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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexorthodes%20emendata | Hexorthodes emendata is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Hexorthodes emendata is 10603.2.
References
Further reading
Eriopygini
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Moths described in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News18%20Rajasthan | News18 Rajasthan (News18 राजस्थान) is a 24-hour Indian Hindi-language news channel based in Rajasthan, India. It is owned by Network 18.
See also
ETV Network
Network 18
CNN-News18
References
External links
News18 India's Official website
Television stations in Rajasthan
Network18 Group
Television channels and stations established in 2014
24-hour television news channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actionfigure | Actionfigure, formerly known as TransitScreen, is an American technology company that offers software for digital displays, showing real-time transportation arrival data and other local information. In 2018, they launched a mobile application offering real-time transportation data, and in 2020 launched a product for employers to help employees navigate their commutes. As of 2018, TransitScreen has displays in more than 1,000 buildings in 30 cities, including Washington, Boston, and Pittsburgh.
Actionfigure is a SaaS platform, in which the property or business pays to access its software on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis.
History
The company grew out of Arlington County's Mobility Lab, which measures the impacts of transportation demand management services, in 2011. It incorporated in 2013 as Multimodal Logic, Inc. In January 2015, the company closed its first round of seed funding of $600,000, which came from a number of investors, such as 1776 Ventures and Middle Bridge Partners. In late 2015, an additional $800,000 of seed money was raised In April 2018, a new round of funding was announced and was closed in May 2019 from Vancouver-based TIMIA Capital. Shortly thereafter, the company announced that its product is available in South America and Western Europe.
In August 2019, Actionfigure and New York-based commercial real estate digital media amenity company Captivate announced a partnership that will bring Actionfigure's real-time data to Captivate's network of multipurpose display screens.
In August 2020, Actionfigure released CommuteWise, now Actionfigure Insights, that provides employers with tools for employee onboarding and employees navigating new or hybrid workplace schedules. Insights creates customized trip planning by assessing all local transit routes, multimodal trips, and fares, while integrating with commuter benefits programs.
In November 2021, TransitScreen rebranded to Actionfigure, bringing its suite of software solutions under a unified identity.
Products
Actionfigure's displays show real-time arrival information for trains, subways, buses, streetcars, and ferries. They also show real-time availability of local bicycle-sharing systems, carsharing, and vehicle for hire companies. The displays are made to correspond to the specific address where the individual screen is located.
In September 2017, they released its MobilityScore rating, which uses historical data to determine how easy it is to get around a given location without a car. It is similar to Walk Score, but measures the mobility and transit accessibility of an address rather than proximity to amenities.
In November 2018, they released its mobile application, CityMotion, now called Actionfigure Mobile. Actionfigure Mobile is location-based and shows the user the real-time availability of mobility options nearby. Like Actionfigure Screen, it is a B2B product and is not currently available for individual consumers.
References
Software companies base |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%20Universe%20%28streaming%20service%29 | DC Universe was an American subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) and digital comics service operated by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Digital Networks, both divisions of WarnerMedia. Launched on September 15, 2018, the service featured a streaming library of animated series and films based on DC Comics properties, new original television series adapted from DC properties, as well as a rotating back catalogue of DC Comics publications, and online community features. In 2020, the service won the Webby People's Voice Award for Media Streaming.
In June 2020, WarnerMedia began to phase out DC Universe in favor of its new flagship streaming service HBO Max, initially by offering a promotional offer via DC Universe for new subscribers. DC Universe was relaunched as DC Universe Infinite—which is solely a digital comics subscription service—on January 21, 2021. DC Universe's original series and future streaming productions were moved to HBO Max and became Max Originals.
History and development
In April 2017, DC Universe was announced as an untitled service with original television programming, with its title revealed a year later in May. The next month, the features of the service beyond original programming were revealed, including access to older DC live-action and animated films and animated series for a select period of time, a rotating selection of comics, forum discussion space, a merchandise store, and DC encyclopedia. Sam Ades, the general manager and senior vice-president at Warner Bros. Digital Network, managed the service.
Several original series were announced and developed for DC Universe: Titans and Young Justice: Outsiders, premiered in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Harley Quinn, a half-hour animated series, premiered in 2019. A Superman prequel series titled Metropolis was announced in January 2018, focusing on Lois Lane and Lex Luthor. Two live-action series Swamp Thing and Doom Patrol were released in 2019, while Metropolis was being redeveloped. A live-action Stargirl series was released in 2020, which features additional members of the Justice Society of America. DC Daily was released in September 2018, ending in July 2020.
In May 2020, WarnerMedia launched a new streaming service, HBO Max. The following month, DC Universe subscribers became eligible for a promotional discount on HBO Max for new subscribers. At the end of July, DC Universe no longer offered the yearly subscription option for the service. In August, DC Comics publisher Jim Lee revealed that all original programming would be migrated over to HBO Max. Speaking to the community aspect of DC Universe, as well as the ability to access the backlog of comics titles, Lee said "there is always going to be a need for that" and that DC was looking at ways to transform the platform so that content would not go away.
Sibling broadcast network The CW (which has carried its "Arrowverse" dramas adapted from DC Comics characters) has also carried selected DC Universe programs, in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible%20token | A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier that is recorded on a blockchain, and is used to certify ownership and authenticity. It cannot be copied, substituted, or subdivided. The ownership of an NFT is recorded in the blockchain and can be transferred by the owner, allowing NFTs to be sold and traded. NFTs can be created by anybody, and require few or no coding skills to create. NFTs typically contain references to digital files such as artworks, photos, videos, and audio. Because NFTs are uniquely identifiable, they differ from cryptocurrencies, which are fungible.
Proponents claim that NFTs provide a public certificate of authenticity or proof of ownership, but the legal rights conveyed by an NFT can be uncertain. The ownership of an NFT as defined by the blockchain has no inherent legal meaning and does not necessarily grant copyright, intellectual property rights, or other legal rights over its associated digital file. An NFT does not restrict the sharing or copying of its associated digital file and does not prevent the creation of NFTs that reference identical files.
The trading of NFTs in 2021 increased to $17 billion over just $82 million in the previous year. NFTs have been used as speculative investments and they have drawn criticism for the energy cost and carbon footprint associated with some types of blockchain, as well as their use in art scams. The NFT market has also been compared to an economic bubble or a Ponzi scheme. During their peak, the three biggest NFT platforms were Ethereum, Solana, and Cardano. In 2022, the NFT market collapsed; a May 2022 estimate was that the number of sales was down over 90% compared to 2021. By September 2023, one report claimed that over 95% of NFT collections had zero monetary value.
Characteristics
An NFT is a data file, stored on a type of digital ledger called a blockchain, which can be sold and traded. The NFT can be associated with a particular asset – digital or physical – such as an image, art, music, or recording of a sports event. It may confer licensing rights to use the asset for a specified purpose. An NFT (and, if applicable, the associated license to use, copy, or display the underlying asset) can be traded and sold on digital markets. However, the extralegal nature of NFT trading usually results in an informal exchange of ownership over the asset that has no legal basis for enforcement, and so often confers little more than use as a status symbol.
NFTs function like cryptographic tokens, but unlike cryptocurrencies, NFTs are not usually mutually interchangeable, so they are not fungible. A non-fungible token contains data links, for example which point to details about where the associated art is stored, that can be affected by link rot.
Copyright
An NFT solely represents a proof of ownership of a blockchain record and does not necessarily imply that the owner possesses intellectual property rights to the digital asset the NFT purports to represent. Someone m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20processor | A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.
Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicated to the function, but current word processors are word processor programs running on general purpose computers.
The functions of a word processor program fall somewhere between those of a simple text editor and a fully functioned desktop publishing program. However, the distinctions between these three have changed over time and were unclear after 2010.
Background
Word processors did not develop out of computer technology. Rather, they evolved from mechanical machines and only later did they merge with the computer field. The history of word processing is the story of the gradual automation of the physical aspects of writing and editing, and then to the refinement of the technology to make it available to corporations and Individuals.
The term word processing appeared in American offices in early 1970s centered on the idea of streamlining the work to typists, but the meaning soon shifted toward the automation of the whole editing cycle.
At first, the designers of word processing systems combined existing technologies with emerging ones to develop stand-alone equipment, creating a new business distinct from the emerging world of the personal computer. The concept of word processing arose from the more general data processing, which since the 1950s had been the application of computers to business administration.
Through history, there have been three types of word processors: mechanical, electronic and software.
Mechanical word processing
The first word processing device (a "Machine for Transcribing Letters" that appears to have been similar to a typewriter) was patented by Henry Mill for a machine that was capable of "writing so clearly and accurately you could not distinguish it from a printing press". More than a century later, another patent appeared in the name of William Austin Burt for the typographer. In the late 19th century, Christopher Latham Sholes created the first recognizable typewriter although it was a large size, which was described as a "literary piano".
The only "word processing" these mechanical systems could perform was to change where letters appeared on the page, to fill in spaces that were previously left on the page, or to skip over lines. It was not until decades later that the introduction of electricity and electronics into typewriters began to help the writer with the mechanical part. The term “word processing” (translated from the German word Textverarbeitung) itself was created in the 1950s by Ulrich Steinhilper, a German IBM typewriter sales executive. However, it did not make its appearance in 1960s office management or computing literature (an example of grey literature), though many of the ideas, products, and technologies to which it would later be applied were already well known. Nonetheles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Disney%2B%20original%20programming | This article is a list of original television programming from Disney Branded Television, National Geographic and divisions of The Walt Disney Studios including 20th Century Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm which premiered on Disney+, an over-the-top subscription video on-demand service owned by the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company since its launch in the United States on November 12, 2019.
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Shorts
These are shows where the majority of the episodes has a runtime of less than 20 minutes.
Continuations
These shows have been picked up by Disney+ for additional seasons after having aired previous seasons on another network.
Specials
These are supplementary content related to original TV series or films.
One-time
Episodic
Non-English language
Drama
Comedy
Unscripted
Specials
Regional original programming
These shows are originals because Disney+ commissioned or acquired them and had their premiere on the service, but they are only available in specific Disney+ territories.
Co-productions
These titles have been commissioned in partnership with another network and are not listed as Disney+ Originals. Availability may vary across regions.
Continuations
Specials
Exclusive international distribution
These television shows are shows that have aired in different countries and Disney+ has exclusive distribution rights to stream them in another territory.
Upcoming original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Kids & family
Unscripted
Docuseries
Shorts
Specials
These are supplementary content related to original TV series or films.
One-time
Non-English language
Spanish
Other
Regional original programming
These shows are originals because Disney+ commissioned or acquired them and are scheduled to have their premiere on the service, but they will not be available in all Disney+ territories.
English language
Exclusive international distribution
In development
See also
List of Star (Disney+) original programming
List of Disney+ Hotstar original programming#Disney+ Originals
Notes
References
External links
Disney-related lists
Lists of television series by streaming service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digrammia%20pallidata | Digrammia pallidata is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America.
References
Further reading
Macariini
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Moths described in 1873 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20chiriquensis | Datana chiriquensis is a species of moth in the family Notodontidae (the prominents). It was first described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1895 and it is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Datana chiriquensis is 7914.
References
Further reading
Notodontidae
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Moths described in 1895 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borko%20Furht | Borivoje "Borko" Furht is a Serbian American scientist and author in the field of computer science and engineering. He is a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and computer science (CEECS) at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also director of the National Science Foundation's Industry and University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement at FAU. In 2019, he was inducted into Academia Europaea, which is The Academy of Europe.
Career
Furht served as a senior researcher in the Institute Boris Kidric-Vinca in Yugoslavia (1970–82), an associate professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida (1982–87), and was vice president of research and a senior director of development at MODCOMP (1987–92). He was senior assistant vice president for engineering and technology at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) (2006–08), chair of FAU's the computer science and engineering department (2002–09) and chair of the department of computer and electrical engineering and computer science (2009–13).
In 2013 and 2019, Furht was named Researcher of the Year at Florida Atlantic University.
He was founding editor-in-chief of Springer's journals: Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, and Journal of Big Data. He has published over 40 books and 300 research papers in scientific journals and conferences. He holds more than 50 patents in video coding including 10 essential patents for the VVC video coding standard.
References
External links
Borko Furht publications
Living people
Serbian computer scientists
Yugoslav emigrants to the United States
University of Miami faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20diffidens | Datana diffidens is a species of moth in the family Notodontidae (the prominents). It was first described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1917 and it is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Datana diffidens is 7912.
References
Further reading
Notodontidae
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Moths described in 1917 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay%20Forest%20Park | Tay Forest Park is a forest park in the council area of Perth and Kinross in Scotland. It consists of a network of forests managed by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) that are spread across the Highland parts of Perthshire, and covers in total. The park contains a series of disparate woods that are managed for multiple benefits, with an emphasis on recreation facilities for visitors.
The park's main visitor centre is at Queen's View, near Loch Tummel, where there is a café, gift shop and interpretive displays. Other smaller centres are located at the following locations:
Allean, also close to Loch Tummel
Faskally, between Pitlochry and Killiecrankie
Carie on the south side of Loch Rannoch
Grandtully, between Aberfeldy and Ballinluig
Weem, north of Aberfeldy
Drummond Hill on the north side of Loch Tay
Craigvinean, near Dunkeld and Birnam
At each location there is a car park and waymarked trails for visitors. Some of the site have more facilities, such as toilets.
Gallery
References
External links
Forest Park - Forestry and Land Scotland
Forest parks of Scotland
Protected areas of Perth and Kinross |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix%20%28build%20tool%29 | Mix is a build automation tool for working with applications written in the Elixir programming language. Mix was created in 2012 by Anthony Grimes, who took inspiration from Clojure's Leiningen. Soon after, Mix was merged into the Elixir programming language itself and to this day is one of the six applications that are part of the Elixir language. Mix provides functionality for creating, compiling, and testing Elixir source code and for managing dependencies and deploying Elixir applications.
Mix tasks
Mix provides tasks to create, clean, build, compile, run, and test Elixir applications. For example, Mix may be used to create a new Elixir project, such as a new hello_world application. Running mix new hello_world will result in
$ mix new hello_world
* creating README.md
* creating .formatter.exs
* creating .gitignore
* creating mix.exs
* creating config
* creating config/config.exs
* creating lib
* creating lib/hello_world.ex
* creating test
* creating test/test_helper.exs
* creating test/hello_world_test.exs
Your Mix project was created successfully.
You can use "mix" to compile it, test it, and more:
cd hello_world
mix test
Run "mix help" for more commands.
Mix projects
Mix uses the information defined in a Mix Project to compile, build, and assemble the application. By convention, this information is typically managed in an Elixir script file named mix.exs. The file may include version information, dependencies, and other configuration information.
Application
As the Elixir build tool, Mix is used on applications that target the Erlang virtual machine (as opposed to the Java virtual machine or the .NET Common Language Runtime). Mix is used with web applications built on the Phoenix framework.
See also
List of build automation software
Phoenix (web framework)
References
External links
Official website
Source code on GitHub
Build automation
Compiling tools
Software using the MIT license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Jupyter | Project Jupyter () is a project to develop open-source software, open standards, and services for interactive computing across multiple programming languages. It was spun off from IPython in 2014 by Fernando Pérez and Brian Granger. Project Jupyter's name is a reference to the three core programming languages supported by Jupyter, which are Julia, Python and R. Its name and logo are an homage to Galileo's discovery of the moons of Jupiter, as documented in notebooks attributed to Galileo. Project Jupyter has developed and supported the interactive computing products Jupyter Notebook, JupyterHub, and JupyterLab. Jupyter is financially sponsored by NumFOCUS.
History
The first version of Notebooks for IPython was released in 2011 by a team including Fernando Pérez, Brian Granger, and Min Ragan-Kelley. In 2014, Pérez announced a spin-off project from IPython called Project Jupyter. IPython continues to exist as a Python shell and a kernel for Jupyter, while the notebook and other language-agnostic parts of IPython moved under the Jupyter name. Jupyter supports execution environments (called "kernels") in several dozen languages, including Julia, R, Haskell, Ruby, and Python (via the IPython kernel).
In 2015, about 200,000 Jupyter notebooks were available on GitHub. By 2018, about 2.5 million were available. In January 2021, nearly 10 million were available, including notebooks about the first observation of gravitational waves and about the 2019 discovery of a supermassive black hole.
Major cloud computing providers have adopted the Jupyter Notebook or derivative tools as a frontend interface for cloud users. Examples include Amazon SageMaker Notebooks, Google's Colaboratory, and Microsoft's Azure Notebook.
Visual Studio Code supports local development of Jupyter notebooks. As of July 2022, the Jupyter extension for VS Code has been downloaded over 40 million times, making it the second-most popular extension in the VS Code Marketplace.
The Atlantic published an article entitled "The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete" in 2018, discussing the role of Jupyter Notebook and the Mathematica notebook in the future of scientific publishing. Economist Paul Romer, in response, published a blog post in which he reflected on his experiences using Mathematica and Jupyter for research, concluding in part that Jupyter "does a better job of delivering what Theodore Gray had in mind when he designed the Mathematica notebook."
