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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Egyptian%20films%20of%201998 | A list of films produced in Egypt in 1998. For an A-Z list of films currently on Wikipedia, see :Category:Egyptian films.
External links
Egyptian films of 1998 at the Internet Movie Database
Egyptian films of 1998 elCinema.com
Lists of Egyptian films by year
1998 in Egypt
Lists of 1998 films by country or language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Egyptian%20films%20of%201999 | A list of films produced in Egypt in 1999. For an A-Z list of films currently on Wikipedia, see :Category:Egyptian films.
External links
Egyptian films of 1999 at the Internet Movie Database
Egyptian films of 1999 elCinema.com
Lists of Egyptian films by year
1999 in Egypt
Lists of 1999 films by country or language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Gujarati | BBC Gujarati () is an international news service by BBC in the Gujarati language. It was launched on 2 October 2017. The service is being operated on websites and social networking sites. The launch is part of the World Service's biggest expansion since the 1940s, following a government funding boost announced in 2016.
According to the official website of BBC, Gujarati spoken by 50 million people, and hence it is the 26th most used language in the world.
See also
BBC World Service
BBC Punjabi
BBC Urdu
References
External links
BBC Gujarati
British Indian mass media
British Pakistani mass media
Gujarati-language mass media
Gujarati
Radio stations established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail%20Sellen | Abigail Jane Sellen is a Canadian cognitive scientist, industrial engineer, and computer scientist who works for Microsoft Research in Cambridge. She is also an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham and University College London.
Education
Sellen earned a master's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Don Norman.
Career and research
Sellen's research investigates human–computer interaction (HCI). She has worked as a research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge as well as for various corporate research laboratories including Xerox PARC, Apple Inc., and HP Labs before joining Microsoft in 2004.
With Richard H. R. Harper, Sellen wrote The Myth of the Paperless Office (MIT Press, 2001).
Awards and honours
She is a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) and the British Computer Society. She was inducted into the CHI Academy in 2011. In 2016 she became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) "for contributions to human-computer interaction and the design of human-centered technology". She was elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020, for "contributions that ensure consideration of human capabilities in the design of computer systems".
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian women computer scientists
Scientists at PARC (company)
Microsoft Research people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
21st-century women engineers
Fellows of the Women's Engineering Society
Fellows of the Royal Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20theorem | In mathematics, a theorem that covers a variety of cases is sometimes called a master theorem.
Some theorems called master theorems in their fields include:
Master theorem (analysis of algorithms), analyzing the asymptotic behavior of divide-and-conquer algorithms
Ramanujan's master theorem, providing an analytic expression for the Mellin transform of an analytic function
MacMahon master theorem (MMT), in enumerative combinatorics and linear algebra
Glasser's master theorem in integral calculus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade%3A%20Queens%20of%20NYC | Shade: Queens of NYC is a television series on the network Fusion TV. It premiered in October 2017.
Cast
Jesse Havea a.k.a. Brita Filter
Marti Gould Cummings
Justin Nako a.k.a. Chelsea Piers
Nathan McManus a.k.a. Holly Box-Springs
William Bailey a.k.a. Jada Valenciaga
Chris Yoon a.k.a. Jasmine Rice LaBeija
Daniel Kelley a.k.a. Paige Turner
Kristian Seeber a.k.a. Tina Burner
Blake Allen
Episodes
Discography
A Very Marti Holiday, which features cast members Marti Gould Cummings, Tina Burner, and Jasmine Rice LaBeija, includes holiday classics sung by Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tony Award Winner Cady Huffman, Olivier Award Winner Lesli Margherita, Grammy Award Winner Tim Young, Jelani Remy, and Kristina Nicole Miller. The album features musical arrangements by cast member Blake Allen and raises money for Ali Forney Center.
See also
LGBT culture in New York City
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2017 American television series debuts
American LGBT-related reality television series
Drag (entertainment) television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datatron | The Datatron is a family of decimal vacuum tube computers developed by ElectroData Corporation and first shipped in 1954. The Datatron was later marketed by Burroughs Corporation after Burroughs acquired ElectroData in 1956. The Burroughs models of this machine were still in use into the 1960s.
History
Consolidated Electrodynamics Corporation (CEC), ElectroData's parent corporation, first pre-announced the Datatron in 1952 as the "CEC 30-201". Known also as CEC 30-203 (ElectroData 203), ElectroData 204 or 205, Burroughs 205 (different names signify the development and addition of new peripherals).
The first systems were equipped with an "Electrodata 203" processor and were shipped to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL) and the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in 1954. That same year design began on the "30-240" processor, enhanced to support magnetic tape. The name "Datatron" was first used in 1955.
Description
The Datatron has a word size of ten decimal digits plus a sign. Character data occupies two digits per character. A magnetic drum is used for memory. The drum rotates at 3570 rotations per minute (RPM) and stores 4000 words on 20 tracks (called bands). It weighed about . A later model, the Burroughs 220, added a small amount of magnetic core memory. A later model, the Datatron 205 was sold by Burroughs as the Burroughs 205.
References
External links
Photo of Datatron system at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1959
ElectroData/Burroughs Datatron 205 Emulator
1950s computers
Vacuum tube computers
Decimal computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS | postmarketOS (abbreviated as pmOS) is an operating system primarily for smartphones, based on the Alpine Linux distribution.
postmarketOS was launched on 26 May 2017 with the source code available on GitHub before migrating to GitLab in 2018. It is capable of running different X and Wayland based user interfaces, such as Plasma Mobile, MATE, GNOME 3, and XFCE; later updates added support for Unity8 and Phosh. It is also capable of running Docker, if the device specific kernel has cgroups and relevant configs enabled. The project aims to provide a ten-year lifecycle for smartphones.
Architecture
Unlike many other projects porting conventional Linux distributions to Android phones, postmarketOS does not use the Android build system or userspace. Each phone has only one unique package, and flashable installation images are generated using the pmbootstrap tool. The project intends to support the mainline Linux kernel on all phones in the future, instead of the often outdated Android-specific fork, to reduce the potential for security exploits. A few devices can boot into the mainline kernel already. The project aims to support Android apps, originally through the use of Anbox, which was replaced by Waydroid since postmarketOS v21.12.
Alpine Linux was chosen as the base distribution due to its low storage requirements, making it more suitable for older devices. Excluding the kernel, a base installation takes up approximately 6 MB.
State of development
Features
Different tools have been published by the project, including:
pmbootstrap, a utility to help the process of development with cross compilation;
osk-sdl, a virtual keyboard to allow decryption of a password during startup (on a device with full disk encryption);
charging-sdl, an application contained in the initramfs to display an animation when the phone is charging while off.
Device support
As of May 2020, over two hundred devices are able to boot the operating system, including 92 with WiFi support. This includes many smartphones and tablets that originally ran Android, as well as some Linux-based Nokia smartphones, such as the N900 and N9. After Corellium's Project Sandcastle ported the Linux kernel to some iPhone versions, postmarketOS was also seen to boot on it, although no persistent flashing is supported at the moment. As of May 2021, support for wearable devices (including Google Glass and smartwatches like the LG G Watch) has been improved through integration with the AsteroidOS user interface and work on mainline kernel for the LG G Watch R.
In 2018, no devices were yet able to make phone calls with postmarketOS, although significant efforts were being made in this regard. By 2020, a number of devices were fully or mostly supported, including for phone calls, SMS messages and mobile data. These included the BQ Aquaris X5, Librem 5, Nokia N900, Motorola Moto G4 Play, Samsung Galaxy A3 (2015), Samsung Galaxy A5 (2015), and Wileyfox Swift.
Furthermore, the PinePhone launch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Vest | Mike Vest is an American sports executive who co-founded Lionsbridge FC in USL League Two, and previously held senior-level roles at the Atlantic 10 Conference, IMG and Big Ten Network. Vest has been at the forefront of new trends at the intersection of sports, social media and media rights.
Early life
Vest grew up in Overland Park, Kan and graduated from the University of Kansas.
Career
While still an undergraduate, Vest began his career at the University of Kansas under the tutelage of future CoSIDA Hall of Famers Doug Vance and Dean Buchan.
From 2000-07, Vest worked in the athletic department at Wake Forest University, most closely with the men's soccer, baseball and football programs.
In 2007, Vest relocated to Chicago to help launch the Big Ten Network as one of its original 25 employees. He managed public relations and publicity for network executives and talent. Vest also oversaw social media and developed one of the television industry's first Second Screen experiences with BTN Connect in conjunction with Spredfast.
In 2014, Vest joined the Atlantic 10 Conference as Associate Commissioner for External Affairs. There, Vest managed the league's television and digital media rights, leading negotiations made the Atlantic 10 Conference to become the first NCAA conference to sign a media rights agreement with Facebook.
In 2017, Vest partnered with Virginia business executives Kevin Joyce and Dan Chenoweth to plan the launch of Lionsbridge FC, which began play in 2018.
Personal life
Vest is a lifelong fan of the Kansas City Royals, Kansas City Chiefs and Chicago Cubs.
References
1978 births
Living people
University of Kansas alumni
American sports executives and administrators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified-Inbox | Unified-Inbox is an Internet of Things (IoT) messaging company founded in 2010 and based in Singapore. The company is known for developing AI algorithms that incorporate text messages on to appliances for smart homes, smart cities, and different types of industries including enterprise manufacturing intelligence and Industry 4.0.
References
Companies of Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation%20network | A relation network (RN) is an artificial neural network component with a structure that can reason about relations among objects. An example category of such relations is spatial relations (above, below, left, right, in front of, behind).
RNs can infer relations, they are data efficient, and they operate on a set of objects without regard to the objects' order.
History
In June 2017, DeepMind announced the first relation network. It claimed that the technology had achieved "superhuman" performance on multiple question-answering problem sets.
Design
RNs constrain the functional form of a neural network to capture the common properties of relational reasoning. These properties are explicitly added to the system, rather than established by learning just as the capacity to reason about spatial, translation-invariant properties is explicitly part of convolutional neural networks (CNN). The data to be considered can be presented as a simple list or as a directed graph whose nodes are objects and whose edges are the pairs of objects whose relationships are to be considered. The RN is a composite function:
where the input is a set of “objects” is the ith object, and fφ and gθ are functions with parameters φ and θ, respectively and q is the question. fφ and gθ are multilayer perceptrons, while the 2 parameters are learnable synaptic weights. RNs are differentiable. The output of gθ is a “relation”; therefore, the role of gθ is to infer any ways in which two objects are related.
Image (128x128 pixel) processing is done with a 4-layer CNN. Outputs from the CNN are treated as the objects for relation analysis, without regard for what those "objects" explicitly represent. Questions were processed with a long short-term memory network.
See also
Deep learning
References
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Time%20%28season%2010%29 | The tenth and final season of Adventure Time, an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on Cartoon Network on September 17, 2017, and ended on September 3, 2018, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios. It follows the adventures of Finn (a human boy) and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the series' other main characters: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess.
The season was storyboarded and written by Sam Alden, Graham Falk, Erik Fountain, Polly Guo, Tom Herpich, Seo Kim, Patrick McHale, Adam Muto, Hanna K. Nyström, Kent Osborne, Aleks Sennwald, Somvilay Xayaphone, and Steve Wolfhard. The season's multi-episode story arcs include Princess Bubblegum confronting her antagonistic Uncle Gumbald, Finn dealing with Fern's embrace of the dark side, and Betty trying to turn the Ice King back into Simon Petrikov.
The season began with "The Wild Hunt," which was seen by 0.77 million viewers (a decrease from the previous season's finale, "Three Buckets," which was viewed by 0.85 million). It ended with "Come Along with Me," a four-part episode that served as the series' initial finale. Critical reaction to the season was primarily positive. Furthermore, the episodes "Ring of Fire" and "Come Along with Me" were nominated for Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in 2018 and 2019, respectively. A DVD set of the season was released on September 4, 2018.
Development
Concept
The series follows the adventures of Finn the Human (a boy) and his best friend Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other major characters: Princess Bubblegum, the Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess. Common storylines revolve around Finn and Jake discovering strange creatures, dealing with the antagonistic-but-misunderstood Ice King, and battling monsters to help others. The season's multi-episode story arcs include Princess Bubblegum confronting her antagonistic Uncle Gumbald, Finn dealing with Fern's embrace of the dark side, and Betty trying to turn the Ice King back into Simon Petrikov.
Production
On July 21, 2016, lead writer Kent Osborne posted an image on Twitter which suggested that Adventure Time had been renewed for another season. At the time, the season was intended to be the show's ninth. The season divisions were later rearranged by Cartoon Network, and "The Wild Hunt" became the first episode of season ten. According to series showrunner Adam Muto, the number of episodes ordered by the network as part of the season was substantially lower than it had been, leading the production crew to think "that if this wasn't the end, it was comi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20census-designated%20places%20in%20Oregon | Oregon is a state located in the Western United States that is divided into 36 counties and contains 135 census designated-places (CDPs). All population data is based on the 2010 census.
Census-Designated Places
See also
List of counties in Oregon
List of cities and unincorporated communities in Oregon
References
Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20international%20songs%20of%202010%20%28South%20Korea%29 | The Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing international songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly, monthly, and yearly charts, as according to the Gaon 국외 (Foreign) Digital Chart. The Digital Chart ranked songs according to their performance on the Gaon Streaming, Download, BGM, and Mobile charts.
Weekly charts
Sales before the year 2011 were not released.
Monthly charts
Year-end chart
References
International 2010
Korea International
2010 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeDB | TypeDB is an open-source, distributed, strongly-typed database with a logical type system. TypeQL is its query language. TypeDB models domains based on logical and object-oriented programming principles, composed of entity, relationship, and attribute types, as well as type hierarchies, roles, and rules.
TypeDB provides a way to describe the logical structures of data, which allows the tool to validate that code inserts and queries data correctly. Query validation goes beyond static type-checking, and includes logical validation of meaningless queries. TypeDB also encodes data for logical interpretation by a reasoning engine and enables type-inference and rule-inference, which create logical abstractions of data. This can allow for the discovery of facts and patterns that may otherwise be hard to find.
TypeDB is developed by Vaticle Ltd. and is published under the GNU Affero General Public License.
Vaticle was previously known as Grakn Labs; TypeDB as Grakn; and TypeQL as Graql.
Main features
Expressivity
Entity-Relationship Model
TypeDB allows users to model their domains using the entity-relationship (ER) model. It is composed of entity types, relation types, and attribute types, with the introduction of role types. TypeDB allows users to leverage the full expressivity of the ER model, and describe schemas through first normal form.
Type Hierarchies
TypeDB allows users to model type inheritance into their domain model. Following logical and object-oriented principles, TypeDB allows data types to inherit the behaviours and properties of their supertypes. Complex data structures become reusable, and data interpretation becomes richer through polymorphism.
N-ary Relations
Relations often aren't just binary connections between two things. In complicated systems, three or more things can be related with each other at once. Representing them as separate binary relationships would cause a user to lose information. TypeDB can represent an arbitrary number of things as one relation.
Nested Relations
Relations are concepts used to describe the association between two or more things. Sometimes, things can be relations themselves. TypeDB can represent such a structure, as it enables relations to be nested in another relation, allowing a user to express their system's model in a natural form.
Safety
Logical Data Validation
Inserted data gets validated beyond static type-checking of attribute value types. Entities are validated to only have the correct attributes, and relations are validated to only relate things that are logically allowed. TypeDB performs validation of inserted entities and relations by evaluating the polymorphic types of the things involved.
Logical Query Validation
Read queries executed on TypeDB go through a type resolution process. This process not only can optimise a query's execution, but also acts as a static type checker to reject meaningless and unsatisfiable queries, which are likely to be user errors.
Logical infere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diachasmimorpha%20longicaudata | Diachasmimorpha longicaudata is a solitary species of parasitoid wasp and an endoparasitoid of tephritid fruit fly larvae. D. longicaudata is native to many countries in Southeast Asia and subtropical regions and has also been introduced to many other countries as a biological control agent. It is now considered the most extensively used parasitoid for biocontrol of fruit flies in both the southern portion of the United States and Latin America. D. longicaudata is especially useful for agricultural purposes in the control of fruit flies as it is easily mass-reared and has the ability to infect a variety of hosts within the genus Bactrocera. A negative factor in its use as a biocontrol agent is that it is known to oviposit in grapefruit in the state of Florida. This has resulted in quarantines on grapefruit shipped internationally as well as domestically. Research is ongoing to determine whether D. longicaudata is actually a single species, or if it contains multiple species. It is likely multiple biological species separated by both reproductive isolation and morphological characteristics such as wing geometry.
Distribution
Diachasmimorpha longicaudata originated in the Indo-pacific region of Asia. D. longicaudata has been disseminated into countries in the Americas including United States, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Trinidad, and Brazil. There are stable colonies in Hawaii and Florida in the United States.
Morphology
The genus Diachasmimorpha has traditionally been defined by the morphology of their apically sinuate ovipositor. D. longicaudata has a body length of between 2.8 and 5.4 mm. The adult male is smaller than the female with a body length of up to 4.0 mm. The body is a reddish-brown color and antennae are longer than the body. Wings are clear. Females have a long ovipositor. The gaster of males and females differs slightly with the female having a dorsal central black band while the gaster of the male has a dark brown to black dorsal posterior.
Three cryptic species have been identified within D. longicaudata based on genetic analysis and geometric differences in wing venation. In forced-contact mating between the three cryptic species reproduction was rare and resulted in sterile female offspring. Subspecies have also been reported based on differing geographical areas with high variation being associated variation of resources. As many as five subspecies have previously been identified around the world and have been primarily characterized by color.
Life cycle
Both males and females are solitary. Third instar tephritid fruit fly larvae are the typical hosts. Female adults of D. longicaudata are attracted to fermenting fruit and then are able to find larvae by sound. Females lay 13-24 eggs per day using her elongated ovipositor to reach the fly larvae. Typically only one egg is laid per instar larvae with exceptions when hosts are insufficient; however only one pupa will reach maturity. Eggs t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVNV%20%28FM%29 | KVNV (89.1 FM) is a non-commercial radio station near Reno, Nevada. It broadcasts a news/talk format with programming from Nevada Public Radio and National Public Radio.
KVNV began broadcasting under the callsign KXNV, branded as Radio Free Reno and was owned by Open Sky Media. In 2015 its callsign was changed to KJIV and it was rebranded as The Fine 89. KVNV was acquired by Nevada Public Radio for $550,000 in November 2016; the purchase was consummated on February 17, 2017. The Fine 89 changed their branding to JiveRadio and continues to operate online with content aimed for the Reno area.
Subsequently broadcasting an adult album alternative format under the branding "NV-89", KVNV flipped to a full simulcast of KNPR on September 6, 2019. The change was necessitated due to funding shortfalls at Nevada Public Radio that forced the organization to lay off its Reno-based staffers. This was intended as a temporary measure until it could find a buyer for KVNV. KSGU in St. George, Utah was also put up for sale. While it was able to find a buyer for KSGU, it has been unable to do so for KVNV.
Simulcasting stations
Programming from KVNV has one direct translator, located in Carson City. Until 2019, it was also simulcast on the second HD Radio channels of Nevada Public Radio's other stations.
References
External links
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 2014
VNV
2014 establishments in Nevada
News and talk radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeneebayko%20Area%20Health%20Authority | Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) is a health-care network operating hospitals and supporting federal nursing stations in remote communities along the James Bay and Hudson Bay coasts in Northern Ontario, Canada.
History
Created in October 2010, WAHA is the result of a merger between two existing hospitals, Weeneebayko Health Ahtuskaywin and James Bay General Hospital along with a number of smaller community health clinics.
Locations
WAHA operates sites in Moosonee and the First Nation communities of Fort Albany, Attawapiskat, and Moose Factory and supports nursing stations in Kashechewan and Peawanuck.
