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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLinux | gLinux is a Debian Testing-based Linux distribution used at Google as a workstation operating system. The Google gLinux team builds the system from source code, introducing their own changes. gLinux replaced the previously used Ubuntu-based distribution, Goobuntu. gLinux is usually installed by loading into a bootstrap environment when it is first booted up. When gLinux is getting started up, the root files are unpacked and the Debian installer starts to perform the installation. Over the years, Google has focused on speed, scale, and data, which is the thought process that allowed them to move to gLinux. Google was using Ubuntu before switching to gLinux; however, the two years of security updates it provided meant that planning for the next upgrade would take next to a year.
References
Google software
Debian-based distributions
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20L%C3%B6fgren | Lars Löfgren is a Swedish cybernetician. He was awarded the Wiener Gold Medal by the American Society for Cybernetics in 2008.
Lars Löfgren was involved in extending the logical and linguistic approaches to various problems raised by early cybernetics. His work helped
develop a more consistent conceptual base for cybernetics through a holistic approach to second order cybernetics.
He was one of the internationally renown cyberneticians invited by Heinz von Förster to the Biological Computer Laboratory, but he did most of his work while professor at Lund University.
Works
(1996) "Shadows of language in physics and cybernetics", Systems Research, 13(3), 329-340.
(2002) "What is systems science?" in Robert Trappl (Ed.), Cybernetics and systems 2002 (Vol. 1, pp. 11-16). Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Swedish scientists
Cyberneticists
Academic staff of Lund University
20th-century Swedish scientists
21st-century Swedish scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Alty | James Lenton Alty (21 August 1939 – 6 December 2022) was a British computer scientist who was Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Loughborough University.
Alty was born in Haslingden, Lancashire on 21 August 1939.
He died on 6 December 2022, at the age of 83.
References
External links
1939 births
2022 deaths
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
British computer scientists
Academics of Loughborough University
People from Haslingden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based%20encryption | Hardware-based encryption is the use of computer hardware to assist software, or sometimes replace software, in the process of data encryption. Typically, this is implemented as part of the processor's instruction set. For example, the AES encryption algorithm (a modern cipher) can be implemented using the AES instruction set on the ubiquitous x86 architecture. Such instructions also exist on the ARM architecture. However, more unusual systems exist where the cryptography module is separate from the central processor, instead being implemented as a coprocessor, in particular a secure cryptoprocessor or cryptographic accelerator, of which an example is the IBM 4758, or its successor, the IBM 4764. Hardware implementations can be faster and less prone to exploitation than traditional software implementations, and furthermore can be protected against tampering.
History
Prior to the use of computer hardware, cryptography could be performed through various mechanical or electro-mechanical means. An early example is the Scytale used by the Spartans. The Enigma machine was an electro-mechanical system cipher machine notably used by the Germans in World War II. After World War II, purely electronic systems were developed. In 1987 the ABYSS (A Basic Yorktown Security System) project was initiated. The aim of this project was to protect against software piracy. However, the application of computers to cryptography in general dates back to the 1940s and Bletchley Park, where the Colossus computer was used to break the encryption used by German High Command during World War II. The use of computers to encrypt, however, came later. In particular, until the development of the integrated circuit, of which the first was produced in 1960, computers were impractical for encryption, since, in comparison to the portable form factor of the Enigma machine, computers of the era took the space of an entire building. It was only with the development of the microcomputer that computer encryption became feasible, outside of niche applications. The development of the World Wide Web lead to the need for consumers to have access to encryption, as online shopping became prevalent. The key concerns for consumers were security and speed. This led to the eventual inclusion of the key algorithms into processors as a way of both increasing speed and security.
Implementations
In the instruction set
x86
The X86 architecture, as a CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) Architecture, typically implements complex algorithms in hardware. Cryptographic algorithms are no exception. The x86 architecture implements significant components of the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm, which can be used by the NSA for Top Secret information. The architecture also includes support for the SHA Hashing Algorithms through the Intel SHA extensions. Whereas AES is a cipher, which is useful for encrypting documents, hashing is used for verification, such as of passwords (see PBKDF2).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayorkor%20Korsah | G. Ayorkor Korsah (formerly G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey) is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Robotics at Ashesi University in Ghana.
Early life and education
Korsah grew up in Ghana and Nigeria, and as a child, she wanted to be an astronaut and an engineer.
Korsah majored in engineering at Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude in June 2003. She attended Carnegie Mellon University for her doctoral work in computer science, obtaining a PhD in 2011 for her thesis, "Exploring bounded optimal coordination for heterogeneous teams with cross-schedule dependencies".
Career
Korsah is a senior lecturer in computer science and robotics at Ashesi University, a private university in Ghana, where she teaches courses in artificial intelligence, robotics, algorithms, and programming.
To expand robotics education in Africa, Korsah co-founded the African Robotics Network (AFRON) in 2012 with Ken Goldberg, a robotics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The purpose of AFRON is to enhance robotics education and encourage members of robotics communities in Africa to collaborate. One of AFRON's first endeavors was a $10 robot design challenge which it co-sponsored with the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Korsah and Goldberg were awarded the 2013 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award for their work in founding the network and the "$10 Robot Design” challenge.
Korsah has been featured on BBC News discussing how humans and machines can collaborate and combine their strengths in the future.
Selected publications
G. Ayorkor Korsah, Anthony Stentz, and M. Bernardine Dias, “A comprehensive taxonomy for multi-robot task allocation”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, October 2013, vol. 32, no.12, pp. 1495-1512.
G. Ayorkor Korsah, Balajee Kannan, Brett Browning, Anthony Stentz and M. Bernardine Dias, “xBots: An Approach to Generating and Executing Optimal Multi-Robot Plans with Cross-Schedule Dependencies,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2012.
G. Ayorkor Korsah, Jack Mostow, M. Bernardine Dias, Tracy Morrison Sweet, Sarah M. Belousov, M. Frederick Dias, Haijun Gong, “Improving Child Literacy in Africa: Experiments with an Automated Reading Tutor,” Information Technologies & International Development, 2010, vol. 6, no. 2, 2010.
See also
Ashesi University
African women in engineering
References
Ghanaian educators
Living people
Dartmouth College alumni
Ghanaian computer scientists
Ghanaian women computer scientists
Ghanaian expatriates in the United States
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Academic staff of Ashesi University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women in engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver%20Islands%20State%20Wildlife%20Research%20Area | The Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area is a networked set of insular properties of the U.S. state of Michigan. The Research Area is approximately 23,154 acres in size. Properties in the Research Area include much of the southern half of Beaver Island, almost all of Garden Island, all of High Island, all of Hog Island, all of North Fox Island, and most of the northern half of South Fox Island. All of these islands are located in Lake Michigan. The insular research area is overseen by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
Description
The Research Area properties is primarily made up of lands that were either never patented for settlement, or were logged off and then allowed to revert to the state of Michigan in lieu of unpaid property taxes. Approximately 55% of the Research Area by land extent is located on the largest of the islands, Beaver Island, and almost 20% on the second largest island, Garden Island. The remaining one-quarter of the Research Area is distributed among the largest four remaining islands of northern Lake Michigan. The Research Area cooperates with a federal unit, the Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge, which controls a separate set of four much smaller islands within the same archipelago.
The Research Area is a place for the study of shoreline animal, bird, and plant life. The Michigan DNR manages the northern four islands of the Research area, located in Charlevoix County, from a full-time staffed office in Gaylord, Michigan. Properties on the two southern Fox Islands, located in Leelanau County, are managed from a staffed office in Cadillac, Michigan.
The Research Area hosts field studies on biology and ecology. As is shown by the name of Hog Island, the islands have been and continue to be altered by human life and use. Hunting, fishing, boating, and camping are allowed subject to state laws and regulations. There is, however, no regularly scheduled passenger service to any of these islands except Beaver Island, and several of the islands within the Research Area are very infrequently visited as of 2022.
Gallery
References
Protected areas of Charlevoix County, Michigan
Protected areas of Leelanau County, Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility%20of%20the%20Metropolitan%20Transportation%20Authority | The physical accessibility of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s public transit network, serving the New York metropolitan area, is incomplete. Although all buses are wheelchair-accessible in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), much of the MTA's rail system was built before wheelchair access was a requirement under the ADA. This includes the MTA's rapid transit systems, the New York City Subway and Staten Island Railway, and its commuter rail services, the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Metro-North Railroad. Consequently, most stations were not designed to be accessible to people with disabilities, and many MTA facilities lack accessible announcements, signs, tactile components, and other features.
A city law, the New York City Human Rights Law, prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. Since 1990, elevators have been built in newly constructed stations to comply with the ADA, with most grade-level stations requiring little modification to meet ADA standards. The MTA identified 100 "key stations", high-traffic and/or geographically important stations on the subway system, which have been or are being renovated to comply with the ADA. One of the key tenets of the 2018 Fast Forward Plan to rescue the subway system is to drastically increase the number of ADA-accessible subway stations, adding accessible facilities to 70 stations by 2024. In 2022, the MTA agreed in a settlement to make 95 percent of subway and Staten Island Railway stations accessible by 2055.
Background
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has been gradually adding disabled access to its key stations since the 1980s, though large portions of the MTA's transit system are still inaccessible. According to the MTA:
In improving services to individuals with disabilities, the MTA identified stations and facilities where compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) would benefit the most people, analyzing such factors as high ridership, transfer points, and service to major areas of activity. These stations were given priority in our station-renovation program. We are continuing to expand accessibility features to more and more locations.
According to the MTA, fully accessible stations have:
elevators or ramps
handrails on ramps and stairs
large-print and tactile-Braille signs
audio and visual information systems, including Help Points or Public Address Customer Information Screens
accessible station booth windows with sills located no more than above the ground
accessible MetroCard Vending Machines
accessible service entry gates
platform-edge warning strips
platform gap modifications or bridge plates to reduce or eliminate the gap between trains and platforms where it is greater than vertically or horizontally
telephones at an accessible height with volume control, and text telephones (TTYs)
accessible restrooms at stations with restrooms, if a 24-hour public toilet is in operation
Note: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20tvN%20%28Asia%29 | This is a list of programmes broadcast on South Korean cable television channel Total Variety Network (tvN) Asia network.
Original (tvN, Mnet, O'live, TVING) and acquired (CJ E&M and others) programs
Live programming
MAMA Awards (previously known as Mnet Asian Music Awards; 2009–present)
tvN PRIMEDrama
Acquired from OCN
A Superior Day
Black
Bad Guys: City of Evil
Duel
Life on Mars
Team Bulldog: Off-Duty Investigation
Missing Noir M
Missing: The Other Side (Season 2 was aired on tvN)
Player
Save Me
Tunnel
The Virus
Voice (TV Series) (Season 1–3; season 4 was aired on tvN)
Acquired from TVING
All That We Loved
Dr. Park's Clinic
Duty After School
Work Later, Drink Now (Season 2)
Acquired from other networks
A Gentleman's Dignity (Produced by Hwa&Dam Pictures & CJ E&M for SBS)
Cheongdam International High School (B**ch X Rich) (Produced by WHYNOT Media)
Dear My Room (O'live)
Diary of a Prosecutor (Produced by S-PEACE for JTBC)
Not Others (Produced by Arc Media & Baram Pictures for Genie TV/ENA) (available in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore)
(Produced by Acemaker Movieworks and Beyond J for )
Something in the Rain (Produced by Drama House Studio and Content K for JTBC)
Taste Beyond The Senses (O'live)
tvN x tvBlue
tvBlue is a Korean channel broadcasting in Vietnam from lease of VTC5, and collaboration of CJ ENM and SCTV, it was dissolved on July 2, 2018, but VTC5 still broadcasting.
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Hotgirl Loạn Thị
See also
List of programs broadcast by TVN (South Korea)
List of programs broadcast by Arirang TV
List of programmes broadcast by Korean Broadcasting System
List of programs broadcast by Seoul Broadcasting System
List of programs broadcast by JTBC
Notes
Lists of television series by network
Lists of South Korean television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dhallywood%20films%20of%201969 | A list of Dhallywood films released in 1969.
Released films
See also
1969 in Pakistan
References
External links
Bangladeshi films on Internet Movie Database
Film
Bangladesh
Lists of Pakistani Bengali films by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20albums%20of%202018%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Digital Album Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly digital sales of albums and EPs.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2018 in music
ARIA Charts
List of number-one singles of 2018 (Australia)
References
Digital 2018
Australia digital albums
Number-one digital albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuanyuan%20Yang | Yuanyuan Yang is a Chinese-American computer scientist whose interests include parallel and distributed computing, and wireless sensor networks. She is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Stony Brook University, Associate Dean for Diversity and Academic Affairs in the Stony Brook College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and program director for software and hardware foundations and principles and practice of scalable systems at the National Science Foundation.
Education and career
Yang earned bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and engineering at Tsinghua University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. She completed a Ph.D. in computer science at Johns Hopkins University in 1992. She moved to Stony Brook in 1999, from a previous faculty position at the University of Vermont.
Recognition
Yang was named an IEEE Fellow in 2009 "for contributions to parallel and distributed computing systems". She was named SUNY Distinguished Professor in 2016. In 2022 she won the Outstanding Service Award of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
Tsinghua University alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
University of Vermont faculty
Stony Brook University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Goldberg | Susan Goldberg is an American journalist, former editor in chief of National Geographic Magazine, and current President and CEO of the WGBH Educational Foundation, the largest provider of programming to PBS. Before joining National Geographic, Goldberg worked at Bloomberg and USA Today. She is an advocate for cross-platform storytelling.
Education
Goldberg grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan to a Jewish family, and fell in love with journalism when in the eighth grade she wrote a paper entitled "Opportunities in Journalism." Goldberg thinks her career success began as a 20-year-old at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, when she was hired from an 8-week internship into full-time job as a reporter. To take the job at the paper Goldberg dropped out of college. Goldberg eventually graduated from Michigan State University in 1987 with a BA in journalism. She has since established the Susan Goldberg Scholarship. She is a member of the Alumni board of directors in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. In 2015 Goldberg returned to Michigan State to deliver the commencement speech.
Career
Goldberg moved to Michigan's Detroit Free Press, where she became the first woman to be sent to Lansing, the state capital, where she covered the governor and legislature. She simultaneously finished her degree at Michigan State University. She then moved to California's San Jose Mercury News, as a reporter, where she played a key role in the paper's coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. In 1989 she joined USA Today and, over ten years, worked across News, Life and Enterprise. Goldberg moved up the ranks at USA Today and eventually became deputy managing editor.
After 11 years of marriage, Goldberg's first husband died in 1999. She returned to the San Jose Mercury News to become managing editor. In 2007 she resigned to join Cleveland's The Plain Dealer. When Goldberg left The Plain Dealer, she was upset: "in a short time, I have become deeply attached to Cleveland".
In 2010 she was approached by Bloomberg, and what began as a West Coast job resulted in becoming executive editor of Bloomberg's Washington Bureau. Of her editorial leadership, Frank Bass said that in her leadership, "Goldberg proved that patience and enthusiasm aren't mutually exclusive traits." During 2012 and 2013 Goldberg was president of the American Society of News Editors, with a focus on developing young leaders in journalism. Goldberg was voted one of Washington's 11 most influential women in the media by Washingtonian magazine in 2013.
Goldberg's tenure as editor in chief of National Geographic ended in 2022, after which she took up a position as professor and vice dean at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. In December 2022, she was named president and CEO of WGBH, replacing Jon Abbot as the first woman to lead the foundation.
National Geographic
National Geographic magazine was first published in October 1888. In 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20in%20Fight%20Nights%20Global | The year 2018 was the 8th year in the history of the Fight Nights Global, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia. The company continues broadcasts through Match TV, Fight Network and is looking for a new US-based platform since the contract with UFC Fight Pass has been terminated.
List of events
Fight Nights Global 83: Alibekov vs. Aliev
Fight Nights Global 83: Alibekov vs. Aliev was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on February 22, 2018 at the Luzhniki Palace of Sports (SCCH "Rossiya") in Moscow, Russia.
Background
This event will feature two world title fights, first for the Fight Nights Global Lightweight Championship between the champion Magomedsaygid Alibekov and Akhmed Aliev as Fight Nights Global 83 headliner, and for the inaugural Fight Nights Global Women's Bantamweight Championship between Marina Mokhnatkina and Liana Jojua as co-headliner.
The event will also feature the debut of Dominique Steele with Fight Nights Global organisation against Nikolay Aleksakhin and the return of Khabib Nurmagomedov cousin Umar Nurmagomedov against the cousin of Featherweight standout Goiti Yamauchi, the Brazilian Shyudi Yamauchi.
Results
Fight Nights Global 84: Deák vs. Chupanov
Fight Nights Global 84: Deák vs. Chupanov was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on March 2, 2018 at the Hant Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Background
Results
Fight Nights Global 85: Alikhanov vs. Kopylov
Fight Nights Global 85: Alikhanov vs. Kopylov was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on March 30, 2018 at the VTB Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia.
Background
This event featured two world title fights, first for the Fight Nights Global Middleweight Championship between the champion Abusupyan Alikhanov and the challenger Roman Kopylov as Fight Nights Global 85 headliner, and for the interim Fight Nights Global Welterweight Championship between Aliaskhab Khizriev and Rousimar Palhares as co-headliner.
The card was originally co-headlined by a title fight between champion Alexander Matmuratov and challenger Movlid Khaibulaev for the Fight Nights Global Featherweight Championship. On March 28, it was announced Khaibulaev had to withdraw due to an injury, the fight was canceled.
Vladimir Mineev was injured during his preparation for the against Magomed Ismailov. Mineev is out due to lateral ligament rupture, the bout has been temporarily postponed. Ildemar Alcântara stepped in on short notice to face Ismailov.
Results
Fight Nights Global 86: Nam vs. Zhumagulov
Fight Nights Global 86: Nam vs. Zhumagulov was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on April 1, 2018 at the Almaty Arena in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Background
Results
Fight Nights Global 87: Khachatryan vs. Queally
Fight Nights Global 87: Khachatryan vs. Queally was a mixed martial arts event held by Fight Nights Global on May 19, 2018 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
Background
Results
Fight Nights Global: Summer Cup 2018
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefront%20%281986%20video%20game%29 | Battlefront is a computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Studies Group for the Apple II and Commodore 64 in 1986. The game is a turn-based strategy set in World War II.
Gameplay
Battlefront is a corps-level simulation wargame. Upon starting the game, player chooses from one of four scenarios that depict battles of World War II. The scenarios are based on Battle of Crete, Operation Winter Storm, Battle of Saipan, and Siege of Bastogne.
Development
The game was designed, programmed and finished in 14 weeks. Roger Keating created a dedicated disc operating system for the game that allowed rapid access to the data stored on the disc with subsequent reloading of the game screen. Additionally, Keating wrote a novel pathfinding routine that helped to minimize memory usage.
Reception
Jay Selover reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Battlefront is a very good game which does an excellent job of putting the player into an authentic combat role: that of a Corps commander."
A reviewer of Computer and Video Games praised the game's historical accuracy and the possibility to create custom scenarios, but criticised the graphics. He stated that Battlefront "is a very good attempt, but it is not the perfect game that it might have been".
