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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20China%20V%20Chart%20top%2010%20albums%20of%202016 | The following is a list of the best selling albums of 2016 on the Billboard China V Chart. The chart ranks in two different categories, mainland albums and imported albums using data from Chinese video-sharing site YinYueTai (YYT).
Criteria
Chart entry criteria
There is no time limit imposed for (domestic) albums released within mainland China. For the album still sells on the Yin Yue Shopping Mall, the album is eligible to be ranked in the weekly album chart. The classification of albums into mainland and foreign albums depend on the country/location the album was released and not the language.
Structure
The chart cycle for real time chart is updated hourly while the weekly and yearly album charts are updated every month and year respectively.
The real time chart shows only ranking without the number of sales.
The weekly chart shows only the top50 ranking albums in the month and the number of sales for only the top5 albums.
The yearly chart shows only the top50 ranking albums in the year and its number of sales. The chart is published at the subsequent year on 1 January.
Loop holes
Pre-order sales for a specific album will only be counted on the release date.
If a single album is divided into multiple editions, the sales will be counted separately.
Top 10 albums of 2016
Annual sales percentage
Mainland (Domestic) albums
Imported albums
References
Footnote
YinYueTai
China V Chart
China V Chart
Chinese music industry
Billboard charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adept%20%28C%2B%2B%20library%29 | Adept is a combined automatic differentiation and array software library for the C++ programming language. The automatic differentiation capability facilitates the development of applications involving mathematical optimization. Adept is notable for having applied the template metaprogramming technique of expression templates to speed-up the differentiation of mathematical statements. Along with the efficient way that it stores the differential information, this makes it significantly faster than most other C++ tools that provide similar functionality (e.g. ADOL-C, CppAD and FADBAD), although comparable performance has been reported for Stan and in some cases Sacado. Differentiation may be in forward mode, reverse mode (for use with a Quasi-Newton minimization scheme), or the full Jacobian matrix may be computed (for use with the Levenberg-Marquardt or Gauss-Newton minimization schemes).
Applications of Adept have included financial modeling, computational fluid dynamics, physical chemistry, parameter estimation and meteorology. Adept is free software distributed under the Apache License.
Example
Adept implements automatic differentiation using an operator overloading approach, in which scalars to be differentiated are written as adouble, indicating an "active" version of the normal double, and vectors to be differentiated are written as aVector. The following simple example uses these types to differentiate a 3-norm calculation on a small vector:
#include <iostream>
#include <adept_arrays.h>
int main(int argc, const char** argv) {
using namespace adept;
Stack stack; // Object to store differential statements
aVector x(3); // Independent variables: active vector with 3 elements
x << 1.0, 2.0, 3.0; // Fill vector x
stack.new_recording(); // Clear any existing differential statements
adouble J = cbrt(sum(abs(x * x * x))); // Compute dependent variable: 3-norm in this case
J.set_gradient(1.0); // Seed the dependent variable
stack.reverse(); // Reverse-mode differentiation
std::cout << "dJ/dx = "
<< x.get_gradient() << "\n"; // Print the vector of partial derivatives dJ/dx
return 0;
}
When compiled and executed, this program reports the derivative as:
dJ/dx = {0.0917202, 0.366881, 0.825482}
See also
List of numerical libraries
Automatic differentiation
Eigen (C++ library)
Armadillo (C++ library)
References
External links
Adept homepage
Articles with example C++ code
C++ numerical libraries
Free computer libraries
Free mathematics software
Free science software
Free software programmed in C++
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20Economy%20Database | The Total Economy Database describes itself as "a comprehensive database with annual data covering GDP, population, employment, hours, labor quality, capital services, labor productivity, and Total Factor Productivity for 123 countries in the world".
History
The Total Economy Database was developed at the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) in the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in the early 1990s. Starting in the late 1990s, it began to be produced jointly by GGDC and The Conference Board, a nonprofit founded in 1916 that works on the relationship between business and labor in 60 countries. In 2007, the database was transferred over to The Conference Board, and remains with The Conference Board as of 2017.
Data and refresh frequency
The database used to be refreshed annually, in January to include data till the most recent completed year. However, starting 2015, the database has been updated twice a year, once in May and once later in the year (September or November). The database usually includes:
Output, labor, and productivity from 1950 to the present or most recently completed year
Regional aggregates from 1990 to the most recently completed year
Growth accounting and total factor productivity from 1990 or 1995 to the most recently completed year
Reception
Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has called the Total Economy Database "the easy source for 1950 onwards" for obtaining GDP data and has cited it in blog posts and articles about economic performance, employment, and number of work hours versus leisure hours.
Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf called the Total Economy Database invaluable while using it to make a point about the effects of Brexit.
Our World In Data, a website with data-driven discussion of a number of topics related to long-run economic and human development, uses the Total Economy Database as one of its sources.
McKinsey & Company has cited the Total Economy Database in its report on Mexico's "two-speed" development.
The Total Economy Database is included in a University of California, Berkeley library guide as a source of macroeconomic data.
See also
The following economic data projects are maintained by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, which was also the original creator of the Total Economy Database:
Maddison Project
Penn World Table
Some other datasets that cover similar data:
World Development Indicators
References
Global economic indicators
Economic databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Buzzr | The following is a list of programs currently or formerly broadcast on Buzzr. Some of these shows have aired on Game Show Network in the past.
Current programming
Regularly airing
Blockbusters (Cullen)
Card Sharks (Eubanks)
Classic Concentration
Family Feud (Dawson)
I've Got A Secret (Moore)
Let's Make a Deal (Hall)
Match Game (Rayburn)
Match Game PM
Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour
The Newlywed Game (Eubanks and Kroeger)
Password Plus (Ludden and Kennedy)
Press Your Luck (Tomarken)
Sale of the Century (Perry)
Supermarket Sweep (Ruprecht)
Super Password
Tattletales
Temptation
To Tell the Truth (Collyer and Moore)
What's My Line? (Daly)
Seasonal
The Great Christmas Light Fight
Educational/religious programming
Chicken Soup for the Soul's Hidden Heroes
Marty Stouffer's Wild America
Through the Bible with Les Feldick
Former programming
Beat the Clock (Collyer, Wood and Hall)
The Better Sex
Body Language
Bzzz!
Call My Bluff
Card Sharks (Perry and Rafferty)
Celebrity Name Game
Child's Play
Choose Up Sides
Concentration (Narz)
Double Dare (Trebek)
Family Feud (Combs, Anderson, Karn and O'Hurley)
Family Feud Challenge
Get the Message
He Said, She Said (Garagiola)
It's News to Me (Daly)
I've Got A Secret (Allen)
Make the Connection (Rayburn)
The Match Game (1962 pilot & 1964 "All-Star" episodes)
Match Game (Shafer and Baldwin)
Million Dollar Password
Mindreaders
Missing Links (1963 pilot)
Monster Garage
Monster House
The Name's the Same (Lewis)
Now You See It (Narz)
Number Please
Password (Ludden)
Play Your Hunch
The Price Is Right (Cullen)
Richard Simmons' Dream Maker
Say When!!
Showoffs
Split Personality (1959 game show)
Split Second (Hall)
Strike It Rich
Talk About
Trivia Trap
To Tell the Truth (Garagiola, Ward, Elliott, Swann, Trebek, O'Hurley and Anderson)
Nothing But the Truth (Wallace)
What's Going On?
What's My Line? (Bruner and Blyden)
Whew!
Winner Take All (Cullen)
Wordplay
Pilots
Body Talk
It Had to Be You
On a Roll
Play for Keeps!
Star Words
TKO
Take Your Choice
Specials
TV's Funniest Game Show Moments
What's My Line? at 25
Original
Game Changers
References
External links
Buzzr's official website
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne%20Cook%20%28statistician%29 | Dianne Helen Cook is an Australian statistician, the editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, and an expert on the visualization of high-dimensional data. She is Professor of Business Analytics in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University and professor emeritus of statistics at Iowa State University. The emeritus status was chosen so that she could continue to supervise graduate students at Iowa State after moving to Australia.
Education and early life
Dianne Helen Cook grew up in Wauchope, New South Wales as an athletic farm girl, the first woman to play on her local (men's) cricket team. She studied statistics at University of New England (Australia), where she earned a BSc and Dip.Ed. in 1982. She received her MS in 1990 and her PhD in 1993 from Rutgers University; her dissertation, supervised jointly by Andreas Buja and Javier Cabrera, was Grand Tour and Projection Pursuit.
Career and research
Cook joined the Iowa State University faculty in 1993, and remained there until her move to Monash University in 2015. At Iowa State, her students have included Hadley Wickham and Yihui Xie.
She is one of the developers of GGobi, and with Deborah F. Swayne, she is the author of Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis: With R and GGobi (Springer, 2007).
She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She was editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics from 2016 to 2018.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian statisticians
Women statisticians
University of New England (Australia) alumni
Rutgers University alumni
R (programming language) people
Iowa State University faculty
Academic staff of Monash University
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
People from Wauchope, New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20transport%20in%20India | Water transport in India has played a significant role in the country’s economy and is indispensable to foreign trade. India is endowed with an extensive network of waterways in the form of rivers, canals, backwaters, creeks and a long coastline accessible through the seas and oceans. It has the largest carrying capacity of any form of transport and is most suitable for carrying bulky goods over long distances.
It is one of the cheapest modes of transport in India, as it takes advantage of natural track and does not require huge capital investment in construction and maintenance except in the case of canals. Its fuel efficiency contributes to lower operating costs and reduced environmental impact due to carbon. India has of inland waterways, out of which are navigable by mechanized vessels.
Since 1947, India has made great progress in shipping and gradually became the second largest shipping country in Asia and sixth largest in the world. Indian ships ply on most of the shipping route of the world. India has a -long coastline with only twelve major ports: Mumbai, Kandla, Jawaharlal Nehru Port (at Nehru Seve), Marmagaon, New Mangalore and Kochi on the west coast, alongside Kolkata, Chennai, Haldia, Paradeep, Vishakhapatnam and Tuticorin on the east coast.
Jawaharlal Nehru Port of Mumbai has been developed as one of the major ports. It is the only fully mechanized port of India. The biggest port is Mumbai which handles largest number of ships as well as trade. Kandla port in Gujarat compensates the loss of the Port of Karachi to Pakistan. Vishakhapatnam is the third largest port of India. Kolkata is the largest inland port of Asia.
Inland Waterways Authority of India has a vision to raise India’s 111 national waterway's current cargo handling capacity from 55 MT in 2017–18 and 72 MT in 2018–19 to 100 MT by 2021–22.
Benefits of waterways transport
The cost of water transport in India is roughly a kilometre, as compared to by railways and by roads. Water transport has received significant attention in recent times as logistical costs in India are some of the highest among major countries—18 percent in India versus 8-10 percent in China and 10-12 percent in the European Union. To increase the share of waterways in inland transport, the National Waterways Act, 2016 was passed which proposed 106 additional National Waterways. This has the potential to greatly reduce the cost of transportation and lower the nation's carbon footprint by moving traffic from surface roads and railroads to waterways. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the first Ro-Ro ferry service in Gujarat in October 2017.
Freight transport by waterways is highly under-utilized in India compared to other large countries and geographic areas such as the United States, China and the European Union. The total cargo moved (in tonne kilometres) by inland waterways was 0.1 percent of the total inland traffic in India, compared to the 21 percent figure for the United States.
Inl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudrun%20J.%20Klinker | Gudrun Johanna Klinker (born 15 February 1958) is a German computer scientist known for her work on augmented reality.
Professional career
Klinker finished her graduate studies in informatics 1982 at Hamburg University. From 1983 to 1988 she worked as a teaching and research assistant at the computer science department of Carnegie Mellon University, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1988. From 1989 to 1998 she worked as a member of research staff up to scientific leader in research projects e.g. at Cambridge Research Lab of DEC, European Computer-Industry Research Center (ECRC) in Munich and Fraunhofer project group for augmented reality in Munich/Darmstadt. After two years working as a freelance expert for augmented reality she joined the faculty of Technical University of Munich as a full professor for augmented reality in May 2000.
Her research focus lies on bringing augmented reality technology into real applications by combining augmented reality with concepts of mobile and ubiquitous computing. This includes the fields of sensing, ubiquitous tracking (sensor fusion), three-dimensional information presentation, three-dimensional interaction, human–computer interaction in cars, multi-touch displays, systems architectures for ubiquitous augmented reality and industrial augmented reality.
Klinker is counted among the co-founders of the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). She has served on numerous program committees such as VR, Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), three-dimensional User Interfaces (3DUI), and User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). She is author and co-author of more than 100 reviewed scientific publications.
References
1958 births
Living people
Ubiquitous computing researchers
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
University of Hamburg alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Latin%20Pop%20Airplay%20songs%20of%202015 | The Billboard Latin Pop Airplay is a chart that ranks the best-performing Spanish-language Pop music singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
References
United States Latin Pop
2015
2015 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wall%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | The Wall is an Australian television game show based on the American version which began broadcast on Seven Network from 30 October 2017. The show is hosted by Axle Whitehead. The program ran for one season.
Gameplay
The Wall is a four-story-tall pegboard, similar to a pachinko game or bean machine; it also is similar to the Plinko board used for that pricing game of the same name on The Price is Right. The bottom of the board is divided into 15 slots marked with various dollar amounts, some of which increase as the game progresses. Seven numbered "drop zones" are centered at the top of the board (above the center seven slots), from which balls can be dropped into play.
A team of two contestants plays each game, with a potential top prize of more than . Green balls dropped on the board will add to the team's bank, while red balls dropped on the board will subtract from it. Throughout the game, the bank has a floor of $0.
Round 1: Free Fall
In Free Fall, the team is asked a series of five questions, each with two answer choices. As each question is asked, three balls are simultaneously released from drop zones 1, 4, and 7. The team must select one answer and lock it in before the first ball crosses the threshold of a money slot. If the team's answer is correct, the balls turn green and their values are added to the team's bank. If the team answers incorrectly or fails to lock in an answer, the balls turn red and their values are subtracted from the team's bank.
If the team's bank balance is zero at the end of this round, the game ends immediately and they leave with no winnings. Otherwise, their earnings become part of a guaranteed payout to be offered to them at the end of the game. The maximum amount that a team can bank in this round is $375,000.
The values on the board range from $1 to $25,000, and are arranged as follows:
Round 2
At the start of the second round, the contestants are separated from each other for the remainder of the game. One enters an isolation chamber behind The Wall, while the other remains onstage. Two green balls are played simultaneously, dropped from zones chosen by the onstage player. Three multiple-choice questions are then played, each with three answer choices. The onstage player is shown only the answers to each question, and must decide which zone to use, based on how confident he/she is that the isolated player can answer correctly. The question and answers are then presented to the isolated player; after he/she responds, the ball is dropped from the chosen zone. A correct answer turns the ball green and adds the value of the slot it lands in to the team bank, while a miss turns the ball red and deducts the value. The isolated player is not told which of his/her answers are correct or given any information on the team bank.
The onstage player is offered an opportunity to "Double Up" on the second question and "Triple Up" on the third; these options allow him/her to play two or three balls from the selecte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Operational%20Datasets | Common Operational Datasets or CODs, are authoritative reference datasets needed to support operations and decision-making for all actors in a humanitarian response. CODs are 'best available' datasets that ensure consistency and simplify the discovery and exchange of key data. The data is typically geo-spatially linked using a coordinate system (especially administrative boundaries) and has unique geographic identification codes (P-codes).
Governance and Purpose of CODs
Purpose
Common operation datasets are commonly used and referenced by all operations, they provide consistency among all actors working on humanitarian preparedness and response and enable a common operational picture (COP) of the crisis. P-codes facilitate the exchange and harmonization of data and information, they provide a geographic framework for data collection, analysis, and visualization (see P-code) and allow for a better interoperability and exchange between different actors. Therefore, Common operation datasets (CODs) reduce duplication of work on baseline data by partnering organizations and facilitate informed decision making both pre- and post-crisis.
The Information Management Network
The Information Management Network (IM Network) is an important component of the common operational datatset (COD) process. The IM Network can exist at country, regional and global levels and is composed of the humanitarian information management actors active in the country, region or at the global level. Potential IM Network actors include governments, United NAtions agencies and programmes, humanitarian cluster information management staff, international and national NGOs.
Outputs
Common Operational Datasets
Core Common Operational Datasets
Core CODs are required in all disaster-prone countries as a preparedness measure, including administrative boundaries (COD-AB), sex and age-disaggregated population data (COD-PS), and humanitarian profile (caseload or COD-HP). They are critical for information and data products and to underpin effective coordination. Core CODs enable effective risk analysis, needs assessment, decision-making, and reporting on all aspects of the response.
Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB)
Administrative Boundary CODs are baseline geographical datasets that are used by humanitarian agencies during preparedness and response activities. They are preferably sourced from official government boundaries but when these are unavailable the information management network must develop and agree to a process to develop or adopt an alternate dataset. Administrative boundaries provide an essential data standard and are used directly and indirectly in almost every information product.
The administrative boundary dataset is key in preparedness and undergoes a review process to keep the data up to date.
Population Statistics (COD-PS)
Population Statistics CODs are the baseline population figures of a country pre-crisis situation. They are preferably developed by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-Hit-Store | A Load-Hit-Store, sometimes abbreviated as LHS, is a data dependency in a CPU in which a memory location that has just been the target of a store operation is loaded from. The CPU may then need to wait until the store finishes, so that the correct value can be retrieved. This involves e.g. a L1 cache roundtrip, during which most or all of the pipeline will be stalled, causing a significant decrease in performance. For example, (C/C++):
int slow(int *a, int *b)
{
*a = 5;
*b = 7;
return *a + *b;
}
Here, the language rules do not allow the compiler to assume that the pointers a and b refer to different memory locations. Therefore, it cannot, in general, keep the stored values in a register for the final addition (or, in this simple example, precalculate the return value to 12), but instead has to emit code that reloads at least the value from the first memory location, *a. The only realistic alternatives are a test-and-branch to see whether a and b are equal, in which case the correct return value is 14, but this adds significant overhead if the pointers are not equal, and optimizations enabled by function inlining.
Now if a call to slow is made with the same address for a and b, there is a data dependency between the memory stores and the memory load(s) in the final statement of slow. Some CPU designs (like general purpose processors for desktop or notebook computers) dedicate a significant amount of die space to complex store-to-load forwarding, which, under suitable circumstances such as native alignment of the operands, can avert having to wait for the cache roundtrip. Other CPUs (e.g. for embedded devices or video game consoles) may use a less elaborate or even minimalistic approach, and rely on the software developer to avoid frequent load-hit-stores in performance-critical code, or remove them during performance optimization. In the minimalistic approach, a store-to-load dependency forces a flush of the store buffers and stalling the pipeline. This ensures that the computation has the correct result, at a high performance cost.
References
Analysis of parallel algorithms
Compilers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9%20parsing | Resume parsing, also known as CV parsing, resume extraction, or CV extraction, allows for the automated storage and analysis of resume data. The resume is imported into parsing software and the information is extracted so that it can be sorted and searched.
Principle
Resume parsers analyze a resume, extract the desired information, and insert the information into a database with a unique entry for each candidate. Once the resume has been analyzed, a recruiter can search the database for keywords and phrases and get a list of relevant candidates. Many parsers support semantic search, which adds context to the search terms and tries to understand intent in order to make the results more reliable and comprehensive.
Machine learning
Machine learning is extremely important for resume parsing. Each block of information needs to be given a label and sorted into the correct category, whether that's education, work history, or contact information. Rule-based parsers use a predefined set of rules to parse the text. This method does not work for resumes because the parser needs to "understand the context in which words occur and the relationship between them." For example, if the word "Harvey" appears on a resume, it could be the name of an applicant, refer to the college Harvey Mudd, or reference the company Harvey & Company LLC. The abbreviation MD could mean "Medical Doctor" or "Maryland". A rule-based parser would require incredibly complex rules to account for all the ambiguity and would provide limited coverage.
This leads us to Machine Learning and specifically Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP is a branch of Artificial Intelligence and it uses Machine Learning to understand content and context as well as make predictions. Many of the features of NLP are extremely important in resume parsing. Acronym normalization and tagging accounts for the different possible formats of acronyms and normalizes them. Lemmatization reduces words to their root using a language dictionary and Stemming removes “s”, “ing”, etc. Entity extraction uses regex expressions, dictionaries, statistical analysis and complex pattern-based extraction to identify people, places, companies, phone numbers, email addresses, important phrases and more.
Effectiveness
Resume parsers have achieved up to 87% accuracy, which refers to the accuracy of data entry and categorizing the data correctly. Human accuracy is typically not greater than 96%, so the resume parsers have achieved "near human accuracy."
