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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face%202%20Face%20%282016%20film%29 | Face 2 Face is a 2016 American independent teen drama film directed by Matt Toronto, who co-wrote the film with his brother and collaborator Aaron Toronto. It is presented as a computer screen film, being told almost entirely through a video chat screencast via webcam and smartphone cameras.
The film stars Daniella Bobadilla and Daniel Amerman as two childhood friends who rekindle their friendship by discussing their lives over the internet to cope with typical adolescent problems, and deals with subjects of sexual identity, teen suicide and parent-adolescent incestuous abuse.
Plot
Michigan teenager Terrence Johnson (known by his nickname "Teel," given to him because of his inability to pronounce "Steel" while pretending to be Superman as a kid) contacts his childhood friend Madison Daniels, now living in California, via video chat after attempting suicide by overdosing on acetaminophen. The two are on opposite ends of the popularity spectrum: Madison is an "A-list party girl" and rebellious girl with a seemingly perfect life, while Teel is a social outcast struggling to make friends. Teel decides to audition for his school's production of Bye Bye Birdie in order to improve his social life, despite his parents wanting the self-admittedly unathletic teen to participate in sports; Madison convinces Teel to create a Facebook account to help him make friends. Madison’s father is very strict and always in her face and punished her coming home late from her party. They have an estranged relationship because his father is retiring. While discussing her plan to attract her crush Cole, Madison takes Teel's comment that she looked "sweaty" in a beach photo to suggest he implied she looked slutty in the picture, abruptly ending the call even after Teel acknowledges she looked attractive in it.
The next day, Teel reveals to Madison that Sonny Dombrowski, another childhood friend who is now a popular jock at his school, accepted his Facebook friend request, but is recalcitrant about restarting their friendship in real life. Teel later reveals that he got in trouble at school after Sonny cheated off of Teel's test paper, as a harried Madison expresses exasperation with having to plan her father's retirement party. A day after Sonny comes to the house to make amends for cheating, Teel reveals he had been beaten up by a group of bullies, but is reluctant to disclose the reason behind the altercation. After Teel helps Madison do her makeup for a function she's attending at the school where her father works (using tips he learned from his beautician mother), Cole, who performed a song at the event, asks Madison out on a date. The day after a party where she was to meet up with Cole and finds out he had sex with her best friend Sophie, Teel assures Madison that she is intelligent and beautiful, and that the situation was for the best because she should want her first sexual experience to be special; Madison inadvertently reveals she already lost her virginity, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habiba%20Al%20Marashi | Habiba Al Marashi is an Emirati environmentalist. In 1991 she founded the Emirates Environmental Group, which she continues to chair. In 2004 she founded the Arabia CSR Network (ACSRN), devoted to corporate social responsibility across the Arab region. She has been referred to as 'the UAE environmental movement's most recognisable figure' and is widely praised for her environmental work, in encouraging public/private sector co-operation in recycling and environmentalism and sustainability. She sits on the board of the UN Global Compact (UN GC).
Al Marashi has long been an outspoken proponent of environmental best practices in the Emirates and has frequently lobbied for change in public forums and events.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Emirati environmentalists
Emirati women environmentalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Line%20%28Calgary%29 | The Blue Line, also known as Route 202, is a light rail transit (LRT) line in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Partnered with the Red Line, and future Green Line it makes up Calgary's CTrain network. Following its initial approval in 1976, the Red Line opened in 1981, with the first trains running on what is now the Blue Line in 1985.
History
Origin
The concept of a light rail transit system (LRT) was approved in 1976 by the City of Calgary, with the first section running from Anderson Road in the southwest, northbound, and into downtown, opening in 1981. Originally planned for 40,000 passengers per day, this initial section quickly achieved its designed ridership and is now part of the Red Line. Based on the success of the Anderson-downtown section, the city approved a second route which would head northwest towards the University of Calgary and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Opposition to the routing through the neighborhood of Sunnyside resulted in a switch of priority to the northeast, in what would become the Blue Line. The median of some main roads had already been allocated to serve as the right of way for what would become the CTrain's Blue Line, and the first section opened in 1985, before the originally proposed northwestern expansion. Both lines share a right-of-way through the downtown core.
Northeast expansion
The Blue Line's first expansion was to McKnight–Westwinds station in 2007. with Martindale station and Saddletowne (the current terminus) opening in 2012.
Western expansion
In February 2008 the Western expansion of the CTrain began, extending the line from downtown towards 69 Street SW, and adding an additional six stations. The Western expansion opened at the end of 2012, ahead of the planned 2013 opening.
Capacity upgrade
Up until the completion of the Red Line's Fish Creek–Lacombe station, all platforms for the CTrain were originally designed to service three-car trains, although there had been enough space allotted to allow four-car trains. Beginning in 2007 construction on station platforms began to expand the entire network to allow four-car trains, with the project being completed in 2017 for CA$300 million. In 2017, Calgary Transit began running four-car trains on the Blue Line. The increase from three-car trains realized an additional capacity of 200 passengers per trip.
Stations and route
Starting at 69 Street station, the Blue line runs along 17 Avenue SW, crossing Sarcee Trail, passes briefly underground towards Westbrook Mall, and then follows along Bow Trail. The line then continues to Downtown Calgary where it shares a right of way with the Red Line along 7 Avenue S. The two lines diverge after City Hall station, where it turns north to cross the Bow River, and runs along the median of Memorial Drive, crossing Deerfoot Trail (Highway 2), to 36 Street NE, where it turns northbound, continuing within the median of 36 Street NE, crossing 16 Avenue NE (Highway 1 / Trans-Canada Highway), and McKnight |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Line%20%28Calgary%29 | The Red Line, also known as Route 201, is a light rail transit (LRT) line in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Partnered with the Blue Line, and future Green Line it makes up Calgary's CTrain network. Following its initial approval in 1976, the Red Line opened in 1981, running from Anderson station in the southeast into downtown. The Red Line has gone through a series of expansions, which bring it to its current design. The Red Line services the northwest quadrant and south end of the city beginning at Tuscany station, runs through the downtown core on 7th Avenue, then proceeds southbound where it terminates at Somerset–Bridlewood station. The section of track running along 7th Avenue is shared with the Blue Line. Future expansion of the Red Line includes rerouting the downtown section below 8th Avenue, which would allow the operation of five-car trains, further increasing capacity.
History
Origin
The concept of a light rail transit system (LRT) was approved in 1976 by the City of Calgary, with the first section running from Anderson Road in the southwest, northbound, and into downtown, opening in 1981. Originally planned for 40,000 passengers per day, this initial section quickly achieved its designed ridership and is now part of the Red Line. Based on the success of the Anderson-downtown section, the city approved a second route which would head northwest towards the University of Calgary and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Opposition to the routing through the neighborhood of Sunnyside resulted in a switch of priority to the northeast, in what would become the Blue Line. The first section of the Blue Line opened in 1985. Both lines share a right-of-way through the downtown core. The decision to proceed with the original CTrain expansion northwest (in what would be part of the current Red Line) overcame opposition following Calgary being awarded the 1988 Winter Olympics. The city wanted the CTrain to access McMahon Stadium at the University of Calgary, which served as a venue for the games.
Northwest expansion
In 1987 the third expansion of the CTrain opened adding an additional of line into service towards the northwest, and in 1990 a second northwest expansion of to the Brentwood station. In 2000 a reallocation of 5¢ per-litre collected through the provincial gasoline tax helped fund the northwest expansion of the Red Line to Dalhousie station in 2003. This was followed by another extension to Crowfoot station in 2008, and finally to Tuscany station in 2014.
Southern expansion
The fuel tax reallocation allowed the Red Line to expand to the south to the Fish Creek–Lacombe station in 2001, with a further southern expansion to Somerset–Bridlewood station in 2004.
Capacity upgrade
Up until the completion of the Fish Creek–Lacombe station, all platforms for the CTrain were originally designed to service three-car trains, although there had been enough space allotted to allow four car trains. Beginning in 2007 construction on statio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20with%20the%20Ex | Back with the Ex is an Australian reality television series which premiered on the Seven Network on 18 April 2018. The show features former couples who want to give their relationship a second chance.
The series is distributed on Netflix outside of Australia and released in January 2019.
Couples
Ratings
References
External links
Back with the Ex on 7plus
2010s Australian reality television series
2018 Australian television series debuts
2018 Australian television series endings
Seven Network original programming
Australian dating and relationship reality television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Seven Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity%20Chef%3A%20East%20vs%20West | Celebrity Chef: East vs West is a television show produced by Fox Networks Group Asia. The show features Hong Kong singer and chef Nicholas Tse and Canadian chef David Rocco cooking local food in competition with each other. The show was filmed in China, Macau, the Philippines and Malaysia and aired on Fox Life on 25 March 2018.
References
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
Hong Kong
Reality cooking competition television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N673%20highway | National Route 673 (N673) forms a part of the Philippine highway network. It is one of the national secondary roads with two non-contiguous highways, one which runs through the municipality of Pili, Camarines Sur in the Bicol region of Luzon, while the other road runs within the city of Calbayog in the Samar region of Visayas.
Route description
Camarines Sur
In Pili, the province's municipality and provincial capital, N673 starts at the intersection of N1 (Maharlika Highway) on its northern terminus and ends at the intersection of N630 (Governor Jose Fuentebella National Highway) as its southern terminus. The entire numbered route is known as Pili Diversion Road, where it bypasses the town proper which Maharlika Highway leads.
Samar
In Calbayog, N673 connects from N1 (Maharlika Highway) to Barangay Trinidad. The entire numbered route is known as Old Calbayog National Route, Calbayog Old National Route, or Old National Road, which parallels the runway of Calbayog Airport. After intersecting a narrow street in Barangay Trinidad, the road then continues south unnumbered up to Barangay Basud.
References
Roads in Camarines Sur
Roads in Samar (province) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne%20Rogers | Yvonne Rogers is a British psychologist and computer scientist. She serves as director of the Interaction Centre at University College London. She has authored or contributed to more than 250 publications. Her book Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction written with Jenny Preece and Helen Sharp (5th Edition, 2019) has sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into six other languages. Her work is described in Encounters with HCI Pioneers: A Personal History and Photo Journal.
Early life
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from University of Wales in 1982, Master of Science degree ergonomics from University College London in 1983, and PhD in human-computer interaction from University of Wales in 1988.
Career and research
Rogers served as a professor of school of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at Sussex University from 1992 to 2003, Professor in Informatics from 2003 to 2006 at Indiana University, and Professor of HCI at Open University from 2006 to 2011. She is professor and director of The University College London Interaction Centre at University College London. She was Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator of over 30 research grants from EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, EU and NIH. She is known for her work on iconic interface to human-centre AI and a research agenda of user engagement in ubiquitous computing.
Rogers was a principal investigator for the ICRI project in collaboration with Intel. She led projects such as Visualising Mill Road, where they collected community data and visualized it as street art, and the Tidy Street project, visualising energy usage and efficiency from power meters. From 2000 to 2007, Rogers contributed to the UK Equator Project as a principal investigator, researching the relationship between physical and digital user experiences. One of the projects was "Ambient Wood", encouraging children to explore biological processes in a forest using wireless probes.
Rogers worked on a project using ambient light to nudge people to take the stairs rather than the elevator. She worked on the Lambent Shopping Trolly Project, building a lambent display that clips onto any shopping trolley to nudge buying decisions.
Rogers worked on an augmented reality (AR) project to "try on" makeup and see how this AR influences buying decisions.
Awards and honours
Fellow of the British Computer Society
EPSRC dream fellowship
SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award 2022
Elected into SIGCHI CHI Academy 2012
Osher Fellow 2015
Milner Award 2022
Fellow of the Royal Society 2022
Books
Her publications include:
Papers
Yvonne Rogers, Judi Ellis, Distributed cognition: an alternative framework for analysing and explaining collaborative working, (1994), Journal of Information Technology
Michael Scaife, Yvonne Rogers, External cognition: how do graphical representations work?, (1996), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Yvonne Rogers, Antonio Rizzo, Mike Scaife, Interdisciplinarit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuchi%20Chawla | Shuchi Chawla is an Indian computer scientist who works in the design and analysis of algorithms, and is known for her research on correlation clustering, information privacy, mechanism design, approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, and algorithmic bias. She works as a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.
Education and career
Chawla earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2000, and received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. Her dissertation, Graph Algorithms for Planning and Partitioning, was supervised by Avrim Blum. After postdoctoral studies at Stanford University under the mentorship of Tim Roughgarden, and at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, she joined the Wisconsin faculty in 2006.. She joined the UT-Austin faculty in 2021.
She won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2009, and was named a Kavli Fellow in 2012.
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Computer systems researchers
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
IIT Delhi alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Sloan Research Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)
Theoretical computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20H.%20Klatt | Dennis H. Klatt (March 31, 1938 – December 30, 1988) was an American researcher in speech and hearing science. Klatt was the pioneer of computerized speech synthesis and created an interface which allowed for speech for non-expert users for the first time. Prior to his work, non-verbal individuals would need specialist support to be able to speak at all. Stephen Hawking used a version of this speech synthesizer, based on Klatt's own voice, and which Hawking chose to keep even after others became available.
Biography
Dennis Klatt was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 31, 1938. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1960 and 1961, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in communication sciences from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1964. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 1965, becoming a senior research scientist in 1978, and remained a member of the MIT faculty until his death.
An author of more than 60 scientific papers, Klatt was awarded the Silver Medal in Speech Communication by the Acoustical Society of America for "fundamental and applied contributions to the synthesis and recognition of speech", and the John Price Wetherill Medal by the Franklin Institute "for the design of a machine that can articulate written language", both in 1987.
Klatt developed a complete system for synthesis of speech from English text, and his research led to a detailed specification of rules for segmental durations in English. Throughout his career Klatt retained a keen interest in seeing the results of his work applied to the special needs of blind and other handicapped persons, such as his work on Stephen Hawking's voice synthesizer. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 30, 1988, after a long struggle with cancer which also took his voice.
References
External links
KlattSyn Online demo of a Klatt formant synthesizer, an open-source browser-based web application written in TypeScript.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Purdue University alumni
Purdue University College of Engineering alumni
University of Michigan alumni
1938 births
1988 deaths
Writers from Milwaukee
20th-century American male writers
Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America
Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts
20th-century American writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20SX-Aurora%20TSUBASA | The NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA is a vector processor of the NEC SX architecture family. Unlike previous SX supercomputers, the SX-Aurora TSUBASA is provided as a PCIe card, termed by NEC as a "Vector Engine" (VE). Eight VE cards can be inserted into a vector host (VH) which is typically a x86-64 server running the Linux operating system. The product has been announced in a press release on 25 October 2017 and NEC has started selling it in February 2018. The product succeeds the SX-ACE.
Hardware
SX-Aurora TSUBASA is a successor to the NEC SX series and SUPER-UX, which are vector computer systems upon which the Earth Simulator supercomputer is based. Its hardware consists of x86 Linux hosts with vector engines (VEs) connected via PCI express (PCIe) interconnect.
High memory bandwidth (0.75–1.2 TB/s), comes from eight cores and six HBM2 memory modules on a silicon interposer implemented in the form-factor of a PCIe card. Operating system functionality for the VE is offloaded to the VH and handled mainly by user space daemons running the VEOS.
Depending on the clock frequency (1.4 or 1.6 GHz), each VE CPU has eight cores and a peak performance of 2.15 or 2.45 TFLOPS in double precision. The processor has the world's first implementation of six HBM2 modules on a Silicon interposer with a total of 24 or 48GB of high bandwidth memory. It is integrated in the form-factor of a standard full length, full height, double width PCIe card that is hosted by an x86_64 server, the Vector Host (VH). The server can host up to eight VEs, clusters VHs can scale to arbitrary number of nodes.
Product releases
Version 2 Vector Engine
Version 1 Vector Engine
The version 1.0 of the Vector Engine was produced in 16 nm FinFET process (from TSMC) and released in three SKUs (subsequent versions add an E at the end):
Functional units
Each of the eight SX-Aurora cores has 64 logical vector registers. These have 256 x 64 Bits length implemented as a mix of pipeline and 32-fold parallel SIMD units. The registers are connected to three FMA floating-point multiply and add units that can run in parallel, as well as two ALU arithmetical logical units handling fixed point operations and a divide and square root pipe. Considering only the FMA units and their 32-fold SIMD parallelism, a vector core is capable of 192 double precision operations per cycle. In "packed" vector operations, where two single precision values are loaded into the space of one double precision slot in the vector registers, the vector unit delivers twice as many operations per clock cycle compared to double precision.
A Scalar Processing Unit (SPU) handles non-vector instructions on each of the cores.
Memory and caches
The memory of the SX-Aurora TSUBASA processor consists of six HBM2 second generation high-bandwidth memory modules implemented in the same package as the CPU with the help of Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate technology. Depending on the processor model, the HBM2 modules are either 4 or 8 die 3D m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20K%27s%20Exotic%20Animal%20ER | Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER is an American television series on the Nat Geo Wild network. It premiered on October 4, 2014, and follows Susan Kelleher, the titular Dr. K, and the veterinarians and staff of the Broward Avian and Exotic Animal Hospital located in Deerfield Beach, Florida. An eighth season premiered in September 2019. A separate series, titled Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER: Gloves Off!, premiered in 2016 and consists of enhanced episodes of the original series.
The show's Dr. Lauren Thielen received her own Nat Geo Wild show titled Dr. T, Lone Star Vet, which premiered in October 2019.
Cast
Source:
Veterinarians
Dr. Susan Kelleher D.V.M. ("Dr. K.")
Dr. Veronica Pardini, D.V.M.
Dr. Carlos Salvioli, Invited D.V.M.
Veterinary staff
Jasmine Sommers, Office Manager
Dyanne Velasquez, Certified Veterinary Technician
Kristin Runkle, Veterinary Technician
Narrators
Art Edmonds
Alex Quenga
Josh Goodman
Episodes
Season 1 (2014)
Season 2 (2015)
Season 3 (2016)
Season 4 (2017)
Season 5 (2018)
Season 6 (2018)
Season 7 (2019)
Season 8 (2019)
Season 9 (2021)
References
National Geographic (American TV channel) original programming
Nature educational television series
2014 American television series debuts
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CXB3S | Coxsackie virus B3 sensitivity is a protein that is encoded by the CXB3S gene in human beings.
Its lineage is: Catarrhini, Chordata, Craniata, Euarchontoglires, Eukaryota; Euteleostomi, Eutheri and others.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ApertusVR | ApertusVR is an embeddable, open-source (MIT), framework-independent, platform-independent, network-topology-independent, distributed, augmented reality/virtual reality/mixed reality engine.
It is written in C++, with JavaScript and HTTP Rest API (in Node.js). ApertusVR creates a new abstraction layer over the hardware in order to integrate the virtual and augmented reality technologies into any developments or products.