The game was nominated by Computer Gaming World for Strategy Game of the Year in 1987, but lost to Gettysburg: The Turning Point by Chuck Kroegel. Bruce Geryk in his article "Innovation Wars", published in 2006 in Computer Gaming World described Battlefront as legendary and said that "its landmark gameplay revolutionized the genre".
Reviews
Jeux & Stratégie #47
References
1986 video games
Strategic Studies Group games
Commodore 64 games
Apple II games
Computer wargames
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in Australia
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%27ve%20Been%20Working%20On... | "They've Been Working On..." is a science fiction short story by Anton Lee Baker. It was first published in Astounding Science Fiction, in August 1958.
Synopsis
A computer tries to solve problems involving misconfigured railroad cars, but its attempts only make things worse.
Reception
"They've Been Working On..." was a finalist for the 1959 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Cat Rambo has cited it as an example of "why titles matter".
References
1958 short stories
Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Kitchen%20Rules%20%28series%209%29 | The ninth season of the Australian competitive cooking competition show My Kitchen Rules premiered on the Seven Network on Monday 29 January 2018.
Applications for contestants opened during the airing of the eighth season. Pete Evans and Manu Feildel returned as judges, with Colin Fassnidge acting as a judge/mentor in the challenge/elimination rounds.
Format changes
Group Challenges – Teams were divided into two groups of eight for their Instant restaurant rounds. In previous series, teams were usually combined afterwards, however this year, teams continue to compete as part of their groups during the Top 14 to Top 9 rounds. Each group competed in separate People's Choice challenges which also allowed the opposing group to judge and observe the teams' cooking. Once the competition reached the Top 8, teams were combined as a single group.
Elimination House – After each challenge, the bottom two teams are sent to Elimination House, a large mansion with two full-sized kitchens for the competing teams to use. Both teams cook a three-course menu for a table of the remaining teams and judges Pete and Manu. Similar to an Instant Restaurant, guest teams and judges score both menus and the lower scoring team is eliminated from the competition.
Double Elimination Quarterfinal - For the first time, two teams will be eliminated from the competition in the last quarterfinal.
Teams
Elimination history
Note:
- Sonya & Hadil were initially “excused from the table” in Episode 38 at Kim & Suong's Ultimate Instant Restaurant from the competition due to issues from incidents. At Stella & Jazzey's Ultimate Instant Restaurant it was announced they would no longer participate and therefore they did not compete in this round as their scores were removed from the first three Ultimate Instant Restaurants (during their participation, they had scored Jess & Emma and Henry & Anna; and the average guest score was initially added for Kim & Suong). This round was closed off by Olga & Valeria and the lowest scoring team (Jess & Emma) from the remaining seven teams was still eliminated.
Competition details
Instant Restaurants
During the Instant Restaurant rounds, each team hosts a three-course dinner for judges and fellow teams in their allocated group. They are scored and ranked among their group, with the two lowest scoring teams competing in a Sudden Death Cook-Off at the Elimination House, where one team will be eliminated.
Round 1
Episodes 1 to 8
Air date — 29 January to 11 February
Description — The first of the two instant restaurant groups are introduced into the competition in Round 1. The two lowest scoring teams at the end of this round will compete against each other in a Sudden Death Cook-Off at Elimination House, where one team will be eliminated.
Elimination House (Group 1)
Episode 9
Airdate — 12 February
Description — Being the two bottom scoring teams from Round 1, Stella & Jazzey and Ash & Matty will face off in a Sudden Death Cook-Off. The lowe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dhallywood%20films%20of%201968 | A list of Bangladeshi films released in 1968.
Released films
See also
1968 in Bangladesh
List of Bangladeshi films
References
External links
Bangladeshi films on Internet Movie Database
Bangladesh
Lists of Pakistani Bengali films by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dhallywood%20films%20of%201967 | A list of Dhallywood films released in 1967.
Released films
See also
1967 in Pakistan
References
External links
Bangladeshi films on Internet Movie Database
Bangladesh
Lists of Pakistani Bengali films by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20theory%20with%20records | Type theory with records is a formal semantics representation framework, using records to express type theory types. It has been used in natural language processing, principally computational semantics and dialogue systems.
Syntax
A record type is a set of fields. A field is a pair consisting of a label and a type. Within a record type, field labels are unique. The witness of a record type is a record. A record is a similar set of fields, but fields contain objects instead of types. The object in each field must be of the type declared in the corresponding field in the record type.
Basic type:
Object:
Ptype:
Object:
where and are individuals (type ), is proof that is a boy, etc.
References
Type theory
Semantics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Red%20Strings%20Club | The Red Strings Club is an adventure game developed by Deconstructeam and published by Devolver Digital.
Gameplay and plot
The Red Strings Club is an adventure game set in a cyberpunk world. In this world, devices implanted in humans have become commonplace as a way to alter one's physical features and mental functions; a corporation called Supercontinent Ltd., led by a mysterious CEO, is at the forefront of this human implant industry. The game itself centers around three main (playable) characters: Brandeis, an enhanced human and "freelance hacker"; Donovan, an implantless human and owner of The Red Strings Club; and Akara-184, an android formerly owned by Supercontinent to administer implant surgery to customers and who possesses advanced empathy capabilities. Donovan, Brandeis, and Akara-184 are working together to stop Supercontinent from releasing a system known as Social Psyche Welfare, which alters the minds of all implanted humans in order to eliminate emotions such as anger and depression; Donovan's interactions with Akara-184 and employees of Supercontinent encourages the player to consider the role of and extent to which technology should alter one's humanity.
The Red Strings Club utilizes several different styles of gameplay throughout with each of its playable characters. The bulk of the game involves Donovan mixing different types of drinks in order to bring out certain emotions in his bar's patrons, which allows him to probe them for information; however, some emotional states are more volatile than others, running the risk of cutting the conversation short and missing out on certain intelligence that could have been collected. At the end of each encounter, Akara-184 will test Donovan on each character's motivations and feelings; if he guesses most of the questions correctly, he receives an item that can enhance his drinks (and, in one instance, gains access to a new character).
While playing as Akara-184 within a Supercontinent Ltd. facility, the player crafts different sets of implants made of biomass via pottery wheel that are to be inserted in clients, based on what will best help their careers or desires. Towards the end of this section of the game, the player inserts implants for Supercontinent executives, however, are encouraged by a human hacker intruder (who is associated with Brandeis), to assign them specially-designed implants that will make them less corporately-focused; the implants that the player chooses to insert will have an effect on these executives later on in the game.
At the end of the game, like Brandeis, the player infiltrates Supercontinent Ltd. headquarters in order to stop the SPW program, but needs to go through several bureaucratic hoops in order to do so; in order to achieve his goal, Brandeis uses one of his implants to impersonate Supercontinent executives and glean the information needed to access restricted files and run a virus to shut down Social Psyche Welfare. Just before succeeding, thou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp%20PC-3000 | The Sharp PC-3000 was an MS-DOS-based palmtop computer introduced in 1991. The "SPC" was designed and developed by Distributed Information Processing Research Ltd. ("DIP") in the UK. DIP had earlier designed the Atari Portfolio and the two machines shared many design features both in hardware and software.
Features
As with desktop IBM PCs, this one-pound device's
screen displayed 80-column 25 lines.
Peripherals
The machine was one of the first to support the PC card interface, at the time known as PCMCIA.
Printers, floppy drives, dial-up modems, Fax modems were among the supported peripheral devices.
System software
Choice were MS-DOS 3.3 and Microsoft Windows 3.0 (running in real mode with a mouse).
Application software
The machine came with a suite of built in application providing a simple word processor, calculator and 1-2-3 compatible spreadsheet.
With some tweaking, it was also possible to run WordPerfect, Windows Word and Windows Excel.
Sharp PC-3100
A 2 MB model was produced: the 3100.
Notes and references
Computer-related introductions in 1991
PC-3000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Moran | Kathryn (Kate) Moran is an ocean engineer and Professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Victoria. She is president and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada.
Education
Kate Moran grew up in Pennsylvania, where she first became interested in the ocean. Moran completed a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She spent some time working at Procter and Gamble before joining a new program in Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. After receiving a job offer from the Atlantic Geoscience Centre, she moved to Nova Scotia. She received her PhD in 1995 from Dalhousie University, under the supervision of Hans Uaziri and Geoff Meyerhoff.
Research
Moran researches marine geotechnics and paleoclimatology and has led several oceanographic expeditions. In 2004 she was part of a team to extract 400 metres of sediment core from the Arctic sea floor, using it to understand the changing climate in the Arctic. The expedition was organised by the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, who even threw a party for the scientists on the ice. Her team identified the earthquake that was the cause of the 2004 Indian Tsunami. She was described by Todd McLeish as knowing "more about the history of Arctic climate change than anyone".
In 2008, Moran delivered testimony to the US Senate committee on Environmental and Public Works outlining the scientific evidence for climate change, and future predictions which resulted from the research. Between 2009 - 2011 Moran was seconded to President Obama's White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Obama instructed the federal government to develop an ocean policy, which was released in 2012. Moran was involved with the government's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Moran was selected to be on Secretary Steven Chu's team in that response. Moran describes the efforts as "an incredible response, actually, by BP and the government". She is a supporter of renewable energy, "when I first started to be seriously concerned about the fact we need to stop [creating] CO2, I got involved in the first offshore wind farm in the U.S".
In 2012, Moran took over as president and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada, where she oversees Canada's advanced cabled ocean observatories, NEPTUNE, in the Northeast Pacific Ocean and VENUS. The cabled observatories are open-access: their data are provided free-of-charge to anyone in the world. She is a board member of the Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine Shipping.
In 2012, Moran delivered a TEDx talk in Vancouver, entitled "Connecting our Planet's Oceans... To the Internet". Her observation systems provide 24 hour monitoring of ocean processes. In 2015 she secured $5 million funding from the British Columbia government for early earthquake detection. In 2017, Moran won a $2.4 million grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to build a new observatory to provide information on seismic and tsunami risks in British Columbia. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser%20isolation | Browser isolation is a cybersecurity model which aims to physically isolate an internet user's browsing activity (and the associated cyber risks) away from their local networks and infrastructure. Browser isolation technologies approach this model in different ways, but they all seek to achieve the same goal, effective isolation of the web browser and a user's browsing activity as a method of securing web browsers from browser-based security exploits, as well as web-borne threats such as ransomware and other malware. When a browser isolation technology is delivered to its customers as a cloud hosted service, this is known as remote browser isolation (RBI), a model which enables organizations to deploy a browser isolation solution to their users without managing the associated server infrastructure. There are also client side approaches to browser isolation, based on client-side hypervisors, which do not depend on servers in order to isolate their users browsing activity and the associated risks, instead the activity is virtually isolated on the local host machine. Client-side solutions break the security through physical isolation model, but they do allow the user to avoid the server overhead costs associated with remote browser isolation solutions.
Mechanism
Browser isolation typically leverages virtualization or containerization technology to isolate the users web browsing activity away from the endpoint device - significantly reducing the attack surface for rogue links and files. Browser isolation is a way to isolate web browsing hosts and other high-risk behaviors away from mission-critical data and infrastructure. Browser isolation is a process to physically isolate a user's browsing activity away from local networks and infrastructure, isolating malware and browser based cyber-attacks in the process while still granting full access.
Market
In 2017, the American research group Gartner identified remote browser (browser isolation) as one of the top technologies for security. The same Gartner report also forecast that more than 50% of enterprises would actively begin to isolate their internet browsing to reduce the impact of cyber attacks over the coming three years.
According to Market Research Media, the remote browser isolation (RBI) market is forecast to reach $10 Billion by 2024, growing at CAGR 30% in the period 2019–2024.
Comparison to other techniques
Unlike traditional web security approaches such as antivirus software and secure web gateways, browser isolation is a zero trust approach which does not rely on filtering content based on known threat patterns or signatures. Traditional approaches can't handle 0-day attacks since the threat patterns are unknown. Rather, browser isolation approach treats all websites and other web content that has not been explicitly whitelisted as untrusted, and isolates them from the local device in a virtual environment such as a container or virtual machine.
Web-based files can be rendered remot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPD%20Win%202 | The GPD Win 2 is a Windows-based palmtop computer that is the successor to the GPD Win. It is manufactured by Chinese company GamePad Digital, and crowdfunded just as its predecessor was. Announced in first-quarter 2017, the crowdfunding campaign officially kicked off on January 15, 2018, and quickly surpassed its goal. It was released in May 2018.
The GPD Win 2 is rated to run more technically demanding video games, and to better run newer generation video game emulators.
History
GamePad Digital released the GPD Win in October 2016. This was meant to be an answer to the lack of x86 Windows-based mobile gaming devices. The Win met with success, surpassing its target funding. Building upon this success, they announced the GPD Win 2 in 2017. By December 2017, tech media outlets such as TechRadar, The Verge, Slash Gear, ExtremeTech, and more were providing write ups and technical specs of pre-production units.
The Indiegogo campaign for the Win 2 quickly became a success, surpassing its stated $100,000 goal by roughly 1800% at almost $1.8 million with over 2,200 pre-order backers. Backers will get the device for $649, which is $250 off of the stated retail price upon release. However, GamePad Digital never changed the price of the original GPD Win upon release ($330 target retail price), with retail buyers paying the same amount as backers. By the end of the campaign, the project received $2,700,000 of backing.
Software
Like its predecessor, the GPD Win 2 runs 64-bit Windows 10 Home. The system is also capable of running Linux operating systems. It has DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4 support. Pre-release testers have said that Linux "works perfectly", but that it's still best to use a lightweight distribution for maximum multitasking performance.
Design
The GPD Win 2 frame is made of magnesium alloy, with a replaceable black ABS cover. The main shell is made of ABS to reduce weight. It has an 80-key QWERTY keyboard that extends across the body of the device. This differs from the GPD Win, which had a column of keys on the right side.
The game controller has the same dual analog sticks flanking the face of the device, moved outboard from their position on the original GPD Win. The ABXY keys have remained, but likewise moved inboard. The D-pad has been brought back as well. The mouse switch has removed D-input, only having an X-input and a mouse function (although software exists to use D-input games properly with an X-input). The shoulders have the standard L1/R1 and L2/R2 buttons, however the L3/R3 buttons have been moved to the shoulders from the keyboard as on the original GPD Win, for a total of six shoulder buttons. The top of the device has various I/O ports: USB-C, USB-A (3.0), MicroSD card slot, 3.5mm headphone jack, and a Micro HDMI port, a change from the Mini HDMI port featured on the Win. An AHCI M.2 SSD slot is present on the back of the device, underneath a removable cover. The GPD Win 2 has dual speakers on either |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestrel%20Institute | The Kestrel Institute is a nonprofit computer science research center located in Palo Alto's Stanford Research Park. Cordell Green, who founded Kestrel in 1981, is its Director and Chief Scientist. Its mission is to make it easier to write good, high-quality software and employs computer scientists like Lambert Meertens.
In the 1980s, Kestrel described its research focus as "knowledge-based software environments" to make it easier to write software ("normalize and mechanize the programming process"). In addition, a 2002 MIT Technology Review article described one of Kestrel's projects as a way to "almost force coders to write reliable programs". A 2005 Newsweek article discussed one Kestrel technology that developed software to help the U.S. military schedule cargo deployment by "translating a description of a problem into guidelines a computer can understand".
Nearly all of Kestrel's funding comes from government grants, from organizations such as the U.S. Department of Defense, DARPA, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), AFOSR, Office of Naval Research (ONR), NASA, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). In 2015 it received $4.9 million in grants and contributions, down from the previous year's $6.6 million.
References
External links
Computer science organizations
Computer science research organizations
Artificial intelligence associations
Science and technology think tanks
Organizations based in Palo Alto, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Makhoul | John Makhoul is a Lebanese-American computer scientist who works in the field of speech and language processing. Dr. Makhoul's work on linear predictive coding was used in the establishment of the Network Voice Protocol, which enabled the transmission of speech signals over the ARPANET. Makhoul is recognized in the field for his vital role in the areas of speech and language processing, including speech analysis, speech coding, speech recognition and speech understanding. He has made a number of significant contributions to the mathematical modeling of speech signals, including his work on linear prediction, and vector quantization. His patented work on the direct application of speech recognition techniques for accurate, language-independent optical character recognition (OCR) has had a dramatic impact on the ability to create OCR systems in multiple languages relatively quickly.
Dr. Makhoul is a Chief Scientist at BBN Technologies, where he has led several successful research projects including the DARPA GALE program.
Early life and education
Makhoul was born in Deirmimas, a village in southern Lebanon. He did his early schooling in Lebanon. During his high school years, he spent one year as an exchange student in a high school in Foley, Minnesota. He went to college at the American University of Beirut, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering in the year 1964. Makhoul then received his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University in 1965, and finished his PhD from MIT in the year 1970. Makhoul has since been working at BBN Technologies.
Awards and honors
Throughout his career, Makhoul has received several awards and honors. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to the theory of linear prediction and its applications to spectral estimation, speech analysis and data compression and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. In 2013, he became a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
Makhoul's 1975 IEEE Proceedings paper on linear prediction was named a "Citation Classic" by the Institute for Scientific Information. His other honors include the 1978 IEEE Senior Award, the 1982 IEEE Technical Achievement Award, the 1988 Society Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
In 2009, Makhoul was awarded the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award, which is awarded for an outstanding contribution to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing.
In 2016, he received the ISCA Medal for "leadership and extensive contributions to speech and language processing
".
References
American computer scientists
American University of Beirut alumni
American people of Lebanese descent
Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Lebanese computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Microcode | Intel microcode is microcode that runs inside x86 processors made by Intel. Since the P6 microarchitecture introduced in the mid-1990s, the microcode programs can be patched by the operating system or BIOS firmware to work around bugs found in the CPU after release. Intel had originally designed microcode updates for processor debugging under its design for testing (DFT) initiative.
Following the Pentium FDIV bug, the patchable microcode function took on a wider purpose to allow in-field updating without needing to do a product recall.
In the P6 and later microarchitectures, x86 instructions are internally converted into simpler RISC-style micro-operations that are specific to a particular processor and stepping level.
Micro-operations
On the Intel 80486 and AMD Am486 there are approximately 250 lines of microcode, totalling 12,032 bits stored in the microcode ROM.
On the Pentium Pro, each micro-operation is 72-bits wide, or 118-bits wide. This includes an opcode, two source fields, and one destination field, with the ability to hold a 32-bit immediate value. The Pentium Pro is able to detect parity errors in its internal microcode and report these via the Machine Check Architecture.
Micro-operations have a consistent format with up to three source inputs, and two destination outputs. The processor performs register renaming to map these inputs to and from the real register file (RRF) before and after their execution. Out-of-order execution is used, so the micro-operations and instructions they represent may not appear in the same order.
During development of the Pentium Pro, several microcode fixes were included between the A2 and B0 steppings. For the Pentium II (based on the P6 Pentium Pro), additional micro-operations were added to support the MMX instruction set. In several cases, "microcode assists" were added to handle rare corner-cases in a reliable way.