One executive recruiting company tested three resume parsers and humans to compare the accuracy in data entry. They ran 1000 resumes through the resume parsing software and had humans manually parse and enter the data. The company brought in a third party to evaluate how the humans did compared to the software. They found that the results from the resume parsers were more comprehensive and had fewer mistakes. The humans did not enter all the information on the resumes and occasi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanowire%20lasers | Semiconductor nanowire lasers are nano-scaled lasers that can be embedded on chips and constitute an advance for computing and information processing applications. Nanowire lasers are coherent light sources (single mode optical waveguides) as any other laser device, with the advantage of operating at the nanoscale. Built by molecular beam epitaxy, nanowire lasers offer the possibility for direct integration on silicon, and the construction of optical interconnects and data communication at the chip scale. Nanowire lasers are built from III–V semiconductor heterostructures. Their unique 1D configuration and high refractive index allow for low optical loss and recirculation in the active nanowire core region. This enables subwavelength laser sizes of only a few hundred nanometers. Nanowires are Fabry–Perot resonator cavities defined by the end facets of the wire, therefore they do not require polishing or cleaving for high-reflectivity facets as in conventional lasers.
Properties
Nanowire lasers can be grown site-selectively on Si/SOI wafers with conventional MBE techniques, allowing for pristine structural quality without defects. Nanowire lasers using the group-III nitride and ZnO materials systems have been demonstrated to emit in the visible and ultraviolet, however infrared at the 1.3–1.55 μm is important for telecommunication bands. Lasing at those wavelengths has been achieved by removing the nanowire from the silicon substrate. Nanowire lasers have shown pulse durations down to <1ps, and enable repetition rates greater than 200 GHz. Also, nanowire lasers have shown to store the phase information of a pulse over 30ps when excited with subsequent pulse pairs. Mode locked lasers at the nano-scale are therefore feasible with such configurations.
See also
Semiconductor lasers
Nanowires
Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Nanolaser
References
Nanoelectronics
Semiconductors
Nanowire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shili%20Lin | Shili Lin is a statistician who studies the applications of statistics to genomic data. She is a professor of statistics at Ohio State University, and is president-elect of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.
Lin earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Washington. Her dissertation, supervised by Elizabeth A. Thompson, was Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimates Of Probabilities On Complex Structures.
After working as a Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the Ohio State faculty in 1995.
She has been a fellow of the American Statistical Association since 2004, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2009.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
University of Washington alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Ohio State University faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca%20Dominici | Francesca Dominici is a Harvard Professor who develops methodology in causal inference and data science and led research projects that combine big data with health policy and climate change. She is a professor of biostatistics, co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, and a former senior associate dean for research in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Education and career
Dominici earned a bachelor's degree in statistics from Sapienza University of Rome in 1993, and a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Padua in 1997. She was a professor of biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 1997 to 2009, with a joint appointment in epidemiology.
On moving to Harvard in 2009, she was also given an honorary Master of Public Health degree from Harvard, following the tradition that Harvard faculty must have Harvard degrees.
Contributions
Dominici has been active on many study committees on public health, organized by the National Academy of Sciences, National Institutes of Health, and others. As well, she has taken an active role in the status of university women. Her work on the Johns Hopkins University Committee on the Status of Women earned her the campus Diversity Recognition Award in 2009; at the Chan School of Public Health, she has led the Committee for the Advancement of Women Faculty since 2012.
Recognition
Dominici became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2005. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.
In 2006, she won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award of the American Public Health Association. She is the 2015 winner of the Florence Nightingale David Award of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, and the 2016 winner of the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement in Statistical Sciences, which honors a woman statistician for achievement. In 2020, she won the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Italian statisticians
Women statisticians
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
University of Padua alumni
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Members of the National Academy of Medicine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Is...%20%28film%29 | Love is... is a Philippine television film by Eat Bulaga! and was aired on October 21, 2017, at GMA Network without any commercial break. It was directed by Adolf Alix Jr. starring the AlDub love team of Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza. The main plot of the television film drama revolves around the effects of clinical depression to a person. Eat Bulaga! also released the whole television film on its official YouTube channel under Creative Commons Attribution License and distributed by GMA Pictures.
On the day that it was broadcast on television, the official hashtag of the show (#ALDUBxEBLoveIs) trended on Twitter where it landed on the top spot in the Philippines and the second spot worldwide. It generated around 1.38 million tweets even before the television film started. According to the AGB Nielsen, Love is... got a television rating of 7.8%, which is the highest percentage on its time slot.
Plot
Vivienne (Maine Mendoza) and Marco (Alden Richards) prepares for their wedding after Marco proposes marriage to Vivienne at Antipolo. Marco's family is expected to shoulder all the expenses for the wedding but Vivienne wants to chip in. So, she works hard as an associate creative director and social media influencer to be able to save money for their marriage funds.
One day, Vivienne bumps into her cousin Edwin (Marky Lopez) who offers her business opportunities to which Vivienne responds positively. After coming home, Vivienne talks to her father (Nonie Buencamino) about Edwin's offer and her desire to invest on stocks through Edwin because she intends to increase her contribution to her wedding funds. Her father gave Vivienne his retirement fund that he received for being an Overseas Filipino Worker as money to be used for the stock investment.
Unfortunately, Vivienne's father suffers from a stroke and she has to use her marriage funds for her father's hospitalization and medical expenses with Marco's permission. It also turns out that Edwin's business dealings are sham. These series of events trigger Vivienne to a period of sadness that affected her work. She is forced by the management to take a leave from work due to persistent negligence. With that, she begins to abandon her relationship with Marco, her friends and her family. She only remains in her bedroom for days without even eating.
Marco keeps on contacting Vivienne but she avoids him often. Vivienne replies only after Marco invites her for a family dinner. At the dinner, Marco already suspects that Vivienne is having clinical depression due to her actions and physical appearance. Marco tells this to his mother (Bing Pimentel) when Vivienne steps out. His mother says that Vivienne could be crazy. Vivienne overhears the conversation and she walks away then Marco runs after her and tries to comfort her. Still, Vivienne pushes him away and returns the engagement ring then leaves him.
Vivienne goes to Antipolo to where Marco proposed. She brings sleeping pills wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPIA | DPIA may refer to:
Data protection impact assessment, a kind of Privacy Impact Assessment, in the General Data Protection Regulation of the EU
Docking planned incremental availability, in the United States Navy; for example see USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty.AI | Beauty.AI is a mobile beauty pageant for humans and a contest for programmers developing algorithms for evaluating human appearance. The mobile app and website created by Youth Laboratories that uses artificial intelligence technology to evaluate people's external appearance through certain algorithms, such as symmetry, facial blemishes, wrinkles, estimated age and age appearance, and comparisons to actors and models.
The Beauty.AI 2.0 contest caused great concern over important ethical issues with deep neural networks such as age, race and gender bias and lead to the creation of the Diversity.AI think tank dedicated to developing new methods for uncovering and managing bias in artificially intelligent systems. Beauty.AI was also an attempt to find approaches on how machines can perceive human face through evaluating particular features, commonly associated with health and beauty.
Concept
The Beauty.AI app was created by Youth Laboratories, a company based out of Russia and Hong Kong that focuses on facial skin analytics. The bioinformation company Insilico Medicine assists in the Beauty.AI app by testing its deep learning techniques to the app. One goal of the app is to reduce the need for human and animal testing as well as improving people's overall health. Its first contest was started in December 2016, and the results were announced in August 2016. More than 60,000 people submitted entries into the contest.
The mobile app uses artificial intelligence technology to inspect photographs for certain facial features in order to both determine a person's beauty through artificial means by multiple robots.
Part of the Beauty.AI app's purpose is to collect visual and anecdotal data to improve its creator's Youth Laboratories skin analyst skills.
Accusations of racism
There were a total of 44 individuals from different age groups and genders judged as the most attractive, with 37 white entrants, six Asian entrants, and one dark-skinned entrant. The app has received criticism from social justice advocates and computer science professionals.
However, Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, chief science officer of Youth Laboratories and chief technology officer Konstantin Kiselev, both for Youth Laboratories, noted that a lack of data may have contributed to these results. Also, Kiselev added that another issue was that approximately 75% of entrants were white Europeans, whereas only 7% and 1% were from India and Africa, respectively. Kiselev stated that they would work on doing more and better outreach to these areas to improve in this area. Despite this, it was said by Dr. Zhavoronkov that the AI would discard photos of dark-skinned people if the lighting is too poor. Dr. Zhavoronkov vowed to weed out the issues for the next beauty pageant and to try and avoid a similar controversy in the future.
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Skin care |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Kalpakjian | Craig Kalpakjian (born August 31, 1961) is an American artist working in New York, known for his computer-generated, photo-realistic renderings of anonymous, institutional spaces.
He is considered one of the first artists of his generation to make digital images depicting entirely artificial spaces in a fine art context.
Early life and education
Craig Kalpakjian was born in 1961 in Huntington, New York. He received his BA in History of Art from University of Pennsylvania in 1983, where he
enrolled to study physics, later shifting his focus to art history, philosophy and literature.
Art career
Early Work (1989-1995)
Kalpakjian emerged onto the New York art scene during the early 1990s as a sculptor and installation artist with work reflecting his interest in technologies of control, containment, and security. This work utilized bulletproof Plexiglas bankteller windows, waiting line stanchions, and security tags—items associated with contemporary paranoia and social control. Though taken out of context these objects still retained a significant aspect of their functionality. Inspired by minimalism and conceptual art, this work was a sort of hybrid between sculpture and installations, employing barriers, waiting lines and other objects that control the way we move through space.
These were included in important New York group exhibitions of the ’90’s, such as those organized by Colin De Land, Kenny Schachter, and Eric Oppenheim, and including other artists emerging at the time such as Andrea Zittel, Rachel Harrison, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gary Simmons, Jutta Koether, and Ricci Albenda.
Image and Video work (1995-2007)
Using software like AutoCAD and Form-Z, Kalpakjian started making digitally rendered photographic images and video animations of institutional spaces devoid of human occupants, spaces often subjected to the same intensive systems of control and surveillance he explored in his earlier work. These works have been described as hermetic, airless, depicting “a world without depth, in which reality, gradually engulfed by the relentless proliferation of digital information, disappears.”
Corridor (1995)
The video animation Corridor, included in 010101: Art In Technological Times at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, consists of a single shot of a curving office corridor that slowly advances. Described as “eerie and vaguely sinister, conjuring a sense of claustrophobia and infinity at the same time... Kalpakjian's deceptively plausible computer-generated animation becomes an apt metaphor for the impersonal spaces of corporate architecture." Since 1999, Corridor has been included in the collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Rendered Images
The theme of control remained central to Kalpakjian's rendered still images. Depicting darkened, windowless hallways in mute palettes, duct systems embedded within the infrastructure of buildings, at times presented from impossible points of view, many of these works feature the "inv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsapuna | Salsapuna() also known as Sal Sapuna is a long running Sri Lankan television drama series broadcast on television network Sirasa TV and directed by Nalan Mendis. It is a drama about the conflicts between family members due to their social and political backgrounds. The character Podi Patharakari () portrayed by the actress Michelle Dilhara became popular among the Sri Lankan audience.
Plot
The story begins when Aliya returns to Kethaliya's home. Prabath, Yamuna, Revathi Kethaliya and Nilhan live there. Yamuna and Prabath find difficulties in earning their living for, while Revathi finds proposals for her, the proposal never succeeded. Nilhan works as a journalist near the Narmada. Suren unwillingly married Judy tries his best to win the heart of Narmada, but fails in the face of utmost difficulty. The families face many problems while their mother, Kethaliya, and Aliya become helpless in every situation.
A few years later, Narmada marries Suren, but Suren's political background and Narmada's media background complicate their relationship. Aliya starts an affair with Rihanna, but their families are enemies. Aliya and Rihanna elope, hoping to have a better family life on their own, but meet with an accident.
Cast and characters
Iranganie Serasinghe as old Aliya
Shanali Weerasinghe as young Aliya
Roshan Pilapitiya as Kumara Premathilaka
Michelle Dilhara - as Preethi - Podi Patharakari ()
Sangeeth Prabu Shankar - as Nilhan
Damitha Abeyratne - as Revathi
Gayani Gisanthika - as Yamuna
Rohana Baddage - as Nandapala Warnaweera
Ramya Wanigasekara - as Kethaliya
Janaka Kumbukage - as Prabath
Amaya Adikari - as Narmada
Ranil Kulasinghe - as Suren
Gihani Weerasinghe - as Gihani
Iresha Ranasinghe - as Judy
Manel Wanaguru - as Shana
Rangi Rajapaksha - as Krishni
Dinindu Ekanayake - as Daham
Madhava Wijesinghe - as Vihanga
Characters
The character Podi Patharakari () was introduced in the 250th episode by the director Nalan Mendis. The character was introduced as the girlfriend of Nilhan. Nilhan meets a new friend, Podi Patharakari played by Michelle Dilhara, who came from London to study journalism. She challenges Nilhan that she will be Narmada's best student. Meanwhile, Narmada opens her own office, recruiting Nilhan, Podi Patharakari, and Manual. Podi Patharakari and Nilhan gradually build up a friendship but tend to always fight. Podi Patharakari has feelings for Nilhan, but Nilhan ignores her. Therefore, Podi Patharakari challenges Nilhan saying that she will win his heart. Gradually Nilhan starts to have feelings for Podi Patharakari. The character Podi Patharakari () portrayed by Michelle Dilhara,
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2000s Sri Lankan television series
2007 Sri Lankan television series debuts
2008 Sri Lankan television series endings
Sirasa TV original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODA%20%28mixed-use%20development%29 | CODA is a mixed-use development at Tech Square in Midtown Atlanta. The building contains of office space, of "high performance computing space/data center", of street level retail space, and a "outdoor living room". There is also a food hall.
History
The building was designed by Portman Architects, whose founder John C. Portman Jr. was a Georgia Tech graduate. Portman had been awarded the contract in 2015 to design what was then referred to as the High Performance Computing Center. Construction of the building cost an estimated $375 million, and it was officially declared open on May 23, 2019. As part of the construction, the nearby Crum & Forster Building was partially demolished, with the remaining portion of the building housing a restaurant and special-events space.
The building is notable for housing the world's tallest spiral staircase.
Elevators
CODA features ThyssenKrupp's TWiN elevator system, the first twin-lift system in North America.
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Mixed-use developments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Midtown Atlanta
Buildings and structures in Atlanta
Georgia Tech buildings and structures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus%20Magnum | Opus Magnum is a puzzle-based programming game developed by Zachtronics. It was released for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac in December 2017, following about two months of early access. In the game, the player must assemble a series of machines using various tools and program them to complete alchemy-related tasks. The player can advance with any working solution to each problem, but is challenged through leaderboards to produce a machine that does the task in the shortest time, with the lowest cost of materials, and/or the smallest occupied area. Opus Magnum is based on The Codex of Alchemical Engineering, one of the earliest Flash games made by Zach Barth prior to establishing Zachtronics.
Gameplay
Opus Magnum has the player take the role of an alchemist to create required products by manipulating atoms of base alchemy elements (the classic elements as well as the metals of antiquity) through a device they construct within a transmutation engine. The engine is represented as a hex grid which the player arranges various manipulation tools and transmutation spaces on. Manipulators are mechanical arms that rotate around a pivot point, pick up and drop atoms, and rotate structures it currently has picked up, with optional variants that can extend and retract the arm, and/or travel along a track path. Transmutation spaces can create a bond, destroy a bond, transform a basic element into "salt", or upgrade base metals into higher ones using quicksilver. Manipulation parts have a cost to them, though the player is not limited to a total number of manipulation elements, cost, or space the device takes up in crafting their solution.
After placing manipulators, the player must then provide each manipulator a set of commands that take atoms from input spaces and drop the proper completed material into the target output space; an early puzzle demonstrates how one turns lead into gold. Manipulators can have individual programs, and each run simultaneously once the machine is started. The goal for most puzzles is to deliver a fixed number of target output products, thus testing the machine's operation over several cycles. Should the device encounter a physically impossible situation (collision between atoms, collision of an atom and an arm base or two arms trying to move an atom in two different directions at the same time), the device will stop and require the player to readjust the machine.
Once a player has successfully demonstrated a device that completes the goals of the puzzle, they are ranked with all other players based on three factors: the speed of the device, the cost of the device, and the total area that the device takes. Player can then attempt alternate solutions that improve in any of these areas. Completed devices can be exported into an animated GIF to be shared on social media.
The game is structured through several chapters, providing the player with multiple puzzles they can work on and come back to as needed, though all puzzles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive%20Monster%20Mayhem | {{fan POV|date=December 2017}
Massive Monster Mayhem is a children's game show television program that combines live-action and computer-generated imagery animated elements. It premiered on Family Channel and Nicktoons on October 25, 2017. The series was created by Artur Spigel and Michael Chaves. It aired on Nicktoons and CITV in the UK and Ireland on February 26, 2018.
Premise
Each episode begins with the evil intergalactic overlord Master Mayhem threatening Earth with his plans to destroy it. Three kids compete in a series of challenges for a chance to take on one of Master Mayhem's Master Mayhem while the monsters wreak havoc on Earth. It features live gameplay by kids in futuristic challenges against gigantic Monster Superstars for the chance to win prizes and save the planet from destruction.
When the featured Monster Superstar is unleashed, the announcer will give a description about them like what planet they are from, their side jobs, and their hobbies.
Each episode also features some comical wraparounds involving Master Mayhem at his space condo on another planet.
Gameplay
The rounds of futuristic challenges are:
The Megalator – The players must go through a futuristic obstacle course where the two players with the fastest time will go on to the next round. The group that is responsible for building the Megalator has varied per episode.
The Mega Duel – The remaining two players will compete in a duel where the player with the most points will go on to the final round.
The Mash Down – The final round takes place in Mega City where the players must fight the Monster Superstar, break the Prize Buildings, and gather Power Pods to throw into the Mega Laser's Mega Reactor so that it can send the Monster Superstar back to Master Mayhem's world. The Mayor of Mega City would often promote one of Mega City's locations which results in her getting injured by the Monster Superstar. Before being enlarged, the player will select a certain battle suit that will give them an advantage in battle before being enlarged to 600 ft. for the Mash Down. The Mega Money Suit will grant the players x2 the prizes. The Mega Ice Suit freezes the monster for five whole seconds if the player says "Freeze!" The Mega Hammer Suit enables the user to knock down the monster and search for power pods if they say "HAMMER!" The Mega Tank Suit will enable the player to find two pods, but will make the player slow. During the fight, there are Boom Buildings in which if they are destroyed, all the prize money will be lost. In addition, the players will obtain a Mayhem Pod which will summon a rival Monster Superstar to fight the featured Monster Superstar for 20 seconds. If the hero manages to beat the featured Monster Superstar, break any prize buildings, and load the Mega Reactor with Power Pods before time runs out, the Monster Superstar will be zapped with the Mega Laser, the Earth will be saved, and the player will be crowned Earth's Champion and win the prize money |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrosoma%20muscerdata | Macrosoma muscerdata is a moth-like butterfly in the family Hedylidae. It was described by Cajetan von Felder, Rudolf Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875.
References
Hedylidae
Butterflies described in 1875 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20station | CBS station(s) may refer to:
Television stations affiliated with the CBS TV network:
List of CBS television affiliates (by U.S. state)
List of CBS television affiliates (table)
CBS Television Stations, the group of CBS's owned and operated stations
Train stations that have the station code "CBS":
Coatbridge Sunnyside railway station in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Columbus station, Columbus, Wisconsin, United States
See also
CBS (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20station | NBC station(s) may refer to:
Television stations affiliated with the NBC TV network in the United States:
List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S. state)
List of NBC television affiliates (table)
NBC Owned Television Stations, the group of NBC's owned and operated stations
NBC PNG in Papua New Guinea
Namibian Broadcasting Corporation in Namibia
Nation Broadcasting Corporation in the Philippines
Newfoundland Broadcasting Company in Canada, now CJON-DT
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in Norway
See also
NBC (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilie%20Gervais | Émilie Gervais is a Canadian new media artist based in Paris, France. Her work explores the relationships between internet, network culture, art and its mediation. In the past, she has described herself as, "a starry background artist working with the internet, deleting and restoring stuff, interacting with stuff and people".
Biography
Émilie Gervais; Born Gervais - Mother's last name who come from a small town call La Tuque (Mauricie) and LaPierre- Father's last name who come from Ville Saint-Laurent was born in Montréal, Canada. Her father (Robert LaPierre) is an architect, her mother (Danielle Gervais) is an elementary teacher and her brother (Charles G. LaPierre) a music producer/artist and marketing strategist. Émilie Grew up in Montreal, Saint-Lambert, Mont-Tremblant, San Francisco and the south shore of Montréal before moving to Aix-en-Provence for her master's degree. , Gervais attended Collège Charles-Lemoyne in Ste-Catherine, the Lycée Français in San Francisco, and different public schools. After graduating from Cégep de Saint-Laurent and Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Gervais pursued her studies at the École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence in France graduating with a DNAP (BFA) in 2011 and a DNSEP (Master) in 2013.