References
External links
https://github.com/MTASZTAKI/ApertusVR
http://apertusvr.org/
2016 establishments
Virtual reality
Open-source movement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Friedmann | Oliver Friedmann is a German computer scientist and mathematician known for his work on parity games and the simplex algorithm.
Friedmann earned his doctorate's degree from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2011 under the supervision of Martin Hofmann and Martin Lange.
Awards
He won the Kleene Award for showing that state-of-the-art policy iteration algorithms for parity games require exponential time in the worst case. He and his coauthors extended the proof techniques to the simplex algorithm and to policy iteration for Markov decision processes. His seminal body of work on lower bounds in convex optimization, leading to a sub-exponential lower bound for Zadeh's rule, was awarded with the Tucker Prize.
References
Chief technology officers
German computer scientists
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday%20Night%20Tykes | Friday Night Tykes was a reality sports documentary television series on the Esquire Network. It was produced by 441 Productions, Texas Crew Productions (TCP) and Electro-Fish Films. It premiered on January 14, 2014, and ran for four seasons. The rights were transferred to USA Network after June 2017 upon Esquire Network's discontinuation. The entire series is also licensed to Peacock.
Premise
Friday Night Tykes dives in the intense world of youth football and follows the teams of the Texas Youth Football Association on and off the field as they vie for playoffs glory. Among the challenges the players (as young as 8) face are extreme training drills, psychotic irresponsible parents, heckling from fans, and balancing on-the-field expectations with living a typical childhood away from the gridiron.
References
External links
2014 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
American sports television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Universal Television
Television shows set in Texas
2017 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Hwang | Timothy Taeil Hwang (born February 20, 1992) is an American businessman, the current co-founder and CEO of FiscalNote, a global software, data, and media company.
Early life
Tim Hwang was born on February 20, 1992, in East Lansing, Michigan, the son of immigrants from South Korea. His family later moved to Potomac, Maryland, where he was elected as the student member of the Montgomery County Board Of Education and graduated from Thomas S. Wootton High School in 2010.
At the age of 14, he founded Operation Fly after a church missions trip to Guatemala.
Hwang attended the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, where he was also active in helping to found the National Youth Association (now defunct), a national youth lobby organization". He then was admitted to Harvard Business School.
Business career
In the Spring of 2013, as Hwang was finishing his degree at Princeton, he launched FiscalNote along with two friends from high school, Gerald Yao and Jonathan Chen. Hwang deferred his attendance at Harvard Business School to start the company while Yao took a leave of absence from Emory University. At the time, FiscalNote began its service as a state legislative tracking service. Hwang, Yao, and Chen, bootstrapped the business with several thousand dollars and incorporated FiscalNote in June 2013.
FiscalNote soon moved the company to Washington, D.C., and raised several rounds of venture capital. The firm has grown to become one of the largest software employers in the District of Columbia. In 2017, Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a major job training program and economic development package alongside Hwang, pioneering a new model for technology development in the city. Hwang was the protagonist of a Columbia Business School case study in Fall 2015, a 2016-hour-long Korean Broadcasting System Documentary (Empathy: Tim Hwang at the Center of Korea's Attention), and a South Korean biography "24 Year Old Tim Hwang: The CEO that the World is Paying Attention To." Hwang has been widely criticized for making critical comments in the South Korean media about the health of the Korean economy, stating that "the Korean economy is like a patient with crutches."
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hwang fired 30 staff from the CQ Roll Call newsroom, with one source telling AdWeek that the layoffs included the entire team of investigative reporters, and all but one staff member from the print magazine team. A month earlier, Hwang had told a reporter with Washington Business Journal that Roll Call was "on track to bring in $100 million in 2020 revenue and turn a profit.”
Philanthropy
Hwang is a Trustee on the Board of the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region, a member of the Board of the Afterschool Alliance, a member of The Economic Club of Washington, D.C., and the Young Presidents Organization.
References
Living people
1992 births
American people of South Korean descent
Businesspeople from Maryland
Businesspeople from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%20of%20Information%20Systems | Bachelor of Information Systems (also known as Bachelor of Information System) is a three or four-year higher degree, which provides basic skills in managing software services, databases, web solutions, and simple data networks. Multimedia, programming and IT security are covered in the study program. In addition, the program also includes economics, marketing and business life.
A typical job gained after graduation is IT consulting. The degree is also relevant within a wide range of IT jobs, such as IT management, design and operation of web solutions and networking, marketing and technical sales.
Study centres in Norway
Høgskolen i Nesna
Høgskolen i Nesna, Mo i Rana
Høgskolen i Vestfold
Telemark University College, Bø
Høgskolen i Østfold, Halden
References
Information Systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rug%20plot | A rug plot is a plot of data for a single quantitative variable, displayed as marks along an axis. It is used to visualise the distribution of the data. As such it is analogous to a histogram with zero-width bins, or a one-dimensional scatter plot.
Rug plots are often used in combination with two-dimensional scatter plots by placing a rug plot of the x values of the data along the x-axis, and similarly for the y values. This is the origin of the term "rug plot", as these rug plots with perpendicular markers look like tassels along the edges of the rectangular "rug" of the scatter plot.
External links
Rug plots in R
Rug plots in Matlab
Rug plots in Python using the Seaborn library
Statistical charts and diagrams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20European%20Networks | Pan European Networks (PEN) is a marketing company. They try to convince people that "publishing" with them is a way to reach European science leadership. This however appears to be untrue and it is regarded as a non-credible source. They started in 2012 and have offices in the United Kingdom and Brussels.
Operations
The organization is known for making calls to researchers offering to publish their work but requesting an immediate commitment. Initial proposed charges are around 10,000 USD for a publication but this appears to be negotiable. Their persistence has been described as harassment by Uppsala University. They have also threatened to sue those who criticize them. They published a magazine called Scitech Europa Quarterly and Health Europa Quarterly among others.
History
The company is owned by Darren Wilson.
See also
Predatory journal
Vanity press
References
Marketing companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersive%20flies%20optimisation | Dispersive flies optimisation (DFO) is a bare-bones swarm intelligence algorithm which is inspired by the swarming behaviour of flies hovering over food sources. DFO is a simple optimiser which works by iteratively trying to improve a candidate solution with regard to a numerical measure that is calculated by a fitness function. Each member of the population, a fly or an agent, holds a candidate solution whose suitability can be evaluated by their fitness value. Optimisation problems are often formulated as either minimisation or maximisation problems.
DFO was introduced with the intention of analysing a simplified swarm intelligence algorithm with the fewest tunable parameters and components. In the first work on DFO, this algorithm was compared against a few other existing swarm intelligence techniques using error, efficiency and diversity measures. It is shown that despite the simplicity of the algorithm, which only uses agents’ position vectors at time t to generate the position vectors for time t + 1, it exhibits a competitive performance. Since its inception, DFO has been used in a variety of applications including medical imaging and image analysis as well as data mining and machine learning.
Algorithm
DFO bears many similarities with other existing continuous, population-based optimisers (e.g. particle swarm optimization and differential evolution). In that, the swarming behaviour of the individuals consists of two tightly connected mechanisms, one is the formation of the swarm and the other is its breaking or weakening. DFO works by facilitating the information exchange between the members of the population (the swarming flies). Each fly represents a position in a d-dimensional search space: , and the fitness of each fly is calculated by the fitness function , which takes into account the flies' d dimensions: .
The pseudocode below represents one iteration of the algorithm:
for i = 1 : N flies
end for i
= arg min
for i = 1 : N and
for d = 1 : D dimensions
else
end if
end for d
end for i
In the algorithm above, represents fly at dimension and time ; presents 's best neighbouring fly in ring topology (left or right, using flies indexes), at dimension and time ; and is the swarm's best fly. Using this update equation, the swarm's population update depends on each fly's best neighbour (which is used as the focus , and the difference between the current fly and the best in swarm represents the spread of movement, ).
Other than the population size , the only tunable parameter is the disturbance threshold , which controls the dimension-wise restart in each fly vector. This mechanism is proposed to control the diversity of the swarm.
Other notable minimalist swarm algorithm is Bare bones particle swarms (BB-PSO), which is based on particle swarm optimisation, along with bare bones differential evolution (BBDE) which is a hybrid of the bare bones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yicai | Yicai may refer to:
Yicai, Prince Qing (1820−1866), prince of the Qing dynasty
China Business Network, or Yicai Media Group, Chinese media company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2050%20%28Poland%29 | National road 50 () is a route belonging to the Polish national road network. The highway forms a part of bypass of Warsaw metropolitan area, running from 29 to 84 km away from centre of Warsaw. The route has two bridges over Vistula, one in Wyszogród and another in Góra Kalwaria.
Because of the heavy traffic (road is used as a detour for trucks due to restrictions in Warsaw), the highway was completely reconstructed and has a few bypasses along major and smaller towns.
A50 motorway
A new parallel route from the Central Airport to Mińsk Mazowiecki is planned as the A50.
S50 expressway
A new route with expressway status is planned from the Central Airport via Sochaczew, Wyszogród and Radzymin to near Mińsk Mazowiecki. Together, the planned A50 and S50 will form a new ring road around Warsaw, replacing the current ring.
Major cities and towns along the route
Ciechanów (road 60)
Płońsk (expressway S7, road 10) – bypass
Wyszogród (road 62)
Sochaczew (road 92) – bypass
Żyrardów – bypass
Mszczonów (expressway S8)
Grójec (expressway S7)
Góra Kalwaria (road 79) – bypass under construction
Kołbiel (road 17) – planned bypass
Stojadła (road 92) – bypass
Mińsk Mazowiecki (motorway A2) – bypass
Łochów (road 62)
Ostrów Mazowiecka (expressway S8)
Axle load limit
National road 50 has an axle limit restrictions:
Between Płońsk and Mińsk Mazowiecki the allowed axle limit is up to 11.5 tons, which is a standard limit on Polish national roads.
References
50 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Karp%20%28scientist%29 | Peter D. Karp is director of the Bioinformatics Research Group at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.
Karp leads the development of the BioCyc database collection (which includes the highly curated EcoCyc and MetaCyc databases). BioCyc databases combine genome, metabolic pathway, and regulatory
information for thousands of organisms.
Education
Karp received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. His dissertation developed qualitative reasoning and machine learning techniques for hypothesis generation in molecular biology. Karp was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Library of Medicine.
Honors and recognition
He was elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2012 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
References
Living people
American bioinformaticians
SRI International people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated%20Land%20and%20Rail%20Australia | Consolidated Land and Rail Australia (trading as CLARA) is a property development consortium proposing a high speed rail network for the Australian east coast that would funded by the development of new smart cities along the route. The company began operations in 2015, and in 2018 was one of three proposals invited to develop a detailed business case with federal government funding. The proposal attracted significant media attention for what was perceived as a radically different approach from previous attempts at introducing high-speed rail in Australia.
History
Following the release of the Phase 2 report in late 2015, businessman Nick Cleary began taking options on land along the proposed route of the high-speed rail line. However, he found that the land was already mostly subdivided and therefore prohibitively complex and expensive to acquire. As such, Cleary shifted his focus to greenfields land outside the major existing regional centres. He did not inform landowners the details of his intentions, instead telling them that he represented a "major infrastrcture project".
The domain name clara.com.au was registered by investment banker Geoff Moore in October 2015, and the website was activated with only "coming soon" placeholders. In March 2016, a scheduled appointment between CLARA and the office of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was reported by media outlets, along with rumours that the meeting would discuss a proposal for a high speed railway line between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. The Age reported that the company was based in Melbourne, and was apparently unrelated to any other major Australian companies, although it appeared to be backed by an American infrastructure investor. Federal MP John Alexander emerged as a supporter of the plan, explaining that it was based on a "value capture" funding model including the purchase of regional land along the route.
The CLARA plan was officially launched in Melbourne on 13 July, with chairman Nick Cleary announcing that deals had been finalised for the purchase of land on which to situate 8 new railway stations and greenfield property developments, following 12 months of negotiations. The announcement followed discussions with officials from the Victorian and NSW governments conducted throughout April. At the event, former Premier of New South Wales Barry O'Farrell and former Premier of Victoria Steve Bracks spoke in favour of the proposal, revealing that the project was backed by former American infrastructure planners. By the end of 2016, however, a managing director of CLARA had resigned, and O'Farrell and Bracks had resigned from the advisory committee.
The announcement of the proposal also revealed that the preferred transport option was a maglev system, able to reach Shepparton from Melbourne in 30 minutes, and Sydney in under two hours. However, financial details of the plan were not released, with the company's directors describing the complete funding model as commercial-in-co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Road | X-Road is a centrally managed distributed Data Exchange Layer (DXL) between information systems. Organizations can exchange information over the Internet using X-Road to ensure confidentiality, integrity and interoperability between data exchange parties.
The first X-Road iteration was developed and launched by Estonia's Information System Authority (RIA) in 2001. The source code of its central components were released on October 3, 2016 under an MIT License. By February 7, 2018, Finland's and Estonia's data exchange layers were connected to one another. In 2017 Finland and Estonia established the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) to continue the development of the X-Road core.
Features
According to their web page, "The X-Road is an open source data exchange layer solution that enables organizations to exchange information over the Internet. The X-Road is a centrally managed distributed integration layer between Information Systems that provides a standardized and secure way to produce and consume services. The X-Road ensures confidentiality, integrity and interoperability between data exchange parties."
History
X-Road was started in 1998 as a pilot project under Ministry of Economy and Communications and first prototype was publicly presented in 2000. One of the main reasons behind architectural choice of distributed data storage was massive data leak of 1996, where government contractor and computer specialist Imre Perli created and marketed a "superdatabase" containing personal data from various government sources.
The Information System Authority (RIA) at the Ministry of Economy and Communications, developed X-Road and launched the first version in 2001 and holds the registered trademark, X-Road.
On October 28, 2014 the government of Namibia entered into a two-year agreement with the e-Governance Academy to implement a data exchange layer based on the X-Road technology.
On October 3, 2016 the source code of central components of X-Road was released under an MIT License.
February 7, 2018, Finland's and Estonia's data exchange layers were connected to one another. X-Road is used nationwide in the Estonian public administration (X-tee) and in the Suomi.fi Data Exchange Layer (Suomi.fi-palveluväylä) service. X-Road has built-in support for connecting two X-Road ecosystems with each other which enables a native cross-border data exchange between Estonia and Finland.
Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS)
The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) was founded jointly in June 2017 by Finland and Estonia, with a mission "to develop e-governance solutions...with the X-Road technology used nationwide in the Estonian X-tee and in the Finnish Suomi.fi Data Exchange Layer services".
The NIIS manages, develops, verifies, and audits X-Road's source code; administers documentation, business and technical requirements; conducts development; develops and implements principles of licensing and dist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20G.%20Stedman | Edith Gratia Stedman, OBE (December 29, 1888 - July 16, 1978) was an American social worker, educator, writer and volunteer. She is best known for her vocational programming created at Radcliffe starting in the Great Depression and also for her help in restoring Dorchester Abbey.
Biography
Stedman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the family later moved to Belmont, Massachusetts, where she attended high school. Stedman enjoyed high school, writing, "I think I worked harder and got more academic pleasure out of some of my work in high school than I ever did in college." She went on to Radcliffe College where she graduated in 1910.
After school, she worked for a time at the Framingham Reformatory for Women until her brother convinced her to quit in order to run the family's candy store, a job she later discovered she hated. After two years, she quit and went to Europe with the YMCA to help the war effort there in 1917. She was a canteen worker in France and Germany working for the YMCA until 1919. Back in the United States, Stedman did not find work that interested her. Stedman then traveled to China in 1920, where she worked as a medical social worker in Hankou at an Episocopal Mission. She stayed until 1927, returning to Boston, where she started working as an executive secretary for the Judge Baker Foundation.
Ada Louise Comstock invited Stedman to come for the Appointment Bureau at Radcliffe in 1930. Stedman developed vocational programs for women in the 1930s. Undergraduates and graduate students were both helped by Stedman in finding employment. She created and directed the Training Course in Personnel Administration and supported professional training for women. Stedman worked as the director of the Training Course until 1941. Students could be awarded a fellowship grant in her name. Stedman stayed at Radcliffe until 1954, when she retired.
As a retiree, she worked as a volunteer in different capacities. Between 1955 and 1959, Stedman volunteered at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In 1959, she started spending half the year living with friends at the Manor House, Dorchester. Stedman created a group, the American Friends of Dorchester Abbey, which raised money for both the Abbey and the surrounding gardens. Stedman also wrote during her retirement.
Her last years were spent living in Sherrill House, a nursing home in Boston run by the Episcopal church. She lived with Ménière's disease and had deafness. Stedman died in Boston on July 16, 1978.
Legacy
Stedman was awarded as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1976 for her work supporting the restoration of Dorchester Abbey. She was given the award at the British embassy in Washington, D.C. A stone carving of Stedman is located above the west door of the Abbey.
Selected bibliography
"The House of the Merciful Saviour: A Training School for Social Workers" (1924)
References
Sources
1888 births
1978 deaths
Radcliffe College alumni
Deaf writers
American deaf p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography%20of%20a%20Bookie%20Joint | "Biography of a Bookie Joint" is an American documentary that aired on November 30, 1961, on CBS under the network's CBS Reports banner. It documented Swartz's Key Shop, an illegal bookmaking establishment located at 364 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. It was narrated by Walter Cronkite and producer/reporter Jay McMullen.
Production
Filming began as early as May 30, 1961. According to Fred W. Friendly, Swartz's Key Shop was chosen because "there was a prolonged attempt by law agencies to close up this one place". CBS's crew concealed cameras in an apartment across the street. McMullen used an 8mm camera hidden in a lunch box to get footage of bookmakers accepting bets from hundreds of people inside the shop.
Overview
The film showed 10 uniformed officers of the Boston Police Department and one recently retired BPD detective entering the establishment while illegal betting took place. Cameras also captured members of the BPD walking past a burning trash can. One of the bookmakers was filmed leaving the shop around 8:30 AM to drive to his regular job at the Metropolitan District Commission headquarters. On September 29 the shop was raided by members of the United States Department of the Treasury. The shop reopened again a week later. On October 27 it was raided again, this time by members of the Massachusetts State Police.
In addition to footage of the key shop, Biography of a Bookie Joint featured interviews with members of the Internal Revenue Service's intelligence unit, the Massachusetts State Police, and the New England Citizen's Crime Commission. State Representative Harrison Chadwick spoke about the influence bookmakers had on the state legislature. MSP Col. Carl Larson stated that he had informed Boston Police Commissioner Leo J. Sullivan on at least four occasions that illegal gambling was occurring at the key shop. Each time, Sullivan sent back word to Larson that members of his department had visited the shop and found nothing to warrant an arrest.
Broadcast history
CBS elected not to air the program in Boston, Hartford, and Providence due to pending charges against the gamblers. It was rebroadcast nationally and for the first time in New England on March 20, 1963.
Reaction
Critical reception
George McKinnon of The Boston Globe called Biography of a Bookie Joint "a brilliantly handled documentary, far more intriguing than any TV private eye drama". Jerome Sullivan stated that it may have been "the biggest thing that has hit Boston in 20 years".
