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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Myers | Karen L. Myers is the director of SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center, where she is also principal scientist
Biography
Myers studied at the University of Toronto, graduating with a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science. She obtained her Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. Also, she earned a degree in piano performance from The Royal Conservatory of Music. She joined SRI in 1991.
Myers does research in automated planning and scheduling, autonomy, personalization technologies, mixed-initiative problem solving, and multi-agent systems.
Myers has authored 110 scientific articles. Her work has been published in numerous artificial intelligence journals including International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Advances in Cognitive Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI Magazine, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Intentions in Intelligent Systems, AAAI Press, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Computational Intelligence, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI, MIT Press, and the Journal of Logic and Computation.
Executive Councils and Boards
Myers serves on multiple councils and boards. She is on the advisory board for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, and the editorial boards for the Artificial Intelligence (journal), and the Journal for AI Research. Also, she has served on the Executive Council for the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
References
External links
1963 births
Living people
American computer scientists
University of Toronto alumni
Stanford University alumni
SRI International
SRI International people
Artificial intelligence researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vemana%20Institute%20of%20Technology | Vemana Institute of Technology is an Engineering college in Koramangala, Bangalore. It was established in the year 1999. It is affiliated to V.T.U. It offers undergraduate courses in computer science, information science, electronics and communications, mechanical engineering, and civil engineering. It also offers courses in postgraduate studies and allied engineering. The library on campus holds relevant books,E-annual reports, and newspapers.
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1999 establishments in Karnataka
Engineering colleges in Bangalore
Educational institutions established in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zel%C3%A1%20Brambill%C3%A9 | Andrea Alejandra Álvarez González (8 June 1994 – 4 August 2021) better known as Zelá Brambillé, was a Mexican writer and novelist, who became well known through the Wattpad network. One of her works, Miradas Azucaradas, has exceeded 20 million readings in Wattpad.
She died of COVID-19 pneumonia at the age of 27 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
Career
From a very young age she was always interested in the world of literature and in creating her own stories. She started uploading her books to the Internet in 2013, which today have more than 70 million readings. In 2017, Nova Casa Editorial published her books "Luz de luciérnaga" and "Somos electricidad", and later "Miradas azucaradas".
In 2018, her work "Tiempo de ceniza" was the finalist in the "II Premio Oz de Novela". This contest is held by Oz Editorial.
Works
2017: Luz de luciérnaga
2017: Somos electricidad
2018: Miradas azucaradas
2018: Tiempo de ceniza
2019: Gardenia
References
External links
Zelá Brambillé on Goodreads
1994 births
2021 deaths
Mexican women novelists
21st-century Mexican women writers
Writers from Monterrey
Wattpad writers
Mexican YouTubers
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Cressman | George Cressman (Oct. 7, 1919 – April 17, 2008) was the National Weather Service director who applied computers to meteorology and helped to change weather forecasting into a codified science. In the 1950s, Dr. Cressman was responsible for developing the first program to accurately and reliably forecast the weather using a computer. The method was called the “Cressman Analysis” or “Cressman Method” and changed forecasting methods and allowed meteorologists to develop numerical weather prediction. He was the director of the Weather Service from 1965 to 1979.
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1919 births
2008 deaths
American meteorologists
National Weather Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMA%20Online%20Education%20Titans | The AMA Online Education Titans are a professional basketball team that play in the Filbasket. They are primarily base of varsity students from the AMA Computer University.
History
The AMA Computer University wanted to participate in college leagues such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) but can't manage to gain membership due to these league being established already. The school's basketball team briefly participated in the now defunct Philippine Basketball League and later entered the PBA Developmental League (PBA D-League) in 2014 as the AMA Online Education Titans. At that time the only school based team was the joint ball club by the Centro Escolar University and Café France.
By 2017, AMA had already a letter of intent to join the top-tier professional Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) as an expansion team. They plan to join the league within the next two to three years.
At least from 2011 to 2017, AMA has not employ foreign basketball players and has been selecting school-based players such as those from the NCAA, UAAP, the National Athletic Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (NAASCU), and the National Capital Region Athletic Association (NCRAA).
References
Online Education Titans
PBA Developmental League teams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVDLA | The NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA) is an open-source hardware neural network AI accelerator created by Nvidia. The accelerator is written in Verilog and is configurable and scalable to meet many different architecture needs. NVDLA is merely an accelerator and any process must be scheduled and arbitered by an outside entity such as a CPU.
NVDLA is available for product development as part of Nvidia's Jetson Xavier NX, a small circuit board in a form factor about the size of a credit card which includes a 6-core ARMv8.2 64-bit CPU, an integrated 384-core Volta GPU with 48 Tensor Cores, and dual NVDLA "engines", as described in their own press release. Nvidia claims the product will deliver 14 TOPS (tera operations per second) of compute under 10 W. Applications broadly include edge computing inference engines, including object recognition for autonomous driving.
Nvidia's involvement with open hardware includes the use of RISC-V processors as part of their GPU product line-up.
References
External links
Artificial neural networks
Nvidia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IO-Link | IO-Link is a short distance, bi-directional, digital, point-to-point, wired (or wireless), industrial communications networking standard (IEC 61131-9) used for connecting digital sensors and actuators to either a type of industrial fieldbus or a type of industrial Ethernet. Its objective is to provide a technological platform that enables the development and use of sensors and actuators that can produce and consume enriched sets of data that in turn can be used for economically optimizing industrial automated processes and operations. The technology standard is managed by the industry association Profibus and Profinet International.
System overview
An IO-Link system consists of an IO-Link master and one or more IO-Link devices, i.e. Sensors or Actuators. The IO-Link master provides the interface to the higher-level controller (PLC) and controls the communication with the connected IO-Link devices.
An IO-Link master can have one or more IO-Link ports to which only one device can be connected at a time. This can also be a "hub" which, as a concentrator, enables the connection of classic switching sensors and actuators.
An IO-Link device can be an intelligent sensor, actuator, hub or, due to bidirectional communication, also a mechatronic component, e.g. a gripper or a power supply unit with IO-Link connection. Intelligent with regard to IO-Link means that a device has identification data e.g. a type designation and a serial number or parameter data (e.g. sensitivities, switching delays or characteristic curves) that can be read or written via the IO-Link protocol. This allows parameters to be changed by the PLC during operation, for example. Intelligent also means, however, that it can provide detailed diagnostic information. IO-Link and the data transmitted with it are often used for preventive maintenance and servicing, e.g. it is possible to set an optical sensor in such a way that it reports via IO-Link in good time if it threatens to become dirty. Cleaning no longer comes as a surprise and blocks production; it can now be put on a production break.
The parameters of the sensors and actuators are device- and technology-specific, which is why parameter information in the form of an IODD (IO Device Description) with the description language XML. The IO-Link community provides interfaces to an "IODD Finder", which can be used by engineering or master tools to present the appropriate IODD for a device.
Connector
Cabling is in the form of an unshielded, three or five conductor cables, not longer than twenty meters, and a standardized four or five pin connector. The master and device pin assignment is based on the specifications in IEC 60947-5-2. For a master, two port classes are defined, port class A and port class B.
Port class A uses M5, M8, or M12 connectors, with a maximum of four pins. Port class B uses only M12 connectors with 5 pins. M12 connectors are mechanically "A"-coded according to IEC 61076-2-101. Female connectors are assigne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemidactylus%20mercatorius | Hemidactylus mercatorius is a species of gecko. There has been confusion between it and Hemidactylus mabouia, making it difficult to establish the ranges of the species. While the Reptile Database gives Hemidactylus mercatorius a wide distribution in eastern Africa, the IUCN restricts its native distribution to Madagascar and some other islands in the Indian Ocean (the Comoros, Seychelles, Mayotte).
References
Hemidactylus
Reptiles described in 1842
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
Reptiles of the Comoros
Reptiles of Madagascar
Fauna of Mayotte
Reptiles of Seychelles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th%20Hum%20Awards | The 6th Hum Awards by Hum Network Limited, honored the best in fashion, music, and Hum Television Dramas of 2017. It took place on July 28, 2018, at the FirstOntario Centre in Bay Street, Hamilton, Ontario at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone. Hum Awards were given in 25 categories. The ceremony was televised in Pakistan by Hum TV.
Winners and nominees
On June 26, 2018, the nominees for the five viewers' choice categories were announced through the Hum Network website, which was followed by a period of public voting.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.
Television
Dramas with multiple awards
The following five dramas received multiple awards:
References
External links
2018 television awards
2018 music awards
Hum Awards
Hum Award winners
Hum Awards ceremonies
Events in Toronto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaris%20%28disambiguation%29 | Alaris is a regional rail network run by the Spanish national rail company Renfe Operadora.
Alaris may also refer to:
Business
Kodak Alaris, a manufacturer and marketer of traditional photographic supplies
A line of medical infusion pumps produced by BD
A brand of 3D desktop printer from Objet Geometries
Fiction
Alaris (comics), a Marvel Comics character
EverQuest: Veil of Alaris, an expansion of the EverQuest online role-playing game
Alaris Prime, a plot element in the Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds video game
Other
A grammatical form of alar, as in Alar cartilages
Euthycera alaris, a species of fly
Gallicolumba rufigula alaris, a subspecies of the Cinnamon ground dove |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20Carey%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Michael James Carey is an American computer scientist. He currently serves as Bren Professor of Information and Computer Science in the Donald Bren School at the University of California, Irvine.
Education
Carey earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. He also holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering) from Carnegie-Mellon University (earned 1981) and a B.S. (University Honors) in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University (earned 1979).
Life and career
From 1983 to 1995, Carey taught in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After which, he worked as Research Staff Member/Manager at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.
Carey was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for contributions to the design, implementation, and evaluation of database systems.
He has been a Donald Bren Professor of Computer and Information Sciences in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine since 2008.
Since 2015 Carey has served as a Consulting Chief Architect at Couchbase, Inc.
Carey has published over 200 research papers, journal articles, book chapters and other publications that primarily focus on Big Data management, database management systems, information integration, middleware, parallel and distributed systems, and computer system performance evaluation.
Awards and honors
Fellow, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2017.
IEEE TCDE Computer Science, Engineering, and Education (CSEE) Impact Award, 2016.
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research, UC Irvine, 2010.
ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, 2005.
Test of Time Paper Award, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 2004.
Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2002.
Distinguished Alumnus Award, EECS Department, UC Berkeley, 2002.
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2000.
Patents
Carey holds 11 patents in the United States.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of California, Irvine faculty
American computer scientists
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
American inventors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20Baker%20in%20America | Best Baker in America is an American cooking competition television series that airs on Food Network.
The first season of the series officially premiered on September 27, 2017; and it was presented by Bon Appétit magazine editor Adam Rapoport, who also served as a judge alongside Food Network chefs Jason Smith and Marcela Valladolid. The second season of the series premiered on May 7, 2018; with Rapoport having been replaced as host by chef Scott Conant, along with a rotating lineup of special guest chefs who would serve as the third judge. The third season premiered on May 13, 2019. Season 4 premiered on May 3, 2021.
Season 1
There are 8 professional and home bakers competing in a 6-episode baking tournament. One person is eliminated every week until the final episode where the final three compete for the grand prize of $25,000.
Contestants
1st - Dwayne Ingraham, Executive Pastry Chef from Oxford, MS
2nd/3rd - Andy Chlebana, Pastry Instructor from Plainfield, IL
2nd/3rd - Thiago Silva, Executive Pastry Chef from Boston, MA
4th - Adalberto Diaz Labrada, Pastry Chef and Instructor from Salt Lake City, UT
5th - Cheryl Storms, Bakery Owner from San Diego, CA
6th - Brittani Brooker, Executive Pastry Chef from Charlotte, NC
7th - Susana Mijares, Bakery Owner from San Antonio, TX
8th - Margarita Kallas-Lee, Pastry Chef from Los Angeles, CA
Episodes
Elimination Table
(WINNER) This baker won the competition.
(RUNNER-UP) This baker was a finalist.
(ELIM) This baker was eliminated.
(IN) This baker never had the best dish or the worst.
(HIGH) This baker had one of the best dishes.
(WIN) This baker had the best dish.
‡ This baker had the best dish in the skills challenge.
(LOW) This baker was last to be called safe.
Season 2
There are 9 contestants competing in a 7-episode baking tournament. One person is eliminated every week until the final episode where the final three compete for the grand prize of $25,000.
Contestants
1st - Adam Young, Bakery Owner and Head Pastry Chef from Mystic, CT
2nd/3rd - Jean-Francois Suteau, Executive Pastry Chef from White Sulphur Springs, WV
2nd/3rd - Lasheeda Perry, Executive Pastry Chef from Atlanta, GA
4th - Max Santiago, Executive Pastry Chef from Miami, FL
5th - Becca Craig, Executive Cake Chef from Philadelphia, PA
6th - Leigh Omilinsky, Pastry Chef from Chicago, IL
7th - Jeremy Fogg, Pastry Chef from New Orleans, LA
8th - Kym DeLost, Pastry Chef from Chicago, IL
9th - Frania Mendivil, Executive Pastry Chef from Los Angeles, CA
Episodes
Elimination Table
(WINNER) This baker won the competition.
(RUNNER-UP) This baker was a finalist.
(ELIM) This baker was eliminated.
(IN) This baker never had the best dish or the worst.
(HIGH) This baker had one of the best dishes.
(WIN) This baker had the best dish.
‡ This baker had the best dish in the skills challenge.
(LOW) This baker was last to be called safe.
Season 3
There are 9 contestants competing in a 7-episode baking tournament. One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20orchestrator | Network Orchestrator Companies are defined as:
The concept was born in the early 1990s among several organizational behavior researches that were conducted by many scholars of that time such as Malone & Crowston, Lipparini & Sobrero, Powell et al., Simonin, and many others. In 2001, the term "Network Orchestrator" was officially used by the authors Remo and Julian, after that several researches that followed used this nomination when referring to this structure of organizational relationship.
A November 2014 Harvard Business Review article used the definition presented in proposing a new kind of business model, moving from the past standard of industrial classifications to a standard considering the principal way an organization invests its capital to generate and capture value. Their suggestion of a new kind of business model was constructed evaluating companies' descriptions of themselves in annual reports, revenues generated by different business units, capital allocation patterns such as R&D or COGS expenditure, and market perceptions including news articles and analyst reports.
Characteristics
Network Orchestrators Companies are considered as more profitable companies, which have a faster growth, higher return on assets, lower marginal costs and larger profit margins.
The authors also mentioned that as of 2013, Network Orchestrators Companies received valuations regarding their stock exchange shares or their value between two and four times higher, on average, than traditional companies. This reflects the calculations based on companies' market valuation and revenues, which are values difficult to manipulate with accounting, reflecting investor expectations for future cash flows.
This kind of companies shifted from physical to digital, enabling a digital platform in which people can congregate.
Competences
Network Orchestrators Companies' competences rely on:
Intangibles knowledge, for example companies as Gerson Lehrman Group, AlphaSights, Third Bridge or Coleman Research.
Relationships, for example companies as Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram.
Assets required by people, for example Uber, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Red Hat, Lyft, or Instacart.
New “non-management” and “non-ownership” competencies related to facilitating a network of individuals, their individual assets and relationships.
Intangible Assets
Barry Libert, Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Megan Beck also state that the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) usually categorize plant property and equipment as "assets" and all other costs such as people, trainings, and intellectual property as "others expenses", but this usual model does not include others important "assets" such as customers, sentiment, and networks relationships. This leads many companies to under-allocate capital to intangible assets. This situation brings advantages to Network Orchestrators Companies because intangible assets make up approximately 80% of corporate market value. Besides of that, Wharton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NITROS%20Project | The NITROS (Network for Innovative Training on ROtorcraft Safety) project is an ongoing project which began in November 2016 consisting of 12 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). It is funded through the European Union's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) research grant which is an Innovative Training Network (ITN) to support European Joint Doctorates (EJD). The collective aim of this specific MSCA scheme is for fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of researchers.
The purpose of NITROS is to train aerospace engineers in Control Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Modeling and Simulation, Structural Dynamics and Human perception cognition and action, to address complex solutions for rotorcraft safety. Rotorcraft accident rates remain disproportionately high in comparison with fixed-wing aircraft.
The network is composed of four universities spread over four countries namely: Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), University of Liverpool (England) and the University of Glasgow (Scotland). Whilst there are also six international industrial partners involved in helping collaborate: Bristow Helicopters, Civil Aviation Authority, Eurocontrol, Leonardo Helicopter, National Aerospace Laboratory and the Max Planck Institute.
The NITROS project will be presented at the 44th European Rotorcraft Forum in Delft as well as the subsequent 45th and 46th European Rotorcraft Forums where the 12 projects will be presented.
Each research project is focused on a problem that affects the safety of the current or innovative rotorcraft configurations:
References
Aerospace engineering
Aviation safety in Europe
College and university associations and consortia in Europe
Engineering university associations and consortia
European Union and science and technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Murphy | Robin Roberson Murphy is an American computer scientist and roboticist. She is the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. She is known as a founder of the fields of rescue robotics and human-robot interaction and for inserting robots into disasters. Her case studies of how unmanned systems under perform in the field led cognitive systems engineering researcher David Woods to pose the (Robin) Murphy's Law of Autonomy: a deployment of robotic systems will fall short of the target level of autonomy, creating or exacerbating a shortfall in mechanisms for coordination with human problem holders. Her TED talk “These Robots Come to the Rescue After a Disaster” was listed in TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking as one of the examples of a good TED talk. Murphy is also known for using science fiction as an innovative method of teaching artificial intelligence and robotics.
Early years and education
Murphy was raised in Douglas, Georgia. She received her bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1980, worked in the process safety industry, and returned to Georgia Tech for a master's (1988) and PhD. (1992) in computer science under the direction of Ronald Arkin. She was the first person to graduate from the Georgia Tech College of Computing with a PhD in robotics. She was an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Mines from 1992 to 1998, then moved to the University of South Florida as an associate professor in 1998 and was promoted to full professor in 2003. In 2008, Murphy moved to Texas A&M University. She was a member of the Defense Science Study Group from 1997 to 1998; this led to her involvement on numerous science boards, including the Defense Science Board and the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
Career in robotics
Disaster robotics
Murphy began research into disaster robotics in 1995, motivated by the Oklahoma City bombing. Murphy was the director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASASR) from 2002 to 2018, and now serves as the vice-president. Through CRASAR she participated in the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster (2001), considered the first use of robots for the emergency response phase of a disaster. Since then she has helped insert unmanned ground, aerial, and marine systems into 27 disasters including Hurricane Katrina, which is considered the first use of small unmanned aerial systems, the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear accident (2011), the Tōhoku tsunami (2011), the Syrian Boat Refugee crisis (2016), and Hurricane Harvey (2017). She wrote the seminal text Disaster Robotics, MIT Press, in 2014.
Science fiction
Murphy's book, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robotics: Case Studies of Successful Systems was cited by Michael Crichton in Prey.
She inspired the character of Jae, a rescue roboticist who worked at Disaster City, in Skinner, a science fiction book by Charlie Huston.
Murphy has edited a book |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20factorization%20%28recommender%20systems%29 | Matrix factorization is a class of collaborative filtering algorithms used in recommender systems. Matrix factorization algorithms work by decomposing the user-item interaction matrix into the product of two lower dimensionality rectangular matrices. This family of methods became widely known during the Netflix prize challenge due to its effectiveness as reported by Simon Funk in his 2006 blog post, where he shared his findings with the research community. The prediction results can be improved by assigning different regularization weights to the latent factors based on items' popularity and users' activeness.
Techniques
The idea behind matrix factorization is to represent users and items in a lower dimensional latent space. Since the initial work by Funk in 2006 a multitude of matrix factorization approaches have been proposed for recommender systems. Some of the most used and simpler ones are listed in the following sections.
