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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheetgo | Sheetgo is a cloud-based automation tool that allows users to transfer data between spreadsheets and other office apps. The Spanish-Brazilian start-up was founded in 2016 by Yannick Rault Van der Vaart (CEO), Jonatan Gomes da Silva (CMO), Chad Pittman (Customer Success), and Rafael Vidal (CTO). Prior to launching Sheetgo, Van der Vaart and Gomes da Silva developed the first intelligent enterprise resource planning (ERP) system based on Google Sheets. They took the core feature of Google Sheets: the ability to connect spreadsheets online, and turned it into a system for automating data transfer and creating workflows. Sheetgo is compatible with various online storage and processing formats, and facilitates the traceability and automatic updating of data available in the cloud. Sheetgo has over 200,000 users in more than 60 countries. Customers include companies, non-profit organizations, universities and governments.
History
The idea was first developed in a Brazilian social urbanism start-up founded by Van der Vaart. The company had to manage a large amount of data and used spreadsheets to store and analyze all the information.
In order to automate their processes and data workflows, the team needed a way to connect their spreadsheets and automate the transfer of data between them. One year later, in 2009, Van der Vaart and Gomes da Silva (who at that time led the IT department), created an application to enable this data transfer in spreadsheets. Sheetgo was widely validated in 2010 by several multinational tech companies when the founders were invited to present the system at Mountain View (California). Later, Pittman and Vidal joined the company, where they helped develop and implement the application.
The team developed several complementary technologies but decided to focus on a single product that was easily scalable to attract new partners and investors.
In 2015, the application was officially launched under the name "Import Sheet" and a year later, in February 2016, the company was selected for investment by a Brazilian technology accelerator. That same year they were also selected for investment by a Spanish seed accelerator, which led to the relocation of part of the team to Spain. Finally, in 2017, "Import Sheet" was renamed Sheetgo and the company was able to raise both subsidized debt and additional equity totaling 600,000 euros of financing, from the startup accelerators and from other public and private entities.
Features
Sheetgo is a SaaS compatible with any web browser and available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The application connects data in spreadsheets and automatically synchronizes them, facilitating the creation of workflow management and data governance solutions.
Awards and Financing
In 2016, Sheetgo received the backing of a startup accelerator in Brazil, and another in Valencia, Spain, obtaining the support of both through convertible loans.
In 2017, Sheetgo received a financial grant from the CDTI (Center for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Saad | David Saad (born 1954) is a Lebanese judoka. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Saad studied computer science in which he had a DEUG from University of Paris-Sud, BSc from Concordia University, MSc.A. from McGill University and PhD from University of Paris-Sud.
His younger brother Gad Saad is a Lebanese-Canadian evolutionary behavioural scientist at the John Molson School of Business. His nephew is Ariel Helwani who is a Canadian mixed martial arts (MMA) journalist.
References
1954 births
Living people
Lebanese Jews
Lebanese male judoka
Olympic judoka for Lebanon
Judoka at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
Paris-Sud University alumni
Concordia University alumni
McGill University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Moynagh | Michael Moynagh is a Church of England minister, missiologist and writer.
Moynagh is an academic in the Fresh Expressions stream of Anglican churchmanship, and acts as its director of Network Development and Consultant on Theology and Practice.
He is an associate tutor at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, an Anglican training college. He is also a senior research fellow with Career Innovation.
Ordained ministry
Moynagh was a curate at Emmanuel Church, Northwood, London before being appointed Priest-in-Charge at Wilton, Somerset.
During the late 1990s, as director for Third Millennium Studies at St John's College, Nottingham, he co-wrote a study on the future of society entitled Tomorrow. Also with Richard Worsley with whom he co-directed The Tomorrow Project, he later worked on Tomorrow's Workplace.
Books
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Church of England priests
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People associated with Wycliffe Hall, Oxford |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel%20%28transcompiler%29 | Babel is a free and open-source JavaScript transcompiler that is mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ (ES6+) code into backwards-compatible JavaScript code that can be run by older JavaScript engines. It allows web developers to take advantage of the newest features of the language.
Developers can use new JavaScript language features by using Babel to convert their source code into versions of JavaScript that a Web browser can process. Babel can also be used to compile TypeScript into JavaScript. The core version of Babel was downloaded 5 million times a month in 2016, and this increased to 16 million times a week in 2019.
Babel plugins transform syntax that is not widely supported into a backward-compatible version. For example, arrow functions, which are specified in ES6, are converted into regular function declarations. Non-standard JavaScript syntax such as JSX can also be transformed.
Babel can automatically inject polyfills provided by core-js for support features that are missing entirely from JavaScript environments. For example, static methods such as Array.from and built-ins such as Promise are available only in ES6 and above, but they can be used in older environments if core-js is used.
See also
Comparison of web browsers
TypeScript
Web development tools
Webpack JavaScript bundler
JavaScript library
References
External links
GitHub project
Origin story
Compilers
Free software
JavaScript programming tools
Software using the MIT license
Source-to-source compilers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasis%20Dash | Debasis Dash is an Indian computational biologist and chief scientist at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB). Known for his research on proteomics and Big Data and Artificial Intelligence studies, his studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 120 of them. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2014. He is appointed as the director of Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar on 18 May 2023.
Biography
Debasis Dash, born on 17 June 1972 in Bhubaneswar, completed his master's degree in chemistry at Delhi University before securing a PhD in 1998. He joined IGIB as scientist in 2000 where he now serves as professor and head for Big Data and AI decision Unit. His contributions have led to the establishment of a thriving school in the realm of genome, proteome and health care informatics.
One of Dr. Dash's notable achievements includes the development of award-winning commercial software suites such as PLHost and Genocluster, which garnered recognition at the Bangalore Bio conferences in 2005 and 2006 for the best product presentation. Collaborating with researchers utilizing the PLHost tool, Dr. Dash's team identified novel genes coding for chromatin remodeling proteins called INO-80, as published in the esteemed Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database. He has been also part of renowned Open Source Drug Discovery project and Indian Genome Variation Consortium, the largest study conducted on healthy individuals in India to catalog basal genomic variation across diverse populations. In the realm of virology, Dr. Dash's unique GeneD'cipher algorithm identified three novel genes in the SARS virus, aiding in its diagnosis during the outbreak in China. His exceptional contribution in this area received extensive media coverage, with headlines such as "Indian scientists develop Gene Decipher to fight against SARS" featured in prominent publications like India Today, Economic Times, and The Hindu. Additionally, Dr. Dash played a crucial role in establishing the GN Ramachandran Knowledge Centre for Genome Informatics at IGIB.
Combining genomics and proteomics, Dr. Dash ventured into proteogenomics, developing computational algorithms and associated software suites like MassWiz, flexifdr, and ProteoStats. Through his systematic analysis of proteomics data, he made significant discoveries, including the identification of proteins in human plasma, M. tuberculosis, agriculturally important symbiont B. Japonicum, and the missing proteome in humans. In last 5 years, Dr. Dash has also made notable contributions to the development of AI-based medical imaging tools. He has worked on projects such as CovBaseAI project, focusing on the detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SROP | SROP may refer to:
Sigreturn-oriented programming, a computer security exploit technique
Sydney Region Outline Plan
McNair SROP Michigan State University
Schulich Research Opportunities Program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20Network | The Open Network (previously Telegram Open Network, both abb. as TON) is a decentralized computer network consisting of a layer-1 blockchain with various components. TON was originally developed by Dr. Nikolai Durov and the messaging platform, Telegram and now embraced by a global community of independent contributors.
History
Since the release of Telegram messenger in April 2013, its CEO Pavel Durov emphasized that instant messenger will not include advertising. According to documents related to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) v. Telegram suit (2020), by 2017, the self-funded startup needed money to pay for servers and services. Durov considered venture capital financing but decided against it until the problems are solved. In the mid-December 2017 Bloomberg interview, Durov announced that Telegram would begin monetization in early 2018.
Genesis (2018-2020)
In January 2018, a 23-page white paper and a detailed 132-page technical paper shed some light on the project. According to documents, the Durovs planned to attract the existing Telegram user base to TON and promote the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies, turning it into one of the largest blockchains. TON was described as a platform for decentralized apps and services akin to WeChat, Google Play, or App Store, or even a decentralized alternative to payment processing services of Visa and MasterCard due to its ability to scale and support millions of transactions per second. The codebase for TON was created by Nikolai Durov, the developer of Telegram's protocol, and Pavel became the public figure for the project.
Telegram introduces TON Blockchain’s design and carries out an initial testnet token distribution, preceding the project’s handover to a team of open-source developers in May, 2020. The Telegram team releases a series of documents detailing the design of TON Blockchain. Telegram initially launched the TON Testnet to the public through a testing environment for the TON blockchain. During the early testnet phase, Telegram released testnet tokens, which had no value and were used for testing purposes.
To fund the development of the messenger and the blockchain project, Telegram attracted investments through a private Gram offering, but in light of regulatory complications, the Telegram team withdrew from the TON project (May 2020)
A small team of open-source developers and Telegram contest winners Anatoliy Makosov and Kirill Emelyanenko, NewTON, took a deep dive into TON's codebase and resumed active blockchain development, adhering to the principles outlined in the original TON whitepaper. On July 2020 Telegram placed the remaining testnet tokens into special Giver smart contracts that allowed anyone to participate in future mining and discontinued support for the TON testnet.
Development and launch (2020-2022)
The development of TON took place in a completely isolated manner and was opaque for the whole time. The launch of the test network was initially schedul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayana%20Holloway%20Arce | Ayana Holloway Arce is a professor of physics at Duke University. She works on particle physics, using data from the Large Hadron Collider to understand phenomena beyond the Standard Model.
Early life and education
Arce was born in Lansing, Michigan. She studied physics at Princeton University, graduating with honors and a bachelor's degree in 1998. She moved on to Harvard University for her PhD, working the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She completed her PhD in 2006.
Research
After her PhD, Arce completed a Chamberlain post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she worked on experimental techniques to measure properties of heavy unstable particles. Arce joined Duke University in 2010 and was made a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow in 2012. Her mother, Karla F.C. Holloway, is a Professor of English and Law, and her father Russell Holloway is the Dean for Corporate and Industrial Relations. Arce is working on the calorimeter detector at the ATLAS experiment. She is working on jet substructure reconstruction, and the use of jet tagging in diboson resonances.
In 2017 Arce and her mother, Karla F.C. Holloway, were involved in Duke University's commemorations of 50 years of Black faculty scholarship. She was excited by the film Hidden Figures and has taken part in national discussions looking at how to engage more people of colour in scientific careers. She is part of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory research consortium, which supports undergraduate students to complete summer research projects in nuclear and particle physics.
References
External links
SCHOLARS@DUKE
Theoretical physicists
Particle physicists
Harvard University alumni
Princeton University alumni
Duke University faculty
21st-century American physicists
21st-century American women scientists
American women physicists
People from Lansing, Michigan
Scientists from Michigan
African-American women scientists
American women academics
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American scientists
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Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyc%C3%A9e%20Andr%C3%A9%20Malraux%20de%20Rabat | The Lycée André Malraux () is a French international school in Rabat, Morocco. It was established in 1997 and is part of the Mission laïque française OSUI network. It serves levels maternelle (preschool) through terminale, the final year of lycée (senior high school) and it allows French, English and Arabic languages learning from preschool for all children. As of 2017 the school has about 1,800 students that range in age from 3 to 18 in two different campuses.
See also
Agency for French Education Abroad
Education in France
International school
List of international schools
Mission laïque française
Multilingualism
André Malraux
References
External links
French international schools in Morocco
International schools in Rabat
Trilingual schools
Cambridge schools in Morocco
Educational institutions established in 1997
1997 establishments in Morocco
AEFE contracted schools
Mission laïque française
20th-century architecture in Morocco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maireana%20pyramidata | Maireana pyramidata (sago bush, black bluebush, shrubby bluebush) is a species of plant within the genus, Maireana, in the family Amaranthaceae. It is endemic to Australia, and widespread throughout Australia in the inland, where it is found in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Description
Maireana pyramidata is a low, dense, stiffly branched shrub of a height from 0.3 to 1.5 m, with finely woolly branches. It is both dioecious and unisexual. The leaves are alternate, narrowly cylindrical and covered with a mixture of dendritic (tree-like structure) and simple hairs.
It fruits from August to November.
Distribution
It is widespread in drier areas, growing on calcareous soils, saline flats, salt lakes, on areas usually prone to flooding.
In Victoria, it is found in the far north-west: Mildura, Red Cliffs, Lake Culluleraine and Kerang-Swan Hill.
In Western Australia, it is found in the IBRA regions of Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Nullarbor, Pilbara, and Yalgoo.
In New South Wales it is found in the subdivisions: NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP.
Taxonomy and naming
It was first described by Bentham in 1870 as Kochia pyramidata, with the type said to have been collected on the Lachlan River by Alan Cunningham in sand hill country. (A syntype is MEL 0044017A.) The species was reassigned to the genus Maireana by Wilson in 1975.
The specific epithet, pyramidata, refers to the pyramidal shape of the centre of the fruit.
References
External links
pyramidata
Flora of Western Australia
Flora of South Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Flora of Victoria (state)
Flora of Queensland
Dioecious plants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marya%20Shakil | Marya Shakil is an Indian television journalist and TV news anchor in CNN-News18. She hosts the network's shows News Epicenter and Reporters Project.
Early life and background
Marya's father Shakil Ahmad Khan was a politician from Makhpa, Makhdumpur, Jehanabad district, Bihar. He was initially in Communist Party of India, later switched to Rashtriya Janata Dal, and then joined Janata Dal (United) in 2010. Khan was member of Bihar legislative assembly twice. He was a senior cabinet minister for energy, law, minority welfare and public relations department for ten years in the Rabri Devi government, prior to joining Janata Dal (United) in 2010. Her father was also a criminal lawyer in Patna High Court and died in August 2012. Marya has two sisters.
Marya completed her master's in mass communication from Jamia Millia Islamia in 2005. She did internship at Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group) in 2004. Marya joined CNN-IBN (Network 18) in 2005. She did a 30 Minutes documentary on 2008 Bihar flood. Ahead of 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Marya’s 30-minute show, ‘The Muslim Manifesto’, documented the “layers of change” within the Muslim community.
Personal life
Marya is married to Irfan Khan, who has started BlogMint company. The couple lives in Noida.
Awards
Marya has won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards as Best Political Journalist (Broadcast) in 2012 for her show on 2012 UP elections and then again in 2014 for her 2014 general elections coverage, including a documentary on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
2021, Best Current Affairs Presenter, Epicentre, 26th Asian Television Awards (Nominated)
References
External links
Marya Shakil on Twitter
Indian television journalists
Living people
1983 births
Indian women television journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOD%20%28programming%20language%29 | XOD is a visual programming language for microcontrollers, started in 2016. As a supported platform, XOD started with Arduino boards compatibility and Raspberry Pi. It is free and open-source software released under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0.
Basics
The basic elements of XOD programming are nodes. XOD is based on functional reactive programming principles and provides graphical flow-based application programming interface. XOD can compile a native machine code for the low-ended controllers. A node is a block that represents either some physical device like a sensor, motor, or relay, or some operation such as addition, comparison, or text concatenation. XOD is also able to let the user build up some missing node using other nodes, without switching to textual programming.
Analogs
Node-RED and NoFlo are the closest analogs of XOD.
References
External links
Arduino
Visual programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera%20De%20Filippi | Primavera De Filippi is a French legal scholar, Internet activist and artist, whose work focuses on the blockchain, peer production communities and copyright law. She is permanent researcher at the CNRS and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is author of the book Blockchain and the Law published by Harvard University Press. As an activist, she is part of Creative Commons, the Open Knowledge Foundation and the P2P Foundation, among others.
Education
Her interdisciplinary background is grounded in a wide range of academic studies. She holds an undergrad and Masters studies in Economics and Management (Bocconi University, Milan), a Masters in Intellectual Property (Queen Mary University of London), and a PhD in law (European University Institute, Florence).
In her PhD thesis, she explored the legal challenges of copyright law in the digital environment, with special attention to the mechanisms of private ordering (e.g. Digital Rights Management systems, Creative Commons licenses).
Career
During her PhD (2006–2010) at the European University Institute, she was visiting scholar in both the University of Buffalo (New York) working with Barry Smith, and the University of California at Berkeley working with Molly Shaffer Van Houweling.
In 2010, she joined the Centre for Administrative Science Research (CERSA) at CNRS and Universite de Paris II, working with Danièle Bourcier. She has been affiliated with the center since then, first as postdoctoral researcher, and since 2017 as a permanent researcher.
In 2013, she became a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard University), and during two years she researched there the concept of "governance by design" and its relation with cloud computing and peer-to-peer technologies. In 2015, she was promoted to the role of faculty associate at the center, which she holds nowadays.