Weeneebayko General Hospital
Weeneebayko General Hospital is the successor to Weeneebayko Health Ahtuskaywin/Moose Factory General Hospital (c. 1966) and Moose Factory Indian and Inuit Hospital (c. 1950). Weeneebayko Health Ahtuskaywin was a federal funded hospital under Health Canada, where as most hospitals in Ontario are provincially funded.
Weeneebayko General Hospital 37 beds and provides acute care, long-term care, emergency services, mental health, general surgery and family medicine.
Moosonee Health Centre
Moosonee Health Centre provides 24/7 emergency care, outpatient services and weekday clinics .
Fort Albany Hospital
Opened in 1987 as a satellite site of James Bay General. Fort Albany Hospital has 17 beds providing 24/7 care staffed by registered nurses and consulting physicians in its emergency room.
Attawapiskat Hospital
Opened in 1985 as a satellite site of James Bay, Attawapiskat Hospital has 15 beds and provides 24/7 care staffed by registered nurses and consulting physicians in its emergency room.
Nursing Stations
WAHA has a partnership with First Nation and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) to support basic care in:
Kashechewan Nursing Station
Peawanuck Nursing Station
Both sites are staffed by FNIHB registered nurses and when needed Ontario primary and/or advanced care paramedics.
Medical Transfers
For more advance care requiring transfers to Moose Factory or further south (Timmins and District Hospital or Kingston General Hospital) Weeneebayko General Hospital in Moose Factory has a helipad located on the south side of the hospital. All other locations require ambulance transfers by Weeneebayko Area Health Authority Paramedic Services to the nearest airport with ORNGE helicopters or other aircraft.
References
External links
Hospitals in Ontario
Hospitals established in 2010
Heliports in Ontario
2010 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20501001%E2%80%93502000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene%20le%20Roux | Marlene le Roux (born 17 September 1967) is a South African disability and women's rights activist. She is co-founder of the Women's Achievement Network for Disability, and CEO of the Artscape Theatre Centre in Cape Town.
Biography
Marlene le Roux was born in Wellington, Western Cape, 17 September 1967. At three months old, le Roux contracted poliomyelitis which left her with a weakened leg for which she wears a brace. She matriculated at Bergrivier Secondary School then went on to earn a B.Mus. degree in 1988 and a Higher Diploma in Education in 1989 followed by a B.Ed. in 1991, all at the University of the Western Cape. In 2002 and 2003 le Roux continued her education with a Diploma in Management and a Diploma in Senior Management from the University of Stellenbosch.
Le Roux served as an international expert on the London Olympic Committee and Arts Council England to select arts projects for the London Olympics and Paralympics 2012.
Le Roux and Karen Smit launched the Women's Achievement Network for Disability, in August 2014, "to raise the profile and awareness of disabled women and girls in South Africa, so that their human rights may be advanced and promoted".
Selected works
Featuring stories of 23 women with various disabilities, the photography is by Lucie Pavlovich.
Everyday life in Mitchells Plain, a large township on the outskirts of Cape Town.
About the minstrel history in the town of Wellington, Western Cape.
Awards and honours
Shoprite/Checkers Woman of the Year – Art Category, 1998
Desmond Tutu Legendary Award, 2001
Chevalier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a French Knighthood in the Performing Arts, 2002
Alumni of the Year 2003, University of Stellenbosch
Western Cape Provincial Award, Arts & Culture, 2005
Honorary Membership in the Golden Key International Honour Society at the University of Stellenbosch, 2007
Alumnus of the Year 2007, for excellence in Management, University of Stellenbosch Business School, 2008
CEO Magazine Awards. SA's most Influential Women in Business and Government. Recognition of achievement in the Arts & Culture Sector, 2010
Ordre National Du Merite from the French Government, 2012
German Africa Prize from the German Government for work done in disadvantaged communities, 2012
Honorary doctorate in education from Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017
Commonwealth Point of Light Award, 2018.
References
1967 births
Living people
South African disability rights activists
South African women's rights activists
South African women theatre directors
South African theatre directors
Stellenbosch University alumni
University of the Western Cape alumni
South African activists with disabilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabiha%20Syed | Nabiha Syed is an American technology lawyer and media executive. Syed is currently the chief executive officer of The Markup, a data-driven media startup. She has been described as "one of the best emerging free speech lawyers" by Forbes magazine. In 2023, Syed was recognized as a transformational leader in digital civil rights by the NAACP.
Biography
Syed was born to parents who immigrated from Pakistan. A Marshall Scholar, Syed co-founded the Media Freedom and Information Access legal clinic at Yale Law School, of which she is a graduate and a visiting fellow.
She led libel, privacy, and newsgathering matters at BuzzFeed, a global media company. Prior to BuzzFeed, Syed was the First Amendment Fellow at The New York Times. Syed also serves as adjunct faculty at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and on the boards of the New York Civil Liberties Union, the New Press, and the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. She and her work have been featured in the Yale Law Journal and Vanity Fair.
Under her leadership, The Markup published an investigation that revealed a third of the top 100 hospitals in the United States were sharing patients' personal data with Facebook, which led to both the social media company and several hospitals involved being sued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Recognition
In 2016, she was named as a "40 Under 40 Rising Star" by the New York Law Journal.
In 2017, she was a finalist for the International Bar Association Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award.
In 2018, Syed received the inaugural Rising Star Award from the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press. Also that year, Nabiha delivered the Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press at the Harvard Kennedy School.
In 2020, Syed delivered the commencement address at Northeastern.
In 2022, The Markup, under Syed's leadership, was recognized as a Most Innovative Company by FastCompany.
In 2023, she was awarded the NAACP's Digital Civil Rights Award.
References
Marshall Scholars
Yale Law School alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
American women lawyers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
BuzzFeed people
21st-century American women
American people of Pakistani descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen%20Titans%20Go%21%20To%20the%20Movies | Teen Titans Go! To the Movies is a 2018 American animated superhero comedy film based on the Cartoon Network animated television series Teen Titans Go!, which is based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it was directed by Peter Rida Michail and Aaron Horvath (in their feature directorial debuts) and written by Michael Jelenic and Horvath. It features the voices of Greg Cipes, Scott Menville, Khary Payton, Tara Strong, and Hynden Walch reprising their respective roles from the series, while Will Arnett (who also produced the film) and Kristen Bell join the cast.
Taking place during the events of the fifth season of the series, the film follows the Teen Titans, who attempt to have a movie made about them in Hollywood while dealing with supervillain Slade, who was responsible for making blockbuster movies about superheroes undercover as a Hollywood director.
The film is the second theatrical release to be based on a Cartoon Network series, after The Powerpuff Girls Movie in 2002. Warner Bros. first announced the film in September 2017, with the show's original voice cast set to reprise their roles. Arnett and Bell were added to the cast in leading roles a month later.
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies premiered in the BFI Southbank on July 22, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 27. It grossed $52.1 million worldwide against a $10 million budget and received positive reviews from critics, who praised the stylized animation quality, cast, score, and screenplay. The first film in the Teen Titans Go! film series, it was followed by the direct-to-video stand-alone sequels Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019), Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam (2021), and Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse (2022).
Plot
In Jump City, the Teen Titans arrive to stop Balloon Man. When he fails to recognize them, the Titans jump into a rap song to introduce themselves and become distracted, forcing the Justice League to intervene. They criticize the Titans for their inability to take their positions as superheroes seriously, while raising the fact that they do not have a feature-length film to prove their legitimacy as superheroes.
While at the premiere of Batman Again, the Titans' leader, Robin, is mocked by the audience after a misunderstanding leads him to assume that there would be a film about him. At the rest of the team's suggestion, Robin resolves that in order to get a film made about him and the Titans, they need an arch-nemesis. Nearby, a supervillain named Slade breaks into S.T.A.R. Labs to steal a crystal. The Titans arrive and attempt to stop him, but he swiftly defeats and insults them.
The next day, Beast Boy, Starfire, Cyborg, and Raven create a film to cheer up Robin, but he turns it off prematurely, and, after a song, declares that they will go to Hollywood to have a film made about them. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rekeying%20%28cryptography%29 | In cryptography, rekeying refers to the process of changing the session key—the encryption key of an ongoing communication—in order to limit the amount of data encrypted with the same key.
Roughly equivalent to the classical procedure of changing codes on a daily basis, the key is changed after a pre-set volume of data has been transmitted or a given period of time has passed.
In contemporary systems, rekeying is implemented by forcing a new key exchange, typically through a separate protocol like Internet key exchange (IKE). The procedure is handled transparently to the user.
A prominent application is Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), the extended security protocol for wireless networks that addresses the shortcomings of its predecessor, WEP, by frequently replacing session keys through the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), thus defeating some well-known key recovery attacks.
In public key infrastructure, rekeying (or "re-keying") leads to issuance of new certificate (in contrast to certificate renewal - issuance of new certificate for the same key, which is usually not allowed by CAs).
See also
Diffie–Hellman key exchange
Elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
IPsec and Internet key exchange (IKE)
Over the Air Rekeying (OTAR)
References
External links
OpenSSH: KeyRegenerationInterval parameter, ~R command
Encryption devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20conversion | To date, two methods have been used to make a personal computer, not offered by Apple, but able to run a Mac operating system: either create a Macintosh conversion or build a Macintosh clone.
Unlike Mac clones that contain little or no original Apple hardware, Mac conversions are essentially modification kits that require the core components of a previously purchased, genuine Apple Mac computer, such as the Macintosh ROM or the motherboard, in order to become a functional computer system.
This places the commercial production of a Mac conversion under the protection of the first-sale doctrine in the U.S. and similar legal concepts in most other countries.
Background
Since the early days of Macintosh computers, manufacturers have sought to fulfill the needs of customers who wanted to have a computer with Mac OS, but with a functionality not provided by Apple’s existing Macintosh (later called Mac) lineup.
Companies making Mac conversions start with a previously purchased, genuine Apple Mac computer, and use them in combination with their own manufactured components to assemble their custom Mac solution. Modifications can be as minor as the addition of a touch-sensitive display bezel to an otherwise factory standard iMac to create for example a kiosk system, or as extensive as the complete replacement of a MacBook's laptop enclosure to create a Tablet Mac.
While this business model of aftermarket modification is most commonly used in the car industry, with one of the most famous examples being the Shelby Mustang, a high performance variant of the Ford Mustang, it has been applied with equal success in the Mac market.
Whereas Mac clones typically aim to compete directly with Apple's solutions through lower prices, commercial Mac conversions rely on offering features/solutions not available from Apple, and where the need for that particular Mac solution is high enough to justify the combined cost of the full price of the Mac donor computer plus the price of the conversion kit and labor. Commercially successful Mac conversions were discontinued when Apple introduced products with competing features.
Legality
By definition, a Macintosh conversion is an aftermarket modification of a previously purchased, genuine Apple Mac computer or laptop, while preserving the core components required to run the Mac operating system, such as the donor Mac's motherboard. Retaining the core Mac computer inside the Mac conversion avoids any of the copyright misuse, DMCA or Mac operating system licensing issues that forms the basis of the legal threat unlicensed Mac clone manufacturers have to face.
The performance of aftermarket modifications is in the U.S. protected by the First-sale doctrine and similar legal concepts in most other countries. Its legality has been tested through litigation, most notably in the automotive industry, where automobile manufacturers have attempted to hinder or suppress automotive aftermarket businesses by means of copyright and/or p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bite%20Club%20%28TV%20series%29 | Bite Club is an Australian crime thriller television series which aired on the Nine Network from 15 August to 3 October 2018. The show centres around a group of shark attack survivors, named the "Bite Club", who are being targeted by a serial killer. It stars Todd Lasance and Ash Ricardo as Detectives Dan Cooper and Zoe Rawlings, along with Dominic Monaghan as Senior Constable Stephen Langley.
Production
On 4 October 2017, the series was announced, with Dominic Monaghan set to star in a lead role. On 11 October, the series was officially confirmed at Nine's upfronts set to air in 2018. The eight-part series began airing on 15 August 2018.
The show centres around a group of shark attack survivors, named the "Bite Club", who are being targeted by a serial killer. Todd Lasance and Ash Ricardo play Detectives Dan Cooper and Zoe Rawlings, who are trying to catch the killer. Monaghan plays Senior Constable Stephen Langley. The rest of the cast includes, Damian Walshe-Howling as psychologist Kristof Olsen, Deborah Mailman as Superintendent Anna Morton, Robert Mammone as Detective Sergeant Jim Russo, Marny Kennedy as semi-pro surfer Amber Wells, Darcie Irwin-Simpson as Detective Claire Hobson, Arka Das as Forensic Specialist Depak Chaudhary, and Pia Miller as Zoe's best friend Kate Summers. Actress Jessica Falkholt will make a posthumous appearance, following her death on 17 January 2018.
Bite Club is written by Sarah Smith and John Ridley, and directed by Peter Andrikidis, Geoff Bennett, Wayne Blair and Jennifer Leacey.
Bite Club began filming on-location in the suburb of Manly in September 2017. Filming took place at Dee Why, Curl Curl Beach and The Steyne pub. The Manly Pavilion became the outside of a police station, while the interior rooms were built at North Head. Other locations considered for the show's setting included Bondi and Maroubra. Filming for the series ended on 7 December 2017.
Cast
Todd Lasance as Detective Constable Dan Cooper
Ash Ricardo as Detective Senior Constable Zoe Rawlings
Dominic Monaghan as Senior Constable Stephen Langley
Deborah Mailman as Superintendent Anna Morton
Damian Walshe-Howling as Kristof Olsen
Robert Mammone as Detective Sergeant Jim Russo
Pia Miller as Kate Summers
Marny Kennedy as Amber Wells
Darcie Irwin-Simpson as Detective Claire Hobson
Arka Das as Depak Chaudhary
Jessica Falkholt as Emma Bailey
Episodes
Reception
Critical reception
David Knox of TV Tonight gave the opening episode two and a half stars out of five. He wrote, "Melodrama is part of the problem of this drama which needs to commit to one of the two genres it straddles. For a crime about a serial killer the travelogue shots and warm hues is pretty confusing." Knox disliked Leacey's "sluggish" direction, and felt that the episode was lacking in energy. He added that the first episode needed to be stronger, with "a bit more teeth to take hold."
Ratings
Home media
The complete series of Bite Club is available on 9now and St |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Arzon | Robin Amelia Arzon is an American exercise instructor and author, best known as an instructor at Peloton, for which she is also the Vice President of Fitness Programming.
Early life and education
Arzon was born in Philadelphia to a Cuban refugee mother and a Puerto Rican father. Her mother is a doctor who taught herself English by watching PBS. Her father is an attorney and former law professor. As a child, she was encouraged to focus on education and family. Athletics were never part of her life growing up.
Arzon attended New York University, where she graduated magna cum laude. Afterwards, she went on to attend Villanova University School of Law.
Career
Law career
Arzon graduated from Villanova University School of Law in 2007 and spent seven years as a corporate litigator at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP. She was inspired and encouraged by her father, also an attorney, to pursue a career in law.
Beginning of fitness journey
In the summer of 2002, while an undergrad, Arzon was taken hostage with 40 others in a wine bar in Manhattan's East Village. "A man, armed with three pistols and a samurai sword, shot three people, doused the group with kerosene and threatened them with a barbecue lighter. He grabbed Arzon by the hair and held the gun and lighter to her head while using her as a human shield to communicate with police. Two patrons eventually tackled the man, giving police the opportunity to enter the bar and subdue him."
This trauma inspired Arzon to begin running for the first time in her life. A year later, in 2003, she saw a flyer for a 10K race at a bank on a Friday afternoon and spontaneously decided to join the run the following morning. This 10K would be Arzon's very first race and first athletic endeavor of her life. She said of the whim, "I had no idea how far the 10km distance was in miles." After the race, she began running 2–3 miles at a time in between her law school classes.
She has since run over 50 races, including 25 marathons, three 50-mile ultramarathons, and one 100-mile race. She ran her first marathon, the New York Marathon, in 2010. She once ran five marathons in five days for MS Run the US in honor of her mother, documented in the documentary Run It Out. She completed her first 100-mile race at the Keys100 - a race that begins in Key Largo and ends in Key West, Florida - in less than 30 hours in 2016.
Transition to health and fitness career
In 2012, Arzon began a career in health and fitness after leaving her job at the law firm. She began this time as a freelance sports reporter, writing for publications like Newsweek and New York Magazine. She did sports reporting from the London Olympics in 2012.
Arzon wanted to be closer to the athletics and wanted to show others that there is an alternative way to be an athlete. She reached out to John Foley, CEO of Peloton, and in 2014 she joined Peloton in New York City as an instructor.
In 2013, Arzon co-founded the fitness movement Undo Ordinary and t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Neural%20Network%20Exchange | The Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) [] is an open-source artificial intelligence ecosystem of technology companies and research organizations that establish open standards for representing machine learning algorithms and software tools to promote innovation and collaboration in the AI sector. ONNX is available on GitHub.
History
ONNX was originally named Toffee and was developed by the PyTorch team at Facebook. In September 2017 it was renamed to ONNX and announced by Facebook and Microsoft. Later, IBM, Huawei, Intel, AMD, Arm and Qualcomm announced support for the initiative.
In October 2017, Microsoft announced that it would add its Cognitive Toolkit and Project Brainwave platform to the initiative.
In November 2019 ONNX was accepted as graduate project in Linux Foundation AI.
In October 2020 Zetane Systems became a member of the ONNX ecosystem.
Intent
The initiative targets:
Framework interoperability
Allow developers to more easily move between frameworks, some of which may be more desirable for specific phases of the development process, such as fast training, network architecture flexibility or inferencing on mobile devices.
Shared optimization
Allow hardware vendors and others to improve the performance of artificial neural networks of multiple frameworks at once by targeting the ONNX representation.
Contents
ONNX provides definitions of an extensible computation graph model, built-in operators and standard data types, focused on inferencing (evaluation).
Each computation dataflow graph is a list of nodes that form an acyclic graph. Nodes have inputs and outputs. Each node is a call to an operator. Metadata documents the graph. Built-in operators are to be available on each ONNX-supporting framework.
See also
Neural Network Exchange Format
Comparison of deep learning software
Predictive Model Markup Language an XML-based predictive model interchange format
PicklingTools: an open-source collection of tools for allowing C++ and Python systems to share information quickly and easily.
References
External links
Microsoft free software
Software using the Apache license
Neural network data exchange formats
2017 software
Applied machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla%20Gomes | Carla Pedro Gomes is a Portuguese-American computer scientist and professor at Cornell University. She is the founding Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability and is noted for her pioneering work in developing computational methods to address challenges in sustainability. She has conducted research in a variety of areas of artificial intelligence and computer science, including constraint reasoning, mathematical optimization, and randomization techniques for exact search methods, algorithm selection, multi-agent systems, and game theory. Her work in computational sustainability includes ecological conservation, rural resource mapping, and pattern recognition for material science.
Education
Gomes received her master's degree in applied mathematics from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1987 and her PhD in computer science from the University of Edinburgh in 1993.
Career and research
Following her PhD, she worked at the Air Force Research Laboratory for five years before joining Cornell University as a research associate in 1998. She served as the Director of the Intelligent Information Systems Institute at Cornell from 2001 to 2008, and joined the faculty in 2003 as an associate professor with joint appointments in the Departments of Computing and Information Science, Applied Economics and Management, and Computer Science.
In 2008, Gomes received a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create the Institute for Computational Sustainability to develop computational methods for environmental, economic, and social sustainability. She became a full professor in the Departments of Computer Science, Information Science and the Dyson School of Economics and Management in 2010.
In 2011, she was a visiting fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2022, she co-leads the Schmidt AI in Science initiative at Cornell with Fengqi You.
Awards and honors
Gomes was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2007 "for significant contributions to constraint reasoning and the integration of techniques from artificial intelligence, constraint programming, and operations research".