Funk MF
The original algorithm proposed by Simon Funk in his blog post factorized the user-item rating matrix as the product of two lower dimensional matrices, the first one has a row for each user, while the second has a column for each item. The row or column associated to a specific user or item is referred to as latent factors. Note that, in Funk MF no singular value decomposition is applied, it is a SVD-like machine learning model.
The predicted ratings can be computed as , where is the user-item rating matrix, contains the user's latent factors and the item's latent factors.
Specifically, the predicted rating user u will give to item i is computed as:
It is possible to tune the expressive power of the model by changing the number of latent factors. It has been demonstrated that a matrix factorization with one latent factor is equivalent to a most popular or top popular recommender (e.g. recommends the items with the most interactions without any personalization). Increasing the number of latent factors will improve personalization, therefore recommendation quality, until the number of factors becomes too high, at which point the model starts to overfit and the recommendation quality will decrease. A common strategy to avoid overfitting is to add regularization terms to the objective function.
Funk MF was developed as a rating prediction problem, therefore it uses explicit numerical ratings as user-item interactions.
All things considered, Funk MF minimizes the following objective function:
Where is defined to be the frobenius norm whereas the other norms might be either frobenius or another norm depending on the specific recommending problem.
SVD++
While Funk MF is able to provide very good recommendation quality, its ability to use only explicit numerical ratings as user-items interactions constitutes a limitation. Modern day recommender systems should exploit all available interactions both explicit (e.g. numerical ratings) and implicit (e.g. likes, purchases, skipped, bookmarked). To this end SVD++ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Rada | Roy F Rada (born June 13, 1951) is a professor emeritus whose research in computer science and information systems
appeared in journal articles from 1979
till 2022.
Early life and education
Rada was born in Vienna, Austria in 1951. He graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a B.Sc. in Psychology, from Baylor College of Medicine in 1977 with a M.D., and from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Rada was licensed to practice medicine from 1977 to 1988.
Career
Rada worked with Michael Conrad at Wayne State University from 1981 to 1983. He worked at the National Institutes of Health from 1983 to 1988 where he was chief of the Medical Subject Headings Section of the National Library of Medicine and editor of Index Medicus.
From 1988 to 1995 he was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool.
From 1995 to 1998 he was the Boeing Distinguished Professor of Software Engineering at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Rada was the first director of the Online Masters in Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County that was launched on Blackboard in 1999, and he retired in 2015 as a Professor Emeritus of Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Rada's research assistant Karl Strickland was imprisoned in 1993 for hacking in a landmark British case, and his student Harold T. Martin III was arrested for security breaches.
Rada was chair of the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Biomedical Computing from 1990 to 1997. He was the Founding Chair of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Special Interest Group on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act for which he was awarded the Outstanding SIG Member Award in 2002.
Research
At the National Institutes of Health, Rada's team showed how various medical knowledge bases could be semi-automatically combined to improve information retrieval. That work led to his being honored as a winner of the 1990 Eliot Prize for a work judged most effective in furthering medical librarianship. One of the tools that Rada's team developed to facilitate using medical knowledge in retrieving information was spreading activation across semantic nets. Semantic nets underlying documents are traversed to facilitate individuals handling single documents, groups working across the Internet to access or create documents, and organizations manipulating libraries. Software engineers link their code and documentation semi-automatically to facilitate collaboration in building software systems, and students benefit from peer-peer commenting online. Rada's book on hypertext was published in paperback and also simultaneously in multiple electronic formats, including Guide and HyperTIES. Rada formed an electronic publishing company called Hypermedia Solutions Limited in 1993, and that company helped make the first multimedia CD-ROM publis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino%20Action%20Network%20v.%20New%20Jersey | Latino Action Network v. New Jersey is a lawsuit filed on May 17, 2018, on the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education which claims that the State of New Jersey provides separate and unequal schools to minority children in violation of their constitutional rights and that there is segregation in New Jersey public schools.
The state's largest teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association, supports the case.
History and current procedural status
In April 2019, it was reported that settlement talks had broken down.
In March 2022, Judge Robert Lougy held a hearing in the matter and, as of October 2022, the parties await a ruling.
Lawyers
The plaintiffs are represented by Gary Saul Stein's son, Michael Stein of Pashman Stein Walder Hayden in Hackensack, New Jersey, as well as by Lawrence Lustberg of Gibbons in Newark.
Lustberg helped lead Governor Phil Murphy's transition team on law.
Plaintiffs
The suit was filed on behalf of the NAACP New Jersey State Conference, the Latino Coalition, Latino Action Network, Urban League of Essex County, the United Methodist Church of Greater New Jersey, and nine children who attend school in segregated school districts.
Gary S. Stein, father of plaintiffs' attorney Michael Stein and former associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and Ryan Haygood, an alum of Murphy's transition team, recently helped form the New Jersey Coalition for Diverse and Inclusive Schools, to help orchestrate the case.
One of the child plaintiffs is the son of Murphy transition team member Jon Whiten.
Chris Estevez, also an alum of Murphy's transition team as a union representative, additionally helps lead the case as president of the Latino Action Network.
Plaintiffs' arguments
The complaint argues that the state "has been complicit in the creation and persistence of school segregation" by adopting policies that "deny an alarming number of Black and Latino students the benefits of a thorough and efficient education."
They also assert that charter schools in New Jersey are as segregated as "the most intensely segregated urban public schools," if not more so segregated.
Proposed remedies
Some, such as Senator Ronald Rice, have suggested forced busing as a remedy to the segregation in 2019.
Others have suggested countywide school districts as a remedy.
Concerns
Busing and merger
Some, such as Minority Leader Jon Bramnick, have expressed concerns that the desegregation suit could lead to forced merger of school districts, forced desegregation busing, and forced lottery systems whereby children would not be permitted to attend their neighborhood school.
Racial categorization controversy
The plaintiffs' lawsuit asserts that NJ schools are "segregated" because of a concentration of African-American and "Latino" children in certain districts, with very few "white" students. Over 65% of U.S. Latinos, however, identify as "White." Just over 2% identify as "Black." The remainder identify as some other race or two o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Solovyov%20%28mathematician%29 | Sergey Yurievich Solovyov (; 3 February 1955 – 22 September 2023) was a Russian mathematician who was a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University.
Life and career
Solovyov graduated from the faculty MSU CMC (1977).
Solovyov defended the thesis "Mathematical methods and principles of building automated knowledge engineering systems" for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1996).
Solovyov was awarded the title of Professor (2003).
His area of scientific interests was information systems. He was a Project Manager for Glossary. He wrote more than 70 scientific works on formal grammars, expert systems, experimental data processing systems and network technologies.
Sergey Solovyov died on 22 September 2023, at the age of 68.
References
Literature
External links
Scientific works of Sergey Solovyov
Scientific works of Sergey Solovyov
1955 births
2023 deaths
Russian computer scientists
Russian mathematicians
Moscow State University alumni
Academic staff of Moscow State University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yee%20Whye%20Teh | Yee-Whye Teh is a professor of statistical machine learning in the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. Prior to 2012 he was a reader at the Gatsby Charitable Foundation computational neuroscience unit at University College London. His work is primarily in machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics and computer science.
Education
Teh was educated at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto where he was awarded a PhD in 2003 for research supervised by Geoffrey Hinton.
Research and career
Teh was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and the National University of Singapore before he joined University College London as a lecturer.
Teh was one of the original developers of deep belief networks and of hierarchical Dirichlet processes.
Awards and honours
Teh was a keynote speaker at Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2019, and was invited to give the Breiman lecture at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2017. He served as program co-chair of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) in 2017, one of the premier conferences in machine learning.
References
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
Machine learning researchers
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Toronto alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Royce%20Johnson | Robert Royce "Bob" Johnson (1928–2016) was an American inventor, engineer, computer pioneer, and professor. Besides the Johnson counter, a type of ring counter that was named for him, he developed the method of encoding numbers on checks still in use as of 2018.
References
1928 births
2016 deaths
20th-century American inventors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal%20sentiment%20analysis | Multimodal sentiment analysis is a technology for traditional text-based sentiment analysis, which includes modalities such as audio and visual data. It can be bimodal, which includes different combinations of two modalities, or trimodal, which incorporates three modalities. With the extensive amount of social media data available online in different forms such as videos and images, the conventional text-based sentiment analysis has evolved into more complex models of multimodal sentiment analysis, which can be applied in the development of virtual assistants, analysis of YouTube movie reviews, analysis of news videos, and emotion recognition (sometimes known as emotion detection) such as depression monitoring, among others.
Similar to the traditional sentiment analysis, one of the most basic task in multimodal sentiment analysis is sentiment classification, which classifies different sentiments into categories such as positive, negative, or neutral. The complexity of analyzing text, audio, and visual features to perform such a task requires the application of different fusion techniques, such as feature-level, decision-level, and hybrid fusion. The performance of these fusion techniques and the classification algorithms applied, are influenced by the type of textual, audio, and visual features employed in the analysis.
Features
Feature engineering, which involves the selection of features that are fed into machine learning algorithms, plays a key role in the sentiment classification performance. In multimodal sentiment analysis, a combination of different textual, audio, and visual features are employed.
Textual features
Similar to the conventional text-based sentiment analysis, some of the most commonly used textual features in multimodal sentiment analysis are unigrams and n-grams, which are basically a sequence of words in a given textual document. These features are applied using bag-of-words or bag-of-concepts feature representations, in which words or concepts are represented as vectors in a suitable space.
Audio features
Sentiment and emotion characteristics are prominent in different phonetic and prosodic properties contained in audio features. Some of the most important audio features employed in multimodal sentiment analysis are mel-frequency cepstrum (MFCC), spectral centroid, spectral flux, beat histogram, beat sum, strongest beat, pause duration, and pitch. OpenSMILE and Praat are popular open-source toolkits for extracting such audio features.
Visual features
One of the main advantages of analyzing videos with respect to texts alone, is the presence of rich sentiment cues in visual data. Visual features include facial expressions, which are of paramount importance in capturing sentiments and emotions, as they are a main channel of forming a person's present state of mind. Specifically, smile, is considered to be one of the most predictive visual cues in multimodal sentiment analysis. OpenFace is an open-source facial ana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS%20amplifier | CMOS amplifiers (complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor amplifiers) are ubiquitous analog circuits used in computers, audio systems, smartphones, cameras, telecommunication systems, biomedical circuits, and many other systems. Their performance impacts the overall specifications of the systems. They take their name from the use of MOSFETs (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors) as opposite to bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). MOSFETs are simpler to fabricate and therefore less expensive than BJT amplifiers, still providing a sufficiently high transconductance to allow the design of very high performance circuits. In high performance CMOS (complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor) amplifier circuits, transistors are not only used to amplify the signal but are also used as active loads to achieve higher gain and output swing in comparison with resistive loads.
CMOS technology was introduced primarily for digital circuit design. In the last few decades, to improve speed, power consumption, required area, and other aspects of digital integrated circuits (ICs), the feature size of MOSFET transistors has shrunk (minimum channel length of transistors reduces in newer CMOS technologies). This phenomenon predicted by Gordon Moore in 1975, which is called Moore’s law, and states that in about each 2 years, the number of transistors doubles for the same silicon area of ICs. Progress in memory circuits design is an interesting example to see how process advancement have affected the required size and their performance in the last decades. In 1956, a 5 MB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) weighed over a ton, while these days having 50000 times more capacity with a weight of several tens of grams is very common.
While digital ICs have benefited from the feature size shrinking, analog CMOS amplifiers have not gained corresponding advantages due to the intrinsic limitations of an analog design—such as the intrinsic gain reduction of short channel transistors, which affects the overall amplifier gain. Novel techniques that achieve higher gain also create new problems, like amplifier stability for closed-loop applications. The following addresses both aspects, and summarize different methods to overcome these problems.
Intrinsic gain reduction in modern CMOS technologies
The maximum gain of a single MOSFET transistor is called intrinsic gain and is equal to
where is the transconductance, and is the output resistance of transistor. As a first-order approximation, is directly proportional to the channel length of transistors. In a single-stage amplifier, one can increase channel length to get higher output resistance and gain as well, but this also increases the parasitic capacitance of transistors, which limits the amplifier bandwidth. The transistor channel length is smaller in modern CMOS technologies, which makes achieving high gain in single-stage amplifiers very challenging. To achieve high gain, the literature has suggested many techniques. The fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferran%20Hurtado | Ferran Hurtado Díaz (8 May 1951 – 2 October 2014) was a Spanish mathematician and computer scientist known for his research in computational geometry.
Life
Hurtado was born on 8 May 1951 in Valencia, Spain.
He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona in 1993 under the supervision of Oriol Serra Albó; his dissertation was Problemas geométricos de visibilidad [Geometric problems of visibility]. It won the Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado UPC in 1995.
He became a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia,
and died on 2 October 2014 in Barcelona.
Contributions
Hurtado was a pioneer of Spanish computational geometry, and of connections between computational geometry and combinatorics. He is known, not only for his own research contributions to those subjects, but also for the questions he posed for others to solve. The topics of his research included flip graphs of polygon triangulations, Voronoi diagrams, visibility, simple polygons with given points as vertices, empty convex polygons in point sets, geometric graph theory, and problems on colored sets of points.
Recognition
In 2018, the journal Computational Geometry published a special issue in Hurtado's memory.
References
External links
Ferran Hurtado's personal webpage
Ferran Hurtado Memorial
1951 births
2014 deaths
Spanish computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shattered%20Alliance | Chronicles of Osgorth: The Shattered Alliance is a 1981 computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations in January 1982 for the Apple II and Atari 8-bit family. Programmed by John Lyon, it relies on a new game engine, called RapidFire, intended to make faster and easier access to wargames published by the studio. During a turn, the program selects the units each in turn and the player only has to order them to move, attack or cast a spell. The order is then executed immediately before the program selects another unit. The game offers two categories of scenarios. The first is composed of medieval-fantasy confrontation, including a free adaptation of the Battle of Gondor against the Mordor forces in the Lord of the Rings. The second is composed of historical battles of antiquity.
On its release, The Shattered Alliance was hailed by the trade press, which praised its graphics and its new game engine, which made it quick and easy to handle. Retrospectively, the French magazine Jeux et Stratégie described it as a very big game by explaining that it is no coincidence that it has held the top of the bill for several years.
Gameplay
The Shattered Alliance is a tactical level swords and sorcery combat game. The game simulates clashes between two armies in historic or fantastic battles. At the beginning of a game, both armies are displayed, one after the other, on the screen with indications of the types of units, weapons and strengths of each. The players can then choose their side and in the case of a solo part, the computer is assigned the opposite side. The fights take place on a map that can be displayed in two ways: a strategic view and a tactical. The first shows the entire battlefield but does not display the hexagonal boxes that divide it. The tactical view shows these boxes but only displays part of the battlefield. When the game is started, the computer selects one of the units, which is a group containing multiple soldiers of the same type. The player can then order the unit to move, attack or use a spell. For movements, the player simply chooses the direction and the unit moves immediately. Movements have a cost, expressed in time points, which vary according to the type of terrain and the type of unit selected. Two types of attack are offered in the game: melee or distance. Six melee weapons and three shooting weapons are available in the game. Their effectiveness depends on the type of troop and armor of the opposing unit. Both types of combat are handled in a manner similar to the movements and are simulated immediately. The losses in combat have an impact on the number of soldiers in the unit but also on its morale. The morale of a unit depends on the casualties suffered in combat, the unit's training level and the presence of enemy or allied troops. When a unit moves to attack, its morale is tested by the computer which then determines whether or not it accepts to obey orders. The army as a whole is also affected by a level of moral |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20App | Delta is an Indian homegrown networking and support app for the LGBT community in India. The app allows members of the LGBTQ community to find friendly spaces and professionals. It was developed by Ishaan Sethi.
References
LGBT in India
Mobile social software
Online dating services of India
LGBT online dating services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET%20Web%20Forms | ASP.NET Web Forms is a web application framework and one of several programming models supported by the Microsoft ASP.NET technology. Web Forms applications can be written in any programming language which supports the Common Language Runtime, such as C# or Visual Basic. The main building blocks of Web Forms pages are server controls, which are reusable components responsible for rendering HTML markup and responding to events. A technique called view state is used to persist the state of server controls between normally stateless HTTP requests.
Web Forms was included in the original .NET Framework 1.0 release in 2002 (see .NET Framework version history and ASP.NET version history), as the first programming model available in ASP.NET. Unlike newer ASP.NET components, Web Forms is not supported by ASP.NET Core.
Characteristics
ASP.NET web pages, known officially as Web Forms, were the main building blocks for application development in ASP.NET before the introduction of MVC. There are two basic methodologies for Web Forms: a web application format and a web site format. Web applications need to be compiled before deployment, while web sites allow the user to copy the files directly to the server without prior compilation. Web forms are contained in files with a ".aspx" extension; these files typically contain static (X)HTML markup or component markup. The component markup can include server-side Web Controls and User Controls that have been defined in the framework or the web page. For example, a textbox component can be defined on a page as <asp:textbox id='myid' runat='server'>, which is rendered into an html input box. Additionally, dynamic code, which runs on the server, can be placed in a page within a block <% -- dynamic code -- %>, which is similar to other Web development technologies such as PHP, JSP, and ASP. With ASP.NET Framework 2.0, Microsoft introduced a new code-behind model that lets static text remain on the .aspx page while dynamic code goes into an .aspx.vb or .aspx.cs or .aspx.fs file (depending on the programming language used).
Code-behind model
Microsoft recommends dealing with dynamic program code by using the code-behind model, which places this code in a separate file or in a specially designated script tag. Code-behind files typically have names like "MyPage.aspx.cs" or "MyPage.aspx.vb" while the page file is MyPage.aspx (same filename as the page file (ASPX), but with the final extension denoting the page language). This practice is automatic in Visual Studio and other IDEs, though the user can change the code-behind page name. Also, in the web application format, the pagename.aspx.cs is a partial class that is linked to the pagename.designer.cs file. The designer file is a file that is autogenerated from the ASPX page and allows the programmer to reference components in the ASPX page from the code-behind page without having to declare them manually, as was necessary in ASP.NET versions before version 2. When using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation%20surface | In hydrography, the Navigation Surface paradigm represents an alternative to traditional approaches to manage bathymetric data by creating bathymetric databases that can be used to generate high-resolution navigation aids and other applications.
The paradigm also provides methods to manipulate the data to create products for various applications (e.g., thematic maps for marine geology, acoustic seabed classification and marine biology).
History
Recent technological developments in hydrography (e.g., large adoption of multibeam echosounder and electronic navigational charts) have pushed hydrographic organizations to adopt a new production paradigm centered on gridded surfaces rather than sounding-based workflow and products.
Based on such a shift, the concept of navigation surface was introduced in 2003 to provide a seafloor model at the best resolution that the data support. Depth values for nautical charting are then derived by generalization of the available gridded surfaces. In addition, a quality assessment for each grid node of the navigation surface is created through an uncertainty layer.
The Open Navigation Surface (ONS) project designed a free, open-source code library to manage (read/write) the information required to create a Navigation Surface. The implementation of these requirements is represented by the Bathymetric Attributed Grid data format.
The US Navy has implemented a global navigation surface database using an infrastructure called DBDB-NV.
References
Topography techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedavi%20Datani%20Matokatundhi | Pedavi Datani Matokatundhi () is an Indian Telugu-language, fantasy romantic comedy film directed by T Guru Prasad, written by TG Keerthi Kumar and produced by Aditi and TG Keerthi Kumar. It features Raavan Reddy and Payal Wadhwa and Naresh in the lead roles. The film was released on 27 July 2018.
