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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagbule%20Olanike | Fagbule Olanike (also known as Nike Fagbule) is a Nigerian Entrepreneur and public relations practitioner, and the founder of Zebra Stripes Networks.
Early life and career
Olanike was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and grew up in Satellite Town, Lagos. She started her career as a research expert for Deez Magazine. A friend introduced her to Ayeni Adekunle, the founder of Black House Media, and she was appointed as a public relations officer in 2007; she later became a senior manager. In 2012, she left Black House Media and started her own company, Zebra Stripes Networks, in 2013. In 2015, the company partnered with Dubai-based company Alive Now.
Awards and nominations
Fagbule was nominated for the Creative Professional of the Year award at The Future Awards Africa in 2011.
References
Nigerian women in business
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20call | Remote call can refer to:
Remote procedure call
Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call
Remote call forwarding
Remote Function Call |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin%20picking | Bin picking (also referred to as random bin picking) is a core problem in computer vision and robotics. The goal is to have a robot with sensors and cameras attached to it pick-up known objects with random poses out of a bin using a suction gripper, parallel gripper, or other kind of robot end effector.
Early work on bin picking made use of Photometric Stereo
in recovering the shapes of objects and to determine their orientation in space.
Amazon previously held a competition focused on bin picking referred to as the "Amazon Picking Challenge", which was held from 2015 to 2017. The challenge tasked entrants with building their own robot hardware and software that could attempt simplified versions of the general task of picking and stowing items on shelves. The robots were scored by how many items were picked and stowed in a fixed amount of time. The first Amazon Robotics challenge was won by a team from TU Berlin in 2015, followed by a team from TU Delft and the Dutch company "Fizyr" in 2016. The last Amazon Robotics Challenge was won by the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision at Queensland University of Technology with their robot named Cartman. The Amazon Robotics/Picking Challenge was discontinued following the 2017 competition.
Although there can be some overlap, bin picking is distinct from "each picking" and the bin packing problem.
See also
3D pose estimation
Bowl feeder
References
Robotics
Computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RX12874 | RX12874, also known as the Passive Detection System (PDS) and by its nickname "Winkle", was a radar detector system used as part of the Royal Air Force's Linesman/Mediator radar network until the early 1980s. Winkle passed out of service along with the rest of the Linesman system as the IUKADGE network replaced it.
Winkle was developed in the late 1950s to counter the carcinotron, a radar jammer so effective that it was initially believed it would render all long-range radars useless. Winkle used a network of stations to listen for carcinotron broadcasts, and combined the information from them to track the jammer aircraft as effectively as a radar could.
The system was based on a series of High Speed Aerial (HSA) installations and AMES Type 85 ("Blue Yeoman") radars. Both were used as receivers; the Type 85 was used primarily to measure the time of arrival of the signal, while the HSA rapidly scanned horizontally to extract a bearing. Information from HSAs and the Type 85s was combined in a correlator that used triangulation and time-of-flight information to determine the location of the jammer-carrying aircraft.
Once the location was determined, it was manually input into the interception controller's displays as if it were a normal radar return, distinguished only by its small circle icon instead of a single dot. Operators could decrease the Type 85 receiver sensitivity while the radar passed that location, so that the jamming did not obscure the display at nearby angles. Combined with identification friend or foe (IFF) signals, this allowed a fighter aircraft's signal to remain visible and interceptions could proceed as normal.
History
Carcinotron
In 1950, engineers at the French company CSF (now part of Thales Group) introduced the carcinotron, a microwave-producing vacuum tube that could be tuned across a wide range of frequencies by changing a single input voltage. By continually sweeping through the frequencies of known radars, it would overpower the radar's own reflections, and blind them. Its extremely wide bandwidth meant that a single carcinotron could be used to send jamming signals against any radar it was likely to meet, and the rapid tuning meant it could do so against multiple radars at the same time, or sweep through all potential frequencies to produce barrage jamming.
The carcinotron was revealed publicly in November 1953. The Admiralty Signals and Radar Establishment purchased one and fit it to a Handley Page Hastings named Catherine, testing it against the latest AMES Type 80 radar late that year. As they feared, it rendered the radar display completely unreadable, filled with noise that hid any real targets. Useful jamming was accomplished even when the aircraft was under the radar horizon, in which case other aircraft had to be to the sides before they were visible outside the jamming signal. The system was so effective that it appeared to render long-range radar useless.
ROTOR
The Type 80 was a key part of the ROT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA%20VP%203000 | RCA's VP 3000 Interactive Data Terminals were a family of portable computer terminals housed in compact keyboard-like cases, but notable for their use of a color-coded membrane keyboard. The systems supported color output to a television with 20 and 40 character-per-line modes, and an optional built-in modem. It was first advertised in September 1982.
The VP series started life as an upgrade to RCA's COSMAC VIP kit-computer, originally to be known as the VIP II. Unlike the original VIP, which was a bare motherboard for hobbyists, the VIP II would be a complete home computer. Most of the new features were added through a series of expansion cards built into the chassis, most of which already existed as add-on cards for the VIP. Although some marketing material was produced in 1979, and RCA suggested it would be available "some time next year" at a price around $400, the VIP II was never released.
Instead, the design was re-purposed as a terminal system by replacing the ROMs with ones containing a simple terminal program and optionally adding a modem. The machines were otherwise the same as the VIP II, which is why it included color output, a "tone generator", and the relatively limited 40-column output in an era when 80-column was the standard for terminals.
The main model, the VP 3501 included a 300 bit/s modem, an RF modulator for connection to any conventional color television, and the keyboard included a 16-key numeric keypad. The VP 3303 removed the modem and keypad, while the VP 3301 removed the RF modulator as well. The terminals were quite inexpensive, with the 3501 selling for $275 ( in ), while the 3301 was only $255.
RCA also sold the systems as stand-alone keyboards as the VP 600 series. The VP 616 had an RS-232 serial port and calculator keypad while the VP 606 removed the keypad. The VP 611 replaced the 616's serial port with an 8-bit parallel port, suitable for being feeding into a typical microcomputer keyboard controller like the one on most S-100 bus machines. The VP 601 removed the keypad from the 611. The 616 sold for $68, while the 601 was only $56.
References
Citations
Sources
Computer-related introductions in 1982
Computer terminals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParkServe | Published in spring 2017 by The Trust for Public Land, ParkServe is a platform for tracking and mapping urban park access across the United States. The comprehensive database includes 14,000 cities, impacting a population of over 160 million people. The database is to be used by residents and planners alike, by providing information about parks closest to home as well as statistics about the number of people living within a 10-minute walk from a park. This allows for residents to advocate for park creation while helping to keep planners informed about where parks are most needed, and the demographic of the people it will serve to address inequity.
References
External links
ParkServe
Databases in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadstone | Treadstone is an American action drama television series, connected to and based on the Bourne film series. A "special preview" of the pilot aired on USA Network on September 24, 2019, ahead of its October 15, 2019, premiere. The series was created by Tim Kring, who is also the executive producer alongside Ramin Bahrani, Ben Smith, Jeffrey Weiner, Justin Levy, Bradley Thomas, and Dan Friedkin. Treadstone received generally mixed reviews from critics and in May 2020, the series was canceled after one season.
Premise
Treadstone explores the origin story and present-day actions of a fictional CIA black-ops program known as Operation Treadstone — a covert program that uses a behavior modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly-superhuman assassins. The series follows sleeper agents across the globe as they are mysteriously 'awakened' to resume their deadly missions. The program breaks down these assassins' personalities, erases their memories, and eliminates their moral code so they can effectively kill targets around the world.
The series explores Treadstone's legacy and begins with an incident in East Berlin in 1973. This involves John Randolph Bentley (Jeremy Irvine), one of the program's agents, who escapes his Soviet captors. The story then zooms to the present day, following a group of assets being "activated" by force or awakened after a moment of high tension.
Cast
Main
Jeremy Irvine as John Randolph Bentley
Tracy Ifeachor as Tara Coleman
Han Hyo-joo as Soyun Park ()
Omar Metwally as Matt Edwards
Brian J. Smith as Doug McKenna
Gabrielle Scharnitzky as Petra Andropov (, Petra Andropova)
Emilia Schüle as young Petra
Michelle Forbes as Ellen Becker
Recurring
Michael Gaston as Dan Levine
Jung-woo Seo as Dae Park ()
Min-jun Woo as Jin-woo Park ()
Tess Haubrich as Samantha McKenna
Patrick Fugit as Stephen Haynes (credited as "Special guest star")
Lee Jong-hyuk as Colonel Shin ()
Oliver Walker as Matheson
Shruti Haasan as Nira Patel (Hindi: नीरा पटेल)
Merab Ninidze as Yuri Leniov (present day)
Tzi Ma as General Chin-Hwa Kwon ()
Episodes
Production
Development
On April 12, 2018, it was announced that USA Network had given the production a pilot order. The episode was written by Tim Kring and expected to be directed by Ramin Bahrani, both of whom were also set to act as executive producers alongside Ben Smith, Jeffrey Weiner, Justin Levy, and Bradley Thomas. Production companies involved with the pilot were slated to consist of Universal Cable Productions, Captivate Entertainment, and Imperative Entertainment. On August 16, 2018, it was reported that USA Network had decided to forego the pilot process and instead were issuing the production a straight-to-series order. Additionally, it was reported that Dan Friedkin was joining the series as an executive producer. On December 17, 2019, the series was canceled after one season.
Casting
On November 8, 2018, it was announced that Jeremy Irvine and Brian J. Smith had bee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Bravo%20Goes%20to%20Bollywood | Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood is a 2011 animated made-for-television comedy film based on the animated television series Johnny Bravo created by Van Partible. It premiered on Cartoon Network in Australia and New Zealand on November 4, 2011.
The name resembles the season 4 premiere "Johnny Bravo Goes to Hollywood".
Plot
After watching a True Hollywood Stories-type documentary in which he is considered a forgotten star, Johnny Bravo travels to Mumbai, the entertainment capital of India, to prove himself he is still popular, confusing Bollywood, India, with Hollywood and Indiana respectively. Eventually Johnny finds himself in the middle of a murder plot to kill Bollywood's greatest star, Jiggy (Johnny's Indian equivalent and rival).
Cast
Jeff Bennett - Johnny Bravo
Brenda Vaccaro - Bunny Bravo
Tara Strong - Additional voices
Sunil Malhotra - Jiggy
Sheetal Sheth - Sumi Shark
Ajay Mehta - Bollywood Producer
Tom Kenny - Additional voices
Cree Summer - Additional Voices
References
External links
2011 films
2011 comedy films
2011 animated films
2011 television films
2010s American animated films
Animated films based on animated series
2010s children's comedy films
2010s children's animated films
2010s English-language films
American children's animated comedy films
Johnny Bravo
Animated films based on animated television series
Television films based on television series
Films about Bollywood
Films set in Mumbai
Animated films set in India
Cartoon Network Studios animated films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Smurfs%20%282021%20TV%20series%29 | The Smurfs () is a Belgian computer-animated television series developed by Dupuis Audiovisuel, IMPS, and Peyo Productions, in association with KiKA, Ketnet, RTBF and Dargaud Media, with the participation of TF1. It is the third television show based on the Belgian comic franchise of the same name, created by Peyo, after the 1961 series and the 1981 series of the same name.
Voice cast
Original French voices
Jean-Loup Horwitz as Papa Smurf
Anna Ramade as Smurfette and Smurfblossom
Antoine Schoumsky as Brainy Smurf and Poet Smurf
Marc Arnaud as Hefty Smurf, Greedy Smurf and Wild Smurf
Kaycie Chase as Jokey Smurf, Smurflily, Baby Smurf and Harmony Smurf
Jérémy Prévost as Vanity Smurf, Farmer Smurf and Dimwitty Smurf
Fanny Bloc as Clumsy Smurf, Smurfstorm and Smurfbegonia
Xavier Fagnon as Handy Smurf and Reporter Smurf
Magali Rosenzweig as Smurfwillow, Lazy Smurf, Scaredy Smurf and Leaf
Emmanuel Curtil as Gargamel, Grouchy Smurf and Chef Smurf
English dub voices
Davis Freeman as Papa Smurf, Farmer Smurf, and Drummer Smurf
Bérangére McNeese as Smurfette and Baby Smurf (episode 2-23)
Youssef El Kaouakibi as Brainy Smurf
Lenny Mark Irons as Gargamel, Dimwitty Smurf, Bigmouth, Reporter Smurf, Harmony Smurf, Doctor Smurf, and Forgotten Smurf
Catherine Hershey as Willow
Ilse La Monaca as Greedy Smurf
Tess Bryant as Clumsy Smurf, Scaredy Smurf, and Mummy
Daniel Sieteiglesias as Vanity Smurf
Joshua Rubin as Handy Smurf and Grouchy Smurf
Vincent Broes as Hefty Smurf and Chef Smurf
Kaycie Chase as Jokey Smurf, Baby Smurf (episode 28-present) and Wimpy Smurf
Sandra Asratian as Lazy Smurf, Smurfstorm, and Smurfblossom
Lawrence Sheldon as Poet Smurf and Painter Smurf (Season 1)
Jackie Jones as Smurflily
Cherise Silvestri as Azrael
Charlie Cattrall as Tailor Smurf
Luke Calzonetti as Wild Smurf
Jade Wheeler as Leaf
Madeleine Fletcher as Painter Smurf (Season 2-present), Timid Smurf and Glee-Go
Loreanne Asratian as Smurfbegonia
Magali Rosenzweig as Crystal ball
Arianna D'Amato
Series overview
Production
The show was announced by Peyo Productions in 2017. The next year, its European broadcasters were announced: Ketnet (Flanders), TF1 (France), KiKA (Germany), and La Trois (Wallonia). In 2020, it was reported that the broadcast rights had been picked up by the American entertainment brand Nickelodeon for several of its channels, but the airing agreement does not extend to the original 1980s Smurfs series (which continues to be distributed by Warner Bros. in North America).
The series is almost entirely produced in Belgium, with 75% of the animation completed at Dupuis' DreamWall animation studio in the city of Charleroi. Its CGI animation style is mainly based on the film Smurfs: The Lost Village but is an unrelated production.
After 18 months on pay-TV, The Smurfs is now available to stream on Netflix in the United States. The series made its world premiere in 18 April 2021, on the La Trois channel in Belgium.
A second season was announced in Februa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Teal | Tracy Teal is an American bioinformatician and the executive director of Data Carpentry. She is known for her work in open science and biomedical data science education.
Education and early career
Teal received her Bachelors of Science in Cybernetics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997 and later received her Master of Arts in Organismal Biology, Ecology, and Evolution in 1999. There, she worked in the laboratory of Charles Taylor, studying how the evolution of language is impacted by the way people learn it. She then earned her PhD from the California Institute of Technology in Computation and Neural Systems in 2007. She did her thesis work under the laboratories of Dianne Newman and Barbara Wold, studying the metabolic organization of bacterial biofilms.
After graduate school, Teal became a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Michigan State University, where she studied how the ecology of microbial communities in soil can change levels of greenhouse gases by either producing or consuming them.
Research
During her postdoctoral fellowship at Michigan State University, Teal studied how agricultural practices affect soil microbe communities, which in turn affect the stability of greenhouse gas levels. Agriculture has a major impact on the diversity of microbes in soil, and a subset of those microbes produce carbon dioxide and consume methane, both greenhouse gases. She wanted to understand how agricultural land use affects the flux of these two greenhouse gases, so she used metagenomics approaches to track the diversity of microbes collected from soil samples across a range of agricultural land use. She tracked the stability of methane consumption and carbon dioxide emission associated with the different soil samples and found that sites that were no longer used for agriculture had a higher diversity of microbes. In particular, she found that sites with a high diversity of methanotrophs, or bacteria that oxidize methane, have more stable levels of methane consumption, which suggested that managing lands to maintain methanotroph diversity could be a good way of managing levels of this greenhouse gas. To do facilitate this work, Teal developed bioinformatics tools to remove systematic artifacts for more precise metagenomics analyses.
Following her fellowship, Teal became a research associate and later assistant professor at Michigan State University in microbiology and molecular biology. Her lab was part of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, a National Science Foundation research center that brings together biologists, computer scientists, and engineers to study evolution in real time and use findings from the natural world to solve real-world problems—from disaster management to engineering safer cars. As a professor, she developed and led a bioinformatics training program in the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Department. She has also worked to develop open source bioinformatics softwa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Facility%20Storage%20Management%20Subsystem%20%28MVS%29 | Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) is a central component of IBM's flagship operating system z/OS. It includes access methods, utilities and program management functions.
Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem is also a collective name for a collection of several products, all but two of which are included in the DFSMS/MVS product.
History
In 1972 IBM announced the first release of the OS/VS2 operating system for the IBM System 370 systems; that release later was known as Single Virtual Storage (SVS). In 1974 IBM announced release 2.0; that release and all subsequent releases became known as Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS). All releases of OS/VS2 were available to no charge because the software cost was bundled with the hardware cost. OS/VS2 Release 3.8 was the last free release of MVS.
In the late seventies and early eighties IBM announced:
5740-XE1 MVS/System Extensions (MVS/SE)
MVS/SE improves the performance and RAS of OS/VS2 (MVS)
5740-AM6 Data Facility Device Support (DFDS) for OS/VS1
5740-AM7 Data Facility Device Support (DFDS) for MVS
DFDS supports an indexed VTOC, and with the proper PTF supports the Speed Matching Buffer on the IBM 3880.
5740-XYQ Data Facility Extended Function (DFEF)
DFEF offers a new type of VSAM catalog, but had reliability problems that were only resolved in DFP.
5740-AM3 Sequential Access Method Extended (SAM-E)
SAM-E improves the performance of BPAM, BSAM and QSAM on direct access storage devices.
5740-AM8 Access Method Services Cryptographic Option
5748-UT2 Offline 3800 Utility
In June 1980, IBM announced MVS/System Product (MVS/SP) as a replacement for MVS/SE.
On October 21, 1981, IBM announced new Kxx models of the 3081, supporting a new architecture known as System/370 Extended Architecture (370-XA).
IBM also announced MVS/Extended Architecture (MVS/XA), consisting of MVS/SP Version 2 and a corequisite new product, Data Facility Product (DFP), 5665-284, replacing five of the products listed above, the linkage editor and the loader.
On May 17, 1983, IBM announced MVS/370 Data Facility Product (MVS/370 DFP), 5665-295, for MVS/SP Version 1 Release 3, replacing the same five programs as DFP for MVS/XA.
On February 5, 1985, IBM announced MVS/XA Data Facility Product (MVS/XA DFP) Version 2, 5655-XA2, as a replacement for MVS/XA Data Facility Product Version 1, 5665-284.
DFP replaced BDAM, BPAM, BSAM, ISAM, QSAM and VSAM.
On February 15, 1988 IBM announced MVS/System Product Version 3 (MVS/ESA), it also announced MVS/Data Facility Product Version 3 (MVS/DFP), 5665-XA3; MVS/SP V3 required either MVS/XA Data Facility Product Version 2, 5655-XA2, or Version 3. More recent releases were corequisites for MVS/ESA SP Version 4 and MVS/ESA SP Version 5.
On April 19, 1988, IBM announced the umbrella term Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem for facilities provided by the programs
IBM MVS/Data Facility Product (MVS/DFP) Version 3 Release 1.0
IBM Data Facility Data Set S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChemInform | ChemInform was an indexing and abstracting service and database in chemistry. The service published abstracts related to organic, organometallic, inorganic and physical chemistry.
Products
ChemInform: Selected Abstracts in Chemistry
The abstracts were published in ChemInform: Selected Abstracts in Chemistry from 1970 to 2016. It was originally published in two parts as Chemischer Informationsdienst: anorganische und physikalische Chemie and Chemischer Informationsdienst: organische Chemie, which merged in 1972 into the single Chemischer Informationsdienst, which superseded in part Chemisches Zentralblatt. The publication acquired its final title in 1987.
