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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger%2022%20Media%20Corporation | Tiger 22 Media Corporation is an integrated media agency-based radio network in the Philippines. It is an aggrupation of five-partner radio brands under the Vera family: Jam 88.3, Wave 89.1, Magic 89.9 and its provincial network Magic Nationwide, and 99.5 Play FM.
Background
The aggrupation network started out in the early 2000s as The Radio Partners Inc.
In 2011, the group was later reformed as Tiger 22 Media Corporation, established by Rufia Dorothy Vera as CEO. Tiger 22 Media has been known for its campaign projects for their radio stations such as the Zapped DJ Club portal, the Style Origin fashion series with Ayala Malls, and through on-air promotions with brand and establishment partners.
Since 2017, Tiger 22 Media's partner stations organized One Sound, a live on-air concert event series on radio featuring OPM artists.
Stations
The following is a list of radio stations owned and affiliated by Tiger 22 Media.
Note: Tiger 22 Media does not have its own station but are counted as owned-and-operated by their partner stations' owners related to the Vera Group. These stations credited their promotion as "part of" (and not "owned by") Tiger 22 Media through live broadcast events (such as the One Sound series), on-air promotional sponsorship, and on through their stations' websites.
References
External links
Philippine radio networks
Mass media companies of the Philippines
Companies based in Makati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row%20polymorphism | In programming language type theory, row polymorphism is a kind of
polymorphism that allows one to write programs that are polymorphic on row types such as
record types and polymorphic variants. A row-polymorphic type system and proof of type inference was introduced by Mitchell Wand.
Records and record types
A record value is written as , where the record contains fields (columns), are the record fields, and are field values. For example, a record containing a three-dimensional cartesian point could be written as .
The row-polymorphic record type is written as , where possibly or . A record has the row-polymorphic record type whenever the field of the record has the type (for ) and does not have any of the fields (for ). The row-polymorphic variable expresses the fact the record may contain other fields than .
The row-polymorphic record types allow us to write programs that operate only on a section of a record. For example,
is a function that performs some two-dimensional transformation. Because of row polymorphism, the function may perform two-dimensional transformation on a three-dimensional (in fact, n-dimensional) point, leaving the z coordinate intact. What is more, the function can perform on any record that contains the fields and with type . There is no loss of information: the type ensures that all the fields represented by the variable are present in the return type.
The row polymorphisms may be constrained. The type expresses the fact that a record of that type has exactly the and fields and nothing else. Thus, a classic record type is obtained.
Typing operations on records
The record operations of selecting a field , adding a field , and removing a field can be given row-polymorphic types.
Notes
Polymorphism (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20J2%20Core | The Samsung Galaxy J2 Core is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung Electronics. It was released in August 2018 with its operating system Android 8.1.0 "Oreo". It is the first Android Go based phone by Samsung.
Specifications
Hardware
The J2 Core is equipped with a 5.0 inch IPS 540 × 960 qHD display. It is powered by an Exynos 7570 SoC including a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU with 1.4 GHz, an ARM Mali-T720 GPU with 1 GB RAM and either 8 or 16 GB internal storage. It is available in Black, Gold and Lavender. A slightly refreshed version was announced in April 2020 with no 8 GB option and a new Blue color replacing Lavender. It has a 8 megapixel rear camera and 5 megapixel front camera.
Software
The J2 Core ships with Android 8.1.0 "Oreo" and Samsung's Experience UI. It's a special version named Go edition which is developed for low-end smartphones.
See also
Samsung Galaxy
Samsung Galaxy J series
Samsung Galaxy J3 (2018)
Samsung Galaxy J4 Core
Samsung Galaxy J6
Samsung Galaxy J6+
Samsung Galaxy J4+
Samsung Galaxy J8
References
External links
Galaxy Core
Samsung smartphones
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2018
Discontinued smartphones
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joystick%20%28magazine%29 | Joystick (formerly Joystick Hebdo) was a French computer magazine that published monthly issues on PC games. It was founded in 1988 by Marc Andersen, who later left in November 1995. Originally published in the form of a 32-page weekly magazine in 1988 and 1989, it saw monthly 148-page issues (and more) past 1990. It initially sold with one or more floppy disks and then later with several CD-ROMs, and finally, until April 2012, a DVD that included complete copies of video games. In 2012, Joystick ceased distribution.
Despite 80,000 unique visitors per month to Joystick's website, it was closed in March 2002 due to the lack of profitability. It reopened in early 2008 as a summary of the magazine, including video game reviews and video game news; it would be updated irregularly until June 2012.
History
The first issue of Joystick Hebdo was published on 9 November 1988 and contained cheat-code listings, game testings and reviews.
Sometime between November 1989 and January 1990, Joystick Hebdo rebranded as Joystick and began selling monthly issues.
In June 1993, Joystick was purchased by Hachette Digital Presse. In 2003, Hachette Digital Presse was acquired by Future. During this time, many editors left Joystick and created the independent publication Canard PC.
In 2011, MER7 (formerly Future France) was liquidated, causing the last issue of Joystick to release on 23 November 2012. On 8 February 2013, based on a decision by the Paris Commercial Court, Anuman Interactive acquired the Joystick brand and announced Joystick Replay in March 2013.
On 17 May 2018, ZQSD.fr and Anuman launched a podcast series to commemorate the magazine. It showcases interviews with former Joystick writers and editors.
Joystick Replay
In March 2013, Anuman Interactive announced Joystick Replay, a game label that repurposes retro PC games for the modern age. It has published remakes of games such as Darkstone, Fire & Forget, Moto Racer, North Vs South, Prehistorik, Prohibition 1930 and Titan.
Controversy
On 3 July 2012, in the "Summer Special" issue of that year, Kévin Bitterlin, a former journalist for Joystick, wrote in a review for the 2013 Tomb Raider game "Subjecting one of the most iconic figures in video games to such torture is just great. And I daresay it is quite exciting." Many outraged reactions launched a debate on sexism in video games in France.
References
External links
1988 establishments in France
2012 disestablishments in France
Defunct magazines published in France
French-language magazines
Magazines established in 1988
Magazines disestablished in 2012
Monthly magazines published in France
Video game magazines published in France
Magazines published in Paris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets%20of%20a%20Restaurant%20Chef | Secrets of a Restaurant Chef is an American cooking television series that aired on Food Network. It was presented by chef Anne Burrell; and the series featured Burrell demonstrating how to cook restaurant-quality meals at home.
Secrets of a Restaurant Chef officially premiered on June 29, 2008, and concluded on April 1, 2012, after nine seasons.
Episodes
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2000s American cooking television series
2010s American cooking television series
2008 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Food reality television series
Television shows filmed in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20gradient%20Langevin%20dynamics | Stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD) is an optimization and sampling technique composed of characteristics from Stochastic gradient descent, a Robbins–Monro optimization algorithm, and Langevin dynamics, a mathematical extension of molecular dynamics models. Like stochastic gradient descent, SGLD is an iterative optimization algorithm which uses minibatching to create a stochastic gradient estimator, as used in SGD to optimize a differentiable objective function. Unlike traditional SGD, SGLD can be used for Bayesian learning as a sampling method. SGLD may be viewed as Langevin dynamics applied to posterior distributions, but the key difference is that the likelihood gradient terms are minibatched, like in SGD. SGLD, like Langevin dynamics, produces samples from a posterior distribution of parameters based on available data. First described by Welling and Teh in 2011, the method has applications in many contexts which require optimization, and is most notably applied in machine learning problems.
Formal definition
Given some parameter vector , its prior distribution , and a set of data points , Langevin dynamics samples from the posterior distribution by updating the chain:
Stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics uses a modified update procedure with minibatched likelihood terms:
where is a positive integer, is Gaussian noise, is the likelihood of the data given the parameter vector , and our step sizes satisfy the following conditions:
For early iterations of the algorithm, each parameter update mimics Stochastic Gradient Descent; however, as the algorithm approaches a local minimum or maximum, the gradient shrinks to zero and the chain produces samples surrounding the maximum a posteriori mode allowing for posterior inference. This process generates approximate samples from the posterior as by balancing variance from the injected Gaussian noise and stochastic gradient computation.
Application
SGLD is applicable in any optimization context for which it is desirable to quickly obtain posterior samples instead of a maximum a posteriori mode. In doing so, the method maintains the computational efficiency of stochastic gradient descent when compared to traditional gradient descent while providing additional information regarding the landscape around the critical point of the objective function. In practice, SGLD can be applied to the training of Bayesian Neural Networks in Deep Learning, a task in which the method provides a distribution over model parameters. By introducing information about the variance of these parameters, SGLD characterizes the generalizability of these models at certain points in training. Additionally, obtaining samples from a posterior distribution permits uncertainty quantification by means of confidence intervals, a feature which is not possible using traditional stochastic gradient descent.
Variants and associated algorithms
If gradient computations are exact, SGLD reduces down to the Langevin Mon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisi%20Zlatanova | Sisi Zlatanova is a Bulgarian/Dutch researcher in geospatial data, geographic information systems, and 3D modeling. She works as a professor in the faculty of the Built Environment, at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and is president of Technical Commission IV
(Spatial Information Science) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Education and career
Zlatanova studied surveying at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Bulgaria. She completed her Ph.D. in 2000 at Graz University of Technology; her dissertation was 3D GIS for Urban Development, and was jointly promoted by and Klaus Tempfli.