Biography of a Bookie Joint was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Program of the Year. It lost to the Hallmark Hall of Fame episode Victoria Regina.
Political reaction
The day after the program aired, Governor John Volpe announced that he would have a "showdown" with commissioner Sullivan. On December 8, Volpe asked Sullivan for his resignation. Sullivan refused and Volpe hired James D. St. Clair to prepare removal proceedings against Sullivan. Sullivan was brought before the Ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaniv%20Erlich | Yaniv Erlich is an Israeli-American scientist. He formerly served as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and was the Chief Science Officer of MyHeritage. Erlich's work combines computer science and genomics.
Biography
Erlich was born in Israel. He earned BSc in Brain Sciences in 2006 from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in bioinformatics in 2010 from Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. From 2010 to 2015, Erlich was a Fellow at the Whitehead Institute, MIT. From 2015 to 2019, he lead a lab at Columbia University in computational genomics. From 2020 to present, he has served as CEO of Eleven Therapeutics
Scientific work
Crowd sourcing genomic information
Erlich's team published a study in the journal Science that reported crowd-sourcing of tens of millions of genealogical records from the website Geni.com. The team was able to create a single family tree of 13 million people that are all connected and spans tens of generations and over 600 years of history. The study used the data to analyze the genetics of longevity and familial dispersion
In a different line of studies, Erlich and Joe Pickrell put together a website called DNA.Land to crowd source genomic datasets of participants of consumer genomics. The website collected over 130,000 datasets by November 2018.
Genetic Privacy
The Erlich group published several studies on the subject of genetic privacy. In 2013, they reported the possibility of recovering the surname of a male from his allegedly anonymous genomic dataset, which can lead to tracing his full identity. The technique exploits the co-inheritance of surnames and Y-chromosomes in most societies. Thus, by comparing the Y-chromosome of the person of interest to genetic genealogy databases of Y-chromosomes, it is possible in some cases to infer the surname. The team estimated that 12% of males in the US are subject to successful surname recovery. The team also demonstrated that after recovering the surname, basic demographic identifiers such as age and state of residency can permit tracing back the identity of the individual. To demonstrate the power of technique, they recover the identity of multiple 1000 Genomes by surname inference.
In 2014, Erlich and Arvind Narayanan published a survey of hacking techniques to genomic datasets. They predicted that autosomal searches in GEDmatch can be used to trace back the identity of anonymous people once the GEDmatch user base will reach a certain size, which indeed happened in 2018, where the website used to capture the Golden State Killer.
In 2018, the Erlich team published a study in Science that reported that about 60% of US individuals of European descent have at least a 3rd cousin match in GEDmatch, which can theoretically permit their identification. In two to three years, virtually any person in this ethnic group can be theoretically traced using this technique, if the current rate of growth in GEDmatch will continue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTNB-CD | WTNB-CD (channel 27) is a low-power, Class A religious television station in Cleveland, Tennessee, United States, owned and operated by the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's transmitter is located on Sawyer Cemetery Road in unincorporated Mile Straight.
History
A construction permit for a low-power television station on UHF channel 27 in Cleveland was issued on December 8, 1994 under the call sign W27BQ to North Georgia Television. On October 27, 1997, the station filed for a license to cover, which was granted on November 17. The call letters were changed to WTNB-LP on July 1, 1998; on June 12, 2003, the call sign was modified to WTNB-CA, after having been granted class A status on September 10, 2001. Under North Georgia Television, WTNB was a sister station to WDNN-CA and WDGA-CA in Dalton, Georgia; by 2005, WTNB and WDNN programmed similar lineups featuring FamilyNet and local programming, though WTNB's local programming was separate from that on WDNN.
North Georgia Television sold WTNB-CA to PTP Holdings for $350,000 in 2009. After a period off the air, WTNB resumed broadcasting under the new ownership in January 2010 as a My Family TV affiliate. On April 13, 2015, the call sign was modified to WTNB-CD, after converting to digital television in October 2014. In the FCC's incentive auction, WTNB-CD sold its spectrum for $370,099 and elected to move to a low VHF channel; the station was assigned channel 5.
References
TNB-CD
Mass media in Bradley County, Tennessee
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Christian Television Network affiliates
1997 establishments in Tennessee
TNB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Contessa%20episodes | Contessa ( Countess) is a 2018 Philippine revenge drama television series directed by Albert Langitan, starring Glaiza de Castro in the title role. The series premiered on GMA Network's GMA Afternoon Prime and Sabado Star Power sa Hapon block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from March 19 to September 8, 2018, succeeding the 1-year run of Ika-6 na Utos.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines. The series ended, but its the 24th-week run, and with 147 episodes. It was replaced by Ika-5 Utos.
Series overview
Episodes
March 2018
April 2018
May 2018
June 2018
July 2018
August 2018
September 2018
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaam%20News%20Network | Shaam News Network (Arabic: شبكة شام الإخبارية) (S.N.N.) is a Syrian opposition media outlet. It is named after the Arabic name for the Levant region. It was funded by Syrian-American activists at the beginning of the Syrian Revolution in 2011. It publishes videos, photos and articles by citizen journalists on its website and social media networks. It also publishes a newspaper called Shaam. Many international media used footage published by Shaam News Network, including Al Jazeera English, Associated Press, Al Arabiya, Al Aan TV, and Sky News Arabia.
References
External links
Twitter
Facebook
Youtube Channel
Mass media in Syria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinlib | Tinlib was an integrated library system based on a database management system named Tinman. The system was developed for MS-DOS and UNIX.
History
Tinlib was developed in 1985 by Dr. Peter Noerr, who also founded IME Ltd. (Information Management & Engineering) in London. During the 1980s, the system became widespread, especially in Britain, the United States, and English-speaking countries such as South Africa and Australia.
Tinlib lost market share with the introduction of graphical interfaces like Windows and OPAC. There remained a market for a time in eastern Europe; a Romanian subsidiary, IME Romania, took over Tinlib when IME Ltd. was closed in 2002. IME Romania further developed the system for Tinread.
References
External links
Cibbarelli's Surveys: User Ratings of Information Navigator Software
http://www.ime.ro/en/
http://www.ifnet.it
http://www.tinread.ro/
Library automation
DOS software
Unix software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookalike%20audience | A lookalike audience is a group of social network members who are determined as sharing characteristics with another group of members. In digital advertising, it refers to a targeting tool for digital marketing, first initiated by Facebook, which helps to reach potential customers online who are likely to share similar interests and behaviors with existing customers. Since Facebook debuted this feature in 2013, additional advertising platforms have followed suit, including Google Ads, Outbrain, Taboola, LinkedIn Ads and others.
Considerations
Lookalike audiences anatomize existing customers and their user profiles to find the commonalities between the existing audience. This helps to find highly-qualified customers who previously would have been difficult to identify and reach. This expands the potential audience in different countries and applies to new differentiated audience segments; This approach saves time and lowers advertising costs for the acquisition of a new audience.
In order to be effective, a lookalike audience seed needs to be homogeneous. This is commonly achieved using a consistent behavioral pattern. The homogeneity of the lookalike seed has a greater influence on the audience's effectiveness than the size of this sample group. In Facebook, the minimal lookalike seed size is 100 users from the same country. Facebook generally recommends creating a seed from an audience of 1,000 to 5,000 users.
Lookalike audiences might have limited effects on small companies or startups because of the small sample size of their existing audience, which would inevitably lead to insufficient data drawn from the current audience and interference from outliers. Namely, there would be no high bounce rate with these companies' websites.
Examples of seeds
Marketers use many data sources to create lookalike seeds. Some examples of eCommerce lookalike seeds include:
CRM-based – A seed based on an email or phone number list of customers who have had a past interaction with the business. This can be further segmented, for example customers with the highest lifetime value or past purchases of a specific product.
Conversion-based – A seed based on users that have performed an action such as a Purchase or Lead form submission on the website.
Engagement-based – A seed based on users segmented by their engagement, such as pages viewed, time spent on the site, video views, etc.
Methodology
Facebook, as an example, takes three steps to build a lookalike audience:
Choose the audience seed to build a lookalike audience from. This can range from page fans, visitors to the website, and customer lists etc. Generally the base audience should be composed of a minimum of 500 people. Larger pools will increase the accuracy of the lookalike audience.
Choose the specific location (country or region) to find a similar audience in.
Customize the audience size. Facebook offers a range of percentiles from 1% to 10%, indicating the size of the combined population |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast%20Hometown%20Network | Comcast Hometown Network (CHN) is American cable television network owned by the Comcast Corporation that operates in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. It is available to over 2 million homes.
References
Comcast
Television stations in the San Francisco Bay Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth%20Andr%C3%A9 | Elisabeth André is a German Computer Scientist from Saarlouis, Saarland who specializes in Intelligent User Interfaces, Virtual Agents, and Social Computing.
Education
1988—Computer Science diploma at the University of Saarland
1995—Computer Science PhD at the University of Saarland
André's research interests include Affective Computing, Embodied Conversational Agents, Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction, and Social Signal Processing.
Career
1988–2001—Research associate at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
1995—Senior researcher
1999—Principal researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrücken, Germany
2001–present—Computer Science professor and the Founding Chair of Human-Centered Multimedia at the University of Augsburg.
2004–2006—Managing Director at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Augsburg
2007—Representative of the German Research Foundation on Artificial Intelligence, Image, and Speech Processing
2008–present—German Research Foundation review board member
André was also the General and Program Co-Chair for multiple ACM SIGCHI conferences.
Achievements
1995—European Information Technology Information Award
1998—RoboCup Scientific Award
2000—Best Paper Award for the International Conference of Intelligent User
2005—Convivio Best Demo Award for People-Centered Agent Technologies
2007—Alcatel-Lucent Fellowship at the International Center for Arts and Culture
2007, 2008, 2009—Best Paper Finalist at the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
2010—Elected to Academia Europaea
2017—Elected to CHI Academy
References
living people
1961 births
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
Saarland University alumni
Members of Academia Europaea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter%20Play | Counter Play is an Australian television drama series screening on Nine Network's 9Gem in 2018. Created by Chrys Phillips, the series centres around the residents of the high-end affluent town of South Point.
Plot
The series begins with lead protagonist Jake Spector (Tyson Martick) returning to town, years after his near fatal accident with the sole objective of revenge. Oblivious to Jake's true identity and devious plan his girlfriend, Faith Morgan (Mikaela Phillips) is unaware of his plan. Morgan's family are amongst the town's founders and her father has a powerful royal family history. Jake plans to terrorise both his old friends and his first love Riley Cornwall (Isabel Dilena) for what they did to him that evening after high school graduation he begins a vengeful game of "play or be played" scenarios intended to reveal everyone's lies. However, as the scenarios progress there is the increasing sign Jake may not be the only one involved with the threatening notes and is someone else infiltrating his game.
Production
Counter Play was originally launched as a six-part web-series in 2016 and achieved major online success with 1.5 million total views. Joint producers Chrys and Mikaela Phillips decided to continue the series into Season 2 with plans for a commercial platform. Filming since October 2017, two seasons of the show were completed by May 2018 with plans for season 3 commencing mid-late 2018.
Cast and characters
Tyson Martick – Jake Spector/Aaron Robertson
Mikaela Phillips – Faith Morgan
Michelle Rowley – Mrs Heather Cornwall
Isabel Dilena – Riley Cornwall
Victor Gralak – Wes Morgan
Luke Styles – Mayor Ferguson
Sophie Thurling – Amber Rose
Leigh Smith – Tim
Broadcast
The series will premiere in Australia on Nine Network's 9Gem in 2018. The program was acquired by Amazon Video in the United States and officially premiered on August 27, 2018, and is available to stream in Australia. The show is also currently in negotiations with networks in the UK, New Zealand and Asia.
References
Nine Network original programming
2010s Australian drama television series
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
2018 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajtek | Bajtek is one of the first popular magazines devoted to computer science in Poland. Its title was an reference to the computer term byte and to the American magazine Byte. The founder was Waldemar Siwiński. The magazine was very well-known in the late 1980s in the country. It was published between 1985 and 1996. The magazine was inspired by the British magazine Your Computer and the American magazine Compute!. The sponsor of Bajtek was Polish Socialist Youth Union which is also known is ZSMP.
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1985 establishments in Poland
1996 disestablishments in Poland
Defunct computer magazines
Defunct magazines published in Poland
Magazines established in 1985
Magazines disestablished in 1996
Polish-language magazines
Magazines published in Warsaw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puszka%20Pandory | Puszka Pandory (English: Pandora's Box) is a Polish computer text game created in 1986 by :pl:Marcin Borkowski for the ZX Spectrum computer. The game achieved popularity after trading on the Grzybowska Commodity Exchange (including trade from a lot of pirates, which were rampant in the country at the time due to a Communist approach to copyright).
The first version of the game was written in BASIC, and was wiped after the tape was accidentally placed into a tape recorder. Borkowski lost enthusiasm for the game and didn't have a second attempt. He returned to the project in 1986 when house sitting for a friend.
The text compression on the ZX Spectrum computer (due to the fact that it only had 48 kilobytes of memory) imposed many restrictions on programmers, and the game was created as a challenge to see if these restrictions could be bypassed.
According to the book Polish Bytes, the game is the first one written by a Pole, attempted to be sold in Poland, and whose description appeared in the Polish press. Bajtek's review of the game is notable for being the first extensive description of a Polish video game in the media. However, Borkowski actually wrote the review himself, under the anagram pseudonym "Karol B. Mirowski".
Legacy
On the game's 25th anniversary, 100 limited edition copies were released at the Poznań Game Arena, with each copy signed by Marcin Borkowski. The games worked on the ZX Spectrum.
References
1980s interactive fiction
1986 video games
Adventure games
Video games developed in Poland
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gry-Online | Gry-Online is a group of Polish websites devoted to computer games and electronic entertainment. Founded by Mariusz Klamra, Wojciech Antonowicz and Rafał Swaczyna, the group has grown to include Gry-Online, TVGry.pl, Gameplay.pl, and Gamepressure. In 2017, the German branch of the French publisher Webedia Group bought Gry-OnLine from Empik, thereby entering the Polish market.
The group won the 2010 Wings of Business award in the category of "Micro-reliable and dynamic company".
Gry-Online.pl
The paramount member of the group is the website Gry-Online.pl, which was launched January 1, 2001, and has undergone numerous overhauls and redesigns since. Its editor-in-chief is currently Krystian "U.V. Impaler" Smoszna. The position was formerly occupied by Borys "Shuck" Zajączkowski and Łukasz "Verminus" Malik.
Gry-Online.pl publishes information and articles about video games for PC, Xbox (360 and Xbox One), PlayStation (PlayStation Vita, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4), Nintendo (Switch, Wii, Wii U and 3DS), as well as mobile platforms (Android and iOS). In the past, the scope of journalist activities also included the original Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, and Windows Phone.
History of Gry-Online.pl
The roots of Gry-Online.pl reach as far back as mid-2000, when the company Gry-Online sp. z o.o. was first registered. Its originators and founders were Mariusz Klamra, Wojciech Antonowicz and Rafał Swaczyna, and the co-creators were Janusz Burda and Tomasz Pyzioł. The Internet service that was launched on January 1, 2001 was subsequently joined by Przemysław Bartula, Michał Bobrowski and Marcin Hajek.
Games Encyclopedia
The core of Gry-Online.pl is the Games Encyclopedia, which includes descriptions, photos, videos, release dates, hardware requirements, PEGI ratings and technical requirements for over 22,019 game groups (as of March 11, 2019). This section of the website also includes game rankings, a catalogue of video games developers and publishers, as well as a gallery of screenshots and concept art from the encyclopedia's titles. The Encyclopedia is also linked with the GOL Video section – a collection of video materials concerning computer games (trailers, announcements, gameplays, interviews with artists, etc.).
Guides
Gry-Online.pl publishes video game guides, which include walkthrough, maps, sets of achievements, and advice. The guides are illustrated with screens, graphic diagrams, and occasionally also with short videos.
News Outlet
The information service consists mainly of the newsroom – a section where information about games, equipment, films and TV series is published on a daily basis. Additionally, the service includes reviews, previews and editorial pieces devoted to games, studios and major events in the industry.
Gamepressure
In 2005, a parallel English version of the Gry-Online.pl, called Gamepressure, was launched. The website features content translated from Polish, with occas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Secret%20%28magazine%29 | Top Secret was a Polish magazine devoted to the subject of computer and video games, as well as to culture and events connected with them.
The first edition of the magazine was published between 1990-1996 by the Bajtek publishing cooperative, and it was the first magazine of this type in Poland. During that time, 54 issues were released.
The second edition was published between 2002-2003 by the Polish division of Axel Springer as an attempt to restore the title. However, in this time, only four issues were produced, and the project was abandoned.
References
Further reading
Tak się pisało - historia prasy o grach komputerowych w Polsce
Bi-monthly magazines
Defunct magazines published in Poland
Magazines established in 1990
Magazines established in 2002
Magazines disestablished in 1996
Magazines disestablished in 2003
Magazines published in Warsaw
Monthly magazines published in Poland
Video game magazines published in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramonovo%20Kouzlo | Ramonovo Kouzlo (English: Ramon's Spell) is a Slovakian graphic adventure video game developed by Riki Computer Games and published by Vochozka Trading in 1995 for DOS.
Production
The game was made in 1995 by Slovakian developer Riki Computer Games, by a team led by Richard Pintér. Nevertheless, the game's development took place within the Czech Republic, and it includes subtitles in Czech. The game's graphic processing was different to that of previous games; the style of having digitized picture screens was inspired by some Sierra Entertainment games. The company disbanded three years later and reformed as Mayhem Studios.
Gameplay and plot
The title is a point and click adventure game consisting of a series of static photographs and no animation. The game is set in Nové Město nad Metují, where the evil wizard Ramon settled and enslaved good elves. It is the player's task to free the city from Ramon and save the elves from the curse.
Critical reception
The game received a negative review in Riki magazine.
The title was the first Czech video game with scanned photographs.
References
External links
Excalibur review
Pařeniště review
Riki article
Score article (part 2)
1995 video games
Adventure games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Point-and-click adventure games
Video games about curses
Video games developed in Slovakia
Video games set in the Czech Republic
Vochozka Trading games
Riki Computer Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3zgprocesor | Mózgprocesor (Brain Processor) is a Polish video game created in 1989, and published in 1990 by Computer Adventure Studio for ZX Spectrum and the Atari 8-bit family (1991). It was Computer Adventure Studio's first and last game. It was created by ex-Atari alumni Piotr Kucharski, Krzysztof Piwowarski and Wiesław Florek. The team had previously created Smok Wawelski in 1987. The script was created within an hour and the whole game was ready after six weeks, without professional graphic programs or documentation. Reviews of the title were featured in Bajtek 10/1998 and Top Secret 1/1990, Top Secret 2/1990 also included an interview with the developers, which at the time was unprecedented for a Polish game.