She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013.
With Bart Selman and Henry Kautz, she received the 2016 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Classic Paper Award for their 1998 paper Boosting Combinatorial Search through Randomization, which provided "significant contributions to the area of automated reasoning and constraint solving through the introduction of randomization and restarts into complete solvers".
She was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2017.
Notable works
See also
Computational sustainability
Environmental informatics
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Portuguese computer scientists
Portuguese women computer scientists
Artificial intelligence res |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Investigative%20Collaborations | The European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) network is a European collaborative hybrid project of transnational investigative journalism. EIC was established in the fall of 2015 with founding members, including Der Spiegel, El Mundo, Mediapart, the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism (CRJI), and Le Soir, and launched in the winter of 2016. On March 18, 2016, after three months research, they published the results of their first joint investigation spurred on by the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, in which they revealed how in spite of security risk warnings, "the EU’s freedom of goods policy facilitated the sale of weapons leading to [the 2015] terror attacks in Paris." In 2017 working with "over 60 journalists in 14 countries", the EIC published the Football Leaks—the "largest leak in sports history".
Objective
Through "joint reporting and publication", the EIA aims to strengthen the European transnational investigative journalism by joint reporting with the utmost transparency. They exchange documents and articles and coordinate publication, and to improve the tools used in their investigations from one investigation to another—for example in their data processing capabilities, servers, secure forums, etc.
Members
Falter (Austria)
Mediapart (France)
El Mundo (Spain)
Politiken (Denmark)
Le Soir (Belgium)
De Standaard (Belgium)
Der Spiegel (Germany)
L'Espresso (Italy)
NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands)
Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)
Nacional (Croatia)
Expresso (Portugal)
The Black Sea (Romania)
History
At Dataharvest 2015 and other networking events, discussions related to "establishing this European Network" started with "Jörg Schmitt, Jürgen Dahlkamp, Alfred Weinzierl and Klaus Brinkbäumer from Der Spiegel and Stefan Candea from the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism (CRJI). Stefan Candea, a founding partner explained how following the terrorist attacks, such as the November 2015 Paris attacks, journalists "started to bounce ideas off each other." This led to their first collaborative transnational investigation resulting in the series Mapping the Weapons of Terror. Others joined the group, including, "Alain Lallemand from Le Soir, John Hansen from Politiken, Milorad Ivanovic from Newsweek Serbia, Florian Klenk from Falter, Paula Guisado from El Mundo, Vlad Odobescu from The Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism, Michael Bird from The Black Sea, Fabrice Arfi from Mediapart and Vittorio Malagutti from L'Espresso. By 2017, NRC Handelsblad in the Netherlands had joined along with dozens of European media and over forty investigative journalists.
The Black Sea
The Black Sea, led by "award winning journalists and photo-journalists from the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism (CRJI)", is "a web project bringing together journalists, photographers and videographers.
Investigations
Mapping the Weapons of Terror (March 2016)
After three months of research On March 18, 2016, EIC journalists published "Map |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion%20From%20Outer%20Space | Invasion From Outer Space is a 1980 video game designed by Chris Freund for The Software Exchange for the TRS-80 16K Level II microcomputer.
Plot summary
Invasion From Outer Space is a game in which the player must blow up attacking alien ships until the aliens destroy all of the bases.
Reception
Joseph T. Suchar reviewed Invasion From Outer Space (as "Alien Invaders") in The Space Gamer No. 30. Suchar commented that "This game involves no real strategy, but will provide a great deal of excitement and frustration, depending upon your temperament. If you are an arcade game fan, I highly recommend this game."
References
External links
Review in 80 Micro
1980 video games
TRS-80 games
TRS-80-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi%20Matsuoka | is a Japanese computer scientist and the current head of the Riken Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) at RIKEN, the largest Supercomputing center in Japan.
Biography
Matsuoka graduated from Musashi Senior High School in 1982 and the University of Tokyo in 1986. In his student days, he worked for HAL Laboratory, a Japanese video game company, and co-developed Pinball and Rollerball for Nintendo Entertainment System with Satoru Iwata. In 1989, Matsuoka became a research associate and lecturer at the University of Tokyo. In 1993, he submitted his thesis on "Language Features for Extensibility and Re-use in Concurrent Object-Oriented Languages" and acquired his Ph.D. in Science. He went on to become an assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1996 and a full professor in 2001. He also became a visiting professor at the Japanese National Institute of Informatics in 2002, and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2011.
Matsuoka was the lead developer of the TSUBAME supercomputer program during his stay at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. On April 1, 2018, he was appointed as the new director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), where he oversees the development of the Fugaku a.k.a. "Post-K" project tasked with building the successor of the K computer.
Awards
Information Processing Society of Japan Sakai Award (1999)
Gordon Bell Prize (2011)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize (2005)
Sidney Fernbach Award (2014)
References
External links
Tokyo Institute of Technology Global Scientific Information and Computing Center
Matsuoka Lab
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Japanese computer scientists
Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology
University of Tokyo alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Games-3 | Space Games-3 is a 1980 video game by Creative Computing for the TRS-80 Model I Level II.
Plot summary
Space Games-3 is a collection of four games not individually released: Ultratrek, Romulan, Starwars, and Starlanes.
Reception
J. Mishcon reviewed Space Games-3 in The Space Gamer No. 30. Mishcon commented that "The under ten set will enjoy these games, but don't be surprised if they soon tire and move on."
The game was reviewed in The Dragon #43 by Mark Herro. Herro commented that "Even though I may not particularly like all of the games in the package, I think Space Games-3 is well worth its modest price tag. If you're into space games, and you have a TRS-80, at least take a look at this package."
References
1980 video games
TRS-80 games
TRS-80-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnam%20Jahanian | Farnam Jahanian () is an Iranian-American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and higher education leader. He serves as the 10th president of Carnegie Mellon University.
Early life and education
Farnam Jahanian was born in Teheran, Iran in 1961. He emigrated to the United States in 1977 at the age of 16 and completed high school in San Antonio, Texas.
Jahanian received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1982. He earned a master's degree in 1987 and a PhD in computer science in 1989 from the University of Texas at Austin. After receiving his PhD, Jahanian began his career at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he was a research staff member from 1989 to 1993.
Career
University of Michigan
In 1993, Jahanian joined the faculty at the University of Michigan where he would spend the next 21 years. He held the Edward S. Davidson Collegiate Professorship in the College of Engineering and served as Chair for Computer Science and Engineering from 2007 to 2011 and the Director of the Software Systems Laboratory from 1997 to 2000.
His research spans distributed computing, network security and network protocols and architectures. His research has been sponsored by NSF, DHS, DARPA, NSA, ONR as well as companies like Cisco, Intel, Google, Boeing, VeriSign, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. One of Jahanian’s most cited papers is "Safety analysis of timing properties in real-time systems."
While at the University of Michigan, Jahanian led several large-scale research projects that studied the growth and scalability of the Internet infrastructure, which ultimately transformed how cyber threats are addressed by Internet Service Providers. In the late 1990s, his research team, including former students, Craig Labovitz and G. Robert Malan, demonstrated fundamental limitations in the core routing architecture of the Internet by uncovering the fragility of the underlying routing infrastructure. The group’s seminal work on Internet routing stability and convergence served as a catalyst for significant changes in commercial Internet routing software implementation and impacted routing policies employed by Internet Service Providers worldwide. The centerpiece of this work was recognized with an ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award in 2008.
Anticipating the emergence of increasingly complex, widely distributed cyber-attacks on IP-based networks, long before terms such as “distributed denial of service” and “zero-day worms” entered the mainstream, Jahanian’s research team led an effort to develop new techniques that combine network topology information and traffic flow statistics to detect, backtrack and filter DDoS attacks.
Arbor Networks
Jahanian’s contributions to Internet stability and security led to the successful commercialization of his research through Arbor Networks, which Jahanian co-founded with former UM graduate student G. Robert Malan in 2000.
Over a 10-year period, Jahanian led the r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Wrestling%20Network | Global Wrestling Network (GWN) was a digital streaming service and mobile app owned by Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions, a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment and parent company of Impact Wrestling. It primarily featured content from the Impact video library, along with original programming and content from independent and international promotions. The service ceased operating on May 1, 2019, when it was replaced by Impact Plus.
History
The first service to stream Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) content on-demand happened in 2009, when the company launched its own 'TNA Video Vault'. The service changed its name to 'TNA On Demand' in 2010 and ran up until around early 2013. The company also launched the 'TNA Wrestling Plus' YouTube channel - where users could rent pay-per-views and documentaries previously released on DVD. In early 2017, Anthem launched the 'Total Access TNA' (later renamed 'Total Access Impact') originally for UK users after Challenge TV's TNA broadcasting contract had expired.
In June 2017, Executive Vice President of Anthem Sports and Entertainment Ed Nordholm told The Tennessean that the company once known as TNA had rebranded. As part of expanding the brand, Nordholm said he had been planning an on demand service that would tap into TNA's video library. The Tennessean noted that the library was valuable as TNA had previously signed many legendary wrestlers and several wrestlers who appeared in TNA later signed with WWE.
At the time of the rebranding, the company had been named Impact Wrestling after its flagship program, and had assumed the name of Global Force Wrestling (GFW). In October 2017, Jeff Jarrett left the company and it reverted to the Impact Wrestling name as Jarrett owned the rights to GFW. The Global Wrestling Network (GWN) name had been influenced by its connection to GFW.
The launch of GWN was hinted on Impact!, until an announcement on the August 31, 2017 episode revealed a planned release in September. Nordholm appeared on Wrestling Observer Radio on September 9 and stated that the goal of the network was to be an alternative brand to the WWE Network. The network temporarily went live on September 12, 2017 while the infrastructure was being tweaked, but was taken down by the next day.
Global Wrestling Network officially launched on October 10, 2017. A 30-day free trial period was offered at launch. The service features free content for subscribers along with a premium content service for $7.99 USD in all available territories. Over 1,000 hours of content from the Impact Wrestling libraries are available to subscribers but the network also includes tape libraries from the Fight Network, Border City Wrestling, Wrestling at the Chase and other sources.
In November 2017, content from several independent promotions such as WrestleCade, Rocky Mountain Pro, DEFY Wrestling and Future Stars of Wrestling were added to GWN.
On August 14, 2018 Jeff Jarrett and his company Global Force Entertainment anno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20sensing%20%28geology%29 | Remote sensing in geology is remote sensing used in the geological sciences as a data acquisition method complementary to field observation, because it allows mapping of geological characteristics of regions without physical contact with the areas being explored. About one-fourth of the Earth's total surface area is exposed land where information is ready to be extracted from detailed earth observation via remote sensing. Remote sensing is conducted via detection of electromagnetic radiation by sensors. The radiation can be naturally sourced (passive remote sensing), or produced by machines (active remote sensing) and reflected off of the Earth surface. The electromagnetic radiation acts as an information carrier for two main variables. First, the intensities of reflectance at different wavelengths are detected, and plotted on a spectral reflectance curve. This spectral fingerprint is governed by the physio-chemical properties of the surface of the target object and therefore helps mineral identification and hence geological mapping, for example by hyperspectral imaging. Second, the two-way travel time of radiation from and back to the sensor can calculate the distance in active remote sensing systems, for example, Interferometric synthetic-aperture radar. This helps geomorphological studies of ground motion, and thus can illuminate deformations associated with landslides, earthquakes, etc.
Remote sensing data can help studies involving geological mapping, geological hazards and economic geology (i.e., exploration for minerals, petroleum, etc.). These geological studies commonly employ a multitude of tools classified according to short to long wavelengths of the electromagnetic radiation which various instruments are sensitive to. Shorter wavelengths are generally useful for site characterization up to mineralogical scale, while longer wavelengths reveal larger scale surface information, e.g. regional thermal anomalies, surface roughness, etc. Such techniques are particularly beneficial for exploration of inaccessible areas, and planets other than Earth. Remote sensing of proxies for geology, such as soils and vegetation that preferentially grows above different types of rocks, can also help infer the underlying geological patterns. Remote sensing data is often visualized using Geographical Information System (GIS) tools. Such tools permit a range of quantitative analyses, such as using different wavelengths of collected data sets in various Red-Green-Blue configurations to produce false color imagery to reveal key features. Thus, image processing is an important step to decipher parameters from the collected image and to extract information.
Overview
In remote sensing, the electromagnetic radiation acts as the information carrier, with a distance of tens to thousands of kilometers distance between the sensor and the target. Proximal Sensing is a similar idea but often refer to laboratory and field measurements, instead of images showing a la |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dta%20Chida | is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 7-dan. Chida is known for his novel research into shogi opening theory using computer shogi engines.
Early life
Shōta Chida was born on April 10, 1994, in Minoh, Osaka. He learned how to play shogi from an elementary school student living in the same neighborhood when he was five years old.
In September 2006, Chida was accepted into the Japanese Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū as student of shogi professional , and was promoted to the rank of 3-dan in April 2010. Chida obtained full professional status and the rank of 4-dan in April 2013 when he was an 18-year-old third-grade student at Osaka Prefectural Toneyama High School by winning the 52nd 3-dan League (October 2012March 2013) with a record of 15 wins and 3 losses.
Shogi professional
In October 2013, Chida advanced to the finals of the 3rd against Yūki Sasaki, but lost 2 games to 1.
In March 2016, Chida advanced to the finals of the 65th NHK Cup Shogi TV Tournament, but was defeated by Yasuaki Murayama.
In December 2016, Chida faced Sasaki once again and this time defeated him to earn the right to challenge Akira Watanabe for the 42nd Kiō Title. In the best-of-five title match held in February and March 2017, Chida was leading 2 games to 1 after winning Game 3, but Watanabe retained his title by winning the last two games. Also in December 2016, Chida advanced to the final of the 2nd Eiō Tournament, but lost to Amahiko Satō 2 games to none.
In February 2020, Chida defeated Takuya Nagase 2-crown to win the 13th . Chida advanced to the final by defeating Sōta Fujii earlier in the day to end Fujii’s bid who to become only the second player to win the tournament three years in a row. The victory was Chida’s first tournament championship as a professional.
Promotion history
The promotion history for Chida is as follows:
6-kyū: September 2006
3-dan: April 2010
4-dan: April 1, 2013
5-dan: February 12, 2015
6-dan: December 16, 2016
7-dan: March 13, 2019
Titles and other championships
Chida's only appearance in a major title match was in 2017 when he was the challenger for the Kiō title. He has, however, won one non-major title tournament: the 13th Asahi Cup Open in 2020.
Awards and honors
Chida has received a number of Japan Shogi Association Annual Shogi Awards during career. He won the award for "Best New Player" for 201415 as well as the awards for "Most Games Won", "Most Games Played", the Masuda Award for 201617 and the Masuda Award for 20212021. His "Masuda Award" for 20162017 was for his development of Bishop Exchange Reclining Silver variations with King-42/Gold-62/Rook-81 and Rapid Attack Left Mino strategies against Yagura.
Year-end prize money and game fee ranking
Chida has finished in the "Top 10" of the JSA's once since turning professional: 10th place with JPY 16,920,000 in earnings in 2020.
References
External links
ShogiHub: Professional Player Info · Chida, Shota
1994 births
Japanese sho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Weidenfeld | Nicholas Rabb Weidenfeld (born September 26, 1979) is an American television producer and executive who led program development for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and Fox's Animation Domination High-Def programming blocks. He won producing Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2013 for the series Childrens Hospital. Since 2016, he has been the president of programming for television channel Viceland.
Biography
Weidenfeld was born in 1979 to Edward Weidenfeld, a Washington DC lawyer, and Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld, former press secretary to First Lady Betty Ford. He grew up in Georgetown and attended Georgetown Day School. While there, he parlayed his interest in rap into assignments writing up interviews for little-known popular culture magazines and websites. He started the alternative magazine While You Were Sleeping in the late 1990s, and reviewed music for magazines Seventeen and Teen Vogue. At Columbia University, he was a liberal arts major. He interned at the Pentagon.
In 2004, he arranged to interview Mike Lazzo, a senior executive at Atlanta's Cartoon Network for an in-depth piece (intended for Esquire magazine, but never published) about the network's Adult Swim block of programming. The two got along well. Lazzo wasn't familiar with Weidenfeld's satirical While You Were Sleeping, but his staff was. Partly on the strength of that, Lazzo offered him a job as director of program development at Adult Swim.
The position would entail shepherding projects from greenlighting to air. Adult Swim was a small operation at the time. Weidenfeld's first responsibility was to find talent, particularly developers outside the traditional animation pipelines, who could help the company grow beyond animation into live action. In seven years there, Weidenfeld developed, among others, Robot Chicken, the Peabody Award-winning animated series The Boondocks, Delocated, and Childrens Hospital, in addition to providing the voice of Peanut Cop in 12 oz. Mouse. For Childrens Hospital, he would win producing Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2013.
In June 2008, he married Amantha Starr Walden, a music executive at Adult Swim and daughter of the late record label executive Phil Walden. By October 2011, when their son was born, they had moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles.
In February 2012, then Fox President, Kevin Reilly tapped Weidenfeld to lead the network's foray into late-night Saturday animation. Dubbed Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD), the 90-minute programming block would be filled with 15-minute shows broken up by shorter bits. Fox built a 12,500-square-foot, 120-person, animation studio, ADHD Studios, with Weidenfeld at its head, and he founded his own production company, Friends Night, to license content to the network. Aiming for comedy that would appeal to an audience younger than himself, he tried to hire only young candidates who had never paid to watch television.
ADHD premiered in July 2013. Fox took the underperforming experiment off the air in June 2014 because it fail |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NextGen%20Jane | NextGen Jane is a data-driven women's healthcare company known for inventing a smart tampon system that offers insight into a woman's reproductive health system.
History
In 2013, co-founder Ridhi Tariyal was part of the first class of the Blavatnik Fellowship at Harvard University. The purpose of the fellowship is to place recent MBA graduates in labs across Harvard with the goal of commercializing life science-based enterprises.
Coming out of the fellowship, Tariyal and co-founder Stephen Gire developed intellectual property for a Smart Tampon System to gather genomic information about a woman's health. In the menstrual blood, they think will find early markers of endometriosis and, ultimately, a variety of other disorders. The surgeons diagnose endometriosis by inserting a small camera into the pelvic cavity to look for endometrial cells in places other than the lining of the uterus. When wayward cells are found, the diseased tissue can be removed. But this process is it is uncomfortable and impractical for women's daily lives. So, the method of analyzing the menstrual blood retained in the tampons aims to improve the diagnostic index of these diseases.
NextGen Jane was founded in 2014 with this IP as its core patent technology, and its headquarters are located in Oakland, California, United States. Initially, the company had nothing to do with a tampon. It was about fertility and empowering women to manage their own reproductive health by themselves. Later on, the tampon aspect was added to help women manage their reproductive healthcare much better.
Products and services
NextGen Jane offers insight into women's reproductive health through its Smart Tampon System - a device that can help track biological changes in a woman's body and enables them to manage their healthcare more autonomously.
References
American companies established in 2014
Companies based in Oakland, California
Health care companies based in California
Women's health |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Schoen | Alan Hugh Schoen (December 11, 1924 – July 26, 2023) was an American physicist and computer scientist best known for his discovery of the gyroid, an infinitely connected triply periodic minimal surface.