She has worked as a computer programmer for the Bulgarian Central Cadastre, and as an academic at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, at Graz University of Technology, at ITC Enschede, at the in Novosibirsk, and at the Delft University of Technology, from 2000 until her move to UNSW in 2018.
At UNSW, she is the head of the Geospatial Research Innovation and Development lab (GRID). Her research there includes building 3D city models and Digital Twins of the university and urban areas.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Graz University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Geographic information scientists
Australian women academics
Bulgarian women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNFT-LD | WNFT-LD (channel 8) is a low-power television station in Gainesville, Florida, United States, carrying several digital multicast networks operated by the E.W. Scripps Company, including Bounce TV on its primary channel. Owned by locally based Budd Broadcasting, the station maintains a transmitter near Newberry, Florida.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
NFT-LD
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in Florida
Bounce TV affiliates
Grit (TV network) affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Ion Mystery affiliates
Defy TV affiliates
Scripps News affiliates
Court TV affiliates
NFT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICE%20%28sea%20ice%20model%29 | CICE () is a computer model that simulates the growth, melt and movement of sea ice. It has been integrated into many coupled climate system models as well as global ocean and weather forecasting models and is often used as a tool in Arctic and Southern Ocean research. CICE development began in the mid-1990s by the United States Department of Energy (DOE), and it is currently maintained and developed by a group of institutions in North America and Europe known as the CICE Consortium. Its widespread use in earth system science in part owes to the importance of sea ice in determining Earth's planetary albedo, the strength of the global thermohaline circulation in the world's oceans, and in providing surface boundary conditions for atmospheric circulation models, since sea ice occupies a significant proportion (4-6%) of earth's surface. CICE is a type of cryospheric model.
Development
Development of CICE began in 1994 by Elizabeth Hunke at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Since its initial release in 1998 following development of the Elastic-Viscous-Plastic (EVP) sea ice rheology within the model, it has been substantially developed by an international community of model users and developers. Enthalpy-conserving thermodynamics and improvements to the sea ice thickness distribution were added to the model between 1998 and 2005. The first institutional user outside of LANL was Naval Postgraduate School in the late-1990s, where it was subsequently incorporated into the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM) in 2011. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) was the first to incorporate CICE into a global climate model in 2002, and developers of the NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM) have continued to contribute to CICE innovations and have used it to investigate polar variability in Earth's climate system. The United States Navy began using CICE shortly after 2000 for polar research and sea ice forecasting and it continues to do so today. Since 2000, CICE development or coupling to oceanic and atmospheric models for weather and climate prediction has occurred at the University of Reading, University College London, the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre, Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Danish Meteorological Institute, the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, and Beijing Normal University, among other institutions. As a result of model development in the global community of CICE users, the model's computer code now includes a comprehensive saline ice physics and biogeochemistry library that incorporates mushy-layer thermodynamics, anisotropic continuum mechanics, Delta-Eddington radiative transfer, melt-pond physics and land-fast ice. CICE version 6 is open-source software and was released in 2018 on GitHub.
Keystone Equations
There are two main physics equations solved using numerical methods in CICE that underpin the model's predictions of sea ice thickness, concentration and velocity, as well as p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Dix | Robert Warren Brimmer (May 8, 1935 – August 6, 2018), known professionally as Robert Dix, was an American film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1954 and 1974.
Biographic data
Dix was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor Richard Dix. As a teenager, he left home after his mother remarried.
Dix initially was billed as Bob Brimmer, using his legal name. For a year, he worked with the National Academy of Theater Arts in New York City. Following that experience, he gained a two-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He later appeared in Forbidden Planet (1956), Forty Guns (1957), and other films including a lead role in Maury Dexter's Air Patrol. In the 1960's he appeared in a string of b-movies by Al Adamson including Hell's Bloody Devils, Satan's Sadists, Blood of Dracula's Castle, and Five Bloody Graves. His last role was a doomed agent in Roger Moore's first James Bond Feature, Live And Let Die, being killed before the opening credits during a marching New Orleans funeral that turns out to be his own.
On May 31, 1956, Dix married actress Janet Lake in Las Vegas. They divorced in 1959. Later he was married to Anna May Slaughter, a nightclub singer, and Darlene Lucht. Dix owned a home near Demuth Park in Palm Springs, California. He died of respiratory failure at a hospital in Tucson, Arizona, at age 83. He was buried at the Russellville–Dragoon Cemetery in Cochise County, Arizona.
Television appearances
In 1961, Dix played the part of Jamie, a lieutenant in the US Cavalry on the television program Gunsmoke and later that same year as “Spotted Wolf”, a love torn Indian hunted by the Cavalry in the S7E10 “Indian Ford”.
Filmography
References
External links
1935 births
2018 deaths
20th-century American male actors
Deaths from respiratory failure
Actors from Palm Springs, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPR%20FOM | The Real-time Platform Reference Federation Object Model (RPR FOM) enables linking computer simulations of discrete physical entities into complex virtual worlds. It is a High Level Architecture (HLA) federation object model developed for distributed simulation applications of defense and security. RPR FOM is listed in the NATO Modelling and Simulation Standards Profile AMSP-01.
The RPR FOM provides backwards compatibility with simulations using the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) standard. It is standardized by Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) as SISO-STD-001-2015.
The standard consists of two parts:
SISO-STD-001-2015 Standard for Guidance, Rationale, and Interoperability Modalities for the Real-time Platform Reference Federation Object Model (“GRIM”), which provides guidance for use of the RPR FOM.
SISO-STD-001.1-2015 Real-time Platform Reference Federation Object Model, which provides the object model in XML format for use in HLA Federations.
History and versions
When the High Level Architecture was introduced by the US Department of Defense in 1996 the RPR FOM effort was initiated to facilitate the migration from DIS to HLA.
RPR FOM version 1.0
This first RPR FOM version was released in 1998. It supports the capabilities of DIS version IEEE 1278.1-1995 (DIS 5). The standard provides a FOM supporting HLA version 1.3.
RPR FOM version 2.0
This updated version was released in 2015 as SISO-STD-001. RPR FOM 2.0 supports the capabilities of DIS version IEEE 1278.1a-1998 (DIS 6). The development of RPR FOM 2.0 started in 2000, but came to a halt in 2007, resulting in a widely used draft version 17. The work was restarted in 2012 and finalized with a published standard in 2015. The standard provides FOMs supporting the following HLA versions: 1.3, IEEE 1516-2000 and IEEE 1516-2010 (“HLA Evolved”) in both modular and monolithic formats.
RPR FOM version 3.0
Development of this upcoming version was started in 2016 by the SISO DIS and RPR FOM Product Support Group. In 2018, the development was handed over to a dedicated Product Development Group. The goal of RPR FOM version 3.0 is to support the capabilities of DIS version IEEE 1278.1-2012 (DIS 7).
Object model
The RPR FOM defines the information exchanged at runtime in a number of FOM modules.
As an example, the object classes of the Physical Module are illustrated in the figure below.
The modules are:
Physical Module with key object classes Aircraft, Amphibious vehicle, Ground vehicle, Multi-domain platform, Spacecraft, Submersible vessel, Surface vessel, Human, Non-human, Munition, Expendables, Radio, Sensor and Supplies.
Aggregate Module with the key object class Aggregate entity.
Warfare Module with key interaction classes Weapon fire and Munition detonation.
Communication Module with the key object classes Radio transmitter and Radio receiver and several interaction classes for Radio signals.
Synthetic Environment Module with the key object classes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Sea%20Universities%20Network | The Black Sea Universities Network (BSUN) began in 1998 as part of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. The goal of this merger is the mutual exchange of experience in research and teaching and mutual recognition of qualifications, promotion of the mobility of teachers and students and the utilisation of international programmes to promote student exchanges. The organisation is based in Constanța in Romania (2018).
Pericles A. Mitkas has been President of BSUN since 2018. A current goal is to increase cooperation with the Balkan Universities Network.
Presidents
Adrian Bavaru Bucharest (1998-2000), Suha Sevük Ankara 2000-2002), Abel Maharramov Baku (2002-2004), Ioan Bostan Chisinau (2004-2006), Stefan Barudov Varna (2006-2008), Mychailo Zgurovsky Ukraine (2008-2010), Dmitry Livanov Moscow (2010-2012), Jorgaq Kacani Tirana (2012-2014), Vladimir Bumbasirevic Belgrade (2014-2016) Giga Zedania Tbilisi (2016-2018), Pericles A. Mitkas Thessaloniki (2018-2020)
Member Universities
Albania
University of Tirana
Polytechnic University of Tirana
Ismail Qemal Vlora Technological University
Armenia
American University of Armenia
National Polytechnic University of Armenia
Yerevan State Medical University
Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan Medical University
Azerbaijan State Academy Of Physical Education And Sport
Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University
Azerbaijan State Agricultural University
Azerbaidjan Institute of Technology
Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University
Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts
Baku State University
Baku Engineering University
Baku Academy of Music
Baku Higher Oil School
Baku Academy of Music
Baku Eurasian University
Nakhchivan State University
Western Caspian University
Qafqaz University
Bulgaria
Assen-Slatarow-University Burgas
Varna Free University
Shumen University
Medical University of Varna
Technical University of Varna
University of National and World Economy
Sofia University
Veliko Tarnovo University
Georgia
Gori State Teaching University
Tbilisi State University
Georgian Technical University
Ilia-Tschawtschawadse State Universität
Tbilisi Public University Metekhi
Greece
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Athens University of Economics and Business
University of Macedonia
University of Ioannina
Democritus University of Thrace
University of Thessaly
University of Patras
Moldova
Comrat State University
Technical University Moldova
Moldova Akademy of Economics
Romania
Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Ovidius University
University of Bacău
Andrei Saguna University
Mircea cel Bătrân Naval Academy
Maritime University
University of Galați
Oil & Gas University of Ploiești
Politehnica University of Bucharest
Spiru Haret University
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
University o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Alliance%20for%20Genomics%20and%20Health | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is an international consortium that is developing standards for responsibly collecting, storing, analyzing, and sharing genomic data in order to enable an "internet of genomics". GA4GH was founded in 2013.
