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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit%20Kumar%20%28academic%29 | Amit Kumar (born 29 January 1976) is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
He received his B.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1997, and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2002. He worked as Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S. during 2002–2003. He joined IIT Delhi as faculty member in 2003. He works in the area of combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms and online algorithms. He is working extensively on problems arising in scheduling theory, clustering, and graph theoretic algorithmic problems.
Awards
He received Young Engineer Award from Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2006, and INSA Medal for Young Scientists from Indian National Science Academy in 2011. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in the mathematical sciences category in 2018.
References
External links
1976 births
Living people
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science
Indian computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corlytics | Corlytics Ltd. is a regulatory risk intelligence firm. The firm works with global regulators, financial institutions and their advisors to provide data and analytics to inform future risk management. Headquartered in Dublin, Corlytics also maintains offices in, London, New York City, Boston and Sydney. The company was set up in 2013 in Dublin, Ireland by CEO, John Byrne. It is a privately held company.
Corlytics uses analytics to assess the impact of regulation. Corlytics’ services included regulatory monitoring, taxonomy mapping and regulatory advisory services. In 2016, the company obtained a €1 million investment round through the Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Kernel Capital, with co-investors Enterprise Ireland, Angel Investors and company founders.
In 2017, Kernel Capital invested in a second round, taking a €1.9m stake in Corlytics. In addition, Infinity Capital invested €750,000 in the company. This resulted in Niall Olden, managing partner of Kernel Capital, and Cyril McGuire, CEO of Infinity Capital, joining the company's board.
In 2017, Corlytics appointed Tom Kenny as Chief Financial Officer. It also appointed Peter Oakes, David Bundi, and Thomson Reuters’, Stacey English to its advisory board.
References
Companies based in Dublin (city)
Financial services companies established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson%20Hume | James Nairn Patterson "Pat" Hume (17 March 1923 – 9 May 2013) was a Canadian professor and science educator who has been called "Canada's pioneer of computer programming". He was a professor of Physics and of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and he served as the second Master of Massey College from 1981 to 1988.
Life and career
Hume received a B.A. in mathematics and physics in 1945, an M.A. in physics in 1946 and a PhD in physics in 1949 (theoretical atomic spectroscopy) from the University of Toronto. From 1946 to 1949 he taught returning soldiers mathematics at the University of Toronto campus in Ajax.
He was an instructor in physics at Rutgers University in New Jersey between 1949 and 1950 before rejoining the University of Toronto as an assistant professor of physics.
In 1953, Hume and Beatrice Worsley began development of Transcode, a new computer language for the Ferranti Mark 1 machine known as FERUT.
In collaboration with his colleague Donald Ivey, he helped to steer the teaching of physics in a new direction through the use of educational television programs and movies. Starting in 1958 Hume and Ivey prepared and presented over one hundred television programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on various physics topics. Short films for the PSSC such as Frames of Reference and the CBC TV show The Nature of Things used humour and creative camerawork to make physics accessible to a wider range of students. In 1958 with Calvin Gotlieb he published High-speed Data Processing, the first book on using computers in business which was "recognized by The Oxford English Dictionary in twelve computer-related entries: block, character, datum, generator, housekeeping, in-line, interpreter, keyboard, logical, loop, matrix and simulate".
In 1964, with Calvin Gotlieb and Thomas Hull, he founded the Computer Science department at the University of Toronto.
With Ric Holt, he co-authored many computer programming textbooks, for SP/k, Fortran, Pascal, Turing and Java.
Hume was the second Master of Massey College, Toronto having been a Senior Fellow since 1973.
Upon his retirement, he was appointed Professor Emeritus in 1988.
In 2002, he was inducted into the Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) Hall of Fame. In 2006 he was awarded an Honorary D.Sc. from Queen's University School of Computing.
He was an active member of The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto and for many years collaborated with Jack Yokom to produce the Annual Spring Review.
He died on 9 May 2013.
In 2014 Hume was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association of Computer Science including for "the world's first long-distance use of a computer".
For the education work he carried out with Ivey, an asteroid (number 22415) was named HumeIvey in their honour.
Sources
On Beyond Darwin, Chapter 1
In Memoriam: University of Toronto Magazine
In Memoriam: Department of Computer Science
References
External links
CBC TV programs with Don |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Report | U-Report is a social messaging tool and data collection system developed by UNICEF to improve citizen engagement, inform leaders, and foster positive change. The program sends SMS polls and alerts to its participants, collecting real-time responses, and subsequently publishes gathered data. Issues polled include health, education, water, sanitation and hygiene, youth unemployment, HIV/AIDS, and disease outbreaks. The program currently has 28 million u-reporters in 95 countries.
History
In 2007, UNICEF Innovation used RapidSMS to develop U-Report, a platform that would allow anyone to publish real-time information and data analytics in SMS format without the need of a programmer. In May 2011, Uganda became the first country in which UNICEF launched the U-Report mobile initiative, due to its population being, on average, one of the youngest in the world. Another reason UNICEF cited for introducing the program in Uganda was the nation's high cellphone use compared to other developing nations, with 48% of the nation's citizens owning a cellphone. Due to U-Report's success in Uganda, UNICEF expanded the program to Zambia in December 2012 and to Nigeria in June 2014. In Zambia, U-report was used to prevent HIV among adolescents and young people, with voluntary HIV testing in the country rising from 24% of the population to 40%. In Nigeria, U-Report primarily conducts surveys on social and medical issues.
In July 2015, U-Report reached a total of one million reporters in fifteen countries. In October 2015, Ukraine became the first country in Europe to join the U-Report program, growing to 68,273 participants by September 30, 2018.
See also
World Health Report
Human Development Report
The State of the World's Children
World Development Report
References
External links
Official site
UNICEF
Organizations established in 2011
2011 establishments in Uganda
Public opinion
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Mediation
Technical communication
Instant messaging
Technical communication tools
Instant messaging server software
Real-time technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Aguiar | John Aguiar is an Indian Konkani poet, writer, songwriter and journalist whose songs have been broadcast over the All India Radio network, mainly in Goa and on CDs.
Personal life
Professionally, Aguiar is an officer with the Government of Goa's Department of Information and Publicity. He has been a journalist since his college days, associated with newspapers such as O Heraldo, West Coast Times, and others.
Career
Music
His song Viva Carnival, musically composed and sung by Mukesh Ghatwal was chosen as the Goa carnival theme song in the year 2012. In November 2011, he was a contributor to 'Swatantra Goa', a patriotic album consisting five Konkani and three Marathi songs produced by Buyao Theatres Goem.
Aguiar wrote a bhakti geet (devotional hymn) on Lord Ganesha which was also composed and music arranged and sung by Mukesh Ghatwal, a first of its kind in Konkani language.
Apart from All India Radio, his songs are in popular on CDs like Valley of Colorz, Ek Natem, Buyao Rocks so also devotional CDs like Grateful to Jesus and Hey, Damodara by well-known music composer Siddhnath Buyao. One of his songs is on Lord Damodar, the popular deity of Margao in South Goa, a single solo was composed by Dilip Vaze and sung by Samiksha Bhobe.
He has been on the cast of the film Planning Devachem, which had its premier in January 2018 in Margao, Goa.
Poetry
He has written four books of Konkani poems and one English book of essays. Presently, he is working on another book in the Roman script Konkani. Has also written several articles on social themes on local newspapers. He was nominated for the best lyrics award at the Kalangan at Mangalore, for the World Konkani Music Awards in 2010.
Awards
Aguiar won the Gulab Writer of the Year Award in 2011. He has been a recipient of The Navhind Times Ex-NCC Achiever Award for Literature in 2012, and is a Honorary Company Commander of the Home Guards organisation. He bagged "Goa Chief Minister's Gold Medal" for Meritorious Services in the Home Guards in December 2007. Aguiar bagged Konkani Bhasha Mandal's Rock Barreto Literary Award in the year 2017 for his book Olyo Yadi.
References
External links
Poet's blog
Mangal Murti Morya (Konkani). Lyrics by John Aguiar.
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Konkani-language poets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal%20and%20Intertidal%20Zone%20Archaeological%20Network | Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network, known by its abbreviation CITiZAN, is a community archaeology project working in areas of England's coastline documenting coastal and intertidal history before it is washed away by tidal forces.
History
Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network was launched in 2015 and is a community archaeology project working the north, south east, and south west of England. The project's main host is the Museum of London Archaeology with project partners the Council for British Archaeology and the Nautical Archaeology Society. The project is sponsored by the Heritage Lottery Fund, The National Trust, The Crown Estate, and Historic England.
The project is currently led by Gustav Milne, an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. The team, as of October 2018, consisted of nine with all additional support to archaeology projects being provided by volunteers.
In 2018 they won the Arts, Culture, and Heritage prize at the Charity Awards 2018 – the Civil Society Media's annual awards programme to recognise organisations for their commendable charitable work and were granted further backing by the Heritage Lottery Fund beyond their initial three year funding cycle.
In addition to archaeological digs arranged by CITiZAN, the organisation arranges open days at historical locations to inform people of their work and methods in archaeology.
In 2018 CITiZAN team members joined the Channel 4 program Britain at Low Tide for its second series.
In 2022, CITiZAN ran a project at Mersea Island to record 60 years of peoples memories and documenting past industries damage that had led to the island's erosion.
References
Archaeological organizations
Archaeology of England
Museum of London Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarap%2C%20%27Di%20Ba%3F | (), formerly Sarap Diva, is a Philippine television cooking talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally directed by Treb Monteras II, it was originally hosted by Regine Velasquez. It premiered on October 6, 2012 as Sarap Diva on the network's Saturday morning line-up replacing Kapuso Movie Festival. It premiered on October 20, 2018 as Sarap Di Ba?. Louie Ignacio currently serves a director. Carmina Villarroel, Mavy Legaspi and Cassy Legaspi currently serve as the hosts.
Cast
Sarap Diva
Regine Velasquez
Terry Gian as Inday
Recurring guests
Ate Gay
Boobay
Divine Tetay
Super Tekla
Musician
Raul Mitra
Sarap, 'Di Ba?
Carmina Villarroel
Mavy Legaspi
Cassy Legaspi
Zoren Legaspi
Production
In March 2020, the admission of a live audience in the studio and production were suspended due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on July 18, 2020.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Diva earned a 10.1% rating. While based from People television homes, the pilot episode of earned a 5.2% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2012 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine cooking television series
Philippine television talk shows
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phedra%20Clouner | Phedra Clouner is a cybersecurity professional active in Belgium. On 10 August 2015, she was appointed to the role of deputy manager to the CCB (Center for Cybersecurity in Belgium, the central authority in charge of cybersecurity in Belgium).
Studies
Phedra Clouner graduated from the Université Libre de Bruxelles with a History Major in 2001.
Career
Clouner is the founder and administrator of FedISA Belgium, the Belgian branch of the federation for Information Lifecyle Management, Storage and Archiving.
On 10 August 2015, she was appointed to the role of deputy manager to the CCB (Center for Cybersecurity in Belgium, the central authority in charge of cybersecurity in Belgium). She carries out activities relating to the detection, observation and analysis of online security problems.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People in information technology
Université libre de Bruxelles alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20E.%20Walsh | Joan Eileen Walsh (1932–2017) was a British mathematician, a professor of numerical analysis at the University of Manchester, and the founding chair of the Numerical Algorithms Group. She was the first female professor of mathematics in the UK.
Education
Walsh was born on 7 October 1932.
She read mathematics at the University of Oxford, where she earned a bachelor's degree with first class honours in 1954.
She became a teacher and assistant mistress at Howell's School, Denbigh,
but left after three years to study numerical analysis at the University of Cambridge. She earned a diploma (with distinction) from Cambridge in 1958, and returned to Oxford for her doctoral studies. There, she became the first student of Leslie Fox, completing her D.Phil. in 1961. She was also the first student to obtain a doctorate from the Oxford Computing Laboratory, the predecessor to the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.
Career
After working as a mathematical programmer for the Central Electricity Generating Board,
Walsh joined the mathematics staff at the University of Manchester in 1963. In 1974 she became the first female Professor of Mathematics in the UK when she was appointed as Professor of Numerical Analysis there in 1974. She was head of the mathematics department at Manchester from 1986 to 1989, and in 1990 became pro-vice-chancellor of the university. She retired to become a professor emeritus in 1998.
Walsh was one of the four founders of the Nottingham Algorithms Group in 1970, along with Brian Ford who was a Lecturer at the University of Nottingham; Shirley Lill, Lecturer in Optimization at the University of Leeds; and Linda Hayes, who was the research assistant of Professor Leslie Fox. The Nottingham Algorithms Group subsequently became the Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd. and Walsh became founding chair in 1976. Software libraries such as the NAG library are now seen as essential to the work of all computational scientists. Walsh is considered to be a pioneer in the field of computing as it developed in the second half of the 20th Century.
Research
Walsh conducted research into the numerical solution of ordinary differential equation boundary value problems and partial differential equations. She carried out a large part of her research in collaboration with PhD students.
Recognition
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (from 1984). Vice-President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (1992-1993).
President of the National Conference of University Professors (1993–1994).
NAG Life Service Recognition Award (2011)
Personal life
Joan was a devout Catholic and when she retired she completed an MA in Contemporary Theology in the Catholic Tradition at Heythrop College, University of London. She also successfully campaigned for the restoration of the Tridentine Latin Mass to the liturgy of the world-wide church.
She died on 30 December 2017.
References
1932 births
2017 deaths
British ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%20Bryan | Jennifer "Jenny" Bryan is a data scientist and an associate professor of statistics at the University of British Columbia where she developed the Master in Data Science Program. She is a statistician and software engineer at RStudio from Vancouver, Canada and is known for creating open source tools which connect R to Google Sheets and Google Drive.
Education
Bryan earned her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and German literature from Yale University in 1992 and her PhD in Biostatistics from University of California, Berkeley in 2001.
Career
As an associate professor of statistics at the University of British Columbia, Bryan worked on biostatistics with a focus on gene expression and microarray data. Notable projects to which she has contributed include the quantification of photomotor responses in larval zebrafish, the development of an assay system in the multicellular animal Caenorhabditis elegans to test genetic interactions causing synthetic lethality in somatic cells, and a novel yeast-based model to search for modifier genes involved in cystic fibrosis. Beyond biostatistics, Bryan has also contributed to medoids-based clustering methods. Her general science contributions include a manifesto published in PLOS One on good practices for scientific computing and an introduction to the Git version control system for research data analysis.
Bryan's teaching activities at UBC included development of the Master of Data Science Program and new materials for the STAT 545 course. Under Bryan's direction, the STAT 545 course became notable as an early example of a data science course taught in a statistics program. It is also notable for its focus on teaching using modern R packages, Git and GitHub, its extensive sharing of teaching materials openly online, and its strong emphasis on practical data cleaning, exploration, and visualization skills, rather than algorithms and theory. As of late 2016 Bryan is on leave from her UBC position and is working at RStudio with a team led by Hadley Wickham.
Bryan has had experience with S and R since 1996. She is known for her open source contributions in R. Influential contributions include the use of Lego and the concept of data rectangling for explaining programming concepts, reproducible research, and advice on project and workflow organisation.
Bryan is well known for her work on efficient methods of working in spreadsheets, and the connection between R and spreadsheet software such as Excel and Google Sheets. She is the primary developer of the R package googlesheets, that connects R to the Google Sheets service, and googledrive, an R package for interfacing between R and Google Drive.
Bryan is known for her work in teaching, her contributions to R packages, and her involvement with the leadership committee at rOpenSci. She is also part of the R Foundation Forwards task force and a member of the editorial board of BMC Bioinformatics. Previously, she worked as an Associate at the Boston Consulting Grou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelhauser | Mittelhauser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Eugène Mittelhauser (1873–1949), French general
Jon Mittelhauser (born 1970), American computer programmer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT%20Professional%20%28journal%29 | IT Professional is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed magazine published by the IEEE Computer Society for the developers and managers of enterprise information systems. Coverage areas include emerging technologies, Web services, Internet security, data management, enterprise architectures and infrastructures, software development, systems integration, and wireless networks. The magazine was established in January 1999 and celebrated twenty years in 2019. IT Professional has a 2019 impact factor of 3.7.
Editors-In-Chief
The following individuals are or have been editor-in-chief of the magazine:
Irena Bojanova, 2018–2022
San Murugesan, 2014–2017
Simon Y. Liu, 2010–2013
Arnold Bragg, 2006–2009
Frank E. Ferrante, 2002–2005
Wushow (Bill) Chou, 1999-2001
References
External links
DBLP bibliography (from 2004 volume 6)
IEEE Computer Society
Magazines established in 1999
IEEE magazines
Bimonthly journals
Information systems journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202006 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
2006 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Scott%20%28mathematician%29 | Jennifer Ann Scott (née Dixon, born 1960) is a British mathematician specialising in numerical analysis, sparse matrix computations, and parallel computing. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Reading, where she directs the Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth, and a Group Leader and Individual Merit Research Fellow for the Science and Technology Facilities Council at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Education and career
Scott earned a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1984; her dissertation was A unified analysis of discretisation methods and was supervised by J. Sean McKee. She worked as a junior research fellow in St. John's College, Oxford, and then at the National Radiological Protection Board, becoming a finalist for the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis in 1986.
Iain S. Duff recruited her to join the Harwell Laboratory (now part of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) in 1987. She became a professor at Reading in 2016.
Recognition
Scott is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. She was named a SIAM Fellow in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to sparse matrix algorithms and software".
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
British mathematicians
Women mathematicians
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Academics of the University of Reading
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N213%20highway | National Route 213 (N213) forms a part of the Philippine highway network. It is a two-lane national secondary road spanning that transverses eastern towns within Tarlac and Pampanga provinces.
References
Roads in Pampanga
Roads in Tarlac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20labor%20in%20Brazil | Child labor, the practice of employing children under the legal age set by a government, is considered one of Brazil's most significant social issues. According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), more than 2.7 million minors between the ages of 5 and 17 worked in the country in 2015; 79,000 were between the ages of 5 and 9. Under Brazilian law, 16 is the minimum age to enter the labor market and 14 is the minimum age to work as an apprentice.
It is estimated that about 30 percent of Brazilian child labor occurs in the agricultural sector, and 60 percent occurs in the northern and northeastern regions of the country. Data indicates that 65 percent of child laborers are Afro-Brazilians, and 70 percent are male.
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), poverty is the leading cause of child labor in the world (including Brazil). Children are forced to work to supplement family income, eliminating their studies and social lives.
Since the enactment of the 1988 constitution, child labor has been illegal in the country. The government has taken steps to reduce its prevalence by adopting international conventions and guidelines.