In 2021, Nature named Jupyter as one of ten computing projects that transformed science.
Jupyter Notebook
Jupyter Notebook can colloquially refer to two different concepts, either the user-facing application to edit code and text, or the underlying file format which is interoperable across many implementations.
Applications
Jupyter Notebook (formerly IPython Notebook) is a web-based interactive computational environment for creating notebook documents. Jupyter Notebook is built using several open-source libraries, including IPython, Ze |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20Identifier | In a WLAN, packets can be a stream of video, voice, or data, which each have different priorities to be served by an access point. The Traffic Identifier (TID) is an identifier used to classify a packet in Wireless LANs. When a base station receives an 802.11 frame with the TID set for audio, for example, the priority given is higher than a data frame.
TID is part of a QoS concept in Wireless LAN introduced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 802.11e as part of the 802.11 standards family. It is represented as a four-bit number (0-3), identifying QoS traffic within MAC data services. There are 16 (24) possible values for TID; out of them, only 8 are practically usable to identify differentiated services. The values of TID is similar to the values used in Differentiated services.
The TID subfield sits in certain MAC frames. The presence of TID, and thus the presence of QoS, is determined by the value set in the MSB of the subtype field (bit b7) of the Frame Control field. A QoS-enabled 802.11 header uses the TID to classify and prioritize processing of incoming or outgoing frames.
References
External links
Approval from the IEEE RevCom
802.11e TGe Status (finished)
802.11e Amendment
QoX: What is It Really
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnertziinae | Winnertziinae is a subfamily of gall midges and wood midges in the family Cecidomyiidae.
Genera
These genera belong to the subfamily Winnertziinae.
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
Genera
Tribe Diallactiini Rubsaamen and Hedicke 1926
†Cretohaplusia Arillo and Nel 2000 Spanish amber, Albian
Diallactia Gagné 2004
Ferovisenda Mamaev 1972
†Ganseriella Fedotova and Perkovsky 2017 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
Gynapteromyia Mamaev 1965
Haplusia Karsch, 1877 i c g b
†Palaeocolpodia Meunier 1904 (nomen dubium) Baltic amber, Eocene
Sylvenomyia Mamaev & Zaitzev 1998
Wyattella Mamaev 1966
Tribe Heteropezini
Brittenia Edwards 1941
†Cretomiastor Gagné 1977 Canadian amber, Campanian
†Electroxylomyia Nel and Prokop 2006 Oise amber, France, Ypresian
†Estoperpetua Fedotova and Perkovsky 2016 Sakhalin amber, Russia, Lutetian
Frirenia Kieffer 1894
Henria Wyatt 1959
Heteropeza Winnertz, 1846 i c g b
Leptosyna Kieffer, 1894 c g b
Miastor Meinert, 1864 i c g b
†Monodicrana Loew 1850 Baltic amber, Eocene
Neostenoptera Meunier, 1902 c g b
Nikandria Mamaev 1964
†Rasnitsia Fedotova and Perkovsky 2009 Rovno amber, Ukraine, Eocene
†Stellasegna Fedotova and Perkovsky 2009 Rovno amber, Ukraine, Eocene
†Tutkowskia Fedotova and Perkovsky 2008 Rovno amber, Ukraine, Eocene
†Ventosagloria Fedotova and Perkovsky 2008 Rovno amber, Ukraine, Eocene
†Vincinescia Fedotova and Perkovsky 2009 Rovno amber, Ukraine, Eocene
Tribe Winnertziini
Clinorhytis Kieffer 1896
†Cretowinnertzia Gagné 1977 Canadian amber, Campanian
Ekmanomyia Jaschhof 2013
Kronomyia Felt 1911
†Lebanowinnertzia Azar and Nel, 2020 Lebanese amber, Barremian
†Libanoclinorrhytis Azar and Nel, 2020 Lebanese amber, Barremian
Parwinnertzia Felt 1920
Rhipidoxylomyia Mamaev 1964
Winnertzia Rondani, 1861 i c g b
Incertae sedis
Fertepidosis Fedotova & Sidorenko 2007
Vasiliola Fedotova 2004
References
Further reading
External links
Cecidomyiidae
nematocera subfamilies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsetlin%20machine | A Tsetlin machine is an Artificial Intelligence algorithm based on propositional logic.
Background
A Tsetlin machine is a form of learning automaton based upon algorithms from reinforcement learning to learn expressions from propositional logic. Ole-Christoffer Granmo gave the method its name after Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin and his Tsetlin automata. The method uses computationally simpler and more efficient primitives compared to more ordinary artificial neural networks.
As of April 2018 it has shown promising results on a number of test sets.
Types
Original Tsetlin machine
Convolutional Tsetlin machine
Regression Tsetlin machine
Relational Tsetlin machine
Weighted Tsetlin machine
Arbitrarily deterministic Tsetlin machine
Parallel asynchronous Tsetlin machine
Coalesced multi-output Tsetlin machine
Tsetlin machine for contextual bandit problems
Tsetlin machine autoencoder
Tsetlin machine composites: plug-and-play collaboration between specialized Tsetlin machines
Applications
Keyword spotting
Aspect-based sentiment analysis
Word-sense disambiguation
Novelty detection
Intrusion detection
Semantic relation analysis
Image analysis
Text categorization
Fake news detection
Game playing
Batteryless sensing
Recommendation systems
Word embedding
ECG analysis
Edge computing
Bayesian network learning
Original Tsetlin machine
Tsetlin automaton
The Tsetlin automaton is the fundamental learning unit of the Tsetlin machine. It tackles the multi-armed bandit problem, learning the optimal action in an environment from penalties and rewards. Computationally, it can be seen as a finite-state machine (FSM) that changes its states based on the inputs. The FSM will generate its outputs based on the current states.
A quintuple describes a two-action Tsetlin automaton:
A Tsetlin automaton has states, here :
The FSM can be triggered by two input events
The rules of state migration of the FSM are stated as
It includes two output actions
Which can be generated by the algorithm
Boolean input
A basic Tsetlin machine takes a vector of Boolean features as input, to be classified into one of two classes, or . Together with their negated counterparts, , the features form a literal set .
Clause computing module
A Tsetlin machine pattern is formulated as a conjunctive clause , formed by ANDing a subset of the literal set:
.
For example, the clause consists of the literals and outputs iff and .
Summation and thresholding module
The number of clauses employed is a user-configurable parameter . Half of the clauses are assigned positive polarity. The other half is assigned negative polarity. The clause outputs, in turn, are combined into a classification decision through summation and thresholding using the unit step function :
In other words, classification is based on a majority vote, with the positive clauses voting for and the negative for . The classifier
,
for instance, captures the XOR-relation.
Feedback |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reckoning%20%28TV%20series%29 | Reckoning is an Australian crime thriller television limited series developed for Sony Pictures Television Networks' AXN. It received a direct-to-series order of 10 episodes on May 2, 2018. Production started in early July 2018.
Premise
When a teenager goes missing and a serial killer is suspected after five years of being dormant, two fathers find themselves set on a course of mutual destruction that threatens to consume every part of their quiet, suburban community.
Cast
Main
Sam Trammell as Leo Doyle
Aden Young as Detective Sergeant Mike Serrato
Simone Kessell as Paige Serrato
Laura Gordon as Candace Doyle
Gloria Garayua as Detective Cyd Ramos
Jacqueline McKenzie as Linda Swain
Mitzi Ruhlmann as Amanda Serrato
Toby Schmitz as John Ainsworth
Recurring
Milly Alcock as Sam Serrato
Ed Oxenbould as Paxton Doyle
Finn Little as Jake Serrato
Anthony Phelan as Dr. Arlon Doyle
Diana Glenn as Tori McGrath
Robert Mammone as Chief Randy Sosa
Paula Arundell as Sheriff Woller
Di Smith as Dotty Doyle
Sean Barker as Edgar Harris
Nic English as Brad
Claude Scott-Mitchell as Gretchen McGrath
Kasia Stelmach as Iris Swan
Eduardo Santos as Officer Clifton
Reception
Film critic John Serba, questioned the originality of the show saying "It just doesn't offer enough original fodder to lure us into a 10-episode binge." Serba concludes his review describing how "the premise is too contrived and the characters too familiar to render it more than just another rote serial killer story."
Production
While the series' story takes place in Northern California, shooting and post-production were done in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia through incentives offered by the Made in NSW International Footloose Fund. The drama was produced by Playmaker Media, an Australian leader in premium scripted content. Sony Pictures Television Distribution handled worldwide sales of the series, with international release via the AXN pay channel.
The series was released on the Netflix streaming service on May 1, 2020.
References
External links
English-language television shows
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Television series by Playmaker Media
2019 Australian television series debuts
2019 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotor | Fotor is a multi-platform photo editing software. It was first launched in 2012 and was dubbed "Photoshop Lite" by the BBC.
Fotor's software is available on mobile devices, desktop computers, and online as a web app. It offers a suite of image editing tools and features for users to edit and enhance photos quickly and easily. Fotor One-Tap Photo Enhancer is a tool that is designed to automatically improve image quality and fix common imaging problems. Fotor GoArt is a tool to turn photos into classical painting style artwork. Fotor AI Background Remover is a tool that allows users to remove backgrounds from their images with one click. Fotor AI Image Generator is a tool that lets users make art with words.
History
Founded in 2012, Fotor Photo Editor can be used online or downloaded as a free mobile and computer application compatible with Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. It is used to adjust and alter images, both photographic and non-photographic. As of 2014, the apps were supported in fourteen languages.
In addition to basic photo editing tools such as cropping, red eye removal, the use of stickers and overlays, photo unblurring, and aperture addition, Fotor can also be used for graphic design and collage making. Though the initial app is free, some options are only available through an in-app purchase, or via the Fotor Pro version. Fotor also has a module dedicated to making collages and smart templates with support for image layers.
In 2016, Fotor updated its HDR curves adjustment to its platform.
In late 2017, Fotor added a custom aspect ratio option to its collage function and altered its tilt-shift algorithm.
In 2018, Fotor Launched PxBee that entered the stock photo industry.
In 2022, Fotor added an AI Image Generator to its platform, which allows users to create images from text.
Product
Fotor: A free easy-to-use photo editing and graphic design tool, available in web, desktop, and mobile versions. It provides a full suite of tools that cover most image editing needs. Fotor also includes advanced AI-powered tools such as background remover, image enlarger, and object remover, which make complex edits simple.
GoArt: A mobile app that utilizes AI technology to turn photos into paintings. The apps are available on iOS, and Android mobile devices.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%20Automation | Buffalo Automation is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that develops autonomous navigation technology for commercial ships, recreational boats, and water taxis with the goal to improve maritime safety. It is a private company based in Buffalo, New York. Thiru Vikram is the CEO of the company.
History
Buffalo Automation was founded by Thiru Vikram, Alexander Zhitelzeyf and Emilie Reynolds, who were engineering students at the University at Buffalo. Originating as a university research project, the concept was transformed into a company in 2015.
AutoMate
The team developed AutoMate, a predictive system which uses artificial intelligence technology and neural networks to coordinate and integrate data, decisions, and actions based on nautical maps, cameras, sensors, thermal imaging, broadband radars, GPS, LiDAR and Automatic Identification System (AIS). The system allows autonomous identification and safe navigation around stationary objects, swimmers, and other vessels within the surrounding . Initially developed as a fleet management and autopilot solution for the commercial shipping industry, the technology has since been adapted for use with recreational boats, including yachts and motorboats. Initial tests were performed in 2015, using a -long catamaran equipped with the AutoMate system.
In addition to hazard identification and avoidance, the AutoMate system also employs neural networks to recognize navigation signs, help vessels maneuver in compliance with International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS), and interpret weather conditions. The technology helps in fuel efficiency, which was tested in 2018 on vessels in the Great Lakes.
In early 2018, Buffalo Automation began tests of a -long autonomous pleasure boat made by Sea Ray, a boat manufacturer owned by the Brunswick Boat Group. Also in 2018, Buffalo Automation expanded its sales focus to Europe. Fully autonomous navigation of locks was in development as of 2020.
The Mayday
In 2020, Buffalo Automation introduced The Mayday (originally named Greycraft), a free app. Designed to encourage people to experiment with and experience artificial intelligence technology that is otherwise not readily accessible to the average person, The Mayday operates as a self-contained offline neural network capable of detecting boats, ships, and other vessels visible to a cell phone camera. The Mayday app is also used to hail Buffalo Automation's Greycraft self-driving water taxis.
Greycraft
In 2021, Buffalo Automation unveiled a self-driving water taxi, Greycraft. Fully autonomous, Greycraft uses cameras, laser scanners, radar, satellite, GPS, compass information, and artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate the surroundings and guide itself. The autonomous solar and electric-powered water taxi was first demonstrated to Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon on January 7, 2021. As part of the region's green urbanism efforts, as of 2021 Greycraft is pending government approval to all |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neottiglossa%20undata | Neottiglossa undata is a species of stink bug in the family Pentatomidae. It is found in North America.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20neomexicana | Datana neomexicana is a species of moth in the family Notodontidae (the prominents). It was first described by Doll in 1911 and it is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Datana neomexicana is 7913.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callopistria%20cordata | Callopistria cordata, the silver-spotted fern moth, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae (the owlet moths). It is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Callopistria cordata is 9633.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisaxis%20caudata | Nisaxis caudata is a species of ant-loving beetle in the family Staphylinidae. It is found in Central America and North America.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisaxis | Nisaxis is a genus of ant-loving beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least four described species in Nisaxis.
Species
These four species belong to the genus Nisaxis:
Nisaxis caudata Schaeffer, 1905
Nisaxis maritima Casey, 1887
Nisaxis parviceps Casey, 1897
Nisaxis tomentosa (Aubé, 1833)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languria%20taedata | Languria taedata is a species of lizard beetle in the family Erotylidae. Dark and elongate, it is 9mm to 11mm long. Its larvae grow inside the stems of cordgrass. It is found in North America, especially along the eastern coastal states.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Khodataeva | Olga Petrovna Khodataeva (; — 10 April 1968) was a Soviet artist, animation director, animator and art director, one of the pioneers of the Soviet animation industry along with her brother Nikolai Khodataev. She is mostly remembered for her adaptations of traditional Slavic and Northern fairy tales.
Biography
Olga Khodataeva was born in the Konstantinovskaya stanitsa (modern-day Konstantinovsk, Rostov Oblast of Russia), one of the three children of a tsarist official Peter Petrovich Khodataev. Her father was an illegitimate son of Agafia Kondratievna Khodataeva and a merchant from the Vladimir Governorate who seduced and left Agafia shortly after. Peter studied in the Rostov-on-Don realschule and married a local midwife Anna. He made a successful career and in 1898 moved his family to Moscow.
Both Olga and her elder brother Nikolai Khodataev became interested in painting early in their lives. They both entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture to study fine art and graduated in 1918. During the next six years Olga had worked as a graphic arts and a scenic designer.
In 1924 her brother along with the fellow artists Yuri Merkulov and Zenon Komissarenko organized an experimental workshop under the State School of Cinematography, the first Soviet animation studio where they produced a cutout short Interplanetary Revoluion. Soon they were hired by the Soviet government to create an animated feature film China in Flames to support the Chinese national liberation movement. Because of the complexity of the work they invited a number of other young artists, including Olga. With 1000 meters of film and 14 frames per second the cartoon ran over 50 minutes at the time, which made it one of the world's first animated features.
For the next ten years she worked with her brother and the Brumberg sisters as a co-director, animator, art director and screenwriter. Their most famous works include One of Many (1927) that mixed live action and traditional animation in a story about the misadventures of a Komsomol girl in Hollywood; The Samoyed Boy (1928) stylized as traditional Nenets art and described by Khodataev as "the first steps in conquering the tradegy genre"; and The Little Organ (1933), an adaptation of The History of a Town that manifested "a plasticity of animation movement and the filmmaker's ability to nudge animation towards real art".
Both Khodataevs also created experimental animation for the Natalya Sats Musical Theater during the 1920s. Their ways parted in 1936 when Soyuzmultfilm was established in order to produce Disney-style shorts. Olga joined the collective, while Nikolai left the industry in disappointment, feeling that it wasn't up to bold experiments.
From then on Khodataeva directed and co-directed around 30 animated films mostly based on traditional Slavic fairy tales and folklore of the Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East. With the start of the Great Patriotic War many |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukuba%20Capio | Tsukuba Capio is an arena in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. It is the former home arena of the Cyberdyne Ibaraki Robots of the B.League, Japan's professional basketball league.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20world%20data | Real world data (RWD) in medicine is data derived from a number of sources that are associated with outcomes in a heterogeneous patient population in real-world settings, including but not limited to electronic health records, health insurance claims and patient surveys. While no universal definition of real world data exists, researchers typically understand RWD as distinct from data sourced from randomized clinical trials.