Career
Emilie Gervais began working with computers from an early age. In a 2013 interview with Benoit Palop, she said that it was like playing ice hockey for her. Working with gendered representations and power relations, Gervais applies a '90s internet aesthetic through works like, Blinking Girls (with Sarah Weis, 2012), backdoortrojangirl.net (2012), and the HTML collection of crowd-sourced works w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.net, where contributors upload their own work under the dictate of "boy art" or "girl art". In 2014, Dazed, named her one of their ten favorite digifeminist artists.
The uncompromising nature of Gervais' work carries a strong message. Feminist artists have found a unique venue for free expression in the internet and Gervais is at the leading edge of that movement. She inverts and distorts the language and aesthetics of the primitive internet to create art that is ultimately meaningful. The work Blinking Girls (2012) deals with the similarities between women and video games characters. The main character, Tasha, is Eve from Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, rebranded as a pimptress who believes all men are women and all women must pimp themselves out online and own themselves in all of their submissions.
Conceptually, Gervais is most interested in the creative process. As part of her practice, Gervais tends to erase everything that she posts making her online presence both ubiquitous and ephemeral. Tracking down Gervais' artworks requires browsing archives, mirror sites or following her closely through social media. Most of her production is either deleted after it is "processed" or it "mutates" into something else.
In 2015, she showcased Pizzasexual (2015), in the group exhibit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoNotPay | DoNotPay is an online legal service and chatbot. The product provides a "robot lawyer" service that claims to make use of artificial intelligence to contest parking tickets and provide various other legal services, with a subscription cost of $36 bimonthly.
DoNotPay's effectiveness and marketing have been subject to criticisms. A class-action lawsuit was even brought against the company in March 2023 alleging DoNotPay was engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.
Services
DoNotPay started off as an app for contesting parking tickets. It sells services which generate documents on legal issues ranging from consumer protection to immigration rights; it states that these are generated via automation and AI. The company claims its application is supported by the IBM Watson AI. It is currently available in the United Kingdom and United States (in all 50 states).
DoNotPay states that its services help customers seek refunds on flight tickets and hotel bookings, cancel free trials, sue people, apply for asylum or homeless housing, seek claims from Equifax during the aftermath of its security breach, and obtain U.S. visas and green cards. DoNotPay offers a Free Trial Card feature which gives users a virtual credit card number that can be used to sign up for free online trials (such as Netflix and Spotify). As soon as the free trial period ends, the card automatically declines any charges. DoNotPay also claims that its services allow users to automatically apply for refunds, cancel subscriptions, fight spam in people's inboxes, combat volatile airline prices, and file damage claims with city offices.
In 2021, DoNotPay raised $10 million from investors, including Andreesen Horowitz, Lux Capital, Tribe Capital, and others, reaching a valuation of $210 million.
Reception
In 2016, Joshua Browder, the company's founder, told The Guardian that the chatbot had contested more than 250,000 parking tickets in London and New York and won 160,000 of them, although the newspaper did not appear to verify the claim.
Browder's technology has received mixed reviews. For example, a blog post from The Guardian noted that it "just drafted an impressive notice under the Data Protection Act 1998 not to use my personal information for direct marketing." Similarly, a writer with The American Lawyer noted that, "one of DoNotPay's chatbots helped me draft a strong, well-cited and appropriately toned letter requesting extended maternity leave."
However, Legal Cheek tested the service in 2016 with "fairly basic legal questions" and noted that it failed to answer most of them. Above the Law noted that the service may "be too good to be true" due to errors in the legal advice provided, noting that when dealing with "things as important as securing immigration status, which is one of the services DoNotPay promotes, mistakes can ruin lives." Above the Law ultimately recommended the service for "clear-cut issues like parking tickets or non-critical matters," while cautioning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junichiro%20Kono | Junichiro Kono is a professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science and NanoEngineering, at Rice University.
Early life
Junichiro Kono received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied physics from the University of Tokyo in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. in physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1995. He was a postdoctoral research associate in condensed matter physics at the University of California Santa Barbara from 1995-1997, and the W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory Fellow in the Department of Physics at Stanford University from 1997-2000. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Rice University in 2000 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2005 and to professor in 2009. He is currently a professor in the departments of electrical & computer engineering, physics & astronomy, and materials science & nanoengineering at Rice University. His research focuses on optical studies of condensed matter systems and photonic applications of nanosystems, including semiconductor nanostructures and carbon-based nanomaterials. He has made a number of pioneering contributions to the diverse fields of semiconductor optics, terahertz spectroscopy and devices, ultrafast and quantum optics, and condensed matter physics. In 2009 he was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society and, in 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
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20th-century births
Living people
American electrical engineers
21st-century American physicists
Japanese electrical engineers
Japanese physicists
University at Buffalo alumni
University of Tokyo alumni
Rice University faculty
Stanford University faculty
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSEEP | Distributed Simulation Engineering and Execution Process (DSEEP) is a standardized process for building federations of computer simulations. DSEEP is maintained by SISO and the standard is published as IEEE Std 1730-2010. DSEEP is a recommended systems engineering process in the NATO Modelling and Simulation Standards Profile AMSP-01, which also uses DSEEP as a framework for describing when other standards are to be used throughout a project process.
DSEEP can be used together with several interoperability standards, such as HLA, DIS and TENA. DSEEP was previously called FEDEP (Federation Development and Execution Process).
DSEEP steps
DSEEP consists of seven steps that can be carried out in a linear fashion, or iterated using a spiral approach. The steps are:
Define Simulation Environment Objectives
Perform Conceptual Analysis
Design Simulation Environment
Develop Simulation Environment
Integrate and Test Simulation Environment
Execute Simulation
Analyse Data and Evaluate Results
References
External links
SISO DSEEP Product Support Group
IEEE standards
Military simulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilevel%20Monte%20Carlo%20method | Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods in numerical analysis are algorithms for computing expectations that arise in stochastic simulations. Just as Monte Carlo methods, they rely on repeated random sampling, but these samples are taken on different levels of accuracy. MLMC methods can greatly reduce the computational cost of standard Monte Carlo methods by taking most samples with a low accuracy and corresponding low cost, and only very few samples are taken at high accuracy and corresponding high cost.
Goal
The goal of a multilevel Monte Carlo method is to approximate the expected value of the random variable that is the output of a stochastic simulation. Suppose this random variable cannot be simulated exactly, but there is a sequence of approximations with increasing accuracy, but also increasing cost, that converges to as . The basis of the multilevel method is the telescoping sum identity,
that is trivially satisfied because of the linearity of the expectation operator. Each of the expectations is then approximated by a Monte Carlo method, resulting in the multilevel Monte Carlo method. Note that taking a sample of the difference at level requires a simulation of both and .
The MLMC method works if the variances as , which will be the case if both and approximate the same random variable . By the Central Limit Theorem, this implies that one needs fewer and fewer samples to accurately approximate the expectation of the difference as . Hence, most samples will be taken on level , where samples are cheap, and only very few samples will be required at the finest level . In this sense, MLMC can be considered as a recursive control variate strategy.
Applications
The first application of MLMC is attributed to Mike Giles, in the context of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) for option pricing, however, earlier traces are found in the work of Heinrich in the context of parametric integration. Here, the random variable is known as the payoff function, and the sequence of approximations , use an approximation to the sample path with time step .
The application of MLMC to problems in uncertainty quantification (UQ) is an active area of research. An important prototypical example of these problems are partial differential equations (PDEs) with random coefficients. In this context, the random variable is known as the quantity of interest, and the sequence of approximations corresponds to a discretization of the PDE with different mesh sizes.
An algorithm for MLMC simulation
A simple level-adaptive algorithm for MLMC simulation is given below in pseudo-code.
repeat
Take warm-up samples at level
Compute the sample variance on all levels
Define the optimal number of samples on all levels
Take additional samples on each level according to
if then
Test for convergence
end
if not converged then
end
until converged
Extensions of MLMC
Recent extensions of the mul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20H.%20Slate | Elizabeth H. Slate is an American statistician, interested in the Bayesian statistics of longitudinal data and applications to health.
She is the Duncan McLean and Pearl Levine Fairweather Professor of Statistics at Florida State University. Some of Slate's most heavily cited work concerns the effects of selenium on cancer. Slate's research has also included work on the early detection of osteoarthritis.
Education and career
Slate majored in applied mathematics and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), graduating in 1986. After earning a master's degree at CMU in statistics in 1988, she completed her Ph.D. there in 1991, under the supervision of Robert E. Kass; her dissertation was Reparameterization of Statistical Models.
She joined the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University in 1992, and moved to the department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology of the Medical University of South Carolina in 2000. In 2011 she moved again, to Florida State University, as Fairweather Professor.
Recognition
Slate became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2023.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Cornell University faculty
Medical University of South Carolina faculty
Florida State University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Biostatisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Bevan%20%28mathematician%29 | David Bevan is an English mathematician, computer scientist and software developer.
He is known for Bevan's theorem, which gives the asymptotic enumeration of grid classes of permutations and for his work on enumerating the class of permutations avoiding the pattern 1324.
He is also known for devising weighted reference counting, an approach to computer memory management that is suitable for use in distributed systems.
Work and research
Bevan is a lecturer in combinatorics in the department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde.
He has degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Oxford and a degree in theology from the London School of Theology. He received his PhD in mathematics from The Open University in 2015; his thesis, On the growth of permutation classes, was supervised by Robert Brignall.
In 1987, as a research scientist at GEC's Hirst Research Centre in Wembley, he developed an approach to computer memory management, called weighted reference counting, that is suitable for use in distributed systems.
During the 1990s, while working for the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Papua New Guinea, he developed a computer program, called FindPhone, that was widely used by field linguists to analyse phonetic data in order to understand the phonology of minority languages.
While employed by Pitney Bowes, he was a major contributor to the development of the FreeType text rendering library.
Bevan's mathematical research has concerned areas of enumerative combinatorics, particularly in relation to permutation classes.
He established that the growth rate of a monotone grid class of permutations is equal to the square of the spectral radius of a related bipartite graph.
He has also determined bounds on the growth rate of
the class of permutations avoiding the pattern 1324.
In the Acknowledgements sections of his journal articles, he often includes the Latin phrase
Soli Deo gloria.
Selected publications
External links
David Bevan's page at the University of Strathclyde
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Combinatorialists
21st-century English mathematicians
English mathematicians
English computer scientists
Academics of the University of Strathclyde
Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
Alumni of the London School of Theology
Alumni of the Open University
1961 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Chowaniec | Adam Chowaniec (1950–2015) was a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and educator. He is recognised as one of the Founding Fathers of the Personal Computer, by the Computer History Museum at Mountain View, California. In later life, Adam Chowaniec became a champion of Canadian business and entrepreneurship. He died, from cancer, in 2015.
Early life
Chowaniec was born in Leeds, England, in 1950, the son of a Polish engineer (and former prisoner-of-war in Siberia) who had emigrated to England after World War Two. He studied Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, completing his undergraduate degree in 1971, and securing a Commonwealth Scholarship to Queen's University, to gain his master's degree. He obtained a PhD from Sheffield in 1975. After completing his studies, Chowaniec moved back to Canada to take up a post as Professor of Electrical Engineering at Acadia University, Nova Scotia.
Career overview
In 1976 Chowaniec left academia for a career in engineering management, joining Bell-Northern Research, later to become Northern Telecom Limited (Nortel), a multinational telecommunications manufacturing corporation based in Mississauga, Ontario.
In 1983, Chowaniec joined Commodore International at West Chester, Pennsylvania to become Vice-President of World Product Development. The company had sold many millions of its popular Commodore 64 personal computer, but needed a new product to maintain its competitive position. Chowaniec later recalled that he was given 18 months to develop this new computer, complete with operating system, from scratch. The new machine was the Amiga. It sold between 4 – 6 million units, and provided a platform for games including Lemmings and Worms. Commentator Jeremy Reimer described it as "seem[ing] like it came from ten years in the future", while Byte thought it "so far ahead of its time that almost nobody – including Commodore's marketing department – could fully articulate what it was all about."
The Amiga was launched at the Lincoln Center in New York in July 1985, the first affordable PC offering full colour graphics with a palette of 4,096 colours. The artist Andy Warhol demonstrated its capabilities at the launch event by using it to "paint" a picture of Debbie Harry; the Blondie singer also attended, and performed, at the launch.
1986 saw Chowaniec return to Ottawa as President of CALMOS, which was seeking leadership with experience in the US technology marketplace. Under his management, the company doubled in size through a well-judged acquisition, and grew further after it won a large federal grant to work with a British partner on integrated circuit development. CALMOS was sold to Welsh businessman and entrepreneur Terry Matthews's Newbridge Networks in 1989.
In 1995, Newbridge Networks determined to divest itself of its microsystems division whilst retaining a financial interest in its future, and the division was sold into a new corporation to be known as Tundra Semicond |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immerman | Immerman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Karl Immermann (1796–1840), German dramatist, novelist, and poet
Neil Immerman (born 1953), American computer scientist
Richard H. Immerman (born 1949), American historian and writer
See also
Immelman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Besser | Les Besser (born 1936) is an American electronics engineer, an expert in microwave technology. He is the founder (1973) of Compact Software, the first commercially successful microwave computer-aided design (CAD) company, which commercialize his program COMPACT (Computerized Optimization of Microwave Passive and Active CircuiTs).
Les Besser was born and raised in Hungary (interbellum and World War II Hungary and Hungarian People's Republic). In 1956 he escaped to the West and became a Canadian citizen in 1971. Later he moved to the United States, graduated from the University of Colorado, and in 2000 he naturalized in the United States.
Besser began working on simulators during his employment at Hewlett-Packard (1966–1969), using the BASIC computer language and time-sharing computers. After leaving HP, he joined the newly formed microwave division of Fairchild Semiconductor, where he authored his first-generation program, SPEEDY, Besser later converted another program, originally written for his graduate thesis work, to run on a commercial time-share system and launched a part-time business, Compact Engineering (later renamed Compact Software). Besser submitted the description of COMPACT to
IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory in 1972, but it was initially rejected and accepted after addition of large amount of mathematics into it. Besser was associated with development of COMPACT until 1983. In 1985 Besser founded Besser Associates, a company that offers education in microwave technology. He also co-authored a number of textbooks on the subject. In 2004 he retired and sold the company, but continued to occasionally teach courses.
In 2013, The Hewlett Packard Memory Project published Les Besser's two-volume memoirs, Hurdling to Freedom: A Hungarian's Escape to America, downloadable from the Project's website.
Awards and recognition
IEEE Life Fellow
1983: IEEE MTT "Microwave Applications Award"
1987: IEEE RFTG "Career Award"
2000: IEEE "Third Centennial Medal"
2006: IEEE Educational Activities Board's "Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education"
2007: IEEE MTT "Distinguished Educator" award
References
1936 births
Living people
American electronics engineers
American businesspeople
Electronic design automation people
Canadian emigrants to the United States
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
University of Colorado alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya%20Bull | Papaya Bull is a Brazilian animated cartoon series, which is being shown by Nickelodeon Brazil. The series is a co-production of Boutique Filmes, Nickelodeon and NBCUniversal International Networks. Produced by Birdo Studio and 52 Animation Studio.
Papaya Bull has 13 episodes and 26 segments, the show debuted on 2 October 2017 in Brazil on Nickelodeon Brazil, and premiered in Latin America on 5 May 2018 on the Latin American Nickelodeon channel.
Inspired by the folklore of the state of Santa Catarina, with characters with names of beaches of the state capital, Florianopolis, the animation Papaya Bull debuted on October 2, 2017, in its native country, through Nickelodeon Brazil. The idea of using the papaya steer as the basis for the story was by Ricardo Peres and Rodrigo Eller, 52 Animation Studio.
Synopsis
The story takes place on the island of Papaya, where each child receives an ox as soon as it is born, the ox that will be his best friend and protector for life. Everyone has their least Cacupé, who arrived mysteriously on the island and ended up staying with Socrates, a neurotic ox that was left over. Now the pair will challenge the customs of Papaya Island.
Characters
Cacupé
Hermano
Joaquina
Guri
Sócrates
Floriano
Dani
Episodes
External links
2010s animated television series
Brazilian children's animated television series
Brazilian flash animated television series
Portuguese-language Nickelodeon original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy%20Ensor | Katherine Bennett Ensor is an American statistician specializing in numerous methods in computational and statistical analysis of time series data, stochastic process modeling, and estimation to forecast issues in public health, community informatics, computational finance, and environmental statistics.
Ensor is the Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics and Director of the Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems at Rice University. From 2016–2022, she was Director of the Kinder Institute Urban Data Platform, a data resource initiative for the Greater Houston area that includes the Texas Flood and COVID-19 registries. She is an Executive Team Member for Houston Wastewater Epidemiology, a SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring initiative between Rice University, the Houston Health Department, Houston Public Works, and the City of Houston. In August 2022, Houston Wastewater Epidemiology was named a National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) Center of Excellence by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Career and Research
Ensor's statistical and computational methods for the development of modeling frameworks pinpoint, track and forecast issues across a wide variety of fields.
Since the start of her academic career, a focus of her research has sought a deeper understanding of problems in energy, quantitative finance and risk management. In 2002, she collaborated with university and industry partners to establish the Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES). She has since continued to serve as the center’s director and has developed numerous programs in graduate and undergraduate research and education.
Ensor is widely known for her expertise in community analytics, which has grown through her career-long commitment to environmental and health-based research. Through collaborations with cross-disciplinary groups of educators, scientists, engineers, and city and public health professionals, she has quantitatively assessed air quality and human exposure to environmental contaminants. The work has also included the discovery of a correlation between ozone and heart attacks, and of geographic patterns in severe asthma attacks in schoolchildren.
In May 2020, Ensor and collaborators at Rice University, the Houston Health Department, Houston Public Works, and the City of Houston, began conducting ongoing testing of the city’s wastewater treatment system for the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
The wastewater monitoring system has also been adapted to provide public health information on seasonal influenza, the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), mpox and other human pathogens.
As Director of the Kinder Institute Urban Data Platform from 2016–2022, Ensor investigated historical Houston flood event trends and Hurricane Harvey and on the health and housing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 vaccines. Additional studies have investigated mitigating risk and the affects c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking%20%28information%20science%29 | While sensemaking has been studied by other disciplines under other names for centuries, in information science and computer science the term "sensemaking" has primarily marked two distinct but related topics. Sensemaking was introduced as a methodology by Brenda Dervin in the 1980s and to human–computer interaction by PARC researchers Daniel Russell, Mark Stefik, Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card in 1993.
In information science, the term is often written as "sense-making". In both cases, the concept has been used to bring together insights drawn from philosophy, sociology, and cognitive science (especially social psychology). Sensemaking research is therefore often presented as an interdisciplinary research programme.
As a process
Sensemaking can be described as a process of developing sophisticated representation and organizing information to serve a task, for example, decision-making and problem-solving (Russell et al., 1993). Gary A. Klein and colleagues (Klein et al. 2006b) conceptualize sensemaking as a set of processes that is initiated when an individual or organization recognizes the inadequacy of their current understanding of events.
Sensemaking is an active two-way process of fitting data into a frame (mental model) and fitting a frame around the data. Neither data nor frame comes first; data evoke frames and frames select and connect data. When there is no adequate fit, the data may be reconsidered or an existing frame may be revised. This description resembles the recognition-metacognition model (Cohen et al., 1996), which describes the metacognitive processes that are used by individuals to build, verify, and modify working models (or "stories") in situational awareness to account for an unrecognised situation. Such notions also echo the processes of assimilation and accommodation in Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development (e.g., Piaget, 1972, 1977).
As methodology
Brenda Dervin (Dervin, 1983, 1992, 1996) has investigated individual sensemaking, developing theories about the "cognitive gap" that individuals experience when attempting to make sense of observed data. Because much of this applied psychological research is grounded within the context of systems engineering and human factors, it aims to answer the need for concepts and performance to be measurable and for theories to be testable. Accordingly, sensemaking and situational awareness are viewed as working concepts that enable researchers to investigate and improve the interaction between people and information technology. This perspective emphasizes that humans play a significant role in adapting and responding to unexpected or unknown situations, as well as recognized situations. Dervin's work has largely focused on developing philosophical guidance for method, including methods of substantive theorizing and conducting research (Naumer, C. et al., 2008).