ChemInform RX
A reaction database ChemInform RX (CIRX) enabled users to search for specific reactions published in ChemInform journal.
SPORE
SPORE (Solid Phase Organic Reactions) was a database for synthetic pathways via polymer-bound organic compounds, with extensive data on each individual reaction.
See also
Chemical Abstracts Service
References
External links
ChemInform: Selected Abstracts in Chemistry
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Chemical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoonito | Cartoonito is a brand name used by Warner Bros. Discovery for a collection of television networks and programming blocks aimed at preschool children. The name combines the "cartoon" with the Spanish suffix "ito", meaning "small".
, Cartoonito exists as a TV channel across Europe (including the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it originated), the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia; as a block on Cartoon Network in the UK, the Middle East, Turkey, the United States, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, and South Asia; and as a block on Boomerang in Oceania.
Background
Precursors (1996–2006)
Educational blocks (1996–2005)
In 1996, Cartoon Network decided to create a Sunday morning block of preschool programs. The series featured Big Bag, a live-action/puppet television program made by the Children's Television Workshop (known for Sesame Street), Small World, a children's animated anthology show/variety show, and Cave Kids (a Hanna-Barbera-produced cartoon spin-off starring Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm).
Small World aired in several countries (except Japan, China, and Korea) and syndicated many of their respective shows. Cave Kids only ran from September to November of that year. However, Big Bag ran until 1998, while Small World ran until c. 2002 before HBO's deal with Sesame Workshop.
In 1997 (just the year after the merger of Turner Broadcasting System with Time Warner), Warner Bros. Animation announced Baby Looney Tunes, an original preschool series inspired by a line of pre-existing merchandise and had finished production by January 2001 with its pilot aired on 3 June of that year. Once the pilot proved a success, work on Baby Looney Tunes resumed, and it premiered on the Kids' WB block 28 July 2001. However, the series officially ran on Cartoon Network from 2002 to 2005, while continuing its original run international until 16 October 2006.
Tiny TV (2003–2006)
In 2003, Cartoon Network's Indian counterpart introduced Tiny TV, a weekday morning block of acquired preschool cartoons such as Bob the Builder, Kipper, Noddy, and Oswald. By 2006, it had expanded to Cartoon Network and Boomerang channels in Australia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Each block carried its own lineup of programs, with only a few shared between feeds. Tiny TV was discontinued internationally in 2007, but was temporarily revived on POGO (a sister channel to Cartoon Network India) in 2010.
Tickle-U (2005–2006)
Tickle-U was Cartoon Network's first attempt at an official weekday-morning preschool programming block, premiering on August 22, 2005, and aired from 9 to 11 a.m. ET/PT. Programs on the line-up included acquired shows such as two Teletoon/Treehouse TV series, with one being a co-production (Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs and Gerald McBoing-Boing), and British shows (Gordon the Garden Gnome, Peppa Pig, Little Robots, and Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!). Unlike their original counterparts, the British-acquired shows featured an Ameri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Rosalie%20David | Ann Rosalie David (born 30 May 1946) is a British Egyptologist and emeritus professor at the University of Manchester. David served as director of the International Mummy Database.
Early life and education
David was born in Cardiff. She was inspired to become an Egyptologist when her teacher showed her a drawing of the pyramids at Abusir. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in ancient history at University College London in 1967. She joined the University of Liverpool for her graduate studies, gaining a PhD in 1971. Her thesis considered ancient Egyptian temple rituals.
Research and career
David arrived at the University of Manchester in 1972. She established the Manchester Egyptian Mummy Project at the University of Manchester in 1973. In 1974 she began to give educational talks on Nile cruises. In 1975 she found mummy number 1770, which contained evidence of Guinea Worm Disease. She joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1976. David was the director of the KNH Centre for Biological and Forensic Studies in Egyptology at the University of Manchester for twenty five years. She was the first woman to become a professor of Egyptology. She worked as Keeper of Egyptology at the Manchester Museum. She pioneered biomedical research in Egyptology, studying disease, living conditions, pharmacy and medicine in ancient Egypt. In the late 1990s she established the only Egyptian Mummy Tissue Bank. She directed the Schistosomiasis Investigation Project. She worked in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Population in Egypt. They found tissues of antibodies against schistosomiasis in the mummies in Manchester. She was awarded the British Council medal at the Anglo-French Medical Society in September 1999. David used Raman spectroscopy to study ancient Egyptian pigments. David was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 New Year Honours, "for services to Egyptology".
David is Vice President of the Egypt Exploration Society. David appeared in several film and TV shows about Egypt, working on Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs, Private Lives of the Pharaohs and The Story of Science. By studying remains from Ancient Egypt, David found evidence that cancer is a man-made disease caused by modern pollution and diet in 2010. She identified that the rich banquets offered to ancient Egyptian gods could block the arteries of high priests, who took the offerings home from temples for their families. David is an emeritus professor at the University of Manchester, having retired in 2012. She spoke at TEDx King's College London in 2013.
Books
©1988
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About David
References
1946 births
British Egyptologists
Alumni of University College London
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Living people
20th-century British non-fiction writers
20th-century British women writers
21st-century British non-fiction writers
21st-century British women writers
Manchester Museum people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer%20on%20ESPN/ABC | Soccer on ESPN and ABC is a number of programs that currently airs soccer matches in the United States. These matches are from European competitions.
Current programming
United States
USL
ESPN airs all matches from the USL on ESPN+ with select matches on ESPNews or ESPNU. The games are produced by the USL, and commentary is provided by Mike Watts and Devon Kerr.
College Soccer
ESPN regularly airs college soccer on ESPNU, SEC Network, ACC Network, and Longhorn Network. Jenn Hildreth is the lead commentator for women's soccer coverage. College soccer is also available on ESPN+ via school productions.
England
EFL
ESPN airs select matches from the EFL Championship, EFL League One, EFL League Two, and EFL Cup on paid streaming service ESPN+. This broadcast started in 2017. Jon Champion and Stewart Robson lead on-site commentary. The 2020 promotion playoff Final was hosted by Alexis Nunes alongside pundit Don Hutchison and guest Jack Harrison. The 2021 promotion playoff Final was presented by Dan Thomas alongside Shaka Hislop in the studio, Don Hutchison and Alexis Nunes on-site, and Champion and Matt Lawrence commentating.
FA Cup
ESPN airs all matches from the FA Cup on paid streaming service ESPN+, with no games on linear television, including Community Shield (before the cup season stars). This broadcast started in 2018 when Fox Sports coverage of the tournament expired. Martin Tyler and Stewart Robson are the lead the broadcast team for World feed broadcasts while Jon Champion and Danny Higginbotham are the lead the broadcast team for non-World feed broadcasts. Dan Thomas and Kay Murray present prematch coverage from the ESPN FC studios. In 2020, Dan Thomas hosted coverage of the final with Craig Burley, Don Hutchison, Shaka Hislop, and reporter Alexis Nunes. The final was commentated by Martin Tyler and Stewart Robson. For other rounds, ESPN airs a digital prematch show hosted by Kay Murray or Mark Donaldson alongside ESPN FC pundits.
During 2022–23 Fourth qualifying round, ESPN produced live coverage of Wrexham's FA Cup matches against Blyth Spartans with full studio build up hosted by Angus Scott and Kelly Somers alongside pundits Hal Robson-Kanu, Steve Watson, and Robert Earnshaw with commentary provided by Guy Mowbray and Alan Smith.
Germany
Bundesliga
ESPN won the rights to the Bundesliga again starting with the 2020–21 season, as well as Supercup (before the league season starts). All matches will air on ESPN+ with at least four matches per year airing on the linear TV channels. The last time ESPN previously aired the league was in 2011–12. Linear TV matches are preceded by a 30-minute pregame show as well as a digital prematch show with postmatch coverage on ESPN+. Derek Rae and Taylor Twellman are the lead broadcast team since 2021–22. Also, Mark Donaldson, Ross Dyer, Jonathan Yardley, Steve Cangialosi and Jon Champion are one other play-by-play announcers while Lutz Pfannenstiel, Kasey Keller, Janusz Michallik, Stewart Robs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia%20Wilbur | Sylvia B. Wilbur (born 1938) was a British computer scientist who helped develop the ARPANET, was one of the first to exchange email in Britain, and became a leading researcher on computer-supported cooperative work.
Early life and education
Wilbur was born in Romford Essex, the older of the two daughters of a working-class dockworking family. She attended a grammar school, but left at age 17 to help support her family rather than continuing on to university. She worked as a clerk and typist in East London, and three years later married another clerk. She stopped work to have two children, but after her children were old enough to be cared for by her mother, in approximately 1964, she took another position as a typist at Barking College, later part of the University of East London. Her work there involved typing up student computer programming exercises in the ALGOL programming language onto punched tape, and she soon began to learn computer programming herself. Motivated by this experience, she entered a distance learning program at the Open University, where she completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1974.
Later, she completed a master's degree at the University of Kent.
Early career and internet programming
While completing her degree Wilbur moved from being a typist at the University of East London to being a computer operator, and began learning a second programming language, COBOL. Just before completing her degree she moved to a research position at University College London, working as a computer programmer for Peter T. Kirstein in the department of statistics and computer science there. Kirstein was in charge of Britain's part of the ARPANET project, and Wilbur's work for him involved programming a PDP-9 computer used as the local node for the network. She also worked as a liaison and technical assistant for British network users more generally who needed to connect to the network, and became "probably one of the first people in this country ever to send an email, back in 1974".
In approximately 1978, Wilbur remarried. Her husband was also affiliated with the same department at University College London, and had been supervising some of her work there, so to preserve her independence she left her position. After working for the examinations board for a year she became a lecturer at the University of East London. Five years later, in approximately 1983, she moved again to Queen Mary College, in part because of the lack of time to work on research in East London.
Later career and computer-supported cooperative work
In around 1986, Wilbur began performing research as project manager for a government-sponsored project in computer-supported cooperative work. Her early work in the area involved asynchronous communication media (like email, where messages are sent and received at different times) but in later projects she began using synchronized media for teleconferencing.
Wilbur was also an organizer of "Women Into Computing " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20News%20Network | The Medical News Network (MNN) was an American interactive video news service delivered to physicians by satellite. It was launched in 1993 by Whittle Communications, and shut down in 1994.
History
The service had a business model similar to Whittle Communications's Channel One, as well as Whittle's Special Report TV and magazine project, which was available in about 30,000 medical waiting rooms."
According to Medical Market and Media, MNN would use satellite transmission to send daily medical news and information programming to VCR/TV units operated by the network and located in medical offices. Programming could be viewed on demand, and included a daily 10-minute news program. The system was interactive, using what Medical Market and Media described as "computer and modem units."
The service had been tested in 5,000 doctors' offices, and Whittle had planned to do a national rollout in fall 1994. But according to the Los Angeles Times, the company was unable to attract sufficient sponsorship from drug companies, and shut down the service in August 1994, laying off 205 employees.
References
Defunct television networks in the United States
1994 disestablishments in the United States
Interactive television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20FaceOff%20%28video%20game%29 | NHL FaceOff is a video game developed by Sony Interactive Studios America and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It is the first game in the NHL FaceOff series.
Gameplay
NHL FaceOff is a hockey game that features a 3D arena.
Reception
Next Generation reviewed the PlayStation version of the game, rating it five stars out of five, and stated that "Overall, NHL Face Off is exactly the kind of 32-bit hockey experience you'd expect and want."
The game sold in excess of 200,000 units.
Reviews
GameFan (Jan, 1996)
GamePro (Mar, 1996)
Electronic Gaming Monthly (Feb, 1996)
Video Games & Computer Entertainment - Feb, 1996
IGN - Nov 25, 1996
Game Revolution - Jun 04, 2004
All Game Guide - 1998
References
External links
NHL FaceOff at GameFAQs
NHL FaceOff at Giant Bomb
NHL FaceOff at MobyGames
1995 video games
NHL FaceOff
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20South%20Wales%20Heritage%20Database | New South Wales Heritage Database, or State Heritage Inventory, is an online database of information about historic sites in New South Wales, Australia with statutory heritage listings.
Contents
It holds the information about sites listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register (over 1,650 entries) in addition to sites on heritage lists managed by New South Wales local government authorities and other statutory heritage registers.
It is important to note that this is an online database holding information about historic sites but is not in itself a heritage register. An historic site can have multiple entries in this database if it is listed multiple heritage registers. For example, Young railway station is on three heritage registers and therefore has three entries in the database.
Licensing
The database is licensed CC BY except for material identified as being the copyright of third parties.
References
External links
Search the New South Wales Heritage Database (State Heritage Inventory)
Databases in Australia
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N401%20highway | National Route 401 (N401) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It connects the municipalities of Noveleta to the city of General Trias through the municipality of Rosario.
Route description
N401 covers the Noveleta to General Trias segment of what is called by DPWH as the Noveleta–Naic–Tagaytay Road.
Marseilla Street
N401 commences at the junction with Magdiwang Highway and Manila–Cavite Road, both components of N402, and General Antonio Street in Noveleta as Marseilla Street. It runs southwest up to Catalino Abueg Street, where it forms a corner of the Rosario Town Plaza, in the Rosario town proper.
General Trias Drive
Upon meeting Catalino Abueg Street in Rosario, N401 veers southeast and becomes General Trias Drive. Notable landmarks along this route include the Petron Rosario Depot, SM City Rosario, Gate 1 of the Cavite Export Processing Zone, and the Tejeros Convention Site. N401 then enters the city of General Trias, where it ends at the junction with Antero Soriano Highway and Governor Ferrer Drive in barangay Tejero.
Intersections
References
External links
Department of Public Works and Highways
Roads in Cavite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N407%20highway | National Route 407 (N407) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It runs from Batangas to Cavite.
Route description
Calaca to Nasugbu
N407 starts at the intersection with N410 (Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway and Diokno Highway) in Calaca, Batangas, near the provincial boundary of Cavite and Batangas. To the west, then traverses Nasugbu, Tuy (where it turns east at Palico Junction, its intersection with N427 (Palico–Balayan–Batangas Road)), and Nasugbu once again.
Nasugbu to Ternate
N407 turns north and takes the entire Ternate–Nasugbu Road from its intersection with N408 (Nasugbu–Lian–Calatagan) in Nasugbu. It then enters Cavite at Maragondon and Ternate, where it terminates at N405 (Caylabne Road and Governor's Drive).
References
External links
Department of Public Works and Highways
Roads in Cavite
Roads in Batangas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20economy | A data economy is a global digital ecosystem in which data is gathered, organized, and exchanged by a network of companies, individuals, and institutions to create economic value. The raw data is collected by a variety of actors, including search engines, social media websites, online vendors, brick and mortar vendors, payment gateways, software as a service (SaaS) purveyors, and an increasing number of firms deploying connected devices on the Internet of Things (IoT). Once collected, this data is typically passed on to individuals or firms, often for a fee. In the United States, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other agencies have developed early models to regulate the data economy.
Storing and securing collected data represent a significant portion of the data economy.
Data economy categories
Big data economy
Big data is defined as the algorithm-based analysis of large-scale, distinct digital data for purposes of prediction, measurement, and governance.
Human-driven data economy
The human-driven data economy is a fair and functioning data economy in which data is controlled and used fairly and ethically in a human-oriented manner. The human-driven data economy is linked to the MyData Movement and is a human-centered approach to personal data management.
Personal data economy
The personal data economy is created by individuals using personal data, which people supply either directly or indirectly. Consumers become suppliers and controllers.
Algorithm economy
In an algorithm economy, companies and individuals can buy, sell, trade, or donate individual algorithms or apps pieces, by leveraging dedicated marketplaces.
Transition to data economy
Market size
The size of the EU data economy was estimated to be more than €285 billion in 2015, representing over 1.94% of the EU GDP. Key sectors in the data economy either are or are on the way to becoming data-driven. For example, the manufacturing, agriculture, automotive, smart living environments, telecommunications, healthcare, and pharma industries are at the core of the data economy.
Benefits
Management of personal information makes everyday life easier and adds to well-being. A unified procedure opens up opportunities for user-oriented innovations and business activities.
Individuals have control over the data concerning themselves. Individuals can actively define the services and the conditions under which their personal information is used. The service providers worthy of people's trust can also get access to significantly more extensive and varied data e-services.
Challenges
Approaches to data breaches are problematic. Challenging issues include compensation to victims, incentives for enterprises to invest in data security, and uncertainties for corporations about regulatory burdens and litigation risks. Furthermore, data portability might decrease interest in innovations.
Regulation
The regulation of the data economy is closely linked to privacy. The prese |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20China%20V%20Chart%20number-one%20videos%20of%202018 | The following is a list of the number-one music videos of 2018 on the weekly Billboard China V Chart. The chart ranks the weekly most viewed music videos using data from Chinese video-sharing site YinYueTai.
Chart history
See also
2018 in Chinese music
List of Global Chinese Pop Chart number-one songs of 2018
References
YinYueTai
China V Chart
China V Chart
Chinese music industry
V Chart 2018
China V Chart Videos 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic%20table | A ballistic table or ballistic chart, also known as the data of previous engagements (DOPE) chart, is a reference data chart used in long-range shooting to predict the trajectory of a projectile and compensate for physical effects of gravity and wind drift, in order to increase the probability of the projectile successfully reaching the intended target. Ballistic tables commonly are used in target shooting, hunting, military sharpshooting and ballistic science applications.
Ballistic chart data are typically given in angular measurements with units in either milliradians (mil/mrad) or minutes of arc (MOA), arranged in a table format with the rows representing different reference distances and the columns corresponding to categories of information (e.g. angular deviations, actual drop/drift distance, "click" count, etc.) in which the shooter is interested. After ranging the intended target, the shooter can then read off the chart data to estimate the ballistic correction required (relative to a zeroed range) and calibrate the aim accordingly by turning the adjustment knobs on the scope and/or using the reference markings on the scope's reticle.
Ballistic tables are usually generated using specifically designed computer programs built on mathematical functions known as ballistic softwares, and an electronic device that runs ballistic softwares is called a ballistic calculator or ballistic computer. The number of inputs to the ballistic calculator can sometimes vary depended on the specific generator, or the user may choose to only input certain variables. For example, a very simple drop table can be made using inputs for the sight adjustment value (in mil or MOA), the zero range, intended target ranges, muzzle velocity, caliber, ballistic coefficient and bullet weight. Some of the environmental effects that play a role in calculating the trajectory are gravity, projectile spin, wind, temperature, air pressure and humidity. More advanced tables can take more factors into account to ensure a more accurate prediction of the trajectory, which becomes increasingly affected by gravity and wind drift over longer distances due to the more prolonged bullet flight. Some of these variables may have a negligible effect on shorter ranges.
See also
External ballistics
References
External links
Buckmasters.com - How to Read a Ballistics Chart
Long Range Shooting - Intro to Ballistic Tables - The Loadout Room
JBM Ballistics, a free online ballistic calculator.
Projectiles
Aerodynamics
Ballistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Donkey%20King | The Donkey King () is a 2018 Pakistani computer animated comedy film, directed by Aziz Jindani. The film features the voices of Jan Rambo, Ismail Tara, Hina Dilpazeer, Ghulam Mohiuddin, and Jawed Sheikh. It was released in Pakistan on 13 October 2018 by Geo Films and Talisman Studios. After its national success, it became the first Pakistani film to be dubbed into ten languages for multiple international theatrical releases, distributed worldwide by Annalisa Zanierato, for Pantera Film.
It is currently Pakistan's highest-grossing animated feature film ever, and also one of the highest-grossing Pakistani films overall.