Real world data (RWD) in healthcare
Real-world data refer to observational data as opposed to data gathered in an experimental setting such as a randomized controlled trial (RCT). They are derived from electronic health records (EHRs), claims and billing activities, product and disease registries, etc. A systematic scoping review of the literature suggests data quality dimensions and methods with RWD is not consistent in the literature, and as a result quality assessments are challenging due to the complex and heterogeneous nature of these data.
The sources of RWD are only rarely interoperable, as each hospital-maintained EHR system is, by design, secured for patient privacy. Healthcare providers responsible for entering patient data into their EHR may agree to pooling that data with others, once it has been de-identified in accordance with privacy regulations such as HIPAA or GDPR. The result is a larger, more heterogenous population for research, where trends and statistical associations may be more apparent. Results from analysis on aggregated RWD can inform the design of clinical study protocols or advance post-approval research.
Real world evidence (RWE)
When working with RWD, the goal is often to generate evidence. The term real world evidence (RWE) is highly related to RWD. RWE is defined by FDA as "clinical evidence regarding the usage and potential benefits or risks of a medical product derived from analysis of RWD". An example of a study utilizing RWE is "Clinical Features and Outcomes of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Among People Who Have HIV in the United States: A Multi-center Study From a Large Global Health Research Network (TriNetX)" In this study, Covid-19 outcomes were compared between people with HIV and HIV-negative controls from a database of de-identified health records. The TriNetX platform allowed the researchers to consider the HIV and HIV-negative subjects in incidence of hospitalizations, ICU admissions, ventilation and severe disease, to understand the impact Covid-19 infection has on those with HIV.
Regional context
US context
In December 2018, the FDA published a framework for Real World Evidence program.
EU context
In 2018, the EMA published a discussion paper on the use of patient disease registries for regulatory purposes (methodological and operational considerations).. In 2022, UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published its RWE Framework that sets out how RWE could inform health technology assessment.
See also
21st Century Cures Act (US)
Correlation does not |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20world%20evidence | Real-world evidence (RWE) in medicine is the clinical evidence regarding the usage and potential benefits or risks of a medical product derived from analysis of real-world data (RWD). RWE can be generated by different study designs or analyses, including but not limited to, randomized trials, including large simple trials, pragmatic trials, and retrospective or prospective observational studies. In the USA the 21st Century Cures Act required the FDA to expand the role of real world evidence.
Real-world evidence comes into play when clinical trials cannot really account for the entire patient population of a particular disease. Patients with comorbidities or belonging to a distant geographic region or age limit who did not participate in any clinical trial may not respond to the treatment in question as expected. RWE provides answers to these problems and also to analyze effects of drugs over a longer period of time. Pharmaceutical companies and health insurance payers study RWE to understand patient pathways to deliver appropriate care for appropriate individuals and to minimize their own financial risk by investing on drugs that work for patients.
Data quality
Data quality (DQ) is the degree to which a given dataset meets a user's requirements. In the primary healthcare setting, poor quality data can lead to poor patient care, negatively affect the validity and reproducibility of research results and limit the value that such data may have for public health surveillance.
In order to use real-world data to generate evidence, data must be of sufficient quality. Kahn et al. define data quality as consisting of three components: (1) conformance (do data values adhere to do specified standard and formats?; subtypes: value, relational and computational conformance); (2) completeness (are data values present?); and (3) plausibility (are data values believable?; subtypes uniqueness, atemporal; temporal). Sometimes, data reliability and data quality are used interchangeably.
Fitness for purpose
Similarly to having sufficient data quality, the real-world data must be fit for purpose. An RWD resource can be fit for addressing some questions, but not others. For example, a dataset that lacks mother-to-baby links may not be appropriate to address drug risk for fetus but can be used for questions for drug safety in patients taking epilepsy treatment (limited to the patient; not including safety for fetus). Since data quality can be evaluated outside a particular purpose (on a general level), fitness for purpose is evaluated separate from data quality and is not included in the concept of data quality.* Real-World Evidence — What Is It and What Can It Tell Us? The New England Journal of Medicine, December 6, 2016.
See also
Evidence-based medicine
Levels of evidence
Pragmatic clinical trial
Qualitative research
Quantitative research
Correlation does not imply causation
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External links
"Real World Evidence" at FDA
"21st Century Cur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishfaq%20Ahmad%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Ishfaq Ahmad is a computer scientist, IEEE Fellow and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He is the Director of the Center For Advanced Computing Systems (CACS) and has previously directed IRIS (Institute of Research in Security) at UTA. He is widely recognized for his contributions to scheduling techniques in parallel and distributed computing systems, and video coding.
Education
He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and an M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science in 1992 and 1987, respectively; and a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in Pakistan, in 1985. Prior to joining the University of Texas, he was an associate professor of the Computer Science Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). At HKUST, he also directed the university's Multi-media Technology Research Center.
Research
His research focus is on the broader areas of parallel and distributed computing systems and their applications, optimization algorithms, multimedia systems, video compression, assistive technologies, smart power grid, and energy-aware sustainable computing. His research work is published in 250 articles in books, and peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Professor Ishfaq Ahmad's current research is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Education (GAANN Project), Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Adobe Inc., and Texas Instruments.
He is leading several efforts in sustainable computing and computing for sustainability. This includes launching of a new journal with Elsevier, Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM) of which he is the founding editor-in-chief, and launching of the International Green Computing Conference.
Awards
Professor Ishfaq Ahmad has received numerous international research awards, including several best paper awards at leading conference proceedings and top ranked journals, such as IEEE Circuits and Systems Society – 2007 Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Transactions Best Paper Award, IEEE Service Appreciation Award, and 2008 Outstanding Area Editor Award from the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. His research work in high-performance computing and video compression is widely cited with over 17,000 citations to his papers. He is listed in Pride of Pakistan, Hall of Fame. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Other appointments
In addition to being a full-time professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, he is also
Visiting scientist at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York
Visiting scientist at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) in Beijing, China
Honorary professor at the University of Electronic Sciences at Chengdu, China
Honorary professor at the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Acquire | Computer Acquire is a 1980 video game published by Avalon Hill for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore PET, and TRS-80.
Gameplay
Computer Acquire is an adaptation of the board game Acquire that allows the player to play against the computer choosing from five levels of difficulty.
Reception
Jon Mishcon reviewed Computer Acquire in The Space Gamer No. 45. Mishcon commented that "If you enjoy multiparameter games and you're willing to spend twice that time just to learn what does what, then Acquire may be for you. Otherwise wait for the second edition of the rules."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20BBC%20Radio%205%20Live | A timeline of notable events relating to BBC Radio 5 Live, and its predecessor BBC Radio 5.
Radio 5
1988
9 October – The BBC announces that a fifth national network will launch on the MW frequencies of BBC Radio 2. The announcement follows a directive from the Conservative government of the time instructing the BBC to end its practice of simulcasting its national services on both AM and FM.
1989
No events.
1990
15 August – Ahead of the launch of BBC Radio 5, BBC Radio 2 begins to wind down its transmissions on MW by broadcasting a daytime information service providing advice about how to listen to Radio 2 on FM. The service includes trailers for the new station.
27 August – BBC Radio 5 launches at 9am. The station is on air from 6am until just after midnight but only broadcasts its own live programming at peak times (breakfast plus weekday mid-mornings and drivetime) alongside sport on weekend afternoons and youth programmes on weeknight evenings. The rest of its airtime is taken up with programming which had previously been broadcast as FM opt-outs on Radio 4 (schools, adult education and children's programmes), programmes from the World Service and simulcasts of the BBC's other national stations.
28 August – The first edition of the station's weekday breakfast programme Morning Edition is broadcast. It is presented by Sarah Ward and Jon Briggs.
1991
7 January – Sue McGarry and Julian Worricker replace Martin Kelner as presenters of drivetime show Five Aside.
17 January–2 March – Radio 4 News FM, the first rolling BBC radio news service is on air during the first Gulf War. The service is deemed to be so successful that bosses begin looking at ways to launch a full-time news radio station.
30 March – Radio 5 starts broadcasting its own programmes between 11pm and midnight, replacing an hour of programmes from the World Service. Consequently, the late evening slate of programmes originating from different parts of the country expand from 90 to 120 minutes.
September/October – The station moves into its second year of broadcasting with a further expansion of original programmes in slots which had previously been used for simulcasts with other BBC national stations.
2 September – The first phase of this expansion occurs when Radio 5 launches a weekday lunchtime programme in conjunction with forces station BFBS. Called BFBS Worldwide, the programme continues to be broadcast until the demise of Radio 5 in 1994.
28 September – Simulcasting of other BBC stations on Radio 5 occurs for the final time.
5 October – Football phone-in 6-0-6 is broadcast for the first time. Danny Baker is the programme's host. The launch of this programme is part of a new Saturday evening line-up which replaces that final station simulcast.
1992
6 January – The first edition of The AM Alternative is broadcast. The new programme, presented by Johnnie Walker, is on air every weekday and replaces the three separate shows, This Family Edition, Sound Advice and The Health Show |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhadine%20caudata | Rhadine caudata is a species of beetle native to the eastern United States. It is a brachypterous (incapable of flight) habitat specialist, occurring in only two of five forest classes in a North Carolina study. R. caudata is a considered a Vulnerable species at the global level on NatureServe, Imperiled in Alabama, and Vulnerable in Virginia.
R. caudata occurs in both surface and subsurface environments, studying it and other species in the genus Rhadine may reveal more about the evolution of subterranean life, regressive evolution, and biodiversity indicators.
It was first formally named by John Lawrence LeConte in 1863 as Platynus caudatus and later transferred to the genus Rhadine.
Distribution
The majority of the 60 species in the genus Rhadine are subterranean, with almost all of the species found in the southwestern United States. In contrast, R. caudata has been found from Texas to the east coast, north to Wisconsin. It is widely distributed, but rare, with a low dispersal rate. It is known to be abundant only at the Cumberland Caverns and McElroy Cave in Tennessee. It has been found in Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
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Beetles of the United States
Beetles described in 1863 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolema%20cordata | Neolema cordata is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in North America.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-Sensor | is a 1984 Japanese computer-animated surreal short film produced by Takashi Fukumoto at Toyo Links and Hitoshi Nishimura at Osaka University. It's notable for its early use of primitive motion capture, using profile and head-on films of a tiger walking (a la Muybridge).
Crew
Producer: Takashi Fukumoto (Toyo Links), Hitoshi Nishimura (Osaka University)
Digitizers: Hiroyuki Hayashi, Masuharu Endo, Taku Kimura, Noriaki Murashima, Chiharu Kajitsuka, Shinji Tanaka, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Koji Ichihashi
Special thanks
Osaka University
Koichi Omura
Isao Shirakawa
Makoto Hirai
Masato Nishida
Takashi Yamana
Nariyoshi Yamai
Hirohisa Wakai
Nippon Electronics College
Yoichiro Kawaguchi
Suma Noji
Yuzuru Nakamura
French parody
Sio-Benbor is a 1988 French parody of Bio-Sensor, created by a French company, Fantôme. It's notable for having a “really cute kitty” cat.
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1984 anime films
1984 short films
1984 computer-animated films
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Japanese computer-animated films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Viola | Paul Viola is a computer vision researcher, and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. He is a former MIT professor, and a former vice president of science for Amazon Air. He is best
known for his seminal work in facial recognition and machine learning. He is
the co-inventor of the Viola–Jones object detection framework along with Michael Jones. He won the Marr Prize in 2003 and the Helmholtz Prize from the International Conference on Computer Vision in 2013.
He
is the holder of at least 57 patents in the areas of advanced machine learning, web search,
data mining, and image processing.
He is the author of more than 50 academic
research papers with over 56,000 citations.
References
External links
Detecting Faces (Viola Jones Algorithm) - Computerphile
Living people
Computer vision researchers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Machine learning researchers
1966 births
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Jones%20%28scientist%29 | Michael J. Jones is an American computer scientist and inventor working as a computer vision researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.
Education
Jones earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 under Tomaso Poggio.
Career
Jones is the co-inventor, with Paul Viola, of the Viola–Jones face detection method, an ICCV 2003 Marr Prize and CVPR Longuet-Higgins Prize winner.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Broadbent | Anne Lise Broadbent is a mathematician at the University of Ottawa who won the 2016 Aisenstadt Prize for her research in quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum information.
Early life and education
Broadbent specialised in music at De La Salle High School in Ottawa, graduating in 1997. Her interest in science led her to major in mathematics for her undergraduate degree.
Broadbent was a student of Alain Tapp and Gilles Brassard at the Université de Montréal, where she completed her master's in 2004 in the topic of Quantum pseudo-telepathy games, and her Ph.D. in 2008 with a dissertation on Quantum nonlocality, cryptography and complexity.
Career
After postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, she moved to Ottawa in 2014. She is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa and holds a University Research Chair there.
Awards
Broadbent is the winner of the 2010 John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physics of the Council of Ontario Universities. She was awarded the Aisenstadt Prize by International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in 2016 for her leadership and work in quantum information and cryptography.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emptiness%20problem | In theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a formal language is empty if its set of valid sentences is the empty set. The emptiness problem is the question of determining whether a language is empty given some representation of it, such as a finite-state automaton. For an automaton having states, this is a decision problem that can be solved in time. However, variants of that question, such as the emptiness problem for non-erasing stack automata, are PSPACE-complete.
The emptiness problem is undecidable for context-sensitive grammars, a fact that follows from the undecidability of the halting problem. It is, however, decidable for context-free grammars.
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Polynomial-time problems
PSPACE-complete problems
Undecidable problems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarache%20sedata | Tarache sedata is a species of bird dropping moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Tarache sedata is 9154.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20My%20Guitar%20Princess%20episodes | My Guitar Princess is a 2018 Philippine television drama series starring Julie Anne San Jose, Gil Cuerva and Kiko Estrada. The series premiered on GMA Network's noontime block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from May 7 to July 13, 2018, replacing Ang Forever Ko'y Ikaw.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
May 2018
June 2018
July 2018
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadata%20oregonensis | Nadata oregonensis is a species of moth in the family Notodontidae (the prominents). It was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881 and it is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Nadata oregonensis is 7916.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafay%20Baloch | Rafay Baloch (born 5 February 1993) is a Pakistani ethical hacker and security researcher known for his discovery of vulnerabilities on the Android operating system. He has been featured and known by both national and international media and publications like Forbes, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, and The Express Tribune. He has been listed among the "Top 5 Ethical Hackers of 2014" by CheckMarx. Subsequently he was listed as one of "The 15 Most Successful Ethical Hackers WorldWide" and among "Top 25 Threat Seekers" by SCmagazine. Baloch has also been added in TechJuice 25 under 25 list for the year 2016 and got 13th rank in the list of high achievers. Reflectiz, a cyber security company, released the list of "Top-21 Cybersecurity Experts You Must Follow on Twitter in 2021" recognizing Rafay Baloch as the top influencer. On 23 March 2022, ISPR recognized Rafay Baloch's contribution in the field of Cyber Security with Pride for Pakistan award.
Personal life
Rafay Baloch was born in 1993 in Karachi. He attended Bahria University from which he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Baloch is currently placed in Hall of Fame of Bahria University.
Career
Baloch began his hacking career while he was still doing his bachelor's. He then wrote a book called "Ethical Hacking Penetration Testing Guide". He is the first Pakistani security researcher to be acknowledged by Google, Facebook, PayPal, Apple, Microsoft and many other international organizations.
He has also written several papers on information security, namely "HTML5 Modern Day Attack Vectors", "Web Application Firewall Bypass", and "Bypassing Browser Security Policies For Fun And Profit".
Rafay Baloch is currently serving the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority as Cyber Security Advisor.
Bug bounty programs
Baloch has been active into bug bounty programs and has reported several critical vulnerabilities in several open source web applications as well as in bug bounty programs. Baloch found critical vulnerabilities in PayPal in 2012: he hacked into PayPal servers by exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability. He was rewarded $10,000 and a job offer to work for them as a Security Researcher that he refused as he was still doing his bachelor's at that time. HackRead, a news platform on InfoSec, listed him among “10 Famous Bug Bounty Hunters of All Time”. Baloch has also been awarded $5000 by Google and Firefox for baring the vulnerability in their browsers.
Browser security research
Baloch has actively reported several critical vulnerabilities in browsers. He started by finding Same Origin Policy (SOP) bypass in Android Stock browser which was initially rejected by Google; however, this was later verified by Google after researchers from Rapid7 verified it. This was coined as . Baloch followed by reporting several other SOP bypasses. Researchers at Trend Micro found this bug to be more widespread. It was later reported that hackers had been actively using Baloch's SOP bypa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aventus%20Protocol | The Aventus Protocol is an open standard event ticketing platform based on blockchain. The protocol was first outlined by Annika Monari and Alan Vey in a 2016 white paper. The two met in 2015 while studying for their master's degrees at Imperial College, London. They are co-founders and directors of the Aventus Protocol Foundation which oversees Aventus Systems, the only company running the protocol.