Professional career
Alan Schoen received his B.S. degree in physics from Yale University in 1945, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1951 and 1958, respectively. His doctoral dissertation was entitled “Self-Diffusion in Alpha Solid Solutions of Silver-Cadmium and Silver-Indium.” After completing graduate work he was employed (between 1957 and 1967) as a research physicist by aerospace companies in California, and also worked as a free-lance solid-state physics consultant. In 1967, he took the position of senior scientist at NASA's Electronics Research Center (ERC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he did geometry research and served as the Chief of the Office of Geometrical Applications. While at NASA, he also worked on expandable space frames. In 1970, Schoen accepted a position at California Institute of the Arts, where he taught calculus and computer graphics. In 1973, he accepted a teaching position in the Department of Design at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), where he taught computer graphics, algebra, and analytic geometry to design students. This was a former home department of Buckminster Fuller - an American designer and inventor who popularized the geodesic dome. In 1982, Schoen accepted a joint appointment in the Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science at SIUC. In August 1985, he moved to the SIUC campus in Nakajo, Japan, where he taught a course in computer science and also helped to teach English at a local Japanese junior high school. Upon his return to Carbondale in 1988, he taught FORTRAN and Digital Design in the Electrical Engineering Department at SIUC until his retirement in 1995.
After retiring from academia he continued his work on numerous infinite families of minimal surfaces and on inventing geometric puzzles and images. He was active in the early days of the recreational math conference called Gathering 4 Gardner.
Contributions
Alan Schoen is best known for discovering (while working at NASA) a minimal surface that he named the gyroid. The name stems from the impression in the gyroid's structure that each continuous channel in the array, along different principal crystallographic axes, has connections to additional intersecting channels, which “gyrate” along the channel length. The gyroid has become popular among scientists as more and more new occurrences of it in nature are being discovered.
Earlier in his career, while conducting his doctoral research on atomic diffusion in solids (1957), Schoen discovered that for self-diffusion in crystalline solids, there is a simple relation between the Bardeen-Hering correlation factor and the isotope effect that makes it possible to distinguish between vacancy and interstitial di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bachelor%20Canada%20%28season%203%29 | The Bachelor Canada (season 3) is the third season of the W Network reality television series The Bachelor Canada. The season premiered on October 11, 2017. This season features 33-year-old Chris Leroux, a retired professional baseball player from Mississauga, Ontario.
Bachelorettes
Future appearances
Bachelor in Paradise Canada
Season 1
Stacy Johnson and Lisa Mancini returned for the first season of Bachelor in Paradise Canada. Johnson split from Mike Ogilvie week 4. Mancini split from Connor Rogers week 5.
Season 2
Mancini returned for the second season. She split from Connor Brennan week 6.
Call-out order
The contestant received a first impression rose
The contestant received a rose during the date
The contestant was eliminated
The contestant was eliminated during the date
The contestant was eliminated outside the rose ceremony
The contestant quit the competition
The contestant won the competition
Episodes (dates)
Week 1
Original airdate: October 11, 2017
Bachelor Chris Leroux meets the bachelorettes. No dates occur this week.
First Impression Rose: Dee.
Rose Ceremony: Chelsea, Madelaine, Pricilla, Shaleen and Stephanie do not receive a rose and are eliminated.
Week 2
Original airdate: October 18, 2017
One-on-one: Lyndsey. Chris takes Lyndsey on a plane ride over an active volcano in Costa Rica. Chris' fear of flying brings them closer together. They enjoy drinks in a treetop hut, where Chris expresses concern over the age difference between him and Lyndsey, but she convinces him that she's ready for love. They share the first kiss of the season and she receives a rose.
Group Date One: April, Brittany W., Catie, Lisa, Meghan, Mikaela. Each woman has the chance to pose with Chris for a Costa Rican beach photo shoot. That evening, they enjoy some poolside drinks, where each woman gets some one-on-one time with Chris. Catie receives the date rose.
Group Date Two: Ashley, Brittany M., Dee, Jessie, Kait, Lara, Shanti, Stacy. Due to the extreme Costa Rican heat, Chris decides to forego the beach sports day he had planned, and instead meets the ladies at their villa to enjoy some time with them. Shanti throws the other women under the bus to Chris. Later, Chris meets the group for some champagne and one-on-one time, and surprises them with a fire poi dancer. Chris asks Shanti to leave because she brings too much stress to him and the group. No date rose is given.
Cocktail Party: Chris cancels the cocktail party in favour of going directly into the rose ceremony.
Rose Ceremony: Ashley does not receive a rose and is eliminated.
Week 3
Original airdate: October 25, 2017
Group Date One: Catie, Stacy, Meghan, Mikaela. Chris surprises the women with a trip to an eco adventure park. They go zip-lining, and Meghan faces her fear of heights. They finish the date with some champagne, where the women get some one-on-one time with Chris. Mikaela receives the date rose.
Group Date Two: April, Brittany M., Brittany W., Dee, Jessie, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%20Kandel | Sean Kandel is Trifacta's Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder, along with Joseph M. Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer. He is known for the development of new tools for data transformation and discovery and is the co-developed of Data Wrangler, an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation.
Education and Research
Kandel graduated from Stanford University in 2013 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. As a Ph.D. student in the Visualization Group at Stanford, he designed and built interactive tools for data analysis, management, and visualization.
He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2013 for his thesis on Interactive systems for data transformation and assessment under primary advisors Jeffrey Heer. While at Stanford, he published multiple research papers and articles with Trifacta co-founders Jeffrey Heer and Joseph Hellerstein on topics of big data analysis, data quality assessment, and visualization for data transformation, as well as other big data research. Kandel’s major research contribution to date has been as co-developer of Data Wrangler, a research initiative between Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. The project resulted in the company Trifacta eventually selling Data Wrangler as a commercialized product.
Awards and recognition
In 2017, Kandel was a recipient of an award for Silicon Valley’s young business leaders who are impacting their industries and their communities, Silicon Valley’s 40 Under 40 list. Import.io also included Sean in their list of 40 Data Mavericks under 40 list.
He frequently presents at a variety of big data conferences including Strata World and Hadoop Users Group UK on topics including data lineage, data transformation, machine learning and semi-structured data, big data project success, and other industry subject areas.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer%20data%20platform | A customer data platform (CDP) is a collection of software which creates a persistent, unified customer database that is accessible to other systems. Data is pulled from multiple sources, cleaned and combined to create a single customer profile. This structured data is then made available to other marketing systems. According to Gartner, customer data platforms have evolved from a variety of mature markets, "including multichannel campaign management, tag management and data integration."
Capabilities
Commonalities across CDPs:
marketer-managed;
unified, persistent, single database for customer behavioral, profile and other data, from any internal or external source;
consistent identifier that links all of a customer's data;
accessible by external systems and structured to support marketers' needs for campaign management, marketing analyses and business intelligence;
provide a 360-degree view of the customer;
group customers into audience segments; and
allow users the capability to predict the optimum next move with a customer.
In addition, some CDPs provide additional functions such as marketing performance measurement analytics, predictive modeling, and content marketing.
Data collection
A main advantage of a CDP is its ability to collect data from a variety of sources (both online and offline, with a variety of formats and structures) and convert that disparate data into a standardized form. Some of the data types a standard CDP should work with include:
Customer events: Browsing activity, actions on a website or in an app, clicks on a banner, etc.
Transactional data: Data including purchases, returns, data from a POS terminal.
Customer attributes: Age, gender, birthday, date of first purchase, segmentation data, customer predictions
Campaign evaluation data: Impressions, clicks, reach, engagement, etc.
Customer-company history: data from interactions with customer service, NPS scores, data from chatbots, social media posts, survey verbatims, focus group transcripts, call centre audio files etc.
Marketing automation systems
A CDP is fundamentally different in design and function when compared with marketing automation systems, though CDPs provide some of the functionality of marketing systems and customer engagement platforms. CDP tools are designed to talk to other systems. They retain details from other systems that the engagement or automation tool does not. This is valuable for trend analysis, predictive analytics, and recommendations that can leverage historical data.
CDP vs DMP
A data management platform (DMP) collects anonymous web and digital data. CDPs collect data that is tied to an identifiable individual. Users of CDP can leverage the intelligence to provide more personalized content and delivery. A DMP enables marketers to serve targeted ads programmatically and at scale using anonymized customer data in the form of third-party browser cookies.
A data warehouse or data lake collects data, usually from the same s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki%20Miura%20%28shogi%29 | is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a former Kisei title holder and became the first active Class A professional to lose to a computer when he lost to the GPS Shogi program in April 2013.
In October 2016, he was falsely accused of cheating in the 29th Ryūō challenger controversy, which resulted in him losing the chance to play for the Ryūō title. A third-party investigative panel was convened and eventually cleared Miura of all charges. The panel's findings led to the resignation of the Japan Shogi Association's president as well as the dismissal of several board members.
Early life and apprentice professional
Miura was born in Takasaki, Gunma on February 13, 1974. In June 1987, he entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū as a protegee of shogi professional . Miura achieved the rank of 1-dan in 1989 and obtained professional status and the rank of 4-dan in October 1992.
Shogi professional
Miura's first appearance in a major title match came in 1995 when he challenged Yoshiharu Habu for the 66th Kisei title. Miura defeated Taku Morishita in the challenger playoff game to advance to the title match against Habu, but ended up losing the match 3 games to 0. The following year Miura defeated Nobuyuki Yashiki to advance to the 67th Kisei title match and once again challenge Habu. This time Miura won the match 3 games to 2 to hand Habu his first loss in a title match since becoming a 7-crown (simultaneously holding seven major titles at the same time). Miura was trailing the match after three games, but came back to win the next two for his first major title. Miura, however, was unable to defend his title in 1997 when he lost the 68th Kisei title match to Yashiki 3 games to 1.
In October 1998, Miura won the a tournament for players ranked 6-dan or lower who are 26-years-old or youngerby defeating Naruyuki Hatakeyama 2 games to 0. While in March 2002, Miura defeated Manabu Senzaki to win the 52nd NHK Cup TV Shogi Tournament.
Miura finished first in 20092010 Class A in Meijin league play with a record of 7 wins and 2 losses to earn the right to challenge Habu for the 68th Meijin title but lost the match 4 games to 0.
Miura became the first active Class A professional to lose an officially sanctioned game to a computer when he was defeated by GPS Shogi in April 2013. Miura was participating in the 2nd Denou-sena series of games between five shogi professionals and five computer programsand his game was the final one of the series.
In January 2014, Miura defeated Takuya Nagase to win the 39th Kiō challenger tournament (20132014) to advance to the 39th Kiō title match against Akira Watanabe. Miura was, however, unable to win a single game with Watanabe defending his title 3 games to 0.
On August 27, 2018, Miura defeated Daisuke Nakagawa in a 60th Ōi tournament preliminary round game to become the 54th professional shogi player to win 600 official games.
29th Ryūō challenger controversy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDME-CD | WDME-CD (channel 48) is a low-power, Class A television station in Washington, D.C., airing programming from the classic television network MeTV. Owned and operated by network parent Weigel Broadcasting, the station maintains a transmitter in Ward Circle in Washington's northwest quadrant.
History
The station signed on for the first time on September 29, 1989, as W48AZ in Winchester, Virginia, a relay of the original WAZT-LP in Woodstock (then W10AZ, now WDCO-CD). The WAZT network offered some programming from Cornerstone and other religious networks, but it generally did not show them in-pattern with those networks, and it also broadcast some secular syndicated programming and classic television shows.
W48AZ changed its callsign to WAZW-LP on August 20, 1999. The station gained Class A status on December 26, 2000, becoming WAZW-CA.
Ruarch sold the WAZT stations to JLA Media & Publications (no relation to ABC affiliate WJLA-TV, channel 7) in 2006. Jones Broadcasting acquired the stations out of Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011.
Jones Broadcasting sold the group of stations to Venture Technologies Group in December 2013. Venture immediately began moving WAZT and its sister stations to the far larger Washington, D.C. television market. After spending most of its time as a religious broadcaster branded as simply "WAZT", the station and its relays changed to the branding "Faith Television Network" under Venture's ownership.
WAZT-CD's callsign was changed to WDCO-CD on October 11, 2017. On the same day, Winchester repeater WAZW-CD became WAZT-CD. On January 24, 2018, Faith Television Network announced it would cease broadcasting. All four remaining stations in the network became full-time affiliates of Jewelry Television on January 31.
On June 25, 2020, Venture Technologies Group filed an agreement with the FCC to sell WDCO-CD and WIAV-CD to Sinclair Broadcast Group (owner of WJLA-TV) for $8.5 million. The sale was completed on October 15, making them Sinclair's second and third properties in the Washington market, alongside WJLA-TV. On the same day, WDCO-CD and WIAV-CD flipped to Sinclair's TBD multicast network, simulcasting WJLA-TV's fourth digital subchannel in 1080i full high definition.
WAZT-CD was not included in the sale and continued to air Jewelry TV programming. It was later sold to Weigel Broadcasting in September 2021 for $3 million.
On April 21, 2022, the station's callsign changed to WDME-CD.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
MeTV official website
DME-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1989
1989 establishments in Virginia
Weigel Broadcasting
MeTV affiliates
Story Television affiliates
Catchy Comedy affiliates
OnTV4U affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada%20LAC | The High Capacity Line (in Spanish Línea de Alta Capacidad, commonly known as LAC) is a BRT (bus rapid transit) system for the city center of Granada (Spain) integrated into its urban bus network. Its main objective is to provide a high frequency service to the center district, complementing the Granada Metro and the rest of urban bus lines.
It was inaugurated on June 29, 2014. Its management and ownership, as the rest of urban bus lines, corresponds to the area of mobility of the Mayor of Granada.
Line
The High Capacity Line crosses in an exclusive way the main axis of the city. Starting from La Caleta, follows through Andalucia Ave., Cruz del Sur, Sur Ave., Constitucion Ave.,Gran Vía, Reyes Católicos, Puerta Real, Acera del Darro and Paseo del Violón; turns in the Aviación Roundabout to get back with the same itinerary. In these four kilometres of tour are located the major concentration of shops and hostelry, monuments and centres of cultural interest or administrative.
Fleet
LAC's fleet is composed of fifteen articulated buses, Mercedes-Benz "CapaCity" model. Each vehicle is 20 meters long and has a capacity of approximately 200 passengers. They have four doors that allow the entrance and exit of passengers, one of them with a ramp to allow access for people with reduced mobility. Inside the vehicles, the system is provided with information screens for the traveler and automated public address system.
References
External links
Granada mayor website dedicated to LAC
Bus rapid transit
Granada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torbeo | Torbeo is a Galician parish of the municipality of Ribas de Sil, in Spain. The parish has a population of 82 inhabitants according to INE data for the year 2019. distributed in 12 localities. The parish is located on a slope south of the River Sil, within the Ribeira Sacra.
Geography
All these towns are surrounded by centenaries and splendid forests of chestnut trees. It has 481 ha of neighboring hills of the parish and a total area of 1620 ha.
In A Cubela there is a spectacular and famous meander called meander of A Cubela.
Location
Villages and neighborhoods
It has different population centers, which are:
Los Vilares
Moreiras de Abaixo
Moreiras de Medio
Moreiras de Arriba
San Lourenzo
A Ventosa
Torbeo
Neighborhoods of Torbeo:
O Barrio
Campos
O Carballiño
Lama de Paio
O Outeiro
Pacios
Paredes
San Martiño
A Cubela
Filgueiro
As Cortes
As Pozas
As Fontes
History
Sebastián de Miñano, "Individual of the Royal Academy of History, and of the Society of Geography of Paris" published in 1828 the "Geographical and Statistical Dictionary of Spain" and says of Torbeo: "On the other side of this river finds the extensive and rich abbey and stump of Santa Maria de Torveo, on a very high slope and with several gorges populated with chestnut trees. " Torbeo was a city council, had 1030 inhabitants in 1827 and Floridablanca in 1785 defines Torbeo as "Coto Redondo, Ecclesiastical Manor and Secular Lordship, Province of Orense and Jurisdiction of Torbeo, with Ordinary Mayor of Secular Lordship". There is evidence of an important monastery from the 12th to the 16th century. There are many texts referring to Vasco Pérez de Quiroga (born in 1135), buried in the abbey of Torbeo and whose tombstone could be read; "Here is the Bon Quiroga rich ome of Castella, very gracious and charitable that no one should die of fame, requiescat in pace". In 1555, in the "Refranero or proverbs in romance" of Hernán Núñez, the following saying: "When you go to Torbeo leva or bread not seo". Its abbey has 100 vassals in the days of Felipe II.
Well-known is also Filomena Arias "The Witch or Wise of Torbeo", a singular case of curanderismo and divination in the deep Galicia of the end of the last century and beginning of the present. His fame was such that Torbeo came people from all over Galicia, León, Ponferrada and Asturias, in search of their miraculous remedies and their visions. The "work and miracles" of Filomena is present in numerous publications; in "Wood of Boj" by Camilo José Cela, in "Lendas Galician of oral tradition", in the "Guide of Galicia naxica", ...
Featured Places
The most well-known monument is the 12th-century Romanesque church of Santa María, defined as "one of the best and most elegant examples of Galician rural Romanesque" in the book by D. José Ramón Fernández, published by the Instituto Diego Velázquez of the Higher Council of Scientific Research in 1945. Another well-known and singular building of Torbeo is the Pazo da Casa Nov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/181st%20Mixed%20Brigade | The 181st Mixed Brigade (), was a mixed brigade of the Spanish Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War.
Data are lacking regarding the names of the commanders of this unit, but the names of some soldiers are known.
History
Northern Army unit
A 181st Mixed Brigade had been planned by the Spanish Republican Army Chief of Staff formed by battalions belonging to the Infantería de Marina Corps. It would have been placed under the 56th Division of the IX Army Corps of the Northern Army (Ejército del Norte), but the Republic was defeated by the rebel faction in the War in the North and the projected unit could not be established.
Latter unit
On 30 April 1938 a new unit named '181st Mixed Brigade' was established in Andalusia. It was placed under the 54th Division of the IX Army Corps of the Andalusian Army (Ejército de Andalucía) and had four battalions, the 721, 722, 723 and 724.
On 12 June 1938, in the face of the dire situation at the Levantine Front owing to the Levante Offensive the whole 54th Division was made part of the XIII Army Corps of the Levantine Army (Ejército de Levante) and moved towards Castellón. The 181st Mixed Brigade arrived to the front line on 21 July —although other sources claim that it took part in the 20 July combats, and after a few days the Levante Offensive drew to a close.
This unit then withdrew to the XYZ Line seeking the protection it afforded and stayed in that inactive front stretch until the end of the war.
See also
Mixed Brigades
XYZ Line
References
External links
Archivo General Militar de Ávila
La Guerra Civil Española y sus victimas
Copia digital - Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa
181 Brigada Mixta; Cátedra Pedro Ibarra, Universidad Miguel Hernández
Military units and formations established in 1938
Military units and formations disestablished in 1939
Mixed Brigades (Spain) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemins%20de%20fer%20de%20la%20Basse-Egypte | The Chemins de fer de la Basse-Egypte built and operated a network of up to seven lines of metre-gauge (3 ft 3⅜ in) railway track in the area around Mansourah in Egypt.
History
The Chemins de Fer de la Basse-Egypte were founded on 26 January 1896 by the Belgian baron Édouard Empain (born 1852; died 1929) as a PLC.
The construction of the railway line was managed by the Belgian engineer (born 1862; died 1932). The main line connected Mansourah (on the Nile river) to Matarieh (on the far side of Lake Manzala from Port Said).
The turnover increased from £E 26,199 in 1904, over £E 29,872 in £1905, E 32,122 in 1906 to £E 36,740 in 1907. Subsequently, it decreased to £E 35,760 in 1908 and £E 35,184 in 1909.
In 1936, the company owned 22 locomotives, 94 coaches and 367 goods wagons.
References
External links
Railway Stations List
Railway companies of Egypt
Metre gauge railways in Egypt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tela%20Botanica | Tela Botanica is a collaborative network of francophone botanists (about 47 000 enrolled in 110 countries at the beginning of 2020).
It served as a model for the network of entomologists Tela Insecta, which is developing in partnership with Tela Botanica.
Context
The Tela Botanica network was created with the aim of supporting the renewal of botany in the French-speaking world, in the context of the protection of the planet's resources and the need for their sustainable exploitation.