Plot
Mangu is an insignificant donkey washer who dreams of fame and riches. Though his uncle, Pehelwan Chacha discourages his dreams, the spirit of his father Changu often appears to tell him to keep dreaming. Mangu's land is ruled by the elite Big Cats who live off the herbivores. Many protests are often held at this by the public, which are futile. While delivering his laundry, Mangu enters the castle and meets the crafty senior adviser, Miss Fitna. Meanwhile, the aging King Badshah Khan informs Fitna that he wishes to forfeit the crown to his incompetent and self absorbed child Shahzada Khan. When Fitna influences the animals against this through propaganda, the King decides on a form of 'democracy', thinking that no one will be able to stand up to Shahzada.
Miss Fitna and her cohorts vainly look for a suitable candidate. Then Miss Fitna remembers the naive donkey who will be easily influenced. Mangu agrees to the campaign after encouragement from his father. He and Shahzada compete for the crown through many hilarious ways, like press talks and rap battles, while Fitna supports Mangu through the news' influence and reverse psychology. Eventually, Mangu makes an inspirational speech from the bottom of his heart that wins over the animals. The Cats are exiled and Mangu starts to live a life of luxury in the palace and neglects his duties. Meanwhile, Fitna secretly has an agenda of her own. She serves the human ringmaster and kidnaps the animals for his circus. Mangu accidentally stumbles upon their prison. He realizes his mistakes, apologizes to the animals and stops Fitna's party. Fitna falls off the cliff into the sea. The public and the Cats fix their problems and accept Mangu as their King. Meanwhile, Changu's spirit moves on, convinced his son achieved his dreams.
Cast
Urdu version
Afzal Khan as Jan Mangu, a washer-donkey who wants to be the king of Azadnagar
Hina Dilpazeer as Miss Fitna, a red fox who is personal secretary to the king
Ghulam Mohiuddin as Badshah Khan, a lion who is the king of Azadnagar
Adeel Hashmi as Shahzada Khan, the son of Badshah Khan
Faisal Qureshi as Breaking News Monkey anchor
Salman Saqib Sheikh as Rangeela, a chameleon
Jawed Sheikh as Changu, Mangu's father
Ismail Tara as Pehalwan Chacha, Changu's brother and Subadar a black rhinoceros
Shafaat Ali as Ronald Crump, a hippopotamus ve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windjammers%202 | Windjammers 2 is a 2022 sports video game developed and published by Dotemu. It is the sequel to the 1994 Neo Geo game Windjammers, co-produced by Data East and SNK. Windjammers 2 was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Windows, and Xbox One on January 20, 2022. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the visuals, new content and gameplay mechanics.
Gameplay
Windjammers 2 is a sports game played from a top-down perspective, in which players must try to throw a frisbee into their opponent's goal while protecting their own. Players can earn 3 or 5 points by landing the frisbee into their opponent's goal in the yellow or red zones respectively, or can try to land the frisbee on the floor of their opponent's side to earn 2 points. Players win a set by achieving a certain number points, and win the match by winning the most sets. In the game, players select from 11 playable characters; this includes all six returning characters from the original Windjammers, along with Jao Raposa of Brazil, Max Hurricane of Canada, Sammy Ho of China, Sophie De Lys of France, and the secret character Disc Man. Two additional characters, Anna Szalinski of Poland and the cyborg Jamma GX03, were added as part of a free update, bringing the total to 13. Each character has their own attributes. For instance, some characters have more steady control than others at the cost of speed. There are EX Moves, which are special powers can be that activated for gameplay advantages. Players can compete on 10 different courts, including all six courts from Windjammers, which feature different goal zones and gameplay properties. Both single-player and local multiplayer modes are featured. The game includes an "Arcade Mode", where multiple matches are played through championships. Windjammers 2 launched with cross-platform play between the Windows and Xbox One versions, later expanded to all systems following an update in October 2023.
Development
Dotemu, the game's developer and publisher, approached Paon DP, the intellectual property owner for Windjammers, a chance to develop a port to the original game and develop a brand new game in the series. In order to be faithful to the original game, Kevin Delbrayelle, who had retro-engineered the first game's program codes during the production of its port, returned to lead the sequel's technical development. Similar to Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap and Streets of Rage 4, the game features hand-drawn 2D animation visuals. The game's pre-production started in late 2017 and the title was officially announced during a Nintendo Direct held in August 2018.
The game was planned for a 2019 release on Nintendo Switch and Windows, but got delayed to early 2020. In December 2020, Dotemu confirmed that the game was delayed again to 2021. Over the course of its development, versions for PlayStation 4, Stadia, and Xbox One were also added. The game was released on January 20, 2022. A version for Amazon Luna w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LandVote | LandVote, developed by The Trust for Public Land, is a comprehensive database of conservation ballot measures. LandVote documents all of the conservation ballot measures voted on since 1999. The database is organized by state, finance mechanisms, and jurisdiction type. LandVote is designed for communities, policymakers, and conservation professionals.
External links
Official website
References
Ballot measures
American digital libraries
Conservation projects
Nature conservation in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-code%20development%20platform | No-code development platforms (NCDPs) allow creating application software through graphical user interfaces and configuration instead of traditional computer programming. No-code development platforms are closely related to low-code development platforms as both are designed to expedite the application development process. However, unlike low-code, no-code development platforms require no code writing at all, generally offering prebuilt templates that businesses can build apps with. These platforms have both increased in popularity as companies deal with the parallel trends of an increasingly mobile workforce and a limited supply of competent software developers.
No-code development platforms are closely related to visual programming languages.
Use
NCDPs are used to meet the needs of companies that are seeking to digitize processes through cloud-based mobile applications. No-code tools are often designed with line of business users in mind as opposed to traditional IT. This shift in focus is meant to help accelerate the development cycle by bypassing traditional IT development constraints of time, money, and scarce software development human capital resources to allow teams to align their business strategy with a rapid development process. NCDPs also often leverage enterprise-scale APIs and web service catalogs, open data sets, and tested and proven template galleries, to help integrate existing business systems while adding a practical layer of user functionality.
The transition from traditional enterprise software to a lean development methodology is also changing the role of traditional IT leaders and departments. Whereas IT once provided not only approval of new technology but procurement and development of new tools, IT's role is now increasingly one of governance over line of business who develop niche tools for their work stream.
The potential benefits of utilizing a NCDP include:
Access - Gartner predicted in 2014 that by 2018, over half of all B2E (business-to-employee) mobile apps would be created by enterprise business analysts using codeless tools. This ongoing shift is increasing the number of potential app creators from individuals with coding skills to anyone with internet access and functional business acumen.
Agility - NCDPs typically provide some degree of templated user-interface and user experience functionality for common needs such as forms, workflows, and data display allowing creators to expedite parts of the app creation process.
Richness - NCDPs which at one point were limited to more basic application functions increasingly provide a level of feature-richness and integrations that allows users to design, develop, and deploy apps that meet specific business needs.
Automation - The common worker is becoming busier and working longer hours on average and with the proliferation of low code software tools and more access to business APIs, there is a clear opportunity for workers to automate their current tasks using the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty%20Blowers | Misty Blowers is the Chief Technology Officer of the US Marine Corps, an American computer scientist and professor of blockchain technologies at George Mason University. She was awarded the 2018 Early Achievement Award from SPIE.
Early life and education
Blowers attended Oneida High School in Oneida County, New York. She attended State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, where she earned a Bachelors degree in Paper Science in 1995. After graduating she spent six years working at Chemical Process Equipment Suppliers designing new pulp mill systems. Blowers completed a Masters in Computer Science at Syracuse University in 2003. She obtained her doctorate in Applied Science and Engineering at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2009.
Career
Blowers began to work for the Air Force Research Laboratory. She managed Cyber Operations and looked after over $175 million government contracts. Blowers has several patents for detection and tracking. She designed and developed a machine learning-based approach to monitor complex systems in real time and provide actionable alerts. In 2014 she was named "Technologist of the Year" by the Technical Association of Central New York, and is the only woman ever to win the prize.
She, along with a group of high school children, wrote the book Evolution of Cyber Operations and Technologies to 2035 in 2015. She founded Datalytica LLC in 2015. Blowers is involved with the development of programs for the US Department of Defense. She is an adjunct professor in Blockchain Technologies at George Mason University. Blowers was corporate director of strategic development at Peraton and performs similar work several other companies.
She was awarded the 2018 Early Achievement Award from SPIE. She was appointed to a NATO task force on Mission Assurance of Autonomous Unmanned Systems.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Syracuse University alumni
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists
George Mason University faculty
American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%20%28microarchitecture%29 | Turing is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is named after the prominent mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. The architecture was first introduced in August 2018 at SIGGRAPH 2018 in the workstation-oriented Quadro RTX cards, and one week later at Gamescom in consumer GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards. Building on the preliminary work of its HPC-exclusive predecessor, the Turing architecture introduces the first consumer products capable of real-time ray tracing, a longstanding goal of the computer graphics industry. Key elements include dedicated artificial intelligence processors ("Tensor cores") and dedicated ray tracing processors ("RT cores"). Turing leverages DXR, OptiX, and Vulkan for access to ray-tracing. In February 2019, Nvidia released the GeForce 16 series of GPUs, which utilizes the new Turing design but lacks the RT and Tensor cores.
Turing is manufactured using TSMC's 12 nm FinFET semiconductor fabrication process. The high-end TU102 GPU includes 18.6billion transistors fabricated using this process. Turing also uses GDDR6 memory from Samsung Electronics, and previously Micron Technology.
Details
The Turing microarchitecture combines multiple types of specialized processor core, and enables an implementation of limited real-time ray tracing. This is accelerated by the use of new RT (ray-tracing) cores, which are designed to process quadtrees and spherical hierarchies, and speed up collision tests with individual triangles.
Features in Turing:
CUDA cores (SM, Streaming Multiprocessor)
Compute Capability 7.5
traditional rasterized shaders and compute
concurrent execution of integer and floating point operations (inherited from Volta)
Ray-tracing (RT) cores
bounding volume hierarchy acceleration
shadows, ambient occlusion, lighting, reflections
Tensor (AI) cores
artificial intelligence
large matrix operations
Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS)
Memory controller with GDDR6/HBM2 support
DisplayPort 1.4a with Display Stream Compression (DSC) 1.2
PureVideo Feature Set J hardware video decoding
GPU Boost 4
NVLink Bridge with VRAM stacking pooling memory from multiple cards
VirtualLink VR
NVENC hardware encoding
The GDDR6 memory is produced by Samsung Electronics for the Quadro RTX series. The RTX 20 series initially launched with Micron memory chips, before switching to Samsung chips by November 2018.
Rasterization
Nvidia reported rasterization (CUDA) performance gains for existing titles of approximately 30–50% over the previous generation.
Ray-tracing
The ray-tracing performed by the RT cores can be used to produce reflections, refractions and shadows, replacing traditional raster techniques such as cube maps and depth maps. Instead of replacing rasterization entirely, however, the information gathered from ray-tracing can be used to augment the shading with information that is much more photo-realistic, especially in regards to off-cam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualLink | VirtualLink was a proposed USB-C Alternate Mode that was historically intended to allow the power, video, and data required to power virtual reality headsets to be delivered over a single USB-C cable instead of a set of three different cables as it was in older headsets. The standard was supported by Nvidia, AMD, HTC Vive, Oculus VR, Valve, and Microsoft. The VirtualLink Consortium was chaired by Rambo Jacoby representing Nvidia. VirtualLink never launched successfully.
VirtualLink specifications
According to its specifications, the VirtualLink cable consisted of:
DisplayPort:
4 × DisplayPort balanced pair data path
DisplayPort HPD (hot-plug detection pin) as a single wire.
DisplayPort AUX signal as a balanced pair
USB 3.1 signals
A USB TX balanced pair for USB 3.0 data
A USB RX balanced pair for USB 3.0 data
I2C wire to control the USB Billboard interface, in case the cable is plugged into an unsupported interface.
VBUS carrying power to HMD visor
GND ground
The USB-C plug pinout specified:
Unlike most alt-modes this remapped A7, A6, B6, B7 to carry a USB 3.0 signal, instead of the usual passive USB 2.0 signal. This means that one would not be able to extend the cable using a standard USB-C 3.0 cable, which has these pins mapped only for unshielded USB 2.0 signals. Also this required the VirtualLink port to also detect the correct orientation of the USB-C plug to ensure that the USB 3.0 TX and RX lanes are correctly connected.
In VirtualLink mode, there were six high-speed lanes active in the USB-C connector and cable: four lanes transmit four DisplayPort HBR 3 video streams from the PC to the headset while two lanes implement a bidirectional USB 3.1 Gen 2 channel between the PC and the headset. Unlike the classic DisplayPort USB-C alternate mode, VirtualLink has no USB 2.0 channels active, instead providing a higher speed USB 3.1 Gen 2 (SuperSpeed+) over the same A6, A7, B7, B6 pins. VirtualLink also required the PC to provide 15 to 27 watts of power. No information pertaining to VirtualLink alternate mode compatibility with USB4 (and so Thunderbolt 3 alternate mode) had been published.
To achieve six high-speed lanes over USB-C, VirtualLink required special cables that conformed to version 1.3 of the USB-C standard and used shielded differential pairs for both USB 2.0 pairs.
The available bandwidth was estimated to be equivalent to DisplayPort 1.4 (32.4 Gbit/s, up to 4K @ 120 Hz with 8 bpc color) for video and 10 Gbit/s of USB 3.1 Gen 2 data.
Implementation in graphics cards and devices
As of March 2023 Sony PSVR2 has a single 5m cable VirtualLink connection to PS5 which seems to be working with Nvidia GeForce 20 series cards as well.
Nvidia GeForce 20 series cards, initially released in 2018, implemented a single VirtualLink port in all RTX Founders Edition (FE) cards (2060, 2070, 2080, 2080 Ti). This port was also made available on Quadro RTX cards.
As of Nvidia's GeForce 30 series cards announcement, all of Nvidia's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyros%20Magliveras | Spyros Simos Magliveras (born 6 September 1938 in Athens) is a Greek-born American mathematician and computer scientist.
Biography
Magliveras graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1961 and a master's degree in mathematics in 1963. He was from 1963 to 1964 an instructor of mathematics at Florida Presbyterian College and from 1964 to 1968 a teaching fellow in mathematics at the University of Michigan, as well as from 1965 to 1968 a programming analyst and a systems analyst at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1970 with thesis advisor Donald Livingstone and thesis The subgroup structure of the Higman-Sims simple group.
At the State University of New York at Oswego, he was from 1970 to 1973 an assistant professor and from 1973 to 1978 an associate professor. From 1978 to 2000 he was a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, retiring as professor emeritus in 2000. Since 2000 he has been a professor at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). He was the director of FAU's Center for Cryptology and Information Security from 2003 to 2013, and since 2013 he has been the center's associate director.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Birmingham (1984/85), at the University of Waterloo (1999), at the Sapienza University of Rome (two months in 2000), and at the University of Western Australia (two months in 2000).
Magliveras does research on combinatorial designs, permutation groups, finite geometries, encryption of data (cryptography), and data security. In 2001 he received the Euler Medal. He is a co-author of the 2007 book Secure group communications over data networks.
Magliveras is married since 1961 and has two children.
References
External links
Homepage at Florida Atlantic University
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American people of Greek descent
Combinatorialists
University of Florida alumni
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty
Florida Atlantic University faculty
1938 births
Living people
University of Michigan fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOJO%20TV | MOJO TV is a satellite news network in Telugu Language owned by Media NXT India Private Limited founded on 2016
History
MOJO TV with a tagline of
! (Prasniddam…Poradudam!), literally translating as 'to Question & to fight' launched on AIR from May 1, 2018. It is a free to air channel available for downlink on IntelSat 20 68.5o E, Downlink Frequency 3732.5 MHz, Symbol Rate - 7.2 msps, FEC ¾, Modulation - 8 PSK MPEG4, Polarization (RX) - Vertical, Service ID - 8, Video PID - 208 & Audio PID - 308.
Programming
The channel airs shows like Mojo Masti, Tech 360, Super Prime Time With Raghu, Spotlight, Line Of Fire, MOJO Trends, and The Real Politics.
References
Telugu-language television channels
Television stations in Hyderabad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewerage%20%28Scotland%29%20Act%201968 | The Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968 (1968 c.47) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which required every local authority in Scotland to provide a network of sewers to ensure that domestic sewage, surface water and trade effluent was effectively drained from their area, and to construct sewage treatment works or other facilities to deal with the contents of those sewers.
Implementation
The Act was an attempt to improve the provision of sewerage services in Scotland, by requiring local authorities to provide a network of sewers and treatment works or other facilities to deal with the contents of those sewers. Local authorities were further required to ensure that the sewer network was accessible to owners of premises, enabling them to connect to the network "at a reasonable cost". However, this concept was also applied to the local authority, who did not have to do anything that was not practicable at a reasonable cost. In the event that agreement could not be reached as to what was reasonable cost, the matter could be referred to the Secretary of State, and his decision would be binding.
The Act was divided into three parts, with part I covering general provisions as to sewerage in sections 1 to 23, part 2 covering trade effluents in sections 24 to 38, and part 3 covering miscellaneous and general provision in sections 39 to 61. There were two schedules attached to the end of the Act. Section 5 allowed local authorities to collaborate by connecting their sewerage systems or treatment works together to be more effective. Section 10 allowed them to arrange to empty septic tanks within their area on a regular basis, provided that they did not contain trade effluent, while section 11 required them to keep maps showing where the public sewers were located. The maps were to distinguish between sewers for foul water and those for surface water where this was relevant.
Part 2 gave traders a legal right to discharge trade effluent into the public sewers, where such effluent was produced within their premises. Such discharges had to be notified to the local authority, to specify the nature, composition and temperature of the discharge, the maximum volume per day that would be discharged, and the maximum hourly rate at which it would enter the sewers. Section 29 listed a number of conditions on what could be discharged, as well as on whether it needed to be pre-treated, and the local authority could make charges to cover the costs of treating such discharges.
Many of the provisions of part 3 were quite mundane, but section 40 allowed local authorities to conduct research into the problems of sewerage and sewage treatment, or to make contributions towards such research. They could publish information about such problems, arrange seminars or lectures about them, hold exhibitions which included pictures, models or films, and could finance the production of pictures, models or films, either directly or in collaboration with others.
Subsequently, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberheim%20Prommer | The Oberheim Prommer is a monophonic sampler capable of programming EPROM chips for use in Oberheim DMX, Linn, Simmons, and Sequential drum machines, allowing you to use your own samples in these devices. The device can be triggered by MIDI, or via Oberheim's pre-MIDI parallel bus.
Features
The Prommer uses the 8-bit COMDAC format and features 64k of RAM. the maximum sampling rate is 32 kHz.
Editing of samples
Attack
Decay
Reverse
Ring modulation
Stretch/squash
Notable users
References
External links
Prommer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20J.%20Plemmons | Robert James Plemmons (born December 18, 1938) is an American mathematician specializing in computational mathematics. He is the Emeritus Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wake Forest University. In 1979, Plemmons co-authored the book Nonnegative Matrices in the Mathematical Sciences.
Education and life
Plemmons was born in 1938 in the small town of Old Fort, North Carolina, and grew up in rural Appalachia. He attended Old Fort High School and graduated in 1957, having been the star athlete in both baseball and football.
He attended Wake Forest University (WFU) on a full baseball scholarship. Former athletic director Gene Hooks was his baseball coach. In 1959, he held the record for earned run average. During the years 1959–61, he held the record for victories, innings pitched, strikeouts, and complete games, and made All-Conference Pitcher all three years. In the academic year 1960–61, he was awarded the WFU ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Plemmons graduated from Wake Forest in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics.
During the early 1960s, Plemmons played professional baseball for four years with the Baltimore Orioles' minor league clubs. He played with the Tri-City Atoms, Aberdeen Pheasants, and Elmira Pioneers.
In December 1963, he married Mary Jo Harris, also from Old Fort and a graduate of Old Fort High School.