The Aventus Protocol is based on Ethereum blockchain technology and its crypto token is the Aventus Token (AVT). The project was funded in two rounds. First by a private pre-sale and then, in September 2017, in an initial coin offering. The initial funding was reportedly £26 million, including 60,000 Ether raised.
The protocol creates a unique identity for each ticket that is then stored on a public blockchain. Each transaction involving the ticket is likewise recorded publicly. Monari and Vey stated in their white paper that the protocol is a tool to combat counterfeit tickets, uncontrolled resale, and opaque pricing.
The Aventus Protocol was used for some of the tickets sold for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
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2018 software
Ethereum tokens
Computer-related introductions in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynceidae | Lynceidae is a family of clam shrimp in the order Laevicaudata. There are about 5 genera and more than 20 described species in Lynceidae.
Genera
These five genera belong to the family Lynceidae:
Leptestheriella
Limnetis Loven, 1846
Lynceiopsis Daday, 1912
Lynceus Müller, 1776
Paralimnetis Gurney, 1931-17
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Diplostraca
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oromia%20Broadcasting%20Network | The Oromia Broadcasting Network (OBN) is an Ethiopian public service broadcaster headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is the leading media organization in the Oromia and broadcast on Eutelsat via the Ethiosat platform.
History
The channel is run by the Oromia Radio and Television Organization (ORTO), founded on 12 July 2006 by Proclamation number 113/2006 of the Regional Government, as Oromia mass media organization (OMMO). The organization was renamed by the regional government to Oromia Radio and TV Organization by the Proclamation No. 164/2011 in 2011. Oromia Broadcasting Network established according to Oromia Mass Media Organization establishment Proclamation No. 133 of 2006, to widely disseminate the timely gathered international and local information to the public and government bodies. It has been broadcasting independent news, educational and entertainment programs, in 14 Ethiopian Languages and 3 international languages on Radio and TV Medias.
Media Coverage
The Organization has been broadcasting for 119 hours per week on Radio and 24 hours a day on TV and covering 100% of the region by FM and AM Radio waves and more than 70% by TV using antenna (micro wave). Also we are reaching the abroad listeners and audiences by Nile sat7, Amos Ku band 5,170 east, Galaxy 19,970 west, Optus D2, 152o east, NSS 12,570 east, Thaicom 5,78o east satellites and websites (www.orto.gov.et).
Notably Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was a board member of the organization that runs OBN before assuming the office of Prime Minister.
In February 2018 the president of the Oromia regional state, Lemma Megersa, pledged to defend the independence and impartiality of the state-run Oromia Broadcasting Network (OBN), among others. He stated this after a central committee meeting in Adama by the OPDO, the Oromo faction of the ruling EPRDF party that controls the Oromia.
Programming
Content is mostly focused on news from the Oromia regional state, but also covers news from the national and international levels. The majority of broadcasts are in Oromo, one of the six official languages of Ethiopia. with some programs in Amharic, Afar, Somali, Kiswahili Arabic and English.
Political significance
Many prominent Oromo leaders in the government of Ethiopia use OBN as a platform to reach the majority of the Oromo speaking population such as when leading OPDO figure Abadula Gemeda announced his displeasure with the government's mistreatment of internally displaced Oromo people in 2017.
In March 2018, OBN was the first to confirm a deadly incident in the border town of Moyale via an interview with the town's mayor.
Controversy
The Oromia Media Networks along with two broadcasters, Tigray TV and Dimtse Woyane were alleged to disseminate media propaganda by Ethiopian government following the death of Hachalu Hundessa on 29 June 2020. These three networks alleged to be operated by two political parties, Oromo Liberation Front and Tigray People's Liberation Front. The two |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poibos%20Part%201 | is a sci-fi role-playing video game released by ZAT-SOFT for various computer platforms in Japan in 1983. It was originally developed on the premise of sequels, but only the first game was released. The planet name "Poibos" refers to the god Phoebus from Greek mythology, with simplified spelling for a Japanese audience. Poibos Part 1 is one of the first JRPGs ever created, and the first in a sci-fi setting.
Plot
The Dark Galactic Emperor invaded Poibos and destroyed almost the entire population. The few survivors were imprisoned on the planet Kurane belonging to Empire. One of them, our main protagonist Jorg, managed to escape. He needs to find the seven surviving Holy Men and try to resurrect Poibos.
Gameplay
Poibos Part 1 is a standard early party RPG with tiled map, turn-based battles and random encounters.
References
NEC PC-6001 games
NEC PC-8001 games
NEC PC-8801 games
NEC PC-9801 games
FM-7 games
Sharp MZ games
Sharp X1 games
1983 video games
Video games developed in Japan
Role-playing video games
Eroge
Japan-exclusive video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20modesta | Datana modesta is a species of moth in the family Notodontidae (the prominents). It was first described by William Beutenmüller in 1890 and it is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Datana modesta is 7910.
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Further reading
External links
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Moths described in 1890 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaleria%20rotundata | Phaleria rotundata is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
References
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Tenebrionidae
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost-Pieter%20Katoen | Joost-Pieter Katoen (born October 6, 1964) is a Dutch theoretical computer scientist based in Germany. He is distinguished professor in Computer Science and head of the Software Modeling and Verification Group at RWTH Aachen University.
Furthermore, he is part-time associated to the Formal Methods & Tools group at the University of Twente.
Education
Katoen received his master's degree with distinction in Computer Science from the University of Twente in 1987. In 1990, he was awarded a Professional Doctorate in Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, and in 1996, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Twente.
Research
Katoen's main research interests are formal methods, computer aided verification, in particular model checking, concurrency theory, and semantics, in particular semantics of probabilistic programming languages. His research is largely tool and application oriented.
Together with Christel Baier he wrote and published the book Principles of Model Checking.
Career
From 1997 to 1999, Katoen was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
In 1999, he became an associate professor at the University of Twente, where he still holds a part-time position.
In 2004, he was appointed a full professor at RWTH Aachen University.
In 2013, Katoen became Theodore von Kármán Fellow and Distinguished Professor at RWTH Aachen University. Also in 2013, he was elected member of the Academia Europaea. In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University. In 2018, Katoen was awarded the highly remunerated ERC Advanced Grant. In 2020, Katoen became an ACM Fellow and in 2021, he was elected as member of the Royal Holland Society of Science and Humanities (KHMW). In 2022, he was elected as member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science, Humanities and the Arts.
Katoen is a founding member of the IFIP Working Group (WG) 1.8 on Concurrency Theory and a member of the WG 2.2 Formal Description of Programming Concepts. From 2006 to 2010, he was engaged in the Review College of the British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). During 2015-2019 he chaired the Steering Committee of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS). Since 2020, he chairs the Steering Committee of the TACAS (Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems) conference.
For his commitment to work-life balance, especially for young Ph.D. students with children, he was awarded the FAMOS Prize by RWTH Aachen University in 2017.
Katoen's work has received various recognitions among which best / distinguished paper awards (e.g. as ETAPS 2016, IEEE SRDS 2017, LOPSTR 2020 and POPL 2021). In 2022, he received the CONCUR test-of-time award for his CONCUR 1999 paper and in 2023 the Jean-Claude Laprie Award on Dependable Computing for his 2003 paper with Baier, Haverkort and Hermanns on Model-Checking of Continuous-Time Markov chains.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efferia%20bicaudata | Efferia bicaudata is a species of robber flies in the family Asilidae.
References
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Insects described in 1919 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criorhina%20caudata | Criorhina caudata is a species of hoverfly in the family Syrphidae.
Distribution
Canada, United States.
References
Milesiini
Insects described in 1925
Diptera of North America
Hoverflies of North America
Taxa named by Charles Howard Curran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%20Was%20Him%3A%20The%20Many%20Murders%20of%20Ed%20Edwards | It Was Him: The Many Murders of Ed Edwards is an American documentary television series that premiered on April 16, 2018 on Paramount Network.
Premise
It Was Him: The Many Murders of Ed Edwards follows Wayne Wolfe who "discovered that his real grandfather was the deceased killer Ed Edwards who was convicted of five cold cases in his 70s, but had potentially embarked on a decades-long murder spree. The series examines the infamous murderer through an investigation led by Wolfe and John Cameron, a cold-case expert and retired detective who has been investigating Edwards for almost a decade. Cameron’s meticulously compiled evidence has Edwards as the ultimate suspect in some of the most well-known murder cases, including the Zodiac Killer, Laci Peterson and many more."
Production
Development
On November 10, 2016, it was announced that Spike had given the production a series order. The limited series was expected to air under a new "Spike Serialized" franchise for limited-run non-scripted series. The production was developed by Objective Media Group’s Jimmy Fox, who will executive produce, along with Wolfe and the showrunning team Jackson Nguyen and Todd Crites of Turn Left Productions. Additional executive producers included Leonid Leonov and Kenny Dale Borill as well as Objective/All3Media's Layla Smith and Greg Lipstone.
On March 16, 2018, it was announced that the series would premiere on Paramount Network on April 16, 2018.
Release
Marketing
Alongside the announcement of the series' premiere, Paramount Network released the official trailer.
Episodes
Reception
In a mixed review, The Hollywood Reporters Daniel Fienberg described the series as "half outlandish serial killer conspiracy theory, half portrait of obsession, neither completely satisfying" and said that it was "often disturbing, occasionally entertaining, never convincing."
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External links
2010s American documentary television series
2018 American television series debuts
2018 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Paramount Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20urban%20areas%20in%20Hungary | This is a list of the most populous urban areas in Hungary, based on official data of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Methodology
The functional urban areas identified with the methodology described in the book Redefining “urban”: A new way to measure metropolitan areas (OECD Publishing, 2012) are here listed by size, according to four different classes:
Small urban areas (population between 50,000 and 200,000)
Medium-sized urban areas (population between 200,000 and 500,000)
Metropolitan areas (population between 500,000 and 1.5 million)
Large metropolitan areas (population above 1.5 million)
List of most populous urban areas
See also
List of cities and towns of Hungary
Regions of Hungary
Counties of Hungary
References
External links
Hungary
Demographics of Hungary
Hungary
Urban areas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20census-designated%20places%20in%20Nebraska%20by%20population | Nebraska is a state located in the Midwestern United States that is divided into 93 counties and contains 50 census-designated places (CDPs). All population data is based on the 2010 census.
Census-Designated Places
See also
List of counties in Nebraska
List of unincorporated communities in Nebraska
References
census-designated places |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrgota%20undata | Pyrgota undata, the waved light fly, is a species of fly in the family Pyrgotidae.
References
External links
Pyrgotidae
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Insects described in 1830 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Psychoda%20species | These 372 species belong to Psychoda, a genus of moth flies in the family Psychodidae.
Psychoda species
Psychoda ablucens Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda absidata Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda acanthostyla Tokunaga, 1957 c g
Psychoda aculeata Quate, 1996 c g
Psychoda acuta Tonnoir, 1939 c g
Psychoda acutilamina Quate, 1959 c g
Psychoda acutipennis Tonnoir, 1920 c g
Psychoda aderces Quate, 1962 c g
Psychoda adumbrata Satchell, 1953 c g
Psychoda adunca Wagner & Andersen, 2007 c g
Psychoda adyscheres Quate, 1959 c g
Psychoda aitkeni Quate, 1959 c g
Psychoda alabangensis Rosario, 1936 c g
Psychoda albescens Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda albida Tonnoir, 1939 c g
Psychoda albidonigra Tonnoir, 1939 c g
Psychoda albipennis Zetterstedt, 1850 c g
Psychoda albopicta Brunetti, 1911 c g
Psychoda alia Quate, 1962 c g
Psychoda allodapa Quate, 1959 c g
Psychoda alternata Say, 1824 i c g b
Psychoda alternicula Quate, 1955 i c g
Psychoda alticola Vaillant, 1973 c g
Psychoda alveata Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda amazonensis Cordeiro, 2008 c g
Psychoda amphorica Tonnoir, 1939 c g
Psychoda angustipennis (Williston, 1896) c g
Psychoda angustisternata Satchell, 1955 c g
Psychoda annectans Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda antennalis (Williston, 1896) c g
Psychoda apennata Satchell, 1953 c g
Psychoda apicalis Brunetti, 1911 c g
Psychoda aponensos Quate, 1959 c g
Psychoda apparitia Quate, 1996 c g
Psychoda arcuata Satchell, 1953 c g
Psychoda armillariphila Vaillant, 1988 c g
Psychoda articaula Quate, 1996 c g
Psychoda articuliga Quate, 1965 c g
Psychoda atraseta (Rapp, 1945) c g
Psychoda balaenica Quate, 1996 c g
Psychoda barbigera Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda bicordata Quate, 1996 c g
Psychoda bidigitalis Quate, 1965 c g
Psychoda bilobata Tonnoir, 1939 c g
Psychoda biretinaculata Wagner, 1978 c g
Psychoda bisacula Quate, 1996 c g
Psychoda bitrunculens Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda blandita Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda boettgeri Wagner, 1979 c g
Psychoda bogotensis Wagner & Joost, 1994 c g
Psychoda bojata Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda brachyptera Quate, 1964 c g
Psychoda brassi Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda brevicerca Huang & Chen, 1992 c g
Psychoda brevicornis Tonnoir, 1940 c g
Psychoda bulbosa Jezek, 2005 c g
Psychoda buxoides Quate, 1996 c g
Psychoda buxtoni Withers, 1988 c g
Psychoda byblis Quate, 1962 c g
Psychoda calva Satchell, 1955 c g
Psychoda campbellica Quate, 1964 c g
Psychoda canalis Quate, 1999 c g
Psychoda canlaones Quate, 1965 c g
Psychoda capitipenis Ibanez-Bernal, 1991 c g
Psychoda caudata Quate, 1962 c g
Psychoda celebris Quate, 1962 c g
Psychoda cetreta Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda cinerea Banks, 1894 i c g
Psychoda cochlearia Satchell, 1950 c g
Psychoda collina Quate, 1965 c g
Psychoda concinna Quate & Quate, 1967 c g
Psychoda congruens Satchell, 1955 c g
Psychoda consobrina Satchell, 1955 c g
Psychoda contortula Satchell, 1955 c g
Psychoda coprophila Vaillant, 1988 g
Psychoda cordiforma Quate, 1996 c g
Psychoda crassi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce%20and%20Industry%20in%20Singapore | Founded in 1988, the Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Singapore (SwissCham) is a non-profit organization advocating Swiss business in Singapore through offering to its members a networking platform with a broad range of events as well as selective services and benefits. The SwissCham fosters business ties and friendship between Swiss and Singaporean companies, which dating back for more than 200 years. Formerly known as the Swiss Business Association (“SBA”), it acts as the spokesperson of Swiss business interests in Singapore towards Singaporean and Swiss authorities as well as other chambers and business groups, cultivating the Swiss networking culture in Singapore and the region.
History
Being already present in Singapore for soon 200 years, Swiss companies intensified their activities and strengthened their presence in Singapore soon after it became a sovereign nation in 1965 and Switzerland decided to establish diplomatic relationships with the city-state in 1967. Swiss investments have been among the top five foreign direct investments (FDI) ever since, demonstrated by already more than 100 Swiss companies having had a presence in Singapore by the end of the 1980s. The need for an official forum to help these companies exchanging ideas and accessing information became increasingly important. In 1988, with the help of the Swiss Ambassador Kurt O. Wyss, the SBA was founded by a group of visionary Swiss-Singaporean businessmen and entrepreneurs. After representing and serving its members for over 25 years, the SBA committee conducted in 2015 a strategic review of its activities, vision and mission. With a transformation roadmap and revised statutes approved by the annual general meeting in 2016, the SBA got rebranded to the Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Singapore in 2017, underlining its continuous efforts to raise awareness on its work as a chamber of commerce and industry and staying relevant in a fast and constantly changing world. This sharpened focus of its activities included a variety of new initiatives such as a professionalized online presence and digital communication concept throughout 2016 as well as in 2017 the launch of the inaugural Swiss Business Award honoring “Excellence in People & Skills Development”.
Core activities
The mandate of the SwissCham is to represent and advocate its members’ interests and offer a platform for practicing and living the Swiss networking culture, following the overarching goal of promoting and fostering the Swiss trade, services, manufacturing and investments in Singapore. Its core activities are grouped in four main pillars: Firstly, a 360 degree networking platform for interacting among members as well as with other Singaporean companies and professionals, other chambers of commerce as well as other Swiss organizations in Singapore. Secondly, a broad range of attractive events including member presentations, knowledge sharing or cultural and social events to get a better |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Saikali | Marc Saikali ( (born 1965) is a French-Lebanese journalist. He has been the Director of the international news television network France 24 from 2012 to 2021.
Biography
Saikali comes from a Lebanese family. He studied journalism at University of Bordeaux and ethnology studies.
Career
Saikali started his career in 1988 as a television journalist for France 3 in Normandy, followed by various postings around France. Saikali has held many management positions across the French news media landscape since the early 2000s. From 2003 to 2006, he was the Editor in Chief of France 3's Foreign Desk.
From 2006 to 2008, he led editorial and training at Medi1 Sat. From 2008 to 2010, he was director of France 3's regional activities in Corsica, Via Stella. From 2010 to 2012 he was Director of News at France 3.