She has held status of visiting researcher in several institutions: in 2014, in the Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro, and in 2017 in both the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the European University Institute. She was also one of the leading researchers in P2Pvalue, the leading European project on Commons-based peer production, and is part of the editorial board of several journals, including: Digital Finance (Springer), Frontiers in Human Dynamics and the Journal of Open Hardware
In 2019, she received an ERC grant with the project "BlockchainGov" to research blockchain governance.
Activism and art
Activism
Beyond her academic work, De Filippi has engaged in several activist and practitioner activities promoting the expansion of openness, democratic governance, peer-to-peer, or blockchain. In 2010, she joined the Open Knowledge Foundation as the coordinator of the public domain working group, through which she actively contributed to the making of the Public Domain Calculators. In 2012, she co-established the French chapter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20Busy%20Debras | Three Busy Debras is an American surreal comedy television series created, written by, and starring Sandy Honig, Alyssa Stonoha, and Mitra Jouhari. It premiered on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim on March 30, 2020 and ended on May 23, 2022, with a total of 16 episodes over the course of two seasons.
Premise
Three Busy Debras follows "the surreal day-to-day lives of three deranged housewives, all named Debra, in their affluent suburban town of Lemoncurd."
Cast
Sandy Honig as Debra
Alyssa Stonoha as Debra
Mitra Jouhari as Debra
Production
The concept originally began as a play which was created by and starred Mitra Jouhari, Sandy Honig, and Alyssa Stonoha. It was later extended to a web series.
On May 8, 2018, Adult Swim announced that it had ordered a pilot of the show, written by Sandy Honig and directed by Anna Dokoza. On May 7, 2019, Adult Swim gave the quarter hour comedy a series order.
On February 12, 2020, it was announced that the series would premiere on March 29, 2020.
The show is executive produced by Amy Poehler and Kim Lessing through Paper Kite Productions. Show creators Sandy Honig, Mitra Jouhari, Alyssa Stonoha and director Anna Dokoza also serve as executive producers through Mail Lizard. Alive and Kicking, Inc. produces the series.
The creators have cited a number of influences on the show including SpongeBob SquarePants, The Real Housewives, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Clue and Looney Tunes.
On May 31, 2020, Adult Swim renewed the series for a second season. On July 26, 2022, it was announced that the show would not be returning for a third season.
Episodes
Series overview
Pilot
Season 1 (2020)
Season 2 (2022)
Notes
References
External links
Three Busy Debras on Adult Swim
2020 American television series debuts
2022 American television series endings
2020s American surreal comedy television series
Adult Swim original programming
English-language television shows
Television series by Paper Kite Productions
Television series by Williams Street
Television shows set in Connecticut
Fictional trios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SqueezeNet | SqueezeNet is the name of a deep neural network for computer vision that was released in 2016. SqueezeNet was developed by researchers at DeepScale, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. In designing SqueezeNet, the authors' goal was to create a smaller neural network with fewer parameters that can more easily fit into computer memory and can more easily be transmitted over a computer network.
Framework support for SqueezeNet
SqueezeNet was originally released on February 22, 2016. This original version of SqueezeNet was implemented on top of the Caffe deep learning software framework. Shortly thereafter, the open-source research community ported SqueezeNet to a number of other deep learning frameworks. On February 26, 2016, Eddie Bell released a port of SqueezeNet for the Chainer deep learning framework. On March 2, 2016, Guo Haria released a port of SqueezeNet for the Apache MXNet framework. On June 3, 2016, Tammy Yang released a port of SqueezeNet for the Keras framework. In 2017, companies including Baidu, Xilinx, Imagination Technologies, and Synopsys demonstrated SqueezeNet running on low-power processing platforms such as smartphones, FPGAs, and custom processors.
As of 2018, SqueezeNet ships "natively" as part of the source code of a number of deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Apache MXNet, and Apple CoreML. In addition, 3rd party developers have created implementations of SqueezeNet that are compatible with frameworks such as TensorFlow. Below is a summary of frameworks that support SqueezeNet.
Relationship to AlexNet
SqueezeNet was originally described in a paper entitled "SqueezeNet: AlexNet-level accuracy with 50x fewer parameters and <0.5MB model size." AlexNet is a deep neural network that has 240 MB of parameters, and SqueezeNet has just 5 MB of parameters. However, it's important to note that SqueezeNet is not a "squeezed version of AlexNet." Rather, SqueezeNet is an entirely different DNN architecture than AlexNet. What SqueezeNet and AlexNet have in common is that both of them achieve approximately the same level of accuracy when evaluated on the ImageNet image classification validation dataset.
Relationship to Deep Compression
Model compression (e.g. quantization and pruning of model parameters) can be applied to a deep neural network after it has been trained. In the SqueezeNet paper, the authors demonstrated that a model compression technique called Deep Compression can be applied to SqueezeNet to further reduce the size of the parameter file from 5 MB to 500 KB. Deep Compression has also been applied to other DNNs, such as AlexNet and VGG.
Offshoots of SqueezeNet
Some of the members of the original SqueezeNet team have continued to develop resource-efficient deep neural networks for a variety of applications. A few of these works are noted in the following table. As with the original SqueezeNet model, the open-source research community has ported and adapted these newer "squeeze"-famil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Top%20Chef%20Canada%20episodes | Top Chef Canada is the Canadian spin-off of the American reality competition television series Top Chef which premiered on 11 April 2011, on Food Network Canada. The show features chefs competing against each other in various culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode.
Series overview
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Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2013)
Season 4 (2014)
Season 5 (2017)
Season 6 (2018)
Season 7 (2019)
Season 8 (2020)
Season 9 (2021)
Season 10 (2022)
References
Lists of Canadian television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya%20the%20Bee%3A%20The%20Honey%20Games | Maya the Bee: The Honey Games is a 2018 computer-animated comedy adventure film directed by Noel Cleary, Sergio Delfino & Alexs Stadermann. Loosely based on characters from the 1975 anime Maya the Honey Bee and the German children's book The Adventures of Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels, the film is a sequel to the 2014 film Maya the Bee and stars the original voice cast reprising their roles from the first film, with newcomers including Rupert Degas.
Released theatrically on 1 April 2018 in Germany, the film grossed $10.8 million worldwide. A sequel, titled Maya the Bee: The Golden Orb, was released on 7 January 2021.
Plot
Maya's hive is thrilled when they are invited to compete in the Honey Games in Buzztropolis after a poor harvest, but the catch is they must contribute half of their honey.
At the Games, Maya meets Violet, a competitor and Master Beegood's daughter. Maya convinces the Empress to allow her hive to fully participate, but Willy accidentally spills honey on the Empress, causing trouble. Maya makes a wager: if her team wins, all is forgiven; if they lose, all of her hive's honey is taken. On day one, Maya's team performs poorly but does not come in last.
On day two, the teams have to race up a tree to a flag. Maya, desperate to win, abandons her teammates. Violet's team places second, while Maya's team comes in third. Maya is rejected by her team for her selfishness and lack of leadership. She apologizes to her team and vows not to disappoint or leave them like that again.
In the evening, Violet invites Maya and Willy to dinner, then bullies Maya and frames her for being mean, and gets Beegood to be on her side. Maya flies off, upset. Maya's team improves and prepares for the next challenge. On the final day, the teams navigate a maze without waking a tortoise. Maya's team wins, and Violet's team comes second. Maya and Violet race down a thorny hill, and Maya accidentally knocks over the Honey Cup. Maya is expelled from the games. Maya wanders off and finds Flip, and tells him why she is upset, and what had happened. Flip tells Maya to be responsible for her actions and admit what she did wrong. Inspired by Flip's advice, Maya reconciles with her team.
On the last day, Maya goes out and tells the Empress that she is sorry for breaking the cup. Maya is given a second chance by onlookers, and the Empress reluctantly agrees. Beegood tries to sabotage Maya's team by telling Violet about a secret tunnel her team can take to reach the finish line faster. During the race, Maya's team finds the goal, while Violet's team is in danger from the tunnel, as there was a spider that Beegood did not know about, which ends with Violet's team being trapped in a spiderweb. Maya's team helps Violet's team and both teams cross the finish line together. Violet admits to cheating and apologizes to Maya. The Empress is shocked but the Queen stands up for Maya. The Empress declares Maya's team the winners and forgives her.
At the after-party, every |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR%20Worldwide | Verisk Extreme Event Solutions (formerly AIR Worldwide) is an American risk modeling and data analytics company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with customers in insurance, reinsurance, financial services, and government markets. Verisk Extreme Event Solutions specializes in catastrophe modeling software and services to manage the probability of loss from natural catastrophes, terrorism, pandemics, casualty catastrophes, and cyber incidents. It is led by current President Bill Churney and operates nine offices internationally.
History
Karen Clark, the developer of the first commercial hurricane catastrophe model, founded Applied Insurance Research in 1987, with CATMAP as its first product introduced later that same year. CATMAP provided a catastrophe loss analysis system for treaty insurers and reinsurers in particular. In late August 1992, AIR published results from its U.S. Hurricane Model that estimated insured losses for Hurricane Andrew's landfall in southern Florida could come to surpass $13 billion. The estimate, which was met with skepticism at the time, was later validated by insurance claims and renewed interest in catastrophe modeling for estimating risk due to extreme events "almost overnight." Over ten major insurance companies faced insolvency as a result of Hurricane Andrew alone.
Applied Insurance Research was privately held until it was acquired by ISO in 2002 and renamed AIR Worldwide; Verisk Analytics later formed as a parent holding company for ISO. Analyze Re, a software analytics provider for the reinsurance and insurance industries, became a part of AIR's operational domain in 2016, and then Arium, a company specializing in liability risk modeling, followed in 2017.
In January 2022, AIR Worldwide transitioned to the Verisk brand and is now Verisk Extreme Event Solutions.
Operations
Verisk developed Touchstone, a risk management platform intended to provide companies with assessments of their estimated exposure to loss from extreme events. Results are used in pricing, underwriting, and risk management. Verisk released its fifth version of the Touchstone platform in 2017. Touchstone Re, a separate application for assessing the risk to reinsurance portfolios, industry loss warranties, and insurance-linked securities, has been announced for August 2018.
Awards
The company received the 2016 Data Analytics Project of the Year/ The Bedrock Award from Digital Insurance Awards and the Risk Modeler of the Year in 2017 from Reactions. Its cyber risk product ARC (Analytics of Risk from Cyber) received the InsuranceERM Americas Cyber Solution of the Year Award for 2020.
References
External links
AIR Worldwide Official website
1987 establishments in Massachusetts
Risk management companies
Disaster management
Software companies based in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Panda%20%28Spanish%20TV%20channel%29 | Canal Panda was a Spanish pay television channel, which was one of the first country's subscription network dedicated to children's programming, mostly animated series.
History
Canal Panda was the first Portuguese and Spanish channel exclusively dedicated to children and teens. Its daily broadcast was 20 hours a day, without interruptions, and with a big variety of programs such as cartoons, anime, live-action series, children's films and special programs about sports, music and culture.
It was founded on 1 April 1996 with the name Panda Club in Portugal, it changed to Canal Panda a year later. The channel launched in Spain on 15 September 1997 for the launch of Via Digital.
Initially it was distributed in Spain, but on 1 January 2001, satellite provider Vía Digital stopped carrying the channel, justifying the strong competition in the Spanish market and was replaced by Megatrix, with distribution deal with Antena 3. In 2004, Megatrix closed down due to the merger between satellite providers Canal Satélite Digital and Vía Digital.
On 1 April 2011, Canal Panda was relaunched in Spain due to a decision of Chello Multicanal for recovering the brand and replacing KidsCo which Chello was the Spanish distributor and was not satisfied with the bill. Since then, it is considered an Iberian channel. The focus of programming on the channel also shifted towards preschool shows. The launch was met with some controversy among the otaku community, as its Portuguese counterpart was showing some anime that were not airing in the Spanish version, but the Spanish version claimed that such titles didn't match the channel's content criteria.
On 6 July 2015, the channel changed its look and logo.
On 2 July 2019, Vodafone TV added the channel in HD to its pack offer.
On 1 June 2021, the channel launched a block aimed at older children and teenage audiences called Panda Kids which airs live-action shows, game shows and reality shows. In Portugal, Panda Kids is a pop-up channel.
On 15 December 2022, the channel closed down again. The physical channel got replaced with Enfamilia, with the Canal Panda branding continuing as a two-hour block called Panda Enfamilia.
Programs
1997-2001
Doraemon
Don Quijote de La Mancha
El conde Duckula
Billy el gato
La orquesta de Óscar
Los pingüinos revoltosos
Las aventuras de Whisbone
Cuentos clásicos
Historias de mi infancia
Historias de la cripta
C.L.Y.D.E.
Las aventuras de Blinky Bill
Dino Babies
Las Tortugas Ninja
Garfield y sus amigos
El perro Dinky
Crocadoo
Las nuevas aventuras de Robin Hood
Sharky y George
Historias del fútbol
Mr. Bogus
Locos de atar
El loco mundo de Robby y Laly
La isla de Noah
Ciudad bebé
Profunda oscuridad
Los chicos del mañana
Bobobobs
Aventuras en la isla
El retorno de D'Artacan
¿Dónde está Wally?
Robinson Sucroe
Max y Molly
Rayito, el mago de los deseos
Fiebre de fútbol
Casper, el fantasma bueno
Los cuentos de Papá Castor
Banana Zoo
Disputas
Calamity Jane
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson%20%28TV%20series%29 | Pearson is an American political drama television series created by Aaron Korsh and Daniel Arkin that premiered on USA Network. It is a spin-off of the show Suits and stars Gina Torres, who reprises her role of Jessica Pearson. It premiered on July 17, 2019. In October 2019, the series was canceled after one season. The series began streaming exclusively on Peacock on August 31, 2023.
Premise
Pearson follows "powerhouse lawyer" Jessica Pearson, as she enters the dirty world of Chicago politics."
Cast and characters
Episodes
Backdoor pilot (2018)
For the backdoor pilot, "No. overall" and "No. in season" refer to the episode's place in the order of episodes of the parent series Suits.
Season 1 (2019)
Production
Development
On February 22, 2017, it was announced that USA Network was developing a spin-off series of their show Suits set to star Gina Torres as her character Jessica Pearson. The spin-off had been talked about for about a year and a half prior to the announcement. Meetings and negotiations were reportedly in the preliminary stages with no deals with cast and crew members yet in place. The series was expected to be written by Suits creator and showrunner, Aaron Korsh, who was also expected to executive and showrun the potential new series. Production companies involved with the potential series were expected to include Universal Cable Productions. On March 1, 2017, it was reported that Gina Torres had signed a deal to produce the series, based on an idea she pitched to Universal Cable Productions, alongside Aaron Korsh.
On August 16, 2017, it was announced that the season seven finale of Suits would serve as a backdoor pilot to the spin-off series. The episode was expected to be written by Aaron Korsh and Daniel Arkin, and be directed by Anton Cropper. Additionally, it was reported that executive producers for the new series would include Korsh, Arkin, Torres, Doug Liman, David Bartis, and Gene Klein. On March 8, 2018, it was reported that USA Network had given the production a series order. On May 14, 2018, Gina Torres announced at NBCUniversal's annual upfront presentation in New York City that the series would be titled Second City. On January 17, 2019, it was announced that the series had been retitled Pearson. On May 1, 2019, it was reported that the series would premiere on July 17, 2019. On November 1, 2019, the USA Network canceled the series after one season.
Casting
Alongside the report of her hiring as producer, it was confirmed in March 2017 that Gina Torres would officially star in the potential series. On November 10, 2017, it was announced that Rebecca Rittenhouse and Morgan Spector had joined the main cast of the series. On September 20, 2018, it was reported that Rittenhouse's role had been recast with Bethany Joy Lenz assuming the part. Additionally, it was further announced that Chantel Riley would reprise her guest role from the backdoor pilot in a series regular capacity and that Isabel Arraiza and Eli Goree |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospects%20Course%20Exchange | Prospects Course Exchange is a system that manages XCRI-CAP feeds, enabling course data from higher education providers to be visible through Prospects' postgraduate course search.
It is run and operated by Graduate Prospects.
Prospects Course Check is a free course validation checker also provided by the service.
See also
XCRI
References
External links
Official site
Official site
Debugging
Education in Manchester
Educational charities based in the United Kingdom
Graduate recruitment
Higher education organisations based in the United Kingdom
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Manchester
Postgraduate education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking%20on%20the%20Wild%20Side | Cooking on the Wild Side is a cooking show hosted by Phyllis Speer and John Philpot on the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) and produced by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The show was originally part of Arkansas Outdoors, and featured many cooking segments from that series alongside new content.
Phyllis Speer and John Philpot have co-hosted together for over 18 years, first on Arkansas Outdoors and then on Cooking on the Wild Side. Speer is known for her work in education, and a member of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's Hall of Fame. John Philpot is a "longtime regular on Arkansas radio and television programs," known for his work in education and agriculture. He is also a member of the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame.
There was a reunion episode of its hosts (with all new content) in 2013.