History
The Tela Botanica network was created in December 1999 and is managed by a French association: Association Tela Botanica. Its founding members include three legal entities (the Société botanique de France, the botanical review La Garance voyageuse and the association ACEMAV) and the initiator of the project is Daniel Mathieu.
The headquarters of the association is located at the Institute of Botany of Montpellier (Montpellier 2 University). In four years, the network doubled its number of registrants, whereas it took seven years to reach the ten thousandth registrant. The 20,000th member joined the association on April 22, 2013. By 2014, the network has approximately 24,000 registered members and approximately 13,000 pages of the site are accessed daily.
Aims
Its main objectives are:
to create links between francophone botanists;
to set up collective projects;
to collect data to make available to botanists;
to bring together the initiatives that contribute to the development of botany, including "digital botany".
Operation
The Tela Botanica network is aimed at all persons, whether natural or legal, interested in the knowledge and protection of the plant world, in an ethic of respect for nature, man and his environment.
Its operation is based on two essential choices:
the logic and ethics of the collaborative networks for the mode of participation of the members (cf the work of Jean-Michel Cornu);
the massive use of ICT (information and communication technologies) as a means of exchanging among members through its internet portal of French-speaking botany.
All software and applications developed under the network are licensed under CeCILL. The data and documents are mainly distributed under a free Creative Commons license. A close collaboration is established with the French-speaking botanical portal of Wikipedia.
Registration for the Tela Botanica network is free of charge. It gives the possibility to use the logistical and technical means of the Network to set up and develop projects, to participate in the different groups animated within the network and to receive by e-mail the weekly newsletter of botanical news. Registration is done online from the Internet and a global mapping system can view the location of the 15,000 registered (as of June 8, 2011) of the network in more than 60 countries.
The network is run by a nonprofit organization. , the organization had 10 employees and a budget of , 68% of which came from government grants. An |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20General | Vector General (VG) was a series of graphics terminals and the name of the Californian company that produced them. They were first introduced in 1969 and were used in computer labs until the early 1980s.
The terminals were based on a common platform that read vectors provided by a host minicomputer and included hardware that could perform basic mathematical transformations in the terminal. This greatly improved the performance of operations like rotating an object or zooming in. The transformed vectors were then displayed on the terminal's built-in vector monitor.
In contrast to similar terminals from other vendors, the Vector General systems included little internal memory. Instead, they stored vectors on the host computer's memory and accessed them via direct memory access (DMA). Fully equipped VG3D terminals ran at about $31,000 including a low-end PDP-11 computer, compared to machines like the IBM 2250 which cost $100,000 for just the terminal.
Among a number of famous uses known within the computer graphics field, it was a VG3D terminal connected to a PDP-11/45 that was used to produce the "attacking the Death Star will not be easy" animations in Star Wars.
Description
Hardware
A common attempt in the late 1960s to improve performance of graphics display, especially in 3D, was to use special terminals that held a list of vectors in internal memory and then used hardware or software running in the display controller to provide basic transformations like rotation and scaling. As these transformations were relatively simple, they could be implemented in the terminal for relatively low cost, and thereby avoid spending time on the host CPU to perform these operations. Systems performing at least some of these operations included the IDI, Adage, and Imlac PDS-1.
A key innovation in the VG series terminals was the use of direct memory access (DMA) to allow it to access a host computer's memory. This meant that the terminals did not need much storage of their own, and gave them the ability to rapidly access the data without it being copied over a slower link like the serial-based Tektronix 4010 or similar systems. The downside to this approach is that it could only be used on machines that offered DMA, and only through a relatively expensive adaptor.
The basic concept was that the host computer would run calculations to produce a series of points for the 2D or 3D model and express that as 12-bit values, normally stored in 16-bit words with extra stuffed status bits. The terminal would then periodically interrupt the computer, 30 to 60 times a second, and quickly read out and display the data. Each point was read one-by-one into the local memory registers for temporary storage while mathematical functions were applied to them to scale, translate and (optionally) rotate, and when the final values were calculated, those points were sent to the cathode-ray tube (CRT) for display.
There were three different models of the coordinate transformation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20%28virtual%20assistant%29 | Alice ( (Alisa)) is a Russian intelligent personal assistant for Android, iOS and Windows operating systems and Yandex's own devices developed by Yandex. Alice was officially introduced on 10 October 2017. Aside from common tasks, such as internet search or weather forecasts, it can also run applications and chit-chat. Alice is also the virtual assistant used for the Yandex Station smart speaker.
History
The development of Alice began at the end of 2016, when the IT market was trending toward the development of virtual assistants: the market already had Siri from Apple, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Cortana from Microsoft. At that time, Yandex had already implemented voice control in Search, Navigator, and other applications, and was busy creating a voice assistant capable of interacting with humans in a meaningful dialogue - a fundamentally more complex system that uses a multilayer neural network.
The official launch of Alice was announced on October 10, 2017: the assistant appeared in the Yandex search app for Android and iOS and a beta version of the voice assistant for Microsoft Windows.
According to Yandex statistics published in May 2018, Alice is installed in 53% of smartphones in Russia and is available in the navigator in more than 20 million cars.
Name and personality
A special feature of Alice was the personality developed by the Yandex team together with journalist and former head of the company's marketing group Vladimir Guriev. It was decided that the voice assistant would be a young, ironic girl, ready to help the owner of a smartphone. The voice of "Alice" was dubbing actress Tatiana Shitova, who voiced most of Scarlett Johansson's characters and the voice of OS1, who called herself "Samantha", in the Russian dubbing of Spike Jonze's "Her".
Choosing a name for the voice assistant went through several stages. First, a list of requirements was formed: the name should not contain the letter "er", which is not pronounced by small children, and the name should not be part of common phrases. To reduce the number of false positives, the name should not have been one of the most common. First, Yandex staff compiled a list of names that they thought were appropriate for the voice assistant in character. Based on this list, a poll was made for "Yandex.Toloka" users, the participants of which were required to determine the character traits of a girl by name. In the final survey with a large margin won the name Alice. In the testing of the name, which was held for five months, several tens of thousands of people took part. For families with other Alices, the voice assistant added an optional activation by the "Listen, Yandex" command.
Technologies
"Alice" is built into various Yandex applications: search application, Yandex.Navigator, and in the mobile and desktop versions of Yandex.Browser.
It is possible to communicate with the assistant by voice and by entering requests from the keyboard. Alice answers either directly i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20Hill%20Fort | Bar Hill Fort was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It was built around the year 142 A.D.. Older maps and documents sometimes spell the name as Barr Hill. A computer generated fly around for the site has been produced. Lidar scans have been done along the length of the wall including Bar Hill. Sir George Macdonald wrote about the excavation of the site. Many other artefacts have also been found at Shirva, about a mile away on the other side of Twechar.
Many Roman forts along the wall held garrisons of around 500 men. Larger forts like Castlecary and Birrens had a nominal cohort of 1000 men but probably sheltered women and children as well although the troops were not allowed to marry. There is likely too to have been large communities of civilians around the site.
An altar (RIB 2167) to Silvanus was found in 1895 on Bar Hill. It's thought to have originated from a small shrine outside the fort. The altar is now kept in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow along with others like the one found at Castlecary. A 43 foot deep well was discovered at the site. Several item were recovered from the well. It's possible they were dumped there when the site was abandoned. Shoes from men, women and children were found leading to suggestions of family life. Other recovered items include an altar, bones, shells and coins. Structural materials like building columns, wooden beams were found as was part of the pulley of the well. Videos of some reconstructed objects like a barrel, a window. and various columns have been produced as well as one of a bust of Silenus.
Bar Hill Fort was one of over a dozen forts built along the Antonine Wall from around 140 AD. These follow a short route across Scotland’s central belt which was largely followed in the 18th century when constructing the Forth and Clyde canal. On the south-facing slope of the hill is the headquarters; it is the biggest building that can be seen. The remains of a Roman bathhouse can also be observed.
References
Forts of the Antonine Wall
Archaeological sites in East Dunbartonshire
Roman auxiliary forts in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Paxton%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | William Paxton is a computer scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is one of the founders of Adobe Systems and became one of the original designers and implementors of the PostScript page description language.
In 2021, Paxton was awarded the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize for developing the MESA software for computational stellar astrophysics.
Stanford
Paxton received his PhD from Stanford in 1977. He worked with Doug Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute where the group would build the Online System (NLS) and was there during "The Mother of All Demos".
Xerox PARC
After leaving Stanford, Paxton would join the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where they were working on emerging technologies, including Ethernet, networked personal computers, bitmap displays, graphical user-interfaces, and laser printers.
Adobe
Paxton joined Adobe in 1983. He built the Type 1 font algorithms for PDF. Paxton and his team received the ACM Software System Award in 1989 for the design of the PostScript language and implementation.
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
In 1990 Paxton retired from Adobe Systems and became an unofficial scholar in residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he started working on the physics of stellar evolution. He is responsible for the EZ stellar evolution program and has worked on the redesign of the Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) system.
References
Living people
Adobe Inc. people
University of California faculty
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codewars | Codewars is an educational community for computer programming. On the platform, software developers train on programming challenges known as kata. These discrete programming exercises train a range of skills in a variety of programming languages, and are completed within an online integrated development environment. On Codewars the community and challenge progression is gamified, with users earning ranks and honor for completing kata, contributing kata, and quality solutions.
The platform is owned and operated by Qualified, a technology company that provides a platform for assessing and training software engineering skills.
History
Founded by Nathan Doctor and Jake Hoffner in November 2012, the project initially began at a Startup Weekend competition that year, where it was prototyped. It was awarded first place in that competition, drawing the attention of engineers, and funding interest from two of the judges Paige Craig (angel investor) and Brian Lee (entrepreneur).
After building the first production iteration of the platform, it was launched to the Hacker News community, receiving significant attention for its challenge format and signing up approximately 10,000 users within that weekend.
See also
CodeFights
CodinGame
Competitive programming
HackerRank
External links
AngelList profile
Programming contests
Computer programming
American educational websites
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Energy | United Energy is a Victorian energy network which distributes electricity across east and south-east Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula to more than 640,000 customers, 90% of which are residential. Its network includes 209,000 poles and over 13,000 kilometres of wires. Electricity is received via 78 sub-transmission lines at 46 zone stations, where it is transformed from sub-transmission voltages to distribution voltages.
The company was owned by the DUET Group, which also owned Multinet Gas, which distributes gas in Melbourne's inner eastern suburbs to middle-eastern Victoria. DUET also owned the Western Australian Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline, the sole gas conduit for Perth and coastal Western Australia.
In April 2017, Hong Kong-based Cheung Kong Infrastructure (CKI) proposed to acquire the DUET Group for A$7.4 billion, which was approved by FIRB later that month. CKI also owns CitiPower in Melbourne, Powercor in western Melbourne and western Victoria, and Envestra, which distributes gas through much of Victoria, as well as Queensland and South Australia. After the acquisition, CKI owns three out of five electricity distributors and two out of three gas distributors in Victoria.
References
External links
Electric power companies of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatoo%20Island%20ferry%20services | The Cockatoo Island ferry service, officially known as F8 Cockatoo Island, is a commuter ferry service in Sydney, Australia. Part of the Sydney Ferries network, it is operated by Transdev Sydney Ferries and services the Balmain, Greenwich, Woolwich and Cockatoo Island areas of Sydney Harbour.
History
Prior to 2007, Sydney Ferries and its predecessors operated a ferry service from Circular Quay to Woolwich calling at Balmain East, Balmain, Birchgrove and Greenwich Point with limited services calling at Milsons Point and McMahons Point. Cockatoo Island had been served by direct ferries to and from Circular Quay at shift changeover time at Cockatoo Island Dockyard until the latter closed in 1992.
In April 2007, Sydney Ferries began operating limited services to Cockatoo Island after the island reopened for tourists. Services from Circular Quay served Cockatoo Island after leaving Greenwich Point and then proceeded to Woolwich where they terminated. By December 2010, the calling pattern had been altered with ferries from Greenwich Point proceeding to Woolwich and then to Cockatoo Island to terminate.
When Sydney Ferries introduced route codes in October 2013, the Cockatoo island services were grouped with the Parramatta River ferry services as the F3. On 26 November 2017, the Cockatoo Island service was separated from the Parramatta River service and numbered F8.
The service is usually operated by First Fleet class ferries.
Wharves
References
External links
Cockatoo Island timetable
Ferry transport in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20American%20Baking%20Show%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of The Great American Baking Show, released under the title The Great Holiday Baking Show, premiered on ABC on November 30, 2015 as part of ABC's holiday programming schedule. Six amateur bakers competed in twelve challenges throughout the competition for the title of America's best holiday baker.
This season was hosted by husband and wife duo Nia Vardalos and Ian Gomez. The judging panel consisted of original The Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry and American pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini. As with the British series, this season was filmed in Welford Park with slight holiday decorative modifications made in the set known as "The Tent".
After four weeks of competition, Lauren Katz was crowned the winner with Nicole Silva and Tim Samson as runners-up.
Bakers
Results summary
Color Key:
Episodes
Episode 1: Cookies
For the first signature bake, the bakers were given two hours to make two unique batches of ten cookies, with one batch having icing. Later in the technical bake, bakers only had one hour to bake sixteen brandy snaps according to Mary Berry's recipe. The final bake of the week called the showstopper required bakers to bake a structured gingerbread with decorative designs and cookies around it within five hours.
Color key:
Episode 2: Cake
Festive holiday bakes continued in the tent as bakers had two hours to create a yule log sponge cake with a sweet filling of their choice. The technical bake was based on the recipe of Johnny Iuzzini's tiramisu cake with ladyfinger crisps. For the final showstopper bake, the bakers created a "Twelve Days of Christmas" fruitcake that revolved around one of the verses from the traditional Christmas carol.
Episode 3: Pastry
In the semifinals, the bakers created two batches of breakfast pastries with any holiday flavor of their choosing. The technical tested the skills of the remaining bakers in Mary Berry's Christmas fruit tart. For the final pastry bake, the bakers created a centerpiece made from cream puffs and pastry pieces for a spot in the final three.
Episode 4: Final
The final three begun with the signature bake, a holiday pie, to be baked under two-and-a-half hours. The pie also had to be accompanied with a delectable sauce on the side. In the technical, the bakers baked a candy cane-shaped bread with delicate icing and fruit. The final showstopper of the season lasted five hours, as bakers built up to make a three-dimensional presents cake.
Ratings
References
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2015 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWFX | DWFX (89.9 FM), broadcasting as Fox 89.9, is a radio station owned and operated by Radio Sorsogon Network. Its studios are located at the Ground Floor, Amity Bldg. Cruzada, Washington Drive, Legazpi, Albay, and its transmitter is located at Sto. Niño Village, Brgy. Taysan, Legazpi, Albay.
References
Radio stations in Legazpi, Albay
DWFX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20E.%20Heckman | Nancy E. Heckman is a Canadian statistician, interested in nonparametric regression, smoothing, functional data analysis, and applications of statistics in evolutionary biology. From 2008 to 2018, she served as head of the statistics department at the University of British Columbia.
Heckman earned her PhD in 1982 from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, supervised by Michael B. Woodroofe, was Two Treatment Comparison with Random Allocation Rule.
Heckman's publications won the Canadian Journal of Statistics Award twice, in 1998 and 2001. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian statisticians
Women statisticians
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mean%20Checkers%20Machine | The Mean Checkers Machine is a 1980 video game designed by Lance Micklaus for The Software Exchange for the TRS-80 Level II Model I microcomputer.
Plot summary
The Mean Checkers Machine is a computer version of checkers with four levels of difficulty.
Reception
J. Mishcon reviewed The Mean Checkers Machine in The Space Gamer No. 32. Mishcon commented that "A super program. If you enjoy checkers, I heartily recommend this work."
Reviews
Creative Computing
References
1980 video games
TRS-80 games
TRS-80-only games
Video games based on board games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet%20Miners | Planet Miners (sometimes The Planet Miners) is a game published by the Microcomputer Games division of Avalon Hill for the TRS-80 Level II microcomputer in 1980. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit family, Apple II, and Commodore PET. The game is written in BASIC.
Plot summary
Planet Miners is a game that involves four corporations trying to control the mining rights on the nine planets of Earth's solar system.
Reception
Joseph T. Suchar reviewed Planet Miners in The Space Gamer No. 32. Suchar commented that "Overall I found it tedious. I would not recommend it."
Reviews
Moves #57, p15-16
References
External links
Review in 80 Micro
Review in The Addison Wesley Book Of Atari Software 1984
Review in Creative Computing
1980 video games
Avalon Hill video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore PET games
Microcomputer Games games
TRS-80 games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargon%20II%20%28video%20game%29 | Sargon II is a sequel to Sargon. Both are computer chess programs for home computers.
Development
The Spracklens made significant improvements on the original program and released Sargon II. In 1978 it tied for third at the ninth North American Computer Chess Championship despite being seeded ninth of 12 entries. Sargon finished only behind Belle and Chess 4.7, and defeated AWIT—running on a $5 million Amdahl mainframe—amazing the audience. That year they published a series of articles in BYTE on computer chess programming, stating "we think it would be nice if not everyone had to reinvent the wheel".
Sargon II was ported to a variety of personal computers popular in the early 1980s. The game engine featured multiple levels of lookahead to make it more accessible to beginning chess players. BYTE in 1980 estimated that Sargon II had a 1500 rating at the highest tournament-time difficulty level, and speculated that it was the best chess program for sale, including dedicated devices.
Sargon 2.5, sold as a ROM module for the Chafitz Modular Game System, was identical to Sargon II but incorporated pondering. It received a 1641 rating at the Paul Masson tournament in June–July 1979, and 1736 at the San Jose City College Open in January 1980.
Reception
J. Mishcon reviewed The Software Exchange's Sargon II for the TRS-80 and Apple II in The Space Gamer No. 32. Mishcon commented that "This effort stands strongly in the small group of programs that set industry standards. It is a competent computer opponent in the incredibly complex world of chess. Highly recommended for everyone short of the chess master."
BYTE in 1980 stated "buy it. Sargon II is everything Sargon I should have been ... Nearly every deficiency of Sargon has been corrected." The magazine concluded that the game "is about all we computer chess players could wish for". It also favorably reviewed the ROM-cartridge Sargon 2.5, but advised Sargon II owners to "wait for Sargon 3". Ahoy! in 1984 stated that the VIC-20 version of Sargon IIs "chess-playing capability is excellent" and a bargain compared to dedicated chess computers, and gave a similarly favorable review of the Commodore 64 version. The Addison-Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984 gave the game an overall A− rating, stating that only Chess 7.0 was superior on a microcomputer and concluding that it "is a very worthy opponent for any chess enthusiast". Tim Harding in 1985 called Sargon II the first "halfway competent chess program" for home computers. He stated that "in early 1984 the VIC/Sargon II combination was still among the strongest home computer chess programs" despite its age, with "many features superior to today's weaker amateur programs".
Reviews
Moves #56, p29
References
External links
Four games played by Sargon II
Review in 80 Micro
Review in Compute!
Review in Creative Computing
Review in Commodore Microcomputers
Review in ANALOG Computing
Review in InCider
1979 video games
Apple II games
Assembly language soft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe%20II | Universe II is a computer-moderated, science fiction, play-by-mail game designed by Jon Clemens and published by Clemens and Associates, Inc. in 1979.
Development
According to David Webber, the editor of Paper Mayhem Magazine in 1985, Universe II was started near the end of 1979 by Jon Clemens. He had the idea that it would be a fun hobby for himself and that he could get 30–40 people to play, and they would all have fun. Within a few months, the game grew to the point where it was interfering with his regular business. Then a Space Gamer Readers Survey for 1980 rated Universe II as the best PBM game. As a result, new players poured in and very quickly Jon had more people than he could handle.
