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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazwan%20Jassem | Ghazwan Jassem (; , born 21 January 1988) is an Iraqi television presenter, Journalist, media personality, author of TV programs.
In 20 July 2018 become Executive Director of the Asia Network Television and Currently the Founder and General Manager of Alrabiaa Network Television
Education
Ghazwan Jassem Mohan graduated from Baghdad University, specialising in media and received a bachelor's degree in media.
In 2009, he also attended the Academy of Media Industry and took elocution classes from Baghdad University.
He currently holds a Diploma in Applied Arts – Department of Architectural Decor and Bachelor of Political.
Career
He worked in several satellite channels, among them:
Belady TV
Al Rasheed TV
Aletejah TV
Alsumaria
Dijlah TV
Asia Network Television since 20 July 2018 (Executive Director of the channel)
Founder and General Manager of Alrabiaa Network Television. 2021- Now
References
External links
Ghazwan Jassem on Facebook
Ghazwan Jassem on Instagram
Ghazwan Jassem on Twitter
Living people
1988 births
Iraqi television presenters
Iraqi television personalities
Iraqi broadcast news analysts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Baudisch | Patrick Baudisch is a computer science professor and the chair of the Human Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam University. While his early research interests revolved around natural user interfaces and interactive devices, his research focus shifted to virtual reality and haptics in the late 2000s and to digital fabrication, such as 3D Printing and Laser cutting in the 2010s. Prior to teaching and researching at Hasso Plattner Institute, Patrick Baudisch was a research scientist at Microsoft Research and Xerox PARC. He has been a member of CHI Academy since 2013, and an ACM distinguished scientist since 2014. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
Current Research Interest: Personal Fabrication
Baudisch's main research interest lies in digital fabrication, largely focussing on software systems that allow users to design and fabricate physical objects using 3D printers (such as Trussfab and http://brickify.it) and laser cutters (https://kyub.com).
Baudisch's publications focus on conference papers at ACM CHI and ACM UIST.
An overview of Baudisch's research agenda on personal fabrication can be found in Patrick Baudisch and Stefanie Mueller (2017), "Personal Fabrication", Foundations and Trends in Human–Computer Interaction: Vol. 10: No. 3–4, pp 165–293. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1100000055
Research Interest prior to 2012
Baudisch's research interests are natural user interfaces and interactive devices, which include miniature mobile devices, touch input, interactive floors, and interactive rooms.
From this era, his five most cited publications on Google Scholar Citations are: Precise selection techniques for multi-touch screens, Halo: a technique for visualizing off-screen objects, Shift: a technique for operating pen-based interfaces using touch, drag-and-pop and drag-and-pick: Techniques for accessing remote screen content on touch-and pen-operated systems and Lucid touch: a see-through mobile device.
Precise selection techniques for multi-touch screens
The paper Precise selection techniques for multi-touch screens was published on April 4, 2006, by Hrvoje Benko, Andrew D Wilson and Patrick Baudisch, totally cited 530 times.
The paper presents five techniques called Dual Finger Selections to leverage multi-touch sensitive displays to help users select very small targets on display. This is to resolve the issues, in the terms of touch screen interactions, introduced by factors such as large finger size and the lack of sensing precision. To make use of the techniques, a user would adjust the control-display ratio using a secondary finger, while controlling the cursor movements using the primary finger. The paper also introduces SimPress, a clicking technique, which reduces motion errors during the process of clicking as well as enable hovering state on devices that are not able to support proximity.
The user study in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR%20National | AIR National was an Indian radio station. It was run by All India Radio. Programming is mainly in Hindi and English languages. These programmes emphasize entertainment, music and news. The channel is designed to represent India's cultural mosaic and ethos.
The programmes of National Channel are broadcast by a one megawatt transmitter from Nagpur,Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, and Aligarh.
References
All India Radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Gambetta | Jay M. Gambetta is a scientist and executive, leading the team at IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center working to build a quantum computer.
Education
Following his Bachelor of Science and Honours degree at Griffith University in 1999 (gaining four awards, including a University medal), Gambetta began a PhD under the supervision of Howard Wiseman in quantum foundations and non-Markovian open quantum systems. After graduating in 2004, Gambetta turned his research to the then-nascent field of superconducting quantum computing. He gained a post-doctorate post at Yale. In 2007, he moved to the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, where he worked as a postdoc and gained in 2009 a Junior Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Career
In 2011 he moved to private industry, joining the IBM effort to build a quantum computer based on superconducting qubits. He was appointed Vice President of quantum computing in 2019. As a scientist he has done work on quantum validation techniques, quantum codes, improved gates and coherence, error mitigation and near-term applications of quantum computing. In addition, he was a leader of the team to create the "IBM Quantum Experience", "Qiskit" and the "IBM Q System One".
Gambetta's honours include being elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014 and being named an IBM Fellow in 2018.
Honors
IBM Fellow (2018)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2014)
Gambetta's Law
The observation that Quantum Volume is doubling every year is called "Gambetta's law."
References
Living people
Australian physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
IBM Fellows
1979 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu%20Cenneto%C4%9Flu | Banu Cennetoğlu (b. Ankara, 1970) is a visual artist based in Istanbul. She uses photography, installation, and printed matter to explore the classification, appropriation and distribution of data and knowledge. Her work deals with listings, collections, rearrangements, and archives. Cennetoğlu co-represented Turkey at the 53rd International Venice Biennale with Ahmet Öğüt in 2009. Her work has been shown at numerous international institutions such as Musée cantonal des Beaux-arts, Lausanne (2022); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2020); Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, Düsseldorf (2019); SculptureCenter, New York (2019); Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2018), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2018); documenta14, Athens and Kassel (2017); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2015); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2011); Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2014), Manifesta 8, Murcia (2010); Walker Art Center (2007); Istanbul Biennial (2007); and Berlin Biennial (2003). She is the founding director of BAS (2006–ongoing), an Istanbul-based artist-run initiative that collects and displays artists’ books and printed material as artwork. In Turkey, she is "best known as an apostle of the artist’s book."
Education
Cennetoğlu received a BA in psychology and then studied photography in Paris. From 1996 to 2002, she lived in New York where she worked on documentary and fashion photography for publications such as Purple and Self Service. In 2002, she moved to Amsterdam where she studied a.o. at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and got involved with artists' books. In 2005, she moved back to Turkey. In 2016, she was a guest at the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.
Selected works
The List, 2007–ongoing
Since 2007, Cennetoğlu has been developing The List in collaboration with UNITED for Intercultural Action, an Amsterdam-based network in support of migrants and refugees. The work is a collection of data about thousands of immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees who died on their way to or at the border of the European Union since 1993. It is presented in multiple forms, including posters, billboards, newspaper supplements, and public screens, in various cities, including Amsterdam, Athens, Basel, Istanbul, Sofia, Bonn, Milano, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, and Liverpool.The List featured data about 7,128 individuals when first exhibited in Amsterdam in 2007. As of May 2018, it includes 34,361 cases. Cennetoğlu does not consider the project "an art piece"; she does not edition it, sell it or sign it. Although she doesn't consider this project an artwork, she acknowledges a connection between The List and her artistic practice, as her artworks deal with witness-bearing. This work exemplifies how Cennetoğlu assumes different positions such as caretaker and a facilitator—not only an author—when she deals with lists and archives. "Governments don’t keep these record for the public; they don’t want the public to see these records because it exposes their policies, so you have NGOs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi%20Film%20Society | Karachi Film Society (KFS), is a non-profit film presentation organization based in Karachi, Pakistan. Founded in 2017 by Hum TV Network Limited president Sultana Siddiqui - the film society spotlights Pakistani cinema, world cinema and recognizes and supports new filmmakers by providing access through its workshops, seminars and festivals.
The Karachi Film Society also hosts the inaugural and would be annual Pakistan International Film Festival (PIFF).
Winners and nominees
The society later started a film festival known as Pakistan International Film Festival in March 2018.
The Pakistan International Film Festival (PIFF) aims to be the largest film
festival in Pakistan. PIFF will screen features, shorts and documentaries
from Pakistan and around the world. Its mission is to create a unique platform which promotes both
Pakistani cinema and Pakistani filmmakers by showcasing their films to diverse international audiences. We
also plan to bring international filmmakers and their work to Pakistan to create an interactive space for
exchange of ideas and for open dialogue. PIFF will provide opportunities to encourage co-productions and to portray Pakistan as an exciting and vibrant country, with great cinematic potential.
At the last day of the ceremony awards were given
Below is the list of winners and nominations
Winners and nominees
References
External links
Film organisations in Pakistan
Film societies
Organisations based in Karachi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamput | Lamput is an Indian 2D animated television series of shorts created by Vaibhav Kumaresh and produced by Vaibhav Studios for Cartoon Network India and Asia. The series consists of shorts of between 18 seconds in length to 3 to 5 minutes in length, as well as some 7-minute specials. The title character is an orange gooey creature that has escaped from a laboratory.
Synopsis
Lamput is an orange gooey creature that escaped from the laboratory of Specs and Skinny. They try to catch Lamput but never succeed because of his shapeshifting ability.
Episodes
Characters
Main
Lamput: Lamput is the titular character of the show. He is an orange gooey creature that escaped from the Docs' laboratory.
Specs: Specs, also known as Fat Doc, is the fat scientist who tries to catch Lamput.
Skinny: Skinny, also known as Slim Doc, is the slim scientist who also tries to catch Lamput.
Supporting
Mr. Mustache: He's a yellow fit, healthy and powerful man, often a police officer, who sometimes arrests the docs or beats them up.
Doctor: He's a pink colored doctor who sometimes checks Lamput and the docs.
White Lady: She is Skinny’s crush.
Pink Lady: She is Specs’ crush.
The Boss: He is the doctors' boss.
Production and development
Lamput was created by Vaibhav Kumaresh, and produced by Vaibhav Studios for Cartoon Network India & Asia. Lamput earned the distinction of being the first Indian show sold from a pitch bible, that has gone to air globally.
The series consisted of 18-second micro-shorts, that were extended to 2 minutes for the second season. The third season consists of episodes ranging from 3 to 5 minutes, as well as some 7-minute specials.
On 20 April 2021, a crossover between Lamput and Chinese internet character Tuzki was announced. It was also announced that a fourth season was in the works.
Broadcast and release
The series airs on Cartoon Network in EMEA, Latin America. Lamput has also started airing on Boomerang worldwide. In the United States, Lamput is broadcast via HBO Max and Cartoon Network. It was added to HBO Max on 28 April 2022, and started airing on Cartoon Network on 23 May 2022.
Accolades
The show won two Best Animated Frames Award. Lamput season 2 was nominated for a 2019 International Emmy Award in Kids Animation.
References
2017 Indian television series debuts
Animated television series without speech
Cartoon Network (Indian TV channel) original programming
Indian children's animated comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily%20Arena%20Mito | Lily Arena Mito is an arena in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. It is the home arena of the Cyberdyne Ibaraki Robots of the B.League, Japan's professional basketball league.
References
Basketball venues in Japan
Cyberdyne Ibaraki Robots
Indoor arenas in Japan
Sports venues in Ibaraki Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Aikatsu%20Friends%21%20episodes | Aikatsu Friends! is a Japanese anime television series produced by BN Pictures, and the successor to both the Aikatsu Stars! series and the original Aikatsu! anime series based on Bandai's Data Carddass arcade machines. The series began airing on TV Tokyo from April 5, 2018 to September 26, 2019, succeeding the Aikatsu Stars! anime series in its initial timeslot. For the first 25 episodes, the opening theme is by Aine and Mio from BEST FRIENDS!, while the ending theme is "Believe it" by Karen and Mirai from BEST FRIENDS!. From episode 26 until episode 50 the opening theme is "What is Only There" (そこにしかないもの Soko ni Shikanai Mono) by Aine and Mio. The ending theme from episode 26 until episode 50 is "Pride" (プライド Puraido) by Karen and Mirai. Since episode 51, the opening theme is "Not Alone! (ひとりじゃない！ Hitori ja nai!)" by Aine, Mio, Maika and Ema while the ending theme is "Be star" by Hibiki from BEST FRIENDS!.
Episode list
Season 1
Season 2
References
Aikatsu Friends!
Aikatsu! |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCIX | CCIX may refer to:
The Roman number notation for 209
Cache coherent interconnect for accelerators, a consortium dealing with connectivity and communications issues in computer technology
CCIX, a historic Association of American Railroads reporting mark for Stauffer Chemical Company, now Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Ore Co.
UA-CCIX, the codename for the Kilgore cyborgs in the fighting video game Killer Instinct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20coherent%20interconnect%20for%20accelerators | The cache coherent interconnect for accelerators (CCIX) protocol is the result of an effort of a joint group of computer, hardware and software component vendors: AMD, ARM, Huawei, Mellanox Technologies, Qualcomm and Xilinx.
Quotes from the homepage:
The mission of the CCIX Consortium is to develop and promote adoption of an industry standard specification to enable coherent interconnect technologies between general-purpose processors and acceleration devices for efficient heterogeneous computing.
The CCIX standard is available to member companies with initial products expected in 2017.
Current Status
As of 2021, the future of CCIX as widely used interface to attach accelerators to servers in a cache-coherent fashion is doubtful. Many of the original members of the CCIX Consortium have instead opted to support the competing Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, originally developed by Intel but then opened up, for the same purpose. This has led to processors originally announced with CCIX support, such as the AMD Epyc 7002, never actually shipping with that feature enabled. On the side of servers with ARM processors that also list CCIX in their specifications, such as the TaiShan 200 series from Huawei, many do not support the use of CCIX in practice, as it has not been fully validated.
References
External links
CCIX consortium
CCIX page at wikichip.org
Computer hardware standards
Computer buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Rudland | Dean Rudland is a British DJ, compiler, and general manager of record company Acid Jazz Records.
Initially interested in 1960s soul music which he found via the early to mid-1980s mod revival scene, Rudland began DJing at a club nights before meeting Acid Jazz Records founder Eddie Piller. As well as assisting with the signing of artists on Acid Jazz, Rudland helped put together the label's popular compilation series "Totally Wired".
Whilst working for Acid Jazz Rudland met Tony Harlow, who worked for Blue Note Europe. The pair released a number of compilations which collectively became as "The Blue Series". Throughout his career he has relaunched EMI's Stateside label as well as working for Fania, and currently works for Ace Records as an A and R consultant, running their BGP label as well as continuing to work for Acid Jazz.
References
British DJs
British music industry executives
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20%286th%20generation%29 | The iPad 9.7-inch (officially iPad (6th generation)) is a tablet computer designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced on March 27, 2018, during an education-focused event at Lane Tech High School in Chicago and is the successor to the 5th generation, upgraded with the Apple A10 Fusion SoC and support for styluses such as Apple Pencil. The iPad is also marketed towards educators and schools. It was replaced in September 2019, by the seventh-generation iPad. This is the last iPad to have the original 9.7 inch display.
Specifications
The iPad shipped with iOS 11.3, and had the iWork suite of apps preinstalled and included Apple Pencil stylus support.
The iPad's hardware is nearly identical to the previous generation, except for a few upgrades, such as Apple Pencil and stylus support and an upgraded processor, the Apple A10 Fusion. It is available in three colors: Silver, Space Gray, and a new Gold color to match the updated color introduced with the iPhone 8. The iPad has 2 gigabytes of RAM. It is 7.5mm thick. The iPad is available in 32 and 128 GB storage options. Unlike the iPad Pro, the iPad does not feature a laminated display.
Reception
The 2018 iPad received positive reviews. Gareth Beavis of TechRadar praised the addition of the Apple Pencil and the powerful A10 chip, but noted that it was as costly as the previous generation iPad. Scott Stein of CNET also praised the addition of support for Apple Pencil and the upgrade to the A10 chip, but criticized it for lacking the Smart Connector as well as not having the same display technology as the iPad Pro, writing "the 2018 entry-level iPad doesn't add much, but it makes an already excellent tablet a better buy than ever."
Timeline of models
Notes
References
External links
6
iPad (6)
Tablet computers
Touchscreen portable media players
Tablet computers introduced in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-tree%20broadcast | The two-tree broadcast (abbreviated 2tree-broadcast or 23-broadcast) is an algorithm that implements a broadcast communication pattern on a distributed system using message passing.
A broadcast is a commonly used collective operation that sends data from one processor to all other processors.
The two-tree broadcast communicates concurrently over two binary trees that span all processors. This achieves full usage of the bandwidth in the full-duplex communication model while having a startup latency logarithmic in the number of partaking processors.
The algorithm can also be adapted to perform a reduction or prefix sum.
Algorithm
A broadcast sends a message from a specified root processor to all other processors.
Binary tree broadcasting uses a binary tree to model the communication between the processors.
Each processor corresponds to one node in the tree, and the root processor is the root of the tree.
To broadcast a message , the root sends to its two children (child nodes). Each processor waits until it receives and then sends to its children. Because leaves have no children, they don't have to send any messages.
The broadcasting process can be pipelined by splitting the message into blocks, which are then broadcast consecutively.
In such a binary tree, the leaves of the tree only receive data, but never send any data themselves. If the communication is bidirectional (full-duplex), meaning each processor can send a message and receive a message at the same time, the leaves only use one half of the available bandwidth.
The idea of the two-tree broadcast is to use two binary trees and and communicate on both concurrently.
The trees are constructed so that the interior nodes of one tree correspond to leaf nodes of the other tree.
The data that has to be broadcast is split into blocks of equal size.
In each step of the algorithm, each processor receives one block and sends the previous block to one of its children in the tree in which it is an interior node.
A schedule is needed so that no processor has to send or receive two messages in the same step.
To create such a schedule, the edges of both trees are colored with 0 and 1 such that
no processor is connected to its parent nodes in and using edges of the same color
no processor is connected to its children nodes in or using edges of the same color.
Edges with color 0 are used in even steps, edges with color 1 are used in odd steps.
This schedule allows each processor to send one message and receive one message in each step, fully utilizing the available bandwidth.
Assume that processor wants to broadcast a message. The two trees are constructed for the remaining processors. Processor sends blocks alternating to the roots of the two trees, so each tree broadcasts one half of the message.
Analysis
Let be the number of processing elements (PE), numbered from to .
