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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber%20Security%20Authority%20%28Israel%29 | The National Cyber Security Authority (NCSA), located within the Prime Minister's office, was an Israeli security entity responsible for protecting the Israeli civilian cyber space, during 2016-2018. The NCSA provided incident handling services and guidance for all civilian entities as well as all critical infrastructures in the Israeli economy, and works towards increasing the resilience of the civilian cyber space.
At the end of 2017, the Israeli government decided to merge the NCSA with the Israeli National Cyber Bureau (established in 2012), the unit in the Prime Minister's Office , which served as the government's cyber policy Bureau, into one unit - the National Cyber Directorate.
Background
Israel was one of the first countries to set up national Critical Infrastructure Protection CIP or CIIP. In February 2002, the Israel Government passed Resolution B/84, deciding to protect Critical Infrastructure, and assigning the Israel Security Agency ("Shin Bet") with the task. The National Information Security Authority (NISA ) took upon the task.
Although this CIP model has proven successful, the country's connectivity and dependency on technology continued to increase, and calls for an improved cyber strategy grew stronger. The discovery of Stuxnet catalyzed the policy processes.
In November 2010, Israeli Prime-Minister Benyamin Netanyahu formally nominated a special taskforce to devise recommendations for a National Cyber Strategy, also known as the "Cyber Initiative". The team, headed by Major-General (Ret.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel of Tel Aviv University worked for several months, in eight sub-committees manned by dozens of experts. The team examined all the components vital to the need of the State of Israel to cope successfully in cyberspace, including the analysis of national benefits regarding aspects of economy, academy and National security. The "Cyber Initiative" teamwork was concluded in May 2011 and summed-up in a special report dispatched to the Prime Minister.
The team's main conclusion was that "cyber-attacks should be considered as a substantial potential threat to the functional continuity of the state, its institutions and its citizens", and that "a central gap has been identified in the cyber defense of the civil sector at large".
At the core of its report, the team recommended that two bodies be established – namely, a "National Cyber Bureau" and an "executive body for the security of the civil sector" by its side. The team also recommended to set-up a national "cyber defence foil", comprising automated computerized systems and manned systems, together defending pre-defined computer systems. It also motioned for the establishment of a national CERT. The team indicated that the civil and security components of cyberspace are interlaced and are, to all intents and purposes, inseparable, and that there is a need for a broad national perspective and for an understanding that the preparedness of the State of Israel to the c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20Assembly%20Program | The Symbolic Assembly Program (SAP) is an assembler program for the IBM 704 computer. It was written by Roy Nutt at United Aircraft Corporation, and was distributed by the SHARE user's group beginning in 1956 as the Share Assembly Program. SAP succeeded an earlier program called NYAP1 (New York Assembly Program 1), which it closely resembled, and became the standard assembler for 704 users. It "set the external form of an assembly language that was to be a model for all its successors and which persists almost unchanged to the present day."
DARSIMCO, short for Dartmouth Simplified Code, was a simple programming language written by John Kemeny (who later co-developed BASIC) in 1956 that expanded simple mathematical operations into a program that would then be assembled by SAP.
Description
SAP is a two-pass assembler. It is capable of running on a 704 with a minimum of 4 K 36-bit words of core storage. This configuration allows up to 1097 entries in the symbol table. Additional core memory beyond 4 KW can be used to allow for additional symbol table entries.
Input and output for SAP are via punched cards or card images on tape. Input is in fixed format.
Input format
Output format
Output consists of absolute or relocatable punched cards or card images. The output is binary data in the twelve card rows 12, 11, and 0–9. Each row contains two 36-bit words in columns 1-36 and 37-72, indicated as left (L) and right (R) respectively. Data is conventionally numbered by row and position, for example, columns 1 to 36 of row 9 are designated 9L, columns 37 to 72 of the same row are 9R. Within a word the bits are designated, from left to right as S (sign bit) and 1-35, thus bit position 13 of the left word in row 6 is designated 6L13.
Word 9L of each card is a control word, and 9R is an optional checksum. The control word contains bits indicating, for example, whether the data on the card is absolute or relocatable, whether or not a checksum is present, the absolute or nominal location of data on this card, and a count of the number of words of data contained on this card.
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External links
Source and documentation at IBM 704 software archive
1950s software
Free software
Discontinued programming languages
Programming languages created in 1956
IBM 700/7000 series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20over%20TLS | DNS over TLS (DoT) is a network security protocol for encrypting and wrapping Domain Name System (DNS) queries and answers via the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The goal of the method is to increase user privacy and security by preventing eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS data via man-in-the-middle attacks. The well-known port number for DoT is 853.
While DNS-over-TLS is applicable to any DNS transaction, it was first standardized for use between stub or forwarding resolvers and recursive resolvers, in in May of 2016. Subsequent IETF efforts specify the use of DoT between recursive and authoritative servers ("Authoritative DNS-over-TLS" or "ADoT") and a related implementation between authoritative servers (Zone Transfer-over-TLS or "xfr-over-TLS").
Server software
BIND supports DoT connections as of version 9.17. Earlier versions offered DoT capability by proxying through stunnel. Unbound has supported DNS over TLS since 22 January 2023. Unwind has supported DoT since 29 January 2023. With Android Pie's support for DNS over TLS, some ad blockers now support using the encrypted protocol as a relatively easy way to access their services versus any of the various work-around methods typically used such as VPNs and proxy servers.
Client software
Android clients running Android 9 (Pie) or newer support DNS over TLS and will use it by default if the network infrastructure, for example the ISP, supports it.
In April 2018, Google announced that Android Pie will include support for DNS over TLS, allowing users to set a DNS server phone-wide on both Wi-Fi and mobile connections, an option that was historically only possible on rooted devices. DNSDist, from PowerDNS, also announced support for DNS over TLS in version 1.3.0.
Linux and Windows users can use DNS over TLS as a client through the NLnet Labs stubby daemon or Knot Resolver. Alternatively they may install getdns-utils to use DoT directly with the getdns_query tool. The unbound DNS resolver by NLnet Labs also supports DNS over TLS.
Apple's iOS 14 introduced OS-level support for DNS over TLS (and DNS over HTTPS). iOS does not allow manual configuration of DoT servers, and requires the use of a third-party application to make configuration changes.
systemd-resolved is a Linux-only implementation that can be configured to use DNS over TLS, by editing /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and enabling the setting DNSOverTLS. Most major Linux distributions have systemd installed by default.
Public resolvers
DNS-over-TLS was first implemented in a public recursive resolver by Quad9 in 2017. Other recursive resolver operators such as Google and Cloudflare followed suit in subsequent years, and now it is a broadly-supported feature generally available in most large recursive resolvers.
Criticisms and implementation considerations
DoT can impede analysis and monitoring of DNS traffic for cybersecurity purposes. DoT has been used to bypass parental controls which operate at the (unencrypted) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier%20League%20on%20NBC | The Premier League on NBC/Peacock is the blanket title for broadcasts of the Premier League by Peacock and the linear networks of NBC Sports. NBC acquired rights to the Premier League in 2013, and reached a six-year extension in 2015. In 2022, USA Network replaced NBCSN—which shut down on December 31, 2021—as the main cable broadcaster of the league.
History
NBC acquired rights to the Premier League in 2013, replacing Fox Sports and ESPN. NBC's studio programming for the league includes the pre-match show Premier League Live, and the highlights shows Premier League Goal Zone and Match of the Day (modeled upon the similar BBC series). NBC Sports president of programming Jon Miller explained that their main goal was to not "Americanize" their coverage (besides providing explanations of terminology unfamiliar to U.S. viewers, such as referring to regional rivalries as "derbies"), citing their decision to employ talent (such as former ESPN UK and BBC Sport presenter Rebecca Lowe, who became NBC's lead host) who "know the Premier League and can talk about it intelligently". In 2014, NBC also hired the duo of Michael Davies and Roger Bennett—the "Men in Blazers"—to provide soccer-oriented content across NBC Sports' platforms.
Through the 2016–17 season, NBCSN operated pop-up channels branded as Premier League Extra Time, which aired overflow matches not shown by other NBC networks. Beginning with the 2017–18 season, NBC began to paywall many of these overflow games behind the "Premier League Pass" streaming service on NBC Sports Gold.
On Survival Sunday, the majority of NBCUniversal's cable networks carry games, including several networks not normally dedicated to sports.
Integration with Sky Sports, Peacock
In 2019, NBCUniversal parent company Comcast acquired the British telecom and media conglomerate Sky plc. As a result, the NBC Sports division became a sibling to Sky Sports, a domestic rightsholder of the Premier League in the UK. Sky began to synergize with NBC Sports throughout 2019, beginning with a collaboration with its reporters for coverage of the transfer deadline, and adding a weekday simulcast from its Sky Sports News channel to the daytime lineup of NBCSN.
On-air collaboration with Sky Sports intensified with the beginning of the 2019–20 season; as Sky holds the first pick of matches for 12:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) kickoffs under its renewed contract, NBC will be able to air more prominent matches in its early-afternoon broadcasts. NBC also aired studio coverage of the first weekend of the season from Sky's studios, implemented a new on-air graphics package with elements of those used by Sky and its Premier League telecasts, and expanded its Sunday pre-match show to two hours (taking advantage of Sunday kickoffs being pushed later by half an hour). Sky Sports studio programming (including Soccer Saturday and Goals on Sunday among others) also became available on a secondary tier of Premier League Pass.
On July 9, 2020, NBC announc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caswell%20Sound | Taitetimu / Caswell Sound is a fiord of the South Island of New Zealand. It is one of the fiords that form the coast of Fiordland.
Geography
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The fiord is located between Te Houhou / George Sound and Taiporoporo / Charles Sound, on the central Fiordland coast. It is 16 kilometres in length, and extends in a roughly west-northwestern direction. The fiord is relatively straight except near its mouth, when it turns northward, and has no major arms or indentations. A small island, Styles Island, sits close to the southern shore at the fiord's entrance to the Tasman Sea.
A straight ridge of peaks lies parallel with the fiord's south shore, between it and the valley of the Juno River. The highest point of these peaks, at , lies just to the west of the small mountain lake, Lake Shirley, which flows into the fiord over the Shirley Falls. Mountains also stand against the northern shore of the fiord, several of them rising above .
Several small rivers enter the fiord along its southern and northern shores, but the main river feeding the fiord is the Stillwater River, which flows into the fiord's eastern end. Shortly before entering the fiord it flows into the northeastern edge of Lake Marchant, exiting to the fiord at the lake's northwest. Lake Marchant is also fed by the Large Burn, which enters the lake's southern end.
Name
A. W. Reed lists four plausible origins for the fiord's name in his seminal Place Names of New Zealand (1975). The most favoured of these possibilities is that it was named for Jim Caswell, a half-caste Māori or Australian Aborigine guide to an early 19th-century sealing party. Reed does, however, also detail correspondence he had received that suggested that Royal Navy Commander William Caswell was in charge of a survey of the sounds during the 1830s and that other place names in the area make his a likely origin of the name. Confusing things further is the presence of two other naval officers with the surname Caswell (George and Thomas) who had visited the area.
In October 2019, the name of the fiord was officially altered to Taitetimu / Caswell Sound.
References
Sounds of Fiordland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20Rock%20FM | PM2FPB (87.6 FM), on-air name Hard Rock FM, is a radio station in Jakarta, Indonesia. Hard Rock FM, along with its network, is owned by MRA Media under license of Hard Rock itself. Started broadcasting in 1996, Hard Rock FM claims itself as first lifestyle radio in Indonesia, especially Jakarta. Despite its name this radio not only broadcast hard rock genre music but jazz, pop, alternative and popular music genre
Network
Hard Rock FM has a network in four cities in Indonesia:
Jakarta (87.6 FM, PM2FPB)
Bandung (87.7 FM, PM3FXI)
Surabaya (89.7 FM, PM6FNV)
Bali (87.8 FM, PM8FWA)
Jingles
Previously, Hard Rock FM jingles used from JAM Creative productions, Now the Jingles of Hard Rock FM used from IQ Beats
Hard Rock Jingles as JAM Productions (1996-2002)
Listen All Of Time, Hard Rock FM
Starting to the end Of The Day Hard Rock FM
87,6 Hard Rock FM
87,6 Wherever You Go, This Is Good Morning Hard Rockers Show
Information Hard Rock FM
Hard Rock Jingles as IQ Beats (2002–present)
Party With No Limitation, Hard Rock FM
The Best Hits Hard Rock FM
The Beautiful Sounds Hard Rock FM
Hard Rock FM Sounds KPop Top 41
Let's Enjoy Your Life, Hard Rock FM
87,6 Hard Rock Radio Bali
87,6 Hard Rock FM
87,6 Hard Rock FM
89,35 Hard Rock FM
Enjoy Your Life, Cruising On The Drive And Jive
References
Indonesian radio networks
Radio stations in Jakarta
Hard Rock Cafe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatiron%20School | Flatiron School is an educational organization founded in 2012 by Adam Enbar and Avi Flombaum. The organization is based in New York City and teaches software engineering, computer programming, data science, product design, and cybersecurity engineering. In 2017, the company was sued for making false statements about the earning potential of its graduates. It was acquired by WeWork in 2017 and sold to Carrick Capital Partners in 2020.
History
Flatiron School was founded in 2012 by Adam Enbar and Avi Flombaum.
In 2017, the New York State Attorney General sued Flatiron School for operating without a license and making false statements about the earning potential of its graduates. The two parties reached a $375,000 settlement. Flatiron School claimed a 98.5% employment rate but this included apprentices and freelance workers, while the claimed average salary of $74,447 only included graduates in full-time employment.
In 2018, Yale University announced a collaboration with the Flatiron School during Yale's "Summer Session" — together, the institutions offered a Web Development Bootcamp for Summer 2019, which offered two Yale College credits for students.
The organization has made efforts to promote parity in tech, working with other companies to sponsor course scholarships for women, LGBTQ+ people, and members of underserved communities.
Takeovers and acquisitions
Flatiron School was acquired by WeWork, a collaborative workspace company, in October 2017. Following the acquisition, they launched Access Labs, a joint effort to make tech education accessible to low-income earners in New York. In August 2018, Flatiron School acquired Designation, a Chicago-based UX/UI design school, and expanded design courses elsewhere in December 2018.
Since being acquired by WeWork, the company has expanded, opening campuses in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, London, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
In 2020, WeWork sold Flatiron School to Carrick Capital Partners.
References
External links
Computer programming
Education companies established in 2012
Educational organizations based in the United States
2017 mergers and acquisitions
American educational websites
Coding schools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IonQ | IonQ is a quantum computing hardware and software company based in College Park, Maryland. They are developing a general-purpose trapped ion quantum computer and software to generate, optimize, and execute quantum circuits.
History
IonQ was co-founded by Christopher Monroe and Jungsang Kim, professors at the University of Maryland and Duke University, respectively, in 2015, with the help of Harry Weller and Andrew Schoen, partners at venture firm New Enterprise Associates.
The company is an offshoot of the co-founders’ 25 years of academic research in quantum information science. Monroe's quantum computing research began as a Staff Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with Nobel-laureate physicist David Wineland where he led a team using trapped ions to produce the first controllable qubits and the first controllable quantum logic gate, culminating in a proposed architecture for a large-scale trapped ion computer.
Kim and Monroe began collaborating formally as a result of larger research initiatives funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). They wrote a review paper for Science Magazine entitled Scaling the Ion Trap Quantum Processor, pairing Monroe's research in trapped ions with Kim’s focus on scalable quantum information processing and quantum communication hardware.
This research partnership became the seed for IonQ’s founding. In 2015, New Enterprise Associates invested $2 million to commercialize the technology Monroe and Kim proposed in their Science paper.
In 2016, they brought on David Moehring from IARPA—where he was in charge of several quantum computing initiatives—to be the company’s chief executive. In 2017, they raised a $20 million series B, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and New Enterprise Associates, the first investment GV has made in quantum computing technology. They began hiring in earnest in 2017, with the intent to bring an offering to market by late 2018.
In May 2019, former Amazon Prime executive Peter Chapman was named new CEO of the company. IonQ then partnered to make its quantum computers available to the public through Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
In October 2021, IonQ became publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange via a special-purpose acquisition company.
Technology
IonQ’s hardware is based on a trapped ion architecture, from technology that Monroe developed at the University of Maryland, and that Kim developed at Duke.
In November 2017, IonQ presented a paper at the IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing describing their technology strategy and current progress. It outlines using a microfabricated ion trap and several optical and acousto-optical systems to cool, initialize, and calculate. They also describe a cloud API, custom language bindings, and quantum computing simulators that take advantage of their trapped ion system's complete connectivity
IonQ and some experts claim that trapp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimpleITK |
SimpleITK is a simplified, open-source interface to the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK). The SimpleITK image analysis library is available in multiple programming languages including C++, Python, R, Java, C#, Lua, Ruby and Tcl. Binary distributions are available for all three major operating systems (Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows).
Developed at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as an open resource, its primary goal is to make the algorithms available in the ITK library accessible to the broadest range of scientists whose work includes image analysis, irrespective of their software development skills.
As a consequence, the SimpleITK interface exposes only the most commonly modified algorithmic settings of the ITK components. Additionally, the library provides both an object oriented and a procedural interface to most of the image processing filters. The latter enables image analysis workflows with concise syntax. A secondary goal of the library is to promote reproducible image analysis workflows by using the SimpleITK library in conjunction with modern tools for reproducible computational workflows available in the Python (Jupyter notebooks) and R (knitr package ) programming languages.
Software development is centered on GitHub using a fork and pull model. The project is built using the CMake tool, with nightly builds posted to the project's quality dashboard.
Multiple medical image analysis applications and libraries incorporate SimpleITK as a key building block, as it provides a wide range of image filtering and image IO components with a user friendly interface. Examples include the pyOsirix scripting tool for the popular Osirix application, the pyradiomics python package for extracting radiomic features from medical imaging, the 3DSlicer image analysis application, the SimpleElastix medical image registration library, and the NiftyNet deep learning library for medical imaging.
History
The initial development of SimpleITK was funded by the United States National Library of Medicine under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) program as a collaboration between The Mayo Clinic, Kitware Inc, The University of Iowa and NLM's intramural program. The first major release of the toolkit was announced in April-May 2017. The second major release was announced in September 2020.
Between 2013 and 2019, SimpleITK development was primarily carried out as part of the intramural research program of the National Library of Medicine with collaborators at The University of Iowa and Monash University. Since 2019, SimpleITK development is primarily carried out under the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In April 2020 the toolkit changed its logo to a more modern design.
Examples
Gaussian smoothing
Short Python scripts illustrating image reading, blurring, and writing. Using the object oriented interface:
import SimpleITK as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Astrobiology%20Network%20Association | The European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) coordinates and facilities research expertise in astrobiology in Europe.
EANA was created in 2001 to coordinate the different European centers in astrobiology and the related fields previously organized in paleontology, geology, atmospheric physics, planetary science and stellar physics.
The association is administered by an Executive Council that is elected every three years and represents the European nations active in the field, as Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, etc.
The EANA Executive Council is composed of a president, two vice-presidents, a treasurer and two secretaries, and councillors. Further information about the current Executive Council can be founded at http://www.eana-net.eu/index.php?page=Discover/eananetwork.
The EANA association strongly supports the AbGradE – Astrobiology Graduates in Europe, which is an independent organisation that aim to support early-career scientists and students in astrobiology.
Objectives
The specific objectives of EANA are to:
bring together active European researchers and link their research programs
fund exchange visits between laboratories
optimize the sharing of information and resources facilities for research
promote this field of research to European funding agencies and politicians
promote research on extremophiles of relevance to environmental issues in Europe
interface with the Research Network with European bodies (e.g. European Space Agency, and the European Commission)
attract young scientists to participate
promote public interest in astrobiology, and to educate the younger generation
References
External links
European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) - home page
Astrobiology
Biology societies
Space organizations
Scientific organizations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarStruck%20%28season%207%29 | The seventh and final season of StarStruck, is a 2019 Philippine television reality talent competition show, was broadcast on GMA Network. Hosted by Dingdong Dantes and Jennylyn Mercado, it premiered on June 15, 2019. The council was composed of Heart Evangelista, Cherie Gil and Jose Manalo. The season ended with 28 episodes on September 15, 2019, having Shayne Sava and Kim de Leon as the Ultimate Survivors.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Overview
Auditions
In the last quarter of 2018, GMA Network announced the audition requirements and dates through a series of television plugs The StarStruck Experience TV commercials and website articles. For this season, the age limit is set from 16 to 21 years old. Much of the auditions were held at the GMA Network Center and at SM Supermalls throughout the Philippines.