From 2012 to 2021, he has been the Director of France 24, based in Paris. He has overseen its global expansion and the launch of a Spanish-language channel.
Personal life
He is fluent in Arabic, French and English. He is married and he has three children.
References
See also
Marc Saikali, Director of France 24 on YouTube.
Marc Saikali on YouTube.
1965 births
Living people
Lebanese emigrants to France
Lebanese journalists
French journalists
University of Bordeaux alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Alexander | Duncan Alexander is an association football statistician, broadcaster and author for The Athletic.
Career
Under the pseudonym of 'OptaJoe', Alexander was the Chief Data Editor for football statistics company Opta. As 'OptaJoe' Alexander was a football commentator and pundit who live-tweeted during football matches with statistics and jokes. His first book, OptaJoe's Football Yearbook was published in 2016. His second book Outside the Box: A Statistical Journey through the History of Football was published in 2017.
Alexander has also written for the BBC, the Premier League, The Football Association, The Guardian, The Daily Mirror, and Sky Sports.
He is a regular contributor on The Totally Football Show, and has appeared on BBC Radio Five Live, The Anfield Wrap and podcasts for The Times, The Independent, and The Daily Telegraph. He has been interviewed by FourFourTwo and Coca-Cola.
In January 2023 Alexander announced that he was joining subscription sports magazine The Athletic.
Awards
OptaJoe was nominated for the 'online media of the year' award at the 2017 Football Supporters Federation Awards.
Personal life
Alexander studied history at the University of Manchester. When interviewed by FourFourTwo Alexander chose as his favourite ever football book 'Among The Thugs' by Bill Buford (1991). Alexander is a supporter of Wycombe Wanderers and lives in south London.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
English podcasters
Journalists from London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangaraj%20Pandey | Rangaraj Pandey Ragunathacharya is an Indian journalist and actor.
He started his career at Dinamalar and Visual Media Career at Thanthi TV. Later he started his YouTube channel Chankyaa Network.
Early life and education
He was born in a Brahmin family of Bihari origin in Srivilliputhur. His parents, who were from Buxar district, Bihar, migrated to Tamil Nadu before his birth. He did his schooling at a Tamil medium government school in Srivilliputhur. He pursued a Master of Arts degree in Tamil literature, from Madurai Kamaraj University. Pandey currently settled in Chennai along with his family.
Career
Pandey hosted Kelvikku Enna Badhil () and Ayutha Ezhuthu on Thanthi TV
He resigned his post and quit Thanthi TV on 9 December 2018.
He currently hosts a personal blog channel on YouTube called Chanakyaa.
Acting career
In 2019, he was chosen to make his acting debut alongside Ajith Kumar in Nerkonda Paarvai produced by Boney Kapoor.
Filmography
Nerkonda Paarvai (2019) - Advocate Sathyamoorthy.
Ka Pae Ranasingam (2020) - Tamizhkumaran, Ramanathapuram district Collector.
Awards and accolades
References
Living people
21st-century Indian journalists
Indian television executives
Indian television news anchors
Indian television talk show hosts
Indian male journalists
Indian male television journalists
Indian political journalists
1975 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Chef%20Canada%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of the Canadian reality competition show Top Chef Canada was broadcast on Food Network in Canada. It is the Canadian spin-off of Bravo's hit show Top Chef. The program takes place in Toronto, and is hosted by Eden Grinshpan. Season six features 11 young chefs considered to be the next generation of culinary stars.
Contestants
11 chefs competed in season 6. Contestants are listed in the order they were eliminated.
Felix Zhou, 29, Coquitlam, BC
Ivana Raca, 33, Toronto, ON
Elia Herrera, 37, Toronto, ON
Jesse Zuber, 29, Saskatoon, SK
Matt Sullivan, 34, Toronto, ON
Darren Rogers, 27, Montreal, QC
Nathan Guggenheimer, 35, Saskatoon, SK
Jean-Phillipe "JP" Miron, 30, Montreal, QC
Jinhee Lee, 38, Calgary, AB
Mark Singson, 29, Vancouver, BC
Ross Larkin, 31, St. John's, NL
Contestant Progress
The winner received immunity, which could be used at any time in the next four rounds.
Ross used his immunity to save himself and Mark from elimination
Nathan and Felix were brought back in the fourth episode; because the team with Nathan won the challenge, he was able to stay in the competition
Feeling dissatisfied with his level of cooking throughout the competition and struggling mentally, Nathan withdrew from the competition
(WINNER) The chef won the season and was crowned Top Chef.
(RUNNER-UP) The chef was a runner-up for the season.
(WIN) The chef won that episode's Elimination Challenge.
(HIGH) The chef was selected as one of the top entries in the Elimination Challenge, but did not win.
(LOW) The chef was selected as one of the bottom entries in the Elimination Challenge, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The chef lost that week's Elimination Challenge and was out of the competition.
(IN) The chef neither won nor lost that week's Elimination Challenge. They also were not up to be eliminated.
(WITHDREW) The chef withdrew from the competition.
Episodes
References
Canada, Season 6
2018 Canadian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%20Best | Be Best is a public-awareness campaign promoted by First Lady Melania Trump, which focuses on well-being for youth and advocating against cyberbullying.
Campaign
Melania Trump made the initiative and came up with the name "Be Best". Trump said she was prepared for criticism. She formally introduced the campaign on May 7, 2018. Following her speech in the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation declaring May 7 "Be Best" day. Unlike policy initiatives by previous first ladies (such as Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign against childhood obesity, or Nancy Reagan's Just Say No to drugs campaign), Be Best is broad in scope. The initiative focuses on physical and emotional well-being, and also advocates against cyberbullying and opioid abuse.
The initiative began with a very slow start, as Trump underwent kidney surgery one week after the campaign was launched. She made no public appearances for the next several weeks. On July 24, 2018, she visited the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee and talked about children with neonatal withdrawal. On August 6, 2018, she tweeted: "It's #Backtoschool for many youth this month. As you begin a new year, how will you be the best you? #BeBest". She spoke at a cyberbullying summit outside Washington, D.C., on August 20, 2018.
During the initiative's first year, she also promoted Be Best in-person at events in Oklahoma, Washington state, and Nevada. She also promoted Be Best abroad in trips to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, and Egypt.
Criticism
The campaign was accompanied by a booklet that was promoted as having been written "by First Lady Melania Trump." Accusations of plagiarism accrued, to which her office responded by admonishing the press for reporting on the issue. Following the plagiarism accusations the White House's website changed the copy to read "a Federal Trade Commission booklet, promoted by First Lady Melania Trump". The fact-checking site Snopes found the charge of plagiarism "Mostly False", saying: "Melania Trump did not claim she had written the pamphlet herself, and she contributed an introduction to a slightly revised version of the booklet. The FTC was always credited for the creation of the booklet and supported its inclusion in the First Lady's "Be Best" campaign."
The slogan "Be Best" has also been criticized for having an apparent grammatical error, as it is missing a definite article, and should read as, "Be the Best." The Guardian noted Mrs. Trump's native language, Slovenian, does not use definite articles, and speculated whether the name constituted one-upmanship after Michelle Obama's call to "Be Better". Mrs. Trump's senior advisor, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, called the slogan "illiterate" and pushed for an alternative slogan, "Children First", which the First Lady rejected due to the similarities with her husband's "America First" branding.
On December 12, 2019, Melania Trump's 'Be Best' hashtag trended on Twitter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover%20Story%20%28TV%20program%29 | Cover Story is an American documentary television program broadcast by Game Show Network (GSN). The program premiered on January 14, 2018, airing episodes Sunday evenings for three weeks before disappearing from GSN's schedule. In March, the network announced that the series would return following what was considered a "successful debut." It returned on June 10, 2018.
Episodes
References
Notes
External links
2010s American reality television series
2018 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Game Show Network original programming
2018 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20%28web%20framework%29 | Phoenix is a web development framework written in the functional programming language Elixir. Phoenix uses a server-side model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. Based on the Plug library, and ultimately the Cowboy Erlang framework, it was developed to provide highly performant and scalable web applications. In addition to the request/response functionality provided by the underlying Cowboy server, Phoenix provides soft realtime communication to external clients through WebSockets or long polling using its language agnostic channels feature.
Two notable features of Phoenix are LiveView and HEEx. LiveView provides real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML. HEEx is Phoenix's templating language.
See also
Comparison of web frameworks
Elixir (programming language)
Mix (build tool)
References
External links
Free software
Software using the MIT license
Web frameworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%20Ewins | Mat Ewins is an English actor, writer and stand-up comedian.
His comedy shows are anarchic audiovisual experiences with multimedia features, including video clips and elements from computer games he programs himself.
Life and career
Ewins studied at Bristol University where he was a member of sketch comedy troupe The Bristol Revunions. He started doing stand-up in 2003 and debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in 2011.
Stage
Ewins has performed various characters on The Bearpit Podcast (Podcast), a live comedy show set up as a fictional podcast. Co-creators of the show and fellow performers were Lolly Adefope, Richard Gadd, Matt Winning, Fin Taylor and Adam Hess.
He performed his solo show Adventureman 7, dubbed a ‘declaration of independence from seriousness’, at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival and the Vault festival. The show was nominated for Best Show at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival.
He won Best Show at the Comedians' Choice Awards 2017. He had also won the award in 2016 for his previous show Mat Ewins will make you a star. Ewins was a Chortle Student Comedy Award finalist in 2009.
His 2018 Edinburgh show was entitled What Sorry? My Mistake! The Doors Are Not Open; The Show Has Been Cancelled. Do Not Have Your Tickets Ready!, followed in 2019 by Actually, Can I Have Eight Tickets Please?.
Edinburgh Festival, solo shows
Television and radio
In 2018, Ewins featured in BBC Three's stand-up comedy series Live from the BBC (series 3, episode 6). He has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and on BBC Radio 4 Extra's Sabotage (series 2, episode 1). In 2019, he was a guest on two episodes of the Channel 4 comedy show Harry Hill's Club Nite.
On 26 November 2019, Ewins participated in the comedy night The Paddock which was live-streamed by Channel 4.
On the 28th of January 2021, Ewins appeared in dictionary corner in Channels 4's panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Series 21 Episode 3).
Personal life
In 2016, Ewins was living in North London where he shared a house with fellow comedian Richard Gadd.
References
External links
British comedians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Bristol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20metering | Mobile metering (recording of data using a mobile meter) is a technology which enables mobile recording of metering data. While railway companies such as the German Deutsche Bahn have been using this technology for years in their trains, it is now also being used for recording the charging transactions of electric vehicles (EVs).
In the latter case, a mobile electricity meter is integrated either into the vehicle itself or into the respective charging cable. This, together with the necessary communication technology (SIM card), makes it possible to transmit charging data (down to the kWh) to a matching backend. Lean, switchable system sockets suffice for charging – they serve as outlets for the power grid. These system sockets can be reduced to a technical minimum, as the vehicle or the cable, respectively, already carry the necessary billing and communication technology. This makes these sockets especially affordable and avoids running costs compared to conventional charging infrastructure, such as costs for maintenance or meter point operation.
As a result, precise metering, secure data transmission and efficient billing fulfill all preconditions for a comprehensive and future-proof charging and billing solution for electric mobility.
Development
The mobile meter was developed in the projects „On Board Metering I & II“, that kicked off in March 2003, sponsored by the German ministry for economic affairs and technology. Participants of the project were:
ITF-EDF Fröschl Ltd. (Specialist for control centers)
PTB, The National Metrology Institute of Germany
VOLTARIS Ltd. (Specialists for metering and energy services)
ubitricity Gesellschaft für verteilte Energiesysteme mbH (Mobile electricity provider / project leader)
Aims of the project
The project's approach to electric mobility was not tackling it as a singular challenge. The aim was rather to make a significant contribution to the energy transition by taking electric mobility one step further.
For this to happen, the EV was to become a system-relevant factor as an energy storage device. The goal was to create as much power grid connection points as possible while at the same time safeguarding exact metering and billing of electricity. This way, the vehicle could gain access to the grid anytime it is parked (ratio of EVs to grid connection points greater than 1). Up to that date, charging infrastructure for electric cars was thought of as stationary, similar to conventional gas stations for combustion cars.
For this, a shift of technology from the infrastructure to the vehicle side (or the cable, respectively) was needed. Such a network of ubiquitous charging spots was only to be realized with charging infrastructure that would cause comparably low costs over longer periods of time.
Potentials of the model
The disruptive approach of mobile metering has by now opened up new possibilities and business models for electric mobility.
Contribution to grid stability. Electric cars can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Single%20Pale%20Rose | "A Single Pale Rose" is the eighteenth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series Steven Universe. It first aired on May 7, 2018 on Cartoon Network as the second half of a two-part special with the preceding episode "Can't Go Back". It was directed by Kat Morris and Liz Artinian and written and storyboarded by Danny Cragg and Hilary Florido from a story by Matt Burnett, Ben Levin, Kat Morris, Joe Johnston, and series creator Rebecca Sugar.
Sugar described it and "Can't Go Back" as "huge episodes that we’ve been building to for a very long time" that would have major implications for the rest of the series, and change viewers' interpretations of the events of previous episodes.
The episode focuses on Steven Universe confronting Pearl with questions about the supposed murder of Pink Diamond millennia ago, and builds to a major plot twist for the series: the revelation that Steven's mother Rose Quartz was actually Pink Diamond herself, who faked her death with Pearl's assistance.
This episode received critical acclaim for Deedee Magno Hall's performance as Pearl, the quality of the artwork, and the structure of the episode's story, as well the significance of the plot twist for the broader narrative of the series.
Plot
Steven (Zach Callison) is contemplating the conflicting information he has received about Pink Diamond's shattering, and anxiously waits while Amethyst (Michaela Dietz) teaches Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall) how to use her new cell phone. After Amethyst leaves, Steven confronts Pearl and asks her if she was the one who shattered Pink Diamond. Pearl doesn't answer, seemingly shocked. When Amethyst returns, Pearl immediately changes the subject and stores her phone in her gem, leaving Steven confused.
Later, Steven receives a text message from Pearl: "I want to tell you but I can't.🙊" Steven returns home and confronts her about it, but Pearl says she hasn't used her phone since that morning. As she tries and fails to retrieve her phone from her gem, Steven receives another text—a 🌺 emoji. She tells him to enter her gem and get it himself, hinting that he will find the answers to his questions there.
Inside Pearl's gem, Steven meets a personification of Pearl's ability to compartmentalize. She can't find the phone stored with Pearl's other belongings and sends Steven deeper into Pearl's mind to look for it. He visits her traumatic memories of Rose Quartz's pregnancy and the aftermath of the Gem War. He eventually arrives at the moment after Pink Diamond's shattering. He sees gem shards on the ground and Rose holding her sword, crying. When he steps closer, he realizes that it is not Rose but Pearl, shape-shifted into Rose's form. She reveals Pink Diamond's undamaged gemstone in her hand and sends Steven further back through her memories.
Steven ends up inside Pink Diamond's palanquin hearing a conversation between Rose (Susan Egan) and Pearl. While Pearl is hesitant to do what Rose is asking, Rose insists, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20travel%20debugging | Time travel debugging or time traveling debugging is the process of stepping back in time through source code to understand what is happening during execution of a computer program. Typically, debugging and debuggers, tools that assist a user with the process of debugging, allow users to pause the execution of running software and inspect the current state of the program. Users can then step forward in time, stepping into or over statements and proceeding in a forward direction. Interactive debuggers include the ability to modify code and step forward based on updated information. Reverse debugging tools allow users to step backwards in time through the steps that resulted in reaching a particular point in the program. Time traveling debuggers provide these features and also allow users to interact with the program, changing the history if desired, and watch how the program responds.
Characteristics supporting bi-directional travel
There are several characteristics that support the ability to move backwards as well as forwards in time.
Selecting a purely functional programming language helps due to the self-contained nature of pure functions. Pure functions have no side effects and depend only on the information explicitly provided to the function, providing a repeatable, reliable, replayable path through the code.
Languages and debuggers that enable hot swapping, the ability to modify code as the code is running, provide some of the requirements necessary to rewind, and potentially rewrite execution.
Tools based on the GNU debugger (GDB), available for compatible languages such as C, C++, Go, and Fortran are capable of reverse debugging, but the effort significantly slows interaction.
Time traveling debuggers
Examples of debuggers with the ability to step backwards:
See also
Interactive computing
List of purely functional programming languages
References
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Lee%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Charlie Lee is a computer scientist, best known as the creator of Litecoin. He serves as the managing director of the Litecoin Foundation.
Early life
Lee was born in Ivory Coast, moved to the United States at the age of 13, and graduated from high school in 1995. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science in 2000.
Lee's brother, Bobby C. Lee, is the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange BTC China.