Gameplay
Universe II was an open ended, computer-moderated, science fiction, PBM game. Players begin the game with a single starship exploring an unknown universe, and the game begins with a small set of rules until players discover new rules.
Reception
David Bolduc reviewed Universe II in The Space Gamer No. 33. Bolduc commented that "Universe II is my favorite of the PBM games I've played to date. The beginning player is able to learn the game as he goes along, and the more experienced player will be intrigued by the complexity of play that is possible, as well as by the amount of room for cooperation and diplomacy between players. Best of all, Universe II doesn't grow old on you, as many games do. There's always a new singularity to be explored or a lost empire to be encountered."
In the April 1983 edition of Dragon (Issue 72), Michael Gray stated "I found the game to be quite dull and dropped out soon after that. I do remember that the company was very efficient about returning my results quickly."
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Further reading
Capsule-like review of Universe II, Terra II, and Conquest of Insula II.
A comparative review of six PBM games including Universe II.
American games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Space opera role-playing games
Strategy games
Tabletop games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeaDBeeF | DeaDBeeF is an audio player software available for Windows, Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. An ad-supported Android version is available, but has not been updated since 2017. DeaDBeeF is free and open-source software, except on Android.
History
The player was first published in August 2009. Its author cited dissatisfaction with existing music players under Linux as the main reason for writing DeaDBeeF. The name is a reference to the magic number 0xDEADBEEF.
Characteristics
Among DeaDBeeF's functionalities are included:
Support for formats MP3, FLAC, APE, TTA, Vorbis, WavPack, Musepack, AAC, ALAC, WMA, WAV, DTS, audio CD, many forms of module files and music from game consoles. TAK and Opus are supported via ffmpeg/libav.
Cuesheet support, both in built-in format and external files. iso.wv support.
Character encodings Windows-1251 and ISO 8859-1 are supported in addition to UTF-8.
The program doesn't have any dependencies on GNOME, KDE or gstreamer.
Plug-in architecture.
Gapless playback.
Customizable systemd notifications (OSD).
Read and write support for playlists in format M3U and PLS.
Network playback of podcasts using SHOUTcast, Icecast, MMS, HTTP and FTP.
Customizable global keyboard shortcuts.
Tag support (read and write) for ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2, Vorbis comments, iTunes.
Mass tagging and flexible tagging (custom tags).
High-quality resampling.
Bit-perfect output under certain configurations.
Sound output via ALSA, PulseAudio and OSS.
Scrobbling to last.fm, libre.fm or any GNU FM server.
En masse transcoder.
ReplayGain support.
Multi-channel playback.
18-band equalizer.
Simple command-line user interface as well as graphical user interface implemented in GTK+ (version 2 or 3). The GUI is fully customizable.
See also
Comparison of audio player software
References
External links
DeaDBeeF Player on Google Play
Audio players
2009 software
Android (operating system) software
Free software programmed in C
Audio player software that uses GTK
Cross-platform free software
Linux media players
Tag editors for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20the%20Resurrection%2C%20Rostov-on-Don | The Church of the Resurrection (, ) is an Armenian Apostolic church in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
Description
According to 2010 census data, Rostov-on-Don has a population of 41 550 Armenians, which is 3.4% of total city's population.
The construction of the Church of the Resurrection began in October 2005. In 2011 it was finished and the church was consecrated on May 29, 2011.
The church was built in the traditions of Armenian religious architecture. Its total height with the dome is about 40 meters. The building can accommodate about 300 parishioners.
Walls inside and outside were stuffed with pink tuff which was specially brought from Armenia.
In front of the church there are two khachkar stones on both sides of the front door. Khachkars were made of pink tuff and were installed in honor of friendship between Russian and Armenian peoples.
References
2011 establishments in Russia
Churches in Rostov-on-Don |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott%20152 | The Elliot 152 was a vacuum tube fixed-program computer developed for naval gunnery control at the Elliott Brothers laboratory in Borehamwood, England. It was an early example of a digital real-time computer system, and the first computer produced by Elliott Brothers. The first and only unit was made operational in 1950.
The machine used 16 bit words and two's complement binary arithmetic. Instruction words were 20 bits long. Read/write memory was provided by a bank of 16 Williams tubes, a cathode ray tube that could store 256 bits of data – the total memory was 256, 16-bit words. The access time of the memory limited the processor clock speed to 333 kHz. The computer could multiply two numbers in 60 microseconds. The system hardware was built on glass printed circuit board modules, but these proved to be unreliable. Intended as the centrepiece of the MRS5 fire control system, instead the Admiralty proceeded with an alternative design based on analog electronics. However, experience with the 152 was valuable to Elliott Brothers in the development of their other models of computer.
See also
List of vacuum tube computers
References
Vacuum tube computers
Naval guns of the United Kingdom
Early British computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic%20Journey%20to%20Oz | Fantastic Journey to OZ (, ) is a 2017 Russian computer-animated film based on the novel Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers by Alexander Volkov.
The film was directed by Vladimir Toropchin, Fyodor Dmitriev and Darina Schmidt. It is the first animated film from Melnitsa Animation Studio made using computer animation.
The premiere took place on April 20, 2017.
Plot
The envious and power-hungry Urfin Jus wants to become the ruler of Magic Land. He brings the wooden soldiers to life with a magic powder and goes with them to conquer the Emerald City. He is already preparing to celebrate the victory, but in the Magic Land there is also a little girl named Ellie. She wants to go home, but first she needs to help her friends Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion to defeat Urfin Jus and his army.
Cast
Russian Dub
Konstantin Khabensky – Urfin Jus
Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya – Ellie
Sergey Shnurov – General Lan Pirot
Dmitri Dyuzhev – Topotun the Bear
Andrey Lyovin – Totoshka
Yuliya Rudina – Eot Ling the Clown
Sergey Dyachkov – Scarecrow
Valery Solovyov – Tin Woodman
Valery Kukhareshin – The Cowardly Lion
Aleksandr Boyarsky – Ogre
Dmitry Bykovsky-Romashov – Sabretooth Tiger
Mikhail Chernyak – crow Kaggi-Karr
Oleg Kulikovich – Ruf Bilan
English Dub
Marc Thompson – Urfin Jus
Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld - Ellie (as Dorothy)
Tyler Bunch – General Lan Pirot, Ogre (credited as H.D. Quinn)
Erica Schroeder - Totoshka, Grandma
Haven Paschall - Eot Ling the Clown
Billy Bob Thompson – Scarecrow
Tom Wayland – Tin Woodman
Mike Pollock – The Cowardly Lion, Ruf Bilan
Kate Bristol - Crown
Accolade
Sequels
Fantastic Return to Oz: a 2019 Russian computer animated film.
References
External links
Official website
Melnitsa Animation Studio animated films
Animated films based on The Wizard of Oz
Russian 3D films
2017 3D films
2017 films
Russian children's films
Russian animated fantasy films
2017 computer-animated films
Russian animated feature films
Animated adventure films
2010s adventure comedy films
2010s fantasy comedy films
Russian adventure films
2017 comedy films
2010s Russian-language films
Russian animated comedy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20museums%20in%20St.%20Louis | This list of museums in St. Louis and non-profit and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Also included are non-profit and university art galleries.
See also List of museums in Missouri.
Museums
See also
List of museums and cultural institutions in Greater St. Louis
Defunct museums
Cementland, St. Louis, outdoor sculpture park, future uncertain since death of creator in 2011
Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, St. Louis, closed in 2008
International Bowling Museum, St. Louis, moved to Arlington, Texas in 2010
National Video Game and Coin-Op Museum, St. Louis, closed in 1999
St. Louis Museum
References
Explore St. Louis
St. Louis
Museums
Museums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Davidian | Marie Davidian is an American biostatistician known for her work in longitudinal data analysis and precision medicine. She is the J. Stuart Hunter Distinguished Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was president of the American Statistical Association for 2013.
Education and career
Davidian was born in Washington, D.C. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia, initially in mechanical engineering but changing her major to applied mathematics after becoming fascinated by statistics in a class taught by David P. Harrington.
She completed her PhD in 1986 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under the supervision of Raymond J. Carroll, with a dissertation on Variance Function Estimation in Heteroscedastic Regression Models.
She joined the North Carolina State faculty in 1987,
and also holds an adjunct professorship at Duke University.
Books
Davidian is the author of Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurement Data (with D. M. Giltinan, CRC Press, 1995) and editor of Longitudinal Data Analysis (with Fitzmaurice, Verbeke, and Molenberghs, CRC Press 2008).
Awards and honors
Davidian is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
She is the 2007 winner of the Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences,
the 2009 winner of the George W. Snedecor Award "for fundamental contributions to the theory and methodology of longitudinal data, especially nonlinear mixed effects models; for significant contributions to the analysis of clinical trials and observational studies, and for leadership as president of ENAR, as editor, and as a member of the International Biometric Society council",
and the 2011 winner of the Florence Nightingale David Award "for important contributions to the development of methods for analyzing data from longitudinal studies and clinical trials, and for outstanding leadership and dedication to the statistical profession".
She was named Hunter Distinguished Professor in 2017, after previously holding the William Neal Reynolds Professorship since 2005.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
University of Virginia alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
North Carolina State University faculty
Duke University faculty
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Presidents of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise%20Planners | Cruise Planners is a home-based travel agent franchise network. The company is headquartered in downtown Coral Springs, Florida. The company's travel agency franchisees specialize in booking luxury vacations, cruises, tours and travel to destinations around the world. The company has more than 2,500 franchise owners in all 50 states.
The company is a licensed travel agency, and a member of CLIA (Cruise Lines International Association), IFA (International Franchise Association), and ASTA (American Society of Travel Agents).
History
The company was co-founded by Michelle Fee in 1994 in Coral Springs, Florida. Just prior to the retirement of the company's original co-founders Lynn Korn and Marvin Davis in 2007, their shares in the company were purchased by Palm Beach Capital.
In 2013, CEO Michelle Fee, the late COO Vicky Garcia and CFO Tom Kruszewski together purchased the company from Palm Beach Capital. In May 2022, Fee became the sole owner of Cruise Planners. The company continues to be privately held, and has approximately 115 employees at their headquarters in Coral Springs, Florida.
In September 2022, Cruise Planners announced it would join Signature Travel Network, one of the travel industry's largest travel agency networks.
Awards and recognition
Cruise Planners is the most awarded travel franchise company in the industry. Franchise Business Review awarded Cruise Planners "Best in Category" in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and Cruise Planners has been listed on Entrepreneur’s Annual Franchise 500 List since 2004. Cruise Planners was named #20 on Travel Weekly's 2023 Power List.
In 2019, the Broward County Commission proclaimed January 29th as "Cruise Planners Day" in recognition of the company's economic and positive impact on tourism and the community.
References
Travel agencies
American travel websites
Transport companies established in 1994
Travel and holiday companies of the United States
Privately held companies based in Florida
Franchises |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Book%202 | The Surface Book 2 is the second generation of the Surface Book, part of the Microsoft Surface line of personal computers. It is a 2-in-1 PC which can be used like a conventional laptop, or the screen can be detached and used separately as a tablet, with touch and stylus input. In addition to the 13.5-inch screen available in the original Surface Book introduced two years before, it is also available in a 15-inch screen model. It was released in November 2017, and replaced in Microsoft's product line by the Surface Book 3 in May 2020.
Features
Hardware
The Surface Book 2 features a full-body magnesium alloy construction. The device comes in two distinct portions: a tablet that contains the CPU, storage, wireless connectivity and touchscreen, and a hardware keyboard base that contains a high-performance mobile GPU, supported by its own active cooling system.
The device contains two USB 3.0 Gen-1 ports, a USB-C port, 3.5 mm headphone jack, full-sized SD card slot, and two Surface Connect ports (one of which is always occupied by the keyboard base for communication between the two hardware portions, unless the tablet is detached from the base). The front-facing camera contains an infrared sensor that supports login using Windows Hello.
From a hardware perspective, this device marks Microsoft's first time to provide USB-C natively in any Surface device, also supporting USB-C Power Delivery. It was the only Surface computer equipped with USB-C until Microsoft's introduction of the Surface Go, in August 2018.
Software
Surface Book 2 models ship with a pre-installed 64-bit version of Windows 10 Pro and a 30-day trial of Microsoft Office 365. Windows 10 comes pre-installed with Mail, Calendar, People, Xbox (app), Photos, Movies and TV, Groove, and Microsoft Edge. With Windows 10 the Tablet mode is available when the base is detached from the device. In this mode, all windows are opened full-screen and the interface becomes more touch-centric.
Accessories
The Surface Book 2 is backward-compatible with all accessories of its direct predecessors, such as the Surface Dock, Surface Dial and Surface Pen. The device's native pen computing capabilities are based on N-trig technology Microsoft acquired in 2015, but major improvements were made to reduce input latency, add tilt support, and capture up to 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity. Following the device's general public launch, Microsoft has also published a series of software updates that further improved the device's palm rejection and pen computing accuracy.
Reception
The Surface Book 2 received broadly positive reviews, often compared favorably to Apple's MacBook Pro lineup. Most reviews applauded the Surface Book 2's keyboard for offering a class-leading 1.55 mm of key travel, significant performance improvement, well-controlled thermals, and new hinge - now redesigned and built as one singular component that increased device rigidity, improved overall docking reliability, and reduced scre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane-Ling%20Wang | Jane-Ling Wang () is a distinguished professor of statistics at the University of California, Davis who studies dimension reduction, functional data analysis, and aging.
Education and career
Wang graduated from National Taiwan University in 1975 with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics. She earned a master's of arts in mathematics in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1982, obtained a doctorate in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley; her dissertation, supervised by Lucien Le Cam, was Asymptotically Minimax Estimators for Distributions with Increasing Failure Rate.
After starting her faculty career at the University of Iowa, she moved to Davis in 1984. She chaired the statistics department at Davis from 1999 to 2003.
Awards and honors
Wang is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She won the Outstanding Service Award of the International Chinese Statistical Association in 2010. She is the 2016 winner of the Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award of the American Statistical Association. In 2022 she was elected to the Academia Sinica.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women statisticians
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of Iowa faculty
University of California, Davis faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
21st-century American women
Members of Academia Sinica
Taiwanese statisticians
National Taiwan University alumni
American statisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratosa | Keratosa, the keratose sponges or horny sponges, is a subclass of demosponges.
References
External links
Keratosa at the World Porifera Database
Sponge subclasses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus%20Tate | Plus Tate is a network of visual arts organisations in the United Kingdom, led by the Tate gallery in London.
Plus Tate was launched by Jeremy Hunt MP in 2012, initially with 18 partners. 16 new institutions were added to the network in 2015, increasing the size of the network to 35 members, as announced by Nicholas Serota. , Plus Tate member institutions were visited by more than 3.5m people annually, employing around 500 staff, with an annual turnover of around £33 million.
References
External links
Plus Tate website
2012 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 2012
Non-profit organisations based in the United Kingdom
Art and design organizations
Tate galleries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmash | iSmash is a high-street technology repair service, specialising in fixing smartphones, tablets and computers.
History
iSmash was founded by Irish entrepreneur, Julian Shovlin, in 2013 to provide a same-day service for common smartphone repairs. The idea originated from Shovlin's own negative experience having his phone repaired, and wanting a solution for fixing damaged technology. Whilst a Business and Economics student at Trinity College Dublin, Shovlin set up his first repair shop at age 19 and invested £15,000 of savings in the business. This was later followed by a further £900,000 investment of seed money by angel investors.
Stores
The first iSmash-branded store opened on the King’s Road, London in 2013. Since then, iSmash has opened 29 high street, shopping centre and train station locations across the UK, including London, Manchester, Bristol, Leeds, Brighton and Sheffield. When the Trinity Leeds store was opened, it caused some confusion with an existing iPhone and iPad repair shop called iPatch (founded in 2008), who deal exclusively with Apple product repairs.
A nationwide 50-store expansion began in 2018 and as of May 2021, 31 stores are open in total. Currently the company has a 3/5 ratings review on careers website Glassdoor and 52% of responding employees would recommend working at iSmash to their friends and 81% approve of the CEO.
References
External links
2013 establishments in England
Information technology companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samvel%20K.%20Shoukourian | Samvel K. Shoukourian (, born August 18, 1950, in Yerevan) is an Armenian Computer scientist and engineer. Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics (1990), Professor (1993), academician of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (1996),
Biography
Samvel K. Shoukourian was born in Yerevan in the family of doctor, RA Honored Scientist Kim Shoukourian. In 1972 he graduated from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. In 1972-1993 he worked at the Yerevan Computer Research and Development Institute, meanwhile, since 1977, at Yerevan State University. 1993-2007 he was the Head of the Chair of Algorithmic Languages, since 2007 - Head of the Department of Information Systems and Information Systems of the Information Technologies Research and Education Center. He has been Chief Scientific Advisor and Development Director in different international companies. Since 2000, he is directing the Department of Embedded Test and Repair at Virage Logic Corporation (USA) and since 2010, the same department at Synopsys, Inc (USA).
The main topics of his current research interests include testing of electronic devices and systems, formal models of distributed systems, information technologies and architectures for multimedia virtual environments.
Awards
Acknowledgment of Prime Minister of Armenia, 2009
Silver Medal of the Exhibition of National Economic Achievement of the USSR, 1986
RA state award, 2013
References
External links
Samvel K. Shoukourian, Yerevan State University , Yerevan · IT Educational and Research Center
1950 births
Living people
Engineers from Yerevan
Armenian male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20China%20V%20Chart%20number-one%20videos%20of%202017 | The following is a list of the number-one music videos of 2017 on the weekly Billboard China V Chart. The chart ranks weekly most viewed music videos using data from Chinese video-sharing site YinYueTai (YYT).
Chart history
References
YinYueTai
China V Chart
China V Chart
Chinese music industry
V Chart 2017
China V Chart Videos 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TADIG%20code | TADIG code is a number uniquely identifying network operators in a GSM mobile network. The acronym TADIG expands to "Transferred Account Data Interchange Group". According to the GSM specification, the codes are used as "primary identifiers within file contents and file names" in multiple file formats defined by the GSMA. Network operators are required to register new codes and limit themselves to using code already registered with the GSMA.
TADIG codes are generally used by bilateral agreement for the purposes of billing roaming telephone calls.
Format
A TADIG code is 5 characters long, consisting of
Three-character country code. This is usually the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for terrestrial operators. Non-terrestrial operators have the first two characters as AA. Wi-Fi operators have the first two characters as WW.
Two-character operator/ company identifier
Example
TADIG code: CANGW (for Freedom Mobile, formerly WIND Mobile)
TADIG code: SWE01 (for the Sweden1 bilateral Roaming Hub)
TADIG code: USAHI (for Mobi)
Notable exceptions
The GSMA specification lists the following in their list of "known issues" as discrepancies between codes registered with them against ones actually being used
US territories are not always represented in the USA
YUG continues to be used as country code by operators in Montenegro and Serbia. Each now has its own ISO code, MNE and SRB respectively
Kosovo is not recognised as a country within the ITU. As a placeholder, the value K00 is used to represent the country
References
Mobile telecommunications
Mobile telecommunications standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20That%20Got%20Away%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | The One That Got Away is a 2018 Philippine television drama romance comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark Sicat dela Cruz and Rado Peru, it stars Lovi Poe, Max Collins, Rhian Ramos, and Dennis Trillo in the title role. It premiered on January 15, 2018 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing My Korean Jagiya. The series concluded on May 18, 2018 with a total of 88 episodes. It was replaced by Inday Will Always Love You in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
A story about three women — Alex, Zoe and Darcy, who formed an unlikely friendship after discovering that in different times in their lives, they were romantically linked with the same guy, Liam.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Lovi Poe as Alexandra Rey "Alex" Makalintal-Ilustre
A workaholic cable network employee and an aspiring travel show host with a sunny disposition, everything she does is always on-schedule. Alex is also family-oriented and works hard to contribute to her family’s finances.