The following dates and key cities for the auditions are as follows:
This season was directed by Monti Parungao and Rommel Gacho. Aside from the six seasons, The season marked the first time that can be only aired on weekends, with Saturdays and Sundays having either tests or elimination night. The show held its the Final Judgment on September 15, 2019, at the GMA Network Studio Annex (Studio 7).
A companion online show, Inside StarStruck, was hosted by Kyline Alcantara. It aired every weekday on the show's Facebook and YouTube accounts.
Selection process
In the seventh year of the reality-talent search, Out of numerous who auditioned nationwide, only the Top 80 dreamers were chosen for the call-back. The screening committee for this stage was composed of the Gina Alajar, Mark Reyes and Tony Tuviera. After which, the number was trimmed down to Top 40 for the Judges Preview, and finally, Top 22 hopefuls wherein the selected hopefuls will compete for a spot in final fourteen finalists as they face their Final Audition.
After the Final 14 were chosen, the season introduced a new twist called the Second Chance Challenge, wherein the Top 22 hopefuls who were originally eliminated in the Final Audition were given the opportunity to be reinstated in the competition by performing a dramatic acting test by pairs (male and female). Before the second live results, the council will select one male and one female contestant from the semi-finalists to advance in the finals after the elimination of the original batch of final fourteen hopefuls by each gender.
The new set of Final 14 underwent various workshops and trainings in order to develop their personalities, talents, and charisma. But, the twist is that every week, one or two of the final fourteen may have to say goodbye until only four remain. Those who were eliminated were dubbed as StarStruck Avengers.
The Final 4 will vied for the coveted the Ultimate Survivors titles, the Ultimate Male Survivor and Ultimate Female Survivor, both of them received P1,000,000 pesos each plus and a five year an exclusive management contract from GMA Network worth P5,000,000 pesos each, and a hou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20Home%203D | Live Home 3D is a virtual home design software for macOS, Windows 10 computers and iOS.
The app allows design in both 2D and 3D, and the creation of high-resolution interior and exterior renderings, on video walkthrough or 360-degree panoramic images.
References
External links
Computer-aided design software
Windows multimedia software
MacOS software
Architectural design
Interior design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity%20Network%20%28matchmaking%29 | Opportunity Network is an invite-only business matchmaking platform. Members post and connect to actionable deals and investment opportunities ranging from early-stage funding to M&A, commercial partnerships, and JVs, both domestically and internationally. In 2020, the platform reached 45,000 members in 130 countries and a total transaction flow of $380BN. The company is headquartered in Barcelona and has offices in London and New York City as well as representatives in 40 other countries.
Opportunity Network members are vetted through partner institutions made up of banks and professionals’ associations. Today, Opportunity Network has partnerships with Credit Suisse, UBS worldwide, Citizens Bank and YPO in the United States, London Stock Exchange Group, Intesa Sanpaolo in Italy, Vietinbank in Vietnam and ABN Amro in Netherlands, amongst others.
History
Opportunity Network was launched in 2014 in New York City by the American and Italian Brian Pallas. Pallas was attending Columbia Business School, where Boston Consulting Group had sponsored him to complete his MBA after spending two years at the firm in Milan. Pallas created a monthly newsletter where members of the business school’s Family Business Club could anonymously list the business transactions they were interested in. In 2015 the company reached a 100 million dollars valuation. In 2016 the company closed a round of funding at around 150 million dollars, which included Boston Consulting Group among the investors.
References
Matchmaking
Companies based in Barcelona
Employment social networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTRLZAK%20studio | CTRLZAK () is a hybrid studio bordering between art, design and architecture integrating diverse disciplines and cultures. The name derives from the initials of its founders and the computer key combination CTRL+Z, used in standard alphanumeric keyboards to take you a step back.
History
Founded in the beginning of 2009 in Milan, Italy, by Artists and Designers Katia Meneghini and Thanos Zakopoulos, CTRLZAK was first introduced to the wider public through the project Remeditate; a series of items inspired by the medical world, reflecting upon the symbolic and functional issues of objects, presented during SaloneSatellite 2009, in the context of the Milan Furniture Fair.
Philosophy
Through their projects and extensive research into tradition and cultural context CTRLZAK proposes a new hybrid future through the teachings of the past. The studio creates artworks, objects and spaces where irony and symbolism go beyond aesthetics and functionality, in order to activate mechanisms of reflection. A characteristic example of the studio's approach is Transubstantia Paganus, a symbolic project that operates as a comment on mass consumerism and the lack of real values in contemporary society.
Selected projects
Following on their historical research, CTRLZAK created the CeramiX Art Collection in 2010, consisting of 24 unique pieces derived from classic Chinese and European plates, bowls, vases and cups. The resulting artworks reflect on the historical production of Chinese and European porcelain and centuries of cross-fertilization between Western and Eastern aesthetics. The project was later on translated for a broader audience, bringing art into everyday life, with the Hybrid project (2011– 2015) produced by Italian brand Seletti. The objects are graphically divided between east and west, with a colored line marking the boundary between the two styles. The collection looks at the present while reflecting on the irony of history proposing consequently an evocative contemporary interpretation. In December 2014, in the exhibition Paradigms of a Hybrid World at Spaziootto in Milan, the studio presented an overview of its research on historical hybridization between east and west including the aforementioned projects together with pieces from their Flagmented project and collection designed for rug producer cc-tapis. Since 2015, they are responsible for the art direction of JCP Universe; an unconventional company between art and design that operates in the sphere of contemporary living. Under the studio's direction the project brought together a number of notable product designers collaborating alongside video makers, theatre professionals, visual artists, writers and other creatives. CTRLZAK has also dedicated many years (2012–2017) in the research of a project named Extincto, concerning human awareness related to issues of species extinction and the loss of biodiversity caused by mankind, mainly in the last 500 years. Following a meticulous research, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingwang%20Weishi | Jingwang Weishi () is a content-control mobile app developed by Shanghai Landasoft Data Technology Inc. It is known for its use by the police in Xinjiang, China.
Function
In 2018, a research team of analysts conducted a thorough report on Jingwang Weishi.
When the application is first installed, it sends a request to the base server. The server responds with a JSON object containing a list of MD5 hashes, which the program stores in a local SQLite database.
The application records the "essential information", as the program's code calls it, of its device. Specifically, the essential information consists of the device's International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, MAC address, manufacturer, model, phone number, and international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number.
Jingwang Weishi also performs file scans on the device. It looks for files with the extensions 3GP, AMR, AVI, WEBM, FLV, IVX, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPG, RMVB, RAM, WMA, WMV, TXT, HTML, CHM, PNG, and JPG. It then records specific metadata for each file, consisting of each file's name, path, size, MD5 hash, and the MD5 hash of the MD5 hash. After the scan, the program compares the files' MD5 hashes with the database of hashes it received from the base server. Any files that match are deemed "dangerous". The user is presented with a list of the "dangerous" files and is instructed to delete them. If the user taps on the bottom-right button, a screenshot of the list is saved in the device's image gallery, in the format yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss.jpg.
The application uploads device data by compressing two files named jbxx.txt and files.txt into a ZIP file named JWWS.zip. The jbxx.txt contains the device's "essential information". The files.txt contains the metadata of the "dangerous" files found on the user's device. If no files have been deemed "dangerous", files.txt will not be sent.
The analyst team did not find any backdoor features built into the application. However, it does request for permissions when installed that could be used maliciously in future updates. Among other permissions, it requests the ability to start itself as soon as the system has finished booting. This permission is not used by the application, as it only performs its functionality when it is in main view. However, future updates could allow it to start and begin scanning the user's device right after it has finished booting, unknown to the user.
The application updates itself by downloading newer APKs (Android app files) from another server. The application checks for newer versions every time it is loaded; it does so by comparing its current version with a version file located on the server. If a later version is found, the application will download it, open it, and prompt the user to install it. To download a new version of its APK, the application makes an HTTP request to the update server's URL using the syntax http://<update_server_IP_and_port>/APP/GA_AJ_JK/GA_AJ_JK_GXH.apk?AJLY=650102000000, which per |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Joyce | Robert E. Joyce is an American cybersecurity official who served as special assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator on the U.S. National Security Council. He also began serving as White House Homeland Security Adviser to President Donald Trump on an acting basis after the resignation of Tom Bossert from April 10, 2018 to May 31, 2018. He completed his detail to the White House in May 2018 and returned to the National Security Agency. where he is now the Senior Advisor to the Director NSA for Cyber Security Strategy, Joyce previously performed as acting Deputy Homeland Security Advisor since October 13, 2017. On January 15, 2021 the NSA announced that Joyce would replace Anne Neuberger as its Director of Cybersecurity.
Education
Joyce graduated from Clarkson University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering and received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1993.
Career
At the White House, Joyce was instrumental in the crafting of a cybersecurity executive order, EO13800 Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure and revamping the nation's Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP). In his current position he continues to speak publicly about nation state cybersecurity threats, including a 2018 DEF CON keynote. Joyce previously worked in the National Security Agency (NSA), beginning in 1989, in a variety of roles. From 2013 to 2017, he was head of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit. In that role, he gave a rare public talk at the USENIX Enigma Cybersecurity conference about disrupting nation state hackers. Previously, he served as the Deputy Director of the now-defunct Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) or Directorate I, and the SID Associate Deputy Director for Counterterrorism. Also within the NSA, Joyce worked as Technical Director for the NSA Commercial Solution Center's Commercial Partnerships Office, and was chief of the Selection Systems Branch and Technical Director in NSA's Special Source Operations.
After John R. Bolton pushed out Tom Bossert as the Homeland Security advisor, Joyce announced he had completed this twelve month detail to the White House and gave 30 days notice that he was returning to NSA because of the difficulties in getting priority attention for cyber policy in the administration. Bolton subsequently eliminated the White House Cybersecurity Advisor position.
Personal life
Joyce notes in his biography that he runs an annual Christmas Light show "likely visible from the International Space Station" and gave a talk titled "Building Absurd Christmas Light Shows" at the 2018 Shmoocon cybersecurity conference. Additionally he led a Boy Scout team to the annual World Championship of Pumpkin Chucking, building a contraption to fling pumpkins for distance.
References
External links
Living people
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Clarkso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mynaric | Mynaric is a manufacturer of laser communication equipment for airborne and spaceborne communication networks, so called constellations.
History
In 2009, Mynaric was founded by former employees of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and some of the key technologies have been licensed from DLR.
In November 2013, Mynaric demonstrated for the first time successful laser communication from a jet platform Tornado. A data rate of 1 Gbit/s over a distance of 60 km was achieved at a flight speed of 800 km/h. In October 2017, Mynaric performed an IPO at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange raising 27.3M € of growth capital.
In February 2018, Mynaric's laser communication products were inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame of the Space Foundation, and in April 2018, Mynaric announced a partnership with CEA-Leti regarding highly sensitive avalanche photodiodes that may enable longer link distances and reduced system complexity. In June 2018, Facebook's Connectivity Lab (related to Facebook Aquila) was reported to have achieved a bidirectional 10 Gbit/s air-to-ground connection with Mynarics products.
In March 2019, Mynaric announced that former SpaceX Starlink vice president Bulent Altan joins its management board and that it has raised additional $12.5 million funding from the lead investor of an undisclosed satellite constellation.
In November 2021, Mynaric listed on Nasdaq and raised $75.9 million growth capital drawing Peter Thiel and ARK Invest as new investors. The company was also selected by Northrop Grumman as strategic supplier for laser communications and, subsequently, in June 2022, completed a ground demonstration of laser terminals that will be used to send and receive data in space as part of the U.S. National Defense Space Architecture. In July 2022, Mynaric received a strategic investment of $11.4 million from L3Harris.
Products
Mynaric offers various laser communication products for wireless data transmission between aircraft, UAVs, high-altitude platforms (HAPS), satellites and the ground offering Gbps-class wireless data transmission across long distances up to several thousand kilometers. The company focuses on serial production and cost reduction of its laser communication products and targets laser communication enabled airborne and spaceborne communication networks. Mynaric produces laser communication terminals with a data transfer rate of 10 Gbit/s as of early 2019.
See also
Laser communication in space
NewSpace
Satellite constellation
References
External links
Official Website
Company report by Edison Investment Research
Satellite Internet access
Private spaceflight companies
Telecommunications equipment vendors
Networking hardware companies
Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Nasdaq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology%20Network | Scientology Network is an American television network and streaming service launched by the Church of Scientology in 2018.
History
In 2011, the Church of Scientology acquired the KCET Studios property, a 4.5 acre parcel with 300,000 square feet of facility which included two sound stages, post-production facilities, offices, and a satellite uplink. The studios, located at 4401 Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, California, are a cultural landmark in Hollywood that dates back to 1912. In 1978, the property had been designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. When KCET split from PBS, they sold the studio property for $45 million with leaseback, remaining for another year.
The Church of Scientology says they spent a further $50 million on renovations and upgrades on the facility which was slated to be the "centralized global communications hub for the church's media activities, which include public service announcements, television programming, advertisements, magazines, brochures, internet and every other conceivable type of content." The grand opening was held in May 2016 with its new name "Scientology Media Productions".
The network
The Church of Scientology announced that Scientology Network would launch on March 12, 2018 and be available on DirecTV channel 320, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, iTunes, Google Play, and the website Scientology.tv. As of 2021, it was also available on Google Chromecast and aired in 17 languages.
The network is dedicated to Scientology topics and broadcasts such shows as Meet a Scientologist and L. Ron Hubbard: In His Own Voice.
Response
According to Variety, the "Scientology Network appears to be another example of a well-heeled brand sidestepping traditional media and advertising platforms for a direct-to-consumer approach with a 24/7 TV channel to spread its message."
Depicting something "in between a self-help seminar, an infomercial, and a drug commercial", Vox describes the channel as showing little of Scientology techniques or terminology but instead offering a series of very similar programs, mostly interviews with people who have already chosen Scientology contrasted with images depicting the downsides of modern life without Scientology. Vox further laments, the channel is an "intersection of capitalism and spirituality that has come to define the American religious landscape."
A Vice writer said the network was supposed to convey the principles of Scientology, but he instead found it confusing, jargon-heavy, contradictory, repetitive and boring, and certain claims by Scientology got grander and vaguer. For example, in one show the "implication was that Scientology is the reason that the rioting that happened in Ferguson didn't spread nationwide" or in the case of the Colombian conflict "as the result of Scientologists giving talks and handing out literature on the importance of human rights, crime dropped and complaints against the military—who had previously been murdering civilians—fell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Group%20Radio | Media Group Radio is a network of radio stations owned and operated by Media Group (Media FM, S.A. de C.V.) in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The stations carry a variety of news and talk programs during the day and musical programming in off hours.
History
Media Group won eight radio stations in Michoacán in the IFT-4 radio auction of 2017. Acustik Michoacán began internet transmissions on January 15, 2018, coinciding with the first day of the Informe Brozo, the first national radio-TV program syndicated by Grupo Acustik, with which Acustik Michoacán was affiliated. Acustik Michoacán also carries the audio of the Canal 6 TV newscasts produced by Media Group for its cable station. The FM transmissions began between April and early June 2018, followed by the Morelia AM station in June 2018 and the Uruapan station later in the year.
In late March 2019, the Acustik branding was dropped and the stations became "Media Group Radio".
Stations
Six FM and two AM radio stations carry the Media Group Radio programming.
The Apatzingán, Ciudad Hidalgo and Pátzcuaro transmitters broadcast in HD Radio.
References
External links
Media Group Radio website
Radio stations in Michoacán
Radio stations established in 2018
2018 establishments in Mexico
HD Radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revoscalepy | revoscalepy is a machine learning package in Python created by Microsoft. It is available as part of Machine Learning Services in Microsoft SQL Server 2017 and Machine Learning Server 9.2.0 and later.
The package contains functions for creating linear model, logistic regression, random forest, decision tree and boosted decision tree, in addition to some summary functions for inspecting data. Other machine learning algorithms such as neural network are provided in microsoftml, a separate package that is the Python version of MicrosoftML.
revoscalepy also contains functions designed to run machine learning algorithms in different compute contexts, including SQL Server, Apache Spark, and Hadoop.
In June 2021, Microsoft announced to open source the revoscalepy and RevoScaleR packages, making them freely available under the MIT License.
See also
Microsoft Machine Learning Services
References
External links
Samples for using revoscalepy and microsoftml
Applied machine learning
Python (programming language) software
Microsoft software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L1-norm%20principal%20component%20analysis | L1-norm principal component analysis (L1-PCA) is a general method for multivariate data analysis.
L1-PCA is often preferred over standard L2-norm principal component analysis (PCA) when the analyzed data may contain outliers (faulty values or corruptions).
Both L1-PCA and standard PCA seek a collection of orthogonal directions (principal components) that define a subspace wherein data representation is maximized according to the selected criterion.
Standard PCA quantifies data representation as the aggregate of the L2-norm of the data point projections into the subspace, or equivalently the aggregate Euclidean distance of the original points from their subspace-projected representations.
L1-PCA uses instead the aggregate of the L1-norm of the data point projections into the subspace. In PCA and L1-PCA, the number of principal components (PCs) is lower than the rank of the analyzed matrix, which coincides with the dimensionality of the space defined by the original data points.
Therefore, PCA or L1-PCA are commonly employed for dimensionality reduction for the purpose of data denoising or compression.
Among the advantages of standard PCA that contributed to its high popularity are low-cost computational implementation by means of singular-value decomposition (SVD) and statistical optimality when the data set is generated by a true multivariate normal data source.
However, in modern big data sets, data often include corrupted, faulty points, commonly referred to as outliers.
Standard PCA is known to be sensitive to outliers, even when they appear as a small fraction of the processed data.
The reason is that the L2-norm formulation of L2-PCA places squared emphasis on the magnitude of each coordinate of each data point, ultimately overemphasizing peripheral points, such as outliers.
On the other hand, following an L1-norm formulation, L1-PCA places linear emphasis on the coordinates of each data point, effectively restraining outliers.
Formulation
Consider any matrix consisting of -dimensional data points. Define . For integer such that , L1-PCA is formulated as:
For , () simplifies to finding the L1-norm principal component (L1-PC) of by
In ()-(), L1-norm returns the sum of the absolute entries of its argument and L2-norm returns the sum of the squared entries of its argument. If one substitutes in () by the Frobenius/L2-norm , then the problem becomes standard PCA and it is solved by the matrix that contains the dominant singular vectors of (i.e., the singular vectors that correspond to the highest singular values).
The maximization metric in () can be expanded as
Solution
For any matrix with , define as the nearest (in the L2-norm sense) matrix to that has orthonormal columns. That is, define
Procrustes Theorem states that if has SVD , then
.
Markopoulos, Karystinos, and Pados showed that, if is the exact solution to the binary nuclear-norm maximization (BNM) problem
then
is the exact solution to L1-PCA in (). T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitive%20statistics | Intuitive statistics, or folk statistics, is the cognitive phenomenon where organisms use data to make generalizations and predictions about the world. This can be a small amount of sample data or training instances, which in turn contribute to inductive inferences about either population-level properties, future data, or both. Inferences can involve revising hypotheses, or beliefs, in light of probabilistic data that inform and motivate future predictions. The informal tendency for cognitive animals to intuitively generate statistical inferences, when formalized with certain axioms of probability theory, constitutes statistics as an academic discipline.
Because this capacity can accommodate a broad range of informational domains, the subject matter is similarly broad and overlaps substantially with other cognitive phenomena. Indeed, some have argued that "cognition as an intuitive statistician" is an apt companion metaphor to the computer metaphor of cognition. Others appeal to a variety of statistical and probabilistic mechanisms behind theory construction and category structuring. Research in this domain commonly focuses on generalizations relating to number, relative frequency, risk, and any systematic signatures in inferential capacity that an organism (e.g., humans, or non-human primates) might have.
Background and theory
Intuitive inferences can involve generating hypotheses from incoming sense data, such as categorization and concept structuring. Data are typically probabilistic and uncertainty is the rule, rather than the exception, in learning, perception, language, and thought. Recently, researchers have drawn from ideas in probability theory, philosophy of mind, computer science, and psychology to model cognition as a predictive and generative system of probabilistic representations, allowing information structures to support multiple inferences in a variety of contexts and combinations. This approach has been called a probabilistic language of thought because it constructs representations probabilistically, from pre-existing concepts to predict a possible and likely state of the world.