Series evolution
Arkansas Outdoors
Cooking on the Wild Side was originally part of Arkansas Outdoors, in which hosts Phyllis Speer and John Philpot played similar roles. Arkansas Outdoors began in 1991, and gained national exposure beyond AETN to include Versus Cable Television (previously known as Outdoor Life Network). Arkansas Outdoors was "produced by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission with the intention of showcasing the natural beauty of Arkansas and the many sporting and nature activities available in the wild, each segment concludes with Speer sharing a recipe or two, using her castiron cookery."
Arkansas Outdoors production stopped in early 2011, although Cooking on the Wild Side continued.
Series breakoff
Cooking on the Wild Side became its own series in 2006 as Cooking on the Wildside: A Farmer's Market Tour with Phyllis in part "as an answer to the requests the station received for Phyllis Speer's recipes," according to AETN.
It evolved into its modern format in 2012 and was distributed nationally in 2014.
Episodes
Episodes showcase Arkansas wild game, how to use a Dutch oven, and the interplay between the two hosts. According to Speer, the Dutch oven is underused because:
Previous recipes have included
Squirrel Tamales
Curried Goose
Venison Jerky
Dutch Oven Enchiladas
Venison Smoked Sausage
Venison Grillades and Grits
Squirrel and Dumplings
Dove Stroganoff
2013 reunion
Phyllis Speer and John Philpot reunited in 2013 for a two-part special titled "Cooking on the Wild Side: A Phyllis & John Reunion." The special first aired 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013 on AETN, then repeated 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, and 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15.
The reunion special was dedicated to the memory of Arkansas Outdoors producer, Jim Holmes.
Recipes
Both episodes and recipes may be found on AETN's website.
Recipes by episode
Cookbooks and DVDs
To celebrate the reunion of its hosts during the 2013 special Cooking on the Wild Side: A Phyllis & John Reunion, AETN published both a companion cookbook and DVDs of the reunion.
The cookbook was also titled Cooking on the Wild Side: A Phyllis & John Reunion and contain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOC%20%28website%29 | DOC (also known as DOC Jobs or Drop Out Club) is an online community about leaving the practice of medicine or science to pursue other careers. It includes job posts, networking events, and forums. As of 2017, there are more than 40,000 doctors, scientists, and students registered on the site. About half of the site's users are medical doctors, one-fourth are PhDs, and one-fourth have dual graduate degrees. There are members in more than 100 countries, but the site is most active in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
DOC began in 1999 as an informal in-person gathering among six former classmates from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Each former classmate had left the practice of medicine for another career. The in-person gatherings grew to more than 30 attendees, who often shared job opportunities. As the gatherings grew larger, two members created an online community for the group. Job listings were added to the site in 2008. By 2015, the site had 23,000 users. In 2016, DOC acquired Oystir, a career website for STEM PhD students, and merged it with DOC.
References
Further reading
External links
Official Website
American medical websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efail |
Computing
EFAIL, a security hole in encrypted email delivery systems
Geography
Efail Fach
Efail Isaf
Cae Llety-yr-efail |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids%20BBQ%20Championship | Kids BBQ Championship is an American cooking competition television series that aired on Food Network.
The first season of the series officially premiered on May 23, 2016; and it was presented by chef Eddie Jackson and model Camila Alves, who also served as judges. The season began with eight child chefs in the pilot episode and then ended with three finalists in the season finale, with the winner receiving $20,000. The second season of the series premiered on May 1, 2017, with Alves having been replaced by chef Damaris Phillips. The format of the series had also changed, as there were four different child chefs with a different winner in each episode; and said winner receiving $10,000.
In each episode, the two judges were joined by a rotating lineup of special guest chefs who would serve as the third judge.
Season 1
Episodes
Contestants
Season 2
Episodes
Notes
References
External links
2016 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Reality cooking competition television series
2010s American cooking television series
Television series about children
Television series about teenagers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20Videos%20%28film%29 | X Videos (also designated as X-videos) is a 2018 Indian Tamil cyber crime thriller drama film directed by Sajo Sundar, which is also his directorial debut. Inspired by the real life hidden-cam pornography cases, the film depicts social awareness and cautions against such dirty works. It was released on 1 June 2018 in Tamil. Based on its content and subject, the film was given an A certificate.
Plot
Manoj, a journalist, sets out to find out an answer for the question "Is there any use of the porn industry to the country"? He tries to find out the opinion of the common people on porn websites and ends up in a big jolt and shock about his findings. In this research, he happens to see a naked video of the wife of his friend Ankith on a pornographic website. When Manoj shares this information, Ankith kills himself in shame. Manoj begins his secret investigation on how could a personal video get posted online. Along with Daniel, his fellow journalist, and his buddy Sub-Inspector Imran, he gets deep into this. In this investigation, they find out that it was Vikram and his associates who operate the porn websites and their various ways and means of collecting the videos. Though Manoj writes about Vikram in his magazine with proper evidence, Vikram escapes with an anticipatory bail. How Manoj and Imran trap Vikram and if Vikram and his associates get caught and brought to justice forms the rest of the story.
Cast
Akruti Singh
Prasanna Shetty
Riyamikka
Ajay Raj
Abhenav Mahajit
Praboojit
Shan
Conception
The film's idea was conceived by the director Sajo Sundar when one day he found a video clip on the internet which featured his close friend's wife fully naked. Shocked by this incident he further researched about the world of hidden camera pornography and discovered that there were many more of such cases, sometimes that had led to the suicide of the affected person. He decided to direct a social awareness movie which would warn men and women about the risk of saving their personal videos on their mobiles. He wanted to reveal the mafia behind such crimes and how they made money in crores by doing so.
Production
This movie is the first production of Colour Shadows Entertainment and this production unit is a result of like minded friends coming together, to produce social awareness films and handle controversial subjects. The film was shot in Tamil and Hindi simultaneously.
Marketing
Poster of the film was revealed in October 2017 and its trailer was released on 11 May 2018 on YouTube.
Reception
The film was well-received for its clean content, loud and clear concept. And also noted for the director's bold initiative of having a crew of new faces who has handled complex scenes with ease. This movie definitely achieved success to warn and alert those who have the habit of taking, watching or saving nude/personal videos on their cell phones and computers.
References
Indian multilingual films
2010s Tamil-language films
2010s Hindi-language films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%205G%20NR%20networks | This is a list of commercial 5G NR networks around the globe, showing their frequency bands.
Commercial deployments
Notes
This list of network deployments does not imply widespread deployment or national coverage.
The deployed bandwidth is listed for the respective band.
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
See also
5G NR
5G NR frequency bands
List of LTE networks
References
Lists by country
Telecommunications lists
5G (telecommunication) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FanSided | FanSided is a network of more than 300 commercial American sports, lifestyle, and entertainment websites and newsletters. It was co-founded and launched in 2009 by brothers Zach Best and Adam Best. The network was sold to Time Inc. in May 2015.
Since January 2020 FanSided network has been owned by Minute Media and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
History
Establishment
The FanSided sports blog network traces its roots to 2007, when Adam Best and Zach Best, brothers from Springfield, Missouri, launched a blog dedicated to the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League called Arrowhead Addict. The brothers possessed complementary skills for establishment of a sports blog, with Adam having a background in sportswriting and Zach in web design.
The brothers incorporated FanSided as a sports blog network in 2009. Zach Best explained in a 2015 interview that the company moniker was derived from what the brothers felt was the one-sided nature of sports team fans. "Combining fans and that is FanSided," he explained.
The blog network grew rapidly, hitting the 300 site mark by 2015.
In an October 2015 interview, Adam Best explained the formula for his company's rapid growth:
"I think the reason we had success was because, compared to other media outlets who were unbiased and objective, we decided that we were going to represent the fans from that point of view, and fans just seemed to eat it up. ...[W]e expanded to cover the NFL with a site for each team, and did the same thing for pro baseball, hockey, basketball, college sports, and other sports like NASCAR and boxing and mixed martial arts. Eventually we took the same concept to entertainment, and we just try to keep making our special sauce better year in and year out."
Development
Over time, the site expanded to include other professional sports, as well as more topics, including general news, entertainment, lifestyle and fandoms like Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and Star Wars.
Matt Blake joined the company as a partner and chief product officer in 2011. Both Matt Blake and Zach Best served as joint co-CEOs of FanSided during this interval.
In August 2012, FanSided launched a partnership with Sports Illustrated offering the long-established magazine and website an opportunity to expand local sports coverage and reach new customers through FanSided's robust digital network. As part of the partnership, Sports Illustrated'''s website featured links to content on FanSided websites. Time Inc. also sold ads on the FanSided websites with revenue shared between the two entities.
Sale to Time Inc.
The FanSided network, including its mobile app and newsletter, was acquired by Time Inc., publisher of Sports Illustrated, on May 26, 2015.
The acquisition of the company and its 300 focused websites was intended to expand Sports Illustrated's local sports coverage. The company also planned to use FanSided's entertainment and lifestyle websites to bolster its existing holdings, which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Silberwasser | Luis Silberwasser is a Colombian-American media executive who served as president of Telemundo Networks from 2014 to 2018. Prior to joining Telemundo, Silberwasser served as executive vice president and chief content officer for Discovery Networks International.
Early life and education
Luis Silberwasser was born in New York City on October 21, 1964, to Jaime Silberwasser and Fanny Bacal. His family moved to Cali, Colombia when he was five years old. Luis returned to study in the U.S. in 1981. He graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1986 where he completed a degree in industrial engineering. He later attended Harvard Business School where he earned an MBA in 1991.
Career
Silberwasser started his role as president of Telemundo Networks, in August 2014 and oversees the development and execution of the entertainment content strategy. He is often quoted and cited in articles and interviews related to Telemundo's content and programming.
Before joining Telemundo, Silberwasser was executive vice president and chief content officer for Discovery International based in London. He oversaw the DNI's production and development unit, developing global content for Discovery's portfolio of international networks in 225 countries and territories worldwide. Silberwasser also held leadership positions in marketing, sales and business development within the division. He led new business opportunities as senior vice president for strategic planning, including the division's entry into the Lifestyle category and the U.S. Hispanic market.
Silberwasser has also served as senior vice president, Content Group, for Discovery Networks Latin America/US Hispanic, managing programming, production and marketing for the region's 15 channels, including the flagship Discovery Channel.
Before joining Discovery in 1998, Silberwasser was vice president and general manager of the Personal Care and Comfort division of Sunbeam Corporation in Delray Beach, Florida. He also served as Brand Manager in the Beauty Care division at Procter & Gamble.
In January 2021, he joined Univision as president of the Univision Television Networks Group. In June 2022, it was announced that Silberwasser would return to Discovery, this time as chairman of sports for Warner Bros. Discovery; he will oversee the U.S. Turner Sports division, as well as international operations such as Eurosport.
Organizations
Silberwasser has been a board director of the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), since 2015
Awards
CableFax Most Influential Minorities (2017)
CableFax 100 (2015–17)
B&C and Multichannel News Power 100 Media Executives (2015)
NAMIC Leadership Luminary Award (2006)
References
1964 births
Living people
Mass media people from New York City
American media executives
Telemundo
Discovery, Inc.
American emigrants to Colombia
Georgia Tech alumni
Harvard Business School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavirin | Cavirin is a privately held cybersecurity company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Cavirin provides a cyber intelligence platform that delivers security management across physical, public and hybrid clouds. Cavirin addresses risk and compliance management through DevSecOps integrations.
Cavirin's platform is integrated with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMware, KVM, and Docker.
Company
Cavirin was founded in 2012 and maintains a single location in Santa Clara, California.
Cavirin has received multiple funding rounds from Japan-based information technology holding company SRA Holdings, Inc.
See also
Compliance
Security Assessment
References
External links
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
2012 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Trisha%27s%20Southern%20Kitchen%20episodes | The American cooking television series Trisha's Southern Kitchen has aired on Food Network since 2012. As of June 2018, 126 episodes of the series have aired over eleven seasons.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Season 9
Season 10
Season 11
Season 12
Notes
References
External links
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes
Lists of food television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NB-Fi | NB-Fi Protocol is an open LPWAN protocol, which operates in unlicensed ISM radio band. Using the NB-Fi Protocol in devices allows data transmission range of up to 10 km in dense urban conditions, and up to 30 km in rural areas with up to 10 years on battery power.
NB-Fi Protocol is developed by WAVIoT.
Technology
NB-Fi Protocol employs a Narrow Band technology that enables communication using the Industrial, Scientific and Medical ISM radio band (and in other parts of sub-GHz license-free spectrum as well).
NB-Fi devices could be manufactured using widespread electronic components which could easily be manufactured or purchased in every particular country. WAVIoT has developed an NB-Fi transceiver that encapsulates the NB-Fi protocol at a physical layer.
The NB-Fi transceiver supports 430–500 MHz and 860–925 MHz frequency bands at 50 to 25,600 bit/s data rates.
The network is based on one-hop star topology and requires a SDR-technology base stations to operate. The signal can also be used to easily cover large areas and to reach underground objects.
Implementation
NB-Fi Protocol stack is currently implemented on:
STM32L0x/STM32L4x Series microcontrollers (manufacturer: STMicroelectronics) with NB-Fi transceiver (manufacturer: WAVIoT) or AX5043 transceiver (manufacturer: ON Semiconductor);
AX8052F143 with AX8052 MCU and AX5043 RF transceiver (manufacturer: ON Semiconductor).
References
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20Generation%20Computer%20Systems | Future Generation Computer Systems is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of computer engineering. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2019 impact factor of 7.187.
References
External links
Computer science journals
English-language journals
Monthly journals
Elsevier academic journals
Publications with year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rclone | Rclone is an open source, multi threaded, command line computer program to manage or migrate content on cloud and other high latency storage. Its capabilities include sync, transfer, crypt, cache, union, compress and mount. The rclone website lists supported backends including S3 and Google Drive.
Descriptions of rclone often carry the strapline Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage. Those prior to 2020 include the alternative Rsync for Cloud Storage.
Rclone is well known for its rclone sync and rclone mount commands. It provides further management functions analogous to those ordinarily used for files on local disks, but which tolerate some intermittent and unreliable service. Rclone is commonly used with media servers such as Plex, Emby or Jellyfin to stream content direct from consumer file storage services.
Official Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, Brew, Chocolatey, and other package managers include rclone.
Rclone may also refer to an R library used to analyse individual and population genetics of partially clonal species.
History
Nick Craig-Wood was inspired by rsync. Concerns about the noise and power costs arising from home computer servers prompted him to embrace cloud storage and he began developing rclone as open source software in 2012 under the name swiftsync.
Rclone was promoted to stable version 1.00 in July 2014.
In May 2017, Amazon Drive barred new users of rclone and other upload utilities, citing security concerns. Amazon Drive had been advertised as offering unlimited storage for £55 per year. Amazon's AWS S3 service continues to support new rclone users.
The original rclone logo was updated in September 2018.
In March 2020, Nick Craig-Wood resigned from Memset Ltd, a cloud hosting company he founded, to focus on open source software.
Amazon's AWS April 2020 public sector blog explained how the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center were using rclone in their Motuz tool to migrate very large biomedical research datasets in and out of AWS S3 object stores.
In November 2020, rclone was updated to correct a weakness in the way it generated passwords. Passwords for encrypted remotes can be generated randomly by rclone or supplied by the user. In all versions of rclone from 1.49.0 to 1.53.2 the seed value for generated passwords was based on the number of seconds elapsed in the day, and therefore not truly random. CVE-2020-28924 recommended users upgrade to the latest version of rclone and check the passwords protecting their encrypted remotes.
Release 1.55 of rclone in March 2021 included features sponsored by CERN and their CS3MESH4EOSC project. The work was EU funded to promote vendor-neutral application programming interfaces and protocols for synchronisation and sharing of academic data on cloud storage.
Backends and Commands
Rclone supports the following services as backends. There are others, built on standard protocols such as WebDAV or S3, that work. WebDAV backends do not support rclone functionality de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20Inspiron%20desktop%20computers | On June 26, 2007, Dell released the new Inspiron desktop series, under the Dell Inspiron branding, as a replacement to the Dell Dimension desktop computers.
Inspiron Zino 300
Inspiron Zino 300 is part of new Inspiron desktop series.
Inspiron Zino HD 400
Launched online on November 12, 2009, the Inspiron 400, more commonly known as the Inspiron Zino HD, is an Ultra Small Form Factor desktop like the Studio Hybrid. It is in an 8" by 8" form factor and has a similar form factor to the Mac Mini and computers made by Shuttle. There are several customer reports about devices tending to overheat and shutting down randomly.
Processors: AMD Athlon 64 2650e, 2680e or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3250e or 6850e.
Memory: 2 GB, 3 GB, 4 GB, 6 GB, 8 GB, 32 MB of shared dual channel DDR2 SDRAM @ 800 MHz.
Chipset: AMD RS780G.
Graphics Processor: integrated ATI 3200 graphics or ATI Radeon HD 4330 with 512 MB of graphics memory.
Hard Drive: 250 GB, 320 GB, 500 GB, 640 GB, 750 GB or 1 TB SATA at 7200 RPM.
Optical Drive: 8X dual-layer DVD+/-RW drive or 2X Blu-ray Disc Combo drive.