GA4GH is founded on the Framework for the Responsible Sharing of Genomic and Health-related Data, which is based on the human right to benefit from scientific advances.
Organization
GA4GH maintained by four Host Institutions (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Broad Institute, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and the European Bioinformatics Institute). Ewan Birney is the current GA4GH chair and Peter Goodhand is the Chief Executive Officer. Heidi Rehm and Kathryn North are the current Vice Chairs.
Organizational members of the alliance include:
Funding
GA4GH is supported by a "Funder's Forum" composed of organizations whose funding commitments exceed USD $200,000 annually, for at least three years. Forum members include:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Genome Canada
National Institute for Health Research
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
National Human Genome Research Institute
Office of Data Science Strategy
Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health / All of Us research project
UK Research and Innovation
Medical Research Council
Wellcome Trust
Activities
All GA4GH standards are developed by six technical and two foundational "Work Streams" in collaboration with real-world genomic data initiatives called "Driver Projects."
GA4GH Work Streams
Regulatory and Ethics (foundational)
Data Security (foundational)
Cloud
Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture
Data Use and Researcher Identities
Discovery
Genomic Knowledge Standards
Large Scale Genomics
GA4GH Driver Projects
All of US Research Program
Australian Genomics
BRCA Challenge
Canadian Distributed Infrastructure for Genomics (CanDig)
Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen)
ELIXIR Beacon
The European Nucleotide Archive, European Variation Archive, and European Genome-phenome Archive at EMBL-EBI
EUCANCan
European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases
Genomics England
Human Cell Atlas
Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa)
International Cancer Genome Consortium - ARGO
Matchmaker Exchange
The Monarch Initiative
National Cancer Institute Data Commons Framework (NCI DCF) and Genomic Data Commons (NCI GDC)
Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed)
Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium (VICC)
References
Genetics in the United Kingdom
Genomics organizations
South Cambridgeshire District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20Data%20Sciences%20Corporation | Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation (MDS) was an early computer hardware company, started by former Univac engineers in 1964;
by 1985 they were struggling to sell-off part of their company.
History
The company was founded in Herkimer, New York, by George Cogar, Lauren King, and Ted Robinson, former Univac employees.
Their success in selling their first product, a Key-to-Tape Data Entry device that allowed doing away with Keypunch devices, brought them enough cash to also grow via acquisition.
Among their acquisitions was Atron Corporation, developer of a minicomputer, the Atron 501 and 502. From the know-how acquired and absorbed, Mohawk expanded into the areas of controlling line printers and also Remote Job Entry (RJE). This was the basis of their MDS 2400 RJE product, which supported 2780 and HASP.
Financial difficulties a decade-and-a-half after the company opened led to the company's restructuring, renaming and eventual takeover. By that time, headquarters had been in Parsippany, New Jersey, with manufacturing in Herkimer.
Other Mohawk-branded RJE products
Mohawk's 1103 Data Transmission System
Mohawk's Series 21, which also had local processing capability. It ran CP/M and supported:
COBOL
MOBOL, their own variation
office automation
Qantel Corporation
Mohawk acquired Qantel Corporation in 1980, later called "its strongest asset". Having sold around 10,000 systems worldwide, in the sports world it was known as the supplier for the computer hardware and software for "12 of the 28 teams in the National Football League".
Mohawk renamed itself Qantel in 1988, and in 1992 the remains of the latter, after bankruptcy, was acquired by Decision Data Computer Corporation.
MDS Series 21
The MDS Series 21 (21/20, 21/40, 21/50) was configured as a CRT (which Mohawk called an "Operator Station") and a system unit (called a "Controller Console"). Up to four floppy disk drives could be housed in the latter.
Floppies contained 74 tracks, 26 128-character sectors per track. Track 0 was the index track. A floppy contained up to 1,898 128-character records.
Screen - The 21/20 used a 480 character (12 lines x 40 characters) screen. The 21/40 could use either that screen or a larger, industry-standard sized 1,920 character screen (24 lines x 80 characters).
45 Characters/second printer - The Model 2141 printer's line width was (up to) 132 characters; the character set accommodated a 96-character set.
Line printers - Lines/minute speeds were
up to 185 LPM (Model )
up to 340 LPM (Model )
up to 600 LPM (Model 2145)
IBM Mainframe-compatible 9-track tapes drives:
Model 2481 - 800 BPI
Model 2482 - 1600 BPI
MOBOL
Mohawk's MOBOL—Mohawk Business Oriented Language—was described as "look[ing] nothing like COBOL".
The language's source code was compiled, rather than being run interpretively.
After a MOBOL program was compiled, a utility named MOBOLIST was used to display applicable messages (if any) for errors detected during compilation.
MOBO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle%20method | The Doolittle method may refer to:
The Doolittle algorithm for LU decomposition in numerical analysis and linear algebra
The most common method of rearing queen bees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francioni | Francioni is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Joan Francioni, American computer scientist
Wilmo Francioni (born 1948), Italian road cyclist
See also
Francini
Stadio Domenico Francioni
Italian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Secrets%20of%20a%20Restaurant%20Chef%20episodes | The American cooking television series Secrets of a Restaurant Chef aired on Food Network from 2008 to 2012. A total of 119 episodes of the series aired over nine seasons.
Episodes
Season 1 (2008)
Season 2 (2008–2009)
Season 3 (2009)
Season 4 (2009–2010)
Season 5 (2010)
Season 6 (2010)
Season 7 (2011)
Season 8 (2011)
Season 9 (2012)
Notes
References
External links
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes
Lists of food television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20R.%20Fussell | Susan Runyon Fussell is an American psychologist, communications researcher, and information scientist known for her contributions to human–computer interaction. She is Liberty Hyde Baily Professor of Communication and Information Science at Cornell University, and a member of the CHI Academy.
Education and career
Fussell graduated from Tufts University in 1981, with a bachelor's degree in psychology and sociology. She went to Columbia University for graduate study in social and cognitive psychology, earning a master's degree there in 1983 and completing her Ph.D. in 1990. Her dissertation, The Coordination of Knowledge in Communication: People's Assumptions about Others' Knowledge and Their Effects on Referential Communication, was supervised by Robert M. Krauss.
While doing her graduate studies, Fussell also worked at Bell Labs from 1987 to 1988.
After postdoctoral research at Princeton University, she became an assistant professor at Mississippi State University in 1993, but returned to industry as a researcher at Bell Communications Research in 1995. She worked as a scientist and later a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 1997 to 2008, when she moved to Cornell.
She has also been a program director at the National Science Foundation from 2010 to 2012, and director of graduate studies in communication at Cornell since 2013.
Recognition
Fussell was elected to the CHI Academy in 2016.
She was co-chair of the 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems with Gloria Mark,
and became Liberty Hyde Baily Professor at Cornell in 2018.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women psychologists
21st-century American psychologists
Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Columbia University alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
Mississippi State University faculty
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Cornell University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7food%20network | 7food network was a short-lived Australian free-to-air television channel owned by the Seven Network which launched on 1 December 2018. The channel marked the start of Seven's new deal with Discovery, Inc., immediately after the end of SBS's previous deal with Discovery which saw the creation of SBS Food (formerly Food Network) in 2015. The channel was a hybrid of the Seven Network and the American Food Network, and featured shows about food and cooking from around the world.
The channel ceased broadcasting on 28 December 2019 after garnering lower than expected ratings, and was eventually replaced with a HD simulcast of 7mate on 16 January 2020.
History
On 27 September 2018, SBS announced they would not renew their brand licensing and programming deal with Discovery Inc. ending on 17 November 2018. Their version of the Food Network channel would be rebranded SBS Food, and focus on domestic Australian culinary programming rather than the American Food Network's increasingly food-focused reality television and competition programming. On 26 October 2018, Seven announced they had signed their own deal with Discovery Inc. to carry a new domestic version of Food Network launching in December 2018 on channel 74. It would have a similar format to SBS's version, showing a mixture of locally produced cooking shows (including reality-based programs such as My Kitchen Rules) and Scripps-produced American cooking programs.
On 29 October 2018, Seven stated they expected good ratings for the channel and also announced airings of international versions of shows like My Kitchen Rules. On 2 November 2018, the channel was activated, then a 'coming soon' card appeared on 6 November, before a promotional loop appeared on 27 November. On 1 December 2018, the channel was launched at 6:00am with Guy's Grocery Games.
On 24 October 2019, it was announced that the channel would be closed due to disappointing ratings, with none of its planned domestic cooking programming coming to air. The channel switched to an HD feed of 7mate on 28 December 2019. American Food Network content continued to air as a part of the schedules of 7two and 7flix until 1 December 2020.
Programming
The channel aired imports from Food Network including Guy's Grocery Games, Food Network Star, Chopped, Restaurant: Impossible, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Cutthroat Kitchen, Iron Chef America, Best Baker in America, Spring Baking Championship, Kids Baking Championship and Ridiculous Cakes, as well as locally produced shows that were originally shown on the Seven network including My Kitchen Rules, Better Homes and Gardens, Zumbo's Just Desserts, Fast Ed's Fast Food, Anh Does Vietnam, My France with Manu, Around the World with Manu, Manu's American Road Trip, My Ireland with Colin and Aussie Barbecue Heroes.