Probability
Statisticians and probability theorists have long debated about the use of various tools, assumptions, and problems relating to inductive inference in particular. David Hume famously considered the problem of induction, questioning the logical foundations of how and why people can arrive at conclusions that extend beyond past experiences - both spatiotemporally and epistemologically. More recently, theorists have considered the problem by emphasizing techniques for arriving from data to hypothesis using formal content-independent procedures, or in contrast, by considering informal, content-dependent tools for inductive inference. Searches for formal procedures have led to different developments in statistical inference and probability theory with different assumptions, including Fisherian frequentist statistics, Bayesian inference, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure%20Island%20%281981%20video%20game%29 | Treasure Island is a 1981 arcade video game from Data East. It was released for the DECO Cassette System as well as a standalone cabinet. Treasure Island is a vertically scrolling game with isometric graphics. The goal is to climb a sinking island while gathering treasure.
A port for the TI-99/4A was published in 1984.
Gameplay
See also
Zaxxon (December 1981)
Congo Bongo (1983)
References
External links
Treasure Island gameplay video
1981 video games
Arcade video games
Data East arcade games
Data East video games
Maze games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Multiplayer hotseat games
Texas Instruments games
TI-99/4A games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games with isometric graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telamona | Telamona is a genus of treehoppers in the family Membracidae. There are at least 30 described species in Telamona.
Species
These 38 species belong to the genus Telamona:
Telamona agrandata Ball c g b
Telamona ampelopsidis (Harris, 1841) c g b (Virginia creeper treehopper)
Telamona ampliata b
Telamona archboldi Froeschner, 1968 c g b (Archbold's treehopper)
Telamona balli Plummer c g
Telamona barbata Van Duzee c g
Telamona calva Ball c g
Telamona celsa Goding c g
Telamona collina (Walker, 1851) c g b
Telamona compacta Ball c g b
Telamona concava Fitch, 1851 c g b
Telamona coronata Ball c g
Telamona decorata Ball c g b
Telamona dorana Ball c g
Telamona dubiosa Van Duzee c g b
Telamona excelsa Fairmaire g b
Telamona extrema Ball, 1903 c g b
Telamona gemma b
Telamona gibbera Ball c g
Telamona lugubris Ball c g
Telamona maculata Van Duzee, 1908 c g b
Telamona molaris b
Telamona monticola Fabricius c g b
Telamona praealta b
Telamona projecta Butler g b
Telamona reclivata Fitch, 1851 c g b
Telamona ruficarinata Fowler c g
Telamona salvini Fowler, 1896 c g b
Telamona scalaris b
Telamona spreta Goding, 1893 c g b
Telamona tarda Ball c g
Telamona tigrina Ball b
Telamona tiliae Ball, 1925 c g b (basswood treehopper)
Telamona tristis Fitch, 1851 c g b
Telamona unicolor Fitch c g
Telamona vestita Ball c g b
Telamona westcotti Goding, 1893 c g b
Telamona woodruffi Ball c g
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
References
Further reading
External links
Smiliinae
Auchenorrhyncha genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar%20%28disambiguation%29 | Pixar or Pixar Animation Studios, is an American computer animation studio currently owned by Disney.
Pixar may also refer to:
Pixar Canada, the former Canadian subsidiary of Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Image Computer, a graphics designing computer made by the company that would become Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar RenderMan, a 3D rendering software produced by Pixar Animation Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Place%20to%20Call%20Home%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth and final season (also known as A Place to Call Home: The Final Chapter) of the Seven Network television series A Place to Call Home premiered on Showcase 19 August 2018. The series is produced by Chris Martin-Jones, and executive produced by Penny Win and Julie McGauran.
Production
On 6 December 2017, Foxtel announced that A Place to Call Home had been renewed for a sixth season. It was later announced, on 19 March 2018 that the 10-episode sixth season would be the series' last.
Production on the sixth season began on 19 March 2018.
Of the show's return, Foxtel's Executive Director of Television, Brian Walsh stated, "Simply put, A Place to Call Home is one of the finest pieces of drama ever produced for Australian television. The series will be long remembered for its captivating narrative, outstanding performances and world class production values. Foxtel is proud to have been its home for the past four seasons and there is no doubt that it will be missed. A Place to Call Home was a series which was saved by its fans and so the journey of this, the final chapter, is a very important one. It was imperative for us that the series retain its integrity and that we would bring the series to a close at its natural story point and that is what everyone who loves the show can expect."
Foxtel's Head of Drama, Penny Win stated, "At Foxtel we have loved bringing this series to audiences and we know that it will be a beautiful closing chapter created by Bevan Lee, and the amazing cast and crew."
Seven's Head of Drama, Julie McGauran stated, "Seven Studios is once again delighted to partner with Foxtel to bring this stunning series to a defining and memorable ending."
The series' Script Executive, Bevan Lee stated "Season 6 truly completes my vision for the series. I promise to bring the show to its finale on a wave of tears, laughter and most importantly, closure."
Plot
Season six takes place in 1959.
Cast
Main
Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Bligh
Noni Hazelhurst as Elizabeth Goddard
Brett Climo as George Bligh
Craig Hall as Dr. Jack Duncan
David Berry as James Bligh
Abby Earl as Anna Bligh
Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood as Olivia Bligh
Sara Wiseman as Carolyn Duncan
Tim Draxl as Dr. Henry Fox
Deborah Kennedy as Doris Collins
Dominic Allburn as Harry Polson
Frankie J. Holden as Roy Briggs
Recurring & Guest
Elliot Domoney as David Bligh
Madeleine Clunies-Ross as Leah Gold
Conrad Coleby as Matthew Goddard
Clodagh Crowe as Dawn Briggs
Episodes
Ratings
References
External links
2018 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectifier | Connectifier was an American company that developed machine learning-based searching and matching technology to help recruiters and hiring managers find talent. The company was acquired by LinkedIn in February 2016 and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary until April 2020. The company had roughly 50 employees at the time of acquisition and drew its bench of AI talent from prestigious institutions including Google, Amazon, Stanford, Microsoft Research, NASA, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, and Berkeley National Lab.
History
Connectifier was founded in 2011 by John Jersin and Benjamin McCann.
At the time of its acquisition, Connectifier had raised a total of $12 million across three rounds of funding. In 2013, the company participated in Class 4 of Launchpad LA. The company announced it secured Series A financing of $6 million on June 16, 2015. In October of 2015, the company raised an additional $6 million in Series B financing.
By 2015, the company was reported to have grown at a rate of nearly 500% annually reaching a run rate of $10 million in annual recurring revenue 18 months after launch. It was reported later that year that Connectifier had tens of thousands of recruiters as clients and was delivering two to four times as many candidates as LinkedIn. By 2016, Connectifier's customers included over 40% of the Fortune 100.
LinkedIn announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the company on February 4, 2016.
Connectifier's technology and features were integrated into LinkedIn Recruiter and Microsoft Bing and the product was sunset as a standalone offering on April 30, 2020.
References
Online companies of the United States
LinkedIn
2016 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th%20century%20road%20schemes%20in%20Bristol | Road building was central to planning policy for much of the 20th century in Bristol, England. The planned road network evolved over time but at its core was a network of concentric ring (or circuit) roads and high-capacity radial roads.
The Inner Circuit Road formed a ring around Bristol's central area and was completed in 1970. The Outer Circuit Road was intended to form an outer ring concentric with this, but the only substantial part to be completed was the 1.3 km-long Easton Way. The two ring roads were to be complemented by 8 radial roads, some of which would follow new routes while others would be made by widening existing roads.
These schemes had for the most part been abandoned by the early 1990s, and subsequently much of what was built has been decommissioned.
Planning and construction
The inter-war period was one of rapid growth in Bristol, with 22,000 private homes and 12,000 council houses being built around the city. In addition, Bristol was at the focus of a number of through routes, with growing volumes of traffic concentrated into a highly constrained area in the city centre. To address this, in 1923 the city council set up a town planning committee chaired by B F Brueton, which developed into the Bristol and Bath and District Joint Regional Planning Committee. Brueton co-authored Sir Patrick Abercrombie's 'Bristol and Bath Regional Planning Study' of 1928, out of which the plan to ease Bristol's traffic congestion using concentric ring roads grew.
Inner Circuit Road (A4044)
The Inner Circuit Road was intended as a primary distributor road for local traffic in the central area of Bristol. Construction started in 1936 with the laying out of Temple Way and Redcliffe Way, and by 1937 the dual carriageway of Redcliffe Way had been cut diagonally through Queen Square leaving the Rysbrack statue of William III stranded on a traffic island and, ironically, requiring the demolition of the City Engineer's offices at No.63. At The Centre, construction of a culvert to cover over the River Frome and accommodate the new road was underway, and at Redcliff Backs a bascule bridge was being built. Work continued despite the outbreak of World War II, and by the end of 1940 the Inner Circuit Road was largely complete from The Centre to Temple Way. Further developments were suspended for the duration of the war.
Construction work restarted in the early 1960s with Phase 3 from St James Barton to Wellington Road. A 318m re-erectable flyover was constructed at Victoria St in 1967, and the Temple Way Underpass was completed in 1968. By 1970, with the construction of the last few links at Lewins Mead and Rupert St, the Inner Circuit Road formed a complete 3.4 km ring.
The later phases of the Inner Circuit Road, from Old Market to the northern end of The Centre, attempted to vertically segregate pedestrians from motor traffic. At Old Market roundabout, escalators led up to a system of bridges and decks leading through to Castle Park; a similar ele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bita%20Daryabari | Bita Daryabari (; born April 6, 1969, in Tehran) is an Iranian-American philanthropist, entrepreneur and computer scientist. She is the founder of several community organizations which focus on Persian immigrants in society and arts in the United States. Daryabari has provided financial assistance to various educational institutions for research on the Iranian studies in higher education, including endowments to Stanford, Pembroke College, U.C. Davis, and U.C. Berkeley. She has a named Chair at U.C. Davis in Persian Language and Literature and at U.C. Berkeley in Iranian Studies.
Early life and education
Bita Daryabari was born in Tehran, Iran. Her father was a dentist and her mother was a housewife. She grew up reading Persian books, including those of the scholar Rumi. Daryabari moved to the US from a war-stricken Iran in 1985 where she attended high school in St. Joseph, Missouri. In Missouri, she was received by her uncle.
Daryabari attended California State University where she received a BSc in computer science. She also attended Golden Gate University in San Francisco where she received a MSc in telecommunications management.
Career and philanthropy
Bita Daryabari began her career in engineering at GammaLink. She moved on to a career in telecommunications at MCI Communications where she worked until 1996.
Daryabari began focusing her career on philanthropy where in 2008 she founded the Bita Daryabari Endowment for Persian Literature and Poetry with a contribution of $2.5 million. The same year, she created a $6.5 million Bita Daryabari Endowment in Persian Letters at Stanford. In 2011, she founded a community organization in California called the Pars Equality Center where she and the members of the organization assist Iranian immigrants living in the United States. In 2015 she opened a branch in San Jose, called the Daryabadi Iranian Community Center to extend the services to the Farsi speaking community.
Additional endowments have included $2 million for the Shahnama Project at Pembroke College in 2013, a $1.5 million gift to the University of California, Davis in 2015 to broaden its Persian studies program, and $5 million to UC Berkeley in 2016 for the study of Iranian languages, literature, arts, and culture.
Daryabari is the founder of the Unique Zan Foundation, a social service organization that works with academic institutions and organizations for women in the Middle East. In 2016, UC Berkeley announced the Presidential Chair in Iranian Studies after her name.
Awards and recognition
Daryabari has received numerous awards and recognition for her work including Golden Gate University's Alumni of the Year in 2008. In 2010 she was named Philanthropist of the Year by PAAIA and in 2011 received the United Nations Appreciation Award. Additional honors include being the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2012 and being named a World Affairs Council Honoree of the Year in 2015. In 2018 she received an honorary do |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism%20Week | Modernism Week is a 501(c)(3) organization which provides public education programming fostering knowledge and appreciation of modern architecture, the mid-century modern architecture and design movement, the Palm Springs School of Architecture, as well as contemporary considerations surrounding historic preservation, cultural heritage, adaptive reuse, and sustainable architecture. Modernism Week provides annual scholarships to local students pursuing college educations in the fields of architecture and design and supports local and state organizations' efforts to preserve and promote the region's modern architecture. The organization is centered in the greater Palm Springs, California area in the Coachella Valley which is home to a significant collection of extant residential and commercial buildings designed in the mid-century modern vernacular.
Description
The primary event for the organization is an annual, eleven-day, region-wide advocacy and educational festival called “Modernism Week” which is held each February. Events are produced by Modernism Week and partner organizations and include symposia, films, lectures, tours, and a variety of opportunities to access architecturally significant buildings not otherwise available to the public. Educational programs explore the mid-century modern era as it applies to architecture, design, landscape, preservation, and culture. In addition to the primary event held each February, Modernism Week offers Modernism Week-October (previously called the “Fall Preview”), a four-day event held each October. This “mini-Modernism Week” was developed to provide additional educational opportunities to seasonal visitors.
History
Modernism Week began in 2006 as an adjunct to two existing programs exploring mid-century architecture and design: the Palm Springs Modernism Show & Sale and the annual Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture & Design Council Symposium. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Palm Springs, California to its 2006 list of America’s Dozen Distinctive Destinations, an annual list highlighting cultural tourism destinations for architecture. In 2009, Palm Springs was included on the List of Preserve America Communities and was welcomed to the program in a letter by then-First Lady Michelle Obama. In 2009, Modernism Week became a California 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. In 2015, a physical headquarters for the event was launched enabling visitors to gather at a central location throughout the festival. Dubbed, CAMP (Community And Meeting Place), this festival hub provides services and programs throughout the festival including serving as a depot for bus tours, educational programming, ticket sales, demonstrations, social events, and the distribution of general information.
Attendance
From 2012 to 2018, annual attendance increased from 12,000 to 125,000. The number of programmed events in 2018 was 350 with attendees representing the 50 United States and 19 countries.
In 2019, at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Ferris | Christopher (Chris) Ferris (born c. 1957) is a computer scientist, best known for co-leading the Hyperledger Fabric project where he chaired the Technical Steering Committee from 2016 to 2018 and was a member of the Governing Board of the foremost blockchain project of the Linux Foundation. Hyperledger has been one of the fastest-growing open community projects, with over 200 corporate and associate members. Ferris has a history of open-source software contributions to other technologies, including web services and cloud. Ferris is currently an IBM Fellow, and CTO Open Technologies.
History
In 1999, Ferris was invited to work with OASIS (organization) on the problem of B2B transactions, launching his open-source career development. In the early days of the internet, vendor-specific and proprietary Electronic Data Interchange or EDI systems were proving “clunky” (slow to deploy and hard to maintain), and needed to be revised and opened up to encourage much faster adoption rates. As a Chief Architect of Sun Microsystems IT, he was invited to the first and second meetings of the OASIS (organization) working group looking into ebXML (Electronic Business Markup Language) for ERP (Enterprise Resource Management) and B2B (Business to Business) transactions, such as invoices, purchasing, payment transactions. The United Nations adopted this work as the foundational international standard around global commerce, see UN/CEFACT.
Ferris became vice chair of the OASIS working group on messaging. This work lead to SOAP replacing or underlying vendor-specific proprietary messaging systems, and led to the development of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) developed by a working group at the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). Ferris then became chair of web service architecture working group at the W3C. In the fall of 2002, Ferris joined IBM, and later became an IBM Distinguished Engineer.
Ferris has also provided technical oversight and leadership in OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Cloud Native Compute Foundation, Open Container Initiative, Mesos and Docker.,
Linux Foundation Hyperledger
Ferris was a member of the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee. He is an advocate for open source code communities with commercially-friendly licenses, and open governance, such as Linux Foundation Hyperledger.
Ferris was the keynote speaker on the "State of Blockchain", at the 2017 Open Source Leadership Summit for the Linux Foundation.
Publications
Androulaki E, Barger A, Bortnikov V, Cachin C, Christidis K, De Caro A, Enyeart D, Ferris C, Laventman G, Manevich Y, Muralidharan S. (2018), "Hyperledger Fabric: A Distributed Operating System for Permissioned Blockchains. arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.10228. 2018 Jan 30."
Todd Moore and Chris Ferris (2016), "IBM's approach to open technology: Find out how we're investing in the communities and projects that matter most to the enterprise", “IBM developerWorks”, May 16, 2016
Christopher Ferris, Kelvin Lawrence, Tony Storey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessert%20Games | Dessert Games is an American-based cooking television game show hosted by Duff Goldman and Guy Fieri on Food Network (USA), that debuted in 2017. The show is a spin-off to Guy's Grocery Games (GGG).
Synopsis
Each episode features four chefs competing in a three-round elimination contest, cooking desserts with ingredients found in a supermarket grocery store (GGG's Flavortown Market) as Duff or Guy poses unusual challenges to them. The winning chef can collect $10,000.
History
The show is based on the popular show Guy’s Grocery Games, which aired back in October 2013 and has had a run of 15 seasons.
The host of this new show Dessert Games is Guy Fieri together with the judges Ron Ben Israel and Duff Goldman. The show is produced by the production company Lando Entertainment and the executive producer is by John Bravakis, Steve Kroopnick, Brian Lando, Francesco Giuseppe Pace and Guy Fieri.
A backdoor pilot for the series aired as part of GGG, season 9 episode 12, "Guy's Dessert Grocery Games", aired on 26 June 2016 under the title Guy's Dessert Games, featuring Duff suggesting the theme of the show to Guy, and being a judge on that 2016 episode.
The series first airs in 2017 on the Food Network, with Duff as host, and Guy as guest star, with the standard complement of 3 judges and 4 competitors in an episode, inheriting from GGG.
Seasons
Episodes
Season 1
See also
Guy's Grocery Games
References
External links
Food Network USA: Dessert Games
Food Network Canada: Dessert Games
Food Network original programming
2017 American television series debuts
2010s American cooking television series
2010s American game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre%20Computer%20Project | The Libre Computer Project is an effort initiated by Shenzhen Libre Technology Co., Ltd., with the goal of producing standards-compliant single-board computers (SBC) and upstream software stack to power them.
Hardware
Libre Computer Project uses crowd-funding on Indiegogo and Kickstarter to market their SBC designs. The delivery and after-sales support was poor resulting in lots of complaints and dissatisfied funders.
Active Libre Computer SBC designs include:
ROC-RK3328-CC (Renegade)
The ROC-RK3328-CC "Renegade" board was funded on Indiegogo and features the following specifications:
Rockchip RK3328 SoC
4 ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.4GHz
Cryptography Extensions
2G + 2P ARM Mali-450 @ 500MHz
OpenGL ES 1.1 / 2.0
OpenVG 1.1
Multi-Media Processor
Decoders
VP9 P2 4K60
H.265 M10P @ L5.1 4K60
H.264 H10P @ L5.1 4K60
JPEG
Encoders
H.265 1080P30 or 2x H.264 720P30
H.264 1080P30 or 2x H.264 720P30
Up to 4GB DDR4-2133 SDRAM
2 USB 2.0 Type A
1 USB 3.0 Type A
Gigabit Ethernet
3.5mm TRRS AV Jack
HDMI 2.0
MicroUSB Power In
MicroSD Card Slot with UHS support
eMMC Interface with 5.x support
IR Receiver
U-Boot Button
40 Pin Low Speed Header (PWM, I2C, SPI, GPIO)
ADC Header
Power Enable/On Header
AML-S905X-CC (Le Potato)
The AML-S905X-CC "Le Potato" board was funded on Kickstarter on 24 July 2017 and features the following specifications:
Amlogic S905X SoC
4 ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.512GHz
Cryptography Extension
2G + 3P ARM Mali-450 @ 750MHz
OpenGL ES 1.1 / 2.0
OpenVG 1.1
Amlogic Video Engine 10
Decoders
VP9 P2 4K60
H.265 MP10@L5.1 4K60
H.264 HP@L5.1 4K30
JPEG / MJPEG
Encoders
H.264 1080P60
JPEG
Up to 2GB DDR3 SDRAM
4 USB 2.0 Type A
100 Mb Fast Ethernet
3.5mm TRRS AV Jack
HDMI 2.0
MicroUSB Power In
MicroSD Card Slot
eMMC Interface
IR Receiver
U-Boot Button
40 Pin Low Speed Header (PWM, I2C, SPI, GPIO)
Audio Headers (I2S, ADC, SPDIF)
UART Header
NOTE: GPIO Header Pin 11 or HDMI CEC is selectable by onboard jumper. They can not be used at the same time since they share the same pad.