Career
For a decade in the 2000s, Lee worked for Google. His work for the company included writing code for ChromeOS. In 2011, Lee became interested in Bitcoin. In October 2011, he released Litecoin on Bitcointalk. He had written the blockchain technology based on the Bitcoin in his spare time while employed at Google. He released Litecoin to the public after mining only 150 coins. Lee has stated that he did not intend to compete with Bitcoin but meant Litecoin to be used for smaller transactions.
In July 2013, Lee left Google and began working at Coinbase, before the cryptocurrency exchange adopted the coin he had created. Lee held the position of Engineering Director until 2017.
In December 2017, Lee announced on Reddit that he sold almost all of his Litecoin holdings due to a perceived conflict of interest. He had been criticized for his tweets, which had a possible effect on the price of the coin. Lee sold or donated all of his coins except for a few minted in physical form, which he kept as collectibles.
Lee is currently working full-time with the Litecoin Foundation on fostering Litecoin adoption.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Ivorian emigrants to the United States
MIT School of Engineering alumni
1970s births
People associated with cryptocurrency
People associated with Bitcoin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Together%20Now%20%282018%20Australian%20TV%20series%29 | All Together Now is an Australian reality television music competition on the Seven Network which was presented by Julia Zemiro and Ronan Keating. It was based on the British show of the same name.
In June 2019, the series was cancelled and would not return for a second season.
Format
In each episode, a range of singers take to the stage, but waiting to judge each performance is "The 100" – a panel of one hundred music experts and performers from across Australia, headed by former Boyzone lead singer, Ronan Keating.
The 100 comprises a plethora of judges from Music genres ranging from Opera, Musical Theatre to Rap and Alternative, you name it, it is in most cases covered in some way by some-one of "The 100".
The Judges also come from a Diversity of backgrounds, some with a lifetime of some 40–50 years in the professional Musical Industry to others with only a few years who have had success early in life.
Obviously not all agree with each other's opinion and this is what makes this show interesting, and the Goal of the Contestant is to Attempt to get all 100 Judges on their Feet and Buzz to take them to the Grand Final of the Series.
The heats
During each heat, performers try and outscore their competitors in order to earn a seat on the top two podium. Whenever a performer scores high enough for a podium place, the act in 2nd place is eliminated as a result.
From each heat, one acts go through to the series finale. Once all acts have sung, the acts in 1st and 2nd sing-off against one another and the winner of that sing off earns qualifying for the final spot.
Prior to filming, all performers choose the song they want to sing. The 100 learn the words to all the songs before the show, but they do not know who is going to come out and sing said songs to them. Each song is approximately 90 seconds long, but importantly the 100 can only join in for the final 60 seconds as signified by a lighting change. This means that the 100 have the same amount of time to join in the singing for every act.
Tie-breaks
In the event of a tied score, the 100 reviews the full performances of both acts on monitors in the studio. Each member of the 100 decides which act they prefer and votes by pressing their button. The act with the most votes takes their seat on the podium, meaning that the act with the fewer votes either drops down a podium place or exits the competition. In the event that the tiebreak vote is also tied, Ronan Keating, as captain of the 100 has the casting vote.
The tie-break was used just once in the entire competition, in the grand final, when Lai, who eventually won the competition, was tied with Emma, both with 90 points, as equal 3rd of the 3 who would perform in the sing-off. Lai won the tie-break, went to the sing-off, and ultimately won the competition.
The sing-off
For the sing-off at the end of the show, scores are reset to zero and the 1st and 2nd placed acts perform a new song chosen from a given shortlist. In the event that b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAI%20Learning%20Academy | CAI Learning Academy is an independent, non-sectarian day school located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The school was founded in 2014 by Tony Salvaggio, the chief executive officer of Computer Aid Inc. to provide a technology-enhanced learning environment for elementary and middle school students in the Lehigh Valley. As of 2018, the school enrolls grades K-4 and plans to expand by one grade level each school year until becoming a full K-8 school in September 2022.
History
Computer Aid Inc, an Allentown-area IT consulting firm, has developed solutions for technology integration in elementary and middle school education. The firm saw an opportunity to open its own charter school in Allentown, which would incorporate hands-on activities and iPad e-reading applications.
The school originally was proposed to be located at a former Catholic school building then owned by the Allentown Diocese. While the charter school application received some support, it was ultimately rejected because the school "contained no evidence of support whatsoever by parents or students." This led to the founding of the private school at the same location since the licensing process of independent schools is much more lenient than in charter schools. The school opened in September 2014 to 70 kindergarten students.
Tuition and financial aid
Annual tuition for all grade levels is $4,000. More than three-quarters of all students receive some form of financial aid and the vast majority of the school's funding comes from donations through Computer Aid Inc.
References
Education in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Schools in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Private middle schools in Pennsylvania
Private elementary schools in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 2014
2014 establishments in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwania%20%28supercomputer%29 | Taiwania () is a supercomputer series in Taiwan owned by the National Applied Research Laboratories.
History
The supercomputer was activated on 9 May 2018 after a two-year program to establish it with a cost of NT$430 million.
In April of 2023, it was unveiled that Taiwania 1 itself will be retired and replaced by Taiwania 4.
Technical specifications
The Taiwania 1 Supercomputer has a memory of 3.4 petabytes with a maximum speed of 1.33 quadrillion FLOPS. The hardware takes up a total area of 33 m2. Taiwania 2 has a maximum speed of 9 PFLOPS.
Taiwania 2
History
The Taiwania 2 supercomputer is a follow on to the Taiwania supercomputer designed by the National Center for High-Performance Computing. Taiwania 2 debuted at 20 on the November 2018 TOP500 and 10 on the Green500.
Technical specifications
Taiwania 2 has a computing capacity of 9 quadrillion floating-point operations per second (9 PetaFLOPS, or 9 PFLOPS). Its hardware consists of 252 nodes, each of which contains two Intel Xeon Gold CPUs and eight NVIDIA V100 GPUs. It runs the CentOS operating system.
Taiwania 3
Taiwania 3 is one of the supercomputers made by Taiwan,. and also the newest one (August, 2021). It is placed in the National Center for High-performance Computing of NARLabs. There are 50,400 cores in total with 900 nodes, using Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU) and using CentOS as Operating System. It is an open access for public supercomputer. It is currently open access to scientists and more to do specific research after get permission from Taiwan's National Center for High-performance Computing. This is the third supercomputer of the Taiwania series. It uses CentOS x86_64 7.8 as its system operator and Slurm Workload Manager as workflow manager to ensure better performance. Taiwania 3 uses InfiniBand HDR100 100Gbit/s high speed Internet connection to ensure better performance of the supercomputer. The main memory capability is 192GB. There's currently two Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU) inside each node. The full calculation capability is 2.7PFLOPS. It is launched into operation in November 2020 before schedule due to the needed for COVID-19. It is currently ranked number 227 on Top 500 list of June, 2021 and number 80 on Green 500 list. It is manufactured by Quanta Computer, Taiwan Fixed Network, and ASUS Cloud.
References
See also
Semiconductor industry in Taiwan
2018 establishments in Taiwan
Computer-related introductions in 2018
Science and technology in Taiwan
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krauss%20wildcard-matching%20algorithm | In computer science, the Krauss wildcard-matching algorithm is a pattern matching algorithm. Based on the wildcard syntax in common use, e.g. in the Microsoft Windows command-line interface, the algorithm provides a non-recursive mechanism for matching patterns in software applications, based on syntax simpler than that typically offered by regular expressions.
History
The algorithm is based on a history of development, correctness and performance testing, and programmer feedback that began with an unsuccessful search for a reliable non-recursive algorithm for matching wildcards. An initial algorithm, implemented in a single while loop, quickly prompted comments from software developers, leading to improvements. Ongoing comments and suggestions culminated in a revised algorithm still implemented in a single while loop but refined based on a collection of test cases and a performance profiler. The experience tuning the single while loop using the profiler prompted development of a two-loop strategy that achieved further performance gains, particularly in situations involving empty input strings or input containing no wildcard characters. The two-loop algorithm is available for use by the open-source software development community, under the terms of the Apache License v. 2.0, and is accompanied by test case code.
Usage
The algorithm made available under the Apache license is implemented in both pointer-based C++ and portable C++ (implemented without pointers). The test case code, also available under the Apache license, can be applied to any algorithm that provides the pattern matching operations below. The implementation as coded is unable to handle multibyte character sets and poses problems when the text being searched may contain multiple incompatible character sets.
Pattern matching operations
The algorithm supports three pattern matching operations:
A one-to-one match is performed between the pattern and the source to be checked for a match, with the exception of asterisk (*) or question mark (?) characters in the pattern.
An asterisk (*) character matches any sequence of zero or more characters.
A question mark (?) character matches any single character.
Examples
*foo* matches any string containing "foo".
mini* matches any string that begins with "mini" (including the string "mini" itself).
???* matches any string of three or more letters.
Applications
The original algorithm has been ported to the DataFlex programming language by Larry Heiges for use with Data Access Worldwide code library. It has been posted on GitHub in modified form as part of a log file reader. The 2014 algorithm is part of the Unreal Model Viewer built into the Epic Games Unreal Engine game engine.
See also
pattern matching
glob (programming)
wildmat
References
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching%20wildcards | In computer science, an algorithm for matching wildcards (also known as globbing) is useful in comparing text strings that may contain wildcard syntax. Common uses of these algorithms include command-line interfaces, e.g. the Bourne shell or Microsoft Windows command-line or text editor or file manager, as well as the interfaces for some search engines and databases. Wildcard matching is a subset of the problem of matching regular expressions and string matching in general.
The problem
A wildcard matcher tests a wildcard pattern p against an input string s. It performs an anchored match, returns true only when p matches the entirety of s.
The pattern can be based on any common syntax (see globbing), but on Windows programmers tend to only discuss a simplified syntax supported by the native C runtime:
No escape characters are defined
Wildcards: matches exactly one occurrence of any character. matches arbitrary many (including zero) occurrences of any character.
This article mainly discusses the Windows formulation of the problem, unless otherwise stated.
Definition
Stated in zero-based indices, the wildcard-matching problem can be defined recursively as:
where mij is the result of matching the pattern p against the text t truncated at i and j characters respectively. This is the formulation used by Richter's algorithm and the Snippets algorithm found in Cantatore's collection. This description is similar to the Levenshtein distance.
Related problems
Directly related problems in computer science include:
Pattern matching with don't cares or gaps, an unanchored string search with only the equivalent of defined.
Pattern matching with wildcards, an unanchored string search with the equivalent of both wildcards defined. Has an exponential runtime unless a length-bound is given in the pattern matching with flexible wildcards variant.
History
Early algorithms for matching wildcards often relied on recursion, but the technique was criticized on grounds of performance and reliability considerations. Non-recursive algorithms for matching wildcards have gained favor in light of these considerations.
Among both recursive and non-recursive algorithms, strategies for performing the pattern matching operation vary widely, as evidenced among the variety of example algorithms referenced below. Test case development and performance optimization techniques have been demonstrably brought to bear on certain algorithms, particularly those developed by critics of the recursive algorithms.
Recursive algorithms
The recursion generally happens on matching * when there is more suffix to match against. This is a form of backtracking, also done by some regular expression matchers.
Rich Salz' wildmat algorithm (sh-like syntax)
Filip's algorithm and Vignesh Murugesan's algorithm
Martin Richter's algorithm (identical to Snippets and related to the 7-zip algorithm)
C library fnmatch implementations (supports [...] and multibyte character sets):
Guido v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20media | Women in media are individuals who participate in media. Media are the collective communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data. The role of women in media revolves around the four axes of media: media freedom, media pluralism, media independence, and media safety. Women in media face the same difficulties and threats as men, and additionally experience gender inequalities, safety issues, or under-representation.Compared to men, women are much less likely to be included in the media globally. According to research, a minimum of twenty-five percent of news on television, radio and in the press mention women as a topic. According to a 2015 survey, only 19% of news experts and 37% of reporters worldwide were women. We recognize the gender-imbalanced perspective of society has the potential to promote and perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes,as behavioral scientists studying the underrepresentation of women in the workforce. It goes without saying that the media must change the way they portray the outside world, but who has the power to change the media itself?
Safety of women journalists
Safety of journalists is the ability for journalists and media professionals to receive, produce and share information without facing physical or moral threats. Women journalists also face increasing dangers such as sexual assault, "whether in the form of a targeted sexual violation, often in reprisal for their work; mob-related sexual violence aimed against journalists covering public events; or the sexual abuse of journalists in detention or captivity. Many of these crimes are not reported as a result of powerful cultural and professional stigmas." Women working in the media face disproportionate and specialized dangers, as well as increasing offline and online attacks. The gender-based violence they face includes online harassment, sexist bullying, physical harm, rape and even murder.
Threats on women journalists and actresses
Women journalists, whether they are working in an insecure context, or in a newsroom, face risks of physical assault, sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape, and even murder. Women journalists are vulnerable to attacks not only from those attempting to silence their coverage but also from sources, colleagues, and others. A 2014 global survey of nearly 1,000 journalists, initiated by the International News Safety Institute (INSI) in partnership with the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) and with the support of UNESCO, found that nearly two-thirds of women who took part in the survey had experienced intimidation, threats or abuse in the workplace.
In the period from 2012 through 2016, UNESCO's Director-General denounced the killing of 38 women journalists, representing 7 per cent of all journalists killed. The percentage of journalists killed who are women is significantly lower than their overall representation in the media workforce. This large gender gap is likely partly the result of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse%20Paho | Eclipse Paho is a MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) implementation.
Paho is available on various platforms and programming languages:
Java
C#
Go
C
Python
JavaScript
Rust
Example
A simple example of using Paho could be:
client = new MqttClient("tcp://localhost:1883", "pahomqttExample");
client.connect();
MqttMessage message = new MqttMessage();
message.setPayload("Hello World".getBytes());
client.publish("pahoExample/theTopic", message);
client.disconnect();
References
See also
Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
Free software
Software using the Eclipse license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%20neutrality%20by%20country | Net neutrality is the principle that governments should mandate Internet service providers to treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication. For instance, under these principles, internet service providers are unable to intentionally block, slow down or charge money for specific websites and online content.
Summary
By country
Argentina
The Law 27,078, of 2014, under the Article 56 establishes the right of users to access, use, send, receive or offer any content, application, service or protocol through the Internet without any restriction, discrimination, distinction or blocking. Article 57 forbids "ICT service providers" from blocking, interfering, or restricting any content, application, service, or protocol; price discrimination by virtue of its contents. Article 57 also establishes an exception allowing blocking or restrictions solely under a judicial order or by the user of the service.
Since 2017, mobile telephone carriers like Claro, Movistar and Personal have been offering free traffic for WhatsApp messages, voice recordings, attached videos and pictures.
Belgium
In Belgium, net neutrality was discussed in the parliament in June 2011. Three parties (CD&V, N-VA and PS) jointly proposed a text to introduce the concept of net neutrality in the telecom law.
Brazil
In 2014, the Brazilian government passed a law which expressly upholds net neutrality, "guaranteeing equal access to the Internet and protecting the privacy of its users in the wake of U.S. spying revelations".
The Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet (in , officially Law No 12.965) became law on 23 April 2014 at the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance. It governs the use of the Internet in Brazil, through forecasting principles, guarantees, rights and duties to those who use the network as well as the determination of guidelines for state action. The legislation was used as basis to block the popular WhatsApp application in Brazilian territory, a decision lifted soon afterwards, experts claiming that it was, in actuality, against the Framework, which was misinterpreted by the judiciary.
Canada
In a January 25, 2011 decision, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ruled that usage-based billing could be introduced. Prime Minister Harper signaled that the government may be looking into the ruling: "We're very concerned about CRTC's decision on usage-based billing and its impact on consumers. I've asked for a review of the decision." Some have suggested that the ruling adversely affects net neutrality, since it discriminates against media that is larger in size, such as audio and video.
In 2005, Canada's second-largest telecommunications company, Telus, began blocking access to a server that hosted a website supporting a labour strike against the compan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ika-5%20Utos | (pronounced as Ika-limang Utos / international title: Revenge / ) is a Philippine television drama crime series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Laurice Guillen, it stars Jean Garcia, Valerie Concepcion and Gelli de Belen. It premiered on September 10, 2018 on the network's Afternoon Prime and Sabado Star Power sa Hapon line up replacing Contessa. The series concluded on February 8, 2019 with a total of 116 episodes. It was replaced by Inagaw na Bituin in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Eloisa had a perfect life due to her successful and loving husband, two nice kids and helpful friends. However Eloisa didn't expect that her friend Clarisse will destroy her peaceful life. When everything is almost gone, Eloisa runs to Kelly to start again. Years after, Eloisa is still hunted by Clarisse's sin.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jean Garcia as Eloisa Vallejo-Buenaventura
Valerie Concepcion as Clarisse Alfonso-Buenaventura / Cynthia Alfonso
Gelli de Belen as Kelly San Diego-Manupil
Supporting cast
Jeric Gonzales as Brix Lorenzo
Tonton Gutierrez as Emilio "Emil" Buenaventura Sr.