Despite the title's massive popularity in Poland, the game was readily pirated which significantly eroded the profits of the young development company and prevented it from releasing a second title. According to Techsty, it is the most discussed and most developed of all the Polish text-based adventure games. Gadzetomania thought the title was probably the first, Polish game published in a professional way. Logo24 deemed it the first Polish game that did not differ significantly from global standards.
References
External links
1990 video games
1990s interactive fiction
Video games set in 2016
Science fiction video games
Adventure games
Europe-exclusive video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Video games developed in Poland
ZX Spectrum games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgentCubes | AgentCubes is an educational programming language for children to create 3D and 2D online games and simulations. The main application of AgentCubes is as computational thinking tool teaching children computational thinking through game and simulation design based on the Scalable Game Design curriculum.
Similar to a spreadsheet, an agentcube is a grid-based organization. An agentcube is a four dimensional organization consisting of rows, columns, layers cubes containing stacks of programmable agents. This grid-based organization is useful to create a wide array of applications ranging from 1980-style arcade games such as Pac-Man, over 3D games to simple agent-based model. Agents can be given user created 3D shapes, they can compute formulae, move in the grid, change appearance, play sounds, animate themselves, and send messages to each other.
AgentCubes was developed with support by the National Science Foundation. Research explored if K-12 students could pick up computation thinking patterns designing games and, if later, these students could leverage these computational thinking patterns to transfer skills to make STEM simulations.
History
AgentCubes is inspired by AgentSheets which introduced modern drag and drop blocks programming in 1995. Most notably, AgentCubes transitioned from 2D to 3D design including highly accessible 3D modelling technology called Inflatable Icons. Historically, both AgentSheets and AgentCubes are rooted in an early prototype of parallel programming for children running on a Connection Machine 2, a massively parallel supercomputer. The notion of massively parallel computing carried over to AgentCubes but leaving out the need for supercomputing hardware.
AgentCubes Desktop (2006). The first AgentCubes implementation was a MacOS/Windows desktop application
AgentCubes Online (2012). AgentCubes online shares the same user interface but is complete rewrite based on web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and WebGL
AgentCubes Online has been used in large National Science Foundation teacher professional development scale up projects nationally in the US and through the support of private foundation in countries such as Mexico, and Switzerland. In 2017 1 million projects were created. AgentCubes online is now available in English, Spanish, German, Italian and French.
Computational Thinking Tool
With the goal to shape computational thinkers and not necessarily programmers AgentCubes, and AgentSheets before it, have the goal to be computational thinking tools and not programming tools. Computational thinking tools make Computer Science education practical in K-12 by combining Programming Support Tools with Creativity Support Tools:
Programming Support Tools: Beyond just supporting syntactic challenges addressed by drag and drop blocks programming, programming support tools also address semantic and pragmatic challenges. AgentCubes, for instance, supports pragmatic challenges and aid the debugging process by su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimbo%20Oloyede | Bimbo Oloyede is a veteran Nigerian TV journalist and producer. As a newscaster, she was a mainstay on NTA Network News from 1976 to 1980.
Oloyede's father was M.E.K. Roberts, a former deputy inspector general of police, she spent much of her adolescent life in England where she studied drama and theatre arts. When she returned to Nigeria, she began as a production staff of the drama department at Lagos Television Station owned by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). When NBC was reorganized into the Nigerian Television Authority, Oloyede was nominated as a newscaster for the Nigerian Television Authority's 9 pm Network News, her first broadcast was in April 1976. In 1980, she left NTA and co-founded a media company with her husband.
Oloyede narrates how she became first female TV network newscaster in Nigeria
Oloyede is in the initiator of the Women Optimum Development Foundation, WODEF, an NGO that raises awareness about issues concerning young girls and women.
Oloyede, according to records, has put in over forty years’ work life in Nigeria's broadcast media. Her speaking engagements, on the platform of trending "Strictly Speaking Limited"; as the Founder & Trainer, has helped not a few women journalists gained some remarkable confidence in public speaking. And as a life coach, Oloyede had hosted several public speaking and training sessions for women in Nigeria.
Her WODEF has actually been rewarding the role of deserving women committed to making their communities better for over a decade.
Oloyede is actually a multi-talented woman who has played several roles in the Nigerian society including being an on-the-spur-of-the-moment compere person among others.
References
Nigerian women journalists
Yoruba women journalists
Nigerian television personalities
Living people
Nigerian broadcasters
Nigerian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Wylie | Christopher Wylie (born 19 June 1989) is a Canadian data consultant. He is noted as the whistleblower who released a cache of documents to The Guardian he obtained while he worked at Cambridge Analytica. This prompted the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which triggered multiple government investigations and raised wider concerns about privacy, the unchecked power of Big Tech, and Western democracy's vulnerability to disinformation. Wylie was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018. He appeared in the 2019 documentary The Great Hack. He is the head of insight and emerging technologies at H&M.
Early life and education
Wylie was born to parents Kevin Wylie and Joan Carruthers, both physicians. He was raised in Victoria, British Columbia. As a child he was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. After being abused at the age of 6 at the British Columbia Ministry of Education, which the school had tried to conceal, he sued. After a six-year legal battle, winning a settlement of $290,000 at the age of 14. The agency was also forced to overhaul its policies on inclusion and bullying. He left school in 2005 at the age of 16 without a qualification, and when asked about his "probable destiny" on his school leaver's yearbook page, he stated "just another dissociative smear merchant peddling backroom hackery in its purest Machiavellian form".
He taught himself to code at age 19.
In 2010, at the age of 20, he began studying law at the London School of Economics, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws in 2013, specialising in technology, media and IP law, and being awarded the Dechert Prize for Property Law.
Wylie has a PhD in predicting fashions trends from the University of the Arts London.
Career
2005–2012
After leaving school, Wylie moved to Ottawa, where he began volunteering for "a short stint" in the parliamentary office of his Member of Parliament, Keith Martin. During his time in Martin's office, he overlapped with Martin's executive assistant Jeff Silvester, who was later commissioned by Wylie to set up AggregateIQ. The following year, he got a job as a contractor in the office of the Canadian opposition leader, Michael Ignatieff, at the age of 19. During his contract, Wylie begun developing strategies on how to capitalize data harvested through social media for political gain. The party officials did not renew Wylie's contract in 2009, and a senior insider said it was largely because his ideas were seen as "too invasive." Of Wylie, the colleague said, "Let's say he had boundary issues on data even back then. He effectively pitched an earlier version of [the Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting operation] to us back in 2009 and we said, 'No."'
In 2008, he volunteered on the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, learning about microtargeting from Obama campaign adviser Ken Strasma. There has been some dispute over whether his volunteer role was a senior or a junior-level data entry role.
In 2012, Wylie worked for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Stamos | Alex Stamos is a Greek American computer scientist and adjunct professor at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is the former chief security officer (CSO) at Facebook. His planned departure from the company, following disagreement with other executives about how to address the Russian government's use of its platform to spread disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, was reported in March 2018.
Early life
Stamos grew up in Fair Oaks, California and graduated from Bella Vista High School in 1997. Stamos attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated in 2001 with a degree in EECS.
Career
Stamos began his career at Loudcloud and, later, as a security consultant at @stake.
iSEC Partners
In 2004, Stamos co-founded iSEC Partners, a security consulting firm, with Joel Wallenstrom, Himanshu Dwivedi, Jesse Burns and Scott Stender. During his time at iSEC Partners, Stamos was well known for his research publications on vulnerabilities in forensics software and MacOS, Operation Aurora, and security ethics in the post-Snowden era.
Stamos was an expert witness for a number of cases involving digital privacy, encryption, and free speech:
EFF for their lawsuit against Sony BMG
Google for their Google Street View case
George Hotz
Aaron Swartz
iSEC Partners was acquired by NCC Group in 2010.
Artemis Internet
Following the acquisition of iSEC Partners by NCC Group, Stamos became the CTO of Artemis Internet, an internal startup at NCC Group. Artemis Internet petitioned ICANN to host a '.secure' gTLD on which all services would be required to meet minimum security standards Artemis ultimately acquired the right to operate the '.trust' gTLD from Deutsche Post to launch its services.
Stamos filed and received five patents for his work at Artemis Internet.
Yahoo!
In 2014, Stamos joined Yahoo! as CSO. While at Yahoo!, he testified to Congress on online advertising and its impact on computer security and data privacy. He publicly challenged NSA Director Michael S. Rogers on the subject of encryption backdoors in February 2015 at a cybersecurity conference hosted by New America.
Facebook
In 2015, Stamos joined Facebook as CSO. During his time at Facebook, Stamos co-authored a whitepaper (with Jen Weedon and Will Nuland) on the use of social media to attack elections. He later delivered a keynote address at the Black Hat Briefings in 2017 on the need to broaden the definition of security and diversify the cybersecurity industry.
Following disagreement with other executives about how to address the Russian government's use of its platform to spread disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, he made plans in 2018 to leave the company to take a research professorship at Stanford University.
Stamos was interviewed about the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections in the PBS Frontline documentary The Facebook Dilemma.
Controversies
During Stamo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoru%20Miyano | is a professor and the director of the M&D Data Science Center at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. He was awarded fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2013 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.
Career
In 1977 Miyano graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University. He also got his master's degree in 1979 and became an assistant professor at Kyushu University. In 1985 he also received his PhD with hierarchy theorems in automata theory. In 1987 Miyano became an associate professor at the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University. In 1993 he became a professor at the aforementioned university.
In 1996 he became a professor at the Human Genome Center at the University of Tokyo. From 2000 to 2005, excluding a year from March 2003, Miyano was the vice director of the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo.
In July 2013 he became the first Japanese person to be elected an ISCB fellow.
Starting June 2015, he served as the president of the Kanagawa Cancer Center, and was the first president without a doctor's license. He worked to advance cancer immunotherapy and strengthen genetic research but resigned in February 2018 due to the confusion related to the retirement of radiation oncologists at the center.
In April 2020, Miyano became the director of the M&D Data Science Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and a specially appointed professor at the same university.
Awards
In 1994 Miyano received Japan IBM Science Award. He also received the Sakai Special Commemorative Award in 1994.
In 2016 Miyano received the Uehara Prize.
References
Living people
Japanese bioinformaticians
1954 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20Island%20Jewish%20Forest%20Hills | Long Island Jewish Forest Hills is a teaching hospital operating under the Northwell Health hospital network. It is located in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. The hospital is affiliated with the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, which sponsors a residency program in internal medicine. The hospital also serves as the host of a podiatry residency program.
History
The hospital first opened on August 13, 1953 as Forest Hills General Hospital. In May 1963, the Queens District Attorney opened an investigation into the finances of the institution after a former employee reported that the administration of the hospital was involved in a Blue Cross billing scheme. The scandal led to the hospital's closure in November 1963. In 1964, the hospital reopened as LaGuardia Hospital, now under the management of HIP. It was later acquired by the North Shore health system in 1996 and renamed North Shore University Hospital at Forest Hills. In 2006, the hospital was renamed Forest Hills Hospital.
In 2016, Northwell Health announced that that state of New York had approved a request to operate the hospital under its network. The hospital was subsequently renamed Long Island Jewish Forest Hills.
Services
The hospital currently manages 312 beds and offers general inpatient medical, surgical, intensive care, obstetrics and gynecological services. The Emergency Department at LIJ Forest Hills is both a certified heart station and New York State designated stroke center. In 2017, the hospital reported 16,500 inpatient discharges, over 2,000 baby deliveries, and over 50,000 Emergency Department visits.
LaGuardia Hospital
LaGuardia Hospital (named for Fiorello H. La Guardia) was an interim name under which the hospital operated from 1964 through 1996. During those years, it was managed by HIP.
See also
List of hospitals in Queens
References
Hospitals in Queens, New York
1953 establishments in New York City
Hospital buildings completed in 1953
Forest Hills, Queens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarno%C5%9B%C4%87%20%28video%20game%29 | Solidarność is a 1991 Polish strategy computer game developed by P.Z.Karen Co. under the direction of Przemysław Rokita and published by California Dreams. It was created by Polish programmers specifically for an American audience in order to support a Hollywood film about the life of Lech Wałęsa, which was never actualised. The game never gained popularity and remains virtually unknown to this day.
Development
In 1989, Przemysław Rokita left the Warsaw University of Technology and two years later he became a full-time employee of PZ Karen in the "export software" department. Located in a rented studio in Warsaw's Żoliborz, the PZKaren Co. Development Group was in charge of software development for the American and Western European market. In 1990, the Solidarność project came along, and he became the manager, main programmer, and game logic concept author.
Gameplay and plot
Set in Poland in the 1980s, the player takes the role of the leader of an illegal union, and aims to gain more support in 8 regions than the Communists. The player achieves this through speeches, printing leaflets, organizing demonstrations and strikes. The 8 regions that Poland is divided into are: Pomerania, Northeastern (areas of Warmia, Mazury and Podlasie), Greater, Mazovia, Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, and Malopolska.
Critical reception
Gry Online felt the game had a "thought-out visual frame" and represented the transition in gaming production between the 1980s and 1990s. Eurogamer thought that even by 2015 the game was absorbing, and that players soon forgot about the "archaic layout". Komputer Świat said that while the title is not commonly known and remembered, it is a very important topic within Polish video gaming history.
The game is unrelated to the educational title Solidarność: Menedżer Konspiracji.
References
1991 video games
Cold War video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Strategy video games
Video games developed in Poland
Video games set in Poland
Video games set in the 1980s
Political video games
Cultural depictions of Lech Wałęsa
Solidarity (Polish trade union) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulatory%20assessment | Ambulatory assessment (AA) is computer-assisted methodology for self-reports, behavior records or psychological measurements, while the subject undergoes normal activities in daily life.
AA is used in clinical psychology to investigate symptoms, predict recurrence or onset of new symptoms, monitor treatment effects, prevent relapse, and indicate necessary interventions.
In the early ambulatory assessment, personal digital assistants and interactive voice response systems were used. They have now been replaced by smartphones, and this has made the data collection more feasible.
Characteristics
The recording takes place in real-life situations
A computer-assisted methodology is widely used
The evaluator attempts to minimise the method dependent reactivity and strives to achieve a high degree of ecological balance
The assessment can be continuous, event-based, interactive, time-based, or randomly prompted
It is idiographic in focus and allows for the examination of multiple individual processes
The Ambulatory assessment can be applied in various areas of psychology and other behavioral sciences.
Modes of Data Collection
Event Controlled/Self-Report
The subject self-monitors the happenings of events and assess them whenever it occurs. Varieties of devices are used to collect the data from the self reports.
The main concern with the self-report assessment is whether biases may influence the credibility of the results.
Time Controlled/Observational
In this mode, the subject follows the time-sampling schedule. This mode provides the data through the observer’s point of view. Forms of Ambulatory assessment observational method are Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), Global Positioning System (GPS) in phones or devices on the person. Light sensors to infer context, using video or sensors to detect interactions with others.
See also
Experience sampling method
References
Experimental psychology
Psychological methodology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavobacterium%20collinsii | Flavobacterium collinsii is a bacterium from the genus of Flavobacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Flavobacterium collinsii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
collinsii
Bacteria described in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjabi%20Hit%20Squad | Panjabi Hit Squad are British DJs, producers and radio broadcasters for BBC Asian Network and formerly BBC 1Xtra. The group recorded several albums, including Desi Beats Vol 1 with Def Jam. They have won the UK Asian Music Awards three times, in 2003, 2005 and 2012. They produced two albums for Ms Scandalous, Ladies First and Aag.
Career
Panjabi Hit Squad started their broadcasting career on BBC 1Xtra in 2002 where they hosted the Desi Beats show on Monday nights from 12–2am. In 2003, the show moved time slots to Thursday night from 10pm–12am. They won two UK Asian Music Awards (UK AMA) for Best Radio DJ, in 2003 and 2005. In 2007, Panjabi Hit Squad started to host their own show on BBC Asian Network on Saturdays from 6pm–9pm. In 2012, they won the UK AMA for Best Club DJ.
Panjabi Hit Squad hosted their own 2 hour mix show on the in-flight systems of every Emirates flight.
Discography
Albums
See also
Markie Mark
References
External links
Panjabi Hit Squad (BBC Asian Network)
English DJs
BBC Radio 1Xtra presenters
Desi musicians
BBC Asian Network presenters
Def Jam Recordings artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Gladwin%20%28engineer%29 | Chris Gladwin is an American inventor, computer engineer and technology entrepreneur, who has founded or co-founded a series of tech-related companies including MusicNow, Cleversafe and Ocient.
Biography
Chris Gladwin was brought up to a middle-class family of medical professionals in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. Gladwin attended Upper Arlington High School in Columbus, Ohio and received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986.
Entrepreneurship
Gladwin started his career as emerging technologies manager at Martin Marietta, a defense contractor which in 1995 merged with Lockheed Corporation. He later created the first "workgroup storage server" while working for Zenith Data Systems. In June 1996, Gladwin founded Cruise Technologies, a developer and maker of wireless tablet computers. The company was later acquired by NEC Corporation of America. MusicNow, (formerly FullAudio), founded in 1999, was among the first internet music firms to launch a music subscription business with both composition and recording licenses from major music labels including EMI, Sony/BMG, Universal Music Group, and the Warner Music Group. The company reached 100,000 customers before being sold to Circuit City. Details of the sale were not disclosed.
In 2016, Gladwin and Jeremie Bacon co-founded The Forge: Lemont Quarries, a 300-acre outdoor adventure park located 22 miles from Chicago. A number of sources describe the park as "the largest in North America with hundreds of possible routes". The park was set to open May 25, 2020 but the plans were postponed to a later date due to the coronavirus quarantine restrictions.
Cleversafe
Gladwin formed his next technology startup company, Chicago-based, Cleversafe, an object storage software and systems developer, which he founded in 2004 and served as CEO and President up through 2013 when he moved into a Chief Innovation role through to the company's sale to IBM in 2015. The company was originally based in IIT's technology incubator. The initial funding was provided by OCA Ventures. In 2011, it was also supported by In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm related to the Central Intelligence Agency
In November 2015, Cleversafe was acquired by IBM for $1.3 billion and became a part of its IBM Cloud Object Storage division. The offering was originally introduced by Cleversafe. Cleversafe sold an object storage system, which it called the Dispersed Storage Network or dsNet. As Jim Comfort, a general manager of IBM Cloud, admitted: "...the object storage offered by Cleversafe represented a gap in IBM's portfolio." IBM has since rebranded the company's products as IBM Cloud Object Storage.
Ocient
Ocient was co-founded in 2016 by Chris Gladwin, George Kondiles and Joe Jablonski, who was on Cleversafe's technical advisory board. In June 2020, Ocient raised additional $15 million with the help of OCA Ventures and In-Q-Tel.