ALL-H3-CC (Tritium)
The "Tritium" board was funded on Kickstarter on 13 January 2018 with the following specifications:
Software
Operating systems
Open Source
Software
Libre Computer is focused on upstream support in open-source software using standardized API interfaces. This includes Linux, u-boot, LibreELEC RetroArch, and more. A variety of open-source operating systems may be used on Libre Computer boards, including Linux and Android. Few to no binary blobs are used to boot and operate the boards.
Hardware
Schematics and 2D silkscreen are available for all hardware. Design files are based on non-disclosure materials from SoC vendors. CAD files are not available.
See also
Comparison of single-board computers
List of open-source hardware projects
OLinuXino
BeagleBoard
Raspberry Pi
References
Open-source hardware
Microcomputers
Motherboard companies
Single-board computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Denton%27s%20Interview | Andrew Denton's Interview (also stylised as "interview") was an Australian talk show hosted by Andrew Denton and broadcast on the Seven Network from 17 April 2018. The series saw Denton sit down with celebrities and other notable individuals.
Following the conclusion of the second season, it was the decision of the team not to return for a third season.
Series overview
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Episodes
Season 1 (2018)
Season 2 (2019)
References
External links
Andrew Denton's Interview on 7plus
Australian television talk shows
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in Sydney
2018 Australian television series debuts
2019 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin%20Dyulgerov | Konstantin Ivanovich Dyulgerov (born July 27, 1971 in Izmail) is a entrepreneur, founder of a large retail network, co-owner of realty management companies and other commercial organizations. Dyulgerov is a co-founder of a large Russian travel fares aggregator. Permanently resides in Ukraine.
Dyulgerov was put on the international wanted list by Russian law enforcement agencies under the charges of fraud (Article 159 of the Criminal Code) and bribery of witnesses (Article 390 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
In February 2018, Dyulgerov, along with the 16 other major Russian businessmen was included in the "Titov's list", compiled by the Russian Presidential Representative for the Rights of Entrepreneurs, Boris Titov. The aim of the list is organizing the return of the entrepreneurs to Russia and reviewing the doubtful criminal cases brought against them.
Dyulgerov is an active supporter of Russian opposition movement, he participated in several major protest actions. He regularly publicly criticizes the actions of Russian government.
Biography
Early life
Konstantin Dyulgerov was born on July 27, 1971, in Izmail, Odesa region, Ukraine. His mother Diana Alexandrovna Dyulgerova worked as a gynecologist, and his father Ivan Ivanovich Dyulgerov was a mechanical engineer.
In 1988 Konstantin Dyulgerov graduated from the secondary school № 7 of the city of Izmail, after which in 1989 he started education in the Izmail Nautical school. However, a year later he entered the Kirovohrad Institute of Agricultural Engineering. Upon graduation, he moved to his permanent residence in Nizhnevartovsk, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, where he lived for a long time before starting his own business.
Business career
Since the 90s, Konstantin Dyulgerov started growing his business in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. He is a founder of several companies working in various areas. In 1996, he founded OOO Konst (retail and wholesale trade in motor vehicles); In 1997, OOO Magnon (real estate management); In 2001, ZAO Samotlor (later OOO Trading Company Samotlor); In 2002 ZAO Special Electronic (real estate management); In 2003 OOO Siberian Industrial Center (Legal activities).
As a result of these business activities, Dyulgerov created the production facilities and an extensive network of stores selling consumer goods: furniture, cosmetics, food, etc. At the same time, Dulgerov's companies owned property like warehouses, production shops, stores. Dyulgerov is also the owner of one of the largest travel fare aggregators in the Russian segment of the Internet.
Public activity
Since 2008, Dyulgerov actively participates in opposition activities and anti-corruption movement. In 2008, Dyulgerov gave his first series of public speeches, in which he exposed and sharply criticized the acting authorities and law enforcement structures of the region. He voiced the accusations of conspiracy, extortion, and corruption, claiming that he refused the o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark%20Attack%20%28disambiguation%29 | A shark attack is a biting incident involving a shark.
Shark Attack may also refer to:
Lists of shark attacks
International Shark Attack File, a global database of shark attacks
Shark attacks in South Australia
Lists of fatal shark attacks
Films
Jersey Shore: Shark Attack (2012 film), a SyFy telemovie monster film
Malibu Shark Attack (2009 film), a SyFy telemovie monster film in the Maneater film series produced by RHI Entertainment
Spring Break: Shark Attack (2005 film), a CBS telefilm monster movie
Shark Attack (film), a 1999 monster film telemovie produced by Nu Image Films
Shark Attack 2, a 2000 direct-to-video monster film produced by Nu Image Films
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, a 2002 direct-to-video monster film produced by Nu Image Films
2-Headed Shark Attack, a 2012 SyFy telefilm monster movie produced by The Asylum
3-Headed Shark Attack, a 2015 SyFy telefilm monster movie produced by The Asylum
5-Headed Shark Attack, a 2017 SyFy telefilm monster movie produced by The Asylum
Music
"Shark Attack", a 2013 song by Grouplove from Spreading Rumours.
"Shark Attack", a song by Math the Band.
See also
Shark attack prevention
List of killer shark films
Attack (disambiguation)
Shark (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulstina%20aridata | Hulstina aridata is a species of moth in the family Geometridae first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1929. It is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Hulstina aridata is 6543.
References
Further reading
Boarmiini
Articles created by Qbugbot
Moths described in 1929 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Awiat%20Gier%20Komputerowych | Świat Gier Komputerowych (English: Computer Games World) was a Polish video gaming magazine. Its first issue was released on 14 December 1992 as an addition to the Amiga magazine Amigowiec (deemed the 8-page 0th issue). The permanent editorial team consisted of about 15 people. The first editor-in-chief was Mirosław Domosud, but he was replaced by Piotr Pieńkowski, who held this position until the paper was discontinued. It was intended mainly for older players, written in a more formal style than competitors such as Top Secret and CD-Action. In February 1997, the 50th issue was issued, while April 2001 saw the hundredth issue be published. The magazine celebrated its tenth anniversary in February 2003, being the only such magazine on the market to reach this milestone. The last issue appeared in July 2003 as a double. The decision was due to the unsatisfactory sales of the magazine, around 50,000 copies per month. After its dissolution, an attempt was made to revive the paper as Nowy Świat Gier Komputerowych, however this only lasted for two months.
References
External links
Świat Gier Komputerowych at the Internet Archive
1992 establishments in Poland
2003 disestablishments in Poland
Defunct magazines published in Poland
Magazines established in 1992
Magazines disestablished in 2003
Video game magazines published in Poland
Polish-language magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Network%20for%20Bioinformatics%20Infrastructure | The 'German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure – de.NBI' is a national, academic and non-profit infrastructure initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research funding 2015-2021. The network provides bioinformatics services to users in life sciences research and biomedicine in Germany and Europe. The partners organize training events, courses and summer schools on tools, standards and compute services provided by de.NBI to assist researchers to more effectively exploit their data. From 2022, the network will be integrated into Forschungszentrum Jülich.
History
In May 2013, the announcement of funding guidelines for a German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) was published by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The aim of this announcement was to establish an infrastructure in Germany that will provide solutions to the ‘Big Data Problem’ in life science by means of bioinformatics services and training. A second announcement of funding guidelines for de.NBI partner projects was published in November 2015. The de.NBI program was launched by the BMBF in March 2015, and the partner projects started their work in November 2016. In August 2016, Germany joined ELIXIR, the European life-sciences Infrastructure for biological Information, with the German ELIXIR Node (ELIXIR Germany) being run by de.NBI partners.
The first coordinator of the de.NBI project was Alfred Pühler until 2021. The head of the German ELIXIR Node is Andreas Tauch.
Organisation
The de.NBI network consists of the eight interconnected centers and one coordination unit including 40 research, service and infrastructure groups with about 250 bioinformaticians involved. In addition, it is possible to apply for an associated partnership as Service and Training Partner or as Training Partner within de.NBI.
Heidelberg Center for Human Bioinformatics (HD-HuB)
Members: The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ, research groups Boutros, Brors, Buchhalter), European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL, research groups Bork, Huber, Korbel), Heidelberg University (research groups Rohr, Russell, Erfle), Charité Berlin (Research groups Eils, Ishaque) and Saarland University (Research group Walter)
Topic: Human Bioinformatics, e.g. Exome, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Metagenomics, Phenotyping, Bioimaging, Epigenetics and Cloud Computing
Associated Partner: Division of Computational Genomics and System Genetics (Dr. Oliver Stegle, DKFZ)
Bielefeld-Gießen Resource Center for Microbial Bioinformatics (BiGi):
Members: Bielefeld University, University of Gießen and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Topic: Microbial Bioinformatics, e.g. Genomics, Transcriptomics, Metagenomics, Proteomics, Metaproteomics, Metabolomics and Cloud Computing
Bioinformatics for Proteomics (BioInfra.Prot):
Members: Ruhr University Bochum ("Medical Bioinformatics" research unit of the Medizinisches Proteom-Center), Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences ISAS e.v. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleneagles%20Global%20Hospitals | Gleneagles Global Hospitals (formerly Global Hospitals Group) is a hospital network based in India.
History
Global Hospitals Group was founded by Dr. K. Ravindranath in 1999 with a focus on complex multi-organ transplantation. The hospital has achieved several milestones by performing pioneering surgeries like India's first successful Split & Auxiliary Liver Transplant, and the first combined Heart & Kidney transplant.
In August 2015, IHH Healthcare announced the acquisition of 73.4 per cent stake in Hyderabad-based GE Medical Associates Pvt Ltd, which had hospitals under the brand Global Hospitals, by investing Rs 1,280 crores. IHH Healthcare Berhad consolidated its Indian platform by rebranding Global Hospitals under the brand Gleneagles.
Future expansion
In March 2017, Gleneagles Global Hospitals announced plans to invest ₹200 crore to grow its market presence. The planned expansion included increasing overall bed capacity from 1,400 beds to 2,100 beds within two years, and establishing a presence in Delhi.
The India operations are led by Dr. K. Ravindranath, Chairman, Gleneagles Global Hospitals and Ramesh Krishnan, Chief Executive Officer, India Operations Division, Parkway Pantai Limited. In April 2018, Parkway Pantai announced the appointment of Dr Ajay Bakshi as the Chief Executive Officer – Designate for its India Operations Division.
Hospitals
Aware Gleneagles Global Hospitals, LB Nagar, Hyderabad
Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Lakdi-ka-pul, Hyderabad
Gleneagles Global Health City, Perumbakkam, Chennai
Gleneagles Global Clinics, Adyar, Chennai
BGS Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Kengeri, Bengaluru
Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Richmond Road, Bengaluru
Global Hospitals, Parel, Mumbai
See also
Healthcare in India
List of hospitals in India
Gleneagles Hospital (disambiguation)
References
External links
Hospital networks in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland%27s%20Volkswagen | Sutherland's Volkswagen, or the Utah VW Bug, is a 3D model. It is a mathematical model of a 1967 Volkswagen Beetle and one of the earliest 3D computer models, aside from Catmull's hand.
The Volkswagen model was created by students of Professor Ivan Sutherland in 1972 at the University of Utah. The students created the model by measuring a real version of the car with yardsticks. Only the car body is modeled, not the wheels or chassis. The model became slightly iconic after all the various parts, as measured by students, were pieced together, with the necessary rotations, scaling, and translations.
See also
3D modeling
Utah teapot
Stanford bunny
Stanford dragon
Suzanne
Cornell box
List of common 3D test models
References
External links
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/computer-graphics-music-and-art/15/206/559
3D graphics models
Test items |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Topol | Brad B. Topol (born c. 1971) is a computer scientist best known as a former member of the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors and is also an OpenStack core contributor to Keystone-Specs, Pycadf, and Heat-Translator, and a member of the OpenStack speaker bureau. Topol has a history of open-source software contributions, including Kubernetes.
History
In 1993, Topol earned a dual BS/MS in Mathematics/Computer Science from Emory University. In 1998, he earned a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. Topol’s research focused on robust state sharing for wide-area distributed applications. Topol joined IBM and worked to create products from IBM Research innovations, such as transcoding technology. He later became an IBM Distinguished Engineering working on product serviceability.
OpenStack and Kubernetes
Topol first gained eminence in the OpenStack community through his work on security. He is project lead for the OpenStack Interoperability Challenge effort. Topol is also a Kubernetes contributor and serves as a member of the Kubernetes Conformance Workgroup. He is a frequent keynoter and presenter at conferences.,
Mentoring
Topol is frequently interviewed about open-source software and community topics, especially for his advice on developing technical eminence. Topol has mentored others as they learn Git, Python (programming language), and how to contribute to open source communities, and he advises, “Be a humble doer. Don't be arrogant, be someone who makes it real; be a doer, not a talker.”
Publications
Michael Elder, Jake Kitchener, and Brad Topol (2021) “Hybrid Cloud Apps with OpenShift and Kubernetes: Delivering Highly Available Applications and Services“, “O’Reilly Media”
Michael Elder, Jake Kitchener, and Brad Topol (2019) “Kubernetes in the Enterprise“, “O’Reilly Media”
Steve Martinelli, Henry Nash, and Brad Topol (2015) “Identity, Authentication, and Access Management in OpenStack: Implementing and Deploying Keystone”, “O’Reilly Media”
Brad Topol, Mustaque Ahamad, John T. Stasko, “Robust State Sharing for Wide Area Distributed Applications”, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 98), pp. 554–561, "Georgia Tech"
B. Topol, J. Stasko, and V. S. Sunderam (1998), “PVaniM: A Tool for Visualization in Network Computing Environments”, “Concurrency: Practice and Experience”, Vol. 10, No. 14, pp. 1197–1222.
B. Topol, J. Stasko, and V. S. Sunderam (1997), “The Dual Timestamping Methodology for Visualizing Distributed Applications”, “Proc. Iasted Intl. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems”, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 81–86.
References
External links
1971 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Emory University alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Open source advocates
IBM employees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Pinball | Real Pinball, known in Japan as
, is a video game developed by Japan Dataworks and published by Panasonic for the 3DO.
Gameplay
Real Pinball features five pinball machines to choose from, that become increasingly more complicated. Allows for multiball play.
Reception
Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "3DO owners will have to wait a little bit longer for a 'real' pinball game to appear."
Reviews
Video Games & Computer Entertainment - Nov, 1994
The Pixel Empire - Apr, 2014
Notes
References
External links
1994 video games
3DO Interactive Multiplayer games
3DO Interactive Multiplayer-only games
Pinball video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20book%20fair | An art book fair is a type of curated art fair or exhibition for the purpose of displaying, selling and networking between artists, art book creators, illustrators, writers, specialty printers, independent publishers and their audience. The parameters of inclusion vary from fair to fair: some only include publications which are themselves considered art objects, limited edition art books, artist multiples or books specifically about an art topic; others are wider to include graphic novels, cultural magazines, zines, creative writing, poetry, and other artist projects. Like other art fairs, an art book fair will not only include works for sale but also artist installations, projects, happenings, workshops, talks, panel discussions or book launches. Recursive fairs may run with a yearly theme or prompt which guides programming.
Unlike a traditional trade fair or book fair (such as the Frankfurt Book Fair), art book fairs are public and less formal in regards to industry conferencing or networking; while they do serve as an opportunity for publishers and artists to commingle, the nature of art book sales is such that there are no sales or rights marketing as with a regular book fair. Instead, art book fairs are an aspect of artist-run culture and an address to artmaking in the neoliberal era. Art book fairs are also a way for viewers to interact with, collaborate, and learn with and obtain artwork outside of commercial art institutions. Given the ephemeral and mass-produced nature of publishing history, "publishing seems to offer," as Offprint Paris director Yannick Bouillis put it, "an authentic, autonomous space within the art community. Books and other publishing artifacts such as magazines, posters, and tapes are—in comparison to artworks—relatively free from public and market concerns."
History
One early example of art book fair as differentiated from trade book fairs or art exhibitions is by artist-run non-profit organization Printed Matter, which emerged in New York City in the 1960s. Printed Matter began a bookstore and gallery which celebrated publishing as an artistic medium, artist-run culture, and alternative art practice, an ethos which has carried through to contemporary art book events. In 2004 Printed Matter and then director, artist AA Bronson, launched the first New York Art Book Fair, and later the LA Art Book Fair in 2013. These fairs have grown steadily to an audience well beyond the local art scenes or literati: the 2015 NY Art Book Fair was host to 370 exhibitors from 28 countries and had an estimated 35,000 guests in attendance.
As with the Printed Matter model, art book fairs have emerged around the world as a way for artist-run or non-profit institutions to generate awareness with a broader public and fundraise through the sale of admission, special event tickets, and limited edition artwork. Other fairs include the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Canada's first international art book fair, the London Art Book Fair and Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelena%20Kova%C4%8Devi%C4%87 | Jelena Kovačević is a Serbian American engineering professor, whose research has focused on signal processing and data science. She was named the first female dean of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering at New York University (NYU) in August 2018. In May 2023, she announced she will be stepping down effective August 2024.
Education
Kovačević received her bachelor degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade and her MS and PhD from Columbia University.
Career
Kovačević became head of NYU Tandon School of Engineering in 2018, the first woman to do so in the school's 164-year history. At the end of her five-year term in May 2023, she announced she would be stepping down effective August 23, 2024. Under her leadership, NYU Tandon experienced significant growth in enrollment, from more than 5,000 students in Fall 2015 to nearly 8,000 students in Fall of 2021, and rose in the U.S. News and World Report Best Graduate Engineering School Rankings from #45 in 2017-2018 to #33 in 2022-2023, before moving to #37 after U.S. News and World Report changed their engineering school ranking methodology for the 2023-2024 rankings.
From 2014-2018, she was department head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to that, she was a professor of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon, which she joined in 2003. She was also an adjunct professor at Columbia University and worked at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey from 1991-2002.
Kovačević has written numerous papers and has also co-authored several books, including "Wavelets and Subband Coding", "Foundations of Signal Processing" and "Fourier and Wavelet Signal Processing". A fellow of the IEEE and EURASIP, she is also the recipient of several awards, including the "Belgrade October Prize", the "E.I. Jury Award" from Columbia University, the "CIT Philip L. Dowd Fellowship Award" from Carnegie Mellon University, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award in 2016, and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) Career Achievement Award in 2022. She has been a keynote or invited speaker at a number of academic conferences. Her research interests include applying data science to a number of domains such as biology, medicine and smart infrastructure. She is also an authority on multiresolution techniques, such as wavelets and frames.
Family
Jelena Kovačević was born in the family of Margita Kovačević and Živorad Kovačević, a Yugoslav politician, diplomat, and academic, who was the 60th Mayor of Belgrade in 1974-1982 and Yugoslavia's Ambassador to the United States in 1987-1989, when he was recalled after his disapproval of Slobodan Milosević's regime.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Belgrade alumni
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
New York University faculty
American women engineers
Serbian women engin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Stohr | Kate Stohr is an American journalist, data scientist and civic activist based near San Francisco, CA. She was the director of a Data Science initiative at Simon & Schuster. She founded 99 Antennas. In 2016 she covered the U.S. Presidential Elections as a data journalist with Fusion and noted for her coverage of the online dominance of the Trump candidacy and for her reporting on the racial inequality in US prosecutor elections
In 1999 she co-founded Architecture for Humanity with Cameron Sinclair, a humanitarian architecture and design organization that focused on designing and building housing for people suffering from environmental disasters, refugee camps and other people in need. She was managing director of the organization until May 2013.
In 2006, Sinclair and Stohr published a compendium on socially conscious design, titled Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises (May 2006, Metropolis Books). In 2012 they released the follow-up, titled Design Like You Give A Damn [2]: Building Change From The Ground Up (May 2012, Abrams Books).
As a result of the 2006 TED Prize along with Sinclair, Stohr developed and launched the Open Architecture Network, the world's first open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. In 2012 the Open Architecture Network merged with Worldchanging to expand its work to both the built and natural environment.
In August 2008 Stohr was named as joint recipient of the Design Patron Award for the 2008 National Design Awards. In 2009 Stohr was awarded the Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for increasing people's resourcefulness.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RevoScaleR | RevoScaleR is a machine learning package in R created by Microsoft. It is available as part of Machine Learning Server, Microsoft R Client, and Machine Learning Services in Microsoft SQL Server 2016.
The package contains functions for creating linear model, logistic regression, random forest, decision tree and boosted decision tree, and K-means, in addition to some summary functions for inspecting and visualizing data.
It has a Python package counterpart called revoscalepy. Another closely related package is MicrosoftML, which contains machine learning algorithms that RevoScaleR does not have, such as neural network and SVM.
In June 2021, Microsoft announced to open source the RevoScaleR and revoscalepy packages, making them freely available under the MIT License.
