joint venture company ICEM Technologies was floated to market and support the software. Later in the mid 1990s post Europe success, the division was spun off and became part of Control Data Systems, Inc. whose first CAD/CAM product was released way back in 1978. For a brief period, ICEM Technologies was part of PTC and again was a standalone company. Since 2007 ICEM Surf is part of Dassault Systemes.
Products
ICEM Surf Professional – The premier module for developing class A surfaces using free form methods
ICEM Surf Master
ICEM Surf Magic
ICEM Surf Realtime – Offers rendering tools for designer to generate a photo-realistic representation of the CAD model.
ICEM Surf Scan Modelling – Extra tools to generate model from point clouds or facet data.
ICEM Surf Advanced Tools – more advanced industry specific tools to create accelerated Surfaces, Advanced filleting, Gaps, and advanced analysis tools.
ICEM Surf Safety Analysis – Developed for safety and legislation studies during design to detect edges and corners on a 3D model that may cause injuries.
References
External links
Computer-aided design software
Computer-aided industrial design
3D computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure%20Data%20Lake | Azure Data Lake is a scalable data storage and analytics service. The service is hosted in Azure, Microsoft's public cloud.
History
Azure Data Lake service was released on November 16, 2016. It is based on COSMOS, which is used to store and process data for applications such as Azure, AdCenter, Bing, MSN, Skype and Windows Live. COSMOS features a SQL-like query engine called SCOPE upon which U-SQL was built.
Azure Data Lake Store
Users can store structured, semi-structured or unstructured data produced from applications including social networks, relational data, sensors, videos, web apps, mobile or desktop devices. A single Azure Data Lake Store account can store trillions of files where a single file can be greater than a petabyte in size.
Azure Data Lake Analytics
Azure Data Lake Analytics is a parallel on-demand job service. The parallel processing system is based on Microsoft Dryad. Dryad can represent arbitrary Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) of computation. Data Lake Analytics provides a distributed infrastructure that can dynamically allocate or de-allocate resources so customers pay for only the services they use.
Azure Data Lake Analytics uses Apache YARN, the part of Apache Hadoop which governs resource management across clusters. Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store supports any application that uses the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) interface.
U-SQL
Using Data Lake Analytics, users can develop and run parallel data transformation and processing programs in U-SQL, a query language that combines SQL with C#. U-SQL was designed as an evolution of the declarative SQL language with native extensibility through the user code written in C#. U-SQL uses C# data types and the C# expression language.
See also
Data lake
References
External links
Data Lake on Microsoft Azure
Cloud computing
Cloud computing providers
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud platforms
Microsoft cloud services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh%20Abeywickrama | Dinesh Abeywickrama (born January 1, 1983) is a Sri Lankan IT strategist, researcher and author. He is a Member of British Computer Society and currently working as an executive officer at the Capital Maharaja Organization.
Early life and family
Born to a middle-class family in the suburbs of Colombo he received his school education at Bandaranayake College, Gampaha. Dinesh's father, Sunil Abeywickrama, was a government clerk, while his mother Mala Abeywickrama was a grade one officer at Sri Lanka Insurance.
Education
Dinesh is a degree holder from the British Computer Society, holds a Master's in Business Management from the Cardiff Metropolitan University. Then he is doing his Ph.D. in Business Management from Management and Science University, Malaysia.
Research
Dinesh Abeywickrama has made many contributions to the ICT field, publishing several scientific papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals, some of which are archived at Oxford University Press.
His Green Banking research was awarded at the International Multidisciplinary Research Conference 2016.
Research articles
Controversial Calligraphies
Mobile apps
Dinesh has created 02 mobile applications.
Laksara online radio app
U-report citizen journalism mobile app
References
1983 births
Living people
Sinhalese academics
People from Gampaha District
Sri Lankan computer scientists
People from Colombo
Sri Lankan business executives
Sri Lankan male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSTS%20%28disambiguation%29 | WSTS is an American radio station broadcasting a southern gospel format.
WSTS may also stand for:
Well-structured transition system in computer science.
Wyoming State Training School, former facility of Wyoming Department of Health
See also
WST (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppLocker | AppLocker is an application whitelisting technology introduced with Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. It allows restricting which programs users can execute based on the program's path, publisher, or hash, and in an enterprise can be configured via Group Policy.