Wi-Fi Card: optional Dell 1397 802.11 b/g Wireless Card or Dell 1520 802.11 a/b/g/n Wireless Card.
I/O ports: 4 USB 2.0 ports, 2 eSATA ports, 1 headphone jack, 1 microphone jack, 1 line-out connector, 1 gigabit ethernet port, 1 VGA output and 1 HDMI output.
Inspiron Zino HD 410
Inspiron Zino HD 410 is party of Inspiron series.
Inspiron 518
The Dell Inspiron 518 and Dell Inspiron 519 are similar machines with the main difference being that the Dell Inspiron 518 uses Intel central processing units while the Dell Inspiron 519 uses AMD central processing units. The Dell Inspiron 518 supports Intel Core 2 Quad, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Pentium Dual-Core and Intel Celeron processors. The Dell Inspiron 519 supports AMD Athlon 64/ LE/ 64 X2/ X2 BE and AMD Phenom X2/ X4/ X2 GE/ triple core. and Inspiron 519
Both computers feature 2 USB 2.0 connectors on top of the computer. On the front, there is an optical-drive panel, optional optical-drive bay, 2 USB 2.0 connectors, headphone and microphone connector, drive activity light, power button and a FlexBay drive where a card reader can be installed.
The inputs and outputs at the back consisted of an IEEE 1394 connector, network adapter connector which is an RJ-45 port that supports 10/100/1000 Mbit/s speeds, 4 USB 2.0 connectors, center/subwoofer connector, line-in connector, front left/right line-out connector, microphone jack, side left/right surround connector, back left/right surround connector and VGA video connector as well as a link integrity light and a network activity light.
The power supply used for both the Dell Inspiron 518 and Dell Inspiron 519 is a 300w unit.
Physically, the Dell Inspiron 518 and Dell Inspiron 519 are 379 (14.9 inches) in height, 17.0 cm (6.7 inches) in width, 43.5 cm (17.1 inches) in depth and 13.1 kg (28.9 lb) in weight.
The motherboard or system board used in the Dell Insprion 518 and Dell Inspiron 519 both hav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20Inspiron%20All-in-One | This is a list of Dell Inspiron All-in-One computers.
Ones
List of Dell Inspiron Ones
Insprion One 19
Inspiron One 19 Touch
Inspiron One 2020
Inspiron One 2205
Inspiron One 2305
Inspiron One 2310
Inspiron One 2320
Inspiron One 2330
Comparison of Dell Inspiron Ones
3000 Series
Inspiron 20 3000 All-in-One Desktop (3043)
Inspiron 20 3000 All-in-One (3052)
Inspiron 20 3000 All-in-One (3059)
Inspiron 20 3000 All-in-One (3064). Features 7th Generation Intel Core i3-7100U processor, 4GB of memory, a 1TB 5400rpm hard drive and Intel HD Graphics 620 with shared graphics memory.
Inspiron 24 3000 All-in-One (3459)
Inspiron 24 3000 All-in-One (AMD) (3455)
5000 Series
Inspiron 24 5000 All-in-One (5459)
7000 Series
Inspiron 23 7000 All-in-One Touch Screen Desktop (2350)
Inspiron 24 7000 All-in-One (7459)
References
Dell products
All-in-one desktop computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speechmatics | Speechmatics is a technology company based in Cambridge, England, which develops automatic speech recognition software (ASR) based on recurrent neural networks and statistical language modelling. Speechmatics was originally named Cantab Research Ltd when founded in 2006 by speech recognition specialist Dr. Tony Robinson.
Speechmatics Ltd became the trading name of Cantab Research Ltd in 2012 when the company commercialized. Speechmatics offers its speech recognition for solution and service providers to integrate into their stack regardless of their industry or use case. Businesses use Speechmatics to understand and transcribe human-level speech into text regardless of any gender or demographic barrier. The technology can be deployed on-premises and in public and private cloud.
History
Speechmatics was founded in 2006 by Tony Robinson who pioneered in the application of recurrent neural networks to speech recognition. He was one of the early people who has discovered the practical capabilities of deep neural networks and how they can be used to benefit speech recognition. In 2012, Cantab Research Ltd commercialized its speech recognition product and started selling the technology to customers as Speechmatics Ltd.
In 2014, the company led the development of a billion-word text corpus for measuring progress in statistical language modelling and placed the corpus into the public domain to help accelerate the development of speech recognition technology.
In 2017, the company announced they had developed a new computational method for creating new language models at speed. Around the same time Speechmatics announced a partnership with Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) to develop advanced Arabic speech to text services.
In 2018, Speechmatics became the first ASR provider to develop a Global English language pack which incorporates all dialects and accents of English into one single model.
In 2019, the company raised £6.35 million in venture capital investment in a Series A funding round. With investment from Albion Venture Capital, IQ Capital, and Amadeus Capital Partners, Speechmatics were able to scale into a fast-growth technology start-up. In the same year, the company wins a Queen's Award for Innovation.
In 2020, Speechmatics began scaling beyond its product development and into physical geographic locations. The company opened offices in Brno, Czech Republic, Denver, USA and Chennai, India.
In March 2021, Speechmatics announced its launch on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace to offer any-context speech recognition technology at scale. The ability to consume Speechmatics’ speech recognition engine directly in the Microsoft Azure technology stack enables businesses to start using the technology quickly without barriers to adoption.
In December 2021, Speechmatics and consumer AI startup Personal.ai announced their partnership to offer individuals a personal AI that empower them to never forget their conversations, spoken notes, remind |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20Intelligence%20Pte%20Ltd | Active Intelligence Pte Ltd (Active.Ai) is a private fintech company focusing on artificial intelligence. Its headquarters are in Singapore while its research and development base in Bengaluru. It claims to use natural language processing and machine intelligence as a platform that allows banks to interact with customers using messaging and voice.
Active.Ai was founded by Ravi Shankar, a former Group Executive Vice President at Yes Bank, Shankar Narayanan, and Parikshit Paspulati in 2016.
Active.Ai raised $3 million from ID Ventures India and Kalaari Capital in November 2016. It raised $8.25 million in series A round of funding, co-lead by Vertex Ventures, Creditease Holdings and Dream Incubator in November 2017.
Products
Morfeus
Morfeus is Active Ai's middleware engine that runs as the Java app on a typical web server. It provides a web interface for configuration and management, connecting front-end channels that helps banks to engage with their customers over unstructured micro-conversations via mobile, chat or voice enabled IOT devices using artificial intelligence. Morfeus was developed with assistance of the company's innovation lab in Bangalore India.
Triniti
Triniti is an AI engine composed of natural language processing and natural language generation elements enabling financial institutions to connect with customers in a natural format over messaging, voice and IOT devices. Triniti is also designed for banks to automate certain functions including transactions and customer service between customers and other banks.
References
External links
Artificial intelligence laboratories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20Inspiron%20laptop%20computers | The Dell Inspiron series is a line of laptop computers made by American company Dell under the Dell Inspiron branding. The first Inspiron laptop model was introduced before 1999. Unlike the Dell Latitude line, which is aimed mostly at business/enterprise markets, Inspiron is a consumer-oriented line, often marketed towards individual customers as computers for everyday use.
Early models
This list is incomplete; the early Dell Inspiron models listed below went through a number of changes from 1998 to 2006, so the specifications on each model may be incomplete or incorrect. There are also some earlier models than these, but those have not been added to the list yet.
Inspiron 2100
Released in 1998, the Dell Inspiron 2100 was a lightweight laptop that Dell branded as "Ultra-Thin & Light" and "Ultra Mobile". Its starting price was $1,699.
Processor: Intel Pentium III @700 MHz
Memory: 128 or 256 MB of DDR RAM
Graphics: ATI Rage Mobility M (with 4MB of video memory)
Display: 12.1" 1024x768
Storage: 10 or 20 GB Ultra ATA hard drive
Inspiron 7500
Released in 1999, the Dell Inspiron 7500 was a speedy laptop that Dell branded as "A Mobile Desktop". Its starting price was $4,101.
Processor: Intel Pentium III @750, 700, 650, 600, 500 or 450 MHz, Intel Celeron @433, 450, 466, or 500 MHz
Memory: 32, 64, 128, 192, 256 or 512 MB of PC100 RAM
Graphics: ATI Rage Mobility M (with 4 or 8MB of video memory)
Display: 15" 1024x768, optional 1400x1050, 15.4" 1280x1024
Storage: 4.8, 6, 10, 20 or 30 GB Ultra ATA hard drive
Inspiron 3500
Inspiron 3800
Released in 2000, the Dell Inspiron 3800 was an affordable laptop that Dell branded as "Stylish and Affordable". Its starting price was $1,199.
Processor: Intel Pentium III @700 or 600 MHz, Intel Celeron @600 or 700 MHz
Memory: 32, 64, 96, 128, 192, 256, 384 or 512 MB of DDR RAM
Graphics: ATI Rage Mobility (with 8 MB of video memory, 2x AGP)
Display: 12.1" 800x600, or a 14.1" 1024x768
Storage: 5, 6, 10, or 20 GB Ultra ATA hard drive
Inspiron 4000
Released in 2000, the Dell Inspiron 4000 was a lightweight laptop that Dell branded as "Ultra-Thin & Light" and "Light as a feather, strong as an ox". Its starting price was $1,499.
Processor: Intel Pentium III @650, 700, 800 or 850 MHz, or an Intel Celeron @600 MHz
Memory: 64, 128, 192, 256, 384 or 512 MB of DDR RAM
Graphics: ATI RAGE Mobility 128 3D (with 8 MB of video RAM, 2x AGP)
Display: 14.1" 1024x768, optional 1400x1050
Storage: 5, 10, or 20 GB Ultra ATA hard drive
Inspiron 8000
Released in 2000, the Dell Inspiron 8000 was a mobile workstation that Dell branded as a mobile desktop. Its starting price was $1,649.
Processor: Intel Pentium III @650, 700, 800, 833, 850, 900, 1000, 1113, or 1200 MHz.
Memory: 64, 128, 192, 256, 384 or 512 MB of DDR RAM
Graphics: ATI Mobility — M4 (with 8, 16 or 32 MB of video memory) or RADEON 7500 (with 64 MB of video memory), or NVIDIA GeForce2 Go (with 16 or 32 MB of video memory)
Display: 14.1” 1400x1050, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saidur%20Rahman%20%28professor%29 | Saidur Rahman () is a computer scientist, graph theorist, and professor at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
He is an author of the book Planar Graph Drawing. He is known for his contribution in graph drawing, graph algorithms, computational geometry, and several other branches of theoretical computer science. Together with his student Md. Iqbal Hossain he defined an interesting structure of spanning trees in embedded planar graphs called good spanning trees.
Education
Rahman completed his Ph.D. on graph drawing algorithms under the supervision of Dr. Takao Nishizeki of Tohoku University, Japan in 1999. He also worked as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow and as an associate professor in Tohoku University during the period 2001–2004. He completed his master's degree in Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, in 1992.
Career
Rahman joined Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1991. After receiving his PhD, he returned to BUET in 2004, and formed a research group consisting of undergraduate and graduate students in its Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology], in 2005. Since then he is doing research on various areas of graph algorithms and applications.
Together with Dr. Takao Nishizeki, Rahman wrote a graduate textbook Planar Graph Drawing, which was published by World Scientific in 2004. He also wrote an undergraduate textbook Basic Graph Theory published by Springer in 2017.
WALCOM
In 2007, with the support from Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS), Rahman played the leading role in initiating and establishing the International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM).
Awards and honors
He was recognized as a fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) in a comparatively young age. He has received an Information Technology Award 2004 for his contributions in Graph Drawing Algorithms. Rahman has also received Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) Gold Medal 2003 in the junior group, and University Grants Commission Award 2004.
Selected publications
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Md. Iqbal Hossain, Md. Saidur Rahman: "Good spanning trees in graph drawing". Theor. Comput. Sci. 607: 149-165 (2015)
Shaheena Sultana, Md. Iqbal Hossain, Md. Saidur Rahman, Nazmun Nessa Moon, Tahsina Hashem: On triangle cover contact graphs. Comput. Geom. 69: 31-38 (2018)
Rahnuma Islam Nishat, Debajyoti Mondal, Md. Saidur Rahman: Point-set embeddings of plane 3-trees. Comput. Geom. 45(3): 88-98 (2012)
Debajyoti Mondal, Rahnuma Islam Nishat, Md. Saidur Rahman, Sue Whitesides: Acyclic coloring with few division vertices. J. Discrete Algorithms 23: 42-53 (2013)
References
1979 births
Living people
Academic staff of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Bangladeshi computer scientists
Graph drawing people
Graph theorists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20airlines%20of%20Yugoslavia | This is a list of airlines that were active in Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia was a country that existed between 1918 and 1992 (this article excludes data of the FR Yugoslavia that existed between 1992 and 2003 when it was renamed to Serbia and Montenegro). Created at the end of First World War in 1918 when Kingdom of Serbia absorbed South-Slav inhabited territories of Austro-Hungary, Yugoslavia existed as a monarchy until the start of Second World War, which for Yugoslavia was in 1941. In 1927 the first airline was created, Aeroput, which became the flag carrier and the 10th airline company founded in Europe and the 21st in the world. It operated all domestic and international flights to Central and South-Eastern Europe.
In 1945, at the end of Second World War, the monarchy was abolished and a communist regime came to power. In 1948, after Tito-Stalin split, Yugoslavia exited Eastern bloc, and, initiated a policy of world neutrality which later materialised in Yugoslavia becoming one of the founders and a leading force of the Non-Aligned Movement. This made Yugoslavia to be open and have access to both, Western and Eastern markets. Yugoslav companies operated both and also domestic-built aircraft, and were for decades the only ones from communist countries to operate Western-built aircraft. In 1947, Aeroput was reactivated and renamed to JAT Yugoslav Airlines becoming the flag carrier. Until early 1990s, JAT operated destinations to Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and North America. In the 1970s more companies were created, mostly for charter flights, namely Belgrade-based Aviogenex, Ljubljana-based Adria Airways (known until 1988 as Inex-Adria), and Zagreb-based Pan Adria (renamed in 1978 to Trans Adria).
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a boom of creation of regional companies, some of them later becoming the flag carriers of the newly formed countries after the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992. However, the entire airline industry, which was well developed and in continuous expansion, suffered a huge setback in the 1990s with the Yugoslav Wars and UN imposed sanctions.
See also
List of airlines of Bosnia and Herzegovina
List of defunct airlines of Bosnia and Herzegovina
List of airlines of Croatia
List of defunct airlines of Croatia
List of airlines of Kosovo
List of defunct airlines of Kosovo
List of airlines of North Macedonia
List of defunct airlines of North Macedonia
List of airlines of Montenegro
List of airlines of Serbia
List of defunct airlines of Serbia
List of airlines of Slovenia
List of defunct airlines of Slovenia
References
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Airlines
Airlines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20model%20reduction | Bayesian model reduction is a method for computing the evidence and posterior over the parameters of Bayesian models that differ in their priors. A full model is fitted to data using standard approaches. Hypotheses are then tested by defining one or more 'reduced' models with alternative (and usually more restrictive) priors, which usually – in the limit – switch off certain parameters. The evidence and parameters of the reduced models can then be computed from the evidence and estimated (posterior) parameters of the full model using Bayesian model reduction. If the priors and posteriors are normally distributed, then there is an analytic solution which can be computed rapidly. This has multiple scientific and engineering applications: these include scoring the evidence for large numbers of models very quickly and facilitating the estimation of hierarchical models (Parametric Empirical Bayes).
Theory
Consider some model with parameters and a prior probability density on those parameters . The posterior belief about after seeing the data is given by Bayes rule:
The second line of Equation 1 is the model evidence, which is the probability of observing the data given the model. In practice, the posterior cannot usually be computed analytically due to the difficulty in computing the integral over the parameters. Therefore, the posteriors are estimated using approaches such as MCMC sampling or variational Bayes. A reduced model can then be defined with an alternative set of priors :
The objective of Bayesian model reduction is to compute the posterior and evidence of the reduced model from the posterior and evidence of the full model. Combining Equation 1 and Equation 2 and re-arranging, the reduced posterior can be expressed as the product of the full posterior, the ratio of priors and the ratio of evidences:
The evidence for the reduced model is obtained by integrating over the parameters of each side of the equation:
And by re-arrangement:
Gaussian priors and posteriors
Under Gaussian prior and posterior densities, as are used in the context of variational Bayes, Bayesian model reduction has a simple analytical solution. First define normal densities for the priors and posteriors:
where the tilde symbol (~) indicates quantities relating to the reduced model and subscript zero – such as – indicates parameters of the priors. For convenience we also define precision matrices, which are the inverse of each covariance matrix:
The free energy of the full model is an approximation (lower bound) on the log model evidence: that is optimised explicitly in variational Bayes (or can be recovered from sampling approximations). The reduced model's free energy and parameters are then given by the expressions:
Example
Consider a model with a parameter and Gaussian prior , which is the Normal distribution with mean zero and standard deviation 0.5 (illustrated in the Figure, left). This prior says that without any data, the parameter is e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR%20algorithm | The BFR algorithm, named after its inventors Bradley, Fayyad and Reina, is a variant of k-means algorithm that is designed to cluster data in a high-dimensional Euclidean space. It makes a very strong assumption about the shape of clusters: they must be normally distributed about a centroid. The mean and standard deviation for a cluster may differ for different dimensions, but the dimensions must be independent.