Concepts
Many R packages are designed to analyze data that can fit in the memory of the machine and usually do not make use of parallel processing. RevoScaleR was designed to address these limitations. The functions in RevoScaleR orientate around three main abstraction concepts that users can specify to process large amount of data that might not fit in memory and exploit parallel resources to speed up the analysis.
Compute Contexts
A compute context refers to the location where the computation on the data happens. It could be "local" (on the client machine) or "remote" (on a data platform such as a SQL server, or Spark). Pushing the computation to a remote server allows people to take advantage of the greater compute resources that a remote machine may have. If the data being analyzed reside on the same machine, using a remote compute context also removes the need to pull data across the network onto the client machine.
Data source
Data source defines where the data comes from. There are various data sources available in RevoScaleR, such as text data, Xdf data, in-SQL data, and a spark dataframe. People can wrap their data in a data source object and use that as run analytics in different compute context. Different data sources are available in different compute context. For example, if the compute context is set to SQL server, then the only data source one can use would be an in-SQL data source.
Analytics
Analytic functions in RevoScaleR takes in data source object, a compute context, and the other parameters needed to build the specific model, such as formula for the logistic regression or the number of trees in a decision tree. In addition to those parameters, one can also specify the level of parallelism, such as the size of the data chunk for each process or number of processes to build the model. However, parallelism is only available in non-express edition.
Limitations
The package is mostly meant to be used with a SQL server or other remote machines. To fully leverage the abstractions it uses to process a large dataset, one needs a remote server and non-Express free edition of the package. It cannot be easily installed such as by running "install.packages("RevoScale |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Disney%2B%20Hotstar%20original%20programming | This article is a list of streaming television programming which released on Disney+ Hotstar, or just Hotstar, an Indian subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Disney Star and operated by the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company since its launch as Hotstar in February 2015 by the formerly-named Star India.
Indian original programming
Hotstar Specials
Hotstar Specials is a content hub and label of Hotstar under which the platform releases their original programming created exclusively for the service. The label launched with the docu-drama Roar of the Lion on 20 March 2019.
Drama
Comedy
Serial
Animation
Unscripted
Continuations
Hotstar Originals
Drama
Comedy
Variety
Continuations
Stage productions
Cineplay is an original Hotstar theater series in which plays are presented in cinematic style.
Exclusive international distribution
Non-English language
Southeast Asian original programming
Disney+ Hotstar also carries the Southeast Asian original programming that is commissioned exclusively in their respective regions.
Star Originals
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Continuations
Exclusive shows
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Co-productions
Disney+ Originals
These shows are commissioned by Disney+ and are available exclusively on the platform in India and selected Southeast Asian countries as Disney+ was integrated within the service in April 2020.
Co-productions
These shows have been commissioned by Disney+ in cooperation with a partner network.
Continuations
These shows have been picked up by Disney+ for additional seasons after having aired previous seasons on another network.
Exclusive distribution
Exclusive international distribution
The following shows are the general entertainment from Disney subsidiaries, including FX, Freeform, Hulu, Star, Star+, ABC Signature, 20th Television, 20th Television Animation for streaming exclusively on Disney+ Hotstar. This list also includes content from Disney's kids' networks that doesn't air on television in served regions.
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Anime
Kids & family
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Continuations
Specials
One-time
Non-English language
French
Japanese
Korean
Mandarin
Portuguese
Spanish
Other
Exclusive third-party distribution
Drama
Anime
Sports
Unscripted
Continuations
Former exclusive third-party distribution
The following shows that previously streamed on the platform but were not originally commissioned by Hotstar.
Star on Disney+ Hotstar
Beginning May 2023, the Star hub from Disney+ was made available for Disney+ Hotstar in Southeast Asia, specifically Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
Upcoming original programming
Disney+ Originals
Indian original programming
Hotstar Specials
Drama
Comedy
Continuations
Southeast Asian original programming
Star Originals
Drama
Upcoming exclusive distribution
Exclusive international distribution
Drama
Exclusive third-party distribution
D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna%20Mahlock | Lorna M. Mahlock (born 1968/1969) is a senior officer in the United States Marine Corps who currently serves as the deputy director for Combat Support for the National Security Agency's Cybersecurity Directorate. Her prior assignment was as the Director Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) and the Deputy Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer of the Marine Corps. In 2018, she became the first Black woman to be nominated for promotion to brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps. Prior to being promoted to the rank of brigadier general, she served as deputy director of the Operations, Plans, Policies, and Operation Directorate at Headquarters, United States Marine Corps in Washington, D.C. In December 2022, she received her second star and became the first Black female major general in the history of the Marine Corps.
Early life and education
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Mahlock immigrated to Brooklyn, New York and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. She was selected for the Marine Corps Enlisted Commissioning Education Program, graduated from Marquette University and was commissioned in December 1991.
Military career
Designated as an Air Traffic Control Officer, Mahlock earned certifications as a Federal Aviation Administration Tower Local Controller and a Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Instructor. She has commanded and led at various levels globally and in combat including but not limited to: Air Traffic Control Detachment Commander; Executive Officer 1st Stinger Battery; Director Marine Corps Instructional Management School; Air Control Officer G3 Future Operations 1st Marine Aircraft Wing; Company Commander Operation Southern Watch and Operation Iraqi Freedom 1; Operations and Executive Officer Operation Iraqi Freedom 2; Director Marine Air Command and Control System Experimental; Commanding Officer Iraqi Freedom 8; Information Management Officer; J3 Land Operations Lead and Division Executive Officer, Headquarters European Command; Marine Corps Office of Legislative Affairs and Assistant Chief of Staff G6.
In December 2022, she received her second star and became the first Black female Major General in the US Marine Corps.
Mahlock holds a master's degree in Adult and Higher Education from the University of Oklahoma at Norman; a Master in National Security and Strategic Studies with distinction from the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island; a Master in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College; and a Master Certificate in Information Operations from the Naval Postgraduate School. She is also a Higher Command and Staff Course graduate of the United Kingdom Joint Services Command and Staff College.
Awards
Mahlock's personal awards include: Legion of Merit with gold award star; Defense Meritorious Service Medal; Meritorious Service Medal with three gold award stars; Joint Service Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster; Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with two gold |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Electrical%20Engineering%20and%20Computer%20Science | School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science may refer to:
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of Ottawa), Canada
NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20Turkic%20Cyrillic | The Macintosh Turkic Cyrillic encoding is used in Apple Macintosh computers to represent texts in the Cyrillic script for Turkic languages. It was created by Michael Everson for use in his fonts, but is not an official Mac OS Codepage. It supports Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uzbek. Also possibly supports Russian, Bulgarian and Belarusian.
Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as ASCII.
References
Character sets
Turkic Cyrillic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20Barents%20Cyrillic | The Macintosh Barents Cyrillic encoding is used in Apple Macintosh computers to represent texts in Kildin Sami, Komi, and Nenets.
Layout
Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as ASCII.
See also
ISO-IR-200: ISO 8859-5 derivative created for the same languages, also with Michael Everson's involvement.
References
Character sets
Barents Cyrillic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20Ogham | Mac OS Ogham is a character encoding for representing Ogham text on Apple Macintosh computers. It is a superset of the Irish Standard I.S. 434:1999 character encoding for Ogham (which is registered as ISO-IR-208), adding some punctuation characters from Mac OS Roman. It is not an official Mac OS Codepage.
Layout
Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as ASCII.
References
Character sets
Ogham
Ogham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusail%20Tram | The Lusail Tram (), formerly Lusail LRT, is a light rail network in the Lusail urban development project north of Doha, the capital of Qatar. The first phase of the system, a six-station stretch of the Orange Line, opened to the public with "preview service" on 1 January 2022. More stations will be gradually opened to the public, starting with Lusail Central station from 9 April 2022.
The Lusail Tram will be operated and maintained for a duration of 20 years by RKH Qitarat, a joint venture formed by Hamad Group (51%) and French transit operators Keolis and RATP Dev (49%), on behalf of system owner Qatar Rail. It uses a fleet of 35 Alstom Citadis trams.
Lines
Purple Line
The Purple Line will have the following stations:
Lusail is connected with Lusail metro station
Grand Masjed
Boulevard
Crescent Junction is connected with Turquoise Line, Orange Line
Lusail Towers is connected with Pink Line.
Pink Line
The Pink Line will have the following stations:
Leqtaifya is connected with Leqtaifiya metro station ,
Marina is connected with Orange Line
Marina Mall is connected with Orange Line
Yacht Club is connected with Orange Line
Esplande is connected with Orange Line
Lusail Central is connected with Orange Line
Entertainment City
Broadwalk
Al Seef
Lusail Towers is connected with Orange Line
Seef Promenade
Orange Line
The Orange Line shares tracks with the Pink Line between Legtaifiya and Lusail Central before branching west. At Al-Wadi, it begins a unidirectional, counterclockwise loop, sharing tracks with the Turquoise Line, before returning to Al-Wadi and back to Legtaifiya. It has the following stations:
Under construction
Al Wadi
South Fox Hills is connected with Turquoise Line
Cresecent Junction is connected with Turquoise Line and Purple Line
North Fox Hills is connected with Turquoise Line
Downtown is connected with Turquoise Line
Fox Hills Park is connected with Turquoise Line
Al Manazel is connected with Turquoise Line
Al Erkyah is connected with Turquoise Line
2022 is connected with Turquoise Line
Energy City North is connected with Turquoise Line
Turquoise Line
The Turquoise Line will have the following stations:
Al Manazel is connected with Orange Line
Al Erkyah is connected with Orange Line
2022 is connected with Orange Line
Energy City North is connected with Orange Line
South Fox Hills is connected with Orange Line
Cresecent Junction is connected with Orange Line, Purple Line
North Fox Hills is connected with Orange Line
Downtown is connected with Orange Line
Fox Hills Park is connected with Orange Line
Al Manazel is connected with Orange Line
References
Keolis
Lusail
Rail transport in Qatar
Railway lines opened in 2022
RATP Group
Tram and light rail transit systems under construction
2022 establishments in Qatar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung%20Fu%20Panda%3A%20The%20Paws%20of%20Destiny | Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny is an American computer-animated streaming television limited series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and premiered its first "part" on Amazon Prime Video on November 16, 2018. The second and final part was released on July 5, 2019. It is the second television series in the Kung Fu Panda franchise following Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. Developer Mitch Watson has confirmed that Mick Wingert would reprise his role from Legends of Awesomeness as Po.
Plot
Set after the events of Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), the series follows Po the panda on a fresh adventure featuring four panda kids (Nu Hai, Jing, Bao, and Fan Tong); who happen upon a mystical cave beneath the Panda Village. The panda kids accidentally absorb the chi of ancient and powerful Kung Fu warriors known as the four constellations; Blue Dragon, Black Tortoise, White Tiger and Red Phoenix – each of which somehow are with the panda; who has a quality opposite to that constellation's prime quality. They realize they are now destined to save the world from an evil force (Jindiao); who wishes to take over the world and steal the chi of the four constellations, landing Po with his biggest challenge yet – teaching this ragtag band of kids how to wield their new-found Kung Fu powers. They also defend the Forbidden City against an evil Komodo dragon named Shi Long along with an ancient evil demon.
Voice cast
Episodes
Part 1 (2018)
Part 2 (2019)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2018 American television series debuts
2019 American television series endings
2010s American animated television series
American computer-animated television series
Amazon Prime Video children's programming
American children's animated comedy television series
American children's animated action television series
American children's animated fantasy television series
Television series by DreamWorks Animation
Television series by Universal Television
Kung Fu Panda television series
Animated television shows based on films
Martial arts television series
Television series about pandas
Anime-influenced Western animated television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20Zhang | Zhang Xiaolong (), also known as Allen Zhang, is a Chinese computer programmer and technology executive. He is known for leading the developments of WeChat and Foxmail. He is a senior executive vice president and president of Weixin Group at Tencent Holdings Limited. Zhang received B.S. and M.S degrees in telecommunication engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1991 and 1994, respectively.
References
1969 births
Living people
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
Chinese business executives
Chinese computer businesspeople
Chinese computer programmers
Tencent people
Huazhong University of Science and Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos%20Kyrpides | Nikos Kyrpides (Greek: Νίκος Κυρπίδης) is a Greek-American bioscientist who has worked on the origins of life, information processing, bioinformatics, microbiology, metagenomics and microbiome data science. He is a senior staff scientist at the Berkeley National Laboratory, head of the Prokaryote Super Program and leads the Microbiome Data Science program at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute.
Education
Kyrpides was born in Serres, Greece, where he studied biology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received his PhD in molecular biology and biotechnology from the University of Crete. He pursued postdoctoral studies in microbiology with Carl Woese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and in bioinformatics with Ross Overbeek at the Argonne National Laboratory. From 1999 to 2004 Kyrpides worked in the biotech industry in Chicago, where he led the development of genome analysis and bioinformatics. He joined the United States Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and develop the data management and comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes. Kyrpides became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and founded the Prokaryotic Super Program in 2011, which he still leads with the Microbiome Data Science Group.
Research
Kyrpides's early work focused on the origins and evolution of the genetic code. In collaboration with Christos Ouzounis, he developed a series of hypotheses for the transfer of information from proteins to nucleic acids known as reverse interpretation. With the advent of genomics, Kyrpides turned his interest to the study and understanding of the last universal common ancestor. With Ouzounis he coined the acronym "LUCA" at a conference organized by Patrick Forterre at Les Treilles, France, and performed some of the first comparative genome analysis to predict the gene content of the LUCA. Kyrpides's work on the information processing systems revealed several previously-unsuspected relationships, suggesting new models for the evolution of those processes. He identified previously-undetected relationships between the eukaryotic and bacterial translation machinery, suggesting that the rudiments of translation initiation would have been present at the universal-ancestor stage. Kyrpides's work on the evolution of transcription helped change the understanding of the nature and organization of archaeal transcription machinery, which (at the time) was that transcription in Archaea was strictly similar to that in eukaryotes. Kyrpides and Ouzounis demonstrated the parallel existence of a large number of bacterial-type transcription factors in archaeal genomes.
He led the development of several pioneering data-management systems in microbial genomics and metagenomics, which are widely used in the scientific community (with several thousand users worldwide). These include systems for data management and curation of genome project |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%207772 | NGC 7772 is collection of stars in the constellation Pegasus that were thought to be an open cluster. The stars were first recorded on 7 October 1825 by the British astronomer John Herschel. Gaia data shows stars in the area are unrelated.
See also
List of NGC objects
References
External links
Open clusters
7772
Pegasus (constellation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle%20Call%20%28company%29 | Cattle Call Inc. is a Japanese game developer based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was established by former staff of Data East Corporation and is engaged in developing original console games as well as co-developing and porting games for other game companies.
The company is known for developing the (partially) Japan-exclusive Metal Max series and the 3DS role-playing games The Legend of Legacy and its sequel, The Alliance Alive.
History
In 1998, Data East Corporation, a Japanese video game and electronic engineering company based in Tokyo, withdrew entirely from the arcade industry and reported a total debt estimated at ¥3.3 billion. The company then filed for reorganization in the following year and stopped making video games altogether. As a result of the corporate reorganization, some of the staff from the company formed Cattle Call Inc. to continue developing video games.
Games developed by Cattle Call
PlayStation 2
Nintendo DS
Nintendo 3DS
Wii
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4
Nintendo Switch
Microsoft Windows
References
Video game companies of Japan
Video game development companies
Video game companies established in 1998
Japanese companies established in 1998
Software companies based in Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel%20Panthers%20II%3A%20Modern%20Battles | Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles is a 1996 computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Simulations. It is the sequel to Steel Panthers and the second entry in the Steel Panthers series. The game was designed by Gary Grigsby and Keith Brors.
Like its predecessor, Steel Panthers II was a commercial hit.
Gameplay
Steel Panthers II is a computer wargame that simulates modern warfare.
Development
A key goal for Steel Panthers II was offering improved animation. The game was released on November 1, 1996.
Reception
Following Steel Panthers strong commercial performance, Steel Panthers II was a "major success", according to author Rusel DeMaria. Among other theories, he speculated that the deployment of tanks in Operation Desert Storm could have influenced its sales. Steel Panthers II was nominated as Computer Games Strategy Pluss 1996 wargame of the year, although it lost to that year's Battleground games: Shiloh, Antietam and Waterloo. It was also a nominee for CNET Gamecenter's "Strategy Game of the Year" award, which went to Civilization II.
William R. Trotter of PC Gamer US was largely positive toward Steel Panthers II, but felt that it was held back by its technical problems, glitches and oversights. He concluded, "If not for the numerous little flaws that keep it from realizing its own best intentions, this would have been my nominee for Wargame of the Year." In Computer Games Strategy Plus, Robert Mayer was less impressed: he considered it visually impressive but unrealistic, with numerous historical oversights. He nevertheless called it "a worthy successor to a very successful game".
Steel Panthers and Steel Panthers II were named, collectively, the 62nd best computer game ever by PC Gamer UK in 1997.
Legacy
The game was followed by Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command 1939-1999. The Camo Workshop released a mod based on Steel Panthers II called SP2WW2 (Steel Panthers II: World War 2) in 1998.
References
External links
Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles at MobyGames
1996 video games
Alternate history video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Computer wargames
Gulf War video games
Korean War video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Strategic Simulations games
Tank simulation video games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the 1950s
Video games set in the 1970s
Video games set in 1980
Video games set in 1997
Video games set in 1998
Video games set in Germany
Video games set in Israel
Video games set in Japan
Video games set in Korea
Video games set in Syria
Video games set in Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle%20Brown%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Kyle Brown (born October 20, 1967) is an American computer scientist at IBM, Durham, North Carolina, USA, known for his work in software design pattern. He is an IBM Fellow. He has published ten books, over 100 commercial articles and papers, and holds more than 25 patents. He was the program chair for the Pattern Languages of Programs Conference in 2002 and again in 2018.
Books
Books he has written or co-written include:
References
External links
Brown's personal homepage
IBM Fellows
1967 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%20Probinsyano%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Ang Probinsyano, a Philippine action drama television series on ABS-CBN, premiered on October 3, 2016, on the network's Primetime Bida evening block and worldwide on The Filipino Channel and concluded on May 24, 2017. The series stars Coco Martin as SPO2 Ricardo Dalisay, together with an ensemble cast consisting of Susan Roces, Arjo Atayde, Albert Martinez, Agot Isidro, Jaime Fabregas, and Eddie Garcia.
The second season of Ang Probinsyano shows the Tuazon family's façade slowly unravel, leading their conflict with Cardo to become even more direct than it was when they were shrouded in anonymity. The Tuazons then succeed in smearing Cardo's name by securing his conviction for drug trafficking. Cardo would later escape and find incriminating evidence against the Tuazons, and along the way exonerating himself. In his search for justice, Cardo also uncovers the Tuazons involvement in the demise of his father, brother and sister-in-law.
Plot
Tomas Tuazon (Albert Martinez), Joaquin's (Arjo Atayde) father, is revealed as the head of the drug syndicate Cardo (Coco Martin) battles. Don Emilio Syquia (Eddie Garcia), Tomas' father-in-law, gets fed up with Tomas taking control of the drug syndicate for himself and orchestrates events that would pit Cardo against Tomas. Tomas is ultimately captured by Cardo in a drug sting, and is subsequently convicted. To retaliate, Joaquin and Don Emilio frame Cardo for illegal drug possession. While inside the maximum security prison, Cardo and Tomas continue to engage in conflicts, which further intensifies when Don Emilio reveals the truth to Cardo that Tomas killed Cardo's former sister-in-law, Carmen (Bela Padilla). As Tomas attempts to escape prison, Cardo kills him.
Following Tomas' death, Joaquin and General Rogelio Jacob (Rez Cortez) hire a new, even more cruel Bureau of Corrections Director, Guillermo Acosta (Dindo Arroyo). Under their payroll, Acosta makes prison life more difficult for Cardo. Cardo participates in a jailbreak and is determined to clear his name. He continues to pursue the syndicate responsible for his frame up. To that end, using the name of Miguel, he joins his allies in prison Ramil "Manager" Taduran (Michael de Mesa) and Julian Valerio (Julio Diaz) who work for the Cebu-based drug syndicate of Romano "Chairman" Recio (Ronnie Lazaro), an ally of Joaquin, to take the syndicate down.
The organization continues to threaten his family and has many connections in society, including the police and government. Unknown to Cardo, the syndicate who framed him is the same syndicate responsible for the deaths of his loved ones, including Ador.