Construction of the trees
Let .
and can be constructed as trees of height , such that both trees form an in-ord |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MercyOne | MercyOne (formerly Mercy Health Network) is a system of hospitals, clinics, and health care facilities in the U.S. states of Iowa, Nebraska and surrounding communities. It is run under a joint operating agreement between Catholic Health Initiatives and Trinity Health. Bob Ritz is the current CEO, assuming the role on July 1, 2017.
In 2016, the health system announced plans for a $500 million renovation at MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center in downtown Des Moines. The project is expected to take five to eight years and include a new 11-story hospital tower as well as power plant. An Iowa Hospital Association study said that MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center, one of the system's hospitals in Mason City, accounts for 2,500 jobs and adds $226.7 million to the local economy.
Hospitals
References
External links
Health care companies based in Iowa
Health care companies based in Nebraska
Companies based in Des Moines, Iowa
American companies established in 1998
Hospital networks in the United States
Catholic hospital networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDNS%20Client%20Subnet | EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) is an option in the Extension Mechanisms for DNS that allows a recursive DNS resolver to specify the subnetwork for the host or client on whose behalf it is making a DNS query. This is generally intended to help speed up the delivery of data from content delivery networks (CDN), by allowing better use of DNS-based load balancing to select a service address near the client when the client computer is not necessarily near the recursive resolver.
When an authoritative name server receives a DNS query, it takes advantage of ECS DNS extension to resolve the hostname to a CDN which is geolocationally near to the client IP's subnet, hence the client makes further requests to a nearby CDN, thereby reducing latency.
The EDNS client subnet mechanism is specified in .
Privacy and security implications
Because ECS provides client network information to upstream resolver, the extension reveals some information about the client's location that the resolver would not otherwise be able to deduce. Security researchers have suggested that ECS could be used to conduct internet surveillance. ECS may also be exploited to perform selective DNS cache poisoning attacks intended to only re-route specific clients to a poisoned DNS record.
Controversy over lack of support
The owner of self-serve web archiving tool Archive.today has expressed concern over Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 not passing the contents of this field on to the authoritative DNS server for Archive.today, and has in response configured the site's resolver to consider Cloudflare DNS requests invalid—effectively blocking 1.1.1.1 from resolving the website DNS records.
The owner of the site believes 1.1.1.1 too often routes recursive DNS requests in a non-geographically-optimal way, causing poorer connectivity than if the feature was available at all times.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince cited privacy concerns as reason for 1.1.1.1 to not support ECS.
References
Domain name system extensions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%201%20Security | Area 1 Security, Inc. was an American cybersecurity company based in Redwood City, California which merged into Cloudflare in February 2022.
History
Area 1 was incorporated in 2013 by Oren Falkowitz, Blake Darché, and Phil Syme, previously employees of the U.S. National Security Agency. The company received venture capital financing led by Kleiner Perkins.
In December 2018, Area 1 identified a Chinese government cyber campaign targeting more than 100 intergovernmental organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, ministries of finance, trade unions, and think tanks, which included breach of the European Union diplomatic communications network.
In January 2020, Area 1 revealed a Russian government phishing campaign targeting Burisma Holdings and its subsidiaries.
In February 2022, Cloudflare announced plan to acquire Area 1 for $162 million in a cash and stock deal.
Service
Area 1 Horizon is a cloud-based service intended to mitigate phishing, ransomware, malware, watering holes, malvertising, and other social engineering threats, across email, web, and network, at the edge or in the cloud. The service is based on "a network of sensors on web servers around the globe, many known to be used by state-sponsored hackers."
Awards and recognition
Area 1 was named a Cool Vendor by Gartner in 2016, listed among "20 Rising Stars" of the Cloud 100 by Forbes and recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as a "Best Place to Work" in 2017, and named Google Cloud Global Technology Partner of the Year Award for Security in 2018.
In 2019, the Federal Election Commission ruled in AO 2019-12 that Area 1 could "offer its services to federal candidates and political committees at the same 'low or no cost' tier that it offers to all qualified customers without making an impermissible in-kind contribution".
References
External links
Software companies established in 2013
Companies based in Redwood City, California
American corporate subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAV%20foundation | DAV Foundation is a blockchain-based open source global transportation company.
DAV Foundation has a decentralized transportation network, which enables different kinds of transportation companies to join the network. This network can work with autonomous vehicles, trucks, drones, cars, and rovers. The infrastructure enables users to access a network of autonomous vehicles using a single token.
The decentralized network being built by DAV is meant to offer an alternative to closed proprietary networks currently developed by automakers and transportation companies.
History
DAV Network is a short form of Decentralized Autonomous Vehicle Network.It was founded in January 2017 by Noam Copel (CEO), Tal Ater (CTO), John Frazer and Joseph Lopardo. The foundation released and published its first code on GitHub. It also released its drone delivery application. The company was then granted non-profit organizations status in Switzerland.
Board of Advisors
As of 2018, DAV Network has Dr. Alan Messer, (former CTO at General Motors), Jerome Ferguson (Director of Autonomous System at UPS) on its Board of Advisors.
Autonomous Vehicles Services
A company can list its vehicles on the network for hiring purpose.The vehicles can be used to request a ride or deliver and pick up a package, after which DAV tokens are released to the company using Ethereum blockchain. The payments can be cleared once the service is done.
The blockchain will help the DAV vehicles to navigate themselves to provide service for the nearest available request. For every service, DAV tokens are credited to the service provider. Owner can earn DAV tokens through leasing the self-driven or manned car.
References
Non-profit organisations based in Switzerland
Organizations established in 2017
2017 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeheba%20lucidata | Zeheba lucidata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in the Himalayas and all of Sundaland. Its presence in Sri Lanka is in doubt.
Interior region of wings whitish, whereas wings bordered by a pale brownish broad patch. In male, interior margin of the hindwing is straight, darker and distinctly double.
References
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1866 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana%20Jones%20a%20Chr%C3%A1m%20zk%C3%A1zy | Indiana Jones a Chrám zkázy (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) is a 1985 Czech text adventure game for ZX Spectrum computers and compatible hardware. It was authored by František Fuka. Two sequels were later produced entitled Indiana Jones II (1987) and Indiana Jones III (1990). The trilogy was later released in 1992 by Proxima Software as part of the Fuxoft brand "Fuxoft uvádí".
A continuation of the series was seen with the 1990 release of Indiana Jones a zlatá soška Keltů, programmed by Jiří Fencl. Fencl also wrote a text adventure named Tom Jones. Due to the series' success, the games were ported to other eight-bit home microcomputers by various authors, sometimes containing only text and sometimes with graphics.
Production
František Fuka created Poklad and Poklad 2 in the early 1980s, and these served as a warmup before the designer began making more sophisticated games;
his first major project was Indiana Jones a Chrám zkázy. He invented the game during a holiday in Romania, despite him not having seen the movie it was based on. After the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was available in cinemas in Czechoslovakia, Fuka was surprised that the Chech title was also Indiana Jones a chrám zkázy, because in his oppinion the english name of the movie has different meaning. Indiana Jones II was released as a free sequel in 1987. It was notable for allowing the player to control the menu, which despite slow rendering and item selection was exceptional for the industry. Fuka promoted the title as "the first Czech text game with only three buttons". Indiana Jones III was notable for using a non-standard font upon its release in 1990, which allowed František Fuka to circumvent the display limitations of thirty-two characters per line. The title contained eight spaces for game saves, which was above that of foreign commercial products.
Plot and gameplay
The three games are video game adaptions of the first three Indiana Jones films. They play as text adventure games controlled by keyboard commands. There are over 30 locations in Indiana Jones a Chrám zkázy, and the player can die in ten of them.
Reception
Root.cz deemed Indiana Jones II easier than the first title, and deemed Indiana Jones III the best of the trilogy.
Textovky.cz deemed František Fuka a legend within the Czech video gaming industry, and noted that the Indiana Jones trilogy includes three of the five games that gave him this status.
References
1985 video games
Adventure games
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games
Indiana Jones video games
Video games developed in the Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microweber | Microweber is an open-source content management system and website builder. It is based on the PHP programming language and the Laravel 5 web application framework, using drag and drop and allowing users to quickly create content, while scheduling and managing multiple displays. It has a Live Edit feature enabling users to view their edits as they would appear. The application has been used by several professional organisations according to rankings on OpenSourceCMS.com and Softaculous. Developers can freely access the code, exchanging their knowledge and contributions with the rest of the open-source community.
The site was launched in a beta version in April 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria as a grass-roots project for an easy to use CMS system. The business has ranked as one of Bulgaria's Top 10 startups. Microweber project is also in top 100 startup organizations in Europe for 2015/2017/2018, according to the WEBIT festival foundation
References
External links
Official website of open-source software
Microweber in GitHub
Microweber CMS Ltd
Website management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strophidia%20caudata | Strophidia caudata is a moth of the family Uraniidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1781. It is found in the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, to Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and Sulawesi.
It is a whitish moth with darker fasciations. The fasciae are numerous subbasally on the forewing. Series of black dots found on tail of hindwings.
References
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1781
Uraniidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Garcia%20%28computer%20programmer%29 | Rebecca Garcia is an American computer programmer from New York City, who co-founded CoderDojo NYC, a network of programming clubs for young people in Long Island, New York.
Garcia worked as a developer at Do Something, a US-based non-profit youth organization for social change. She was later the chief technical officer of Greatist, a health fitness and wellness media startup, where she was an advocate for Girls Who Code and Iridescent. Garcia currently works as the program manager for Microsoft's Tech Jobs Academy, where she works to help underrepresented New Yorkers get into the information technology field.
In 2013 Garcia received a White House Champion of Change award for Tech Inclusion. in 2016 she was named as Hispanicize's STEM Star.
References
External links
American computer programmers
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis%20Schneck | Dr. Phyllis Schneck is an American executive and cybersecurity professional. As of May 2017, she became the managing director at Promontory Financial Group. Schneck served in the Obama administration as Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), at the Department of Homeland Security.
Career
She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech.
She was chairman of the board of directors of the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance, a partnership between corporations, government and law enforcement for cyber analysis to combat international cybercrime. Schneck also served as the vice chairman of the National Institute of Standards and Technology information security and privacy advisory board. Schneck spent eight years as chairman of the national board of directors of the FBI's InfraGard program, growing the organization from 2,000 to over 30,000 members nationwide.
Schneck was service vice president of research integration for Secure Computing Corporation, where she conceived and built the early intelligence practice into a data-as-a-service program. She also worked as vice president of corporate strategy at SecureWorks, and founder and CEO of Avalon Communications, which was acquired by SecureWorks.
Prior to joining government in 2013, Schneck worked in the private sector, at McAfee. She testified before Congress on cybersecurity technology and policy.
On October 14, 2019, Schneck joined Northrop Grumman as vice president and chief information security officer.
Government position
From 2013 to 2017, Schneck served in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). She was the chief cybersecurity official for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and supported its mission of strengthening the security and resilience of the nation's critical infrastructure.
Awards
Loyola University Maryland David D. Lattanze Center 2012 Executive of the Year
Information Security Magazine's Top 25 Women Leaders in Information Security
Johns Hopkins University Woodrow Wilson Award 2016
References
Living people
Obama administration personnel
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Georgia Tech people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola%20Visual%20Effects | Lola Visual Effects (or simply Lola) is a company that provides computer generated (CG) effects on live action photography for feature films, episodics, and streaming content. Lola was founded in January 2004 and is owned and operated by the founders—Edson Williams and Thomas Nittmann. Headquarters are located in Los Angeles with subsidiaries in New York City, New Orleans, and London. Lola was the first visual effects company to offer digital cosmetic enhancements to alter an actor's on-screen film appearance; the service is similar to "photoshopping" a still image of a person but significantly more complex as there are multiple frames, actor movement, lighting changes, and camera moves. In 2006, Lola completed the first digital age reduction on Magneto and Professor X on the feature film X-Men: The Last Stand.
Locations
Lola has offices in the following locations:
Los Angeles
New York City
New Orleans
London
Filmography
It Chapter Two (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Togo (2019)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Vice (2018)
Creed II (2018)
Robin Hood (2018)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Instant Family (2018)
A Star Is Born (2018)
Christopher Robin (2018)
Asura (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Set It Up (2018)
Action Point (2018)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Book Club (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
The Week Of (2018)
Tomb Raider (2018)
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Black Panther (2018)
Phantom Thread (2017)
The Post (2017)
Bright (2017)
Downsizing (2017)
Father Figures (2017)
The Greatest Showman (2017)
Wonder (2017)
Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
First They Killed My Father (2017)
The Glass Castle (2017)
The Mummy (2017)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
Baywatch (2017)
Snatched (2017)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Logan (2017)
Bitter Harvest (2017)
Rings (2017)
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
A Cure for Wellness (2016)
The Great Wall (2016)
Live by Night (2016)
Monster Trucks (2016)
Allied (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
American Pastoral (2016)
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
Sully (2016)
Suicide Squad (2016)
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
The Shallows (2016)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Allegiant (2016)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016)
Zoolander 2 (2016)
Ride Along 2 (2016)
Carol (2015)
Joy (2015)
Point Break (2015)
The Big Short (2015)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
By the Sea (2015)
The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
Black Mass (2015)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
Pixels (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)
Terminator Genisys (2015)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Furious 7 (2015)
Insurgent (2015)
American Sniper (2014)
Unbroken (2014)
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply | Reply may refer to:
Reply (linguistics), a response to a question
Reply (company), an information technology company based in Italy
Reply Corporation, a defunct computer hardware company based in the United States
Reply (legal term)
Reply (Google), a messaging assistance app
Reply (TV series)
See also
Response (disambiguation)
No Reply (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Data%20Buffalo | Open Data Buffalo is the open data program developed under the administration of Mayor Byron W. Brown in Buffalo, New York. The initiative is a commitment to proactively release high-quality, updated "publishable City data" through a centralized portal in machine-readable formats, fully accessible and freely available in the public domain. Open Data Buffalo is an official City program designed to foster transparency, innovation, accountability, and efficiency.
History
In May 2013, Buffalo earned a grant through IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge to bring a team of senior IBM executives to the city to offer advice on improving municipal policy with data-driven insights. One of their primary recommendations was for Buffalo to build capacity in "data-sharing and governance." Three years later, Buffalo joined the national network of Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities to expand their use of data. With the support of What Works Cities, Buffalo partnered with The Sunlight Foundation to craft an Open Data Policy with input from the public using the Madison tool, an open source platform provided by OpenGov Foundation.
In September 2017, the City of Buffalo selected Socrata as the provider for the municipality's open data platform. The city launched the Open Data Buffalo portal on February 22, 2018 and kicked off the launch with the open of Mayor Byron W. Brown's Civic Innovation Challenge Powered By AT&T, a tech competition designed to promote local engagement with the portal. The competition's challenge statement asks innovators to use City data to create solutions to address social and civic issues impacting Buffalo residents.
Datasets
As of October 2019, the Open Data Buffalo data catalog is federated with the New York State portal and includes over 654 data sets and 222 geospatial assets, over 60 of which are City publications. Buffalo's datasets and geospatial assets include:
References
Open data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idka | Idka AB is a collaborative platform headquartered in Sweden. Idka allows you to connect, share, store and share documents and files, while keeping your data completely safe. Idka is advertising-free, and fully encrypted. The solution combines all of the functionality of social media in one place, and will never share or sell information. The user controls the sharing.
Idka, which is available as an HTML5 web service, requires no IT knowledge or support, and no installation of any kind except for apps on iOS and Android.
Idka announced on Twitter, on April 21, 2020, that they were shutting down.
Background
Idka was founded upon the belief that the advertising-driven model cannot be fixed, contrary to what Facebook and others have said. Idka is the antithesis to the 'Stalker Economy', the foundation of today's social networking, were the users themselves are the product. The built-in drivers of the advertising model will inevitably lead to serious privacy violations, but more than that, it creates a problem for a free democratic way of life. The problem of tailored news (echo chambers), dark posts, political ‘nudging’ and covert political campaigning, profiling and surveillance is real and has already had discernible impact.
Description
Idka has been created as a product in its own right, where users pay a small monthly subscription for a service with short, understandable, and fair user terms.
The service is free of advertising, news streams, and manipulation. Idka centers on privacy and security, so encryption and 2-factor authentication is central. All default actions are set up to protect the user's privacy. There is no pre-population or prompting to invite or collect friends and contacts. A post will not be shared when published without an intended and specific share action from the user. A private post cannot be changed and shared with new people. People who are added to a many-to-many chat will be able to see chat entries after they are added, etc. A picture in a post cannot be downloaded and it goes away if removed by the person who uploaded it. Delete is really delete, meaning that the information is removed from Idka servers.
The service covers a number of functions that are otherwise spread across several platforms, such as posting, chatting with end-to-end encryption (like Telegram and Signal), many-to-many chatting (like hang-out), integrated drag&drop cloud storage (like Box and DropBox) without file size limits, etc. When a group is created, it will immediately have its own cloud storage, its own chat and posting wall. Members can be read-only if necessary.
The service also caters to companies with ‘organizational accounts’ and provides more functionality than other web services (such as Slack).
References
External links
Companies based in Stockholm
Online companies of Sweden
Multilingual websites
Proprietary cross-platform software
Real-time web
Swedish social networking websites
Text messaging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaira%20Diaz | Shaira Mae Dela Cruz (born May 3, 1995) is a Filipino actress. She is under GMA Network after signing an exclusive contract.
Filmography
TV series
Reality shows
Guest appearances
Film
References
Anarcon, James Patrick (January 24, 2017) https://www.pep.ph/guide/tv/25431/tv5-actress-shaira-mae-joins-emtrops-emwill-she-be-transferring-to-gma-7?ref=site_search
External links
Living people
Filipino film actresses
1995 births
Tagalog people
GMA Network personalities
TV5 (Philippine TV network) personalities
Filipino television actresses
Actors from Las Piñas
Filipino female models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Mashinsky | Alex Mashinsky (born 1965) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli-American entrepreneur and business executive. He is a cofounder and former CEO of Celsius Network, a bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform.
In the early 1990s, Mashinsky founded VoiceSmart, one of the first firms to offer telecommunications switches to handle ordinary voice as well as Voice over IP call routing. Mashinsky founded GroundLink in 2004 as a service to book an on-demand limousine and car services from a computer or smartphone. He was also the founder of Q-Wireless, which later became part of Transit Wireless. From 2014 to 2015, Mashinsky served as CEO of Novatel.