Social movements were created to increase awareness of child labor in Brazil, such as the introduction of the hashtag #ChegaDeTrabalhoInfantil. Other steps included changes to labor laws and increased funding for government welfare programs, such as Bolsa Família, which support impoverished families. As a result, the number of underage workers fell from about eight million in 1992 to five million in 2003.
Despite these improvements, Brazil still accounts for one-fourth of Latin America's underage workers in. Between 2014 and 2015, there was a 13-percent increase in the number of reported child workers under age 10. In 2016, there were 1,238 cases of child exploitation recorded in the public prosecutor's office. However, many instances of child labor in the informal economy (such as child prostitution or drug trafficking) went unrecorded.
Definitions
Brazilian definition and regulation
In Brazil's constitution, child labor is addressed in Article 7, Item 33. The item prohibits night work and any work considered "dangerous or unhealthy" for youth under 18. Minors under age 16 are not allowed to work, except for apprenticeships for minors over 14 years old.
International definitions
Child labor, according to the ILO, is "work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential, and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development." It refers to work which can damage children mentally, physically, socially, or morally; work depriving children of the ability to attend school, or work which places heavy burdens on them in addition to schoolwork. The definition of child labor largely depends on the working environment, the legal working age and the type of work done. The organization defines child slavery, child prostitution, child crime (such |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%20Zhaohui | Wu Zhaohui (; born December 1966) is a Chinese computer scientist. He is a professor who had served as president of Zhejiang University from 2015 to 2022. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017.
Early life and education
Wu was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang in December 1966. His father Wu Xuequan was academic director of Wenzhou No. 7 High School. He has a younger sister. He entered Zhejiang University in 1984, where he received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1993.
Career
Wu is a professor in the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University before he was named in May 2015 to be President of the university. In 2007, he was assistant to university president and then vice president and executive vice president. Currently, he also serves as a director of the National Panel of Modern Service Industry, vice president of the China Association of Higher Education, and vice president of the Chinese Health Information Association.
Research
Wu's major research is focused on cyborg intelligence in the computer science and technology discipline. He was a chief scientist in the 973 Project and an information expert in the 863 Project. His research covers cyborg intelligence, A.I., service computing, and computational intelligence.
Awards
Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017)
References
1966 births
Living people
Alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese computer scientists
Educators from Wenzhou
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Presidents of Zhejiang University
Scientists from Wenzhou
Zhejiang University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafana | Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.
There is also a licensed Grafana Enterprise version with additional capabilities available as a self-hosted installation or an account on the Grafana Labs cloud service. It is expandable through a plug-in system. End users can create complex monitoring dashboards using interactive query builders. Grafana is divided into a front end and back end, written in TypeScript and Go, respectively.
As a visualization tool, Grafana is a popular component in monitoring stacks, often used in combination with time series databases such as InfluxDB, Prometheus and Graphite; monitoring platforms such as Sensu, Icinga, Checkmk, Zabbix, Netdata, and PRTG; SIEMs such as Elasticsearch and Splunk; and other data sources. The Grafana user interface was originally based on version 3 of Kibana.
History
Grafana was first released in 2014 by Torkel Ödegaard as an offshoot of a project at Orbitz. It targeted time series databases such as InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, and Prometheus, but evolved to support relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.
In 2019, Grafana Labs secured $24 million in Series A funding.
In 2020 Series B funding round: $50 million.
The conference GrafanaCon 2020 was scheduled for May 13–14, 2020, in Amsterdam, but was changed to a two-day online live streaming event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Grafana acquired k6 in 2021.
In 2021, Grafana Labs secured a Series C funding round of $220 million.
Adoption
Grafana is widely used, including in Wikimedia's infrastructure. Grafana has over 1000 paying customers, including Bloomberg, JP Morgan Chase, eBay, PayPal, and Sony.
Licensing
Previously, Grafana was licensed with an Apache License 2.0 license and used a CLA based on the Harmony Contributor Agreement.
As of 2021 April 20, Grafana is licensed under an AGPLv3 license. Contributors to Grafana need to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) that gives Grafana Labs the right to relicense Grafana in the future. The CLA is based on The Apache Software Foundation Individual Contributor License Agreement.
Products
Proprietary
Open source
Loki - a log aggregation platform based on Prometheus first made available in 2019
Mimir - a metric visualization tool released in 2022 that replaced Cortex
Tempo - a tool for log tracing, released in 2021
References
Free and open-source software
Projects established in 2014
System monitors
Management systems
Free network management software
2014 software
Software using the GNU AGPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20CD%20%28disambiguation%29 | Live CD may refer to:
Live CD, a computer operating system written to a bootable CD, and run as a "live" operating system. See also Live USB
A "live" CD, meaning a recorded live performance album
Live CD, an album by Ivri Lider
See also
Boot CD, a boot disk on CD media, media required to start a computer
Live USB, more recent form of Live CD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISCO | FISCO (Financial Blockchain Shenzhen Consortium) is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the use of blockchains for financial applications. It is led by over 20 financial institutions and financial technology companies. It was established on May 31, 2016. As of Dec 29, 2017, around 80 members were in the consortium from financial and Fintech industry. The FISCO website was launched on Nov 17, 2016.
Governance
The General Assembly is the Consortium's highest authority. The standing committee, or the Presidium, is accountable to the General Assembly. It leads the Consortium and conducts day-to-day work while the General Assembly is not in session. The Technical Committee is the subsidiary body of the Presidium, and is in charge of technology issues. The Technology Standardization Work Committee is in charge of project approval, drafting standards, standards examination, approval and publication. The Advisory Committee is in charge of organizing external experts to participate in the research and discussion of technology and standards.
Projects
FISCO has established research projects in areas including credit, equity, loyalty points system, insurance, commercial bills, cloud service, digital assets, and wealth management issuance and trading. Some projects have launched prototypes. FISCO published its propositions for financial distributed ledger in Nov 2016. For the development of distributed ledgers, the paper proposed five principles: legal compliance, traceability, security, privacy protection and business driven; and seven propositions: value alliance, autonomy and controllability, security and reliability, high efficiency and availability, business feasibility, flexibility, portability and Regtech ready.
Members
Among the members are:
Shenzhen Fin-Tech Association
WeBank
Shenzhen Securities Communication Co. Ltd (SSCC)
Tencent
Beyondsoft
Huawei
Digital China
Forms Syntront
Yuexiu FinTech
Product
FISCO BCOS was implemented on top of BCOS with features customized for the financial industry. In December 2017, it was published as an open source blockchain platform. In 2018, FISCO BCOS was brought into practical use as application for the Reconciliation and Digital Escrow area. FISCO BCOS is based on a customized Ethereum.
History
In June 2016 FISCO was established. In August 2016 FISCO launched a reconciliation platform utilizing blockchain technology. In December 2017 the FISCO open source working group was formed and FISCO BCOS was launched. In February 2018 FISCO launched a digital escrow application for Guangzhou Arbitration Commission. In March 2018 FISCO reached more than 90 members.
References
Organizations established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Khovratovich | Dmitry Khovratovich is a cryptographer, currently a Lead Cryptographer for the Dusk Network, researcher for the Ethereum Foundation, and member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. He developed, together with Alex Biryukov, the Equihash proof-of-work algorithm which is currently being used as consensus mechanism for the Zcash cryptocurrency, and the Argon2 key derivation function, which won the Password Hashing Competition in July 2015.
He is the publisher of several cryptanalysis papers for a number of mainstream cyphers, such as the first cryptanalytic attack on full-round AES-192 and AES-256 which is faster than a brute-force attack, an attack on the RadioGatún cryptographic primitive, and also the current best cryptanalysis on Skein, a candidate for the SHA-3 competition.
In 2014, he published a research about the deanonymisation of clients in the Bitcoin P2P network
Selected publications
Egalitarian computing, USENIX 2016, with Alex Biryukov
Argon2: new generation of memory-hard functions for password hashing and other applications, Euro S&P 2016, with Alex Biryukov and Daniel Dinu
Equihash: Asymmetric Proof-of-Work Based on the Generalized Birthday Problem, NDSS 2016, with Alex Biryukov
Tradeoff Cryptanalysis of Memory-Hard Functions, Asiacrypt 2015, with Alex Biryukov
Rotational Cryptanalysis of ARX Revisited, FSE 2015, with Ivica Nikolic, Josef Pieprzyk, Przemyslaw Sokolowski, Ron Steinfeld
Cryptographic Schemes Based on the ASASA Structure: Black-Box, White-Box, and Public-Key, Asiacrypt 2014, with Alex Biryukov and Charles Bouillaguet
Deanonymisation of Clients in Bitcoin P2P Network, ACM CCS 2014 with Alex Biryukov and Ivan Pustogarov
Collision Spectrum, Entropy Loss, T-Sponges, and Cryptanalysis of GLUON-64, FSE 2014, with Leo Perrin
PAEQ: Parallelizable Permutation-Based Authenticated Encryption, ISC 2014, with Alex Biryukov
Key Wrapping with a Fixed Permutation, CT-RSA 2014.
Bicliques for Permutations: Collision and Preimage Attacks in Stronger Settings, Asiacrypt'12, 2012
New Preimage Attacks against Reduced SHA-1, Crypto'12, 2012. With Simon Knellwolf
Narrow-Bicliques: Cryptanalysis of the Full IDEA, Eurocrypt'12, 2012. With Gaetan Leurent and Christian Rechberger
Bicliques for Preimages: Attacks on Skein-512 and the SHA-2 Family, FSE'12, 2012. With Christian Rechberger and Alexandra Savelieva
Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Full AES, Asiacrypt'11, 2011. With Andrey Bogdanov and Christian Rechberger
Rotational Rebound Attacks on Reduced Skein, Asiacrypt'10, 2010. With Ivica Nikolic and Christian Rechberger
Rotational Cryptanalysis of ARX, FSE'10, 2010. With Ivica Nikolic
Key Recovery Attacks of Practical Complexity on AES Variants With Up To 10 Rounds. With Alex Biryukov, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, and Adi Shamir
Related-Key Attack on the Full AES-192 and AES-256. With Alex Biryukov
Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks on SHA-3 Candidates. FSE'2009. With Ralf-Philipp Weinmann and Ivica Nikolić
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20School%20of%20Malaysia | Korean School of Malaysia (KSMY; ) is a Korean international school in Cyberjaya, Sepang District, Selangor, Malaysia, in the Klang Valley region (Kuala Lumpur area).
It opened in September 2016 with 70 students in primary school and 14 students in preschool, becoming the first Korean international school in that country. The government of South Korea and the Korean community of Malaysia funded the school.
References
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Malaysia
Primary schools in Malaysia
International schools in Selangor
2016 establishments in Malaysia
Educational institutions established in 2016
Malaysia–South Korea relations
Sepang District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Milne | Gustav Milne is a British Archaeologist, writer and TV contributor who is the current project lead for Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network (CITiZAN) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.
History
Gustav Milne studied archaeology at University of Oxford and completed his MPhil at the University of London, where he wrote a thesis on ancient harbor installations. Gustav started his career as a volunteer for the Guildhall Museum at the site of Custom House in the City of London. Between 1973 and 1991 Gustav worked for the Museum of London as a professional rescue archaeologist, working on various archaeological digs including Pudding Lane and the Roman London Bridge. During this time he wrote many reports on his findings.
In 1991 Gustav joined UCL Institute of Archaeology as a Senior Lecturer (in London Archaeology and Maritime Archaeology). In 1992 Gustav became the secretary of the newly formed London Archaeological Research facility. In 1993 he founded the Thames Archaeology Survey, a project to compile an inventory of archaeological and palaeo-environmental sites exposed between Teddington and Dartford, before going onto form the Thames Discovery Programme in 2008. In 2013, Gustav was nominated as one of Current Archaeology's "Archaeologists of the Year" and the Thames Discovery Programme won the Archaeology Training Forum's Training Award, which was presented at the IfA Conference in Birmingham.
In 2015 he helped create the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network (CITiZAN) which he currently holds the position of Project Leader, and the founder and co-ordinator for UCL 'Evolutionary Determinants of Health' programme. Gustav has also set up the Museum of London's Centre for Human Bioarchaeology with a grant from the Wellcome Trust.
Television Work
Gustav has appeared as an archaeology expert on several television programme since the 1990s, with many appearances on Time Team amongst those. He has also appeared as a contributor to Digging for Britain - The Tudors and TV documentaries The Bridges That Built London and Fire, Plague, War and Treason.
Through his project leadership at CITiZAN, in 2016 he assisted Tern TV in setting up the archaeology program Britain at Low Tide. In 2018 he became a regular contributor for the Channel 4 program.
Bibliography
1981 - Waterfront Archaeology in Britain and Northern Europe (CBA Research Report No 41)
1983 - Medieval Waterfront Development at Trig Lane, London: An account of the excavations at Trig Lane, London, 1974-6 and related research (with C. Milne)
1985 - Port Roman London
1986 - The Great Fire of London
1989 - Aspects of Saxo-Norman London:1 - Building and Street Development Near Billingsgate and Cheapside (Special paper/London and Middlesex Archaeological Society) (with V. Horsman and C. Milne)
1992 - From Roman Basilica to Medieval Market: Archaeology in Action in the City of London
1992 - Wharram: Two Anglo-Saxon Buildings and Associa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla%20Brodley | Carla E. Brodley is a computer scientist specializing in machine learning. Brodley is a Fellow of the ACM, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is the Dean of Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University, where she serves as the Executive Director for the Center for Inclusive Computing and holds a tenured appointment in Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Brodley served as dean of Khoury College from 2014-2021. She is a proponent for greater enrollment of women and under-represented minorities in computer science.
Education and career
Brodley is a 1985 graduate of McGill University. At McGill, she initially chose to major in English, quickly switching to economics, but switched again to a double major in mathematics and computer science after taking and enjoying a computer programming course as a sophomore.
After working as a consultant and computer programmer in Boston, she returned to graduate school, initially planning only to work for a master's degree in artificial intelligence, but continuing there for a Ph.D. under the supervision of Paul Utgoff.
After finishing her doctorate in 1994, she joined the electrical engineering faculty of Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She moved from Purdue to Tufts University in 2004, and became chair of the department of computer science at Tufts from 2010 to 2013, also holding an affiliation with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Tufts Medical Center. She moved again from Tufts to Northeastern in 2014.
Recognition
Brodley was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2016 "for applications of machine learning and for increasing participation of women in computer science". Brodley is also a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
References
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Purdue University faculty
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Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American women scientists
American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Churchhouse | Robert Francis Churchhouse CBE KSG, also known as Bob Churchhouse (30 December 1927 – 27 August 2018) was Professor of Computing Mathematics at Cardiff University and President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
Early life and education
Churchhouse was born on 30 December 1927 in Higher Blackley, Manchester. The son of Robert Francis, a laboratory assistant, and Agnes Churchhouse (née Howard), a cotton mill worker. Churchhouse grew up into a Roman Catholic family. He attended St Clare's RC Primary School, and then St Bede's College, Manchester from 1939 to 1946. He pursued an undergraduate education in mathematics at Manchester University, where he was taught by both Max Newman and Alan Turing, both now famous for their code breaking work at Bletchley Park in WW2. Churchhouse graduated with a first class honours degree and subsequently received an award to undertake a PhD in Number Theory at Trinity Hall, Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Louis J. Mordell. His time at Cambridge brought him into contact with other ex-Bletchley mathematicians.
Career
In 1952, for his national service, Churchhouse joined the Royal Navy Scientific Service, and then the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) where he worked for 11 years in London, Cheltenham, and at the UK's embassy in Washington. The GCHQ was interested in his work in number theory, and he was initially interviewed in May 1952. During his time at the GCHQ, he worked with Hugh Alexander and Jack Good both of whom had also worked at Bletchley Park on the breaking of the Enigma code.
In 1962, he was appointed head of programming at the Atlas Computer Laboratory at Harwell where he worked on the Atlas I supercomputer until 1971.
Churchhouse left Atlas in 1971 and joined Cardiff University as an Inaugural Professor and head of the newly created Department of Computing Mathematics. He was also the Director of the Cardiff University Computer Centre for the early part of his tenure.
In 1965, Bob was asked to serve on the Flowers Committee responsible for the provision of computers to Universities and Research Councils and was subsequently asked to serve on the follow-up Computer Board. He chaired the Computer Board from 1979 to 1982 and was subsequently awarded a CBE for his services.
As a lifelong Catholic, he helped reorganise the Catholic Secondary Schools in Cardiff as well as serving on the Board of Governors of Saint David's Sixth Form College for 15 years. He was recognized for his service with an Papal Knighthood (KSG) in 1988.
Bibliography
Books
Selected publications
Churchhouse, R.F. Zanella, P. (Ed.). (1991). "Parallelism, fractal geometry and other aspects of computational mathematics". Singapore: World Scientific.
Personal life
Churchhouse married Julia McCarthey. They had three sons. Churchhouse died of heart failure on 27 August 2018 at the age of 90.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milly%20Koss | Adele Mildred Koss, known as Milly Koss, (born 11 July 1928, died 11 September 2012) was an American pioneering computer programmer. The Association for Women in Computing awarded her an Ada Lovelace Award in 2000.
She attended Philadelphia High School for Girls and graduated in Mathematics from University of Pennsylvania in 1950. Following her first job interview with an insurance company, Koss, who was engaged at the time, was rejected for the reason that married women would have children and leave.
She worked at Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC) under Grace Hopper, programming the UNIVAC I. Her first big project was the development of what has become known as the 'Editing Generator', a sophisticated program to automatically format data for printing. Being able to create margins, headings and page numbers on the fly, Koss was the first programmer to attempt word processing. During her time at EMCC she also wrote some of the first sorting programs, and with Hopper wrote the first compiler. After working for several other companies including Burroughs, Remington Rand, Philco and CDC, Koss moved to Harvard University where she stayed for 27 years until she retired in 1994, having been Associate Director of the Office for Information Technology and the University's Information Security Officer. Her colleague Jean Bartik recalled that Koss had become pregnant and was expected to leave her post, but she approached Hopper with the idea of what is now known as telecommuting, and Hopper encouraged her to stay on and to work from home as necessary. She negotiated similar arrangements in several subsequent posts.
In 1997 she was awarded a Pioneer Award, one of seven women to be so honoured, at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Koss died on 11 September 2012, survived by three children and three grandchildren. Her husband Norman A. Koss had pre-deceased her: they had been married for 60 years.
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Philadelphia High School for Girls alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Social%20Solidarity | The Ministry of Social Solidarity is the government body responsible for providing social safety networks for Egypt's most vulnerable citizens. Nivine El-Qabbage is its current minister after the previous minister Ghada Waly. Its vision is to reduce the number of poor in the country by providing support and social safety nets.