In human–computer interaction
After a seminal paper on sensemaking in the human–computer interaction (HCI) fie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie%20des%20chemins%20%C3%A9conomiques%20de%20l%27Est%20%C3%A9gyptien | The Compagnie des chemins économiques de l’Est égyptien (French for Economic Railway Company of the Egyptian East) built and briefly operated a long gauge railway network around Damanhour and Tanta in Egypt. § 51
History
The Compagnie des chemins économiques de l’Est égyptien was founded on 19 May 1897 by the Belgian aristocrat Édouard Empain (born 1852; died 1929) as a PLC. § 34 The French business bank Paribas was not one of the co-founders, but got involved by replacing the group of German investors, who had teamed-up with the Empain Group and three local banks on previous occasions. The concession was given to the banks of the Suarès brothers, Félix de Menasce, Cattaui and Wilhelm Pelizaeus. They divided the fully paid-in capital of 200,000 Pound Sterling (5,040,000 French Franc) in shares of 55, 20, 15 und 10%, respectively. § 50
The Egyptian government granted the concession for 70 years, after which the railway had to be handed over to the State. It guaranteed for the investors a net income of 900 F/km. Half of the total income of 5,625 F per year and kilometre was due to be given to the government. The Paribas bank signed for a quarter of the capital, which was shared amongst the founders proportionally and elected a Member of the Board. § 51
The railway company issued 12,500 stock exchange certificates at 3.5% of the total capital, i.e. 20 GBP (504 F) each, to be paid back within 70 years. The Paribas bank purchased shares at the value of 446.25 F and re-sold them at the same price to the public withholding a 4% premium. From a political point of view, this was one of the best concessions of Lower-Egypt and increased the French influence onto the region. The guaranteed annual net income of 315,000 F for the 350 km of railway track, promised to provide a profitable margin in comparison to the 242,304 F investment. § 52 The results exceeded the most optimistic prognoses of the founders, which led to an increase of capital to 8,125,000 F in March 1900. The new 100 F shares were issued at 106,25 F, to gain 3,320,300 F. A quarter of the first and second tranche of the shares and all loans were sold in France at a total of 7,674,141 F. § 53
The company merged with Egyptian Delta Light Railways Company in April 1900 by exchanging shares. The Paribas bank left the company and was not affiliated to the Egyptian Delta Light Railways. § 54
Lines and stations
100. Damanhour — Tod — Teh-el-Baroud
101. Tod — Delingat
102. Damanhour — Kafr-el-Dawar
103. Damanhour — Shibrikhit — Teh-el-Barud Ville
104. Shibrikhit — Miniet Salamah
105. Tel-el-Barud — Kafr Awana
106. Damanhour — Edfina
107. Tanta — Sidi-Salem
108. Bassioun Régulateur — Fua
109. Mehallet Malek — El-Asiefar
110. Birmah — Kafr-el-Zaya
111. Tanta — Baltim
112. Tira — Talkha
113. Sakha — Mehalla-Kebir
114. Kafr Sarem — Birket-el-Sab
115. Barrage — Mansura
116. Beltan — Kafr-Hamza
117. Sahragt — Zagazig
118. Mit-Abu-Kha1ed — Bilbeis — Abu-Hammad
118A. El—Zaoura |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-80 | The Micro-80 () was the first do-it-yourself home computer in the Soviet Union.
Overview
Schematics and information were published in the local DIY electronic magazine Radio in 1983. It was complex, using an KR580VM80A-based system (a clone of the Intel 8080) which contained about 200 ICs. This system gained low popularity, but set a precedent in getting the attention of hobbyists for DIY computers, and later other DIY computers were published by Radio and other DIY magazines.
History of creation
The creation of the Micro-80 prototype began in 1978, when a package from the Kiev NPO Kristall arrived at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Building (MIEM) by mistake. There were microcircuits in that package. Soon, MIEM specialists figured out that this was a domestic analogue of the i8080 microprocessor and peripheral controllers and decided to create their own PC.
In 1979, the first sample of a microcomputer was launched. As in the first Western microcomputers, a terminal connected via a serial interface was used as a display device and keyboard, in this case the Videoton-340. There was also a punched tape reader FS-1500. 4 KB RAM was made on K565RU2 microcircuits with a 1K×1 organization (later the RAM was increased by another 8 KB). Initially, there was no ROM at all, and when the computer was turned on cold (as in one of the first American microcomputers Altair 8800 of 1975), it was necessary to manually enter the program for loading the block from punched tape with toggle switches. When i2708 chips (UV-ROM 1K×8) became available some time after the computer was running, they were used to store the ROM-BIOS and the monitor, eliminating the need to constantly load them from punched tape.
Popov developed a text video adapter that works on a conventional household TV and a keyboard read through the PPA KR580VV55, which eliminated the bulky industrial terminal. After a data storage system based on a cassette recorder was developed, in 1980 a prototype of a full-fledged household computer was obtained. After bringing it into a presentable form, it was shown to the Deputy Minister of the Radio Industry N.V. Gorshkov, but did not meet his understanding regarding the implementation of the development.
Resonance for journal publication
The idea to build a computer on their own interested many radio amateurs. Letters began to come to the editors of the Radio magazine with requests to simplify the design of the Micro-80 and, to facilitate assembly, develop printed circuit boards for it. Therefore, soon, already in 1986, the same authors published a much simpler Radio 86RK computer, containing only 29 microcircuits.
References
Soviet computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialist%20%28computer%29 | The Specialist () is a DIY computer designed in Soviet Union. Its description was published in Modelist-Konstructor (), a magazine for scale model builders in 1987. It was the first such publication in a magazine not oriented on electronics.
Overview
The original construction was developed by a professional technical school teacher two years earlier. It was much more advanced than previous DIY computers, because it had a higher graphical image resolution (384x256) and a "transparent" video system, which did not slow down the CPU when both the CPU and the video system tried to access the RAM simultaneously. It gained limited popularity with hobbyists, though some factories produced DIY kits (Lik for example).
Technical specifications
CPU: KR580VM80A (Intel 8080A clone) clocked at 2 MHz.
RAM: 32 or 48 KiB.
ROM: 2 KiB, expandable to 12 KiB. ROM contains monitor firmware.
Video: monochrome graphics mode. The image resolution is 384 × 256 pixels. Text can be displayed using 64 columns × 25 rows of characters. Images for the upper case Cyrillic and Latin characters in KOI-7 N2 encoding are built in the Monitor ROM.
Storage media: cassette tape. The recording format is compatible with the one used in Radio-86RK.
Keyboard: membrane type, 72 keys. The keyboard matrix is attached via programmable peripheral interface chip KR580VV55 (Intel 8255 clone) and scanned by CPU.
References
Soviet computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UT-88 | The UT-88 () is a DIY educational computer designed in the Soviet Union. Its description was published in YT dlya umelykh ruk (Young technical designer for skilled hands, ) — a supplement to Yunij Technik (Young technical designer, ) magazine in 1989. It was intended for building by school children of extracurricular hobby groups at Pioneers Palaces.
Description
At the time of publication, there were several DIY computers: Micro-80, Radio-86RK, and Specialist. The main feature of UT-88 was the possibility to build a computer in stages while getting a workable construction at each step. This approach made it easier to build by less skilled hobbyists.
The minimal configuration of the computer includes a power supply, CPU, 1 KiB of ROM and 1 KiB of RAM, 6 seven-segment displays, a 17-key keyboard, and a tape interface. This computer can be used as a scientific calculator.
Full configuration adds a display module with a TV interface, a full keyboard, and a 64 KiB dynamic RAM module.
References
Soviet computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion-128 | The Orion-128 () is a DIY computer designed in Soviet Union. It was featured in the Radio magazine in 1990, other materials for the computer were published until 1996. It was the last Intel 8080-based DIY computer in Russia.
Overview
The Orion-128 used the same concepts as the Specialist and had similar specifications, with both advances and flaws. It gained more popularity because it was supported by a more popular magazine. In the early 1990s the computer was produced industrially at the Livny pilot plant of machine graphics means in Oryol Oblast. Much of the software for the Orion-128 was ported by hobbyists from the Specialist and the ZX Spectrum.
Technical specifications
CPU: KR580VM80A (Intel 8080A clone) clocked at 2.5 MHz.
RAM: 128 KiB in original version, expandable to 256 KiB. A bank switching scheme was used.
ROM: 2 KiB contains monitor firmware
Video: three graphics modes with the same image resolution 384 × 256 pixels. Text can be displayed using 64 columns × 25 rows of characters. Images for the upper case Cyrillic and Latin characters in KOI-7 N2 encoding are built in the Monitor ROM. List of graphics modes includes:
monochrome mode (two color palettes available: black and green, yellow and blue)
4 color mode (each pixel has its own color, two palettes available)
16 color mode (each group of 8 horizontal pixels can use one of 16 foreground colors and one of 16 background colors)
Storage media: cassette tape, ROM drive (a special board containing a set of ROM chips). In later years a floppy disk controller and an ATA hard disk controller were developed
Keyboard: 67 keys. The keyboard matrix is attached via programmable peripheral interface chip KR580VV55 (Intel 8255 clone) and scanned by CPU
Peculiarities
"Orion" is partially compatible with "Radio-86RK" in terms of keyboard, standard ROM subroutines and data storage format on the cassette, and with another amateur radio computer, "Specialist" in terms of graphic screen format. Apparently, he also used the idea of an electronic disk from RAM from another domestic computer with 128 kb RAM - Okean-240. The Orion developers, they say, set themselves the task of creating an inexpensive, simple and affordable consumer PC with good graphics capabilities, and they succeeded. In the minimum configuration (without color, with 64 kb RAM), ORION contains only 42 microcircuits, in the standard configuration (128 kb) there are only 59, and expensive or scarce components are not used, you can use obsolete series microcircuits. For the same reasons, the KR580VM80A was used as the CPU, as the cheapest and most affordable. Moreover, the Orion circuitry is such that the processor operates at its maximum frequency of 2.5 MHz without any delays. The same idea of transparent access to RAM is implemented, which was previously applied in the "Specialist" and its clones. Other domestic machines used WAIT cycles to synchronize the processor with the video part, which reduced performance by 25%. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20artists%20by%20number%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones | The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads (since 2007) and streams (since 2015), and is currently published every Friday. The chart was first published on 9 October 1994, when American thrash metal band Slayer was number one with its sixth studio album Divine Intervention.
As of the chart published on 19 May 2023, a total of 677 albums by 297 artists have topped the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart. 14 artists have topped the chart with seven or more different albums. The most successful is American pop punk band Green Day, who have reached number one with 14 different albums and spent 74 weeks atop the chart. Four artists have topped the chart with ten or more releases: Iron Maiden with 13, Metallica with 12, Foo Fighters with 11 and Led Zeppelin with ten.
Artists
The following artists have been credited on at least seven different number one albums, as recognised by the OCC. Appearances on compilation albums featuring various artists are not included.
See also
List of artists by number of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones
List of artists by number of UK Albums Chart number ones
List of artists by number of UK Singles Chart number ones
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1
Lists of artists by record chart achievement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20computing%20in%20Poland | The history of Polish computing (informatics) began during the Second World War with breaking the Enigma machine code by Polish mathematicians. After World War II, work on Polish computers began. Poles made a significant contribution to both the theory and technique of world computing.
In the State Institute of Mathematics, established in 1948 (from 1952 at the Polish Academy of Sciences), it was decided to start prospective work on the construction of at least one machine comparable to the American ENIAC. For this purpose, the Mathematical Apparatus Group of this Institute (pol. Grupa Aparatów Matematycznych, GAM) was established. The first engineering employee of GAM was , and shortly after he was joined by his fellow students, Romuald Marczyński and Krystyn Bochenek. Logician and statistician Henryk Greniewski became the head of GAM. There were no resources to build such a computer - neither technical facilities, nor electronic equipment, nor experience. The only chance was given by the enthusiasm and alleged talent of a few newly promoted engineers.
Polish computer hardware designs in 1958-1986
Odra
Some of the earliest computers created in Poland were the first Odra computers. They were manufactured at the Elwro manufacturing plant in Wrocław, (the brand name comes from the Odra River that flows through the city of Wrocław) and exported to other communist countries. The production started in 1959–1960. The last series of Odra computers—the Odra 1300—consisted of three models: the Odra 1304, 1305, and the 1325. The hardware was developed by Polish teams to run the software for the above machines provided by the British company ICL. The Odra 1300 models were designed to be ICL 1900 compatible.
K-202
K-202 was 16-bit minicomputer built by Jacek Karpiński in 1971. It was faster and cheaper than most of the world's production at this time, and more advanced than IBM PC released decade later, but the mass production was never started because of political reasons and dependence on western parts; it was not compatible with the ES EVM standard.
Meritum
Produced by Mera-Elzab, Meritum I and II models were created in 1983 and 1985 respectively. Based on U880DA CPU (Zilog Z80 clone), with 16 and 48KB RAM, were based on the TRS-80 computer. They were intended primarily for scientific, engineering and office applications.
Elwro Junior
Elwro 800 Junior (1986) and Elwro 804 Junior PC (1990) were ZX Spectrum clones intended for schools, and for home use respectively. The 804 model had a 3.5" disk drive built in; the drive was available as an accessory for 800 (the alternative mass storage being a tape recorder). The computers used the Z80A CPU, 64KB RAM and 24KB ROM. The ROM contained either CP/J (a variant of CP/M) operating system, or Spectrum-compatible BASIC.
Mazovia
Mazovia was a Polish clone of IBM PC/XT.
Polish computer scientists
Grzegorz Rozenberg - researcher in fields of natural computing, formal language and automata theory, graph transf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20computing%20in%20Romania | This article describes the history of computing in Romania.
HC family
The Romanian computers (HC 85, HC 85+, HC 88, HC 90, HC 91 and HC 2000) were clones of the ZX Spectrum produced at ICE Felix from 1985 to 1994. HC 85 was first designed at Institutul Politehnic București by Prof. Dr. Ing. Adrian Petrescu (in laboratory), then redesigned at ICE Felix (in order to be produced at industrial scale). Their operating system was a BASIC interpreter.
aMIC
was a Romanian microcomputer designed by Prof. Adrian Petrescu at Institutul Politehnic București in 1982, later produced at Fabrica de Memorii in Timișoara.
MARICA and DACICC
MARICA and the DACICC family (DACICC-1 and DACICC-200) were Romanian computers produced in 1959–1968 at T. Popoviciu Institute of Numerical Analysis, Cluj-Napoca.
Felix series
was a Romanian IBM-PC compatible produced at ICE Felix in 1985–1990.
was a family of Romanian computers produced by ICE Felix from 1970 to 1978. They were similar to IBM/360; their operating system was SIRIS.
was a family of Romanian mini and microcomputers in 1975–1984.
CoBra
was a Romanian personal computer produced at I.T.C.I Brașov, in 1986.
Independent
was a series of Romanian minicomputers, manufactured from 1983 to 1989. They were compatible with DEC-PDP 11–34, running RSX-11M operating system. They were produced at ITC Timișoara, with memory chips also produced in Timișoara.
See also
Electronics industry in the Socialist Republic of Romania
History of computer hardware in Yugoslavia
Computer systems in the Soviet Union
History of computing in Poland
History of computer hardware in Bulgaria
External links
Soviet Block computers with references to Romania
List of computers's manufacturers in Romania
Science and technology in Romania
Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20artists%20by%20number%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each song's weekly physical sales, digital downloads (since 2007) and streams (since 2015), and is currently published every Friday. The chart was first published on 9 October 1994, when American hard rock band Bon Jovi was number one with the Cross Road single "Always".
As of the chart ending on 18 May 2023, a total of 391 songs have topped the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart. 11 artists have topped the chart with eight or more different songs. The most successful are American group Foo Fighters and British rock band Muse who have both reached number one with 15 different songs. Five more artists have topped the chart with ten or more different songs: Linkin Park has 13 while Bon Jovi and My Chemical Romance with 12 each, and Nickelback and Bring Me the Horizon with 11 each.
Artists
The following artists have been credited on at least eight different number one songs, as recognised by the OCC.
See also
List of artists by number of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones
List of artists by number of UK Albums Chart number ones
List of artists by number of UK Singles Chart number ones
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
Lists of artists by record chart achievement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph%20Lefkowitz | Glyph Lefkowitz is an American open-source software programmer and creator of the Twisted network programming framework for Python. His work on asynchronous programming techniques influenced the core Python language, as well as the JavaScript Promises ecosystem, through Dojo and Mochikit.
He is a frequent speaker at developer conferences and was elected a fellow of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) in 2009.
Between 2009 and 2013, he was one of the primary contributors of Apple's Calendar and Contacts Server (CCS) software.
In 2017, the PSF awarded Lefkowitz their Community Service Award for his influence on the direction of the Python language and community, including his role in pioneering asynchronous programming models.
References
External links
Deciphering Glyph - Lefkowitz's blog
Twisted Matrix Labs - Home of the Twisted project
Binpress Interview (2014) - Audio interview covering biographical and professional history (with transcript)
Web developers
Living people
American computer programmers
Python (programming language) people
Free software programmers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty%20Withycombe | Elizabeth Gidley Withycombe (15 June 1902 – 12 November 1993) is best known as the compiler of The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names, first published by the Clarendon Press in 1945 and in multiple editions since. Her name appeared as "E. G. Withycombe" in her published books.
Early life and family
Elizabeth Withycombe was born in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, on 15 June 1902. Her father was a painter, John Withycombe, and her mother was Ellen Hannah Bell. Her grandmother was Elizabeth Gidley before her marriage. Betty Withycombe had younger sisters Marjorie and Ellen Joyce. She grew up in East Bergholt, Suffolk. Her younger sister Margaret became famous as the sculptor known as Peggy Garland.
Career
Withycombe worked at the Clarendon Press and helped to promote the early work of Edward Ardizzone and Iona and Peter Opie. She is best known as the compiler of The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names, published by the Clarendon Press in 1945, and in a second edition in 1950 and a third in 1977.
Relationship with Patrick White
Betty Withycombe has been described as a mentor to the Australian writer Patrick White who was her father's cousin and who stayed with the Withycombes when he was writing his first book of poems, Thirteen Poems in 1927-29 when he was aged 15–17 and she was in her mid twenties. According to White's biographer David Marr, Betty Withycombe was the first person, apart from White's mother, to encourage him to write. He described her as "a dark, severe, woman of 26" and a "tremendous bluestocking". His novel The Aunt's Story (1948) was dedicated to her. In 1977 White asked her to return the approximately 400 letters that he had sent to her, on the pretext that they would help him write The Twyburn Affair, but he subsequently burned them.
Death and legacy
Withycombe died at Wyndham House in Oxford on 12 November 1993. She left an estate not exceeding £125,000.
Selected publications
A New Loggan View of the Oxford Colleges.
Annals of English Literature, 1475-1925. The principal publications of each year, together with an alphabetical index of authors with their works. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1935. (Compiled with Jyotiṣchandra Ghosha)
The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1945. (2nd 1950, 3rd in paperback only 1977)
Annals of English Literature, 1475-1950. The principal publications of each year, together with an alphabetical index of authors with their works, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1961. (Compiled with Jyotiṣchandra Ghosha, updated by R. W. Chapman)
References
1902 births
1993 deaths
English women writers
People from Hart District
People from East Bergholt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%20type%20Adelaide%20tram | The Adelaide D type tram was a class of trams operated by the Municipal Tramways Trust on the Adelaide tram network from 1910 until 1958.
History
Between 1910 and 1912, A Pengelly & Co of Adelaide assembled 50 bogie closed combination trams for the Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT) from knock-down kits manufactured by the JG Brill Company of Philadelphia.
Numbered 121-170, they were built to provide increased passenger carrying capacity for the planned expansion of Adelaide's electric tramway network into the outer suburbs. When the MTT introduced an alphabetic classification system in 1923, they were classified as the D type. A further 20 were built as open combination trams numbered 101-120 that later became the E type. All were delivered with 22E bogies, the sets under 121-125 being manufactured by JG Brill Company, the remainder by Brush Electrical Machines.
Meanwhile, in 1912 Duncan & Fraser (Adelaide) had built four almost identical trams (there were only slight differences in detail between the trams of the two manufacturers, such as the Duncan & Fraser cars having concave rocker panels rather than convex); for the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust in Melbourne, and were allocated numbers 21 to 24. In 1916 they were sold to the Hawthorn Tramways Trust (HTT), where they retained fleet numbers 21 to 24.
All passed to the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) on 2 February 1920 when it took over the HTT, being renumbered 127 to 130 and designated the O-class. Due to their unpopularity in Melbourne, and having built sufficient standard W-class trams to render smaller groups of older non-standard cars surplus, the O-class were amongst the first electric trams to be disposed of by the MMTB. All four were sold to the MTT and returned to Adelaide in January 1927 entering service as D type trams 191 to 194 (renumbered from 128, 130, 127, and 129 respectively).
During the 1920s all the Metropolitan cars had their track brakes removed when pneumatic brake equipment was fitted, although unlike the Adelaide trams, the former O-class trams had their brake notches disabled when air brakes were fitted in Melbourne. Due to the dangers faced by conductors collecting fares while balancing on footboards, an aisle was cut through four of the six cross-bench seats in 1935 - except for numbers 191 to 194 which had already had five seats so treated prior to leaving Melbourne. The last D types remained in service until the closure of the street-based tramway network in 1958.
Preservation
One has been preserved:
192 by the Tramway Museum, St Kilda
References
Adelaide tram vehicles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZCA-FM | DZCA (105.9 FM), broadcasting as CAT College Radio 105.9, was a radio station owned and operated by the Computer Arts and Technological College. Its studios are located at the CATC Bldg., Balintawak St., Legazpi.