Mashinsky is the defendant in a civil lawsuit brought in January 2023 by the Attorney General of New York, who accuses him of committing securities fraud during his time as Celsius CEO. On July 13, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a criminal complaint against Mashinsky and Celsius. Mashinsky was arrested on the same day.
Early life
Mashinsky was born in 1965 in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family. His family obtained permission to leave the country in the 1970s and later moved to Israel. From an early age, he was a tinkerer, like his father, and would tap into and use public phone lines in Israel. As a teenager, he bought confiscated goods from Ben Gurion Airport at auction and resold them for a profit.
Mashinsky attended a few different universities where he majored in electrical engineering but did not graduate. He served in the Israeli Army, where he trained as a pilot and served in the Golani Brigade, from 1984 to 1987. In 1988, he left Israel and moved to the United States.
Career
Mashinsky has worked in a variety of different industries, often focusing on popular technologies. The Wall Street Journal described him in 2022 as "a brash, confident serial entrepreneur with a constant stream of big ideas". On several occasions, Mashinsky has left his companies after a period of conflict or tension.
After relocating to New York City, Mashinsky ran a business trading contracts for delivery of chemicals such as urea, gold, and sodium cyanide. However, after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the business slowed as exports of sodium cyanide from China fizzled. Mashinsky then worked at A+ Systems, a computer-based voicemail software company for phone carriers.
Telecommunications companies
Mashinsky was an early developer of voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP). In the early 1990s, he founded VoiceSmart, one of the first companies to offer computer-based VOIP phone service. By 1993, Mashinsky had realized the potential for a commodity market for international telephone capacity. So, in 1996, Mashinsky founded Arbinet, a marketplace for VoIP telephone service. The platform was one of the first to allow telecommunication companies to trade minutes. In November 1997, Arbinet began offering a similar service for data connectivity, allowing the more than 400 T1 lines connected to its New York hub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCVC%20Speech%20Dataset | The PCVC (Persian Consonant Vowel Combination) Speech Dataset is a Modern Persian speech corpus for speech recognition and also speaker recognition. The dataset contains sound samples of Modern Persian combination of vowel and consonant phonemes from different speakers. Every sound sample contains just one consonant and one vowel So it is somehow labeled in phoneme level. This dataset consists of 23 Persian consonants and 6 vowels. The sound samples are all possible combinations of vowels and consonants (138 samples for each speaker). The sample rate of all speech samples is 48000 which means there are 48000 sound samples in every 1 second. Every sound sample starts with consonant then continues with vowel. In each sample, in average, 0.5 second of each sample is speech and the rest is silence. Each sound sample ends with silence. All of sound samples are denoised with "Adaptive noise reduction" algorithm.
Compared to Farsdat speech dataset and Persian speech corpus it is more easy to use because it is prepared in .mat data files. Also it is more based on phoneme based separation and all samples are denoised.
Contents
The corpus is downloadable from its Kaggle web page, and contains the following:
.mat data files of sound samples in a 23*6*30000 matrix, in which 23 is number of consonants, 6 is the number of vowels and 30000 is the length of sound sample.
See also
Comparison of datasets in machine learning
References
External links
The Kaggle page of PCVC speech dataset
PCVC Paper on ResearchGate
Datasets in machine learning
Speech recognition
Speaker recognition
Persian language
Speech synthesis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument%20mining | Argument mining, or argumentation mining, is a research area within the natural-language processing field. The goal of argument mining is the automatic extraction and identification of argumentative structures from natural language text with the aid of computer programs. Such argumentative structures include the premise, conclusions, the argument scheme and the relationship between the main and subsidiary argument, or the main and counter-argument within discourse. The Argument Mining workshop series is the main research forum for argument mining related research.
Applications
Argument mining has been applied in many different genres including the qualitative assessment of social media content (e.g. Twitter, Facebook), where it provides a powerful tool for policy-makers and researchers in social and political sciences. Other domains include legal documents, product reviews, scientific articles, online debates, newspaper articles and dialogical domains. Transfer learning approaches have been successfully used to combine the different domains into a domain agnostic argumentation model.
Argument mining has been used to provide students individual writing support by accessing and visualizing the argumentation discourse in their texts. The application of argument mining in a user-centered learning tool helped students to improve their argumentation skills significantly compared to traditional argumentation learning applications.
Challenges
Given the wide variety of text genres and the different research perspectives and approaches, it has been difficult to reach a common and objective evaluation scheme. Many annotated data sets have been proposed, with some gaining popularity, but a consensual data set is yet to be found.
Annotating argumentative structures is a highly demanding task. There have been successful attempts to delegate such annotation tasks to the crowd but the process still requires a lot of effort and carries significant cost. Initial attempts to bypass this hurdle were made using the weak supervision approach.
See also
Argument technology
Argumentation theory
References
Argument technology
Computational linguistics
Data mining
Information retrieval |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Swedish%20films%20of%20the%201920s | This is a list of films produced in Sweden and in the Swedish language in the 1920s.
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
References
External links
Swedish Film Database
Most Popular Titles Released 1920-01-01 to 1929-12-31 With Country of Origin Sweden at the Internet Movie Database
1920s
Films
Swedish |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NantOmics | NantOmics is a biotechnology company based in Culver City, California, which provides molecular diagnostic products for personalized cancer treatment. It is part of the NantWorks network, a corporation consisting of different startups in the medical and health industry.
History
NantOmics was founded in 2013 by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. In 2015 NantOmics bought the cancer diagnostics company OncoPlex Dx. In 2017 the company acquired the consumer genomics startup Genos.
In 2016 the company's revenue was about $58.3 million with a net loss of about $72.00 million. As of 2017, the company is classified as a unicorn startup with an estimated value of over $1 billion. NantHealth, Inc. held a 13.6% minority interest in the company at the end of 2021.
Products
GPS Cancer involves sequencing of the genome and RNA of tumor cells in comparison to normal cells from the same individual in order to develop personalized treatments. About 327,000 cancer patients participated in a GPS cancer pilot project in 2017.
References
Biotechnology companies of the United States
Biotechnology companies established in 2013
Companies based in Culver City, California
2013 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomaneh | Gomaneh or "Center of Fighting Humbug" is an online Persian magazine devoted to the investigation of rumours and hearsay. It examines rumours and false news rampant on the Internet and social networks through its various platforms: its mobile app, website, Facebook page and social network. It won The BOBs award in 2015.
The organizers also maintain a website named Gomaneh which is part of their efforts to promote transparency and fight against rumours in the context of social networks. Their motto is "The human brain is endowed with the power of analysis; let’s make use of it."
According to Persian Deutsche Welle, the only objective of this web page is to combat the spread of rumours and lies in Persian websites.
Gomaneh was banned by the Iranian government on 12 January 2016. Before that, the government had sporadically restricted access to some of its content such as the article "Refuting the Scientific Benefits of Fasting".
References
External links
Official web site
Persian-language websites
Fact-checking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%ADny%20noci | Stíny noci (English: Shadows of the Night) is a 1994 Czech adventure video game developed by Computer Experts and authored by Vladimír Peniska. It was originally distributed by Vochozka Trading. By 1999, the game could be freely downloaded on the Internet.
Plot and game play
The player is a secret detective who has been tasked with capturing a member of the mafia for a big reward.
Players navigate through a series of screens. Possible directions to travel and objects are listed on the screen. Players are able to die. The graphic have a resolution of 320 × 200 pixels. Each location is described with words, while accompanied by an image. It is strictly not considered a point-and-click adventure by Historie a kontext produkce počítačových her žánru adventure v České republice.
Critical reception
Freegame.cz thought the game was enjoyable, despite having outdated graphics.
Textovky.cz thought it was a great game.
References
External links
PC Engine
Excalibur
Score
1994 video games
Adventure games
Detective video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Video games developed in the Czech Republic
Single-player video games
Vochozka Trading games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatema%3A%20Legenda%20o%20prekliati | Anatema: Legenda o prekliati is a 1995 adventure video game developed by Rune Software and published by Riki Computer Games for DOS.
Gameplay
Anatema is a first person adventure game visually resembling Wolfenstein 3D. The player has to escape from Emare castle where he was captured by an evil ghost.
References
1995 video games
Adventure games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Riki Computer Games games
Single-player video games
Video games about ghosts
Video games developed in Slovakia
Video games set in castles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubrik | Rubrik is a cloud data management and data security company based in Palo Alto, California, United States, founded in December 2013.
History
The company was founded in January 2014 by Bipul Sinha, Arvind Jain, Soham Mazumdar, and Arvind Nithrakashyap.
IVP led a US$180 million Series D funding round in May 2017, at a US$1.3 billion valuation, bringing the company to at least US$292 million raised to date.
In early 2018, Rubrik purchased Datos.io, another cloud data management company.
In January 2019 the startup has raised $261 million, which helped it to reach $3.3 billion total valuation. The core investors were Bain Capital Ventures together with Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures and IVP.
In December 2020, the company purchased the assets and intellectual property of Igneous, a Seattle-based company that had recently gone through a mass layoff. Until shortly before the acquisition, Igneous was led by co-founder Kiran Bhageshpur.
In August 2023, it was announced Rubrik had acquired the Israel-headquartered cloud data security company, Laminar Security for an undisclosed sum.
Products
The company calls itself a “Zero Trust Data Security.” It provides data management services such as the backup and recovery, targeting enterprises that run hybrid cloud environments. Its software can be run on-premises and in the cloud to protect and manage data.
Third-party sources have cited the rise of ransomware and other corporate threats as increasing the total market demand for off-site backup solutions.
Controversies
In March 2018, Dell EMC sued two former employees that currently work for Rubrik, alleging that the employees downloaded Dell EMC trade secrets, solicited former Dell EMC customers, and provided unfair competitive advantages to Rubrik.
Personnel
Founder Bipul Sinha now serves as CEO after stepping down from his role at Lightspeed. He holds several patents for distributed storage technologies. He has publicly described inviting all to board meetings as an act of “radical transparency.”
Former Microsoft Chairman John W. Thompson is a board member. Phoenix Suns basketball player Kevin Durant is a notable investor, citing Rubrik as his first technology investment made with the guidance of noted angel investor Ron Conway.
References
External links
rubrik.com
Companies established in 2014
Companies based in Silicon Valley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Eisenbach | Susan Eisenbach is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Imperial College London. Her research investigates techniques for producing good software systems that behave appropriately.
Education
Eisenbach completed an undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Vassar College. She completed a masters degree in Mathematical Logic and in Computer Science at the University of London, before working as a school maths teacher.
Career and research
Eisenbach joined the Department of Computing, Imperial College London in September 1983. In 1994 she was appointed Director of Studies, a role she held for 15 years, with overall responsibility for teaching. She took a college wide role as Dean of Teaching and Learning in 2010. In January 2011 she was made Head of the Department of Computing, which she completed September 2016. Currently she is the elected member on College Council. She has supervised numerous PhD students including Diomidis Spinellis and others.
She has published several books on programming. In 1981 she published PASCAL for Programmers. She published Program Design With Modula-2 in 1989. She published Reasoned Programming in 1994. Eisenbach's research focuses on how to produce concurrent programs that behave properly.
She has championed entrepreneurship amongst the student community. She is an advisor to the computer education program The Turing Lab, a partnership between Imperial College London graduates and YOOX Net-a-Porter Group. Eisenbach has spoken about the lack of women in technology since 2000. She pointed out that when "computing was less popular, we had far more women students". She was part of a discussion host by The Guardian on how to get more women into technology roles in 2013.
References
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Vassar College alumni
Alumni of the University of London
Computer science educators
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Norwich | Network Norwich is the brand name given to First Norfolk & Suffolk bus services in and around the city of Norwich. First launched in September 2012, the network now consists of nine colour-coded lines extending across Norwich city centre, outer suburbs, and surrounding towns and villages across Norfolk and into Suffolk.
History
The network was launched on 23 September 2012, with the rebranding of several First Norfolk & Suffolk bus routes within the Norwich city area as colour-coded lines. The Charcoal Line was added most recently, being launched to Bungay in Suffolk in May 2017.
The network began with the repainting of existing buses into Network Norwich livery, a variant of FirstGroup's national corporate Olympia scheme, "dipped" with colour-coded front ends; these buses included Dennis Tridents and Volvo B7TLs with Plaxton President bodywork, Volvo B9TLs with Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 bodywork, and Volvo B7Ls and Volvo B7RLEs with Wright Eclipse bodywork.
The first brand new buses for the network, eight 10.8-metre, 37-seater Wright StreetLite DF single-deckers, were delivered in November and December 2014. Eleven longer-wheelbase 41-seater Wright StreetLite Max single-deckers were delivered for the Green Line in November 2015, followed by nine Wright StreetDeck double-deckers for the Pink Line in April 2016.
The Yellow Line was extended to Fakenham in north Norfolk on 3 April 2018, as First took over service X29 from Stagecoach, who ceased all operations in the area. On 3 September 2018, the Purple Line was extended with the launch of route 36A to Harleston. From 7 January 2019, the Charcoal Line was extended with First taking over routes 40A and 41A from Konectbus.
Core network
Pink Line – 10 / 10A / 11 / 11A / 12
The Pink Line consists of services 10, 10A, 11, 11A and 12. The 11, 11A and 12 start at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to the south of the city and run northwards through Cringleford, Eaton, Norwich city centre, Sprowston where the 11 and 11A terminate, with the 12 terminating in Wroxham. The 10 and 10A begin at Eaton Park and Cringleford respectively and both run via the city centre to Mousehold Heath.
The routes serve City College Norwich, Anglia Square shopping centre, Sprowston Tesco, Sprowston Manor, the quays along the River Bure in Hoveton and Wroxham, Hoveton & Wroxham railway station and the Bure Valley Railway.
The Pink Line operates every ten minutes during daytimes from Monday to Saturday, reducing to half-hourly on Sundays and bank holidays and hourly during evenings. In April 2016, the Pink Line was upgraded, receiving nine brand new Wright StreetDeck Double Deck Buses featuring free WiFi on board and e-leather seats. The 10 and 10A routes are served by Alexander Dennis Enviro200s and Dennis Dart MPDs due to narrow streets along the route.
Turquoise Line – 13 / 13A / 13B / X13
The Turquoise Line consists of services 13, 13A, 13B and X13, which all follow a broadly similar route. The routes start at At |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20all-pairs%20shortest%20path%20algorithm | A central problem in algorithmic graph theory is the shortest path problem. Hereby, the problem of finding the shortest path between every pair of nodes is known as all-pair-shortest-paths (APSP) problem. As sequential algorithms for this problem often yield long runtimes, parallelization has shown to be beneficial in this field. In this article two efficient algorithms solving this problem are introduced.
Another variation of the problem is the single-source-shortest-paths (SSSP) problem, which also has parallel approaches: Parallel single-source shortest path algorithm.
Problem definition
Let be a directed Graph with the set of nodes and the set of edges . Each edge has a weight assigned. The goal of the all-pair-shortest-paths problem is to find the shortest path between all pairs of nodes of the graph. For this path to be unique it is required that the graph does not contain cycles with a negative weight.
In the remainder of the article it is assumed that the graph is represented using an adjacency matrix. We expect the output of the algorithm to be a distancematrix . In , every entry is the weight of the shortest path in from node to node .
The Floyd algorithm presented later can handle negative edge weights, whereas the Dijkstra algorithm requires all edges to have a positive weight.
Dijkstra algorithm
The Dijkstra algorithm originally was proposed as a solver for the single-source-shortest-paths problem. However, the algorithm can easily be used for solving the All-Pair-Shortest-Paths problem by executing the Single-Source variant with each node in the role of the root node.
In pseudocode such an implementation could look as follows:
1 func DijkstraSSSP(G,v) {
2 ... //standard SSSP-implementation here
3 return dv;
4 }
5
6 func DijkstraAPSP(G) {
7 D := |V|x|V|-Matrix
8 for i from 1 to |V| {
9 //D[v] denotes the v-th row of D
10 D[v] := DijkstraSSP(G,i)
11 }
12 }
In this example we assume that DijkstraSSSP takes the graph and the root node as input.
The result of the execution in turn is the distancelist . In , the -th element stores the distance from the root node to the node .
Therefore the list corresponds exactly to the -th row of the APSP distancematrix .
For this reason, DijkstraAPSP iterates over all nodes of the graph and executes DijkstraSSSP with each as root node while storing the results in .
The runtime of DijkstraSSSP is as we expect the graph to be represented using an adjacency matrix.
Therefore DijkstraAPSP has a total sequential runtime of .
Parallelization for up to |V| processors
A trivial parallelization can be obtained by parallelizing the loop of DijkstraAPSP in line8.
However, when using the sequential DijkstraSSSP this limits the number of processors to be used by the number of iterations executed in the loop.
Therefore, for this trivial parallelization is an upper bound for the number of processors.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinge%20%28app%29 | Hinge is an online dating application. Using an algorithm, the app displays potential matches, allowing the user to dismiss or attempt to match by responding to a specific piece of content on their profile. The service emphasizes uploading user-generated content in a variety of formats, such as photos, videos, and "prompts" as a way to express personality and appearance. The app is fully owned by Match Group as of February 2019.
History
In 2011, founder and CEO Justin McLeod (alongside a team including Frances Haugen) founded a desktop service called Secret Agent Cupid, which allowed users to connect to Facebook and list which of their friends they had crushes on. Throughout 2012, this became a mobile application called Hinge, which launched in February 2013. The application was designed to be less superficial than Tinder, forgoing Tinder-like swiping actions and branding itself as "the relationship app". Before Hinge gained enough users to sustain the business, the company nearly ran out of funding. When making the app, McLeod spent much of the remaining money on a launch party in Washington, D.C., which enabled the company to obtain the next round of funding, saving it from insolvency.
Throughout 2017, Hinge received more mentions than any other dating app in the "Weddings" section of The New York Times. Hinge Matchmaker was released in September 2017, claiming to reinvent online dating for "people that missed out on the dating app craze". Match Group made investments in Hinge as early as September 2017. In June 2018, Match Group acquired 51% ownership of Hinge, with the right to acquire all remaining shares within a year, and came to own 100% of Hinge by the first quarter of 2019. Under Match Group's management, Hinge's revenue rose from $8 million in 2018 to $284 million in 2022. The purchase attracted some criticism from antitrust advocates, who see it as indicative of a larger trend toward monopolization in the technology industry.