Summary
Windows AppLocker allows administrators to control which executable files are denied or allowed to execute. With AppLocker, administrators are able to create rules based on file names, publishers or file location that will allow certain files to execute. Unlike the earlier Software Restriction Policies, which was originally available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, AppLocker rules can apply to individuals or groups. Policies are used to group users into different enforcement levels. For example, some users can be added to an 'audit' policy that will allow administrators to see the rule violations before moving that user to a higher enforcement level.
AppLocker availability charts
Bypass techniques
There are several generic techniques for bypassing AppLocker:
Writing an unapproved program to a whitelisted location.
Using a whitelisted program as a delegate to launch an unapproved program.
Hijacking the DLLs loaded by a trusted application in an untrusted directory.
References
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 10
Microsoft Windows security technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTVph | MTVph (formerly MTV Philippines and MTV Pinoy) was a 24-hour music/entertainment television network co-owned by ViacomCBS Networks International Asia and Solar Entertainment Corporation. The network was launched on August 1, 2017, on all cable/satellite providers in the Philippines.
History
Prior to its launch, the channel was known as MTV Philippines and MTV Pinoy. During the MTV Philippines years, the joint venture ownership of the channel had been changed (from 2001-2007, it was Nation Broadcasting Corporation and in 2007-2010, it was All Youth Channels, Inc.). The first incarnation of MTV in the Philippines (as MTV Philippines) ceased operations on February 15, 2010, with "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles was played as the final song (the song was also played as the very first music video played in MTV USA back in 1981 and it was also played on MTV Classic in the US, as well as on MTV Classic UK and Australia, when the respective channels were rebranded from its predecessors).
Four years later, MTV in the Philippines was relaunched on February 14, 2014, as MTV Pinoy, replacing MTV Southeast Asia. The first music video to be played on that former channel is "Dear Lonely" performed by Zia Quizon. The channel was co-owned by MTV Networks Asia Pacific and Viva Communications, with the latter providing the infrastructure. One of the notable programs that were aired on MTV Pinoy was MTV Halo-Halo.
On January 1, 2017, the feed of MTV Pinoy was reverted to those for MTV Southeast Asia. This was possibly due to Viacom switching partnerships from Viva to rival company Solar Entertainment, as well as the intense competition from ABS-CBN's music network, Myx. OPM related programs from MTV Pinoy were transferred to Viva TV, And only MTV Pinoy Pop and some local advertising remained, and was shown on the Southeast Asia feed until March 6 of the same year. MTV Pinoy would be replaced by the Solar-owned MTVph starting August 1, on the American network's 36th birthday.
On July 19, 2017, Viacom International Media Networks and Solar Entertainment Corporation, a Philippine content provider and television network, announced that they would launch the Philippine feed of MTV Southeast Asia as MTVph.
As with MTV's other Filipino ventures since the Fifth Republic was constituted, MTV Pinoy failed to attract any audience, and the network closed on January 1, 2019, being reverted with MTV Southeast Asia.
Technical information
Unlike most MTV channels around the world and its previous channel (MTV Pinoy), MTVph was broadcast in 4:3 aspect ratio (16:9 letterbox) that most channels broadcast by Solar Entertainment use (with the exception of Solar All-Access and Solar Sports). For programs that aired from MTV Southeast Asia, Solar retained the original aspect ratio for programs that air from MTV Southeast Asia, albeit downscaled to 480i.
Programming
Unlike the previous two MTV channels in the Philippines (MTV Philippines and MTV Pinoy), MTVph aired in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panos%20Panay%20%28technology%20executive%29 | Panos Costa Panay () is an American business executive. He led the creation of the Microsoft Surface line of devices and the Windows 11 operating system. He was the chief product officer of Microsoft, where he oversaw the company's Windows and Devices division. He led the vision and strategy for Windows + Devices, which included the development and design of Windows and Windows 365, the development, design, supply chain, and manufacturing of Microsoft hardware, including Microsoft Surface and Mixed Reality devices, as well as the creation of EDU products and features. He announced that he was leaving Microsoft on September 18, 2023.
Panay introduced Windows 11 on the Windows Experience Blog on June 24, 2021, and launched the Microsoft Surface line of devices on October 26, 2012.
Personal life
Panay received an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University and a B.Sc. from California State University, Northridge.