References
Cluster analysis algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPVanish | IPVanish VPN (also known as IPVanish) is a US-based VPN service owned by Ziff Davis.
History
IPVanish was founded in 2012 by Mudhook Media Inc, an independent subsidiary of Highwinds Network Group in Orlando, Florida.
In 2017, Highwinds Network Group was acquired by CDN company StackPath which included IPVanish as part of the acquisition.
In 2019, IPVanish was acquired by J2 Global with their NetProtect business.
Cooperation with Homeland Security
According to a June 2018 article by TorrentFreak, court documents showed that IPVanish handed over personal information about a customer to the Department of Homeland Security (HSI) in 2016. The customer was suspected of sharing child pornography on an IRC network. The information, which allowed HSI to identify the customer, consisted of the customer's name, his email address, details of his VPN subscription, his real IP address (Comcast) "as well as dates and times [he] connected to, and disconnected from, the IRC network.” The logging of the customer's IP address and connection timestamps to the IRC service contradicts IPVanish's privacy policy, which states that "[IPVanish] will never log any traffic or usage of our VPN."
In 2017, IPVanish and its parent company were acquired by StackPath, and its founder and CEO, Lance Crosby, claims that "at the time of the acquisition, [...] no logs existed, no logging systems existed and no previous/current/future intent to save logs existed."
Uses
IPVanish funnels the internet traffic of its users through remote servers, obscuring the user's IP address and encrypting data transmitted through the connection. Users can simultaneously connect an unlimited number of devices.
Like other VPN services, IPVanish also has the ability to bypass internet censorship in most countries. By selecting a server in a region outside of their physical position, VPN users can easily access online content which was not available in their location, or play games that are regionally-restricted due to licensing agreements.
Technical details
Encryption
IPVanish uses the OpenVPN and IKEv2/IPsec technologies in its applications, while the L2TP and PPTP connection protocols can also be configured. IPVanish supports the AES (128-bit or 256-bit) specifications, with SHA-256 for authentication and an RSA-2048 handshake.
Servers
IPVanish owns and operates more than 1500 remote servers in over 75+ locations. The largest concentration of VPN servers is located in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. The company suspended operations in Russia as of July 2016, due to conflicts with the company's zero-log policy and local law. In July 2020, IPVanish removed its servers from Hong Kong, alleging that the Hong Kong national security law puts Hong Kong under the “same tight internet restrictions that govern mainland China.”
IPVanish is headquartered in the United States, which does not have mandatory data retention laws.
Recognition
In 2016, Lifehacker AU rated the serv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%20Says | America Says is an American television game show hosted by John Michael Higgins and broadcast on Game Show Network. The series consists of two teams of four guessing the top answers to fill-in-the-blank survey questions. It is a restructuring of the Audience Match portion of Match Game.
Gameplay
Main rounds
Two teams of four compete, consisting of friends and family. One team is shown a fill-in-the-blank and its top seven answers, with the first letter of each word in each correct answer being shown as a clue. For example, if the question is "When I think of Italy, I think of [blank]," an answer might be "L__ T" for Leaning Tower. The length of the blank is a further clue to the length of the correct answer.
In each round, each team is given one question. The team has a total of 30 seconds to guess all seven answers correctly. The first player offers an answer and keeps giving answers until giving an answer that is not on the board, at which point control passes to the next player in line. This process continues (going back to the beginning of the line as often as necessary) until either all seven answers are given or time runs out. If a teammate speaks out of turn at any time, the team is penalized five seconds. The team is awarded 100 points for every correct answer, and a 1,000-point bonus (1,700 total) if they can get all seven answers within 30 seconds. If the team cannot guess all seven, then the opposing team is given a chance to steal the remaining answers at 100 points each. Steal attempts are untimed but end when either the board is completed or the stealing team gives an incorrect answer. In early episodes, the opposing team was allowed to confer on steals. In episodes filmed using a socially-distanced set during the COVID-19 pandemic, individual players give one answer each, without conferring.
Synonyms and word forms are acceptable if they correctly fill in the same blank(s): for example, "chefs" and "cooking" would both be acceptable for "cooks," but "physician" would not be acceptable for "doctor." As a general rule, other than questions that explicitly deal with synonyms for a given word, the show tries to avoid including two or more synonyms in the answers when they do not fill in the same blanks (for example, "actor" and "thespian" would not be separate answers for most questions unless the question were something like " is another word for a performer").
The second round is played the same way, with 200 points given for each correct answer and a 2,000-point bonus for all seven. Likewise, the third round is played for 300 points per answer and 3,000 bonus points for all seven. The team on the viewer's left starts the first two rounds, the team that is ahead after two rounds starts the third round (the team on the left starts the third round if there is a tie). The round ends immediately if the trailing team can no longer catch their opponents. The team with the most points after all three rounds wins $1,000 and the chance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin%20%28video%20game%29 | Zeppelin is a video game developed by German studio Ikarion and published by MicroProse for the Amiga and MS-DOS compatible operating systems in 1994.
Gameplay
Zeppelin is an economic simulation in which players build a fleet of airships.
Reception
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "A few extras like the two-player mode, stock market controls, and open air competitions, add little spice to what ends up being very bland fare."
In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Zeppelin the 35th-worst computer game ever released.
In 1994, Power Play (a german computer game magazine) added it to the list of "Best 100 games in 1994" in their special edition 9.
In March 1994, ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - a German computer and video game magazine - rated Zeppelin with 11 out of 12 and gave the award "ASM Hit/very good". "Chic presentation and an unusual game idea make a successful genre mix".
Reviews
PC Gamer (April 1995)
Computer Gaming World (Mar, 1995)
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - (Feb, 1994), Germany, page 24-25, Rating 92% (11 out of 12 / ASM Hit)
PC Games - (March, 1994), Germany, page 40-41, Rating 78 out of 100 (78%)
PC Games - (May, 1995)
Power Play - (March, 1994), Germany, page 78, Rating 76% good (graphics 70%, sound 77%)
PC Windows - (March, 1994), Germany, page 137, Rating: "thumbs upper right corner"
PC review - (April, 1994), Germany, page 55, Rating 6/10
PC Joker - (February, 1994), Germany, page 67, Rating 81%
Power Play Special Edition, "Best games of 1994", 1994, page 108, Rating 76%
References
External links
1994 video games
Airships in fiction
Amiga games
Business simulation games
DOS games
MicroProse games
Video games developed in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderCats%20Roar | ThunderCats Roar is an American animated television series developed by Victor Courtright and Marly Halpern-Graser for Cartoon Network. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, it premiered on February 22, 2020. It is the third television series in the ThunderCats franchise after the original series and the 2011 television series. It is Jules Bass's only solo work without his partner Arthur Rankin Jr., who died on January 30, 2014. The show's premise is similar to the original series; in which the ThunderCats escape their dying homeworld Thundera, crash-land on Third Earth, and face off against various villains led by the evil overlord Mumm-Ra. Like Teen Titans Go!, ThunderCats Roar sports a more light-hearted, comedic tone than previous incarnations. The series received a mixed reception from critics, while being panned by fans of the original show for its character designs, humor and characterizations, and it ended on December 5, 2020, being cancelled after just one season. Following Jules Bass' death on October 25, 2022, it was his last television production.
Premise
Lion-O, Tygra, Panthro, Cheetara, WilyKit and WilyKat barely escape the sudden destruction of their homeworld, Thundera, only to crash-land on the mysterious and exotic planet of Third Earth. Lion-O, the newly appointed Lord of the ThunderCats, attempts to lead the team as they make this planet their new home. A bizarre host of creatures and villains stand in their way, including the evil Mumm-Ra, Third Earth's wicked ruler who will let nothing, including the ThunderCats, stop his tyrannical reign over the planet.
Characters
ThunderCats
Lion-O (voiced by Max Mittelman) – A lion-themed Thunderian and the newly crowned leader of the ThunderCats who still acts like a child. In this adaption, he has a twin sister named Lion-S who is a wanted criminal.
Tygra (voiced by Patrick Seitz) – A tiger-themed Thunderian who is the serious and most mature member of the team. He's a bit of a clean freak and the target of most jokes throughout the show.
Cheetara (voiced by Erica Lindbeck) – A cheetah-themed Thunderian who is the fastest member of the team and a professional athlete.
Panthro (voiced by Chris Jai Alex) – A panther-themed Thunderian who is the strongest and smartest member of the team.
WilyKit (voiced by Erica Lindbeck) – A wildcat-themed Thunderian, one half of the ThunderKittens, and WilyKat's fraternal twin sister. She is a tomboy obsessed with fighting and fun in this incarnation.
WilyKat (voiced by Max Mittelman) – A wildcat-themed Thunderian, one half of the ThunderKittens, and WilyKit's fraternal twin brother. He is the more mature twin, armed with chemical capsules in this incarnation.
Snarf (voiced by Victor Courtright) – The team's mascot and Lion-O's pet. In this show, Snarf is depicted as a robot animal and possibly the smartest of the ThunderCats.
Jaga (voiced by Larry Kenney) – A jaguar-themed Thunderian who is the ThunderCats' deceased mentor and the narrator for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing%20AI | Seeing AI is an artificial intelligence application developed by Microsoft for iOS. Seeing AI uses the device camera to identify people and objects, and then the app audibly describes those objects for people with visual impairment.
Capabilities
Seeing AI is primarily used to describe short text, documents, products, people, currency scenery, colors, handwriting and light. The app can scan a barcode to describe a product and uses sounds to assist the user in focusing on the barcode. When the app describes people, it attempts to estimate the person's age, gender, and emotional status. Additionally, in a test run by German journalists in December 2019, Seeing AI apparently used some sort of Facial recognition system to identify people on photographs by name.
Some functions are performed on the device, however more complex functions such as describing a scene or recognizing handwriting require an Internet connection.
In December 2017, Seeing AI introduced the ability for currency recognition for US and Canadian dollar, British pounds and Euros.
In December 2019, Seeing AI added support for five more languages, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Spanish.
Seeing AI is available in 70 countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Egypt, Albania, Bhutan, etc.
Supported on iPhone 5C, 5S and later best performance with iPhone 6S, SE and later models
References
AI software
IOS software
Microsoft
Microsoft software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne%20Stiff-Roberts | Adrienne Stiff-Roberts is an American electrical engineering and Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor of Electrical and computer engineering at Duke University. Her research is on novel hybrid materials for optoelectronic and energy devices.
Early life and education
Stiff-Roberts completed her bachelor's degree in physics at Spelman College in 1991. She was part of a NASA and Spelman College Women in Science and Engineering program. Through this progem, Stiff-Roberts worked as an intern at Ames Research Center during the summer. She then joined the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she earned a Bachelor of Engineering in 1999. She moved to the University of Michigan for her graduate studies, during which she investigated quantum dot photodetectors, gaining her PhD in 2004. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She was funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Graduate Scholars Fellowship and AT&T Labs Fellowship. She was also awarded the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
Research and career
At Duke University, which she joined in 2004, Stiff-Roberts leads a lab focussed on Resonant Infrared Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation (RIR-MAPLE). This is a versatile technology that has evolved from pulsed laser deposition, which offers precise control of a material's composition. The technique involves freezing a solution of molecular building blocks, then blasting them with a laser in a vacuum chamber. The laser is tuned to the molecular bonds of the frozen solvent. She is working with David Mitzi to create perovskite solar cells.
Stiff-Roberts is involved with several initiatives to improve diversity within engineering. At Duke University Stiff-Roberts runs the Student Engineers Network, Strengthening Opportunities in Research (SENSOR) Saturday Academy for minority students in the 8th grade. In 2017, Stiff-Roberts took part in Duke University's celebration of Hidden Figures. She is a member of the National Society of Black Physicists.
In 2019, Stiff-Roberts was promoted to be the Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Honors and awards
2016 Julian Abele Award for Graduate Mentor of the Year, Duke University Mary Lou Williams Center, Black Student Alliance, and Black Graduate and Professional Student Association. 2016
2009 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Early Career Award in Nanotechnology
2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Office of Naval Research
2007 Young Investigator Program Award, Office of Naval Research
2006 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
References
21st-century American engineers
21st-century African-American scientists
Duke University faculty
Spelman College alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the National Society of Black Physicists
21st-century African-American academics
21st-century American academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Current%20Affair | A Current Affair may refer to:
A Current Affair (Australian TV program), 1971–present Australian current affairs program that airs on Nine Network
A Current Affair (American TV program), a 1986–1998 American television newsmagazine program that aired in syndication, and was revived in 2005
See also
Current affairs (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppo%20F7 | The OPPO F7 is a phablet smartphone based on Android 8.1, which was unveiled on March 26, 2018. The model has a 25MP front camera and a 16MP rear camera.
References
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2018
Oppo smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Historian | The Programming Historian is a peer-reviewed academic journal of digital humanities and digital history methodology. This flagship resource for digital humanities research methods publishes tutorials that help humanities scholars learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching. The original project was based upon a series of lessons written by William J. Turkel and Alan MacEachern of the University of Western Ontario in 2008. The project launched as an academic journal during the Digital Humanities 2012 conference in Hamburg.
The journal publishes in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Openness is the cornerstone of this Diamond Open Access project: it is open source, has an open peer review model, and an open ethos to project planning. All content is open access and released under a Creative Commons CC BY license, with no cost to authors or readers. This makes Programming Historian available around the world, including to readers in the Global South.
The project has twice won a "Digital Humanities Award". In 2016 it won "Best Series of Posts" for its English-language content. In 2017 it won "Best Series of Posts" for its Spanish-language content. In 2018, The Programming Historian en español, was the winner of 'Mejor iniciativa formativa desarrollada durante el año 2018', Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas Association. It also won the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute's Open Scholarship Award 2020 and in 2021 it was awarded the Coko Foundation's Open Publishing Award in the Open Content category. Programming Historian has also been involved in social issues in digital humanities, conducting a self-reflection and survey into gender biases in the project in 2015 in an attempt to encourage more participation from female authors and reviewers.
Programming Historian is indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals. It is also listed among proprietary databases and other e-resources at Harvard University Library.
References
External links
Academic journals established in 2012
English-language journals
History journals
Multilingual journals
Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooolbox | Cooolbox is a Bulgarian telecommunications company. It was launched in 1997 as ITD Network. The Cooolbox network is entirely built on the FTTH - AON technology and provides internet in Sofia, Plovdiv, and Veliko Tarnovo.
History
ITD Network (now Cooolbox) has been in the Internet and telecommunication services market since 1997. At this stage, ITD Network mainly provides leased line access services to smaller ISPs and relatively few business customers in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
In 1999 they expanded their presence with an office in Sofia.
Since the middle of 2002, ITD Network has offered VoIP telephony.
In 2006, with the introduction of the relevant regulatory framework, ITD Network acquires licenses 116A and 116B and VOIP telephony is transformed into a fixed voice service with the corresponding numbering plan.
Since the beginning of 2008 ITD Network has begun the construction of an optical network in Plovdiv and Veliko Tarnovo to provide internet and telephony to users by using Fiber to the Home Direct Fiber (FTTH - Direct Fiber), or AON. FTTH technology is being used in Bulgaria for the first time by ITD Network to provide mass service to customers.
In 2008, the company started building its own network in the cities of Plovdiv and Veliko Tarnovo, which started the provision of the Cooolbox service, consisting of: Internet delivery, digital TV and telephony.
The Cooolbox network is entirely built on the FTTH - AON technology and is the only one of its kind in Bulgaria. The same technology is used by Google Internet to build its network in various US cities.
In 2011, ITD Network completed the acquisition of Sofia Online, which ensures a strong presence in Sofia as infrastructure and customer base.
In 2016, the company changed its name to Cooolbox, with which it ends the process of transformation from an ISP to an end-to-end Internet provider. At the same time, offering a full gigabit service has begun.
In January 2022 the company added to its portfolio interactive TV with coool.tv online application compatible with smart TVs with Android TV/Google TV, Apple TV, Amazon Fire OS, Samsung (models after 2020) and LG (models after 2018).
Awards
Awards of b2b Media
Third place Most creative workspace for 2016
Second place in Business project of the year 2016
Second place on Business project of the year 2017
References
Telecommunications companies of Bulgaria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram%20Arutyunov | Aram Arutyunov () (born 1953) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University and the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.
He defended the thesis «Perturbation of optimal control problems and necessary conditions for the extremum of the first and second order» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1988). and was awarded the title of Professor (1991). He has authored seven books and 318 scientific articles.