The application's popularity was boosted in 2019 when U.S. presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg revealed that he had met his husband on Hinge. Also in 2019, the company started Hinge Labs to research successful matches and fine-tune the app's compatibility algorithm and other features. Hinge was featured on CNET as one of the best dating sites for 2021. A voice message feature was added to the app in October 2021.
As of 2023, the app had 23 million regular users and 800,000 premium users.
Operation
Presented in a vertical timeline, profiles on Hinge are composed of up to six pictures, alongside three self-selected personal prompts which encourage users to focus on personality traits rather than solely appearance. Instead of swiping, users must "like" specific photos or prompts if they wish to reach out to other members, though they are not required to respond to these photos or prompts. Hinge allows users to filter matches based on traits that it believes are important to users, such as religion or height |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20M.%20Dray | Susan M. Dray is an American human-computer interaction (HCI) and user experience (UX) professional who is a member of the CHI academy and the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA). Dray is known for her work in the field of UX design and is also a founding member of SIGCHI, the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group for human-computer interaction.
Education
Dray earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Mills College in Oakland, California in 1972. She then went on to pursue her master's degree and PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Career
Dray's career in industrial research began in 1979 at Honeywell, where she became manager of human-technology impacts and also a senior research scientist. Later, she worked at American Express, and became the first to develop a usability lab of corporate systems in the industry.
In 2014, Dray went to Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP) in Panama City as a Fulbright Scholar to develop and enrich an HCI program for the university.
Dray currently serves as the president emerita of Dray & Associates, which is a small user experience consulting firm where she leads a team that plans and carries out user experience and design research on their clients' main products. She started the company in 1993.
Awards and recognition
Dray has won numerous awards over the course of her career, most notably her Lifetime achievement in practice award in 2015, the highest award given by SIGCHI. In 2017, she became an ACM Fellow "for co-founding ACM SIGCHI and disseminating exemplary user experience design and evaluation practices worldwide." She is also recognized by the UXPA who awarded her the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. In addition, she is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Other awards:
Lifetime Service Award - SIGCHI (2006)
Distinguished Member - ACM SIGCHI (2008)
References
External links
CHI 2015 Lifetime Practice Award: Susan Dray - Building Bridges, Not Walls, video lecture
Google Scholar for Susan Dray
Curriculum Vitae (July 2020)
Living people
Mills College alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Human–computer interaction researchers
Design researchers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzler | Dazzler may refer to:
Cromemco Dazzler, a graphics card for S-100 bus computers
The Cruise of the Dazzler, an early novel by Jack London
Dazzler (Marvel Comics), a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books
Dazzler (weapon), a non-lethal weapon which uses intense directed radiation
See also
Dazzle (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Simpson%20%28engineer%29 | Jane Simpson is the Head of Asset Creation at Severn Trent Water. She was the first woman to be Chief Engineer at Network Rail.
Education
Simpson grew up in Coventry. She was inspired to become an engineer when she made a light bulb work on the WISE Campaign bus in the 1980s. She was advised to consider a career in teaching or being a nursery nurse. Simpson has been a lifelong member of the Scouts. She gained her Baden-Powell Award as a Guide and her Queen's Scout Award as a Venture Scout. She left school at 16 and started an apprenticeship at General Electric. They went on to sponsor her to complete a degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering at Coventry University. She completed a master's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Birmingham.
Career
Simpson joined British Rail in Quayside Tower as a graduate in 1996, which was the year of its privatisation. Working in one of the maintenance companies for infrastructure, she became Overhead Line Engineer in 1998. She led the Overhead line between Euston and Rugby. She was the first woman to hold the role, and says that male engineers did not know how to behave in front of her. She worked for Marconi Communications and returned Network Rail in 2004. She joined the Infrastructure Maintenance Department in 2009, and was promoted to Director of Route Asset Management of the London and North Western Railway in 2011. She was responsible for the electrification of train lines in the North of England. She became a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in 2014.
She became Chief Engineer in 2015. She was responsible for £600 million of projects, and ensured that money was spent correctly to improve the UK's rail infrastructure. She championed innovation in engineering whilst ensuring the customer saw the value of all investment. These included mechatronics and small track-side robots which could provide intelligent inspection in situ. She led a multimillion-pound project to digitise information systems at Network Rail.
In 2016 she was listed as one of the UK's Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering. She was chosen as one of the 20 Most Inspirational Women in Rail.
She was appointed to Severn Trent in July 2016. Here she is responsible for all above ground infrastructure, including ensuring water is clean, waste water is treated and that renewable energy is explored. She was listed in the Top 100 Women to Watch in the 2017 FTSE Board Report.
Simpson is a campaigner for increased diversity in engineering. At Network Rail, she launched work experience and open evenings to attract more girls into the profession. She is a trustee of The Scout Association.
References
Engineers from the West Midlands (county)
British women engineers
British electrical engineers
Alumni of Coventry University
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century women engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Talk%20Show | The Talk Show may refer to:
Talk show, a television programming or radio programming genre
Talk radio, a radio format
The Talk (talk show), an American talk show on CBS
The Barry Gibb Talk Show, a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live
The Talk Show (podcast), with John Gruber
See also
Talk show (disambiguation)
The Talk (disambiguation)
The Show (disambiguation)
List of talk show hosts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/451%20Group | 451 Group is a New York City-based technology industry research firm. Through its Uptime Institute operating unit, the company provides research for data center operators. In December 2019, 451 Group sold an operating division, 451 Research, to information and analytics company S&P Global.
History
451 Group acquired Uptime Institute in 2009. The company subsequently acquired:
consumer spending research firm ChangeWave Research in 2011
events company Tech Touchstone in 2013
mobile communications research firm Yankee Group in 2013
IT professional community Wisegate in 2017.
The company's 451 Research division was acquired by S&P Global Market Intelligence on December 6, 2019, according to a company press release.
Business
Uptime Institute is the operating division of the 451 Group. It is an American professional services organization best known for its "Tier Standard". and the associated certification of data center compliance with the standard.
Founded in 1987 by Kenneth G. Brill, the Uptime Institute was founded as an industry proponent to help owners and operators quantify and qualify their ability to provide a predictable level of performance from data centers, regardless of the status of external factors, such as power utilities.
451 Research
451 Research was formerly part of 451 Group. Until being acquired by S&P Global in December 2019, it was an information technology industry analyst firm, headquartered in New York with offices in London, Boston, Washington DC, and San Francisco.
The company claimed over 250 employees, over 100 industry analysts and over 1000 clients. The company produced qualitative and quantitative research, across thirteen research channels, and targets service providers, technology vendors, enterprise IT leaders and financial professionals.
See also
High availability
Downtime
Uptime
References
External links
Information technology companies of the United States
Consulting firms established in 1993
International information technology consulting firms
Research and analysis firms of the United States
Reliability engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zac%20Young | Zac Young (born 1982) is an American pastry chef and TV personality. He has been featured on various baking shows on Food Network and the Cooking Channel, most notably on Top Chef: Just Desserts and Unique Sweets. He also appeared as a guest judge on baking competition show Nailed It! on Netflix, Food Network's Halloween Baking Championship, and Food Network's Chopped.
Early life
Zac Young was born in Portland, Maine, in 1982 in Portland, Maine to Jonathan and Susan Lebel Young. Growing up, he wanted to learn how to bake after his vegan mother never baked cookies for him. After participating in community children's theatre shows from third through eighth grade, Young was admitted to Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts. Young momentarily worked as a costume designer before deciding that baking was his true passion. He then moved to New York City in 2003 to enroll at the Institute of Culinary Education and graduated in 2006.
Career
Following graduation from the Institute of Culinary Education, Young first worked under Sebastien Rouxel and Richard Capizzi at Bouchon Bakery, then accepted a pastry chef position at Butter. Young trained in France with Philippe Givre at Valrhona and Philippe Parc at Michel Cluizel. In 2009, Young became executive pastry chef at Flex Mussels on the Upper East Side, where he ran a seasonal pop-up donut shop in Grand Central Station.
Young joined David Burke Group, later renamed Craveable Hospitality Group, in 2012 as an executive pastry chef. In 2015, Young and David Burke Fabrick's pastry chef, Gian Martinez, originated the PieCaken dessert. PieCaken, originally intended to be sold by the slice in restaurants, is a layered dish of pecan pie, pumpkin pie, and spice cake held together with cinnamon buttercream and topped with apple pie filling. (The Wall Street Journal described the piecaken as "a fusion of a pumpkin pie, a pecan pie and an apple upside down cake".)
Personal life
Young is openly gay.
Filmography
References
External links
Food Network profile
1982 births
American television chefs
Food Network chefs
Gay entertainers
American LGBT entertainers
American gay men
LGBT people from Maine
Living people
American male chefs
Pastry chefs
People from Portland, Maine
Chefs from Maine
LGBT chefs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20M.%20Russell | Daniel M. Russell is an American computer scientist.
Education
Russell graduated from University of California at Irvine with a B.S. in Information and Computer Science (1977). He received his M.S (1979) and Ph.D. (1985) in Computer Science from University of Rochester. His doctoral work was titled "Schema-Based Problem Solving" which was based on "using recombinations of pre-stored plans in sophisticated ways". While at University of Rochester, Russell did research work in "the neuropsychology of laterality, models of apraxia and aphasia, coordinated motor movements and computer vision".
Career
Russell joined Xerox Corporation in 1981 where he worked as a consultant at the Webster Research Center in New York. Russell then became a research associate where he engaged in AI research and the development of Interlisp-D courses. In 1982, he joined the research staff at PARC. Until 1991, he led a project called "Instructional Design Environment" (IDE) with Richard Burton and Thomas P. Moran to "develop a practical computer-aided design and analysis system for use in ill-structured design tasks". He then worked in the User Interface Research group, led by Stuart Card, which studied the uses of information visualization techniques.
Russell worked at Apple in the Advanced Technology Group sector from 1993 to 1997. He managed research within the User Experience Research Group which studied issues of sensemaking, cognitive modelling of analysis tasks, synchronous and asynchronous collaboration, shared awareness of individual state, joint work coordination, and knowledge-based use of complex, heterogenous information. Alongside his research, he developed applications such as Knowbots and AI planner-based assistants for Macintosh OS. Russell subsequently became the director of the Knowledge Management Technologies laboratory where he led the research efforts in five areas: Intelligent Systems, Spoken Language, User Experience, Interaction Design, and Information Technology. As Director, Russell also worked alongside the Apple CEO Tim Cook and founder Steve Jobs in corporation on Network Computing.
Russell was an adjunct lecturer on the Engineering and Computer Science faculty of the University of Santa Clara (1998), and has taught special topics classes in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University (1994).
Russell returned to Xerox in 1997 where he worked as a manager in the User Experience Research area through 2000. From 1998 to 1999, Russell led the Madcap project, a system to capture, organize and render large amounts of complex presentation materials into an understandable whole. The project is implemented in Java and QuickTime.
Russell joined IBM in 2000, where he managed a research group in the User Sciences and Experience Research (USER) lab at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He subsequently became a senior manager where he led larger research groups in areas covering user experience design of large systems. Until 2005, he engaged in u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20M.%20Olson | Gary M. Olson (born 24 December 1944) is an American professor and researcher, specializing in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work. He has published over 120 research articles and book chapters, and is one of the authors of Working Together Apart: Collaboration over the Internet (Morgan & Claypool, 2014).
Education
Olson received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1967. He received his M.A. in 1968 and Ph.D. in 1970, both in psychology from Stanford University.
Career and research
Olson became an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Michigan in 1975, was promoted to associate professor in 1977, and professor in 1984. He first became interested in human-computer interaction in the early 1980s, and played a large part in developing the human-computer interaction program at the University of Michigan. He joined the School of Information as a professor and associate dean for research in 1995, and was named the Paul M. Fitts Collegiate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in 2001, which was his position until 2008, when he became the Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
Olson has placed a focus on collaborative technologies and long-distance work throughout his career. In 2000, Olson and his wife Judith S. Olson published the notable and highly cited paper "Distance Matters", that reviews over a decade of research on collaborative technologies for remote work, details some of the challenges of long-distance collaborative work through the technologies found in these studies, and provides potential ways to maximize the chance of succeeding at remote work. Olson has also published several edited books, most notably Scientific collaboration on the Internet (MIT Press, 2008) which includes chapters from several experts in the field of internet collaboration, as well as several case studies of large-scale collaborative projects. In 2014, Olson and his wife Judith S. Olson published their coauthored book Working Together Apart: Collaboration over the Internet (Morgan & Claypool, 2014), which is a review of their research on technology used for long distance collaboration.
In 2015, Olson was a member of a team that published a research paper on a tool called DocuViz, which visualizes the revision history of Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides documents. The team analyzed over 100 documents using the tool, finding patterns in collaborative writing and potential use cases for the tool. In several recent articles that Olson has had a part in writing, such as "How People Write Together Now: Beginning the Investigation with Advanced Undergraduates in a Project Course" in March 2017 and "Now that we can write simultaneously, how do we use that to our advantage?" in July 2017, Olson has continued to investigate and discuss collaborative word processors and the ways that they can potentially be used most effective |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRENDnet | TRENDnet is a global manufacturer of computer networking products headquartered in Torrance, California, in the United States. It sells networking and surveillance products especially in the small to medium business (SMB) and home user market segments.
History
The company was founded in 1990 by Pei Huang and Peggy Huang.
Vulnerabilities
In September 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought an enforcement action against TRENDnet alleging that the company marketed its SecurView IP cameras describing them as "secure", when in fact the software allowed online viewing by anyone with the camera's IP address.
The FTC approved a final settlement with TRENDnet in February 2014. In January 2018, TRENDnet launched 4K UHD PoE surveillance cameras with covert IR LEDs.
References
External links
Electronics companies established in 1990
Networking companies of the United States
Networking hardware
Routers (computing)
Wireless networking
1990 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Gutwin | Carl Gutwin is a Canadian computer scientist, professor and the director of the Human–computer interaction (HCI) Lab at the University of Saskatchewan. He is also a co-theme leader in the SurfNet research network and was a past holder of a Canada Research Chair in Next-Generation Groupware. Gutwin is known for his contributions in HCI ranging from the technical aspects of systems architectures, to the design and implementation of interaction techniques, and to social theory as applied to design. Gutwin was papers co-chair at CHI 2011 and was a conference co-chair of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2010.
Education
Gutwin has undergraduate degrees in computer science and in English literature. He received his PhD in 1997 from the University of Calgary, where he worked and developed the idea of workspace awareness as a design factor for distributed groupware systems.
Research
Gutwin's main research areas are in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), groupware usability, interaction techniques, collaboration support, modelling human performance, information visualization and interface design. Along with his students and collaborators, Gutwin has published more than 200 papers in Human Computer Interaction and Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
KEA: Key Phrase Extraction
In 1999, Gutwin developed a key phrase extraction algorithm along with Ian Witten, Gordon Paynter, Eibe Frank, and Craig Nevill-Manning called KEA. Key phrases are important to a document as they provide a brief summary of a document's content and as document collections such as digital libraries become larger, the value of such summary information increases. The goal of the algorithm is to help alleviate the tedious process of assigning key phrases manually. The algorithm uses machine learning, lexical methods, and calculates feature values for each candidate to predict which candidates are good key phrases.
Workspace awareness for groupware
In 2002, Gutwin along with Saul Greenberg, developed a research paper regarding the idea of workspace awareness (the up-to-the-moment understanding of another person's interaction with a shared workspace) and how it can help and improve the usability of a groupware application. The goal of the research was to provide groupware designers a framework about how to design for awareness in multi-user systems, specifically workspace awareness. The developed framework can help educate designers about awareness in groupware and help to improve the quality of the systems that are built.
Group awareness in distributed software development
In 2004, Gutwin, alongside Reagan Penner and Kevin Schneider, evaluated how distributed developers maintain group awareness (where in the code are they working, what are they doing, and what their plans are). The team interviewed developers and reviewed project artifacts and communications from three open source projects. The findings suggested that developers maintain both a general awareness of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20stations%20in%20Kerala | The rail network in Kerala is operated by Indian Railways. The state falls in the Southern Railway zone. The railways connects the most major towns and cities except those in the highland districts of Idukki and Wayanad.
The total railway network in the state is 1054 kms in length and is controlled by three out of six divisions of the Southern Railway: Thiruvananthapuram railway division headquartered at Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad railway division headquartered at Palakkad and Madurai railway division.
The Tirur railway station, opened in 1861, is the oldest railway station in Kerala and (SRR) is the largest railway station in the state.
Stations on Kanyakumari - Mangalore rail-route (via Kottayam)
Stations on Kayamkulam - Ernakulam Jn. rail-route (via Alappuzha)
Stations on Shoranur - Coimbatore rail-route
Stations on Palakkad Jn.- Tiruchendur rail-route
Stations on Kollam- Sengottai rail-route
Stations on Shoranur - Nilambur Road rail-route
Stations on Thrissur - Guruvayur rail-route
Defunct/Unused railway stations
Gallery
References
Rail transport in Kerala
Lists of railway stations in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magerman | Magerman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
David Magerman (born 1968), American computer scientist and philanthropist
Frank Magerman (born 1977), Belgian footballer and manager
Gezelle Magerman (born 1997), South African hurdler
Dutch-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20Channel | Metro Channel (formerly Lifestyle (Network) and stylized in all capital letters as METRO CHANNEL) is a Philippine pay television channel based in Quezon City. It is owned by Creative Programs Inc., a subsidiary of media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. Its programming is composed primarily of lifestyle and entertainment shows targeted to upscale women.
The channel was officially launched on April 2, 2018, and it was named after Metro Magazine, one of the leading lifestyle magazines in the country published by ABS-CBN Publishing. The channel became available on G Sat Channel 70 on October 5, 2020 and on January 4, 2021, on Cignal Channel 69 replacing the channel space of Disney XD Asia. A video on demand service for Metro Channel shows are available via IWantTFC.
Programming blocks
Home & Living - focused on home improvements, room makeovers, interior design and modern living.
Food & Travel - focused on food, travel and adventure.
Fashion & Style - focused on fashion and style.
Entertainment & Glamour - focused on the best entertainment and glamour.