Plemmons attended graduate school at Auburn University from 1961 to 1965, receiving his PhD in Applied mathematics in 1965. He then held research positions with Martin Marietta in Orlando, Florida, and the National Security Agency in Ft. Meade. He served as a faculty member at the University of Mississippi from 1966 to 1967, before moving to the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 1967. In 1981, Plemmons moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he taught at North Carolina State University until 1990. While there, he founded the University of North Carolina System's Center for Research in Scientific Computation. Plemmons joined the faculty of Wake Forest University in 1990. In 2013, he retired from teaching, but still conducts research at WFU. He was also the professor and mentor of former NBA and WFU basketball player Rusty LaRue.
Academic work
Plemmons has focused his work on applied computational mathematics. At Auburn in the early 1960s, Plemmons' work with PhD advisors Richard Ball and Emilie Haynsworth was focused on finite semigroups theory. He continued this research until the early 1980s at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. In 1979, he co-authored the book Nonnegative Matrices in the Mathematical Sciences along with Abraham Berman. The book has been cited over 7,500 times. In 1994, it was revised and republished by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
In the mid-to-late 1980s until mid 1990s, his research focused on numerical linear algebra, specifically in Matrix Theory with applications in Markov chains and nonnegative matrices. Plemmons ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linet%20Kwamboka | Linet Kwamboka (born c. 1988), is a Kenyan computer scientist and businesswoman, who serves as the chief executive officer of DataScience Limited, an IT research company that she founded.
Background and education
She was born in Nyamira County, in the western part of Kenya, circa 1988 to Evelyne Kerubo and Aloys Nyang'au. She is their last born daughter in a family of 8 children. After attending Nyamira Primary School & St. Mathews Academy for Primary School, Butere Girls High School for High School, she was admitted to the University of Nairobi, graduating in 2010, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. She has self-taught expertise in geographic information systems (GIS), data mining and analysis.
Career
After university, for the next six years, she led Kenya's Open Data Initiative, nudging the government to make more information open and publicly available. She has worked with the World Bank on the Open Government Partnership for the Government of Kenya. She also worked as a software engineer with Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University.
In 2013, at the age of 25 years, Kwamboka founded DataScience Limited. The company, with 9 employees in 2015, is involved in data analytics and open-source policy issues.
In 2017, Linet Kwamboka was one of the ten first recipients of the "Mozilla Tech Policy Fellowship". The fellowship, awarded and supported by the Mozilla Foundation, aims "to give people with expertise in government and Internet policy the support and structure they need to continue their work in making the Internet healthy".
In 2020, she joined the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development data as The Africa Program Manager. She is currently the Senior Program Manager for Data4Now at the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data.
Linet is currently the Senior Program Manager for Data4Now at the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data where she is responsible for leading projects on timely data and working with country partners to ensure they have the tools, skills and technical assistance they need to obtain and make use of data that supports decision making.
Other considerations
In August 2018, Linet Kwamboka was named as one of the "100 Most Influential People In Digital Government". The list was compiled by Apolitical, a London, United Kingdom-based non-government global network, which assists public servants find the ideas, people and partners they need to solve the challenges of governing.
References
External links
Welcoming 11 New Partners in the Quest for Internet Health As of 19 March 2018.
Living people
1988 births
University of Nairobi alumni
21st-century Kenyan businesswomen
21st-century Kenyan businesspeople
People from Nyamira County
Kenyan women business executives
Kenyan chief executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudEndure | CloudEndure is a cloud computing company that develops business continuity software for disaster recovery, continuous backup, and live migration. CloudEndure is headquartered in the United States with R&D in Israel.
History
CloudEndure was founded in 2012 by Ofer Gadish (CEO), Gil Shai (CRO), Ofir Ehrlich (VP R&D), and Leonid Feinberg (VP Product). The same founders previously established AcceloWeb, which was acquired by Limelight Networks in 2011.
CloudEndure has raised a total of $18.2 million from private investors and companies such as Dell EMC, VMware, Mitsui, Infosys, and Magma Venture Partners.
Awards for CloudEndure include the 2017 CRN Emerging Vendors Award for Storage Startups and the 2016 Gartner Cool Vendor Award.
CloudEndure products have been integrated as OEM software for several partner company services, including an integration into Google Cloud VM Migration Service and integrations with Cisco Systems CloudCenter Disaster Recovery and Migration and Sungard Availability Services Cloud Recovery.
Amazon made an offer to purchase CloudEndure in January 2019. Between $200 and $250 million was the negotiated price. They outbid Google and acquired the company on January 10, 2019.
Products
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery performs continuous block-level replication and saves a dormant copy in the target infrastructure, which uses a smaller percentage of compute, storage, and memory than the primary site; this leads to minimal RTOs (recovery time objective) and RPOs (recovery point objective) when spun up in a disaster.
The company offers two tiers of Disaster Recovery, as well as Continuous Backup and Live Migration products.
CloudEndure's Software as a Service (SaaS) are application-agnostic and can replicate workloads from physical, virtual, and cloud-based infrastructure to a variety of target sites, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and VMware.
Patents and licensing
CloudEndure Ltd. holds (or has pending) seven US patents including:
- System and method for maintaining a copy of a cloud-based computing environment and restoration.
- System and method for asynchronous replication of a storage in a computing environment.
- System and method for name resolution of replicated components in computing environments.
- System and method for orchestrating replicated components in a replicated cloud-based computing environment.
- System and method for restoring original machines from replicated machines in a secondary computing environment.
- Synchronization of an order of access instructions from a primary computing environment to a replicated computing environment.
- System and method for disk identification in a cloud-based computing environment.
See also
Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery plan (DRP)
Business continuity
Recovery time objective (RTO)
Recovery point objective (RPO)
Continuous data protection
References
Amazon (company) acquisitions
Disaster |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Waller | Laura Ann Waller is a computer scientist and Ted Van Duzer Endowed Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She was awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Fellowship to develop microscopes to image deep structures within the brain in 2017 and won the 2018 SPIE Early Career Award.
Early life and education
Waller is from Kingston, Ontario. She studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 2004 and her Masters in 2005. During her undergraduate study she spent a year at the University of Cambridge as part of the Cambridge–MIT Institute. Her Masters thesis considered the design of feedback loops and experimental testing techniques for integrated optics. In 2010 she completed her doctoral studies under the supervision of George Barbastathis where her thesis investigated developed new techniques to image phase and amplitude. She was a Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) student. She played on the MIT Women's Varsity soccer team and was president of The Optical Society student chapter.
Career and research
Waller works on computational imaging. She joined Princeton University in 2010, where she worked as a research associate and lecturer. She joined University of California, Berkeley in 2012. Her research group focus on phase imaging, super-resolution microscopy and lensless imaging. She is a senior fellow of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.
Waller was named as one of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow in 2014. That year she was also awarded a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator. She is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award holder, allowing her research group to build computational and experimental software for imaging 4D partially spatially coherent light. She has developed machine learning techniques for 3D microscopy. She was awarded tenure at University of California, Berkeley in 2016. In 2017 Waller was awarded an investigator award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Waller was awarded the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award in Academia in January 2018. Through the development of hardware for computational imaging, Waller has made several contributions to biomedical and industrial sciences. Her group develop open source software for imaging. She was one of the MIT EECS Rising Stars for 2018.
Awards and honors
2019 Fellow of The Optical Society
2018 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award in Academia
2016 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award for Junior Faculty
2016 Best Paper Award, International Conference on Computational Photography
2012 The Optical Society Ivan P. Kaminow Outstanding Early Career Professional Prize
2021 The Optical Society of America Adolph Lomb Medal for important contributions to the advancement of computational microscopy and its applications
References
Canadian emigrants to the United States
MIT School of Engin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paessler%20PRTG | PRTG (Paessler Router Traffic Grapher until version 7) is an agentless network monitoring software from Paessler AG. Several software versions are combined under the umbrella term Paessler PRTG. It is designed to monitor and classify system conditions like bandwidth usage or uptime and collect statistics from miscellaneous hosts such as switches, routers, servers, and other devices and applications.
The first version of PRTG was released on 29 May 2003 by the German company Paessler GmbH (now: Paessler AG), which was founded by Dirk Paessler in 2001.
Products of the Paessler PRTG family
The monitoring software Paessler PRTG is available in three versions. In addition to the classic standalone solution PRTG Network Monitor, Paessler sells PRTG Enterprise Monitor for large and distributed networks and PRTG Hosted Monitor as a SaaS-version.
PRTG Network Monitor
PRTG Network Monitor is the classic on-premises monitoring solution, which is hosted on a server in the user's network. For the installation of the core server, a computer with the Windows Server operating system is required.
PRTG Enterprise Monitor
Since 2020, Paessler has offered PRTG Enterprise Monitor, a specialized monitoring solution for large IT environments. In addition to a particularly high performance for distributed locations, PRTG Enterprise Monitor also includes the ITOps Board, which provides a centralized service-oriented overview. It can be used to map business processes, consolidate dashboards from multiple servers, and monitor SLA performance and availability, among other features.
PRTG Hosted Monitor
In 2017, a cloud-hosted version of PRTG was released. PRTG Hosted Monitor offers largely the same range of functions as the standard tool. The license is billed monthly and is based solely on the number of sensors. In contrast to PRTG Network Monitor and PRTG Enterprise Monitor, PRTG Hosted Monitor can also be used in networks without a Windows server, since it is hosted in the cloud and not locally.
Specifications
Paessler PRTG has an auto-discovery mode that scans predefined areas of an enterprise network and creates a device list from this data. In the next step, further information on the detected devices can be retrieved using various communication protocols. Typical protocols are ICMP, SNMP, WMI, NetFlow, jFlow, sFlow, but also communication via DCOM or the RESTful API is possible.
Sensors
The software is based on sensors that are configured for a specific purpose. A PRTG sensor is a single metric on a device. For instance, when managing a switch, a sensor could be measuring network health, or whether the switch's CPU utilization is running above 90%. Most devices require between five and ten sensors to be fully monitored. There are HTTP, SMTP/POP3 (e-mail) application sensors and hardware-specific sensors for switches, routers and servers. PRTG Network Monitor has over 200 different predefined sensors that retrieve statistics from the monitored instances, e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroLiner3000 | The AeroLiner3000 is a project for the introduction of a double-decker train in the UK, which can run on a large part of the existing British rail network with the tight loading gauge PG1. The train was developed by Andreas Vogler Studio together with the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - DLR). At the InnoTrans 2016 in Berlin, a long full-scale demonstrator was presented.
Background
In 2014, Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB)'s innovation programme launched a competition titled "Tomorrow’s Train Design Today" to identify passenger rolling stock designs that will provide ‘a glimpse of the future’ and showcase the capability of the rolling stock supply chain to deliver key elements of design to the rail industry. The goals of the competition were formulated to be very open, but with one main restriction: not to touch the basic infrastructure. The main drivers of the competition brief are the 4Cs: capacity, low-carbon, customer comfort, and cost-sensitive innovation.
Andreas Vogler Studio (AVS) teamed up with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to propose a high-capacity double-decker high-speed train to run at up to on the new High Speed 2 (HS2) high-speed line from London to Birmingham and be able to continue on the existing lines as far as Edinburgh. The resulting train, named "AeroLiner3000”, became competition finalist and a feasibility study was conducted. A demonstrator was also built and shown at the InnoTrans 2016 in Berlin.
Over the past two decades, double-decker cars have greatly helped to increase capacity for train operators, especially in Europe, but also worldwide. However, due to historical reasons, Great Britain has been greatly restricted by its limited gauge and generally, double-decker cars have not been considered.
Previous British double-deck carriages
Originally started as an experiment, British Railways did have the 'Bulleid Double Decker' car SR Class 4DD in operation for more than 20years from 1949 to 1971. As the compartments were alternately high and low, to ensure that the overall height of the unit was within the clearances necessary to pass through tunnels and under bridges, the 'Bulleid Double Decker' was more a split-level than a true double-decker.
The 4DD was somewhat unsuccessful because the upper level compartments were cramped and poorly ventilated (the upper-level windows could not be opened due to tight clearance). The compartments were pressure-ventilated but the equipment proved to be troublesome. Dwell times at stations were lengthened because of the increase in the number of passengers per door. Finally, to obtain the extra seating capacity that was being sought, it was instead decided to lengthen trains from eight cars to ten and to further decrease the seat pitch.
Concept
The AeroLiner3000 proposal has set itself the goal of investigating a double-decker high-speed train following the HS2 Classic Compatible Train Specifications 2012.
The resulting concept |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noelle%20Selin | Noelle Eckley Selin is an atmospheric chemist and Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
Education and early career
Selin received her Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science and Public Policy and her Master of Arts in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University in 2000. Following graduation, Selin became a Fulbright Fellow, working as a visiting researcher in Copenhagen at the European Environment Agency. There, she studied ways to improve scientific assessments of chemicals and their environmental impacts.
Following her Fulbright Fellowship, Selin returned to Harvard to receive her PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences in 2007. There, she worked in the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group with Daniel J. Jacob to understand how mercury cycles through the atmosphere, across land, and in water using a global 3-D chemical transport model. Her research extended to the politics and policy underlying mercury pollution, authoring articles in law and governance publications. Her graduate work was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship award, as well as a United States Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results Graduate Research Fellowship.
In 2007, Selin became a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Center for Global Change Science and Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Her research centered on atmospheric pollution and human health impacts, as well as continuing to focus on global efforts to regulate hazardous chemicals.
Research
In 2010, Selin was appointed as an assistant professor at MIT in the Engineering Systems Division and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and was promoted to associate professor in 2015. She is also affiliated with the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and the MIT Center for Environmental Sciences. Her research centers on using atmospheric chemistry modeling to understand how atmospheric pollutants circulate and interact with the global environment. Her group has studied the financial and health benefits of reducing carbon emissions, finding that improving air quality led to reduced risk of health problems. The financial savings from avoiding health problems — and in turn avoiding the cost of medical care and reducing sick days — could recoup up to 10.5 times the cost of implementing a cap-and-trade program. The study, published in 2014, was the most detailed assessment of the effects of climate policy on the economy, air pollution, and human health. Her group has also found that global regulations on mercury pollution have a major economic benefit to the United States. Mercury is a major contaminant in the seafood market, and consumption leads to increased risk of cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairments. Decreasing the r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20End%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "The End" is the first episode and season premiere of the eighth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on September 12, 2018, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk, and directed by Bradley Buecker.
Plot
In the near future, while heiress Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt gets her hair done by Mr. Gallant in Santa Monica, people are warned of an impending nuclear missile strike. Coco escapes the city on a private jet along with her assistant Mallory, Gallant, and his grandmother Evie, but leaving Coco's boyfriend Brock behind. The nuclear blast hits, destroying Los Angeles. Several other world cities are also destroyed.
Teenager Timothy Campbell is also evacuated, without his family, by guards from an organization called the Cooperative who arrive, stating that this is because of Timothy's genetic makeup. After being evacuated, Timothy meets another chosen survivor, Emily.
Two weeks later, nuclear holocaust has effectively ended the world and nuclear winter has descended. Timothy and Emily are taken to Outpost 3, one of several fallout bunkers across the world under the rule of the Cooperative. Outpost 3's overseer Wilhemina Venable explains to Timothy and Emily that in Outpost 3 there are two castes: "purples" and "grays". Purples are the "elite", who bought a ticket or were chosen to survive. Grays are the worker class. There are strict rules, including no unauthorized sexual intercourse and no going outside due to the risk of radiation contamination. The "purples" consist of Timothy, Emily, Coco, Gallant, Evie, former talk show host Dinah Stevens, Dinah's son Andre, and Andre's boyfriend Stu. Mallory is a "gray".
Rations begin to run low and have only enough food for the next eighteen months. Miriam Mead, Outpost 3's sadistic warden, tampers with a Geiger counter so it detects traces of radiation on Gallant and Stu. The two are brutishly "decontaminated", but Mead pretends she still detects radiation traces on Stu and so kills him. During dinner later, Andre finds human bones in the meal and deduces that they have been eating Stu.
Over the next eighteen months, Timothy and Emily develop a romantic relationship. Michael Langdon then arrives at the outpost and tells Venable that many other outposts have been overrun. Michael states he will judge who is fit to be saved and join an impenetrable outpost with a ten-year food supply. Outside, Mead kills the horses that brought Langdon to the outpost, and their corpses are devoured by unseen monsters.
Reception
"The End" was watched by 3.08 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.5 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received positive reviews from critics, with many critics calling it the show's best premiere in years. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "The End" holds a 91% approval rating, based on 32 reviews with an average rating of 8.10 out of 10. The critical consensus reads, "AH |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Morning%20After%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "The Morning After" is the second episode of the eighth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on September 19, 2018, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by James Wong, and directed by Jennifer Lynch.
Plot
The Outpost 3 guests assemble in the library. Langdon enters and proclaims that the other American compounds have been destroyed and that he will be evaluating candidates for survival. Those chosen will live in The Sanctuary. Those not selected will be given suicide vials. Mr. Gallant volunteers to be evaluated first.
In Venable's office, Langdon and Gallant discuss Gallant's hostile relationship with his grandmother. In his own room, Gallant fantasizes about Langdon while masturbating and is interrupted by the arrival of the Rubber Man. Evie observes the two having sex and informs the warden about her grandson's indiscretions.
Timothy and Emily sneak into Langdon's bedroom and discover emails detailing Venable's transgressions against proper protocol. Langdon visits Venable and inquires about her violations.
Mead relays Evie's story to Venable and they suspect that Langdon was the suited figure. Venable interrogates a chained Gallant while Mead whips him. Later, Langdon enters and insists he has never been in Gallant's bedroom. He calls Gallant pathetic and informs him that his own grandmother informed on him.
Gallant follows the Rubber Man to a bedroom and kills him by stabbing him with scissors. Langdon finds Gallant covered in the blood of his grandmother's corpse.
Timothy and Emily speculate on the true purpose of their saving and have sex for the first time. Mead intrudes and drags them away. They confront Venable about her self-imposed rules and she sends them off. Mead takes them to a chamber for execution, where Timothy shoots her in the torso in an escape attempt. She staggers away and her wound reveals white fluid and wires.
Reception
"The Morning After" was watched by 2.21 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.1 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received positive reviews from critics, with much of the praise going towards Cody Fern's performance. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "The Morning After" holds an 88% approval rating, based on 17 reviews with an average rating of 7.10/10. The critical consensus reads, "Though not as strong as the premiere, "The Morning After" works well enough thanks to its willingness to wade into weirder waters."
Ron Hogan of Den of Geek gave the episode a 3.5/5, saying, "I'm certain that the shocking and confusing events of this episode will come into play later in the season. It's early, and things are still building. What's confusing now will make more sense later, or will be buried beneath much more confusing things later on. Either way, 'The Morning After' is a satisfying enough episode that lacks the initial hook of the first episode, but adds plenty of weirdness into the snake stew."
Kat Ros |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Doctor%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of Doctor Doctor (known as The Heart Guy outside of Australasia), an Australian drama television series, premiered on Nine Network on 14 September 2016.