References
Literature
External links
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Aram Arutyunov
Scientific works of Aram Arutyunov
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Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1953 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Bening | Vladimir Bening () (born 1954) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis «Asymptotic analysis of distributions of some asymptotically efficient statistics in problems of hypothesis testing» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1998).
Was awarded the title of Professor (2005).
Author of 16 books and more than 100 scientific articles.
References
Literature
External links
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Vladimir Bening
Scientific works of Vladimir Bening
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Russian mathematicians
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1954 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20correlation | In statistics, functional correlation is a dimensionality reduction technique used to quantify the correlation and dependence between two variables when the data is functional. Several approaches have been developed to quantify the relation between two functional variables.
Overview
A pair of real valued random functions and with , a compact interval, can be viewed as realizations of square-integrable stochastic process in a Hilbert space. Since both and are infinite dimensional, some kind of dimension reduction is required to explore their relationship. Notions of correlation for functional data include the following.
Functional canonical correlation coefficient (FCCA)
FCCA is a direct extension of multivariate canonical correlation. For a pair of random functions and the first canonical coefficient is defined as:
where denotes the inner product in Lp space (p=2) i.e.
The canonical coefficient , given is defined as:
where is uncorrelated with all previous pairs .
Thus FCCA implements projections in the directions of and for and respectively, such that their linear combinations (inner products) are maximally correlated. and are uncorrelated if all their canonical correlations are zero, equivalently, if and only if .
Alternative formulation
The cross-covariance operator for two random functions and defined as and analogously the auto covariance operators for , for and using , the canonical coefficient in (2) can be re-written as,
,
where is uncorrelated with all previous pairs
Maximizing (3) is equivalent to finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the operator .
Challenges
Since and are compact operators, the square root of the auto-covariance operator of processes may not be invertible. So the existence of and hence computing its eigenvalues and eigenvectors is an ill-posed problem. As a consequence of this inverse problem, overfitting may occur which may lead to an unstable correlation coefficient. Due to this inverse problem, tends to be biased upwards and therefore close to 1 and hence is difficult to interpret. FCCA also requires densely recorded functional data so that the inner products in (2) can be accurately evaluated.
Possible solutions
Some possible solutions to this problem have been discussed.
By restricting the maximization of (1) to discrete sequence spaces that are restricted to a reproducing kernel Hilbert space instead of entire
Using cross-validation to regularize the FCCA in practical implementation.
Functional singular correlation analysis (FSCA)
FSCA bypasses the inverse problem by simply replacing the objective function by covariance in place of correlation in (2). FSCA aims to quantify the dependency of by implementing the concept of functional singular-value decomposition for the cross-covariance operator. FSCA can be viewed as an extension of analyses using singular-value decomposition of vector data to functional data. For a pair of random functions and with smoo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Vasin | Alexander Vasin () (born 1952) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University. Specialist in the field of the theory of non-cooperative games and its applications to economics and biology.
He defended the thesis "Evolutionary models and principles of optimality of collective behavior" for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1991). Was awarded the title of Professor (1994).
Author of 6 books and more than 50 scientific articles.
References
Literature
External links
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Alexander Vasin
Scientific works of Alexander Vasin
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1952 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.O.R.D%3A%20Legend%20of%20Ravaging%20Dynasties%202 | L.O.R.D.: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties 2 is a 2020 Chinese computer animated motion capture action fantasy adventure film written and directed by Guo Jingming, the sequel to the first L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties film. Originally slated to be released in China on 6 July 2018, it was later announced on 27 June that the release would be postponed to a later date due to political reasons. Eventually Fan Bingbing's character was replaced in the movie, and it was released via online streaming on Tencent on 4 December 2020.
Plot
In order to complete the last wish of Duke VI, Yin Chen (Kris Wu), Qi Ling (Cheney Chen), Tianshu You Hua (Lin Yun) and the others decide to embark on a journey together to save Gilgamesh, the former Duke I who has been sealed by the Silver Priest. Upon their arrival, they encounter the strongest set of Corroders in You Ming (William Chan), Thalia (Amber Kuo) and Qi La (Wang Duo). A confrontation is inevitable as the darkest secret of the Aslan Empire gradually rises to the surface.
Cast
The Righteous
Kris Wu as Yin Chen (), Lord to the 7th degree and former disciple to the 1st degree, Gilgamesh
Cheney Chen as Qi Ling (), Disciple to the 7th degree Yin Chen.
Lin Yun as Tianshu You Hua (), Disciple to the 6th degree and daughter of the 6th lord; likes Qi Ling
Wang Duo as Qi La (), Lord to the 3rd degree
Roy Wang as one of the Silver Priests ()
Karry Wang as Frost (Han Shuang Si), the new Duke VI ()
The Corroders
William Chan as You Ming (), Lord to the 2nd degree; Thalia's lover
Amber Kuo as Thalia (), Lord to the 4th degree; You Ming's lover
Jackson Yi as Prince Yuan Yi (), friend to Qi Ling and son of Zujin, former King of Quancang
Original soundtrack
Notes
References
2020 films
Chinese action adventure films
Animated action films
Animated adventure films
Chinese 3D films
Chinese fantasy adventure films
Chinese-language films
Adaptations of works by Guo Jingming
Films shot in China
Films using motion capture
Le Vision Pictures films
IMAX films
Films based on Chinese novels
Films scored by Taku Iwasaki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Voronenko | Andrey Voronenko () (born 1972) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis «Methods for representing discrete functions in problems of calculating, testing and recognizing properties» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2008).
Was awarded the title of Professor (2009).
Author of 16 books and more than 80 scientific articles.
References
Literature
External links
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Andrey Voronenko
Scientific works of Andrey Voronenko
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1972 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Dyakonov | Alexander Dyakonov () (born 1979) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University. Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Multiple winner of international competitions in applied data analysis.
He defended the thesis «Algebraic closures of the generalized model of recognition algorithms based on the calculation of estimates» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2010).
Author of two books and more than 50 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
Annals of the Moscow University
Resolution of the Presidium of the RAS
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Alexander Dyakonov
Scientific works of Alexander Dyakonov
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1979 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samer%20Hassan | Samer Hassan is a computer scientist, social scientist, activist and researcher, focused on the use of decentralized technologies to support commons-based collaboration. He is Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is the recipient of an ERC Grant of 1.5M€ with the P2P Models project, to research blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations for the collaborative economy.
Education & career
Samer Hassan is a scholar with an interdisciplinary background, which combines computer sciences with social sciences and activism. He received a degree in Computer Science and MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in Spain. He also studied 3 years of Political Science at the distance learning university UNED. He has then undertaken a PhD in Social Simulation at the department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence of UCM, supervised by the computer scientist Juan Pavón and the sociologist Millán Arroyo-Menéndez.
He has been researching in several institutions, funded by several scholarships and awards, most notably Harvard's Real Colegio Complutense, and the Spanish postdoctoral grants Juan de la Cierva and José Castillejo. Thus, he was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Research in Social Simulation, in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey in the UK, working under the supervision of Nigel Gilbert (2007-2008), and a lecturer at the American University of Science and Technology in Lebanon (2010–11). He was selected as Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University (2015-2017) and is presently a Faculty Associate at the same structure.
Activism & social engagement
As an activist, Samer Hassan has been engaged in both offline (La Tabacalera de Lavapiés, Medialab-Prado) and online (Ourproject.org, Barrapunto, Wikipedia) initiatives. He was accredited as a grassroots facilitator by the Altekio Cooperative. He co-founded the Comunes Nonprofit in 2009 and the Move Commons webtool project in 2010. He has co-organized practitioner-oriented workshops on platform co-ops and free/open source decentralized tools for communities, and has presented his work in non-academic conferences of Mozilla, the Internet Archive, and others. As a privacy advocate, he co-created a course on cyber-ethics which has been teaching since 2013 (as of 2021). He was co-founder of the Sci-Fdi Spanish science-fiction magazine.
Work
Samer Hassan's PhD thesis focused on the methodological challenges for building data-driven social simulation models. The main model built simulated the transition from modern values to postmodern values in Spain. His methodological work also explored the combination of different Artificial Intelligence technologies, i.e. software agents with fuzzy logic, data mining, natural language processing, and microsimulation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedor%20Zaytsev | Fedor Zaytsev () (born 1963) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis «Mathematical modeling of kinetic processes with Coulomb interaction in toroidal plasma» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1997).
Author of 7 books and more than 150 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
Annals of the Moscow University
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Fedor Zaytsev
Scientific works of Fedor Zaytsev
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
1963 births
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagerovo%E2%80%93Vyshestebliyevskaya%20railway | "Bagerovo–Vyshesteblyevskaya" () is a railway branch opened in 2019, which connects the Crimean Bridge into the rail networks at either end and replaced the train ferry between Kerch and Port Kavkaz. It is part of the Moscow–Crimea Main Line railway route. The construction of the branch line provides railway transit to the ports of the Crimea and the creation of a dry cargo area of the port of Taman. In combination with other enhancements, it is planned to allow reducing the time for the movement of passenger trains from Moscow to Simferopol from 2 days to 18 hours. A further branch, to the cargo yard in the area of the future Portovaya station at the Port of Taman, was put into operation in April 2016. This made it possible to bring the unloading station for delivery of construction materials 32 km closer to the construction of the Crimean Bridge. The entire line was put into temporary use in June 2019, and into permanent use in December 2019. The first regular passenger train passed on December 25, 2019.
Description
The length of the section from Vyshestebliyevskaya station to the combined bridge is . The length of the Kerch area from the bridge to Bagerovo station is .
The construction of the site on the Taman peninsula was envisaged during the construction of Taman port and includes the construction of a new Portovaya station, from the transport crossing. The village of Taman is served by a new passenger station. A branch to the Kerch–Yuzhnaya station and the construction of a new park are planned on the Kerch site passing through the Cement Sloboda. Also on this site, construction of four overpasses, two bridges and a tunnel is planned.
The branch is planned to be electrified double-track. Initially, it was planned that electrification on the bridge would be carried out later, after the opening to traffic, but then it was decided to build a fully electrified line.
In the first year of operation, the throughput should be 47 pairs of trains per day - 12 freight and 35 passenger, with the speed of freight trains up to , and passenger trains up to . The existing "Kerch–Dzhankoy" branch line is single-track and not electrified. To increase the capacity, a gradual electrification is planned from Bagerovo to the Vladislavovka junction station, then to the Dzhankoy station. In the future, the possibility of converting the "Soloynoye Ozero – Djankoy – Simferopol – Sevastopol" section (with a branch to Yevpatoria) from direct to alternating current and to reduce the time in transit by the construction of a straightened route "Vladislavovka – Simferopol" is considered. In January 2018, in connection with the start-up of commissioning works at three new combined-cycle stations in the Crimean energy system, a decision was made to build the railway electrified from the start.
Construction
From the side of Taman
Part of the railway approach to the bridge from the side of Taman was realized within the framework of the construction of the port |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Southern%20at%20Heart%20episodes | The American cooking series Southern at Heart aired on Food Network from 2013 to 2016. 53 episodes of the series aired over five seasons.
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2014)
Season 3 (2014)
Season 4 (2015)
Season 5 (2015–2016)
References
External links
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes
Lists of food television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Zakharov%20%28mathematician%29 | Vladimir Zakharov () (born 1960) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis «The problem of program equivalence: models, algorithms, complexity» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2012).
Author of 2 books and more than 70 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
Annals of the Moscow University
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Vladimir Zakharov
Scientific works of Vladimir Zakharov
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1960 births
Scientists from Kharkiv
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey%20Ismailov | Aleksey Feridovich Ismailov () (born 1967) is a Russian mathematician who is a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis Stable methods of finding special solutions of non-linear problems for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 1998.
He has authored 12 books and more than 150 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
Annals of the Moscow University
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Aleksey Ismailov
Scientific works of Aleksey Ismailov
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1967 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20RTX | Nvidia RTX (also known as Nvidia GeForce RTX under the GeForce brand) is a professional visual computing platform created by Nvidia, primarily used in workstations for designing complex large-scale models in architecture and product design, scientific visualization, energy exploration, and film and video production, as well as being used in mainstream PCs for gaming.
Nvidia RTX enables real-time ray tracing. Historically, ray tracing had been reserved to non-real time applications (like CGI in visual effects for movies and in photorealistic renderings), with video games having to rely on direct lighting and precalculated indirect contribution for their rendering. RTX facilitates a new development in computer graphics of generating interactive images that react to lighting, shadows and reflections. RTX runs on Nvidia Volta-, Turing-, Ampere- and Ada Lovelace-based GPUs, specifically utilizing the Tensor cores (and new RT cores on Turing and successors) on the architectures for ray-tracing acceleration.
In March 2019, Nvidia announced that selected GTX 10 series (Pascal) and GTX 16 series (Turing) cards would receive support for subsets of RTX technology in upcoming drivers, although functions and performance will be affected by their lack of dedicated hardware cores for ray tracing.
In October 2020, Nvidia announced Nvidia RTX A6000 as the first Ampere-architecture-based graphics card for use in professional workstations in the Nvidia RTX product line, replacing the former Quadro product line of professional graphics cards.
Nvidia worked with Microsoft to integrate RTX support with Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing API (DXR). RTX is currently available through Nvidia OptiX and for DirectX. For the Turing and Ampere architectures, it is also available for Vulkan.
Components
In addition to ray tracing, RTX includes artificial intelligence integration, common asset formats, rasterization (CUDA) support, and simulation APIs. The components of RTX are:
AI-accelerated features (NGX)
Asset formats (USD and MDL)
Rasterization including advanced shaders
Raytracing via OptiX, Microsoft DXR and Vulkan
Simulation tools:
CUDA 10
Flex
PhysX
Ray tracing
In computer graphics, ray tracing generates an image by tracing rays cast through pixels of an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects. This enables advanced effects that better reflect real-world optical properties, such as softer and more realistic shadows and reflections, as compared to traditional rasterization techniques which prioritize performance over accuracy.
NVIDIA RTX achieves this through a combination of hardware and software acceleration. On a hardware level, RTX cards feature fixed-function "RT cores" that are designed to accelerate mathematical operations needed to simulate rays, such as bounding volume hierarchy traversal. The software implementation is open to individual application developers. As ray-tracing is still computationally intensive, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVCB-LP | KVCB-LP (100.9 FM; "VCS Radio") is a radio station licensed to Vacaville, California, United States. The station is currently owned by Vacaville Christian Schools.
Programming on KVCB-LP is produced by the students of Vacaville Christian Elementary, Middle and High School.
KVCB-LP founded the National High School Radio Network to give high school broadcasting students across the United States experience in live network programming. Each high school in the group takes turns having their students host the one-hour radio show each Wednesday evening on a volunteer basis.
References
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VCB-LP
VCB-LP
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2014 establishments in California
Vacaville, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Ilyin%20%28mathematician%29 | Alexander Ilyin (, (born January 11, 1973) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr. Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Expert in robust control theory.
He defended the thesis «Robust inversion of dynamic systems» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2009).
He has authored four books and more than 90 scientific articles.
He is the son of famed mathematician Vladimir Ilyin.
References
Bibliography
External links
Russian Academy of Sciences
RAS Archive
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Alexander Ilyin
Scientific works of Alexander Ilyin
Living people
1973 births
Russian computer scientists
Mathematicians from Moscow
Moscow State University alumni
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Kapustin%20%28mathematician%29 | Nikolai Yurievich Kapustin (; born 3 October 1957) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr. Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis "Problems for parabolic-hyperbolic equations and corresponding spectral questions with a parameter at boundary points" for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 2012 and is the author of 3 books and more than 90 scientific articles.
References
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External links
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Nikolai Kapustin
Scientific works of Nikolai Kapustin
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1957 births
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Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Korovina | Maria Korovina () (born 1962) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr. Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
She defended the thesis «Elliptic problems in spaces with asymptotics and their applications to the construction of self-adjoint extensions of the Laplace operator» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1992).
The author of the monograph «The theory of functional spaces and differential equations» (2007) and more than 70 scientific articles.
References
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External links
Scientific works of Maria Korovina
Scientific works of Maria Korovina
Russian computer scientists
Russian women computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Russian women mathematicians
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1962 births
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvil | Corvil is a Dublin, Ireland-based network data analytics company that helps businesses make sense of machine data sources and protect performance, security, and transparency of business and infrastructure applications. As of May 2017, prominent financial institutions, such as the New York Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Moscow Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, Nomura, Thomson Reuters, and Commerzbank use Corvil’s services.
History
Corvil was founded in 2000 by Professor John Lewis, three Telia employees and three post-graduate students from Trinity College Dublin and is currently led by CEO Donal Byrne.
Corvil offers solutions for electronic trading businesses, IT operations, and cybersecurity operations.
IT operations can use Corvil’s service to understand IT systems in real-time and improve transparency, performance, and monitoring of applications, infrastructure, services, and users. Cybersecurity operations can use Corvil’s analytics to gain full visibility into malicious threats both in real-time and retrospect, allowing for greater threat detection, prevention, and response times.
Corvil has offices in New York, London, Tokyo, Toronto, and Krakow.
In 2019 Corvil was acquired by Pico.