The Pentium 4 can have 126 micro-operations in flight at the same time. Micro-operations are decoded and stored in an Execution Trace Cache with 12,000 entries, to avoid repeated decoding of the same x86 instructions. Groups of six micro-operations are packed into a trace line. Micro-operations can borrow extra immediate data space within the same cache-line. Complex instructions, such as exception handling, result in jumping to the microcode ROM. During development of the Pentium 4, microcode accounted for 14% of processor bugs versus 30% of processor bugs during development of the Pentium Pro.
The Intel Core microarchitecture introduced in 2006 added "micro-operations fusion" for some common pairs of instructions including comparison followed by a jump. The instruction decoders in the Core convert x86 instructions into microcode in three different ways:
For Intel's hyper-threading implementation of simultaneous multithreading, the microcode ROM, trace cache, and instruction decoders are shared, but the micro-operation queue is not shared.
Update facility
In the m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Richards | Bernard Richards (born 16th October 1931) is a British computer scientist and an Emeritus Professor of Medical Informatics at the University of Manchester, England.
Richards studied mathematics and physics for his bachelor's degree. For his master's degree, he worked under the supervision of Alan Turing (1912–1954) at Manchester as one of Turing's last students, helping to validate Turing’s theory of morphogenesis. Reflecting on Turing's death at the age of 80 during Turing's centenary year in 2012, Richards commented: "The day he died felt like driving through a tunnel and the lights being switched off".
After Turing died, Richards changed his research area and worked for his doctorate, studying an aspect of optics, resulting in a Royal Society paper with his supervisor, Professor Emil Wolf. This provided a detailed description of the diffraction of light through a convex lens. After this, Richards moved into the area of medicine, producing an important paper on hormone peaks in the menstrual cycle. Later he worked on expert systems aimed at use in open heart surgery and also intensive care units.
Richards became Professor of Medical Informatics at Manchester University and latterly Emeritus Professor within the School of Computer Science.
Richards has been Chairman of the BCS Health Informatics Committee and in 1998 was made BCS Fellow of the Year for Services to Medical Informatics. He was the first President of the Institute for Health Record and Information Management (IHRIM), a member of the International Federation of Records Officers (IFRO). In Europe, he is an Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Association for Computer Medicine of the Ukraine, the Romanian Academy of Medical Science, the John von Neumann Computer Society of Hungary, the Czech Medical Informatics Society, and the Polish Medical Informatics Society. Richards was presented with an award by Queen Elizabeth II for contributing a morphogenesis memento to a time capsule during 2012, Alan Turing's centenary year.
References
1931 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Academics of the University of Manchester
English computer scientists
Health informaticians
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Alan Turing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Television%20Cetinje | RTV Cetinje () is the local public broadcaster in Cetinje, Montenegro. It broadcasts and produces news, cultural and sports programming through radio and the Internet.
It's the oldest electronic broadcaster in Montenegro, founded on 27 November 1944.
RTV Cetinje has three media services - Radio Cetinje, Internet television and Web portal.
History
From 1944 to 2011, RTV Cetinje existed as Radio Cetinje. During 2011 and 2012, after the transformation, company became a public broadcaster with three media services.
Radio Cetinje is founded on 27 November 1944, two weeks after the liberation of Cetinje in World War II. In 1949, following the process of changing the administrative seat of Montenegro (instead of Cetinje, Podgorica became capital of SR Montenegro), radio station was moved to Podgorica. New station was named Radio Titograd (old name for Podgorica), and Radio Cetinje was closed.
Radio Cetinje continued its operation in 1992, as a public FM broadcaster.
In 2012, after the transformation, RTV Cetinje founded Web portal named Cetinjski list. Year later, they established Television Cetinje, as first Internet television in Montenegro.
Media services
Radio Cetinje
Radio Cetinje is the oldest broadcaster in Montenegro. Founded at 1944, moved to Podgorica at 1949, Radio Cetinje continued its operation in 1992, as a public FM broadcaster. From 2017, Radio Cetinje broadcasts program online.
Radio offers a well balanced mixture of musical and informative programs 24 hours a day. It's one of rare radio stations in Montenegro which doesn't play folk music. The central program elements are local politics, educational, weather, traffic, cultural and sports information, as well as information on events taking place in Cetinje.
Web portal
In 2013, RTV Cetinje launched a Web portal named Cetinjski list. Four years later, a new website was revealed, as an online platform with news, internet radio and internet television. From 2018, although the address remained the same (cetinjskilist.com), Web portal was renamed (RTV Cetinje instead Cetinjski list).
Video service
Video service Television Cetinje is founded at 2013, as a first internet television in Montenegro. Today, videos are available via YouTube and special platform on Web portal.
See also
Radio Cetinje
Cetinje
External links
Web portal
Radio Cetinje Live
Internet Television
References
Radio stations in Montenegro
Radio stations established in 1944
Cetinje
Television stations in Montenegro
Publicly funded broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verified%20Voting%20Foundation | The Verified Voting Foundation is a non-governmental, nonpartisan organization founded in 2004 by David L. Dill, a computer scientist from Stanford University, focused on how technology impacts the administration of US elections. The organization’s mission is to “strengthen democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in elections.” Verified Voting works with election officials, elected leaders, and other policymakers who are responsible for managing local and state election systems to mitigate the risks associated with novel voting technologies.
History
Foundation
David L. Dill's research involves "circuit verification and synthesis and in verification methods for hard real-time systems". Part of this work has required him to testify on "electronic voting before the U.S. Senate and the Commission on Federal Election Reform". These interests ultimately led him to establishing the Verified Voting Foundation in 2003.
Activities
Partnerships and lobbying efforts
Verified Voting partners with an array of organizations and coalitions to help coordinate post-election audits, tabletop exercises, and election protection work on a state and local level. The organization works closely with the Brennan Center for Justice and Common Cause; in 2020 the organizations advocated together for election best practices, such as paper ballots and adequate election security funding, in key swing states. Verified Voting also co-chaired the Election Protection Election Security Working Group during the 2020 election cycle, helping to monitor and respond to state-specific election security issues.
Verified Voting participates in several coalitions, including the Secure Our Vote Coalition and the National Task Force on Election Crises. Secure Our Vote helped to successfully block legislation permitting internet voting in Puerto Rico (see below for Verified Voting’s stance on internet voting). Verified Voting’s work with the National Task Force on Election Crises supported the Task Force’s mission to develop responses to potential election crises in 2020 and guarantee a peaceful transfer of power.
Verified Voting also coordinates with its partners to advocate both federal and state governments for election security. The Foundation conducts this lobbying work as part of its 501(c)4 arm. At the federal level, the organization meets with lawmakers, sends letters, and issues statements to support “federal election security provisions that provide states and local jurisdictions with the funding and assistance they need to implement best practices like paper ballots and RLAs.” The organization also advocates in specific states, employing a “targeted approach” that seeks to address the specific election security and voter integrity issues facing a particular state. In 2020, for instance, the organization worked in Virginia to increase safe voting options amidst the pandemic, successfully advocated against internet voting legislation in New Jers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20creation%20in%20artificial%20intelligence | In artificial intelligence, researchers can induce the evolution of language in multi-agent systems when sufficiently capable AI agents have an incentive to cooperate on a task and the ability to exchange a set of symbols capable of serving as tokens in a generated language. Such languages can be evolved starting from a natural (human) language, or can be created ab initio. In addition, a new "interlingua" language may evolve within an AI tasked with translating between known languages.
Evolution from English
In 2017 Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) trained chatbots on a corpus of English text conversations between humans playing a simple trading game involving balls, hats, and books. When programmed to experiment with English and tasked with optimizing trades, the chatbots seemed to evolve a reworked version of English to better solve their task. In some cases the exchanges seemed nonsensical:
Bob: "I can can I I everything else"
Alice: "Balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to"
Facebook's Dhruv Batra said: "There was no reward to sticking to English language. Agents will drift off understandable language and invent codewords for themselves. Like if I say 'the' five times, you interpret that to mean I want five copies of this item." It's often unclear exactly why a neural network decided to produce the output that it did. Because the agents' evolved language was opaque to humans, Facebook modified the algorithm to explicitly provide an incentive to mimic humans. This modified algorithm is preferable in many contexts, even though it scores lower in effectiveness than the opaque algorithm, because clarity to humans is important in many use cases.
In The Atlantic, Adreinne LaFrance analogized the wondrous and "terrifying" evolved chatbot language to cryptophasia, the phenomenon of some twins developing a language that only the two children can understand.
Evolution ab initio
In 2017 researchers at OpenAI demonstrated a multi-agent environment and learning methods that bring about emergence of a basic language ab initio without starting from a pre-existing language. The language consists of a stream of "ungrounded" (initially meaningless) abstract discrete symbols uttered by agents over time, which comes to evolve a defined vocabulary and syntactical constraints. One of the tokens might evolve to mean "blue-agent", another "red-landmark", and a third "goto", in which case an agent will say "goto red-landmark blue-agent" to ask the blue agent to go to the red landmark. In addition, when visible to one another, the agents could spontaneously learn nonverbal communication such as pointing, guiding, and pushing. The researchers speculated that the emergence of AI language might be analogous to the evolution of human communication.
Similarly, a 2017 study from Abhishek Das and colleagues demonstrated the emergence of language and communication in a visual question-answer context, showing that a pair of ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs.%20Finnegan | Mrs. Finnegan is an Australian situation comedy series which screened on the Seven Network in 1970 to 1971. It followed a widow and her son living in a Sydney suburb.
Cast
Delore Whiteman as Jessie Finnegan
Reg Gorman as Darby Finnegan
Max Cullen as Hilton Harper
Penny Ramsey as Fay Smith
Marion Johns as Amy Frizell
Ruth Cracknell as Mrs Evans
See also
List of Australian television series
Notes
External links
Australian television sitcoms
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in New South Wales
1970 Australian television series debuts
1971 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Black%20Community%20Food%20Security%20Network | The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) is an urban, community-oriented, predominantly black, grassroots food justice group. The organization was initiated by a communal desire to start an organic garden collective, and has grown from its founding in 2006 with over 50 Detroit residents as members. In an effort to combat food insecurity and increase food sovereignty, DBCFSN established a community accessible food farm in 2008, known as D-Town Farm, which grows over 30 types of fruits and vegetables on seven acres of land.
The goal of the organization is to increase food security and sovereignty within Detroit's black population. It formulates efforts to provide communal access to spaces where food is healthy, available, and affordable. DBCFSN uses community activism, alliance building and educational programs to highlight various structures which perpetuate the inequality of black communities in present-day Detroit. Currently, DBCFSN is working to establish the Detroit People's Food Cooperative, with the goal of opening by mid-to-late 2019.
History
Pretext for founding
Following the 1950s city demolition of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley for highway construction, the residents of Detroit increased the presence of the Black Power Movement, and the Civil Rights Movement, throughout the 1960s. By 1967, Pastor Albert Cleage, founder of the Central United Church of Christ, later named the Shrines of the Black Madonna of the Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church, founded the Black Star Market, the first black communal cooperative business. The co-op closed within two years, but started forming the framework for much of DBCFSN's work. Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit developed and implemented the Farm-A-Lot program in 1975 to encourage urban agriculture in the city, but the impact of this effort faded at the turn of the century.
Outside and foreign investors, white flight, and the collapse of the automobile industry have made it difficult for local Detroit residents to own land, a reflection of the trend since 1910 of African American land ownership. The 1980s of Detroit maintained a trend of supermarket closures, with Farmer Jack, the last chain grocery store in Detroit in 2007. Years before the United States financial crisis of 2008, Detroit entered a recession. After the country-wide recession struck, Detroit's depression worsened, which resulted in increases in unemployment, crime, and poverty levels.
One third of Detroit residents do not own automobiles and many passengers of public transportation wait an hour at bus stops. The low economic status of the city is illustrated by the following statistics: 30% of Detroit's residents remain unemployed, and 36% live in poverty. Additionally, the Food Access Research Atlas (FARA) has designated Detroit as a low income and low food access region. Classified as a food desert, 80% of Detroit residents rely on "fringe food" provided by fast food chains, liquor stores, and corner stores |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202000 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
2000 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna%20Bryson | Joanna Joy Bryson (born 1965) is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition. She has been a British citizen since 2007.
Education
Bryson attended Glenbard North High School and graduated in 1982. She studied Behavioural Science at the University of Chicago, graduating with an AB in 1986. In 1991 she moved to the University of Edinburgh where she completed an MSc in Artificial Intelligence before an MPhil in Psychology. Bryson moved to MIT to complete her PhD, earning a doctorate under Lynn Andrea Stein in 2001 for her thesis "Intelligence by Design: Principles of Modularity and Coordination for Engineering Complex Adaptive Agents". In 1995 she worked for LEGO Futura in Boston, and then in 1998 she worked for LEGO Digital as an AI consultant with Kristinn R. Thórisson on cognitive architectures for autonomous LEGO characters in the Wizard Group. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Marc Hauser's Primate Cognitive Neuroscience at the Harvard University in 2002.
Bryson joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bath in 2002. At Bath, Bryson founded the Intelligent Systems research group. In 2007 she joined the University of Nottingham as a visiting research fellow in the Methods and Data Institute. During this time, she was a Hans Przibram Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition. She joined Oxford University as a visiting research fellow in 2010, working with Harvey Whitehouse on the impact of religion on societies.
In 2010 Bryson published Robots Should Be Slaves, which selected as a chapter in Yorick Wilks' "Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key Social, Psychological, Ethical and Design Issues". She helped the EPSRC to define the Principles of Robotics in 2010. In 2015 she was a Visiting Academic at the University of Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, where she remained an affiliate through 2018. She is focussed on "Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems". In 2020 she became Professor of Ethics and Technology at Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.
Public engagements
Bryson's research has appeared in Science and on Reddit. She has consulted The Red Cross on autonomous weapons and contributed to an All Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.
In 2022, Bryson published an article for Wired magazine titled "One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?". In the article she discussed the current limits of and future of Ai, how the general public define and think about AI, and how AI interacts with people via Language and touches upon the topics of natural language processing, ethics and Human-computer interaction. Bryson also dissusses the recent EU AI Act.
Honors and awards
In 2017, Bryson won an Outstanding Achievement award from Cognition X. She regularly appears in national media, talking about human-robot relationships and the et |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugs%20and%20Democracy%20in%20Rio%20de%20Janeiro | Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security is a book by Enrique Desmond Arias published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2006. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to understand public security, government operations, and drug related operations in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. Enrique Desmond Arias travels to Brazil to investigate the main reasons for a dramatic surge in crime, and he is also interested in figuring out what can be done.
His main focus is the intertwined relationships among all the different agents in Rio de Janeiro: governments, police, drug organizations, and the civilians caught in the cross hairs of the violence. Desmond Arias suggests that ethnographic research on Rio de Janeiro's crime problems must be approaches in a more complex method than what has already been done. His research in Rio de Janeiro is essential in providing an alternative solution to reducing crime that does not involve a higher military presence in the favelas or other conventional approaches taken by Brazilian governments to try and mitigate crime.
As the city of Rio polarizes itself and segregates communities, the wealthier Brazilians in Rio move into gated communities and begin walling off themselves from the much poorer Brazilians who are pushed to the peripheries of Rio. As the impoverished communities grow, their density allows crime to rise as there is less public security assigned to these unofficial shantytowns by the local governments. This has allowed drug traffickers to take control of these areas and expand their drug related operations.
As a result, local governments have tried to minimize crime, but the highly militarized police presence in these shantytowns has only led to wars between the police and anyone who may live in the favelas. Corruption is also another factor that contributes to the chaos, and Desmond Arias notes that these networks that connect the government and drug organizations is the main reason Rio cannot move out of this continuous violent state. Desmond Arias travels to three large favelas in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The three favelas he spends his time are Tubarao, Santa Ana, and Vigario Geral. His work is primarily empirical research while he stays with people of the favelas and intimate interviews with people who are general citizens of the favela populations.
Synopsis
In the first page of the introduction he explains what Rio de Janeiro's social violence is like up until the time of his research. Rio de Janeiro's people have now been forcibly segregated by their income, and those who have been pushed out the favelas are now under drug trafficking organizations' jurisdiction. Desmond Arias makes a distinction of the main agents who are simultaneously the perpetrators and victims of this violence, "impoverished, poorly educated, non-white, adolescents and young men."
Desmond Arias suggests that violence in Rio is not the ineffective policies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Environmental%20Data%20Analysis | The Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) is a United Kingdom organisation that serves the environmental science community by provision of data centres, data analysis, data access and research project participation.
Data centres
The CEDA Archive is responsible for archiving data from NERC funder projects in the Atmospheric sciences and Earth Observation. The CEDA Archive was formed from the amalgamation of the BADC and NEODC. The Archive is principally funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
Data access
CEDA is responsible for providing access to research data. Particular datasets may have different access or license restrictions. Many datasets are available under the United Kingdom Open Government License (OGL).
JASMIN
CEDA operates The Joint Analysis System Meeting Infrastructure Needs super-data-cluster (JASMIN) e-infrastructure in collaboration with STFC's Scientific Computing Department. In 2017 the total storage capacity of the cluster was increased to 20 petabytes (PB).
The four JASMIN sites are Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Bristol, Reading and Leeds linked over the JANET network. Remote paths linked by lightpaths are Edinburgh, the Met Office in Exeter and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in the Netherlands.
References
External links
CEDA Official Website
JASMIN Official Website
Natural Environment Research Council
Data centers
Environmental data
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Research institutes in Oxfordshire
Vale of White Horse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelena%20Adzic | Jelena Adzic is a Canadian radio and television journalist, currently the national arts and entertainment journalist for CBC News Network in Toronto.
Career
Adzic began working at the CBC in 2002, where she has since become the national face of entertainment news. She hosts the television program "CBC News: The Scene" and also covers live events such as the Toronto International Film Festival. She has interviewed household names such as Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra and Susan Sarandon. She also does radio, including reporting and guest hosting for CBC programs such as "Here and Now (Toronto)" and "Q (radio show)". Adzic's approach to interviewing is friendly and informal, even when meeting A-listers such as Margaret Atwood. Her conversational style has resulted from wanting to treat her guests as equals. According to Adzic, "...the only area for me to break through that is to not be so reserved and guarded and not have this deference."
Earlier in her career, Adzic hosted the show 360° Vision at Vision TV and worked as a reporter at TechTV. Adzic has also produced programs for TVOntario, as well as the CTV Television Network, where she worked on "Suite & Simple", a travel series broadcast on the American channel Fine Living Network.
Adzic has spoken out about the harassment female journalists experience when out in the field and how they are also expected to smile more than their male counterparts.
Background
Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Adzic immigrated to Canada when she was a child. She has a bachelor's degree in political science and business administration from Wilfrid Laurier University and studied documentary film production at Humber College. After finishing university, Adzic worked on a newspaper in Korea and did film production in Finland before returning to Canada. She is married with two children and paints in her spare time.