Don Emilio is captured by Cardo and convicted for the murder of Cardo's father, SPO4 Pablo B. de Leon (Tonton Gutierrez). Cardo and his prison allies take down Recio's drug syndicate and after surrendering, Cardo's innocence is proven after Joaquin is exposed for his crimes. Cardo obtains incriminating evidence including Colonel Roy Car |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao%20%28film%29 | Bao is a 2018 American computer-animated short film written and directed by Domee Shi and produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is the first Pixar short film to be directed by a female director. It was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival before being released with Incredibles 2 on June 15, 2018. The film is about an aging and lonely Chinese Canadian mother suffering from empty nest syndrome, who receives an unexpected second chance at motherhood when she makes a steamed bun (baozi) that comes to life. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards.
Plot
In Toronto, Canada, a Chinese-Canadian woman cooks a meal of baozi for her and her husband. One of her buns comes alive, much to her shock. She raises the steamed bun as a child, feeding and caring for it, as it enjoys the time spent with her. Eventually, the bun wishes to play with other children, but his overprotective mother refuses to allow it, much to his ire. As the bun grows, he desires increasing amounts of independence, which creates tension between the two of them that gradually alienates them from each other. When the bun introduces the mother to his new fiancée, with whom he will leave home, the mother protests. She tries to stop the steamed bun from leaving, and in a fit of desperation, she eats the bun, after which she cries over what she has done.
Later, as the mother lies in bed, her real son enters the room, revealing that the whole sequence was an allegorical dream. His father urges him to talk to his mother, but she rebuffs him. As he and his mother sit on the edge of her bed, he offers her the same treat he once refused on the bus, which they share in an emotional moment. Later, after reconciling, the son and his fiancée join his mother in making buns, as his father looks on with approval.
Production
Bao was directed by Domee Shi and produced by Becky Neiman-Cobb. Bao was the first of 35 Pixar shorts to be directed by a woman, made more significant as well as the fact that the animation industry is male-dominated as a whole. Shi first began working on Bao as a storywriter on the film Inside Out, and says she wanted to work creatively on a project on her own. The earliest sketches of Bao date back to January 2014, when Shi began work on it as a side project, drawing inspiration from classic fairy tales and her experience as an only child. It began as a brainstorm of different steamed bun ideas and characters with Shi recalling, "This image popped into my head of this mom nuzzling her little baby steamed bun to death, and I had to draw it down." Having been an only child while growing up in Toronto, she identified herself with the metaphor of the "overprotected little steamed bun." Shi worked on Bao alone for two years before bringing in a crew.
When asked why the film has no dialogue, Shi explained that she wanted it to be understood universally by audiences, without any language barrier. She also said that she wanted to challeng |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicasts | Predicasts, Inc. was among the first firms in the nascent information science industry and provided computerized data on businesses and industries. Predicasts was founded by Samuel Wolpert in 1960.
‘After a decade of work as a statistician in government and an economist in industry, Samuel Wolpert founded a small company in Cleveland, Ohio, to publish a collection of product forecasts based on the SIC Code.The journal was intentioned as quarterly and to appeal to market researchers. ..In the first three years, annual revenue was under $50,000, but by 1970, sales had reached the $1 million mark. By the end of the 1970s, Predicasts had 25 publications, 120 employees, $4.5 million in revenue, and $0.7 million in pretax profits’. In 1982 Indian Head (the U.S. subsidiary of Thyssen-Bornemisza N.V. of the Netherlands.) purchased Predicasts, later reselling it to Information Access.
In the early 1970’s businesses could access this information from their own computer terminals through Predicasts own PTS system which, at the time, was one of the largest online business information systems in the world.
References
American companies established in 1960
1960 establishments in Ohio
Information science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi-hole | Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole and optionally a DHCP server, intended for use on a private network. It is designed for low-power embedded devices with network capability, such as the Raspberry Pi, but can be installed on almost any Linux machine.
Pi-hole has the ability to block traditional website advertisements as well as advertisements in unconventional places, such as smart TVs and mobile operating system advertisements.
History
The Pi-hole project was created by Jacob Salmela as an open source alternative to AdTrap in 2014 and was hosted on GitHub. Since then, several contributors have joined the project.
Features
Pi-hole makes use of a modified dnsmasq called FTLDNS, cURL, lighttpd, PHP and the AdminLTE Dashboard to block DNS requests for known tracking and advertising domains. The application acts as a DNS server for a private network (replacing any pre-existing DNS server provided by another device or the ISP), with the ability to block advertisements and tracking domains for users' devices. It obtains lists of advertisement and tracking domains from a configurable list of predefined sources, and compares DNS queries against them. If a match is found within any of the lists, or a locally configured blacklist, Pi-hole will refuse to resolve the requested domain and respond to the requesting device with a dummy address.
Because Pi-hole blocks domains at the network level, it is able to block advertisements, such as banner advertisements on a webpage, but it can also block advertisements in unconventional locations, such as on Android, iOS and smart TVs.
Using VPN services, Pi-Hole can block domains without using a DNS filter setup in a router. Any device that supports VPN can use Pi-Hole on a cellular network or a home network without having a DNS server configured.
The nature of Pi-hole allows it to also block website domains in general by manually adding the domain name to a blacklist. Likewise, domains can be manually added to a whitelist should a website's function be impaired by domains being blocked. Pi-hole can also function as a network monitoring tool, which can aid in troubleshooting DNS requests and network faults. Pi-hole can also be used to encourage the use of DNS over HTTPS for devices using it as a DNS server with the cloudflared binary provided by Cloudflare.
Difference from traditional advertisement blockers
Pi-hole functions similarly to a network firewall, meaning that advertisements and tracking domains are blocked for all devices behind it, whereas traditional advertisement blockers only run in a user's browser, and remove advertisements only on the same machine.
See also
Ad blocking
Online advertising
References
External links
Ad blocking software
DNS server software for Linux
Software using the European Union Public Licence
Raspberry Pi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajime%20Syacho | is a Japanese YouTuber who, as of March 2019, had the largest number of YouTube channel subscribers in Japan. He is part of the multi-channel network UUUM. He is nicknamed and .
Biography
Early life
He was born on February 14, 1993, in Tonami, Toyama. He was named because of his parents' desire for him to be .
When he was in middle school and high school, he became vice chairman on his school's student council. He said that at school he was "the type who was always on the edge of the group."
He has enjoyed making videos since high school, when he recorded videos with friends for fun such as "taking underwear off while wearing trousers," etc.
Because he dedicated most of his time to the basketball team, his high school grades were not good, but his girlfriend at the time entered university on recommendation admission (a kind of admission that allows someone to submit a recommendation letter and enter a school without taking an exam). He started studying for about ten hours a day and gained the top score for the mock test in his school. However, his test results on the National Center Test for University Admissions were 150 points lower than the benchmark score, so he went to Shizuoka University, which was not his first choice, following advice from a high school faculty member. After that, having broken up with his girlfriend, he began posting videos he made with his friends during college freshman year on YouTube, thinking, "I'm going to focus on me. "
YouTube
In March 2012, he and his university classmate set up his video team "Hajime Company" and started posting videos on YouTube. His first video only had three recorded views. After that, he opened a personal channel and changed his YouTube name from to .
From September 2013 until March 2014, he studied English in the United Kingdom. After returning to Japan on April 1, 2014, he announced his affiliation with the group UUUM.
He appeared in the YouTube Japan television advertisement "Suki na koto de, Ikite iku" in June 2015. Along with this, his full-page ads were posted in Weekly Shōnen Jump and Shibuya 109, and his exposure on media other than YouTube also increased. Shooting commercials interfered with his university studies, so after consideration he decided not to worry about school and focus most of his energy on making videos, saying, "you only live once, so you should make your life interesting"
In March 2016, in addition to gaining the most subscribers on YouTube Japan, he graduated from university.
In February 2017, he opened a fee-based fan site "Hajimeno."
In March 2017, Mizunyan, a webcaster, exposed Hajime Syacho's cheating scandal with Yuka Kinoshita, who also belongs to UUUM. In addition, he was suspected of having a relationship with a female model who stayed overnight at his home. In response, he released a video admitting to cheating, but denying a relationship with the model. On March 30 of the same year, he announced his suspension of activities on his fan clu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleana%20gracilicordata | Caleana gracilicordata, commonly known as the slender-leafed duck orchid is a species of orchid endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, late flowering duck orchid with a single small, smooth, heart-shaped leaf and a single greenish yellow and red flower. It usually grows in mossy places on granite outcrops.
Description
Caleana gracilicordata has a single smooth, narrow heart-shaped, dull green to dull red leaf, long and wide. The leaf is usually withered by flowering time. Usually only one greenish-yellow and red flower, about long and wide is borne on a flowering stem high. The dorsal sepal, lateral sepals and petals are narrow and hang downwards with the dorsal sepal pressed against the column which has broad wings, forming a bucket-like shape. About one-half to one-third of the outer part of the labellum is covered with glossy black glands or calli and the labellum has a flattened top. Flowering occurs from late October to November.
Taxonomy and naming
The slender-leafed duck orchid was first formally described in 2006 by Stephen Hopper and Andrew Brown who gave it the name Paracaleana gracilicordata. The description was published in Australian Systematic Botany from a specimen collected near Jarrahdale. In 2014, based on molecular studies, Joseph Miller and Mark Clements transferred all the species previously in Paracaleana to Caleana so that the present species became Caleana gracilicordata. The specific epithet (gracilicordata) is derived from the Latin words gracilis meaning "slender" or "gracile" and cordata meaning "heart-shaped", referring to the shape of the leaf of this orchid.
Distribution and habitat
Caleana gracilicordata grows with mosses and lichens on granite outcrops between Waroona and the Brookton Highway in the Jarrah Forest biogeographic region.
Conservation
Caleana gracilicordata (as Paracaleana gracilicordata) is classified as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruzzo%E2%80%93Tompa%20algorithm | The Ruzzo–Tompa algorithm or the RT algorithm is a linear-time algorithm for finding all non-overlapping, contiguous, maximal scoring subsequences in a sequence of real numbers. The Ruzzo–Tompa algorithm was proposed by Walter L. Ruzzo and Martin Tompa. This algorithm is an improvement over previously known quadratic time algorithms. The maximum scoring subsequence from the set produced by the algorithm is also a solution to the maximum subarray problem.
The Ruzzo–Tompa algorithm has applications in bioinformatics, web scraping, and information retrieval.
Applications
Bioinformatics
The Ruzzo–Tompa algorithm has been used in Bioinformatics tools to study biological data. The problem of finding disjoint maximal subsequences is of practical importance in the analysis of DNA. Maximal subsequences algorithms have been used in the identification of transmembrane segments and the evaluation of sequence homology.
The algorithm is used in sequence alignment which is used as a method of identifying similar DNA, RNA, or protein sequences. Accounting for the ordering of pairs of high-scoring subsequences in two sequences creates better sequence alignments. This is because the biological model suggests that separate high-scoring subsequence pairs arise from insertions or deletions within a matching region. Requiring consistent ordering of high-scoring subsequence pairs increases their statistical significance.
Web scraping
The Ruzzo–Tompa algorithm is used in Web scraping to extract information from web pages. Pasternack and Roth proposed a method for extracting important blocks of text from HTML documents. The web pages are first tokenized and the score for each token is found using local, token-level classifiers. A modified version of the Ruzzo–Tompa algorithm is then used to find the k highest-valued subsequences of tokens. These subsequences are then used as predictions of important blocks of text in the article.
Information retrieval
The Ruzzo–Tompa algorithm has been used in Information retrieval search algorithms. Liang et al. proposed a data fusion method to combine the search results of several microblog search algorithms. In their method, the Ruzzo–Tompa algorithm is used to detect bursts of information.
Problem definition
The problem of finding all maximal subsequences is defined as follows: Given a list of real numbered scores , find the list of contiguous subsequences that gives the greatest total score, where the score of each subsequence . The subsequences must be disjoint (non-overlapping) and have a positive score.
Other algorithms
There are several approaches to solving the all maximal scoring subsequences problem. A natural approach is to use existing, linear time algorithms to find the maximum subsequence (see maximum subarray problem) and then recursively find the maximal subsequences to the left and right of the maximum subsequence. The analysis of this algorithm is similar to that of Quicksort: The maximum subsequence could b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic%20World%20Archive | The Arctic World Archive (AWA) is a facility for data preservation, located in the Svalbard archipelago on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, not far from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It contains data of historical and cultural interest from several countries, as well as all of American multinational company GitHub's open source code, in a deeply buried steel vault, with the data storage medium expected to last for 500 to 1,000 years. It is run as a profit-making business by private company Piql and the state-owned coal-mining company Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani (SNSK).
History
Piql is a Norwegian data-storage company that specialises in long-term storage of digital media. Piql and SNSK created the deeply buried steel vault out of a mineshaft of an abandoned coal mine. At the time of its opening as the Arctic World Archive on 27 March 2017, the Brazilian, Mexican and Norwegian governments deposited copies of various historical documents in the vault.
Description
The Svalbard archipelago, situated north of mainland Norway, about from the North Pole, is declared demilitarised by 42 nations, as established in the Svalbard Treaty signed after World War I. This means that the territory cannot be used for military purposes, and the company describes the location as "one of the most geopolitically secure places in the world". The archive facility is on Spitsbergen, the biggest island in Svalbard.
The facility is a large steel vault located somewhere between and below the ground or permafrost inside an abandoned coal mine (Store Norske Gruve 3) that reaches over into the side of a mountain. The facility is secured with a concrete wall and a steel gate. The deposits themselves are stored in secure shipping containers behind the gate.
Because of the island's Arctic climate and resulting permafrost, even if the power to the facility failed, the temperature inside the vault would remain below freezing point, which is cold enough to preserve the vault's contents for decades or more, with the vault below the permafrost. The vault is situated deeply enough to avoid damage even from nuclear and EMP weapons.
Storage and future use
Data is stored offline on film reels made using a refined version of ordinary darkroom photography technology. The film is made of polyester coated in silver halide crystals and powder-coated with iron oxide, and has a life span of at least 500 and possibly up to 2,000 years, if stored in optimum conditions.
The level of security of the data represents the "cold layer" of archiving. The "hot" (accessible online repositories) and "warm" (e.g. Internet Archive) layers both have the weakness of being founded upon electronics – both would be wiped out in a repeat of the 19th-century geomagnetic storm known as the "Carrington Event". It is an incomplete but more secure snapshot of data, with archiving intended at five-year intervals.
Realising that people in the very far future may not understand what they see in th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Auslander | Marc Alan Auslander is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to the PL/8 compiler. He spent his entire career at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.
Auslander received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Princeton University in 1963. He joined IBM the same year. In 1991 he was named an IBM Fellow. He retired in 2004 but continues to be affiliated with IBM as a Fellow Emeritus.
In 1996, Auslander was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to reduced instruction set computing (RISC) systems. In 1999 he was named both ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, again for contributions to RISC.
From 1970 to 1972 Auslander served as chairman of ACM SIGOPS. He has authored 19 scientific papers and holds 14 U.S. patents.
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Publication list at DBLP
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Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
IBM Fellows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20computer%20science | This glossary of computer science is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in computer science, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including terms relevant to software, data science, and .
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Giannandrea | John Giannandrea is a Scottish software engineer and businessman. He co-founded Metaweb, led Google Search and artificial intelligence, was co-founder and CTO of the speech recognition company Tellme Networks, Chief Technologist of the web browser group at Netscape, senior engineer at General Magic, and is now a senior executive at Apple Inc. In December 2018, it was announced that Giannandrea had been appointed Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy at Apple, the department rumored to have the most involvement with Apple’s electric car project.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mickey%20Mouse%20Mixed-Up%20Adventures%20episodes | Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures, formerly known as Mickey and the Roadster Racers, is an American computer-animated preschool television series on Disney Junior. Produced by Disney Television Animation, it is the successor to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The series debuted on Disney Junior and Disney Channel in the United States on January 15, 2017, and ended on October 1, 2021.
The series was renewed for a second season on March 15, 2017, which premiered on April 13, 2018. A third season begun airing on October 14, 2019, under the new title Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1: Mickey and the Roadster Racers (2017–18)
Season 2: Super-Charged (2018–19)
Season 3: Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures (2019–21)
Starting this season, in several episodes, Kaitlyn Robrock takes over as the voice of Minnie Mouse following Russi Taylor's death in July 2019.
Shorts
Shorts overview
Chip 'N Dale's Nutty Tales
Season 1 (2017)
Season 2 (2018–19)
Mickey Mouse: Hot Diggity-Dog Tales
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Lists of American children's animated television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20W.%20Owens | Daniel W. Owens known by most as Dan Owens is an American playwright.
Owens was born in Malden, MA. He received his education at Bryant and Straton Junior College (certificate in computer programming, 1968). He also attended Boston State College (1968) and the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Owens attended Yale University School of Drama (playwriting, 1971 – 1972), and Harvard University School of Education (Ed.M) where he received his Master's in Education. He then went on to teach black theater and playwriting at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts. While at the University of Massachusetts Owens wrote for the locally produced television show Brotherlove.
In the mid-1970s Owens moved from Roxbury, MA to New York City to write many successful off-broadway productions including critically acclaimed The Michigan, 1979. Owens followed up the following year with Lagrima Del Diablo (The Devil's Tear), 1980. In "Lagrima del Diablo" ("The Devil's Tear"), author Dan Owens imagines a power struggle between a Roman Catholic churchman and a revolutionary leader on a recently de-colonialized West Indian island. Archbishop Stephen Emmanuel Pontifex (Graham Brown) has ordered the closing of the local churches until the revolution frees his fellow churchmen. "Lagrima del Diablo" ("The Devil's Tear") premiered at St. Mark's Playhouse in New York on January 10, 1980 . In 1999 Owens teamed up with veteran actor John Amos (Good Times, Roots) for the production of Lindstrom and Matombi. The play captures the intercommunications of UN peacekeeping force officer Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lindstrom and the leader of a small Angolan opposition army General Isaac Ernesto Motambi.
Owens coauthored Langston Hughes's Little Ham: A Harlem Jazzical with Judd Woldin in 2003. The book was published by Samuel French, Inc and performed as a musical Off Broadway. Langston Hughes's Little Ham: A Harlem Jazzical Is set in the heyday of the 1930s Harlem Renaissance. The story follows Hamlet Hitchcock Jones, known as Little Ham, as he prevents a downtown mob from taking over the Harlem numbers racket. Hughes's Little Ham: A Harlem Jazzical Arranger Luther Henderson was nominated for 2003 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Orchestrations.
One of Owens' plays, "The Gang on the Roof" was supported by a grant from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. "The Gang on the Roof" was inspired by a Seattle P-I article about a Vietnam-era racial mutiny. After years of writing in New York City he moved to Seattle where he continued with his play Bobbie and Jerome, which received its world premiere at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center in Seattle. In September 2013, Owens premiered "Hello Darlin's: Mom's got something to tell you!". "Hello Darlin's: Mom's got something to tell you!" is a one-woman tribute to the late Jackie "Moms" Mabley. Owens was credited in multiple publications for capturing the irreverent and controversial aura of Jackie "Moms" Mabley in a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Like%20That%20%28Janelle%20Mon%C3%A1e%20song%29 | I Like That is a song by American singer Janelle Monáe from her third studio album Dirty Computer. It was first released as a promotional single on April 23, 2018, before being released as the fourth single from the album on August 17, 2018. Three remix singles were released for the song on August 17, August 24, and November 9, 2018. The song peaked at number 14 on the Hot R&B Songs chart, number one on the Adult R&B Songs chart, and was certified Gold in the United States in May 2020.
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2018 songs
Janelle Monáe songs
Songs written by Janelle Monáe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News18%20Urdu | News 18 J&K-Ladakh-Himachal () is an Indian television network that broadcasts in Urdu and is owned by Network 18 which is owned and operated by Reliance Industries. It was launched on 15 August 2001 by media baron Ramoji Rao. It is the first Urdu Language channel of India.
History
The Urdu language has long been an integral part of the cultural fabric of India. Some of the Bollywood film industry's legacies come from this language. It is one of the official languages of India.
Establishment
After identifying a lack of a channel that showcased the Urdu language, ETV Network started India's first Urdu language TV channel: ETV Urdu, on 15 August 2001. It now caters to a large section of Urdu speaking population in India. It also aims to target Pakistani viewers as Urdu is their national language. It is also available in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, UAE, United States and UK. Main programming includes serials, debates on culturally and socially relevant subjects, dramas, news, religious and other infotainment programs.
Administration
News18 Urdu is India's full-time Urdu News channel which relays news and programs 24 hours a day. It is owned by Network 18 which is owned and operated by Reliance Industries. To cater to the needs of Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states audience, the News 18 management started regional bulletins.