References
Radio stations in Legazpi, Albay
Radio stations established in 1999
Radio stations disestablished in 2018
College radio stations in the Philippines
Defunct radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Centre%20of%20Excellence%20for%20Countering%20Hybrid%20Threats | The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE; ) is a network-based international and independent hub for practitioners and experts based in Helsinki, Finland. The Hybrid CoE focuses on responses to hybrid threats under the auspices of the European Union (EU) and NATO.
Function
Hybrid CoE is described as a 'do tank' that conducts training courses and exercises, hosts workshops for policymakers and practitioners, and produces white papers on hybrid threats, such as vulnerabilities in an electrical grid or possible exploitation of vaguely written legislation.
History
The Centre was formally established in April 2017 under Finnish law, with a memorandum of understanding between eight European states and the United States and in alignment with EU and NATO decisions. As of March 2022, it had 22 member states. The Centre was inaugurated in October 2017 and allotted a budget of 1.5 million euros. It was first located in the Sörnäinen neighbourhood of Helsinki and was staffed by fifteen persons in 2018 with international expert networks to support them.
See also
Centre Against Terrorism and Hybrid Threats
European Union Intelligence and Situation Centre
Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Finnish Security Intelligence Service
List of cyber warfare forces
Machtpolitik
Maskirovka
References
External links
Official website
Memorandum of Understanding on the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
Research institutes in Finland
2017 establishments in Finland
Organizations established in 2017
Think tanks established in 2017
Think tanks based in Finland
Foreign policy and strategy think tanks in Finland
Research institutes of international relations
Government of Finland
Bodies of the Common Security and Defence Policy
NATO relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools%20Catalogue%20Information%20Service | Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) creates and distributes metadata for English-language resources used in K-12 schools, primarily for integration with integrated library systems. , 93 per cent of Australian schools and 49 per cent of New Zealand schools are subscribed, with a total of 107 international schools also subscribed, across 22 countries.
Data and Standards
As well as doing original cataloguing, SCIS maintains the SCIS Subject Headings List (SCISSHL), an alternative to the Library of Congress Subject Headings suited to use in K-12 education contexts, and the SCIS Standards for Cataloguing And Data Entry (SSCDE). SSCDE reflects international standards including Resource Description and Access and International Standard Bibliographic Description with adaptations to suit the K-12 education sector.
SCIS catalogues bibliographic and audio-visual resources, both physical and digital, including trade fiction and non-fiction and educational materials. SCIS metadata includes full and abridged Dewey Decimal Classification, subject headings from SCISSHL and the linked-data Schools Online Thesaurus, and name and series authorities maintained by SCIS. SCIS data supports MAchine-Readable Cataloguing and Metadata Object Description Schema formats and is made available to subscribing schools via the z39.50 protocol and via an online portal
Background
SCIS is a business unit of Education Services Australia (ESA). ESA is a not-for-profit government business enterprise established from a 2009 merger of Curriculum Corporation and Education.au, with the purpose of delivering educational technology solutions.
Australian Schools Catalogue Information Service (ASCIS) was created in 1984 with funding from Australia’s Commonwealth Schools Commission, with the purpose of reducing the cost and duplication of effort of cataloguing resources in schools. This closely followed the 1981 creation of the Australian Bibliographic Network, set up to support shared bibliographic data for university, state, public and special libraries. The newly formed Curriculum Corporation subsumed ASCIS in 1989. The name SCIS was adopted when the New Zealand government joined the board of Curriculum Corporation in 1992.
Use
, 93 per cent of Australian schools and 49 per cent of New Zealand schools are subscribed, with a total of 107 international schools are also subscribed, across 22 countries.
References
External links
Library cataloging and classification
Library automation
Library science
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Cohen%20%28businessman%29 | Andrew Cohen (born 1977) is an Australian businessman and CEO of leading primary healthcare network Healius Medical & Dental.
Early life and education
Born in Melbourne in 1977, Cohen attended high school in Melbourne, before completing consecutive bachelor's degrees in arts (Philosophy) and Commerce (Finance and Accounting) at the University of Melbourne.
Career
Cohen joined management consultancy L.E.K. Consulting as a graduate in 2002, working in the Private Equity and Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions sectors of the firm's Australian and US offices. In 2005, the firm sponsored him to undertake a full-time MBA at Cambridge University where he graduated first in his class.
Bain and Company
From 2008 to 2016, Cohen worked as a Consumer Products and Retail advisor with high-profile global management consultancy Bain & Company. In 2014 he was promoted to partner in Bain's Melbourne office.
His experience in cross-border trade in China, and track record of business turn-arounds during his time as a partner at Bain & Company saw him recruited as a senior executive at Bellamy's Organic.
Bellamy's Organic
Cohen joined Bellamy's Organic in June 2016 as COO & Chief Strategic Officer. Six months later he was appointed acting CEO in January 2017, following departure of former CEO Laura McBain and in the wake of sharemarket unrest, significant regulatory change and a slowdown in China demand. Bellamy's had faced a share price plunge in December and January, after flagging a significant drop in sales and earnings. An investor-led revolt followed, replacing the board of directors and senior management team.
In April 2017, with the appointment of John Ho of Hong Kong-based investor Janchor Partners to the board as a non-executive Director and later to chairman, Bellamy's confirmed Cohen as its permanent chief executive.
From January 2017 to December 2019, Cohen and his team led a high profile and broad reaching transformation of the Bellamy's business. Despite continued regulatory challenges, significant strategic and operational improvements were made. These included stronger revenues, a significant improvement in margins and profitability, a successful rebrand and product upgrade, and the establishment of a strong new product pipeline and local supply-chain. In December 2019 China Mengniu Dairy, a leading global dairy player, acquired Bellamy's Australia for $1.5 billion and it was officially removed from the ASX. During the three years shareholder value was increased >3 times from a share price low of $4.14 in January 2017 to the effective offer price of $13.25 per share.
Cohen continued in the CEO and managing director role as an independent subsidiary of Mengniu Dairy, with a strong focus on growth in China and rising middle-class Asia before stepping down in September 2020 to pursue a new CEO role.
Healius Medical & Dental
Cohen was appointed CEO in November 2020 following a $500m buy-out by Australia's largest Private Equity fund BGH Capit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia%20Ananiadou | Sophia Ananiadou is a Greek-British computer scientist and computational linguist. She led the development of and directs the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) in the United Kingdom. She is also Professor in Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.
Her research focusses on biomedical text mining and natural language processing and has fed into the development of numerous applications that, for example, facilitate the discovery of new knowledge, enable exploration of historical archives, allow semantic search of biomedical literature, reduce human effort in screening search hits for production of systematic reviews, enable enrichment of metabolic pathway models with evidence from the literature, allow discovery of risk in the construction industry from health and safety incident reports and enable interoperability of components in text mining workflows.
Education
Ananiadou was educated at the Lycée français St Joseph in Athens, Greece (1969–1975). She received a Bachelor of Arts (Ptychion) from the University of Athens (1979), a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Linguistics from Paris VII, Jussieu, France (1980), a DEA in Literature from Paris IV, Sorbonne, France (1984) and a PhD in Computational linguistics from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), in 1988.
Career and research
Ananiadou was a research assistant at Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies (ISSCO, 1983–1984), a research assistant (1985–1988) then research associate (1988–1993) in the department of language engineering at UMIST, senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University (1993–1999), senior lecturer then reader in the school of computing science and engineering, University of Salford (2000–2005), then reader in the school of computer science, University of Manchester (2005–2009). Since 2009, she has served as professor in computer science in the department of computer science at the University of Manchester.
Ananiadou has published since 1986, has an h-index of 66 and a Research.com United Kingdom ranking in Computer Science of 99. Since 2018, she has served as the deputy director of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Manchester. Ananiadou received a Diplôme de traducteur (Diploma of Translator) from the Institut français d'Athènes, Greece (1979) and a Certificate in Counselling from the University of Salford, UK 2004.
Awards and honours
In 2019, in recognition of her contributions in Artificial Intelligence and text mining for Biomedicine, Ananiadou received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Aegean, on the 20th anniversary of its Department of Mediterranean Studies, Rhodes.
Ananiadou received the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) innovation award from IBM three years running (2006, 2007 & 2008). She was awarded the Daiwa Adrian Prize in 2004 and also received a Japan Trust award fr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter%20suspensions | Twitter may suspend accounts, temporarily or permanently, from their social networking service. Suspensions of high-profile accounts often attract media attention, and Twitter's use of suspensions has been controversial.
Policy
Users who are suspended from Twitter, based on alleged violations of Twitter's terms of service, are usually not informed which of their tweets were the cause. They are told only that their accounts will not be restored, and they are told which of Twitter's rules the company claims were violated. In addition to community guideline policy decisions, the Twitter DMCA-detection system and spam-detection system are sometimes manipulated or abused by groups of users attempting to force a user's suspension.
Some commentators, such as technology entrepreneur Declan McCullagh and law professor Glenn Reynolds, have criticized Twitter's suspension and ban policies as overreaches of power.
History
Between 2014 and 2016, Twitter suspensions were frequently linked to ISIL-related accounts. A "Twitter suspension campaign" began in earnest in 2015, and on one day, 4 April 2015, some 10,000 accounts were suspended. Twitter repeatedly shut down accounts that spread ISIL material, but new ones popped up quickly and were advertised with their old Twitter handle; Twitter in return blocked those in what was called an ongoing game of Whac-A-Mole. By August 2014, Twitter had suspended a dozen official ISIL accounts, and between September and December 2014 it suspended at least 1000 accounts promoting ISIL. Twitter said that between mid-2015 and February 2016 it had suspended 125,000 accounts associated with ISIL and related organizations, and by August 2016 had suspended some 360,000 accounts for being associated with terrorism (not all these were ISIL-related).
In January 2016, Twitter was sued by the widow of an American man killed in the 2015 Amman shooting attack, claiming that allowing ISIL to continually use the platform, including direct messages in particular, constituted the provision of material support to a terrorist organization. Twitter disputed the claim. The lawsuit was dismissed by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, upholding the Section 230 safe harbor, which dictates that the operators of an interactive computer service are not liable for the content published by its users. The lawsuit was revised in August 2016, providing comparisons to other telecommunications devices.
Twitter suspended multiple parody accounts that satirized Russian politics in May 2016, sparking protests and raising questions about where the company stands on freedom of speech. Following public outcry, Twitter restored the accounts the next day without explaining why the accounts had been suspended. The same day, Twitter, along with Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, jointly agreed to a European Union code of conduct obligating them to review "[the] majority of valid notifications for removal of illegal hate speech" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden%20effect | In 2013, Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, leaked NSA documents that revealed the agency was collecting data from the electronic communications of United States citizens. Other disclosures included information about PRISM, the agency's data collection program, a surveillance metadata collection and XKeyscore, which supplies federated search capabilities for all NSA databases. Since that time, there have been perceptible increases in the general public's knowledge about the U.S. government's cybersecurity initiatives and awareness of how those initiatives have impacted the privacy of individuals, businesses and foreign governments.
On September 2, 2020, a US federal court ruled that the US intelligence's mass surveillance program, exposed by Edward Snowden, was illegal and possibly unconstitutional. They also stated that the US intelligence leaders, who publicly defended it, were not telling the truth.
Snowden's disclosures have fueled debates over mass surveillance, government secrecy, and the balance between national security and information privacy, and have resulted in notable impacts on society and the tech industry, and served as the impetus for new products that address privacy concerns such as encryption services. Collectively, these impacts have been referred to by media and others as the "Snowden effect".
On society
In July 2013, media critic Jay Rosen defined the Snowden effect as "Direct and indirect gains in public knowledge from the cascade of events and further reporting that followed Edward Snowden's leaks of classified information about the surveillance state in the U.S." In December 2013, The Nation wrote that Snowden had sparked an overdue debate about national security and individual privacy. At the 2014 World Economic Forum, Internet experts saw news that Microsoft would let foreign customers store their personal data on servers outside America as a sign that Snowden's leaks were leading countries and companies to erect borders in cyberspace. In Forbes, the effect was seen to have nearly united the U.S. Congress in opposition to the massive post-9/11 domestic intelligence gathering system. In its Spring 2014 Global Attitudes Survey, the Pew Research Center found that Snowden's disclosures had tarnished the image of the United States, especially in Europe and Latin America.
In May 2014, the Obama administration appointed William Evanina, a former FBI special agent with a counter-terrorism specialty, as the new government-wide National Counterintelligence Executive. "Instead of getting carried away with the concept of leakers as heroes," Evanina said in August, "we need to get back to the basics of what it means to be loyal. Undifferentiated, unauthorized leaking is a criminal act." While dealing with insider threats had been an intelligence community priority since WikiLeaks published Chelsea Manning's disclosures in 2010, Evanina said that in the aftermath of Snowden's June 2013 revelations, the process "sped up |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSDelivr | JSDelivr (stylized as jsDelivr) is a public content delivery network (CDN) for open-source software projects, including packages hosted on GitHub, npm, and WordPress.org. JSDelivr was created by developer Dmitriy Akulov.
As of September 2022, jsDelivr is estimated to be the third most popular CDN for JavaScript code, behind cdnjs and Google Hosted Libraries. On October 14, 2020, it became the official CDN of Bootstrap. On March 21, it was announced that jsDelivr joined the CDN Alliance non-profit organization. In May of 2023 jsDelivr launched Globalping, a new open source project offering network monitoring APIs and tools.
Features
jsDelivr is primarily used to load code and other resources from repositories on GitHub, npm, and the theme and plugin directories for WordPress. Software developers can request a specific version of a software package, or load the latest available version. jsDelivr can also minify any file in JavaScript, CSS, or SVG format, which can reduce loading times. jsDelivr permanently caches requested files, so they remain accessible even if the original software repository is moved or deleted.
Operation
jsDelivr is powered by other content delivery network providers, including Cloudflare, Fastly and BunnyCDN, and switches to another provider if one is experiencing downtime. In China, Quantil is used as the content delivery network, as other providers are affected by the Great Firewall. jsDelivr is primarily sponsored by Cloudflare, Fastly, NS1, DigitalOcean, and other companies.
Dmitriy Akulov is the only person or entity with full access to all services and servers required to operate jsDelivr.
References
External links
Github Repository
Content delivery networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20computer%20hardware%20in%20Bulgaria | This article describes the history of computer hardware in Bulgaria. At its peak, Bulgaria supplied 40% of the computers in the socialist economic union COMECON. The electronics industry employed 300,000 workers, and it generated 8 billion rubles a year. Since the democratic changes in 1989 and the subsequent chaotic political and economic conditions, the once blooming Bulgarian computer industry almost completely disintegrated.
Computer models
In the 1980s, Bulgaria manufactured computers according to an agreement within the COMECON:
Mainframes
IZOT series and ES EVM series (abbreviation from Edinnaya Sistema Elektronno Vichislitelnih Machin, or Unified Computer System — created in 1969 by USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, GDR, Poland and Czechoslovakia).
Personal computers
IMKO, Pravetz-82/8M/8A/8E/8C — an 8-bit machine (Apple II clones), based on Bulgarian-made 6502 variants, Pravetz-16/16A/16H/286 (16-bit) — IBM PC clones based on i8088(V20)/286.
IZOT 1030 — based on East German-made U880 (a Z80A clone), IZOT 1036C -IBM PC compatible based on i8086, IZOT 1037C - IBM PC/XT clone based on i8088,
For example, the Pravetz-8M featured two processors (primary: Bulgarian-made clone of 6502, designated SM630 at 1.018 MHz, secondary: Z80A at 4 MHz), 64 KB DRAM and 16 KB EPROM.
Production facilities
The largest computer factory was some from Sofia, in Pravetz. Another big facility was the plant "Electronika" in Sofia. Smaller plants throughout the country produced monitors and peripherals, notably DZU (Diskovi Zapametyavashti Ustroistva — Disk Memory Devices) — Stara Zagora made hard disks for mainframes and personal computers.
See also
History of computer hardware in Yugoslavia
Computer systems in the Soviet Union
History of computing in Romania
History of computing in Poland
References
External links
Bulgarian Computers
Bulgarian Computers Information File
Information technology in Bulgaria
Bulgaria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20module | An optical module is a typically hot-pluggable optical transceiver used in high-bandwidth data communications applications. Optical modules typically have an electrical interface on the side that connects to the inside of the system and an optical interface on the side that connects to the outside world through a fiber optic cable. The form factor and electrical interface are often specified by an interested group using a multi-source agreement (MSA). Optical modules can either plug into a front panel socket or an on-board socket. Sometimes the optical module is replaced by an electrical interface module that implements either an active or passive electrical connection to the outside world. A large industry supports the manufacturing and use of optical modules.
Electrical Interface Types
There have been multiple variants of the electrical interface of optical modules that have been used over the years.
Analog direct
The earliest forms of optical modules had an analog NRZ electrical interface. In the transmit direction, the optical module would directly drive the laser or LED with the analog signal coming from the front system card. In the receive direction, the module would directly drive the receive electrical interface with the output of the analog optical-to-electrical receiver circuit.
Digital (retimed)
As speeds increased, the electrical interface was changed to a retimed digital interface. The Common Electrical Interface (CEI), defined by the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) served as the central defining document for these interfaces. The IEEE 802.3 Ethernet working group has also been influential in the definition of the module interface.
Digital (unretimed)
In order to save power within the module, optical modules have been made that used the digital interface definition, such as the CEI, but without retiming the signals within the module. These modules delivered an analog connection between the two ends.
Analog Coherent Optics (ACO)
The Optical Internetworking Forum in 2016 published the CFP2-ACO or CFP2 - Analog Coherent Optics Module Interoperability Agreement (IA). This IA supports a configuration where the digital signal processor (DSP) is on the main board and analog optical components are on the module. This IA is useful in the case when the DSP exceeds the module power envelope. The ACO interface can be used in coherent optics applications when the link delivers a flexible amount of bandwidth to the system, for example when combined with FlexE. The initial ACO IA is for the CFP2 module. The typical optical modulation that are used include Dual Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DP-QPSK) and QAM-16.
Digital Coherent Optics (DCO)
These modules put the DSP on the module and use a conventional retimed digital interface. These modules can use the same optical modulation techniques as the ACO interfaces do.
Optical modulation and multiplexing types
Many different forms of optical modulation and mult |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20stations%20in%20Ukraine | This is a list of railway stations in Ukraine.
Busiest stations
This is a list of the top 10 busiest railway stations in Ukraine, based on statistics and data received on the year of 2018. The data include only passengers of long-distance trains.
A
Ambary
Amur
Armiansk railway station
B
Balta
Baraboi
Batovo
Bila Krynytsia
Brovary
Bucha
Bystra
C
Chop
Chornyi Ostriv
Chortkiv
D
Dachne
Darnytsia
Dnipro-Holovnyi
Donetsk
Dubove
Dzhankoi railway station
F
Fastiv I
Fastiv II
Fedorivka
H
Hannivka
Hirnyk
Holendry
Hornostaivka
Horodok
I
Ivanivka
Ivano-Frankivsk
Izvaryne
K
Kalush
Kalynivka
Karavaievi Dachi
Karpaty
Kazanka
Kerch railway station
Kharkiv-Pasazhirskyi
Khorol
Korolivka
Korsun
Kosari
Kovel
Kozhanka
Krasne
Kryvyi Rih-Holovnyi
Kuchurhan
Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi
L
Larga
Lozova
Lubny
Luhansk
Lviv
Lviv Suburban
Lyman
M
Mahala
Marianivka
Melitopol-Pas
Mena
Motovylivka
Mykolaivka
N
Nikopol
Novooleksiivka
Novoselivka
O
Odesa
Oleksandrivka
Ozeriany
Ozernyi
Ozhydiv-Olesko
P
Pidzamche
Poltava-Kyivska
Poltava-Pivdenna
Port Krym railway station
Protasiv Yar
S
Sevastopol railway station
Shabo
Shepetivka
Shevchenko
Sil
Simferopol
Sofiivka
Solovka
Stavchany
Sula
Sumy-Tovarna
Syrovatka
T
Tropa
Turka
U
Uhryniv
Ukrainka
Ukrainska
Ushytsia
Uzhhorod
V
Vadul-Siret
Veselyi Podil
Yevpatoria railway station
Vladislavovka railway station
Vorokhta
Y
Yampil
Yaniv
References
Railway stations
Railway stations
Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-PHY | M-PHY is a high speed data communications physical layer protocol standard developed by the MIPI Alliance, PHY Working group, and targeted at the needs of mobile multimedia devices. The specification's details are proprietary to MIPI member organizations, but a substantial body of knowledge can be assembled from open sources. A number of industry standard settings bodies have incorporated M-PHY into their specifications including Mobile PCI Express, Universal Flash Storage, and as the physical layer for SuperSpeed InterChip USB.
To support high speed, M-PHY is generally transmitted using differential signaling over impedance controlled traces between components. When use on a single circuit card, the use of electrical termination may be optional. Options to extend its range could include operation over a short flexible flat cable, and M-PHY was designed to support optical media converters allowing extended distance between transmitters and receivers, and reducing concerns with electromagnetic interference.