References
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Information technology companies of Ireland
Computer companies established in 2000
Irish companies established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Korolev | Viktor Korolev () (born 1954) is a Russian scientist in the field of mathematical statistics, Professor, Dr. Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis «Limit distributions of random sequences with independent random indices and some of their applications» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1994).
Author of 27 books and more than 340 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
Annals of the Moscow University
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Viktor Korolev
Scientific works of Viktor Korolev
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
1954 births
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Krylov%20%28mathematician%29 | Andrei Krylov () (born 1956) is a Russian mathematician, specialist in mathematical methods of image processing, Professor, Dr. Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis Mathematical modeling and computer analysis of liquid metal systems for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2009).
He is the author of three books and more than 140 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
Laboratory of Mathematical Methods of Image Processing
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Andrei Krylov
Scientific works of Andrei Krylov
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
1956 births
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onanay | Onanay (International title: The Way to Your Heart) is a Philippine television drama family series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gina Alajar and Joel Lamangan, it stars Jo Berry in the title role. It premiered on August 6, 2018 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Kambal, Karibal. The series concluded on March 15, 2019 with a total of 160 episodes. It was replaced by Sahaya in its timeslot.
The series is originally titled as Extraordinary Love. It is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Sisters Maila and Natalie have different approach to their mother, Onay who has Achondroplasia. Maila is a nice and attentive daughter, while Natalie is arrogant and disobedient. Besides their different upbringing, they have a different father as well.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Mikee Quintos as Maila M. Samonte
Kate Valdez as Natalie Montenegro / Rosemary M. Samonte
Jo Berry as Ronalyn "Onay" Matayog-Samonte
Cherie Gil as Helena Sanchez-Montenegro
Nora Aunor as Cornelia "Nelia" Dimagiba-Matayog.
Supporting cast
Wendell Ramos as Lucas Samonte
Rochelle Pangilinan as Sally del Mundo
Vaness del Moral as Imelda Pascual
Enrico Cuenca as Oliver Pascual
Gardo Versoza as Dante Dimagiba
Guest cast
Adrian Alandy as Elvin Sanchez Montenegro
JC Tiuseco as Ronald
Gilleth Sandico as Soleng
Rein Adriano as young Maila
Princess Aguilar as young Natalie / Rosemary
Eunice Lagusad as Kiana
Marina Benipayo as Agatha Ocampo
James Teng as James
Jenzel Angeles as Louise Ocampo
Liezel Lopez as Wendy
Ayeesha Cervantes as Danica
Sofia Pablo as Gracie P. Samonte
Marnie Lapus as Metring
Arthur Solinap as Arthur
Pekto as Hector
Marco Alcaraz as Vincent "Vince" Delgado
Neil Ryan Sese as Emmanuel "Emman" Cruz
Kier Legaspi as Joel
Janna Victoria as Madel Cruz
James Blanco as Mark
Dominic Roco as Castro
Shermaine Santiago as Marie Chu
Angel Guardian as Chelsea
Orlando Sol as Lando
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of Onanay earned an 11.6% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
2019 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Lozhkin | Sergey Lozhkin (; born March 29, 1951) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis «Asymptotic estimates of a high degree of accuracy for the complexity of control systems» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1998).
Author of 8 books and more than 80 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Sergey Lozhkin
Scientific works of Sergey Lozhkin
1951 births
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Lomov | Igor Lomov () (born 1956) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis «Mathematical modeling and computer analysis of liquid metal systems» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2009).
Author of 13 books and more than 90 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
Annals of the Moscow University
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Igor Lomov
Scientific works of Igor Lomov
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1956 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20Heart%20Radio%20Network | A timeline of notable events relating to Heart, a 22-strong network of adult contemporary commercial radio stations operated by Global.
1990s
1994
6 September – 100.7 Heart FM begins broadcasting, providing a regional service of soft adult contemporary music to the West Midlands, similar to Smooth Radio today.
1995
5 September – Heart 106.2 launches in London, broadcasting a 'Hot AC' music format.
1996
100.7 Heart FM’s music format is modified to Hot AC.
2000s
2005
29 August – Heart 106 replaces Century 106 in the East Midlands.
2006
Simon Beale starts presenting the weeknight late show.
2007
25 June – Chrysalis Radio announces the sale of the three Heart stations, along with its sister stations The Arrow, LBC and Galaxy, to Global Radio for £170 million.
2008
28 April – The Heart stations begin networking off-peak programmes from Heart 106.2 in London. There are now only ten hours of local programming during weekdays and four hours on Saturday and Sunday.
2009
5 January – Chiltern Radio, Hereward FM, Radio Broadland, Q103, Northants 96, SGR Colchester, SGR Ipswich, and Horizon Radio are all rebranded as Heart after earlier being acquired by Global Radio.
23 March – Fox FM, GWR FM Bath, GWR Bristol, GWR FM Wiltshire, Champion 103, Essex FM, Gemini FM, Severn Sound, Lantern FM, Coast 96.3, Plymouth Sound, Orchard FM, South Hams Radio, Wirral's Buzz and 2-Ten FM are all rebranded as Heart.
May – Orion Media purchases, among other stations, Heart 106 in the East Midlands from Global Radio. A franchise agreement with Global allows Orion to continue to use the Heart identity and carry networked programming from London.
13 June – Spice Girls singer Emma Bunton joins, and begins hosting a pre-recorded show on Heart in the Saturday afternoon slot 4pm – 7pm.
22 June – Invicta FM, Southern FM, 2CR, Ocean FM and 103.4 Marcher Sound are rebranded as Heart.
2010s
2010
21 June – Global Radio announces plans to reduce the number of its local Heart stations from 33 to 15 as part of a reorganisation. The stations will continue to broadcast their own breakfast and drivetime shows – alongside local news bulletins – but all other output will come from London. A further two stations owned by Global will also be subsumed into the Heart network.
30 June – Heart Solent replaces Heart Hampshire and Heart Dorset & New Forest.
2 July –
Heart Cambridgeshire replaces Heart Peterborough and Heart Cambridge.
Heart North Wales and West replaces Heart North Wales Coast, Heart Cheshire and North East Wales and Heart Wirral.
9 July – Heart Thames Valley replaces Heart Oxfordshire and Heart Berkshire.
16 July –
Heart Four Counties replaces Heart Northants, Heart Milton Keynes, Heart Dunstable and Heart Bedford and Dunstable, later Milton Keynes.
Heart West Country replaces Heart Bristol, Heart Bath and Heart Somerset.
26 July –
Hertfordshire station Mercury 96.6 becomes part of the Heart network and is relaunched as Heart Hertfordshire. The stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Art%20Collaborative | The American Art Collaborative (AAC) is a consortium of 14 art museums in the United States, whose mission is the establishment of "a critical mass of linked open data (LOD) on the semantic web."
Membership
As of 2018, the 14 members were:
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Autry Museum of the American West
Colby College Museum of Art
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Dallas Museum of Art (DMA)
Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA)
Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Princeton University Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Walters Art Museum
Yale Center for British Art
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Arts organizations established in 2014
American Art Collaborative
Arts organizations based in the United States
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Open data
Semantic Web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Mashechkin | Igor Mashechkin () (born 1956) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis «Multifunctional cross-programming system» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1996).
Author of 8 books and more than 100 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Igor Mashechkin
Scientific works of Igor Mashechkin
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1956 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikhon%20Moiseev | Tikhon Yevgenyevich Moiseev (; born 1978) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He defended the thesis "On the solvability of boundary value problems for the Lavrent'ev-Bitsadze equation with mixed boundary conditions" for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2013).
Author more than 50 scientific articles.
He is the son of famed mathematician Evgeny Moiseev.
References
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External links
Russian Academy of Sciences
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Tikhon Moiseev
Scientific works of Tikhon Moiseev
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1978 births
Living people
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Mukhin | Sergei Mukhin () (born 1959) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., and a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He graduated from the faculty MSU CMC in 1981. Mukhin has worked at Moscow State University since 1984. In 2009, he defended his thesis "Mathematical modeling of hemodynamics" for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. He has authored 3 books and more than 80 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
Annals of the Moscow University
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Sergei Mukhin
Scientific works of Sergei Mukhin
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1959 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Potapov%20%28mathematician%29 | Mikhail Potapov () (born 1953) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis «Stable method for solving linear equations with noncompact operators and its applications to control and observation problems» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2009).
Author of 15 books and more than 50 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
Annals of the Moscow University
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Mikhail Potapov
Scientific works of Mikhail Potapov
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1953 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDmatch | GEDmatch is an online service to compare autosomal DNA data files from different testing companies. The website gained significant media coverage in April 2018 after it was used by law enforcement to identify a suspect in the Golden State Killer case in California. Other law-enforcement agencies started using GEDmatch for violent crimes, making it "the de facto DNA and genealogy database for all of law enforcement", according to The Atlantics Sarah Zhang.
In May 2019, GEDmatch then tightened its rules on privacy by requiring users to "opt in" to sharing their data with law enforcement. In December 2019, GEDmatch was acquired by Verogen, Inc., a sequencing company dedicated to forensic science. A new version of the existing site known as GEDmatch Pro, which went live in December 2020, focuses on solving crimes using the more than 1.2 million DNA profiles hosted on GEDMatch's platform.
History
GEDmatch was founded in 2010 by Curtis Rogers, a retired businessman, and John Olson, a transportation engineer, in Lake Worth, Florida, with its main purpose being to help "amateur and professional researchers and genealogists", including adoptees searching for birth parents.
GEDmatch users may upload their autosomal DNA test data from commercial DNA companies to identify potential relatives who had also uploaded their DNA data. Names of participants may be hidden by the use of aliases, but each account must have an email address attached to it. Users may share the ancestry of each DNA participant by uploading a GEDCOM file containing that person's ancestry, or by linking to the assigned DNA kit number from that person's profile at WikiTree, a free, shared global family tree. Tools available on the GEDmatch site include the ability to sort results by the closest matches to a user's autosomal DNA, determining whether one's matches also match to each other, using a genetic-distance calculator, estimating the number of generations to the most recent common ancestor, determining whether one's parents are related, and using various ethnicity calculators. These tools do not disclose raw genetic data to other users.
Tier 1 premium membership includes triangulation, matching segment search and a custom comparison system. By May 2018, the GEDmatch database had 929,000 genetic profiles, with 7,300 users who paid $10 a month for Tier 1 premium membership, which was used to pay for the $200,000/year server costs. In 2018, the website was still being run by Rogers and Olsen with five volunteers; it had no full-time staff. Rogers said in 2018 that the site had already helped 10,000 adoptees find their biological parents.
Access for law enforcement to the user data was given without informed consent; negative user reactions led to the implementation of an opt-in system for law-enforcement matching. For new uploads, "opt in" is the default selection actively recommended for users, and what is being opted into is not explicitly stated.
In September 2019, the U.S Depart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Razgulin | Alexander Razgulin () (born 1963) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He defended the thesis «Stable method for solving linear equations with noncompact operators and its applications to control and observation problems» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2009).
Author of 24 books and more than 100 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Alexander Razgulin
Scientific works of Alexander Razgulin
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1963 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana%20Selezneva | Svetlana Selezneva () (born 1969) is a Russian mathematician, Dr.Sc., Associate professor, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
She defended the thesis «Polynomial representations of discrete functions» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2016).
She is the author of three books and more than 70 scientific articles.
References
Bibliography
External links
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Svetlana Selezneva
Scientific works of Svetlana Selezneva
Russian women computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Russian women mathematicians
Living people
People from Korosten
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1969 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslan%20Smelyansky | Ruslan Smelyansky () (born 1950) is a Russian mathematician, Dr. Sc., Professor, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He defended the thesis «Analysis of the performance of multiprocessor systems based on the invariant behavior of programs» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1990). He is the author of six books.
References
Bibliography
External links
Annals of the Moscow University
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Ruslan Smelyansky
Scientific works of Ruslan Smelyansky
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1950 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20intelligence | Content intelligence is a strategy that uses artificial intelligence systems and software to process content data into reliable insights about the effectiveness of a business’ content.
Working principles of content intelligence software
The AI works within a certain framework to edit the behavioral analysis of customers and clients. It should be able to process a large amount of data in order to give the content strategist an idea about:
Content trends and efficacy
How clients react to the content (sentiment analysis)
The voice and style of the content
The use of content intelligence is therefore connected to the science of big data and artificial intelligence.
Content intelligence is often viewed as an asset for creating and maintaining high-quality content for targeted audiences.
Some ways for companies to achieve content intelligence include implementing or integrating AI into their business' content management system, customer relationship management, or digital asset management technologies. A semantic engine can also be a part of content intelligence software to automatically classify content according to topic or the tags a platform assigns.
Content intelligence software is often sought by marketers, content strategists, UX writers, and product managers.
See also
Marketing and artificial intelligence
Marketing intelligence
Media intelligence
Customer Data Platform
Market and Competitive Intelligence
References
AI software
Collective intelligence
Content designers
Content management systems
Mass media monitoring
Marketing software
Product design
User-generated content |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily%20Denisov | Vasily Denisov () (born 1951) is a Russian mathematician, Dr.Sc., Professor, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He graduated from the faculty MSU CMC (1976).
He defended the thesis "On the behavior for large values of the time of solutions of parabolic equations" for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2011).
He is the author of four books and more than 90 scientific articles.
Area of scientific interests: stabilization of solutions of the Cauchy problem and boundary value problems for parabolic equations; qualitative theory of partial differential equations.
References
Bibliography
External links
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1951 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhya%20Pradesh%20Road%20Development%20Corporation%20Limited | The Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation Limited (MPRDC) is an Undertaking of Government of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, responsible for management of a network of over 22,000 km of National Highways, State Highways and Major District Roads in Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh State has a good road network. There are 20 National Highways with total length of 4,000 km and many State Highways with total length of 9,000 km. Shri. Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh is the Chairman, while Shri Asheesh Singh, IAS is Managing Director of MPRDC.
History
Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation Ltd. (MPRDC) was incorporated as a wholly government owned company under The Companies Act 1956 ;as amended by The Companies (Amendment) Act 2002 and The Companies (Second Amendment) Act 2002, by the Government with an authorized share capital of 20 Crore, paid up share capital of 10 Crore. The Company has received a Certificate of Incorporation and Certificate of Commencement of Business from the Registrar of Companies, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in July 2014 and August 11, 2004 respectively. Presently paid up share capital of Company is 20 Crore.
It is responsible for the development, maintenance and management of State Highways, Major District Roads and Expressway in the State of Madhya Pradesh, totaling over in length. The MPRDC is also responsible of the toll collection on several State highways.
Role of MPRDC in Infrastructure Development of Madhya Pradesh
The Economy of Madhya Pradesh was considered as one of the most "sick" economies of India till 2003, after 2005 it registered consistent growth rate and it reached India's top-most state in terms of GDP growth, with a rate of 12% GDP for annual year 2011–12. Madhya Pradesh received an award from President Pranab Mukherjee in January 2013 for improving its tourism, medical and infrastructural growth. GDP growth
is 19.7% for 2017-18. After incorporation of MPRDC, condition of Road infrastructure has improved in the State.
Officials from other States are coming to study its work pattern and exchange notes with its officers. Officers from around a dozen States have visited the Corporation's HQ and its field offices. It has received Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India & ADB 2017 Best Performing Project Award for the
Madhya Pradesh District Connectivity Sector Project.
First to launch e-tolling
In selected highways, the corporation has started e-tolling. The regular users of the road have been given e-tokens. Due to this they don't have to stop at toll booths, thus saving both time and fuel. Vehicle having e-tag is identified by the scanner installed at the toll booth and the toll booth barrier opens automatically and the vehicles passes without stopping.
Accident response system
Implementation of Accident response system (ARS) on PPP mode is probably the first in world. Statewide implementation of ARS will be the first in coun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender%20pay%20gap%20in%20the%20United%20States%20tech%20industry | The gender pay gap in the United States tech industry is the divergence in pay between men and women who work in areas such as software engineering. Despite applying for the same jobs at the same companies, women receive job offers that pay less than their male counterparts 63% of the time. In 2018, reports show that for every dollar the average man made, women only made 82 cents, and women from underrepresented communities earn even less. State legislatures have begun to take action to solve the gender pay gap with California leading the way, following Iceland's example. The gap does not affect women of all races equally, and discourages women, specifically those that are underrepresented minorities, from continuing to pursue opportunities in the technology industry. The wage gap in the tech industry is a result of a multitude of factors including lower initial offers and lack of negotiations. As the tech industry becomes more influential in the United States economy, it will be important that firms offer equal pay for equal for equal work and be intentional in constructing applicant pools that are more representative of the population at large. Companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Google have been proactive in attempting to rectify the pay gap and have begun committing financial resources to eliminate the gap. Reports in 2019 showed the pay gap narrowed to 3% after remaining at 4% for the previous two years.