Programming
Original programming, special features and segments
At The Table (Season 2) (formerly Chasing Flavors; 2017–present)
Beached (2018–present)
Casa Zobel De Ayala (Season 2) (2017–present)
Driven (2018–present)
In The Metro (2018–present)
Metro Best K-Drama Awards (2020–present)
Pia's Postcards (2018–present)
References
External links
Television networks in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 2018
English-language television stations in the Philippines
Women's interest channels
Creative Programs
ABS-CBN Corporation channels
2018 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senji%20Panambakkam%20railway%20station | Senji Panambakkam Railway Station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. The name represents the village duo: Senji & Panambakkam. It serves the villages of Senji, Panambakkam and Perambakkam, suburbs of Chennai, and is located 51 km west of Chennai Central railway station. It has an elevation of 54 m above sea level.
History
The lines at the station were electrified on 28 August 1982, with the electrification of the Tiruvallur–Arakkonam section.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
References
External links
Senji Panambakkam station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Guitar%20Princess | My Guitar Princess is a 2018 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Nick Olanka, it stars Julie Anne San Jose in the title role. It premiered on May 7, 2018 on the network's afternoon line up replacing Ang Forever Ko'y Ikaw. The series concluded on July 13, 2018 with a total of 50 episodes. It was replaced by Kapag Nahati ang Puso in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Celina, a daughter of a house help became famous online as the "Guitar Princess". Her mother was a former singer and was an employee of the Canadian Ambassador to the Philippines who had a Filipino wife and a son, Elton - Celina's childhood friend. They will eventually meet again, when Elton comes across a video of the Guitar Princess and instantly becomes a fan.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Julie Anne San Jose as Celina Raymundo-Soriano / Guitar Princess
Supporting cast
Gil Cuerva as Elton Smith
Kiko Estrada as Justin Garcia
Sheryl Cruz as Adele Raymundo-Soriano
Isabelle de Leon as Taylor Garcia / Guitar Empress
Jazz Ocampo as Katy Garcia
Kier Legaspi as Elvis Soriano
Marc Abaya as Charlie
Maey Bautista as Dolly
Marika Sasaki as Britney
Ralf King as Adam
Rob Sy as Michael
Guest cast
Frank Garcia as George
Lui Manansala as Barbara
Ex Battalion as themselves
Mickey Ferriols as Mariah
Jervy "Patani" Daño as Shakira
Marissa Sanchez as Janet
as Kim
Petite as Whitney
Venice Bismonte as young Celina
Bryce Eusebio as young Elton
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
2018 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine musical television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%20Guiard | Yves Guiard is a French cognitive neuroscientist and researcher best known for his work in human laterality and stimulus-response compatibility in the field of human-computer interaction. He is the director of research at French National Center for Scientific Research and a member of CHI Academy since 2016. He is also an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM TOCHI) and member of the advisory council of the International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance.
Education
Guiard received his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Marseilles. He was elected a French Government Fellow of Churchill College from 1996 till 1997, in Cambridge, UK.
Work
Yves Guiard's research interests span stimulus-response compatibility and the speed/accuracy of trade-off aimed movement. He has designed and tested his novel models of interaction for mobile devices. He proposed a kinematic-chain model in 1987, but the model was only found useful by HCI researchers a decade later when two-handed interaction with the devices was started being researched.
Guiard's HCI Research team at Télécom ParisTech is group is devoted to fundamental and applied research on Human Computer Interaction (HCI). They focus on representing and manipulating big data, and allowing this not only on standard computers but also on small devices – like mobile phones and tablets.
Guiard has published multiple papers regarding the usage of two-handed input while using touch screen based interfaces. His main research topics were around the ability of producing such technology and how usable it is for a given moment in time. As the time passed by, the papers focus on improving currently used designs – like gesture based input on tablets or interaction with different modules of GUI of a modern computer through touch pads.
Guiard has developed a simple model of wrist-wear (Watchit) which implemented basic gesture-based interaction with the wearable. The research surrounding that model has helped the designs and development of the modern smart wearables.
Guiard's publication about the speed/accuracy trade-off of aimed movement goes in depth of how average users interact with common devices – standard computers or mobile phones, and the possibility of developing better designs in order to increase accuracy while not affecting the speed of the input. It explains the mathematics behind common input types and how different designs affect the speed and accuracy.
Guiard is currently working on a book titled "Human Input to Computer Systems: Theories, Techniques and Technology" with William Buxton, where they explain the methods of bringing traditional design skills to interaction design, or the design of user experience.
References
Selected bibliography
Guiard, Y., & Rioul, O. (2015). A mathematical description of the speed/accuracy trade-off of aimed movement. In Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference (pp. 91–100). ACM Press.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libraries%20in%20Turkey | There are four type of libraries in Turkey.
National Library
Public Libraries
School libraries
University libraries
In 2017 the Turkish Statistical Institute published the data about the libraries in Turkey (as of 31.12.2016)
References
Culture of Turkey
Public libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUAN-LD | KUAN-LD (channel 48) is a television station licensed to Poway, California, United States, serving as the San Diego-area outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside NBC station KNSD (channel 39). The two stations share studios on Granite Ridge Drive in the Serra Mesa section of San Diego. Despite KUAN-LD legally holding a low-power license, it transmits using KNSD's full-power spectrum from an antenna southeast of Spring Valley. This ensures complete reception across the San Diego television market.
KUAN is known on-air as Telemundo 20; as with KNSD's main branding, it is derived from its channel 20 cable position on Charter Spectrum, Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse.
History
The station signed on in 1980 as K48AL, originally operating as a translator of Los Angeles–based multicultural independent KSCI for the San Diego market, airing on low-power analog channel 48. It flash-cut to digital channel 36 on June 20, 2016.
In January 2017, NBC announced that it was hiring people for KNSD with the intention of launching a new Telemundo O&O station in San Diego, replacing Tijuana, Mexico-based station XHAS-TDT (whose affiliation expired at the end of June 2017). The new Telemundo affiliate, branded as "Telemundo 20", launched on July 1 on KNSD's digital 39.20 subchannel. As with KGTV's former Azteca América affiliation using their 10.15 subchannel (which XHAS would take over), the unusual numbering was to connect to Telemundo's channel 20 cable position on Cox Communications and other pay TV providers in the area, which was transferred from XHAS. Additionally, KNSD launched TeleXitos, a Spanish equivalent to Cozi TV, on channel 39.21 the same day.
On September 12, 2017, NBCUniversal acquired KUAN from NRJ TV, LLC, the owner of KSCI, for $650,000; the sale was completed on December 21, 2017. Concurrently, KUAN entered into a channel-sharing agreement with KNSD. This was done with the separate KUAN-LD transmitter ending service, and 39.20 and 39.21 becoming identified with KUAN-LD instead and re-numbered to KUAN's channel 48.
News operation
KUAN broadcasts 10 hours of locally produced newscasts each week. Newscasts were launched on July 3, 2017. KUAN is one of the 11 Telemundo owned and operated stations that do not produce midday newscasts.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
See also
Channel 17 digital TV stations in the United States
Channel 48 virtual TV stations in the United States
Channel 20 branded TV stations in the United States
References
External links
Telemundo network affiliates
Telemundo Station Group
UAN-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1980
1980 establishments in California
TeleXitos affiliates
UAN-LD
UAN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROCm | ROCm is an Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) software stack for graphics processing unit (GPU) programming. ROCm spans several domains: general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU), high performance computing (HPC), heterogeneous computing. It offers several programming models: HIP (GPU-kernel-based programming), OpenMP/Message Passing Interface (MPI) (directive-based programming), OpenCL.
ROCm is free, libre and open-source software (except the GPU firmware blobs), it is distributed under various licenses. ROCm is short for Radeon Open Compute platform.
Background
The first GPGPU software stack from ATI/AMD was Close to Metal, which became Stream.
ROCm was launched around 2016 with the Boltzmann Initiative. ROCm stack builds upon previous AMD GPU stacks, some tools trace back to GPUOpen, others to the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA).
Heterogeneous System Architecture Intermediate Language
HSAIL was aimed at producing a middle-level, hardware-agnostic intermediate representation, that could be JIT-compiled to the eventual hardware (GPU, FPGA...) using the appropriate finalizer. This approach was dropped for ROCm: now it builds only GPU code, using LLVM, and its AMDGPU backend that was upstreamed, although there is still research on such enhanced modularity with LLVM MLIR.
Programming abilities
ROCm as a stack ranges from the kernel driver to the end-user applications.
AMD has introductory videos about AMD GCN hardware, and ROCm programming via its learning portal.
One of the best technical introductions about the stack and ROCm/HIP programming, remains, to date, to be found on Reddit.
High-level programming
HIP programming
HIP(HCC) kernel language
Memory allocation
NUMA
Heterogeneous Memory Model and Shared Virtual Memory
ROCm code objects
Compute/Graphics interop
Low-level programming
Hardware support
ROCm is primarily targeted at discrete professional GPUs, but unofficial support includes Vega-family and RDNA 2 consumer GPUs.
Accelerated Processor Units (APU) are "enabled", but not officially supported. Having ROCm functional there is involved.
Professional-grade GPUs
AMD Instinct accelerators are the first-class ROCm citizens, alongside the prosumer Radeon Pro GPU series: they mostly see full support.
The only consumer-grade GPU that has relatively equal support is, as of January 2022, the Radeon VII (GCN 5 - Vega).
Consumer-grade GPUs
Software ecosystem
Learning resources
AMD ROCm product manager Terry Deem gave a tour of the stack.
Third-party integration
The main consumers of the stack are machine learning and high-performance computing/GPGPU applications.
Machine learning
Various Deep Learning frameworks have a ROCm backend:
PyTorch
TensorFlow
ONNX
MXNet
CuPy
MIOpen
Caffe
Iree (which uses LLVM Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR))
Supercomputing
ROCm is gaining significant traction in the top 500.
ROCm is used with the Exascale supercomputers ElCapitan and Frontier.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pynk | "Pynk" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Janelle Monáe for her third studio album, Dirty Computer (2018). It features Canadian art pop musician Grimes and interpolates the song "Pink" by Aerosmith, with members of the band being credited as co-writers. Lyrically, the song continues Monáe's female empowerment theme previously expressed in "Django Jane". The third single from Dirty Computer, a music video for the song was uploaded to YouTube on April 10, 2018.
Background
Monáe describes the song as, "a celebration of creation, self love, sexuality and pussy power", and that the color pink "unites all of humanity" because it is the color "found in the deepest and darkest nooks and crannies of humans everywhere." In the Dirty Computer CD liner notes, Monáe describes the song's origins: "Inspired by Prince's mischievous smile as he played organ on "Hot Thang" and watched Cat Glover shimmy across the stage in "Sign O' The Times" and by Kali, Sheela Na Gig, Isis, Sheba, Athena, Medusa, Mary and all the Mothergoddess sculptures and paintings in pyramids, churches and castles around the world; midnight conversations and debates about The Great Cosmic Mother; insights from The Vagina by Naomi Wolff, and Interior Scroll by Carolee Schneemann and the calligraphy of Sun Ping; and Paul Simonon's quote that "pink is the only true rock n' roll color.""
Critical reception
“Pynk” received critical acclaim. Pitchfork praised "Pynk" and awarded it Best New Track. Eve Barlow stated: "As an expression of unity and an appeal to see people beyond gender, the song’s genre-bending sonics and the video’s femme-dominated utopia underscore Monáe’s long-held desires for a more fluid society."
Music video
The music video was directed by Emma Westenberg and was uploaded to Monáe's YouTube account on April 10, 2018. It features actress Tessa Thompson, a frequent collaborator of Monáe's. The plot finds Monáe and Thompson along with a group of other women dancing in a desert, having a slumber party and sitting out by a pool while expressing appreciation for the vagina. The distinctive pink vulva trousers worn by the dancers were designed by Duran Lantink.
Awards and nominations
Use in media
The song is played at the end of episode 6 of Michaela Coel's drama I May Destroy You.
Track listing
Charts
References
2018 singles
2018 songs
Janelle Monáe songs
Songs written by Janelle Monáe
LGBT-related songs
Grimes songs
Songs written by Tayla Parx
Songs written by Steven Tyler
Songs written by Glen Ballard
Songs with feminist themes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting%20point | In logistics, a counting point (CP; also known as a status point, data acquisition point, check point, or control point) is a certain spot designated for planning, controlling, and monitoring material flow items (e.g. single parts, assembly groups, final products, bins, racks, containers, and freight carriers).
Installation
If the production and material flow gets more and more complex then more counting points must be installed in the process of transport, shipping, and manufacturing. Especially check points for quality control and quality assurance can be used outstandingly as counting points but also data acquisition points in material handling processes. For better planning and monitoring of material flow items it is helpful to order all counting points in such a way that the requirements of an ideal Boolean Interval (mathematics) Algebra can be fulfilled. Boolean intervals are half-opened and a counting point lays always inside at the beginning and the ending lays outside and is the entry-point of the next-following interval. Such an interval can represent any kind of stretch in production and material flow e.g. an assembly line, a storage or warehouse, a transport route etc. Alternative production and transportation stretches are mapped as parallel intervals, which are logical equivalent but have their own different data acquisition points. If a flow item passes a certain CP it has left the preceding interval and stays in the concerned interval at the same time. By this it can be assured that a flow object can stay only in one interval at a certain moment which is also true and evident for parallel intervals. This kind of mapping material flow structure is necessary for a consistent calculation of the lead-time and complete cycle time for flow items which is extremely important not only for material flow planning but also for production planning and manufacturing operations management in general.
Usage
Counting points are used in different logistic areas like transportation, material handling, goods receipt, and goods issue at the border of a plant, because this is often transfer of ownership. Other well-known counting points are receiving and issuing material items at the border of a storage or warehouse. Counting points play an important rule also in manufacturing and production scheduling and different concepts of material requirements planning (e.g for the concept of cumulative quantities and the gross-net-method. Counting points also appear in the automotive industry where the production flow of a car is controlled, scheduled, and monitored continuously at exactly-defined check points for different manufacturing departments and shops and where the data is used for scheduling and optimization.
See also
Supply Chain Management
Cargo
Material Requirement Planning
Enterprise Resource Planning
Operations Management
Production Planning
Data acquisition
References
External links
SAP-HELP
Literature
Logistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESS%20%28festival%29 | The MESS International Theatre Festival (MESS) is a theatre festival that takes place annually in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the oldest living theatre festival in the Balkans, programming international experimental performances and emerging artists. MESS was the largest theatre festival in the Former Yugoslavia and was named one of Living Theatre's international showcases in 1974. It survived the Siege of Sarajevo, during which it hosted directors such as Susan Sontag and Peter Schumann. It organized the first edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival in 1993 and still acts as a collective board member today. Today it is the largest theatre festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the largest in South-Eastern Europe. In 2009 it expanded its activities to the city of Zenica, which now hosts parts of the regional program.
History
The festival was founded in 1960 under the name Festival malih i eksperimentalnih scena Jugoslavije (Festival of small and experimental stages of Yugoslavia). It was founded on the initiative of Yugoslavian theatre director, Jurislav Korenić. It was originally conceived as an annual gathering of the country's professional theatre companies with the goal of presenting the best experimental theatre pieces of the previous year. The specificity of the concept quickly garnered a wider audience and secured visits from international experimental theatre companies, such as Living Theater from New York City, that named the festival one of its four major annual show-piece platforms.
With the start of the Bosnian war in 1992 the festival's run was halted, only for it to be renamed and rebranded by a directorate of Bosnian artists and intellectuals, headed by theatre director Haris Pašović, with the desire to artistically resist the Siege of Sarajevo. Furthermore, the festival organized the first edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival in 1993 under the working title Poslije kraja svijeta (After the end of the world). During this period in time the festival produced numerous pieces by theatre directors such as Susan Sontag and Peter Schumann, who entered the besieged city to take part in the artistic resistance against the war. With the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords the festival was taken over by a team of young theatre professionals headed by newly named manager Dino Mustafić. The first post-war edition of the festival hosted directors such as Giorgio Strehler, Frank Castorf and Peter Schumann.
In 2008 the festival changed its original format by introducing a handful of new programs. The Mittel Europe MESS program is designed to showcase the most interesting theatre pieces from the Former Yugoslavia and the wider South-Eastern European region. The World MESS program hosts pieces from Africa, Asia and Latin America, while the Future MESS program cultivates the original concept of the festival by showcasing the most experimental and subversive productions from across the globe. Furthermore, a children's program h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale%20Trotter | Hale Freeman Trotter (30 May 1931 – 17 January 2022) was a Canadian-American mathematician, known for the Lie–Trotter product formula, the Steinhaus–Johnson–Trotter algorithm, and the Lang–Trotter conjecture. He was born in Kingston, Ontario. He died in Princeton, New Jersey on January 17, 2022.
Biography
The son of historian Reginald George Trotter, Hale Trotter studied at Queen's University in Kingston with bachelor's degree in 1952 and master's degree in 1953. He received in 1956 his PhD from Princeton University under William Feller with thesis Convergence of semigroups of operators. Trotter was from 1956 to 1958 at Princeton University the Fine Instructor for mathematics and from 1958 to 1960 an assistant professor at Queen's University. He was from 1962 to 1963 a visiting associate professor, from 1963 to 1969 an associate professor, and from 1969 until his retirement a full professor at Princeton University. From 1962 to 1986 he was an associate director for Princeton University's data center.
Trotter's research dealt with, among other topics, probability theory, group theory computations, number theory, and knot theory. In 1963, he solved an open problem in knot theory by proving that there are non-invertible knots. At the time of his proof, all knots with up to 7 crossings were known to be invertible. Trotter described an infinite number of pretzel knots that are not invertible.
Selected publications
Articles
Books
References
External links
Hale Trotter, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
Selected advances in knot theory, CSI Math, cuny.edu
1931 births
2022 deaths
People from Kingston, Ontario
Princeton University alumni
Princeton University faculty
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
20th-century Canadian mathematicians
21st-century Canadian mathematicians
Canadian emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%ABlle%20Coutaz | Joëlle Coutaz is a French computer scientist, specializing in human-computer interaction (HCI). Her career includes research in the fields of operating systems and HCI, as well as being a professor at the University of Grenoble. Coutaz is considered a pioneer in HCI in France, and in 2007, she was awarded membership to SIGCHI. She was also involved in organizing CHI conferences and was a member on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
Career
In 1970, Coutaz received her PhD in computer science from Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, where she specialized in operating systems. She then worked as a software engineer for French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). In 1972, she worked on the first packet switching network at the University of Grenoble, and later became an assistant professor for the university until 1991. She was a visiting scientist at Carnegie Mellon University from 1983 to 1984.