Applications
M-PHY (like its predecessor D-PHY) is intended to be used in high-speed point-to-point communications, for example video Camera Serial Interfaces. The CSI-2 interface was based on D-PHY (or C-PHY), while the newer CSI-3 interface is based on M-PHY. M-PHY was designed to supplant D-PHY in many applications, but this is expected to take a number of years.
The M-PHY the physical layer is also used in a number of different high-speed emergent industry standards, DigRF (High speed radio interface), MIPI LLI (Low latency memory interconnect for multi-processors systems), and one possible physical layer for the UniPro protocol stack.
Signaling speed and gears
M-PHY supports a scalable variety of signaling speeds, ranging from 10 kbit/s to over 11.6 Gbit/s per lane. This is accomplished using two different major signaling/speed modes, a simple low-speed (using PWM) mode and high speed (using 8b10b). Communications goes on in bursts, and the design of both high-speed and low-speed forms allows for extended periods of idle communications at low-power, making the design particularly suitable for mobile devices.
Within each signaling method, a number of standard speeds, known as "gears", is defined, with the expectation that additional gears will be defined in future versions of the standard.
References
Serial buses
Computer standards
Physical layer protocols
MIPI Alliance standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Weisbecker | Joseph A. Weisbecker (September 4, 1932 – November 15, 1990) was an early microprocessor and microcomputer researcher, as well as a gifted writer and designer of toys and games. He was a recipient of the David Sarnoff award for outstanding technical achievement, recipient of IEEE Computer magazine's "Best Paper" award, as well as several RCA lab awards for his work.
His designs include the RCA 1800 and 1802 processors, the 1861 "Pixie" graphics chip, the RCA Microtutor, the COSMAC ELF, RCA Studio II, and COSMAC VIP computers. His daughter Joyce Weisbecker took to programming his prototypes, becoming the first female video game designer in the process, using his language called CHIP-8.
Early career
Professionally, Weisbecker began working with digital logic and computer systems in 1951. It was also his hobby, however, and even his early work is marked by designs that are intended for educational or hobbyist use. These include a hobby tic-tac-toe computer built from relays in 1951, grade school educational aids built using lights and switches in 1955, and the Think-a-Dot, an inexpensive game to teach basic computer concepts in 1964.
As a staff engineer at RCA, he performed advanced development research on LSI circuits as well as development of new product lines based on those circuits and other RCA products.
Microprocessors
In 1970 and 1971, Weisbecker developed a new 8 bit architecture computer system. This work preceded the release of the 4004 by competitor Intel. He built a demonstration home computer powered by the 1802 called FRED (Flexible Recreational and Educational Device) that utilized cassette tape for storage and a television for display. Subsequent to the success of the 4004, RCA released Weisbecker's work as the COSMAC 1801R and 1801U using its CMOS process in 1975. In 1976 the two 1801 ICs were integrated into a single chip, the 1802.
In the time between 1971 and the production release of the 1800 series processor, Weisbecker developed a range of inexpensive application circuits for use with the 1800s, including light guns, card readers, and cassette interfaces. Several of these circuits were used in a demonstration model microprocessor-based electronic game system which anticipated home video games. The commercial promise of this system gave RCA the motivation they required to produce the 1800 series processors.
Weisbecker designed the 1861 PIXIE graphics processor in 1975 as a minimal-cost simple video output for microcomputer systems. In a single chip, it provided all the functions necessary for a bit-mapped graphic display.
Small systems
During this same time (1975), Weisbecker developed an educational "development board" or "trainer" style single board computer, the RCA Microtutor, to teach basic computer concepts and programming. He also designed the production form of the home video game system, which became the RCA Studio II.
In 1976 Popular Electronics published Weisbecker' design for the COSMAC ELF, a close rel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBOC-LD | WBOC-LD (channel 42) is a low-power television station licensed to Cambridge, Maryland, United States, serving the Salisbury, Maryland market as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by the Draper Holdings Business Trust alongside dual CBS/Fox affiliate WBOC-TV (channel 16) and low-power NBC affiliate WRDE-LD (channel 31), as well as eight radio stations. Telemundo Delmarva shares studios with sister station WRDE-LD in Milton, Delaware, and WBOC-LD's transmitter is located near Laurel. WBOC-LD's programming is repeated on Salisbury-licensed WSJZ-LD (channel 34), with transmitter near Millsboro, Delaware.
History
On October 20, 2017, WBOC launched a new channel to be the area's Telemundo affiliate. In November 2017, WBOC-LD secured carriage on Delmarva area cable systems including Comcast Xfinity in Delaware and Maryland and Verizon Fios in Delaware. Also in November, a standard definition simulcast of WBOC-LD started being broadcast on WBOC-TV on channel 42.2. That simulcast ended on August 13, 2018.
In February 2018, the station began producing local news and weather updates in Spanish airing multiple times a day. The newscasts utilize the studio, graphics, music and talent of sister station WBOC-TV. Beginning in April 2019, a simulcast of WBOC-LD started being broadcast on WSJZ-LD on channel 42.3; that facility had been acquired by Draper in 2017. In May 2019, a simulcast of WRDE-LD began being broadcast on a new subchannel. In December 2019, a simulcast of WBOC-LD's Telemundo subchannel started being broadcast on WRDE-LD.
The station moved its license from Georgetown to Cambridge in 2020. In 2021, WBOC-LD moved from digital UHF channel 42 to UHF channel 22. On July 26, 2021, WBOC-TV's Antenna TV subchannel was moved to WBOC-LD and began broadcasting on channel 16.3.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
The same channels are broadcast on WSJZ-LD, but with different minor channel numbers: 42.2, 31.4, and 16.4.
Telemundo Delmarva is also rebroadcast as channel 42.2 from WRDE-LD, which is co-sited with WBOC-LD at the Laurel tower, and WRUE-LD, broadcasting from a site northwest of Pocomoke City. WBOC Classics is broadcast as channel 16.5 from the former but not the latter.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2017
2017 establishments in Delaware
Telemundo network affiliates
BOC-LD
BOC-LD
Georgetown, Delaware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Duke%27s%20Phytochemical%20and%20Ethnobotanical%20Databases | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases is an online database developed by James A. Duke at the USDA.
The databases report species, phytochemicals, and biological activity, as well as ethnobotanical uses.
The current Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical databases facilitate plant, chemical, bioactivity, and ethnobotany searches. A large number of plants and their chemical profiles are covered, and data are structured to support browsing and searching in several user-focused ways. For example, users can
get a list of chemicals and activities for a specific plant of interest, using either its scientific or common name
download a list of chemicals and their known activities in PDF or spreadsheet form
find plants with chemicals known for a specific biological activity
display a list of chemicals with their LD toxicity data
find plants with potential cancer-preventing activity
display a list of plants for a given ethnobotanical use
find out which plants have the highest levels of a specific chemical
References to the supporting scientific publications are provided for each specific result. Also included are links to nutritional databases, plants and cancer treatments and other plant-related databases.
The content of the database is licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain.
External links
Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
References
(dataset) U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 1992-2016. Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. Home Page, http://phytochem.nal.usda.gov/
Biology websites
Biodiversity databases
Online databases
Taxonomy (biology) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWED | DWED (91.5 FM), broadcasting as 91.5 Brigada News FM, is a radio station owned by Century Broadcasting Network and operated under airtime lease by Brigada Mass Media Corporation. Its studios are located at the 2nd Floor, IDR Bldg., Rizal St., Brgy. Cabangan, Legazpi, and its transmitter is located at the Brgy. Estanza, Legazpi.
History
The station was inaugurated November 5, 2009, as Magik FM, airing a mass-based format. On October 5, 2012, it rebranded as Radyo Siram and added news and talk to its programming. In August 2016, Brigada Mass Media Corporation took over the station's operations and was relaunched as Brigada News FM.
References
Radio stations in Legazpi, Albay
Radio stations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201969%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1969, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Radio Mil.
Chart history
By country of origin
Number-one artists:
Number-one compositions (it denotes the country of origin of the song's composer[s]; in case the song is a cover of another one, the name of the original composition is provided in parentheses):
See also
1969 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Billboard magazine from March 15 to December 27, 1969.
1969 in Mexico
Mexico singles
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Shahidi | John Shahidi is the President of Shots Podcast Network and Happy Dad Hard Seltzer. Also, a partner of the popular YouTube group Nelk Boys.
On October 28, 2022, Shahidi became an investor and advisor to Twitter and Elon Musk.
With his brother Sam Shahidi, the two started Shots Podcast Network, a YouTube podcast network for top internet brands and talent including Full Send Podcast, Mike Tyson, The Pivot Podcast and Lele Pons Show.
Shahidi has also created multiple successful NFTs, including the Full Send Metacard and Full Send x Alien Frens.
Early life
John Shahidi was born to an Iranian Kurdish family in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Orange County, California.
He and his younger brother Sam Shahidi grew up in Southern California. They were raised by their mother and grandmother.
Career
Justin Bieber Partnership
John and Sam Shahidi started developing iOS apps in 2009 and started out as a video game development company called Rock Software, later renamed RockLive. Their first commercial app was RunPee. Their childhood friend Jordan Palmer introduced the Shahidi brothers to former Cincinnati Bengals team member Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson. RockLive developed two apps for Ochocinco, Chad Ochocinco Experience, and its follow-up, MadChad.
This exposure led to more apps being developed between 2009 and 2012, for Usain Bolt, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mike Tyson.
RockLive released Shots, a selfie photo sharing app, in November 2013. It was launched with Justin Bieber & Floyd Mayweather as partners.
The inspiration for the app came after Facebook was forced to take down a page that attracted cyberbullying. Shahidi, who had been bullied as an overweight child, said "I don't want any kid or adult to have to feel inadequate like I did". Photos had to be taken real-time, without the use of filters or other editing material, and users could not comment on pictures or see how many "likes" other people received.
Shots grew to a user base of 7 million users in March 2016, but dropped to 2.5 million in October 2016. At one point, Twitter was in talks to buy Shots for US$150 million.
Many notable creators were a part of the app before moving to Instagram including Snoop Dogg, Shaquille O'Neal, and Vine creators King Bach, Jake Paul, Rudy Mancuso and Lele Pons.
Shots Podcast Network & YouTube
After raising $12.1 million in funding in 2015 and with the number of the Shots app users dropping, the company pivoted from software to content. RockLive rebranded to Shots Studios, a talent agency and production studio for social media personalities, predominantly on YouTube. Investors included boxer Floyd Mayweather and singer Justin Bieber.
In February 2018, Shahidi was a featured panelist at Upfront Summit where they spoke about topics impacting digital creation and social media.
Both Shahidi brothers were honored by Billboard as Latin Power Players for their success in developing the Latin American music careers of Brazilian singer Anitta and Venezuelan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Force%3A%20Essex | The Force Essex is a British Television programme documenting the work of Essex Police.
References
Sky UK original programming
Documentary television series about policing
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential%20linear-quadratic%20programming | Sequential linear-quadratic programming (SLQP) is an iterative method for nonlinear optimization problems where objective function and constraints are twice continuously differentiable. Similarly to sequential quadratic programming (SQP), SLQP proceeds by solving a sequence of optimization subproblems. The difference between the two approaches is that:
in SQP, each subproblem is a quadratic program, with a quadratic model of the objective subject to a linearization of the constraints
in SLQP, two subproblems are solved at each step: a linear program (LP) used to determine an active set, followed by an equality-constrained quadratic program (EQP) used to compute the total step
This decomposition makes SLQP suitable to large-scale optimization problems, for which efficient LP and EQP solvers are available, these problems being easier to scale than full-fledged quadratic programs.
It may be considered related to, but distinct from, quasi-Newton methods.
Algorithm basics
Consider a nonlinear programming problem of the form:
The Lagrangian for this problem is
where and are Lagrange multipliers.
LP phase
In the LP phase of SLQP, the following linear program is solved:
Let denote the active set at the optimum of this problem, that is to say, the set of constraints that are equal to zero at . Denote by and the sub-vectors of and corresponding to elements of .
EQP phase
In the EQP phase of SLQP, the search direction of the step is obtained by solving the following equality-constrained quadratic program:
Note that the term in the objective functions above may be left out for the minimization problems, since it is constant.
See also
Newton's method
Secant method
Sequential linear programming
Sequential quadratic programming
Notes
References
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stammstrecke%202%20%28Munich%20U-Bahn%29 | The Stammstrecke 2 of the Munich U-Bahn is one of three main routes in the subway network of the Bavarian capital Munich. It runs from north to south, as well as east, and is currently operated by the underground U1 and U2 lines. Since 12 December 2011, the U7 line runs during high traffic times and since 15 December 2013 the U8 line assists on Saturdays. The U1 and U2 lines only run together on one route, in the central inner city area, before and after that, they are branched away from each other. The main line 2 has a total length of 33.8 kilometers and 38 underground stations. It runs exclusively in the city of Munich and completely in the tunnel.
The construction of the Stammstrecke 2 began in 1971. In October 1980 the first section was opened between Scheidplatz and Innsbrucker Ring. In the following years, eight route extensions were carried out. The current expansion state was achieved in 2004. Further construction is possible, but not planned at the moment.
History
The U1 was opened on 18 October 1980 and served as a reinforcement line for the U2. At that time, it operated between the main station and Innsbrucker Ring. On 8 May 1983, the line was extended to the Rotkreuzplatz. Until 1988, every second train traveled, in the high traffic times, to Neuperlach South. On 9 November 1997, the branch to Mangfallplatz was opened, which consists of four new stations and connects to the Untergiesing district. A year later a new section with two stations was opened at the Westfriedhof. In 2003, the U1 was extended again by a station to the Georg-Brauchle-Ring and a year later the today's most northern stop, the Olympic shopping center, was completed. Between 1999 and 2006 the U7 served as a reinforcement line to the Rotkreuzplatz. In addition, it was planned in 1980 to extend the U1 south to the Großhesseloher bridge and connect it to the tramway there.
The U2 became the line with the most frequently changing line end stop. It also changed its name, since it was initially called U8. It is the only line (taking into account the history of the U2 and U8 lines together) that runs on all three line families (U1/2, U3/6, U4/5).
Until the opening of the route to Dülferstraße in 1993, the U2, like the U3, traveled from Scheidplatz to the Olympiazentrum. On 26 October 1996, the route was finally extended via Hasenbergl to the present stop in Feldmoching.
Directly above the platform Königsplatz, an art museum (Kunstbau) was created in 1994, in a previously unused cavity, which can be reached from the barrier floor of the station. The exhibition area is located very close to the Lenbachhaus and is used for large temporary exhibitions of mostly modern or new art.
Until the opening of the route from the Innsbrucker Ring through the Trudering to the Messestadt in 1999, the U2 from the Innsbrucker Ring as well as the U5 to Neuperlach South, where the connection to the S-Bahn was. During the construction work on the track, an accident occurred at the Trud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osasu%20Igbinedion | Osasu Igbinedion Ogwuche (born August 25, 1992) is a British media entrepreneur, philanthropist, and business executive. She is the Chief Executive Officer of TOS TV Network (a pan-African storytelling platform) and co-founder of NatSu Global, a real estate and media investment firm. She is the former host of The Osasu Show, a syndicated TV show focused on development, business, and politics in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
Early and personal life
Osasu was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Igbinedion family. She is the daughter of Mrs. Eki Igbinedion and Lucky Igbinedion, the former governor of Edo State, while her grandfather, Gabriel Igbinedion is the Esama of the Benin Kingdom in Nigeria. Osasu is married to Nathaniel Joshua Ogwuche and blessed with a son. Osasu obtained her bachelor's degree from Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, and thereafter a master's degree from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She later received a certificate in TV and film production from the New York Film Academy in New York, New York, in the United States of America.
Career
Osasu holds Bachelor's and Master’s Degrees in Communications from Stonehill College and Northeastern University, both in Massachusetts, United States. She also has a certificate in TV and film production from the New York Film Academy.
In 2015, she was one of the few journalists across Africa trained by the United Nations to be one of its media ambassadors for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By 2016, her show, The Osasu Show, was airing across major TV stations in Nigeria and the U.K.
Practicing as a journalist, she has told stories from the streets of Agatu to the rivers of Ogoni.
In 2017, she convened the first edition of the Osasu Show Symposium.
Osasu won the DAAR Awards for the Young Achiever of the Year 2018 and the Social Media for Social Good Awards Africa 2019.
Osasu was appointed in 2019 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a media ambassador for free and fair elections in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Osasu is also the co-founder of NatSu Global, a real estate and media investment with offices in Abuja,London, Johannesburg and Boston.
Osasu is married and has a son. For 7 years (2015 -2022) Osasu was the host of the TV show The Osasu Show, which aired on African Independent Television, BEN TV London,
and ITV which were popular TV stations in Nigeria and the United Kingdom and The Weekend Show on AIT. She is also the founder of The Osasu Show Foundation. She is the convener of Osasu Show Symposium, a forum where major stakeholders in the political field gathered together with their constituents to discuss issues of nation building and development especially as they relate to the welfare of the less privileged.
Osasu has received accolades for:
Journalistic Excellence by the Institute of Service Excellence and Good Governance (2017); Role Model to the Girl Child by Nigerian Entrepreneurs Award ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare%20machine%20computing | Bare Machine Computing (BMC) is a computer architecture based on bare machines. In the BMC paradigm, applications run without the support of any operating system (OS) or centralized kernel i.e., no intermediary software is loaded on the bare machine prior to running applications. The applications, which are called bare machine applications or simply BMC applications, do not use any persistent storage or a hard disk, and instead are stored on detachable mass storage such as a USB flash drive. A BMC program consists of a single application or a small set of applications (application suite) that runs as a single executable within one address space. BMC applications have direct access to the necessary hardware resources. They are self-contained, self-managed and self-controlled entities that boot, load and run without using any other software components or external software. BMC applications have inherent security due to their design. There are no OS-related vulnerabilities, and each application only contains the necessary (minimal) functionality. There is no privileged mode in a BMC system since applications only run in user mode. Also, application code is statically compiled-there is no means to dynamically alter BMC program flow during execution.
History
In the early days of computing, computer applications directly communicated to the hardware and there was no operating system. As applications grew larger encompassing various domains, OSes were invented. They served as middleware providing hardware abstractions to applications. OSes have grown immensely in their size and complexity resulting in attempts to reduce OS overhead and improve performance including Microkernel, Exokernel, Tiny-OS, OS-Kit, Palacios and Kitten, IO_Lite, bare-metal Linux, IBM-Libra and other lean kernels. In addition to the above approaches, in embedded systems such as smart phones, a small and dedicated portion of an OS and a given set of applications are closely integrated with the hardware. There are also a myriad of industrial control and gaming applications that run directly on the hardware. In most of these systems, the hardware is not open to run general purpose applications.
Bare machine computing originated with the application object (AO) concept invented by Karne at Towson University. It evolved over the years into dispersed operating systems (DOSC), and eventually into the BMC paradigm.
Compared to conventional computing
In many ways, the BMC paradigm differs from conventional computing. There is no centralized kernel or OS running during the execution of BMC applications. Also, a bare machine in the BMC paradigm does not have any ownership or store valuable resources; and it can be used to run general purpose computing applications. Such characteristics are not found in conventional computing systems including embedded systems and system on a chip (SOC). In addition, the BMC concept is a minimalistic approach to achieve simplicity, smaller code sizes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Ly | Eric Thich Vi Ly (born January 15, 1969) is an American entrepreneur and investor. Ly was co-founder of LinkedIn, a social networking site designed specifically for the business community, where he served as its founding chief technology officer. He is currently the CEO and founder of a blockchain based trust protocol Hub, as well as the CEO and co-founder of KarmaCheck providing candidate's background checks.
Early life and education
Ly was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and emigrated to the United States in 1975 as a result of the Vietnam War. He lived in San Francisco, California, for some years, and when his parents found jobs in Silicon Valley, his family moved to Sunnyvale, California.
Ly attended Homestead High School, where he applied his interest in computers to journalism and the on-campus newspaper, The Epitaph. Through a sponsorship from Apple Inc., he transformed production methods for the publication, making Homestead one of the first schools in the country to use desktop publishing technology to publish its newspaper on the newly introduced Macintosh computers.
Ly attended Stanford University and volunteered as a science writer for the Stanford Daily in addition to his studies. Ly was inspired by professor Terry Winograd's perspective that computers ultimately serve as communications tools for people. Ly graduated with distinction in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems and as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His contemporaries included Scott Forstall, Reid Hoffman, and Marissa Mayer.
Ly went on to earn a Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in 1993 with a research thesis ("Chatter: A Conversational Telephone Agent") on combining speech-user interfaces and artificial-intelligence agents.
Ly returned to Stanford University to get his PhD in Computer Science but he would later drop out of the program.
Career
Early years
Ly started his professional career in technical positions at Steve Jobs' NeXT (acquired by Apple Inc.), IBM, Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle), and General Magic.
In 1995, Ly co-founded Netmosphere, a software company enabling project management collaboration utilizing Internet technologies such as Java. Menlo Ventures invested in the firm, which was subsequently acquired by Critical Path, Inc. In 2000, Ly co-founded a mobile software company called Tresidder Networks in which Industry Ventures invested.