Cast
Main
Rodger Corser as Hugh Knight
Nicole da Silva as Charlie Knight (née Pereira)
Ryan Johnson as Matt Knight
Tina Bursill as Meryl Knight
Hayley McElhinney as Penny Cartwright
Chloe Bayliss as Hayley Mills Knight
Matt Castley as Ajax Cross Knight
Belinda Bromilow as Betty Bell
Shalom Brune-Franklin as Aoife
Charles Wu as Ken Liu
Steve Bisley as Jim Knight
Recurring and guest
Zoe Carides as Jill (2 episodes)
Michelle Lim Davidson (2 episodes)
Wadih Dona as Dr. Ogilvy (2 episodes)
John Batchelor as Nathan (6 episodes)
Winta McGrath as Floyd (6 episodes)
Dave Eastgate as Joey (7 episodes)
Michael Kotsohilis as Fifo Jazz (2 episodes)
Amy Kersey as Jane (2 episodes)
Jacek Koman as Trevor (2 episodes)
Patrick Wilson as Rod Eagle (5 episodes)
Lucy Durack as Tugger (6 episodes)
Patrick Diggins as Anton (2 episodes)
Episodes
Reception
Ratings
Accolades
Casting Guild of Australia (2016)
Nominated: CGA Award for Best Casting in a TV Drama — Kirsty McGregor
AACTA Awards (2017)
Nominated: AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama — Tina Bursill
Logie Awards (2017)
Nominated: Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television — Rodger Corser
Nominated: Logie Award for Best Actor — Rodger Corser
Nominated: Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor — Rodger Corser
Nominated: Logie Award for Most Outstanding Supporting Actor — Ryan Johnson
Nominated: Logie Award for Best New Talent — Shalom Brune-Franklin
Nominated: Logie Award for Best Drama Program — Doctor Doctor
Screen Producers Australia (2017)
Nominated: SPA Award for Drama Series Production of the Year – Doctor Doctor
TV Tonight Awards (2017)
Nominated: TV Tonight Award for Best New Show (Australian) – Doctor Doctor
Nominated: TV Tonight Award for Best Australian Drama – Doctor Doctor
Home media
International release
Streaming
Season one is available for catch-up streaming in demand via 9Now in Australia, and internationally from Acorn TV in the United States, TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom it was available via UKTV Play, but has since expired.
References
2016 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainsi%20soient-ils | Ainsi soient-ils, also known as The Churchmen and Thy Will Be Done in English-speaking countries, is a French television series. In The U.S., the series was shown on MHz Networks.
Content
The series takes place in the fictional seminary of the Capucins in Paris. In the foreground are five seminarians who come from different backgrounds: Yann comes from Brittany and is a scout. Raphael comes from a rich Catholic family. Emmanuel - adoptive son of African descent - is an archaeologist and has turned down the opportunity to graduate to attend the seminar. He was under treatment for depression. Guillaume studied political science and lived in a homosexual partnership. José has killed a Russian drug dealer in a dispute, he has served his prison sentence. Together, the goal is to become a priest. The series accompanies them through the studies and the process of detachment from their previous lifes. In the process, inner and outer conflicts of the protagonists are described. The hand of the Capucin Seminary Father Fromenger accompanies the five young men. For more than 20 years he is director of the seminary. He is assisted by Father Bosco. In the second season, the seminary is facing its closure.
Remake
As of 2017, Tom Fontana was said to be involved in an American remake of the series, set in New York City and set to be aired on Netflix.
Cast
Jean-Luc Bideau: Étienne Fromenger
Thierry Gimenez: Dominique Bosco
Michel Duchaussoy: Joseph Roman
Julien Bouanich: Yann Le Megueur
David Baiot: Emmanuel Charrier
Clément Manuel: Guillaume Morvan
Clément Roussier: Raphaël Chanseaulme
Samuel Jouy: José Del Sarte
Sabine Pakora: Fatou
References
2012 French television series debuts
2010s French drama television series
Television shows set in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%20JTC%201/SC%2042 | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial Intelligence is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 develops and facilitates the development of international standards, technical reports, and technical specifications within the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), located in the United States of America. The Chair of SC 42 is Wael William Diab. The first meeting of the committee took place in Beijing, China in April 2018. SC 42 meets face-to-face twice a year in an opening and closing plenary format with its subgroups meeting concurrently during the week. SC 42 organizes bi-annual AI workshops that target all stakeholders interested in AI and the committee's work.
History
At the 32nd ISO/IEC JTC 1 Plenary in Vladivostok, Russia, Resolution 12 established SC 42 as a system integration entity for Artificial Intelligence. The resolution also appointed Mr. Wael William Diab as Chair of the SC and Ms. Heather Benko was appointed as the Committee Manager. The inaugural meeting was held in Beijing, China on April 18th – 20th.
Scope
The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 is:
Standardization in the area of Artificial Intelligence
· Serve as the focus and proponent for JTC 1's standardization program on Artificial Intelligence
· Provide guidance to JTC 1, IEC, and ISO committees developing Artificial Intelligence applications
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 is set up as a Systems Integration Entity.
Members
Membership in SC 42 is open to any national body. A member can be either participating (P) or observing (O). The current list of countries active in SC 42 include:
37 p-members: Australia (SA), Austria (ASI), Azerbaijan (AZSTAND), Belgium (NBN), Canada (SCC), China (SAC), Cyprus (CYS), Democratic Republic of the Congo (OCC), Denmark (DS), Finland (SFS), France (AFNOR), Germany (DIN), India (BIS), Ireland (NSAI), Israel (SII), Italy (UNI), Japan (JISC), Kazakhstan (KAZMEMST), Kenya (KEBS), Korea, Republic of (KATS), Luxembourg (ILNAS), Malta (MCCAA), Netherlands (NEN), Norway (SN), Philippines (BPS), Portugal (IPQ), Russian Federation (GOST R), Rwanda (RSB), Saudia Arabia (SASO), Singapore (SSC), Spain (UNE), Sweden (SIS), Switzerland (SNV), Turkey (TSE), Uganda (UNBS), United Kingdom (BSI), United States (ANSI)
23 o-members
Structure
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 is currently made up of five working groups, each of which carries out specific tasks in standards development within the field of Artificial Intelligence. The working groups, study groups, and advisory group of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 are:ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 - Artificial intelligence
Collaborations
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 works in close collaboration with a number of other organizations or subcommittees, both internal and external t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20avocado%20production | This is a list of countries by avocado production from 2016 to 2021, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for avocados in 2021 was 8,685,672 metric tonnes, up 7.2% from 8,104,028 tonnes in 2020. Mexico was the largest producer, accounting for over 28% of global production. Dependent territories are shown in italics.
Production by country (tonnes)
Notes
The interesting thing is that even in a developing country like Nepal, India, bhutan , Bangladesh, Pakistan and more on its commercial cultivation and production is increasing rapidly.
References
Avocado
Avocado
Avocado
Avocado |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinitiv | Refinitiv is an American-British global provider of financial market data and infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 as a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters, which then sold a 55% stake to Blackstone Group LP in August of 2018. In October 2019, Blackstone and Thomson Reuters announced the sale of the company to London Stock Exchange Group. LSEG completed the US$27 billion purchase from the two previous owners in late January of 2021, and Refinitiv is now a subsidiary of LSEG. The company has an annual turnover of $6 billion with more than 40,000 client companies in 190 countries.
History
Refinitiv's predecessors include Thomson Financial.
Thomson Reuters sold a 55% majority stake in its Financial & Risk (F&R) unit to private equity firm Blackstone Group LP on October 1, 2018, in a deal which valued the total F&R business at about $20 billion. This business was formed into Refinitiv.
Under the deal, Thomson Reuters transferred its complete financial and risk product portfolio to Refinitiv, with the exception of Regulatory Intelligence, Risk Compliance Learning and Data Privacy Advisory Services. Company CEO David Craig presided over the transfer from Thomson Reuters, which he joined as Group Strategy Director in 2007. British-born Craig's previous role was a partner at US-based global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
In August 2019, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) agreed to buy Refinitiv in an all-share transaction valuing the company at $27 billion. LSEG expected to receive regulatory approval to close the transaction in the first quarter of 2021. It was finally awarded such approval by EU regulators in January 2021.
In 2019, Refinitiv spun off Tradeweb in an IPO, while maintaining a controlling interest.
In March 2020, Refintiv announced the purchase of software-as-services firm Scivantage for an undisclosed amount.
Refinitiv acquired Advisor software in July 2020 and Red Flag Group in October 2020.
On May 18, 2022, LSEG announced its acquisition of MayStreet, a low latency execution software and market data provider.
At the end of August 2023, the Refinitiv brand was retired in favour of LSEG brand.
Censorship in China
Under pressure from the government of China, Refinitiv censored over 200 stories by Reuters covering the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, removing them from its Eikon platform for consumers in Mainland China. The company developed a "Strategic China filter" to block politically-sensitive stories from readers in Mainland China.
Operations
Refinitiv runs more than 130 fintech data, analytics, trading, and risk assessment tools including World-Check, a risk intelligence database for financial crime legislation compliance, FXall, Eikon, the execution management system REDI, Datastream for macro-economic analysis, Quantitative Analytics on the Cloud, AutoAudit and the Elektron Data Platform, creating 32,000 risk intelligence records every month from internal and third-party sources. Another, the World-Ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Computing%2C%20Imperial%20College%20London | The Department of Computing (DoC) is the computer science department at Imperial College London. The department has around 50 academic staff and 1000 students, with around 600 studying undergraduate courses, 200 PhD students, and 200 MSc students. The department is predominantly based in the Huxley Building, 180 Queen's Gate, which it shares with the Maths department, however also has space in the William Penney Laboratory and in the Aeronautics and Chemical Engineering Extension. The department ranks 7th in the Times Higher Education 2020 subject world rankings.
History
The origins of the department start with the formation of the Computer Unit in 1964, led by Stanley Gill, out of the Department of Electrical Engineering. However, earlier work had also been done by the Department of Mathematics, which had built the Imperial College Computing Engine, an early digital relay computer. In 1966, the postgraduate Centre for Computing and Automation came into being and consumed the pre-existing Computer Unit, with John Westcott migrating his Control Group from the Electrical Engineering department and joining Stanley Gill as joint head. In 1970, Gill left for industry, the department was renamed to The Department of Computing and Control, and Westcott became the head.
In 1972, Manny Lehman joined the department and with Westcott, developed the first undergraduate course (BSc). Before Lehman joined, there was some progress towards the design of an undergraduate course; however, Lehman found this to be too mathematical and also Westcott didn't wish to compete with the hardware focus of Manchester University. Therefore, it was decided to focus the course on the creation of software and related methodologies. The first intake for the course was in 1973, and the first graduates in 1976. On the research front, the department held a logic programming workshop, which "evolved into the ICLP" (International Conference on Logic Programming).
The department moved to the Huxley Building in 1977. In 1979 Westcott's term as head of department came to an end and the position was up for renewal, it was given to Lehman. During Westcott's term, the control engineers had been doing most of the research in the department, and the computer scientists doing most of the teaching; in order to establish Computing as its own subject, then Rector Lord Flowers advised Lehman to send Westcott and his control group back to Electrical Engineering, and the department assumed its current name, the Department of Computing. Lehman started designing a Software Engineering course, his belief was that software engineering is practical by nature and as part of the course wanted students to have industrial experience. However, professional software engineering was not as it is today and Lehman founded IST to provide a place for Imperial students to get some practical experience.
Throughout the 80s, the department was recognised as a "leading centre for logic programming", and by 1985 the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questron%20%28video%20game%29 | Questron is a 1984 game from Strategic Simulations, the first fantasy title from a company known for computer wargames. It was written by Charles Dougherty and Gerald Wieczorek and released for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, and Commodore 64. A sequel, Questron II, was released in 1988.
After an out-of-court settlement, the structure and style of the game were both officially licensed from Richard Garriott, author of Akalabeth and Ultima.
Gameplay
In the first Questron game, the player takes on the role of a young serf who tries to make a name for himself by traveling the realm in order to gain the power and experience necessary to defeat the wicked "Mantor", ruler of the "Land of Evil".
The view is mostly in top-down style for the world maps and town encounters, but switches to a first-person style in the dungeons of the Land of Evil. Some features were novel for a game of its type at the time of its release. First there are two "games within a game" that allow the character to permanently increase dexterity or intelligence attributes if completed successfully. Also, various casinos about the towns allow the player to gamble for gold pieces in games of blackjack, roulette, and double or nothing.
Various monsters and foes are immune or more vulnerable to different weapons. The player would occasionally have to switch weapons depending on which enemy they faced in order to defeat them. Magic spells can also be cast, but only in the dungeon levels.
Reception
Questron was SSI's first RPG, and became the fastest-selling new game in the company's history at almost 35,000 copies in North America, more than triple the sales of the typical SSI game. Others followed, such as Phantasie, Wizard's Crown, Gemstone Warrior, and the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box games.
Computer Gaming World in 1984 wrote that "if you are in need of a new and challenging role-playing game similar in play to the Ultima scenarios, then look no further". James A. McPherson praised the 3-D dungeons and "an ending fit for a king", and concluded that "the differences from the Ultima type game do make Questron refreshing. I await the sequels". The magazine's Scorpia in 1991 and 1993 also liked the game and praised the ending. Ahoy! in 1985 praised the Commodore 64 version of Questron, describing it as "one of those game that you start playing and suddenly realize it's three hours past bedtime. SSI should label the box 'potentially hazardous to your sleep'".
Reviews
Casus Belli #22 (Oct 1984)
Jeux & Stratégie #30
Jeux & Stratégie HS #3
Legacy
Chuck and John Dougherty also created some similar games that were not direct sequels to Questron or Questron II:
Legacy of the Ancients
The Legend of Blacksilver
References
External links
Questron at Atari Mania
Images of Commodore 64 version of Questron box, manual, and screen shots at C64Sets.com
Review in Electronic Games
Review in Commodore Power/Play
Review in ANALOG Computing
Review in Family Computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20cherry%20production | This is a list of countries by cherry production from the years 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for 2020 was 4,088,595 metric tonnes, increasing by 1.3% from 4,036,859 tonnes in 2019. Turkey was the largest producer of cherries, accounting for over 22% of global production.
Production by country
Notes
References
Cherry
Cherries
Cherries
Cherries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20Gordon | Eleanor Elizabeth Gordon (October 10, 1852 – January 6, 1942) was an American Unitarian minister. Part of an informal network of Unitarian women ministers known as the "Iowa Sisterhood", she was often partnered in her work with Mary Safford.
Gordon was born in Hamilton, Illinois, and was the oldest of six children of Samuel and Parmelia (Alvord) Gordon. She grew up in a family where religious debate was common and where the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker was greatly admired. Mary Safford lived on a neighboring farm, and the two were close friends from youth. From 1873 to 1874 she attended the University of Iowa. She was then invited by Safford to assist with the Unitarian congregations in Humboldt and Sioux City, Iowa. She proceeded to study at Cornell University for one semester prior to ordination, which occurred in 1889. An advocate for women's educational opportunities, she served four other congregations. Among those whose studies she supported was Mary Collson. Gordon and Safford published Old and New, a magazine, between 1891 and 1908. From 1907 until 1910 she served as field secretary of the Unitarian Conference of Iowa, and for ten years facilitated its communications. From 1906 to 1910 she was a resident of the Roadside Settlement House in Des Moines. She organized a Unitarian congregation in Orlando, Florida, in 1912. Gordon retired from active ministry in 1918. She died in Keokuk, Iowa, and is buried in the town of her birth.
See also
Unitarian Universalism
References
1852 births
1942 deaths
American Unitarians
American Unitarian clergy
Women Christian clergy
People from Hamilton, Illinois
Religious leaders from Illinois
University of Iowa alumni
Cornell University alumni
Religious leaders from Iowa
Suffragists from Iowa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Bishop | Angela Bishop (born 6 September 1967) is an Australian reporter and television presenter who is currently a co-host and the entertainment presenter on Network 10's Studio 10.
Career
Bishop commenced her work at Network Ten in 1989.
Bishop made two cameo appearances on American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
In 2018, Bishop joined Network 10's morning news, entertainment and lifestyle talk show Studio 10 as a regular panelist alongside Denise Scott, replacing Jessica Rowe. Making the panel now consist of Bishop, Denise Scott, Sarah Harris, Joe Hildebrand, Denise Drysdale, and Kerri-Ann Kennerley. In 2020, the show underwent a revamp after low viewership in order to become more like it's competitors, Today, Sunrise and The Morning Show. Sarah Harris was named as a co-host alongside Dancing With The Stars judge Tristain MacManus, while Bishop stayed on the show, taking on the role as the entertainment presenter, and former 10 News First Perth presenter Narelda Jacobs joined the show as the news presenter. In 2023, Bishop started stepping up regularly as a co-host of Studio 10, after Sarah Harris's departure at the end of 2022, while still staying in her position of entertainment presenter. The current 2023 season consists of Bishop as a co-host and entertainment presenter, Tristain MacManus as a co-host, Narelda Jacobs as a co-host and news presenter and Daniel Doody as a reporter.
Personal life
Bishop married Peter Baikie in 2005 and they had a daughter in 2007.
In 2016 Baikie was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. He died in 2017.
Bishop is the daughter of former Australian politician Bronwyn Bishop and former NSW judge Alan Bishop.
Bishop was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours, for "service to entertainment journalism".
References
Australian television presenters
Australian women television presenters
Living people
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
1967 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20coconut%20production | This is a list of countries by coconut production from the years 2017 to 2021, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for coconuts in 2021 was 63,683,595 metric tonnes, up 2.1% from 62,386,241 tonnes in 2020. Dependent territories are shown in italics.
The Philippines, Indonesia and India produce around 70% of the world's total copra, with the Philippines and Indonesia also being the world's main coconut oil exporters.
Coconut production by country (metric tons)
Notes
References
Coconut
Coconuts
Coconuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroquieta%E2%80%93Calamba%20Mountain%20Road | The Oroquieta–Calamba Mountain Road is a , national secondary road in Misamis Occidental, Philippines. The entire road is designated as National Route 960 (N960) of the Philippine highway network.
References
Roads in Misamis Occidental |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah%20Bast | Hannah Bast is a German computer scientist known for her work on routing in transportation networks and search engines. She works as a professor at the University of Freiburg, where she holds the chair in algorithms and data structures and is dean of the faculty of engineering. She is one of the members of the Enquete Commission on Artificial Intelligence of the German federal parliament.
Bast studied at Saarland University, earning bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science in 1990, a master's degree in computer science in 1994, and a doctorate in 2000. Her dissertation, supervised by Kurt Mehlhorn, was Provably Optimal Scheduling of Similar Tasks. She worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics until 2007, and as a visiting scientist at Google from 2008 to 2009, before moving to Freiburg in 2009. Bast was program chair for Track B (Engineering and Applications) of the 2018 European Symposium on Algorithms, where she conducted an experiment on the quality of peer review by having two parallel program committees reviewing the complete set of submissions independently.
Bast won several awards: the Saarland University Dissertation Award , the Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society, the Heinz Billing Prize (together with Stefan Funke), the Meyer Struckmann Science Prize, the Alcatel-Lucent Research Award, a Google Focused Research Award (together with Dorothea Wagner and Peter Sanders), and various teaching awards.
References
Further reading
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
Saarland University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR%20data | FAIR data are data which meet principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR). The acronym and principles were defined in a March 2016 paper in the journal Scientific Data by a consortium of scientists and organizations.
The FAIR principles emphasize machine-actionability (i.e., the capacity of computational systems to find, access, interoperate, and reuse data with none or minimal human intervention) because humans increasingly rely on computational support to deal with data as a result of the increase in volume, complexity, and creation speed of data.
The abbreviation is sometimes used to indicate that the dataset or database in question complies with the FAIR principles and also carries an explicit data‑capable open license.
FAIR principles, as published by GO FAIR
Acceptance and implementation of FAIR data principles
Before FAIR a 2007 paper was the earliest paper discussing similar ideas related to data accessibility.
At the 2016 G20 Hangzhou summit, the G20 leaders issued a statement endorsing the application of FAIR principles to research.
In 2016 a group of Australian organisations developed a Statement on FAIR Access to Australia's Research Outputs, which aimed to extend the principles to research outputs more generally.
In 2017 Germany, Netherlands and France agreed to establish an international office to support the FAIR initiative, the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office.
Other international organisations active in the research data ecosystem, such as CODATA or Research Data Alliance (RDA) also support FAIR implementations by their communities. FAIR principles implementation assessment is being explored by FAIR Data Maturity Model Working Group of RDA, CODATA's strategic Decadal Programme "Data for Planet: Making data work for cross-domain challenges" mentions FAIR data principles as a fundamental enabler of data driven science.
The Association of European Research Libraries recommends the use of FAIR principles.