Plot
Tarun is a stud and a famous musician during high school days, but arrogant and rude to his classmates except to his best friend, Abhay (Moin). He rejects and insults love proposals of many girls, including Ahaana's (Payal Wadhwa). Sai (Maurice Sadiche), another classmate of his, seeks to join Tarun's music band but gets bullied by Tarun and Abhay in front of the class. Few years later, Tarun is a college dropout and works as Janitor with Abhay as an accountant, both in the same company with Sai, as their boss. Sai constantly insults Tarun at the workplace, to take revenge of the embarrassing high school incident. Tarun falls in love with same Ahaana, the girl who he rejected and insulted during school days. Ahaana is now a beautiful, independent girl who refuses to forgive Tarun for what he did to her. Tarun claims himself to be a loser with all the problems. His father (V.K.Naresh), who works in a CCTV agency, constantly scolds him and motivates him at the same time. One day, Tarun accidentally falls into a cupid curse. He has to complete a task of matching three couples within 48 hours or he can never tell Ahaana that he loves her or for that matter, get any kind of love life again. Tarun is on chase to complete the task and save himself from the curse, with the help of his cupid associate Bunty (Nandu Kumar). He manages to complete the task, comes out of the curse and makes Ahaana fall in love with him.
Cast
Raavan Reddy as Tarun
Payal Wadhwa as Ahaana
Naresh
Moin Khan as Abhay
Nandu Kumar as Bunty
Priyanka Shukla as Consultant
Maurice Sadiche as Sai
Mohan Bagath as Vikky
Govinda Raju as Tuition Master
Shubh Saini as Anand
Mahesh Mani as Janitor Student 1
Aanand Sagare as Janitor Student 2
Nandan as Janitor Student 3
Surya Eswar as Janitor Student 4
Soundtrack
This film has five songs composed by Zenith Reddy and lyrics are written by Rahman. Music released on Lahari Music.
References
2018 films
2010s Telugu-language films
External links
2018 romantic comedy-drama films
Indian romantic comedy-drama films
Films shot in Bangalore
Films shot in Hyderabad, India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathymetric%20attributed%20grid | Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG) is a file format designed to store and exchange bathymetric data.
The implementation of the format was triggered by the large adoption of gridded bathymetry and the need of transferring the required information about bathymetry and associated uncertainty (i.e., metadata) between processing applications. The BAG format was designed to provide a container able to transfer all of the relevant information of a given bathymetric project. The creation and the access to the format is supported through a code base implemented in C++.
The format is supported by The Open Navigation Surface Working Group whose mission is to ensure its continued development.
The format can be accessed using GDAL, currently in read-only mode.
NOAA NCEI provides data products from the Hydrographic Survey Meta Data Base (HSMDB) in BAG format.
History
The navigation surface concept requires to estimate not only the depth but also the uncertainty associated with it. Furthermore, to support safety of navigation applications, a means to over-ride automatically estimated depth with 'Hydrographer Privilege', that is to specify directly the depth determined by an analyst. Finally, the format metadata provide a way to describe the data, from collection to processing methods, from geospatial extents to the responsible party. The Open Navigation Surface (ONS) project implemented the format to incorporate all of these requirements as well as be portable, platform neutral, vendor-neutral.
The project started with the creation of mailing lists. After a Call for Participation, a first meeting was hosted by the Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping on 21–23 January 2004. Participants from CARIS, CCOM/JHC, IVS, NOAA, NAVO, SAIC, and SevenCs attended this first meeting. The outcome was the definition of the requirements and structure for the format.
The following meeting was held on 18–22 July 2005 resulting in an alpha building of the library. The use of the library was then demonstrated at Shallow Survey 2005 conference using a number of processing applications (i.e., IVS Fledermaus, CARIS HIPS, and SAIC SABER).
The first stable version (v.1.0.0) of the library was released on 8 Aprile 2006.
In April 2012, the IHO S-102 Bathymetric Surface Product Specification become the first S-100-based standard to be officially adopted. The standard is based on the BAG format (version 1.4).
With release 1.6, the optional support for variable resolution digital elevation model was introduced.
Interfaces
Officially supported APIs
C++
See also
GDAL - Open-source BAG reader
Hierarchical Data Format (HDF)
References
External links
Open Navigation Surface website
HydrOffice BAG Explorer, a free tool to explore BAG files
Bathymetric Data Viewer, a NOAA NCEI portal to retrieve BAG files.
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog%20robotics | Fog robotics can be defined as an architecture which consists of storage, networking functions, control with fog computing closer to robots.
Concept
Fog robotics mainly consists of a fog robot server and the cloud. It acts as a companion to cloud by shoving the data near to the user with the help of a local server. Moreover, these servers are adaptable, consists of processing power for computation, network capability, and secured by sharing the outcomes to other robots for advanced performance with the lowest possible latency.
As cloud robotics is facing issues such as bandwidth limitations, latency issues, quality of service, privacy and security - Fog robotics can be seen as a viable option for the future robotic systems. It is also considered as distributed robot systems of the next generation because robots require much brain power for processing billions of computations while performing its task. For instance, fog robotics can play an essential role in helping a robot to grasp spray bottle.
Applications
A social robot can either connect to the cloud or fog robot server depending upon the availability of information. For instance, it can make a robot working at an airport to communicate with other robots for effective communication with the help of fog robotics.
Fog Robotic Systems
Node-level systems: FogROS
FogROS is proposed by UCB. FogROS is a framework that allows existing ROS automation applications to gain access to additional computing resources from commercial cloud-based services. This framework is built on the Robot Operating System (ROS), the de facto standard for creating robot automation applications and components. With minimal porting effort, FogROS allows researchers to deploy components of their software to the cloud with high transparency.
Algorithm-level system: ElasticROS
ElasticROS is proposed by HKUST. The present node-level systems are not flexible enough to dynamically adapt to changing conditions. To address this, the authors present ElasticROS, which evolves the present node-level systems into an algorithm-level one. ElasticROS is based on ROS and ROS2. For fog and cloud robotics, it is the first robot operating system with algorithm-level collaborative computing. ElasticROS develops elastic collaborative computing to achieve adaptability to dynamic conditions. The collaborative computing algorithm is the core and challenge of ElasticROS. The authors abstract the problem and then propose an algorithm named ElasAction to address. It is a dynamic action decision algorithm based on online learning, which determines how robots and servers cooperate. The algorithm dynamically updates parameters to adapt to changes of conditions where the robot is currently in. It achieves elastically distributing of computing tasks to robots and servers according to configurations. In addition, the authors prove that the regret upper bound of the ElasAction is sublinear, which guarantees its convergence and thus enables ElasticRO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20So%20Far%20Out%2C%20It%27s%20Straight%20Down | "It's So Far Out, It's Straight Down" is an episode of the 1960s Granada Television news/documentary series Scene at 6.30. It aired in the Granada region of the British Independent Television network on 7 March 1967. The episode focuses on the burgeoning London underground movement and psychedelic music scene of the time. It features interviews with Paul McCartney of the Beatles and leading underground figures connected to the International Times newspaper and Indica Bookshop, such as Barry Miles. It was directed by John Sheppard and produced by Jo Durden-Smith. The episode also includes footage of the band Pink Floyd performing at the UFO Club.
"It's So Far Out, It's Straight Down" sought to explain to a mainstream audience the cultural changes taking place in London. Music critic Tim Riley describes it as one of the events of early 1967 that "punctuate an era as psychedelic pop culture took shape". Also among these was the emergence of American guitarist Jimi Hendrix on the London club circuit, while Pink Floyd's performance in the documentary was one of the group's first television appearances. McCartney filmed his contributions in Granada's studio on 18 January 1967, the day before the Beatles recorded their song "A Day in the Life". The documentary also includes footage of Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso reciting poetry at the International Poetry Incarnation, which took place at the Royal Albert Hall in June 1965. The People Show are seen performing a piece of experimental theatre, filmed in the basement of the shop Better Books.
Author and broadcaster Richard Metzger comments on the documentary: "it's pre-Summer of Love. The time seems so pregnant with promise. This is the exact moment, historically speaking, when pop culture went from B&W and shades of gray to vivid color … it's easy to see how this film would have brought tens of thousands of young people into London seeking to find these forward-thinking cultural movers and shakers to become part of 'the happening' themselves."
References
1967 British television episodes
UK underground |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torservers.net | torservers.net is an independent network of non-profit organisations that provide nodes to the Tor anonymity network. The network started in June 2010 and currently transfers up to 7.4GB/s (~59.2Gb/s) of exit node traffic as of May 2022.
Torservers.net is known for operating servers with high network bandwidth and running them as exit nodes in the Tor network, which helps increase its speed and capacity. The group additionally helps provide lawyers for relay operators along with arranging operator meetups.
Funding
While Tor is free software that anyone can run, successful operation of Tor nodes may require technical expertise, access to high-bandwidth, and can involve legal complications in some jurisdictions. The Torservers.net network accepts financial donations as a way to sponsor additional nodes.
Bavarian Raid
On June 20, 2018, Bavarian police raided the home of the board members of the German non-profit Zwiebelfreunde, "Friends of the Onion," (part of torservers.net). Zwiebelfreunde helps collect donations from Europe for various non-commercial providers such as Riseup.net.
The police claim the raid was prompted by a blog post from an unrelated activist that promised violence against an upcoming Alternative for Germany convention in Augsburg. The blog post was published on a website that used a Riseup.net e-mail address. Riseup Collective is based in Seattle in the United States, and reported publicly that Zwiebelfreunde does not run its service.
On August 23 the German court at Landgericht München ruled that the raid and seizures was illegal. The hardware and documentation seized had been kept under seal, and purportedly were neither analyzed nor evaluated by the Bavarian police.
Members
Associated Whistleblowing Press (Belgium)
Access Now (USA)
Calyx Institute (USA)
Zwiebelfreunde e.V. (Germany)
Hart Voor Internetvrijheid (Netherlands)
Library Freedom Project (USA)
Noisebridge (USA)
External links
Official website
References
Tor (anonymity network)
Organizations established in 2010
Privacy organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy%20Haggith | Mandy Haggith is an author, poet, and environmental activist. She is the coordinator of Environmental Paper Network International, and was a founding director of Top Left Corner, a community arts organisation. She is currently a director of the Assynt Foundation.
Education
Mandy Haggith has a master's degree in creative writing (with distinction) from Glasgow University. Her doctoral research concerned points of disagreement, such as in environmental issues.
Since 1999 she has lived on a coastal wooded croft in Assynt, in the northwest highlands of Scotland.
Bibliography
Novels
The Last Bear (2008)
Bear Witness (2013)
The Stone Stories trilogy
The Walrus Mutterer (2018)
The Amber Seeker (2019)
The Lyre Dancers (2020)
Poetry
letting light in (2005)
Castings (2007)
A-B Tree (2016)
Into the forest (editor) (2013)
Non-fiction
Paper Trails (2008)
References
Writers from Northumberland
British women activists
English environmentalists
21st-century English women writers
English women novelists
English women poets
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Glasgow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20Waste | The Big Waste is an American cooking competition television special that aired on Food Network on January 8, 2012. Two two-chef teams (Anne Burrell/Alex Guarnaschelli and Bobby Flay/Michael Symon) competed to cook the best meal using foods that were on their way to being discarded. All of the foods that were used were inspected before the chefs utilized them.
References
External links
2010s American television specials
2012 in American television
2012 television specials
Food Network television specials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilaser | Multi, known by the old name of Multilaser, is an electronics company based in Brazil.
Former name Multilaser are manufacturers and marketers of tablets, media players, GPS, pen drives, computer accessories, games, smartphones, sporting goods, audio and video, with greater highlights for computer accessories, smartphones and tablets. Its headquarters is located in São Paulo and its industrial complex is located in Extrema, Minas Gerais.
It employs more than 2,500 employees and 40 engineers divided into laboratories in Brazil and Asia.
References
1987 establishments in Brazil
Electronics companies of Brazil
Manufacturing companies based in São Paulo
Mobile phone manufacturers
Mobile phone companies of Brazil
Brazilian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Retro%20Arcade%3A%20Neon | New Retro Arcade: Neon is a virtual reality first-person video game developed and published for the PC by independent developer Digital Cybercherries. It was released on Steam on August 1, 2016. The game is compatible with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
Gameplay
Players are taken back to the '80s/early '90s and are put inside a retro arcade room. In the game, players are able to interact with mini-games including Bowling, Air Hockey Skeeball, and more. Inside the room itself are usable objects such as Guitars, Drum Machines and Light Guns. The main feature of the game focuses on customisation and being able to emulate your favourite arcade games, by using any of the 30 Arcade Cabinets. The game also supports Non-VR.
Reception
UploadVR favoured the game for its authenticity and how Digital Cybercherries do an excellent job of capturing the vibe and atmosphere. Road to VR wrote that the game is an immensely detailed arcade simulator.
New Retro Arcade: Neon won VRDB's Players Choice VR of the Year 2016. It currently has a rating of 83%, Very Positive on Steam.
References
External links
2016 video games
Simulation video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in the 1980s
Virtual reality games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Unreal Engine games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROG%20Phone | The ROG Phone is an Android gaming smartphone made by Asus and the first generation of the ROG smartphone series. It was announced on June 8, 2018 at the Computex computer expo, being the first Asus smartphone to be targeted mainly to gamers. It competes with the Razer Phone, Xiaomi Black Shark, and ZTE Nubia Red Magic.
Specifications
Hardware
The ROG Phone has a metal chassis with a glass backplate. The back of the device features an RGB-illuminated logo (In X-Mode or Gaming Mode and also adjusted manually), which can be user-customised to show different colours, similar to the notification lights found in the mainstream smartphone market. The phone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC with a 3 GHz + 1.7 GHz octa-core (4+4) Kryo 385 CPU and an Adreno 630 GPU. The memory is 8 GB in size (LPDDR4), the internal storage can be chosen to be either 128 GB or 512 GB UFS 2.1. The display is a 6.0-inch AMOLED, supported by a Corning Gorilla Glass 6 panel, with a 1080x2160 (402 ppi) resolution, a 1ms response time and a refresh rate of 90Hz. The USB-C port and 3.5mm audio jack have been installed to the side of the device to allow a more comfortable gaming experience when using the device in landscape mode. It also features a 'vapor-chamber' cooling technology named GameCool which dissipates heat to keep the motherboard cool. The ROG Phone has IPX4 splash resistance and a custom double USB-C port which is used to connect the phone to its accessories.
Software
The phone OS is Android 8.1 Oreo with a modified Asus skin on top. The built-in sensors are a fingerprint scanner, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a barometer. Some areas of the edge are touch-sensitive and can be configured to mimic the additional keys found on traditional game controllers. The device also features a Nano SIM slot. The ROG phone features a so-called "X Mode", which optimizes gaming performance and restricts background apps.
Accessories
A line of unique gaming accessories were unveiled alongside the phone itself. The "AeroActive Cooler", which is attached to the back of the device, helps keeping the device cool by acting as an external cooling fan. The "TwinView Dock" is a handheld dock which provides a secondary screen for the device and the dock has a memory card slot that support SD cards up to 512GB, though mini or micro SD cards require a full-size SD adapter to fit into the slot. Other accessories include a mobile desktop dock, the Gamevice controller that gives the phone physical controls and a WiGig dock for wireless screen casting to TVs without built-in screen casting.
Reception
The Asus ROG Phone received positive reviews from critics. According to Business Insider, the phone was a great success due to high-end specifications causing gamers to use it for playing Mobile Legends without lagging.
It has gained some publicity for being the first smartphone with an external cooling fan.
References
Asus smartphones
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costica%20Bradatan | Costică Brădățan is a Romanian-born American philosopher. He is a professor of humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. Also he is an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland.
Bibliography
Books
The Other Bishop Berkeley. An Exercise in Reenchantment (Fordham University Press, 2007) / O outro Bispo Berkeley. Um exercício de reencantamento Trad. Jaimir Conte. Chapecó, SC: Editora Argos, Florianópolis: Editora da UFSC, 2023.
Dying for Ideas: the Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (Bloomsbury, 2015) / Morrer por ideias. Os filósofos e suas vidas perigosas". Trad. Bruno Gambarotto. São Paulo: Grua Livros, 2020.
In Praise of Failure. Four Lessons in Humility (Harvard University Press, 2022)
Against Conformity. Reinventing the Lost Art of Cynicism (under development)
The Prince and the Hermit'' (under development)
Articles
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Notes
References
External links
Costica Bradatan
Living people
21st-century American philosophers
Academic staff of the University of Queensland
Continental philosophers
American philosophy academics
Texas Tech University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amr%20Talaat | Amr Talaat () is the Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology. He is a computer scientist and former business executive. Talaat was appointed on 14 June 2018.
Career
Before joining the Government of Egypt, Talaat worked for IBM Egypt, rising through various positions.
Talaat's tenure as Minister has included projects to develop and secure Egypt's IT & telecom infrastructure, expand education and training in advanced digital technologies, and improve government performance and quality of services offered to the citizen. His main program is titled the Digital Egypt Strategy.
During Dr. Talaat’s tenure, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched a number of initiatives:
Digital Transformation
The inauguration of the Digital Egypt government services platform
The promulgation of the Data Protection Law The promulgation of the Data Protection Law.
The establishment of a National AI Council, and Digital Society Higher Council, spearheaded by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)
The launch of Egypt's Applied Innovation Center (AIC), which utilizes High Performance Computing to advance applied AI research across sectors, including Natural Language Processing.
The increase of Egypt's ranking on the World Bank's GovTech Maturity Index from category "C" in 2018, to Category "B" in 2020, then Category "A" in 2022.
The renovation of more than 3,000 national postal service offices in Egypt and the launch of new digital services, micro-finance products, in order to serve as one of the channels for the delivery of Digital Egypt government services.
Digital Upskilling
The establishment of Egypt University of Informatics (EUI), Africa's first specialized ICT university, in partnership with global renowned universities, including Purdue University and Minnesota University.
Boosting government investments in Egypt's ICT upskilling programs to expand their outreach from around 15,000 trainees annually, to more than 600,000 trainees in three years.
Engaging in new collaborations with top-ranked universities across North America, Europe and Asia, as well as ICT multinationals to offer professional Master's degree for fresh graduates in Egypt in five different ICT specializations, as well as applied internships through the Digital Egypt Builders Initiative (DEBI).
Expanding applied ICT training programs to middle school and high school students across Egypt through the Digital Egypt Cubs Initiative (DECI).
The establishment of seven Applied Technology Schools across seven governorates in Egypt, to transform technical training in the ICT sector and fast-track middle school graduates’ path towards a career in ICT.
Partnering with global education providers to train more than 100,000 Egyptians annually, in specializations demanded by the global freelancing market, which resulted in the growth of Egypt's digital services exports.
The establishment of Egypt's National Academy of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2018–19 daytime network television schedule for four of the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the daytime hours from September 2018 to August 2019. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, and any series canceled after the 2017–18 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Fox does not offer daytime network programming nor network news on weekdays; as such, schedules are only included for Saturdays and Sundays. Also not included are MyNetworkTV (as the programming service also does not offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday–Friday
Notes:
CBS owned-and-operated and affiliate stations have the option of airing Let's Make a Deal at either 10:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. Eastern, depending on the station's choice of feed.
(*) The fourth hour of Today was renamed Today with Hoda & Jenna on April 8, 2019, when Jenna Bush Hager succeeded Kathie Lee Gifford as co-host of the program, alongside Hoda Kotb. While Today with Kathie Lee & Hoda/Today with Hoda & Jenna is part of Today, it is promoted as its own distinct program.