Duties
NGOs and charities work hand in hand with the Ministry and do a large part of the social safety net work, however, after the
June 2013 Egyptian protests and when Abdel Fattah el-Sisi became president, he stated NGOs had to be carefully vetted for national security reasons. Egypt was widely criticized for this.
In August 2013, the ministry began disbanding The Muslim Brotherhood.
In 2014, the ministry reported there were 600 NGOs operating in Egypt. The ministry required NGOs to show transparency and reveal where their funding came from. In 2016, the NGOs Act was passed and the ministry sent letters to NGOs requiring them to disclose activities a month and a half prior to said activities. The NGOs Act passed in 2016 allowed the Ministry of Social Solidarity to disband NGOs but in June 2018, the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court stated that clause in the Act was unconstitutional and that the ministry did not have the right to disband NGOs.
Initiatives
The ministry has developed a welfare system, to provide cash and support services to people in need, such as to orphans under 18, children of single mothers, previously imprisoned people, disabled citizens, elderly over 65, divorced women and widows.
In 2015, the ministry began its You Are Stronger Than Drugs campaign featuring football star Mohamed Salah. Again in 2018, the ministry in conjunction with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, launched an anti-addiction advertising campaign featuring Mohamed Salah, to encourage its young citizens to avoid illegal drug use.
Egypt's population explosion is being addressed by the ministry and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with a campaign begun in 2018 called two is enough to promote the use of birth control. The campaign is set to continue until 2030.
See also
Cabinet of Egypt
References
External links
Ministry of Social Solidarity on Facebook
Ministry of Social Solidarity on YouTube
Ministry of Social Solidarity on Twitter
Egypt's Cabinet Database
Government ministries of Egypt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolanda%20Gil | Yolanda Gil is a Spanish computer scientist specializing in knowledge discovery and knowledge-based systems at the University of Southern California (USC). She served as chair of SIGAI the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Artificial Intelligence, and the president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Education
Gil is from Madrid, and earned a licenciate in Computer Science from the Technical University of Madrid in 1985. She did her graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University, completing her Ph.D. in 1992. Her dissertation was supervised by Jaime Carbonell.
Career and research
Gil's research interests are in Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent User Interfaces, Knowledge Capture, Scientific workflows and the Semantic Web.
Gil joined the University of Southern California as a research scientist at the Information Sciences Institute in 1992. At USC, she is a research professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences, Associate Division Director at the Information Sciences Institute, and director of the Center for Knowledge-Powered Interdisciplinary Data Science in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Awards and honors
Gil was elected the chair of SIGAI the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Artificial Intelligence for two terms, from 2010 to 2016. She is president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for 2018 to 2020.
She was nominated a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2012, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2016 "for leadership in advancing the use of artificial intelligence in support of science, and for service to the community", and an IEEE Fellow in 2021, "for contributions to geoscience and scientific discovery with intelligent workflow systems".
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Spanish computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Spanish women computer scientists
Northeastern University faculty
Polytechnic University of Madrid alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Southern California faculty
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Semantic Web people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison%20Druin | Allison Druin is an American computer scientist who studies human–computer interaction, and digital libraries, particularly focusing on children's use of educational technology.
She is a professor emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park and Associate Provost for Research and Strategic Partnerships at the Pratt Institute.
Education and career
Druin has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design (1985). She earned a master's degree in 1987 from the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed a Ph.D. in 1997 at the College of Education at the University of New Mexico. Her dissertation was A Multidisciplinary Education for Designing Interactive Applications: The MEDIA Program, and was supervised by Priscilla Norton.
She joined the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park as a research assistant professor in 1998, and became a regular-rank faculty member in 1999. From 2006 to 2011 she directed the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the university, from 2010 to 2012 she was Associate Dean for Research, from 2011 to 2013 she was ADVANCE Professor, and from 2013 to 2015 she was chief futurist for the university. She took a leave from Maryland to work for two years as Special Advisor for National Digital Strategy to the US National Park Service, before joining the Pratt Institute as Associate Provost in 2017.
Books
Druin is the author or editor of:
Children’s Internet Search: Using Roles to Understand Children’s Search Behavior (with Elizabeth Foss, Morgan & Claypool, 2014)
Methods and Techniques for Involving Children in the Design of New Technology for Children (with Jerry Alan Fails and Mona Leigh Guha, Now Publishers, 2013)
Mobile Technology for Children: Designing for Interaction and Learning (ed., Morgan Kauffman, 2009)
Robots for Kids: Exploring New Technologies for Learning (ed. with James Hendler, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000)
The Design of Children's Technology (ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1999)
Designing Multimedia Environments for Children (with Cynthia Solomon, Wiley, 1996)
Recognition
Druin and Ben Bederson won the ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award in 2010, for developing the International Children's Digital Library.
Druin was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2016, "for contributions to creating information and computing technologies with and for children".
In the same year she was elected to the CHI Academy.
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Pratt Institute faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Eisenbrand | Friedrich Eisenbrand (born 3 July 1971 in Quierschied, Saarland) is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor at EPFL Lausanne working in discrete mathematics, linear programming, combinatorial optimization and algorithmic geometry of numbers.
Eisenbrand received his PhD at Saarland University in 2000. He gave a talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul in 2014.
Prior to joining EPFL in March 2008, Friedrich Eisenbrand was at the University of Paderborn. He received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 2004 and the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society in 2001. Eisenbrand was awarded Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2012.
References
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Website at EPFL
Living people
Academic staff of Paderborn University
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1971 births
21st-century German mathematicians
German computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky%20Channel | The Kentucky Channel, also known by its Program and System Information Protocol short name and on-screen logo bug as KET KY, is a full-time 24/7 statewide digital television programming service originating from PBS member state-network Kentucky Educational Television. The channel features programming related to the U.S. state of Kentucky (with some programming relevant to surrounding states such as Tennessee, Indiana or Virginia), as well as coverage of Kentucky General Assembly when it is in session.
It is carried on the third digital subchannel of all fifteen (15) of KET's main satellite stations, and on the second digital subchannel of Louisville-based KET2 station WKMJ-TV. The channel is programmed and broadcast from the O. Leonard Press Telecommunications Center at 600 Cooper Drive in Lexington, Kentucky.
History
KET Star Channels
KET's Star Channels, the network's interactive distance learning services that were launched in 1988, predated the advent of digital over-the-air television broadcasting of any kind by eleven years, and they were only available to schools, colleges, universities, and libraries throughout the state through satellite technology. Public schools were outfitted with satellite dishes and keypads, provided by NTN Communications, to provide two-way communications between the instructors at the KET studios in Lexington and students throughout the state; all public schools in Kentucky were outfitted with the technology by the end of 1989. This interactive service was inspired by a football player predictor game at a local sports bar in Lexington. The services were so successful in education centers, that the network earned the Innovations Award from the Ford Foundation for the star channels in 1991.
KET ITV satellite service
Shortly after the successful launch of the interactive Star Channels, in January 1989, KET expanded its instructional programming schedule, which had aired during school hours on the over-the-air KET network since its 1968 inception, to full-time services by launching a pair of direct broadcast satellite instructional television services available to C-band free-to-air satellite systems, one for elementary schools, and the other for middle and high schools. Plans to launch the direct broadcast services date back to the 1980s, when the network unveiled plans to launch the services and eventually, the interactive Star Channels after having conducted a study on how to expand its instructional television offerings, as well as the inception of KET Etc, a cable-only service that was the first attempt to start a second broadcast service to combat the overflow of programming on its primary network. A 1986 Lexington Herald-Leader interview with network founder and executive director O. Leonard Press revealed the plans to launch this satellite-based service.
Star Channel 703 provided PK-12 educational programming exclusively to public schools and libraries throughout the state, plus several other states. Star |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meral%20%C3%96zsoyoglu | Zehra Meral Özsoyoglu is a Turkish-American computer scientist specializing in databases, including research on query languages, database model, and indexes, and applications of databases in science, bioinformatics, and medical informatics. She is the Andrew R. Jennings Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University.
Education and career
Özsoyoglu earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Middle East Technical University in Ankara before moving to the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada for her doctoral studies. Her 1980 dissertation, Distributed Database Query Optimization Using Semi-Joins, was supervised by Clement T. Yu.
She joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve University in 1980,
becoming the first female faculty member in her department and the second in the engineering school. She also became the first female chair of her department.
She was editor-in-chief for ACM Transactions on Database Systems from 2007 to 2014, the first female editor-in-chief of the journal, and the editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment for 2011–2012. She has also served as program chair for four database conferences.
Recognition
Özsoyoglu was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2011 "for contributions to database management systems".
In 2018 she won the 2018 ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award "for dedicated service to the database community". The award cited her service as editor-in-chief for ACM Transactions on Database Systems and the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment and as program committee chair for the VLDB conference and the Symposium on Principles of Database Systems.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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American academics of Turkish descent
American computer scientists
Turkish women computer scientists
Turkish computer scientists
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University of Alberta alumni
Case Western Reserve University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang-Chiew%20Tan | Wang-Chiew Tan is a Singaporean computer scientist specializing in data management and natural language processing. Her work in data management includes data provenance (or data lineage) and data integration. She is currently a Research Scientist at Facebook AI, and was previously the Director of Research at Megagon Labs in Mountain View, California.
At Megagon Labs, Tan was the lead researcher on a study with the University of Tokyo that concluded that the company of other people is more effective than pets at making people happy.
Education and career
Tan earned her bachelor's degree in computer science (first-class) at the National University of Singapore, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her 2002 dissertation, Data Annotations, Provenance, and Archiving, was jointly supervised by Peter Buneman and Sanjeev Khanna.
Before working at Megagon, she has been a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz beginning in 2002, and, from 2010 to 2012, was on leave from Santa Cruz as a researcher at IBM Research - Almaden.
Recognition
Tan was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2015 "for contributions to data provenance and to the foundations of information integration".
References
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Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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Singaporean computer scientists
Singaporean women scientists
Singaporean women computer scientists
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University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
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Data miners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louiqa%20Raschid | Louiqa Raschid (born March 17, 1958 in Sri Lanka) is a computer scientist in the USA who specializes in data base management and data science with applications in biology, medicine, financial and socio-economic data and disaster management. She is a professor in the Robert H. Smith School of Business and UMIACS at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Education and career
Raschid attended Bishop's College and St. Bridget's Convent in Sri Lanka, and won first place among all Sri Lankans in the 1973 General Certificate of Education, before moving to India for her university education. She earned a bachelor's degree in 1980 from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and completed her Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1987 at the University of Florida.
She joined the Robert H. Smith School of Business as an assistant professor in 1987, and was promoted to full professor there in 2002. She has also been affiliated with the computer science department at the University of Maryland since 1994.
She served as editor-in-chief of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality from 2013 to 2017.
Recognition
Raschid was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2016 "for data management and integration in non-traditional domains including biomedicine, finance, and humanitarian applications".
She was recognized as a Fellow of the IEEE in 2021.
References
External links
Home page
Living people
American computer scientists
Sri Lankan computer scientists
Sri Lankan women scientists
Sri Lankan women computer scientists
IIT Madras alumni
University of Florida alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
1958 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Mothers | Bad Mothers is an Australian television drama series that premiered on the Nine Network on 18 February 2019. The show centres around five women whose lives collide following a series of shocking events and learn that life can get a whole lot more complicated outrageous and fun, than they ever imagined.
Synopsis
Sarah's suburban bliss is destroyed when her husband has an affair with her best friend, Charlotte, head of the Bedford Mothers’ Club. Ousted from the snooty club, Sarah finds unexpected support among the titular Bad Mothers. The new friends exact revenge on Charlotte that leads to deadly results.
Cast
Melissa George as Charlotte
Tess Haubrich as Sarah
Daniel MacPherson as Anton
Don Hany as Kyle
Steve Bastoni as Tom
Mandy McElhinney as Maddie
Shalom Brune-Franklin as Bindy
Jessica Tovey as Danielle
Kate Lister as Phoebe
Episodes
Ratings
Adaptation
In September 2020, Jungle Entertainment announced they are in active development on creating an adaptation of the series for U.S. audiences.
References
External links
Nine Network original programming
2010s Australian drama television series
2019 Australian television series debuts
2019 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm%20%28companion%29 | The Palm phone, or "Palm companion device", "Palm Palm", "TCL Palm", codenamed "Pepito" with model number PVG100 is a smartphone running the Android operating system, announced on October 15, 2018, and is first available in the United States from November 2, that year.
Palm is developed, designed, and marketed by Palm Ventures Group, a San Francisco-based start up founded by Dennis Miloseski and Howard Nuk. Palm Ventures is financially backed by Chinese electronics company TCL that owns the Palm trademark, originally of Palm, Inc. The phone is manufactured by China's Tinno Mobile as an ODM for TCL.
With a 3.3-inch screen and 62.5g weight that is noticeably smaller and lighter than other smartphones released at the same time, the Palm was initially marketed as "an ultra-mobile companion" device that is meant to be used in conjunction with a regular smartphone—positioning it as a cross-over between a wearable and a smartphone, and originally could only be used by pairing the device with another phone on the Verizon network. However, the restriction was subsequently lifted for new buyers as well as oversea markets, which make it also possible to use the device as a standalone phone.
It is the first "Palm"-branded device on the market since 2010 (Palm Pre 2).
Specifications
Software
Hardware
Availability
The Palm was initially launched on November 2, 2018, exclusively on Verizon in the US as a companion device in a bundle with a phone. Since December 2018 it has been available on Vodafone in the UK, Spain and Germany. Vodafone has secured a 6 months exclusivity deal for Europe. Since January 20, 2019, the device has been available in Hong Kong. It was released for sale as standalone device in the US in April 2019.
References
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Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie%20Music%20Awards | The Genie Music Awards () is a music awards show that is held annually in South Korea and organized by Genie Music together with their partner network. The award winners are selected based on chart data from the Genie Music platform, evaluation from judges, and online voting in South Korea.
Ceremonies
Daesang Awards (Grand Prizes)
The Top Artist
The Top Music
The Top Album
Artist Category Awards
The Group Award
The Solo Artist Award
The New Artist Award
Genre-specific Awards
The Performing Artist
Best Ballad Track
Best R&B/Soul Track
Best Hip Hop Artist
Best Trot Track
Best Rock Artist
Best OST Award
Popularity Awards
Genie Music Popularity Award
Global Popularity Award
Other Awards
Best Music Video
Best Pop Artist
Best Record
Special Awards
Best Style Award
Next Generation
Next Generation Global
Next Wave Icon
Discontinued Awards
The Top Best Selling Artist
M2 Top Video
Best Producer
Best Choreography
Best Fandom
The Innovator
The Performance Creator
The Vocal Artist
Best Band Performance
MBC Plus Star Award
M2 Hot Star
Next Generation Star
Best Global Performance
M2 The Most Popular Artist
Discovery of the Year
Most Wins
Notes
References
Genie Music
South Korean music awards
Awards established in 2018
Annual events in South Korea
2018 establishments in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Mulder | Frederick Mulder CBE is a Canadian-British art dealer and philanthropist who resides in Totnes, Devon. He is the founder of the Frederick Mulder Foundation, The Funding Network, and Frederick Mulder Ltd.
Early life and education
Frederick Mulder was born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada in 1943. His father was a soldier who was wounded in France during action in World War II and later died in a British hospital. His mother remarried when he was nine years old, and he grew up in Eston, Saskatchewan.
He later earned his bachelor's degree in English at the University of Saskatchewan, graduating in 1964. For graduate school, he attended Brown University, earning both a Master's degree and a PhD in Philosophy. For his doctorate, he worked under the supervision of a University of Oxford professor and wrote his dissertation at the English university in 1968. While studying at Oxford, Mulder purchased his first Picasso print, L'Ecuyere, for £18.
Career
After earning his doctorate, Mulder became a private art dealer specializing in European printmaking between 1470 and 1970, and in 1972 went to work for the London art dealership, Colnaghi, owned at the time by Jacob Rothschild. In 1988, Mulder met Pablo Picasso's linocut printer, Hidalgo Arnera. Over the years, Mulder formed a professional relationship with Arnera and after Arnera's death in 2006, Mulder purchased some of his private collection and archives, including his archives of Picasso linocuts. He sold part of the linocut collection to Ellen Remai who then donated the collection to the Remai Modern Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 2012. Mulder later donated 23 ceramics created by Picasso to the gallery.
In 1986, Mulder founded the Frederick Mulder Charitable Trust (later renamed Frederick Mulder Foundation in 2014), a charitable trust that focuses on combating climate change and global poverty. The organization is funded largely by revenue from Frederick Mulder Ltd. In 2007, Mulder sold a 1935 Picasso etching, La Minotauromachie, at the New York Print Fair for a price in excess of $3 million. Seventy-five percent of that money went to the Frederick Mulder Foundation. Mulder also donated half of the $20 million earned from the 2012 sale of Picasso's linocut collection to his Foundation.
In 2002, Mulder co-founded The Funding Network, another charitable organization that holds live crowdfunding events for social change projects. He also helped launch international affiliates and the organization now has or is setting up affiliates in over 20 countries.
Recognition and awards
In 2005, The Beacon Fellowship awarded Mulder with the Judges' Special Beacon Prize for his philanthropic work. In 2008, The Independent listed him among "Britain's leading philanthropists." He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012 for services to philanthropy. In 2017, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Saskatchewan.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITS-IVB | The ITS-IVB was a 1930s Polish two seat research sailplane designed to gather meteorological and airframe stress data. The sole example remained in service up to outbreak of World War II.
Design and development
The ITS-IV was a high performance, two seat research sailplane designed initially by Adam Nowotny to gather meteorological and airframe stress data. It was also intended to provide blind flying training. Franciszek Kotowski took over the design work after Nowotny's death in July 1934, producing the ITS-IVB.
It was an all-wood aircraft. The two part wing had a rectangular plan central section and gently tapering trapezoidal outer panels with blunted tips. Each part was built around a single plywood D-box spar which formed the leading edge. On each side an internal auxiliary drag strut ran diagonally from the spar at about mid-span to the rear of the wing root and the whole area between spar and strut was ply-covered, forming another box. Elsewhere, the wings were fabric-covered, as were the differential ailerons which filled the trailing edges of the outer panels. The wing bracing was unusual, with the normal rigid struts replaced by upper and lower steel ribbons on each side. Each upper ribbon ran from a central cabane, formed from three steel tubes, to a reinforced region of the spar. The lower ribbons ran from the spars to the lower fuselage. They offered less air resistance and also provided a way to measure wing loads in flight.