Availability
7food network was available in standard definition digital in metropolitan areas and regional Queensland through Seven Network owned-and-operated stations including ATN Sydney, H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danese | Danese may refer to:
Danese, West Virginia
Danese Cattaneo (1509–1572), Italian sculptor and medallist
Danese Cooper (born 1959), American programmer and computer scientist and advocate of open source software
Fabrizio Danese (born 1995), Italian footballer
Michele Danese (born 1982), Italian motorcycle racer
Shera Danese (born 1949), American actress
Danese Milano, an Italian brand founded in the 1950s that manufactures designer homewares (now a subsidiary of Artemede) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIES | AIES may stand for:
Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, a scientific journal
The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, an Israeli research institute
The AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, a computer science conference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Stankevich | Andrey Stankevich (Russian: Андрей Сергеевич Станкевич) is a competitive programming coach. ITMO University has won 8 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal in ACM ICPC under his coaching. Andrey Stankevich is an associate professor at ITMO's Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, a laureate of the President of the Russian Federation Award in Education, a laureate of ACM-ICPC Founder’s Award 2004, and ACM ICPC Senior Coach Award 2016.
Achievements as a contestant
Google Code Jam: third place in 2006
ACM ICPC: Silver medal in 2000 and Gold medal in 2001
References
External links
Codeforces profile: andrewzta
Academic staff of ITMO University
Competitive programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20in%20My%20Family | Monster in My Family is a TV series produced by the Lifetime Movie Network that focuses on relatives of serial killers and their victims. The series has had two seasons.
Production and release
The show's executive producers are Jennifer Wagman, Laura Fleury, Paninee Theeranuntawat, and Gary Tarpinian. Season 1 premiered on July 1, 2015 and had six episodes. Season 2 debuted in 2017 and ran for four episodes.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
References
External links
Monster in My Family on IMDb
Lifetime (TV network) original programming
Non-fiction works about serial killers
Television series about serial killers
Documentary television series about crime in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta%20M.%20Ljung | Greta Marianne Ljung (born 1941) is a Finnish American statistician. The Ljung–Box test for time series data is named after her and her graduate school advisor, George E. P. Box. She has written textbooks on time series analysis and her work has been published in several top statistical journals, including Biometrika and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.
Biography
Ljung received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Åbo Akademi University in Finland. During this time, she developed an interest in psychometrics. After graduation, she studied at the University of Uppsala for eight months under the direction of statistician Herman Wold.
She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1976. Her dissertation was on time series analysis. She held a faculty position at the University of Denver after graduation, where she continued to publish work with her advisor George E. P. Box. In 1978, they published their paper on the Ljung-Box test, which was a modification to the Box-Pierce test.
She taught statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over ten years. She has also held a faculty position at Boston University.
She currently resides in Lexington, Massachusetts and works as a statistical consultant.
Works
References
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
Åbo Akademi University alumni
Uppsala University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
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Boston University faculty
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1941 births
American people of Finnish descent
Finnish expatriates in the United States
Finnish statisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelani%20Nelson | Jelani Osei Nelson (; born June 28, 1984) is an Ethiopian-American Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2014 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Nelson is the creator of AddisCoder, a computer science summer program for Ethiopian high school students in Addis Ababa.
Early life and education
Nelson was born to an Ethiopian mother and an African-American father in Los Angeles, then grew up in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. He studied mathematics and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and remained there to complete his doctoral studies in computer science. His Master's dissertation, External-Memory Search Trees with Fast Insertions, was supervised by Bradley C. Kuszmaul and Charles E. Leiserson. He was a member of the theory of computation group, working on efficient algorithms for massive datasets. His doctoral dissertation, Sketching and Streaming High-Dimensional Vectors (2011), was supervised by Erik Demaine and Piotr Indyk.
After his doctorate, Nelson worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, then Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. He specialises in sketching and streaming algorithms.
Career
Nelson is interested in big data and the development of efficient algorithms. He joined the computer science faculty at Harvard University in 2013 and remained there until 2019 before joining UC Berkeley. He is known for his contributions to streaming algorithms and dimensionality reduction, including proving that the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma is optimal (with Kasper Green Larsen), developing the Sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform (with Daniel Kane), and an asymptotically optimal algorithm for the count-distinct problem (with Daniel Kane and David P. Woodruff). He holds two patents related to applications of streaming algorithms to network traffic monitoring applications.
Nelson was the recipient of an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2015 and a Director of Research Early Career Award in 2016. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 2017.
Advocacy for rigorous math education
Nelson opposes the proposed California Mathematics Framework, expressing concern that the modified curriculum will harm vulnerable students by denying them rigorous mathematical instruction. In an interview with The New Yorker, he stated: “I’m extremely worried that the C.M.F. is implicitly advocating for certain groups of people to be pushed away from rigorous math courses into essentially a lower track, setting back progress in improving diversity in STEM.” Nelson was involved in an online conflict with Stanford University professor Jo Boaler over efforts to revise California's framework for math instruction in April 2022.
AddisCoder and JamCoders
Nelson founded AddisCoder, a summer program teaching computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jana%20Ko%C5%A1eck%C3%A1 | Jana Košecká is a Slovak computer scientist specializing in computer vision. She is a professor of computer science at George Mason University. Previously, Košecká was a researcher at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Education and career
Košecká earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava; her master's thesis was on agricultural applications of artificial intelligence.
After seeing a conference talk on robotics by Ruzena Bajcsy, she became interested in the subject and moved to the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed her Ph.D. with Bajcsy as her doctoral advisor in 1996.
Her dissertation was A Framework for Modeling and Verifying Visually Guided Agents: Design, Analysis and Experiments. She held visiting positions at Google, and Nokia Research.
Košecká spent three years doing postdoctoral research on the applications of computer vision to self-driving cars at the University of California, Berkeley, before taking her present position as a faculty member at George Mason University. During her time at Berkeley, Košecká was a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
Book
With Yi Ma, Stefano Soatto, and S. Shankar Sastry, Košecká is the author of the book An Invitation to 3-D Vision: From Images to Geometric Models (Springer, 2004).
Recognition
With Ma, Soatto, and Shastry, Košecká won the 1999 Marr Prize for their paper "Euclidean reconstruction and reprojection up to subgroups".
She was a keynote speaker at the 2018 International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Slovak computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Computer vision researchers
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George Mason University faculty
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21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine%20Cohen | Elaine Cohen is an American researcher in geometric modeling and computer graphics, known for her pioneering research on B-splines. She is a professor in the school of computing at the University of Utah.
Education and career
Cohen graduated from Vassar College in 1968, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She went to Syracuse University for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in 1970 and completing her doctorate in 1974.
Her dissertation, On the Degree of Approximation of a Function by Partial Sums of its Fourier Series, concerned approximation theory, and was supervised by Daniel Waterman.
At the University of Utah, Cohen became the first woman to gain tenure at the School of Engineering.
Contributions
With Richard F. Riesenfeld and Gershon Elber, Cohen is the author of the book Geometric Modeling with Splines: An Introduction (AK Peters, 2001).
She has also contributed to the development of the Utah teapot, improving it from a two-dimensional surface with no thickness to a bona-fide three-dimensional object.
Recognition
In 2005, the YWCA of Salt Lake City gave Cohen their Outstanding Achievement Award.
In 2009, Cohen and Riesenfeld were awarded the Pierre Bézier Award of the Solid Modeling Association for their work on B-splines in computer aided geometric design.
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University of Utah faculty
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
Mathematicians from New York (state)
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Scholtz | Jean Clarice Scholtz is an American computer scientist known for her contributions to human–computer interaction, and particularly for developing the "Common Industry Format" (CIF) for usability test results while at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Education and career
Scholtz has a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa.
She earned a master's degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology, and completed her Ph.D. in 1989 in computer science at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her dissertation was A study of transfer of skill between programming languages, and was jointly supervised by Susan Wiedenbeck and David A. Klarner.
After completing her doctorate, Scholtz became a faculty member at Portland State University, and moved from there to Intel and then the National Institute of Standards and Technology. While at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, she also served as a program manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Scholtz retired from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2006, and became Chief Scientist for Visual Analytics at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Recognition
SIGCHI gave Scholtz their Lifetime Service Award in 2015.
She was elected to the CHI Academy in 2018.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
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Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
Portland State University faculty
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21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Regional | Seven Regional or 7 Regional may refer to the following Australian television networks:
Prime7, now 7 Regional
GWN7, now Seven Regional WA
See also
Network seven (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-orthogonal%20frequency-division%20multiplexing | Non-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (N-OFDM) is a method of encoding digital data on multiple carrier frequencies with non-orthogonal intervals between frequency of sub-carriers. N-OFDM signals can be used in communication and radar systems.
Subcarriers system
The low-pass equivalent N-OFDM signal is expressed as:
where are the data symbols, is the number of sub-carriers, and is the N-OFDM symbol time. The sub-carrier spacing for makes them non-orthogonal over each symbol period.
History
The history of N-OFDM signals theory was started in 1992 from the Patent of Russian Federation No. 2054684. In this patent, Vadym Slyusar proposed the 1st method of optimal processing for N-OFDM signals after Fast Fourier transform (FFT).