Max Collins as Darlene "Darcy" Sibuyan-Sandoval
Described as strong willed and practical, she is an outspoken and independent personal trainer who hates being dependent on others. Darcy lives alone in a small apartment and assists her siblings' financial support as much as she can.
Rhian Ramos as Sophia Elizabeth "Zoe" Velasquez-Makalintal
A happy-go-lucky swimwear designer and social media personality, she comes from a rich family and lives in an upscale condominium. Zoe is also very desperate for love and attention, as she lacked parental love at a young age.
Dennis Trillo as William Dominic "Liam" Ilustre
A smart and handsome entrepreneur, he comes from a wealthy family and lives in their ancestral home together with his nanny. Also into vintage things and an animal lover, Liam likes women with a good sense of humor, which happens to be the common trait among his former girlfriends — Zoe, Darcy and Alex.
Supporting cast
Jason Abalos as Gael Harrison Makalintal
Alex's older brother, a single dad to a 4 year old boy, he works as a nurse for a living. He is a chick-magnet and goes on a lot of dates, but never introduced his girlfriends to his family.
Ivan Dorschner as Iñigo Sandoval
A spoiled-by-his-trust-fund playboy who knows how to smooth-talk his way around ladies. He has a business degree but is reluctant to work in Liam's company, preferring to be traveler instead.
Migo Adecer as Samuel "Sam" Isaac
Zoe's half-brother. He is deemed immature, irresponsible and undecided about what he really wants to be in his life, though he displays a talent in animation and music. He is ordered to manage his family's coffee shop business in the meantime,
Snooky Serna as Fatima "Patty" Makalintal
Bembol Roco as Pancho Makalintal
Luz Valdez as Maria Delos Reyes
Ervic Vijandre as Joni Sibuyan
Ayra Mariano as Mikaela "Ekay" Makalintal
Jason Francisco as Moi Padilla
Patricia Ysmael as Onay Samartino
Euwenn Aleta as Nicolas Monroe "Nemo" Makalintal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20data | Health data is any data "related to health conditions, reproductive outcomes, causes of death, and quality of life" for an individual or population. Health data includes clinical metrics along with environmental, socioeconomic, and behavioral information pertinent to health and wellness. A plurality of health data are collected and used when individuals interact with health care systems. This data, collected by health care providers, typically includes a record of services received, conditions of those services, and clinical outcomes or information concerning those services. Historically, most health data has been sourced from this framework. The advent of eHealth and advances in health information technology, however, have expanded the collection and use of health data—but have also engendered new security, privacy, and ethical concerns. The increasing collection and use of health data by patients is a major component of digital health.
Types
Health data are classified as either structured or unstructured. Structured health data is standardized and easily transferable between health information systems. For example, a patient's name, date of birth, or a blood-test result can be recorded in a structured data format. Unstructured health data, unlike structured data, is not standardized. Emails, audio recordings, or physician notes about a patient are examples of unstructured health data. While advances in health information technology have expanded collection and use, the complexity of health data has hindered standardization in the health care industry. As of 2013, it was estimated that approximately 60% of health data in the United States were unstructured.
Collection
Health informatics, a field of health data management, superseded medical informatics in the 1970s. Health informatics, which is broadly defined as the collection, storage, distribution, and use of health data, differs from medical informatics in its use of information technology.
Individuals are the origin of all health data, yet the most direct if often overlooked is the informal personal collection of data. Examples include an individual checking off that they've taken their medication on a personal calendar, or an individual tallying the amount sleep they've gotten over the last week.
Prior to recent technological advances, most health data were collected within health care systems. As individuals move through health care systems, they interact with health care providers and this interaction produces health information. These touch points include, clinics/physician offices, pharmacies, payers/insurance companies, hospitals, laboratories, and senior homes. Information is also collected through participation in clinical trials, health agency surveys, medical devices, and genomic testing. This information, once recorded, becomes health data. This data typically includes a record of services received, conditions of those services, and clinical outcomes consequent of those se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi%20Ko%20Kayang%20Iwan%20Ka | (International title: Stay with Me / ) is a 2018 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes and Neal del Rosario, it stars Yasmien Kurdi. It premiered on February 26, 2018 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Haplos. The series concluded on August 31, 2018 with a total of 132 episodes. It was replaced by My Special Tatay in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The story revolves around Thea Balagtas. After getting married and raising their twins together, her life shatters when she tests positive for HIV.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Yasmien Kurdi as Althea "Thea" Balagtas-Angeles
Supporting cast
Martin del Rosario as Lawrence de Leon
Jackie Rice as Ava Imperial
Mike Tan as Marco Angeles
Shamaine Buencamino as Magdalena "Magda" Balagtas
Charee Pineda as Rosanna "Anna" Balagtas
Ina Feleo as Sophia Angeles
Mike "Pekto" Nacua as Tantoy Cruz
Catherine Rem as Olga Cruz
Caprice Cayetano as Angela B. Angeles
Seth dela Cruz as Maurice B. Angeles
Gina Alajar as Adelaida "Adele" Angeles
Guest cast
Lucho Ayala as Rommel
Paolo Gumabao as Raffy
Ameera Johara as Nikka Martinez
Rob Moya as Edgar Villar
Reese Tuazon as Leila
Lharby Policarpio as Andy
Rodjun Cruz as Edward Salazar
Jackie Lou Blanco as Elvira Imperial-Policarpio
Lloyd Samartino as Manuel Policarpio
Tonio Quiazon as Gado
Arrian Labios as Tantoy
Omar Flores as Bernie Silvestre
Jeff Luna as Elvira's bodyguard
Aleera Montalla as Tess
Alvin Maghanoy as Dodot
Francis Mata as Mike
Joemarie Nielsen as Ogie
Ces Aldaba as a doctor
Mike Lloren as Manuel Imperial
Eddie Ngo as a hotel tenant
Renerich Ocon as a maid
Star Orjaliza as a doctor
Peggy Rico Tuazon as a doctor
Mona Louise Rey as young Ava
Accolades
Production
Principal photography commenced in January 2018. Filming concluded on August 23, 2018.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of earned a 5.3% rating. The series got its highest rating on May 1, 2018 with an 8.3% rating.
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
2018 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
HIV/AIDS in television
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaming%20%28disambiguation%29 | Roaming is a wireless telecommunication term typically used with mobile devices.
Roaming or Roamin' may also refer to:
Roaming user profile, a concept in the Windows NT family of operating systems
Roaming (film), a 2013 Canadian film written and directed by Michael Ray Fox
"Roaming", a song by Rod Wave from the album Pray 4 Love
"Roamin'", a song by Fat Mattress from the album Fat Mattress II
See also
Roam (disambiguation)
Roamer (disambiguation)
Rome (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Bailey%20Lee | Cynthia Bailey Lee is a lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University from Palo Alto, California. Her research interests are in computer science pedagogy and the flipped classroom approach. She has advocated for the greater inclusion of women and minorities in computer science, and is known for her "ladysplaining" article addressing the author of the controversial Google memo.
Education and work experience
Lee received her BS in 2001 and MS in 2004 in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). Lee studied big data applications of parallel computing and high-performance distributed computing for her graduate studies also at UC San Diego, where she graduated with her PhD in 2009. Her doctoral thesis evaluated scheduling algorithms for supercomputer systems. She spent her summers from 1996 to 1998 as an intern for NASA Ames, and worked with a search and document engine and management startup called Mohomine from 1999 to 2002. In March 2012, Lee and Beth Simon started an instructional website called Peer Instruction for Computer Science, which provides support for Computer Science instructors who want to use Flipped classroom ideas.
At Stanford University, Lee has taught numerous computer science courses, including Computer Organization and Systems, Programming Abstractions, Mathematical Foundations of Computing, and Race and Gender in Silicon Valley (a course she initiated in 2018).
Activism for women in tech
Lee is outspoken about issues that face women and minorities in technology. She wrote guidelines for other instructors in her department to help them foster a more inclusive community, including using gender-neutral language and examples. She encouraged instructors to give additional encouragement and attention to women and minorities. She is also for promoting conversations about faith, ethics, and tech culture.
Lee spoke at a Stanford convocation for Latter-day Saint students, exhorting them to remember the needs of people outside of their work meetings, and used Esther as an example of someone who stood up for people who had less power than she did. She also hosted a coding workshop for young women and girls.
Awards
Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award (2019), Stanford University
Best Paper Award (2016), ACM SIGCSE
Professor of the Year (2015), Stanford Society of Women Engineers
References
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Stanford University faculty
Living people
University of California, San Diego alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Computer science educators
Academics from Palo Alto, California
Harold B. Lee Library-related 21st century articles
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising%20ID | An advertising ID is a unique user ID assigned to a mobile device (smart phone, tablet computer), or operating environment, to help advertising services personalize their offers.
It can be sent to advertisers and other third parties which can use this unique ID to track the user's movements, habits, and usages of applications. There is a potential for such technology to replace magic cookies.
Implementations
Apple calls their advertising ID the "Identifier for Advertisers" (IDFA). Beginning with its iOS 14.5 software update, Apple will allow its users to choose whether to allow apps to track their IDFA.
Google calls their "Google Advertising ID" (GAID).
Microsoft uses a similar technology, also called Advertising ID, that is generated for each device and user. In Windows 10 & 11, it can be turned off in the settings panel.
See also
References
Adware
Mobile technology
Tracking
Apple Inc.
Google |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Probyn | Andrew Probyn is an Australian journalist and television presenter.
He is currently the Nine Network's national affairs editor.
Life and career
Probyn spent his early years in Lancashire before moving with his parents and two sisters to Sokoto in Nigeria. The family migrated to Australia in the early 1980s. Probyn attended Scotch College in Melbourne, before studying law at Monash University.
He worked at the Herald Sun for nine years before becoming state political reporter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Tasmania from 2003 to 2005. He was federal political editor for The West Australian newspaper from 2005 until 2016. Probyn has twice been named Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Journalist of the Year and was named Western Australian Journalist of the Year for 2016. He also won a Gold Quill award from the Melbourne Press Club Awards, and was a regular guest on the ABC's Insiders program. In late 2016, Probyn joined 7.30 as its political correspondent, replacing Sabra Lane. When Chris Uhlmann left the ABC, Probyn became the public broadcaster's political editor.
In early 2020, Probyn became the feature of an internet meme, initially gaining popularity from a video by comedian Brooke Taylor on social media platform TikTok, after an encounter with Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a press conference regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, where Morrison stated “Andrew, I know, but you don't run the press conference, okay?” In response to these memes, Probyn added “if something like that encourages people to at least watch press conferences where some serious stuff is being discussed, all the better.”
In June 2023 Probyn was made redundant by ABC staff as part of a company-wide shift to restructure more on digital content.
In October 2023, it was announced that Probyn joined the Nine Network as a national affairs editor from November.
Political views and complaints
Abbott–Turnbull Government
In 2017, Probyn described former Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott as "the most destructive politician of his generation" in a report for ABC News. A complaint was made to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and Probyn's comment was found by ACMA to be "declarative and not in keeping with the scope of the factual matters presented earlier in the report" about a speech by Abbott on climate change policy.
Morrison Government
When the Liberal Party replaced Turnbull as leader in August 2018, Probyn reported it was "vengeance pure and simple". He attributed Turnbull's loss to "a billionaires' tug of war between the nation's most powerful media moguls" (Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Stokes), telling the ABC: "Until the end, News Corp's The Australian had been unabashed in its advocacy for an end to the Turnbull prime ministership."
In the wake of a large swing against the Liberals in the subsequent Wentworth by-election, Probyn opined: "The Liberal Party and the Coalition now stand on the edge of the electoral abyss. Politi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20chemistry | Systems chemistry is the science of studying networks of interacting molecules, to create new functions from a set (or library) of molecules with different hierarchical levels and emergent properties.
Systems chemistry is also related to the origin of life (abiogenesis).
Relations to systems biology
Systems chemistry is a relatively young sub-discipline of chemistry, where the focus does not lie on the individual chemical components but rather on the overall network of interacting molecules and on their emergent properties. Hence, it combines the classical knowledge of chemistry (structure, reactions and interactions of molecules) together with a systems approach inspired by systems biology and systems science.
Examples
Dynamic combinatorial chemistry has been used as a method to develop ligands for biomolecules and receptors for small molecules.
Ligands that can recognize biomolecules are being identified by preparing libraries of potential ligands in the presence of a target biomacromolecule. This is relevant for application as biosensors for fast monitoring of imbalances and illnesses and therapeutic agents.
Individual components of certain chemical system will self-assemble to form receptors which are complementary to target molecule. In principle, the preferred library members will be selected and amplified based on the strongest interactions between the template and products.
Molecular networks and equilibrium
A fundamental difference exists between chemistry as it is performed in most laboratories and chemistry as it occurs in life. Laboratory processes are mostly designed such that the (closed) system goes thermodynamically downhill; i.e. the product state is of lower Gibbs free energy, yielding stable molecules that can be isolated and stored. Yet the chemistry of life operates in a very different way: most molecules from which living systems are constituted are turned over continuously and are not necessarily thermodynamically stable. Nevertheless, living systems can be stable, but in a homeostatic sense. Such homeostatic (open) systems are far-from-equilibrium and are dissipative: they need energy to maintain themselves. In dissipative controlled systems the continuous supply of energy allows a continuous transition between different supramolecular states, where systems with unexpected properties may be discovered. One of the grand challenges of Systems Chemistry is to unveil complex reactions networks, where molecules continuously consume energy to perform specific functions.
History
While multicomponent reactions have been studied for centuries, the idea of deliberately analyzing mixtures and reaction networks is more recent. The first mentions of systems chemistry as a field date from 2005. Early adopters focused on prebiotic chemistry combined with supramolecular chemistry, before it was generalized to the study of emergent properties and functions of any complex molecular systems. A 2017 review in the field of systems chemi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRIM%20test | The granularity-related inconsistency of means (GRIM) test is a simple statistical test used to identify inconsistencies in the analysis of data sets. The test relies on the fact that, given a dataset containing N integer values, the arithmetic mean (commonly called simply the average) is restricted to a few possible values: it must always be expressible as a fraction with an integer numerator and a denominator N. If the reported mean does not fit this description, there must be an error somewhere; the preferred term for such errors is "inconsistencies", to emphasise that their origin is, on first discovery, typically unknown. GRIM inconsistencies can result from inadvertent data-entry or typographical errors or from scientific fraud. The GRIM test is most useful in fields such as psychology where researchers typically use small groups and measurements are often integers. The GRIM test was proposed by Nick Brown and James Heathers in 2016, following increased awareness of the replication crisis in some fields of science.
Procedure
The GRIM test is straightforward to perform. For each reported mean in a paper, the sample size (N) is found, and all fractions with denominator N are calculated. The mean is then checked against this list (being aware of the fact that values may be rounded inconsistently: depending on the context, a mean of 1.125 may be reported as 1.12 or 1.13). If the mean is not in this list, it is highlighted as mathematically impossible.
Example
Consider an experiment in which a fair dice is rolled 20 times. Each roll will produce one whole number between 1 and 6, and the hypothesized mean value is 3.5. The results of the rolls are then averaged together, and the mean is reported as 3.48. This is close to the expected value, and appears to support the hypothesis. However, a GRIM test reveals that the reported mean is mathematically impossible: the result of dividing any whole number by 20, written to 2 decimal places, must be of the form X.X0 or X.X5; it is impossible to divide any integer by 20 and produce a result with an "8" in the second decimal place.
Interpretation and limitations
Even if the data fails the GRIM test, this is not automatically a sign of manipulation. Errors in the mean can come about innocently as a result of an error on the part of the tester, typographical errors, calculation and programming mistakes, or improper reporting of the sample size. However, it can be a sign that some data has been improperly excluded or that the mean has been illegitimately fudged in order to make the results appear more significant. The location of failures can be indicative of the underlying cause: an isolated impossible mean may be caused by an error, multiple impossible values in the same row of a table indicate a poor response rate, and multiple impossible values in the same column indicate the given sample size is incorrect. Multiple errors scattered throughout a table can be a sign of deeper problems, and other statist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%27s%20Road%20Trip | Robin's Road Trip () is a 2016 Dutch documentary film directed by Simone de Vries. It was nominated to 45th International Emmy Awards in the best arts programming category.
References
External links
Robin de Puy: Ik ben het allemaal zelf (2016) - IMDb
Official website
2016 television films
2016 films
2016 documentary films
Dutch documentary films
2010s Dutch-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Hess%20%28scientist%29 | Karl Hess (born 20 June 1945 in Trumau, Austria) is the Swanlund Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC).
He helped to establish the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at UIUC.
Hess is concerned with solid-state physics and the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. He is recognized as an expert in electron transport, semiconductor physics, supercomputing, and nanostructures.
A leader in simulating the nature and movement of electrons with computer models,
Hess is considered a founder of computational electronics.
Hess has been elected to many scientific associations, including both the National Academy of Engineering (2001) and the National Academy of Sciences (2003). He has served on the National Science Board (NSB).
Career
Hess studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria, where he received his Ph.D. in 1970 in applied physics and mathematics.
He worked with Karlheinz Seeger on electron transport in semiconductors and subsequently became an assistant.
In 1973 Hess went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) on a Fulbright scholarship to work with John Bardeen. With Chih-Tang Sah (the co-inventor of CMOS technology), Hess worked theoretically on electron transport in transistors, to find a solution of the Boltzmann transport equation for transistors.
In 1974 Hess returned to the University of Vienna as assistant professor. In 1977 he was offered a position as a visiting associate professor which enabled him to return to UIUC. Hess worked on improving the efficiency of charge-coupled devices. He and Ben G. Streetman developed the concept of "real space transfer" to describe the performance of high-frequency transistors involving hot‐electron thermionic emission.
This work was important to the development of layered semiconductor technology.
In 1980 Hess was appointed to a full professorship for electrical engineering and computer science at UIUC. He also undertook secret research at the United States Naval Research Laboratory from the 1980s onwards.
Hess chaired one of two committees established in 1983 to consider the possible formation of a multidisciplinary research facility at the University of Illinois. In the fall of 1987, William T. Greenough and Karl Hess became associate directors of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at UIUC. Hess later served as Co-chair of the Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures initiative at the Beckman Institute.
Hess became "a leading theoretician in the realm of semiconductor transistors". His models of the behavior of transistors and integrated circuits enabled researchers to understand how they worked at fundamental levels and find ways to improve them.
His work on simulation of the behavior of electrons in semiconductors led to the full-band Monte Carlo method of simulation. This approach incorporated both the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia%20Linnhoff-Popien | Claudia Linnhoff-Popien is a German computer scientist.
Professional career
Linnhoff-Popien finished her graduate studies in mathematics with focus informatics 1989 at Leipzig University. That followed a teaching and research work at Technical University, Magdeburg. Beginning in 1991 she worked as a research assistant at Aachen University of Technology, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1994. From 1995 to 1997 she did different lectureships at University of Essen. 1997 she worked as a research visitor at the Applied Research Institut of Washington University in St. Louis. In 1998, she finished her habilitation at Aachen University of Technology and joined the faculty of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as an associate professor. Since 2003 she is full professor there for mobile and distributed computing.
Linnhoff-Popien is member of more than 50 programme committees of international conferences organized by IFIP, ACM, IEEE, Gesellschaft für Informatik, VDE and further organizations. She is expert witness for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) and German Academic Exchange Service. She works on several research projects supported by industry and government including distributed computing and ubiquitous computing as well as service discovery and context awareness.