The fuselage was a ply-covered semi-monocoque structure with an oval cross-section. It was unusually wide and deep in the central section, tapering away strongly aft of the wings. This variation allowed an uncramped, enclosed pilot's cockpit ahead of the wing and a very generous cabin for the observer, with celluloid-paned underwing windows on each side and accessed via a port side door. The cabin also had a table which could be folded away to allow use of the dual flight controls under blind flying conditions. A sprung landing skid was mounted below.
The empennage was conventional, with a cantilever, tapered tailplane and elevators mounted on top of the fuselage and a fin carrying a full, rounded, deep, rudder hinged behind the elevators. The fixed surfaces were ply-covered and the control surfaces fabric-covered.
Operational history
The ITS-VB's first flight was on 30 July 1935, piloted by its designer and towed by a RWD 8 from Lwów-Skniłów. This revealed aileron flutter and required aileron redesign, after which the glider was stable and handled well. It participated in the Third National Glider Contest held at Ustjanowa Górna in the autumn of 1935 and continued research flying until the start of World War II, based at Bezmiechowa Górna and mostly flown by Piotr Mynarski.
Specifications (ITS-IVB)
References
1930s Polish sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1935
High-wing aircraft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Cohen | Edith Cohen (born May 21, 1966) is an Israeli and American computer scientist specializing in data mining and algorithms for big data. She is also known for her research on peer-to-peer networks. She works for Google in Mountain View, California, and as a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
Education
Cohen is originally from Tel Aviv, where her father was a banker.
She earned a bachelor's degree in 1985 and a master's degree in 1986 from Tel Aviv University; her master's thesis was supervised by Michael Tarsi. She moved to Stanford University for her doctoral studies, and completed her Ph.D. in 1991 with Andrew V. Goldberg as her doctoral advisor and Nimrod Megiddo as an unofficial mentor. Her dissertation was Combinatorial Algorithms for Optimization Problems.
Career and research
Cohen was a student researcher at IBM Research - Almaden from 1987 to 1991, and a researcher at Bell Labs and its successor AT&T Labs from 1991 to 2012. In 2012, she became a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University, and began working for Microsoft Research, as a visitor for one year and then as a principal researcher. She has been associated with Google since 2015.
Awards and honors
Cohen won the William R. Bennett prize of the IEEE Communications Society in 2007 with David Applegate, for their work on robust network routing.
She was elected an ACM Fellow in 2017 "for contributions to the design of efficient algorithms for networking and big data".
References
1966 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Tel Aviv University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
Google employees
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Burnett | Margaret M. Burnett (born 1949) is a computer scientist specializing in work at the intersection of human computer interaction and software engineering, and known for her pioneering work in visual programming languages, end-user software engineering, and gender-inclusive software. She is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Oregon State University,, a member of the CHI Academy, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Education and career
Burnett was born in 1949, and is originally from Springfield, Illinois.
She studied at Miami University of Ohio from 1967 to 1970, brought there in part by their newly established program in computer science but eventually majoring in mathematics. After graduating, she became a software engineer for Procter & Gamble, the first women hired in a management position at their Ivorydale factory and research center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
She left soon after, following her husband to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she started her own business, and then to Lawrence, Kansas.
In Kansas, she became a student again at the University of Kansas (KU). She earned a master's degree there in 1981, began working as an independent consultant, then started a small consulting business with William Bulgren, a professor at KU, and eventually returned to KU for a Ph.D. in 1987. Her dissertation, Abstraction in the Demand-Driven, Temporal-Assignment, Visual Language Model, concerned visual programming languages and was supervised by Allen L. Ambler.
On completing her doctorate, she became a Computer Science faculty member at Michigan Technological University. In 1993, she moved to Oregon State University's Computer Science Department. She and Cherri M. Pancake (hired the same year), were the first two women to be hired as tenure-track Computer Science faculty at Oregon State.
Activism
As a graduate student at the University of Kansas, Burnett founded a group for the professional women of Lawrence, Kansas to network for each other, the Lawrence Women's Network, which is still active.
In the early 2000s she began developing methods for software engineers to check how gender-inclusive their software is, and she has given keynote addresses in software engineering concerning issues of gender-inclusivity for software and software engineers.
Recognition
In 2016, Burnett became a Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University, and was named to the CHI Academy.
She was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2017 "for contributions to end-user software engineering, understanding gender biases in software, and broadening participation in computing".
References
External links
Home page
1949 births
Living people
People from Springfield, Illinois
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Miami University alumni
University of Kansas alumni
Michigan Technological University faculty
Oregon State University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Engin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor%20Harchol-Balter | Mor Harchol-Balter is the Bruce J. Nelson Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She is known for her work on queueing theory, scheduling and resource allocation, load balancing, data center power management, and heavy-tailed workloads.
Academic biography
Harchol-Balter completed her PhD in 1996 at University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Manuel Blum. From 1997 to 1999, she was supported by the NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Mathematical Sciences at MIT, under the direction of Tom Leighton. Since 1999, Harchol-Balter has been a professor at CMU in the Computer Science Department.
Research
Harchol-Balter's research focuses on designing new resource allocation policies, including load balancing policies, scheduling policies, and power management policies, for multi-server, distributed systems. She is the author of a popular textbook, Performance Analysis and Design of Computer Systems, published by Cambridge University Press, which bridges Operations Research and Computer Science.
Harchol-Balter has a long list of accomplished PhD students who include: Adam Wierman, Bianca Schroeder, Takayuki Osogami, David McWherter, Varun Gupta, Anshul Gandhi, Sherwin Doroudi, Timothy Zhu, Kristy Gardner, Ziv Scully, Benjamin Berg, and Isaac Grosof.
Awards and honors
Harchol-Balter is the recipient of an endowed chair. She is a Fellow of the ACM and a Fellow of IEEE. She is heavily involved in the SIGMETRICS / PERFORMANCE research community, where she has received many paper awards, including: SIGMETRICS '19, PERFORMANCE '18, INFORMS APS '18, EUROSYS '16, MASCOTS '16, MICRO '10, SIGMETRICS '03, SIGMETRICS '96. She collaborates heavily with industry and is a recipient of dozens of Industrial Faculty Awards including multiple awards from Google, Microsoft, IBM, EMC, Facebook, and Intel. She has won numerous teaching awards, including the Herbert A. Simon Award for Teaching Excellence (2003), the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award (2019), and the Teaching Effectiveness Award (1994).
References
Isaac Grosof, Ziv Scully, Mor Harchol-Balter. ``Load Balancing Guardrails: Keeping Your Heavy Traffic on the Road to Low Response Times." Volume 3, Issue 2, Article 42 (June 2019), pp. 42:1-- 42:31, June 2019, Phoenix, AZ. Best Student Paper Award.
Isaac Grosof, Ziv Scully, Mor Harchol-Balter. ``SRPT for Multiserver Systems.'' , vol. 127-128, Nov. 2018, pp. 154-175. Also appeared in the following conference: , Toulouse, France, December 2018. Best Student Paper Award.
Ziv Scully, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf. ``SOAP: One Clean Analysis of All Age-Based Scheduling Policies." vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 16:1 -- 16:30, March 2018, Los Angeles, CA. APS Best Student Paper Award Finalist.
Kristen Gardner, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf. ``A Better Model for Job Redundancy: Decoupling Server Slowdown and Job Size." . London, UK, September 2016, pp. 1–10. First runner-up for Best Paper Award.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CumEx-Files | The CumEx-Files is an investigation by a number of European news media outlets into a tax fraud scheme discovered by them in 2017. A network of banks, stock traders, and lawyers had obtained billions from European treasuries through suspected fraud and speculation involving dividend taxes. The five hardest hit countries may have lost at least $62.9 billion. Germany is the hardest hit country, with around $36.2 billion withdrawn from the German treasury. Estimated losses for other countries include at least €17 billion for France, €4.5 billion in Italy, €1.7 billion in Denmark and €201 million for Belgium.
Method
The network stole several billion Euros from the treasury, through what Correctiv calls a "cum-ex" trade: The participants in the network would lend each other shares in large companies, so that to tax authorities there would appear to be two owners of the shares, when there was only one. The bank that was used in stock trading would then issue a "confirmation" to the investor that tax on the dividend payment had been paid, without it being done. "It's a bit like parents claiming a child benefit for two – or more – children when there is only one child in the family." writes Correctiv. This practice was outlawed in 2012.
In cum-ex trades, shares with and without dividend rights were quickly traded between various market participants just before the payout date for the dividend, allowing traders to reclaim double the taxes.
Financial institutions in essence allowed two parties to simultaneously claim ownership of the same shares, therefore allowing both to claim tax rebates to which they were not entitled.
Authorities have since deemed the reclaims illegitimate, but at the time of the trades, this was less black and white, and a vast network of traders, analysts and lawyers were thought to be involved in the practice throughout the continent.
The elite law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer gave tax advice which was used to justify the legality of the scheme. In November 2019, Ulf Johannemann, a former Freshfield partner who was head of the international tax department, was arrested.
In May 2020, the European Banking Authority announced a 10-point action plan to enhance the future regulatory framework surrounding dividend arbitrage trading schemes. According to the report, in some countries, the cum ex deals are not criminal offences.
Danish dividend scandal
In 2010, in an audit report, the Danish Ministry of Taxation was found to have ignored warnings on multiple occasions of a tax loophole concerning dividend tax.
In June 2020, it was reported by investigators that such transactions took advantage of European rules on the taxing of dividends, which made it possible to get refunds by using a combination of short sales and future transactions.
Lawsuits in France
At the end of October 2018, the Socialist deputy Boris Vallaud filed a complaint against X for fraud and aggravated tax fraud laundering with the . A parliamentary info |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reboot%20to%20restore%20software | Reboot to restore is a system of restore technology that enables restoring the user-defined system configuration of a computing device after every restart. The technology maintains systems in their optimum working conditions and is used in multi-user computing environments.
Deploying solutions based on Reboot to Restore technology allows users to define a particular system configuration as the desired state. The baseline is the point that is restored on reboot. Once the baseline is set, the Reboot to Restore software continues to restore that configuration every time the device restarts or switches on after a shutdown.
How it works
A reboot to restore software helps to maintain optimal system configuration. The technology prevents many alterations to the baseline configuration, whether user inflicted or automatic. Alterations by end users are primarily changes to system settings, installing or uninstalling of software or applications, enabling or disabling specific functionalities, and so on. The automatic alterations include cookies, add-ons and browser extensions, and several types of temporary files that often get downloaded in the background during an online session. It also rolls back malicious alterations made by malware that penetrates a system and attempts to corrupt it.
Uses
Reboot to restore software solutions simplifies maintaining optimal system configuration of devices in a multi-user computing environment such as public libraries, computer labs in educational institutions, training centers, and public access kiosks among others. Because of constant use by multiple people for a wide range of purposes, these devices become susceptible to performance deterioration and malware infiltration.
During events of system malfunction or failure, it takes a considerably longer time to troubleshoot the issue using conventional practices like resetting or re-imaging. This may lead to prolonged downtime, causing poor user experience, potential loss of business opportunity, and higher maintenance costs.
Restore on reboot functionality maintains the best system configuration (pristine state) in every public-access computer without the long-drawn troubleshooting steps. Instant restoration technology allows end-users to resolve system issues by simply restarting the device, which significantly reduces intervention by IT. The technology restores pristine configuration with every reboot, but the end user’s system achieves optimum performance. The technology helps to deliver maximum system uptime, which improves operational efficiency and resource utilization.
System administrators at corporations deploy reboot to restore solutions to create pristine environments with little troubleshooting. They use the software to protect the system drive and allocate a separate data partition, which can store or redirect user and application data.
Software built on reboot to restore technology
Windows SteadyState
Initially named Shared Computer Toolkit Windo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMI%20Entertainment%20Network | AMI Entertainment Network is a company owned by the Gores Group that creates original video content and licenses music, sells jukebox hardware, and offers music video services and Tap TV narrowcast television channels. Its history dates to 1909, when the Automatic Musical Instrument Co., began producing player piano rolls.
History
Automatic Musical Instrument Co. (AMI) was founded in 1909, making player piano rolls. It remained focused on automated music and jukeboxes, eventually becoming the releasing the first digital jukebox with licensed content. In 2002, the Harbour Group acquired Merit Industries, makers of Megatouch bartop gaming devices. This division was combined with jukebox maker Rowe International—after it was acquired in 2003— to become AMI Entertainment Network, an Internet-based digital content segment, in 2004. Megatouch, LLC was spun into its own entity in 2013 and closed in 2014. At the time, AMI was described as creating original video content and licenses music, selling jukebox hardware, and offering music video services and Tap TV. narrowcast television channels. It acquired NSM Music Group in 2017. In 2017, AMI was acquired by the Gores Group.
References
Entertainment companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20U540 | The Freedom U540 is a microprocessor using the RISC-V open architecture by fabless semiconductor company SiFive that is used to power the HiFive Unleashed computer. The U540 is one of the first commercially available microprocessors to use the RISC-V architecture, which is in contrast to the majority of the market, which uses mostly proprietary x86 and ARM microarchitectures. As the U540 was designed specifically for the HFU, it is not available on other devices or as a standalone component.
The U540 has a partial compatibility with coreboot.
References
System on a chip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiFive%20Unleashed | The HiFive Unleashed, or HFU is a single-board computer development board created by SiFive with the intention to increase exposure and adoption of the open-source RISC-V architecture.
The HFU is capable of running the Debian Linux distribution and Quake II.
References
Single-board computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon%20Digital | Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. is a digital asset technology company, which engages in mining cryptocurrencies, with a focus on the blockchain ecosystem and the generation of digital assets. The company was founded on February 23, 2010 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.
The company was formerly known as Marathon Patent Group and was the patent holding company that is the parent of Uniloc, allegedly a patent troll company.
Marathon purchased patents related to encryption in the 2010s and in 2021 it was known for its purchases of bitcoin and bitcoin mining equipment and a joint venture to use 37 MW from the Hardin Generating Station Montana coal plant to power an adjacently-constructed Marathon bitcoin data center.
The company changed its name to Marathon Digital Holdings, effective March 1, 2021. Its chief executive officer is Fred Thiel.
See also
Uniloc v. Microsoft
Uniloc
References
External links
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
Patent monetization companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Holtzblatt | Karen Holtzblatt is an American computer scientist known for her contributions in human–computer interaction, and particularly in contextual design. She founded InContext Design in 1992, and is its CEO.
Holtzblatt was elected to the CHI Academy in 2007 and won the inaugural ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Award for Practice in 2010. Holzblatt is also affiliated with the University of Maryland, as a research scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and iSchool.
Books
Holtzblatt is the author or co-author of multiple books on user interface design, including:
Contextual Design: Design for Life (with Hugh Beyer, Morgan Kaufmann, 2017)
Contextual Design: Evolved (with Hugh Beyer, Morgan & Claypool, 2014)
Rapid Contextual Design: A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered (with Jessamyn Burns Wendell and Shelley Wood, Morgan Kaufmann, 2005)
Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems (with Hugh Beyer, Academic Press, 1998)
Designing Composite Applications: Driving User Productivity and Business Information for Next Generation Business Applications (with Jörg Beringer, Galileo Press, 2006)
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXAN-TV | DXAN-TV (channel 29) is a television station in Metro Davao, Philippines, serving as the Mindanao flagship of the One Sports network. It is owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation; TV5 Network, Inc., which owns TV5 outlet DXET-TV (channel 2), operates the station under an airtime lease agreement. Both stations share studios and transmitters at TV5 Heights, Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Brgy. Matina Crossing, Davao City.
References
See also
One Sports
List of One Sports stations
One Sports (TV channel) stations
Television stations in Davao City
Television channels and stations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20cloud%20computing | The concept of the cloud computing as a platform for distributed computing traces its roots back to 1993. At that time, Apple spin-off General Magic and AT&T utilized the term in the context of their Telescript and Personal Link technologies.
In an April 1994 feature by Wired, titled "Bill and Andy's Excellent Adventure II", Andy Hertzfeld elaborated on Telescript, General Magic's distributed programming language. He described the expansive potential of the cloud:
Early history
In 1963, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded Project MAC, the first computer time-sharing system. During the 1960s, the initial concepts of time-sharing became popularized via Remote Job Entry (RJE); this terminology was mostly associated with large vendors such as IBM and DEC. Full-time-sharing solutions were available by the early 1970s on such platforms as Multics (on GE hardware), Cambridge CTSS, and the earliest UNIX ports (on DEC hardware). Yet, the "data center" model where users submitted jobs to operators to run on IBM mainframes was overwhelmingly predominant.
In the late 1980s, the invention of the world wide web led to internet expansion and on-premises data centers. In the 1990s, telecommunications companies, who previously offered primarily dedicated point-to-point data circuits, began offering virtual private network (VPN) services with comparable quality of service, but at a lower cost. By switching traffic as they saw fit to balance server use, they could use overall network bandwidth more effectively. They began to use the cloud symbol to denote the demarcation point between what the provider was responsible for and what users were responsible for. Cloud computing extended this boundary to cover all servers as well as the network infrastructure. As computers became more diffused, scientists and technologists explored ways to make large-scale computing power available to more users through time-sharing. They experimented with algorithms to optimize the infrastructure, platform, and applications, to prioritize tasks to be executed by CPUs, and to increase efficiency for end users. At the same time, Application Service Providers became popular, and later evolved into Software as a Service (SaaS). In 1999, Medidata launches Rave, the first electronic data capture software for clinical data.
The use of the cloud metaphor for virtualized services dates at least to General Magic in 1994, where it was used to describe the universe of "places" that mobile agents in the Telescript environment could go. As described by Andy Hertzfeld:
The use of the cloud metaphor is credited to General Magic communications employee David Hoffman, based on long-standing use in networking and telecom. In addition to use by General Magic itself, it was also used in promoting AT&T's associated Personal Link Services.
2000s
In 2002, Amazon established its subsidiary Amazon Web Services, which allows developers to build applications independently.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic%20Ghana | Civic Ghana is a module of NABCO, an initiative set up by the government of Ghana to address graduate unemployment. Its goal is to train graduates to network and promote their services by utilizing social spaces in public and private institutions.
References
Unemployment in Ghana
Government of Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Fish%20Conservation%20Network | The Marine Fish Conservation Network is a not-for-profit organisation located in Arlington, Virginia. Its primary function is the conservation of marine ecosystems through lobbying for regulations concerning overfishing, and revitalising fish populations. It is the largest organisation in the United States dedicated to sustainable fishing. The organisation has undertaken lobbying to shift the United States' fishing regulation from exploitation-orientated to conservation-and-rehabilitation-orientated. It is made up of a number of smaller fishermen, conservation and scientist groups. The Marine Fish Conservation Network also has an associated blog, which covers topics such as current issues affecting marine ecosystems, as well as other marine ecosystem related articles. The current executive director of the Marine Fish Conservation Network is Robert Vandermark.