In this regard need to say that W. Kozek and A. F. Molisch wrote in 1998 about N-OFDM signals with that "it is not possible to recover the information from the received signal, even in the case of an ideal channel."
In 2001, V. Slyusar proposed non-orthogonal frequency digital modulation (N-OFDM) as an alternative of OFDM for communications systems.
The next publication about this method has priority in July 2002 before the conference paper regarding SEFDM of I. Darwazeh and M.R.D. Rodrigues (September, 2003).
Advantages of N-OFDM
Despite the increased complexity of demodulating N-OFDM signals compared to OFDM, the transition to non-orthogonal subcarrier frequency arrangement provides several advantages:
higher spectral efficiency, which allows to reduce the frequency band occupied by the signal and improve the electromagnetic compatibility of many terminals;
adaptive detuning from interference concentrated in frequency by changing the nominal frequencies of the subcarriers;
an ability to take into account Doppler frequency shifts of subcarriers when working with subscribers moving at high speeds;
reduction of the peak factor of the multi-frequency signal mixture.
Idealized system model
This section describes a simple idealized N-OFDM system model suitable for a time-invariant AWGN channel.
Transmitter N-OFDM signals
An N-OFDM carrier signal is the sum of a number of not-orthogonal subcarriers, with baseband data on each subcarrier being independently modulated commonly using some type of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) or phase-shift keying (PSK). This composite baseband signal is typically used to modulate a main RF carrier.
is a serial stream of binary digits. By inverse multiplexing, these are first demultiplexed into parallel streams, and each one mapped to a (possibly complex) symbol stream using some modulation constellation (QAM, PSK, etc.). Note that the constellations may be different, so some streams may carry a higher bit-rate than others.
A Digital Signal Processor (DSP) is computed on each set of symbols, giving a set of complex time-domain samples. These samples are then quadrature-mixed to passband in the standard way. The real and imaginary components are first con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20center%20management | Data center management is the collection of tasks performed by those responsible for managing ongoing operation of a data center. This includes Business service management and planning for the future.
Historically, "data center management" was seen as something performed by employees, with the help of tools collectively called Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tools.
Both for in-house operation and outsourcing, service-level agreements must be managed to ensure data-availability.
Competition
Data center management is a growing major topic for a growing list of large companies who both compete and cooperate, including: Dell, Google, HP, IBM, Intel and Yahoo.
Hardware/software vendors who are willing to live with coopetition are working on projects such as "The Distributed Management Task Force" (DMTF) with a goal of learning to "more effectively manage mixed Linux, Windows and cloud environments."
With the DMTF a decade old, the list of companies is growing, and also includes companies much smaller than IBM, Microsoft, et al.
Focus
Among the topics currently being explored are: scalability, securing data center networks, disaster recovery, government restrictions.
Another major area is the cost of downtime regarding customer dissatisfaction & business loss, and also the "astonishing" yet hidden cost and effect regarding personnel & productivity.
Business-service management
Business-service management (BSM) treats IT as part of the larger enterprise strategy, and helps fill the gap between business and IT.
IBM notes that major problems often happen in the grey areas, particularly due to errors in the interfaces, and focuses on critical failures. Sufficient redundancy should allow failures in non-critical areas to protect the business from being affected. BSM, which is positioned above IT Service Management (ITSM), promotes a customer-centric and business-focused approach to service management, aligning business objectives with IT or ICT from strategy through to operations. Tools that help BSM include a modeling language, and a common dashboard, which together allow data center personnel to see problems before business customers do.
Newer developments
Remote data center management allows offsite experts to watch for situations needing their timely intervention at a lower cost than having such staff be onsite 24/7/365.
While some requirements for on-site hardware have been reduced, spending in other hardware areas such as UPS may have to increase.
Data center asset management
Data center asset management (also referred to as inventory management) is the set of business practices that join financial, contractual and inventory functions to support life cycle management and strategic decision making for the IT environment. Assets include all elements of software and hardware that are found in the business environment.
IT asset management generally uses automation to manage the discovery of assets so inventory can be compared to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drude%20Berntsen | Drude Elisabeth Berntsen (born 1939) is a Norwegian computer scientist who was director of the Norwegian Computing Center (Norsk Regnesentral) from 1970 to 1990. It was unusual for a woman to hold such a high-ranking position at a time of male dominance in computing.
Berntsen's publications include a survey of early Norwegian computing developments titled "The Pioneer Era in Norwegian Scientific Computing (1948–1962)". and a biography of Kristen Nygaard, The Many Dimensions of Kristen Nygaard, Creator of Object-Oriented Programming and the Scandinavian School of System Development.
References
1939 births
Living people
Norwegian computer scientists
Norwegian women computer scientists
People from Eidsvoll
20th-century Norwegian women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond%20de%20Belamy | Edmond de Belamy is a generative adversarial network portrait painting constructed in 2018 by Paris-based arts-collective Obvious. Printed on canvas, the work belongs to a series of generative images called La Famille de Belamy. The name Belamy is a tribute to Ian Goodfellow, inventor of GANs; In French "bel ami" means "good friend" so it is a translated pun of Goodfellow. It achieved widespread notoriety after Christie's announced its intention to auction the piece as the first artwork created using artificial intelligence to be featured in a Christie's auction. It surpassed pre-auction estimates which valued it at $7,000 to $10,000, instead selling for $432,500.
The piece is a portrait of a somewhat-blurry man. It is a print on canvas measuring 27 x 27 in (700 x 700 mm.) set within a gilded wood frame. The image was created by an algorithm that referenced 15,000 portraits from various periods.
It is signed at the bottom right with , which is part of the algorithm code that produced it. The algorithm was trained on a set of 15,000 portraits from online art encyclopedia WikiArt, spanning the 14th to the 19th century.
The organization that produced it is called Obvious. It is a collective comprising three people, Pierre Fautrel, Hugo Caselles-Dupré and Gauthier Vernier, who are based in Paris, France.
The piece has been criticized because it was created using a generative adversarial network (GAN) software package based on prior research by others and implemented by Robbie Barrat, an AI artist who was not affiliated with Obvious, leading to allegations that Obvious contributed minimally to the final work product. Posts on the project's issue tracker show Obvious members requesting that Barrat provide support and custom features.
The piece has also been placed within a tradition, dating back to Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel of 1913 and Tinguely's Méta-matics of the late 1950s, of works calling into question the basis of the modern art market, and highlighting the comic aspects of technology.
Research has used Edmond de Belamy to show how anthropomorphizing AI can affect allocations of responsibility and credit to artists.
References
Further reading
2018 paintings
Artificial intelligence
Digital artworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozetta%20Zhilina | Rozetta Andreyevna Zhilina (; 8 June 1933, Leningrad – 11 December 2003, Snezhinsk) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and computer scientist.
Education
She graduated from the Mathematics and Mechanics department of the Leningrad State University in 1956, where one of her classmates was Anatoly Vershik.
Career
She worked at the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Of Technical Physics in the mathematical section.
After World War II, the Soviet Union began an ambitious program to develop their own computing technology, creating systems to rival those in the United States. Computer science research was often kept secret during the ongoing Cold War, but was seen as an important field nonetheless. From the 1960s to the 1980s, women represented half of the students in this area in Soviet universities and they later went on to work in the field, either as programmers or system designers.
Zhilina developed algorithms and computer programs for solving problems in physics, mechanics and the non-stationary thermal conductivity of complex nuclear weapons. Under her leadership, computer programs were developed to solve problems in the field of optimal trajectories of nuclear weapons, including their ballistics.
Awards and honours
She was a laureate of the USSR State Prize (1988), the Medal "For Labour Valour" (1962) and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1975).
Death
Zhilina died in Snezhinsk in 2003, and is interred in the town cemetery.
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1933 births
2003 deaths
20th-century Russian women scientists
Mathematicians from Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Russian computer programmers
Russian women computer scientists
Soviet computer scientists
Soviet women mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharla%20Boehm | Sharla Boehm, née Perrine, (1929 - 2023), Seattle) is an American computer scientist who carried out pioneering work in packet switching while working for the RAND Corporation in the 1960s.
Biography
Born in Seattle in 1929, Sharla Perrine moved to Santa Monica three years later. After graduating in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles, she taught mathematics and science in Santa Monica schools. She began to work at RAND in 1959 where she met her husband to be, Barry Boehm.
In 1964, together with her colleague Paul Baran, she published a paper titled "On Distributed Communications: II. Digital Simulation of Hot-Potato Routing in a Broadband Distributed Communications Network". As her name appears first in the original paper, she seems to have been the one who was behind the simulation programmed in Fortran, showing that packet switching (or "hot-potato routing" as it was called) could indeed work.
In RAND and the Information Evolution, Baran describes how Boehm carried out various simulations under different conditions, demonstrating that the protocol routed traffic efficiently. In particular, it was discovered that if half the network was destroyed, the remainder reorganized and began routing again in less than a second.
In a 1996 paper on "An Early Application Generator and Other Recollections", Barry Boehm notes that Sharla Boehm "had developed the original packet-switched network simulation with Paul Baran", a development which led him to become involved in the pioneering ARPAnet Working Group.
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Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
RAND Corporation people
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20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arenimonas%20subflava | Arenimonas subflava is a Gram-negative, aerobic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Arenimonas which has been isolated from a drinking water network from Budapest in Hungary.
References
Xanthomonadales
Bacteria described in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20spying%20on%20universities | Cyber spying on universities is the practice of obtaining secrets and information without the permission and knowledge of the university through its information technology system. Universities in the United Kingdom, including Oxford and Cambridge, have been targets, as have institutions in the US and Australia.