He is of Greek-Cypriot descent. His first cousin, Panos (Andreas) Panay, is a music entrepreneur.
Career
Before Microsoft, Panay was responsible for electromechanical devices at NMB Technologies (a subsidiary of MinebeaMitsumi) in Michigan from 2000 to 2004.
After joining Microsoft in the PC Hardware organization Panay is credited with creating the Surface line of premium devices in 2012 and Windows 11 in 2021.
At Microsoft Panos Panay's title was executive vice president and chief product officer. He led the vision and strategy for Windows + Devices, which included the development and design of Windows and Windows 365, the development, design, supply chain, and manufacturing of Microsoft hardware, including Microsoft Surface and Mixed Reality devices, as well as the creation of EDU products and features. Since joining Microsoft in 2004, Panay has become known as a creative visionary in product-making. He created the Surface product line of premium devices in 2012.
In 2020 he took over leadership of the Windows operating system at the company and created a new version of Windows - Windows 11 - in 2021. In late August 2021, he was promoted to become an executive vice president and joined the senior leadership team that advises CEO Satya Nadella.
On September 18, 2023, after 19 years of working at Microsoft, Panay announced he was leaving the company via X (Twitter), without announcing a specific plan for his future. He is reportedly heading to Amazon after leaving Microsoft.
Notes
Microsoft employees
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20islands%20of%20Japan%20by%20area | Japan has 14,125 islands. Approximately 430 are inhabited. This list provides basic geographical data of the most prominent islands belonging or claimed by Japan.
claimed but not controlled
See also
Geography of Japan
Japanese archipelago
List of islands of Japan
List of islands
Names of Japan
References
This article used material from Japanese Wikipedia page 日本の島の一覧, accessed 28 July 2017
Japan, List of islands of
Islands
Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip%20Flaherty | Francis X. "Chip" Flaherty, Jr. is an American film producer, publisher and executive at SkyPath Media, a multimedia company producing The Lesson, a lifestyle brand of video programming, where guests share stories of transformative life events.
Business career
Flaherty’s executive producer credits include the upcoming Fatima, starring Harvey Keitel and Sonia Braga; Mother’s Day (2016), starring Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston; The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015), starring Octavia Spencer and Kathy Bates; and the animated film The Little Prince (2015), starring Jeff Bridges, Mackenzie Foy, and Rachel McAdams.
In 2000, Flaherty co-founded Walden Media, a film investor, distributor, and publishing company known for producing films based on classic or award-winning children's literature, biographies or historical events. Walden Media’s films include The Chronicles of Narnia, Charlotte’s Web and the Journey to the Center of the Earth. Walden Media has produced more than 30 films that have grossed more than $3.5 billion in worldwide box office,
While at Walden Media, Flaherty also oversaw the company's entrance to the book publishing industry, serving as Publisher. In 2004, he forged a co-publishing venture with Penguin Young Readers Group and in 2008 he founded the imprint Walden Pond Press as a joint venture with HarperCollins.
In the course of marketing films and books, Flaherty has developed innovative promotional initiatives. A prominent example was Flaherty’s management of the "Break the World Reading Record with Charlotte's Web" event, launched in conjunction with the theatrical release of Charlotte’s Web. On Wednesday, December 13, 2006, 547,826 readers in 2,451 locations, 50 states and 28 countries read an excerpt from Charlotte's Web, breaking the previous world reading record set in the United Kingdom in 2004.
Flaherty also implemented the “Ticket to a Better World” partnership with Read Across America during the theatrical release of The Giver, where 50 cents of every ticket purchased for the film was given to the Read Across America literacy program.
Before working at Walden Media, Flaherty was a Massachusetts assistant district attorney and then an assistant attorney general.
Education
Flaherty graduated Suffolk University Law School and the College of the Holy Cross.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Suffolk University Law School alumni
College of the Holy Cross alumni
American film producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors%20Tamil | Colors Tamil HD is an Indian Tamil language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Viacom 18 on 19 February 2018. The channel's headquarters is in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The network's programming consists of Tamil Series, Comedies, youth-oriented reality shows, Cooking Show and Movies.
Colors Tamil's SD feed was rebranded from NXT, while the HD feed was previously known as ZAP. The channel partnership with Columbia pictures for Hollywood movies.