(†) Beginning October 30, in the wake of the abrupt cancellation of Megyn Kelly Today, NBC reformatted the 9:00 a.m. Eastern hour of Today to feature anchors from the main broadcast hosting the third hour – which like Kelly's program is promoted as its own distinct entity – under the "Third Hour" titling.
(**) GMA Day was renamed Strahan and Sara on January 28, 2019, a decision made to partially downplay its ties to parent series Good Morning America by placing a larger emphasis on its hosts (relegating references to GMA to the program's title logo).
Saturday
Sunday
Notes:
(‡) ABC and Fox do not handle programming responsibilitie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Debater | Project Debater is an IBM artificial intelligence project, designed to participate in a full live debate with expert human debaters. It follows on from the Watson project which played Jeopardy!
Development
Project Debater was developed at IBM's lab in Haifa, Israel. The project was proposed by Noam Slonim in 2011 as the IBM Research next Grand Challenge, following Deep Blue and the victory of Watson in Jeopardy! It was exposed for the first time in a closed media event at June 18, 2018, in San Francisco, under the leadership of Ranit Aharonov and Slonim, both from the IBM Research lab in Haifa, Israel. The AI technology debated two human debaters, Noa Ovadia, who was the 2016 Israeli debate champion and Dan Zafrir. The two debated on the topics "We should subsidize space exploration" and "Should we increase the use of telemedicine."
A demonstration of Project Debater also aired on the Discovery Channel in June 2018 debating the question of whether sports gambling should be legalized.
Live Debate
On February 11, 2019, Project Debater was revealed to the world in a live debate in San Francisco. Nonpartisan media group Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates hosted the debate which was moderated by journalist John Donvan. The debate took place between Project Debater and Harish Natarajan, who holds the world record in number of debate competition victories. The motion was “We should subsidize preschools.”
That's Debatable Television Show
Project Debater was featured in a television series called “That’s Debatable” presented by Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates and Bloomberg Media. For each episode of “That’s Debatable,” Project Debater provided insight into three distinct debate topics on the redistribution of wealth, modern monetary theory, and a US-China space race. More than 5,000 arguments were submitted online from around the world across the three topics, which were then analyzed and distilled into key points that were highlighted on the television show and discussed by human debaters.
Artificial Intelligence Capabilities
To develop Project Debater, the IBM Research team had to endow the system with the following AI capabilities:
Data-driven speech writing and delivery: Project Debater is the first demonstration of a computer that can digest massive corpora, and given a short description of a controversial topic, write a well-structured speech, and deliver it with clarity and purpose, while even incorporating humor where appropriate.
Listening comprehension: the ability to identify the key concepts and claims hidden within long continuous spoken language.
Four minutes of persuasive speech: the guarantee of producing four minutes of persuasive speech.
Modeling human dilemmas: modeling the world of human controversy and dilemmas in a unique knowledge representation, enabling the system to suggest principled arguments as needed.
An article on the project was published in Nature in March 2021.
References
IBM software
Argument technolo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nthabeleng%20Likotsi | Nthabeleng Likotsi is a South African accountant, entrepreneur, businesswoman, and community leader, who serves as the chairperson of the Young Women in Business Network(YWBN) and Managing Director of the YWBN Co-operative Financial Institution which is a majority female-owned and female-led financial institution. The self-made South African entrepreneur is currently hailed as the new rising star of the women entrepreneurship agenda by being the first woman and youngest in the world to establish a Mutual Bank that promotes inclusive development and growth in the country and across the continent. She is an assertive, tenacious team leader and player dedicated to the economic empowerment of WOMEN. Ms. Likotsi has steered YWBN CFI into great success, a formation conceived of an idea to realise the objective of making basic financial services more accessible to unbanked and underbanked consumers by minimising time and distance to the nearest bank retail branch as well as reduced banking and transaction-related costs through mobile digital technology.
Background and education
She was born in Botshabelo, Free State Province, in South Africa circa 1984. She holds a master's degree in Entrepreneurship from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship, from the Wits Business School. She also has a postgraduate certificate in accounting, obtained from the University of Johannesburg.
Career
Likotsi started the YWBN, along with nine other board members, in 2009. The company is managed by women from different professions and industries, with a common goal of economic empowerment of women entrepreneurs and professionals. Since 2016, Likotsi has been working to transform YWBN Cooperative Bank into YWBN Mutual Bank. Besides capital requirements in the range of R10 to R15 million (US$740,000 to US$1,120,000), one needs business premises, operating capital and trained staff. On Friday, 15 June 2018, the Reserve Bank of South Africa accepted an application from YWBN to convert the Cooperative Bank into a Mutual Bank.
Other achievements
In 2013, she received the 2013/2014 Women Leadership Award at the third Africa-India Partnership Summit. She also serves as an independent non-executive director of various companies, including Apex Valves Private Limited and Ubuntu Plastics Private Limited.
See also
List of banks in South Africa
References
External links
Website of Young Women Business Network
Nthabeleng Likotsi to become first female bank owner in South Africa
Living people
1985 births
21st-century South African businesswomen
21st-century South African businesspeople
South African accountants
South African women accountants
University of Johannesburg alumni
University of the Witwatersrand alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh%20Varshney | Amitabh Varshney is an Indian-born American computer scientist. He is an IEEE fellow, and serves as Dean of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. Before being named Dean, Varshney was the director of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) from 2010 to 2018.
Education and career
Varshney attended school at St Gabriel's Academy, Roorkee in Uttarakhand, India. Varshney went on to attend Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, graduating with a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering in 1989. He continued his education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, earning an M.S. in Computer Science in 1991, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994.
Varshney worked as an assistant professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University from 1994 to 2000. Since 2000, he is working as a professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Research
Varshney's research pertains to the applications of computer graphics and visualization in engineering, science, and medicine via developments in mesh processing, shading algorithms, perceptual image synthesis, and high-performance visual computing. His findings have been used in a variety of fields including pharmacology, meteorology, plasma physics, nanomanufacturing, medical imaging, and genealogy. Varshney is most renowned for his many studies on level of detail.
Smooth molecular surfaces
In their 1994 report, Varshney, Fred Brooks, and William Wright detail their advances in graphically modeling molecular surfaces:
Dynamic simplification for polygonal models
In 1996, Varshney published an algorithm for real-time simplifications of polygons in a 3-dimensional model:
A continuous level-of-detail representation for an object is first constructed off-line. This representation is then used at run-time to guide the selection of appropriate triangles for display. The list of displayed triangles is updated incrementally from one frame to the next. Our approach is more effective than the current level-of-detail-based rendering approaches for most scientific visualization applications where there are a limited number of highly complex objects that stay relatively close to the viewer.
Optimizing triangle strips
Also in 1996, Varshney published "Optimizing Triangle Strips for Fast Rendering". The study introduced new algorithms for rendering triangle strips in conjuncture with partially triangulated models. Describing their more efficient triangle strip algorithm, Varshney et al. write:
By using triangle strips ... , we can describe the triangulation using the strip ... and assuming the convention that the ith triangle is described by the ith, (i + 1)st, and (i + 2)nd vertices of the sequential strip. Such a sequential strip can reduce the cost to transmit n triangles from 3n to n + 2 verticies.
Simplification envelopes
Varshney proposed the idea of simplification envelopes as a method of simultaneous |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEAVY.AI | HEAVY.AI is an American-based software company, that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) to query and visualize big data. The company was founded in 2013 by Todd Mostak and Thomas Graham and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
The company has a range of products, which help process and visualize big data. HEAVY.AI has partnered with a number of organizations, such as Nvidia, to help build an infrastructure system which processes data much faster than traditional CPU methods. By using multiple GPU cards at once, HEAVY.AI's technology can process data at a much faster rate than CPU's.
HEAVY.AI raised funds in 2016 via a Series A, in 2017 via a Series B, and in 2018 via a Series C funding round.
History
Todd Mostak and Thomas Graham founded HEAVY.AI, then named MapD, in 2013. Since their foundation, the company has focused on providing its services to a variety of markets, including government, public and private companies.
HEAVY.AI's main offering is the Core database system, which was developed shortly after the company was founded. The system works using GPU technology, which allows for rapid processing and mapping of big data. The idea came while Mostak was working at MIT, he was researching tweets with his queries taking hours or even days to complete using more traditional IT methods.
After setting up a GPU system and thorough testing, InformationWeek stated that the process was 75 times to 3,500 times faster than using a traditional CPU to process big data. Mostak wasn't alone in researching ways to process big data. After winning $100,000 at an Nvidia-ran competition, Nvidia's research in the space has led them to be able to process 750GB per second using a GPU system, when ran in conjunction with systems that OmniSci produce. Other corporations such as IBM were also quoted to be using OmniSci's technology to develop GPU systems.
Prior to the 2016 presidential election, HEAVY.AI created a visualization of political donations as a tool to attempt to predict certain outcomes in the election. In 2017, it was announced that HEAVY.AI would become one of the founding members of the GPU Open Analytics Initiative.
In September 2018, OmniSci was rebranded from MapD.
In March 1, 2022, OmniSci rebranded to Heavy.AI.
Funding
In 2016, it was announced that HEAVY.AI had raised capital via a Series A funding round, believed to be $10 million. A number of major participants were listed in the round, which was led by In-Q-Tel. Other participants included Nvidia, Vanedge Capital, and Verizon Wireless. Nvidia became interested in HEAVY.AI, after the company won $100,000 from Nvidia at their GPU Ventures contest.
The following year, HEAVY.AI raised capital via a Series B funding round. The round secured $25 million in additional funding for OmniSci, with New Enterprise Associates, Nvidia and Verizon leading the funding round.
In October 2018, HEAVY.AI secured $55 million through a Series C funding ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer%2046 | Explorer 46, (also Meteoroid Technology Satellite-A or MTS-A), was a NASA satellite launched as part of Explorer program.
Mission
Explorer 46 was designed to provide data on the frequency and penetration energy of meteoroids and micrometeoroids in low Earth orbit. Explorer 46 consisted of a hexi-cylindrical bus covered with solar cells. Meteoroid impacts were detected and measured using bumper panels that extended after launch and gave the satellite a windmill-like appearance. The central hub of the satellite carried the velocity and impact experiments. When the bumper targets were extended from the satellite, it had an overall width of . Twenty meteoroid impacts were recorded by the bumper panels through December 1972. A set of capacitor detectors recorded over two thousand micrometeoroid hits over the same period.
Instruments
Multi-sheet bumper, across, its detectors filled with gas, to register and telemeter loss of pressure;
12 box-shaped velocity detectors at various locations along the spacecraft;
Impact flux detectors, with 64 detectors to assess the population of very small particles.
Launch
Explorer 46 was launched on 13 August 1972, at 15:10 UTC, from Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), with a Scout D-1 Launch vehicle.
Experiments
Meteoroid Penetration
The objective of this experiment was to measure the meteoroid penetration rates of a bumper-protected target. Penetrations were measured, using 12 2-mil stainless-steel pressure cells located behind 1-mil stainless-steel bumpers. These 12 cells were mounted on 4 bumper panels which extended out from the cylindrical spacecraft body. Due to a malfunction, only two of the four bumper panels deployed.
Meteoroid Penetration Sensors
This experiment measured meteoroid impacts using a thin film capacitor. Due to a spacecraft malfunction, this experiment had to be turned off two weeks after launch, but it had already recorded 2000 micrometeoroid impacts by that time. It was reactivated in August 1974.
Meteoroid Velocity Sensors
This experiment measured the velocity of impacting micrometeoroids, using two thin-film capacitors and measuring the time-of-flight between them. Due to difficulties with the spacecraft, this experiment had to be turned off two weeks after launch, but it was turned on again for 1 week in August 1974.
Atmospheric entry
Explorer 46 reentered in the atmosphere on 2 November 1979.
See also
Explorer program
References
External links
Explorer 46: Meteoroid Technology Satellite (backup) Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Spacecraft launched in 1972
Explorers Program
Spacecraft which reentered in 1979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaai%20Nadu | Thaai Nadu () is a 1947 Indian Tamil-language film directed by T. S. Mani. The film stars Battling Mani in the lead role.
Cast
The list is adapted from Film News Anandan's database.
Battling Mani
S. T. Williams
V. P. S. Mani
T. K. Krishnaiah
M. R. Sundari
N. C. Meera
Production
The film was produced by S. M. Nayagam, who produced the first ever Sinhala talkie Kadawunu Poronduwa, under his own banner Chitrakala Movietone and was directed by T. S. Mani. T. S. Mani also wrote the story and screenplay. Dialogues were penned by T. V. Natarajasamy. G. G. Sithi handled cinematography while the editing was done by Abraham. Art direction was by Kotvankar and still photography was done by V. V. Iyer.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by R. Narayana Iyer while the lyrics were penned by T. V. Natarajasamy.
List of songs
Engal Indhiya Bharathiye - V. N. Sundaram, A. P. Komala
Reception
Writing in 2017, media person D. B. S. Jeyaraj said, "The film was a smashing box office hit."
References
External links
- A song from the film sung by V. N. Sundharam & A. P. Komala
Indian black-and-white films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Data%20Guardian%20for%20Health%20and%20Social%20Care | The National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care is an independent, non-regulatory, advice giving body in England sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care. Dame Fiona Caldicott had held the position on a non-statutory basis since its inception in November 2014. She was appointed the first statutory National Data Guardian in March 2019 following the introduction of the Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Act 2018, and remained in post until her death in February 2021. Dr Nicola Byrne was appointed to the role in March 2021 by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
Role
The National Data Guardian provides guidance to the UK Government and the health and adult social care system on data confidentiality, security and patient data choice. Its role is to advise and challenge the health and social care system to help ensure that citizens’ confidential information is safeguarded securely and used properly to support direct care and achieve better outcomes from health and care services.
As a non-regulatory body, the National Data Guardian does not issue or enforce sanctions; it works with existing regulators such as the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Care Quality Commission where this is required.
Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Act 2018
A Private Members' Bill to place the National Data Guardian role on a statutory footing was introduced to Parliament in 2017. The Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Bill 2017-19 was sponsored by Member of Parliament Peter Bone.
A consultation on the roles and functions of the National Data Guardian was held in 2015 in preparation for the Bill's drafting.
The Bill received Royal Assent on 20 December 2018 and is now an Act of Parliament. The Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Act 2018 gives the National Data Guardian role formal, advice-giving powers on matters related to the processing of health and adult social care data in England.
Formal reviews
Review of Data Security, Consent and Opt-outs (published July 2016)
In September 2015, the Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt asked the National Data Guardian and the Care Quality Commission conduct a formal review into data security and use, delivering as its outcomes: recommendations for new data security standards for health and care; a method for testing compliance against the standards; and a new consent or opt-out model for data sharing in relation to patient confidential data.
The National Data Guardian's Review of Data Security, Consent and Opt-outs was published in July 2016. It made 20 recommendations, including the introduction of 10 national data security standards for health and care and a new tool for measuring performance against them.
The Care Quality Commission published its report Safe Data Safe Care in tandem.
The Government's 2017 response, 'Your Data: Better Security, Better Choice, Better Care, accepted the recommendations and reported on plans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clash%20%28TV%20program%29 | The Clash is a Philippine television reality talent competition show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally hosted by Regine Velasquez, Andre Paras and Joyce Pring, it premiered on July 7, 2018 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi and on Sunday Grande sa Gabi line-up replacing Celebrity Bluff and Lip Sync Battle Philippines in their respective timeslot. The show has aired 5 seasons and 119 episodes. Rayver Cruz and Julie Anne San Jose currently serve as the hosts.
Overview
The show begins with 62 competitors known as Clashers which are paired in two, and the winner to take a seat in the 32-seat semi-finalists who qualify for the second round. A wild card contender from a pair of two is electronically selected from among previous losers in the first elimination round. The semi-finalists battle it out among themselves in pairs in the second round.
The winner of The Clash receives an exclusive management contract from GMA Network, a brand new car, 1 million pesos and a house and lot.
Hosts
Clash masters
Regine Velasquez
Rayver Cruz
Julie Anne San Jose
Clashmates / Journey hosts
Andre Paras
Joyce Pring
Ken Chan
Rita Daniela
Judges
Lani Misalucha
Christian Bautista
Ai-Ai delas Alas
Pops Fernandez
Seasons
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television People audience shares, the pilot episode of The Clash earned a 20.8% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surya%20Citra%20Media | PT Surya Citra Media Tbk (SCM) is an Indonesian mass media company owned by Elang Mahkota Teknologi and is based in Jakarta. It operates four nation's television networks, SCTV, Indosiar, Ajwa TV, and Mentari TV, as well as the Vidio streaming service, Nex Parabola satellite pay television, and KapanLagi Youniverse.
Profile
Surya Citra Media was established on 29 January 1999 as Cipta Aneka Selaras, with a focus on business areas covering multimedia, entertainment and communications services, particularly in the field of television. In 2001, Cipta Aneka Selaras changed its name to Surya Citra Media.
Surya Citra, whose shares are listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange under the code "SCMA". Surya Citra Televisi (SCTV) is a subsidiary of Surya Citra Media. SCTV commenced its commercial broadcast in 1990 covering the city of Surabaya, and began operating nationwide in 1993, soon later SCTV headquarters was moved to Jakarta. In May 2013, Indosiar Karya Media absorbed into SCM.
On 2017, SCM took back over SinemArt from MNC Media due to very low viewers' performance. In addition, MNC itself wants to aim for content alignment as well as the development of digital assets and production houses owned by the group, so that SinemArt is fully returned to SCM having been working collabs in years 2003 till 2007.
References
External links
Elang Mahkota Teknologi
Companies based in Jakarta
Mass media companies established in 1999
Entertainment companies of Indonesia
Mass media companies of Indonesia
Companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange
1999 establishments in Indonesia
2002 initial public offerings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce | The Danish Chamber of Commerce (Danish: Dansk Erhverv) is the network for the service industry in Denmark and one of the largest professional business organisations in the country. It is headquartered in Børsen in Copenhagen and has additional offices in Aarhus and Bruxelles.
History
The Danish Chamber of Commerce was founded on 1 January 2007 as a result of a merger between Dansk Handel & Service and the Chamber of Commerce (previously Handelskammeret, HTSI).
Traditionally the organisation's portfolio has been within the service sector, e.g. retail and wholesale, the transport sector, consultant companies, tourism and hospitality sector etc.
The first CEO was Lars Krobæk. He was on 1 April 2008 replaced by Jens Klarskov, who was in turn on 22 June 2018 replaced by former Minister and former member of The Danish Parliament, Brian Mikkelsen.
Goal
As an employers’ organisation, The Danish Chamber of Commerce negotiates a broad range of collective agreements on various areas and within many industries. The Danish Chamber of Commerce is a member of The Confederation of Danish Employers (DA).
As an employers’ organisation the Danish Chamber of Commerce is working towards securing optimal competitive conditions for Danish business. This entails protection of interests in The Danish Parliament (Folketinget), in the European Union, and in the local constituencies and in the regions.
The Danish Chamber of Commerce owns and resides in King Christian IV's Old Stock Exchange building on Slotsholmen in Copenhagen. Furthermore, the organisation has offices in the neighbouring complex, Tietgens Hus, as well as an office in Aarhus and an EU-office in Bruxelles.
References
External links
Official website
Business organizations based in Denmark
Employers' organizations in Denmark
Organizations based in Copenhagen
Organizations established in 2007
2007 establishments in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller%20Personal%20Data%20Files | Traveller Personal Data Files is a 1981 role-playing game supplement published by Games Workshop for Traveller.
Contents
Traveller Personal Data Files consists of a pad of 50 character sheets, each containing spaces for skills, psionics, equipment, and other notes.
Reception
William A. Barton reviewed Traveller Personal Data Files in The Space Gamer No. 48. Barton commented that "Overall, if you can locate this import item, you should find it quite useful."