Patents and awards
He is the inventor of more than 200 issued |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhagesDB | The Actinobacteriophage database, more commonly known as PhagesDB, is a website and database that gathers and shares information related to the discovery, characterization and genomics of viruses that prefer to infect Actinobacterial hosts. It is used to compare phages and their genomic annotations. The database provides information on more than 8,000 bacteriophages, including over 1,600 with already sequenced genomes.
Background
PhagesDB provides the Actinobacteriophage research community with a database to post findings for analysis and further research.
Design and features
The creation of PhagesDB was carried out using Django and was hosted on a WebFaction server. The database website opens up with a mostly green and black lobby page and on the top left, a search bar is present. Phage names can be, sequenced and/or draft, typed in the search bar and results immediately pop up.
PhagesDB has individual pages for every phage in the database. Along with all these, there is a separate GeneMark page for each phage which allows one to cross reference the position of genomes within the draft phages to ensure that there is indeed a genome present at a certain spot. PhagesDB can be used on its own but is found to be more accurate when used in collaboration with another bio-informatics website like NCBI Blast. The figure below indicates the different types and numbers of phages sequenced:
There are many different ways in PhagesDB where the user is able to view and contact with groups of phages. PhagesDB has amino-acid level details about its phage genomes that are sequenced by integration with Phamerator
Access and rights to data
PhagesDB data can be freely viewed by anyone.
Additionally, the site gives multiple ways of bringing back the fundamental data.
An Application Programming Interface (API) is available. PhagesDB keeps some unpublished data that is not present in any medium, including genome sequences that have been done recently.
See also
Bioinformatics
Genomics
Mycobacteria
Bacteriophage
DNA sequencing
BLAST
References
External links
Homepage
Phamerator
HHpred
Glossary of phage terms
Biological databases
Virology
Bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero%20%28app%29 | Vero (stylized as VERO) is a social media platform and mobile app company. Vero markets itself as a social network free from advertisements, data mining and algorithms.
History
The app was founded by French-Lebanese billionaire Ayman Hariri who is the son of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri. The name is taken from the Italian word for true. The app launched officially in 2015 as an alternative to Facebook and their popular photo-blogging app Instagram. Within weeks of its release the app surged in popularity although users expressed mixed reports with some feeling confused about how the app worked.
Cosplayers were early to adopt the app as their photo-sharing platform of choice, favouring the app's pinch and zoom magnification feature over Instagram's zoom feature. Other creative communities soon followed, and the app became popular with niche groups of makeup artists, tattoo artists, and skateboarders.
In March 2018, Vero's popularity surged, partly helped by an exodus from Facebook and Instagram following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. In the wake of the scandal, Vero devised an advertising campaign aimed at defected Facebook and Instagram users, hoping the app's policies and privacy settings would assuage concerns over sharing personal information on the internet. Within the space of one week, the app went from being a small service, akin to Ello or Peach, to being the most downloaded app in eighteen countries.
In December 2020, Vero released its most significant update to date, Vero 2.0 which introduced new features including voice and video calls, game and app posts and bookmarks, and refinements to the UI.
In October 2021, Vero introduced their Desktop app (beta) with multiple post options and a re-sizable multi-column feed.
Concept and funding
Vero's content feed resembles Instagram's although users can share a wider variety of content and the app has a chronological content feed whereas Facebook and Instagram's feeds are algorithm based. Vero's business plan is also distinct from similar social media apps. Whereas its competitors such as Facebook or Instagram make money from in-app advertising revenue and the sale of user data, Vero's business plan was to invite the first one million users to use the app for free then charge any subsequent users a subscription fee.
The app was entirely funded by its founder and generated additional revenues by charging affiliate fees when someone buys a product they find on Vero.
Awards
Vero was recognized at the 2021 Webbys, being named as an Honoree in the Best Visual Design - Aesthetic Category.
Controversies
Privacy
Vero has faced some criticism over the wording of their manifesto, in particular, the statement "Vero only collects the data we believe is necessary to provide users with a great experience and to ensure the security of their accounts." Because this policy does not explicitly state that the app will not sell data on to third parties some users fear that the ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magoroh%20Maruyama | Magoroh Maruyama (April 29, 1929 – March 16, 2018) was a Japanese/American business educator, consultant and researcher, best known for his contributions to cybernetics.
Biography
Maruyama was born in 1929 in Tokyo, Japan, son of Shinsaku Maruyama and Toyoko (Takashima) Maruyama, and moved to the United States in 1950. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1951. After postgraduate studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Heidelberg, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Lund in Sweden.
Maruyama started his academic career as assistant professor in human development at the University of California at Berkeley in 1960. Among his many academic appointments he was professor for Systems Science at Portland State University from 1973 to 1976. He was also Professor in the School of International Politics, Economics and Communication at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan and was on the faculty of Stanford University, Brandeis University, Antioch College, the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of Illinois.
Work
Magoroh Maruyama is the author of over a hundred publications. The subjects of his research include cybernetics, systems science, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, social change, business management, architectural design and urban planning. He has been consulting companies and institutions such as NASA, the US Department of Commerce and the US Department of Interior in the United States, the OECD, Volvo and Michelin in Europe, the MITI of Japan, the City of Baghdad, the Government of Ivory Coast and Federal Motors of Indonesia.
His highly cited paper from 1963 "The second cybernetics: Deviation-amplifying mutual causal processes" describes a theory of increase of heterogeneity by causal loops.
Publications
Some of Maruyama's best known publications are:
Maruyama, Magoroh. "Morphogenesis and morphostasis." Methodos 12.48 (1960): 251-296.
Maruyama, Magoroh. "The second cybernetics: Deviation-amplifying mutual causal processes." American scientist 51.2 (1963): 164-179.
Maruyama, Magoroh. "Paradigmatology and its Application to Cross‐Disciplinary, Cross‐Professional and Cross‐Cultural Communication." Dialectica 28.3‐4 (1974): 135-196.
Maruyama, Magoroh. "Heterogenistics and morphogenetics." Theory and society 5.1 (1978): 75-96.
Maruyama, Magoroh, Beals, K.L. & Bharati, A. "Mindscapes and Science Theories [and Comments and Reply]." Current anthropology 21.5 (1980): 589-608.
Maruyama, Magoroh. "Alternative concepts of management: Insights from Asia and Africa." Asia Pacific Journal of Management 1.2 (1984): 100-111.
Maruyama, Magoroh (editor). "Context and Complexity: cultivating contextual understanding". New York: Springer-Verlag. 1991.
References
1929 births
2018 deaths
Communication theorists
American business theorists
Japanese business theorists
Cyberneticists
People from Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit%20Love%20Show | Spirit Love Show is an American reality television miniseries created by Shin Koyamada, Nia Lyte and Claudia Hallowell in 2013. The show was distributed by the Spirit Show Network and directed by Jay Lee from Sony Pictures' Zombie Strippers. The hosts of the show are Nia Lyte, a TED Talk speaker and host from a television show Best of Art Basel, distributed on Comcast, Ovation TV and Xfinity TV, and Claudia Hallowell who also wrote.
Summary
Spirit Love Show explores what love is to people of all ages: children, teenagers, adults and people who have been married for over half a century. The show features David Marciano, The Jeffrey Foundation, Reins of H.O.P.E. and others. Through interviews, the show will find what love means to individuals and couples in all walks of life as well as people of different cultures. In addition, the show will showcase what individuals, couples, groups and companies are doing to express love in the world to bring hope and inspiration.
Cast
Hosts
Nia Lyte - Host
Claudia Hallowell - Host
Featuring
David Marciano - an award winner actor from television series Due South and the FX police drama The Shield
International tourists at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood
Julie Sardonia - a founder of Reins of H.O.P.E.
Alice Morris - a founder of The Jeffrey Foundation
John & Claire Yzaguirre - Marriage & Family Counselors
Therapy Dogs, Inc
Speed Dating
Oxnard Multicultural Festival
GBK Emmy's Gifting Suite
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
English-language television shows
Dating and relationship reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Server%202019 | Windows Server 2019 is the ninth version of the Windows Server operating system by Microsoft, as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It is the second version of the server operating system based on the Windows 10 platform, after Windows Server 2016. It was announced on March 20, 2018 for the first Windows Insider preview release, and was released internationally on October 2, 2018. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2022 on August 18, 2021.
Development and release
Windows Server 2019 was announced on March 20, 2018, and the first Windows Insider preview version was released on the same day. It was released for general availability on October 2 of the same year.
On October 6, 2018, distribution of Windows 10 version 1809 (build 17763) was paused while Microsoft investigated an issue with user data being deleted during an in-place upgrade. It affected systems where a user profile folder (e.g. Documents, Music or Pictures) had been moved to another location, but data was left in the original location. As Windows Server 2019 is based on the Windows version 1809 codebase, it too was removed from distribution at the time, but was re-released on November 13, 2018. The software product life cycle for Server 2019 was reset in accordance with the new release date.
Editions
Windows Server 2019 consists of the following editions:
Windows Server 2019 Essentials - intended for companies up to and including 25 employees, memory-limited.
Windows Server 2019 Standard - intended for companies with more than 25 employees or more than 1 server to separate server roles.
Windows Server 2019 Datacenter - is mainly used for placing multiple virtual machines on a physical host.
Features
Windows Server 2019 has the following new features:
Container services:
Support for Kubernetes (stable; v1.14)
Support for Tigera Calico (an open-source networking and security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads)
Linux containers on Windows
Storage:
Storage Spaces Direct
Storage Migration Service
Storage Replica
System Insights
Security:
Shielded Virtual Machines
Improved Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
Administration:
Windows Admin Center
SetupDiag (a diagnostic tool that can be used to obtain details about why an upgrade was unsuccessful)
OpenSSH included
Web browser
Microsoft Edge did not support Server 2019 at release. Microsoft considers Internet Explorer 11 a "compatibility layer," not a browser. Edge added support in January 2020, but Server 2019 does not install it by default. Microsoft encourages server and enterprise users to install Edge.
See also
Microsoft Servers
Comparison of Microsoft Windows versions
Microsoft Windows version history
Comparison of operating systems
List of operating systems
References
2019
X86-64 operating systems
2018 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z23%20%28computer%29 | The Zuse Z23 was a transistorized computer first delivered in 1961, designed by the Zuse KG company. A total of 98 units were sold to commercial and academic customers up until 1967. It had a 40-bit word length and used an 8192 word drum memory as main storage, with 256 words of rapid-access ferrite memory. It operated on fixed and floating-point binary numbers. Fixed-point addition took 0.3 milliseconds, a fixed point multiplication took 10.3 milliseconds. It was similar in internal design to the earlier vacuum tube Z22. Related variants were the Z25 and Z26 models.
The Z23 used about 2700 transistors and 7700 diodes. Memory was magnetic-core memory. The Z23 had an Algol 60 compiler. It had a basic clock speed of 150 kHz and consumed about 4000 watts of electric power. An improved version Z23V was released in 1965, with expanded memory and a higher processing speed.
The Z23 weighed about .
References
External links
Z23 Crosses Atlantic
Computer History Museum Zuse Z23
Transistorized computers
Konrad Zuse
Computers designed in Germany
Computer-related introductions in 1961 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversable | Conversable is a SaaS based Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered conversational platform, headquartered in Austin, Texas. It allows customers to create intelligent, automated response flows through conversations in any messaging channel or voice platforms. It has offices in Austin and Dallas.
Some of companies using Conversable platform includes Budweiser, Wingstop, Pizza Hut, T.G.I. Friday's, Sam’s Club, Shake Shack, CES, Whole Foods and 7-Eleven.
History
In 2015, Conversable Inc. was founded by Ben Lamm, founder and CEO of digital creative design studio Chaotic Moon Studios, which was acquired by Accenture, and Andrew Busey, former CEO & co-founder of social game company Challenge Games Inc., which was acquired by Zynga. It received funding of $2 million from angel investors.
In March 2017, Conversable launched a new product called AQUA (Answer Questions Using AI), which is a business intelligence (BI) platform.
In 2018, Conversable was acquired by LivePerson to "help LivePerson continue to accelerate its goal of providing conversational commerce products to customers," according to CEO Robert LoCascio.
Overview
It helps companies to deliver on-demand content, customer self-service, and conversational commerce via messaging channel and voice applications.
Partnership
The company is partnered with Phobio in January, 2018. It is also partnered with Olo, Hinduja Global Solutions, Booz Allen Hamilton, Ernst & Young, Mindtree, WPP and Pactera.
References
External links
Official website
Internet properties established in 2015
AI companies
Computer-related introductions in 2015
Companies based in Austin, Texas
Companies based in Dallas
Instant messaging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%201914.1 | IEEE 1914.1 is a standard for packet-based fronthaul transport networks developed under IEEE 1914 Next Generation Fronthaul Interface – NGFI (xhaul) Working Group. NGFI (xhaul) working group is sponsored by IEEE Communications Society/Standards Development Board (COM/SDB). IEEE 1914.1 standardizes architecture and requirements for mobile fronthaul network – spanning between cell sites and centralized baseband locations in Centralized, Collaborative, Cloud and Clean Radio Access Network C-RAN.
Founding members
The IEEE 1914.1 project was co-founded by AT&T, China Mobile, SK Telecom, Telecom Italia, Alcatel-Lucent, Broadcom and Intel.
Introduction
Base station architecture evolved from all-in-one base stations, through Base-Band Units (BBUs) and Remote Radio Heads (RRH), to C-RAN architectures where equipment located at the cell sites Remote Unit (RU) or RU + Distributed Unit (DU) connects via fronthaul network to centralized baseband locations – Central Unit (CU).
On the road towards future 5G networks, it is clear that an efficient transport network is necessary and traditional fronthaul solutions are not suitable for 5G evolution. The current mobile networks comprise multiple separate network domains. This creates serious challenges for network operators, such as low scalability, inflexible management and control solutions, slow and difficult upgrades, poor resource utilization, and high cost.
IEEE 1914.1 project was established to facilitate the implementation of key 5G technologies especially Cloud-RAN and Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) from fronthaul networking perspective, and describe the required networking architecture to enable migration to 5G and C-RAN solutions.
Goals
The Fronthaul Packet Transport standard enables the implementation of critical 5G technologies, such as massive MIMO, Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission and reception, and scalable Centralized/Virtual Radio Access Network (C-RAN) functions.
This standard simplifies network design and operation, increases network flexibility and resource utilization, and lowers cost by leveraging existing, mature Ethernet-based solutions for vital functions, such as quality of service, synchronization, and data security.
The fronthaul architecture provides unified management and control solution, common networking protocols, and universal network elements, thus facilitating migration to future C-RAN/V-RAN mobile networks.
Scope
This standard specifies:
Architecture for the transport of mobile fronthaul traffic (e.g., Ethernet-based), including deployment scenarios, user data traffic, and management and control plane traffic.
Requirements and definitions for the fronthaul networks, including data rates, timing and synchronization, network slicing, and quality of service.
The standard also analyzes functional partitioning schemes between RRUs and BBUs that improve fronthaul link efficiency and interoperability on the transport level, and that facilitate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini%20PDA | The Gemini PDA is a personal digital assistant designed by Planet Computers in association with Martin Riddiford, who formerly worked on the Psion Series 5 in the 1990s, and crowdfunded via Indiegogo in 2017. The Gemini bucks the trend of modern smartphones in its screen being primarily used in landscape aspect, and having a keyboard, i.e. taking on the form of a subnotebook.
Planet supports running two operating systems on the device, and it dual-boots between Android and Linux. Other possibilities include Sailfish OS.
Before January 2018, preproduction devices were made available to reviewers, and mass production was in full swing in December 2017 with devices starting to ship in late January 2018 to Indiegogo backers.
Hardware
CPU/GPU system on a chip is a MediaTek Deca Core Helio, either the X25 or X27 chipset.
2x Cortex A72 @ 2.6 GHz
4x Cortex A53 @ 2.0 GHz
4x Cortex A53 @ 1.6 GHz
ARM Mali T880 MP4 @ 875 MHz
RAM: 4 GB
Flash: 64 GB
microSDHC card slot
Two USB-C connectors, only one of which can be used to charge it. Video out is possible with a proprietary HDMI adaptor, and not the standardised USB-C alternate mode.
Display: 5.99" LCD, 2160×1080 (403 ppi, 2:1 aspect ratio)
Mass: 320g
Dimensions (mm): 171.4(W) × 79.3(D) × 15.1(H)
Bluetooth: 4.1
Wi-Fi: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
Radio bands (4G variant):
GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
CDMA 850/1900 MHz BC0 BC1+ EVDO
UMTS 900/2100 MHz
LTE 1/2/3/4/5/7/12/17/20/41 (with VoLTE)
MicroSIM slot and eSIM (4G variant)
Battery: 4220 mAh
Front camera 5 Mp
GPS: with AGPS
Sensors: Accelerometer, light sensor, gyro, magnetic sensor
Audio:
stereo speakers
3.5mm headphone jack
dual microphones
Some early devices were made with the X25 SoC as specified in the Indiegogo campaign, with the factory switching to X27 as stocks of the older X25 were depleted. They also have the eSIM feature disabled.
Two variants are sold, one with Wi-Fi only, one with Wi-Fi and mobile phone radios.
Optional accessories
The original Indiegogo campaign allowed backers to pay extra for various accessories and features:
Leather pouch
HDMI adaptor
Rear camera 5Mp
USB-C hub
Successors
Planet Computers announced successor models to the Gemini called Cosmo Communicator and Astro Slide 5G Transformer.
References
External links
Personal digital assistants
Mobile phones with an integrated hardware keyboard
Computer-related introductions in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitek%20Systems | Mitek Systems, Inc is a software company that specializes in digital identity verification and mobile image processing using artificial intelligence. The company's software is used for depositing checks and opening bank accounts via mobile devices. It also verifies identity documents such as passports, ID cards, and driver's licenses by analyzing a selfie of an individual holding their ID, comparing their face to the photo on the document.
History
The company was founded in 1986, and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
In 2011, it was announced that Mitek intended to expand into mobile imaging software for the health care and insurance industries, in addition to mobile banking.
In 2014, USAA and Mitek Systems, Inc. settled a -year-old dispute over the invention of the technology used for mobile check deposits, with both companies' patents remaining intact and neither side paying the other.
On May 26, 2015, the company acquired IDchecker, a provider of cloud-based identity document verification and facial recognition products.
On October 16, 2017, the company acquired Icar Vision Systems, a Spanish company specializing in customer identity verification.
References
Companies based in San Diego
Financial technology companies
American companies established in 1986
Identity management systems
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FS%20Class%20410 | FS Class 410 were 0-8-0 steam locomotives which the Italian State Railways (FS) acquired from Rete Sicula (the Sicilian Network) on nationalization in 1906.
History
The class was designed by the Sicula Network Research Office led by engineer Guglielmo Cappa as part of a renewal and unification programme to replace obsolete rolling stock inherited from the previous management. It was designated as a group F, according to the custom that was then to define with letters the group of locomotives according to their function, and numbered from 301 to 325. When they passed to FS, they were registered as Class 420. They had some technical differences from other FS 0-8-0 locomotives, notably the use of Walschaerts valve gear instead of Stephenson.