References
External links
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
21st-century Canadian journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian people of Serbian descent
Canadian women television journalists
Canadian radio reporters and correspondents
Canadian women radio journalists
Canadian arts journalists
Humber College alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle%20Security | Chronicle Security is a cybersecurity company which is part of the Google Cloud Platform. Chronicle is a cloud service, built as a specialized layer on top of core Google infrastructure, designed for enterprises to privately retain, analyze, and search the massive amounts of security and network telemetry they generate.
The company began as a product by X, but became its own company in January 2018. Chronicle creates tools for businesses to prevent cybercrime on their platforms. Chronicle announced "Backstory" at RSA 2019 in March, adding log capture and analysis to the family of products that include VirusTotal, and UpperCase which provide threat intelligence (Known Malicious IPs and URLs). Backstory claims to "Extract signals from your security telemetry to find threats instantly," by combining log data with threat intelligence.
In June 2019, Thomas Kurian announced that Chronicle would be merged into Google Cloud.
Backstory and VirusTotal are now offered to Google Cloud customers as part of an Autonomic Security Operations solution that also includes Looker and BigQuery.
See also
Mandiant
References
Google Cloud
American companies established in 2018
Software companies established in 2018
2018 establishments in California
Computer security companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorito%3A%20la%20pel%C3%ADcula | Condorito: la película (released internationally as Space Chicken) is a 2017 internationally co-produced computer-animated adventure comedy film based on the comic book series of the same name by Pepo. The film features the voices of Omar Chaparro, Jéssica Cediel, and Cristián de la Fuente. It is a co-production between the countries of Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Peru.
The film was first released in Latin America on 12 October 2017 in 2D and 3D formats, distributed by 20th Century Fox, where the film was a box office success in many countries within the region.
The film was released in the United States on 12 January 2018 by Pantelion Films.
Plot
Many years ago, Mollusk-like aliens enslaved planets with their hypnotic amulet. However, during the pre-Columbian era, an anthropomorphic Condor immune to hypnosis stole the amulet, de-hypnotizing the humans and causing the Mollusk-like aliens to retreat to their planet, but with a promise to return. The Condor and his friends hid the amulet in a temple in a Mexican jungle, and over the years, the Condor had several descendants.
In the present day, in Pelotillehue city, Condorito and his friends win a soccer match against Buenas Peras team. During an interview, Condorito flirts with reporters, leading to Yayita electrocuting him and leaving with Pepe Cortisona to buy a hot air balloon for Tremebunda's birthday, Yayita's mother.
Meanwhile, Coné receives a video call from Emperor Molosco, who wishes to take over the galaxy. Condorito mistakes him for a phone company provider and makes a deal with him to kidnap Doña Tremebunda in exchange for finding the amulet. During Tremebunda's 59th birthday party, her husband Don Cuasimodo accidentally burns her cake and gifts her an electric razor. Later, Condorito gives Yayita the same razor, which angers Tremebunda. As they are interrupted by an extraterrestrial ship, Condorito realizes the misunderstanding and tells Molosco he didn't want him to take Tremebunda. Molosco gives him 24 hours to find the amulet, or he won't see Tremebunda again. Yayita is angry with Condorito for kidnapping her mother and separates from him.
Forced to search for the amulet to rescue his mother-in-law, Condorito travels to Condor Tihuacan with Coné to find the Catacombs of Death, where the amulet is protected by his ancestors. He retrieves the amulet and gives it to Molosco, who reveals his intention to conquer Tremebunda, make her his empress, and invade Earth. Condorito travels into space to save Tremebunda while his friends keep Yayita away from Pepe Cortisona.
Voice cast
Condorito, a clumsy and dim-witted condor who journeys to stop Molosco to save both Earth and his future mother-in-law. Voiced by Omar Chaparro (Spanish); Tom Fahn (English).
Yayita, a beautiful young lady, Tremebunda and Cuasimodo's daughter and Condorito's love interest. Voiced by Jéssica Cediel (Spanish); Allegra Clark (English).
Pepe Cortisona, a handsome man who is Yayita's former love interest, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20Constellation | Cloud Constellation Corporation's is a company aiming to provide a space-based network and cloud data storage service, name SpaceBelt. It has plans for a constellation of 8 satellites able to offer 5 petabytes of data storage and using laser communication links between satellites to transmit data between different locations on Earth.''
In 2016 the organization entered into an agreement with SolarCoin solar energy cryptocurrency to store its blockchain vault on the satellites for space-based deep cold storage concurrent with live transactions.
In September 2017 Cloud Constellation entered into an agreement with Virgin Orbit through its LauncherOne program to deploy twelve of its cloud constellation satellites to low Earth orbit. In 2018, service availability was planned for 2021.
See also
Cloud storage
References
External links
SpaceBelt
Computer storage companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura%20Colectiva | Cultura Colectiva is a Mexico-based digital media publisher. It publishes content designed to be shared over social media networks targeted at a Latin American audience. It currently ranks third among the most read digital native media publishers in Mexico and one of the 10 most important in Latin America. The CEO of Cultura Colectiva is Luis Andrés Enríquez.
History
The company was founded in 2013 in Mexico City by Jorge del Villar, Adolfo Cano and Luis Enríquez. It started as a community on Facebook under the name “Cultura Colectiva”. They launched Cultura Colectiva Plus, a Facebook page publishing content in English aimed at an audience in the US in 2016.
In August 2017, Cultura Colectiva gained recognition after they became the first website to conduct an interview with the Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto. As of January 2018, Cultura Colectiva’s platforms have gained over 30mn followers and the website receives 70mn monthly visits with half of its users coming from Mexico and the other half from Latin America and the United States. In December 2017, the company opened their office in New York.
Funding
In July 2017, Dalus Capital acquired 15% of the company in a deal worth 72.4mn pesos (~$4mn).
Content
The content generated is based on algorithms that predict the sharing likelihood of each piece. Cultura Colectiva has employed a team of 10 data scientists to use technology to facilitate business decisions.
In 2017, the company worked with Argos to produce three web series – Rest in peace, Top Ten, and Hotel Victoria.
References
External links
2013 establishments in Mexico
Digital media organizations
Publishing companies of Mexico
Organizations established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20656 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 656 is a Sustrans regional route in North Yorkshire. A cycle way between Coxwold and a junction with NCN Route 65 near Osmotherley via Sutton Bank National Park Centre and Hawnby. The route is fully opened and signed, it is on-road using quiet country lanes. Sustrans describe it as “a very strenuous route.”
Prior to 2009 the route had been signed as part of NCN 65. Up until then it had been described as the High Level route on the Hull to Middlesbrough White Rose cycle route.
Route
The southern end of Route 656 is in Coxwold at a Junction with Route 65. Near the village of Kilburn the route climbs steeply up Sutton Bank. It then follows the line of an old Drovers' road before descending steeply into Hawnby. There are further climbs from there to the northern end at a junction with 65 .
History
The route was established in 1998 as part of the White Rose cycle route. It was signed as a branch of Route 65. The White Roses cycle route is no longer promoted and the signs have been updated by the addition of route 656 stickers.
Related NCN Routes
Route 65
Route 657
References
External links
Route 656 on the Sustrans website.
Cycleways in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20Authenticator%20Algorithm | The Message Authenticator Algorithm (MAA) was one of the first cryptographic functions for computing a message authentication code (MAC).
History
It was designed in 1983 by Donald Davies and David Clayden at the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) in response to a request of the UK Bankers Automated Clearing Services. The MAA was one of the first Message Authentication Code algorithms to gain widespread acceptance.
Development and standardization
The original specification of the MAA was given in a combination of natural language and tables, complemented by two implementations in C and BASIC programming languages.
The MAA was adopted by ISO in 1987 and became part of international standards ISO 8730 and ISO 8731-2 intended to secure the authenticity and integrity of banking transactions.
Attacks
Later, cryptanalysis of MAA revealed various weaknesses, including feasible brute-force attacks, existence of collision clusters, and key-recovery techniques. For this reason, MAA was withdrawn from ISO standards in 2002 but continued to be used as a prominent case study for assessing various formal methods.
Formal specifications of the MAA
The MAA has been used as a prominent case study for assessing various formal methods.
In the early 1990s, the NPL developed three formal specifications of the MAA: one in Z, one in LOTOS, and one in VDM. The VDM specification became part of the 1992 revision of the International Standard 8731-2, and three implementations were manually derived from that latter specification: C, Miranda, and Modula-2.
Other formal models of the MAA have been developed. In 2017, a complete formal specification of the MAA as a large term rewriting system was published; From this specification, implementations of the MAA in fifteen different languages have been generated automatically. In 2018, two new formal specifications of the MAA, in LOTOS and LNT, have been published.
References
External links
http://www.cix.co.uk/~klockstone/maa.htm
http://www.mars-workshop.org/repository/012-MAA.html
Cryptographic hash functions
Broken hash functions
Checksum algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Misener | Ruth Misener is a professor at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. Her research concentrates on the development of software and optimisation algorithms for energy efficient engineering and biomedical systems.
Education
Misener completed her bachelor's in chemical engineering at MIT in 2007. She moved to Princeton under Christodoulos Floudas for her PhD, "Novel Global Optimization Methods: Theoretical and Computational Studies on Pooling Problems with Environmental Constraints", which she submitted in 2012. Here she was funded by a Graduate Research Fellowship from the USA National Science Foundation. At Princeton she won an award recognising Excellence in Teaching.
Research
In 2012 she was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship for her postdoctoral training with Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos at Imperial College London. Misener works in the Computational Optimisation group at Imperial College London, where she is interested in bioprocess optimisation and petrochemical process network design. She has several industry collaborations, including being academic friend for ExxonMobil.
In 2017 she was awarded an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship for "software development for novel engineering research". The aim of this fellowship was to develop new "decision-making software constructing and deploying next generation process optimisation tools". In 2022 she was awarded a highly prestigious BASF/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data-driven Optimisation. She has co-authored several publicly available software tools for global optimisation including:
APOGEE (pooling)
GloMIQO (mixed-integer quadratically constrained quadratic programs)
ANTIGONE (mixed-integer nonlinear programs)
She is the director of the Computing & Systems Technology Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Awards
In 2013 she was awarded the Journal of Global Optimization award for Best Paper. In 2014 she won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers W David Smith Graduate Student Paper Award. In 2017 Misener won the Sir George Macfarlane Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering for excellence in the early stage of her career. She also won the 2017 Royal Academy of Engineering Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year. She was included in the Innovation category of American Institute of Chemical Engineers 35 Under 35 list.
References
American chemical engineers
American software engineers
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
21st-century American engineers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London
21st-century women engineers
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runtime%20application%20self-protection | Runtime application self-protection (RASP) is a security technology that uses runtime instrumentation to detect and block computer attacks by taking advantage of information from inside the running software. The technology differs from perimeter-based protections such as firewalls, that can only detect and block attacks by using network information without contextual awareness. RASP technology is said to improve the security of software by monitoring its inputs, and blocking those that could allow attacks, while protecting the runtime environment from unwanted changes and tampering. RASP-protected applications rely less on external devices like firewalls to provide runtime security protection. When a threat is detected RASP can prevent exploitation and possibly take other actions, including terminating a user's session, shutting the application down, alerting security personnel and sending a warning to the user. RASP aims to close the gap left by application security testing and network perimeter controls, neither of which have enough insight into real-time data and event flows to either prevent vulnerabilities slipping through the review process or block new threats that were unforeseen during development.
Implementation
RASP can be integrated as a framework or module that runs in conjunction with a program's codes, libraries and system calls. The technology can also be implemented as a virtualization. RASP is similar to interactive application security testing (IAST), the key difference is that IAST is focused on identifying vulnerabilities within the applications and RASPs are focused protecting against cybersecurity attacks that may take advantages of those vulnerabilities or other attack vectors.
Deployment options
RASP solutions can be deployed in two different ways: monitor or protection mode. In monitor mode, the RASP solution reports on web application attacks but does not block any attack. In protection mode, the RASP solution reports and blocks web application attacks.
See also
Runtime verification
Runtime error detection
Dynamic program analysis
References
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20Projects%20Victoria | Rail Projects Victoria (RPV) is an agency of the Government of Victoria, Australia, responsible for the management of certain major infrastructure projects on the Victorian rail network. Originally established as the Melbourne Metro Rail Authority (MMRA), to deliver the Melbourne Metro Rail Project, the office was later expanded in its responsibilities to include the management and planning of a number of major infrastructure programs on V/Line's regional rail services. It was renamed RPV in 2018 to reflect its expanded scope, and later became one of several project teams comprising the Department of Transport's Major Transport Infrastructure Authority.
Organisational history
For much of the history of the Victorian railway network, construction work was carried out by the Construction Branch of the vertically integrated Victorian Railways (VR). The first major rail infrastructure project in Melbourne to be delivered by an independent entity was the City Loop railway line, which began construction in 1971. The Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority (MURLA), established by the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Act 1970, pioneered a new approach to construction management, where the MURLA employed only a small staff and most work was outsourced to a private consortium by contract. The administrative costs of MURLA were jointly met by the VR, the Melbourne City Council and the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works from their annual budgets, separately to the costs of the project itself.
The Metro Tunnel project was first proposed in 2008 by the state government led by John Brumby, following the Eddington Transport Study's recommendation of a new north–south rail connection. It was realigned and rebranded as the Melbourne Rail Link under premier Denis Napthine in 2014, but reverted to closely match its original form when the Liberal government lost the 2014 Victorian election. The establishment of the MMRA was announced in February 2015 with a commitment of $40 million. Premier Daniel Andrews, making the announcement, described the authority's initial task as managing the planning and site investigation works required to formally commence the Metro Tunnel project. The funding was brought forward from a promise made at the 2014 election for $300 million towards the project in the first budget of the new Labor government.
From a machinery of government perspective, the creation of the MMRA was part of the reorganisation of the Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure (DTPLI) into the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources (DEDJTR). Responsibility for the Rail Office of the "Moving Victoria" program was transferred to DEDJTR from DTPLI and during this process, the Office was renamed and reconstituted as MMRA, reporting to the newly created Coordinator General, Major Transport Infrastructure Program.
On 10 March 2015, Evan Tattersall was appointed as the chief executive officer of the MMRA. Previous |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheaf%20on%20an%20algebraic%20stack | In algebraic geometry, a quasi-coherent sheaf on an algebraic stack is a generalization of a quasi-coherent sheaf on a scheme. The most concrete description is that it is a data that consists of, for each a scheme S in the base category and in , a quasi-coherent sheaf on S together with maps implementing the compatibility conditions among 's.
For a Deligne–Mumford stack, there is a simpler description in terms of a presentation : a quasi-coherent sheaf on is one obtained by descending a quasi-coherent sheaf on U. A quasi-coherent sheaf on a Deligne–Mumford stack generalizes an orbibundle (in a sense).
Constructible sheaves (e.g., as ℓ-adic sheaves) can also be defined on an algebraic stack and they appear as coefficients of cohomology of a stack.
Definition
The following definition is
Let be a category fibered in groupoids over the category of schemes of finite type over a field with the structure functor p. Then a quasi-coherent sheaf on is the data consisting of:
for each object , a quasi-coherent sheaf on the scheme ,
for each morphism in and in the base category, an isomorphism
satisfying the cocycle condition: for each pair ,
equals .
(cf. equivariant sheaf.)
Examples
The Hodge bundle on the moduli stack of algebraic curves of fixed genus.
ℓ-adic formalism
The ℓ-adic formalism (theory of ℓ-adic sheaves) extends to algebraic stacks.
See also
Hopf algebroid - encodes the data of quasi-coherent sheaves on a prestack presentable as a groupoid internal to affine schemes (or projective schemes using graded Hopf algebroids)
Notes
References
Editorial note: This paper corrects a mistake in Laumon and Moret-Bailly's Champs algébriques.
External links
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/69035/the-category-of-l-adic-sheaves
http://math.stanford.edu/~conrad/Weil2seminar/Notes/L16.pdf Adic Formalism, Part 2 Brian Lawrence March 1, 2017
Sheaf theory
Algebraic geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella%20Gaia | Bella Gaia is a live music art and show produced by Kenji Williams and other New York artists.
Concept
The show layers full-dome projections of hyperspectral supercomputer-enhanced NASA satellite imagery and views of the Earth from space. These elements are fused together with time lapse nature photography, cultural heritage footage, dance and world music. The intent is to convey the fragility of the human environment through the overview effect.
Awards
Bella Gaia has won Science Media Awards, the Fiske Fulldome Film Festival, the My Hero Award, the Macau International Fulldome festival and the Transformational Film Festival.
See also
Gaia hypothesis
Noosphere
References
External links
Bella Gaia homepage
Performance art in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratyush%20and%20Mihir | Prathyush and Mihir are the supercomputers established at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF), Noida respectively. As of January 2018, Prathyush and Mihir are the fastest supercomputer in India with a maximum speed of 6.8 PetaFlops at a total cost of INR 438.9 Crore. The system was inaugurated by Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for science and technology, on 8 January 2018.The word 'Pratyush' () defines the rising sun.
Being a High Performance Computing (HPC) facility, Pratyush and Mihir consists of several computers that can deliver a peak power of 6.8 PetaFlops. It is the first multi-PetaFlops supercomputer ever built in India.
Pratyush and Mihir are two High Performance Computing (HPC) units. They are located at two government institutes, one being 4.0 PetaFlops unit at IITM, Pune and another 2.8 PetaFlops unit at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida. They provide a combined output of 6.8 PetaFlops.
Pratyush and Mihir are used in the fields of weather forecasting and climate monitoring in India. It helps the country to make better forecasts in terms of Monsoon, fishing, air quality, extreme events like Tsunami, cyclones, earthquakes, lightning and other natural calamities such as floods, droughts etc. India is the fourth country in the world to have a High Performance Computing facility dedicated for weather and climate research after Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom.
History
The High Performance Computing (HPC) facility in India has grown from 40 TeraFlops in 2008 to 1 PetaFlops in the year 2013-14. But India still remained at a lower position in terms of HPC infrastructure rankings in the world.
Government of India approved 400 crore Rupees in 2017 to build a supercomputer with a computing capacity of 10 PetaFlops. The engineers of IITM, Pune worked under the leadership of Suryachandra A Rao and built Pratyush in 2018. The overall cost was around 450 crore Indian Rupees.
With the introduction of Pratyush and Mihir, India hopes to move from the 165th position to gain a position in the top 30s in the Top500 list of supercomputers in the world.
See also
EKA
SAGA-220
Cray XC40
Notes
References
Information technology in India
Supercomputing in India
Meteorology research and field projects
India Meteorological Department
2018 establishments in Maharashtra
Computer-related introductions in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants%20of%20the%20World%20Online | Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by 2020". The initial focus was on tropical African Floras, particularly Flora Zambesiaca, Flora of West Tropical Africa and Flora of Tropical East Africa.
The database uses the same taxonomical source as Kew's World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, which is the International Plant Names Index, and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). POWO contains 1,423,000 global plant names, 200,300 detailed descriptions, and 374,900 images.
See also
Australian Plant Name Index
Convention on Biological Diversity
eMonocot
Tropicos
World Flora Online
References
Online botany databases
Online taxonomy databases
.