Coutaz's research interests shifted from operating systems to human-computer interaction after attending a CHI conference in 1983. She would then become a pioneer in HCI in France, by bridging the domain with software engineering. In 1988, she obtained her Thèse d'Etat in human-computer interaction from Joseph Fourier University. Then in 1991, she became a full professor at University of Grenoble.
In 1990, Coutaz founded and directed CLIPS, an HCI group at the Laboratory of Informatics in Grenoble. She co-founded two groups part of the CNRS national programme on computer-supported cooperative work and multimodal HCI. Furthermore, she became the co-chief editor of the Journal of Interaction between Persons and Systems. Between 1989 and 1995, she contributed to the AMODEUS project by ESPRIT BRA/LTR, whose purpose was to promote a multidisciplinary approach to human-computer interaction. In 2008, Coutaz coordinated a group working on ambient intelligence for the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation, with the purpose of confronting societal challenges in novel ways. The group took on the creation of a field that intersects information and communication technologies, and social and human sciences.
As of 2012, she is professor emeritus from the University of Grenoble.
Research
After achieving her PhD in 1970, Coutaz pursued her research interests in operating systems and computer networks. However, her research interests shifted to human-computer interaction in 1983 after attending a CHI conference. In this newer domain, her work focused on software architecture modeling for interactive systems, multimodal interaction, augmented reality, and user interface plasticity. In 1987, she created the presentation-abstraction-control (PAC) model, a software architecture model for interactive systems. In 1993, Coutaz began to work with Laurence Nigay to combine the PAC model with ARCH, a model designed for the implementation of multimodal user interfaces. She has also contributed to project |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20S.%20Olson | Judith S. Olson is an American researcher best known for her work in the field of human-computer interaction and the effect of distance on teamwork.
Olson began her career at the University of Michigan before later moving to the University of California, Irvine. She retired in 2008 with over 110 research articles to her name.
Education
In 1965, Judith Olson received her B.A. in Mathematics and Psychology from Northwestern University. In 1969, she received her Ph.D. in Mathematical Psychology at the University of Michigan. Following the completion of her Ph.D., she attended Stanford University in 1970 as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cognitive Psychology.
Life and career
From 1970 to 2008, Olson taught at the University of Michigan as a professor in both the Department of Psychology and in the Computer and Information Systems Group. She retired in 2008 from the University of Michigan, where she was made a Professor Emerita for her contributions to the field of Human Computer Interaction. Currently, Olson serves as a Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Her husband, Gary M. Olson, was also a Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at UCI before retiring in 2016 and is a frequent co-author of her research works.
Research and publications
Olson has published over 110 research articles, primarily focusing on the field of Human Computer Interaction and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. She has also contributed to several textbooks on collaboration and distance, the most recent of which include Scientific Collaboration on the Internet (2008), Working Together Apart (2014), and Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science (2015).
Her most cited paper, “Distance Matters” (Olson & Olson, 2000), studied the effects of geographic distance on teamwork and communication. Analyzing more than a decade's worth of remote and in-person group collaboration, they found that remotely-located team members had difficulty establishing the same context, or what the researchers dubbed “common ground,” when posing questions to one another. Furthermore, collaborative efforts were hindered by a lack of willingness to learn the technology and a lack of incentive to share personal discoveries with remote coworkers. Her involvement in the study of Virtual Teams builds upon the findings in “Distance Matters,” and aims to provide remote work teams with the “tools, methods, and processes” to successfully collaborate regardless of physical distance.
Olson's interests also span the field of education, where she is researching the role that telepresence robots play in reducing the social and educational barrier chronically ill or disabled children face when they are kept from school and classmates for extended periods of time. To this end, Olson is currently working on learning the effectiveness of iPads as a videoconferencing bridge between a child at home and his or her school so that they can remotely attend |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20industry%20in%20China | The artificial intelligence (AI) industry in China is a rapidly developing multi-billion dollar industry. As of 2021, the artificial intelligence market is worth about RMB 150 billion (US$23.196 billion), and is projected to reach RMB 400 billion (US$61.855 billion) by 2025. The roots of China's AI development started in the late 1970s following economic reforms emphasizing science and technology as the country's primary productive force.
The early stages of China's AI development were slow and faced serious challenges due to a lack of resources and talent. At the beginning China was behind most Western countries in terms of AI development. A majority of the research was led by scientists who had received higher education abroad.
Since 2006, China has steadily developed a national agenda for artificial intelligence development and emerged as one of the leading nations in artificial intelligence research and development. During the late 2010s, China announced in its thirteenth Five-Year Plan its aim to become a global AI leader by 2030 and to increase the worth of its AI industry to over 1 trillion RMB in the same year.
China set this goal in three stages, setting benchmarks for 2020, 2025, and 2030 respectively, as well as releasing a handful of policies, including 'Internet + AI' and 'New Generation AI Development Plan' to incentivize industry growth. Analysts estimated that China's AI development would contribute an annual growth rate of approximately 0.8% to 1.4% to China's economy.
China's central government has a list of "national AI teams" including fifteen China-based companies, including Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, SenseTime, and iFlytek. Each company should lead the development of a designated specialized AI sector in China, such as facial recognition, software/hardware, and voice intelligence. China's rapid AI development has significantly impacted Chinese society in many areas, including the socio-economic, military, and political spheres. Agriculture, transportation, accommodation and food services, and manufacturing are the top industries that would be the most impacted by further AI deployment.
However, scholars have warned of potential negative impacts on China's labor market and disproportionate benefits between urban and rural areas, coastal and inland regions, and among different income groups. The private sector, university laboratories, and the military are working collaboratively in many aspects as there are few current existing boundaries. As China continues expanding its AI industry, there are ethical and regulatory concerns yet to be addressed, such as data control and user privacy. In 2021, China published the Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China, its first national law addressing AI-related ethical concerns. In October 2022, the United States federal government announced a series of export controls and trade restrictions intended to restrict China's access to advanced computer chips for AI applications. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Mingyuan | Chen Mingyuan (, born January 5, 1941, Shanghai, China) is a Chinese scholar who works in various disciplines such as linguistics, mathematics, informatics, computer sciences, and modern poetry. On April 23, 1989, Chen gave a speech at Peking University, expressing his support for the student movements and criticisms of the government. This speech was considered a trigger for the later escalation of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
Early life
Chen was born on January 5, 1941, in Shanghai. Chen graduated from Shanghai Middle School in 1958, and then earned his mathematics degree at ShanghaiTech University in 1963. Chen also formed a cross-age friendship in his adolescence with the prominent scholar and poet, Guo Moruo because of their shared interests in poetry writing. Later, he studied Chinese linguistics at Peking University. In 1978, he was assigned a position at the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhongguo kexueyuan shengxue yanjiusuo) as an associate researcher. In 1982, Chen became a professor in the department of linguistics in Beijing Language and Culture College (currently Beijing Language and Culture University). His book The Economic Life of Liberators (Heyi weisheng: Wenhuamingren de jingji beijing ) was considered the best published work on the economic status of such prominent scholars such as Lu Xun, Kang Youwei, and Cai Yuanpei.
Chen was accused of being a counterrevolutionary activist during the Cultural Revolution because his poetry style was similar to that of Mao Zedong. Chen then wrote a letter to the government explaining himself, and Zhou Enlai and Zhu De both agreed that charge could be dismissed if Mao was willing to be lenient. However, Mao refused to comment. Thus, Chen was imprisoned twice during the Cultural Revolution. He was released after the death of Mao. The government officially rehabilitated Chen in 1978.
During the protests
Chen openly supported the student protests in 1989. When students became hesitant to continue their protests after mourning the death of Hu Yaobang, Chen encouraged them not to give up, but to continue their actions. On April 23, 1989, Chen gave an emotional speech at the Triangle in Peking University to the students.
In his speech, Chen stated that intellectuals and students must not stay silent but speak out. First of all, Chen criticized the official mouthpieces such as China Central Television (CCTV) which falsely labelled the student protests as being anti-government in nature. Chen argued that the demonstration, petition, and the mourning for Hu Yaobang were spontaneous actions and there were no "black hands" behind them. Thus, Chen described CCTV as the shameless mouthpiece of the government, who had lost their consciences and had lied to the public for decades. Furthermore, Chen argued that social problems such as inflation, profiteering businesses, insufficient educational funds, and wealth polarization were caused by the immoral and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurityScorecard | SecurityScorecard is an information security company that rates cybersecurity postures of corporate entities through completing scored analysis of cyber threat intelligence signals for the purposes of third party management and IT risk management. The company is based in New York City, New York, United States.
History
SecurityScorecard was founded in 2014 by CEO Aleksandr Yampolskiy and COO Sam Kassoumeh. Shortly thereafter, Alexander Heid joined the team as Chief Research Officer.
Awards
In 2020, SecurityScorecard was named as a Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum.
See also
Enterprise Risk Management
Supplier Risk Management
References
External links
Official SecurityScorecard website
Security companies of the United States
Computer security companies
Companies based in New York City
Technology companies established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lego%20Story | The Lego Story is a 2012 Danish 3D computer-animated short film directed by Kim Pagel. The 17-minute animation was produced by Kim Pagel and The LEGO Group to celebrate its 80th anniversary.
Plot
The short film is first set in Denmark and explores the origin and history of Lego through the experiences of the Kirk Kristiansen family. This includes Ole Kirk Christiansen, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen and Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen. They all took significant roles in changing and shaping the Danish Lego company to be what it is today. The short film conveys the significance of family, inspiring and supporting one another during tribulations and adversity.
The company of Lego was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen and his son Godtfred back in 1932. The word “Lego” derives from two Danish words, “leg godt”, which translates to “play well” and in Latin translates to “I put together”. The product of Lego was very different from what it is today. In the short film, the company started out making wooden toys in 1932. It was during this time Godtfred saved time and money by putting less work into making the toys. Ole Kirk Christiansen was not impressed and was in fact disappointed. Ole Kirk Christiansen got his son Godtfred to work on the toys again. That day they learnt an important lesson that the high quality of the toys and honesty of the customers were important. This led to the central idea that “Only the best is good enough”.
It was in 1946 when the plastic block was introduced which was later iterated and improved during the mid-1950s to become the modern Lego brick. This was also around the company introduced the Lego system.
Voice cast
Marc Graue as Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, the grandson of Lego founder Ole Kirk Christiansen and third president of The LEGO Group who narrates the story.
Graue also voices a wholesaler.
Mike Lane as Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter and the founder of The LEGO Group.
Matt Nolan as Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, the son of Lego founder Ole Kirk Christiansen and second president of The LEGO Group.
Alex Dean voices Godtfred as a child.
Nolan also provides the voices of a journeyman and a grocer.
Jen Davis as Edith Nørregaard Knudsen, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen's wife.
Davis also voices Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen as a child and Hansine Kirstine Sörensen, Ole's wife.
David Lodge voices a purchasing manager.
Production
The productions costs of the film were between DKK 5 and 10 million (Danish Krone) which approximately equaled to $0.85 and $1.7 million. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen himself had involvement in the production for one year.
Release and reception
Released in 2012, 'The LEGO Story' won the Gold Award for animation at the Cannes Media and Television Awards.
References
External links
The LEGO Story - How it all started YouTube
The LEGO® Story LEGO
2012 short films
2012 films
Danish animated short films
Films about families
Films about toys
Films set in 1932
Films set in 1934
Films set in 1936
Films set in 1942
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Benioff | Paul Anthony Benioff (May 1, 1930 – March 29, 2022) was an American physicist who helped pioneer the field of quantum computing. Benioff was best known for his research in quantum information theory during the 1970s and 80s that demonstrated the theoretical possibility of quantum computers by describing the first quantum mechanical model of a computer. In this work, Benioff showed that a computer could operate under the laws of quantum mechanics by describing a Schrödinger equation description of Turing machines. Benioff's body of work in quantum information theory encompassed quantum computers, quantum robots, and the relationship between foundations in logic, math, and physics.
Early life and education
Benioff was born on May 1, 1930, in Pasadena, California. His father, Hugo Benioff, was a professor of seismology at the California Institute of Technology, and his mother, Alice Pauline Silverman, received a master's degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley. He married Hannelore Benioff.
Benioff also attended Berkeley, where he earned an undergraduate degree in botany in 1951. After a two-year stint working in nuclear chemistry for Tracerlab, he returned to Berkeley. In 1959, he obtained his PhD in nuclear chemistry.
Career
In 1960, Benioff spent a year at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel as a postdoctoral fellow. He then spent six months at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen as a Ford Fellow. In 1961, he began a long career at Argonne National Laboratory, first with its Chemistry Division and later in 1978 in the lab's Environmental Impact Division. Benioff remained at Argonne until he retired in 1995. He continued to conduct research at the laboratory as a post-retirement emeritus scientist for the Physics Division until his death.
In addition, Benioff taught the foundations of quantum mechanics as a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University in 1979, and he worked as a visiting scientist at CNRS Marseilles in 1979 and 1982.
Research
Quantum Computing
In the 1970s, Benioff began to research the theoretical feasibility of quantum computing. His early research culminated in a paper, published in 1980, that described a quantum mechanical model of Turing Machines. This work was based on a classical description in 1973 of reversible Turing machines by physicist Charles H. Bennett.
Benioff's model of a quantum computer was reversible and did not dissipate energy. At the time, there were several papers arguing that the creation of a reversible model of quantum computing was impossible. Benioff's paper was the first to show that reversible quantum computing was theoretically possible, which in turn showed the possibility of quantum computing in general. This work, along with later work by several other authors (including David Deutsch, Richard Feynman, and Peter Shor), initiated the field of quantum computing.
In a paper published in 1982, Benioff further developed his original model of quantum mechanica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Wigdor | Professor Daniel J. Wigdor is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He was previously co-director of the university's Dynamic Graphics Project and a visiting associate professor at Cornell Tech. He has co-authored and contributed to several books, including "Brave NUI World" (2011), "The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, Third Edition" (2011), and "Computer Science Handbook, Third Edition" (2014).
Wigdor was awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship in 2015.
His research is in the area of human-computer interaction, with major areas of focus in the architecture of highly-performant UI’s, in interaction and application models for mobile computing, in platform design for ubiquitous computing, and in post-WIMP interaction methods. Before joining the faculty at U of T in 2011, Daniel was a researcher at Microsoft Research, as well as the user experience architect of the Microsoft Surface Table and Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division. Daniel has served as a visiting associate professor at Cornell Tech (2017-2018), as an affiliate assistant professor at the University of Washington (2009-2011), and fellow and associate at Harvard University (2007-2008, 2011-2012). He conducted research as an intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (2005-2008).
Education
Daniel Wigdor attended Uxbridge Secondary School in Uxbridge, Ontario. In 1998, he attended the University of Toronto - Innis College and graduated in 2002 with a bachelor of science in Human Computer Interaction (Computer Science) and then in 2004 with a Masters in Human Computer Interaction (Computer Science) as well. In 2007, he became a fellow at the Initiative for Innovative Computing at Harvard University's department of Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction.
In 2008, he received his PhD in Computer Science (HCI) from the University of Toronto.
Early work
While in the University of Toronto, Daniel Wigdor worked as a Teaching Assistant between 1999 and 2004, as well as an instructor between 2001 and 2006, teaching topics ranging from first to third year Intro to Programming, Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures, Topics in Computer Science, and Human Computer Interaction.
In 2002, Professor Wigdor co-founded Iota Wireless, a startup dedicated to the commercialization of his research in mobile-phone gestural interaction, where he held the role of Chief Technology Officer between 2002 and 2007.
He was also an intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs between 2005 and 2008, where he conducted research as part of the DiamondSpace project. In 2008, he became a User Experience Architect, Researcher at Microsoft. While working at Microsoft Research, he was the user experience architect of the Microsoft Surface Table, as well as a company-wide expert in user interfaces for new technologies. At the same time, beginning in 2009, he served as an affiliate assistant professor in both the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Gyllenbok | Jan Gyllenbok (born 12 November 1963) is a Swedish author and expert on historical metrology with an academic background in engineering and computer science. He is known for his encyclopedia on historical systems of measurement units.
Published works
Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures Volume 1, hardcover: 678 pages, Birkhäuser Basel, Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies, Vol. 56 (2018),
Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures Volume 2, hardcover: 969 pages, Birkhäuser Basel, Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies, Vol. 57 (2018)
Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures Volume 3, hardcover: 918 pages, Birkhäuser Basel, Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies, Vol. 58 (2018)
See also
Historical metrology
References
External links
Jan Gyllenbok profile on ResearchGate
1963 births
Living people
Metrologists
Swedish non-fiction writers
Lund University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%20%28company%29 | Peak is an artificial intelligence company headquartered in Manchester, UK. It was founded in 2015 and has additional offices in Jaipur, India, and New York City, United States. It is known for its artificial intelligence platform, a SaaS platform that allows data scientists to build AI workflows, invoke them on ingested data and expose the results via APIs and/or built-in web applications, as well as abstracting the underlying cloud infrastructure.
History
The company was founded by CEO Richard Potter, David Leitch and Atul Sharma. In 2015, Peak was one of the winners of the Tech North Northern Stars competition. In 2017, it secured £2.5 million in Series A capital funding from MMC Ventures for investment in machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies and was named as one of the top five startups in Manchester by Wired magazine. In 2018, it was chosen to work as part of Arsenal F.C.'s Innovation Lab and it was one of the 37 fastest growing technology companies in the UK selected to join the Tech City UK Upscale programme.
In April 2020, the company raised $12 million in extended series A funding, required for sustaining its growth, commercial expansion, and R&D efforts. In February 2021, Peak announced a $21 million Series B funding round – led by investors Oxx, Praetura Ventures, MMC Ventures and Arete – to further make AI accessible to non-tech companies. In August 2021, Peak announced a $75 million Series C funding round, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
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Companies based in Manchester
Data
AI companies
Privately held companies of England
British companies established in 2015
2015 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Doctoral%20Dissertation%20Award | The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is awarded annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to the authors of the best doctoral dissertations in computer science and computer engineering. The award is accompanied by a prize of US$20,000 and winning dissertations are published in the ACM Digital Library. Honorable mentions are awarded $10,000. Financial support is provided by Google. The number of awarded dissertations may vary year-to-year.