History
The Marine Fish Conservation Network was founded in 1993 in an attempt to reverse the decline in fish populations, particularly through the 1980s. In particular, this was done by campaigning for major legislation changes, in the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996 and the amendment of the Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 2006. They have also been involved in fundraising to ensure the enforcement of the regulations, as well as producing a series of reports into the effectiveness of these legislative changes.
Achievements
The main achievements of the Marine Fish Conservation Network are underpinned by their campaigning to alter laws and regulations surrounding fishing, from exploitation towards conservation. The two main regulations changes campaigned for by the Network are outlined below:
Sustainable Fisheries Act 1996
The Marine Fish Conservation Network took part in a campaigning effort lasting four years to assist in the implementation of the Sustainable Fisheries Act 1996. The campaign was led to attempt to change regulations surrounding fishing, which had previously been defined by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 1976 and is the original reason for the foundation of the organisation. As a result of this change, fishing regulations in the United States became focused around rehabilitating fish populations and conserving marine ecosystems, as opposed to the previous pro-exploitation agenda. Following the implementation of the Sustainable Fisheries Act, the Marine Fish Conservation Network also worked to block members of Congress from removing key policies from the act. They also produced a number of reports that found the act was not being sufficiently implemented and overfishing was still occurring, and ineffective plans had been implemented to allow for rehabilitation of marine ecosystems.
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation Act Amendment 2006
The Marine Fish Conservation Network also pushed for reforms to fishing legislation in 2006, which resulted in the amendment of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Managemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirQ%2B | AirQ+ is a free software for Windows and Linux operating systems developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. The program calculates the magnitude of several health effects associated to exposure to the most relevant air pollutants in a given population. AirQ+ has been used in the BreatheLife campaign and in numerous studies aimed at measuring long-term exposure to ambient particulate matter PM2.5. The first version of the program, AirQ, was distributed in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program in 1999, followed by another version of AirQ for Windows in 2000. A substantial difference between AirQ and AirQ+ is that AirQ+ contains a new graphical user interface with several help texts and various features to input and analyse data and illustrate results. AirQ+ version 1.3 was released in October 2018, version 2.0 in November 2019 and version 2.1 in May 2021. It is available in English, French, German and Russian.
Purpose
AirQ+ is intended as a tool to ascertain the magnitude of the burden and impacts of air population on health in a given locality. It performs this function by featuring data analysis, graphing tools, tables and quantitative information for prominent pollutants such as particulate matter (PM), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and tropospheric ozone (O3). AirQ+ also has the capacity to perform calculations for black carbon (BC) and provides rough estimates of impacts of household (indoor) air pollution on health.
AirQ+ can be applied to long- and short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and to long-term household air pollution exposure caused by solid fuel use.
Data input
For most prominent air pollutants, the user needs to input the following data:
air quality data (concentration of air pollutants);
relative risk (RR) values for the pollutant being assessed (source: epidemiological studies; default values are provided)
data for population at risk (population distribution);
health data (the health effect in question, like mortality);
a concentration cut-off value for consideration.
For household (indoor air pollution), the user needs to provide the following input:
relative risk (RR) values;
data for population at risk;
health data;
percentage of solid fuels us.
A minimum working knowledge of epidemiological concepts, in particular exposure–response relationship, relative risk, attributable risk and life table calculations is required to run the software. AirQ+ includes default values users can use for running impact assessments.
Users
Users include students, scientists, environmental experts, decision-makers, planners, and policy analysts. Advanced users can customize runtime parameters to meet their needs.
Related software
Other online available software tools that calculate the impacts of air pollution have been developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency with its BenMAP.
References
External links
AirQ+ WHO Regional Office for Europe
Environmental monitorin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20and%20Reign | "Fire and Reign" is the ninth episode of the eighth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on November 7, 2018, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Asha Michelle Wilson, and directed by Jennifer Arnold.
Plot
Having made a deal with the Antichrist, Dinah Stevens breaks a protective spell that Cordelia placed on Miss Robichaux's Academy, letting Michael and Mead in. Together, they murder most of the witches, including Zoe, Queenie, and Bubbles, but Cordelia, Myrtle, and Mallory escape. Michael meets with Jeff and Mutt who present him with the Cooperative, an organization of elites who sold their souls to Satan in exchange for worldly gifts – formerly known as the Illuminati. They begin to devise plans for the end of the world and Ms. Venable is made the administrator of the Outpost 3.
Cordelia, Myrtle, Mallory, Madison, and Coco take refuge in Misty Day's shack. Cordelia fails to resurrect the murdered witches and Madison reveals that Michael has the capability to erase souls from existence. Myrtle reveals that there might be a way to bring the dead witches back via a time-travel spell known as tempus infinitum, but mentions that every attempt to perform such a feat resulted in death. Myrtle believes Mallory to possess such power, and asks her to travel back in time to save Anastasia Romanov from execution. Mallory successfully travels back in time, but is unable to save Anastasia.
Cordelia contemplates dying to let Mallory rise as the Supreme, and therefore secure success of the spell. Myrtle discourages her, certain that she has some fight left. The witches travel to California to seek aid from Behold and John Henry, only to find them and their students murdered (presumably by Langdon and Mead).
Michael meets with the Cooperative, and they begin to plan the Apocalypse.
Reception
"Fire and Reign" was watched by 1.65 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.8 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received mixed reviews. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Fire and Reign" holds a 53% approval rating, based on 17 reviews with an average rating of 6.90/10. The critical consensus reads: "Not even a pitch-perfect reference to Omen III could keep Apocalypse's penultimate episode from succumbing to the franchise's penchant for uneven pacing and meandering character arcs."
Ron Hogan of Den of Geek gave the episode a 3/5, saying, "Despite my issue with [the possibility of time travel], the episode itself has a lot of positives. The scenes with Mutt (Billy Eichner) and Jeff (Evan Peters) are broad, but they're a funny exaggeration of tech bro culture. The two actors have a solid delivery of big comedy lines, and they're a good counterbalance to the more unpleasant aspects of the episode. Billie Lourd is exceptional this week, and her screaming fit after being dragged from Tsarist Russia back to the present is powerful. She's in a full-fledged shrieking panic, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse%20Then | "Apocalypse Then" is the tenth and final episode of the eighth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on November 14, 2018, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk, and directed by Bradley Buecker.
Plot
Myrtle infiltrates Jeff and Mutt's lab, secures placements for Coco and her family at Outpost 3 after the Apocalypse, and kills both men. Cordelia casts spells on Coco and Mallory, so they can stay at the Outpost undetected by Michael until the point where Mallory's powers resurface and she is ready to perform tempus infinitum. to travel back in time and incapacitate Michael. Witches learn that the voodoo queen Dinah Stevens defected to Michael's side and swear revenge.
After the apocalypse; following the events of the witches' arrival at the Outpost, Dinah asserts her loyalty to Michael, but the former voodoo queen, Marie Laveau, released from Hell by Papa Legba in exchange for Dinah's more corrupted soul, kills Dinah. Cordelia destroys the android Miriam Mead which distracts Michael and enables Madison to shoot him dead.
Before Michael can resurrect, Cordelia and Myrtle take Mallory to a safe place to begin the spell, but Mallory is stabbed by Brock leaving her too weak to perform magic. Michael resurrects and goes on a killing spree, murdering Madison, Marie, and Coco. Realizing the gravity of their situation, Cordelia faces Michael and kills herself to let Mallory ascend as the Supreme and initiate the tempus infinitum spell.
Mallory arrives in 2015 and kills Michael while Constance Langdon watches and leaves him to die on the street, erasing the timeline of the Antichrist's rise to power.
Mallory arrives at the Robichaux's Academy and meets the other witches for the first time from their perspective. With the timeline altered, Myrtle remains dead and Madison remains in Hell (although Mallory says she will bring her back). Mallory also prevents Queenie from visiting Hotel Cortez, saving her life. Out of gratitude for dispatching Michael, Nan appears to escort Misty Day from Hell.
In 2020, Timothy and Emily, previously selected for their genetic potential in the erased timeline, meet and eventually have a child named Devon, who kills his nanny similar to Michael's first murder. Soon after that, Anton LaVey, Samantha Crowe, and Miriam Mead arrive to meet the new Antichrist.
Reception
"Apocalypse Then" was watched by 1.83 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.8 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received mostly positive reviews. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Apocalypse Then" holds a 79% approval rating, based on 24 reviews with an average rating of 8.30/10. The critical consensus reads, "Ryan Murphy goes full Ryan Murphy in "Apocalypse Then," barreling past two convoluted episodes of multiverse building to deliver a satisfying, batsh—t finale that lives up to its namesake."
Ron Hogan of Den of Geek gave the episod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie%20Edwards | Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards (born 1978) is a United States former senior official with the U.S. Department of the Treasury who was employed in the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Sarah Ellison of The Washington Post has called her "one of the most important whistleblowers of our era."
Edwards was arrested on October 16, 2018, for disclosing suspicious activity reports from October 2017 to October 2018 detailing Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election to a reporter with BuzzFeed News, which published the series "The Money Trail". The SARs included money transfers and information about Maria Butina, Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, the Russian Embassy in the United States, and a Russian firm, Prevezon Alexander, LLC., involved with money laundering.
The Wall Street Journal identified the BuzzFeed News reporter as Jason Leopold. Edwards allegedly sent Leopold internal FinCEN emails, investigative memos and intelligence assessments, and the two were in regular contact. The New York Times characterized Edwards' case as procedurally different from that of James Wolfe, even though both cases involved leaking to reporters.
Edwards pled guilty in 2020, with a maximum sentence of up to five years.
In June 2021, she was sentenced to serve six months in prison and three years of supervised release, a sentence on the higher end of the relevant federal sentencing guidelines. Throughout her sentencing hearing, Edwards maintained that she was acting as a whistleblower and that she did not disclose the suspicious activity report, with malicious intent. Her counsel argued that she had gone through whistleblower channels and disclosed information only after she had been the subject of retaliation and believed that disclosing the information to the media would "help the American people", while prosecutors argued that "there has never been any substantive evidence of her claims" that she went through the proper internal channels and that Edwards lacked remorse for her decision to leak confidential information.
Edwards left prison in January 2022.
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Living people
North Carolina Wesleyan University alumni
People associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
United States Customs Service personnel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muyinatu%20Bell | Muyinatu "Bisi" A. Lediju Bell is a researcher and faculty member. She is the John C. Malone Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is also the director of the Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Systems Engineering Laboratory.
She is has received Innovators Under 35 award, Sloan Research Fellowship and NSF CAREER Award.
Early life and education
Bell grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She decided she was going to be a scientist at the age of six. She attended Brooklyn Technical High School and was selected to take part in a math and science program for successful women sophomores. She studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 2006. She was involved in several societies, including the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Black Women's Alliance, the Black Student Union, and the Women's Technology Program. She joined Duke University for her postgraduate studies. Bell received a Whitaker Foundation International Fellowship to lead a research project at the Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital from 2009 to 2010.
In 2012, she finished her PhD and was also selected to take part in the University of Michigan NextProf workshop. Her graduate dissertation research was supported by a UNCF/Merck Graduate Dissertation Fellowship. Bell became a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, working in the centre for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology. Her postdoctoral appointment was supported by both UNCF/Merck and the Ford Foundation.
Career and research
Bell joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an interim assistant research professor. She works with the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics to develop systems that can control individual ultrasound and photoacoustic components. She is exploring various medical robots for treating and diagnosing medical conditions. She launched an online course, Introduction to Medical Imaging, on Udemy in 2015. That year she was awarded a National Institutes of Health K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award. This allowed her to evaluate coherence-based photoacoustic image guidance for transsphenoidal surgery. She holds a patent in short-lag spatial coherence beamforming, which can be used for photoacoustic image guidance of medical procedures such as skull base surgery or prostate brachytherapy. She provided a free MATLAB toolbox UltraSound Toolbox to help process ultrasonic signals. In 2016, she founded PULSE, the Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Systems Engineering Laboratory. She was included in the MIT Technology Review 2016 list of 35 Innovators Under 35.
Bell joined the faculty of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in January 2017. As an assistant professor, she was awarded a National Institutes of Health Trailblazer Award in 2018. The award uses machine learning to improve the qual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Kajganich | David Kajganich (born November 15, 1969) is an American screenwriter and producer. He has written several works in the horror genre, including the network series The Terror (2018) and the film Bones and All (2022). He has collaborated on three films with the Italian director Luca Guadagnino, A Bigger Splash (2015) and the horror films Suspiria (2018) and Bones and All (2022).
Early life
A native of Ohio, Kajganich graduated from a writer's workshop at the University of Iowa, and began teaching English at the university.
Career
While still living in Ohio, Kajganich was hired to adapt Heinrich Boll's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum for the screen, but the project fell through. He was subsequently hired to write the screenplay for The Invasion (2007), a reimagining of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. His following screenplay, initially titled Town Creek, was filmed in 2009 and released under the title Blood Creek, directed by Joel Schumacher. He subsequently wrote the screenplay for True Story (2015), a crime-drama starring Jonah Hill and James Franco, based on the Michael Finkel book of the same name.
Kajganich wrote the screenplay for Luca Guadagnino's 2015 remake, A Bigger Splash, a loose remake of the 1969 film La Piscine. He subsequently composed the screenplay for Guadagnino's remake of the horror film Suspiria.
Kajganich developed The Terror (2018), a television series based on the Dan Simmons novel of the same name. He served as co-showrunner alongside Soo Hugh for the show's first season. In 2016, Kajganich began co-writing a new adaptation of Stephen King's Pet Sematary, which was released in 2019. He was ultimately not credited on the film.
On April 8, 2019, it was announced that Kajganich would adapt Camille DeAngelis's novel Bones & All for the screen. The film, Bones and All, directed by Luca Guadagnino, premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2022.
Personal life
He is openly gay.
Filmography
References
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1969 births
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American television writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne%20B%C3%B8dker | Susanne Bødker is a Danish computer scientist known for her contributions to human–computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, and participatory design, including the introduction of activity theory to human–computer interaction. She is a professor of computer science at Aarhus University, and a member of the CHI Academy.
Bødker is the author of Through the Interface: A Human Activity Approach To User Interface Design (Taylor & Francis, 1990), based on her dissertation work in 1987. It discusses human-computer interaction, and the role of user interfaces from the perspective of activity theory. Human-computer interaction conducted in purposeful human work is in focus. It focuses on the idea that as a user, you do not simply operate on a computer application but operate through onto other objects/subjects.
Education
Bødker was a visiting researcher at Xerox PARC for 1982–1983.
She earned a Ph.D. at Aarhus University in 1987, with a dissertation Brugergrænseflader – hvordan skal vi forstå dem og deres brug, og hvordan skal vi designe dem supervised by Morten Kyng. Her PhD thesis was published by Erlbaum under the title "Through the interface-A human activity approach to user interface design". She completed her habilitation (Dr. Scient.) in 1999 at Aarhus; her habilitation thesis, Computer Applications as Mediators of Design and Use, with opponents Christiane Floyd and .
UTOPIA Project
Bødker was a researcher on the UTOPIA (in Danish, Uddannelse, teknik og produkt i arbejdskvalitetsperspektiv, which translates to training, technology and product in work quality perspective) Project from 1981 to 1985, which was initiated by the Nordic Graphic Union. Originally, the UTOPIA methodology sought to involve users in all aspects of design and development of technologies to be used in their jobs. With the subsequent advent of computer graphics workstations, UTOPIA's goal was to develop tools that leveraged and developed users’ existing graphics skills. Attempts to explain the emerging WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) technology to graphic workers were unsuccessful. The users, who were accustomed to using code, could not conceptualize how a system could work without code. In response to this exchange, the team implemented the use of low-fidelity prototypes to convey the concept and for design development. This important outcome of the project provided methods that are now integral in human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), consensus participation, contextual design, and cooperative inquiry. The concept of the UTOPIA project was heavily influenced by Kristen Nygaard. These efforts would lead to Bødker's later work in cooperative design and participatory design.
Awards
In 2008, the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication of the Association for Computing Machinery gave Bødker their Rigo Award for "lifetime contribution to the field of communication design". The award cited Bødker "for her |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Doctor%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Doctor Doctor (known as The Heart Guy outside of Australasia), an Australian drama television series, premiered on Nine Network on 16 August 2017.
Cast
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
Brittany Clark as Mia Halston
Charles Wu as Ken Liu
Steve Bisley as Jim Knight
Episodes
Reception
Ratings
Accolades
AACTA Awards (2017)
Nominated: AACTA Award for Best Lead in a Television Drama — Tina Bursill
Logie Awards (2018)
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 Popular Drama Program — Doctor Doctor
Nominated: Logie Award for Best Drama Program — Doctor Doctor
TV Tonight Awards (2018)
Nominated: TV Tonight Award for Best Australian Drama – Doctor Doctor
Nominated: TV Tonight Award for Favourite Male – Rodger Corser
Home media
International release
References
2017 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%20Messing | Solomon Messing is a researcher and data scientist known for his work on how algorithms and social information embedded in new technologies affect the way people understand the political world. He was the founding Director of Pew Research Center's Data Labs, was a research scientist with Facebook, and is currently chief scientist at Acronym.
Messing's work quantifying media polarization and filter bubbles was published in Science and has been influential in the field of political communication and sparked media commentary on the role of networks and algorithms in the media ecosystem. His work on how people understand election forecasting was the subject of public debate about the role of election forecasting in the democratic process and was cited by FiveThirtyEight's Politics Podcast as a reason for changing the forecast from percent change of winning to odds.
He also led the technical effort at Facebook to release perhaps the largest ever social media data set for research, which relied on a controversial technology, differential privacy, to protect data from malicious actors.
Messing earned his PhD in 2013 as well as a master's degree in Statistics from Stanford University.
Most cited peer-reviewed journal articles
Bakshy E, Messing S, Adamic LA. Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook. Science. 2015 Jun 5;348(6239):1130-2. cited 2441 times in Google Scholar
Messing S, Westwood SJ. Selective exposure in the age of social media: Endorsements trump partisan source affiliation when selecting news online. Communication Research. 2014 Dec;41(8):1042-63. cited 925 times in Google Scholar
Grimmer J, Messing S, Westwood SJ. How words and money cultivate a personal vote: The effect of legislator credit claiming on constituent credit allocation' American Political Science Review. 2012 Nov;106(4):703-19.cited 311 times in Google Scholar
Bond R, Messing S. Quantifying social media’s political space: Estimating ideology from publicly revealed preferences on Facebook. American Political Science Review. 2015 Feb;109(1):62-78. cited 182 times in Google Scholar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Software%20Exchange | The Software Exchange was a company that produced computer games in the late 1970s and early 1980s, primarily for the TRS-80. It has origins with SoftSide magazine.