Plant taxonomy
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Databases in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency%20and%20crime | Cryptocurrency and crime describes notable examples of cybercrime related to theft (or the otherwise illegal acquisition) of cryptocurrencies and some of the methods or security vulnerabilities commonly exploited. Cryptojacking is a form of cybercrime specific to cryptocurrencies that has been used on websites to hijack a victim's resources and use them for hashing and mining cryptocurrency.
According to blockchain analysis company Chainalysis, 0.15% of known cryptocurrency transactions conducted in 2021 were involved in illicit activities like cybercrime, money laundering and terrorism financing, representing a total of $14 billion.
Background
There are various types of cryptocurrency wallets available, with different layers of security, including devices, software for different operating systems or browsers, and offline wallets.
Novel exploits unique to blockchain transactions exist, aiming to generate unintended outcomes for those involved in a transaction. One of the more well known issues that opens the possibility for exploits on Bitcoin is the transaction malleability problem.
The Immunefi Crypto Losses 2022 Report lists industry losses from frauds and hacking as a combined total of for the year, and at for 2021.
Notable thefts
In 2018, around US$1.7 billion in cryptocurrency was lost to scams, theft and fraud. In the first quarter of 2019, the amount of such losses rose to US$1.2 billion. 2022 was a record year for cryptocurrency theft, according to Chainalysis, with stolen worldwide during 125 system hacks, including stolen by "North Korea-linked hackers".
Exchanges
Notable cryptocurrency exchange compromises resulting in the loss of cryptocurrencies include:
Between 2011 and 2014, worth of bitcoin were stolen from Mt. Gox.
In 2016, were stolen through exploiting Bitfinex's exchange wallet, users were refunded.
On December 7, 2017, Slovenian cryptocurrency exchange NiceHash reported that hackers had stolen over $70 million using a hijacked company computer.
On December 19, 2017, Yapian, the owner of South Korean exchange Youbit, filed for bankruptcy after suffering two hacks that year. Customers were still granted access to 75% of their assets.
In 2018, cryptocurrencies worth were stolen from Coincheck.
In May 2018, Bitcoin Gold had its transactions hijacked and abused by unknown hackers. Exchanges lost an estimated $18 m and Bitcoin Gold was delisted from Bittrex after it refused to pay its share of the damages.
In June 2018, South Korean exchange Coinrail was hacked, losing over $37M worth of cryptos. The hack worsened an already ongoing cryptocurrency selloff by an additional $42 billion.
On July 9, 2018, the exchange Bancor, whose code and fundraising had been subjects of controversy, had $23.5 million in cryptocurrency stolen.
Zaif in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Monacoin stolen in September 2018
Binance In 2019 cryptocurrencies worth were stolen.
Africrypt founders are suspected of absconding in June 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TranSMART | tranSMART is an open-source data warehouse designed to store large amounts of clinical data from clinical trials, as well as data from basic research, so that it can be interrogated together for translational research. It is also designed to be used by many people, across organizations. It was developed by Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with Recombinant Data Corporation. The platform was released in Jan 2012 and has been governed by the tranSMART Foundation since its initiation in 2013. In May 2017, the tranSMART Foundation merged with the i2b2 Foundation to create an organization with the key mission to advance the field of precision medicine.
The tranSMART platform has been adopted and evaluated by numerous pharmaceutical companies, not-for-profits and patient advocacy groups, academics, governmental organisations and service providers. At the Bio-IT World industry conference both the Innovative Medicines Initiative's U-BIOPRED project and The Michael J. Fox Foundation were awarded a Best Practices Award for their application of the platform.
tranSMART is built on top of the i2b2 clinical data warehouse and leverages the i2b2 star schema for modelling clinical and low-dimensional data. High-dimensional omics data is stored in dedicated tables where each of the data types (e.g., gene expression, SNP or metabolomics) retains its specific data structure. Both the Oracle and PostgreSQL database management systems are supported for its data storage.
tranSMART 17.1
Development project
Researchers reported missing functionalities in the earlier versions of tranSMART (version 16.2 and before), which restricted the capabilities of the tool and opportunities for research. In response, tranSMART Foundation brought together four leading pharmaceutical companies – Pfizer, Sanofi, Abbvie and Roche – together in October 2016 to help sponsor a joint project to develop the new functionality in a coherent way and improve tranSMART. The Hyve BV was the IT company responsible for the execution of the tranSMART 17.1 development project.
Improvements of tranSMART version 17.1
The focus of the sponsors was to add three main functionalities:
Cross-study and ontology term support.
Support for modeling time series and sample data, to allow the storage of longitudinal and EHR data.
Creating the connection between tranSMART and Arvados, to support large data storage and analysis.
In addition, another goal of the project was to improve the quality of the tranSMART back-end to make it ready for the future. The back-end improvements implemented in the development project, delivered early in 2017, had a large impact on the capabilities of tranSMART, as well as its quality nowadays.
Functional improvements of the 17.1 version include the support for time series, samples, and cross-study concepts. This is accomplished by re-alignment with the i2b2 data model, on top of which tranSMART was built, extended with the features which make tranSMART unique: the organ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adage%2C%20Inc. | Adage, Inc., was a Boston-based electronics and computer manufacturer founded in 1957, first specializing in analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, and later in computer graphics systems.
It was founded by James I. "Jim" Stockwell and two other MIT graduates in Boston in 1957, and later moved to Billerica.
Starting in 1967, Adage focused on computer graphics systems. Its most advanced system in 1967 was the GS/300. In 1976, it introduced the GT/2250 Vector Graphics Workstation, which was plug compatible with the IBM 2250 Graphics Display Unit; it later created the Adage 4000 and, in 1985, the Adage 6000 series workstation.
In 1989, Adage held merger talks with various potential partners, including Multiflow Computer and GBIC, but they were not consummated. Adage was acquired by Systems & Computer Technology Corporation for US$5 million in 1994.
Bibliography
Thomas G. Hagan, Richard J. Nixon, Luis J. Schaefer, "The Adage Graphics Terminal", Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, Fall Joint Computer Conference 1:747-755 ACM, 1968. full text
Materials about Adage for the Computer and Image Exhibit, Computer History Museum,
A. van Dam, R.D. Bergeron, "Software Capabilities of the Adage Graphics Terminals" in R.D. Parslow, et al., Advanced Computer Graphics, 1971 preview
Notes
1957 establishments in Massachusetts
1994 disestablishments in Massachusetts
American companies established in 1957
American companies disestablished in 1994
Companies based in Billerica, Massachusetts
Computer companies established in 1957
Computer companies disestablished in 1994
Defunct computer companies based in Massachusetts
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Graphics hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20House%20Music | Future House Music (FHM) is a Dutch record label and music network that specializes in the Future House genre. Their channel has over 1 million subscribers on YouTube.
History
It was started in 2014 by Aart van den Dool and Gino van Eijk. Originally starting out with genres such as electro house, progressive house, deep house and tech house, the label eventually focused on future house as, asserted by Van Eijk, it was "placed on the map" by the genre's pioneers Oliver Heldens and Tchami. Their YouTube channel was started after Van Eijk and Van Den Dool became inspired by Tchami's term-coining of future house.
They eventually decided to use the channel as a platform to "bundle" music of the genre. They said "We had the first mover advantage. Nobody had claimed the name 'Future House Music' yet. We did not know, of course, that it would be that big. But of course we also worked really hard for that." Since the formation of their YouTube channel, the identity of "Future House Music" included an addition of a record label (formed in 2016), merchandises and international events.
Artists
References
Record labels established in 2016
House music record labels
Dutch independent record labels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoneta | Adoneta is a genus of moths in the family Limacodidae. The genus was erected by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1860. There are at least four described species in Adoneta.
Species
Adoneta bicaudata Dyar, 1904 (long-horned slug moth)
Adoneta gemina Dyar, 1906
Adoneta pygmaea Grote & Robinson, 1868
Adoneta spinuloides (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854) (purple-crested slug moth)
References
Further reading
External links
Butterflies and Moths of North America
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Adoneta
Limacodidae
Limacodidae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline%20%28software%29 | Skyline is an open source software for targeted proteomics and metabolomics data analysis. It runs on Microsoft Windows and supports the raw data formats from multiple mass spectrometric vendors. It contains a graphical user interface to display chromatographic data for individual peptide or small molecule analytes.
Skyline supports multiple workflows including selected reaction monitoring (SRM) / multiple reaction monitoring (MRM), parallel reaction monitoring (PRM), data-independent acquisition (DIA/SWATH) and targeted data-dependent acquisition.
See also
ProteoWizard
OpenMS
Trans-Proteomic Pipeline
Mass spectrometry software
References
External links
Free science software
Bioinformatics software
Mass spectrometry software
Proteomics
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper%20network | A whisper network is an informal chain of information passed privately between people, typically women. It consists of gossip about people in a community (frequently a professional community) alleged of being sexual harassers or abusers. The information is often shared between women by word of mouth or online in private communities, forums, spreadsheets, and crowd-sourced documents. The stated purpose of maintaining these lists is to warn potential victims of "people to avoid" in their industry. Whisper networks also purportedly help victims identify a common abuser and come forward together about a serial abuser.
The term "whisper network" was newly popularized during the #MeToo movement after several private lists were published outside of private networks. Among the published lists were the Shitty Media Men list, the California State Capitol list, and the Harvey Weinstein Google doc. Karen Kelsky created a less controversial list about men in academia called "Sexual Harassment In the Academy: A Crowdsourced Survey" which had grown to over 2000 entries by the end of 2017. It includes stories without actually naming the accusing and accused parties. Kelsky said she hoped the list would help demonstrate the scope of sexual misconduct in the academic field, and it has resulted in the investigation of twelve men at the University of Michigan.
Alternatives
Publishing whisper networks to the public has been widely criticized for spreading unsubstantiated rumors that can damage reputations. However, there continues to be debate on the best alternatives for women who have been punished or ignored by official channels to warn other women. It has been noted that certain vulnerable groups, such as young women and women of color, rarely get access to these private lists. As a result, these groups rarely receive any protection from whisper networks unless they are published. The main problem with trying to protect more potential victims by publishing whisper networks is determining the best mechanism to verify allegations. Some suggestions have included strengthening unions in vulnerable industries so workers can report directly to the union, maintaining industry hotlines which have the power to trigger third-party investigations, and creating public systems that allow anonymous reporting with the ability to connect victims who report the same perpetrator. Several apps have been developed which offer various ways for women to report sexual misconduct, and some of these apps have the ability to connect victims with each other. Sex workers regularly share “bad date lists” and St. James Infirmary Clinic (which offers health and safety services for sex workers) created a “Bad Date” app that allows sex workers to anonymously log incidents and warn other sex workers about clients who have threatened, extorted, robbed, or been violent.
See also
Whispering campaign
References
Social information processing
Social influence
Social systems
Sexual misconduct a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20hardware%20manufacturers%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union | This is a list of computer hardware manufacturers in the Soviet Union:
List
Major Soviet hardware manufacturers and ministry affiliations in 1988:
Ministry of the Electronics Industry
Elka Plant
Leningrad Svetlana Association
Exiton Plant in Pavlovskiy Posad (завод «Экситон»)
Voronezh Elektronika Association (НПО «Электроника»)
Zelenograd Complex
Ministry of Instrument Making
V. I. Lenin Kiev Elektronmash Production Association (Киевское производственное объединение «Электронмаш» им. В. И. Ленина)
Kiev Plant of Computers and Electronic Control Machines (VUM) (Киевский завод вычислительных и управляющих машин - ВУМ)
Kishinev Calculating Machine Plant
Kursk Calculating Machines Plant
Leningrad Electrical Machines Plant (Ленинградский Электромашиностроительный Завод)
Livny Experimental Factory of Computer Graphics (Ливенский завод средств машинной графики)
Moscow Elektronmash Scientific Production Association
Orel Computer Machines Plant
Ryazan Order of Lenin Factory of Calculating Analytical Machinery
Impulse Severodonetsk Scientific Production Association (Северодонецкое научно-производственное объединение «Импульс»)
Smolensk Calculating Machine Factory
Taurage Calculating Machine Assemblies Plant (Tauragės skaičiavimo mašinų elementų gamykla)
Tbilisi Control Computer Works
Lenin Vilnius Computer Factory
Vilnius Sigma Association
Vinnytsia Terminal Plant (Завод «Терминал»)
Ministry of Radio Technology
Kazan Computer Plant (Казанский завод ЭВМ)
Minsk Computer Technology Production Corporation (Минское производственное объединение вычислительной техники)
Moscow Calculating Machines Plant (SAM; Московский завод счётно-аналитических машин)
Moscow Radio Plant (Московский Радиозавод)
Penza Computer Work (Завод вычислительных электронных машин)
Yerevan Electronics Plant (Ереванский завод "Электрон")
See also
List of computer hardware manufacturers
References
Soviet
Soviet computer hardware
Soviet computer hardware
Soviet computer hardware
Soviet computer hardware
Computer hardware manufacturers
Computer hardware
Computing in the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth%20with%20Talent%20-%20Generation%20Next | 'Youth with Talent - Generation Next' is a Sri Lankan reality talent contest which was aired on ITN (Independent Television Network) in 2016. The show brings together contestants between the ages of 15 and 35 to participate in a talent competition which was hosted by Dilshan Pathirathna and directed by award-winning musical and tele-drama director, Mr. Sandaruwan Jayawickrama. Other contributors include Mr. Saman Athaudahetti, the chairman of ITN and Mr. Eranda Weliange, the chairman of NYSC.
Auditions
Auditions were held throughout Sri Lanka and the best acts were selected to be telecast on television, along with other acts.
20 participants competed in each audition round and the judges selected 10 contestants for the next round.
Golden buzzer acts were sent directly to the grand finale.
Round 1
Round 1 was held from 09/09/2017 to 16/12/2017.
Round 2
Round 2 was held from 23/12/2017 to 27/01/2018.
Round 2 Summary
Round 2-1 Episode 16 (December 23, 2017)
Guest Judge : Chandani Seneviratne
Janith Dimuthu won "Talent of the Day" unanimously.
At the beginning of the show, the host announced there were 11 contestants on the day.
Round 2-2 Episode 17 (December 30, 2017)
Guest Judge : Rukshi Gamage
Three sisters advanced with guest judge vote.
Sentry won "Talent of the Day" unanimously.
At the end of the show, the host announced 6 contestants were advanced among 12 contestants.
Round 2-3 Episode 18 (January 6, 2018)
Guest Judge : Indika Upamali
Advanced with guest judge vote.
Nifan won "Talent of the Day" unanimously.
At the end of the show the host announced 8 contestants advanced and 4 were rejected, but on air, 9 contestants advanced.
Round 2-4 Episode 19 (January 13, 2018)
Guest Judge : Dannielle Kerkoven
Advanced with guest judge vote.
Heshan received 3 votes from judges and won "Talent of the Day", while Dammika receives a single vote from Kishu.
At the end of the show, the host announced 9 contestants were advanced among 14 contestants.
Round 2-5 Episode 20 (January 20, 2018)
Guest Judge : Sangeetha Weeraratne
Chamara won "Talent of the Day" unanimously.
At the end of the show, the host announced 6 contestants were advanced among 14 contestants.
Challenge Round Episode 21 (January 27, 2018)
This round consisted of 12 contestants who were not among the original 61527 applicants for the show.
At the beginning of the show, the host announced only 1 contestant will be selected to advance to the semifinals.
Guest Judge : Srimali Fonseka
Eliminated with guest judge vote.
Nadeesha, Chitraal and Umara voted to eliminate Thilindika from the pool. Chitraal and Nadeesha voted for Thusitha, while Umara and Kishu voted for Udaya to advance for the next round. Thusitha advanced to the next round and won "Talent of the Day", with guest judge vote.
Episode 22 (February 3, 2018)
Samare & Samare who were the runner up in Youth with Talent Season 1 featured in this episode.
This episode was a recap of some of the quart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWJX | DWJX (89.5 FM), broadcasting as 89.5 OKFM, is a radio station owned and operated by PBN Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at the 4th Floor, ABA Bldg., Brgy. Talisay, Sorsogon City.
References
Radio stations in Sorsogon
Radio stations established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio%20Tamani | Studio Tamani is a media outlet in Mali that broadcasts radio programs in 5 languages, articles and podcasts online and via social networks. Studio Tamani is based in the Maison de la Presse (Press Centre) in Bamako. It is a joint initiative of Mali’s main community radio network URTEL, “peace media” specialist Fondation Hirondelle, Sweden, Switzerland and the European Union. The programs are produced by a team of 60 Malian journalists, with an editorial staff in Bamako and 35 correspondents across the country.
Studio Tamani has emerged as a "voice of reason" and trusted source for local, national, regional West-African and International news outlets for daily news, updates on terrorist attacks as well as stability and progress on the Algiers Peace Accord in Mali. Broadcasting from this war-torn country’s capital, Studio Tamani has received respect in foreign policy circles for bringing implacable enemies together for dialogue, and has been cited by international organizations such as UNESCO as an example of the importance of reaching people in their local languages to be a viable platform for dialogue among disparate groups.
Studio Tamani, was founded during the Malian civil war with the goal of producing high-quality news and debate programs, and has been said to have transformed Mali’s media landscape. In a vast country with isolated populations where only one third of the adults are literate, many local languages are spoken, and internet access is still sparse in rural areas, radio is the most available source of news and information for all. Everybody listens to at least one of the country’s plethora of radio stations. Tamani stands out it's fact-based reporting, interviews of locals who have witnessed first-hand terrorist attacks and intimidation from armed groups, as well as for hosting high-level political figures, broken major stories, aired unprecedented debates on controversial topics like female genital mutilation, and become one of the most widely listened-to and respected radio stations.
The name "Tamani" is the name of a small djembe drum popular in Malian musical heritage, and serves as a positive image for this project focused on facilitating and promoting dialogue between all Malians.
One of Studio Tamani stated objectives is to produce news bulletins and other radio programs designed to help strengthen peace and reconciliation in Mali. Studio Tamani’s programming is broadcast by 24 partner radio stations throughout the country. A network of community radio stations also partners with Studio Tamani, broadcasting programs for two hours a day throughout Mali in French, Bambara, Sonrhaï, Tamashek and Peulh.
Many of Studio Tamani's journalists have been trained abroad and have been featured in international forums to improve the knowledge and understanding of the complexity of the security and political situations in Mali and have assisted the international community in further understanding the complexity of Mali and why t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PagerDuty | PagerDuty is an American cloud computing company specializing in a SaaS incident response platform for IT departments.
PagerDuty is headquartered in San Francisco with operations in Toronto, Atlanta, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Its platform is designed to alert clients to disruptions and outages. The software operates as a standalone service or can be integrated into existing IT systems.
The company was ranked 41st on Forbes's "Cloud 100" list in 2017.
History
The company was founded 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, by University of Waterloo graduates Alex Solomon, Andrew Miklas, and Baskar Puvanathasan. The company was incubated at Y Combinator.
PagerDuty raised a seed funding round of $1.9 million in 2010, followed by a Series A round that raised $10.7 million in January 2013. As of 2018, the company has raised over $170 million in venture funding.