Universities are targets for cyber espionage due to the wealth of personally identifiable information they possess on students, employees, people who buy tickets to sporting events, and, if the university has an academic medical center, on patients treated there. Information about research projects with industrial or military application are also targets. The culture of information sharing within universities tends to make them easy targets.
Breaches can occur from people sharing credentials, phishing, web-crawlers inadvertently finding exposed access points, password cracking, and other standard hacking methods. University credentials are bought and sold on web forums, darknet markets and other black markets.
The result of such efforts have included theft of military research into missile design or stealth technologies, as well as medical data.
As a precaution against such attacks, Stanford University advises its employees to take IT precautions when they travel abroad.
Moreover, in March 2018, the U.S. charged and sanctioned nine Iranians and the Iranian company Mabna Institute for hacking and attempting to hack hundreds of universities on behalf of the Iranian government.
Credentials used by Sci-Hub to access paywalled scientific articles have been subsequently used by hackers seeking to breach university firewalls to access other information.
See also
List of data breaches
References
Cybercrime
Cyberwarfare
Types of espionage
Military intelligence collection
Hacking (computer security)
Information sensitivity
National security
Social engineering (computer security)
Computing terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20SMA | Microsoft Service Management Automation or Microsoft SMA is a software component of Microsoft Azure that allows users to manage SQL databases on servers through an instanced Linux application. It is one of the software applications developed by Microsoft to address the emerging technologies within cloud computing. The projects falls under the umbrella project of the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager suite of software applications. Updates are released on a semiannual basis. The software utilizes Azure Availability Zones for updates.
References
Systems Management Server
System administration
Remote administration software
Configuration management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Gilbert%20Saucier | Linda Phillips Gilbert Saucier (born 1948) is an American mathematician and textbook author, a distinguished professor emerita of mathematics and computer science at the University of South Carolina Upstate.
Education and career
Linda Phillips was the daughter of Rudd George Phillips, an education specialist for the United States Air Force.
She grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, and earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Louisiana Tech University in 1970, 1972, and 1977 respectively.
Her dissertation applied linear algebra to epidemiology; it was titled An application of the Jordan canonical form to the epidemic problem.
She also became a faculty member at Louisiana Tech with her husband and co-author, Jimmie Gilbert.
Her husband died in 2005.
She retired from the University of South Carolina Upstate and was given the distinguished professor emerita title in 2011.
Books
Under the name Linda Gilbert, she became the author of "more than 37 mathematics textbooks" including Elements of Modern Algebra, College Algebra, College Trigonometry, Precalculus, and Matrix Theory.
References
1948 births
Living people
People from Gulfport, Mississippi
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
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University of South Carolina Upstate faculty
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianxi%20Cai | Tianxi Cai () is a Chinese biostatistician. She is the John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Topics in her research include biomarkers, personalized medicine, survival analysis, and health informatics.
Education and career
Cai graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She earned her doctorate (Sc.D.) in biostatistics at Harvard University in 1999. Her dissertation, Correlated Survival, was supervised by Lee-Jen Wei.
She worked as an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington from 2000 to 2002, before returning to Harvard as a faculty member.
Recognition
Cai was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011.
Personal
Cai is the daughter of and sister of T. Tony Cai, also a statistician.
References
External links
Home page
1977 births
Living people
American women statisticians
Chinese statisticians
University of Science and Technology of China alumni
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni
University of Washington faculty
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Chinese women mathematicians
Scientists from Wenzhou
Mathematicians from Zhejiang
Educators from Wenzhou
American women mathematicians
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most-played%20mobile%20games%20by%20player%20count | This is a list of the most-played mobile games ordered by their player count, which include reported player data, registered accounts, and/or monthly active users. For non-mobile games, see the list of most-played video games by player count. Mobile games are defined as games that have only been released on mobile operating systems, particularly Android and iOS.
List
See also
List of best-selling video games
List of best-selling video game franchises
Notes
References
most-played
Games, mobile
mobile games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms%20Fisher%27s%20Modern%20Murder%20Mysteries | Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (also stylised as Ms Fisher's MODern Murder Mysteries) is an Australian television drama series which began screening on the Seven Network on 21 February 2019. The series is a spin-off of the drama series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, which was based on author Kerry Greenwood's series of Phryne Fisher detective novels.
Set in Melbourne in the mid-1960s, Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries revolves around the personal and professional life of Peregrine Fisher, daughter of Phryne’s half sister Annabelle (a result of an affair that Phryne’s father had), who inherits a fortune when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea. Peregrine sets out to become a world-class private detective in her own right, guided by a group of exceptional women in The Adventuresses' Club, of which her aunt was also a member.
The series is produced by Beth Frey and directed by Fiona Banks, with Deb Cox, Samantha Winston, Chelsea Cassio and Jo Martino serving as writers for the series. Creators Fiona Eagger and Deb Cox also serve as executive producers.
A second season was commissioned by Acorn TV on 28 July 2020, which premiered on 7 June 2021 and concluded 19 July 2021.
Cast
Geraldine Hakewill as Peregrine Fisher
Joel Jackson as Detective James Steed
Catherine McClements as Birdie Birnside
James Mason as Eric Wild
Toby Truslove as Samuel Birnside
Louisa Mignone as Violetta Fellini
Greg Stone as Chief Inspector Percy Sparrow
Katie Robertson as Constable Fleur Connor
Madeline Davies as Linda Wade
Emma Hamilton as Sally Whedon
Episodes
Series 1 (2019)
For the UK broadcast, on the Drama channel commencing in January 2020, each episode was split into two parts.
Series 2 (2021)
References
External links
Every Cloud Productions
2019 Australian television series debuts
Australian television spin-offs
2010s Australian drama television series
English-language television shows
Seven Network original programming
Television series set in the 1960s
Acorn TV original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Studer | Thomas Studer (born April 4, 1972), is Professor at the Computer Science Institute at the University of Bern. He is a specialist in logic and theoretical computer science.
He has a degree in mathematics, computer science, and philosophy from the University of Bern; he earned his PhD in 2011. He was the senior software engineer at Crosspoint Informatik before joining the faculty at the university.
He is elected presidium member of the Platform Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics of the Swiss Academy of Science.
Since 2014 he is president of the Swiss Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science.
Bibliography
Relationale Datenbanken - Von den theoretischen Grundlagen zu Anwendungen mit PostgreSQL (2016, Springer Vieweg)
Kahle, Reinhard, Strahm, Thomas, Studer, Thomas (eds.): Advances in Proof Theory (2016, Birkhäuser)
Guram Bezhanishvili, Giovanna D'Agostino, George Metcalfe and Thomas Studer (eds.): Advances in Modal Logic - Volume 12 (2018 College Publication)
References
Living people
Computer science writers
1972 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micree%20Zhan | Micree Zhan or Zhan Ketuan (; born 29 January 1979) is a Chinese electronics engineer and businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO (with Wu Jihan) of Bitmain, the world's largest computer chip company for cryptocurrency mining. In 2018, Hurun Report named him the richest cryptocurrency billionaire in the world. In 2019, Bloomberg ranked Zhan as the world's 9th richest self-made billionaire aged 40 or younger, with a net worth of US$5.2 billion.
Early life and education
Zhan Ketuan was born on 29 January 1979 in Minhou County, Fujian, China.
After graduating from Minhou No. 1 High School, he entered Shandong University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering in 2001. He then earned his master's degree in microelectronics engineering from the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004.
Career
After earning his master's degree, Zhan worked as an engineer at the Information Technology Research Institute at Tsinghua University. He later started his own business making set-top boxes for television.
In 2013, Zhan met up with Wu Jihan, an enthusiast for cryptocurrency. After hours of discussion and research, Zhan agreed to start Bitmain with Wu. The company quickly grew into the world's largest computer chip company for bitcoin mining, reporting US$2.5 billion in revenue in 2017. As of 2018, Zhan owns 36% of Bitmain, and Wu 20%.
In Hurun Report's inaugural Blockchain Rich List 2018, Zhan was named the richest cryptocurrency entrepreneur in the world, with an estimated net worth of 29.5 billion yuan (US$4.3 billion), while Wu was ranked second. In February 2019, Bloomberg ranked Zhan as the world's 9th richest self-made billionaire aged 40 or younger, with a net worth of US$5.2 billion. As of June 2019, he is listed as the world's 311th richest person in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with $5.42 billion.
Personal life
As of 2019, Zhan is single and has no children. He lives in Beijing.
References
1979 births
Living people
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
Billionaires from Fujian
Businesspeople from Fuzhou
Chinese chief executives
Chinese electronics engineers
Chinese technology company founders
Engineers from Fujian
People associated with Bitcoin
Shandong University alumni
Academic staff of Tsinghua University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-5-ZB-TV | D-5-ZB-TV is a commercial television station owned by GMA Network Inc. Its transmitter are located at Purok 3, Brgy. Buhangin, Baler, Aurora.