A 2017 paper by advocates of FAIR data reported that awareness of the FAIR concept was increasing among various researchers and institutes, but also, understanding of the concept was becoming confused as different people apply their own differing perspectives to it.
Guides on implementing FAIR data practices state that the cost of a data management plan in compliance with FAIR data practices should be 5% of the total research budget.
In 2019 the Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) released the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance as a complementary guide. The CARE principles extend principles outlined in FAIR data to include Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, and Ethics to ensure data guidelines address historical contexts and power differentials. The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance were drafted at the International Data Week and Research Data Alliance Plenary co-hosted event "Indigenous Data Sovereignty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20psychometrics | Computational Psychometrics is an interdisciplinary field fusing theory-based psychometrics, learning and cognitive sciences, and data-driven AI-based computational models as applied to large-scale/high-dimensional learning, assessment, biometric, or psychological data. Computational psychometrics is frequently concerned with providing actionable and meaningful feedback to individuals based on measurement and analysis of individual differences as they pertain to specific areas of enquiry.
The relatively recent availability of large-scale psychometric data in accessible formats, alongside the rapid increase in CPU processing power, widespread accessibility and application of cluster and cloud computing, and the development of increasingly sensitive instruments for collecting biometric information has allowed big-data analytical and computational methods to expand the scale and scope of traditional psychometric areas of enquiry and modeling.
Pursuing a computational approach to psychometrics often involves scientists working in multidisciplinary teams with expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and neural network modeling, natural language processing, mathematics and statistics, developmental and cognitive psychology, computer science, data science, learning sciences, virtual and augmented reality, and traditional psychometrics.
Another important subfield of computational science and, specifically, AI is what has been called psychometric artificial intelligence (PAI). PAI involves the use of psychometrically developed evaluations, such as intelligence tests and thinking style tests, to be solved algorithmically by an artificial agent. The goal of PAI is to put to the test the design and processing mechanisms proposed by AI researchers in order to get knowledge from both artificial and natural cognitive systems.
Application
Computational psychometrics incorporates both theoretical and applied components ranging from item response theory, classical test theory, and Bayesian approaches to modeling knowledge acquisition and discovery of network psychometric models. Computational psychometrics studies the computational basis of learning and measurement of traits, such as skills, knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits via mathematical modeling, intelligent learning and assessment virtual systems, and computer simulation of large-scale, complex data which traditional psychometric approaches are ill-equipped to handle. Recent investigations into these hard to measure constructs include work on collaborative problem solving, teamwork, and decision making, among others.
Computational psychometrics is also related to the study of social complexity. Concepts such as complex systems and emergence have been considered in the study of team assembly and performance. In psychological and medical research it is focused on computational models based on technology enhanced-experimental results. Active a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Hobbs | Catherine Ann Hobbs (born 1968) is a British mathematician and educator working as a professor and Academic Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing at Coventry University. Her research focuses on applications of singularity theory to the physical sciences. She has a strong interest in science policy, particularly relating to encouraging and supporting women in STEM fields.
Early life and education
Hobbs was born in Bristol. She attended Queen Elizabeth's School in Crediton, Devon. Her father David Hobbs was an academic at the University of Exeter in mathematics education, and contributed to writing a series of influential text books for school mathematics, as part of the School Mathematics Project. These introduced many concepts of modern mathematics at school level for the first time. Her mother Rosalind Hobbs was a primary school teacher. She attended the University of Warwick 1986–1989 for her first degree, where her tutors Christopher Zeeman and Caroline Series both encouraged her to consider postgraduate study. She did a PhD 1989–1993 at the University of Liverpool supervised by Chris Gibson on applications of singularity theory in robotics.
Career
Her first academic appointment was as a teaching fellow at the University of Nottingham, 1992–1994. From 1994 she was at Oxford Brookes University, first as a lecturer then senior lecturer in 1997, then head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 2004, and Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange from 2007. She spent a sabbatical year at the University of Auckland in 2001. In 2010 she became head of the Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics at the University of the West of England in Bristol. She is presently Academic Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing at Coventry University.
From 2014–2017 Hobbs was Chair of the Committee of Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences in the UK (HoDoMS).
Since 2017, Hobbs has served as vice president of the London Mathematical Society. Hobbs is a member of the Executive Committee for the set-up phase of a new UK Academy of Mathematical Sciences. In 2023 Hobbs became the Honorary Education Secretary of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Hobbs is currently on the Board of the Engineering Professors' Council.
Research
Her research interests are in applications of pure mathematics to the physical sciences. She has worked in applications of geometry to robotics, numerical computation of highly oscillatory integrals and dynamical systems.
Selected publications
Hobbs C A, Osinga H M. (2008) Bifurcations of the global stable set of a planar endomorphism near a cusp singularity. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 18 (8): 2207-2222.
Hobbs C A, Connor J N L. (2007) Theory and numerical evaluation of oddoid and evenoid integrals: oscillatory cuspoid integrals with odd and even polynomial phase functions. Journ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20in%20Wikimedia%20projects | Artificial intelligence is used in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for the purpose of developing those projects. Human and bot interaction in Wikimedia projects is routine and iterative.
Using artificial intelligence for Wikimedia projects
Various projects seek to improve Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects by using artificial intelligence tools.
ORES
The Objective Revision Evaluation Service (ORES) project is an artificial intelligence service for grading the quality of Wikipedia edits. The Wikimedia Foundation presented the ORES project in November 2015.
Detox
Detox is a project to prevent users from posting unkind comments in Wikimedia community discussions. Among other parts of the Detox project, the Wikimedia Foundation and Jigsaw collaborated to use artificial intelligence for basic research and to develop technical solutions to address the problem. In October 2016 those organizations published "Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale" describing their findings. Various popular media outlets reported on the publication of this paper and described the social context of the research.
Other
In August 2018, a company called Primer reported attempting to use artificial intelligence to create Wikipedia articles about women as a way to address gender bias on Wikipedia.
In 2022, the public release of ChatGPT inspired more experimentation with AI and writing Wikipedia articles. A debate was sparked about whether and to what extent such large language models, due to its tendency to generate plausible-sounding misinformation, including fake references; to generate prose that is not encyclopedic in tone; and to reproduce biases. , a draft Wikipedia policy on ChatGPT and similar large language models (LLMs) recommends that users who are unfamiliar with LLMs should avoid using them due to the aforementioned risks, as well as the potential for libel or copyright infringement. Online communities expert Amy Bruckman told Vice that she believes that LLM output could be used as a first draft for Wikipedia content, but that such content would have to be scrutinized by a human editor or else it could degrade the overall quality of Wikipedia. She compared potential strategies for remediating low-quality AI content to those for fighting vandalism on Wikipedia.
Using Wikimedia projects for artificial intelligence
Content in Wikimedia projects is useful as a dataset in advancing artificial intelligence research and applications. For instance, in the development of the Google's Perspective API that identifies toxic comments in online forums, a dataset containing hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia talk page comments with human-labelled toxicity levels was used.
A 2012 paper reported that more than 1000 academic articles, including those using artificial intelligence, examine Wikipedia, reuse information from Wikipedia, use technical extensions linked to Wikipedia, or research communication about Wikipedia. A 2017 paper described Wikipedia as the mother |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Gilbert | Richard Gilbert may refer to:
Richard Gilbert (professor), professor of economics
Richard Gilbert (printer) (1794–1852), English printer and compiler of reference works
Richard Gilbert (cricketer) (born 1980), English cricketer
Richard fitz Gilbert (1030–1091), Norman lord
Rick Gilbert (born 1943), American diver
Dick Gilbert (rugby union), English rugby union player
See also
Dick Gilbert, American actor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/7 | OS/7 is a discontinued operating system from Sperry Univac for its 90/60 and 90/70 computer systems. The system was first announced in November 1971 for Univac's 9700 system and was originally scheduled for delivery in March 1973. However, the delivery slipped by nearly a year, which impacted the 9700 marketing effort. It was first demonstrated by Univac on the new 90/60 system in October 1973. The official release was then planned for January 1974. OS/7 was abruptly discontinued in 1975 in favor of VS/9, Univac's name for RCA's VMOS operating system.
"OS/7 is a multi-tasking, multi-programming system that utilizes a roll-in, roll-out capability to keep the CPU optimally busy."
References
Discontinued operating systems
UNIVAC mainframe computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia%20Duodu%20Addy | Dr. Eugenia Duodu Addy is a Canadian chemist and the CEO of Visions of Science Network for Learning (VoSNL).
Early life and education
Duodu grew up in a Toronto Community Housing (TCH) development in Etobicoke. She credits her teachers and past TCH mentors for fostering her passion in science, but also notes that as she further progressed through science training, she was one of the few remaining black women or from community housing. As a child, Duodu remembers creating her own science fairs at home, inspired by Bill Nye on television, and credits her mom for encouraging her aptitude in science and math, despite facing racism from teachers.
In high school she was encouraged by a teacher to attend a summer mentorship program with the University of Toronto geared towards encouraging Black and Indigenous students to pursue university degrees in STEM. The mentorship program included job shadowing scientists in labs and doctors in hospitals where she and other students were taught to read X-Rays and study MRIs.
Undergraduate Work
In 2010, Duodu completed a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Duodu then pursued a PhD in medicinal chemistry at the same campus, under the supervision of Patrick Gunning, where her thesis focused on developing phosphoprotein recognition agents for disease detection and treatment.
Graduate Work
During her PhD, Duodu volunteered with VoSNL - a non-profit organization which provides science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) focused educational programs, through weekly local science clubs, for youth from low-income and marginalized communities. Duodu coordinated weekend science clubs for Grade 4-8 children living in TCH developments, and was a member of the VoSNL board of directors. Duodu also co-founded the Creating Global Citizens project, through which she worked with TCH youth communities to furnish an Ghanaian library, as well as other initiatives in Uganda, Tanzania, Jamaica and Trinidad.
Career
Duodu is currently the CEO of VoSNL. She currently takes part in several activities to improve science literacy, where her goal is to make a long-lasting impact in disadvantaged communities through STEM engagement and thus allow youth to unlock their potential. When she began volunteering with VoSNL in 2015, the organization was working with six communities and had an operations budget of $20,000. As of 2020, the operating budget was $1.2 million and the organization serves approximately 1,500 students from 29 communities. The organization has six full-time staff, twenty-four part-time staff, and over ninety volunteers. VoSNL receives funding support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
In 2018, at a TEDxYouth@Toronto event, Duodu shared her science journey in a talk titled "The 'Unlikely' Scientist."
Awards and recognition
In 2021, Duodu won the Life Sciences Ontario Communit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20cucumber%20production | This is a list of countries by cucumber production from the years 2017 to 2021, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for cucumbers in 2021 was 93,528,796 metric tonnes, up 3.1% from 90,754,613 tonnes in 2020. China was by far the largest producer, accounting for nearly 81% of global production at 75,547,733 tonnes. Dependent territories are shown in italics.
Production by country
>500,000 tonnes
100,000–500,000 tonnes
50,000–100,000 tonnes
10,000–50,000 tonnes
1,000–10,000 tonnes
<1,000 tonnes
Notes
References
Cucumber
Cucumbers
Cucumbers
Cucumbers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%20Constructions | Chaos Constructions is the oldest demoparty in Russia, previously known as ENLiGHT. Nowadays, it is considered to be annual computer art festival and IT conference.
History
The demoscene () began to form in CIS countries in the early 1990s, when people massively began to possess home computers such as ZX Spectrum, Amiga and Atari and make tracker music, demos and other artwork on them. They were exchanging it using compact cassettes, floppy disks, FIDOnet and later the Internet, so that these artists joined the worldwide demoscene culture. By the year 1995, the first Russian demoparty occurred, located in St. Petersburg—the second-largest Russian city, situated close to Finland, the country with one of the strongest demoscene cultures.
The demoparty was entitled ENLiGHT; it gathered around 150 people. It was followed by ENLiGHT'96 and ENLiGHT'97; the latter gathered more than 1200 people.
The year 1998 was skipped, and the 1999 festival was held in a new format and under the new name Chaos Constructions.
In 2006 the event's format was shifted closer to a LAN party.
2009 event featured software crash test competition supported by IT companies.
The 2017 festival featured an extra event called ChaosConf which was aimed at developers and admins of enterprise IT systems.
Present day
Traditionally it is held on a weekend at the end of August at Saint Petersburg, Russia. Creative competitions for computer artists and musicians, as well as programmers, are the important part of the event. The competitions ("compos") are both for pre-released and real-time works. Many of the compos and exhibits are related to retro computing (ASCII art, pixel art, tracker music, chiptune etc), but recent festivals also tend to include conferences and meetings for people from the modern IT industry who concentrate on technologies such as augmented/virtual reality, blockchain, robotics and more.
The 2018 festival was held at a co-working location called Boiling Point and also featured "enterprise" and "telecom" sections. There were several thematic areas; the party went for 2 days without breaking at night. Twitch broadcast it online, and international English-speaking people also participated. The festival's crew also had arranged an "embassy" at a similar earlier gathering called Geek Picnic.
The 2019 festival was held on 24–25 August at . The 2019 event was opened by Richard Stallman. A major government-related leak of many people's personal data was disclosed at the 2019 event.
In February 2020 a smaller "winter version" was organized, some of the contests were preparatory for the forthcoming "main summer version".
in 2021 a Winter and Summer Edition was held and in 2022 the event is planned to be held too
Gallery
See also
Sysadmin Day
References
External links
Official English website
Demo parties
Annual events in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20chart%20%28disambiguation%29 | A star chart is a map of the night sky.
Star chart or starchart may also refer to:
A Star plot, also known as a radar chart or cobweb chart, a graphical method of displaying multivariate data
Star Chart (TV series), a 1980 Canadian music show
Star Chart, a television program broadcast by MTV Ukraine
"Star Chart", a 2014 episode of the Japanese TV series Garo: Makai no Hana
A star chart is another name for a chore chart
"Star Chart", a theme song for the anime of The Devil Is a Part-Timer!
Star Charts, a 2014 album by the musician Pogo
"Star Charts", a 1998 exhibit by American painter Margaret Rinkovsky
Star Charts, a supplement to the role-playing game FTL:2448
StarChart, a component of the software StarOffice
StarChart, healthcare software developed by Informatics Corporation of America
See also
Star map (disambiguation)
Star catalogue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GigaMesh%20Software%20Framework | The GigaMesh Software Framework is a free and open-source software for display, editing and visualization of 3D-data typically acquired with structured light or structure from motion.
It provides numerous functions for analysis of archaeological objects like cuneiform tablets, ceramics or converted LiDAR data. Typically applications are unwrappings (or rollouts), profile cuts (or cross sections) as well as visualizations of distances and curvature, which can be exported as raster graphics or vector graphics.
The retrieval of text in 3D like damaged cuneiform tablets or weathered medieval headstones using Multi Scale Integral Invariant (MSII) filtering is a core function of the software. Furthermore, small or faint surface details like fingerprints can be visualized. The polygonal meshes of the 3D-models can be inspected, cleaned and repaired to provide optimal filtering results. The repaired datasets are suitable for 3D printing and for digital publishing in a dataverse.
Name and logo
The name "GigaMesh" refers to the processing of large 3D-datasets and relates intentionally to the mythical Sumerian king Gilgamesh and his heroic epic described on a set of clay tablets. The central element of the logo is the cuneiform sign 𒆜 (kaskal) meaning street or road junction, which symbolizes the intersection of the humanities and computer science. The surrounding circle refers to the integral invariant computation using a spherical domain. The red color is derived from carmine, the color used by the Heidelberg University, where GigaMesh is developed.
Development and application in research projects
The development began in 2009 and was inspired by the edition project Keilschrifttexte aus Assur literarischen Inhalts (KAL, cuneiform texts with literary content) of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In parallel it was applied within the Austrian Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for documentation of red-figure pottery. Current projects are funded by the DFG and the BMBF for contextualization and analysis of seals and sealings of the Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel, where Thin Plate Splines are used for comparing sealings. Analog to the developments for processing cuneiform tablets there are further approaches for adaption of the combined Computer Vision and Machine Learning methods for other Scripts in 3D. An example is the application within the Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan.
In 2017 GigaMesh was tested by the DAI at an excavation in Guadalupe, near Trujillo, Honduras for immediate visualization of in-situ acquired findings with different 3D-scanners including a comparison with manual drawings. Since then GigaMesh is permanently used by the excavation team, their feedback led to numerous changes to the GUI, improving the user experience (UX). Additionally online tutorials are published having a focus on tasks required to compile excavation reports.
The Scanning for Syria (SfS) p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20census-designated%20places%20in%20Mississippi%20by%20population | Mississippi is a state located in the Southern United States that is divided into 82 counties and contains 63 census-designated places (CDPs) in 2018. All population data is based on the 2010 census.
Census-Designated Places
See also
List of census-designated places in Mississippi
List of counties in Mississippi
References
Census-designated places |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quote%20Investigator | Quote Investigator is a website that fact-checks the reported origins of widely circulated quotes. It was started in 2010 by Gregory F. Sullivan, a former Johns Hopkins University computer scientist who runs the site under the pseudonym Garson O'Toole. Many of the quotes that O'Toole examines on the site are emailed to him by readers. In her review of the site for The School Librarian, the Thorp Academy's Beth Khalil concluded, "This site would be a very useful resource for librarians, teachers or students
to use when studying a variety of subjects." In April 2017, O'Toole published the results of many of his online quote investigations in the book Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations.
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2010
Fact-checking websites
Quotation collectors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel%20Reign | Steel Reign is a video game released in 1997-1998. It was developed by Chantemar Creations and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation.
Reception
Steel Reign received mixed to negative reviews. Electronic Gaming Monthlys Steve Harris liked the game, opining that it offers a good balance of realism and arcade fun which is enhanced by the selection of vehicles and weapons, but his three co-reviewers all said that it looks and plays like a generic first generation PlayStation game, with mostly non-interactive environments, rough and pixelation textures, and lack of color. One of them, Ken "Sushi-X" Williams, also argued that the selection of vehicles is meaningless since one tank is obviously superior to the others, and even with the weakest tank the game is boringly easy. Like EGM, Next Generation found the game's simplistic action dull and comparable to first generation PlayStation games, concluding that "Had Steel Reign been released at the same time as Warhawk, it may have seemed more impressive. As it is, it's just another action title with lots of guns and explosions." Glenn Rubenstein, writing for GameSpot, instead contended that the game has a frustrating level of challenge, and praised its full motion video sequences, selection of weapons, multiplayer mode, and soundtrack, assessing that "it definitely ranks in the top 10 percent of what is currently out there." GamePro found the maze-like level designs in Steel Reign irritatingly restrictive, and while agreeing that the multiplayer mode is fun, felt that it was soured by the fact that matches are so short, they are nearly outlasted by their load times. They summarized that "Every time a bright side to this game pops up, it's pummeled by four problems. This one's a rental at best." IGN gave the game an above-average review, a few weeks before its U.S. release date.
The Electric Playgrounds Tommy Tallarico gave the game a 6/10, while co-host Victor Lucas gave it a 4/10.
Notes
References
External links
1997 video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Science fiction video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Tank simulation video games
Third-person shooters
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the future |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eviatar%20Matania | Eviatar Matania (; born June 11, 1966) was the founder and Head of the Israel National Cyber Bureau (January 2012) and starting February 2015 also the founder and first Director General of the Israel National Cyber Directorate, that consists of both the National Cyber Bureau and the National Cyber Security Authority, a tenure he concluded in January 2018.
Currently, Matania is a professor at the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University, where he also serves as the head of the MA Security Studies Program, and holds an adjunct professorship at Oxford University’s School of Government. Matania also holds consultancy roles in the fields of cyber, technological policies and strategies, and national security, and is the joint-head of the Smart Systems Initiative.