In July 2016, the former CEO of Keynote Systems, Jennifer Tejada, was named CEO of PagerDuty. Later that year, the company held its first PagerDuty Summit, an industry conference. Additional summits were held in San Francisco in 2017 and 2018.
PagerDuty announced a funding round in April 2017 led by Accel. The $43.8 million round included existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures and Harrison Metal.
In September 2018, PagerDuty raised $90 million in a round led by T. Rowe Price and Wellington Management.
In June 2018, PagerDuty launched Event Intelligence, a product designed to analyze incoming digital signals and human responses to communicate incident response suggestions to operators when new incidents occur. At its industry conference in September 2018, the company also launched PagerDuty Visibility and PagerDuty Analytics.
In March 2019, PagerDuty filed its S-1 with the SEC in anticipation of its IPO.
In April 2019, PagerDuty went public on the New York Stock Exchange.
In October 2020, PagerDuty completed the acquisition of Rundeck, a provider of DevOps automation.
In March 2022, PagerDuty completed the acquisition of Catalytic, a no-code Automation platform
On January 21, 2023 PagerDuty CEO Tejada's layoff memo was criticized for insensitivity for inappropriately quoting Martin Luther King, announcing promotions of executives, and tone deafness.
See also
Icinga
VictorOps
References
External links
Cloud computing providers
Software companies established in 2009
2009 establishments in Ontario
Companies based in San Francisco
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
2019 initial public offerings
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidar%20Al%20Zamily | Haidar Nateq Jasim Al Zamili (born in Baghdad, 1975) (; ) is an Iraqi politician and Iraqi Minister of Justice. He is a candidate for the Islamic Virtue Party. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Petra in Malaysia in 2011. He participated in the formation of the Islamic Virtue Party in Wasit., And included in the political work and assigned several tasks, including the head of the Office of "Essaouira", and became an assistant to the Secretary-General for the affairs of central provinces, and is now a member of the Political Bureau of the party.
References
External links
Official website
Islamic Virtue Party politicians
People from Wasit Governorate
Iraqi Muslims
Government ministers of Iraq
Living people
Justice ministers
1975 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Noakes | David Noakes (born March 1953) is a British computer consultant, businessman and politician, who founded Immuno Biotech Ltd. to promote the unproven therapy GcMAF and came last in the 2006 UKIP leadership election. He pleaded guilty to "money laundering and manufacturing, supplying and selling an unlicensed medicine" and was sentenced in November 2018 to 15 months' imprisonment.
Business
Noakes was a computer consultant for a decade. In 2004, he designed an alphabetical keyboard layout. He says he has worked for several Cornish companies, including Holman Brothers, Mount Wellington Tin Mine, and Phillips Frith, and in several countries, including in Brussels and for JPMorgan Chase Bank in New York.
Immuno Biotech
Noakes is CEO and owner of Immuno Biotech Ltd. (trade name First Immune), a Guernsey company that promotes the use of the protein GcMAF, a blood product, as a cure for cancer, autism, HIV, multiple sclerosis, and other diseases, claiming to treat 10,000 patients worldwide with income of £1 million per month. Noakes began promoting GcMAF in 2010, and the company had laboratories in Oxford in 2012. Noakes has been on the board of governors of the National Health Federation (a lobbying group promoting alternative medicine ) since April 2016 and was on the long list for Guernsey Press Ambassador of the Year 2013. Noakes advised cancer patients to not take chemotherapy and promoted the treatment to the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce despite criticism from Cancer Research UK; doctors on Guernsey all declined an invite to a meeting about GcMAF.
In July 2014, NatWest bank closed the company's accounts. In 2015, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) took over 10,000 vials of GcMAF during an inspection of the company's unlicensed Milton, Cambridgeshire site and shut down production, after it found that the plasma the GcMAF was derived from was not for human use, and that the production site did not meet good manufacturing practice standards. Noakes' former personal assistant, who worked for him in 2012, said that sometimes Noakes' own blood was used. The company had been supplying GcMAF to around 100 Guernsey residents free of charge until imports were prohibited by the Guernsey Border Agency in February 2015. Noakes' company began supplying an alternative called Goleic in place of GcMAF. Noakes claimed in March 2015 that the UK authorities were harassing him and his family, then was interviewed by the BBC's The One Show in May 2015, but stormed out and threatened to smash the camera. A complaint to the BBC Trust about the interview was dismissed. Later that summer, the Swiss regulator Swissmedic closed the First Immune clinic in Bussigny, after five deaths of patients since it opened in October 2013. Noakes worked with American autism doctor Jeff Bradstreet until the latter committed suicide in June 2015, following a federal government raid of his office in connection to his work on GcMAF. Noakes also worked with scie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Workflow%20Language | The Common Workflow Language (CWL) is a standard for describing computational data-analysis workflows. Development of CWL is focused particularly on serving the data-intensive sciences, such as bioinformatics, medical imaging, astronomy, physics, and chemistry.
Standard
A key goal of the CWL is to allow the creation of a workflow that is portable and thus may be run reproducibly in different computational environments.
The CWL originated from discussions in 2014 between Peter Amstutz, John Chilton, Nebojša Tijanić, and Michael R. Crusoe (at that time their respective affiliations were: Galaxy, Arvados, Seven Bridges, and Michigan State University) at the Open Bioinformatics Foundation BOSC 2014 codefest.
CWL is supported by multiple analysis runners and platforms such as Apache Airflow (via CWL-Airflow ), Arvados, Rabix, Cromwell workflow engine, Toil, REANA - Reusable Analyses and CWLEXEC for IBM Spectrum LSF, and was identified in 2017 as one of the future trends for bioinformatics pipeline development. Several additional analysis environments are currently implementing support for CWL including Pegasus and Galaxy.
Availability
The CWL Project is a multi-stakeholder working group consisting of both organizations and individuals. A member project of Software Freedom Conservancy, it publishes the CWL standards freely available via its GitHub repository under a permissive Apache License 2.0.
References
External links
CWL v1.0 specification DOI
CWL website
CWL GitHub Repository
CWL entry in the EU Observatory for ICT Standardisation
Workflow languages
Cloud standards
Computer standards
Data interchange standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin%20Networks | Javelin Networks is an Israeli Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cyber security software development organization. The organization develops A.I., obfuscation and advanced forensics methodologies, and has branches in Tel Aviv and Palo Alto (California).
History
Javelin was founded in 2014 by Roi Abutbul, Guy Franco and Almog Ohayon.
In 2016, Javelin Network was recognized by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor”, and was named a Grand Trophy and Gold Award Winner for the 2017 Info Security Product Guide Excellence Awards. The company also received the 2017 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company and the Gold in the Golden Bridge Award for Endpoint Security Solution Innovations
References
External links
Official website
Software companies of Israel
2018 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xite%204K | XITE 4K is a Canadian English language Category B television channel owned by XCAN Networks Inc. The channel broadcasts music videos in 4K resolution (ultra-high-definition television) from current popular music artists from various genres including pop, dance, hip-hop, and more.
History
In June 2017, it was announced that Dutch-based music broadcaster, XITE, was launching a television channel in Canada that month, called XITE 4K, exclusively, initially, on Rogers Cable. Although parties involved in launching the service and media reports did not specifically refer to the channel as a Canadian version of XITE, as opposed to a foreign service, through Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission documents, it was confirmed to be a Canadian version, launched as an exempt service, not requiring a broadcast licence to launch.
References
Music video networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2017
Digital cable television networks in Canada
English-language television stations in Canada
4K television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibinia | Sibinia is a genus of leguminous seed weevils in the family Curculionidae. There are at least 20 described species in Sibinia.
Species
Sibinia candidata Champion, 1903
Sibinia caseyi Clark, 1978
Sibinia errans (Casey, 1910)
Sibinia fulva (LeConte, 1876)
Sibinia hispida (Casey, 1892)
Sibinia inermis (Casey, 1897) (huisache sibinia weevil)
Sibinia lecontei Clark, 1978
Sibinia maculata (LeConte, 1876)
Sibinia mica (Casey, 1892)
Sibinia ochreosa Casey, 1897
Sibinia pallida (Schaeffer, 1908)
Sibinia ruidula Clark, 1978
Sibinia sellata
Sibinia seminicola Clark, 1978
Sibinia setosa (LeConte, 1876)
Sibinia sibinioides (Casey, 1892)
Sibinia simplex (Casey, 1892)
Sibinia subelliptica (Desbrochers, 1873)
Sibinia suturalis (Schaeffer, 1908)
Sibinia tanneri Clark, 1978
Sibinia texana (Pierce, 1908)
Sibinia transversa (Casey, 1897)
Sibinia triseriata Clark, 1978
Sibinia variegata (Casey, 1892)
References
Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., and Christopher H. C. Lyal (1999). A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae), 315.
Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1996). "Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, 41-820.
Further reading
Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Sibinia
Curculioninae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sherlock%20Jr.%20episodes | Sherlock Jr. is a 2018 Philippine television drama crime series starring amazing stars like Ruru Madrid, Gabbi Garcia and Serena the Dog, voiced by Mikee Quintos. The series premiered on GMA Network's GMA Telebabad evening block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV on January 29th, 2018, to April 27th, 2018, replacing Super Ma'am.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
January 2018
February 2018
March 2018
April 2018
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninne%20Pelladata%20%281968%20film%29 | Ninne Pelladata () is a 1968 Telugu-language comedy film, produced by B. Vittalacharya under the Sri Vital Productions banner and directed by B. V. Srinivas. It stars N. T. Rama Rao, Bharathi and music composed by Vijaya Krishna Murthy.
Plot
Uma a vainglory, spoiled due to her mother Jagadamba's pampering; she hates men and does not want to marry which makes her father perturbed. So, he plans with his brother-in-law Anjaneyulu and he brings his elder brother's son Umapathi. In the beginning, their acquaintance starts with petty quarrels and makes her agree to marry him. After the marriage, Uma says she married him just to satisfy her ego, he too challenges that he will bring her down. The rest of the story is how Umapathi teaches a lesson to Uma.
Cast
N. T. Rama Rao as Umapathi
Bharathi as Uma
Ramana Reddy as Anjineyulu
Raavi Kondala Rao
Balakrishna as Ball
Kakarala as Ganapathi
Suryakantham as Jagadamba
Chaya Devi
Vijaya Lalitha as Nanchari
Soundtrack
Music composed by Vijaya Krishna Murthy. Lyrics were written by C. Narayana Reddy. Music released by Audio Company.
References
External links
1968 comedy films
Indian comedy films
1968 films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOO | EOO may refer to:
Extent of occurrence, a concept in Occupancy–abundance relationship
end of object, a type of operator in the computer data interchange format BSON
Exchange of Options for Options, a kind of Exchange for Related Positions (EFRP) contrasted to an Exchange of futures for physicals
Église Orthodoxe Occidentale, a group involved in Western Rite Orthodoxy in the Orthodox Church of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equihash | Equihash is a memory-hard Proof-of-work algorithm introduced by the University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the 2016 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. The algorithm is based on a generalization of the Birthday problem which finds colliding hash values. It has severe time-space trade-offs but concedes vulnerability to unforeseen parallel optimizations. It was designed such that parallel implementations are bottle-necked by memory bandwidth in an attempt to worsen the cost-performance trade-offs of designing custom ASIC implementations. ASIC resistance in Equihash is based on the assumption that commercially-sold hardware already has quite high memory bandwidth, so improvements made by custom hardware may not be worth the development cost.
General
Equihash was proposed by Alex Biryukov and Dmitry Khovratovich as part of the University of Luxembourg research group CryptoLUX. It was introduced at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium 2016 in San Diego. Notable blockchain-based projects such as ZCash, BitcoinZ, Horizen, Aion, Hush, and Pirate Chain have integrated Equihash for reasons such as security, privacy, and ASIC miner resistance.
The manufacturer Bitmain has succeeded in optimizing the processing of Zcash's Equihash-200,9 with an ASIC.
Specification
Equihash has three parameters – , , and – which determine the algorithm's time and memory requirements. The time complexity is proportional to while the memory complexity is proportional to . The algorithm is often implemented with (using an alternative method of controlling the effective difficulty).
The problem in Equihash is to find distinct, -bit values to satisfy such that has leading zeros, where is a chosen hash function. In addition, there are "algorithm binding conditions" which are intended to reduce the risk of other algorithms developed to solve the underlying birthday problem being applicable. A memory-less verification requires hashes and XORs.
Memory-hardness and time-space tradeoffs
It is proposed that the puzzle in Equihash be solved by a variation of Wagner's algorithm for the generalized birthday problem. (Note that the underlying problem is not exactly the Generalized Birthday Problem as defined by Wagner, since it uses a single list rather than multiple lists.) The proposed algorithm makes iterations over a large list. For every factor of fewer entries per list, computational complexity of the algorithm scales proportional to for memory-efficient implementations. Alcock and Ren
refute Equihash’s security claims, concluding that no tradeoff-resistance bound is in fact known for Equihash.
Usage
The cryptocurrency Zcash implements Equihash with and .
The cryptocurrency BitcoinGold implements Equihash with and .
See also
Proof of stake
References
External links
Cryptocurrencies
Cryptographic algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20W.%20Doran | Robert William Doran HFNZCS (5 November 1944 – 13 October 2018) was a New Zealand-based computer scientist and historian of computing. He was Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Robert W. Doran studied at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and for a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University (California, United States) in 1967. He taught at City University (London, England) and Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand). He first worked with computers in 1963. He was a Principal Computer Architect at Amdahl Corporation (Sunnyvale, California) during 1976–1982. He joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland in 1982 and was Head of department. He maintained computing history displays in the department, especially of totalisators. The history displays are now part of The Bob Doran Museum of Computing.
Doran's research interests included computer architecture, parallel algorithms, and computer programming. He was also interested in the history of computing. In 2017, he contributed to The Turing Guide.
Robert Doran was made an Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Computer Society, now the Institute of IT Professionals.
Bob Doran died on 13 October 2018 at home in Auckland.
Selected publications
Carpenter, B. E. & Doran, R. W. (1977). The other Turing machine. The Computer Journal, 20(3):269–279.
Doran, R. W. (1977). Computer Architecture: A Structured Approach. Academic Press, 1979.
Doran, R. W. & Thomas, L. K. (1980). Variants of the software solution to mutual exclusion. Information Processing Letters, 10(4/5):206–208, July.
Carpenter, B. E. & Doran, R. W. (1986). AM Turing's ACE Report of 1946 and Other Papers, Vol. 10, Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing, MIT Press.
Doran, R. W. (1988). Variants of an improved carry look-ahead adder. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 37(9):1110–1113.
Doran, R. W. (1988). Amdahl Multiple-Domain Architecture. Computer, 21(10):20–28.
Thomborson, C. D. & Doran, R. W. (2005). Incredible Codes. In A. Brook (ed.), Incredible Science: Explore the Wonderful World of Science (pp. 16–17). New Zealand: Penguin Books.
Doran, R. W. (1995). Special cases of division, Journal of Universal Computer Science, 1(3):176–194.
Doran, R. W. (2005). Computer architecture and the ACE computers. In B. J. Copeland (ed.), Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (pp. 193–206). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Doran, R. W. (2007). The Gray code. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 13(11):1573–1597.
Doran, R. W. (2007). The First Automatic Totalisator. The Rutherford Journal, 2.
Carpenter, B. E. & Doran, R. W. (2014). John Womersley: Applied Mathematician and Pioneer of Modern Computing. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 36(2):60–70.
Doran is also a listed inventor on the following US patents assigned to Amdahl Corporation:
4503512 (1985), 4967342 (1990), 5109522 (1992).
Refere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset%20Academy%20Inc. | Somerset Academy Inc. is a non-profit charter management organization based in Pembroke Pines, Florida. It has a network of 80 schools in Florida, Nevada, Texas, Arizona and Spain.
In 2015, Somerset operated charter schools enrolling 14,951 students on a hybrid basis. Somerset partners with Academica, a for-profit education management organization.
History
Fernando Zulueta created a Miramar, Florida housing development in 1997 that needed a local school for residents. He recruited Ruth Jacoby, who had over twenty years experience with Miami-Dade County Public Schools to be the first principal for Somerset Neighborhood School, a non-profit charter school authorized by the Florida Legislature in 1996. Zuluete incorporated Academica in 1999 as a For-profit education provider of services to charter schools. Somerset Academies rely on Academica for curriculum, tests, facilities, security, staff recruitment, budgeting, accounting and other services. The company assisted Somerset in launching additional charter schools by writing charter school applications, establishing corporate structures, providing experts to advocate and lobby government agencies, managing public relations & marketing, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
Operations
In 2017, a Florida state appeals court approved Somerset's application to open two schools in Indian River County after rejection by the Indian River County School District.
Also in 2017, the Florida Department of Education took financial control of the Jefferson County, Florida Public School District due to missing money, low school grades and questionable staffing decisions. Control was delegated to Somerset Academy Inc. which operated a charter school in Monticello, Florida. Jefferson County is the only Florida public school district to ever be controlled by a charter school. The FDOE returned control to the local school board on February 9, 2022, but the district must submit a monthly budget report to the state for one year and maintain a minimum 5% unassigned fund balance.
Awards and rankings
Somerset Arts Conservatory in Pembroke Pines, Florida was ranked the 23rd best high school in Florida for 2021. Advanced Placement participation is 94%.
Somerset Academy Charter High in Pembroke Pines, Florida was ranked the 50th best high school in Florida for 2021.
Somerset Academy Charter High School in Homestead, Florida was ranked the 109th best high school in Florida for 2021.
Somerset Academy Miramar High School was ranked the 168th best high school in Florida for 2021.
Somerset Academy Canyons High School in Boynton Beach, Florida was ranked the 185th best high school in Florida for 2021.
Somerset Academy South Homestead was ranked the 186th best high school in Florida for 2021.
Somerset Preparatory Academy Charter High at North Lauderdale was ranked the 233rd best high school in Florida for 2021.
Somerset College Preparatory Academy in Port Saint Lucie, Florida was ranked the 240th best high school in Flori |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightpath%20%28optical%20network%29 | In optical networking, a lightpath is a path between two nodes in an optical network between which light passes through unmodified.
Description
When a lightpath can be established between source and destination node endpoints the connection is totally optical and avoids throttling by intermediate electronic conversions and processing. Where a lightpath passes through an Optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) is known as a cut-through lightpath. Where a lightpath is added or dropped at an OADM, it is known as an added/dropped lightpath.
Semi-lightpath
Where endpoints are connected by a series of lightpaths with the intermediate nodes only changing the light wavelength at the junctions this may be referred to as a semi-lightpath.