GMA TV-5 Baler programs
One North Central Luzon - flagship afternoon newscast in Filipino language (simulcast on TV-10 Dagupan)
Mornings with GMA Regional TV - flagship morning newscast in Filipino language simulcast on GMA TV-10 Dagupan
Area of coverage
Primary areas
Baler
Aurora
Secondary areas
Parts of Nueva Ecija
Parts of Bulacan (most specifically Doña Remedios Trinidad and Norzagaray)
Parts of Quezon (including General Nakar, Infanta, Real, & Polillo Islands)
Parts of Rodriguez, Rizal
Parts of Nueva Vizcaya
Quirino
References
See also
DZEA-TV
DZBB-TV
List of GMA Network stations
Television channels and stations established in 1999
GMA Network stations
Television stations in Aurora (province)
1999 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWNS-TV | DWNS-TV, channel 10, is a commercial television station owned by GMA Network Inc. Its transmitter is located at Upper Mabayuan, Olongapo.
GMA TV-10 Olongapo programs
One North Central Luzon (Formerly as Balitang Amianan) - flagship afternoon newscast in Filipino language (simulcast on TV-10 Dagupan)
Mornings with GMA Regional TV - flagship morning newscast in Filipino language simulcast on GMA TV-10 Dagupan
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 38 (617.143 MHz)
Area of coverage
Primary areas
Olongapo
Zambales
Secondary areas
Portion of Bataan
Portion of Pampanga
References
See also
DZEA-TV
DZBB-TV
List of GMA Network stations
Digital television stations in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 1984
GMA Network stations
Television stations in Olongapo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOORS%20Extension%20Language | DOORS Extension Language (DXL) is a scripting language used to extend the functionality of IBM's Rational DOORS. This programming language is somewhat similar to C and C++. This language is specific to DOORS, and it has its own syntax, declaration, a forum to discuss the development, in addition to the specific reference manuals. DXL scripts were utilized to help the users of DOORS. Much of the native DOORS GUI is written in DXL.
DXL is used in the client-server based "DOORS Classic"; it is not used in the newer web-based "DOORS Next Generation".
Usage of DXL
There are several of ways to use the DXL in the Rational DOORS.
"Editor DXL" is DXL typed into the DXL Editor window and run from there. It may or may not also be saved in some file. This DXL typically has some user interface, if only print statements.
"Menu DXL" is stored in Files and appear in DOORS windows, either the Explorer or open Module. The files must be of type , the files and the housing folders must be set up to display DOORS menus. It is otherwise like DXL Editor DXL.
"Attribute DXL" is stored in an Attribute Definition and saved in a Module. It has the context of a single object. When the object-attr-value is retrieved (including being displayed) the code runs and calculates the value for that object. Calculated values are not saved in the module. Attr-DXL should be written to run without user interface and complete without any pauses.
"Layout DXL" is defined in a Column and saved in a module's View. It runs for an object when that object's layout column is displayed in the GUI. It is otherwise similar to Attr-DXL. Layout DXL can be generated by the traceability Wizard, and can be converted to Attr-DXL. .
"Batch DXL" is stored in files. It runs when DOORS is run in (background) batch mode as either "Batch", "DXL", or "CLE" code defined in the batch process's command line. Since Batch mode as no GUI loaded, so DXL running in batch has some restrictions on what can run or how it is run, certainly it can have no GUI.
"Trigger DXL" is defined in a "Trigger" and stored either in a Module, a Project, or in the Database root. There is no native interface for Triggers; a file-based DXL is needed to create or delete the Trigger. When the Trigger's specified Event occurs (such as Opening a Module) any Triggers associated with that event run in order of priority. There are some restrictions on what can run inside a Trigger, but it can and often does have some Interface (typically asking the user to proceed or not). "Post" event trigger run after the event; "Pre" event triggers run before the event and can prevent the event from happening. The most common types of events are opening/closing a module, selecting a new object, or saving an object-attr value. Dynamic triggers are not stored and exist only while DOORS is running on the client computer. A typical dynamic trigger would be a post-module-close trigger that will close a GUI (such as a "print" dialog) as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leysia%20Palen | Leysia Palen is an American computer scientist known for her contributions to human–computer interaction and disaster informatics. She is a professor of computer science, professor of information science, and founding chair of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder. At Colorado, she directs a research project titled "Empowering the Public with Information during Crisis", and is co-director of the Center for Software & Society. She also holds an adjunct affiliation with the University of Agder, and is a member of the CHI Academy.
Contributions
Palen's research involves searching for "ways in which we can communicate uncertainty and probability and risk to the public" and translating that information into recommendations on how disaster victims should respond.
She has also studied the ways that people use social media during disasters.
According to Palen, the first uses of these platforms in these ways came during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, and their use has become much more widespread since then. Her tips for using social media in emergency situations include being specific about locations and conditions, avoiding trying to remain emotionless and unaffected, and helping to gather and check information when not directly affected.
Education and career
Palen studied computer science and psychology at the University of Stirling from 1988 to 1989, and graduated in 1991 from the University of California, San Diego with a bachelor's degree in cognitive science. After working for two years for Boeing, she returned to graduate study at the University of California, Irvine, in what at that time was the Department of Information and Computer Science, earning a master's degree in 1995 and a Ph.D. in 1998. Her work in this time frame also included internships at Microsoft and Xerox PARC.
Palen came to the University of Colorado Boulder as an assistant research professor in 1998, and moved to the regular-rank faculty there in 2004. She was promoted to full professor in 2015, the same year that she became founding chair of the Department of Information Science.
Recognition
In 2015, Palen won the SIGCHI Social Impact Award.
Palen was elected to the CHI Academy in 2016.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of California, San Diego alumni
University of California, Irvine alumni
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Trinidad%20and%20Tobago | Trinidad and Tobago is located in the Atlantic Time Zone (UTC−04:00). The twin island nation does not observe daylight saving time.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database Trinidad and Tobago has the following time zone:
America/Port_of_Spain
References
Time zones
Trinidad and Tobago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeilbach | Zeilbach may refer to:
Zeilbach, Feldatal, a district of the community Feldatal in Hesse, Germany
Zeilbach (Werra), a river of Thuringia, Germany, tributary of the Werra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Pro%20%283rd%20generation%29 | The third generation of iPad Pro is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. Two models, with a 12.9 inch or 11 inch screen, were both announced on October 30, 2018, and were available to purchase on November 7. This generation of iPad Pro was the first iPad compatible with the new (second generation) Apple Pencil stylus. Like the second generation, a larger size and stylus compatibility were a point of difference from the rest of Apple's available iPads, but the third generation iPad Pro was also the first iPad to use facial recognition (Face ID) to unlock the device.
Upgrades from the second generation iPad Pro include the more powerful A12X Bionic processor, storage capacity up to 16 terabytes and the larger display of the 11 inch model (upgraded from a 10.5 inch model). The third generation iPad Pro also premiered a new design, with a screen that covers more of the front face, and has rounded corners.
Features
The redesigned iPad Pro was announced on October 30, 2018, during an Apple Special Event at the Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, New York. The 2018 models feature new edge-to-edge Liquid Retina displays, Face ID, improved 12 megapixel and 7 megapixel cameras, USB-C connector, and Apple A12X Bionic processors. The tablets are offered in 11-inch and 12.9-inch sizes, and are the first iPad models to offer tap-to-wake LCD displays (following the iPhone X), and up to 1 TB of internal storage. The 1 TB models featured more RAM than the smaller storage sizes with an increase to 6 GB, up from 4 GB. These devices are the first iPads to feature a USB Type-C connector, replacing Apple's proprietary Lightning connector, and the 12.9” iPad Pro gained eSIM for the first time (which had been present on all generations of the smaller 11” iPad Pros). The third-generation iPad Pro lacked a home button and a headphone jack, a first for the iPad lineup. Additionally, the tablets lack Touch ID, which has been superseded by Face ID using a sensor array on the top bezel. Unlike iPhone models featuring Face ID until iOS 16, the third-generation iPad Pro can unlock in any orientation. The tablets were released on November 7, 2018, only available in Silver and Space Gray as the Gold and Rose Gold finishes from the previous generation have been removed. The 3rd-generation iPad Pro were notably the thinnest iPad yet at 5.9 mm thick.
Reception
The 2018 iPad Pro models were praised for their improved displays, slimmer bezels, the addition of Face ID and general speed improvements. Ben Sin from Forbes noted that although the screen is still an LCD screen, the 120 Hz refresh rate makes it feel more responsive. The switch to a USB-C connector received a mixed response; easier external monitor support and more universal device charging were added at the cost of extra dongles to use older cables and headphones. Some reviewers noted that although the hardware updates are great steps forward, iOS's limitations, including the lack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalex | Datalex is a public software developer headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. It works mostly with airlines to develop travel software, such as booking websites, and counts LATAM, easyJet, Virgin Australia, Air China and JetBlue among its customers. It is a publicly listed company on Euronext Dublin.
History
Early years (1980s-2012)
A precursor to Datalex was Channel Automation Services (CAS), a company started by Scottish businessman Neil Wilson in 1983. In 1984, IDA Ireland asked Wilson if he would set up an Irish office in Dublin. The next year, Wilson sold his stake in CCS and founded Datalex with IDA grants. To begin with, Datalex produced check-in and reservations technology but the decline of the airline industry in the late 1980s focused the company on global distribution systems. At first, the company sold services to larger pre-existing global distribution companies, such as Sabre and Sita but by 1998, Datalex had grown to be major firm of the travel industry in its own right. At that time, an estimated one-sixth of the world's travel agents used Datalex technology in day-to-day bookings and reservations. The next year, Datalex floated itself on the Nasdaq and London stock exchanges and raised $30 million in private funds.
Brogan era (2012-2019)
In 2012, Aidan Brogan took over as CEO after Cormac Whelan stepped down, aiming to stem the annual losses that Datalex had been suffering for several years.