Programming
References
External links
Tamil-language television channels
Television stations in Chennai
Mass media in Tamil Nadu
Television channels and stations established in 2018
Viacom 18 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy.Computer%20Tour | The Poppy.Computer Tour was the debut concert tour by American singer Poppy. The tour supports the singer's debut studio album, Poppy.Computer (2017). Starting in the fall of 2017, the tour played 38 cities, including 40 concerts in North America, one London concert in December, and three shows in Japan in early 2018.
Background
Poppy announced plans of touring via Twitter, alongside her album announcement, on May 6, 2017. In late July, the concert schedule was released, showing 15 shows in the United States and Canada. This was followed with a 21-minute video posted on YouTube, where the singer stands in front of different backgrounds with two background artists. High demand added additional shows in Los Angeles and Chicago. The tour played in small venues and clubs, with a capacity of 400 or less. The setlist features nine tracks from the album and one from her 2016 EP. The show resembles Poppy's videos, featuring appearances from Titanic Sinclair and Charlotte the Mannequin.
A single show occurred in London on December 13, 2017, another in Tokyo on January 13, 2018, and a third in Mexico City on April 27, 2018. In March 2018, Poppy performed two more shows in Japan as part of the Popspring festival.
Opening acts
Charlotte the Mannequin
Setlist
The following setlist was from the November 3, 2017 concert, held at Stubb's in Austin, Texas. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.
"I'm Poppy"
"Computer Boy"
"Moshi Moshi"
"Bleach Blonde Baby"
"Interweb"
"Let's Make a Video"
"My Style"
"My Microphone"
"Software Upgrade"
Encore
"Money"
Notes
"Lowlife" was performed in Mexico City during the 6th leg.
Tour dates
Notes
References
External links
Poppy Official Website
Poppy (singer) concert tours
2017 concert tours
2018 concert tours
Concert tours of North America
Concert tours of Europe
Concert tours of Asia
Concert tours of the United States
Concert tours of the United Kingdom
Concert tours of Japan
Concert tours of Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Wegner%20%28disambiguation%29 | Peter Wegner (1932–2017) was a professor of computer science at Brown University, Rhode Island, United States.
Peter Wegner may also refer to:
Peter Wegner (American artist) (born 1963)
Peter Wegner (Australian artist)
See also
Peter Wagner (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80%20character%20set | The TRS-80 computer manufacturered by Tandy / Radio Shack contains an 8-bit character set. It is partially derived from ASCII, and shares the code points from 32 - 95 on the standard model. Code points 96 - 127 are supported on models that have been fitted with a lower-case upgrade.
The character set consists of letters, various numeric and special characters as well as 64 semigraphics called squots (square dots) from a 2×3 matrix. These were located at code points 128 to 191 with bits 5-0 following their binary representation, similar to alpha-mosaic characters in World System Teletext. These characters were used for graphics in games, such as Android Nim.
Character set
The following table shows the TRS-80 model I character set. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent. Space and control characters are represented by the abbreviations for their names.
References
Citations
Sources
Further reading
Character sets
TRS-80 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tine%20Van%20Aerschot | Tine Van Aerschot (born 1961, Mechelen) is a Belgian graphic designer, dramatic adviser, writer and theatre director.
Education
Tine Van Aerschot studied visual arts and computer graphics.
Collaboration with Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods
Tine Van Aerschot started working in theatre in 1987 at the STUK arts centre and the dance festival Klapstuk in Leuven (Belgium). She was the production assistant on Disfigure Study (1991), the debut choreography by the American choreographer Meg Stuart, who she had discovered in New York. She contributed to her international breakthrough. From 1999 to 2004 she was the graphic designer of Damaged Goods, the dance company of Meg Stuart.
Collaboration with others
After Disfigure Study (Meg Stuart, 1991), Tine Van Aerschot was also the production assistant for the American choreographer Dennis O'Connor (Amor Omnia, 1993) and the dramatic adviser for the Belgian choreographer Christine De Smedt (L'union fait la force fait l'union, 1993 and de Hemelschutters). She also worked as a photographer on Too Shy to Stare (2003) by the American performance artist Davis Freeman, and was responsible for the scenography of Private Rooms (2002), a dance performance by the Canadian dancer / choreographer Sara Chase. For the New Zealand dance and performance artist Simone Aughterlony she worked as the artistic advisor and graphic designer on her pieces Public Property (2004) and Performers on Trial (2005) and as the co-author and advisor on Bare Back Lying (2006). Tine Van Aerschot also designed leaflets, posters and websites for various dance and theatre productions and companies.