They were built in three batches and there were some detail differences between batches. The first unit was ordered from Breda in Milan and delivered in 1892 and a further 21 units came from Ansaldo's Sampierdarena factory between 1893 and 1894. Finally in 1903 another batch of 3 locomotives was built and delivered by Officine Meccaniche of Milan. In 1906 the transfer to FS occurred, and the locomotives received the new four-digit markings 4101-4125 which later became 410.001-025. The locomotives spent their working lives on the island of Sicily.
Features
The Class 410 locomotives, with a power output of 600 hp, were versatile machines and designed for every type of use, although the small wheels (diameter 1200 mm) limited the speed to 45 km/h. They were built for saturated steam and simple expansion with 2 outside cylinders. Steam distribution was by slide valves with Walschaerts valve gear.
References
Further reading
0-8-0 locomotives
410
Railway locomotives introduced in 1892
Standard gauge locomotives of Italy
Gio. Ansaldo & C. locomotives
Freight locomotives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memtransistor | The memtransistor (a blend word from Memory Transfer Resistor) is an experimental multi-terminal passive electronic component that might be used in the construction of artificial neural networks. It is a combination of the memristor and transistor technology. This technology is different from the 1T-1R approach since the devices are merged into one single entity. Multiple memristers can be embedded with a single transistor, enabling it to more accurately model a neuron with its multiple synaptic connections. A neural network produced from these would provide hardware-based artificial intelligence with a good foundation.
Applications
These types of devices would allow for a synapse model that could realise a learning rule, by which the synaptic efficacy is altered by voltages applied to the terminals of the device. An example of such a learning rule is spike-timing-dependant-plasticty by which the weight of the synapse, in this case the conductivity, could be modulated based on the timing of pre and post synaptic spikes arriving at each terminal. The advantage of this approach over two terminal memristive devices is that read and write protocols have the possibility to occur simultaneously and distinctly.
Implementations
Researchers at Northwestern University have fabricated a seven-terminal device fabricated on molybdenum disulfide (). One terminal controls the current between the other six. It has been shown that the I_D / V_D characteristics of the transistor can be modified even after fabrication. Subsequently, designs which would originally require multiple (selectable) transistors can be implemented with a single configurable transistor.
References
Transistors
Artificial neural networks
Experimental electrical components |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Olsen | Dan R. Olsen Jr. (born June 22, 1953) is an American computer scientist who specialized in the fields of human–computer interaction and information science. He worked in the computer science department of Brigham Young University from 1984 until his retirement in 2015, serving as chair of the department (1992–96), and also directed the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (1996–98).
Education
Dan R. Olsen gained his Bachelor of Science (1976) and Master of Science (1978) in computer science from Brigham Young University and his PhD in computer and information science from University of Pennsylvania (1981).
Career and research
In 1981, Olsen became an assistant professor at Arizona State University. In 1984, he moved to Brigham Young University as an assistant professor, rising to associate professor (1986) and professor (1990). He served as Department Chair of Computer Science in 1992–96, and was the director of the Interactive Computing Everywhere) (ICE) Laboratory. During his career at Brigham Young, he also served as a professor and the inaugural director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (1996–98). He retired in 2015.
His research was in the fields of human–computer interaction and information science.
Awards, honours and societies
Olsen was elected as fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2006 for his work on user interface technology. He was the inaugural editor of the society's journal, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). He is a CHI Academy member and gained the CHI Lifetime Research Award in 2012.
Selected published works
Books
Building Interactive Systems: Principles for Human-Computer Interaction (2009)
Developing user interfaces: ensuring usability through product & process (1993)
User Interface Management Systems: Models and Algorithms (1992)
Research articles
Laser pointer interaction (CHI, 2001)
Interactive machine learning (IUI, 2003)
Evaluating user interface systems research (UIST, 2007)
SYNGRAPH: A graphical user interface generator (ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 1983)
Cross-modal interaction using XWeb (UIST, 2000)
MIKE: the menu interaction kontrol environment (ACM Transactions on Graphics, 1986)
References
External links
ACM Digital Library
1953 births
Living people
Brigham Young University alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Brigham Young University faculty
American computer scientists
Academic journal editors
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20early%20third%20generation%20computers | This list of early third generation computers, tabulates those computers using monolithic integrated circuits (ICs) as their primary logic elements, starting from small-scale integration CPUs (SSI) to large-scale integration CPUs (LSI). Computers primarily using ICs first came into use about 1961 for military use. With the availability of reliable low cost ICs in the mid 1960s commercial third generation computers using ICs started to appear.
The fourth generation computers began with the shipment of CPS-1, the first commercial microprocessor microcomputer in 1972 and for the purposes of this list marks the end of the "early" third generation computer era. Note that third generation computers were offered well into the 1990s.
The list is organized by delivery year to customers or production/operational date. In some cases only the first computer from any one manufacturer is listed. Computers announced, but never completed, are not included. Computers without documented manual input (keyboard/typewriter/control unit) are also not included.
Aerospace and military computers (1961-1971)
1961
Semiconductor Network Computer (Molecular Electronic Computer, Mol-E-Com), first monolithic integrated circuit general purpose computer (built for demonstration purposes, programmed to simulate a desk calculator) was built by Texas Instruments for the US Air Force.
1962
Martin MARTAC 420 (Fairchild Micrologic)
AC Spark Plug MAGIC (Fairchild Micrologic)
Librascope L-90 series (silicon planar epitaxial semiconductor IC)
1963
UNIVAC 1824
Autonetics D37 (Solid Circuit, Texas Instruments)
1965
Apollo Guidance Computer First installation
Burroughs D84
Litton L-304 - TTL IC
Honeywell ALERT - HLTTL IC
Autonetics D26 - DTL IC
1967
Ballistic Research Laboratories Electronic Scientific Computer Model II (BRLESC II)
CDC 449
CP-823/U
1970
AN/UYK-7
Rolm 1601 (AN/UYK-12(V)), Feb 1970
1971
AN/GYK-12 Militarized version of Litton L-3050
Commercial computers (1965-1971)
This table of commercial 3rd generation computers has been constructed by merging of several lists of computers offered from February 1965, the date of the shipment of the first commercial 3rd generation computer, thru 1971 inclusive and then finding reliable sources as to the generation of the models listed and the associated dates.
See also
List of early microcomputers
Notes
References
Works cited
Alt URL
Further reading
History of computing hardware
20th century in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulmatics%20Corporation | The Simulmatics Corporation was a U.S. data science firm founded in 1959 that used algorithms to target voters and consumers. One of its leading figures was Ithiel de Sola Pool.
Professor of American History at Harvard University Jill Lepore wrote a book about the Simulmatics Corporation, titled If Then, in 2020, and recorded an audio version broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2021.
The political novel The 480 contains a fictional treatment of the Simulmatics Corporation's activities.
References
See also
Cambridge Analytica
Political campaign techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20games%20by%20Epic%20Games | Epic Games is an American video game and software developer based in Cary, North Carolina. It was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland. After releasing one game under that name, ZZT (1991), Sweeney renamed the company to Epic MegaGames in early 1992 "to make it look like we were a big company" even though it had no other employees or offices. Over the next few years, the company continued to make PC games, largely self-published, including the side-scrollers Jill of the Jungle (1992) and Jazz Jackrabbit (1994). They additionally published titles by other developers such as Epic Pinball (1993) by Digital Extremes and Tyrian (1995) by Eclipse Software. Epic also slowly expanded in size, reaching 8 employees by 1994.
Beginning with the 1996 game Fire Fight, Epic ceased its publishing and self-publishing operations, and after the release and success of Unreal (1998) renamed itself in 1999 to Epic Games and moved to Raleigh, North Carolina; it and a temporary office in Canada during Unreals development were the first time the company had a central office for their employees. After the name change, the company focused almost solely on the Unreal series of shooters for the next few years, and expanded from PC games to console games. In 2006 the company launched its Gears of War series of games, and in 2010 the company moved into mobile games with the Infinity Blade series after purchasing Chair Entertainment. Epic returned to retail publishing in 2015 for its own titles, and has solely self-published since. In addition to games, Epic develops and licenses the Unreal Engine, which is also used as the game engine for many of its own games, and runs the Epic Games Store, a digital video game storefront for Microsoft Windows and macOS.
Sweeney described the history of the company in 2016 as four eras: the shareware era from founding through 1997 as the company grew to 15 employees; the Unreal era from 1998 to 2005 as the company focused on developing that franchise through external publishers and grew to 25 employees; the Gears of War era from 2006 to 2011 as the company shifted focus to console games and grew to around 200 employees; and the current era where the company moved back to PC games and self-publishing, spinning off or closing some of its subsidiary developers such as People Can Fly and Big Huge Games. This latter era has instead become dominated by the multi-platform Fortnite Battle Royale and related games, which is one of the most-played video games of all time with over 350 million registered players. Epic Games has developed around 40 games since 1991 and published over 20 more, and has multiple games under development.
Video games
Epic Games has used the names Potomac Computer Systems, Epic MegaGames, and Epic Games; the name given for the company is the one used at the time of a game's release. Many of the games under the Epic MegaGames brand were rele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation%20of%20J.B. | Mutation of J.B. (in Slovak: Mutácia Johnyho Burgera) is a 1996 point-and-click adventure game by Slovak developer Invention. It was released for MS-DOS by Riki Computer Games in Slovakia, by Vochozka Trading (now 2K Czech) in the Czech Republic and by Neo Software in the German speaking countries.
Plot
The player controls Johnny Burger, who plans to visit his cousin Emanuel for two weeks. A scientist offers him money to be part of an experiment. The experiment goes wrong, the scientist disappears, Johnny gets turned into a human pig, and he is kidnapped to the Planet Ladea. He must return things to how they were and find out what happened to Emanuel.
Development
This was the very first Slovak video game on CD which also included Slovak voice acting. Voice actors included were Jozef Pročko, Ladislav Kocan, and Riki magazine's editor-in-chief Ivo Ninja. It is also the first Slovak commercial point & click adventure.
The publishers actively tried to push against the rampant piracy by publishing the title directly into the Slovak language without subtitles. The Austrian publisher NEO included German language with subtitles and insisted that the games' music must be uploaded directly to them in the studio in Vienna.
Reception
Adventure-archiv praised the puzzles and story for being highly original. Gamesite.sk editor listed the title as the fifth best game of all time.
References
External links
Press reviews
1996 video games
Point-and-click adventure games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Video games developed in Slovakia
Vochozka Trading games
Riki Computer Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carludovica%20elegans | Carludovica elegans is a species of flowering plants in the family Cyclanthaceae. It is found in Peru.
References
External links
data about WAG.1887968 specimen (Carludovica elegans Williams, 1917) at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the Netherlands
Carludovica elegans at Tropicos
Cyclanthaceae
Plants described in 1906
Flora of Peru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TokenEx | TokenEx is a cloud-based data security company, headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company was founded in 2010 by Alex Pezold. It provides services for coupling tokenization (data security), encryption, and key management for ensuring secure data. It specializes in the tokenization (data security) of sensitive customer data. Pezold said tokenization can translate “30 million credit card numbers into 30 million tokens,” in a very short time. The World Vision International is one of its clients using TokenEx platform.
On 28 February 2018, the company announced its partnership with Cloud Constellation to design a space-based data security solution that layers tokenization, and secure storage in space for securing customers' sensitive data.
It won the 2016 Metro 50 Award and was recognized as the Metro 50’s fastest growing privately held company by the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber.
See also
Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology
RSA Security
References
Computer security companies
Software companies based in Oklahoma
Software companies established in 2010
Former certificate authorities
2010 establishments in Oklahoma
Security companies of the United States
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelanthus%20myrsinifolius | Agelanthus myrsinifolius is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the family Loranthaceae, which is native to Rwanda, Zaire and Burundi.
Description
For a brief description see the African Plant database.
Habitat and ecology
A. myrsinifolius has been found at altitudes of 1900–3300 m in montane or swamp forests and in heaths. Recorded hosts are Myrsine and Erica mannii (at the higher altitudes).
Threats
At lower altitudes, intense human population pressure means that outside the protected areas, forest is disappearing due to agriculture and logging. At these altitudes, the host, Myrsine, is being cleared for agriculture. At the higher altitudes, the heath, Erica mannii, is probably safe.
References
External links
JSTOR Global Plants: Agelanthus myrsinifolius. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Agelanthus myrsinifolius. Accessed 23 March 2018.
The International Plant Names Index: Agelanthus myrsinifolius. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Flora of Rwanda
Flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Flora of Burundi
myrsinifolius
Taxa named by Adolf Engler
Taxa named by Kurt Krause |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAPS%20team | NAPS team is an Italian independent video game studio based in Messina, Sicily. They work mostly in the home computer and console market.
History
The company was established as a game developing house in 1993 by Fabio Capone and Domenico Barba.
Like many software houses established in the 1990s, their first market was on the 16-bit Amiga.
In 2016, the company started work on the game Iron Wings. The company used Kickstarter to raise funds. Completed in 2017, it features aerial warfare and is set in World War II.
In 2018, Gekido: Kintaro's Revenge was re-released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Baldo, a role-playing video game inspired by The Legend of Zelda series, but with a graphic style inspired by the animated films produced by Studio Ghibli, was announced in 2019.
Reception
In 1996, Shadow Fighter was ranked the 20th best game of all time by Amiga Power.
Video games
Games developed by NAPS team:
Shadow Fighter (Amiga, 1994, published by Gremlin Interactive)
Gekido: Urban Fighters (PlayStation, 2000, Gremlin Interactive)
Gekido Advance: Kintaro's Revenge (Game Boy Advance, 2002)
Rageball (2002)
Shoot (2002)
Football Madness (2003)
Silent Iron (2003)
Omega Assault (2003)
Flynig Squadron (2003)
Hot Shot (2003)
Wanted (2004)
Jet Ace (2004)
Shoot (2005)
Racing Fever (2005)
SWAT Siege (2006)
WWI: Aces of the Sky (2006)
WWII: Battle Over The Pacific (2008)
Sniper Assault (2006)
Dead Eye Jim (2007)
They Came From the Skies (2007)
Apache Longbow Assault (2007)
Operation Air Assault 2 (2007)
Twin Strike: Operation Thunder (2008)
Bootcamp Academy (2010)
Legendary Knight (2015)
Iron Wings (Xbox One, 2017)
Maria the Witch (PC, 2016, Xbox One, 2017, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, 2018)
The Knight and the Dragon (Nintendo Switch, 2019)
Baldo (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, 2021)
See also
Gremlin Interactive: company founded by Ian Stewart that published Shadow Fighter
References
Video game companies established in 1993
Italian companies established in 1993
Video game companies of Italy
Video game publishers
Video game development companies
Messina
Companies based in Sicily
Privately held companies of Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Guttmann | Christian Guttmann is an entrepreneur, business executive and scientist in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. He has three citizenships. He is currently the vice president in Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Pegasystems, and leads the AI research and development including the development of Large Language Models and Generative AI. He is an adjunct associate professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia and Adjunct researcher at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Guttmann has edited and authored 7 books, over 50 publications and 4 patents in the field of Artificial Intelligence. He is a keynote speaker at international events, including the International Council for Information Technology (ICA) in Government Administration and CeBIT and is cited by MIT Sloan Management review and Bloomberg.
Biography
Christian Guttmann grew up in Germany and Australia, and spent much of his life in Sweden, where he studied Artificial Intelligence and Psychology in the late 90s. He moved back to Australia around the millennium, completed his PhD in Distributed Artificial Intelligence and after an extended period in Melbourne and Sydney in Australia, he moved again to Sweden in 2014.
Guttmann has dedicated his career and life's work to the advancement of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. In 2019, he was named Top 100 AI global leader in Artificial Intelligence among global AI leaders, such as Andrew Ng. He has worked scientifically, entrepreneurially, and industrially in AI for over 25 years, starting with completed PhD and master's degrees in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at leading Swedish, Australian and German universities (Monash University, Stockholm University, Royal Institute of Technology, Melbourne University and Paderborn University). His PhD research focused on Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems, e.g. how artificial agents make optimal decisions together, and was nominated for the Australasian Dissertation Award.
In Artificial Intelligence, he is an influencer on Artificial Intelligence in Social Media with over 50000 followers combined on Linkedin and Twitter. Among his peers in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, he has the highest number of followers in Northern Europe.
Industry Leadership Contributions
In Germany, Sweden, Finland, United Arab Emirates (Dubai), Australia, and the United States of America, Guttmann has been an area and theme leader in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation at some of the world's largest tech companies, including IBM, TietoEvry, HP, Ericsson, and British Telecom. He led multi disciplinary teams in the delivery of large client projects, e.g. for governmental organisations, hospitals and large industry clients.
Guttmann was the global head of Artificial Intelligence and Chief Artificial Intelligence and Data officer at Tietoevry. At Tietoevry, he was responsible for strategy and execution of Artificial Intelligenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gathering%20of%20personally%20identifiable%20information | The gathering of personally identifiable information (PII) is the practice of collecting public and private personal data that can be used to identify an individual for both legal and illegal applications. PII owners often view PII gathering as a threat and violation of their privacy. Meanwhile, entities such as information technology companies, governments, and organizations use PII for data analysis of consumer shopping behaviors, political preference, and personal interests.
With the development of new information technology, PII is easier to access and share than before. The use of smartphones and social media has contributed to the widespread usage of PII gathering. PII is collected anywhere and anytime. The dissemination of personal data makes PII gathering a hotly debated social issue.
Recent illegal PII gathering by data collection companies, such as Cambridge Analytica on Facebook of over 87 million users, has caused increasing concern over privacy violation and has renewed call for more comprehensive data protection laws. Major security breaches at Equifax, Target, Yahoo, Home Depot, and the United States Office of Personnel Management impacted personal and financial information of millions of American, with calls for increasing information technology security and protection of PII data by businesses and governmental agencies.
Definition
There is no precise definition for PII gathering. According to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), PII is defined as:
(1) any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother’s maiden name, or biometric records and
(2) any other information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as medical, educational, financial and employment information.
PII gathering is any activity that collects, organizes, manipulates, analyzes, exchanges, or shares this data.
Collectors
Governments
Governments publicly collect PII to extend social and legal benefits, such as improving social services and when fulfilling legal obligations.
Depending on a country's governmental archetype, such as democratic or authoritarian, PII gathering is conducted using different methods. Regardless, countries share similar goals with PII gathering, as demonstrated by the example below.
United States
In the United States, PII is gathered through application for assistance, registration of property, tax filing, registration for selective services, application for driver's license, government employment, professional licensure, and other voluntary and mandatory information submission. PII is stored, accessed, and shared between different levels of government, departments, agencies, non-governmental entities, and the public. For example, a potential home buyer can look up if a real estate agent is licensed or not. The Government also gathers PII for crime prevention and national security purpos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solebit | Solebit is a privately held cybersecurity company, with main offices located in the United States and Israel.