ACM also awards the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award. Several Special Interest Groups (SIGs) award a Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Recipients
See also
List of computer science awards
List of engineering awards
References
External links
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners on acm.org
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awards with affiliations
Theoretical computer science
Computer science awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Language%20Equality%20Network | The European Language Equality Network (ELEN) is an international non-governmental organization that is active at the European level which works to protect and promote European lesser-used languages (lesser-used languages), i.e. regional languages, minority languages, endangered languages, co-official languages and national languages of small nations.
History
ELEN was formed after the closure of EBLUL, European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages, a non-governmental organization with similar goals founded in 1982 and closed in 2010.
Missions
The missions and work of the NGO fall into different types of intervention:
lobbying work aimed at the main international organizations involved in the defense of human and collective rights (United Nations, Council of Europe, European Union). ELEN presents itself as the voice of the least audible minorities, in particular by bringing demands to elected bodies such as the European Parliament. The NGO also carries out actions at local level, for example by engaging in the national campaign in favor of the ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in France, by committing to or bringing to the United Nations a report deploring the attitude of the Spanish government towards non-Spanish speaking minorities, and by associating itself with the concerns of the defenders of minority languages in the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
initiating or participating in monitoring and action projects on minority languages.
ELEN notably contributed to the launch of the Protocol for the Guarantee of Linguistic Rights of San Sebastián, which lists concrete measures to ensure respect for linguistic rights in Europe, as well as to the Digital Language Diversity Project, a project for creating and sharing of digital content using minority languages.
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External links
Language policy of the European Union
Cultural organizations based in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon%20Oviatt | Sharon Oviatt is an internationally recognized computer scientist, professor and researcher known for her work in the field of human–computer interaction on human-centered multimodal interface design and evaluation.
Education
Sharon Oviatt received her PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Toronto.
Career
Oviatt has published 200 scientific publications in the HCI field and human-centered A.I., and worked as a Professor of Computer Science, Psychology and Linguistics at several different universities. She has served as an editor for the major HCI journals in the field including Human Computer Interaction and Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS), and she chaired the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces in 2003. She is a former Professor and Co-Director at the Center for Human-Computer Communication (CHCC) in the Department of Computer Science at Oregon Health & Science University. She served as the President and Chair of the Board of Directors of Incaa Designs, a non-profit with the aim of researching and designing new educational interfaces. She is also a Professor of HCI and Creative Technologies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Much of her research is focused on examining the effectiveness of speech and pen interfaces in educational settings.
Research
Oviatt’s main areas of research are human-centered, multimodal, mobile and educational interfaces. Her work at Incaa Designs was centered on designing and evaluating the effects of new educational interfaces. It particular, it aimed to develop educational interfaces that allowed students to learn more effectively with fewer distractions.
Human-centered design
Oviatt is an advocate of human-centered design. In her paper “User-centered modeling and evaluation of multimodal interfaces”, she describes most past computer interface design as being technologically driven and claims that these designers first built their interfaces and then taught users how to interact with them. In contrast, human-centered design relies on cognitive science research to inform designers about the most effective ways for individuals to naturally interact with their interfaces.
Pen interfaces
The effectiveness of pen interfaces on a student’s ability to learn is one of Oviatt’s major areas of research. In 2012 she co-authored a paper on “The impact of interface affordances on human ideation, problem solving, and inferential reasoning” which found that student who used a pen used 56% more diagrams, symbols and other pictorial representations compared to those who used a keyboard. This corresponded to a 38.5% increase in these students' ability to express scientific ideas. The researchers found that digital pen inputs allowed students even more accuracy when it came to their diagrams, and further reduced the number of vague generalizations students had to make while taking notes.
In another paper entitled “Toward High-Performance Communications Interfaces for Science Prob |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix%20%28disambiguation%29 | Unix may refer to:
Unix, a family of operating systems, the first originally developed by Bell Labs at AT&T
Single UNIX Specification, the trademark UNIX and the terms of its use, now owned by The Open Group
POSIX (IEEE 1003 or ISO/IEC 9945), the basic Unix interface standard
OpenServer (formerly SCO Unix, System V) the owner's version of the operating system, now owned by Xinuos
UNIX System V, the orthodox family of licensed Unices, canonical form being SCO Unix that became Open Server
BSD Unix, the widespread family of licensed Unices originating from UCBerkeley
BSD licenses, a family of software licenses, sometimes called "Unix license"
Unix System Laboratories, the division that developed unix, especially the System V family
SCOsource, the owner of unix intellectual property, especially as it relates to the canonical form SCO Unix
List of Unix systems, for a Unix operating system
Unix-like, the extended family of operating systems inspired by and having a general similarity with Unix
Unix Magazine, a defunct magazine covering unix and unix-like software sector
UNIX Review, a defunct magazine covering unix software sector
See also
History of Unix
Unix wars, the battle between BSD Unix and System V for supremacy
UnixWorld, a defunct magazine covering unix software sector
UNICE (disambiguation)
Eunice (disambiguation)
Eunuch (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi%20Forlizzi | Jodi L. Forlizzi is a professor and Geschke Director, as well as an interaction designer and researcher, at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. On August 29, 2022, Forlizzi was named a Herbert A. Simon Professor at Carnegie Mellon. Her research ranges from understanding the limits of human attention to understanding how products and services evoke social behavior. Current research interests include interaction design, assistive, social, and aesthetic technology projects and systems, and notification systems. In 2014, Forlizzi was inducted into the CHI Academy for her notable works and contributions to the field of human-computer interaction.
Education
Forlizzi obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from the Philadelphia College of Art. She obtained her master's degree in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Design in Human-Computer Interaction in 2007 also from Carnegie Mellon University.
Career
Forlizzi began working as an information designer for the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1985, while still an undergraduate. to 1995. She then did design research for the Novum Design Center at Carnegie Mellon University (1995–97). She was appointed an assistant professor of the HCI Institute in early 2000, becoming a full professor in 2014. Between 2007 and 2010, she was the A. Nico Habermann Junior Faculty Chair in Computer Science.
She has worked as an innovator and project manager of E-Lab LLC in Chicago. She has also done consulting work for major companies, including General Motors, Disney Research, Willow Garage, BodyMedia, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Pennsylvania Linguistic Data Consortium, Luton Corporation, and Nurseweek.
Forlizzi is a co-founder of Pratter.us since 2014, a health care startup aimed at enabling employees to search and save money on medical care by zip code before the time of service.
Research
Big Data and Design
Forlizzi works on how the metadata from smartphones and users’ online behaviors can be used for lifelogging and help people to understand their identity and legacy. She and her colleague conducted a research on understanding how systems may play a role in storing people’s legacy and digital record. She also studied how people worldwide perceive virtual possessions, such as SMS and email archives or Google search history.
Service Design
Service design is also one of Forlizzi’s research interests. She has done studies on service recovery, adaptive service design, and how to personalize service delivery to help people meet their goals in using a service. Some of her contributions for service design are promoting service design as a practice for interaction design and reducing robot service breakdowns.
Human-Robot Interaction
Forlizzi’s work in human-robot interaction includes designing robots to assist elders, h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Newell%20%28English%20computer%20scientist%29 | Alan Newell is an emeritus professor at Dundee University who has a long history of human-computer interaction research, with a focus on supporting the elderly and people with disabilities. He is also the founder of the School of computing at Dundee University, where he established one of the world's largest academic groups dedicated to researching and improving digital systems for the elderly and people with disabilities, the Queen Mother Research Centre.
He was involved in some of the early development of closed captioning in the UK.
References
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the University of Dundee
English computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten%20Kyng | Morten Kyng (born 23 October 1950) is a Danish computer science researcher and author. He is a member of Association of Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Academy member. He is a ubiquitous computing professor at Aarhus University. He is a Member of Board of Directors of Østjysk Innovation and the Director of the Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, a research centre that studies the use of pervasive computer technologies to provide healthcare solutions.
Career
Kyng served as the Director for Caretech Innovation, supporting information technology innovations for healthcare, and as the Director of It-vest - Networking Universities.
Telemedicine
His current project at the Alexandra Institute is "Denmark - a Pioneer in Telemedicine", a collaboration of The Alexandra Institute, DELTA, Danish Technological Institute and FORCE Technology aiming to further develop healthcare using telemedicine to enable patients to receive medical visits at home instead of traveling to a healthcare institution. It is a collection of open source code technologies and technical interfaces that enable interaction between healthcare information technology systems, enhancing the interaction between business and software.
He has performed research on the requirements for a software-intensive ecosystem for telemedicine. He identified security concerns and access control for healthcare professionals instead of citizens, as issues in today's telemedical healthcare services. Using healthcare virtual private networks to provide services that require large and complicated health standards causes a slowdown. Limiting access from citizens also limits access to initiatives between public and private health sectors.
To provide more flexible healthcare technology development, the Net4Care project was created as an application-centric ecosystem for telemedicine in which:
Standards are supported by reference implementations.
The quality of open source services is properly controlled.
Access control allows for both healthcare professionals and citizens.
Participatory design
Some of Kyng's work focuses on the flaws and potential improvements of participatory design in today's healthcare information technology. His expertise reaches both the healthcare and business sectors of Denmark, specifically the community of Aarhaus. His work includes research on healthcare solutions using pervasive computing, the embedding and use of sensor technology in everyday life. In his research, he identified the challenges of participatory design intended for private homes, particularly for senior citizens with chronic dizziness, as opposed to participatory design intended for workplaces. The four challenges are designing the home, participation of ill and weak users in participatory design, conflicting interests of the user, and find a usable and sustainable solution.
Emergency response systems
He studied the challenges of designing interactive emergency response systems. One challenge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20H.%20R.%20Harper | Richard H. R. Harper is a British computer scientist and prolific author.
Career
He served as Professor in the Department of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University and Co-Director of the Institute for Social Futures. He has published over 160 scientific articles and was elected as Academy in honour of leadership in the field of Human-Computer Interaction by the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014. He completed his Phd at University of Manchester in 1989. In the late 20th century, he focused on deploying technology in public service and air traffic control. He studied how technology was embedded at the International Monetary Fund. At the turn of the 21st century, he researched remote communication and digital office. One of his publications was the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers award-winning "The Myth of the Paperless Office". His research ranges from the social impact of new technology to the design of a mobile phone. Later, he focused on artificial intelligence.
Co-director of the Institute for Social Futures (ISF) (2017), owner of Social Shaping Research Ltd consulting service, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge (2004 - 2015), first professor of Socio-Digital Systems at the University of Surrey (2002) and research lead of Xerox EuroPARC (1990 - 1998).
Recognition
Leadership in the field of Human-Computer Interaction by ACM (2014)
Computer Human Interaction Academy by SIGCHI (2014)
"The Myth of the Paperless Office", IEEE Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Engineering Professionalism
“Texture”, Award of the Society of Internet Researcher's 'Book of the Year (2011)
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2011)
References
British computer scientists
Academics of Lancaster University
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purser%27s%20Magazine | Purser's Magazine was a computer magazine by Robert Elliott Purser and edited by Mary Ann Dobson.
Contents
Purser's Magazine was a magazine which contained introductory-level articles written about computers as well as reviews of software.
Reception
Bruce F. Webster reviewed Purser's Magazine in The Space Gamer No. 44. Webster commented that "I recommend this magazine with the following conditions: (1) you own a TRS-90 Model III or an Apple II; (2) you don't know much about computers; (3) you want descriptions of much of the currently popular software. Don't buy it expecting well-thought-out reviews."
References
External links
Game magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noranda%20railway%20station | Noranda railway station is a proposed railway and bus station for the Transperth network. Construction started in 2021, and it as a station on the Morley–Ellenbrook railway line, serving the Perth suburbs of Beechboro, Kiara and Noranda. It is being built in the median of Tonkin Highway, just north of Benara Road.
History
In August 2019, the location of the station was revealed. In November 2019, Metronet did a community survey to decide where to put the station car park. The three options were south-west, north-west or north-east of Benara Road and Tonkin Highway. In the end, the north-east option was the most preferred option, with 66% of respondents preferring that option. The reasons included that it does not require a signalised intersection unlike the other options, and it had the largest amount of car bays of the three options.
In September 2020, Laing O'Rourke was announced as the preferred proponent for the construction of the Morley–Ellenbrook railway line.
Station design
Noranda railway station will be built just north of Benara Road in the Tonkin Highway median, similar to many stations along the Joondalup and Mandurah railway lines. Passengers will access the station by either a walkway to the Benara Road bridge or a walkway across Tonkin Highway to the carpark. The carpark will be located east of Tonkin Highway and be accessed via Benara Road. It will have 400 car bays and a drop off zone. Two bus stands will be located on Benara Road. A pedestrian underpass will be built under Benara Road to allow pedestrians to safely and easily access the station and bus stop. Facilities at the station will include passenger toilets and a kiosk.
Services
Noranda station will be served by Transperth Trains operating along the Morley–Ellenbrook railway line to Perth and Ellenbrook railway stations. It is projected that a journey to Perth will take 18 minutes. Noranda station is in fare zone 2. Noranda station is projected to have 1,810 passenger boardings per day in 2031.
References
External links
Morley–Ellenbrook railway line on the Metronet website.
Morley–Ellenbrook line
Proposed railway stations in Perth, Western Australia
Noranda, Western Australia
Transperth railway stations in highway medians
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaga%20railway%20station | Malaga railway station is a proposed bus and railway station for the Transperth network. It is set to start construction in 2021, and open in 2024 as a station on the Morley–Ellenbrook railway line, serving the Perth suburbs of Alexander Heights, Ballajura, Bennett Springs, Landsdale and Malaga.
Station design
The design for Malaga railway station was revealed on 4 September 2021. Metronet said that it was "designed to be a 'station within a park'", and that "it draws influence from the surrounding parklands in Whiteman Park, Lightning Park and the banksia bushlands."
The station's platforms are to be built in a trench below ground level, with the station entrance at ground level. A large car park and a bus interchange will be located south-east of the station. The car park will have 1,100 car bays and a drop off area. The bus interchange will have 12 bus stands. Facilities at the station include a kiosk, toilets and lifts to platform level.
The station will be constructed on a greenfield land between Beechboro Road North, Marshall Road and Tonkin Highway in the suburb of Whiteman, allowing for future development around the station.
Services
Malaga station will be served by Transperth Trains operating along the Morley–Ellenbrook railway line to Perth and Ellenbrook railway stations. It is projected that a journey to Perth will take 21 minutes. Malaga station is in fare zone 2. Malaga station is projected to have 3,084 passenger boardings per day in 2031.
References
External links
Morley–Ellenbrook railway line on the Metronet website.
Morley–Ellenbrook line
Proposed railway stations in Perth, Western Australia
Malaga, Western Australia
Whiteman, Western Australia
Proposed bus stations in Perth, Western Australia
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellenbrook%20railway%20station%2C%20Perth | Ellenbrook railway station is a bus and railway station for the Transperth network. Construction began in January 2022, and is expected to open in 2024 as the terminus of the Morley–Ellenbrook railway line, serving the Perth suburb of Ellenbrook, Western Australia.
Station design
Ellenbrook station will feature a island platform, half of which will be sheltered. There will be two car parks either side of the station, with a total of 500 car bays. A dedicated bus interchange with 12 bus stands will be constructed as well, providing feeder bus services to nearby suburbs. Other services to be provided at the station are toilets and a kiosk.
The station is deliberately going to be built slightly outside the railway alignment so that when the government wants to extend the railway line, a new station can be constructed at Ellenbrook whilst the old one is still in use. The station will be located on the edge of the Ellenbrook town centre.
History
A rail reserve through Ellenbrook has been in the Metropolitan Region Scheme since the suburb was created. Train services had always been part of the long term plan for Ellenbrook.
A railway station in Ellenbrook was first promised by both the Liberal and Labor parties prior to the 2008 state election. After the Liberal party won the election, they cancelled the plans for the railway station and line. The Labor party promised to build the Morley–Ellenbrook railway line prior to the 2013 state election and 2017 state election. After winning the 2017 state election, the Labor government got on with planning for the railway.
In September 2020, Laing O'Rourke was announced as the preferred proponent for the construction of the Morley–Ellenbrook railway line.
A groundbreaking ceremony occurred on 30 January 2022. The station will open by late 2024, and will serve a population of 70,000 by 2036.
Services
Ellenbrook station will be served by Transperth Trains operating along the Morley–Ellenbrook railway line to Perth railway station. It is projected that a journey to Perth will take 30 minutes, half of the current travel time by public transport. Ellenbrook station is in fare zone 3. Ellenbrook station is projected to have 8,016 passenger boardings per day in 2031.
References
External links
Morley–Ellenbrook railway line Metronet page.
Ellenbrook, Western Australia
Morley–Ellenbrook line
Proposed railway stations in Perth, Western Australia
Proposed bus stations in Perth, Western Australia
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frames%20Production | Frames Production is an Indian multifaceted production company which produces Indian soap operas, entertainment, reality shows and factual programming on Indian television. Frames is one of the top TV serial production houses in Mumbai.
Current productions
Former productions
References
Companies based in Mumbai
Television production companies of India
Entertainment companies of India
Mass media companies established in 2011
2011 establishments in Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxynopterini | Oxynopterini is a tribe of click beetles in the subfamily Dendrometrinae.
North American Genera
Melanactes Leconte, 1854 g b
Perissarthron Hyslop, 1918 b
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
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Elateridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Cockburn%20%28professor%29 | Andrew Cockburn is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is in charge of the Human Computer Interactions Lab where he conducts research focused on designing and testing user interfaces that integrate with inherent human factors.
Institutions and Affiliations
Andrew Cockburn received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of York. He obtained his doctorate on Philosophy from the University of Stirling. He currently holds both a teaching and a research post as a Professor of the University of Canterbury. He is the post-graduate co-ordinator and has been conducting both undergraduate and post graduate courses during his tenure. His research in the field of human–computer interaction has led to him publishing more than 150 papers in collaboration with his colleagues and students. He is a current member of the CHI Steering Community responsible for overseeing the activities of all the conference committee chairs. He has been elected as a Co-Technical Program Chair for the ACM CHI2020: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. He also serves as an editorial board member for ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction Journal and Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction.