Games
Atlantic Balloon Crossing (1979)
Dragon-Quest Adventure (1979)
Lost Dutchman's Gold (1979)
Star Trek III.4 (1979)
Westward 1847 (1979)
Invasion From Outer Space (1980)
The Mean Checkers Machine (1980)
Round the Horn (1980)
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriko%20H.%20Arai | Noriko H. Arai (, born 1962) is a Japanese researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence, known for her work on a project to develop robots that can pass the entrance examinations for the University of Tokyo. She is a professor in the information and society research division of the National Institute of Informatics.
Education and career
Arai was born in Tokyo. She earned a law degree from Hitotsubashi University and then, in 1985, a mathematics degree magna cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Her doctorate is from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
She joined the National Institute of Informatics in 2001.
Contributions
Arai's Todai Robot Project aims to build a robot that can pass the entrance examinations for the University of Tokyo (commonly known as Todai) by 2021.
Arai became director of the project in 2011.
At a 2017 TED Talk, she reported that her system could achieve a score better than 80% of the applicants to the university; however, this was still not a passing score.
Arai sees the success of the project as evidence that human education should concentrate more on problem solving and creativity, and less on rote learning.
Arai is also the founder of Researchmap, "the largest social network for researchers in Japan". She was one of 15 top artificial intelligence researchers invited by French president Emmanuel Macron to join him in March 2018 for the announcement of a major new French initiative for artificial intelligence research.
References
Further reading
External links
ResearchMap profile
1962 births
Living people
Japanese computer scientists
Japanese mathematicians
Japanese women computer scientists
Women mathematicians
Mathematical logicians
Women logicians
Artificial intelligence researchers
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Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni
University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20potato%20production | This is a list of countries by potato production from 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for potatoes in 2020 was 359,071,403 metric tonnes, up 1.2% from 354,812,093 tonnes in 2019. China was the largest producer, accounting for 21.8% of world production, followed by India at 14.3%. Dependent territories are shown in italics.
Production by country
>1,000,000 tonnes
100,000–1,000,000 tonnes
10,000–100,000 tonnes
<10,000 tonnes
Notes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%9Bra%20K%C5%AFrkov%C3%A1 | Věra Kůrková (born 1948) is a Czech mathematician and computer scientist, affiliated with the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include neural networks, computational learning theory, and nonlinear approximation theory. She formulated the abstract concept of a variational norm in
1997 which puts ideas of Maurey, Jones, and Barron into the context of functional analysis. See
V. Kůrková, Dimension-independent rates of approximation by neural networks.
In: Warwick, K., Karny, M. (eds.) Computer-Intensive Methods in Control
and Signal Processing. The Curse of Dimensionality, Birkhauser, Boston,
MA, pp. 261–270 (1997). See also F. Girosi and G. Anzellotti, Convergence rates of approximation by translates, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, AI Memo No. 1288, April 1995, C.B.I.P. Paper No. 73. Kůrková is also known for the concept of quasiorthogonal set which she developed jointly with Robert Hecht-Nielsen and Paul Kainen.
Kůrková earned a Ph.D. in 1980 and a habilitation in 1999, both from Charles University. She has been affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences since 1990, and she headed the Department of Theoretical Computer Science within the Institute of Computer Science from 2002 to 2008.
In 2010, the Czech Academy of Sciences awarded Kůrková the Bernard Bolzano Honorary Medal for Merit in the Mathematical Sciences.
, Kůrková is president of the European Neural Network Society. For recent work, see V. Kůrková, M. Sanguineti, Classification by sparse neural networks, IEEE Trans Neural Netw Learn Syst. 2019 Jan 10. doi: 10.1109/TNNLS.2018.2888517 [Epub ahead of print] and two chapters in the forthcoming Vladik Kreinovich Festschrift volume published by Springer.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Irkutsk | Trams in Irkutsk form the main surface transport network in Irkutsk, the capital of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. The tramway was founded in 1947 and currently operates 7 lines.
History
The first plans to create a tram system in Irkutsk appeared at the end of the 19th century, but initial plans to build a horsecar network were rejected by city authorities as too expensive and unreliable. The next iteration proposed an electric network, and the city government approved two lines, one crossing the Angara River and another bisecting the city north-south. However, implementation was stalled by the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Construction of the first line was started on July 5, 1945. According to the initial calculations of the designers, the tram system of the city was supposed to transport 44 million passengers annually (the average Irkutsk citizen makes 133 trips). Three routes were planned: 1) from the station to the tram depot on Krasnoyarskaya ul., 9.5 km long, the planned completion time of construction is 1947; 2) to the Leninsky district through the Irkutny bridge, 9 km long, the planned time for the end of construction is 1948; 3) through r. Ushakovka to the street. Barricade and st. Workers Headquarters, the planned completion time is 1950. There were plans to lay a tram track on Circum-Baikal Street. In 1950-1951, work was carried out on the construction of tram tracks. In 1952, the decision was revised and the dismantling of the tracks.
The construction was carried out using the “people's construction” method - daily, 24 urban enterprises allocated 300–800 people for construction. The construction involved Japanese prisoners of war.
1946 - On November 7, the first line of the tramway was commissioned. Due to the failure of the deadline, the opening was postponed to December 31, and then to 1947.
On August 3, 1947, route No. 1 “Station - Central Market” was launched (4 km one-track).
1948 - On September 12, six new trams from Leningrad entered the city highway. During the year of operation, the tram carried 2.5 million passengers.
1949 - at the end of May, the laying of second tracks began: from the railway station to ul. Stepan Razin, from Soviet Street. to the central market. By the end of the year, 5 km of tracks were laid. The total length of the route was 10 km. There are 14 trams in the park (most of them are from Leningrad). Received 8 cars: four from Leningrad and Chelyabinsk. The Leningrad trams were decorated with the inscriptions: "To workers from Irkutsk from Leningrad." For all the time of operation of the tram line (1947-1949), 11 million people were transported. The own overhaul of the cars started on August 1 - a tram came out on the route, which was repaired in the Irkutsk depot.
1950 - route number 2 "Station - Trampark." Started laying the way from the station to the Sverdlovsk market.
1952 - the passenger turnover of the Irkutsk tram was 17 million passengers a year.
1961 - Route number 1 is extended from the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Welling | Max Welling (born 1968) is a Dutch computer scientist in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam. In August 2017, the university spin-off Scyfer BV, co-founded by Welling, was acquired by Qualcomm. He has since then served as a Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm Netherlands. He is also currently the Lead Scientist of the new Microsoft Research Lab in Amsterdam.
Welling received his PhD in physics with a thesis on quantum gravity under the supervision of Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft (1998) at the Utrecht University. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles in machine learning, computer vision, statistics and physics, and has most notably invented variational autoencoders (VAEs), together with Diederik P Kingma.
References
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
Utrecht University alumni
Dutch computer scientists
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1968 births
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Microsoft people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heide%20Hackmann | Heide Hackmann is the Interim Director of the Future Africa Institute and Strategic Advisor on Transdisciplinary and Global Knowledge Networks at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Formerly, she served as the CEO of the International Science Council, an international organization of national and international science councils.
Early life
Hackmann studied contemporary social theory at the University of Cambridge, UK, and holds a PhD in science and technology studies from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Career
Hackmann worked as a science policy maker, researcher and consultant in the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and South Africa. She was Head of the Department of International Relations and Quality Assessment of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
From 2007 to 2015 Hackmann was Executive Director of the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and from 2015 to 2018 she was Executive Director of the International Council for Science (ICSU). These two organisations merged, in July 2018, to form the International Science Council, of which she is the current CEO.
Heide Hackmann co-chaired the Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM), UN group supporting the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. She is also a member of a number of international boards relating to science and sustainability. These include the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, and the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden.
References
External links
International Science Council - Heide Hackmann
Women chief executives
University of Twente alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KETE | KETE (99.7 FM; "Three Angels Broadcasting Network") is a terrestrial radio station, licensed to Sulphur Bluff, Texas, United States, and owned by Brazos TV, Inc.
KETE broadcasts a Christian preaching format, featuring programming from the Three Angels Broadcasting Network.
History
KETE received an initial License to Cover from the Federal Communications Commission on September 14, 2009. It was originally owned by La Ke Manda Broadcasting, and was sold to the current owner North Texas Radio Group, L.P. on January 11, 2012.
North Texas Radio Group, L.P. sold the facility to The Way Radio Group on August 11, 2014, with KETE becoming Christian Contemporary "99.7 Way-FM". North Texas Radio Group continued to lease their FM relay translator, 100.9 K265DW Mount Pleasant, Texas to The Way Radio Group in order to extend KETE's coverage area into Mount Pleasant, due to the facility's inability to provide the town city grade coverage itself.
On February 2, 2018, North Texas Radio Group L.P. re-acquired KETE from The Way Radio Group/Promise Radio Group. K265DW had been silent for nearly a year at the point of re-acquisition by North Texas Radio Group, and internal issues within The Way Radio Group led the company to sell the facility back to Dick Witkowski, who owns North Texas Radio Group.
The facility was silenced on March 21, 2018, and a construction permit has been granted to move KETE to a new broadcast tower site. While the facility will increase the height above average terrain to 113 meters, it will decrease ERP to 2.3 kilowatts. The facility had to return to broadcasting at either the currently licensed transmission site or under the new specifications listed in the construction permit granted by the Federal Communications Commission no later than March 21, 2019, or the license would have been revoked and deleted by Federal law. KETE returned to the air on March 19, 2019.
K265DW has also since resumed operations, changing its license to rebroadcast KPIT as its primary feed, although that facility has recently been sold to a new owner.
On October 10, 2019, North Texas Radio Group filed an application to transfer the license of KETE to Brazos TV Inc. for $122,500. A Time Brokerage Agreement took effect on October 10, with the station flipping to Three Angels Broadcasting Network, a Christian preaching and teaching format. The sale to Brazos TV was consummated on December 26, 2019.
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External links
ETE
Three Angels Broadcasting Network radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther%20Arkin | Esther M. (Estie) Arkin is an Israeli–American mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests include operations research, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization, and the design and analysis of algorithms. She is a professor of applied mathematics and statistics at Stony Brook University. At Stony Brook, she also directs the undergraduate program in applied mathematics and statistics,
and is an affiliated faculty member with the department of computer science.
Education and career
Arkin graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1981. She earned a master's degree at Stanford University in 1983, and completed her Ph.D. at Stanford in 1986. Her doctoral dissertation, Complexity of Cycle and Path Problems in Graphs, was supervised by Christos Papadimitriou.
After working as a visiting professor at Cornell University, she joined the Stony Brook faculty in 1991.
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Israeli women computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Tel Aviv University alumni
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
Stony Brook University faculty
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
21st-century American women scientists
20th-century American women scientists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20M.%20Davis | Ruth Margaret Davis (19 October 1928 – 28 March 2012, also known as Ruth Davis Lohr) was an American computer scientist and civil servant who was associated with several major US government research projects. She served as deputy undersecretary of defense for research and advance technology, as assistant secretary of energy for resource applications, and as chair of The Aerospace Corporation.
Life
Education and early life
Davis was born on October 19, 1928, in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania.
She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from American University in 1950, and then did graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, with summers working as a computer programmer at the National Bureau of Standards. She became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Maryland in 1955. Her dissertation, On a regular Cauchy problem for the Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation, was supervised by Alexander Weinstein.
After completing her Ph.D., she applied for a position at IBM, but was turned down because, at the time, they hired women only in secretarial positions. Instead, she worked as a lecturer at the University of Maryland from 1955 to 1957, and then from 1957 to 1958 at American University.
Government service
At that time, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was in search of computer programmers for his program to nuclearize the United States Navy, and unlike IBM, "didn’t care if you were yellow, purple, green, or had five arms". He hired Davis among half a dozen other women, and in his service she was the first to write computer code for nuclear reactors.
She worked as a research manager at the David Taylor Model Basin from 1958 to 1961, and elsewhere within the Defense Department from 1961 to 1965.
During this time she also wrote for the Journal of the Society for Information Display magazine and published several articles on military information display systems and served as Chair of the Society's Honors and Awards committee.
Next, she moved to the National Institutes of Health, where she became associate director for research at the United States National Library of Medicine, and director of the Lister Hill National Center For Biomedical Communications from 1967 to 1970.
She also worked in the National Bureau of Standards as director of the Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology, and at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. She became deputy undersecretary of defense for research and advance technology from 1977 to 1979, when president Jimmy Carter appointed her as assistant secretary of energy for resource applications.
During her government service, Davis was associated with several major research projects, including the MEDLINE online biomedical information system, satellite-based telemedicine, the Data Encryption Standard,
the VHSIC program for developing fast integrated circuits, and the development of directed-energy weapons.
Retirement and later life
Davis retired from government service i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Eros%20Now%20original%20programming | Eros Now is a subscription based over the top, video on-demand Indian entertainment and media platform, launched in 2012 by Eros International plc. The network offers media streaming and video-on-demand services.
Movies
Web series
Upcoming
Eros Now Quickie
Date Gone Wrong
Paise Fek Tamasha Dekh
The Investigation
Tumse Na Ho Payega
Other programs
Animated series
Genre-based series
Others
Eros Now Vibes
Bollywood Vines
Eros Now E-buzz
Eros Now Black and White (Original Interview Series)
Eros Now Lists
Feel Good
Eros Now Bollywood
References
External links
Eros Now official website
Complete List of Eros Now Originals & Eros Now Web Series
Eros Now original films
Eros Now |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Anthony | Lisa Anthony is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida. She is also the director of the Intelligent Natural Interaction Technology Laboratory (INIT Lab). Her research interests revolve around developing natural user interfaces to allow for greater human-computer interaction, specifically for children as they develop their cognitive and physical abilities.
Education
Lisa Anthony earned her B.S. and M.S. in computer science with official concentrations in artificial intelligence, human-computer Interaction, and software engineering at Drexel University. Her M.S. thesis involved using genetic programming to evolve board evaluation functions for the strategy board game Acquire. As a summer graduate intern, she worked on the Collaborative Exploratory Search project at the Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL).
In 2008, she earned her Ph.D. from the Human Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on developing handwriting-based systems for algebra equation-solving.
Career
Anthony was also a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, then a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She worked on advanced user interface technologies as a senior member of the engineering staff at the User-Centered Interfaces Group at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories. She is an currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at University of Florida.
Awards and honors
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2016-2020
HWCOE Undergraduate Faculty Adviser/Mentor of the Year, 2017-2018
Special Recognition for Exceptional Reviewing, ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2014
Best of 2013, ACM Computing Reviews, 2013
Best Paper Award, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2013
Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2012
Selected publications
Journal Articles
Book Chapters
Anthony, L., Sharma, K., Stibler, K., Regli, S.H., Tremoulet, P. D., Gilbertson, D.G., and Gerhardt, R.T. 2010. Enabling Pre-Hospital Documentation via Spoken Language Understanding on the Modern Battlefield. In Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare (Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Human Factors & Ergonomics - AHFE’2010), ed. V.G. Duffy, CRC Press, p. 642-651
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women scientists
American women computer scientists
Drexel University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Florida faculty
Lockheed Martin people
University of Maryland, Baltimore County faculty
American computer scientists
21st-century American scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20L.%20Mitchell | Joan Laverne Mitchell (May 24, 1947 – December 2, 2015) was an American computer scientist, data compression pioneer, and inventor who, as a researcher at IBM, co-invented the JPEG digital image format.
Early life
Mitchell was born on May 24, 1947, in Modesto, California. Mitchell's father was William Mitchell and her mother was Doris Mitchell.
Education
Mitchell was a National Merit Scholar at Stanford University, where her work included an independent study project on Brillouin scattering in bromine. In 1969, Mitchell graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Stanford University with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa. She followed in the footsteps of her grandmother, Eulalia Richardson Mitchell, who also earned Stanford physics degrees in 1910 and 1912.
Mitchell went on to graduate study in condensed matter physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and earned a master's degree in 1971 and a Ph.D. in 1974 there. As part of her Ph.D. work, she also learned computer programming, so that she could use a computer to solve the differential equations arising in her research. Her dissertation, Effect of heterovalent impurities co-diffusing with monovalent tracers in ionic crystals, was supervised by David Lazarus.
Career and later life
Mitchell began working at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1974, in the Exploratory Printing Technologies Group. There, her inventions included a method for ultrasonic printing, a method for thermal-transfer printing later used in some models of the IBM Selectric typewriter, data compression for fax machines, a teleconferencing system, and the Q-coder method for arithmetic coding used in JBIG image compression. From 1987 to 1994, Mitchell helped develop the JPEG standard, and she became a co-author with Bill Pennebaker of the first book on the standard.
Gregory K. Wallace, another member of the group, remembers Mitchell and Pennebaker as "two of the most insightful, energetic, and prolific members" of the Joint Photographic Experts Group.
During the mid-1990s Mitchell moved from the Watson Research Center to a different IBM group in Vermont and then (after a short leave as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois) to IBM's Printing Systems Division in Colorado.
In 2007 IBM sold their Printing Systems Division to Ricoh, and Mitchell went with them to the resulting joint venture, InfoPrint Solutions. She retired in 2009, and died on December 2, 2015.
Recognition
Mitchell became an IEEE Fellow in 1999 "for contributions to the development of international image compression standards", an IBM Fellow in 2001, and, in 2004, a member of the National Academy of Engineering "for leadership in setting standards for the formation of photographic fax and image compression". She was the 2011 winner of the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award,
and is listed in the Hall of Fame of distinguished alumni of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Books
Mitchell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Gelobter | Lisa Gelobter (born 1971) is a computer scientist, technologist and chief executive. She was the Chief Digital Service Officer for the United States Department of Education.
In 2006, Gelobter founded and took on the role of Chief Executive Officer of tEQuitable, a start-up that provides an independent and confidential platform to address issues of bias, harassment, and discrimination in the workplace. She raised more than $2 million for tEQuitable, becoming one of the only thirty-four Black women to ever raise $1 million or more in venture capital.
Personal life
Her father was a Polish Jew, and her mother was Afro-Caribbean. She graduated from Brown University in 1991 at the age of 20 with a computer science degree with a concentration in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Career
Gelobter has an expansive background in strategy development, business operations, user-centered design, product management, and engineering.