Statistics
The job search platform Hired.com conducted market research to determine the current statistics in regards to the pay gap in the tech industry. Within the United States, the tech industry's gender wage gap can in many ways be linked to original offer sheets that women are presented; women receive salary offers less than that of men 63% of the time. The distribution of offers is not equal with an average of 4% less for women than men, but some organizations offer up to 45% less. However, the result of the gap is not just implicit sexism imposed by men. It has been found that on 66% of occasions, women ask for less money than their male counterparts. Constructing employment systems in which employees must ask for their wages can lead to situations in which women are receiving less pay, despite the fact that they are completing the same job. The pay discrepancy continues to manifest itself as careers proceed, and once women begin making less than men, it continues throughout their careers. In one survey, women often found that their male peers were paid at a higher rate. Only 19% of men surveyed discovered that someone in the same position was paid more than themselves, whereas 54% of women have had the same discovery. The pay gap is different across industries within the tech industry, with women in tech finance experiencing the smallest gap at 7% and women in education technology experiencing the largest gap at 10%. The gap is also different in the primary tech cities in the United States (San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Los A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Sychugov | Dmitry Sychugov () (born 1955) is a Russian mathematician, Dr.Sc., Professor, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He graduated from the faculty MSU CMC (1976). Has been working at Moscow State University since 1980.
He defended the thesis «Mathematical modeling of plasma confinement processes in toroidal traps» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2013).
He is the author of five books and more than 80 scientific articles.
Area of scientific interests: mathematical modeling, computational physics of plasma.
References
Bibliography
External links
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Dmitry Sychugov
Scientific works of Dmitry Sychugov
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1955 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying%20and%20Mapping%20Act | The Surveying and Mapping Act was assented to by the President of Pakistan in May 2014 after being passed by the National Assembly in order to regulate geospatial data.
History
In 2012, the Land Surveying and Mapping Bill was proposed to entrust all mapping responsibilities in Pakistan to the Survey of Pakistan. The proposed bill would require all government and private agencies involved in surveying and mapping to register with the Survey of Pakistan; failure to comply would be punished with one year of imprisonment and a fine of up to one million rupees. The Ministry of Defence argued that the mapping activities of unauthorised firms could go unchecked without a law or regulatory authority. The objectives of the proposed bill would be to prevent the unauthorised mapping of sensitive areas (a potential security risk), prevent damage to survey markers, avoid duplication of mapping efforts, and to make the Survey of Pakistan a National Mapping Agency.
The bill was passed by Pakistan's National Assembly in 2014.
Reception
Syed Ali Asjad Naqvi, Research and Training Director at the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), expressed bafflement towards the proposed bill, stating that it will hinder ongoing humanitarian efforts which employ mapping. Naqvi added that bills should be proposed by public representatives rather than the military.
See also
Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016 (India)
References
Acts of the Parliament of Pakistan
2014 in Pakistani law
Geographic data and information regulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20MTV%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | Club MTV was a 24-hour electronic dance music channel operated by ViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia launched on 20 April 2001. Available in the United Kingdom and Ireland on subscription satellite and digital television services. The channel played dance, EDM, trance, house, rave, club, Eurodance and sometimes urban music.
The channel closed on 20 July 2020.
Concept and expansion
MTV Dance originally started out as a night-time programming slot on the now defunct digital music channel MTV Extra. It was on air each night from 7pm until the following morning.
On 3 September 2001, The strand expanded to become a standalone music channel broadcast on Sky in both the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it initially timeshared with the Nick Jr. Channel every evening between 19:00 and 06:00. The sharing of a stream subsequently ended; since 13 August 2002 MTV Dance has broadcast as a 24-hour music channel.
MTV Dance began broadcasting in widescreen on 6 March 2012.
Expansion around Europe
On 7 March 2008, MTV Dance increased its presence around Europe, when MTV Networks Europe replaced the Europe-wide feed of MTV Base with a similar feed of MTV Dance.
From 10 January 2011 a feed of the MTV Dance channel launched in Italy on Sky Italia, replacing MTV Pulse.
In 2014, MTV Dance, as well as MTV Rocks and MTV Hits started broadcasting European versions, without commercials or teleshopping.
MTV Dance Europe was rebranded as Club MTV in June 2020.
Expansion into Australia
VIMN launched the channel in Australia on 3 December 2013 as MTV Dance Australia, it shows the same programmes from the UK version, then rebranded as Club MTV in 2020.
Closure
This channel, along with its sister channels MTV OMG and MTV Rocks closed on 20 July 2020, with a chart based on the channel's former content airing on MTV Base. "High on Life" by Martin Garrix featuring Bonn was the last music video played on the channel.
MTV Dance Europe was later rebranded as the European version of Club MTV in June 2020, as was the Australian version a month later.
Logos
References
External links
Club MTV UK & Ireland – presentation, screenshots
TV Guide
SES guide to receiving Astra satellites
SES fleet information and map
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom
Dance music television channels
MTV channels
Music video networks in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020
2001 establishments in the United Kingdom
2020 disestablishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Protection%20Act%202018 | The Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which updates data protection laws in the UK. It is a national law which complements the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and replaces the Data Protection Act 1998.
Background
The Data Protection Bill was introduced to the House of Lords by Lord Ashton, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 13 September 2017.
The Data Protection Act 2018 received royal assent on 23 May 2018. The Act came into effect on 25 May 2018. It was amended on 1 January 2021 by regulations under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, to reflect the UK's status outside the EU. It replaces the Data Protection Act 1998.
The Act applies the data protection standards set out in the GDPR and, where the GDPR allows EU member states to make different choices for its implementation in their country, defines those choices for the UK.
Contents
The Act has seven parts. These are outlined in Section 1:
This Act makes provision about the processing of personal data.
Most processing of personal data is subject to GDPR.
Part 2 supplements the GDPR (see Chapter 2) and applies a broadly equivalent regime to certain types of processing to which the GDPR does not apply (see Chapter 3).
Part 3 makes provision about the processing of personal data by competent authorities for law enforcement purposes and implements the Law Enforcement Directive.
Part 4 makes provision about the processing of personal data by the intelligence services.
Part 5 makes provision about the Information Commissioner.
Part 6 makes provision about the enforcement of the data protection legislation.
Part 7 makes supplementary provision, including provision about the application of this Act to the Crown and to Parliament.
The Act introduces new offences that include knowingly or recklessly obtaining or disclosing personal data without the consent-giving of the data controller, procuring such disclosure, or retaining the data obtained without consent. Selling, or offering to sell, personal data knowingly or recklessly obtained or disclosed would also be an offence.
Essentially, the Act implements the EU Law Enforcement Directive, it implements those parts of the GDPR which "are to be determined by Member State law" and it creates a framework similar to the GDPR for the processing of personal data which is outside the scope of the GDPR. This includes intelligence services processing, immigration services processing and the processing of personal data held in unstructured form by public authorities.
Under section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, the GDPR will be incorporated directly into domestic law immediately after the UK exits the European Union.
The enforcement of the Act by the Information Commissioner's Office is supported by a data protection charge on UK data controllers under the Data Protection (Charges and Information) R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny%20Tyrtyshnikov | Evgeny Tyrtyshnikov () (born 1955) is a Russian mathematician, Dr.Sc., Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
He graduated from the faculty MSU CMC (1977). Has been working at Moscow State University since 2004.
He defended the thesis "Matrices of the Toeplitz type and their applications" for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1990).
Was awarded the title of Professor (1996), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2006), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2016).
Author of 12 books and more than 130 scientific articles.
Research interests: linear algebra and its applications, asymptotic analysis of matrix spectra, integral equations of mathematical physics, computational methods.
References
Bibliography
External links
Russian Academy of Sciences
Annals of the Moscow University
MSU CMC
Scientific works of Evgeny Tyrtyshnikov
Scientific works of Evgeny Tyrtyshnikov
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1955 births
Moscow State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16%20floating-point%20format | The bfloat16 (brain floating point) floating-point format is a computer number format occupying 16 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values by using a floating radix point. This format is a shortened (16-bit) version of the 32-bit IEEE 754 single-precision floating-point format (binary32) with the intent of accelerating machine learning and near-sensor computing. It preserves the approximate dynamic range of 32-bit floating-point numbers by retaining 8 exponent bits, but supports only an 8-bit precision rather than the 24-bit significand of the binary32 format. More so than single-precision 32-bit floating-point numbers, bfloat16 numbers are unsuitable for integer calculations, but this is not their intended use. Bfloat16 is used to reduce the storage requirements and increase the calculation speed of machine learning algorithms.
The bfloat16 format was developed by Google Brain, an artificial intelligence research group at Google. It is utilized in many CPUs, GPUs, and AI processors, such as Intel Xeon processors (AVX-512 BF16 extensions), Intel Data Center GPU, Intel Nervana NNP-L1000, Intel FPGAs, AMD Zen, AMD Instinct, NVIDIA GPUs, Google Cloud TPUs, AWS Inferentia, AWS Trainium, ARMv8.6-A, and Apple's M2 and therefore A15 chips and later. Many libraries support bfloat16, such as CUDA, Intel oneAPI Math Kernel Library, AMD ROCm, AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. On these platforms, bfloat16 may also be used in mixed-precision arithmetic, where bfloat16 numbers may be operated on and expanded to wider data types.
bfloat16 floating-point format
bfloat16 has the following format:
Sign bit: 1 bit
Exponent width: 8 bits
Significand precision: 8 bits (7 explicitly stored, with an implicit leading bit), as opposed to 24 bits in a classical single-precision floating-point format
The bfloat16 format, being a shortened IEEE 754 single-precision 32-bit float, allows for fast conversion to and from an IEEE 754 single-precision 32-bit float; in conversion to the bfloat16 format, the exponent bits are preserved while the significand field can be reduced by truncation (thus corresponding to round toward 0) or other rounding mechanisms, ignoring the NaN special case. Preserving the exponent bits maintains the 32-bit float's range of ≈ 10−38 to ≈ 3 × 1038.
The bits are laid out as follows:
Exponent encoding
The bfloat16 binary floating-point exponent is encoded using an offset-binary representation, with the zero offset being 127; also known as exponent bias in the IEEE 754 standard.
Emin = 01H−7FH = −126
Emax = FEH−7FH = 127
Exponent bias = 7FH = 127
Thus, in order to get the true exponent as defined by the offset-binary representation, the offset of 127 has to be subtracted from the value of the exponent field.
The minimum and maximum values of the exponent field (00H and FFH) are interpreted specially, like in the IEEE 754 standard formats.
The minimum positive normal value is 2−126 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet%20%28film%29 | Velvet is a 1984 American action/drama TV film for the ABC Network directed by Richard Lang, starring Leah Ayres, Shari Belafonte, Mary-Margaret Humes and Sheree J. Wilson. The film was inspired by the American TV series Charlie’s Angels. The screenplay was written by Ned Wynn. The film portrays a team of unlikely female secret agents as they disguise themselves as aerobics instructors to close in on a group of criminals.
Velvet was produced by Douglas S. Cramer and Aaron Spelling, who has been described as “the most prolific producer in TV history.” Spelling is known for Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000), Charmed (1998-2006) and many other television programs from the 1970s to 2000's. “[Charlie’s Angels] was created by Aaron Spelling”, which is the inspiration of Velvet. Charlie’s Angels introduced a new idea of characterization for female characters with independence: “Charlie’s Angels presented women as far more tough than did shows of the past.” Nevertheless, it was still tainted by the unrealistic depiction of picture perfect women that were tough, but also still had overly exaggerated stereotypical obsession with themselves: “Charlie’s Angels is a show that focuses on beautiful women who are more interested in wearing designer clothes than in solving crimes.” Velvet’s screenplay aimed to further relay the idea of tough female characters in an action genre, with less emphasis on the stereotypes of self-obsessed women.
Plot
A group of four female government secret agents working undercover as aerobics instructors at a global aerobic center franchise. Their disguise is in order to entrap a group of criminals that have kidnapped a defensive specialist and his son. They aim to prevent the sale of the abducted father and his son to the highest bidder.
Cast
Leah Ayres as Cass Dayton
Shari Belafonte as Julie Rhodes
Mary-Margaret Humes as Lauren "Boots" Dawes
Sheree J. Wilson as Ellen Stockwell
Michael Ensign as Stefan
Polly Bergen as Mrs Vance
Leigh McCloskey as James Barstow
Andrea Marcovicci as Erica Mueller
Bruce Abbott as Breed
Anthony De Longis as Rawls
Judson Scott as Mats Edholm
Bo Brundin as Professor Charles Vandemeer
David Faustino as Billy Wandemeer
Clyde Kusatsu as Dr Edward Yashima
William Windom as Government Official
Casting
Leah Ayres' career debuted daytime television series The Edge of Night in the early part of the 1980s. Shortly after, she was cast as one of the lead roles in Velvet, a beautiful, secret government agent tasked to camouflage herself as an aerobics instructor.
Shari Belafonte joined the cast after her 1982 debut in If You Could See What I Hear, after mostly a modelling-based career. Her success as a model assisted in her casting in Velvet, as the four female secret agents were described as "unrealistically attractive."
Similarly, Mary-Margaret Humes was cast after winning beauty contest Miss Florida USA in 1975.
The casting decisions made reflected the common theme in Charlie's Angels, of very attract |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan%20Blumer | Brendan Blumer (born 1986) is an American-born Hong Kong-based entrepreneur. He is the CEO of the tech company Block.one, which developed the EOS.IO blockchain platform.
Early life
Blumer was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. When he was 15 years old, he developed a website to sell virtual assets in the multiplayer online gaming space. His website, known as Gamecliff (stylized as GaMeCliff), displayed different characters, weapons, and houses for MMORPG games including EverQuest and World of Warcraft.
Career
In 2005, Blumer's Gamecliff was acquired by IGE and the company moved to its new headquarters in Hong Kong to head Gamecliff's operations. Blumer founded The Accounts Network in 2007, a company that sold in-game MMORPG avatars and reached $1 million in revenue figures.
In 2010, Blumer launched Okay.com, an enterprise data sharing platform for real estate brokers in Asia. The company later merged with the real estate company Asia Pacific Properties. His next business project, ii5, also focused on real estate. Founded in 2013, startup was dedicated to real estate listings in India.
In 2016 Blumer formed Block.One, a blockchain company, based in part on funding from ii5, his Hong Kong real estate firm. Block.one is registered in the Cayman Islands. In May 2017, Blumer announced EOS.IO, a blockchain platform known for its record setting initial coin offering (ICO).
In February 2018, he was listed by Forbes as one of the "richest people in cryptocurrency".
Personal life
In 2020, Bloomer renounced his US citizenship.
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
People from Cedar Rapids, Iowa
American technology chief executives
People associated with cryptocurrency
American expatriates in Hong Kong
21st-century American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza%20Bendelladj | Hamza Bendelladj (, ), born in 1988 in Tizi Ouzou, is an Algerian cyber-criminal and carder who goes by the code name BX1 and has been nicknamed as the "Smiling Hacker". Bendelladj is a polyglot, speaking 5 languages often used for profit in view of his linguistic knowledge, in order to extract money almost everywhere in the world. This led to a search for him that lasted 5 years. He was on the top 10 list of the most wanted hackers by Interpol and the FBI for allegedly embezzling tens of millions of dollars from more than two hundred American and European financial institutions via a computer virus, the "SpyEYE Botnet", which infected more than 60 million computers worldwide, mostly from the United States, and was developed with his Russian accomplice Aleksandr Andreivich Panin, a.k.a. "Gribodemon", to steal banking information stored on infected computers.
Mode of operation
Using malicious software called "SpyEye", Bendelladj under the pseudonyms "BX1" or "Daniel HB", broke into the computers of the banks or private individuals to acquire passwords and identification codes. Once he took control of an account, he emptied them.
Arrest
After a three-year chase, Bendelladj was arrested on January 7, 2013 by Thai police while making a stopover in Bangkok in transit between Malaysia and Egypt. He did not resist arrest. He said goodbye to his family as he was arrested and his wife and daughter continued their journey to Egypt without him. He earned the nickname "Smiling Hacker" due to the smile on his face during his media presentation on all the photos taken after his arrest even when handcuffed. According to Thai police, Bendelladj was in the top 10 most wanted by the FBI.
Despite much false information on the internet Bendelladj did not get sentenced to death, and claims saying he donated any money to charity are almost impossible to verify. Trial documents did not mention any donations or charity activities.
Extradition to the United States
He was extradited in May 2013 to the United States. He was tried in Atlanta where he pleaded guilty on June 25, 2015. He faced a sentence of up to 30 years in prison and a fine of fourteen million dollars.
His accomplice Aleksandr Andreevich Panin was arrested on July 1, 2013, at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and pleaded guilty in January 2014 to the Atlanta Federal Court.
Support on social networks
In 2015, a Tunisian website posted a rumor that Bendelladj had been sentenced to death. This rumor spread on social networks in Algeria and several Facebook support groups were created in reaction to support him. A petition was launched demanding that the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and President Barack Obama intervene for his release. The US ambassador to Algeria, Joan A. Polaschik wrote on her Twitter account, "that computer crimes are not capital crimes and are not punishable by the death penalty".
Conviction in the United States
Bendelladj has been in prison in the United |
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