Contributions to human-computer interaction
Cockburn has made significant contributions to the field of human-computer interaction by designing interfaces that utilize human spatial memory to assist in developing expertise to perform actions such as command invocation, window switching, scrolling and file retrieval. His research on CommandMaps provided data that displayed hierarchical command organization in interfaces tended to be inefficient for experienced users as they were capable for remembering the location of the commands using their spatial memory. His comparative research conducted on navigation-based file retrieval discovered Icon highlights and Hover menus to be greatly efficient compared to the widely used standard icon views when revisiting files. He also developed a new conceptual model of interaction history known as "CAUSALITY." This model records the past commands and states of the artifact it is applied to by the creation of a causal system. The CAUSALITY model is thus shown to be usable with encapsulating existing user interfaces and how it can reveal the limitations in the behavior of the interfaces. He worked on the creation of the SensaBubble, a chrono-sensory mid-air display system that generated scented bubbles to deliver information to the user by a number of sensory modalities. The SensaBubble had the ability to present information both temporally and multimodally and it allowed events to remain perceptible for a longer period of time. Cockburn also studied Shallow Depth 3D Interactions where he examined multiple-touch techniques such as the Three-touch technique on a direc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Baba | Namdeo Das Tyagi is an Indian Hindu ascetic and environmentalist known for his plantation drives and raids on illegal mines. Currently he is chairman of 'Ma Narmada, Ma Kshipra and Ma Mandaknini River Trust' in MP, appointed by the Congress-led Kamal Nath government. He was also a Minister of State in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan Ministry.
Personal life
Namdeo Das Tyagi was given the name of "Computer Baba" (Computer saint) by a saint of Narsinghpur in 2021. This is because of his sharp memory and fact that he loves gadgets and carries his laptop all the time to chat with his followers through various social media platforms. News 18 wrote that the saint was "impressed with Tyagi’s interest in gadgets and technology". He hails from the city of Indore of Madhya Pradesh state. He is a member of Digambar Akhara.
Career
In February 2014, Computer Baba made a request to Aam Aadmi Party to make him a candidate for the 2014 Indian general election from the state of Madhya Pradesh. He justified his action of not joining the Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh by saying that "saffron brigade has only exploited sadhus and nothing else".
In January 2015, Computer Baba demanded a ban on the film PK (a satirical comedy film on superstitions and godmen). He said that the film mocked the Hindu religion.
In March 2018, Computer Baba along with Yogendra Mahant announced that they would start a Narmada Rath Yatra, which would start on 1 April and last for 45 days. This would be done to protest against the alleged corruption which had taken place while planting saplings along the banks of the river Narmada. However, they were soon invited to a meeting on 31 March by the Chief Minister's office after which they cancelled their proposed yatra. Subsequently, a committee was appointed whose job was to look after the "tree plantation, conservation and cleanliness campaign" along the banks of the river.
On 4 April 2018, Computer Baba along with 4 other sadhus were given "Minister of State" status. Opposition party Indian National Congress termed this decision as an example of appeasement politics. Computer Baba defended themselves by saying that they were rewarded for their work. Computer Baba had earlier announced that he would take out 'Narmada Ghotala (scam) Rath Yatra', along with Yogendra Mahant, in every district of Madhya Pradesh from 1 April to 15 May 2018, to expose an alleged scam in planting of saplings on the banks of the Narmada and to demand action against illegal sand mining.
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Living people
People from Indore
1984 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandata | Sandata () is the lead single from Sarah Geronimo's album This 15 Me released on January 12, 2018. The song was written by Sarah Geronimo and Nica del Rosario who also wrote her previous hits Tala and Minamahal. During her set at the 2018 International Balloon and Music Festival in Pampanga on March 24, she performed the song for the very first time. CNN Philippines named the song as the "Best Filipino Song of 2018."
Release history
The song became available for pre-order on iTunes on January 10, 2018 and became the second most pre-ordered song during that time. On January 12, 2018, the day of its release, it went straight to number one on iTunes Philippines Songs Chart and stayed on top for four consecutive days. It also landed on Spotify Philippines Viral 50 at number 23. As of April 2018, the song has been played 800,000 times on Spotify, despite not having radio airplay and promotions.
Music video
The official lyric video of the song was published on Viva Records' official YouTube channel on January 20, 2018. Its music video is yet to be released. On June 27, 2018 Viva Records confirms on their Facebook page release the teaser of Music Video and release on July 1, 2018. The music video is Directed by Paul Basinilio and it premieres on MYX.
Live performances
Sarah Geronimo performed the song on International Balloon and Music Festival 2018, held in Lubao, Pampanga on March 24, 2018. She also performed the song on her 15th anniversary concert This 15 Me on April 14, 2018. On ASAP stage, she performed the song on May 27, 2018.
Reception
Sandata made it to the list "7 new local music releases to listen to" made by CNN Philippines, according to the article, "the song continues Sarah Geronimo's streak of Filipino dance pop anthems that began with Ikot-ikot then led us to Kilometro and Tala. While its production feels more low-key, less anthemic than past turns, Sandata makes up for it by finding Geronimo at her most polished and nuanced. This one's a grower, and as far as Filipino pop goes, it's a risk well-taken."
iTunes Charts
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2018 singles
2017 songs
Tagalog-language songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temora%20%28crustacean%29 | Temora is a genus of copepods in the family Temoridae. The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species:
Temora discaudata Giesbrecht, 1889
Temora kerguelensis Wolfenden, 1911
Temora longicornis (Müller O.F., 1785)
Temora stylifera (Dana, 1849)
Temora turbinata (Dana, 1849)
Additionally, Temora curta (Dana, 1849) is considered a taxon inquirendum.
Species brought into synonymy
A number of species previously included in this genus have been moved to the Eurytemora genus:
Temora affinis Poppe, 1880 and Temora inermis Boeck, 1865 (now Eurytemora affinis affinis Poppe, 1880)
Temora clausii Hoek, 1878 and Temora velox Lilljeborg, 1853 (now Eurytemora velox (Lilljeborg, 1853))
References
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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Copepod genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity%20%28software%29 | Singularity is a free and open-source computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization also known as containerization.
One of the main uses of Singularity is to bring containers and reproducibility to scientific computing and the high-performance computing (HPC) world.
The need for reproducibility requires the ability to use containers to move applications from system to system.
Using Singularity containers, developers can work in reproducible environments of their choosing and design, and these complete environments can easily be copied and executed on other platforms.
In 2021 the Singularity open source project split into two projects called Apptainer and SingularityCE.
History
Singularity began as an open-source project in 2015, when a team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, led by Gregory Kurtzer, developed the initial version written in the C programming language and released it under the BSD license.
By the end of 2016, many developers from different research facilities joined forces with the team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to further the development of Singularity.
Singularity quickly attracted the attention of computing-heavy scientific institutions worldwide:
Stanford University Research Computing Center deployed Singularity on their XStream and Sherlock clusters
National Institutes of Health installed Singularity on Biowulf, their 95,000+ core/30 PB Linux cluster
Various sites of the Open Science Grid Consortium including Fermilab started adopting Singularity; by April 2017, Singularity was deployed on 60% of the Open Science Grid network.
For two years in a row, in 2016 and 2017, Singularity was recognized by HPCwire editors as "One of five new technologies to watch".
In 2017 Singularity also won the first place for the category "Best HPC Programming Tool or Technology".
based on the data entered on a voluntary basis in a public registry, Singularity user base was estimated to be greater than 25,000 installations and included users at academic institutions such as Ohio State University and Michigan State University, as well as top HPC centers like Texas Advanced Computing Center, San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
In February 2018 the Sylabs company, founded by the Singularity author, was announced to provide commercial support for Singularity. In October of that year Sylabs released version 3.0.0 which was a rewrite in the Go programming language.
In May 2020 Gregory Kurtzer left Sylabs but retained leadership of the Singularity open source project. In May 2021 Sylabs made a fork of the project and called it SingularityCE. In November 2021 the Singularity open source project joined the Linux Foundation and was renamed to Apptainer.
Features
Singularity is able to support natively high-performance interconnects, such as InfiniBand and Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA).
Similar to the support for InfiniBand and Intel OPA devic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%207%20Plus | The Nokia 7 Plus is a Nokia-branded upper-mid-range smartphone running the Android operating system. It was announced on 25 February 2018, along with four other Nokia-branded phones.
Specifications
Software
As the Nokia 7 Plus is an Android One device, it runs a near-stock version of the Android operating system. It was originally shipped with Android 8.0 Oreo; however, an update to Android 8.1 Oreo was released soon after for the device.
On 8 May 2018, it was announced that the Nokia 7 Plus would be one of seven non-Google smartphones to receive the Android Pie beta. On 28 September 2018, the Android Pie update started to roll out to the Nokia 7 Plus in phases, starting in India, and on 30 November 2018 in China.
On 7 January 2020, Android 10 started being rolled out on the Nokia 7 Plus.
Hardware
The Nokia 7 Plus has a 6.0-inch LTPS IPS LCD display, Octa-core (4x2.2 GHz Kryo 260 & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 260) Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor, 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage that can be expanded using microSD cards up to 256 GB. The phone has a 3800 mAh Li-Ion battery, 13 MP rear camera with LED flash and 16 MP front-facing camera with auto-focus. It is available in Tempered Black/Copper, White/Copper colors.
The phone is designed from a single block of 6000 series aluminium.
As with other mid-range and top-range phones from Nokia, the Nokia 7 Plus features exclusive rear camera optics licensed from ZEISS.
The NFC-area on the back of the phone is both smaller and weaker than comparable phones. The NFC area can be found to the left of the camera housing. The development of Nokia 7 plus began as early as 2017 by 31 December of the same year it was ready for release.
Reception
Reviews of the Nokia 7 Plus have been generally positive. Critics have praised its large display, battery life, and Android One software. Its design and build quality have also been praised. One reviewer called it the most promising Nokia smartphone "in years". Android Central praised its camera as being "one of the best" in its $400 price category, and added that the 7 Plus is "one of the best phones of the year". At the same time, the phone's slow camera processing speed was criticised.
Controversies
In March 2019, a report by Norwegian state broadcaster NRK found that some Nokia 7 Plus phones sent sensitive unencrypted personal information (including location and serial number) to a domain name controlled by China Telecom, every time the device was booted, and multiple times thereafter. HMD responded to the allegations, stating that carrier activation software intended for a different market was accidentally included in a batch of the devices, but that only "activation data" that could not be used to identify a user was sent and not processed, and that this error was fixed by the February 2019 software patch. Finnish authorities are investigating this as a violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp%20Kimama | Camp Kimama (Hebrew: מחנה קימאמה) is an international network of summer camps, with camps in Israel, the United States, Spain, and Italy, and offices in Israel and New York.
History
Camp Kimama was founded in Israel in 2004 by Ronen Hoffman with the intention of bringing American-style Jewish summer camps to Israel. At the time, most Israeli summer camps ran for two or three days and were run by youth movements such as Noam on land belonging to JNF/KKL. The camp became the first international summer camp in Israel, bringing participants aged 6 –17, from 40 different countries to Israel. The first summer, 140 campers attended (60 international) and in 2021 there were over 6,500 campers (2,000 were international). All of the Kimama camps in Israel are run under the supervision of the Ministry of Education.
The first Kimama camp was established in 2004 in Michmoret, a coastal moshav in central Israel within the seaside youth village Mevo’ot Yam. Kimama now operates 3 camps in Israel, in addition to camps in the United States and Europe. The camp's name, Kimama, comes from the word for “butterfly” in the Shoshone Native American dialect. For Kimama, the butterfly symbolizes freedom, creation, and development. Avishay Nachon, the CEO of Kimama, stated that, like the impacts of development, “the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world makes ripples on the other side.” Specifically, it represents process-based experience, an experience of development from one stage to another in life.
Educational approach
Kimama's educational approach focuses on integrating recreational activities with important skills and values. In particular, the system is based on five key values:
1) “The Freedom to Be Me:” An environment of freedom for campers where they can express their own individuality and personality without being subject to criticism or judgment.
2) “International Israeli-Jewish Encounter:” Connecting Jewish and Israeli students from around the world, as well as improving communication skills in a variety of languages.
3) “Personal Quest – Transitions:” Focusing on encouraging independence and self-confidence is a core component of Kimama's approach.
4) “Values and Belonging:” Connecting Jewish youth from around the world to Israel and to each other, as well as focusing on the long-term experience of summer camp.
5) “Spirit of Adventure:” Through a focus on outdoor and “meaningful activities,” the camp encourages campers to explore and push their boundaries. The location of Kimama's camps along Israel's coast allows for sea-based activities such as sailing, surfing, and windsurfing, and gives campers access to the Mediterranean Sea, one of Israel's primary sources of tourism.
Camps in Israel
Kimama Michmoret
Kimama Michmoret, the original camp, was established in 2004 in Michmoret, a coastal moshav in central Israel, within the seaside youth village of Mevo’ot Yam.
Kimama Galil
Kimama Galil opened in 2006 at Kibbutz Amir, wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHS%20media%20monitoring%20services | DHS media monitoring services is a proposed United States Department of Homeland Security database to keep track of 290,000 global news sources and media influencers to monitor sentiment.
Privacy and free speech advocates have criticized the project's far-reaching scope, likening it to a panopticon. The DHS has replied that "Despite what some reporters may suggest, this is nothing more than the standard practice of monitoring current events in the media. Any suggestion otherwise is fit for tin foil hat wearing, black helicopter conspiracy theorists." It will also look at trade and industry publications, local, national and international outlets, and social media, according to documents. The plans also encompass media coverage being tracked in more than 100 languages including Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, with instant translation of articles into English. The DHS Media Monitoring plan would allow for "24/7 access to a password protected, media influencer database, including journalist, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers etc" to identify "any and all media coverage related to the Department of Homeland Security or a particular event."
The DHS has noted that agencies under its purview already operate similar databases. Several news organizations have noted that similar services, though smaller in scope, already exist and the proposed DHS service would be the norm within the news industry.
Several organizations have come out opposing the creation of the service: Occupy movement and Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
History
Beginning in January 2010, the NOC launched Media Monitoring Capability (MMC) pilots
using social media monitoring related to specific mission-related incidents and international
events. These pilots were conducted to help fulfill the NOC's statutory responsibility to provide
situational awareness and to access potentially valuable public information within the social
media realm. Prior to implementation of each social media pilot, the DHS Privacy Office and
OPS developed detailed standards and procedures for reviewing information on social media
web sites.
In February 2012, the House of Representatives held a hearing with concerns to counter cyber-terrorism, as well as other acts of criminal activity, whilst maintaining the privacy rights of Americans. The DHS was discussed on its methodology and usage of social media services. In one example, DHS used multiple social networking blogs, including
Facebook and Twitter, three different blogs, and reader
comments in newspapers to capture the reaction of residents to a
possible plan to bring Guantanamo detainees to a local prison in
Standish, Michigan.
References
United States Department of Homeland Security
Surveillance databases
Mass media monitoring |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Mattson | Richard Lewis Mattson (born May 29, 1935) is an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work on using memory trace data to simulate the performance of the memory hierarchy. He developed the stack distance profile, and used it to model page misses in virtual memory systems as a function of the amount of real memory available. The same methods have been applied as well more recently for modeling the behavior of CPU caches at lower levels of the memory hierarchy, and of web caches for internet content.
Mattson was born in Greeley, Colorado.
He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957, with honors in electrical engineering.
He became a student of Bernard Widrow at Stanford University, where he completed his doctorate in 1962. His dissertation was The Analysis and Synthesis of Adaptive Systems Which Use Networks of Threshold Elements. He then became a faculty member at Stanford himself, before moving to IBM Research in 1965. While at Stanford, he supervised two doctoral students, John Hopcroft and Yale Patt, both of whom themselves became notable computer scientists, and he has many academic descendants through both of them.
References
1935 births
Living people
People from Greeley, Colorado
American computer scientists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Stanford University alumni
Stanford University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Jagat | Computer Jagat is an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based Bengali-language magazine published monthly in Bangladesh since 1991. This is the first ICT magazine in Bangladesh founded by Professor Abdul Kader. The magazine holds an annual e-commerce fair, in 2015, it held the 7th e-commerce fair in Chittagong.
History
Computer Jagat started journey with the slogan, Computers in every hand of the public to initiate its information and communication technology movement in Bangladesh in the 90s. Their mission was to create awareness of the positive effects of technologies in the public and help them get familiar with computers. They were the first to demonstrate the facilities of using Bangla language in computers with a cover article in 1992. They arranged the first programming contest in the country in September, 1992 the first computer and multimedia fair in Bangladesh on 28 December 1992. They initiated ‘The best ICT personality of the year’ and ‘The best product of the year’ award giving ceremony for the first time in Bangladesh to encourage the tech society in January, 1993. On 25 January 1996 they organized ‘Internet Week’ for the first time in Bangladesh. The magazine published cover articles in December, 2000 and October, 2005 on E-Governance that accelerated the government initiatives to implement E-Governance.
References
1991 establishments in Bangladesh
Bengali-language magazines
Magazines established in 1991
Magazines published in Bangladesh
Monthly magazines published in Bangladesh
Science and technology magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%20You%20Trust%20This%20Computer%3F | Do You Trust This Computer? is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Chris Paine that outlines the benefits and especially the dangers of artificial intelligence. It features interviews with a range of prominent individuals relevant to AI, such as Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, Michal Kosinski, D. Scott Phoenix, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Jonathan Nolan. The film was directed by Chris Paine, known for Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) and the subsequent followup, Revenge of the Electric Car (2011).
Topics covered range from military drones to AI-powered "fake news" feeds. At one point while being interviewed, Musk warns that any human dictator will eventually die, but that a digital superintelligence could someday become an "immortal dictator from which we can never escape". Musk also sponsored free streaming of the film on Vimeo during the weekend of April 7, 2018. The film was featured at the 2018 Napa Film Festival.
The documentary is dedicated to Stephen Hawking, who warned that humanity may be jeopardized by its pursuit of a superintelligent AI.
See also
Artificial Intelligence
Ethics of artificial intelligence
Lethal autonomous weapon
AI takeover
OpenAI
References
External links
2018 films
2018 documentary films
2018 independent films
Documentary films about computing
American documentary films
Documentary films about conspiracy theories
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
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