Migo Adecer as Francis "Frank" Buenaventura
Klea Pineda as Candy Buenaventura
Jake Vargas as Carlo Manupil
Inah de Belen as Joanna Alfonso
Antonio Aquitania as Benjie Manupil
Recurring cast
Rez Cortez as Dado Vallejo
Tanya Gomez as Marina Vallejo
Louella Cordova as Sonia Alfonso
Gigi dela Riva as Carmelle San Diego
Ollie Espino as Mando
Dea Formilleza as Eya
Yasser Marta as Macky
Kevin Sagra as Jepoy
Prince Clemente as Rey
Faith da Silva as Denise
Princess Guevarra as Lisa
Crisanta Mariano as Citadel
Guest cast
Neil Ryan Sese as Randy Lorenzo
Kiko Estrada as Emilio "Leo" Buenaventura Jr.
Marco Alcaraz as Richard Dela Fuenta
Kiel Rodriguez as Anton
Kelvin Miranda as Zach
Ralf King as David
Ralph Noriega as Paul
Divine Tetay as Ludwig
Kim Rodriguez as Roxanne
Franchesca Salcedo as Lara
Lovely Abella as Emily
Sheena Halili as Millet
Kevin Santos as Dennis
Production
Principal photography commenced on June 20, 2018. Filming concluded on February 6, 2019.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of earned a 5.7% rating.
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
2019 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Murder in television
Philippine crime television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Create%20TV%20affiliates | The following is a list of affiliates of Create, a PBS sub-channel network of non-commercial educational television stations in the United States. The list is arranged alphabetically by state and based on the station's city of license and followed in parentheses by the designated market area and when different from the city of license. In most cases, this is their virtual channel number and a cable channel number with Cable Provider in the United States, with their video quality and aspect ratio size.
Current Affiliates
Create TV is carried out by the following stations:
Previous affiliates & operators
Statewide Connecticut: From launch until 2012 and from 2018 until 2020.
Waco, Texas: KNCT 46.3 (2010–2018; currently a CW affiliate on 46.1 since 2019 and Start TV on 46.3) (Owner: Central Texas College; currently Gray Television)
West Palm Beach, Florida: WXEL-TV 42.2 (until 2018; removed Create affiliate)
Windsor, Vermont: WVTA 41.3 (until 2022; license surrendered)
References
Create |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Axle | Data Axle, formerly Infogroup, is a provider of data, technology and marketing services for salespeople, marketers, and professionals.
History
Data Axle was founded in 1972 as a company called Business Research Services that compiled and provided lists to mobile home manufacturers. The company changed its name to American Business Lists and then to American Business Information (ABI). By 1986, ABI had recorded the Yellow Pages into its database, which customers could access in various forms including floppy disk, pre-printed labels and CD-ROM.
The company became publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange in 1992. ABI was renamed infoUSA in 1998. In 2008, the company changed its name to Infogroup to "reflect its global expansion." In 2020, the company announced the name change from Infogroup to Data Axle in order to better convey the diversity of services they offer their customers.
In 2010, CCMP Capital purchased Infogroup for $460 million. At the time, former CEO Bill Fairfield said the move to private would give the company more flexibility with serving customers. In 2017, CCMP Capital sold the company to Court Square Capital Partners.
On February 4, 2019, Infogroup named its Dallas office, where the company's executive offices are located, as its corporate headquarters.
References
External links
Data Axle Website
Privately held companies based in Texas
American companies established in 1972
1972 establishments in Nebraska |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20DC%20Comics%20Super%20Heroes%3A%20Aquaman%3A%20Rage%20of%20Atlantis | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Aquaman – Rage of Atlantis is a 2018 American computer-animated superhero comedy film. It is based on the DC Comics and Lego brands. Produced by DC Entertainment, The Lego Group and Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. It premiered at the San Diego Comic-Con International on July 22, 2018 and was released digitally, DVD and Blu-ray on July 31, 2018. It is the eighth Lego DC Comics film. The film received mixed reviews, with praise for the animation but criticism for the consumerism.
Plot
At the Hall of Justice, Justice League newcomer Jessica Cruz is busy examining for suspicious activity when the Trouble Alert goes off, alerting Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg about Lobo attacking a warehouse at Dread Lake storing alien technology. When Aquaman receives word of this, he attempts to join in. He soon realizes that Dread Lake is in fact a dry lake bed, leaving hiss abilities futile as he is beaten by Lobo until the League arrive. However, Lobo manages to escape with a glowing blue orb despite their efforts.
Wanting to lighten the mood, Aquaman invites the League to a feast in Atlantis honoring his anniversary as king. During the feast, Aquaman's brother Ocean Master soon gathers the inhabitants of Atlantis where the entire city is engulfed in a red light which begins to corrupt and enrage them, with the League being protected by Jessica's force field. With Atlantis under his influence, Ocean Master reveals a law that only a pure-blood Atlantean can be king. Since Aquaman is half-human, he reluctantly gives up the crown to Ocean Master.
Now in control, Ocean Master introduces his corrupted subjects to his new adviser, Red Lantern Corps leader Atrocitus, and demands the destruction of the League. Attempting to escape the corrupted Atlanteans, Aquaman and the League use a portal-creating device known as the Atlantean Gateway to escape. However, Cruz fails to enter the portal before it closes.
The League end up arriving on a desert world with a red sun (rendering Superman powerless) and find a factory of Red Lantern vehicles and robots. Noticing that this planet's end of the gateway is being powered by the orb Lobo stole, the League realize that Atrocitus plans to send his forces to Earth and have the Atlanteans invade the surface world. After escaping the factory, the League have Aquaman lead them to water and learn that it has become scarce ever since Atrocitus drained it dry. Fearing that Earth will suffer a similar fate, the League become determined to return home. Encountering Lobo, they learn that he was hired to steal the orb by Ocean Master and request his assistance in exchange for returning his beloved dolphin Fishy to him.
Back on Earth, Cruz is rescued by Mera who initially attempts to aid against the corrupted Atlanteans only to be corrupted herself. Escaping on a Red Lantern vehicle, Cruz makes it to a seaside fair where the Atlantean invasion begins. Cruz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Testing | Ministry of Testing, also referred to as the MoT, is a global software testing community that was founded by Rosie Sherry, who was longlisted for most influential woman in UK tech by Computer Weekly in 2017 and 2018, as well as listed in the Female Founders 101 list by BusinessCloud. MoT started out as a UK-based internet forum for software testers and quickly grew into an independent business that provides software testing conferences and Meetups around the world, and an online learning platform dedicated to the craft of software testing.
Members of the Ministry of Testing community consist of software testers and those working in software quality. The community created by Ministry of Testing aims to get its participants sharing innovative practises and ideas around software testing. Computer Scientists at the University of Maryland used Ministry of Testing (along with organisations) to recruit software testers for a study into identifying vulnerabilities in software.
The Ministry of Testing has teamed up with community members to run local meetups. There are 50 meetups across the world. According to Rosie Sherry, Brazil, and Greek meetups are some of the best meetups across the world. Specifically for the Greek meetup, she says, 'But our Athens group is just nuts and mad crazy. Their last meetup had 300 people attend. That's the size of a conference!'
TestBash
Ministry of Testing's first conference, named TestBash, was first held in Cambridge. Events have been described as having a strong community atmosphere and using innovative conference engagement methods, such as The UnExpo and 99-Second Talks.
TestBash software testing conferences are largely informal events, with talks addressing areas of innovation across of testing, quality and working in software development. There are now multiple TestBash conferences taking place in 7 cities annually around the world. In 2018 the first TestBash focusing specifically on technical testing and automation will be held, and named Test.bash();.
Online learning platform
The Dojo is a learning platform dedicated to software testing. MoT co-create all the learning materials and courses on their learning platform with active software testers in their community.
References
Information technology organizations
Software testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe%20Dimension | Adobe Dimension is a 3D rendering and design software developed and published by Adobe Systems for macOS and Windows operating systems. It was founded as Project Felix on March 28, 2017, and became Dimension on October 18, 2017.
Overview
Unlike with other modeling programs such as SketchUp, models are not created in Dimension. Instead, Dimension is a photo-based mockup editor where models, photos and textures need to be created in third-party software before being imported into Dimension. Once in Dimension, models and images can be composed into arrangements before being rendered to photorealistic 2D images.
History
Originally relying on the V-Ray rendering engine, Adobe switched to its own 3D rendering engine called Adobe Rendering Engine (ARE) with the release of Dimension CC2.2 in April 2019, and stated that support for external rendering engines may be considered in the future.
On June 23, 2021, Adobe released Adobe Substance 3D Stager, which is part of the Adobe Substance 3D Collection and not included with the Creative Cloud All Apps subscription. Adobe Dimension is still available and included in the Creative Cloud All Apps plan. Adobe has committed to providing support for the original Dimension program.
Dimensions
Historically, Adobe released a similar program called Adobe Dimensions from 1992 to 1997, intended as an easy way to turn vector artwork from Illustrator into simple 3D renders, similarly to Specular LogoMotion or Alias Sketch!. It was discontinued in 2004, with some of its features then merged into Illustrator CS as Live Effects.
References
2017 software
Dimension
Compositing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias%20Niessner | Matthias Nießner (born 1986) is a professor of computer science and entrepreneur from Germany, working in the fields of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision. He is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich. As a member of the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication Junior Research Group Program, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, working in the lab of Pat Hanrahan.
Nießner was awarded a Google Faculty Research Award in 2017 for Photo-realistic Avatars from Videos:
Free Viewpoint Animation of Human Faces, as well as a Rudolf Mössbauer Fellowship from the Technical University of Munich.
Education and academic work
Nießner received a Ph.D. in computer graphics from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2013 and received his Diploma degree in 2010. His thesis on the topic of Subdivision Surface Rendering using Hardware Tessellation was submitted in 2013 and was awarded the highest honors. Some ideas from this thesis were used in the most recent version of Pixar's OpenSubdiv, which also incorporates ideas dating back to 1996 from Edwin Catmull, Tony DeRose, Michael Kass, Charles Loop, and Peter Schröder. Through a Junior Research Group Program, Nießner was a Visiting Assistant Professor from 2013 to 2017 at Stanford University in the lab of Pat Hanrahan. Since 2017 he has been an assistant professor at TUM, where he heads the Visual Computing Lab.
Nießner's work focuses on 3D reconstruction and semantic scene understanding. Among his best-known work is that on facial reenactment, which has been widely criticized for contributing to the ease with which fake news can be generated. The majority of the external stake in his company Synthesia comes from speculative 2020 US Presidential candidate Mark Cuban. He developed with his colleagues Face2Face, which was the first work to manipulate facial expressions from consumer cameras in real time. More recently, he has been working on 3D semantic scene understanding, developing with his colleagues ScanNet, the first large-scale, densely-annotated 3D dataset.
References
External links
Matthias Nießner's Home Page
Matthias Nießner at DBLP Bibliography Server
German computer scientists
Living people
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
1986 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20517001%E2%80%93518000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20causal%20modeling | Dynamic causal modeling (DCM) is a framework for specifying models, fitting them to data and comparing their evidence using Bayesian model comparison. It uses nonlinear state-space models in continuous time, specified using stochastic or ordinary differential equations. DCM was initially developed for testing hypotheses about neural dynamics. In this setting, differential equations describe the interaction of neural populations, which directly or indirectly give rise to functional neuroimaging data e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG) or electroencephalography (EEG). Parameters in these models quantify the directed influences or effective connectivity among neuronal populations, which are estimated from the data using Bayesian statistical methods.
Procedure
DCM is typically used to estimate the coupling among brain regions and the changes in coupling due to experimental changes (e.g., time or context). A model of interacting neural populations is specified, with a level of biological detail dependent on the hypotheses and available data. This is coupled with a forward model describing how neural activity gives rise to measured responses. Estimating the generative model identifies the parameters (e.g. connection strengths) from the observed data. Bayesian model comparison is used to compare models based on their evidence, which can then be characterised in terms of parameters.
DCM studies typically involve the following stages:
Experimental design. Specific hypotheses are formulated and an experiment is conducted.
Data preparation. The acquired data are pre-processed (e.g., to select relevant data features and remove confounds).
Model specification. One or more forward models (DCMs) are specified for each dataset.
Model estimation. The model(s) are fitted to the data to determine their evidence and parameters.
Model comparison. The evidence for each model is used for Bayesian Model Comparison (at the single-subject level or at the group level) to select the best model(s). Bayesian model averaging (BMA) is used to compute a weighted average of parameter estimates over different models.
The key stages are briefly reviewed below.
Experimental design
Functional neuroimaging experiments are typically either task-based or examine brain activity at rest (resting state). In task-based experiments, brain responses are evoked by known deterministic inputs (experimentally controlled stimuli). These experimental variables can change neural activity through direct influences on specific brain regions, such as evoked potentials in the early visual cortex, or via a modulation of coupling among neural populations; for example, the influence of attention. These two types of input - driving and modulatory - are parameterized separately in DCM. To enable efficient estimation of driving and modulatory effects, a 2x2 factorial experimental design is often used - with one factor serving as the driving input and the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual%20Master%20File | The Individual Master File (IMF) is the system currently used by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to store and process tax submissions and used as the main data input to process the IRS's transactions. It is a running record of all of a person's individual tax events including refunds, payments, penalties and tax payer status. It is a batch-driven application that uses VSAM files.
Written in assembly language and COBOL, the IMF was originally created by IBM for the IRS in the 1960s to run with an IBM System/360 and associated tape storage system. The IMF is frequently identified as a legacy system in need of modernization.
Description
The IMF stores an individual's name, taxpayer identification number, address, income, deductions, credits, payments received, refunds issued and taxes dismissed.
The IMF stores over 100 million Americans individual taxpayers' data.
The IMF application is a system consisting of a series of batch runs, data records and files. The IMF system receives individual tax submissions in electronic format and processes them through a pre-posting phase. It then posts and analyzes the transactions which produces output in the form of Refund Data, Notice Data, Reports and information feeds to other entities and departments.
Age
The IMF system began operation in the 1960s and is still used today, and is considered well overdue for modernization. Portions of the system are programmed in COBOL and others directly in assembly language. In a 2018 report to Congress, the Government Accountability Office identified the IMF and other IT systems at the IRS as "facing significant risks due to their reliance on legacy programming languages, outdated hardware, and a shortage of human resources with critical skills".
The IMF and other legacy systems have been named as obstacles that prevent the IRS from acting quickly in exigent circumstances. In the weeks following the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, the IRS attempted to rapidly disburse tens of millions of one-time economic stimulus payments, requiring code changes to the IMF and the creation of an associated online interface for taxpayers to view and update their payment information. However, the effort was only partially successful as many taxpayers received the wrong payment amount or were unable to view their payment status.
There have also been multiple hardware failures at key times, including one which occurred on 17 April 2018 during the end of tax season.
Replacement
The Customer Account Data Engine (CADE) is intended to replace the IMF system in day-to-day use. Work on the original CADE was begun in 2000 and stopped in 2009. The original CADE is in active use; for instance, in 2009, it was used to process over 40 million tax returns.
In 2009, work began on CADE 2, with an initial planned implementation date of 2014 for major functionality. However, CADE 2's major functionality is not expected to be used until 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Computer%20Emulator | The Family Computer Emulator was one of the first Famicom emulators. The development started in the early 1990s.
It was made by Haruhisa Udagawa(宇田川 治久), a developer at Namco, Sonic Team and KAZe. He also worked on twelve games from the 1980s to the early 2000s.
The emulator was simple, but it was able to run games such as Donkey Kong. The ROM files had to be dumped through a complicated process.
Supported games
Udagawa only tested a few games on his Famicom Emulator, those games being:
Xevious
Famicom Tennis
Mario Bros.
Donkey Kong
Space Invaders
Limitations
The emulator could not do sound emulation, and did not support the Famicom's microphone. The ROM had to be 256 kilobits, and the Graphics Tile Data file had to be 64 kilobits. (They had their own memory space. This was before the iNES format was created). Sprites had to be 8 pixels by 8 pixels
The CPU emulation was slow
See also
Nesticle, another Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator
References
Nintendo Entertainment System emulators
Discontinued software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20Gal-Ezer | Judith Gal-Ezer () is an Israeli computer scientist and computer science educator known for her development of the high school computer science curriculum in Israel. She is a professor emerita at the Open University of Israel.
Education and career
Gal-Ezer graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1968, and completed her PhD in applied mathematics there in 1978. She also studied for a diploma in computer science there from 1983 to 1985.
Career and research
After working as an adjunct lecturer at Tel Aviv University from 1980 to 1985, she joined the Open University faculty in 1990. She retired in 2016.
Gal-Ezer is one of the founders of the Computer Science Department at the Open University of Israel. She has served as head of Mathematics and Computer Science and as Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Open University, and as Advisor to the President on Women’s and Gender Issues. She has also been a leader in the development of Israel's high school computer science curriculum for over 25 years.