References
Character sheets
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1981
Traveller (role-playing game) supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercharge%3A%20Unboxed | Hypercharge: Unboxed (stylized as HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed) is a cooperative third-person and first-person shooter video game, developed by British indie studio Digital Cybercherries, and released for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Switch in 2020. The game takes place in familiar locations such as bedrooms, garages, bathrooms, hallways and toy stores. Each player assumes the role of an action figure, who must defend parts of their territory from dangerous enemies.
Gameplay
Hypercharge: Unboxed is a third-person and first-person shooter with defense building mechanics set in suburban home environments. Most of the gameplay is built around exploration, combat, and character customization.
The game's combat is mainly ranged-based. Players can use attachments for different weapons, which can be found scattered throughout each level. It has a heavy focus on cooperative gameplay and the game features a four player, co-operative multiplayer mode.
While traversing each map, players find various supplies and items, such as batteries, weapons, attachments and credits. Batteries are used to power the HYPER-CORES' shield and defenses, and attachments give each weapon a perk. Credits can be used to purchase weapons, attachments and defenses.
Development
Digital Cybercherries were awarded an Unreal Dev Grant which helped to further fund Hypercharge: Unboxed. It is built in the Unreal Engine 4.
The game was released on the Nintendo eShop on January 31, 2020 and on Steam on April 27, 2020.
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2020 video games
Indie games
Windows games
Nintendo Switch games
First-person shooter multiplayer online games
First-person shooters
Third-person shooters
Multiplayer online games
Cooperative video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Unreal Engine games
Sentient toys in fiction
Video games about toys
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaline%20Hohf%20Beery | Adaline Hohf Beery (, Hohf; after marriage, Beery, sometimes misspelled Berry; December 20, 1859 – February 24, 1929) was an American author, newspaper and magazine editor, songbook compiler, as well as a hymnwriter. Born into a Pennsylvania Dutch community, her first job after graduating from Mount Morris College in Illinois was as a compositor in a printing office. She served as the editor of The Golden Dawn magazine and The Young Disciple child's paper; compiled a song-book, Gospel Chimes; and was employed by the Brethren Publishing House.
Early life and education
Adaline Hohf was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1859. She was of mixed ancestry. Her father, Michael Hohf (1821–1881), was of Dutch extraction, and her mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Bucher (1821–1914), was of Swiss ancestry. Her siblings were Emanuel (1853–1864) and Martha (1864–1948). Born in a Pennsylvania Dutch community, the Pennsylvania German language was the first she learned to speak. She removed with her parents, at the age of four years, to Frederick, Maryland, where she spent her childhood days amid the rural sights and sounds along the Linganore Creek. In 1870, her family removed to Iowa, where, as a school-girl in her teens, she first attempted verse.
She completed the academic course of Mount Morris College in 1882.
Career
A talent for composition began its development in her teens. Sketches, in the form of both poetry and prose, found their way into the local papers. She gave no particular evidence of a tendency to rhyme until 1884, at which time she resided in Illinois, when the death of a friend called forth a memorial tribute, which received such commendation from personal friends as to encourage her to continue to work in verse. Poems were frequently written by her afterward.
About six months after graduation from Mount Morris College, she entered a printing office as compositor, working there more than four years. In May, 1885, Beery undertook the editing of The Golden Dawn, an excellent but short-lived magazine published in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
On June 20, 1888, she married William Beery (1852–1956), an instructor in vocal music, and soon after rendered him valuable assistance in compiling an excellent song-book, Gospel Chimes, writing hymns and some music for it. She and her husband were located in Huntingdon, where she edited a child's paper known as The Young Disciple. Later, the husband and wife worked together in the Brethren Publishing House in Elgin, Illinois.
Personal life
Her family consisted of a son, Leon Felix Beery, born in February 1891, and a daughter, Judith Garber, born in 1897. Beery died on February 24, 1929, in Kane, Illinois. She was buried at Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin.
Selected works
Books
Poems of a decade, 1897
The rostrum : a collection of original recitations, dialogues, motion songs, etc. for day-schools and Christmas entertainments, 1900
Christmas rainbow; a play for four girls and four boys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez%20Lawson | Janez Yvonne Lawson Bordeaux (February 22, 1930 – November 24, 1990) was an American chemical engineer who became one of NASA's computers. She was the first African-American hired into a technical position at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She programmed the IBM 701.
Early life and education
Lawson was born on February 22, 1930, in Santa Monica, California. Her parents were Hilliard Lawson and Bernice Lawson. She attended Belmont High School and graduated in 1948. Lawson completed a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1952. She was a straight-A student and President of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
Career
Despite her qualifications, Lawson could not get work as a chemical engineer because of her race and gender. She saw an advertisement for a job as a computer in Pasadena. There was discussion about whether or not she should get the job, but Macie Roberts stood up for her. Lawson got the job, and in 1953 was one of the first Jet Propulsion Laboratory employees to be sent to a training course at IBM. Lawson was the first African-American hired into a technical position at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was promoted to mathematician in 1954. She became skilled at programming during the course, using a keypunch and learning speedcoding. Lawson lived in Los Angeles and would commute for over an hour to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory every day. Lawson joined the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation in the late 1950s.
References
1930 births
1990 deaths
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American scientists
20th-century American engineers
20th-century American mathematicians
20th-century women engineers
20th-century women mathematicians
African-American engineers
African-American women engineers
American chemical engineers
American computer programmers
American women engineers
Delta Sigma Theta members
Human computers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory faculty
Mathematicians from California
NASA people
Engineers from Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
20th-century American chemists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomali | Anomali Inc. is an American cybersecurity company that develops and provides threat intelligence products. In 2023, the company moved into providing Security Analytics powered by AI.
History
Anomali was founded in 2013 under the name ThreatStream, by Greg Martin and Colby DeRodeff. At that time, the company's products provided filtering and customization options to give companies visibility into indicators of compromise (IOCs). In 2016, company rebranded as Anomali and introduced new products and a new approach to threat intelligence. This included providing SaaS and on-premise platforms that customers could use to upload their logs, and then have Anomali match data against threat intelligence for existing IOCs.
In 2013, the company launched the first version of ThreatStream, a threat intelligence platform (TIP), uses different sources to track known threats, monitor and detect security breaches. In 2016, when the company became known as Anomali, it launched its second product, Anomali, which later became Anomali Match, an enterprise threat detection service.
By 2018, Anomali had received $96.3 million in funding from 11 investors, including Paladin Capital Group, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), GV (formerly Google Ventures), General Catalyst, Telstra Ventures, and Lumina Capital. The company works with government and business organizations such as the Bank of England, Citigroup, and Alaska Airlines.
In 2019, Anomali introduced Anomali Lens, a web-browser extension that highlights and collects relevant threat data from web pages. The data is added to ThreatStream and matched with internal network events using Anomali’s Match platform. Since being founded, Anomali has collaborated with partners spanning channel resellers, managed security services providers (MSSPs), systems integrators, and Commercial Threat Intelligence Feed providers to build out the Anomali Preferred Partner Store (Anomali APP Store). Anomali has established a collaborative relationship with Microsoft to integrate threat intelligence from ThreatStream with security insights from Microsoft Graph security API. This allowed companies to correlate cloud service and network activity with adversary threat information. The company also partnered with the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC) to bring cybersecurity tools and threat intelligence to the healthcare community.
In March 2021, the company signed a partnership with Netpoleon, a network security distributor. This was the company’s first partnership in Australia and New Zealand. In January 2022, a distribution agreement was signed with ACA Pacific to reach markets in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand.
In 2021, Anomali joined MITRE Engenuity’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense to collaborate on the Attack Flow Project to better understand adversary behavior and improve defensive capabilities. This partnership culminated with the public release of the project in March 202 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Luddy | Fred Luddy (born 1953) is an American billionaire businessman, and the founder of ServiceNow, a cloud computing company.
Early life
Luddy grew up in New Castle, Indiana, the son of an accountant father and a Catholic-school teacher mother.
Luddy went to Indiana University, but dropped out, as he was spending too much time doing computer programming.
Career
In 2004, his then net worth of $35 million was lost due to an accounting fraud at his previous company, Peregrine Systems, of which he was the CTO.
Luddy founded ServiceNow two weeks before his 50th birthday, "I couldn't wait, because there was something psychologically that said I couldn't start a company at 50."
Luddy stepped down as CEO of ServiceNow in 2011, then focused on product development, and moved at an advisory role in 2016.
As of October 2023, Luddy's net worth was estimated at $1.2 billion.
World Team Tennis
Luddy acquired a majority ownership of the San Diego Aviators in 2015. He currently serves of the Chairman of the Board of the team.
In 2017, Luddy was part of a purchase of World Team Tennis from Billie Jean King. He is now a majority owner with Eric Davidson.
Philanthropy
Luddy Hall at Indiana University was named in recognition of a donation from Luddy, and "in honor of the many IU alumni in the Luddy family, including Fred's mother, father, sister and two brothers".
References
Living people
American company founders
American billionaires
People from New Castle, Indiana
Place of birth missing (living people)
Indiana University alumni
1953 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-based%20diffusion%20analysis | Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) is a statistical tool to detect and quantify social transmission of information or a behaviour in social networks (SNA, etc.). NBDA assumes that social transmission of a behavior follows the social network of associations or interactions among individuals, since individuals who spend a lot of time together, or who interact more have more opportunity to learn from each other. Therefore, NBDA infers social transmission if the spread of a novel behavior follows the social network of a population. NBDA thus allows the study of social learning to be linked to animal behavior research that uses social network analysis. NBDA was introduced by Franz & Nunn and further developed by Hoppitt, Boogert, & Laland.
Implementation
NBDA requires prior knowledge about the underlying social network of a population. In an observational study, the order (or timing) at which individuals in the population acquire a behaviour or information is recorded. NBDA then tests whether the spread of information or behaviour is explained by the previously determined network or not. Because more closely associated individuals are more likely to interact with each other, information is assumed to travel along social ties. If there is a good match between the diffusion of information and the underlying network social transmission is assumed. Otherwise, it is assumed that information was asocially acquired (e.g. trial and error, mistakes, etc.).
Application
NBDA does not only serve as a tool for the detection of social learning, but also allows the estimation of the strength of the social transmission effect. In addition, several individual-level variables can be included in the analysis, which have potential influence on an individual's learning rate (e.g. gender, rank or age), and can also be used to model the effect of, and statistically control for potential ecological and genetic influences. NBDA has been successfully used in a number of studies to identify and quantify the effects of social transmission on the spread of behaviors in both wild and captive animal populations such as starlings, chimpanzees or humpback whales.
Examples
Lobtail-feeding in humpback whales
Foraging strategies in tits
Moss-sponging in chimpanzees
References
External links
Ethology
Research methods
Networking algorithms
Social network analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rnn%20%28software%29 | rnn is an open-source machine learning framework that implements recurrent neural network architectures, such as LSTM and GRU, natively in the R programming language, that has been downloaded over 100,000 times (from the RStudio servers alone).
The rnn package is distributed through the Comprehensive R Archive Network under the open-source GPL v3 license.
Workflow
The below example from the rnn documentation show how to train a recurrent neural network to solve the problem of bit-by-bit binary addition.
> # install the rnn package, including the dependency sigmoid
> install.packages('rnn')
> # load the rnn package
> library(rnn)
> # create input data
> X1 = sample(0:127, 10000, replace=TRUE)
> X2 = sample(0:127, 10000, replace=TRUE)
> # create output data
> Y <- X1 + X2
> # convert from decimal to binary notation
> X1 <- int2bin(X1, length=8)
> X2 <- int2bin(X2, length=8)
> Y <- int2bin(Y, length=8)
> # move input data into single tensor
> X <- array( c(X1,X2), dim=c(dim(X1),2) )
> # train the model
> model <- trainr(Y=Y,
+ X=X,
+ learningrate = 1,
+ hidden_dim = 16 )
Trained epoch: 1 - Learning rate: 1
Epoch error: 0.839787019539748
sigmoid
The sigmoid functions and derivatives used in the package were originally included in the package, from version 0.8.0 onwards, these were released in a separate R package sigmoid, with the intention to enable more general use. The sigmoid package is a dependency of the rnn package and therefore automatically installed with it.
Reception
With the release of version 0.3.0 in April 2016 the use in production and research environments became more widespread. The package was reviewed several months later on the R blog The Beginner Programmer as "R provides a simple and very user friendly package named rnn for working with recurrent neural networks.", which further increased usage.
The book Neural Networks in R by Balaji Venkateswaran and Giuseppe Ciaburro uses rnn to demonstrate recurrent neural networks to R users. It is also used in the r-exercises.com course "Neural network exercises".
The RStudio CRAN mirror download logs
show that the package is downloaded on average about 2,000 per month from those servers
, with a total of over 100,000 downloads since the first release, according to RDocumentation.org, this puts the package in the 15th percentile of most popular R packages
.
References
External links
Repository on GitHub
rnn package on CRAN
Deep learning software
Free statistical software
Free science software
Open-source artificial intelligence
R scientific libraries
Free R (programming language) software
R (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage%20of%20the%20Valkyrie | Voyage of the Valkyrie is a video game for the TRS-80 and Apple II published in 1981 by Advanced Operating Systems. It was written by Leo Christopherson.
Gameplay
Voyage of the Valkyrie is a game in which the player pilots the ship Valkyrie attempting to defeat the ten castles on the island of Fugloy.
Reception
Forrest Johnson reviewed Voyage of the Valkyrie in The Space Gamer No. 48. Johnson commented that "Voyage of the Valkyrie is a novel arcade game, more valuable to TRS-80 users than those who game on the Apple."
References
External links
review in 80-U.S.
Review in SoftSide
Review in 80 Micro
Review in Creative Computing
Entry in Things To Do With Your Apple Computer
1981 video games
Apple II games
Combat flight simulators
TRS-80 games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleven%20Sports%20%28Portuguese%20TV%20network%29 | Eleven Sports is a Portuguese sports-oriented premium cable, satellite and IPTV television network with six premium channels and an OTT service. It is owned by Andrea Radrizzani (executive of the sports marketing MP & Silva) and The Channel Company. The operator opened its doors in Portugal in 2018 with the purchase of Champions League and Spanish League rights.
History
In May 2018, Eleven Sports announced the purchase of the rights of the UEFA Champions League and LaLiga Santander for the Portuguese market. On the same month, Eleven announced a distribution partner with Portuguese telco Nowo.
In June 2018 it was announced the purchase of the rights to three French football league competitions: Ligue 1, Coupe de la Ligue and Trophée des Champions. On June 19, 2018, Eleven announced that it had purchased the rights to broadcast the Scottish Premiership, Belgian Pro League (starting in 2018-19 season) and Bundesliga (starting only on the 2019-20 season)
At an interview with local newspaper Expresso, Danny Menken (Eleven's Group Managing Director) referred that Eleven Sports will comprise as a premium package of two 24/7 HD channels (with 4 pop-up channels for overflow coverage) costing less than €10 per month (with discounts for season pass subscribers). The package will be launched on August 15, 2018, the day of the 2018 UEFA Super Cup. On June 29, 2018 it was officially announced that Eleven Sports will have two offerings: a linear offering with two 24/7 channels in HD (with 4 pop-up channels for overflow coverage) and an OTT streaming offer. Both options will cost €9.99.
On December 3, 2019, Eleven Sports announced it would trial an entry into the PPV market in Portugal with the Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Anthony Joshua II fight. This was the first time a broadcaster engaged in PPV broadcasts after TVCabo (currently NOS) broadcast a select amount of movies between 2005 and 2010 under the "VOD" brand. Current (at the time) Eleven Sports subscribers had access to the event with no extra charge.
Rights
Association football
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Super Cup
UEFA Youth League
Jupiler Pro League
Belgian Super Cup
Premier League
Ligue 1 Uber Eats
Trophée des Champions
Bundesliga
2. Bundesliga
DFB-Pokal
DFL-Supercup
LaLiga Santander
Supercopa
Basketball
Liga Endesa
Copa del Rey de Baloncesto
Supercopa Endesa
Futsal
UEFA Futsal Champions League (final four only)
Gridiron football
NFL
Kickboxing
Enfusion
MMA
M-1 Global
PFL
Hexagone MMA
Motorsports
Formula E
NASCAR Cup Series
Padel
World Padel Tour
Rink Hockey
WSE Champions League
Tennis
ATP 250
Laver Cup
WTA Tour
See also
A Bola TV
Eurosport
Sport TV
References
Television stations in Portugal
Sports television networks
Television channels and stations established in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Cybercherries | Digital Cybercherries Ltd. is a video game developer based in the United Kingdom. The studio was founded in 2015 by a group of close friends who shared the belief that the players are integral to the creation of their games. They have developed and released two video games: New Retro Arcade: Neon and Hypercharge: Unboxed.
The studio's first game, New Retro Arcade: Neon, was released independently on 1 August 2016. It was met with favourable reception and won VRDB's Players Choice VR of the Year 2016 award.
Their second game, Hypercharge: Unboxed, was released for Microsoft Windows via Steam Early Access on 22 June 2017. After being released on the Nintendo Switch in February 2020, it became available for Windows via Steam in June 2020.
The team includes Joe Henson (Public Relations and Marketing Manager), Dec Doyle (Lead Programmer and Game Designer), and Ulrich Gollick (Lead Audio Engineer and Game Designer).
Games developed
References
External links
British companies established in 2015
Video game companies of the United Kingdom
Video game companies established in 2015
Video game development companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20Crackers | is a first-person shooter/action role-playing video game (FPS/RPG) developed by Media.Vision and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. Set after an intergalactic war, the story follows of group of bounty hunters as they take on jobs requested by the Galactic Federation police. Gameplay resembles dungeon crawlers, largely consisting of exploring and shooting enemies within complex 3D corridors. The player is able to freely rotate between three unique characters within missions, while points earned afterwards can be used to purchase consumable items and upgraded equipment.
Production was helmed by Media.Vision co-founder Takashi Fukushima, who had established the company in 1993 upon learning of Sony's intent to release its debut console the following year. Sony provided support through its own newly founded Japan Studio with development entailing a very short period to meet the console's launch.
Crime Crackers was released exclusively in Japan on December 3, 1994. Critical reception was mixed regarding its graphics and its attempt at combining two distinct gameplay genres. A sequel, Crime Crackers 2, was released in Japan in 1997. Both games were made available on the PlayStation Network in 2007.
Plot
Crime Crackers is based on the Monthly Shōnen Captain manga Chō Hikari Seiki Star Crackers by Kokomahi. Set in the distant future and in a far away galaxy, the story begins 20 years after the end of large-scale, intergalactic war. Though it is mostly peaceful, the Galactic Federation police have difficulty controlling all crime on its own. A system is established in which the police partner with bounty hunter groups colloquially known as "crackers" to maintain order. One such group are those aboard the starship Pink Dolphin. They are led by protagonist , a genius young woman from a prestigious family who is in search of her missing brother Cain. The second core member is , a dragon-like military veteran who served Emelia's grandfather during the war and was assigned to watch over her afterwards. The final core member is , a fox girl and knight who was exiled from her planet before joining Emelia's crew. Three other members of the Pink Dolphin act as support for the main trio. The ship's pilot is , a birdman and former pilot of the ship Dolan during the war whose side hobby is hunting ancient treasures of his ancestors. is a robot in charge of the ship's navigation, engineering, and weapons. He also acts as a storage unit for the final member, , a computerized lifeform ("cyber elf") who aids the team in data purposes like electronic lockpicking.
Gameplay
Crime Crackers is a first-person shooter with role-playing elements.