LinkedIn
In 2002, Ly co-founded LinkedIn with Reid Hoffman, a Stanford schoolmate, and several other co-founders, including Jean-Luc Vaillant, Allen Blue, and Konstantin Guericke. When Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for $26.2B, it was the world's "largest social networking site focused on the working world" with more than 400 million registered users.
As LinkedIn's founding CTO, Ly "helped create some of its core product features, which enabled the company to reach profitability and a quickly growing user base."
Wellington Partners
From 2008 to 201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Mulwana | Barbara Mulwana (born c. 1965) is a Ugandan electrical engineer and computer scientist, who serves as the chairperson of the Uganda Manufacturers' Association. In May 2017, she replaced Amos Nzeyi, who retired after two consecutive terms. She also serves as the executive director of "Nice House of Plastics", a member company of the Mulwana Group of Companies.
Background and education
She was born in Uganda circa 1965, to Sarah Mulwana and James Mulwana, who was a Ugandan entrepreneur and industrialist, and at the time of his death was one of the wealthiest individuals in the country.
She graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in the United States with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She also holds the Electronic Document Professional (EDP) certification, from the Kellogg School of Management.
Career
Barbara Mulwana worked as an Applications engineer at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, until 1991. In 1991, she joined Nice House of Plastics, a company her late father founded and owned, as head of sales and marketing. Later, she was promoted to executive director. In May 2017, she was elected chairperson of Uganda Manufacturers' Association, an industrial lobbying and advisory association that brings together over 600 Ugandan manufacturers and industries.
Family
Barbara Mulwana is a married mother of three children. Two daughters: Grace and Sarah, and a son, James.
Other considerations
Ms Mulwana sits on the boards of the following public and private Ugandan companies: (1) Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited (2) Uganda Batteries Limited, a member of the Mulwana Group (3) Jesa Farm Diary, another Mulwana Group company. (4) Jubilee Insurance Company Uganda Limited.
See also
List of wealthiest people in Uganda
Economy of Uganda
References
External links
Website of Nice House of Plastics
1965 births
Living people
Ganda people
Ugandan electrical engineers
20th-century Ugandan businesswomen
20th-century Ugandan businesspeople
Ugandan business executives
Ugandan industrialists
Northwestern University alumni
Kellogg School of Management alumni
21st-century women engineers
Ugandan women chief executives
21st-century Ugandan businesswomen
21st-century Ugandan businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%20Davis%20Mooers | Charlotte Davis Mooers (25 March 1924 – 17 March 2005) was an American computer scientist whose research on programming languages began during World War II and continued through the early-1990s.
Family
Born in Washington, DC on 25 March 1924, Charlotte was the daughter of Watson Davis, director of the Washington-based news organization Science Service, and Helen Miles Davis, editor of Chemistry magazine.
In a letter to her husband on 2 September 1945, Helen Davis wrote that Charlotte and Calvin Mooers were discussing marriage, and the two eventually wed.
Career
During World War II, Davis worked for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. In 1945, she was transferred to a facility in Newport, Rhode Island, but returned to the facility near Washington by early September that year. She was part of the Acoustic Division and, at one point, was under the supervision of John Bardeen, inventor of the transistor.
In 1947, she and her husband Calvin Mooers coauthored an electronics book for the general public, Electronics: What Everyone Should Know. In 1949, the two invented a card selecting device for use with the punched cards that were used for information retrieval using zatocoding; they were granted a patent in 1954.
In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked on the HERMES Message System at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.
References
External list
Oral history interview with Calvin N. Mooers and Charlotte D. Mooers
American computer scientists
1924 births
2005 deaths
People from Washington, D.C.
American women computer scientists
20th-century American women
20th-century American people
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulwana | Mulwana is an Ugandan surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Barbara Mulwana (born 1965), Ugandan electrical engineer and computer scientist
James Mulwana (1936–2013), Ugandan businessman
Surnames of African origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decisions%20%28Jim%20Allchin%20album%29 | Decisions is the third widely available studio album by American blues rock musician and computer scientist Jim Allchin. It was released on June 16, 2017 by Sandy Key Music. The title of the album is a reference to the decisions we make in our life about identity, relationships, and how to live life authentically.
Reception
Decisions received positive comments and ratings by reviewers.
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
Jim Allchin – guitar, vocals, arrangements
Tom Hambridge – drums, percussion
Michael Rhodes – bass
Reese Wynans – keyboard
Rob McNelley – guitar
Steve Mackey – bass on "After Hours," "Destiny"
Kenny Greenberg – guitar on "After Hours," "Destiny"
James Wallace – keyboard on "After Hours," "Destiny"
Pat Buchannan – guitar
Guest musicians
Keb' Mo' – vocals on "Healing Ground"
Mycle Wastman – background vocals on "She is It," "You Might Be Wrong," "Healing Ground"
Wendy Moten – background vocals on "Healing Ground"
The Heart Attack Horns – horns
Production
Tom Hambridge – produced
Ernesto Olvera-Lapier – tracking and mixing engineer engineering, mixing
Sean Badum (Studio D) – assistant engineer
Jason Mott (Studio E) – assistant engineer
Tommy MacDonald – project assistant
John Heithaus – project executive
The Switchyard – mastering
References
2017 albums
Jim Allchin albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20K%20series | The LG K series is a line of mid-range smartphones which are designed, developed and marketed by LG Electronics, which run the Android mobile operating system.
The K Series, which launched in January 2016 with the K7 and K10, was followed by the K4, later that same month. The K8 debuted soon after in February that year, finishing out the 2016 lineup with the K3 in August.
In December 2016, LG Electronics announced the updated phones for 2017 of K3, K4, K8, K10, alongside the K20 Plus, which then released a few days later, and a "V" models for Verizon Communications. Four months later, LG announced the updated K7, completing the 2017 lineup.
Carriers include: ACG, AT&T, Boost Mobile, Cricket, LRA, Metro by T-Mobile, Republic Wireless, Spectrum, Sprint, T-Mobile, Unlocked, US Cellular, Verizon, Virgin Mobile, and Xfinity Mobile.
Phones
1st generation (2016 lineup)
The first generation of the LG K series includes the first phones, LG K10, LG K7 and LG K4. They are launched in January 2016 and they are followed by LG K8, which was launched in February 2016, and later in March 2016, LG has launched the LG K5, and was followed by LG K3, which was launched in August 2016. The latest phone in 2016 of the LG K series was the LG K20 plus, which has a 16 or 32 GB of internal storage, 2 GB of RAM, Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 processor, and it is only available in Black color.
LG K10
LG K10 was the first phone, launched in January 2016 as the K series phone, along with LG K7. It has a 5.3-inch screen, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 chipset processor, 13-megapixels camera and a 2300 mAh battery.
LG K7
LG K7 was the second phone, launched in January 2016 as the K series phone, along with LG K10. It comes with a 5-inch screen, 5-megapixels main and front cameras and a 2125 mAh battery.
LG K4
LG K4 was the third phone, launched in January 2016 as the K series phone. It has a 4.5-inch screen, a sleek design and a 2-megapixels front camera. It launched along with LG K7 and LG K10 in the same month.
LG K8
LG K8 is a successor to LG K7 and it is similar to the previous model. It was launched in February 2016, and has a different processor, an 8-megapixel rear camera and included autofocus.
LG K5
LG K5 is a successor to LG K4 and it is similar to the previous model. It is launched in March 2016, and only it has a 5-inch screen, quad-core CPU and a 5-megapixel camera.
LG K3
LG K3 is a predecessor to LG K4. It is launched in August 2016 and it is slightly weaker than the previous model, a VGA front camera and a downgraded CPU.
LG K20 plus
LG K20 plus (aka. LG K20+, LG K20 (2016)), is a successor to LG K10 and released in December 2016. It has a 2700 mAh battery, upgraded processor and a higher storage and RAM.
Comparison
2017 lineup
LG K3 (2017)
LG K4 (2017)
LG K7 (2017)
LG K8 (2017)
LG K10 (2017)
2018 lineup
LG K8 (2018)
LG K9
LG K10 (2018)
LG K11 (2018)
LG K30
2019 lineup
LG K20 (2019)
LG K30 (2019)
LG K40
LG K40S
LG K5 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerrillos%20metro%20station | Cerrillos is an underground metro station and the southern terminal station of Line 6 of the Santiago Metro network, in Santiago, Chile. It is underground, being the terminal station of Line 6, preceded by the Lo Valledor station. It is located at the intersection of Pedro Aguirre Cerda-Camino a Melipilla avenues with Departamental-Buzeta. The station was opened on 2 November 2017 as part of the inaugural section of the line, between Cerrillos and Los Leones.
Etymology
The station is located in the municipality of Cerrillos. The name of the district is reminiscent of the closed Los Cerrillos Airport, located where the Bicentennial Park City is currently located.
Originally the station was going to be named as Pedro Aguirre Cerda, however in January 2012 modifications were announced to the route of Line 6, with which the station was renamed Cerrillos.
References
External links
Metro de Santiago website (in Spanish)
Santiago Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 2017
Santiago Metro Line 6 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netomi | Netomi, formerly msg.ai, is an American artificial intelligence company and developer of human–computer interaction technologies.
History
Founded in May 2015 by Puneet Mehta, Netomi was recruited by the global media and advertising agency, Universal McCann, to assist clients Heinz and BMW.
Netomi worked with Sony Pictures to launch the first ever bot on Facebook Messenger for a $100M film, Goosebumps and subsequently joined Y Combinator as a member of the Winter 2016 class.
Netomi later partnered with Facebook’s Creative Shop and the Tommy Hilfiger fashion brand to develop a brand-specific bot with the goal of outperforming existing retail shopping bots.
In 2016 there was an update to the platform to incorporate multivariate testing. This type of testing, unlike traditional A/B testing, permits the monitoring of user interaction with the bot, adjustments to the bot’s tone, and experiments with the use of media.
In 2018, the company changed its name to Netomi. In 2021, the company raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by WndrCo LLC, a technology and media investment firm co-founded by Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Methodology
Netomi's deep reinforcement learning platform allows for conversational AI and chatbots which engage through personalized interactions at scale and one-to-one relationships throughout the entire user experience.
Netomi utilizes artificial intelligence to automate customized messages and engage in natural dialogues with deep reinforcement learning. This allows the bot to interact in a conversational manner and in a number of ways, including offering product recommendations based on user preferences, answering questions regarding availability and pricing, guiding customers towards a purchase, and providing assistance to complex issues.
Partners and customers
Netomi has collaborated with messaging platforms, creative agencies, and technology providers to build conversational AI for brands such as WestJet, Zinus and Harry RosenHeinz, BMW, Tommy Hilfiger, and Signal.
See also
Artificial intelligence
Chatbot
References
Computer companies established in 2015
Deep learning
Privately held companies based in California
American companies established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20constraint%20solving | Geometric constraint solving is constraint satisfaction in a computational geometry setting, which has primary applications in computer aided design. A problem to be solved consists of a given set of geometric elements and a description of geometric constraints between the elements, which could be non-parametric (tangency, horizontality, coaxiality, etc) or parametric (like distance, angle, radius). The goal is to find the positions of geometric elements in 2D or 3D space that satisfy the given constraints, which is done by dedicated software components called geometric constraint solvers.
Geometric constraint solving became an integral part of CAD systems in the 80s, when Pro/Engineer first introduced a novel concept of feature-based parametric modeling concept.
There are additional problems of geometric constraint solving that are related to sets of geometric elements and constraints: dynamic moving of given elements keeping all constraints satisfied, detection of over- and under-constrained sets and subsets, auto-constraining of under-constrained problems, etc.
Methods
A general scheme of geometric constraint solving consists of modeling a set of geometric elements and constraints by a system of equations, and then solving this system by non-linear algebraic solver. For the sake of performance, a number of decomposition techniques could be used in order to decrease the size of an equation set: decomposition-recombination planning algorithms, tree decomposition, C-tree decomposition, graph reduction, re-parametrization and reduction, computing fundamental circuits, body-and-cad structure, or the witness configuration method.
Some other methods and approaches include the degrees of freedom analysis, symbolic computations, rule-based computations, constraint programming and constraint propagation, and genetic algorithms.
Non-linear equation systems are mostly solved by iterative methods that resolve the linear problem at each iteration, the Newton-Raphson method being the most popular example.
Applications
Geometric constraint solving has applications in a wide variety of fields, such as computer aided design, mechanical engineering, inverse kinematics and robotics, architecture and construction, molecular chemistry, and geometric theorem proving. The primary application area is computer aided design, where geometric constraint solving is used in both parametric history-based modeling and variational direct modeling.
Software implementations
The list of geometric constraint solvers includes at least
DCM (Dimensional Constraint Manager), a commercial solver from D-Cubed (subsidiary of Siemens PLM Software), integrated in AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Creo, and many other popular CAD systems;
LGS, a commercial solver developed by LEDAS and currently owned by Bricsys, integrated in Cimatron E and BricsCAD;
C3D Solver, a commercially available solver which is a part of C3D Toolkit, integrated into KOMPAS-3D;
GeoSolver, a GNU Public License P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernestina%20Edem%20Appiah | Ernestina Edem Appiah (born 1977) is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur. She founded the Ghana Code Club as an after-school program to teach children how to write computer programs. She made the "BBC 100 Most Inspirational Women" list in 2015.
Biography
Ernestina Edem Appiah was born in 1977. She was selected among the British Broadcasting Corporation list of most inspirational women in 2015, the only Ghanaian woman to have made the list in that year. She founded the Ghana Code Club as a non governmental social enterprise that "teaches children computer programming skills" by working with Information and Communications Technology teachers in basic schools to develop programs that can enable the teachers teach children how to "make computer games, animations and websites".
Ernestina is a Virtual Assistant by training and at a point had her own virtual assistance business.
She founded her first NGO in 2007, Healthy Career Initiative as a means of sharing and mentoring girls in ICT. This gave rise to the foundations of the Ghana Code Club established in the same year.
References
1977 births
Living people
Ghanaian educators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Nickelodeon%20%28India%29 | This is a list of television programmes broadcast by Nickelodeon in India. The channel was launched on 16 October 1999.
Current Programming
Animated Series
Abhimanyu Ki Alien Family
Chikoo Aur Bunty
Motu Patlu
Rudra
The Twisted Timeline of Sammy & Raj
Live-Action
Power Rangers
Former Programming
Live action/mixed
Action League Now!
Artzooka!
Clarissa Explains It All
Dougie in Disguise
Drake & Josh
Dum Dama Dum
Fetch the Vet
Figure It Out
Genie in the House
Gilli Gilli Gappa
Globo Loco
J Bole Toh Jadoo
Jai Shri Krishna
The Journey of Allen Strange
Junior G
Kenan & Kel
LazyTown
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Mr. Meaty
NG Knight Ramune & 40
Nick Kathakali
Nickelodeon Guts
The Munnabhai Show
Power Rangers
Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel
Power Rangers Ninja Steel
Power Rangers Dino Super Charge
Power Rangers Dino Charge
Power Rangers Super Samurai
Power Rangers Samurai
Power Rangers Megaforce
Sam & Cat
Tricky TV
Unfabulous
Uncle Max
Animated Series
Aaahh! Real Monsters
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
The Angry Beavers
As Told by Ginger
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Back at the Barnyard
Backkom
Batfink
Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks
Blue's Clues
CatDog
ChalkZone
Chicken Stew
The Daltons
Danny Phantom
Dennis the Menace
Dora the Explorer
Dreamkix
Gattu Battu
Go, Diego, Go!
The Harveytoons Show
Hey Arnold!
Invader Zim
Journey to the West – Legends of the Monkey King
Kaeloo
Keymon Ache
Little Krishna
Little Spirou
Oggy and The Cockroaches
Pakdam Pakdai
The Penguins of Madagascar/>
Rocket Monkeys
Rocket Power
Rocko's Modern Life
Rudra
Rugrats
Roary The Racing Car
Shaktimaan: The Animated Series
Shiva
Skyland
SpongeBob SquarePants
Tak and the Power of Juju
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tony & Alberto
The Wild Thornberrys
Winx Club
Atashin'chi
Chibi Maruko-chan
Dinosaur King
Idaten Jump
Jankenman
Mighty Cat Masked Niyander
Ninja Hattori
Perman
See also
Nickelodeon (Pakistan)
List of programs broadcast by Nickelodeon (Pakistan)
Nickelodeon Sonic
List of Indian animated television series
List of programmes broadcast by Cartoon Network (India)
List of programmes broadcast by Disney Channel (India)
List of programmes broadcast by Pogo
List of programmes broadcast by Hungama TV
List of programmes broadcast by Discovery Kids (India)
Marvel HQ (India)
Sony Yay
References
India
Nickelodeon (India)
Nickelodeon (India)
Lists of Indian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talitrida | Talitrida is an infraorder of amphipods in the subclass Senticaudata.
Families
The following are the families of Talitrida, organised by parvorder and superfamily.
Talitridira
Caspicoloidea Birstein, 1945
Caspicolidae Birstein, 1945
Kurioidea Barnard, 1964
Kuriidae J.L. Barnard, 1964
Tulearidae Ledoyer, 1979
Talitroidea Rafinesque, 1815
Ceinidae J.L. Barnard, 1972
Chiltoniidae J.L. Barnard, 1972
Dogielinotidae Gurjanova, 1953
Eophliantidae Sheard, 1936
Hyalellidae Bulyčeva, 1957
Hyalidae Bulyčeva, 1957
Najnidae J.L. Barnard, 1972
Phliantidae Stebbing, 1899
Plioplateidae J.L. Barnard, 1978
Talitridae Rafinesque, 1815
Temnophliantidae Griffiths, 1975
References
Amphipoda
Arthropod infraorders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20H.%20Herring | Amy Helen Herring is an American biostatistician interested in longitudinal data and reproductive health. Formerly the Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor of Children's Environmental Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she is now Sara & Charles Ayres Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistical Science, Global Health Institute, and Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics of Duke University.
Education and career
Herring graduated summa cum laude from the University of Mississippi in 1995, with a double major in English and mathematics. She completed an Sc.D in biostatistics at Harvard University in 2000; her dissertation, supervised by Joseph G. Ibrahim, was Missing Covariates in Survival Analysis.
She joined the North Carolina faculty in 2000, where she became a fellow of the Carolina Population Center in 2006 and Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor of Children's Environmental Health in 2015. She moved to Duke in 2017 as part of a hiring initiative to expand Duke's faculty in the quantitative sciences.
Research
Herring has authored over 275 papers with a focus on statistical methods for correlated data, including longitudinal data and mixed-scale multivariate data. She collaborates extensively with researchers in reproductive, environmental, and global health.
In 2013, a longitudinal study led by Herring and colleagues and published in the British Medical Journal compared the dates of childbirth and of first intercourse reported in separate questions by a sample of American women, and determined that according to this data one out of every 200 women in the US reported dates consistent with giving virgin birth. Herring stated that she found it "highly unlikely" that these women believed themselves to be virgins at the time of their children's births, and suggested that the result might instead be a combination of unintentional inaccuracies by the subjects and of respondents being unwilling to admit to having intercourse.
Awards and honors
In 2010, Herring was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She won the Gertrude M. Cox Award for outstanding contributions to applied statistics in 2012. In the same year, the American Public Health Association gave her their Mortimer Spiegelman Award. She won the 2018 Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award from Harvard University Department of Biostatistics and the 2019 Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences from the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
She has provided extensive service to the profession, serving as President of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society in 2011, as a Director on the executive board of the International Biometric Society 2021–2024, as Executive Secretary of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) 2016–2018, and on the ISBA Board 2013–2015; she has also held numerous leadership positions in the American Sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20de%20Groove%20%28song%29 | "Data de Groove" is a song by Falco from his 1990 studio album Data de Groove. The song was also released as a single, it was the first single from the album.
Background and writing
The song was written by Robert Ponger and Falco. They are also credited as the producers.
Commercial performance
The song reached no. 12 in Austria.
Track listings
7" single GIG 111 227 (1990, Austria)
7" single Teldec 9031-71518-7 (1990, Austria)
Side 1. "Data De Groove" (3:59)
Side 2. "Data De Groove" (Human Version) (3:59)
12" maxi single Teldec 715-19-0 (1990)
A. "Data De Groove" (Club Mix) (6:48)
B1. "Data De Groove" (Digital-Analogue Version) (3:59)
B2. "Data De Groove" (Instrumental Version) (4:57)
Charts
References
External links
Falco – "Data de Groove" at Discogs
1990 songs
1990 singles
Falco (musician) songs
Songs written by Falco (musician)
Songs written by Robert Ponger |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premio%20Lo%20Nuestro%202017 | The 29th Lo Nuestro Awards ceremony, presented by the American network Univision, honoring the best Latin music of 2016 in the United States, took place on February 23, 2017, at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST (8:00 p.m. EST). During the ceremony, Lo Nuestro Awards were presented in 26 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by Univision. Alejandra Espinoza and William Valdés hosted the show.