Awards and honors
In 2007 she won the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education. She was the winner of the IEEE Computer Society's 2015 Taylor L. Booth Education Award "for outstanding research and its practical application in the field of computer science education". She is the 2017 winner of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, "for her central role in developing a groundbreaking high-school computer science curriculum, her outstanding CS education research and her extensive service to the education community". She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to research and implementation in computer science education".
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Tel Aviv University alumni
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
Academic staff of the Open University of Israel
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon%20Communications | Ribbon Communications Inc. is a public company that makes software, IP and optical networking solutions for service providers, enterprises and critical infrastructure sectors. The company was formed in 2017, following the merger of Genband and Sonus Networks and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
History
Ribbon Communications was the combination of two companies, each of which had acquired other businesses over their history.
Ribbon Communications
Ribbon Communications was founded in October, 2017, following the merger of Genband and Sonus Networks in May.
Ray Dolan initially headed the combined company, while Walsh led the Kandy business unit.
By December, Dolan, who had led Sonus since 2010, resigned.
Franklin (Fritz) W. Hobbs was appointed as president and CEO of the combined organization and served in that role until November 2019.
In January 2018, the company announced that its session border controllers would be used in the virtual network services of Verizon. In 2018 Ribbon also acquired Edgewater Networks.
In November 2019, Ribbon announced it would acquire ECI Telecom from Shaul Shani for $486 million in cash and stock. The company completed the merger in March 2020.
In February 2020, Bruce McClelland was named president, CEO and director. A years later, Ribbon moved its headquarters to Plano, Texas.
In August 2020, AVCTechnologies announced an agreement to buy Kandy Communications Business. The transaction was completed in December 2020.
Genband
General Bandwidth was founded in 1999 by Paul Carew, Brendon Mills, Ron Lutz and Steve Raich in Austin, Texas and received initial venture capital funding of $12 million. The company raised over $200 million in four rounds of venture funding and grew to over 200 people by 2003. In 2004, Mills resigned and was replaced as CEO by Charles Vogt.
In March 2006, General Bandwidth changed its name to Genband, Inc. and moved its headquarters to Plano, Texas.
Genband started as a media gateway vendor selling the G6 media gateway, but eventually branched out to IP switching, IP applications, IP Multimedia Subsystem and session border controllers.
In August, 2006, Genband acquired Syndeo and Baypackets (headquartered in Fremont, California, with employees mostly in India).
In October, 2006 it acquired the digital central office products known as Siemens DCO.
In 2007, Genband acquired Tekelec’s switching group, which expanded product offerings in application software and SIP trunking gateways. In 2008, the company acquired Nokia Siemens Networks’ Surpass HiG media gateway product portfolio, including fixed-line trunking media gateways. The company concluded 2008 with the acquisition of NextPoint Networks, which included session border controller (SBCs) and security gateway offerings.
In May 2010, Genband purchased Nortel Networks' carrier VoIP and application business for an estimated net $182 million after Nortel became bankrupt.
Existing shareholder One Equity Partners assisted in financing.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Purge%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Purge is an American anthology action horror television series, based on the franchise of the same name and created by James DeMonaco. The first season premiered on USA Network on September 4, 2018, and stars Gabriel Chavarria, Hannah Emily Anderson, Jessica Garza, Lili Simmons, Amanda Warren, Colin Woodell, and Lee Tergesen, with Cindy Robinson reprising her role as the voice of the Purge Emergency Broadcast System from the films.
In November 2018, USA Network renewed the show for a second season, which premiered on October 15, 2019. The second season featured a new cast starring Derek Luke, Max Martini, Paola Núñez and Joel Allen, with Cindy Robinson again reprising her role, this time appearing as character Megan Lewis. In the fictional timeline of the franchise, the first season takes place in 2027, and the second season between 2036 and 2037, thus the series is set between the events of the films Anarchy and Election Year. In May 2020, the series was canceled after two seasons.
Premise
With ties to the films, the series revolves around an alternate dystopian United States ruled by a totalitarian government that sanctions a 12-hour period which legalizes all crimes, including vandalism, theft, arson, and murder.
The first season follows several seemingly unconnected characters as they experience the Purge Night of 2027: Miguel Guerrero, a Marine searching for his sister Penelope who has joined a government-backed death cult; Jane Barbour, an executive who uses the Purge as an opportunity for revenge; and Jenna and Rick Betancourt, married entrepreneurs who attend a Purge party to seek investment capital from a wealthy Purge supporter.
The second season begins just as an annual Purge Night of 2036 is drawing to a close, and follows characters dealing with the consequences of that night and investigating conspiracies in the year before the next purge in 2037. One story involves ex-police officers who have become bank robbers. Another story follows a NFFA detective following a suspicious killing of a scientist friend and discovers many of their peers have also been killed in suspicious circumstances. Other stories include college fraternity members who went out on Purge Night to collect items on a scavenger hunt, before having to defend themselves and dealing with PTSD afterwards, as well as a husband and wife who survive an assailant on Purge Night, only to discover that it was a hitman sent to kill the husband and begin to investigate why. Clear connections between these characters and their stories become apparent as the plot unfolds.
Cast and characters
Season 1
Main
Gabriel Chavarria as Miguel Guerrero, a US Marine who returns home on Purge Night after receiving a cryptic message from his sister, Penelope
Hannah Emily Anderson as Jenna Betancourt, an anti-Purge proponent and devoted to charitable causes who is accustomed to locking down on Purge Night. Her choice to venture out for the first time leads to an encounter with vio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie%20Payida%20Jabangwe | Natalie Payida Jabangwe (née Natalie Payida), is a Zimbabwean computer engineer and businesswoman, who serves as the Group Digital Executive Officer at Sanlam, based in Cape Town, South Africa. In this role, she oversees
digital functions in over 34 African markets, India and Malaysia.
She was the chief executive officer of EcoCash, the mobile money service of Econet Wireless, a leading wireless telephony company in Zimbabwe. She ran the second-largest mobile financial service company on the African continent, serving in excess of six million individuals, as of 2018.
Early life and education
Payida Jabangwe was born in the United Kingdom circa 1983. She studied at Middlesex University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering. While at Middlesex, she studied as an exchange student at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Later, she earned an Executive Master of Business Administration, from the Imperial College London.
Career
While pursuing her master's degree, she worked with National Cash Register and was part of the team that developed the digital payments strategy of the company. In January 2014, she relocated to Zimbabwe to lead EcoCash, having been headhunted for that purpose. In December 2016, she was reported to be the youngest chief executive of a mobile money company on the African continent, at that time.
In May 2018, Payida Jabangwe, was nominated among the 100 Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum 2018, a platform used to groom "the world's brightest under 40 and most promising" future leaders. She was also a 2017 Fellow of The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellowship Program. In November 2018, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres appointed her to the United Nations' Task Force on Digital Financing of Sustainable Development Goals, co-chaired by Maria Ramos and Achim Steiner.
In 2018, Natalie Payida Jabangwe was named among the "100 Africa Economic Leaders for Tomorrow" by the Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics, a Paris-based think tank.
While at Spelman College in Atlanta, she interned in the office then-Atlanta Mayor, Shirley Franklin. Payida Jabangwe is credited with developing Atlanta's first information technology security policies in 2004, when Natalie was 21 years old.
Family
Natalie Payida Jabangwe is mother of one daughter, Makatendeka Morris.
See also
Econet Wireless
List of banks in Zimbabwe
References
External links
Website of Sanlam International
Living people
1983 births
Zimbabwean businesspeople
Alumni of Middlesex University
Zimbabwean women engineers
Zimbabwean women in business
Alumni of Imperial College London
21st-century women engineers
Zimbabwean business executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML.NET | ML.NET is a free software machine learning library for the C# and F# programming languages. It also supports Python models when used together with NimbusML. The preview release of ML.NET included transforms for feature engineering like n-gram creation, and learners to handle binary classification, multi-class classification, and regression tasks. Additional ML tasks like anomaly detection and recommendation systems have since been added, and other approaches like deep learning will be included in future versions.
Machine learning
ML.NET brings model-based Machine Learning analytic and prediction capabilities to existing .NET developers. The framework is built upon .NET Core and .NET Standard inheriting the ability to run cross-platform on Linux, Windows and macOS. Although the ML.NET framework is new, its origins began in 2002 as a Microsoft Research project named TMSN (text mining search and navigation) for use internally within Microsoft products. It was later renamed to TLC (the learning code) around 2011. ML.NET was derived from the TLC library and has largely surpassed its parent says Dr. James McCaffrey, Microsoft Research.
Developers can train a Machine Learning Model or reuse an existing Model by a 3rd party and run it on any environment offline. This means developers do not need to have a background in Data Science to use the framework. Support for the open-source Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) Deep Learning model format was introduced from build 0.3 in ML.NET. The release included other notable enhancements such as Factorization Machines, LightGBM, Ensembles, LightLDA transform and OVA. The ML.NET integration of TensorFlow is enabled from the 0.5 release. Support for x86 & x64 applications was added to build 0.7 including enhanced recommendation capabilities with Matrix Factorization. A full roadmap of planned features have been made available on the official GitHub repo.
The first stable 1.0 release of the framework was announced at Build (developer conference) 2019. It included the addition of a Model Builder tool and AutoML (Automated Machine Learning) capabilities. Build 1.3.1 introduced a preview of Deep Neural Network training using C# bindings for Tensorflow and a Database loader which enables model training on databases. The 1.4.0 preview added ML.NET scoring on ARM processors and Deep Neural Network training with GPU's for Windows and Linux.
Performance
Microsoft's paper on machine learning with ML.NET demonstrated it is capable of training sentiment analysis models using large datasets while achieving high accuracy. Its results showed 95% accuracy on Amazon's 9GB review dataset.
Model builder
The ML.NET CLI is a Command-line interface which uses ML.NET AutoML to perform model training and pick the best algorithm for the data. The ML.NET Model Builder preview is an extension for Visual Studio that uses ML.NET CLI and ML.NET AutoML to output the best ML.NET Model using a GUI.
Model explainability
AI fairness and expla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buying%20Blind | Buying Blind is an Australian reality television series broadcast on the Nine Network on 5 June 2018. The series follows couples and families who sign over their life savings to three experts that make the crucial decisions of finding, purchasing, and renovating a property that meets their expectations.
Production
The series was announced at Nine Network’s 2018 upfronts in October 2017. In February 2018, production of the series commenced with the buying of several properties. In May 2018, The Block / Selling Houses Australia expert, Shaynna Blaze, buyer’s agent Rich Harvey & builder Marshal Keen were announced as the series experts. The series was scheduled to air on 29 May 2018, however Nine made an amendment and instead placed Young Sheldon in its timeslot, the series was rescheduled and aired on 5 June 2018.
Episodes
References
2010s Australian reality television series
2018 Australian television series debuts
2018 Australian television series endings
Nine Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance%20Boss | Dance Boss is an Australian reality television dance competition on the Seven Network presented by Dannii Minogue. The performers are judged by stage and film performer Adam Garcia, singer and dancer Timomatic and actress and performer Sharni Vinson. The dancers perform to music provided by the resident DJ for the show, Sketch from Australian duo Bombs Away (group).
Format
Teams of workers from the same workplace or profession compete to win a cash prize of $100,000. In each show, costumed teams dance-off in staged dance battles which are judged and scored on three factors. The dance crews are whittled down to one winning troupe who is crowned "Dance Boss Australia".
Ratings and Critical response
References
External links
Dance Boss on 7plus
2018 Australian television series debuts
2018 Australian television series endings
Seven Network original programming
English-language television shows
Dance in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20management%20platform | A data management platform (DMP) is a software platform used for collecting and managing data. They allow businesses to identify audience segments, which can be used to target specific users and contexts in online advertising campaigns. DMPs may use big data and artificial intelligence algorithms to process and analyze large data sets about users from various sources. Some advantages of using DMPs include data organization, increased insight on audiences and markets, and effective advertisement budgeting. On the other hand, DMPs often have to deal with privacy concerns due to the integration of third-party software with private data. This technology is continuously being developed by global entities such as Nielsen and Oracle.
More generally, the term data platform can refer to any software platform used for collecting and managing data. It is an integrated solution which as of the 2010s can combine functionalities of for example a data lake, data warehouse or data hub for business intelligence purposes. However, this article discusses the use such technology platforms used for collecting and managing data for digital marketing purposes specifically.
Characteristics
Purpose
A DMP is any kind of software that manages the gathering, storage, and organization of data so that useful information can be leveraged from it by marketers, publishers, and other businesses. The data stored may include customer information, demographics, and mobile identifiers or cookie IDs, which the DMP will analyze to allow businesses to create targeting segments for advertisements. DMPs can help brands learn more about their customer segments to inform acquisitions strategies and increase their sales. They also allow businesses to gauge the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns.
History
First and second generation programming languages
During the 1950s, data management became a problem for companies as computers were not quick with computations and needed a great amount of labor to deliver results. Companies started by storing their data in warehouses. Early programs were written in binary and decimal and this was known as absolute machine language, which later was called the first generation programming language.
After this, assembly language - which came to be known as second generation programming languages - came into existence. This symbolic machine code grew popular among programmers as they were able to utilize alphabet letters for coding. This led to less errors in programs and improved code readability.
High-level languages
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, as technology continued to progress and programmers became more in touch with computers, the First and Second Generation Programming Languages evolved into high-level languages (HLL). These languages are known for being easily readable by a human and were important for allowing one to write a generic program that does not depend on the kind of computer used. HLL were known for emphasizing memor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Robinson%20%28speech%20recognition%29 | Tony Robinson is a researcher in the application of recurrent neural networks to speech recognition, being one of the first to discover the practical capabilities of deep neural networks and its application to speech recognition.
Education and early career
Robinson studied natural sciences at Cambridge University between 1981 and 1984, where he specialized in physics. He went on to complete an MPhil in computer speech and language processing in 1985 and continued with a PhD in the same area in 1989, both at Cambridge. He first published on the topic of speech recognition during his PhD and has published over a hundred widely cited research papers on automatic speech recognition (ASR) in the years since. Robinson became an EPSRC-funded research fellow in 1990 and a Lecturer at Cambridge University in 1995.
Entrepreneurial career
In 1995, Robinson formed SoftSound Ltd, a speech technology company which was acquired by Autonomy with a view to using the technology to make unstructured video and voice data easily searchable. Robinson helped build the fastest large vocabulary speech recognition system available at the time, and operating in more languages than any other model, based on recurrent neural networks.
From 2008 to 2010, Robinson was the Director of the Advanced Speech Group at SpinVox, a provider of speech-to-text conversion services for carrier markets, including wireless, VoIP and cable. Their Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system was, for a time, being used more than one million times per day and SpinVox was subsequently acquired by global speech technology company Nuance.
Robinson was also founder of Speechmatics, which launched its cloud-based speech recognition services in 2012. Speechmatics subsequently announced a new technology in accelerated new language modeling late in 2017. Robinson continues to publish papers in speech recognition technology, especially in the area of statistical language modelling.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
British businesspeople
Natural language processing researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welland%20Tribune | The Welland Tribune is a daily newspaper that services Welland, Ontario and surrounding area. The Tribune was one of several Postmedia Network newspapers purchased by Torstar in a transaction between the two companies which concluded on November 27, 2017. The paper continues to be published by the Metroland Media Group subsidiary of Torstar. In late May 2020, Torstar accepted an offer for the sale of all of its assets to Nordstar Capital in late May 2020, a deal expected to close by year end.
History
The paper's roots are in several formerly competing newspapers: the Fonthill Herald (established in 1854), the Welland Telegraph (established in 1863) and the Port Colborne Citizen. The original owner of the Herald was John Fraser, while the Telegraph was established by the Welland Printing and Book Company. The Herald later moved to Welland, changing its name to People's Press before becoming the Welland Tribune.
The Tribune and the Telegraph merged in 1920, under the ownership of Louis Blake Duff, and continued publication for several years as the Welland Tribune and Telegraph. Duff sold the paper to a consortium of newspaper owners from Galt and Sarnia in 1926, and the new owners shortened the paper's name back to Welland Tribune. In 1929, the Tribune merged with the Port Colborne Citizen, becoming the Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune for several years before reverting to Welland Tribune.
The paper was acquired by Roy Thomson in 1943, as one of Thomson's first acquisitions outside of the Northern Ontario region. Henry Foster, the publisher of the newspaper at the time of the sale, continued to serve on the board of directors of the Thomson Newspapers chain.
Publication of the paper was briefly suspended by printers' strikes in 1967 and 1982. During the 1982 action, striking employees founded the Guardian Express, which continued operations as a twice-weekly community newspaper which was acquired by Baxter Publishing in 1985 and by Sinclair Stevens in 1990.
Thomson sold the paper to Hollinger in 1995. The paper was included in Hollinger's sales of its publishing assets to Canwest in 2000, before being sold to Osprey Media in 2003. The paper was included in Osprey's acquisition by Quebecor in 2007, and in Quebecor's subsequent acquisition by Postmedia Network in 2014, before its sale to Torstar was announced in 2017.
See also
List of newspapers in Canada
References
External links
Torstar publications
Daily newspapers published in Ontario
Mass media in Welland
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