Development and release
Crime Crackers was the first game developed Media.Vision. The game would be published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) and development support was provided by Sony's new, in-house software subsidiary Japan Studio. Media.Vision's founder and president Takashi Fukushima pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roby%20Muhamad | Roby Muhamad is an Indonesian entrepreneur and scientist best known for his work with social network dynamics. His work spans the fields of physics, psychology, and sociology.
Muhamad earned his bachelor in physics from the Bandung Institute of Technology, and he earned his doctorate in sociology from Columbia University. He current lectures at the Department of Psychology at the University of Indonesia. In 2003, Muhamad and Duncan J. Watts were part of the team which roughly confirmed Stanley Milgram's hypothesis on six degrees of separation.
Muhamad is co-owner of the location-based dating app Yogrt. He has made public calls for modernizing anti-tobacco efforts targeted at teenagers due to tobacco companies use of social media to negate teens' rational calculation of loss-benefit.
References
External links
Official website
1975 births
Bandung Institute of Technology alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Indonesian physicists
Indonesian sociologists
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Indonesia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLBleed | TLBleed is a cryptographic side-channel attack that uses machine learning to exploit a timing side-channel via the translation look-aside buffer (TLB) on modern microprocessors that use simultaneous multithreading. , the attack has only been demonstrated experimentally on Intel processors; it is speculated that other processors may also potentially be vulnerable to a variant of the attack, but no proof of concept has been demonstrated. AMD had indicated that their processors would not be vulnerable to this attack.
The attack led to the OpenBSD project disabling simultaneous multithreading on Intel microprocessors. The OpenBSD project leader Theo de Raadt has stated that, while the attack could theoretically be addressed by preventing tasks with different security contexts from sharing physical cores, such a fix is currently impractical because of the complexity of the problem.
See also
Transient execution CPU vulnerability
Zombieload
References
External links
Research Paper
2018 in computing
Hardware bugs
Intel x86 microprocessors
Side-channel attacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCION%20%28Internet%20architecture%29 | SCION (Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-Generation Networks) is a modern Future Internet architecture that aims to offer high availability and efficient point-to-point packet delivery, even in the presence of actively malicious network operators and devices. As of 2018 it is an ongoing research project led by researchers at ETH Zurich and, among other Future Internet proposals, is being explored in the Internet Engineering Task Force research group for path-aware networking.
Goals
Availability in the presence of distributed adversaries: As long as an attacker-free path between endpoints exists, it should be discovered and utilized with guaranteed bandwidth.
Transparency and Control: Separation of control and data planes by encoding paths as packet-carried forwarding state (PCFS) in the packet header, as well as enabling of multipath communication for enhanced availability and defense against network attacks.
Efficiency, Scalability, and Extensibility: Packet forwarding is at least as efficient in latency and throughput as current IP in common cases and more scalable with respect to BGP and the size of routing tables. Achieved by storing state in packet headers and protecting them cryptographically, using modern block ciphers such as AES that can be computed very efficiently (within 10ns on a modern CPU ).
Support for Global but Heterogeneous Trust: Scale the authentication of entities to a global environment and utilizing trust agility so each end host or user can know the complete set of trust roots for the validation of a certificate.
Deployability: Deployment should only require installation or upgrade of a few border routers, thus requiring minimal added complexity to the existing infrastructure. In addition, it should not disrupt current Internet topology and business models/relationships (e.g., should still support peering).
Isolation domains and autonomous systems
SCION introduces the concept of an isolation domain (ISD) which is a logical grouping of autonomous systems (ASes), administered by a smaller subset of the ASes that constitute the ISD core. The ISD is governed by a policy, called the trust root configuration (TRC), which is negotiated by the ISD core and defines the roots of trust that are used to validate bindings between names and public keys or addresses. ASes within an ISD can be connected by core links, customer-provider links, or peering links, representative of the relationship between the ASes.
Within an AS there are several services such as:
Beacon Servers - responsible for beaconing which is a process to generate, receive, and propagate messages called path-segment construction beacons (PCBs) to construct path segments and explore routing paths.
Path Servers - storage for mappings of AS to path that were discovered during beaconing.
Name Servers - perform name translation similar to DNS by using RAINS to retrieve (ISD, AS) tuple that can be used to find and construct end-to-end paths.
Certi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%2C%20unknown-unicast%20and%20multicast%20traffic | Broadcast, unknown-unicast and multicast traffic (BUM traffic) is network traffic transmitted using one of three methods of sending data link layer network traffic to a destination of which the sender does not know the network address. This is achieved by sending the network traffic to multiple destinations on an Ethernet network. As a concept related to computer networking, it includes three types of Ethernet modes: broadcast, unicast and multicast Ethernet. BUM traffic refers to that kind of network traffic that will be forwarded to multiple destinations or that cannot be addressed to the intended destination only.
Overview
Broadcast traffic is used to transmit a message to any reachable destination in the network without the need to know any information about the receiving party. When broadcast traffic is received by a network switch it is replicated to all ports within the respective VLAN except the one from which the traffic comes from.
Unknown-unicast traffic happens when a switch receives unicast traffic intended to be delivered to a destination that is not in its forwarding information base. In this case the switch marks the frame for flooding and sends it to all forwarding ports within the respective VLAN. Forwarding this type of traffic can create unnecessary traffic that leads to poor network performance or even a complete loss of network service. This flooding of packets is known as a unicast flooding.
Multicast traffic allows a host to contact a subset of hosts or devices joined into a group. This causes the message to be broadcast when no group management mechanism is present. Flooding BUM frames is required in transparent bridging and in a data center context this does not scale well causing poor performance.
BUM traffic control
Throttling
One issue that may arise is that some network devices cannot handle high rates of broadcast, unknown-unicast or multicast traffic. In such cases, it is possible to limit the BUM traffic for specific ports in order to have a control on the number of packets or bytes that are flooded on the VLAN to other devices. This threshold is represented in kilobits per second (kbps), and it can be set for broadcast rate, multicast rate and unknown unicast rate independently.
Network port security
In the case of unknown-unicast traffic, a security issue may arise. To prevent flooding unknown-unicast traffic across the switch, it is possible to configure the network equipment to divert unknown-unicast traffic to specific trunk interfaces in order to split broadcast coming from different VLANs or to use specific trunk interfaces for multiple VLANs.
BUM handling in VXLAN
The use of VXLAN as overlay technology allows for providing data link layer connectivity services between endpoints that may be deployed across network layer network domains. Since those endpoints are logically part of the same data link layer domain, they must be capable of sending and receiving data link layer multi-destination fra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Survivor%20%28season%205%29 | Australian Survivor: Champions vs. Contenders, is the fifth season of Australian Survivor and the third season to air on Network Ten and to be hosted by Jonathan LaPaglia, and was filmed on the Fijian community of Savusavu.
The television series is based on the international reality game show franchise Survivor. This season featured 24 contestants divided into two tribes: "Champions", composed of twelve high-achievers who excelled in their fields, and "Contenders", composed of twelve everyday Australians. The season premiered on 1 August 2018, and concluded on 9 October 2018, where Shane Gould was named the winner over Sharn Coombes in a 5–4 vote, winning the grand prize of A$500,000 and title of Sole Survivor.
Contestants
The 24 contestants were divided into two tribes based on celebrity status: "Champions," composed of 12 people who have received accolades and fame for their exceptional work in their given fields, and "Contenders," composed of 12 non-celebrities. Among the Champions were Russell Hantz, a three-time contestant on the American Survivor series (having competed on seasons 19, 20 and 22; the American host broadcaster, CBS, acquired Network Ten in 2017), The Biggest Loser trainer Steve "Commando" Willis, and Olympic gold medalists Lydia Lassila and Shane Gould. The Contenders included Benji Wilson, brother of Australian Survivor season 4 contestant Anneliese Wilson, and Zach Kozyrski, who appeared as a Gladiator in the 2008 revival of Gladiators.
Notes
Future appearances
Moana Hope, Zach Kozyrski, Lydia Lassila, Mat Rogers, Shonee Fairfax, Sharn Coombes and Shane Gould competed in Australian Survivor: All Stars. In 2023, Fairfax now using her husband's surname of Bowtell, Jackie Glazier and Steve Khouw competed as villains in Australian Survivor: Heroes V Villains.
Season summary
The 24 contestants were divided into two tribes. The Contenders, representing everyday Australians, faced off against the Champions, high achievers in their respective fields. Brian, Jackie, Monika, and Shane were initially outsiders at the Champions tribe. Meanwhile, at the Contenders tribe, Benji took strategic control of the tribe, and three pairs emerged: Benji & Robbie, Fenella & Shonee, and Heath & Tegan (the latter of whom re-entered the game from Exile Beach after getting blindsided by Benji). The Champions dominated challenges until a tribe swap sent Shonee and Tegan to the Champions and Lydia, Monika, & Sharn to the Contenders. Benji and Robbie worked with their new Champions tribemates, while the Contenders on the new Champions tribe tried, but failed, to infiltrate the majority.
The merge occurred with 12 players left; though most of the Champions wanted to pick off the rest of the Contenders, Mat and Shane were threatened by Lydia's challenge prowess and blindsided her before Robbie was eliminated. Having lost his closest ally, Benji overthrew the majority to blindside Mat before his own elimination followed. The pairs of Brian & Monik |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70th%20Primetime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2017, until May 31, 2018, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented across two ceremonies on September 8 and September 9, 2018. The nominations were announced on July 12, 2018. The ceremony was in conjunction with the annual Primetime Emmy Awards and is presented in recognition of technical and other similar achievements in American television programming, including guest acting roles.
Winners and nominees
Governors Award
Star Trek (presented to CBS Television Studios)
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Queer Eye (Netflix) Antiques Roadshow (PBS)
Fixer Upper (HGTV)
Lip Sync Battle (Paramount Network)
Shark Tank (ABC)
Who Do You Think You Are? (TLC)
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United Shades of America (CNN) Born This Way (A&E)
Deadliest Catch (Discovery Channel)
Intervention (A&E)
Naked and Afraid (Discovery Channel)
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked (VH1)
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"USS Callister" (Black Mirror) (Netflix) Fahrenheit 451 (HBO)
Flint (Lifetime)
Paterno (HBO)
The Tale (HBO)
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Dave Chappelle: Equanimity (Netflix) The Carol Burnett Show: 50th Anniversary Special (CBS)
Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2018 (CBS)
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents the Great American* Puerto Rico (*It's complicated.) (TBS)
Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life (Netflix)
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN) Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (A&E)
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman (Netflix)
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson (Nat Geo)
Vice (HBO)
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Wild Wild Country (Netflix) American Masters (PBS)
Blue Planet II (BBC America)
The Defiant Ones (HBO)
The Fourth Estate (Showtime)
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The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (HBO) Icarus (Netflix)
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (Netflix)
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like (PBS)
Spielberg (HBO)
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Rick and Morty: "Pickle Rick" (Adult Swim) Big Hero 6: The Series: "Baymax Returns" (Disney XD)
Bob's Burgers: "V for Valentine-detta" (Fox)
The Simpsons: "Gone Boy" (Fox)
South Park: "Put It Down" (Comedy Central)
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Robot Chicken: "Freshly Baked: The Robot Chicken Santa Claus Pot Cookie Freakout Special: Special Edition" (Adult Swim) Adventure Time: "Ring of Fire" (Cartoon Network)
Steven Universe: "Jungle Moon" (Cartoon Network)
Teen Titans Go!: "The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode Spectacular! Pt. 1 and Pt. 2" (Cartoon Network)
We Bare Bears: "Hurricane Hal" (Cartoon Net |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastigirl | Helen Parr (née Truax), also known as Elastigirl and Mrs. Incredible, is a fictional character who appears in Pixar's computer-animated superhero film The Incredibles (2004) and its sequel Incredibles 2 (2018). Voiced by actress Holly Hunter, the character is a superhero who possesses superhuman elasticity, granting her the ability to stretch any part of her body to great proportions. Helen is introduced in the first film as an accomplished superheroine forced into retirement with the rest of her family after usage of superpowers is banned by law.
Development
Creation and casting
Screenwriter and director Brad Bird conceived Helen as a modern mom who "has to stretch in hundreds of different ways each day." Helen is voiced by American actress Holly Hunter. Bird considered Hunter "one of the finest actresses in the world", capable of playing a "sensitive" character who also has "a very sturdy center". Hunter, who had never voiced an animated character before, saw the role as an exciting opportunity to expand her repertoire. She was also drawn to the film by its unique and "unconventional story about family and human dynamics".
Characterization
According to Hunter, Helen has "total fearlessness" as a superhero, but also "a very strong, protective instinct" when it comes to her children, and an "innate desire to save others".
Regarding the choice to make Helen the star of Incredibles 2, Bird insisted that it was unrelated with the #MeToo movement, and was instead a choice that came naturally with how the writers wanted to progress the story.
Animation
The Incredibles was the first Pixar film with an all-human cast, which posed significant challenges for the technical crew. The muscular movements of Helen was a particularly difficult subject, as the character needs to be able to stretch, bend and fold into various shapes. Character supervisor Bill Wise stated that Helen's was likely the most complex rig Pixar had ever done to that point. A specific program was written so that she could twist and turn as needed. The original animation system had become obsolete by Incredibles 2 and as a result all characters, including Helen, were rebuilt using a new tool box. Her expanded role in the sequel meant additional work but also new opportunities for the animators. The tentacle rigs for Hank in Finding Dory were used as inspiration in order for Helen to stretch "much beyond what she did in the first film".
Powers and abilities
Elastigirl's primary superpower is elasticity, which allows her to stretch various parts of her body to many different sizes. This ability can extend to shapeshifting, as she can use elasticity to change her form and density, as when she morphed into a boat and a parachute. She can achieve superhuman levels of strength, durability, and agility using her elasticity powers. Her only weakness is extremely cold air. Upon being captured by Evelyn in Incredibles 2, she is put in a refrigerated room and warned that she will "break" if |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino%20Tournament%20of%20Champions | Casino Tournament of Champions is a video game developed by Random Programming and published by Capstone for MS-DOS.
Gameplay
Casino Tournament of Champions is a game featuring casino gambling games such as slots, video poker, blackjack, roulette, craps, minibaccarat, and well as seven versions of poker.
Reception
Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "if you're looking too add some casino action to your collection, CTOC is the package to buy - just don't expect anything spectacular."
Reviews
Electronic Games 1995-07
Computer Game Review And CD-ROM Entertainment - August 1995
References
External links
1995 video games
Capstone Software games
Casino video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close%20Coupled%20Cooling | Close Coupled Cooling is a last generation cooling system particularly used in data centers. The goal of close coupled cooling is to bring heat transfer closest to its source: the equipment rack. By moving the air conditioner closer to the equipment rack a more precise delivery of inlet air and a more immediate capture of exhaust air is ensured.
Air Conditioner Types
Commercially available close coupled solutions can be divided into two categories: Open-Loop and Closed-Loop.
Open-Loop Configuration
Open-Loop configurations are not totally independent from the room they are installed, and air flows interact with the ambient room environment.
In-Row Air Conditioners
Row-Based Air Conditioning units are installed inside the rack rows. Air flows generally follow short and linear paths, reducing, in this way, the necessary power needed to start up the fans and increasing the energy efficiency.
A Row-Based cooling solution offers one advantage with respect to the Room-Based solution, since the former one can be better adapted to the needs of cooling for specific rows; it is anyway appropriate not to locate the conditioning units at the beginning or at the end of the rows to maximise their performance.
Rear Door Heat Exchangers
This type of solution is based on the substitution of the rear door of an existing rack.
These heat exchangers leverage the front-to-back air dissipation of most of the IT equipments: the servers dissipate warm air, which passes the heat exchanger coil and is returned to the room at an agreeable temperature.
The cooling units of this category do not occupy additional space, so they are particularly indicated either to cool all the spaces originally designed as data centers, or to integrate an already existing cooling system.
Overhead Heat Exchangers
Generally, a heat exchanger of this type discharges air from the ceiling into the cold aisle whereas the exhaust air rises into the vents in the ceiling; in Close Coupled system cases, the units are positioned directly above the servers, making the cold air delivery and hot air return much more precise.
A system of this type, being positioned vertically, does not need further floor space in the room.
Closed-Loop Configuration
The Closed-Loop cooling typologies act independently from the room they are installed; the rack and the heat exchanger work exclusively with one another, creating an internal microclimate.
In Rack Cooling
The cooling system is adjoint to the server rack and both of them are completely sealed; the solid doors on the enclosure and In-Row Air Conditioners contain the air flow, directing cold air to the server inlet and exhaust air, by using fans, through the cooling coil.
The Close-Loop design allows a very focused cooling at rack level and it is possible to install very dense equipment disregarding the ambient environment, giving flexibility to use unconventional spaces to install the IT equipment.
Efficiency
In the traditional layout, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Adams%20%28sportscaster%29 | Kay Adams (born April 6, 1986) is an American sportscaster and television personality. She hosted Good Morning Football on NFL Network from 2016 to 2022 along with People (the TV show!), a daily entertainment newsmagazine based on the magazine of the same name which aired from the fall of 2020 until the spring of 2022 over the stations of Meredith Corporation (merged with Gray Television in the fall of 2021).
She previously had several on-air hosting roles and also serves as the host of the DirecTV Fantasy Zone channel during football season.
Early life
Adams was born in Chicago on April 6, 1986. Her parents were immigrants from Poland. She became interested in a media career while attending Whitney M. Young Magnet High School.
After graduating from high school, Adams attended the University of Missouri, majoring in communications and working various part time jobs to pay for her education, including bartender at a sports bar and radio personality on local music and sports radio stations.
Career
Early in her career, Adams served as an in-game host for the St. Louis Cardinals at their home games.
Adams’ first role with professional football was on fantasy football shows, including SiriusXM's Livin' the Fantasy and SiriusXM Fantasy Drive and DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket Fantasy Zone. She continues to host DirecTV Fantasy Zone. Adams was a guest on the October 17, 2012, edition of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
She has also worked for FanDuel and was a reporter for NBC Sports Network. While with NBCSN, she occasionally appeared as a guest on network shows such as The Crossover with Michelle Beadle, hosted by Michelle Beadle, and NBC SportsTalk.
From 2016 to 2022, Adams served as one of the hosts of NFL Network's Good Morning Football. The show is the network's year-round morning show Monday through Fridays. She has also served as a host for special events for the Chicago Bears.
On September 17, 2018, it was announced that Adams would be joining the DAZN boxing broadcast team hosting each fight night broadcast on the live and on-demand sports streaming platform, alongside Sugar Ray Leonard, Brian Kenny, Chris Mannix and LZ Granderson.
In 2020, Adams hosted a mobile version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire where the general public played for real money.
On September 5, 2022, FanDuel announced that Adams will be making her debut on FanDuel TV starting on September 6, 2022, with her show Up and Adams, which airs Monday-Friday at 11 a.m. ET.
Kay is in several commercials for Dick's Sporting Goods.
References
External links
1986 births
American people of Polish descent
American sports radio personalities
American television sports anchors
Living people
NFL Network people
Mass media people from Chicago
University of Missouri alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Heart | Frank Evans Heart (May 15, 1929 – June 24, 2018) was an American computer engineer influential in computer networking. After nearly 15 years working for MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Heart worked for Bolt, Beranek and Newman from 1966 to 1994, during which he led a team that designed the first routing computer for the ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet.
Background
Born to a Jewish family in The Bronx, New York City, Heart grew up in Yonkers. His father was an engineer at the Otis Elevator Company; his mother was an insurance agent.
Entering as an electrical engineering major, Heart enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1947, entering a five-year master's degree program which he alternated semesters between work and school. During one summer, he worked as a power transformer tester at a General Electric factory. In 1951, he enrolled in MIT's new computer programming course taught by Gordon Welchman. Taking the course led Heart to complete his undergraduate coursework early. During his graduate studies, Heart was a research assistant on Whirlwind I, a computer that controlled an aircraft-tracking radar defense system; Whirlwind would be transferred to the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the on-campus military contractor. Heart received both bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering in 1952.