She served as Chief Digital Service Officer for the United States Department of Education during the Presidency of Barack Obama. In the position, she helped to improve HealthCare.gov, reducing the number of individual pages and overall application time. She led the team that built the United States Department of Education College Scorecard, which helped college students make sensible choices about college investments. She is on the advisory board of Bridge Foundry.
Prior to public service, Gelobter was the Chief Digital Officer for BET Networks and was a member of the senior management team for the launch of Hulu. She also worked on Shockwave, a multimedia platform used for video games. She was instrumental in the creation of Shockwave and oversaw the product release cycle for Shockwave, coded ActiveX control for the player, coordinated the engineering transition among many other things.
In 2016, Gelobter founded tEquitable, an independent, confidential platform to address issues of bias, discrimination and harassment in the workplace. She raised more than $2 million for the platform.
She is also a former member of the New York Urban League STEM Advisory Board. and was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People.
References
1971 births
Living people
Internet pioneers
American women chief executives
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Women Internet pioneers
Brown University alumni
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idols%20South%20Africa%20%28season%2014%29 | The fourteenth season of South African Idols premiered on July 8, 2018, on the Mzansi Magic television network. ProVerb continued his role as the show's host and an executive producer while Somizi Mhlongo, Unathi Nkayi and Randall Abrahams also remained as the main judges, with guest judges at each audition city.
Auditions
Auditions began in January and ended in March.
Finalists
Weekly Song Choice and Result
Top 16
Boys (2 September)
Girls (9 September)
Top 10 (16 September)
Top 9: The 90s (23 September)
Top 8 - Orchestral Delight (30 September)
Top 7: Showstopper (7 October)
Top 6: Celebration of South African Music (14 October)
Top 5 (21 October)
Top 4 (28 October)
Top 3: Semi-Final (4 November)
Before the Top 3 were announced, King B also got to duet with Mmatema Moremi they performed Smother by Craig Lucas & Paxton
Top 2: Final (11 November)
Before her elimination Thando performed her debut single "Wasting Time".
Elimination Chart
Colour key
References
Idols South Africa Website
TVSA Idols Page
Idols South Africa Fan Website
Season 14
2018 South African television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catlett%20%28surname%29 | Catlett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Buddy Catlett (1933–2014), American jazz saxophonist
Charlie Catlett (born 1960), American computer scientist
Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012), African-American graphic artist and sculptor
Gale Catlett (born 1940), American basketball coach
George Catlett Marshall Jr. (1880–1959), American statesman and soldier
John Catlett, American politician
Juan Mora Catlett (born 1939), Mexican film and documentary director
Kyle Catlett (born 2002), American actor
Mary Jo Catlett (born 1938), American actress and comedian
Sid Catlett (1910–1951), American jazz drummer
Walter Catlett (1889–1960), American actor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnendu%20Chatterjee | Krishnendu Chatterjee (Bengali: কৃষ্ণেন্দু চ্যাটার্জী) is an Indian computer scientist who is currently a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). He is known for his contributions to theoretical computer science, especially in algorithmic game theory, evolutionary game theory, logics and automata theory.
Education
Chatterjee obtained his BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He gained his MSc and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral advisor was Thomas Henzinger.
Career
He obtained his PhD in 2007 and later moved to UC Santa Cruz for a postdoc. He then joined ISTA in 2009 as an assistant professor and was promoted to professor in 2014. In his research, he studies graph games with omega-regular and quantitative objectives, especially variants with probabilistic moves, multiple objectives, and/or partial information. Recently, he has also been applying computational methods to evolutionary game theory. He has described the computational complexity of various evolutionary processes, and he has extended models of direct and indirect reciprocity.
Awards and honors
2001: President of India Gold Medal
2008: EACSL Ackermann Award
2008: David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize
2011: ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council
2020: ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council
References
1978 births
Living people
Indian academics
Indian computer scientists
IIT Kharagpur alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edoardo%20Airoldi | Edoardo Maria Airoldi is the Millard E. Gladfelter Professor of Statistics and Data Science in the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Prior to fall 2018 he was an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University, where he founded and directed the Harvard Laboratory for Applied Statistics & Data Science, until spring 2017. Additionally, he held visiting positions at MIT and Yale University. His work is primarily in statistics and machine learning.
Recognition
Airoldi was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2019, and as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.
References
External links
Edoardo M Airoldi profile at Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Edoardo M Airoldi profile at Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Edoardo M Airoldi profile at Fox School of Business and Management
1974 births
Bocconi University alumni
Living people
American statisticians
Harvard University faculty
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Temple University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Mathematical statisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachid%20Guerraoui | Rachid Guerraoui (born January 5, 1967) is a Moroccan-Swiss computer scientist and a professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), known for his contributions in the fields of concurrent and distributed computing. He is an ACM Fellow and the Chair in Informatics and Computational Science for the year 2018–2019 at Collège de France for distributed computing.
Education and career
Rachid was born on January 5, 1967, in Rabat, Morocco. His father, Mohammed Guerraoui, is a teacher of mathematics and former wali (governor) of Marrakesh. His mother, Fatima Rahmoun-Guerraoui, is a teacher of French. After getting his baccalaureate in 1984, he left Morocco for France.
Guerraoui received his PhD from the University of Orsay (1992) and has been affiliated with Ecole des Mines of Paris, the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique of Saclay, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an associate (area) editor of the Journal of the ACM and is the co-author of several books, including "Algorithms for Concurrent Systems", "Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming" and "Principles of Transactional Memory". He won an ERC Advanced Grant Award (2013) and the Google Focused Award (2014).
With his co-workers, Guerraoui received Best Paper Awards at the following scientific conferences: ACM Middleware (2016, 2014, 2012), ICDCN (2011), Eurosys (2010), DISC (2010) and OPODIS (2006). He also received the 10-Year Best Paper Award at Middleware 2014,
Beyond his scientific and academic work, Guerraoui works on the popularization of computer science. He co-initiated the Wandida teaching project on YouTube, a library of 300+ videos on computer science and mathematics with 2.5 million views and over 25 thousand subscribers, as well as the Zettabytes education project, a library of videos related to introducing major computer science discoveries and open problems to the general public.
Rachid maintains strong ties to Morocco through his participation in the public debate and the Moroccan political life. In December 2019, he was appointed by King Mohammed VI as a member of the Special Committee on Model of Development.
Focal research areas and main publications
Guerraoui worked on establishing theoretical foundations of Transactional Memory (TM). He co-defined a concept he called opacity, used for establishing correctness of TMs. On the practical side, he co-devised elastic transactions and co-designed SwissTM, a throughput-efficient software transactional memory (STM) as well as a benchmark for TM systems, STMBench7.
Earlier, Guerraoui studied scalable information dissemination methods. His paper on lightweight epidemic broadcast was the first to consider the partial and/or out-of-sync views of different processes in a gossip-based distributed system. This paper, together with Guerraoui's paper on the underlying membership service, gained over 1250 c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Pagli | Linda Pagli (born 1950) is an Italian computer scientist specializing in computer networks and distributed algorithms. She is a professor at the University of Pisa, and a Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. She has also worked with UNESCO and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help spread expertise in computer science to developing countries.
Education and career
Pagli was born in Livorno, and earned a laurea from the University of Pisa in 1973. She remained at Pisa as a researcher until 1987, when she obtained a full professorship at the University of Salerno, and returned to Pisa as a professor in 1990.
Books
Pagli is the author of the text Mathematical and Algorithmic Foundations of the Internet (with Fabrizio Luccio and Graham Steel, CRC Press, 2011). She is also the author of several Italian-language books, including:
Reti logiche e calcolatore (with Luccio, Bollati Boringhieri, 1991)
Storia matematica della rete: dagli antichi codici all'era di internet (Mathematical history of the network: from the ancient codes to the Internet age, with Luccio, Bollati Boringhieri, 2007)
Algoritmi, divinità e gente comune (with Luccio, ETS, 2012)
Problemi, algoritmi e coding. Le magie dell'informatica (with Pierluigi Crescenzi, Zanichelli, 2017).
Her book Storia matematica della rete was a finalist for the in 2008.
References
External links
Home page
1950 births
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Italian women computer scientists
University of Pisa alumni
Academic staff of the University of Salerno
Academic staff of the University of Pisa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism%20in%20Guadeloupe | Hinduism is a minority religion in Guadeloupe, followed by some Indo-Guadeloupeans. According to a statistics data, Hinduism is practised by 0.5% of the people in Guadeloupe.
Temples
There are a sizeable number of Hindu Tamil temples that are located in Basse-Terre, and other regions. There is a Hindu temple in dravidian style in Changy in Basse Terre and another one in Gaschet in Grande-Terre
Demographics
Although the Indo-Guadeloupeans constitute about 14% of the Guadeloupe, only some of them are still Hindus. Most of the Indo-Guadelopeans are Catholics, but they also worship Hindu gods. Ernest Moutoussamy, first Indo-Guadelopean member of the French Parliament said in an interview that "Though we are Catholics, we still have images of Hindu gods at home. We celebrate all the Christian festivals but we don’t celebrate Deepavali."
Revival
Revival of Hinduism happened in the last few decades. Many associations for the promotion of Hinduism and Indian culture have appeared during the 90's. The Institut du Monde Indien (Institute for the study of the Indian world) was begun by Jacques Sidambarom, Jean-Claude Petapermal and Roland Gopy to resuscitate Hindu rituals and connect Hindus in Trinidad and Tobago, Reunion, Pondicherry and Paris. Temples were also constructed as a part of it. Hindu religious rituals were also reactivated. Hindu festivals like Diwali and Pongal were also started celebrating.
See also
Hinduism in Martinique
Hinduism in Réunion
Hinduism in France
References
Religion in Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeScene | CodeScene is a behavioral code analysis tool developed by Empear AB. CodeScene provides code visualizations based on version-control data and machine learning algorithms that identify social patterns and hidden risks in code.
CodeScene detects hotspots—complex code that an organization has to work with frequently—and prioritizes technical debt based on how the developers work with the code.
History
CodeScene is based on the ideas from the book Your Code As A Crime Scene: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs by Empear's founder Adam Tornhill.
The first version of CodeScene was released in 2016, and the current version is 4.0 which comes with auto-generated PDF reports, architectural code health metrics, quality gates for build pipelines, and can put costs on hotspots.
In January of 2021, CodeScene raised from Inventure and Luminar to expand its business.
Overview
CodeScene includes support for the following programming languages:
C, C++, C#, Java, Groovy, JavaScript, TypeScript, Objective-C, Scala, Python, Swift, Go, Kotlin, Visual Basic .Net, PHP, Perl, Dart, Erlang and Ruby.
The Software as a service version of CodeScene is available for free for open source projects. CodeScene is also available in an on-premise version that includes more advanced features like continuous integration support, Jira integration for cost calculations, and on- and off-boarding simulations.
Reception
CodeScene was featured on the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar as a social code analysis tool.
In a University of Victoria report, CodeScene was found to find more significant technical debt issues than SonarQube, a static analysis tool.
CodeScene users report that CodeScene is "The right way to manage technical debt", "A new standard for quality assurance", and provides "Insights like never seen before".
CodeScene's free version is used to visualize the case studies in Adam Tornhill's book Software Design X-Rays: Fix Technical Debt with Behavioral Code Analysis.
References
External links
CodeScene
CodeScene Cloud
Static program analysis tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20e%21DAL%20Plant%20Phenomics%20and%20Genomics%20Research%20Data%20Repository | The Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP) is a data publication infrastructure to comprehensively publish multi-domain plant research data. It is hosted at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany. The repository hosts DOI citeable datasets that are not being published in public repositories because of their volume or data scope. PGP enables the publication of gigabyte-scale datasets and is registered as a research data repository at FAIRSharing.org, re3data.org and OpenAIRE as a valid EU Horizon 2020 open data archive. The above features, the programmatic interface and the support of standard metadata formats, enable PGP to fulfil the FAIR data principles—findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable. The PGP repository was created using the e!DAL software infrastructure and applies an on-premises approach to "bring the infrastructure to the data" (I2D).
Data Content
All submitted and approved data are hosted at IPK Gatersleben and are stably citable in the long-term by a DOI. All datasets are linked in ORCID and indexed by all major web search engines. The PGP repository is accepted by data journals such as GigaScience and Nature Scientific Data as a recommended data repository. All published datasets may be explored in the PGP data report application or retrieved using the DataCite search web application.
Data Submission
The PGP repository accepts submissions from the European plant science community. The web-based submission tool for small datasets and Java desktop submission tool for gigabyte scale datasets use the ELIXIR Authentication and authorization infrastructure (AAI). A review process ensures the technical quality of data submissions.
German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI)
The PGP repository is a part of the service portfolio of the German Crop BioGreenformatics Network (GCBN) node of the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure.
References
External links
official repository website
official e!DAL website
official website of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
Life sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%20Flay%27s%20Barbecue%20Addiction | Bobby Flay's Barbecue Addiction (also known in its fourth season as Barbecue Addiction: Bobby's Basics) is an American cooking television series that aired on Food Network. Presented by chef Bobby Flay, it showcased recipes based upon different outdoor grilling techniques. The series premiered on June 5, 2011, and concluded on September 14, 2014, after four seasons.
In a May 2011 interview with LA Weekly, Flay contrasted Barbecue Addiction with other cooking shows such as Iron Chef, and noted that each episode has a particular theme. In 2012, Bobby Flay's Barbecue Addiction won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program. In April 2013, Flay's book by the same title was published by Crown Publishing imprint Clarkson Potter.
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2013)
Season 4 (2014)
References
External links
Rock Shrimp Productions
2010s American cooking television series
2011 American television series debuts
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program winners
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Food reality television series
Television series by Rock Shrimp Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20Pictures | Electric Pictures is an Australian-based television production company which develops and produces factual television programs for various international networks. The company is based in Perth, Western Australia and was founded by Andrew Ogilvie who also acts as CEO. A subsidiary company, EP Independent, distributes Electric Pictures programming.
Among the notable series produced by Electric Pictures include Drain the Oceans for National Geographic, Aussie Gold Hunters for Discovery Channel, and The War That Changed Us for the ABC.
References
External links
Television production companies of Australia
Companies based in Perth, Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrat%20Boix | Montserrat Boix Piqué (born 26 January 1960) is a Spanish journalist, considered among the most influential women in her country. In early 2000, she created and developed the concepts of social cyberfeminism, and a year later those of feminist hacktivism. Another of her main areas of work is gender violence and communication. She has also stood out as a defender of the right to communication and citizenship rights for women. Since 1986, she has been a journalist for the Information Services of Televisión Española (TVE), in the international section.
Biography and career
Montserrat Boix holds a licentiate in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
In the early 1980s she began her professional career at in Barcelona. She later moved to Madrid to join the program Encarna de noche, directed by Encarna Sánchez on COPE Madrid. In 1983 she worked on the production of TV3's year-end special directed by Abili Roma. In 1986 she joined TVE's information services, specializing in foreign policy issues and the Arab world, Maghreb, Sahel, and Islamic movements, and jihadist terrorism. She was a special correspondent in Algeria in the early 1990s, covering information about massacres by the GIA and the country's civil war, in Sahrawi refugee camps, Morocco, Egypt, Afghanistan, Guatemala, and Bangladesh.
In addition to the practice of journalism, she is a professor in Master's programs on equality, technology, communication, and development with a gender perspective at various universities, including the International University of Andalucía and the University of the Basque Country. She researches, in turn, how technologies serve as a tool for a new, more immediate, global, and democratized journalism. She works transversally on gender perspective and has received several awards for her work on more egalitarian journalism, among them the Recognition Award for most outstanding journalistic work in the eradication of gender violence granted by the General Council of the Judiciary's Observatory Against Domestic and Gender Violence (2005), the for her effort and perseverance in making Mujeres en Red one of the media of reference in the defense of women's rights (2009), and the Non-Sexist Communication Award from the Association of Women Journalists of Catalonia (2015).
Social cyberfeminism
In 2002, Boix published "Los géneros de la red: los ciberfeminismos" with feminist philosopher Ana de Miguel in the book The role of humanity in the information age. A Latin Perspective, published by the University of Chile. This was the first work to articulate the concept of "social cyberfeminism".
In November 2006, in the publication Labrys no. 10, she poses the concept of feminist hacktivism in the essay "Hackeando el patriarcado: La lucha contra la violencia hacia las mujeres como nexo. Filosofía y práctica de Mujeres en Red desde el ciberfeminismo socia" (Hacking the Patriarchy: The Struggle Against Violence Against Women as a Nexus. Philosop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex%20k-center%20problem | The vertex k-center problem is a classical NP-hard problem in computer science. It has application in facility location and clustering. Basically, the vertex k-center problem models the following real problem: given a city with facilities, find the best facilities where to build fire stations. Since firemen must attend any emergency as quickly as possible, the distance from the farthest facility to its nearest fire station has to be as small as possible. In other words, the position of the fire stations must be such that every possible fire is attended as quickly as possible.
Formal definition
The vertex k-center problem is a classical NP-Hard problem in computer science. It was first proposed by Hakimi in 1964. Formally, the vertex k-center problem consists in: given a complete undirected graph in a metric space, and a positive integer , find a subset such that and the objective function is minimized. The distance is defined as the distance from the vertex to its nearest center in .
Approximation algorithms
If , the vertex k-center problem can not be (optimally) solved in polynomial time. However, there are some polynomial time approximation algorithms that get near-optimal solutions. Specifically, 2-approximated solutions. Actually, if the best possible solution that can be achieved by a polynomial time algorithm is a 2-approximated one. In the context of a minimization problem, such as the vertex k-center problem, a 2-approximated solution is any solution such that , where is the size of an optimal solution. An algorithm that guarantees to generate 2-approximated solutions is known as a 2-approximation algorithm. The main 2-approximated algorithms for the vertex k-center problem reported in the literature are the Sh algorithm, the HS algorithm, and the Gon algorithm. Even though these algorithms are the (polynomial) best possible ones, their performance on most benchmark datasets is very deficient. Because of this, many heuristics and metaheuristics have been developed through the time. Contrary to common sense, one of the most practical (polynomial) heuristics for the vertex k-center problem is based on the CDS algorithm, which is a 3-approximation algorithm
The Sh algorithm
Formally characterized by David Shmoys in 1995, the Sh algorithm takes as input a complete undirected graph , a positive integer , and an assumption on what the optimal solution size is. The Sh algorithm works as follows: selects the first center at random. So far, the solution consists of only one vertex, . Next, selects center at random from the set containing all the vertices whose distance from is greater than . At this point, . Finally, selects the remaining centers the same way was selected. The complexity of the Sh algorithm is , where is the number of vertices.