Solebit's cloud-based, real-time SaaS platform is focused on zero-day malware and unknown threats. Solebit blocks malicious active content with flow analysis, de-obfuscation and content evaluation.
Solebit’s applications are in use by organizations in such industries as financial services, healthcare, information technology, public sector, and retail and consumer goods.
Company
Solebit was founded in 2014 and maintains headquarters in San Francisco, California, with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Solebit has received funding from venture capital/growth equity firms Glilot Capital Partners and MassMutual Ventures.
In March 2018, Solebit secured $11 million in Series A funding, led by ClearSky Security.
On July 31, 2018, Solebit was acquired by Mimecast for $100 million.
Products
Solebit's core SoleGATE Security Platform is anchored by DvC, a real-time, signature-less engine, which identifies malware threats, regardless of evasion technique, file type, operating system, and client-side application, whether on-premise or in the cloud.
See also
Computer Security
Zero-Day Threats
Malware Prevention
Sandbox Alternative
References
External links
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
2014 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20of%20Physiotherapy%20in%20Higher%20Education | The European Network of Physiotherapy in Higher Education (ENPHE) is a non-profit association of leading physical therapy universities in Europe. ENPHE was set up in February 1995, with headquarters in Utrecht, Netherlands. The main objectives are to provide high quality physical therapy education in Europe and to improve links between association members in research, as well as postgraduate and continuing education.
References
External links
Official website
Physiotherapy organizations
College and university associations and consortia in Europe
International medical associations of Europe
Organisations based in Utrecht (city) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netval%20Research%20Universities%20Network | The Netval Research Universities Network is a consortium of 62 institutions of higher education that provides a forum for cooperation and exchange of information on higher education and research policies. Netval was set up in November 2002, with headquarters in Pavia and Lecco, Italy. Members of the Association are Italian universities involved in teaching and research, national associations of rectors and other organisations active in higher education and research.
References
External links
Official website
List of Member Universities
2002 establishments in Italy
Organizations established in 2002
Educational organisations based in Italy
College and university associations and consortia in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keita%20Iwashita | is the Head coach of the Cyberdyne Ibaraki Robots in the Japanese B.League.
Head coaching record
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References
1988 births
Living people
Cyberdyne Ibaraki Robots coaches
Japanese basketball coaches |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Dimension%20Data%20season | The 2018 season for the cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
Team roster
Riders who joined the team for the 2018 season
Riders who left the team during or after the 2017 season
Season victories
National, Continental and World champions 2018
Footnotes
References
External links
2018 road cycling season by team
Team Qhubeka NextHash
2018 in South African sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton%20Paul%20P.116 | The Boulton Paul P.115 and Boulton Paul P.116 were basic trainers designed by Boulton Paul Aircraft to meet Air Ministry Specification T.16/48.
Variants
Data from:Boulton Paul aircraft since 1915
P.115Designed to Spec T.16/48, the P.115 was to have been powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah seven-cylinder radial engine, to replace the Percival Prentice. Boulton Paul drew up an alternative engine choice, using the new de Havilland Gipsy Queen 71 which was rated at , geared and supercharged. The P.115 would have had a top speed of and cruising speed of , at , climbing to in 10 minutes.
P.116Boulton Paul also submitted the P.116 for T.16/48, powered by a supercharged de Havilland Gipsy Queen 50.
The Percival Provost won the order for trainers to spec. T.16/48, after competitive trials with the Handley Page H.P.R.2
Specifications (P.116 estimated)
See also
References
P.116
1940s British military trainer aircraft
Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandoned%20Places%3A%20A%20Time%20for%20Heroes | Abandoned Places: A Time for Heroes is a 1992 Hungarian dungeon crawler role-playing video game developed by ArtGame and published by International Computer Entertainment for Amiga and DOS platforms. A sequel, Abandoned Places 2, was released in 1993 for Amiga.
Plot and gameplay
The narrative sees a band of four heroes from the land of Kalynthia, to save their homeland from the clutches of the evil arch mage Bronagh.
During dungeon crawls the game switches to a 3D view and plays similar to Dungeon Master.
Development
Abandoned Places was developed by the founders of Hungarian video game development company ArtGame, István Fábián and Ferenc Staengler, along with musician György Dragon, who joined them in 1989. The game was inspired by Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeon Master tabletop role-playing games. Starting in spring 1990 the company pitched the game to several publishers, including Electronic Arts, but they were finalizing the publishing deal for a similar game, Raven Software's Black Crypt just a week before, so they rejected the game. The game was finished and tested by January 1992, a month before its release. The developers received little to no compensation for their work on the game, they were even banned from the game's Hungarian launch event.
Reception
Amiga Power gave the Amiga version of Abandoned Places an overall score of 80%, praising the size of the game world, and expressed that Abandoned Places' leverage over other similar RPGs is that it has extensive above-ground locations in addition to its subterranean dungeons, furthermore stating that "what you do above ground is every bit as important as your endeavours below." Amiga Power also praises Abandoned Places' level of difficulty, but criticises its "poor" graphics, calling its animations "lackluster" and almost '8-bit' looking in combat, expressing that "when so much effort has been put into every other aspect of something as huge as Abandoned Places, it seems a shame that it's so completely outgunned in such a very important area."
References
External links
Abandoned Places: A Time For Heroes at Hall of Light Amiga database
Abandoned Places 2 at Hall of Light Amiga database
1992 video games
Amiga games
DOS games
Europe-exclusive video games
First-person party-based dungeon crawler video games
Role-playing video games
Video games developed in Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%20Buolamwini | Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is a Ghanaian-American-Canadian computer scientist and digital activist based at the MIT Media Lab. Buolamwini introduces herself as a poet of code, daughter of art and science. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League, an organization that works to challenge bias in decision-making software, using art, advocacy, and research to highlight the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence (AI).
Early life and education
Buolamwini was born in Edmonton, Alberta, grew up in Mississippi and attended Cordova High School. At age 9, she was inspired by Kismet, the MIT robot, and taught herself XHTML, JavaScript and PHP. She was a competitive pole vaulter.
As an undergraduate, Buolamwini studied computer science at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she researched health informatics. Buolamwini graduated as a Stamps President's Scholar from Georgia Tech in 2012, and was the youngest finalist of the Georgia Tech InVenture Prize in 2009.
Buolamwini is a Rhodes Scholar, a Fulbright fellow, a Stamps Scholar, an Astronaut Scholar and an Anita Borg Institute scholar. As a Rhodes Scholar, she studied learning and technology at the University of Oxford where she was a student based at Jesus College, Oxford. During her scholarship she took part in the first formal Service Year, working on community focused projects. She was awarded a Master's Degree in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT in 2017 for research supervised by Ethan Zuckerman. She was awarded a PhD degree in Media Arts & Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in 2022 with a thesis on Facing the Coded Gaze with Evocative Audits and Algorithmic Audits.
Career and research
In 2011, Buolamwini worked with the trachoma program at the Carter Center to develop an Android-based assessment system for use in Ethiopia. As a Fulbright fellow, in 2013 she worked with local computer scientists in Zambia to help Zambian youth to become technology creators. On September 14, 2016, Buolamwini appeared at the White House summit on Computer Science for All.
She is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, where she works to identify bias in algorithms and to develop practices for accountability during their design; at the lab, Buolamwini is a member of Ethan Zuckerman's Center for Civic Media group. During her research, Buolamwini showed facial recognition systems 1,000 faces and asked them to identify whether faces were female or male, and found that software found it hard to identify dark-skinned women. Her project, Gender Shades, became part of her MIT thesis. Her 2018 paper Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification, prompted responses from IBM and Microsoft, who swiftly improved their software. She also created the Aspire Mirror, a device that lets users see a reflection of themselves based on what inspires them. Her program, Algorithmic Justice League, aims to highlight the bias in code that can lead to discrimination against underrepresented gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%20Qiheng | Hu Qiheng (born 1934) is a Chinese computer scientist. Hu was the vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1987 to 1996 and led the National Computing and Networking Facility of China which connected China to the Internet in April 1994. Hu was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a global connector.
Early life and education
Hu was born in 1934 in Beijing, China. She graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Machinery in 1963 with an associate's degree in healthcare.
Career
Starting in the 1980s, Hu was the director of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1983 to 1987. After being named secretary general of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1987, she became the academy's vice president in 1988 and held the position until 1996. During her time as vice president, Hu was in charge of the National Computing and Networking Facility of China. She persuaded the National Science Foundation to allow China to connect to the Internet. Her discussions with the institution's officials led to a consensus that finally allowed the installation of the first TCP/IP connection in China on April 20, 1994.
After her position of vice president at the Chinese Academy of Sciences ended in 1996, Hu established the China Internet Network Information Center in 1997 and co-founded the Internet Society of China in 2001. As president of the Internet Society of China, Hu advocated for Internet installment in the outskirts of China. In 2004, Hu was named as a member of the Working Group on Internet Governance held by the United Nations.
Hu is also among the pioneers in the field of mode identification and artificial intelligence (A.I) in China. She helped establish the Knowledge and Intelligence Science Laboratory and served as president of the China Automation Society and the China Computer Society.
Awards and honors
Hu was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as a global connector in 2013.
Personal life
Hu is married with two children.
References
1934 births
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Scientists from Beijing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Hinckley | Ken Hinckley (born 1969) is an American computer scientist and inventor. He is a senior principal research manager at Microsoft Research. He is known for his research in human-computer interaction, specifically on sensing techniques, pen computing, and cross-device interaction.
Background
After received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1991, Hinckley completed a master's degree in Computer Science (1993) and a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Virginia (1996), where he studied with advisor Randy Pausch.
Hinckley began working at Microsoft Research in 1997, where his primary research areas include novel input devices, device form-factors, and modalities of interaction. Hinckley has received numerous professional distinctions in the field of human-computer interaction. He has published over 80 academic papers in this field, and claims more than 150 patents. Hinckley is a member of the CHI Academy and has served as associate editor at ACM TOCHI (Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction) since 2003. His work has been cited more than 8000 times.
Work
Hinckley has made notable contribution to the areas of human-computer modalities and their hardware design. His work spans numerous, often-overlapping topics, including bimanual interaction, sensing devices and techniques, pen and touch interaction, and cross-device interaction.
Bimanual interaction
In the 1990s, Hinckley studied bimanual interaction at the University of Virginia, often in collaboration with doctoral advisor Pausch. His work had applications in the field of neurosurgery, specifically, in neurosurgical medical imaging.
Hinckley's doctoral thesis, Haptic Issues for Virtual Manipulation (1997) investigated two-handed spatial interaction in user interfaces for applications in neurosurgical visualization. The paper presents two-handed virtual manipulation as an alternative interaction technique for the WIMP interface and investigates the role of passive haptic feedback in virtual manipulation. Hinckley's thesis work was conducted in collaboration with the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia.
Hinckley's research in bimanual interaction suggests that two-handed interfaces can offer cognitive advantages for the user, such as providing a perceptual frame of reference independent of visual feedback that single-handed interfaces lack.
Sensing techniques
At Microsoft Research, Hinckley has studied sensing techniques in interaction with mobile handheld devices. In Sensing Techniques for Mobile Interaction (2000), Hinckley and co-authors Jeff Pierce, Mike Sinclair, and Eric Horvitz integrated hardware sensors into a mobile device to enable functionalities such as automatically powering up when the user picks up the device and switching between portrait and landscape display modes when the device's physical orientation changes. Implementation of tilt, touch, and proximity sensors produced a context-sensitive in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20Education%20Degree%20Datacheck | Higher Education Degree Datacheck (Hedd) is the UK's official service for verifying academic degrees and authenticating universities. It also takes action against diploma mills purporting to be UK universities. It is funded by the UK government through the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and is run by Prospects.
Hedd was created by Prospects in partnership with HEFCE and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in response to fears about fake universities and CV fraud, and went live in 2012 after a beta launch in 2011. At the time, it was believed that there were twice as many fake universities in the UK as real ones. In 2014, it revealed that 8% of degrees submitted could not be verified, with the most common problem being claiming a first class degree when the actual award was at a lower classification. Hedd issued a warning in 2016 against posting graduation selfies with certificates shown, as this would allow fraudulent websites to see and copy the designs of degree certificates. By January 2017 Hedd had shut down more than 40 fake university websites since the UK government announced a crackdown in June 2015, and that it had had reports of over 90 bogus institutions. In December 2017 it officially partnered with the Chinese Service Centre for Scholarly Exchange to validate the degrees of UK graduates returning to or entering China.
See also
Bogus colleges in the United Kingdom
Diploma mill
List of unaccredited institutions of higher education
Job fraud
External links
Higher Education Degree Datacheck official website
Hedd blog
Ofqual
References
Education in Manchester
Education fraud in the United Kingdom
Fraud organizations
Higher education organisations based in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Manchester
Unaccredited institutions of higher learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ground%20beetle%20genera | This page lists the genera in the family Carabidae, according to Catalogue of Life and Carabcat Database as of March 2023, excluding Tiger Beetles (which are considered to be in the family Cicindelidae).
Family Carabidae
Subfamily Anthiinae Bonelli, 1813
Tribe Anthiini Bonelli, 1813
Anthia Weber, 1801
Atractonotus Perroud, 1847
Baeoglossa Chaudoir, 1850
Cycloloba Chaudoir, 1850
Cypholoba Chaudoir, 1850
Eccoptoptera Chaudoir, 1878
Gonogenia Chaudoir, 1844
Netrodera Chaudoir, 1850
Tribe Helluonini Hope, 1838
Subtribe Helluonina Hope, 1838
Aenigma Newman, 1836
Ametroglossus Sloane, 1914
Dicranoglossus Chaudoir, 1872
Epimicodema Sloane, 1914
Gigadema J.Thomson, 1859
Helluapterus Sloane, 1914
Helluarchus Sloane, 1914
Helluo Bonelli, 1813
Helluodema Laporte, 1867
Helluonidius Chaudoir, 1872
Helluopapua Darlington, 1968
Helluosoma Laporte, 1867
Neohelluo Sloane, 1914
Platyhelluo Baehr, 2005
Subtribe Omphrina Jedlicka, 1941
Colfax Andrewes, 1920
Creagris Nietner, 1857
Dailodontus Reiche, 1843
Erephognathus Alluaud, 1932
Helluobrochus Reichardt, 1974
Helluomorpha Laporte, 1834
Helluomorphoides Ball, 1951
Macrocheilus Hope, 1838
Meladroma Motschulsky, 1855
Omphra Dejean, 1825
Pleuracanthus Gray, 1832
Triaenogenius Chaudoir, 1877
Tribe Physocrotaphini Chaudoir, 1863
Anguloderus Anichtchenko & Sciaky, 2017
Foveocrotaphus Anichtchenko, 2014
Helluodes Westwood, 1847
Holoponerus Fairmaire, 1883
Physocrotaphus Parry, 1849
Physoglossus Akhil & Sabu, 2020
Pogonoglossus Chaudoir, 1863
Schuelea Baehr, 2004
Subfamily Apotominae LeConte, 1853
Apotomus Illiger, 1807
Subfamily Brachininae Bonelli, 1810
Tribe Brachinini Bonelli, 1810
Aptinoderus Hubenthal, 1919
Aptinus Bonelli, 1810
Brachinulus Basilewsky, 1958
Brachinus Weber, 1801
Mastax Fischer von Waldheim, 1828
Pheropsophus Solier, 1833
Styphlodromus Basilewsky, 1959
Styphlomerus Chaudoir in Putzeys, 1875
Tribe Crepidogastrini Jeannel, 1949
Brachynillus Reitter, 1904
Crepidogaster Boheman, 1848
Crepidogastrillus Basilewsky, 1959
Crepidogastrinus Basilewsky, 1957
Crepidolomus Basilewsky, 1959
Crepidonellus Basilewsky, 1959
Subfamily Broscinae Hope, 1838
Tribe Broscini Hope, 1838
Subtribe Axonyina Roig-Juñent, 2000
Broscodes Bolivar y Pieltain, 1914
Rawlinsius Davidson & Ball, 1998
Subtribe Baripodina Jeannel, 1941
Baripus Dejean, 1828
Bembidiomorphum Champion, 1918
Subtribe Broscina Hope, 1838
Broscodera Lindroth, 1961
Broscosoma Rosenhauer, 1846
Broscus Panzer, 1813
Chaetobroscus Semenov, 1900
Craspedonotus Schaum, 1863
Eobroscus Kryzhanovskij, 1951
Kashmirobroscus J.Schmidt; Wrase & Sciaky, 2013
Miscodera Eschscholtz, 1830
Zacotus LeConte, 1869
Subtribe Creobiina Jeannel, 1941
Acallistus Sharp, 1886
Adotela Laporte, 1867
Anheterus Putzeys, 1868
Bountya Townsend, 1971
Brithysternum W.J.MacLeay, 1873
Cascellius Curtis, 1838
Cerotalis Laporte, 1867
Creobius Guérin-Méneville, 1838
Gnathoxys Westwood, 1842
Nothocascelliu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Wang%20%28disambiguation%29 | Frank Wang may refer to:
Frank Wang (entrepreneur) (born 1980), Chinese businessman
Frank Zhigang Wang, professor of future computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier%20%28supercomputer%29 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Frontier, or OLCF-5, is the world's first and fastest exascale supercomputer, hosted at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) in Tennessee, United States and first operational in 2022. It is based on the Cray EX and is the successor to Summit (OLCF-4). , Frontier is the world's fastest supercomputer. Frontier achieved an Rmax of 1.102 exaFLOPS, which is 1.102 quintillion operations per second, using AMD CPUs and GPUs. Measured at 62.86 gigaflops/watt, Frontier topped the Green500 list for most efficient supercomputer, until it was dethroned (in efficiency) by Flatiron Institute's Henri supercomputer in November 2022.
Design
Frontier uses 9,472 AMD Epyc 7453s "Trento" 64 core 2 GHz CPUs (606,208 cores) and 37,888 Radeon Instinct MI250X GPUs (8,335,360 cores). They can perform double precision operations at the same speed as single precision.
"Trento" is an optimized 3rd Gen EPYC CPU ("Milan"), which itself is based on the Zen 3 microarchitecture.
It occupies 74 rack cabinets. Each cabinet hosts 64 blades, each consisting of 2 nodes.
Blades are interconnected by HPE Slingshot 64-port switch that provides 12.8 terabits/second of bandwidth. Groups of blades are linked in a dragonfly topology with at most three hops between any two nodes. Cabling is either optical or copper, customized to minimize cable length. Total cabling runs . Frontier is liquid-cooled, allowing 5x the density of air-cooled architectures.
Each node consists of one CPU, 4 GPUs and 4 terabytes of flash memory. Each GPU has 128 GB of RAM soldered onto it.
Frontier has coherent interconnects between CPUs and GPUs, allowing GPU memory to be accessed coherently by code running on the Epyc CPUs.