Career
At Lincoln Lab, Heart remained as a staff member after completing his master's degree. Eventually, Heart became a team lead for projects in building real-time computing systems where measuring devices gathered data by phone lines connected to computers. Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon wrote about Heart's management style in their 1996 book Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet:
In 1966, Heart left Lincoln Lab after being recruited by research and development company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). In August 1968, BBN won a request for proposal from ARPA to build the first Interface Message Processor (IMP), a computer that transmitted data and interconnected a network known today as a router. Jerry Elkind assigned Heart to be project manager.
With Severo Ornstein as hardware lead and Will Crowther the software lead, Heart's team of ten engineers used a rugged Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer to engineer the IMP, whose special function was to switch data among the computers on the ARPANET. The team also invented remote diagnostics for computers by equipping IMPs with remote control capabilities. By September 6, 1968, Heart's team finalized the nearly 200-page, $100,000 IMP proposal, which was BBN's most expensive project to date. The first IMP was installed at the University of California, Los Angeles on September 1, Labor Day of 1969, and the second was installed at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, a month later on October 1.
Heart, wrote Hafner and Lyon, had become "a highly regarded and valuable project manager" at BBN, because his teams had members "committed to a common miss |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20%28surname%29 | Heart is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Frank Heart (1929–2018), American computer engineer and Internet pioneer
Monique Heart, American drag queen
Zack Heart, Australian television and film personality
See also
Hart (surname); some persons with this surname may be erroneously referred to as "Heart"
Heart (disambiguation)
Heartz
Heart Evangelista (born 1985), Filipina actress and singer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20LTE%20networks%20in%20Africa | This is a list of commercial Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks in Africa, grouped by their frequency bands.
Some operators use multiple bands and are therefore listed multiple times in respective sections.
General information
For technical details on LTE and a list of its designated operating frequencies, bands, and roaming possibilities, see LTE frequency bands.
Bands 33 to 44 are assigned to TDD-LTE.
Note: This list of network deployments does not imply any widespread deployment or national coverage.
Commercial deployments
See also
LTE
LTE frequency bands
List of LTE networks
List of planned LTE networks
List of UMTS networks
List of HSPA+ networks
List of CDMA2000 networks
UMTS frequency bands
List of mobile network operators of the Middle East and Africa
Mobile Network Codes in ITU region 6xx (Africa)
References
Africa-related lists
Lists by country
LTE (telecommunication)
Telecommunications lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insides%20%28band%29 | Insides are an English post-rock duo, consisting of members Kirsty Yates (vocals and bass) and Julian Tardo (guitar and programming).
Following the disbandment of their previous band Earwig, Yates and Tardo formed Insides in 1992 and released their debut album, Euphoria, on the 4AD imprint Guernica in November 1993. Euphoria was met with critical acclaim, including being named as one of the year's best albums by Melody Maker. Insides departed 4AD following the release of their second album Clear Skin in 1994 and released their third album Sweet Tip in 2000 on Third Stone Records. The duo disbanded following the album's release and remained inactive for the remainder of the decade.
In a 2011 interview, Tardo indicated that he and Yates were interested in recording new Insides music. The duo returned in July 2016 with the release of a new song, "Ghost Music".
In 2021, Insides issued their first album for two decades when Soft Bonds was released.
Discography
Albums
Euphoria (1993)
Clear Skin (1994)
Sweet Tip (2000)
Soft Bonds (2021)
References
4AD artists
English indie rock groups
English post-rock groups
British dream pop musical groups
Musical groups established in 1992
Musical groups established in 2000
Musical groups reestablished in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick%20Tock%20%28film%29 | Tick Tock () is a Pakistani computer animated film directed by Omar Hassan and written by Omair Alavi and Sana Tauseef. The film is produced by Sana Tauseef. The story follows history buffs Hassan and Daanya, who embark upon a time-travel adventure along with their teacher KK. The film casts Ahsan Khan, Alyy Khan and Maria Memon is the lead roles. The film was released on 23 March 2018 under the Hum Films Banner.
Plot
The story evolves into a fun-filled adventure as they meet the greatest heroes of Pakistani history and overcome all the negative forces to keep the timeline intact. Adventurous twists and turns packed with fun and action makes this movie a spellbinding and unique experience for kids.
Production Studio
The film is produced by S4 Solutions which is a media production house which is well known for pioneering marketing and musical events, recently it has won the 2016 Kara Film Award for its documentary 'Returning Home'.
Cast
Ahsan Khan
Alyy Khan
Maria Memon
Ghulam Mohiuddin
Release
The film was distributed by Hum Films and Eveready Studios throughout Pakistan on 23 March 2018; The film also had a TV Premiere on World TV on 9 September 2018.
See also
List of Pakistani animated films
List of Pakistani films of 2018
References
External links
Pakistani animated films
Pakistani science fiction films
Hum films
2010s Urdu-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Zorn | Werner Zorn (born 24 September 1942, in Frankfurt am Main) is a German computer scientist and Internet pioneer.
From 2001 to 2007, he was a professor of communication systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, previously working at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as the head of a computer center and a professor.
Life
Zorn, who was the son of professor , attended primary school in Bad Soden from 1949 to 1953, then the Leibniz Realgymnasium in Frankfurt. After graduating in 1962, he studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, specializing in communications engineering and graduated with a degree in engineering in 1967. He then earned his doctorate, with his instructor being Karl Steinbuch, with the thesis Setting method for linear and non-linear classifiers (German: Einstellverfahren für lineare und nichtlineare Klassifikatoren) in the field of character recognition.
In 1972, he moved to the newly founded Department of Computer Science of the University of Karlsruhe (TH), where he was responsible for the development, operation and further development of the Informatik-Rechnerabteilung (IRA) data center for 25 years. After his appointment as a professor in 1979, he chose the topics of methodological performance analysis and data communication as one of his main fields, which he has continued to pursue ever since.
With the first German Internet email in 1984, the connection of China to the international computer networks in 1987, the founding of the company Xlink in 1989 as one of the first German Internet service providers, Zorn set a number of early milestones for the Internet internationally.
In his capacity as Admin-C for the domain "germany" with the e-mail address zorn@germany, Zorn was involved in the establishment of an open network of different computer networks in the German scientific field (CSNET, EARN, EUnet and others). He came into conflict with the German Research Network DFN and became the main critic of its funding policy, which was strictly OSI-oriented and against the TCP/IP-based Internet. This Internet-OSI Standards War lasted until the early 1990s.
After moving to the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) at the University of Potsdam in 2001, Zorn devoted himself to the problem of hierarchically consistent modeling of communication systems in teaching and research, resulting, in particular, in 2007 in a methodologically novel approach to the quantitative analysis of discrete dynamical systems.
Awards (selection)
2006: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
2013: Inductee in the Internet Hall of Fame in the Pioneers Category
2014: Chinese Government Friendship Award
2016: Ehrenmitglied der Leibniz-Sozietaet der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.
Publications (selection)
1985 Neueste Netznachrichten Sonderausgabe März 1985
1988 Wie China mit den internationalen Rechnernetzen verbunden wurde
1995 mit Martin Haas: Methodische Leistungsanalyse von Rechensystemen. Handbuch für Info |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Single%20Wives | The Single Wives is an Australian reality television series hosted by Fifi Box which screened on the Seven Network. The show features four women who were formerly married, searching for another chance at love. They are assisted by dating coach Matthew Hussey.
Plot
The series follows four women as they search for love. The women have all been married previously. Three are now divorced and one is widowed.
With the support of dating expert, Matthew Hussey, the women are put in various dating situations and are critiqued. As the women are forced to face some hard truths about themselves and their dating techniques, Hussey plays the role of advisor and coaches them towards more profound and less shallow relationships. In many instances, Hussey uses psychology to underpin many of the concepts he brings across to the women.
The women's names are Sheridan Buchanan-Sorensen, Sunnie Khakh, Emma Wynne and Nikki Mitropoulos.
References
External links
The Single Wives on 7plus
2010s Australian reality television series
2018 Australian television series debuts
2018 Australian television series endings
Seven Network original programming
Australian dating and relationship reality television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Eureka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Karrenberg | Daniel Karrenberg (born 1959, in Düsseldorf) is a German computer scientist and one of Europe's Internet pioneer who lives in the Netherlands.
Biography
From 1981 to 1987, Karrenberg was a scientific assistant and network administrator at TU Dortmund. In 1982, he helped set up EUnet, the first European Internet service provider.
From 1987 to 1992, Karrenberg worked at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, where he helped to build the central European structured cabling with links to the American NSFNET.
In 1989, Karrenberg was one of the founders of RIPE, the platform for cooperation between European internet providers. In 1992, he was instrumental in founding the world's first Regional Internet Registry, the RIPE NCC, responsible for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa and Central Asia, which he headed until 1999.
From 2000, Karrenberg was the lead scientist at RIPE NCC, leading operational activities in numerous projects including RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS), RIPE Test Traffic Measurements (TTM), DNS Monitoring Service (DNSMON), and Name Server Daemon (NSD).
From 2005 to 2011, Karrenberg was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, of which he chaired for three years.
Awards
In 2001, Karrenberg received the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award for Two Decades Of Extraordinary Dedication To The Development Of Networking In Europe And Around The World. In 2012, he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in the Global Connectors category.
References
1959 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Internet pioneers
German expatriates in the Netherlands
Scientists from Düsseldorf
Scientists from North Rhine-Westphalia
Technical University of Dortmund alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella%20Dryden | Isabella Dryden (born October 14, 1917) is a Canadian educator known for teaching computer classes at the age of 102. She also supervised the business education curriculum used in Manitoba's public school system and is credited with making business studies a degree course at Manitoba's main university.
Background
Born in 1917, Dryden grew up on a farm in Manitoba, in the district of Lenore, the oldest of five children. Her parents were John and Mary Dryden. When she was 12 years old, her father died and Dryden helped her mother raise her younger siblings.
From the age of six, Dryden taught her brothers and sisters how to read and count. On her first day of school in grade one, she knew she wanted to become a teacher one day. She left home to obtain a teaching certificate from Central Normal School in Winnipeg. Dryden remained single her whole life, seeing as women teachers were not permitted to marry in the 1930s. She however has many nieces and nephews that she stays in touch with through the internet.
Career
Dryden began her teaching career in 1937, near the rural community of Lenore, Manitoba. She taught at the Errol School, a one-room building with an outhouse and wood stove. She instructed grades one through nine and had additional tasks like preparing lunches and organizing dances.
Her next teaching job was at the Bardal School in Sinclair, where she had 45 students. She taught at Bardal, also a one-room schoolhouse, from 1941 to 1942. After dealing with a personal health crisis, she left teaching to pursue a secretarial career in Windsor, Ontario, while attending business classes part-time. After five years of office work, she returned to her former career in 1947, teaching at Two Creeks School and later Virden Public School, both located in her home province.
In 1949, Dryden began giving business classes at Virden Collegiate Institute in Virden, Manitoba. She taught courses such as book keeping, typewriting, law, and economics. Among her former students was celebrity entrepreneur Jim Treliving, whose family lived in the area. During her tenure with the high school, Dryden worked on obtaining her university degree in business education. At the time, Manitoba had no graduate programs in business, so she studied during the summer sessions at institutions located in other provinces, such as the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta.
In 1967, Dryden became an administrator for the Manitoba public school system, overseeing the business education curriculum for the Department of Education. She held this position until her retirement in 1983. While there, she also helped define the curriculums for the Industrial Arts and Vocational Industrial programs, as well as being introduced to early computer systems. She learned how to use the room sized mainframes which relied on punch cards and outputted reams of paper filled with data. During the 1970s, Dryden also taught business classes at the University of Manitoba and Re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demi%20Getschko | Demi Getschko (born 4 May 1953) is a Brazilian computer scientist who is considered one of the pioneers of the Internet in Brazil. He currently is the CEO of NIC.br.
Early life
Son of Bulgarian immigrants Emil Gestchko and pharmacist Erifili Dimitrova, Demi was born in Trieste, Free Territory of Trieste (now Italy), and arrived as refugees in Santos, Brazil aged 11 months.
Career
Getschko is an electrical engineer who graduated from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo in 1975, with a master's degree in 1980 and a doctorate in 1989, both in engineering by the same institution.
He worked at the Electronic Computing Center (CCE) at USP (1971–1985) and at the Data Processing Center at the São Paulo Research Foundation (1986–1996). In that period, he was an operations coordinator at RNP and participated in the network deployment effort in the country. He was one of those responsible for the first Brazilian TCP/IP connection in 1991 between FAPESP and the Energy Sciences Network (ESNet) in the United States by Fermilab. As such, he is considered one of the pioneers of Brazilian Internet.
Getschko worked as the Technology Director for Agência Estado, a subsidiary of Grupo Estado, between 1996 and 2000, and again between 2002 and 2005. He also served as the vice president of technology for iG between 2000 and 2001.
He was also a professor at the Polytechnic School of USP, and today he is an associate professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, where he teaches computer architecture (CA) and coordinates the Layer 2 laboratory of Projeto KyaTera.
Until May 2009, Getschko served as a member of the board of directors of ICANN by the ccNSO (Country Code Names Support Organization), elected for the 2005–2007 term and re-elected for the 2007–2009 term.
He has been a director of the Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil since 1995 and has been the CEO of NIC.br since 2006. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Brazilian Chamber of Electronic Commerce. In October 2010, he was appointed a member of the board of directors of Telebrás. In April 2014, he was honored with his inclusion in the Internet Hall of Fame of the Internet Society in the Global connectors category, later serving on the Hall of Fame's advisory board in 2017. In April 2016, he received a special tribute in the 1st Digital Professional Award of ABRADi-SP, for his years of contributions to the Brazilian Internet.
References
External links
Curriculum Lattes
Profile of Demi Getschko at ICANN
Blog in the newspaperEstado de S. Paulo
1954 births
Living people
Engineers from Trieste
People from Santos, São Paulo
Italian emigrants to Brazil
Brazilian people of Bulgarian descent
Brazilian engineers
Brazilian computer scientists
Internet pioneers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target%20controlled%20infusion | Target-controlled infusion (TCI) automates the dosing of intravenous drugs during surgery. After the anesthetist sets the desired parameters in a computer and presses the start button, the system controls the infusion pump, while being monitored by the anesthetist. TCI is as safe and effective as manually controlled infusion.
TCI can be sub-classified according to the target. The suffix 'e' as in TCIe indicates that the target is the effect site, in most cases, the central nervous system or brain. Alternatively, the suffix 'p' denotes plasma, indicating that the device implementing the TCI model is to target the blood plasma. There are important differences in relation to the time taken for effect site equilibration. Studies have demonstrated the clinical safety of the effect-site target model.
Popular TCI models exist for Propofol and the synthetic opioid Remifentanil. The models are based on pharmacokinetic studies and use software embedded in the infusion device. For propofol the Marsh and Schnider models are available and the Minto model is commonly used for remifentanil. In 2017, a project to emulate the TCI models in the python language was published on GitHub.
History
TCI has been used in clinical settings since 1996, initially with propofol.
See also
General anaesthesia#tci
References
Drug delivery devices
General anesthetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20data%20center | A Wireless Data center is a type of data center that uses wireless communication technology instead of cables to store, process and retrieve data for enterprises. The development of Wireless Data centers arose as a solution to growing cabling complexity and hotspots. The wireless technology was introduced by Shin et al., who replaced all cables with 60 GHz wireless connections at the Cayley data center.
Motivation
Most DCs deployed today can be classified as wired DCs because they use copper and optical fiber cables to handle intra- and inter-rack connections in the network. This approach has two problems, cable complexity and hotspots. Hotspots, also known as hot servers, are servers that generate high traffic compared to others in the network and they might become bottlenecks of the system. To address these problems several researchers propose the use of wireless communication into data center networks, to either augment existing wired data centers, or to realize a pure wireless data center
Although cable complexity at first seems like an esthetical problem, it can affect a DC in different ways. First, a significant manual effort is necessary to install and manage these cables. Apart from that, cables can additionally affect data center cooling. Finally, cables take up space, which could be used to add more servers. The use of wireless technologies could reduce the cable complexity and avoid the problems cited before, moreover, it would allow for automatic configurable link establishment between nodes with minimum effort.
Wireless links can be rearranged dynamically which makes it possible to perform adaptive topology adjustment. This means that the network can be rearranged to fulfil the real-time traffic demands of hotspots, thus solving the hot servers problem. Additionally, wireless connections do not rely on switches and therefore are free of problems such as single-point of failure and limited bisection bandwidth.
Requirements
The Data Center Network (DCN) is the infrastructure responsible to provide intra and inter-DC networking services, therefore is essential to design efficient high-speed/high bandwidth DCN to satisfy the high computing and communication demands from the DC. Another basic requirements, such as scalability and fault tolerance should also be addressed. In 2008, Ramachandran et al. talks specifically about the requirements that a wireless DCN should met, they are as follows:
High inter-node link capacity: Online services, such as MapReduce and distributed file systems, need high link and network capacity.
Reliability: There should be predictable performance of links over time.
Security Isolation: Data exchanged between services should be protected from unintended services for security and confidentiality.
Scalability: Link connectivity should scale and allow for the incremental addition of new machines to the network.
Small form factor of networking components: All machine components should have small form f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru%20Takahashi%20%28Internet%29 | Toru Takahashi (Japanese: 高橋徹 Takahashi Tōru; January 1941 – 20 December 2022) was a Japanese computer network researcher and businessman. He was credited with contributing to the spread of the Internet into Japan and the rest of Asia in the 1990s and was a pivotal figure in the early commercial development of the Internet. For this reason, he was often called the "Father of the Internet" in Japan.
Takahashi was born in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture in 1941. After graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Tohoku University in 1964, he worked as a contributing editor and writer. Since 1982, he has been involved in marketing of Videotex. Since 1986, he has worked on a high-speed LAN construction project using UNIX workstations and routers. Since 1987, he began researching the Internet and assumed office as a member of the Japan Unix Users Association. In 1993, he became secretary general at the time of establishing the Japan Internet Association and became its chairman in 1997. In 1994, he established the Tokyo Internet ISP and became its president. In 2001, when the Japan Internet Association merged with the Electronic Network Council and became the Foundation Internet Association, he became the deputy chief of Foundation Internet Association, and in 2002 became the chairperson of the Asia Pacific Internet Association, and later became a director.
In 2002, Takahashi received the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Minister's Award for Information and Communication. In 2012, he was chosen as the only Japanese person among the 33 members of the Internet Society's Internet Hall of Fame in the Global Connectors category for his contributions in spreading the Internet into Japan and the rest of Asia.
Takahashi died on 20 December 2022, at the age of 81.
Bibliography
References
External links
- Biography, introduction of books, etc.
1941 births
2022 deaths
People from Utsunomiya, Tochigi
Japanese Internet celebrities
Japanese computer scientists
Japanese male writers
Japanese businesspeople
Tohoku University alumni
Internet pioneers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exactis | Exactis LLC is a data broker established in 2015 and based in the U.S state of Florida. The firm reportedly handles business and consumer data in an effort to refine targeted advertising.
Data leak
Exactis became notable in June 2018, after a discovery by cybersecurity researcher Vinny Troia detailed how the organization made nearly 340 million detailed records about individual people available on a publicly accessible server, leaving those people at heightened risk of being impersonated, profiled or otherwise exploited through social engineering. The information has reportedly since been protected and removed from the public. However, the leak is notable due to the breach of data that was exposed, surpassing the Equifax breach which had exposed 145 million customers' personal data the year prior.