The HS algorithm
Proposed by Dorit Hochbaum and David Shmoys in 1985, the HS algorithm takes the Sh algorithm as basis. By noticing that the value of must equals the c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Squad | Z-Squad (, The Fairies of Crystals Z-Squad) is a computer-animated television series created by Enemes and Nelvana.
Plot
Z-Squad chronicles the adventures of three ordinary school girls turned super heroines and their newfound, cuddly alien counterparts, the Zoots, as they search for enchanted crystals to save the Earth and Z-Nation from a cast of bumbling baddies. It is aimed at kids aged 6 to 9 and there are 26 x 24-minute episodes available. Girls will cheer the competitive-spirited heroines; boys will back the sarcastic schoolboys called the Drop Dead Gorgeous Three (the DDG3), as well as the powerful Prince Aramis and the wise King Woolaf.
Characters
Main characters
Chaney (; voiced by Chung Misook () in the Korean version, and Alyson Court in the English version) is the first member of the Z-Squad with red hair with yellow, pink, and orange streaks that is tied up with two pigtails, white sun visor hat with a yellow trim and a pink star, and red eyes (yellow in the pilot).
Her theme colors are red and yellow. She is represented by stars with her alien counterpart, Zora, the red Zoot of Courage.
Haemi (; voiced by Eun Yeong Seon () in the Korean version, and Sunday Muse in the English version) is the second member of the Z-Squad with short rose hair that is tied up in a blue headband with a ribbon, and rose eyes.
Her theme colors are pink and blue. She is represented by hearts with her alien counterpart, Zef, the pink Zoot of Love.
Jeanie (; voiced by Park Youngnam () in the Korean version, and Ashley Botting in the English version) is the third and final member of the Z-Squad with green hair that is clipped up in a yellow hair clip, and turquoise blue eyes (formerly green in the pilot) with rose round glasses (red in the pilot).
Her theme colors are green and yellow. She is represented by four-leaf clovers with her alien counterpart, Zuma, the green Zoot of Hope.
Minor characters
Jinu (; voiced by Kang Soo-jin () in the Korean version, and Zachary Bennett in the English version)
Cal (; voiced by Kim Youngsun () in the Korean version, and Tyrone Savage in the English version)
Tae-o (; voiced by Son Jeong Ah () in the Korean version, and Lyon Smith in the English version)
Bernice (; voiced by Choi Moon-ja () in the Korean version, and Emilie-Claire Barlow in the English version)
Aramis (; voiced by Son Jeong-ah () in the Korean version, and Noah Cappe in the English version)
Woolaf (; voiced by Yoo Dong-kyun () in the Korean version, and Dwayne Hill in the English version)
Bakoo (; voiced by Noh Min () in the Korean version, and Martin Roach in the English version)
Grindel (; voiced by Choi Moon-ja () in the Korean version, and Melissa Altro in the English version)
Production
The series' unique blend of traditional 2D anime design with 3D cel shading has earned many awards, including the prestigious Grand Prix Award at KOCCA's Star Project Competition in South Korea.
Episodes
Broadcast
Z-Squad first aired in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garsia%E2%80%93Wachs%20algorithm | The Garsia–Wachs algorithm is an efficient method for computers to construct optimal binary search trees and alphabetic Huffman codes, in linearithmic time. It is named after Adriano Garsia and Michelle L. Wachs.
Problem description
The input to the problem, for an integer , consists of a sequence of non-negative weights . The output is a rooted binary tree with internal nodes, each having exactly two children. Such a tree has exactly leaf nodes, which can be identified (in the order given by the binary tree) with the input weights.
The goal of the problem is to find a tree, among all of the possible trees with internal nodes, that minimizes the weighted sum of the external path lengths. These path lengths are the numbers of steps from the root to each leaf. They are multiplied by the weight of the leaf and then summed to give the quality of the overall tree.
This problem can be interpreted as a problem of constructing a binary search tree
for ordered keys, with the assumption that the tree will be used only to search for values that are not already in the tree. In this case, the keys partition the space of search values into intervals, and the weight of one of these intervals can be taken as the probability of searching for a value that lands in that interval. The weighted sum of external path lengths controls the expected time for searching the tree.
Alternatively, the output of the problem can be used as a Huffman code, a method for encoding given values unambiguously by using variable-length sequences of binary values. In this interpretation, the code for a value is given by the sequence of left and right steps from a parent to the child on the path from the root to a leaf in the tree (e.g. with 0 for left and 1 for right). Unlike standard Huffman codes, the ones constructed in this way are alphabetical, meaning that the sorted order of these binary codes is the same as the input ordering of the values. If the weight of a value is its frequency in a message to be encoded, then the output of the Garsia–Wachs algorithm is the alphabetical Huffman code that compresses the message to the shortest possible length.
Algorithm
Overall, the algorithm consists of three phases:
Build a binary tree having the values as leaves but possibly in the wrong order.
Compute each leaf's distance from the root in the resulting tree.
Build another binary tree with the leaves at the same distances but in the correct order.
The first phase of the algorithm is easier to describe if the input is augmented with two sentinel values, (or any sufficiently large finite value) at the start and end of the sequence.
The first phase maintains a forest of trees, initially a single-node tree for each non-sentinel input weight, which will eventually become the binary tree that it constructs. Each tree is associated with a value, the sum of the weights of its leaves
makes a tree node for each non-sentinel input weight. The algorithm maintains a sequence of these |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20O%27Keefe | Christine Margaret O'Keefe is an Australian mathematician and computer scientist whose research has included work in finite geometry, information security, and data privacy. She is a researcher at CSIRO, and was the lead author of a 2017 report from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner on best practices for de-identification of personally identifying data.
Education and career
O'Keefe has a bachelor's degree from the University of Adelaide, initially intending to study medicine but earning first-class honours in mathematics there in 1982. She returned to Adelaide for doctoral study in 1985, and completed her Ph.D. in 1988. Her dissertation, Concerning -spreads of , was supervised by Rey Casse.
She was a lecturer and research fellow at the University of Western Australia from 1999 to 2001, when she returned to the University of Adelaide. At Adelaide, she worked as a lecturer, senior lecturer, Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, and senior research fellow.
Her research interests shifted from finite geometry to information security and to effect that shift she moved in 2000 from Adelaide to CSIRO.
At CSIRO, she founded the Information Security and Privacy Group in 2002, became head of the Health Informatics Group in 2004, became Theme Leader for Health Data and Information in 2006, and Strategic Operations Director for Preventative Health National Research in 2008.
While doing this, she studied for an MBA at Australian National University, finishing in 2008. She became Director of the Population Health Research Network Centre and Professor of Health Sciences at Curtin University from 2009 to 2010 before returning to CSIRO as Science Leader for Privacy and Confidentiality in the CSIRO Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics.
Recognition
O'Keefe has been a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications since 1991.
In 1996, O'Keefe won the Hall Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications for her work in finite geometry. She won the Australian Mathematical Society Medal in 2000, the first woman to win the medal, and in the same year became a Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society. Although the Medal citation primarily discussed O'Keefe's work in finite geometry, such as the discovery of new hyperovals, it included a paragraph on her research using geometry in secret sharing, a precursor to her later work on information security.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian mathematicians
Australian computer scientists
Women mathematicians
Australian women computer scientists
Computer security specialists
University of Adelaide alumni
Australian National University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Western Australia
Academic staff of the University of Adelaide
Academic staff of Curtin University
CSIRO people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayellet%20Tal | Ayellet Tal (born 1962) is an Israeli researcher in computational geometry and computer graphics who holds the Alfred and Marion Bar Chair in Engineering at the Technion.
Research
Tal's research interests include computational geometry, computer graphics, geometric modeling, and geometry processing. She has also studied the applications of computer vision to archaeology.
Education and career
Tal has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. in 1995 in computer science from Princeton University. Her dissertation, Animation and Visualization of Geometric Algorithms, was supervised by David P. Dobkin.
She is a professor of electrical engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and holds the Alfred and Marion Bar Chair in Engineering at the Technion. At the Technion, she is also the advisor for the advancement of women in science and engineering at the university.
Recognition
Tal was a keynote speaker at Computer Graphics International 2015.
References
External links
Home page
Listing of Tal's students
1962 births
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Tel Aviv University alumni
Princeton University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syamaprasad%20Institute%20of%20Technology%20%26%20Management | Syamaprasad Institute of Technology & Management abbreviated as SITM is a private institution in Kolkata, West Bengal, India which offers undergraduate degree course in Bachelor of Computer Application and Bachelor of Business Administration. The college is affiliated to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT) since its inception.
Departments
It was established in 2002 and offers admission to the following branch:
Bachelor of Computer Application
Bachelor of Business Administration
References
Engineering colleges in West Bengal
Universities and colleges in Kolkata
Colleges affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology
Educational institutions established in 2002
2002 establishments in West Bengal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLDB | VLDB may refer to:
Very large databases
VLDB conference, an annual database conference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse%20railway%20network | The Toulouse railway network is a railway network in Toulouse metropolitan area in France. Created in 1856, with the opening of the Matabiau station (now Toulouse main station), it has six lines, or eight branches, arranged more or less in a star shape.
It is operated and managed by SNCF and serves 27 stations, including 12 inside the city of Toulouse.
History
1856 : First train station, Toulouse-Matabiau, is opened.
1993 : Line C of railway network is opened with line A of Toulouse Metro.
2003 : Line C is partially doubled and 3 stations are added.
2007 : Saint-Agne station in line D become a transfer station with new line B of metro.
2009 : Gallieni-Cancéropôle station is opened. It was originally meant to be part of line C but was not finally included.
2011 - 2013 : Line 1 of TER (to Saint-Sulpice) is doubled.
Network
The star shape
The Toulouse railway network is roughly star-shaped. The structuring axis is the Bordeaux–Sète line, which crosses the agglomeration in a north-west - south-east orientation, following on a part of the route the Canal du Midi. Near the city center is the most important station of the city, Toulouse-Matabiau.
Starting from the latter and going back to Bordeaux, we first reach the station of Toulouse-Raynal, vast former marshalling yard and current SNCF technicentre located not far from the passenger station. Then, a triangular junction allows to join the Brive-la-Gaillarde – Toulouse (via Capdenac) line, major axis of communication of the north-east of Midi-Pyrenees since it is from this that all tertiary lines stand out (Montauban–La Crémade, Tessonnières–Albi, Lexos–Montauban) sector, and which serves major cities such as Albi, Rodez, Castres or Mazamet.
Continuing always following the valley of the Garonne, it is possible to reach several stations of the north of the city and the nearby agglomeration, as well as to the large railway station of Saint-Jory, where will be the connection from the LGV Bordeaux–Toulouse. Then, further north is the Montauban-Ville-Bourbon station from where the Orléans–Montauban line (or POLT, acronym for "Paris - Orléans - Limoges - Toulouse"), which is the old fast route that took the TEE Capitole and allows to reach the capital without passing through Bordeaux.
South of Toulouse-Matabiau, the various railway tracks of the city form an arc. First of all, for a few kilometers, all the tracks go down to the south, parallel to the Canal du Midi. Then, they separate shortly after the twin tunnels of Guilhemery, half continuing south-east and, after crossing the small Montaudran station and several stations of the agglomeration (Labège-Innopole, Labège-Village, Escalquens, Montlaur, Baziège), continue towards Sète, Marseille or Spain via Perpignan; the other half goes southwest.
After crossing the Saint-Agne station, and its transfer with the line B of the metro, the line Toulouse - Bayonne crosses the Garonne and the Ramier Island, from which separate decommissioned tracks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vish%20Ya%20Amrit%3A%20Sitara | Vish Ya Amrit: Sitara ( Poison or Elixir: Sitara) is an Indian supernatural TV series. It aired from 3 December 2018 to 7 June 2019 on Colors TV, an Indian general entertainment broadcast network owned by Viacom 18. Produced by Rashmi Sharma Telefilms, it stars Adaa Khan, known for her roles in Behenein and other Indian soap operas.
It was also dubbed in Bengali and aired on Colors Bangla as Dushto Na Doibbo Bishaka.
Plot
Sitara was born to be vishkanya, due to which her father Kuldeep tries to keep her away from evil forces, but fate brings her back to the place where it all started when her father gets reinstated as a protector of the royal family. Sitara gets the job as prince Viraj Singh's bodyguard. Her biological mother Vrinda who was once turned into a stone becomes normal just as Sitara steps inside the palace. She vows to find and bring Sitara back with the help of her sisters Chhabili, Albeli and Surili. Viraj gets engaged to princess Netra who manipulated the royal Guru to believe that she is the perfect girl for the prince who will save him from every attack .Netra is a very rude girl and starts to trouble Sitara when she gets jealous of Sitara's capabilities and closeness to Viraj who falls for Sitara. Chhabili takes Netra's body and leads Sitara to Vrinda. Vrinda poisons Sitara's mind against Ratanpratap Singh (Shakti Anand) and other members of the royal family and reveals that she is a vishkanya just like her. Sitara plans to kill everyone in the family starting with Viraj but falls in love with him. Later, Sitara finds out her mother lied to her and is heartbroken to know that her mother only used her to do finish her job. Sitara decides to go against her mother and her aunts and protect the royal family. Sitara temporarily defeats her mother who again returns to kill Ratanpratap. Vrinda wants Surili to marry Viraj and blackmails Netra into leaving the wedding. Viraj refuses to marry Surili and proposes to Sitara who first refuses but later agrees as the family also agrees. Viraj and Sitara gets married. During Holi, On Vrinda's orders Chhabili kills the king and the queen (Shital Thakkar) blames Sitara and sends her to jail. Sitara returns and vows to avenge the king's death. She kills her aunt Chhabili. Later everyone finds out about Sitara's truth. The queen tells Sitara to kill the vishkanyas but leave immediately after that. After some other twist, Sitara captures her mother and asks her to give up her powers which she agrees to.Before leaving Vrinda creates a lookalike of Sitara and names her Vishtarawho looks like Sitara and has equal powers to Sitara. Sitara decides to burn herself in order to kill Vishtara. Sitara defeats her aunts and Vishtara and lives happily with Viraj as her venom was removed from her as soon as she killed Vishtara and the two consummate their marriage.
Cast
Main
Adaa Khan as Sitara Shekhawat / Singh – Kuldeep and Vrinda's daughter; Viraj’s wife (2018–2019)
Arhaan Behll as Viraj Singh – R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinar%20Heggernes | Pinar Heggernes (born 1969) is a Turkish-born Norwegian computer scientist known for her research on graph algorithms, sparse matrix computations, and parameterized complexity. She is the deputy rector of the University of Bergen, elected together with rector Margareth Hagen for the period 2021 - 2025. Until August 2021, she was the head of the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Research Council of Norway, appointed for the period 2019–2022.
Education and career
Heggernes was born in 1969 in Istanbul.
She was educated at the University of Bergen, earning bachelor's and master's degrees there in 1990 and 1992,
and completing her Ph.D. there in 1996. Her dissertation, Partitioning and Ordering Graphs for Sparse Matrix Computations, was supervised by Bengt Aspvall.
After working at a research laboratory in Norway, and then as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen, she became a faculty member in informatics in 2001, and head of the department in 2018. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Oregon, at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, and at the University of Primorska in Slovenia. In 2021, she was elected deputy rector of the University of Bergen.
Recognition
Heggernes was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences in 2014.
Personal
Heggernes is also an amateur competitor in outdoor running events.
References
Further reading
External links
Home page
Ten Feet Tall, Heggernes's blog on running
1969 births
Living people
Norwegian computer scientists
Turkish women computer scientists
Turkish computer scientists
University of Bergen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bergen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35%20day%20month | The "35 day month" was the basis of "$2.2 billion in accounting fraud" regarding "events regarding an accounting scandal that started in 2002" at Computer Associates.
The company's "books were routinely kept open until revenues exceeded projected goals." Specifics were described as "a scheme to inflate sales and profits by pretending lucrative contracts were signed earlier than, in fact, they had been. To support this violation of law, faxes of contracts were "cleaned up ... by removing time stamps .."
The most immediate impact was that it "cost investors hundreds of millions of dollars," although unlike the matters of Worldcom and Enron, to which it was compared, "Computer Associates - since renamed CA Inc - did not go bankrupt." An overview by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania wrote that corporate directors, upon seeing signs of "35-day month ... 'the three-day window ... (and) flash period" "should be especially vigilant."
Named CA personnel
Former CEO Sanjay Kumar (business executive), who served time and paid penalties
Former sales executive Stephen Richards (business executive)
Former CA general counsel Steven Woghin, sentenced to two years.
Reporting at the time added "other former executives have been indicted or fired;" "several... have pleaded guilty to criminal charges."
References
Accounting scandals
Fraud
History of finance
Corporate crime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles%20A.%20Mitkas | Pericles A. Mitkas (born 1962 in Florina, Greece) is a Greek university lecturer in electronic and computer engineering. He holds American as well as Greek nationality and is Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). He was elected as President of both the Black Sea Universities Network and the Balkan Universities Network from 2018 to 2020.
Life and work
Mitkas studied at the AUTH and obtained a Diploma as Elektroingenieur (Electrical Engineer) in 1985. In 1987 he obtained a master's degree in Computer Engineering at Syracuse University in the US state of New York, and a Ph.D. in 1990 at the same university with a dissertation titled ː On Relational Database Operations Implemented in Optics.
Mitkas became Assistant Professor in 1990 and an Associate professor in 1996 at Syracuse University and was at the same time was Visiting Professor at the AUTH. In 1999 he returned to the AUTH and took over the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as Professor. He also took over a number administrative posts at this university and from 2010 until 2014 was a member of its Senate. He was elected its Rector in 2014.
Mitkas is married to Sophia Mardiri and has two children.
Main works (selection)
Parallel Computer Architecture for Large Data Volumes and their Analysis
Software User and Multiple User Systems
Data Gapture and Evaluation Systems
Multi-User Systems for Ecological Management
Parallel Evaluation Systems for Large Volumes of Biological Data
Semantic Scientific Evaluation of Texts in the Internet
Memberships (selection)
Senior Member of IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Society for Photooptical Instrumentation Engineering (SPIE)
SPIE Working Group on Optical Processing & Computing and of the SPIE Working Group on Holography
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Hellenic Society of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Technical Chamber of Greece
External links
Literature by and about Pericles A. Mitkas in the catalogue of the German National Library
Pericles A. Mitkas on the Web Pages of the AUTH
Publication List of Pericles A. Mitkas
References
Living people
Academic staff of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1962 births
Syracuse University faculty
Heads of universities and colleges in Greece |
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