Early life and education
Eviatar Matania was born in Haifa, Israel on June 11, 1966. At age seven Matania lost his elder brother, Ehud, during the Yom-Kippur War (the 1973 war), an event he credits for driving him to seek a meaningful service in the Israeli Defense Forces. He attended HaRe'ali high school in Haifa. Matania is a graduate of the elite military-academic program Talpiot. He holds a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Cum Laude), a M.Sc in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University (Cum Laude), with a minor in game theory, and a PhD in judgement and decision-making from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Early career
Enlisting in 1984 to the Israeli Defense Forces, Matania was recruited to the elite military-academic program Talpiot, and then served in various branches of the IDF and the Israeli Ministry of Defense, where he held R&D and command positions.
After completing his military service in 1996, Matania took-up analysis and consulting roles within Israel’s hi-tech industry. During 1997-1999 he worked for Pitango Venture Capital as a senior analyst and investment manager.
In 2002, Matania returned to active service in Israel’s Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure (“Maf'at”) to serve as Director of Technological Human Capital in both the Talpiot and Psagot programs. In this role, Matania created the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite intelligence program Havatzalot and the Nahshon program.
During this period, Matania received his PhD in Judgement and Decision-Making from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a research associate at the Yuval Ne'eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security in Tel Aviv University and a visiting lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Establishing the Israel National Cyber Bureau
Following the Israeli governmental resolution on August 7, 2011, to establish a National Cyber Bureau to develop a comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy for Israel, to lead the nation’s overall cyber policy and to develop and advance the national cyber ecosystem, technological capacity and economic growth, Matania was sele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasraf%20Dulull | Hasraf Dulull is a British writer, director and producer.
Personal life
Hasraf Dulull (known as "Haz") was brought up in London, UK. He got his first computer at 16 and became a gamer, studying computer science, technology and design for his A Levels. He attended City, University of London (1998–2001), graduating with a BEng (2:1) in Media Communications, and creating a horror game for his dissertation.
Career
Dulull began his career as a CGI artist working on video games. In 2003 he started working for the Moving Picture Company, working his way up from compositor to VFX Supervisor on films such as 10,000 BC, Prince of Persia, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Dark Knight. Over the years he worked on numerous high-profile feature films, commercials, music promos and broadcast series such as Poldark and The Aliens on Channel 4. He has been nominated for several Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards for shows such as Planet Dinosaur (BBC) and America: The Story of Us (Discovery).
He began making short science fiction films such as Project Kronos, I.R.I.S and Sync. Project Kronos, made for just £3000 entirely with Adobe Creative Cloud applications. These went viral, leading to a deal to write, direct and co-produce his first feature film The Beyond with Armory Films and Benderspink. Ultimately, Dulull kept the film independent and it was released by Gravitas Ventures in late 2017. In 2018 he directed and co-produced his second film, 2036 Origin Unknown, starring Katee Sackhoff, based on his short story.
Along with Paula Crickard, he is the co-founder of Haz Film.
Dulull has cited his influences as Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, and the Wachowskis.
Writing and directing credits
References
External links
HaZ Film
Hasraf HaZ Dulull on Vimeo
Living people
British film producers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20eggplant%20production | This is a list of countries by eggplant (aubergine) production from the years 2017 to 2021, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for eggplants in 2021 was 58,646,098 metric tonnes, up by 2.2% from 57,378,561 tonnes in 2020. China was by far the largest producer of eggplants, accounting for nearly 65% of global production at 37,424,976 tonnes. Dependent territories are shown in italics.
Production by country
Notes
References
Eggplant
Eggplants
Eggplant production |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhema%20Vaithianathan | Professor Rhema Vaithianathan is a New Zealand academic who specialises in the field of health economics, and big data. She is a Professor in the School of Economics at Auckland University of Technology and is a co-director of the Centre for Social Data Analytics within that school.
Career
Tertiary education
Vaithianathan gained a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics in 1989, followed by Masters of Commerce (First-class Honours) in Economics in 1995, and a PhD in Economics in 2000, all from the University of Auckland.
Vaithianathan received a PhD fellowship from the Health Research Council of New Zealand, Vaithianathan's PhD thesis, Economic Incentives and Clinical Decisions, studied the economic incentives of questionable behaviour in the medical profession.
During her PhD studies Vaithianathan won the McKinsey Prize for Best Paper at the Australian PhD Conference in Business and Economics in 1997, and the Jan Whitwell Prize for Best Student Paper in 1998. She also won the prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland in 2000.
Early career
Between 1988 and 1999, Vaithianathan worked as: A Policy Analyst for the New Zealand Treasury, a Health Economist for the Northern Regional Health Authority, an Economic Consultant for the New Zealand Health Funding Authority, and a Health Economist at the Waitemata District Health Board.
Academic career
Vaithianathan commenced her academic career as a research fellow at Australian National University in 2000, returning to the University of Auckland as a lecturer in the School of Economics in 2002.
In 2007 Vaithianathan was awarded a Harkness Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards in health policy. Vaithianathan spent her year-long fellowship at the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard University Medical School, Boston in 2007-08. Her Harkness Fellowship project was entitled Insurance Coverage and Cost Growth.
Vaithianathan returned to the University of Auckland in 2009 as an Associate Professor.
In 2013, Vaithianathan joined the Department of Economics (now School of the Economics) at Auckland University of Technology as a full professor.
In 2014, Vaithianathan was appointed Director of the Singapore Life Panel (hosted by the Centre for Research on the Economics of Ageing at the Singapore Management University). The Panel is a monthly, online-based survey of older Singaporean citizens recognised as one of the largest high-frequency surveys globally. Vaithianathan retains this role as a partial appointment.
In 2016, Vaithianathan established the Centre for Social Data Analytics in the School of Economics at Auckland University of Technology, together with Professor Tim Maloney. She and Maloney run the Centre as co-directors.
Vaithianathan is a member of Data Futures, a government-academia collaboration on data-use; her work with big data has received press attention.
Research interests
Vaithianathan's research interes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N10%20highway | National Route 10 (N10) is a primary national route that forms part of the Philippine highway network and a spur of Asian Highway 26 (AH26) of the Asian Highway Network. It connects the provinces of Misamis Oriental, Bukidnon and Davao del Sur.
History
Two roads were designated as N10 during the addition of the national routes in 2014 by the Department of Public Works and Highways, namely Sayre Highway (Cagayan de Oro to Maramag) and Bukidnon–Davao Road (Maramag to Davao).
Asian Highway Network
The entire route forms the Mindanao spur of the Asian Highway 26 of the Asian Highway Network. As it is part of the said network, the route markers are different as the shield is significantly smaller and is inside a blue quadilateral with a thick white outline.
Route description
Cagayan de Oro to Maramag
N10 starts from a junction and northern terminus in Butuan–Cagayan de Oro–Iligan Road (N9) and starts as Sayre Highway in Cagayan de Oro. It treverses to the cities and municipalities of Manolo Fortich, Impasugong, Malaybalay, Valencia and Maramag. The road after reaching the junction of Bukidnon–Davao Road, changes the route to N943 and continues at the former route.
Maramag to Davao
N10 continues in Bukidnon–Davao Road, starting from Maramag. It then traverses to the municipalities of Quezon and Kitaotao, before reaching the city of Davao. It reaches its southern terminus at Maharlika Highway/Davao–Cotabato Road (N1/AH26) in Talomo, Davao City.
Intersections
References
Roads in Misamis Oriental
Roads in Bukidnon
Roads in Davao del Sur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDP%20shop | An RDP shop is a website where access to hacked computers is sold to cybercriminals.
The computers may be acquired via scanning the web for open Remote Desktop Protocol connections and brute-forcing passwords. High-value ransomware targets are sometimes available such as airports. Access to a compromised machine retails from $3 to $19 depending on automatically gathered system and network metrics using a standardised back door.
Russian sites such as xDedic do not sell access to machines within the former Soviet nations.
References
Dark web
Botnets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3%C5%BCa%20Data | Róża Data (born 3 February 1955) is a Polish rower. She competed in the women's eight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
References
1955 births
Living people
Polish female rowers
Olympic rowers for Poland
Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
People from Grudziądz
Rowers from Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oumy%20Ndour | Oumy Ndour (born 1980) is a filmmaker and journalist from Senegal. She is the co-founder of Ladies Club, an online community and networking platform for women.
Early life and education
Ndour was born in Thiès. In 1998 she graduated from the l'Ecole de Bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes (EBAD) at Cheikh Anta Diop University. In 2002 she continued her studies at the same university in the Centre d'études des sciences et techniques de l'information (CESTI), with a focus on television and graduating in 2002. Ndour then moved to Montreal and attended The Conservatoire Lassalle, earning a diploma in video in 2004.
Career
Films
Upon Ndour's move to Montreal, she worked at the non-profit, Vues d'Afrique, on their film festival while studying. Then, after earning her degree, she directed her first documentary in 2007, "Njakhass (Patchwork)," a documentary about the Baye Fall, a Senegalese Muslim sect, which was featured in several festivals.
In 2008 she joined Senegal's public television news station, Radio Televesion Senegal (RTS). As a news anchor for RTS she reported breaking news and Senegalese culture for their Culture and Society department. In 2010 she began leading the cinema segment on RTS's morning show, Kenkelibaa. She has been a juror for film festivals such as the International Women's Film Festival of Salé in 2011 and the Mediterranean Short Film Festival of Tangier in 2012 with fellow jurors, Isabelle Boni-Claverie and Safinez Bousbia.
Ladies Club
After leaving RTS she co-founded Ladies Club in April 2016 with Mame Codou Dieng Cissé. Ladies Club network is a platform for women only to discuss and network, to enable women to talk about issues affecting them, to find solidarity amongst other women, and to provide community and help for women in need. The network offers monthly meetings, entrepreneurial training workshops, and help finding work, housing and healthcare.
Activism
Oumy Ndour chose to wear a hijab on television and was a member of Collective Muslima, an activist group against stigmatization of veiled women, making them more visible citizens of society.
References
External links
Ladies Club Senegal
Living people
1980 births
People from Dakar
Senegalese film directors
Senegalese women film directors
Senegalese journalists
Senegalese women journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Krissler | Jan Krissler, better known by his pseudonym starbug, is a German computer scientist and hacker. He is best known for his work on defeating biometric systems, most prominently the iPhone's TouchID. He is also an active member of the German and European hacker community.
Fingerprints of prominent German politicians
Krissler, along with Chaos Computer Club published the fingerprints of then Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble as a means of protest as well as proof of concept. He shot traces of a glass used by Schäuble using a digital camera and tweaked it digitally. Previously, Schäubles Ministry of the Interior had introduced biometric passports which included a digital copy of the holder's fingerprint.
He further refined the attack in 2014 when he reproduced Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen's fingerprint from a high resolution press photo. The attack was presented during 2014's Chaos Communication Congress.
In 2014, the Neurotechnology's product VeriFinger was used by Jan Krissler to recreate the German defense minister Ursula von der Leyen's fingerprint.
Scientific work
Next to his activities and popular papers published as an activist, Krissler is also a published scientist. His early works looked into the security of biometric systems. Later, Krissler researched foundations of fiberoptical systems and the development of novel attacks on smart cards.
From 2014 onwards, his work has focused on novel methods of attacking biometric systems. He was internationally recognized for his research on the risks emanating from high resolution smartphone cameras which allowed to covertly steal fingerprints. Deficiencies in biometric payment systems is another field of his research.
Currently, Krissler is a research assistant at TU Berlin working with the research group of Jean-Pierre Seifert.
References
Hacking (computer security)
German computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20African%20Taekwondo%20Championships | The XI African Taekwondo Championships took place in Agadir, Morocco, in March 2018.
Results
Men
Women
Medal table
References
Results - 2018 African Championships, Taekwondo Database
2018
2018 in Moroccan sport
2018 in taekwondo
Taekwondo Championships
Taekwondo in Morocco
Taekwondo Championships |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20garlic%20production | This is a list of countries by garlic production from 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world production for garlic in 2020 was 28,054,318 metric tonnes, up slightly from 28,042,647 tonnes in 2019. China was by far the largest producer, accounting for nearly 74% of world production at 20,712,087 tonnes.
Production by country
>100,000 tonnes
10,000–100,000 tonnes
1,000–10,000 tonnes
<1,000 tonnes
Notes
References
Garlic
Garlic
Garlic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Rapid%20Evaluation%20of%20Atmospheric%20Conditions%20System | The Local Rapid Evaluation of Atmospheric Conditions (L-REAC) System was a computerized weather sensor system designed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) that became operational in 2011.
Purpose
The system was designed to warn soldiers and civilians of airborne threats, such as chemical attacks or toxic spills. The purpose of L-REAC was to provide wind monitoring and modeling, which acted as a decision aid for soldiers facing environmental hazards.
History
A research meteorologist at ARL developed the first L-REAC prototype. After conducting a survey of commercially available technology from 2003–2007, ARL identified a need for a local atmospheric assessment system. Three studies conducted at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, in the early 2000s revealed a requirement for emergency first responders to have up-to-date atmospheric information on local conditions.
During the mid 2000s, it was also reported that U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Iraq were experiencing toxic fumes while working near burn pits. The L-REAC concept was produced from 2009-2011 at White Sands Missile Range as part of a study investigating the airflow around an urban building and small building clusters.
In June 2017, ARL licensed the technology to Diamond B Technology Solutions in Billings, Montana. Rebranded as LR-x, the system assisted in tracking environmental emergencies, such as wildfire smoke during fire suppression efforts.
Operation
The L-REAC provided 3D weather models that generated wind field and plume outputs, displaying near real-time meteorological data on a map background. The models included terrain and buildings, and displayed danger zones and weather conditions (i.e. wind speed, wind direction, temperature, and relative humidity).
References
2011 establishments in the United States
Weather prediction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice%20Yoon | Eunice Yoon is China Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent with CNBC based in Beijing. She is host of the network's feature program Inside China and contributes to NBC News and MSNBC. Previously, Yoon was a correspondent and anchor with CNN in Hong Kong and Beijing.
Career
Yoon reports on events in China, such as U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2017 visit and the rise in power of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Yoon is known for her coverage of major news events, such as the disappearance of Malaysian flight Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the Sinking of MV Sewol. She was one of the first journalists to reach the 2008 Sichuan earthquake zone in 2008. Yoon contributed to a team that won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, in which she reported on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. She has won a New York Festivals Silver Medal in 2014, and received nominations for the Asian Television Awards.
Yoon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in political science from Brown University and graduated magna cum laude. She is an alumna of Phillips Exeter Academy.
References
Links
Eunice's CNBC webpage
American expatriates in China
American writers of Korean descent
American women television journalists
Brown University alumni
CNBC people
CNN people
MSNBC people
NBC News people
Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postdata%20%28band%29 | Postdata is the solo project of Paul Murphy (of the band Wintersleep) While
centered around Murphy's trademark songwriting, lyricism and vocal it features an ever-changing cast of incredible supporting musicians
Supporting collaborators have included Murphy's brother Michael Murphy, Grant Hutchison and Andy Monaghan of Frightened Rabbit, Loel Campbell and Tim D'Eon of Wintersleep, and Simone Pace of Blonde Redhead.
History
The project's self-titled debut album was released on Hand Drawn Dracula in 2010, and supported with a national tour across Canada. Later in the year, Murphy released three additional non-album tracks.
Postdata's second album, Let's Be Wilderness, was released in 2018 on Paper Bag Records. The album was nominated for a Nova Scotia Music Award, and appeared on the !earshot National Top 50 Chart in June. A video for the track "Evil" was filmed in New York City by director Derrick Belcham. That year the band performed at the Pop Montreal festival.
The band's third album, Twin Flames, was released in March 2021. It was recorded in mid-2020 with co-producer Ali Chant, partly in Bristol, England, and partly during lockdown in Halifax.
Run Wild, the band's fourth album, is slated for release in September 2023.
References
Canadian indie rock groups
Musical groups from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Musical groups established in 2010
Paper Bag Records artists
2010 establishments in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20grape%20production | This is a list of countries by grape production from the years 2017 to 2021, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for grapes in 2021 was 73,524,196 metric tonnes, down by 4.5% from 76,997,321 tonnes in 2020. China was the largest producer of grapes, accounting for 15.2% of global production. Italy came second at 11.1%, followed by Spain at 8.3%.
Production by country
>1,000,000 tonnes
100,000–1,000,000 tonnes
10,000–100,000 tonnes
<10,000 tonnes
Notes
References
Production by country
Lists by country
Lists of countries by production
Food and Agriculture Organization
Grapes
Fruit production |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infravia%20Capital%20Partners | Infravia Capital Partners is an investment company based in Paris.
It acquired a large stake in Next Generation Data, based in Newport, Wales for about £100 million in 2016, and two Swiss data center businesses, Green.ch and Green Datacenter, from Altice in 2017.
It bought the Mater Private Hospital for about €500 million in 2018.
It is a majority shareholder in Cignal, a telecommunications infrastructure provider in Ireland. It also has interests in the Irish nursing home sector.
It is part of a joint venture with Liberty Global and Telefónica to build a new fibre network in the UK covering up to 7 million homes.
References
Investment management companies of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind%20Archer | Rosalind Ann Archer is a New Zealand academic. She is currently Head of the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University.
Academic career
After a 2000 PhD titled 'Computing flow and pressure transients in heterogeneous media using boundary element methods' at Stanford University, Archer moved to Texas A&M University and then to the University of Auckland in 2002, rising to full professor in 2013. In 2013 she also became head of the University of Auckland's Department of Engineering Science. She held the Mercury / Mighty River Power Chair in Geothermal Reservoir Engineering from 2013 to 2018.
She won the Society of Petroleum Engineers Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty (Asia Pacific Region) in 2011, and was the first New Zealand-based engineer to be awarded the position of "distinguished member" of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 2015. In 2016, she won the Deloitte Energy Engineer of the Year award. She is a Fellow of Engineering NZ was elected deputy president of that organisation in 2020. In March 2021, she was elected president of Engineering New Zealand. In December 2021, Rosalind took up a new role as Head of the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University in Queensland.
Selected works
O'Sullivan, J. P., R. A. Archer, and R. G. J. Flay. "Consistent boundary conditions for flows within the atmospheric boundary layer." Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 99, no. 1 (2011): 65–77.
Archer, Rosalind Ann. "Impact of stress sensitive permeability on production data analysis." In SPE unconventional reservoirs conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2008.
Londono, Fabio E., Rosalind A. Archer, and Thomas A. Blasingame. "Correlations for hydrocarbon gas viscosity and gas density-validation and correlation of behavior using a large-scale database." SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering 8, no. 06 (2005): 561–572.
Archer, Rosalind, Gary Nates, Stuart Donovan, and Hamish Waterer. "Wind turbine interference in a wind farm layout optimization mixed integer linear programming model." Wind Engineering 35, no. 2 (2011): 165–175.
Zink, Florian, Hamish Waterer, Rosalind Archer, and Laura Schaefer. "Geometric optimization of a thermoacoustic regenerator." International Journal of Thermal Sciences 48, no. 12 (2009): 2309–2322.
References
External links
Living people
New Zealand women academics
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
University of Auckland alumni
Academic staff of the University of Auckland
New Zealand engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
New Zealand women writers
Stanford University School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola%20Velardi | Paola Velardi (born in Rome, April 26, 1955)is a full professor of computer science at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. Her research encompasses natural language processing, machine learning, business intelligence and semantic web, web information extraction in particular. Velardi is one of the hundred female scientists included in the database "100esperte.it" (translated from Italian with "100 female experts"). This online, open database champions the recognition of top-rated female scientists in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) areas.
Research
Velardi's research aims at using algorithms to analyse natural language on social networks and in general in natural language existing in any written documentation. Her current interest encompasses the study of social media for epidemiological surveillance, for the analysis of the leadership role of women working in enterprise social networks and for the design of recommender systems. Velardi also maintains a strong interest in the area of ontology learning and knowledge bases. A well-known example of application of her research is the extraction of trending topics on social media. The fundamental concepts of her research within the area of natural language are knowledge learning, graph mining and semantics. Velardi and her team developed a suit of web-based tools based on machine learning techniques that classify natural language for several purposes of analysis, whose applications stem from e-health to female leadership. The key purpose of these web-based tools is the extraction of taxonomies, ontologies and semantics from a pool of written natural-language data, including human crafted knowledge bases such as Wikipedia and from social, semantic and biological networks.