Exactis had reportedly accumulated some or all of its information without the knowledge or explicit consent of the data subjects.
References
Companies based in Florida
Data brokers
2015 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiros%20Simitis | Spiros Simitis (; 19 October 1934 – 18 March 2023) was a Greek-German jurist and a pioneer in the field of data protection. In recognition of his role, admirers sometimes describe him as "the man who invented data protection".
He was appointed Chief Data Protection Commissioner for the state of Hessen in 1975, and remained in post till 1991. When the West German government prepared for the 1978 launch of a national equivalent, he was seen by commentators as the obvious choice for the post of Federal Commissioner for Data Protection. He was indeed offered the job, but he rejected it in protest against the government decision, taken shortly before launch, to cut the resources allocated to the new department. That involved reducing the staffing level at the new commission from 32 – "previously agreed as necessary" – to 20. "The state of Bavaria on its own is budgeting no fewer than twenty data-protection staff for the coming year – a telling comparison" ("Allein das Land Bayern sehe für Datenschutz-Aufgaben in seinem eigenen Bereich im kommenden Jahr nicht weniger als zwanzig Bedienstete vor – eine "bezeichnende Relation"").
Spiros Simitis obtained West German citizenship in 1975. His younger brother, Costas Simitis, served as Prime Minister of Greece and was leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) between 1996 and 2004.
Biography
Spiros Simitis was born in Athens. Georgios Simitis, his father, was a lawyer and law professor. He completed his schooling in Athens. Directly after that, with his brother Costas Simitis, he moved to West Germany for university-level education in law. The brothers studied at the University of Marburg, where between 1952 and 1956 Spiros Simitis worked for his degree and doctorate in jurisprudence. He received his doctorate for work completed in 1956 on "Actual contractual relationships as an expression of the changing social purpose of legal principals in civil law" ("Die faktischen Vertragsverhältnisse als Ausdruck der gewandelten sozialen Funktion der Rechtsinstitute des Privatrechts"). He then moved a short distance south, to Frankfurt University, where he worked as a research assistant till 1962/63. His ambition was to make his career in the universities sector: accordingly, in 1963 he received his habilitation at Frankfurt. His dissertation was entitled (loosely translated), "The significance of the welfare state principle in family and company law" ("Der Sozialstaatgrundsatz in seiner Bedeutung fuer das Recht von Familie und Unternehmen"). Although the risks associated with unregulated accumulation by public bodies of vast quantities of personal data were already appearing on the horizon among academics familiar with developments in database technology, his habilitation was not concerned with Data Protection, the speciality which by the end of the 1960s had become the focus of his work.
Around the time he submitted his dissertation Simitis met the Freudian psychoanalyst-scholar Ilse Grub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20center%20security | Data center security is the set of policies, precautions and practices adopted at a data center to avoid unauthorized access and manipulation of its resources. The data center houses the enterprise applications and data, hence why providing a proper security system is critical. Denial of service (DoS), theft of confidential information, data alteration, and data loss are some of the common security problems afflicting data center environments.
Data security issues can be harmful to many companies sometimes, so it is very important to know what are the issues and find useful solutions for them. The purpose of data security is to protect digital information from unauthorized access. It is also important to note that data security is different from data privacy. There are many situations where data center security would be threatened on, especially for cloud-based data.
Overview
According to the Cost of a Data Breach Survey, in which 49 U.S. companies in 14 different industry sectors participated, they noticed that:
39% of companies say negligence was the primary cause of data breaches
Malicious or criminal attacks account for 37 percent of total breaches.
The average cost of a breach is $5.5 million.
Many big companies nowadays are using the cloud to store their and their customers' data, but the risks of saving data in the cloud can be enormous. Cyber attacks can be very harmful to many companies. There were 64% of companies worldwide that had troubles with cyber attacks in the year 2020 alone. Some cyber attacks targeted personal information such as identity theft can hurt someone's credits with life-changing influences.
The need for a secure data center
Physical security is needed to protect the value of the hardware therein.
Data protection
The cost of a breach of security can have severe consequences on both the company managing the data center and on the customers whose data are copied. The 2012 breach at Global Payments, a processing vendor for Visa, where 1.5 million credit card numbers were stolen, highlights the risks of storing and managing valuable and confidential data. As a result, Global Payments' partnership with Visa was terminated; it was estimated that they lost over $100 million.
Insider attacks
Defenses against exploitable software vulnerabilities are often built on the assumption that "insiders" can be trusted. Studies show that internal attacks tend to be more damaging because of the variety and amount of information available inside organizations.
Vulnerabilities and common attacks
The quantity of data stored in data centers has increased, partly due to the concentrations created by cloud-computing
Threats
Some of the most common threats to data centers:
DoS (Denial of Service)
Data theft or alteration
Unauthorized use of computing resources
Identity theft
Vulnerabilities
Common vulnerabilities include:
Implementation: Software design and protocol flaws, coding errors, and incomplete testing
Configuration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl%20Meets%20Farm | Girl Meets Farm is an American cooking television series that airs on Food Network, and is presented by cookbook author Molly Yeh. The series features Yeh cooking Midwestern farm meals sometimes influenced by her Jewish and Chinese heritage, primarily at her farm on the Minnesota-North Dakota border.
Girl Meets Farm officially premiered on June 24, 2018. The show was renewed for a third season on March 12, 2019, which premiered on March 31.
Episodes
Season 1 (2018)
Season 2 (2018)
Season 3 (2019)
Season 4 (2019)
Notes
References
External links
Bodega Pictures
2010s American cooking television series
2018 American television series debuts
American Chinese cuisine
English-language television shows
Jewish American cuisine
Food Network original programming
Food reality television series
Rural Jewish culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat%20%28video%20game%29 | U-boat is a 1994 computer game developed by American studio Deadly Games for the Macintosh.
Gameplay
U-boat is a game where the player is on the German side during the dawn of World War II. The player's submarine patrols the North Sea and only returns to port to refuel. The player gets missions involving attacks on Allied ships. Commands are given in a small window on the lower half of the control panel screen. On the map view, courses are plotted, enemy ships are located, and the submarine is controlled.
Reception
Markus Dahlberg reviewed U-boat for Swedish magazine Datormagazin in 1994. Dahlberg enjoyed the atmosphere of the game, although he found parts of the game boring just like really being in a submarine. He found the graphics acceptable but was annoyed by changing windows to get new commands. He felt that players who have a lot of time and are interested in following orders and giving some tactical thinking would find U-boat to be a good investment.
Legacy
The game also had a sequel titled U-Boat II: Drumbeat, again only for the Macintosh in 1995.
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - 1994
References
1994 video games
Classic Mac OS games
Classic Mac OS-only games
Computer wargames
Single-player video games
Submarine simulation video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games developed in the United States
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maribel%20Perez%20Wadsworth | Maribel Perez Wadsworth was the president of the USA Today Network and publisher of USA Today from November 2018 to December 2022.
References
Living people
USA Today people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American women editors
21st-century American newspaper editors
21st-century American women journalists
21st-century American journalists
Women newspaper editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5Action | 5Action is a British free-to-air television channel owned by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global, which is grouped under Paramount Networks UK & Australia division. 5Action features a range of programming from the Channel 5 stable as well as other content from the UK and US, focusing on action, crime and wrestling, aiming towards a Male audience.
History
5Action's programming and Freeview channel slot dates back to the days of Viacom's male-skewing channel Spike, which was launched on 15 April 2015 as a localised version of the American network of the same name. When Spike was launched it took the channel space of Viva, but was operated under the auspices of Channel 5's programming director Ben Frow. It primarily aired entertainment programmes, including action and drama series, police documentaries, and programming from its U.S. counterpart, as well as mixed martial arts.
On 31 October 2017, the channel became 5Spike after Viacom decided the channel should be more closely associated with its sister channels and the Channel 5 brand. On 7 January 2020, the brand was discontinued in line with Viacom's global company policy, with the channel taking on the name of its sister channel, Paramount Network, and with no major change to its channel placement or programming.
On 19 January 2022, the channel was once again re-aligned to a Channel 5-specific brand, as 5Action to avert confusion with Paramount+. On 26 January 2022, 5Action shifted to Freeview 33 to accommodate the new iteration of BBC Three on 1 February 2022.
Programming
Current programming
Treadstone
Airport 24/7: Thailand
Car Crash TV
Caught on Camera (episodes might be billed as Criminals: Caught on Camera or Seconds from Death: Caught on Camera)
Entertainment News on 5
Fights, Camera, Action
Idiot TV
Police Interceptors (some episodes known as Ultimate Police Interceptors)
Police Raids: Caught by Surprise
Traffic Cops
Trucking Hell
WWE Raw Highlights
WWE SmackDown Highlights
Former programming
Access
Aftermath
Agent Carter
American Horror Story
Arrow
Channel Zero
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Designated Survivor
Empire
Gilmore Girls
Grimm
Heroes Reborn
Home and Away
House
Impractical Jokers US
LA to Vegas
Lip Sync Battle US
Life in Pieces
Neighbours
Six
Sleepy Hollow
Suits
Taken
Training Day
Teen Wolf
The Mick
The Office US
The Strain
Vikings
When Calls the Heart
Will & Grace
Wynonna Earp
The X-Files
Paramount Network
Viacom (ViacomCBS/Channel 5) operated two distinct versions of the free-to-air Paramount Network on Freeview (with the original pay-tv Paramount Channel becoming Comedy Central in 2009). The first version of the Freeview channel was launched on 4 July 2018 as a sister channel to 5Spike, and with a high-definition feed exclusively on Virgin Media from 21 July 2018. It ceased to be available via satellite in Ireland on 13 July 2018 having supposedly been made available by mistake, even tho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlord%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Starlord is an open-ended, computer moderated, space-based play-by-mail game. Designed and moderated by Mike Singleton, gameplay began initially in the United Kingdom, with Flying Buffalo launching a version in the United States in 1983. Gameplay was limited to 50 players roleplaying as Starlords with the goal of becoming emperor by conquering the Throne Star. Starlord was reviewed multiple times in magazines such as Dragon and The Space Gamer in the early 1980s, receiving generally positive reviews, with one reviewer noting the possibility of the game lasting for years.
Publication history
Mike Singleton designed Starlord. The game was computer moderated. Singleton moderated the game using his Commodore PET. Singleton started gameplay in the United Kingdom, but as of 1983, Flying Buffalo began running the game in the United States as well.
Starlord was based on a 1977 board game of the same name invented by Gary Bedrosian and Lee Elmendorf.
Gameplay
The game depicted a declining galactic empire in a galaxy with 1000 stars, in which 50 players are "starlords" who attempt to take over the Throne Star and become the new emperor. At the outset, players controlled one Base Star out of 1,000 available. Stars were activity hubs, not celestial objects, and comprised 14 types. The "Empyr" controlled the non-assigned stars, "with up to ten ships at each and several hundred at the central Throne Star". However, "sadly, the last Emperor has died, and the Empyr is run by imperial computers", proving an opportunity for players to seize the throne. A player that took the Throne Star received various benefits, including control of the Empyr's forces and free turns, but also acquired "up to 49 enemies".
Lee Simpson noted in the Winter 1983 issue of Flagship magazine that "Mike Singleton has since admitted, in earlier Starlord games the Throne Star was initially too lightly garrisoned", allowing players to become Emperor early in the game.
Reception
W.G. Armintrout reviewed Starlord in the March 1982 issues of The Space Gamer. Armintrout commented that "In my opinion, Starlord is one of the top five PBM games going. I highly recommend it to all gamers, even those who have never yet tried this type of game."
In the April 1983 edition of Dragon (Issue 72), Michael Gray stated "A player who becomes Emperor early in a game, and is then dethroned and eliminated, may still win the game by accumulating lots of points during his or her reign. But with 50 players per game, Starlord could take many years to complete."
W.G. Armintrout reviewed Starlord again in the May–June 1983 issue of The Space Gamer. Armintrout commented that "Starlord continues to receive my highest recommendation – a masterpiece of game design, ridiculously easy to play yet moderately challenging. Those who have never tried PBM could start here. I have only two quibbles: You can't choose your player name (you are named after your Base Star), and the map should have a circular frame."
See al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew%20computing | Dew computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm that combines the core concept of cloud computing with the capabilities of end devices (personal computers, mobile phones, etc.). It is used to enhance the experience for the end user in comparison to only using cloud computing. Dew computing attempts to solve major problems related to cloud computing technology, such as reliance on internet access. Dropbox is an example of the dew computing paradigm, as it provides access to the files and folders in the cloud in addition to keeping copies on local devices. This allows the user to access files during times without an internet connection; when a connection is established again, files and folders are synchronized back to the cloud server.
History
The term "dew computing", as used in information technology, first appeared in 2015 in IT literature and since then has become a field of its own. The cloud-dew architecture was proposed as a possible solution to the offline data accessibility problem. At first, its scope included only web applications; broader applications were later proposed.
Dew computing is a model which was derived from the original concept of cloud computing. Other models have also emerged from cloud computing, including fog computing, edge computing, dew computing, and others. Proponents claim that these novel models, such as dew computing, can provide better experiences for users.
Cloud computing provides universal access and scalability. However, having all the resources far from a user's control occasionally causes problems. In the classic cloud computing paradigm, when the internet connection to the servers is lost, the user is unable to access their data; dew computing aims to solve this problem.
Definition
As an information technology paradigm, dew computing seeks to use the capabilities of personal computers along with cloud services in a more reliable manner.
The key features of dew computing are independence and collaboration. Independence means that the local device must be able to provide service without a continuous connection to the Internet. Collaboration means that the application must be able to connect to the cloud service and synchronize data when appropriate.
Use of the word "dew" reflects natural phenomena: clouds are far from the ground, fog is closer to the ground, and dew is on the ground. Analogically, cloud computing is a remote service, fog computing is beside the user, and dew computing is at the user end.
Architecture
To establish a cloud-dew architecture on a PC, a dew virtual machine (DVM) is needed. The DVM is an isolated environment for executing the dew server on the local PC, and it consists of at least three components: the dew server (DS), the data analytics server (DAS), and the artificial intelligence of the dew (AID).
Dew server (DS): The DS acts like the cloud service on the local PC. It interacts with and periodically synchronizes content with the cloud service.
Dew analy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Loosli%20%28rowing%29 | Walter Loosli (1901–?) was a Swiss coxswain. He competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris with the men's coxed four. In the official Olympic record and the FISA database, he coxed all three races. According to the Sports Reference database, Loosli coxed the first heat and the repechage only and was replaced in the final by Émile Lachapelle. The Swiss team won the final.
References
1901 births
Year of death missing
Swiss male rowers
Olympic rowers for Switzerland
Rowers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Coxswains (rowing)
Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
20th-century Swiss people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexHex | FlexHex is a freeware hex editor for Microsoft Windows that can edit files, NTFS alternate streams and sparse data, OLE compound files, logical disks, and physical drives.
Technology
FlexHex uses the 'edit stack' model, representing the file being edited as the unchanged original stream and a stack of primitive editing operations. The original file is kept intact and gets modified only when the user selects the Save command. The advantages of this model are 1) the file does not need to be read into memory so there is no file size limit, and 2) an unlimited Undo/Redo list can be implemented simply by traversing the operation stack.
FlexHex is written on Visual C++ and MFC, which makes it very fast while keeping the size small enough.
Features
In addition to the standard features more or less typical for other hex editors, FlexHex offers a few unique ones. Specifically, FlexHex is the only hex editor that can create or edit NTFS alternate streams, sparse files, and OLE structured storage.
Edits files, alternate streams, OLE compound files, logical and physical disks,
Can edit files up to 8 exabytes long,
Includes unlimited Undo and Redo,
Allows to define arrays, structures, and unions, and to map them to the file contents,
Supports arithmetic and bitwise operations on data,
Supports multi-format search, including single-pass search for multiple patterns,
Scans file for strings, Unicode strings, or GUIDs,
Full and partial comparison of files and streams,
Multi-format copy, paste, drag-and-drop,
File / selected area printing,
CRC-32, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 checksums,
Cryptographically strong AES-based random number generator,
Browsing of registered COM classes.
See also
Hex editor
References
External links
Hex editors
Programming tools for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Australia%20%28disambiguation%29 | ABC Australia may refer to:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the national broadcast network in Australia
ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), an Asia-Pacific pay-TV channel operated by the ABC
ABC Radio (Australia), the radio network operated by the ABC
ABC Television (Australian TV network), the TV network of the ABC
ABC TV (Australian TV channel), an Australian TV channel, formerly ABC1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%20Price | Megan E. Price is Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. She collects and analyses data to investigate violations to human rights.
Early life and education
Price studied statistics at Case Western Reserve University. She earned a PhD in biostatistics from the Rollins School of Public Health in 2009. She completed a Certificate in Human Rights at Emory University. As soon as she graduated she began working with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group.
Career
Price has worked on strategies for the statistical analysis of human rights data in Colombia, Syria and Guatemala. Whilst in Guatemala, Price analysed documents from the National Police Archives. In Syria she was commissioned by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to act as lead statistician on two reports. She is a Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in the Centre for Human Rights Science.
She was made Director of Research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group in 2013. She was appointed Executive Director in 2015. In 2016 she was awarded an Open Society Foundations New Executive Fund. Price is on the editorial board of Significance magazine. She was a participant at the 2018 Science Foo Camp. She was elected chair of the American Statistical Association's Social Statistics program in 2021. In 2022, she was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American human rights activists
Women human rights activists
Case Western Reserve University alumni
Rollins School of Public Health alumni
Emory University alumni
American statisticians
Women statisticians
Carnegie Mellon University fellows
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20data%20center | A green data center, or sustainable data center, is a service facility which utilizes energy-efficient technologies. They do not contain obsolete systems (such as inactive or underused servers), and take advantage of newer, more efficient technologies.
With the exponential growth and usage of the Internet, power consumption in data centers has increased significantly. Due to the resulting environmental impact, increase in public awareness, higher cost of energy and legislative action, increased pressure has been placed on companies to follow a green policy. For these reasons, the creation of sustainable data centers has become essential in an environmental and a business sense.
Energy use
The use of high-performance computing techniques has increased, trading energy consumption for increased performance. Industry estimates suggest that data centers consume three to five percent of the world's global energy. According to an AFCOM State of the Data Center survey, 70 percent of data-center providers indicated that power density per rack has increased significantly since 2013. Managers have been forced to find new ways to power their data centers with renewable energy sources such as hydro, solar, geothermal, and wind. More efficient technologies were developed to decrease data-center power consumption.
Metrics
Several metrics have been developed to measure power efficiency in data centers. Power usage effectiveness (PUE) and carbon usage effectiveness (CUE) are two frequently-used metrics created by the Green Grid (TGG), a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers.
Power usage effectiveness
PUE was invented in 2007, and proposed new guidelines to measure energy use in data centers.
This ratio describes how much extra energy a data center needs to maintain IT equipment for every watt delivered to the equipment. The best PUE a data center can have is 1: an ideal situation, with no extra energy use. When PUE was introduced, studies found that the industry-average PUE was between 2.5 and 3. In more recent studies, the average PUE fell to about 1.7 by using this framework. PUE began the shift of the data-center industry towards energy efficiency.
Although PUE is the most-frequently-used metric for data centers to measure energy efficiency, its reliability is still debated;
Carbon usage effectiveness
Carbon usage effectiveness (CUE) is another metric used to measure energy usage and sustainability in data centers. It is calculated with the following formula:
Another way to express this formula is as the product of the carbon dioxide emission factor (CEF) and the PUE, where the CEF is the kg of CO2 produced for each kilowatt-hour of electricity:
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Certifications
Data centers in the United States may apply to be certified as green data centers. The most widely used green building rating system is the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, it is ava |
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