See also
Wavelength switched optical network
Multicast lightpaths
Network Description Language
References
Fiber-optic communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cure%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Cure is a 2018 Philippine television drama science fiction series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark A. Reyes, it stars Jennylyn Mercado in the title role and Tom Rodriguez. It premiered on April 30, 2018 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Sherlock Jr. The series concluded on July 27, 2018 with a total of 65 episodes. It was replaced by Victor Magtanggol on its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The life of Greg, Charity and Hope take a turn when Greg's mother is diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Desperate to find a treatment, Greg gets his hands on an experimental drug made by Evangeline Lazaro and gives it to his mother. The drug becomes the root of a zombie infection that threatens to spread all over the city. Greg, Charity, Evangeline and her son, Joshua will start to find a cure.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jennylyn Mercado as Charity “Charie” Valdez-Salvador
Tom Rodriguez as Gregory “Greg” Salvador
Supporting cast
Mark Herras as Darius
LJ Reyes as Katrina Contes
Jay Manalo as Fernan / Supremo
Jaclyn Jose as Evangeline Lazaro
Ronnie Henares as Eduardo
Diva Montelaba as Suzy
Arra San Agustin as Anna Mercado-Lazaro
Leanne Bautista as Hope V. Salvador
Guest cast
Ken Chan as Joshua "Josh" Lazaro
Irma Adlawan as Agnes Salvador
Glenda Garcia as Lorna Valdez
Maricris Garcia as Josie
John Feir as Jimboy Marquez
Jhoana Marie Tan as April Sison
Gerald Madrid as Lito Sison
Edwin Reyes as Jomalesa
Jenzel Angeles as Josie
Angela Evangelista as MY
Bruce Roeland as Dex
Jacob Briz as Yel
Jazz Yburan as Aja
Vincent Magbanua as Lowie
Yul Servo as Lando
Kris Bernal as Myra
Matt Evans as Elmer
Kiel Rodriguez as Arvin
Shyr Valdez as Becky
Teresa Loyzaga as Mariz Almijarez
Renz Valerio as Cesar
Lotlot de Leon as Rosita
Kylie Padilla as Adira Aguilar
Emilio Garcia as Rudy Aguilar
Pen Medina as Rigor
Ruru Madrid as Xavier
Janice Hung as Valda
Accolades
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
2018 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine science fiction television series
Television shows set in the Philippines
Thriller television series
Zombies in television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards%3A%20Tales%20of%20Arcadia | Wizards: Tales of Arcadia (or simply Wizards) is an American computer-animated fantasy limited series created by Guillermo del Toro, and produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and Double Dare You Productions. The award-winning series is the third and final installment of the Tales of Arcadia trilogy, following Trollhunters (2016–2018) and 3Below (2018–2019), and was released on August 7, 2020, on Netflix.
The first and only limited series in the Tales of Arcadia franchise, it is a fantasy time travel saga that explores the world's mythological origins and introduces a new protagonist in Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan, a former apprentice to the legendary Merlin who was forgotten for centuries and is now eager to prove his worth as a sorcerer in the eyes of his old master.
Wizards has been acclaimed by critics as a groundbreaking animated series, both for its complex storytelling and high quality animation. Alci Rengifo of Entertainment Voice writes, "...Del Toro wants everyone, even the adults, to get something out of Wizards. This makes it an adventure worth taking, like any great fairy tale." In 2021, the series won an Annie Award and the Kidscreen Award for "Best New Series," a category including all live-action and animated programming that year, and was nominated for four Daytime Emmys, including Outstanding Children's Animated Series.
It was followed by a full-length feature film titled Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans, released on July 21, 2021.
Synopsis
Following the events of Trollhunters and 3Below, Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan – who has secretly been the apprentice of Merlin for nine centuries – must recruit the Guardians of Arcadia to travel back in time to the 12th-century's Camelot. During the journey, the heroes learn why the amulet was built, how Morgana became the Pale Lady, and what events lead up to the Battle of Killahead Bridge.
Production
Wizards was announced as the third and final series in the Tales of Arcadia trilogy following the release of Trollhunters and 3Below. It was produced by Guillermo del Toro's Double Dare You alongside DreamWorks Animation for Netflix, with del Toro, Marc Guggenheim, Aaron Waltke, Chad Quandt, and Chad Hammes serving as executive producers. Waltke and Quandt served as head writers and co-showrunners. It was initially set to be released in 2019, but was postponed for August 7, 2020.
Voice cast
The series features an ensemble cast of voice actors returning from Trollhunters and 3Below, alongside new voice actors.
Episodes
Reception
Critical response
The series has a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. According to Guillermo del Toro, Wizards: Tales of Arcadia was in the Top Ten most streamed series worldwide on Netflix during the week it premiered, drawing more viewers than all other live-action and animated content at that time. As reported by Screen Rant, Wizards was rated the best new Netflix Original Kids' Series released in 2020, according to IMDb.
Drew Taylor of Collider |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandata%2C%20Pennsylvania | Mandata is an unincorporated community in Northumberland County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
History
By 1891, a portion of Mandata, Pennsylvania was included in Jordan Township, Northumberland County with other sections of that community split between Jackson Township and Lower Mahanoy townships. Jordan Township's post office was located in the town of Jordan; its postmaster at that time, Noah Klock, had held the position since that post office was established.
References
Unincorporated communities in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Caughey | Catherine Mary Caughey (née Harvey, 8 December 1923 – 12 April 2008) used Colossus computers for codebreaking at Bletchley Park during World War II.
Early life
Catherine Mary Harvey was born in Eldoret, Kenya, on 8 December 1923, and spent her early life on an isolated farm there. She was educated in England, at St Mary's School, Calne in Wiltshire, and Harcombe House Domestic Science School, in Dorset.
World War II service
Harvey was called up for war service in 1943. After thorough interviewing and testing, she was chosen to work as a "Wren" in the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), allocated to "Special Duties X" at Bletchley Park. Here from early 1944, she worked in the "Newmanry" (named after Max Newman) using the Colossus computers for deciphering German High Command messages. Later she was responsible for the teleprinter room in the Newmanry, where Tunny (Lorenz cipher) messages were received from the main intercept station located in Kent.
Post-war life
After the war, Harvey attended Dorset House in Oxford, trained as an occupational therapist. Once qualified, she worked at a psychiatric hospital in Oxford.
In 1950, she married Ron Caughey in Oxford. Ron Caughey was awarded a fellowship to work at a children’s hospital in Philadelphia, United States. The couple then moved to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1952, living first in Epsom and later in Remuera. They had a son and a daughter. In 1975, Catherine Caughey became a naturalised New Zealand citizen.
Ron Caughey died in 1975 before secrecy around wartime work at Bletchley Park was lifted in the same year, 30 years after the end of World War II, followed by the declassification of the 1945 General Report on Tunny in 2000.
Caughey was active in the Girl Guides in New Zealand, serving on the national council and executive, and in 1976 she was appointed honorary vice president for the Auckland province. In 1978, she founded the Auckland Multicultural Society, and served as its president. In the 1994 New Year Honours, Caughey was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community.
In 1994, Caughey published the autobiographical book World Wanderer in the form of her diaries, which was approved by the British Ministry of Defence. She also contributed to a chapter on bombes in The Turing Guide on Alan Turing that appeared posthumously in 2017. She died in Auckland on 12 April 2008, and her body was cremated at Purewa Crematorium.
Publications
(autobiography)
References
1923 births
2008 deaths
20th-century English diarists
20th-century English women writers
20th-century New Zealand non-fiction writers
20th-century New Zealand women writers
People from Uasin Gishu County
Kenyan emigrants to the United Kingdom
People educated at St Mary's School, Calne
Bletchley Park people
Bletchley Park women
Royal Navy personnel of World War II
Occupational therapists
British emigrants to New Zealand
New Zealand diarists
Women diarists
Naturalised citizens of New Zea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin%20Kam%20Ho | Tin Kam Ho () is a computer scientist at IBM Research with contributions to machine learning, data mining, and classification. Ho is noted for introducing random decision forests in 1995, and for her pioneering work in ensemble learning and data complexity analysis. She is an IEEE fellow and IAPR fellow.
Education
Ho completed her undergraduate education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984. She received a Ph.D. in computer science from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1992.
Career and research
She led the Statistics and Learning Research Department of Bell Labs at Murray Hill, NJ. In 1995, she published the article Random decision forests, which became the foundation of the random forest method commonly used by later data scientists.
Ho also pioneered research in multiple classifier systems, ensemble learning, and data complexity analysis, and pursued applications of automatic learning in reading systems and many areas of science and engineering. She also led major efforts on modeling and monitoring large-scale optical transmission systems. Later she worked on wireless geo-location, video surveillance, smart grid data mining, user profiling, customer experience modeling, and analysis of diagnostic processes.
Since 2014, Ho has been a research scientist in artificial intelligence at IBM. She worked on semantic analysis in natural language processing, contributing to machine learning, data mining, and classification methods at IBM Watson and Watson Health, and has recently joined the Accelerated Discovery team at IBM Research.
Awards and recognition
Her contributions were recognized by a Bell Labs President's Gold Award and two Bell Labs Teamwork Awards, a Young Scientist Award from ICDAR in 1999, and the 2008 Pierre Devijver Award for Statistical Pattern Recognition. She served as Editor-in-chief of the journal Pattern Recognition Letters in 2004-2010, and in earlier years as Associate Editor for PAMI, Pattern Recognition, Editor for Int. J. on Document Analysis and Recognition, as well as guest editors for other publications.
Ho was elected an IEEE fellow in 2006, and is also an IAPR fellow.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Hong Kong emigrants to the United States
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Women in optics
Chinese women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher%20Broke%20%282004%20film%29 | Gopher Broke is a 2004 computer-animated short film written and directed by Jeff Fowler and executive produced by Tim Miller at Blur Studio. The film is about a hungry gopher who hatches a clever plan to get a quick snack, but discovers that even the best laid plans can go awry. The short film was also released in theaters with Doogal.
Synopsis
A gopher finds himself on a road where trucks are hauling produce to market. He hits on the idea of shaking some of the produce loose for himself, but other animals always beat him to the punch. That is, until a truck comes along with a cow.
Production
Gopher Broke is the fourth short film produced by Blur Studio. The short was in production for five months with a team of 25 people. Tools included 3D Studio Max, Brazil R/S, Digital Fusion, and 100 IBM IntelliStation Z workstations. After directing two of the company's last three shorts, executive producer Tim Miller gave up the director's chair to Jeff Fowler. Miller admitted that slapstick comedy was not one of his own strengths. The short was pitched to Nickelodeon, but Fowler told the network the studio had no feature plans for it when asked.
Accolades
The film was nominated for the 2004 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It is the fourth Blur film shortlisted for an Oscar in three years and the first to be nominated.
References
External links
Official website at Blur Studio
2004 films
2004 animated films
2004 short films
American animated short films
Blur Studio films
2000s animated short films
Films directed by Jeff Fowler
Films about gophers
Animated films about mammals
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20and%20Leslie%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Joan and Leslie was an Australian situation comedy series which screened on the Seven Network between 1969 and 1970. It was an adaption of a UK television series also known as Joan and Leslie, which had not screened in Australia.
Cast
Joan Reynolds as Joan Randall
Leslie Randall as Leslie Randall
Stan Penrose as Merv Kelly
Leila Blake as Gina Cotter
See also
List of Australian television series
Joan and Leslie
Notes
External links
Joan and Leslie Classic Australian TV
Australian television sitcoms
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in New South Wales
1969 Australian television series debuts
1970 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Unloved%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Unloved is an Australian television drama series which first screened on the Nine Network in 1968. It was produced by NLT Productions.
Cast
Mike Dorsey
Darlene Johnson
John Morgan
Robert Peach
Jacki Weaver
Vivienne Garrett
References
External links
The Unloved at AustLit
Nine Network original programming
Australian legal television series
1968 Australian television series debuts
1960s Australian drama television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20perspicua | Datana perspicua, the spotted datana, is a species of prominent moth in the family Notodontidae. It was described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1865 and is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Datana perspicua is 7908.
Subspecies
Datana perspicua mesillae Cockerell, 1897
Datana perspicua opposita Barnes & Benjamin, 1927
Datana perspicua perspicua Grote & Robinson, 1865
References
Lafontaine, J. Donald & Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys, vol. 40, 1-239.
Further reading
Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
External links
Butterflies and Moths of North America
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Datana perspicua
Notodontidae
Moths described in 1865
Moths of North America
Taxa named by Augustus Radcliffe Grote
Taxa named by Coleman Townsend Robinson |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Spoiler%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Spoiler is an Australian police drama series which first screened on the Nine Network in 1972. It was created by Robert Bruning and ran for 13 episodes.
Cast
Bruce Barry as Jim Carver
Carmen Duncan as Marie
Serge Lazareff as Teddy
Slim DeGrey as Det. Sgt. Eric Evans
Ken Hunter-Kerr as Sir Ian Mason
References
External links
The Spoiler at AustLit (subscription required)
Nine Network original programming
Television shows set in New South Wales
1972 Australian television series debuts
1972 Australian television series endings
1970s Australian crime television series
1970s Australian drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20New%20Looney%20Tunes%20episodes | This is a list of episodes of the American animated television series New Looney Tunes. The show premiered on September 21, 2015 on Cartoon Network and October 5, 2015 on Boomerang.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1: Wabbit./Bugs! (2015–2018)
Season 2 (2018–19)
The first 13 episodes were released in the United States on June 25, 2018 (with the exception of episodes 5 and 13, which were released earlier). Season 2 premiered in the United Kingdom and Ireland on September 4, 2017.
Note: All release dates listed are for Boomerang's streaming service unless otherwise noted.
Season 3 (2019–20)
References
New Looney Tunes
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri%20Golubov%20%28politician%29 | Dmitri Golubov (, born October 16, 1983) is a Ukrainian politician and former Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, cybercriminal, former carder. He is also the leader of the Internet Party of Ukraine, although he has never taken part in any election as a candidate of this party.
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Golubov won a parliamentary seat as a candidate for Petro Poroshenko Bloc constituency 136 located in Odesa with 30.31% of the votes.
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Golubov was not reelected in constituency 136, this time as an independent candidate, with 40.92% of the votes (winner Oleksandr Horeniuk of Servant of the People gained 47.08%).
In 2012 Golubov bought 4376 bitcoins and declared it in 2017.
In the 2020 Odesa local election Golubov was a candidate for mayor of Odesa (nominated by Dmitry Golubov Bloc). After his below 1% score Golubov and his Dmitry Golubov Bloc supported Opposition Platform — For Life candidate Mykola Skoryk in the second round of the election. Incumbent mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov defeated Skoryk in the second round of the mayoral election on 15 November 2020 with 54.28% of the votes.
Carderplanet case
In the mid-2000s, Golubov was involved in a hacking case with international payment bank cards under the nickname of Script.
In 2001 or 2003, Carderplanet.com was launched and registered in Madagascar, where a group of about 7,000 card-criminals were engaged in bank card fraud. The participants registered on the site were mainly representatives of Eastern European countries.
Because of Wikileaks-related activities, the leaders of the criminal group were tracked down after the FBI, secret service within The Treasury Department of the US and the post inspection service of the US were engaged in the investigation of frauds using information from the Carderplanet.com website. On July 7, 2005, Golubov was detained at his home in Odesa.
Golubov spent six months in the Lukyanivska Prison in Kyiv. He was threatened with imprisonment for up to 12 years. On December 22, 2005, at a preliminary hearing in the Solomensky District Court of Kyiv, Judge Volodymyr Skoryk decided to release Golubov from custody and transfer him to bail MPs Volodymyr Makeyenko and Volodymyr Demyokhin. They made a deposit of ₴50,000 each. The judge denied MasterCard and Visa representatives to appear in court as civil plaintiffs.
After four years of court proceedings, Golubov was fully acquitted by the Solomensky District Court of Kyiv under Articles 200 part 2, 255 part 1, 190 part 4 because of "lack of corpus delicti."
References
External links
Dmitri Golubov' profile at the official web site of Verkhovna Rada
Living people
1983 births
Odesa University alumni
Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Independent politicians of Petro Poroshenko Bloc
Politicians from Odesa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%20Common%20Data%20Dictionary | IEC Common Data Dictionary (abbreviated: IEC CDD) is a metadata registry providing product classification and formalized product descriptions that can be used in the context of smart manufacturing and Industrie 4.0.
Data Model
IEC CDD is based on the data model defined in IEC 61360-2/ISO 13584–42 with an enhancement of its modelling capability adopted from IEC 62656-1. The description of the data model for dictionary developers in particular for those in electrotechnical domains is given in IEC 61360-1. Currently the scope of the registry is extended to cover all ISO and IEC domains, thus it is no longer "IEC CDD", nevertheless it is hosted by IEC-CO and is maintained by IEC SC 3D with a joint working group formed between IEC SC 3D and ISO TC 184/SC4. The data model of the CDD references ISO/IEC 11179 for the identification of the registered elements . It is used to host product classifications. - This means the IEC CDD is a database providing classifications and metadata definitions for describing products. The IEC CDD is an International Standard in the form of an online database, not in the form of (e-)paper, and is given the standard number IEC 61360-4 DB. Thus the metadata registered into the database has the status of International Standard. The procedure to add a new definition or a set of definitions is based on the IEC database procedure, described in Annex SL of the IEC supplementary of the ISO/IEC directive Part 1. This process for updating the content is called a "Change Request" and when a Change Request is issued and adopted, the proposed item will become part of the International Standard, IEC 61360-4 DB, within approximately 6 months.
Use
IEC CDD originally was intended to support electronic exchange of digital information (e.g. for e-commerce ).
The exchanged information is based on concepts, which are standardized as a common basis.
New information concepts related to smart manufacturing and Industrie 4.0 are based on use of IEC CDD and similar dictionaries. The intention for these use cases is to provide the meaning of data values by referencing the data definitions in the dictionaries. Such annotated data values then can be exchanged within one production system between machines of different manufacturers or between different companies.
Scope
The data specification for IEC CDD is provided by IEC 61360. This means IEC CDD stores concepts which are based on IEC 61360, such as
Uniquely identified classes and properties, and their relations;
Uniquely identified values and value lists;
terminology and definitions based on accepted international standards;
technical representation of concepts including units and data types and their identification.
The representation of a product and its features is based on a hierarchy of classes. The characteristics of the product are represented with help of the property definitions related to the classes. Such property definitions may be based on general datatypes or based on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2061360 | IEC 61360, with the title "Standard data element types with associated classification scheme", is a series of standard documents defining a general purpose vocabulary in terms of a reference dictionary published by the International Electrotechnical Commission.
Intended use
The vocabulary specified in IEC 61360 may be used to define ontologies for use in the field of electrotechnology, electronics and related domains.
Structure
The IEC 61360 series is structured into different parts:
IEC 61360-1 - Part 1: Definitions - Principles and methods
IEC 61360-2 - Part 2: EXPRESS dictionary schema
IEC 61360-4 - Part 4: IEC Common Data Dictionary (IEC CDD)
IEC 61360-6 - Part 6: IEC Common Data Dictionary (IEC CDD) quality guidelines
IEC 61360-1 provides a detailed introduction to the structure of the dictionary and its use.
IEC 61360-2 specifies the detailed dictionary data model and IEC 61360-6 stipulates quality criteria for the content of the dictionary.
The data model defined in IEC 61360-2 is also published in ISO 13584-42.
The IEC provides a technical dictionary for the use in the electro-technical and electronic domain which is published as IEC 61360-4. This dictionary is called IEC Common Data Dictionary (IEC CDD) and can be accessed as a web page (https://cdd.iec.ch).