Publications (extract)
with Ralf Schneider, Michael Zaddach: Digital Marketplaces Unleashed. Springer 2017
with Thomas Strang: Location- and Context-Awareness. Springer 2005
with Heinz-Gerd Hegering: Trends in Distributed Systems: Towards a Universal Service Market. Springer 2000
with Otto Spaniol: Trends in Distributed Systems: CORBA and Beyond. Springer 1996
with Alexander Schill, Christian Mittasch, Otto Spaniol: "Distributed Platforms", Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Platforms: Client Server and Beyond. Springer 1996,
References
1966 births
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
Leipzig University alumni
RWTH Aachen University alumni
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimbristylis%20denudata | Fimbristylis denudata is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia.
The rhizomatous perennial grass-like or herb sedge typically grows to a height of with a width of around and has a tufted habit. It blooms between May and October and produces green-brown flowers.
In Western Australia it is found on floodplains and along creeks and streams in the Kimberley region.
References
Plants described in 1810
Flora of Western Australia
denudata
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%20Kayn | Roland Kayn (born 3 September 1933 in Reutlingen, Germany; died 5 January 2011 in Nieuwe Pekela, Netherlands) was a composer of electronic music. He is known for his lengthy works of cybernetic music.
From 1952 to 1955 he studied composition and organ at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. From 1956 to 1958 he studied with Tamara Blacher and Josef Rufer in Berlin. After 1960 he lived in Rome and then in Venice. In 1964 he co-founded the free improvisation group Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. Beginning in 1970 he worked at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, (which later moved to The Hague) and lived in the Netherlands until his death in 2011. In 1995 he created the label Reiger-records-reeks to release his own works.
His 14-hour composition A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (2009) was released on 16 CDs in October 2017 by the Finnish label Frozen Reeds. Since May 2020, the Kayn estate has released a recording every month on the digital distribution platform Bandcamp. At the current rate, they estimate that it will take 20 years for his complete catalog to be released. Since 2017, releases have been restored and mastered by Jim O'Rourke.
Discography
Physical Releases
1977 – Simultan (Colosseum, 3 LPs)
1977 – Elektroakustische Projekte (Colosseum, 3 LPs)
1981 – Makro I–III (Colosseum, 3 LPs)
1981 – Infra (Colosseum, 4 LPs)
1984 – Tektra (Colosseum, 6 LPs)
1994 – Keyboard-Works 1 (Reiger-records-reeks, 2 CDs)
1995 – Works for Orchestra / Ensemble (RRR, 2 CDs)
1995 – Cybernetic Music (RRR, 2 CDs)
1997 – Cybernetic Music II (RRR, 1 CD)
1996 – Cybernetic Music III (RRR, 2 CDs)
1997 – Electronic Symphony I–III / Equivalence Sonore II–III (RRR, 2 CDs)
1998 – Electronic Symphony IV / Frottage – Minimax (RRR, 2 CDs)
1998 – Electronic Symphony V / Emissioni trasformati I–II (RRR, 2 CDs)
1999 – Electronic Symphony VI–VII / Frottage II (RRR, 2 CDs)
2000 – Electronic Symphony VIII–X (RRR, 2 CDs)
2000 – Gärten der Lüste / Cybernetics II / L’innominata (RRR, 2 CDs)
2003 – Ultra / Redunancy TR / Megaphonie (RRR, 2 CDs)
2004 – Requiem pour Patrice Lumumba / Interations / Composizione AD / Prismes Reflectes (RRR, 2 CDs)
2005 – Etoile du nord / Ghyress für Ilse-Emily Kayn (RRR, 2 CDs)
2006 – Invisible Music / Hommage à K.R.H. Sonderborg (RRR, 2 CDs)
2017 – A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (Frozen Reeds, 16 CDs)
2019 – Scanning (RRR, 10 CDs)
Digital Releases
2020 – The Man and the Biosphere
2020 – Music for the Isle of Man
2020 – Made in the NL After the Sixties and Beyond
2020 – Sound-Hydra
2020 – November Music
2020 – Dino Concerto
2020 – A Pan-Air Music
2021 – Electronic Symphony I–III
2021 – Matego I–II
2021 – Electronic Symphony IV
2021 – Accumulation
2021 – Electronic Symphony V
2021 – Xutus
2021 – Electronic Symphony VI & VII
2021 – Spectral
2021 – Reflets du Spectral
2021 – Extensity
2021 – Zone Senza Silenzio
2021 – Remake A
2021 – Remake B
2021 – Transit
20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewHive | NewHive was both a social network and a creation engine for Web 2.0 content. It was a web platform that encouraged users to develop their own creative content that had been coined by NewHive as, expressions. Many members of the NewHive community were productive artists with established practices, creating, “A critical framework around post-internet art practices by engaging with the art world and contemporary society".
Features
The NewHive site used Python, MongoDB, and JavaScript in a user-friendly interface. The site was hosted by Amazon's cloud services. Though simple but powerful on-line tools that could be learned quickly, NewHive allowed text, links, photos, videos, drawings, music, GIFs, and more to be composed into website collages. It also allowed embedding of material from YouTube, Spotify, and so on. GIFs could be combined into single scrolling pages, which NewHive called GIF walls. When you saved a page on the site, you could add tags or allow others to remix them to help them reach a broader audience or you could leave it private.
NewHive was involved with new practices in contemporary art since its launch, fostering trends and allowing for the creation of thousands of art works. In addition to working with curators and promoting works created by users, it regularly commissioned multimedia mixtapes, singles, zines, ebooks, curated exhibitions, and solo projects by emerging and established artists engaged with the Internet. NewHive also worked in partnership with organizations like Asylum Arts, the Goethe-Institut and the Museum of the Moving Image.
Revenue model
NewHive was backed by private investors and was free to use, and ads were never placed on expressions but NewHive hoped to eventually sell new tools to the creators who used them as one of their means to raise revenue. CEO Zach Verdin said, “In addition to a marketplace that will allow third-party developers to create applications, extensions and widgets; the New Hive will provide services...such as customized URLs and personally branded hives...
History
The concept behind NewHive was developed in 2008 by cofounders Zach Verdin, Cara Bucciferro, Abram Clark, and Andrew Sorkin and was on-line in private beta in November 2011. Seed funding of $100,000 was obtained from private donors including SV Angel in 2012 allowing the platform to be launched in beta followed by a public launch on February 18, 2014.
Visual artists, like Molly Soda and Labanna Babalon, were among the first people to appear on NewHive. NewHive ceased active operations in 2018.
References
American photography websites
Internet properties established in 2014
2014 establishments in the United States
Blogging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20J.%20Lewis | Jason J. Lewis (born June 28, 1976 in Torrance, California) is an American actor, best known for voicing Superman and other DC Comics characters on the Cartoon Network series Justice League Action.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
External links
Living people
American male voice actors
1976 births
American male video game actors
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifa%20Zikri%20Ibrahim | Shifa Zikri Ibrahim, also known by her pseudonym Shifa Zirki Gardi (July 1, 1986 – February 25, 2017), an Iraqi-Kurdish television presenter and journalist who was working for Rudaw Media Network in western Mosul, Iraq, was killed by a roadside bomb while reporting during the Iraq War.
Personal
Shifa Zikri Ibrahim, also known as Shifa Gardi, was born a refugee in Iran on July 1, 1986. She was a graduate of media department from Salahaddin University in Erbil. She started her media career in 2006, and joined Rudaw Media Network from its inception.
Career
Shifa Gardi began her media career in 2006. She joined Rudaw Media Network at the beginning of its foundation. She worked as an Iraqi-Kurdish reporter and Kurdish-language anchor for Rudaw TV. She later became a segment presenter in Rudaw, covering Focus Mosul program which she started to run when the operation to drive Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from Iraq was launched in October 2016. She often reported from the front lines of the war against the Islamic State, which made her popular. Gardi was also the presented of Focus Mosul, a special daily news program focusing on the battle to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Death
Gardi's death occurred during an offensive by Iraqi forces trying to recapture Mosul from ISIS. Gardi and cameraman Mustafa had been making a report about the so-called "Valley of Death," an area 20 kilometers south of Mosul and five kilometers from the main Baghdad-Mosul road that is believed to have been used by ISIS for mass executions. As Gardi was getting comments from a Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi commander beside a huge hole where ISIS militants were said to have dumped the bodies of people they had killed, the commander’s feet happened to wrap in a wire, leading to the denotation of a bomb, killing Gardi. This incident happened at 3:45 p.m. on Saturday.
Ranja Jamal, another Rudaw reporter who was also in Mosul when Gardi died explained that she had been given information regarding the valley but was not able to find it. On her way back, she came across a Hashd al-Shaabi force, and asked them about the place. They told her that they knew about the place and guided her to the spot. Along with Gardi, the bombing also killed five other members of a paramilitary force who had led her to the site. Another eight people, including Rudaw TV cameraman Yunis Mustafa, were injured, according to Rudaw TV and news reports.
Rudaw Executive Director Ako Mohamm said, "We were always urging them to be behind the front lines of the war, telling them that they were not soldiers or Peshmerga fighters. It appears that Shifa had moved closer to the front lines out of seriousness to her job."
Context
Gardi was one of the female journalists who were covering the counteroffensive against ISIS inside Iraq for Rudaw. Her colleagues remembered the compassion she showed in her work. Once instance involved a wounded animal. Gardi called attention to the eff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term%20Pavement%20Performance | Long-Term Pavement Performance Program, known as LTPP, is a research project supported by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to collect and analyze pavement data in the United States and Canada. Currently, the LTPP acquires the largest road performance database.
History
LTPP program was initiated by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Research Council (NRC) in the early 1980s. The FHWA with the cooperation of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) sponsored the program. The program was focusing on examining the deterioration of the nation’s highway and bridge infrastructure system. In the early 1980s, TRB and NRC suggested that a "Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP)" should be started to concentrate on research and development activities that would majorly contribute to highway transportation improvement. Later in 1986, the detailed programs were published entitled "Strategic Highway Research Program—Research Plans".
The LTPP program collects data from in-service roads and analyzes it as planned by the SHRP. The LTPP aims to understand the possible reasons behind the poor or good performance of pavements. Hence, the effects of different parameters such as weather, maintenance actions, material and traffic on performance are studied. Data is collected in a timely manner, and then analyzed to understand and predict the performance of roads. It is worth to mention that the LTPP program was transferred from SHRP to FHWA in 1992 to continue the work.
Database
LTPP Data is collected by four regional contractors. New data is regularly uploaded to the online platform every six months. The number of the pavement test sections monitored in the LTPP program is more than 2,500. These pavement sections include both asphalt and Portland cement concrete. Road sections are across different states and provinces of the United States and Canada.
Data analysis contest
The LTPP holds an annual international data analysis contest in collaboration with the ASCE. The participants are supposed to use the LTPP data.
References
External links
LTPP InfoPave
Federal Highway Administration
Pavements
Asphalt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans%20Pretorius | Frans Pretorius (born 31 July 1973) is a South African and Canadian physicist, specializing in computer simulations in astrophysics and numerical solutions of Einstein's field equations. He is professor of physics at Princeton University and director of the Princeton Gravity Initiative.
Biography
Pretorius sat for a B.Sc. in computer engineering in 1996 and an M.Sc. in physics in 1999 for his thesis, entitled Topics in Black Hole Physics under Werner Israel, at the University of Victoria. He defended his Ph.D. in 2002 under Matthew Choptuik at the University of British Columbia. For his doctoral dissertation on numerical simulation of gravitational collapse, Pretorius received the 2003 Nicholas Metropolis Award of the American Physical Society. From 2002 to 2005 he was a Richard Chase Tolman Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He then became an assistant professor in 2005 at the University of Alberta and in 2007 at Princeton University.
Research
His research deals with numerical simulations in general relativity theory, especially gravitational collapse, collision, and mergers of black holes and consequent emission of gravitational waves. He has developed new methods of adaptive meshes, which are used in adaptive mesh refinement for coupled elliptic-hyperbolic systems.
Pretorius has numerically investigated the possibilities and the signatures of small black holes in particle colliders such as the LHC. Small black holes might be formed with very high collision energies, the energy required might be a factor 2.3 smaller than previously assumed, but such high energies are extremely far from the capabilities of the LHC. With Abhay Ashtekar and Fethi Ramazanoğlu, he investigated the evaporation of 2D black holes. Pretorius and his collaborators numerically investigated the high energy collision of two black holes.
Awards and honors
Pretorius was a Sloan Fellow in 2010 and received in 2010 the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2017 he was awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize for the development of the first computer code that can simulate the spiral movement and the fusion of two black holes; in 2017 five other physicists in two different groups shared the prize for work done independently of Pretorius. In 2021 he received the Dirac Medal of the ICTP.
Selected publications
References
External links
Frans Pretorius, homepage at Department of Physics, Princeton University
Frans Pretorius – Black hole probes of the cosmos and fundamental physics, YouTube, 4 March 2013
1973 births
Living people
University of Victoria alumni
University of British Columbia
Princeton University faculty
Canadian astrophysicists
Computational physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Sloan Research Fellows
University of British Columbia alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden%20Agenda%20%28game%20show%29 | Hidden Agenda is an American hidden camera game show hosted by comedian Debi Gutierrez. The series premiered on Game Show Network (GSN) on January 14, 2010, airing new episodes once a week for seven weeks. The show uses with hidden cameras to record couples playing as contestants. One member of the couple knows they are on the show and must convince their partner to complete a series of challenges. The series was canceled after its first season primarily due to poor ratings.
Gameplay
The series is shot with hidden cameras and features couples playing together as contestants. Only one member of the couple knows they are being filmed, and must convince their partner to complete a variety of "outrageous and comedic challenges." The couple wins a monetary prize dependent on how many challenges they complete.
Production
Hidden Agenda was first announced on December 10, 2009. Television comedian Debi Gutierrez was chosen to host the show, other actors were also employed to add "fun and excitement" to the challenges. Michael Davies' production company Embassy Row served as the series' producers. The show premiered on January 14, 2010. After seven episodes, the series was dropped from GSN's schedule and eventually canceled.
Reception
An editor for Hollywood Junket drew comparisons between the series and Ashton Kutcher's hidden camera show Game Show in My Head, which debuted on CBS a year earlier. The series' ratings were below average for GSN (CNN's James Dinan described them as "ratings woes"), falling over time, and by April, the show was absent from GSN's schedule entirely.
See also
Game Show in My Head
Instant Recall
References
External links
at the Wayback Machine
2010 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
2010s American game shows
American hidden camera television series
Game Show Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo%20versus%20Fan%20Hui | AlphaGo versus Fan Hui was a five-game Go match between European champion Fan Hui, a 2-dan (out of 9 dan possible) professional, and AlphaGo, a computer Go program developed by DeepMind, held at DeepMind's headquarters in London in October 2015. AlphaGo won all five games. This was the first time a computer Go program had beaten a professional human player on a full-sized board without handicap. This match was not disclosed to the public until 27 January 2016 to coincide with the publication of a paper in the journal Nature describing the algorithms AlphaGo used.
Fan described the program as "very strong and stable, it seems like a wall. ... I know AlphaGo is a computer, but if no one told me, maybe I would think the player was a little strange, but a very strong player, a real person."
Games
Summary
In this match, DeepMind used AlphaGo's distributed version with 1,202 CPUs and 176 GPUs with Elo rating 3,144. For each game there was a one-hour set time limit for each player followed by three 30-second byo-yomi overtime periods.
During this match, AlphaGo and Fan Hui also played another five informal games with shorter time control (each player having just three 30-second byo-yomi) and AlphaGo defeated Fan by three to two.
Game 1
Fan Hui (black) v. AlphaGo (white), 5 October 2015, AlphaGo won by 2.5 points.
Game 2
AlphaGo (black) v. Fan Hui (white), 6 October 2015, AlphaGo won by resignation. Although the white stones at the lower-left corner could have been captured if black 135 had been placed at "a", AlphaGo's choice might be safer to win.
Game 3
Fan Hui (black) v. AlphaGo (white), 7 October 2015, AlphaGo won by resignation.
Game 4
AlphaGo (black) v. Fan Hui (white), 8 October 2015, AlphaGo won by resignation.
Game 5
Fan Hui (black) v. AlphaGo (white), 9 October 2015, AlphaGo won by resignation. Black 75 should be placed at 83, and Fan Hui missed the opportunity.
Responses
AlphaGo's victory shocked the Go community. Lee Sedol commented that AlphaGo reached the top of the amateur level in this match, but had not yet reached the professional level, and he could give AlphaGo one or two stones. Ke Jie and Mi Yuting thought that the strength of AlphaGo in this match was equal to that of a candidate for Go professional, and extremely close to the professional level, while Shi Yue thought that it already reached the professional level. "It was terrifying," said Ke Jie, "that AlphaGo could learn and evolve although its power was still limited then."
Canadian AI specialist Jonathan Schaeffer, comparing AlphaGo with a "child prodigy" that lacked experience, considered this match "not yet a Deep Blue moment", and said that the real achievement would be "when the program plays a player in the true top echelon".
See also
AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol
AlphaGo versus Ke Jie
References
Computer Go games
2015 in go
October 2015 sports events in the United Kingdom
Sports competitions in London
versus Fan Hui
Human versus computer matches
2015 in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolls%20Holiday | Trolls Holiday is a 2017 computer-animated musical Christmas special that premiered on NBC on November 24, 2017. Based on the film Trolls, the half-hour Christmas special was directed by Joel Crawford and produced by DreamWorks Animation. The main cast all reprised their roles as their respective characters, most notably Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, and Zooey Deschanel as Poppy, Branch, and Bridget, respectively. Another special with the same theme, but with another plot, Trolls: Holiday in Harmony, aired on November 26, 2021, on NBC.
Plot
After the Bergen Town tradition of eating Trolls on Trollstice is cancelled, the Bergens have no holidays left to celebrate. Poppy, who has received numerous cards from the Bergens celebrating different days of the week or times of day, decides to share Troll holidays with the Bergens. She enlists the Snack Pack and her friend Branch, unfamiliar with being happy, to head to Bergen Town on a bus driven by Cloud Guy. Upon traveling through a strange wormhole, the Trolls arrive in Bergen Town.
The Trolls show Queen Bridget and King Gristle their holiday traditions, but the spectacle overwhelms the Bergens. Bridget, exasperated by the spectacle, tells Poppy to leave and give them some space. Heartbroken, Poppy departs Bergen Town for the forest with her friends in pursuit. Poppy tells Branch of her fear that she might have lost Bridget's friendship forever, but Branch tries to cheer her up by singing songs pointing out where she went wrong. Meanwhile, back in Bergen Town, Bridget and Gristle start to regret how hard they both were on the Trolls, and Bridget acknowledges that Poppy cares about the Bergens.
Poppy soon realizes that she was so busy trying to celebrate with the Bergens that she was not listening to Bridget's needs. When Poppy and Branch return to Bergen Town, they find that the entire town is decorated with decorations made by the Bergens. Poppy and Bridget apologize to each other, and Branch finally cracks a smile, to Poppy and Bridget's delight. The Bergens and the Trolls all celebrate their new holiday, Troll-A-Bration, together.
Cast
Anna Kendrick as Queen Poppy, the excitable and optimistic queen of the Trolls.
Justin Timberlake as Branch, an over-cautious, but good-hearted survivalist Troll.
Zooey Deschanel as Bridget, a kind-hearted Bergen and former scullery maid who befriended the Trolls and became queen of the Bergens.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse as King Gristle Jr., the king of the Bergens.
James Corden as Biggie, a large, friendly British Troll and the owner of Mr. Dinkles.
Ron Funches as Cooper, a hip giraffe-like Troll.
Kunal Nayyar as Guy Diamond, a glittery, naked Troll with a highly auto-tuned voice.
Icona Pop as Satin and Chenille, twin Trolls with a flair for fashion design and are conjoined by their hair.
Walt Dohrn as:
Smidge, a small, inordinately strong female Troll with a masculine voice.
Fuzzbert, a Troll whose legs are the only thing visible beside his hair. |
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