Latin American boyband CNCO, Colombian singer-songwriters Shakira and Carlos Vives, and Cuban ensemble Gente de Zona earned three awards each, including Pop/Rock Album of the Year and Pop Song of the Year for CNCO; Colombian reggaeton performer J Balvin received the Artist of the Year accolade for the second year in a row. American artist Romeo Santos received the Excellence Award and TV host Lili Estefan earned the Trajectory Award. The telecast garnered in average 10 million viewers in North America.
Winners and nominees
On December 6, 2016, the nominees for the Lo Nuestro Awards of 2017 were announced through their official website. Mexican ensemble Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizárraga and reggaeton act Wisin received the most nominations with seven each. Among others, Banda MS was nominated for Artist of the Year, and won for Regional Mexican Album (Qué Bendición) and Regional Mexican Song ("Solo Con Verte"); Wisin earned the Collaboration of the Year for "Duele el Corazón", his Billboard Latin Songs number-one single performed alongside Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias; with the song, Iglesias became the male performer with the most number-one songs in the history of the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, with 14. "La Bicicleta" by Carlos Vives and Shakira earned all the awards it was nominated for, which included Single of the Year, Video of the Year and Tropical Song.
Mexican artist Thalía was named Pop Female Artist, her first win in the category since 1998. Musical ensembles CNCO and Gente de Zona earned three awards each. J Balvin won for Artist of the Year for the second consecutive time. Romeo Santos received the Excellence Award and TV host Lili Estefan earned the Trajectory Award.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double-dagger ().
Ceremony information
Categories and voting process
The categories considered were for the Pop, Tropical, Regional Mexican, and Urban genres, with additional awards for the General Field that includes nominees from all genres, for the Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Single of the Year, Male and Female Artist, Duo or Group, Collaboration and Music Video categories. The nominees were selected through an online voting poll at the official website and a total of 70 artist were included in the nominations; the winners were chosen from a total 26 different categories. The ceremony was hosted by Mexican model Alejandra Espinoza and Cuban actor William Valdés.
Ratings and reception
The American telecast on Un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVMO-LP | WVMO-LP (98.7 FM) is a community-owned radio station in the city of Monona, Wisconsin. The station, which went on air in 2015, broadcasts a variety format that includes local programming and Americana.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
Official website
VMO-LP
Community radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2015
2015 establishments in Wisconsin
VMO-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLSP-LP | WLSP-LP (103.5 FM) is a community radio station in the city of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The station, which went on air in 2015, broadcasts a mix of local programming and music chosen by local DJs.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
Official website
LSP-LP
Community radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2015
2015 establishments in Wisconsin
LSP-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kambal%2C%20Karibal | (International title: Heart & Soul / ) is a Philippine television drama horror series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Bianca Umali, Miguel Tanfelix, Pauline Mendoza and Kyline Alcantara. It premiered on November 27, 2017 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Alyas Robin Hood. The series concluded on August 3, 2018 with a total of 178 episodes. It was replaced by Onanay in its timeslot.
The series is originally titled as Santa Santita. It is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The story centers on twins Crisanta and Criselda. Criselda dies due to a rare disease but retains her spirit that is only visible to her sister Crisanta. Their bond starts to fall apart when they both fall in love with Diego. The rivalry between them builds up when their mother's affections are focused on Crisanta. When Criselda's emotions consume her and her soul finds another person's body to inhabit, she returns to take both her mother's affection and Diego's love.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bianca Umali as Crisanta "Crisan" Enriquez Magpantay / Victoria Enriquez Magpantay
Miguel Tanfelix as Diego Ocampo de Villa
Pauline Mendoza as Criselda "Crisel" Enriquez Magpantay / Amanda Enriquez Magpantay
Kyline Alcantara as Francheska "Cheska" Enriquez de Villa / Grace Akeem Nazar
Supporting cast
Jean Garcia as Teresa Abaya
Marvin Agustin as Raymond de Villa / Samuel Calderon
Alfred Vargas as Allan Magpantay
Carmina Villarroel as Geraldine Enriquez
Gloria Romero as Maria Anicia Enriquez
Christopher de Leon as Emmanuel "Manuel" de Villa
Jeric Gonzales as Michael Roy "Makoy" Claveria
Franchesca Salcedo as Norilyn "Nori" Salcedo / Frenny
Rafa Siguion-Reyna as Vincent De Jesus
Sheree Bautista as Lilian Ocampo
Raquel Monteza as Mildred Abaya
Guest cast
Gardo Versoza as Noli Bautista
Katrina Halili as Nida Generoso
Amalia Rosales as Dolores Amelia
Rez Cortez as an exorcism priest
Robert Ortega as Priest
Froilan Sales as Jericho
Mike Lloren as Delfin Claveria
Miggs Cuaderno as James Martinez
Tina Paner as Azon Martinez
Lynn Ynchausti-Cruz as Victoria Magpantay
Juan Rodrigo as Tomas Magpantay
Kelvin Miranda as John "Tembong" Enriquez
Brent Valdez as Jolo
Angela Evangelista as Olive Enriquez
Princess Guevarra as Madel Gutierrez
Tanya Gomez as Edna Gutierrez
Gerald Madrid as Dado
Jenny Miller as Lerma
Elle Ramirez as Jane
Lou Sison as Luisa
Angie Ferro as Amang Editha
Diva Montelaba as Linda
Arra San Agustin as young Geraldine
Therese Malvar as young Teresa
Empress Schuck as young Anicia
Ashley Cabrera as young Cheska
Jazz Yburan as young Crisan
Caprice Mendez as young Crisel and Cristiana Enriquez Magpantay
Seth dela Cruz as young Diego
Marc Justine Alvarez as young Makoy
Roence Santos as Black Lady / Ganeva
Eliza Pineda as Patricia Gonzales
Sheila Marie Rodriguez as Jenny Ginez
Ana Capri as Clara
Kenken Nuyad as Bugoy
Lollie Mara as Celia
Hannah Precillas as Manilyn
Maureen Larrazaba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juku%20E5101 | Juku E5101 was a personal computer targeted at Estonian schools which was released in 1988. The computer had monochrome display, a mouse and basic LAN capabilities, it ran CP/M 2.2 based EKDOS and had a Soviet Intel 8080A clone KR580VM80A for CPU.
Juku E5101 was developed by and the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of Estonia, test batch of 100 was produced in cooperation with factory in 1986. The computer initially used tape recorder as storage and was reported as first computer in USSR to have mouse attached. In a multibus (Soviet I41) compatible expansion slot one could also connect 32 KiB memory expansion cards or ROM cartridges.
Juku E5104 production of which started in December 1988 was upgraded to use dual 5.25 inch diskette drive and drivers for printers. Despite relabelling it to "intellectual terminal for real-time system E5104", the label presented on main unit remained E5101.
During first two years of serial production around 2000 Jukus were produced and last batch of 500 was ordered by Estonian Ministry of Education in 1992. Altogether 3000 Jukus were produced at Narva, plant (from Russian "Балтиец", Baltiyets), 2500 of them for school use.
In 1991 many, if not all, bigger (at least 100 pupils) Estonian schools had a computer classroom that was furnished with those machines and Epson LX800 printers.
Although the production was delayed four years and computers delivered were technologically outdated, Jukus did enable Estonia to "gain a head start in mass school computerization" by providing early access to computers and a standardized study environment. Despite conceived lack of end user skills and the shortage of computer professionals, there were schools having dedicated teachers and students themselves writing software for Jukus during extra hours at computer class, often convincing schools to lend computers home for summer vacation.
In general tens of thousands students got their first computing experience with Juku "much more, much earlier and more frequently than would have been possible otherwise".
See also
Tiigrihüpe
References
Soviet computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius%20Computer%20Factory | Vilnius Computer Factory () was a computer and computer-component manufacturer and developer (via a special development bureau ()) in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR. Established in 1956, it became a part of the in 1966.
History
In 1954, the USSR Council of Ministers decided to establish a cash register factory in Vilnius which began operations in 1956. In 1957, the first cash registers were produced, but in 1959 the factory was repurposed for the production of early computers (computing machines). A special development bureau was established to develop and design original computing machines. In 1959, the first series of external 80-column punched card machines was manufactured. Production of the first electronic calculator EV80-3M (a copy of IBM 604 designed in Moscow) began in 1961. In 1962, Vilnius Computer Factory developed the first Lithuanian electronic calculator – electronic random process analyzer EASP-S, which was produced in 1964–1967. In 1963, the first Lithuanian second generation (transistor-based) computer EVP80-2 Rūta was developed. Its processor could perform 2,500 operations per second.
In June 1966, Vilnius Calculation Machine Factory was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In the same year, the was established. The association included Vilnius Computer Factory, Vilnius Electricity Meter Factory, Pabradė Counting Technology Factory Modulis, Telšiai Counting Machine Factory, Tauragė Counting Machine Elements Factory, and Panevėžys Precision Machine Factory.
Products
1960–1965 EV80-3M, developed in Moscow, assembled in Vilnius (IBM 604 clone);
1964–1967 EASP-S, first developed computer;
1964–1974 , based on discrete transistors;
1964–1970 ATE80-1, developed in Moscow, assembled in Vilnius;
1969–1972 , which had handwritten OCR capability with ;
1973–1979 , minicomputer;
1975–1981 ;
1978–1984 ;
1982–1988 SM 1600 (one processor was PDP-11/34 clone);
1986–1990 SM 1700 (VAX-11/730 clone).
See also
Nuklonas, integrated circuit manufacturer since 1966, which also produced PC computers and their integrated circuits BK-0010 (discontinued in 1992).
References
1956 establishments in Lithuania
Computer companies established in 1956
Defunct manufacturing companies of Lithuania
Ministry of Instrument Making (Soviet Union)
Information technology companies of Lithuania
Manufacturing companies of the Soviet Union
Computing in the Soviet Union
Companies based in Vilnius |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Falc%C3%B3n | Luis Falcón Martín is a Spanish computer scientist, physician and free software activist who founded GNU Solidario, an organization focused in education and health. Martín is known for in social medicine and as the author of GNU Health, a health and hospital information management system.
Biography
Luis Falcón was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in 1970. He graduated from California State University, Northridge in 1996 with a degree in computer science, and from Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud medical school in Argentina. In 2009, he founded GNU Solidario, a non-profit organization that focuses on health and education with free software.
GNU Solidario
Falcon defends the adoption of free software in the public administration. GNU Solidario, the organization that he founded in 2009, works for the universality of public health and education.
In his speech "Free Software as a Catalyst for Liberation, Social Justice and Social Medicine," he defines free software as a movement, as a philosophy, and as a way of activism. To him, the use of proprietary software in the public administration is a contradiction by definition.
Public education
The initial projects that Luis Falcon started were related to public education.
After observing the reality of many of the children on these schools, he incorporated social medicine into the project, to improve the socio-economic determinants of health on the communities. He conceives education and health as the basis for development and dignity of societies.
In an interview to the International Journal of Applied Ethics (Dilemata), Luis Falcon declared:
{{blockquote|The project starts in 2006, visiting a rural school in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Initially our mission was to install GNU/Linux in rural schools, but I noticed that these children needed shoes and nutrition before computers.
That made me think about how to help health professionals and social workers to improve the quality of life of people living in rural areas and socially underprivileged."}}
IWEEE
In 2010, Falcon organized the first International Workshop on eHealth in Emerging Economies (IWEEE) in an effort to congregate different organizations "to share their experiences and to try to find ways to improve the lives of millions of human beings from the developing world." IWEEE is a non-technical conference, where academic institutions, humanitarian organizations and social collectives get together to present and debate about social issues, Medicine and eHealth.
Since its first event in 2010, IWEEE has hosted humanitarian, multilateral organizations, such as United Nations Development Programme, Red Cross, War Child, World Health Organization, Médecins Sans Frontières, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, or Caritas Internationalis, as well as research institutions, like the European Bioinformatics Institute and universities.
Public health and social medicine
Falcón defends the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IONITY | Ionity is a high-power charging station network for electric vehicles to facilitate long-distance travel across Europe. It's a joint venture founded by the BMW Group, Mercedes-Benz Group, Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen Group, but other automotive manufacturers are invited to help expand the network. In November 2020 Hyundai Motor Group entered Ionity as the 5th shareholder. Ionity enables roaming from electric mobility service providers (EMSP's).
Charging stations
Charging capacity of up to 350 kW per point
European charging standard Combined Charging System (CCS)
Located on major European highways
Capable of charging certain cars (e.g. Porsche Taycan Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6) up to 80 percent in just 18 minutes (in ideal conditions).
Charging stations have from 2 to 16 CCS plugs each, with 4.5 plugs per station on average.
Charging stations have slightly different design, depending on country and manufacturer.
Most stations (in 2019) were produced by Tritium and ABB, and some by Porsche itself.
Members
Current members include BMW Group, Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen Group. In November 2020 Hyundai Motor Group formally joined Ionity after announcing on September 9, 2019, that would bring Hyundai and Kia brands on board as strategic partners.
Rollout
Ionity rollout table: number of open stations per country per quarter.
2017
The company claimed that a total of 20 stations would open to the public, located on major roads in multiple European countries through partnerships with Tank & Rast, Circle K and OMV. By the end of 2017, no stations were open to the public.
Ionity bid for Europ-e funding from the European Union and was awarded £39.1m to help develop its network, across 13 EU Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, UK.
2018
First Ionity charging station was opened on 24 April 2018 at Brohltal-Ost on the A61 motorway in Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate.
By August 2018, 7 stations were open: 1 in Germany, 1 in Austria, 2 in France, 2 in Switzerland, and 1 in Denmark, with 4-6 chargers on each. 4 more stations are marked as coming soon.
By October 2018, 10 stations with 4-6 CCS charger plugs were open, 20 stations are marked as "now building". Charging cost for the rest of 2018 was established as 8 (€8, or £8, or 8CHF depending on country) per charging session (no power or time restrictions). In Scandinavia the session fee will be 80 NOK / SEK / DKK. The European Union countries currently remaining without published plans for Ionity chargers include: Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and the UK.
By the end of 2018, 47 stations on map are marked open and 45 as now building.
2019
The 100th charging station was open to public in Rygge, Norway on 27 May 2019. On 20 December 2019 200th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid%20%28board%20game%29 | Asteroid is a 1980 Science fiction board game published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) as one of their 120 series. Players must destroy a mad scientist's computer-controlled asteroid before it crashes into Earth.
Gameplay
Asteroid is a two-player game designed by Marc Miller and Frank Chadwick in which a mad scientist has programmed a computer-controlled asteroid to crash into the Earth, resulting in an extinction level event, and only one spaceship is able to intercept the asteroid and try to save the world.
One player must put together a team of adventurers — accompanied by Sasha the dog — that will try to overcome the computerized defenses of the asteroid and start the self-destruct sequence that will destroy the asteroid. The other player arranges eight geomorphic tiles to represent the asteroid's cave system and controls the asteroid's robotic defenses.
There are several special rules for various personality interactions. For example, Sasha the dog hates a person called Carter, and will not go through any door that Carter has opened.
Both players may come across some of the mad scientist's other inventions, including a disintegrator pistol and an invisibility belt.
There are various victory conditions that the players can claim; for example The World Preservation victory is achieved if the computer is destroyed; or an SPCA victory is claimed if Sasha the dog survives, and the victory is maximized if Carter does not survive.
Asteroid is a GDW "Series 120" game. "Series 120" indicating that the game should take less than two hours (120 minutes) to play.
History
Originally published in 1980, a second edition was published in a larger box in 1983 with new cover art by Rich Banner. Hobby Japan released a Japanese language version in 1985 with a cover by Naoyuki Kato. Another Japanese language version was published in 2003 by Kokusai-Tsushin.
Reception
In the December 1980 edition of The Space Gamer (Issue No. 34), William A. Barton gave a thumbs up to Asteroid, saying, "Asteroid is very playable and a lot of fun – more so than many games costing more than twice its price. Well worth the investment."
In the January 1981 edition of Ares (Issue #6), Eric Goldberg called Asteroid "a very amusing game."
In the April 1981 edition of Dragon (Issue #48), Bill Fawcett thought the variety of characters available to the player trying to save Earth was "both a strength of the game, and its largest drawback. Because of the challenges which await the first player, it is necessary to employ all of the skills possessed by every character. Because there are so many to choose from, it takes a few playings to really become adept at deciding which skills are best in certain situations and then employing them properly." Fawcett concluded with a recommendation to use this game to draw more players into the hobby, saying, "Since Asteroid has a familiar plot and is easily played, it is a nearly ideal way to introduce science-fiction gaming to a friend w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTPP%20Data%20Analysis%20Contest | The LTPP International Data Analysis Contest or the LTPP Data Analysis Contest is an annual international data analysis contest held by the American Society of Civil Engineers and Federal Highway Administration. As the name suggests, the participants are supposed to use the LTPP data in their analysis. The winners of this data analysis contest are announced in the early January during the Transportation Research Board annual meeting.
History
The LTPP database contains the data of more than 2500 road sections across the US and Canada. The FHWA and ASCE launched a joint effort to encourage researchers around the world to use the LTPP data. The contest was first introduced in 1998 by the Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the LTPP of FHWA. The goal of the contest is to encourage consultants, academics and data scientists around the world to use the LTPP database for generating knowledge about the behaviour of pavements and roads.
Categories
The LTPP data analysis contest has four different categories:
Undergraduate Student Category
Graduate Category
Partnership Category
Challenge Category (Aramis Lopez Challenge)
The first two categories are limited to students. The participants of all categories are required to summarize their work within an article.
Winners
See also
List of engineering awards
List of mathematics awards
References
Federal Highway Administration
Awards of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Mathematics awards
Engineering awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via%20News%20Agency | Via News Agency (VIANEWS) is a news agency established in June 2015 focusing on data journalism. It has journalists reporting from different countries on topics related to the stock market, business, companies, investment, and world news.
History
Via News Agency was established in 2015. By 2016, it had 15 journalists from 10 countries and was covering major business and technology events in Lisbon such as the Web Summit. In 2017, it had 33 journalists covering the news from 30 countries, which grew to 45 journalists and 39 countries in 2018. The next year, it added a team covering the stock market and financial news.
In 2020, Via News Agency launched Via News Financial TV, a 24/7 live TV with constantly updated financial data. The stock market is now being reported in text and in real-time.
See also
List of news agencies
News agencies based in Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Jakarta | The Jakarta tram system was a transport system in Jakarta, Indonesia. Its first-generation tram network first operated as a horse tram system, and was eventually converted to electric trams in the early twentieth century.
History
Dutch era
The first horse tram in Batavia was operated by Bataviasche Tramweg Maatschappij (BTM, Batavia Tramways Company). The horse tram line was inaugurated on 20 April 1869, long before trams existed in the Netherlands- using a gauge width of 1,188 mm (3 ft 10 25⁄32 in), connecting Batavia Old Town with Weltevreden. At the time the tram, pulled by 3-4 horses, could accommodate up to 40 passengers. In April 1869 an estimated 1,500 passengers had been served by the system and in September 1869 it was increased to 7,000 passengers.
As a result of horse trams operational problems experienced by the BTM, in 1880 the operation was handled temporarily by Firma Dummler & Co. Two years later, on 19 September 1881 Bataviasche Tramweg Maatschappij officially changed its name into Nederlands-Indische Tramweg Maatschappij (NITM, Netherlands Indies Tramways Company) and took over Batavia trams operation previously handled by Firma Dummler & Co. Under NITM, there was a gradual overhaul of its fleet and infrastructure, which the replacement of horse with steam locomotives produced by Hohenzollern Locomotive Works. The first locomotive was purchased for ƒ8,800 and the fleet replacement process was completed in 1884. The horse tram service was closed from 12 June 1882. NITM services reopened on 1 July 1883 with the inauguration of the steam tram service as well as the new Batavia Old Town–Harmonie line.
Four years after the operation of the Batavia Old Town–Harmoni steam tram line, electric trams was introduced under the operation of the Batavia Elektrische Tram Maatschappij (BETM, Batavia Electric Tram Company), making it a competitor to the NITM's steam tram. BETM began operation since the inauguration of Batavia Old Town–Ragunan Zoo line on 10 April 1899 which was extended to Tanah Abang Station in November 1899, but unfortunately the extension was closed in 1904. In 1900 BETM extended its tram network, reaching Jembatan Merah, Tanah Tinggi, and Gunung Sahari areas by crossing Ciliwung River. With the increasing number of years, BETM continued to expand its tram network until 1920, it marked with unhealthy competition between BETM and NITM. The competition caused ticket prices became too expensive that Batavia city government demanded NITM to upgrade its fleet to become electric-powered, but was refused by NITM itself.
As a result of the competition, the two began to impose transit tickets and special schedules during rush hour. On 31 July 1930 NITM and BTM were merged to form Bataviasche Verkeers Maatschappij (BVM, Batavia Transport Company). The merger combines 1 steam tram line, 2 trolleybus lines, and 7 bus routes operated by both NITM and BETM.
Under BVM, the tramways underwent significant changes. In former NITM routes, |
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