Own artistic work
Tine Van Aerschot only began to develop her own work in 2002. It originally revolved around her alter ego Trevor Wells, and began with a series of emails, followed by a multimedia project - all under the title The Wherebouts of Trevor Wells. With her visual work she participated in the group exhibition A room or one's own (de Markten, Brussels, 2006 and Kunstlerhaus Betanien, Berlin, 2007). From 2006, a series of theatre texts and theatre productions followed. They were first produced by Palindroom vzw, a production structure that she shared with film artist Els Van Riel, and subsequently by TREVOR vzw, her own production structure. The theatre productions were co-produced by the Kaaitheater (Brussels) and Vooruit (Ghent). In Belgium she also received support from wpZimmer (Antwerp), Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk), the Pianofabriek (Sint-Gillis), Workspacebrussels (Brussels), the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region and the Flemish government. International support came from Mousonturm (Frankfurt), PACT Zollverein (Essen) and Gessnerallee (Zürich).
Work as a teacher
In November 2008, Tine Van Aerschot presented a workshop on Meaning of Text in Contemporary Performance at the invitation of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (Glasgow), and in April 2009 she tutored students in a workshop on text and dram |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20World%20%28video%20game%29 | History of the World is a 1997 computer board game developed by Colorado Computer Creations and published by Eidos Interactive.
Setting
It is an adaptation of Avalon Hill's History of the World board game.
Reception
History of the World was a commercial failure, with fewer than 10,000 copies sold by November 1998. This contributed to the sale and closure of Avalon Hill that year.
In Computer Gaming World, Bob Proctor wrote, "History of the World is both a good game and a disappointment." He praised its accurate reproduction of the original board game, but heavily criticized its multiplayer features, and called its lack of online play "inexcusable" for a multiplayer title in 1997. Conversely, Scott Udell of Computer Games Strategy Plus called it "a very solid game; for multiplayer it's excellent, and even for solo players it provides a mostly satisfying (and fast — usually under an hour) gaming experience." He particularly praised its play-by-email feature. However, Udell noted bugs within History of the World, and felt that the game's video sequences "range from weak to painful".
In a negative review, PC Gamer USs William R. Trotter wrote that History of the World "looks and feels dated", and that it "quickly becomes boring." He believed that the charm of the board game had been lost in translation, and called its full motion video "the ugliest I've ever seen." Trotter summarized, "It gives die-hard fans a chance to play online, and that's the only reason I can think of for buying it."
References
External links
Mobygames entry
1997 video games
Video games based on board games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace%202%20%28video%20game%29 | Ace 2 (stylized as ACE 2 as acronym for Air Combat Emulator) is a combat flight simulator video game developed by Cascade Games for various home computers released in 1987, and a sequel to Ace. The player takes the role of a fighter jet pilot on modern day missions in the Middle East. The display shows the plane's instrumentation and cockpit view.
The game received mixed reviews from critics, with some praising the game for its new control scheme and introduction of multiplayer, while others criticized it for being oversimplified compared to its predecessor.
Gameplay
Compared to its predecessor, the game is much more simplified in terms of controls and is now largely focused on dogfighting between two enemy jet fighters. While being optimized for two players, it also supports singleplayer play against an AI controlled jet.
Flight controls were simplified to just the joystick and pressing the keyboard to increase or decrease the throttle. A map of the area can be called up at any time, showing the position of the player and the enemy.
Reception
The Games Machine said that it was "an excellent two-player head-to-head combat game", and calling it "very fast, very playable, and, more often than not, very tense".
ZZap!64 called the game "fun" despite being "oversimplified", and saying it was a "good game in its own right" despite the fact that fans of the original might be disappointed.
Computer and Video Games said "the fiddly controls are kept to a bare minimum".
References
1987 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Commodore 16 and Plus/4 games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Combat flight simulators
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Cascade Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish%20State%20Highway%20System | The State Highways of the Republic of Turkey (), abbreviated as T.C.K. are an integrated network of highways and roads in Turkey, consisting of a numbered grid spanning across the country. They are more commonly called State roads () and are the primary road network in Turkey. The network is mostly maintained by the General Directorate of Highways (KGM), except for within large cities () where the respective city municipality assumes responsibility.