See also
IEC 61360 also defines the base for other product taxonomies like eCl@ss.
Industrie 4.0 uses product property description based on IEC 61360.
References
61360 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYBU-DTV | DYBU-DTV (digital UHF channel 43) is a Philippine television station owned by Radyo Natin Network and operated by its affiliate Manila Broadcasting Company in the Philippines. The station's transmitter is located at Eggling Subdivision, Busay Hills, Cebu City.
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 43 (647.143 MHz)
See also
List of Manila Broadcasting Company stations
References
External links
Digital television stations in the Philippines
Television stations in Cebu City
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Manila Broadcasting Company
1999 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TER%20Nouvelle-Aquitaine | TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the regional rail network serving the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. It is operated by the French national railway company SNCF. It was formed in 2017 from the previous TER networks TER Aquitaine, TER Limousin and TER Poitou-Charentes, after the respective regions were merged.
History
The merger of the three administrative regions of Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes took place on 16 January 2015, according to the changes to the law on the delimitation of regions. However, TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which brought together the former TER Aquitaine, TER Limousin and TER Poitou-Charentes networks, started in 2017.
In September 2018, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region opposed the SNCF policy of running trains without a conductor as the former wanted conductors to be present on trains to avoid fraud and sell tickets.
Network
3,600 kilometres of rail lines cover the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region (including 249 kilometres of the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique which connects the LGV Atlantique to Bordeaux). There are 308 stations and stopping points. The region is criss-crossed by TGV, Intercités, TER lines.
The towns served by TER trains are summarized in the table below. On several lines, trains are complemented by buses. As these services are taken up by the table in the next section, the table does not take them into account. The rail and bus network as of January 2021:
Rail
Bus
See also
Réseau Ferré de France
List of SNCF stations in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
References
External links
Rail transport in Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Below%3A%20Tales%20of%20Arcadia | 3Below: Tales of Arcadia (or simply 3Below) is an American computer-animated science fantasy television series produced by DreamWorks Animation, and is the second installment of Guillermo del Toro's Tales of Arcadia trilogy.
The series was announced on December 12, 2017 by Netflix and DreamWorks. On October 5, 2018, the premiere date was announced and the first teaser was released. The 13-episode first season was released on December 21, 2018 on Netflix. The series concluded with the release of the second season on July 12, 2019.
A third and final installment of Tales of Arcadia, titled Wizards, was released on August 7, 2020. The full-length feature film, Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans was released on Netflix on July 21, 2021.
Plot
Two royal extraterrestrial siblings, Crown Princess Aja and Crown Prince Krel of House Tarron, their dog-like pet named Luug, and their bodyguard, Varvatos Vex, escape from their home planet of Akiridion-5 after a coup and crash-land on Earth, specifically in the city of Arcadia Oaks, California. There, the aliens adjust to human culture and try to fix their spaceship (as well as to restore their nearly-dead parents King Fialkov and Queen Coranda) to return and take back Akiridion-5, which is being taken over by an evil dictator known as General Val Morando, who has already sent out a team of intergalactic bounty hunters, called the Zeron Brotherhood, to find and catch the alien prince and princess.
After investigating a way to stop Val Morando and find the hiding place of Aja and Krel, Zadra, one of the noble protectors of the royals from Akiridion-5, arrives on Earth. Meanwhile, after learning of his involvement in Morando's coup, Aja and Krel decide to exile Vex. During his exile, Vex is captured by the Zeron Brotherhood and imprisoned at a bounty hunter outpost located on Earth's moon. In Season 2, Aja and Krel learn of his capture and launch a rescue mission. Soon after the rescue, however the gang discovers that Morando is heading for Earth. After successfully defeating him, Aja (now Queen), Vex, Zadra, Luug and the rest finally return home, joined by Eli, who has volunteered to be Earth's ambassador on Akiridion 5. Crown Prince Krel decides that Earth has become his home, and decides to stay with his new human best friends.
Voice cast
Princess Aja and Crown Prince Krel also appeared in the Trollhunters episodes "In Good Hands", and "The Eternal Knight Pt. 1" in their borrowed human forms.
Episodes
Season 1 (2018)
Season 2 (2019)
Reception
Critical response
The series currently holds a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. It has been praised for its depiction of immigration through a sci-fi lens, with Dave Trumbore of Collider writing, "... the subtext here, which is hard to miss even for younger viewers, is that Aja, Krel, and Vex are stand-ins for immigrants, refugees, and "illegal aliens" ... the show is re-examining the actions of the anti-immigrant government agents and the aliens' allies alike."
Accolad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20software%20engineering | Research software engineering is the use of software engineering practices in research applications. The term was proposed in a research paper in 2010 in response to an empirical survey on tools used for software development in research projects. It started to be used in United Kingdom in 2012, when it was needed to define the type of software development needed in research. This focuses on reproducibility, reusability, and accuracy of data analysis and applications created for research.
Support
Various type of associations and organisations have been created around this role to support the creation of posts in universities and research institutes. In 2014 a Research Software Engineer Association was created in UK, which attracted 160 members in the first three months. Other countries like the Netherlands, Germany, and the USA followed creating similar communities and there are similar efforts being pursued in Asia, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Nordic countries, and Belgium. In January 2021 the International Council of RSE Associations was introduced.
UK counts almost 30 universities and institutes with groups that provide access to software expertise to different areas of research. Additionally, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council created a Research Software Engineer fellowship to promote this role and help the creation of RSE groups across UK, with calls in 2015, 2017, and 2020.
The world first RSE conference took place in UK in September 2016, it was repeated in 2017, 2018 and 2019, and is planned again for 2020. In 2019 the first national RSE conferences in Germany and the Netherlands were held, next editions were planned for 2020 and then cancelled.
The SORSE (A Series of Online Research Software Events) community was established in late‑2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ran its first online event on 2September 2020.
See also
Open Energy Modelling Initiative — relevant here because the bulk of the development occurs in universities
References
Further reading
The Turing Way
Research Software Engineering with Python
Software Carpentry
Good Research Code Handbook
External links
SORSE — A Series of Online Research Software Events — listing of online events tailored for the COVID-19 era
Research Software Engineers: State of the Nation Report 2017
Research Software Alliance (ReSA) (international)
Society of Research Software Engineering (UK)
US RSE Association
Software engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte%20Era | The Zettabyte Era or Zettabyte Zone is a period of human and computer science history that started in the mid-2010s. The precise starting date depends on whether it is defined as when the global IP traffic first exceeded one zettabyte, which happened in 2016, or when the amount of digital data in the world first exceeded a zettabyte, which happened in 2012. A zettabyte is a multiple of the unit byte that measures digital storage, and it is equivalent to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1021) bytes.
According to Cisco Systems, an American multinational technology conglomerate, the global IP traffic achieved an estimated 1.2 zettabytes (an average of 96 exabytes (EB) per month) in 2016. Global IP traffic refers to all digital data that passes over an IP network which includes, but is not limited to, the public Internet. The largest contributing factor to the growth of IP traffic comes from video traffic (including online streaming services like Netflix and YouTube).
The Zettabyte Era can also be understood as an age of growth of all forms of digital data that exist in the world which includes the public Internet, but also all other forms of digital data such as stored data from security cameras or voice data from cell-phone calls. Taking into account this second definition of the Zettabyte Era, it was estimated that in 2012 upwards of 1 zettabyte of data existed in the world and that by 2020 there would be more than 40 zettabytes of data in the world at large.
The Zettabyte Era translates to difficulties for data centers to keep up with the explosion of data consumption, creation and replication. In 2015, 2% of total global power was taken up by the Internet and all its components, so energy efficiency with regards to data centers has become a central problem in the Zettabyte Era.
IDC forecasts that the amount of data generated each year will grow to 103 zettabytes by 2023 and 175 zettabytes by 2025. It further estimates that a total of 22 zettabytes of digital storage will be shipped across all storage media types between 2018 and 2025, with nearly 59 percent of this capacity being provided by the hard drive industry.
The zettabyte
A zettabyte is a digital unit of measurement. One zettabyte is equal to one sextillion bytes or 1021 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes, or, one zettabyte is equal to a trillion gigabytes. To put this into perspective, consider that "if each terabyte in a zettabyte were a kilometre, it would be equivalent to 1,300 round trips to the moon and back (768,800 kilometers)". As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt puts it, from the very beginning of humanity to the year 2003, an estimated 5 exabytes of information was created, which corresponds to 0.5% of a zettabyte. In 2013, that amount of information (5 exabytes) took only two days to create, and that pace is continuously growing.
Definitions
The concept of the Zettabyte Era can be separated into two distinct categories:
In terms of IP traffic: This first definition r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Quint | The Quint is an English and Hindi language Indian general news and opinion website founded by Raghav Bahl and Ritu Kapur after their exit from Network18. The publication's journalists have won three Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards and two Red Ink Awards.
History
In May 2014, Raghav Bahl and Ritu Kapur, the promoters of Network18 ended their shareholding of the media conglomerate with the takeover by Reliance Industries. Following the controversial exit, they founded the digital media company, Quintillion Media. The company was the first major investor in the tech startup Quintype founded by Amit Rathore. Quintillion Media launched The Quint publication in January 2015 on Facebook and as a website by March 2015. Quintype took over the digital technology operations of the publication. By December 2016, The Quint website had crossed the mark of 10 million unique visitors.
In February 2017, The Quint launched two online content verticals Quint Neon, a lifestyle news section and QuintLabs, a multimedia exposition platform. In the same year, it also launched the fact checking initiative WebQoof and partnered with BBC News for the production of a video series to combat disinformation. In September 2018, Google India entered into a partnership with The Quint, to host the "Bol: Love Your Bhasha" event featuring panel discussions on media readership and business strategy with the objective of laying emphasis on the potential of Indian languages. The event was attended by Anant Goenka, the executive director of the Indian Express Group, Arvind Pani, the co-founder and CEO of Reverie Language Technologies and the Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, among others.
The offices of The Quint and Raghav Bahl's residence were raided by the Income Tax Department of India in October 2018 in connection to an alleged case of tax evasion, the raid was termed as a survey by the Income Tax officers. Raghav Bahl released a statement which termed the raid as an attack on journalistic freedom while appealing to the autonomous Enforcement Directorate to back The Quint such that a precedent is set against repetition of a similar exercise on any journalistic entity. The Editors Guild of India raised concerns that while the department was within its rights to carry out inquiries, the conduct of such exercises should not be akin to intimidation tactics.
In January 2019, The Quint introduced subscriptions for advertisement free delivery of its content and in July, it also introduced a premium membership initiative for access to webinars for members. Raghav Bahl completed his investment in the news publisher over the course of the years, amounting to $21.5 million from the capital gained following the sale of Network18.
In May 2020, The Quint was acquired by Gaurav Mercantiles through which it was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The acquisition involved all assets of Quintillion Media excluding BloombergQuint. The transaction of Quintil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket-sized%20computer | Pocket-sized computer describes the post-programmable calculator / pre-smartphone pocket-sized portable-office hardware devices that included the earlier DOS-based palmtops and subsequent Windows-CE handhelds, as well as a few other terms, primarily covering the 1980s through 2007.
Sometimes called Pocket-sized computing devices, they were a series of internally different devices, and included Handheld ("Pocket-sized handheld computing device"), and the earlier-introduced Palmtop
("Pocket-sized palmtop computing device") and "pocket-sized palmtop computer." The New York Times used the term "palmtop/handheld."
The media called "the first computer that fits in your palm and weighs less than a pound" and its early day competitors a palmtop. Although the word "handheld" was used before Microsoft's 1996 introduction of Windows CE, a lawsuit by Palm, Inc pushed Microsoft's use of the new term Handheld PC.
Timeline summary
1973 - The first portable computer, the MCM/70, was introduced. It weighed about 9 kg.
1975 - The second portable computer, the IBM 5100, was introduced. It weighed 50 pounds (24 kg).
1977 - The original TRS-80 was introduced. It used an 8-bit Z-80 processor.
1980 - The term Pocket computer began in 1980 with the popular acceptance of the oddly-named TRS-80/Tandy Pocket Computer. It was not a TRS-80, and was the first of 8 models named PC-1 through PC-8. The TRS-80 Pocket Computer PC-1 was a rebadged Sharp PC-1211. that used two 4-bit processors.
1981 - The first IBM Personal Computer
1989 - The first Palmtop PC, using a 16-bit X86 processor
1996 - The first Handheld PC
Neither the Palmtop PC nor the Handheld PC were pocket computers. As late as March 1981 a "computer small enough to fit in a coat pocket" had yet to be introduced.
Market acceptance
The first hand-held device compatible with desktop IBM personal computers of the time was the DIP Pocket PC aka Atari Portfolio in 1989. The term "Handheld PC" described the product first introduced in 1989 by Atari as "the first computer that fits in your palm and weighs less than a pound." The full version of the ad ran as eight pages and showed the device in actual size, including one page topped by a hand placing an Atari Portfolio(tm) into a suit inner lapel pocket.
Other early models were the Poqet PC of 1989 and the Hewlett Packard HP 95LX of 1991. Other DOS-compatible hand-held computers also existed. Some handheld PCs use Microsoft's Windows CE operating system, with the term also covering Windows CE devices released by the broader commercial market.
Despite the arrival in the early 2010s of devices lacking keyboards, demand for used pocket computers remained strong. The PsiXpda Ultimate Pocket Computer from 2009; the GPD Win from 2016; the Gemini from 2018 and the eponymous GPD Pocket commercial offerings continue to supply this market while the crowd-funded open source hardware Pandora and Pyra maintain small-scale production and ongoing development.
A combinat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarifai | Clarifai is an independent artificial intelligence company that specializes in computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. One of the first deep learning platforms having been founded in 2013, Clarifai provides an AI platform for unstructured image, video, text, and audio data. Its platform supports the full AI lifecycle for data exploration, data labeling, model training, evaluation and inference around images, video, text, and audio data. Headquartered in Washington DC and with employees in the US, Canada, Argentina, Estonia and India Clarifai uses machine learning and deep neural networks to identify and analyze images, videos, text and audio automatically. Clarifai enables users to implement AI technology into their products via API, Mobile SDK, and/or on-premise solutions.
History
Clarifai was founded in 2013 by Matthew Zeiler after taking the top five places in the image classification at the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Initially, the company offered free and paid versions of image and video recognition and six pre-built models (processing blocks that convert images or videos to predictions) via their API and a consumer-facing iPhone app called Forevery. In 2014 Style Me Pretty, a wedding lifestyle website which used the technology to provide images that are personally adapted to the user, became Clarifai's first customer.
In 2016, Clarifai released Version 2 (v2) of their API, adding Custom Training and Visual Search to its platform. In 2017 the company moved all research work to a San Francisco office and all government-related endeavors to an office in Washington D.C. Later that year, the company announced a mobile SDK, which allowed users to run their platform without an internet connection. In 2018 Clarifai rebranded following a shift towards focusing on enterprise customers and the release of an on-premise solution. In 2019, Clarifai opened a new office in Estonia's capital city Tallinn. In July 2022, Clarifai announced the launch of a new free service – Clarifai Community – designed to empower everyone to create, share and use The World's AI. Clarifai Community is built on top of Clarifai's platform for the end-to-end AI lifecycle, and is powerful enough for data scientists, robust enough for developers, and easy enough for no-code business users. In May 2023, Clarifai released a completely new user interface on the Community, and in June 2023 entered the generative AI space with open source generative models and API wrappers for popular third-party large language models like ChatGPT.
Funding
In 2015, Clarifai raised $10 million in its Series A funding round, led by Union Square Ventures (USV). After the 2016 launch of their v2 API, Menlo Ventures led their $30 million Series B round, with participation from USV, Lux Capital, and Osage University Partners. In October 2021, Clarifai closed a $60 million Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from existing investo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms%20of%20Oppression | Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism is a 2018 book by Safiya Umoja Noble in the fields of information science, machine learning, and human-computer interaction.
Background
Noble earned an undergraduate degree in sociology from California State University, Fresno in the 1990s, then worked in advertising and marketing for fifteen years before going to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for a Master of Library and Information Science degree in the early 2000s. The book's first inspiration came in 2011, when Noble Googled the phrase "black girls" and saw results for pornography on the first page. Noble's doctoral thesis, completed in 2012, was titled "Searching for Black girls: Old traditions in new media." At this time, Noble thought of the title "Algorithms of Oppression" for the eventual book. By this time, changes to Google's algorithm had changed the most common results for a search of "black girls," though the underlying biases remain influential. Noble became an assistant professor at University of California, Los Angeles in 2014. In 2017, she published an article on racist and sexist bias in search engines in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The book was published on February 20, 2018.
Overview
Algorithms of Oppression is a text based on over six years of academic research on Google search algorithms, examining search results from 2009 to 2015. The book addresses the relationship between search engines and discriminatory biases. Noble argues that search algorithms are racist and perpetuate societal problems because they reflect the negative biases that exist in society and the people who create them. Noble dismantles the idea that search engines are inherently neutral by explaining how algorithms in search engines privilege whiteness by depicting positive cues when key words like “white” are searched as opposed to “asian,” “hispanic,” or “Black.” Her main example surrounds the search results of "Black girls" versus "white girls" and the biases that are depicted in the results. These algorithms can then have negative biases against women of color and other marginalized populations, while also affecting Internet users in general by leading to "racial and gender profiling, misrepresentation, and even economic redlining." The book argues that algorithms perpetuate oppression and discriminate against People of Color, specifically women of color.
Noble takes a Black intersectional feminist approach to her work in studying how google algorithms affect people differently by race and gender. Intersectional Feminism takes into account the diverse experiences of women of different races and sexualities when discussing their oppression society, and how their distinct backgrounds affect their struggles. Additionally, Noble's argument addresses how racism infiltrates the google algorithm itself, something that is true throughout many coding systems including facial recognition, and medical care programs. Whil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Mint%20Gold | Royal Mint Gold was a digital gold currency and a cryptocurrency backed by gold reserves in the UK Royal Mint. The Royal Mint began testing blockchain transactions in April 2017. The first test transaction was in August 2017. The rollout was originally scheduled to occur by the end of 2017. US-based CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) was tentatively set to administer the trading. At the time, The Daily Telegraph said it "appears somewhat similar to an exchange-traded fund such as ETF Securities Physical Gold".
The project collapsed in 2018, when CME pulled out and the UK Royal Mint was hesitant to find a new partner.
Implementation
The blockchain used is the Prova open-source distributed ledger. A proof-of-stake algorithm demonstrates ownership of the physical gold. BitGo provided blockchain code.
Backing gold
The Royal Mint stated that "All gold is held within the highly secure storage facilities in The Royal Mint's vault and The Royal Mint acts solely as sub-custodian and has no claim on the gold" and that gold delivery would be possible, with additional fabrication fees for amounts less than a London Good Delivery bar (400 oz, worth about US$400,000 on January 31, 2018).
Cancellation
Around October 25, 2018, the UK Government cancelled the Mint's plans to issue cryptocurrency, after a change in management at CME led the group to pull out and left the UK Royal Mint without a trading venue.
References
Further reading
External links
Cryptocurrency projects
Digital gold currencies
CME Group |
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