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Television stations in Hyderabad
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%20of%20the%20Lustrous%20%28TV%20series%29 | is a 2017 anime television series based on Haruko Ichikawa's manga series of the same name. It is produced by the computer graphics (CG) animation studio Orange and directed and written by Takahiko Kyōgoku and Toshiya Ono, respectively. It follows the Lustrous – immortal humanoid life forms who are the embodiments of gemstones – who defend themselves against the Lunarians, who seek to harvest their bodies for decorations. Phosphophyllite is the youngest of the Lustrous, and is given the task to assemble a natural history since they are too brittle to fight.
Orange created the series with 3D animation as a base, a decision made partially due to the difficulty in depicting translucent gemstones using hand-drawn animation. Yoichi Nishikawa's concept art greatly influenced Kyōgoku's vision for the series, with several shots directly based on Nishikawa's art. While the manga is more ambiguous and subtle, the anime had to be clear on a single viewing, so Phos was given more close-up shots and repeated lines to give them a larger presence and more easily identifiable goals. As Kyōgoku was used to writing teenaged characters with clear motives and desires, he initially had problems with portraying Phos, but his image of the character solidified after hearing Tomoyo Kurosawa's performance as them.
The series was well received by critics, frequently called among the best of the 2010s and a turning point for CG anime, and convincing skeptics that an action series could be well done outside of a 2D production. The writing was also positively received, with critics calling the characters and world likable and intriguing. It received several awards and nominations, namely for its visuals.
Premise
Land of the Lustrous is set in the far future, in a land inhabited by an immortal life form called the Lustrous, who are the embodiment of gemstones. The twenty-eight Lustrous are led by their teacher, Kongo, and fight to defend themselves against the Lunarians, who appear every few days, seeking to harvest the Lustrous' bodies for decorations. Phosphophyllite, nicknamed Phos, currently 300 years old, is the youngest of the Lustrous, and because of their brittleness is unable to fight. They feel useless, but are given the task to assemble a natural history by Kongo. While looking for information to include in the book, Phos meets the nightwatch, Cinnabar, who is poisonous and thus dangerous even to other Lustrous, and therefore lives in isolation. Finding this sad, Phos decides to find Cinnabar a better job.
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Production
Land of the Lustrous was produced at the computer graphics (CG) animation studio Orange, and adapts Haruko Ichikawa's 2012 manga of the same name, covering little over its first four volumes. The series had Katsuhiro Takei and Kiyotaka Waki as production staff; and was directed by Takahiko Kyōgoku, with Toshiya Ono in charge of the series scripts, Eiji Inomoto serving as chief CG director, Kenji Fujita being director of photography, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amel%20Dehby | Amel Dehby (born June 15, 1991) is a French professional kickboxer and winner of the World Kickboxing Network title.
In 2016, Dehby was defeated by Tiffany van Soest for the Glory Women's Bantamweight title.
She is the former two time WKN K1 World Champion and one time International Champion at Super Featherweight, the former ISKA K1 World Lightweight Champion, the former Nuit Des Champions Bantamweight Champion and the Urban Boxing United Tournament Champion.
Kickboxing career
Amel Dehby made her kickboxing debut in 2010 against Irina Mazepa, winning a unanimous decision.
In 2012 Dehby fought Bernise Alldis for the ISKA Lightweight World K1 title. Dehby won a unanimous decision.
In her next fight, Dehby fought for the WKN World Super Featherweight title. She won a unanimous decision.
In 2013 she participated in the Urban Boxing United four woman tournament. After Paola Cappucci in the semi-finals, she won a unanimous decision against Maria Pantazi in the finals.
She participated in the Global Boxing Council eight woman tournament in 2015. Dehby defeated Lucie Mudrochova in semis and Stephanie Ielö Page in the finals to win the tournament.
In her next fight she won a unanimous decision against Veronica Vernocchi to win the WKN International Super Featherweight Title.
In 2016 Dehby participated in the Glory Super Bantamweight Grand Prix. She won a decision against Jiwaen Lee in the semi-finals, during GLORY 35. During GLORY 36: Collision she won a decision against Isis Verbeek. In the finals she faced Tiffany van Soest. Dehby lost a unanimous decision.
Dehby was given a chance to fight Anissa Meksen for the Women's Bantamweight title during Glory 53. Dehby failed to capture the title, losing a unanimous decision.
Championships and accomplishments
World Kickboxing Network
WKN World K1 Super Featherweight Championship (Two time)
WKN International K1 Super Featherweight Championship
International Sport Karate Association
ISKA K1 World Lightweight Championship
Nuit Des Champions
NDC Bantamweight World Championship
Urban Boxing United
Urban Boxing United Tournament Champion
Global Boxing Council
World GBC Tour 8 Tournament Champion
Kickboxing record
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visopsys | Visopsys (Visual Operating System), is an operating system, written by Andy McLaughlin. Development of the operating system began in 1997. The operating system is licensed under the GNU GPL, with the headers and libraries under the less restrictive LGPL license. It runs on the 32-bit IA-32 architecture. It features a multitasking kernel, supports asynchronous I/O and the FAT line of file systems. It requires a Pentium processor.
History
The development of Visopsys began in 1997, being written by Andy McLaughlin. The first public release of the Operating System was on 2 March 2001, with version 0.1. In this release, Visopsys was a 32 bit operating system, supporting preemptive multitasking and virtual memory.
System Overview
Visopsys uses a monolithic kernel, written in the C programming language, with elements of assembly language for certain interactions with the hardware. The operating system supports a graphical user interface, with a small C library.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%20Data%20Exchange | The Shanghai Data Exchange (SDE; ) is a data exchange centre based in the city of Shanghai, China. It is situated in the Jing'an district of Shanghai.
History
2016
Shanghai Data Exchange is approved by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government of Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal economic and information Commission, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce official reply jointly to set up state-controlled mixed-ownership enterprises. By the Shanghai information investment company, China Telecom, China Unicom, China electronic information industrial group, Shen Neng (Group) company limited, Shanghai yidian holding (Group) company, Shanghai Jing praised technology development co, Shanghai information technology company limited, Wanda information company limited, Shanghai Alliance investment management company jointly founded with registered capital of 200 million Yuan.
2017
Shanghai Data Exchange together with China Internet Network Information Center, China Unicom, Fudan University and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology constructed China's first national engineering laboratory for big data distribution and exchange technologies. This lab aims to enhance China's ability in supporting fundamental sectors of big data.
In September, Shanghai Data Exchange released a credit risk profile product that offers a database of 50 million enterprises. The product is designed for financial institutions such as banks, brokerages, insurers and P2P platforms to improve risk control through credit and data checking.
Chronology
April 2016 - The first share list appeared in June.
March 2017 - Award the China's first national engineering laboratory for big data distribution and exchange technologies.
September 2017 - Developed a financial product named credit risk profile .
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Xu | Elizabeth Xu is a Chinese businesswoman, author, and professor specializing in the developing advanced technology and digital business including software-as-a-service, big data, and mobile enterprise software.
Early life and education
Xu was born in China. Her mother was a math teacher and her father was an English professor. Xu earned a Bachelor of Science degree in space physics and Master of Science in environmental science from Peking University. Xu then earned a Master of Science degree in computer science and PhD in atmospheric science from University of Nevada, Reno. Xu earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Career
Xu was briefly the Chief Technology Officer for CP Group, and the CEO of CP R&D, helping the Digital Transformation for a few hundred subsidiaries with combined revenue of $45 Billion and 350,000 employees globally. She was the CTO and SVP at BMC Software. Xu was also the Group VP Engineering at Acxiom, SVP at Rearden Commerce and Vitria Technology. She also held management positions at IBM.
Xu is an author of Myths of the Promotion: 10 Steps to a Successful Career, lecturer at Stanford University.
Xu is a co-inventor and patent owner in Architecture for web-based on-line-off-line digital certificate authority.
Awards
Xu is a recipient of several awards and recognitions.
2015 Gold Stevie Award
2015 Women of Influence
2017 Women in Technology International Hall of Fame
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ElizabethXu.com
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Stanford University faculty
American people of Chinese descent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Cyber%20Security%20Forum | The UK Cyber Security Forum is a social enterprise spanning the United Kingdom, representing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK cyber sector. It is divided up into 20 regional cyber clusters which provide free membership and events for their members. It forms part of the UK cyber security community. The Forum has been praised by UK Government for helping to address the cyber skills gap faced by the U.K. The concept of providing regional cyber security clusters was then later supported and laid out by the U.K Government Cyber Security Strategy in late 2014.
National news has reported on the effectiveness of the forum, especially in terms of aiding collaboration between UK cyber companies. There has been considerable coverage of certain cyber clusters such as the London Cyber Cluster which has featured heavily in the media.
The Cyber Clusters
There are currently 20 official cyber clusters in the U.K supported by the U.K Government.
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http://www.securitynewsdesk.com/cyber-security-companies-meet-oversubscribed-uk-cyber-security-forum-event/
https://crarisk.com/cra-continues-to-increase-awareness-in-the-uk-cyber-security-forum/
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wired-security-london-cyber-security-scene-uk-startups
https://www.ukcybersecurity.co.uk
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Cybercrime in the United Kingdom
Non-profit organisations based in the United Kingdom
Social enterprises |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VariFlight | VariFlight Technology Co. Ltd. () branded as VariFlight internationally, and as 飞常准 () in Mainland China is an information technology company founded in 2005, specializing in the civil aviation data services. The company is based in Hefei, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China.
VariFlight’s products and services include flight status information, A-CDM, mobile applications, travel information, flight delay insurance, airport taxi, etc. In 2018, VariFlight launched its online flight tracking service.
History
VariFlight was founded as Feeyo Technology Co. Ltd. in 2005 in Hefei, Anhui, China by its CEO, Hongfeng Zheng. Initially, the company was providing flight information services to other businesses in China. In 2009, the company achieved 100% coverage of China’s domestic flights. It also released the first version of VariFlight mobile application, and has been working on international flights since 2010, and covered over 94% of global commercial flight data. The company officially launched its first mobile application for flight tracking for individual users in 2011. VariFlight started to cooperate with China’s domestic airports on hubs' operation efficiency and punctuality improvement in 2014.
In 2017, VariFlight launched strategic cooperation with ICAO. Both parties collaborated on organizing the First Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Civil Aviation, 2018.
On 23 August 2019, VariFlight launched Airsavvi, a new brand dedicated to its travel data business for corporate clients.
Data sources
The company uses the following sources to obtain flight status data and related information:
Air Traffic Control
Airlines
Airports
ADS-B.
Products and services
Flight status
VariFlight provides flight status information to businesses and individual customers.
In 2018, VariFlight reached over 99% of flights in China and 94% of global flights coverage.
Historical reports and predictive analyses
Historical reports on such parameters as flight on-time performance, airport punctuality, aerobridge utilization, flight delay time. The company has also been serving as an information source of extreme weather conditions affecting flights and airports punctuality.
Mobile applications
Feichangzhun/VariFlight ()
VariFlightPro ()
A-CDM
VariFlight A-CDM (Airport Collaborative Decision Making) is an information system dedicated to the improvement of airport ground operations, safety and the growth of a hub’s overall punctuality.
Data sources: ADS-B, electronic blocks, apron vehicle positioning and video analysis.
In the end of 2017, 81 airports located in Mainland China and outside have installed VariFlight’s A-CDM. Among those airports are: Kunming Changshui International Airport, Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport, Shanghai Pudong International Airport, etc.
Shanghai Pudong International Airport has been using A-CDM developed by VariFlight since January 2017. The system is aimed to improve on-time performance and safety of the airport's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy%20Pham | Kathy Pham is a Vietnamese American computer scientist and product management executive. She has held roles in leadership, engineering, product management, and data science at Google, IBM, the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Harris Healthcare, and served as a founding product and engineering member of the United States Digital Service (USDS) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States at The White House. Pham was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Product and Engineering at the Federal Trade Commission, and the inaugural Executive Director of the National AI Advisory Committee.
Pham is a Fellow and Faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School where she created and teaches Product Management and Society. She has held positions as Fellow at Mozilla, Fellow at the Rita Allen Foundation, and Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center where she co-founded the Ethical Tech Group and was part of the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fellows in partnership with the MIT Media Lab. At Mozilla, Pham co-leads the Responsible Computer Science Challenge and co-founded the Mozilla Fix the Internet Incubator. Pham founded Product and Society, which focuses on product management, ethics, and the public interest. Pham has been part of a championship StarCraft II team, and placed 1st the Imagine Cup competition, representing the United States with a sentiment analysis (EmotionAI) engine.
Early life and education
Pham’s parents were Vietnamese boat people, who spent several years in refugee camps before immigrating to the United States. Her brother, United States Marine Corps Major David Pham, was presented the Purple Heart medal during combat operations in Afghanistan.
Pham attended Windsor Forest High School in Savannah, Georgia where she was a member of the volleyball team and graduated as Salutatorian of her graduating class.
Pham earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from both the Georgia Institute of Technology and Supélec, specializing in cryptography and human computer interaction. While in university, Pham was the chair of Georgia Tech's Women in Computing, director of technology at Phi Mu fraternity, researcher in the Bio-Medical Informatics and Bio-Imaging Lab, and founded the southeast chapter of United for Sight.
Career
Pham began her career as a software engineer building flights simulation and healthcare interoperability software at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Harris Healthcare. She then was a consultant and data scientist at IBM who focused on healthcare analytics. There, she also led IBM’s Employee Charitable Contribution Campaign and founded the After Hours Gaming League for StarCraft II with a team that made it to the league gaming finals. At Google, she held roles in product management, technical program management, and data science on Google Health, Google People Operations, and Goo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTime%20XR | vTime XR is a free-to-play virtual reality and augmented reality social network created by British virtual and augmented reality innovation company vTime Limited, developed in Liverpool in the UK. Cross platform, the app allows groups of up to four users to "jump into VR or AR and talk in what is essentially a private chat room. Users can customize an avatar and select a 3D environment to host the chat inside".
Launching on Gear VR in December 2015, vTime was the first virtual reality social network on a mobile platform. The app became the first social network to launch on Google Cardboard in March 2016, and on Google Daydream in January 2017. vTime was also the first virtual reality application to give its users the ability to socialise inside their own 360 images, and was later a launch title for the Windows Mixed Reality platform in October 2017.
In February 2019, vTime became the first cross reality (XR) social network after adding AR mode. The update gives users the ability to meet and chat with people in a shared virtual space using AR, VR, or 2D Magic Window mode.
Experience
"vTime likes to think of itself as a “sociable” network, rather than a social network, perhaps emphasising that these virtual social gatherings are essentially friendly and more genteel in nature than some of their counterparts". The network focuses on facilitating shared conversations in virtual reality, though users without a VR headset are able to join sessions via 'Magic Window' mode on Android and iOS phones. Cross platform, all user avatars support audio lip-syncing and avatar eye-tracking, and can use the network's library of virtual emojis 'vMotes' allowing "users to express themselves in numerous ways". Users on high-end headsets can use platform controllers to add hand and body tracking to their sessions
Funding
In April 2018, the vTime Limited announced that it had raised $7.6 million (£5.4 million) in a series A funding round to accelerate development of the app.
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External links
Video game gameplay
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Virtual reality communities
Virtual reality games
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20memory%20storage%20and%20retrieval%20neural%20network | A large memory storage and retrieval neural network (LAMSTAR) is a fast deep learning neural network of many layers that can use many filters simultaneously. These filters may be nonlinear, stochastic, logic, non-stationary, or even non-analytical. They are biologically motivated and learn continuously.
A LAMSTAR neural network may serve as a dynamic neural network in spatial or time domains or both. Its speed is provided by Hebbian link-weights that integrate the various and usually different filters (preprocessing functions) into its many layers and to dynamically rank the significance of the various layers and functions relative to a given learning task. This vaguely imitates biological learning that integrates various preprocessors (cochlea, retina, etc.) and cortexes (auditory, visual, etc.) and their various regions. Its deep learning capability is further enhanced by using inhibition, correlation and by its ability to cope with incomplete data, or "lost" neurons or layers even amidst a task. It is fully transparent due to its link weights. The link-weights allow dynamic determination of innovation and redundancy, and facilitate the ranking of layers, of filters or of individual neurons relative to a task.
LAMSTAR has been applied to many domains, including medical and financial predictions, adaptive filtering of noisy speech in unknown noise, still-image recognition, video image recognition, software security and adaptive control of non-linear systems. LAMSTAR had a much faster learning speed and somewhat lower error rate than a CNN based on ReLU-function filters and max pooling, in 20 comparative studies.
These applications demonstrate delving into aspects of the data that are hidden from shallow learning networks and the human senses, such as in the cases of predicting onset of sleep apnea events, of an electrocardiogram of a fetus as recorded from skin-surface electrodes placed on the mother's abdomen early in pregnancy, of financial prediction or in blind filtering of noisy speech.
LAMSTAR was proposed in 1996 and was further developed Graupe and Kordylewski from 1997–2002. A modified version, known as LAMSTAR 2, was developed by Schneider and Graupe in 2008.
References
Deep learning
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202004 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
2004 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrive%20%28magazine%29 | Overdrive is an Indian monthly automotive magazine.
Background
The magazine was established in 1998, and is operated by Indian media and entertainment company Network 18. Infomedia India Limited (IIL) publishes the Hindi version of the magazine.
Sister publications
Forbes India, the Indian edition of Forbes
Better Photography, an Indian magazine for photo enthusiasts
Better Interiors, an interior design publication
See also
List of magazines in India
References
2002 establishments in India
Automobile magazines
English-language magazines published in India
Hindi-language magazines
Monthly magazines published in India
Magazines established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Net | U-Net is a convolutional neural network that was developed for biomedical image segmentation at the Computer Science Department of the University of Freiburg. The network is based on a fully convolutional neural network whose architecture was modified and extended to work with fewer training images and to yield more precise segmentation. Segmentation of a 512 × 512 image takes less than a second on a modern GPU.
The U-Net architecture has also been employed in diffusion models for iterative image denoising. This technology underlies many modern image generation models, such as DALL-E and Midjourney.
Description
The U-Net architecture stems from the so-called “fully convolutional network” proposed by Long, Shelhamer, and Darrell in 2014.
The main idea is to supplement a usual contracting network by successive layers, where pooling operations are replaced by upsampling operators. Hence these layers increase the resolution of the output. A successive convolutional layer can then learn to assemble a precise output based on this information.
One important modification in U-Net is that there are a large number of feature channels in the upsampling part, which allow the network to propagate context information to higher resolution layers. As a consequence, the expansive path is more or less symmetric to the contracting part, and yields a u-shaped architecture. The network only uses the valid part of each convolution without any fully connected layers. To predict the pixels in the border region of the image, the missing context is extrapolated by mirroring the input image. This tiling strategy is important to apply the network to large images, since otherwise the resolution would be limited by the GPU memory.
History
U-Net was created by Olaf Ronneberger, Philipp Fischer, Thomas Brox in 2015 and reported in the paper “U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation”. It is an improvement and development of FCN: Evan Shelhamer, Jonathan Long, Trevor Darrell (2014). "Fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation".
Network architecture
The network consists of a contracting path and an expansive path, which gives it the u-shaped architecture. The contracting path is a typical convolutional network that consists of repeated application of convolutions, each followed by a rectified linear unit (ReLU) and a max pooling operation. During the contraction, the spatial information is reduced while feature information is increased. The expansive pathway combines the feature and spatial information through a sequence of up-convolutions and concatenations with high-resolution features from the contracting path.
Applications
There are many applications of U-Net in biomedical image segmentation, such as brain image segmentation (''BRATS'') and liver image segmentation ("siliver07") as well as protein binding site prediction. Variations of the U-Net have also been applied for medical image reconstruction. Here are some variants and applica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA%27s%20Eyes | NASA's Eyes Visualization (also known as simply NASA's Eyes) is a freely available suite of computer visualization applications created by the Visualization Technology Applications and Development Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to render scientifically accurate views of the planets studied by JPL missions and the spacecraft used in that study. The Eyes family of products is available for desktop computers running Windows 7+, and Mac OSX 10.8+. Deep Space Network Now and Experience Curiosity are web-based and available across all platforms. 3D models of spacecraft and other objects are displayed with the option of comparing their size to a human, school bus, or football stadium.
The visualization team is led by Kevin Hussey, a former technology manager at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Hussey is trained in climatic geomorphology and remote sensing.
Eyes on the Solar System
Initially released in 2010, Eyes on the Solar System was the first in the Eyes family. Eyes on the Solar System provides realistic simulated views of spacecraft, planets and other features within the Solar System with position and orientation of spacecraft and planets represented in the software are based on real data from JPL. Initial releases in 2010 required users to install the Unity game engine for rendering. Since mid-2012 the application has been Java based. Simple and advanced modes are offered.