In the early 21st century, the network was greatly expanded to accommodate four-lane highways throughout the country. As of 2021, of the total system are four-lane highways.
System Overview
Unlike motorways in Turkey, state highways do not have a minimum design standard. Despite the majority of the system consisting of four-lane, dual highways, other routes can be two-lane highways. Some routes, especially within major cities, have been upgraded to controlled access highway standards; while other routes, such as the D.650, between Arifiye and Bozüyük, and the D.200, between Eskişehir and Ankara, consist of minimal at-grade intersections. Bridges and Tunnels are common among the system, yet not as plentiful as on motorways.
Numbering
All state highways have a three-digit designation preceded by a D. The system is numbered based on direction and location. Route numbers range from 010 to 977, while 010 to 490 are east-west routes and 505 to 977 are north-south routes. Odd-numbered routes generally run north-south, while even-numbered routes generally run east-west. The only exception to this rule are four north-south routes, D.550, D.650, D.750, D.850 and D.950, that have even-number designations. The second criterion is based on the geographical location of the route. For north-south roads, routes in the west will have lower numbers, while routes in the east have higher numbers. For east-west roads, routes in the north will have lower numbers that get higher towards the south.
Main roads are designated as multiples of 100 and 50, with the exception being D.010. Multiples of 100 are main east-west roads, while multiples of 50 are main north-south roads. D.010 is the only exception to this rule.
See also
List of otoyol routes in Turkey
Transport in Turkey
List of highways in Turkey
Otoyol
List of countries by road network size Turkey, 19th
References
Turkey
Highways
Turkey transport-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%20Bonta | Paula Bonta is an Argentinian-Canadian computer scientist and educational software designer. She is known for developing programming environments for children, most notably contributing to the design of the Scratch programming language before it was even called Scratch. She co-founded the Playful Invention Company, a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab noted for developing the Programmable Cricket, with Mitchel Resnick and Brian Silverman and serves as Lead Designer. She was also the design director for several award-winning software products for children, including MicroWorlds and the "My Make Believe" series of products from Logo Computer Systems, Inc. She has a degree in computer science and a graduate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
References
Living people
MIT Media Lab people
Computer science educators
Argentine women computer scientists
Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Wide%20Automated%20Network | SWAN (System Wide Automated Network) is a multi-type library consortium that serves Illinois libraries. It was established in 1974. It has a membership of 97 libraries in the Chicago area, and provides service to 1 million registered library users. SWAN provides a shared online public access catalog with more than 8 million items available to patrons, with centralized cataloging and software services. SWAN is incorporated as an Illinois Intergovernmental Entity.
Services
Libraries that are members of the SWAN library consortium add their cardholders to a central database with access to nearly 8 million items. Cardholders can also download and stream digital books, audiobooks, movies, and music through a collection of database subscriptions. Additional services include the following: centralized cataloging, text or email notification for items available or when they become overdue, and printed notices mailed directly to patrons. SWAN provides online video instruction to patrons and promotional material of its notification options. Libraries in SWAN have the ability to integrate purchasing of material through SWAN's integrated library system. SWAN is participating in a Linked Data project through Zepheira. This initiative is part of a BIBFRAME conversion of MARC21 data into a linked data website hosted by Zepheira.
Governance
Member libraries elect seven library directors for three-year terms. The SWAN Board is responsible for governing and overseeing SWAN operations, including determining policies for the organization, employing an executive director, securing adequate funds for operations. Member libraries in SWAN through an intergovernmental agreement under the Illinois Cooperative Act agree to participate as members of the SWAN organization.
External links
Official website
Library consortia in Illinois
1974 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20human%20modeling | Computational human modeling is an interdisciplinary computational science that links the diverse fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computer vision with machine learning, mathematics, and cognitive psychology.
Computational human modeling emphasizes descriptions of human for A.I. research and applications.
Major topics
Research in computational human modeling can include computer vision studies on identify (face recognition), attributes (gender, age, skin color), expressions, geometry (3D face modeling, 3D body modeling), and activity (pose, gaze, actions, and social interactions).
See also
Activity recognition
Computational theory of mind
Emotion recognition
Facial recognition system
Three-dimensional face recognition
Artificial intelligence
Humanoids
Humanoid robots
Cognitive science |
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