Frontier uses an internal 75 TB/s read / 35 TB/s write / 15 billion IOPS flash storage system, along with the 700 PB Orion site-wide Lustre filesystem.
Frontier consumes 21 megawatts (MW) (compared to its predecessor Summit's 13 MW); it has been estimated that the next US exascale system, Aurora, will consume around 60 MW.
History
The original design envisioned hundreds of thousands of GPUs and 150–500 MW of power. Oak Ridge partnered with HPE Cray and AMD to build the system.
The machine was built at a cost of US$600 million. It began deployment in 2021 and reached full capability in 2022. It clocked 1.1 exaflops Rmax in May 2022, making it the world's fastest supercomputer as measured in the June 2022 edition of the TOP500 list, replacing Fugaku.
Upon its release, the supercomputer topped the Green500 list for most efficient supercomputer, measured at 62.68 gigaflops/watt. ORNL Director Thomas Zacharia said: "Frontier is ushering in a new era of exascale computing to solve the world’s biggest scientific challenges." He added: "This milestone offers just a preview of Frontier’s unmatched capability as a tool for scientific discovery. It is the result of more than a decade of collaboration among the national laboratories, academia and private |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashgraph | Hashgraph is a distributed ledger technology that has been described as an alternative to blockchains. The hashgraph technology is currently patented, is used by the public ledger Hedera, and there is a grant to implement the patent as a result of the Apache 2.0's Grant of Patent License (provision #3) so long as the implementation conforms to the terms of the Apache license. The native cryptocurrency of the Hedera Hashgraph system is HBAR.
Unlike blockchains, hashgraphs do not bundle data into blocks or use miners to validate transactions. Instead, hashgraphs use a "gossip about gossip" protocol where the individual nodes on the network "gossip" about transactions to create directed acyclic graphs that time-sequence transactions. Each "gossip" message contains one or more transactions plus a timestamp, a digital signature, and cryptographic hashes of two earlier events. This makes Hashgraph form an asynchronous Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (aBFT) consensus algorithm.
Hashgraph was invented in the mid-2010s by the American computer scientist Leemon Baird. Baird is the co-founder and chief technical officer of Swirlds, a company that holds patents covering the hashgraph algorithm.
Concept
Hashgraph has been described as a continuation or successor to the blockchain concept, which provides increased speed, fairness, low cost, and security constraints. The Hedera white paper co-authored by Baird explained that "at the end of each round, each node calculates the shared state after processing all transactions that were received in that round and before," and it "digitally signs a hash of that shared state, puts it in a transaction, and gossips it out to the community."
Hedera Hashgraph
Hedera Hashgraph is the only public distributed ledger based on the Hashgraph algorithm. Hedera Hashgraph is developed by a company of the same name, Hedera, based in Dallas, Texas. Hedera was founded by Hashgraph inventor Leemon Baird and his business partner Mance Harmon, and previously had an exclusive license to the Hashgraph patents held by their company, Swirlds. The Hedera Governing Council voted to purchase the patent rights to Hashgraph and make the algorithm open source under the Apache License in 2022.
Hedera is owned and managed by a "governing council" of global companies and entities. The council's members include Swirlds, as well as Google, Boeing, IBM, Deutsche Telekom, LG, Tata Communications, Électricité de France, FIS, University College London, the London School of Economics, DLA Piper, Shinhan Bank, Standard Bank, ServiceNow, Ubisoft, Abrdn, DBS Bank, Dell, and several others.
Criticism
It has been claimed that hashgraphs are less technically constrained than blockchains proper. Cornell Professor Emin Gün Sirer notes that "The correctness of the entire Hashgraph protocol seems to hinge on every participant knowing and agreeing upon N, the total number of participants in the system," which is "a difficult number to determine in an open distri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella%20Chou | Stella Chou (; born 3 July 1956) is a Taiwanese journalist and politician.
Career
Chou studied journalism at Chinese Culture University and worked as a reporter for several television networks. She stood as a Kuomintang candidate for the 1989 Legislative Yuan elections, and was reelected in 1992. In August 1993, she became a founding member of the Chinese New Party, alongside Chen Kuei-miao, Jaw Shaw-kong, Lee Ching-hua, Wang Chien-shien, and Yok Mu-ming. Later that year, Chou coordinated New Party campaigns alongside Ju Gau-jeng. Chou contested the 1995 legislative elections, winning a third term. She sought New Party backing for a 1997 bid at the Taipei County magistracy, and left the New Party when it chose to nominate Yang Tai-shun.
In 2002, business executive Su Hui-chen claimed that she bribed a legislative committee four years prior on which Chou was a member.
References
1956 births
Living people
Chinese Culture University alumni
20th-century Taiwanese women politicians
Taiwanese journalists
Taiwanese women journalists
Kuomintang Members of the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan
New Party Members of the Legislative Yuan
Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan in Taiwan
Members of the 2nd Legislative Yuan
Members of the 3rd Legislative Yuan
Politicians of the Republic of China on Taiwan from Tainan
New Taipei Members of the Legislative Yuan
Taipei Members of the Legislative Yuan
Taiwanese political party founders
21st-century Taiwanese women politicians
21st-century Taiwanese politicians
Taiwanese women founders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20C%20Line%20%28Minnesota%29 | The Metro C Line is a bus rapid transit line in Brooklyn Center and Minneapolis, Minnesota operated by Metro Transit. The line is part of Metro Transit's Metro network of light rail and bus rapid transit lines. The route operates from the Brooklyn Center Transit Center along Penn Avenue and Olson Memorial Highway, terminating in downtown Minneapolis. The route is analogous to the existing Route 19 and is projected to increase ridership on this corridor from 7,000 to 9,000 by 2030. Eventually, part of its route will shift south to Glenwood Avenue from Olson Memorial Highway.
The C Line, along with the similarly built A Line, features fewer stops and modern bus stops with "train-like" amenities, including distinct stations and off-board fare payment. Additionally, the C Line features the Twin Cities' first battery-electric buses, built by New Flyer of America. Construction on the C Line began in March 2018 and began revenue service on June 8, 2019. The week of November 25, 2019, the C Line surpassed one-million rides after only five months of operation. Average weekday ridership was 30% higher than Route 19 ridership before C Line construction. Average Saturday and Sunday ridership has increased 25% and 40%, respectively.
Route
The northern terminus of the C Line is at Brooklyn Center Transit Center in Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Station facilities include an indoor waiting area, restrooms, bike racks, and ticket vending machines and Go-To card readers for off-board fare collection. Brooklyn Center Transit Center also has rapid chargers for battery-electric New Flyer buses, but as of October 15, 2019, electric buses have been pulled from service due to charging problems at their garage. From there, the C Line begins traveling southbound along Xerxes with one stop at 56th Avenue, adjacent to the former site of Brookdale Mall. The line then continues south on Brooklyn Boulevard with a station at 51st Avenue before entering the City of Minneapolis, where Brooklyn Boulevard changes to Osseo Road. An infill station at 47th Avenue will be constructed between 2023 and 2025. The C Line turns south onto Penn Avenue, splitting from the under construction Metro D Line, stopping the next block at 43rd Avenue. From there, the line stops every to serving North Minneapolis along Penn Avenue. At Olson Memorial Highway, the C Line turns east to head towards downtown Minneapolis with four station stops along the highway.
The route enters downtown along 7th Street, which splits into one-way pairs; 8th Street southbound and 7th Street northbound. Southbound, three BRT stations are currently open, at Ramp A/7th Street Transit Center and 8th Street at Nicollet Mall and at 3rd/4th Avenues. Stations on 8th Street at Hennepin and Park Avenues will fully open at a later date, with buses still stopping there on request. After the final stop at Park Avenue, buses continue to 11th Avenue where they layover and await the return trip northbound.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Flanagan | Christopher Flanagan is an American News Anchor currently working for WDVM-TV in the Washington, D.C., market. Before that, he was at FOX affiliate and former network- owned-and-operated station WFXT in Boston, Massachusetts.
Education
Flanagan graduated from Daniel Hand High School in Madison, CT in 1989. He is a graduate of Southern Connecticut State University.
Career
Starting his career as a weekend Sports Analyst from 1992 to 2004, Flanagan then took over the Main Anchor position at WOI-DT in Des Moines, Iowa, a position he held for four years while being nominated for several Emmys. He departed the station in order to take on an anchor position on the weekday morning show for WFAA in Dallas. Flanagan then left Dallas to take on his second Main Anchor position, this time for WEWS-TV in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2016, Flanagan joined the staff of WFXT in Boston as an Anchor/Reporter.
Flanagan joined WDVM-TV in Washington, DC as an evening anchor on July 11, 2022, which coincided with that station's news department relaunch as DC News Now.
References
1970 births
Living people
American radio news anchors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge%20Analytica%20data%20scandal | In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected without their consent by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, predominantly to be used for political advertising.
The data was collected through an app called "This Is Your Digital Life", developed by data scientist Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research in 2013. The app consisted of a series of questions to build psychological profiles on users, and collected the personal data of the users’ Facebook friends via Facebook's Open Graph platform. The app harvested the data of up to 87 million Facebook profiles. Cambridge Analytica used the data to provide analytical assistance to the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. Cambridge Analytica was also widely accused of interfering with the Brexit referendum, although the official investigation recognised that the company was not involved "beyond some initial enquiries" and that "no significant breaches" took place.
Information about the data misuse was disclosed in 2018 by Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, in interviews with The Guardian and The New York Times. In response, Facebook apologized for their role in the data harvesting and their CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of Congress. In July 2019, it was announced that Facebook was to be fined $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission due to its privacy violations. In October 2019, Facebook agreed to pay a £500,000 fine to the UK Information Commissioner's Office for exposing the data of its users to a "serious risk of harm". In May 2018, Cambridge Analytica filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Other advertising agencies have been implementing various forms of psychological targeting for years and Facebook had patented a similar technology in 2012. Nevertheless, Cambridge Analytica's methods and their high-profile clients — including the Trump presidential campaign and the UK's Leave.EU campaign — brought the problems of psychological targeting that scholars have been warning against to public awareness. The scandal sparked an increased public interest in privacy and social media's influence on politics. The online movement #DeleteFacebook trended on Twitter.
Overview
Aleksandr Kogan, a data scientist at the University of Cambridge, was hired by Cambridge Analytica, an offshoot of SCL Group, to develop an app called "This Is Your Digital Life" (sometimes stylized as "thisisyourdigitallife"). Cambridge Analytica then arranged an informed consent process for research in which several hundred thousand Facebook users would agree to complete a survey for payment that was only for academic use. However, Facebook allowed this app not only to collect personal information from survey respondents but also from respondents’ Facebook friends. In this way, Cambridge Analytica acquired data from millions of Facebook users.
The collection of personal data by Cambridge Analytica was first reported in December |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Perspective | PC Perspective (often shortened to PCPer) is a web site dedicated to news and reviews of personal computing and gaming hardware. PC Perspective specializes in hardware that is most relevant to home users and enthusiasts. The site also has an active online community, a weekly podcast, and founder Ryan Shrout was the co-host of TWiT.tv's This Week in Computer Hardware.
History
PCPer was founded by Ryan Shrout in 2004. Shrout previously ran the AMD motherboard centric Amdmb.com, Athlonmb.com, and K7M.com websites.
PC Perspective was originally located at pcperspective.com, but quickly moved to pcper.com.
Content
The PCPer website publishes news and reviews of consumer computing and gaming hardware, which has been highlighted in Forbes, PC World, Ars Technica, and Anandtech. At the editor's discretion, products with exceptional reviews may be given Silver, Gold, or Editor's Choice awards. PCPer has also been noted for purchasing professional level products in order to infer the performance of consumer products based on the same microarchitecture, and livestreaming benchmarking of new products.
The PCPer website also hosts a leaderboard of suggested components for computers at various price points.
PCPer also partnered with Polygon in 2016 on the construction and evaluation of computers for virtual reality gaming.
Due to consulting done by some PCPer staff on products, some PCPer reviews include disclosure statements describing the consulting and review relationship and any potential conflict of interest. With the departure of PCPer staff involved in private consulting and the transfer of ownership on January 1, 2019 to individuals not involved in any form of private consulting, the PCPer review disclosures statements have remained under the justification of providing readers with relevant information about published reviews.
Podcasts
PCPer hosts a weekly podcast discussing the weeks technology news and reviews. Video podcasts have been produced since at least 2010, with a successful Indiegogo fundraising campaign supporting production equipment. PCPer also began in July 2017 to host a weekly video series answering reader's questions, after reaching a set support level on Patreon.
Ryan Shrout was the regular co-host of TWiT.tv's This Week in Computer Hardware with Patrick Norton with other PCPer editors co-hosting as-well. Sebastian Peak took over co-hosting duties when Shrout went on to work for Intel.
Ryan Shrout
Founder Ryan Shrout is also a consultant, analyst for MarketWatch and contributor to EE Times, and CNBC, and other publications; often discussing technology related news. Shrout has also co-hosted The Tech Analysts podcast, discussing technology topics, with Patrick Moorehead since 2017.
In October 2018, Shrout announced he would leave PCPer and join Intel as the company's Chief Performance Strategist.
References
External links
Technology websites
Computing websites
Internet properties established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%20Mackay | Wendy Elizabeth Mackay (born on ) is a Canadian researcher specializing in human-computer interaction. She has served in all of the roles on the SIGCHI committee, including Chair. She is a member of the CHI Academy and a recipient of a European Research Council Advanced grant. She has been a visiting professor in Stanford University between 2010 and 2012, and received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award in 2014.
She leads research at Exsitu, while serving as research director with INRIA Saclay in France. Her research investigates of human computer interaction (HCI) and aims to develop and to facilitate the interfaces that provide users with the tools needed to accomplish the task at hand.
Education
Mackay received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from University of California, San Diego in 1977. She received a Master of Arts in experimental psychology from Northeastern University in 1979 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management of Technological Innovation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. Her doctoral research was supervised by Wanda Orlikowski.
Career and research
After graduating from Northeastern University, Mackay worked in several roles at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). In 1983, she focused formed a multimedia research group there and became a visiting scientist at MIT. At DEC, she created over 30 multimedia projects, including the first interactive video system which was titled IVIS. From 1987 to 1990 she worked on her Ph.D. at MIT and eventually worked as a senior research scientist at Xerox PARC where she published an award-winning special issue of Communications of the ACM on computer augmented environments. She also worked on augmented paper interfaces and explored the integration of paper with the online world. Afterward, she taught at University of Aarhus, University of Paris-Sud, and Stanford University as a visiting professor.
Her scientific contributions include writing the original toolkit software for IVIS, the world's first interactive video system. She also conducted the first major study of electronic mail while at MIT. Her design methods are taught in institutions around the world such as Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, and University of British Columbia. Mackay has published over two hundred research articles on human-computer interaction and has served as program chair or on the program committees of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ACM Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), ACM DIS and ACM Multimedia.
Awards and honors
2009, Elected a member of the CHI Academy
2009, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) best paper award, top 1% of accepted papers, for Musink: Composing Music through Augmented Drawing
2011, SIGCHI Best Paper Award: Mid-air Pan-and-Zoom on Wall-sized Displays
2014, SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award
2019, ACM Fellow "for contributions to human-computer inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20K-pop%20music%20videos%20banned%20by%20South%20Korean%20television%20networks | The following is a non-exhaustive list of K-pop videos that have been banned by one or more South Korean television networks, for reasons such as suggestive or offensive lyrics and imagery.
K-pop is characterized by a wide variety of audiovisual elements, and K-pop singles will typically include a music video and a dance routine. There is a history of media censorship and conservatism in South Korea, and as a result, many risque or explicit K-pop songs or videos have been banned from airing by the country's major television and radio networks. Other reasons for a ban are songs featuring Japanese lyrics, negative influences upon youth, or product placement, either in the song or within the video the use of brand names.
KBS, MBC, and SBS are the three networks, and account for the vast majority of banned K-pop videos. Between 2009 and 2012, they banned over 1,300 K-pop songs. This list only includes titular k-pop songs that have an accompanying music video, but many K-pop songs that were not title tracks have been banned as well. However, social media and YouTube have allowed singers and bands to round these restrictions, and may in themselves pressure networks to accept videos after their online popularity has been proven with appropriate edits.
List of banned K-pop videos from KBS, SBS, and MBC
Aftermath of bans
Revising
Often, the entertainment company that owns the banned song attempt to revise the song and have it reevaluated by the broadcaster's standards and practices department, and will edit the music video to remove the scenes in question, or even create a special 'network cut' meant for broadcast by that network. Other times, they may alter the explicit dance moves or change a song's lyrics so that the song may still be performed on music shows, such as Music Bank. In the case of EXO's "Lotto," which was banned due to it referring to the sportswear brand, the group substituted the word with "louder" to be able to perform it on KBS and MBC.
Although K-pop songs and videos are often banned by KBS, MBC or SBS are more lenient in their content adjustments. Some groups are content to promote themselves on networks other than KBS and do not make any changes to their original material. In regards to PSY's "Gentlemen," a spokesperson for YG Entertainment said they had no plans to submit a different version of their video, and they followed the decision made by KBS.
When 12 of 18 songs for Cheetah's 2018 album 28 Identity were deemed unfit for broadcast by KBS and five by SBS, the agency stated that they did not plan on making any changes to the lyrics to "keep the original intentions and meanings of the song."
See also
Censorship of Japanese media in South Korea
References
Lists of songs
Lists of music videos
Lists of musical works
Korean Broadcasting System
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
Seoul Broadcasting System
Censorship in South Korea
Censorship of music
K-pop lists
Lists of banned works |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidekiq | Sidekiq is an open source background job framework written in Ruby.
Architecture
Sidekiq uses Redis for its persistent data store. Each job is stored as a map of key/value pairs, serialized using JSON. Developers can use any programming language to create jobs by constructing the necessary JSON and pushing it into the queue in Redis. A Sidekiq process reads jobs from that Redis queue, using the First In First Out (FIFO) model, and executes the corresponding Ruby code. Job processing is asynchronous, allowing a web-serving thread to continue serving new requests rather than be blocked processing slower tasks.
Sidekiq can be used standalone, or integrated with a Ruby on Rails web application. Sidekiq is multithreaded so multiple jobs can execute concurrently within one process. A large scale application may have dozens or hundreds of Sidekiq processes executing thousands of jobs per second.
Sidekiq comes with a graphical web interface for inspecting and managing job data.
Business model
Sidekiq uses an Open Core business model to provide sustainability for the open source project. The company behind Sidekiq, Contributed Systems, sells closed-source commercial versions, Sidekiq Pro and Sidekiq Enterprise, which contain additional features not included in the open source version.
Reception and use
Sidekiq is described as “well-known queue processing software”.
It's used by Ruby applications like Mastodon, Diaspora, GitLab and Discourse, that need to run tasks in the background, without making web requests wait. Sidekiq is also used to submit threads to the PHASTER phage search tool.
References
Message-oriented middleware
Free software programmed in Ruby |
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