According to Google Scholar bibliometrics updated until February 2023, Velardi's scientific publications have been cited more than 7118 times. Her h-index was 38. She has published more than 150 papers on international journals and conference proceedings. Some of her publications have been published in top rated journals such as Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge-Based Systems, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TDKE), Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), on Computers (TOC), on Software Engineering (TSE), Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and Journal of Web Semantics.
Education and previous employments
Velardi graduated in electronic engineering from Sapienza University in 1978. From 1978 to 1983, she worked for the Ugo Bordoni Foundation, a research institution focusing on ICT and working under the supervision of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. The aim of the foundation is to foster the research transfer from academia to practice in the domains of energy, health and mobility. In 1983, she was a visiting scholar at Stanford University. From 1984 to 1986, she came back to her natal city and worked as a researcher for IBM. From 1986 to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Oregon%20Trail%20%281985%20video%20game%29 | The Oregon Trail is an educational strategy video game developed and published by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). It was first released in 1985 for the Apple II, with later ports to DOS in 1990, Mac OS in 1991, and Microsoft Windows in 1993. It was created as a re-imagining of the popular text-based game of the same name, originally created in 1971 and published by MECC in 1975. In the game, the player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding a party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley via a covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1848. Along the trail, the player makes choices about supplies, resource management, and the route, and deals with hunting for food, crossing rivers, and random events such as storms and disease.
The game was designed and created by a team at MECC led by game designer R. Philip Bouchard over a ten-month period from 1984 to 1985. It was intended as a core part of MECC's shift from games and software on mainframe computers accessed by remote terminals to those on home computers, as well as MECC's first game intended primarily for home consumers rather than for schools. It is the first graphical and the most well known entry in the Oregon Trail series, and was MECC's flagship product from release until the company was bought by SoftKey in 1995. Games in the series have since been released in many editions by various developers and publishers, many titled The Oregon Trail. The multiple games in the series are often considered to be iterations on the same title, and they have collectively sold over 65 million copies and have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. The game had widespread popularity in schools in the 1980s and 1990s, and has been described by publications such as the Smithsonian magazine as a cultural landmark.
Gameplay
The Oregon Trail is an educational strategy video game in which the player, as the leader of a wagon train, controls a group journeying down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri, to Willamette Valley, Oregon, in 1848. The player controls the game via a keyboard, primarily by selecting one of several numbered options. They begin the game by selecting their character's profession—banker, carpenter, or farmer—which corresponds with difficulty levels and give different amounts of money with which to start the journey. They then name their character and their four party members, and purchase supplies for their journey from Matt's General Store: oxen to pull the wagon, food, clothing, ammunition, and spare parts to fix wagon breakdowns. The party then sets off on their journey. The path is divided into sixteen segments, each ending at a landmark such as a river crossing or a fort. Each landmark has different choices available to the player, such as purchasing supplies at a fort, talking to fellow travelers at a geographic landmark, or choosing how to cross a river. Rivers can be crossed by fording the river, caulking t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Circle%20%282013%20TV%20series%29 | Full Circle, also known as Full Circle: Miami in its third season, is an American television series, that follows an anthology format from season to season and ran on the Audience Network. A first season was ordered in April, 2013 and started airing on October 9, 2013. After airing a second season, the series was renewed for a political-themed third season in December, 2015.
Cast
Season 1
David Boreanaz as Jace Cooper
Keke Palmer as Chan'dra Stevens
Kate Walsh as Trisha Campbell
Julian McMahon as Stanley Murphy
Billy Campbell as Trent Campbell
Cheyenne Jackson as Peter Barlow
Noah Silver as Robbie Fontaine
Ally Sheedy as Celeste Fontaine
Tom Felton as Tim Abbott
Minka Kelly as Bridgette Murphy
Robin Weigert as Detective Karen Tanner
Gia Crovatin as Sabrina
Season 2
Terry O’Quinn as Jimmy Parerra
Stacy Keach as Bud O'Rourke
Chris Bauer as Richie DeStefano
Rita Wilson as Shelly Rezko
Brittany Snow as Katie Parerra
Patrick Fugit as Paulie Parerra
David Koechner as Phil Davis
Calista Flockhart as Ellen Kelly-O'Rourke
Eric McCormack as Ken Waltham
Kate Burton as Vera Quinn
Season 3
Christopher Gorham as Rick D'Andres
Dougray Scott as Senator David Faulkner
Graham Beckel as Fredrico Sturgis
Harold Perrineau as Damon Houserman
Laura San Giacomo as Elena Medina
Kim Raver as Madeline Faulkner
Raymond Cruz as Federico Sturgis
Bob Stephenson as Sidney Waverly
Mariana Klaveno as Angela Mancuso
Max Arciniega as Alex Hidell
References
External links
2010s American drama television series
English-language television shows
Serial drama television series
2013 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding%20it%20Forward | Coding it Forward is an American 501c3 non-profit organization with the goal of building a talent pipeline into civic tech, primarily through creating and marketing data science and technology internships in federal government agencies for undergraduate and graduate students at colleges and universities across the United States.
History
Several Harvard University students were inspired by former Chief Technology Officer of the United States Megan Smith's appeal for technologists to work in public service at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. They started a blog highlighting how students were contributing to civic tech, which grew to 800 members within two months. Two of the students took a course with the former Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States Nick Sinai where they had the opportunity to work on tech projects in government. That experience led to the idea of organizing tech focused student internships in government.
Civic Digital Fellowship
The primary program of Coding it Forward is their Civic Digital Fellowship, a competitive 10-week data science and technology internship program for undergraduate and graduate students in United States federal agencies. They have received more than 1,100 applications from students from more than 175 colleges and universities for 50 fellowship positions. Among six federal agencies, the 50 students learn by working on group projects to improve their departments and the way in which they work. The fellows receive a paycheck, which is unlike many other internship programs in the government.
Growth
Recognition
Co-founders Athena Kan and Chris Kuang gave the closing keynote at the 2018 Code for America Summit in Oakland, CA, in front of an audience of 1,200 civic technologists (Video of Keynote).
Funders
The organization has received support from philanthropic sources such as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Knight Foundation, and the Shuttleworth Foundation.
References
2017 establishments in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Boston
Organizations established in 2017
Technology in society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanette%20B.%20Milio | Jeanette B. Milio (born Jeanette Buerling; November 15, 1964 in Cologne, Germany) is a producer / executive producer and entertainment financier of motion pictures and television programming. Milio has worked in multiple areas of the entertainment business including development, production, distribution, sales, and entertainment financing.
Career in film
Germany
Milio's career began in 1989 when she worked for the German network station RTL Television in Cologne. She was a production assistant and managed the production operations for several shows including the German format shows The Price Is Right (aka Der Preiss ist Heiss) and Traumhochzeit, Mini Playback Show, Family Feud (aka Familien Duel), Jeopardy, The Gong Show, and others. She then became the Managing Director for MB TV in Cologne and produced 52 one-hour episodes of the TV show Fun which aired daily on the Leo Kirch Network DSF in Germany.
Milio's first full-credit role as a producer came in 1993 with the one-hour prime-time drama series Wildbach, which was on the air for 5 seasons on the German network ARD.
In 1995, she produced her first motion picture Kreis der Angst (aka Circle of Fear), starring Katja Flint, Martin Umbach and Sandra Speichert. The film was directed by Thomas Jauch and was broadcast on the German network station ProSiebenSat.1 Media.
United States
Milio was granted a green card in 1999 and migrated to the United States with her then 11-year-old daughter.
In 2000 Milio produced her first globally distributed motion picture, Time Share, a comedy based on a script written by the Emmy Award-winning writer-producer Eric Tuchman. The film starred Timothy Dalton, Nastassja Kinski, Kevin Zegers, Billy Kay, Cameron Finley, Natalie Marston and Kelli Garner. The film was produced in co-production with the Disney ABC Television Group and the German distributor Constantin Film and was shot in Malibu, Balboa Island, and Munich, Bavaria. It was directed by Sharon von Wietersheim.
In 2010, Milio produced the thriller 13, starring Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Sam Riley, Ray Winstone, Michael Shannon and Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent. The film was a remake of the award-winning 2005 Georgian - French film 13 Tzameti and was directed by the original director, Gela Babluani. The film was distributed by Paramount Vantage. 13 describes the story of naive young man who assumes a dead man's identity to join an underworld game of Russian roulette to win $2 million. The film was shot in and around New York City.
The Experiment, produced by Milio, was a 2010 remake of Das Experiment (a 2001 German feature film based on the Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel). The Experiment starred Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet, Clifton Collins and Maggie Grace. The film was written and directed by Paul Scheuring. The film was shot in Des Moines, Iowa and a portion of the film was shot in several locations in India. The Experiment was distribute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoectochilus%20yatesiae | Anoectochilus yatesiae, commonly known as the marbled jewel orchid, is a species of orchid that is endemic to northern Queensland. It has up to six dark green leaves with a network of silvery veins and up to four hairy brownish and white flowers.
Description
Anoectochilus yatesiae is a tuberous, perennial herb with up to six leaves forming a rosette on the end of its fleshy rhizome. The leaves are dark green, broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped with a network of silvery veins, long and wide. Up to four brownish flowers long and wide are borne on a flowering stem tall. The dorsal sepal is long, wide and with the petals, forms a hood over the column. The lateral sepals are a similar length to the dorsal sepal but narrower and spread apart from each other. The petals are white, glabrous, long and about wide. The labellum is upright, white, long, wide and has about twelve crooked white hairs long on the narrow section. The nectary spur is about long. Flowering occurs from July to September.
Taxonomy and naming
Anoectochilus yatesiae was first formally described in 1907 by Frederick Manson Bailey from specimens collected near Kuranda and the description was published in the Queensland Agricultural Journal. The specific epithet (yatesiae) honours "Mrs. Arthur Yates", one of the collectors of the type specimen.
Distribution and habitat
The marbled jewel orchid grows in highland rainforest between the Bloomfield River and Paluma Range National Park.
References
yatesiae
Orchids of Queensland
Endemic orchids of Australia
Plants described in 1907
Taxa named by Frederick Manson Bailey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfortune%20Cookie%20%28computers%29 | Misfortune Cookie is a computer software vulnerability found in the firmware of certain network routers which can be leveraged by an attacker to gain access remotely. The vulnerability has been detected to have affected around 12 million unique devices spread across 189 countries, earning itself a 9.8 Tyne CVSS rating. Any device connected to an exposed network could be hijacked by an attacker who could easily monitor a person's Internet connection or steal their credentials as well as personal or business data. They could also attempt to infect the target machines with malware.
Otherwise known as CVE-2014-9222, the bug was first discovered in 2014 by Check Point researchers. It returned again in 2018, four years after its public disclosure, but this time, affecting a completely different set of targets, aka medical devices. When the vulnerability was applied to medical attacks, the DTS configurations could be tampered with, communication could be spoofed, and information could be stolen from an unsuspecting person.
Exploitation
With the combination of its severity, ease of exploiting, lack of practically any preconditions and the sheer volume of affected networks, the Misfortune Cookie could be considered truly unique. The vulnerability was so easy to exploit that all an attacker had to do to gain access over a device was to send a single packet to the device's public IP address. The exploitation could be carried out with just a modern-day web browser making it even more dangerous than most security vulnerabilities.
The attacker in this scenario sends a crafted HTTP cookie attribute to the vulnerable system's (network router) web-management portal, where the attacker's content overwrites the device memory. The contents of the cookie act as command to the router which then abides by the commands. This results in arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability was discovered in the early 2000s but did not emerge publicly until 2014, when security researchers from an Israeli security firm checkpoint made a public disclosure. The vulnerability still persists in over 1 million devices accessible over the Internet and a total of about 12 million devices. This includes around 200 different router brands.
In 2018, the vulnerability again gained traction as the vulnerable firmware was used in medical equipment that could potentially cause life-threatening attacks via IoT. Its severity was highlighted by ICS-CERT in its advisory, thereby.
References
Firmware
Computer security exploits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden%20Fruit%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Forbidden Fruit" is the third episode of the eighth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on September 26, 2018, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Manny Coto, and directed by Loni Peristere.
Plot
Langdon unveils his true demonic form to Mallory, and she makes flames shoot from a fireplace. Venable confides to Mead that she has not been selected to move on to the Sanctuary and Mead suggests they kill everyone.
Brock navigates a nuclear wasteland and guns down a cannibalistic tribe. He sees a horse-drawn carriage pass by. The carriage delivers apples to Outpost 3, and Venable decides to inject them with venom. Brock infiltrates Outpost 3 and attends Venable's Halloween masquerade ball. Coco, presuming Brock to be Langdon in costume, seduces him back to her bedroom. Brock then reveals himself to Coco and stabs her in the forehead.
The Outpost 3 guests bob for poisonous apples. Venable instructs everyone to wait to eat simultaneously. The guests comply and concurrently succumb to the poison. Venable and Mead confront Langdon, and Venable proclaims that they will be making the selections. Mead attempts to shoot Langdon but finds herself turning the gun on Venable against her will and shooting her, under the order of Langdon. Langdon reveals that he created Mead and that she was modeled after a caregiver from his childhood, which consoles her. Later, Cordelia Goode, Madison Montgomery, and Myrtle Snow descend upon Outpost 3 and Cordelia resurrects Mallory, Dinah, and Coco.
Reception
"Forbidden Fruit" was watched by 1.95 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.9 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode has been critically acclaimed, with most of the critics praising the cliffhanger. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Forbidden Fruit" holds a 100% approval rating, based on 18 reviews with an average rating of 8.10/10. The critical consensus reads, ""Forbidden Fruit" pushes Apocalypse forward, delivering on the gore, the glee, and most importantly, the girls."
Ron Hogan of Den of Geek gave the episode a 4.5/5, saying, "So far, aside from a mention of genetic perfection, there hasn't been much of a tie-in to the world of the witches (or to the ghosts, for the matter, aside from Michael Langdon's presence). However, that connection was made more openly this week, after a solid episode which featured some very impressive visual trickery from director Loni Peristere. From the cold opening to the surprise at the end, 'Forbidden Fruit' is one of the most impressive editorial feats of the entire series, let alone this season."
Kat Rosenfield from Entertainment Weekly gave the episode a B+. She particularly praised the ball scenes, saying that they are "a serious mashup of various fairytale tropes: poisoned apples, a masquerade ball, and even a Cinderella figure yearning for greater things in the background", and also appreciated all the different twists of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20Instruments%20Reference%20Database%20System | The Financial Instruments Reference Database System (FIRDS) is published by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and lists meta-information to all financial instruments included in the scope of MiFID II. This reference data is necessary to find metadata on a given financial instrument, uniquely identified by a so-called International Securities Identification Number (ISIN).
Technical details
The Article 4(1)(20) of Directive 2014/65/EU (MiFID II) considers "investment firms dealing on own account when executing client orders over the counter (OTC) on an organised, frequent, systematic and substantial basis" systematic internaliser and requires them to report their trades. From this data, ESMA computes on a best effort basis, the total volume and number of transactions executed within the EU.
According to the technical specification, new entries are published on a daily basis, every morning by 09:00 CET as XML-file. It contains the ISIN and the Market Identifier Code (MIC) as well as e.g. the
Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI)-code and other information of the instrument.
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) code is conveyed by the ISSR. In the following example record in JSON format
, the ISSR is represented by "Issr" : "851WYGNLUQLFZBSYGB56". This LEI code can be looked up using the website https://search.gleif.org/#/search/ (see ). The LEI code corresponds to Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (Frankfurt) according to the LEI Registration Exception.
{
"RefData": {
"DebtInstrmAttrbts": {
"NmnlValPerUnit": "2000",
"IntrstRate": {
"Fxd": "3.1415"
},
"MtrtyDt": "2020-01-01",
"TtlIssdNmnlAmt": "200000000",
"DebtSnrty": "SNDB"
},
"TradgVnRltdAttrbts": {
"IssrReq": "false",
"Id": "BMTF",
"FrstTradDt": "2019-04-01T12:34:56.789"
},
"TechAttrbts": {
"PblctnPrd": {
"FrDt": "2019-04-04"
},
"RlvntCmptntAuthrty": "GB"
},
"FinInstrmGnlAttrbts": {
"ClssfctnTp": "DBFNXX",
"ShrtNm": "AVGO 3.625 10/16/24 c24 (URegS)",
"FullNm": "AVGO 3 5/8 10/15/24 BOND",
"NtnlCcy": "USD",
"Id": "USU1109MAXXX",
"CmmdtyDerivInd": "false"
},
"Issr": "851WYGNLUQLFZBSYGB56"
}
}
See also
Request for quote
Legal Entity Identifier
Approved_Publication_Arrangement
International Securities Identification Number
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2004
References
External links
Microfinance Blog
FIRDS Format Description
Data Analytics & Market Intelligence
Financial metadata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGLC | KGLC (100.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Miami, Oklahoma, United States. The station is currently owned by Mark Linn, through licensee Taylor Made Broadcasting Network, LLC. The station airs an adult contemporary format.
History
This station was assigned call sign KGLC on March 7, 1991. KORS on January 1, 1979 and KSSM on November 25, 1981. Their slogan is "Radio on the
Route".
References
External links
KGLC official website
GLC
Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1979
Miami, Oklahoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Needham%20Award | The Roger Needham award is a prize given scientists who are recognised for important contributions made to computer science research The British Computer Society established an annual Roger Needham Award in honour of Roger Needham in 2004. It is a £5000 prize is presented to an individual for making "a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK-based researcher within ten years of their PhD." The award is funded by Microsoft Research. The winner of the prize has an opportunity to give a public lecture.
Laureates
Since 2004, laureates have included:
2004 Jane Hillston on Tuning Systems: From Composition to Performance
2005 Ian Horrocks on Ontologies and the Semantic Web
2006 Andrew Fitzgibbon on Computer Vision & the Geometry of Nature
2007 Mark Handley on Evolving the Internet: Challenges, Opportunities and Consequences
2008 Wenfei Fan on A Revival of Data Dependencies for Improving Data Quality
2009 Byron Cook on Proving that programs eventually do something good
2010 on Timing is Everything
2011 Maja Pantić on Machine Understanding of Human Behaviour
2012 on Memory Safety Proofs for the Masses
2013 on Theory and Practice: The Yin and Yang of Intelligent Information Systems
2014 on Mining Biological Networks
2015 on Linking Form and Function, Computationally
2016 Sharon Goldwater Language Learning in Humans and Machines: Making Connections to Make Progress
2017 on Many-Core Programming: How to Go Really Fast Without Crashing
2018 Alexandra Silva
2019
2020 Jade Alglave
Awards committee
the prize is judged by an awards committee with the following members:
Professor , University of Leeds
Professor Steve Furber , University of Manchester
Professor James H. Davenport, University of Bath
Julia Adamson, Director of Education, BCS
Professor Dame Muffy Calder , University of Glasgow
Dr. Martin Sadler
Dr. , Imperial College London
Professor Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool
See also
List of computer science awards
References
Awards established in 2004
British Computer Society
British science and technology awards
2004 establishments in the United Kingdom
Computer science awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20Silva | Alexandra Silva (born 1984) is a Portuguese computer scientist and Professor at Cornell University. She was previously Professor of Algebra, Semantics, and Computation at University College London.
Awards and honours
Silva won a Philip Leverhulme Prize in engineering in 2016. She won the Presburger Award, awarded each year to "a young scientist for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science, documented by a published paper or a series of published papers", in 2017, and the Roger Needham Award in 2018.
References
1984 births
Living people
Portuguese computer scientists
Portuguese women computer scientists
Women logicians
University of Minho alumni |
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