The application receives regular updates with modules featuring timely events such as the end of the Cassini mission, and arrival of spacecraft such as MAVEN to Mars and the Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. The application received heavy use during the entry, descent and landing of the Mars Science Laboratory. The landing of MSL brought an additional 739,000 visits and 20 terabytes of data was streamed from JPL servers that weekend in support of the software. Touchdown time of the rover in the software was predicted by team planning spacecraft trajectory weeks ahead but was accurate within a fraction of a second.
Eyes on the Exoplanets
Based on data from the NASA exoplanet archive, Eyes on the Exoplanet enables uses to zoom in on more than 1000 planets orbiting distant stars. Exoplanets can be filtered by relevant criteria such as Earth-sized, large rocky planets, gas giants, etc. Distances to these planets are expressed in travel time by car, plane, etc.
Eyes on the Earth
Eyes on the Earth visualizes a number of NASA's Earth orbiting spacecraft in-situ and the data they collect on the Earth itself. Originally released as a Unityweb player interactive, it has undergone a number of iterations including the mobile app "Earth Now".
The application displays measurements such as sea level height, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and Antarctic ozone. Trace the movement of water around the globe using the gravity map from NASA's GRACE satellites. Recent events such as dust storms, volcanic eruptions and fires are displayed as well.
The position |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELNET | The European Leadership Network (ELNET) is a non-governmental organization whose stated mission is to strengthen relations between Europe and Israel.
ELNET was created in 2007 as a European pro-Israel advocacy group, to assist European partners become more active politically, in order to counter "widespread criticism of Israel in Europe".
ELNET is registered in Belgium (responsible for the EU& NATO), France, Germany, Poland and Israel. The organization holds an additional US-based entity (as FELNET), solely concentration on fundraising for the entire network.
Aims and Activities
ELNET is a non-partisan organization, that works to improve strategic relations between Israel and European countries. ELNET has activity and presence in Germany, France, Spain, and Poland, as well as an office in Brussels.
The organization has interacted with European officials on numerous occasions:
"ELNET has hosted more than 50 European delegations of parliament members, top government officials, and other European policy leaders to Israel. ELNET has also held more than 20 strategic dialogues in Europe and has engaged more than 500 participants in its effort to enhance European-Israeli understanding and cooperation"
ELNET's role was defined as "encouraging Jewish political activism".
ELNET operated in Europe using similar means and mechanisms similar to the ones used by AIPAC in the U.S.:
In the United States, FELNET hosted Manuel Valls, a former French Prime Minister, in order to raise the awareness about the importance of France-Israel relations.
ELNET was founded in 2007, first in Brussels, and later in other European capitals - Madrid, Spain (2008), Paris, France (2010), Berlin, Germany (2013), and Warsaw, Poland (2015), and the UK in 2020. ELNET is also registered in Israel (2010) and the Forum for Strategic Dialogue (2013) as an offspring of ELNET.
The American entity is being chaired by Larry Hochberg, a co-founder of Children's Bargain Town USA, a small chain of toy stores that operated in Chicago, as the Chairman and co-founder of Felnet.
Additional board members of Felnet include Andrew S Hochberg (son of Larry Hochberg), Leonard Foxman, Joseph Feinberg, Kenneth A Ruby, Jerry Rosenberg, Carole Mostow (secretary) and Lee Rosenblum, who is the Executive Director of Felnet.
The organization's Advisory Board Members: US Senator Joseph Lieberman, US Senator Mark Kirk, Former US Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, Former US Congressman Howard Berman, Former US Senator Norm Coleman, and Former US Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams.
It also includes Dan Meridor, a former Israeli minister, and Pierre Dassas.
See also
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
References
Organizations established in 2007
Zionist organizations
Zionism in Europe
Lobbying organizations in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Hart%20Food | I Hart Food is an American food travelogue television series that aired on Food Network. It was presented by foodie and YouTube personality Hannah Hart, who also served as executive producer. The series featured Hart traveling to eateries in different cities and learning how to cook foods of different ethnic cuisines.
I Hart Food officially premiered on August 14, 2017, and concluded on September 18, 2017.
Episodes
Notes
References
External links
2010s American cooking television series
2017 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Food travelogue television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%20da%20Vinci%20%28video%20game%29 | Leonardo da Vinci is a 1997 interactive CD-ROM game by Corbis, consisting of a "computerized viewing tool which permits the user to examine English translations of the Codex [Leicester] superimposed onto facsimiles of its pages". The tool, known as Codescope, is licensed by Corbis.
Development
In 1994, Bill Gates acquired the Codex Leicester. In 1997, Gates' privately held company Corbis released a CD-Rom version of the manuscript. On October 25, 1996 it was announced the game would be ready for the holiday season (Microsoft Windows in November and Macintosh in December), but this was ultimately postponed. The game was one in a line of educational/entertainment CD-ROMs with subjects including Paul Cézanne, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Manhattan Project. The game's promotion was kick-started by being featured in a Da Vinci exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Content
The title contains the Codex Leceister, as well as a virtual gallery of Leonardo's major paintings, plus his drawings, manuscripts, and lost works. Players can view the Codex in the original mirror-script Italian, a reversed “normal” view, a transcription of the original Italian, and a modern English translation. Leonardo Da Vinci is a coffee-table-book type game.
Critical reception
Lawyer Gary L. Wolfstone deemed the project "impressive" and "interpretive". Computer Shopper praised the title's ease of use and slick production values. The Economist felt the game "exemplif[ies] the strengths and weaknesses of multimedia at its current, immature state of development". ATPM felt the game would hold the interest of both novice and scholar. The New York Times deemed it one of the better art-history CD-ROMs, despite some oversights in features and interface. Wired explained that the experience of playing the game was "as if Leonardo can suddenly speak". De Volkskrant felt that the game supported Gates' thesis that computer technology could be a form of art. The Wall Street Journal wrote that while Da Vinci is a popular subject for video games, this title "beats them all".
Corbis did not earn a profit from the game.
References
External links
Official page
"Leonardo+da+Vinci"+corbis 12 Highbeam articles
Chronicle article
Bloomberg article
1997 video games
Cultural depictions of Leonardo da Vinci
Educational video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razpotja | Razpotja (Slovene for Crossroads) is a Slovenian quarterly cultural magazine, part of the Eurozine network of European magazines.
History and profile
Razpotja was founded in the autumn of 2010 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, by a local association of students and young scholars of humanities and social sciences, with the aim to open a new space for public discussion. It has four issues per year, providing a platform for informed non-academic debate, mostly written from the perspective of the millennial generation. Each issue is dedicated to a topic of broad public interest, approached in the form of longreads articulating different standpoints. These articles are usually selected from responses to an open call for papers, thus enabling the participation of emergent authors.
The magazine includes sections of contemporary debates and cultural phenomena in Europe and North America. It is renowned for its long interviews with public intellectuals, including Garry Kasparov, Timothy Snyder, Jordan Peterson, Michael Freeden, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Stuart Ewen, Padraic Kenney, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Jean-Luc Marion, Pieter M. Judson, Simona Škrabec, Jan-Werner Müller, and Vinko Globokar.
Since 2014, Razpotja has been collaborating with young Slovenian illustrators, who contribute illustrations and visual essays relating to the main topic of the issue.
As of 2021, the editor-in-chief is Martin Hergouth, and the members of the editorial board are Bojan Albahari, Peter Karba, Blaž Kosovel, Miha Kosovel, Aljoša Kravanja, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič, Katja Pahor, and Danijela Tamše.
Notable contributors
Several notable authors have contributed to Razpotja, including Julián Casanova Ruiz, Manuel Castells, Božidar Debenjak, Jordi Graupera, Drago Jančar, Miljenko Jergović, Tomasz Kamusella, Dean Komel, Mirt Komel, Janko Kos, Ivan Krastev, Geoff Manaugh, Stephen Mulhall, Sofi Oksanen, Vinko Ošlak, Jože Pirjevec, Andrei Pleșu, Boris Podrecca, Peter Pomerantsev, Paul Preston, Alenka Puhar, Mykola Riabchuk, Anton Shekhovtsov, Quentin Skinner, Timothy Snyder, Andrzej Stasiuk, Kirmen Uribe, Vladimir Tismăneanu, Olga Tokarczuk and more than 200 others.
Issues and topics
As of winter 2022, 48 issues of the magazines have been published, which include two double issues and a special edition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the town of Nova Gorica (in 2017).
See also
List of magazines in Slovenia
Culture of Slovenia
References and sources
Magazines established in 2010
Slovene-language magazines
Cultural magazines
Magazines published in Slovenia
Culture of Slovenia
Quarterly magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexany%20Audio | Hexany Audio is an audio post-production studio based in the Greater Los Angeles area. It provides custom sound, original music, voice over, audio programming, and sound branding for video games, virtual reality (VR) and interactive media.
History
Hexany Audio was founded in Boston in 2012 by Berklee College of Music graduates Richard Ludlow, Juan Sebastian Cortés Arango, Richard Gould, and Andy Forsberg. The company was initially developed while the founders were still students at Berklee. The company is known for sound design and music production for notable video games including John Wick: Chronicles, Star Wars: Millennium Falcon – Smugglers Run, League of Legends and Just Shapes & Beats.
Projects
Notable projects of Hexany Audio include John Wick: Chronicles, Star Wars: Millennium Falcon – Smugglers Run, League of Legends, Just Shapes & Beats, Blade Runner: Revelations, Splitgate: Arena Warfare, VR Studios Men in Black: Galactic Getaway, Tencent's Arena of Valor and VRstudios' Star Trek: Dark Remnant. In October 2018, the company released the soundtracks of Chance6 Studios’ horror video game COLINA: Legacy, which were composed by Matthew Carl Earl and Jason Walsh.
Awards and recognition
In 2017, Hexany Audio won the Game Audio Network Guild Awards under the category Best Music in a Casual/Social Game for their work on Strike of Kings / Realm of Valor. In 2018, the company received the Hollywood Music in Media Awards under the category Best Original Song/Score for a Mobile Video Game for their work on Arena of Valor and in 2021, it received the same award under the category Best Song/Score for a Mobile Video Game for their work on Call of Duty: Mobile.
In 2019, their work for the Star Wars: Millennium Falcon - Smuggler's Run attraction was nominated for a MPSE Golden Reel Award under the category Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design.
In 2020, Hexany Audio was featured in the Global Game Music Market report, a report that provides a detailed analysis of global game music market size and competitive landscape.
References
Music production companies
Music publishing companies of the United States
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
Video game design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20E.%20Reiley | Carol Elizabeth Reiley (born 1982) is an American business executive, computer scientist, and model. She is a pioneer in teleoperated and autonomous robot systems in surgery, space exploration, disaster rescue, and self-driving cars. Reiley has worked at Intuitive Surgical, Lockheed Martin, and General Electric. She co-founded, invested in, and was president of Drive.ai, and is now CEO of a healthcare startup, a creative advisor for the San Francisco Symphony, and a brand ambassador for Guerlain Cosmetics. She is a published children's book author, the first female engineer on the cover of MAKE magazine, and is ranked by Forbes, Inc, and Quartz as a leading entrepreneur and influential scientist.
Early life and education
Carol Elizabeth Reiley was born in Flint, Michigan, in 1982. Her family soon moved to Vancouver, Washington. Her father is an engineer and her mother a flight attendant; Reiley credits both for her interest in technology and global humanitarian work. She has a younger brother who is also an engineer. Reiley's parents are from Taipei and she grew up in a Mandarin-speaking household.
Reiley's first invention was a humane mousetrap she fashioned at age eight to catch her runaway pet hamster. She started her first business at age ten, inspired by the Babysitters Club book series. Her first professional job was at age 15 as a television personality on Homework Helpline, a local cable show geared toward K-12 graders, answering math and English questions on the air.
Reiley received her B.S. degree in computer engineering from Santa Clara University in 2004 with a concentration in robotics research, and an M.S. degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University in 2007, specializing in haptics. She then enrolled in a Ph.D. program (ABD) specializing in computer vision/artificial intelligence. She spent a year at Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab with her Ph.D. advisor, who was on sabbatical there. She dropped out to move to Silicon Valley while writing her dissertation because she had a startup idea to pursue.
Reiley married Andrew Ng in 2014. The MIT Tech Review named Ng and Reiley an "AI power couple." Their engagement announcement was featured in IEEE Spectrum. They have two children.
Career
Reiley has built products for surgical robotic systems at Intuitive Surgical, space robotic systems at Lockheed Martin, and self-driving cars at drive.ai.
She was an instructor at Johns Hopkins University, co-teaching intersession courses Haptics For Surgical Robotics (2006) and Developing Facebook Apps (2009).
Reiley is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. She founded the education company Squishybotz and is the author and publisher of Making a Splash (2015), a children's book about growth mindset.
In 2015, Reiley co-founded and was president of Drive.ai. She was the initial investor and seed funded the company from her wedding fund. She still serves on the board and is an advisor to drive.ai, but in 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franko%3A%20The%20Crazy%20Revenge | Franko: The Crazy Revenge is a side-scrolling beat 'em up computer game developed by the Polish Szczecin-based studio World Software for the Amiga in 1994 (using AMOS), later ported to MS-DOS compatible operating systems in 1996. It follows the titular Franko causing mayhem on the streets of Szczecin to avenge his fallen friend Alex.
One of the earlier Polish commercially released video games, it also attained quite a notoriety with the amount of violence (being possibly the first violent Polish video game), use of sampled Polish profanity, nudity (with one of the enemy types in the later level being coat flashers) and with how much detail have it portrayed urban Poland in the early 1990s. Gry Online felt the game was Poland's answer to contemporary titles like Double Dragon or Golden Axe. Upon release it was widely hyped within the Polish video game press and has since enjoys a cult following in its country of origin, being praised for atmosphere and the portrayal of the Polish realias despite the technical and artistic ineptitude. A sequel, Skinny & Franko: Fists of Violence was announced in 2018 and released in 2023.
Gameplay
Franko is a beat 'em up in a vein of Capcom's Final Fight. The player can choose to play either as Franko or Alex (contradicting the plot that implies he's supposed to be murdered) and he traverses through a stage in one direction, beating up everyone that goes in the way until reaching and defeating the stage's boss. Franko consists of three stages - taking each in a different parts of Szczecin - whose low number is compensated for their length when compared to the stages in other beat 'em up games. Interspersed between the stages are the bonus sections that has Franko drive to the next location in a Fiat 126, driving over thugs (and avoiding innocent pedestrians) among the way to gain health and lives. The player starts out with three lives and gains one life stock for each 35th kill during the game as well as performing well in aforementioned bonus sections.
As was common with Amiga games at the time, Franko utilizes an eight-directional joystick and a single fire button whose function changes depending on the direction held. The player can punch, kick, do a jump kick (which some enemy types avoid it by crouching under), a double sided punch that briefly stuns enemies, a spinning kick that knocks down opponents from both sides and a grapple. When catching an enemy with a grapple, the player can then either perform a grab attack or perform a throw, with thrown enemies also acting as projectiles in their own way. With proper positioning the player can also attack downed enemies which is a guaranteed instant kill on most non-boss opponents.
Plot
The game's backstory dates back to 1987 in Szczecin, depicted as a haven for drug dealers at the time. The two teenagers Franko and Alex were practicing martial arts for self-defense and showing off. One night on the streets the friends got ambushed by a gang led by a man na |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Claude%20Gaudel | Marie-Claude Gaudel (born 1946) is a French computer scientist. She is a professor emerita at the University of Paris-Sud. She helped develop PLUSS language for software specifications and was involved in both theoretical and applied computer science. Gaudel is still active in professional societies.
Early life and education
Marie-Claude Gaudel was born in 1946 in Nancy, France, into a family of scientists and mathematicians. She attended the University of Nancy and graduated with a Masters in Mathematics and Fundamental Applications in 1968. She obtained three more degrees from the University of Nancy: a DEA of Mathematics in 1969, a Postgraduate Doctorate in Computer Science in 1971, and a Doctorate of State in 1980.
Career
In 1973, while still studying at the University of Nancy, Gaudel began working as a researcher at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA). From 1981 to the beginning of 1984, Gaudel managed the Software Engineering group at the industrial research centre of Alcatel-Alsthom in Marcoussis, France.
In 1984, she became a professor at the University of Paris-Sud at Orsay. Her work there focused on software testing, particularly testing based on formal specifications.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Gaudel helped to develop the PLUSS language, which is used for software specifications, and the ASSPEGIQUE specification environment. She worked on the theoretical and practical side of computer science, developing a theory of software testing, formal testing, and applying her insights to real-world industrial problems. Her research group also developed the LOFT system for selecting test data.
In the 2000s, Gaudel worked on three main projects. She tested software specified in the Circus language with researchers from the University of York, researched approximate software verification, and developed algorithms for random software testing and analysis.
Gaudel retired from the University of Paris-Sud in March 2007 but continues to be a member of a number of programme committees, including serving as chair for several conferences on formal testing. She edits for the journals The Science of Computer Programming and Formal Aspects of Computing and continues to be active in the scientific community.
Awards and honors
Doctor Honoris Causa from EPFL, Switzerland, 1995
Silver Medal of the CNRS, 1996
Knight of the Legion of Honour, 2011
Honorary Member of the Société Informatique de France, 2013
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of York, UK, 2013
Selected publications
Gaudel has authored or co-authored numerous publications during her time at the University of Paris-Sud and since retirement. Some of the most cited ones are listed below:
G. Bernot, M.-C. Gaudel and B. Marre. (1991): "Software Testing Based on Formal Specifications: A theory and a tool," Software Engineering Journal, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 387-405.
M.-C. Gaudel. (1995): "Testing can be formal, too", Colloquium on Trees in Algebra and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridopsis%20dataria | Iridopsis dataria is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae.
The MONA or Hodges number for Iridopsis dataria is 6573.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20Mobile%20Alert | Emergency Mobile Alerts (EMA) is an alerting network in New Zealand designed to disseminate emergency alerts to mobile devices. Emergency Mobile Alerts are messages about emergencies sent by New Zealand authorised emergency agencies to capable mobile phones. The alerts are sent to participating wireless providers who will distribute the alerts to their customers with compatible devices via Cell Broadcast, a technology best suitable for public warning as it simultaneously delivers messages to all phones using a Mobile Cell tower. Similar solutions are implemented in the United States (Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)), The Netherlands (NL-Alert), European Union (EU-Alert), Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Chile, Philippines.
One2many B.V. provides this modern Emergency Mobile Alert system including the Cell Broadcast systems and the CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) based centralised Public Warning management system.
Adoption Rate
Emergency Mobile Alerts has been used in New Zealand since November 2017, and every year a test message is sent which is broadcast throughout New Zealand. The reach of the Control Cell Broadcast message among New Zealanders who have access to a mobile phone has increased since the first test message resulting that on 24 November 2019 8 out of 10 mobile handsets (79%) received a test emergency alert message sent out by Civil Defence and a further eight (8%) percent didn’t personally receive the alert but were near someone who did reaching in the end 87% of the New Zealand population.
26 November 2017 - 58% of NZ population with access to mobile phone either received the nationwide test alert or was near someone who did receive the Cell Broadcast message
25 November 2018 - 79% of NZ population with access to mobile phone either received the nationwide test alert or was near someone who did receive the Cell Broadcast message
24 November 2019 - 87% of NZ population with access to mobile phone either received the nationwide test alert or was near someone who did receive the Cell Broadcast message
National Public Warning System implementations
Many countries have implemented location-based alert systems based on Cell Broadcast. The alert messages to the population, already broadcast by various media, are relayed over the mobile network using Cell Broadcast.
Canada – Alert Ready
Chile – LAT-Alert
European Union – EU-Alert
Greece – GR-Alert
Italy – IT-Alert
Japan – J-Alert
Lithuania – LT-Alert
Netherlands – NL-Alert
Norway – Emergency Alert System
Oman – OMAN-Alert
Peru – SISMATE
Philippines – Emergency Cell Broadcast System (ECBS)
Romania – RO-Alert
Saudi Arabia – SAUDI-Alert
South Korea – Korean Public Alert Service
Sri Lanka – Disaster and Emergency Warning Network (DREWN)
Taiwan – Public Warning System
United Arab Emirates – UAE-Alert
United States – Wireless Emergency Alerts
Notable uses
22 October 2019 - New Zealand International Convention Centre fire, Auckland.
25 March 2020 - Announcement of impending move to COVID-19 Alert |
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