By 2013, Datalex had produced an annual profit of $1.1m and the next year, announced its first shareholder dividend in the company's 29-year history. Datalex opened a new office in Beijing in 2014 in an effort to access the growth of the Chinese market.
2017 saw an increased net profit of $7.1m and revenue of $63.9m due to new contracts with international deals with Chinese and European airlines.
On the British exit from the EU, Brogan commented that as the company was "geographically spread", it had "in-built resilience" to "local issues such as Brexit". He stated that the company's Manchester office, where around 40 people are employed, would stay open but also noted that the Brexit negotiations were "not helpful for anybody".
In September 2018, Datalex's CFO, David Kennedy announced he would step down at the end of the year, ending an 11-year stint at the company. The next month, Datalex signed a deal with Scandinavian Airlines to improve the airline's digital strategy.
Revenue irregularities (2019-2020)
On 15 January 2019, Datalex issued a shock profit warning revealing it had misstated revenues in relation to a major customer (thought to be Lufthansa) in the first half of the previous year. Datalex warned that it expected to report an adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) loss of between $1m (€870,000) and $4m (€3.5m), compared with the consensus view among analyst for an almost $16m profit (€14.1m). This represents a difference of as much as $20m (€17.6m) and would result in the company maki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20Robotics%20Institute | The Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI) is an interdisciplinary division within the University of Oxford. It is dedicated to researching robotics, artificial intelligence, systems engineering, and other related fields. The ORI is a subsidiary of the Department of Engineering Science.
Information engineering Professor Paul Newman is the current director of the ORI.
Sub-divisions (Labs)
The ORI is divided into five groups, each with a different specialisation.
Mobile Robotics Group (MRG): navigation systems, autonomous vehicles. This group is headed by Paul Newman, who is also the founder of Oxbotica.
Applied AI Lab (A2I): artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Dynamic Robot Systems Group (DRS): control, motion planning, mapping, and navigation for dynamically moving robots.
Goal-Oriented Long-Lived Systems (GOALS): long-term autonomy and planning for robots operating for long periods of time in uncertain dynamic environments.
Estimation, Search & Planning Group (ESP): algorithm design for estimation, search and path planning of mobile robots.
Soft Robotics Lab: explores how compliance in the robot body can be exploited for dealing with task and environment uncertainty and for interacting with humans.
Activities
Among the ORI's projects are various autonomous vehicles as a part of the Mobile Robotics Group's Robotcar project. There have been various iterations of the hardware and software used in these experiments. The first vehicle used as a research platform by the Mobile Robotics Group was a Bowler Wildcat provided by BAE Systems in 2011. Since then, various Land Rovers as well as other models (such as the Nissan Leaf) have been used as subsequent generations of research platforms.
References
Robotics organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritika%20Dutt | Ritika Dutt is a Canadian entrepreneur. She is the CEO and co-founder of the legal artificial intelligence company Botler AI. In December 2019, Dutt was named as the only Canadian in the Forbes' 30 Under 30 2020 Law and Policy List.
Early life and education
Dutt was born in India, spent her childhood in Hong Kong and her teenage years in Singapore. In 2009, she moved to Montréal, Canada to attend McGill University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science in 2013.
Early career
After graduating from McGill, Dutt headed the marketing department of a Y Combinator startup. She then took over the internal operations of Notman House, Montreal's Google for Entrepreneurs tech hub, where she fostered the local startup community by supporting and promoting innovative ventures and initiatives.
Using her background in economics and innovation, Dutt then co-founded Botler AI in 2017 to enhance accessibility to the legal system, through artificial intelligence.
Experience with workplace sexual harassment
Prior to co-founding Botler, Dutt found herself faced with a stalker during a terrifying, months-long ordeal. The man showed up at her workplace everyday, stalked her on social media to learn of her location, and even followed her to her home. Though fearful, Dutt found herself making excuses thinking "It’s all in my head" or "I don't know if something is really wrong or if I'm too sensitive". She didn't know what her rights were, what she should do, or if the man's actions were illegal. The experience left her feeling trapped and Dutt struggled to call it what it was: stalking, or criminal harassment in Canadian law.
Months later, after the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations and ensuing spread of the #MeToo movement, Dutt started researching the relevant legal codes and learned what had happened to her was a crime. She gained confidence from learning there was a legal basis to what she had felt and that she had been justified with her discomfort.
Dutt realized that sexual harassment was a far bigger issue than imagined and found herself angered thinking “How many people think they can do this and get away with it?".
Botler AI
In December 2017, motivated to take action by her personal experiences, Dutt led Botler AI to launch a free tool to help survivors of sexual harassment determine whether their rights had been violated. The tool was aimed as an impartial resource to empower the average person through information and education, without fear of judgment.
Dutt's premise was that, unlike humans, a robot has no prejudice of race, gender, sexual orientation or socio-economic background, would never ask “What were you wearing?” or “How many drinks did you have?”, and therefore provided an emotion- and judgement-free neutral tool to complainants. The Artificial Intelligence system, which also used deep learning, was trained using over 300,000 court documents from Canada and the United States. Natural language pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Time%20Series%20Analysis | The Journal of Time Series Analysis is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering mathematical statistics as it relates to the analysis of time series data. It was established in 1980 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. The editor-in-chief is Robert Taylor (University of Essex). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.208, ranking it 94th out of 108 journals in the category "Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications" and 88th out of 125 in the category "Statistics & Probability".
References
External links
Statistics journals
Probability journals
Wiley (publisher) academic journals
Academic journals established in 1980
Bimonthly journals
English-language journals
Time series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Braverman | Amy J. Braverman is an American statistician who analyzes remote sensing data and climate models as a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
She has also served as co-chair of the Climate Change Policy Advisory Committee of the American Statistical Association.
Education
Braverman graduated from Swarthmore College in 1982, with a bachelor's degree in economics. From 1983 to 1991 she worked in litigation support consulting in Los Angeles before studying statistics. She went to the University of California, Los Angeles for graduate study, earning a master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in statistics in 1999. Her dissertation, A Rate-distortion Approach to Massive Data Set Analysis, was advised by Don Ylvisaker.
Recognition
In 2012, the American Statistical Association named Braverman as a fellow "for contributions to environmental statistics, particularly in the interface between massive-data reduction and remote sensing; and for service to the statistics community in climate research and policy".
In 2022, she was awarded the senior research scientist designation at JPL for her work in statistical methods and uncertainty quantification for remote sensing data. In January 2023, Braverman became the Chair for the SIAM Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification.
References
Further reading
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
Swarthmore College alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Hu | Xiaoqiong Joan Hu is a Chinese and Canadian statistician. Her research has involved pseudolikelihood, estimating functions, missing data, and varied applications of statistics. She is a professor of statistics at Simon Fraser University.
Education and career
Hu earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1983 and a master's degree in probability and statistics in 1987, both from Peking University.
She completed her Ph.D. in 1995 at the University of Waterloo with Jerry Lawless as her doctoral advisor. Her dissertation was Estimation from Truncated Data with Supplementary Information, with Applications to Field Reliability.
After postdoctoral research at Health Canada and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she taught at the University of Memphis from 1998 to 2003, also holding an adjunct position at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. She moved to Simon Fraser University in 2003,
and in 2017 added an affiliated position with the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus).
Recognition
Hu won the Pierre Robillard Award for 1996 for the best doctoral dissertation in statistics in Canada. In 1998, with Jerry Lawless and Kazuyuki Suzuki, she won the Frank Wilcoxon Prize.
Hu has been an elected member of the International Statistical Institute since 2007.
In 2012, the American Statistical Association named Hu as a fellow "for outstanding contributions to statistical methods for incomplete data analysis, statistical monitoring and the analysis of stochastic process data; for excellence in statistical applications in biomedical research and reliability; and for outstanding service to the profession".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian statisticians
Chinese statisticians
Women statisticians
Peking University alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
University of Memphis faculty
Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quahl | Quahl ( ), formerly known as Initiative Q, was an attempt to create a new payment network and digital currency. It was created by Israeli entrepreneur Saar Wilf, who previously founded Fraud Sciences, a payment security company acquired by PayPal. Quahl is backed by Cato Institute economist Lawrence H. White. The initiative has indicated it will not take measures to evade state regulation.
Quahl's goal is to create a new payment system rather than replace payment cards and paper money. It is "creating a new currency (Quahl) and distributing it to anyone who helps speed up adoption." Quahl is not a cryptocurrency and is not decentralized, but will instead be overseen by an independent monetary committee, similar to a central bank.
Since 2018 Quahl has been giving away free amounts of Q currency to people who join the network, which is by invite only, and the amount of money drops as more people join the network and will stop on the launch date. It has been said that each Q has a value around one US dollar. "The more people join the network, the more value it has."
Marketing and rollout
Registering for Quahl is marketed through multi-level marketing. The currency reserved for registrants will not be released until a critical mass of adopters identify themselves. In November 2018, Vox.com reported that more than two million people had signed up in 180 countries. Later the same month, O Globo reported more than five million registrations, and The Times of India reported that countries with large numbers of registrations included India, Brazil, United States and United Kingdom.
Criticism
In October 2018, Frank Chung of news.com.au wrote that the marketing style could be "perceived as a scam or pyramid scheme" and Daniel Huszák of portfolio.hu compared it to multi-level marketing without the fee. Huszák enumerated potential problems with the scheme such as no clear crypto-currency security measures, unclear transaction/exchange costs, and potential for market manipulation by the largest holders of currency. Owen Gough of Digital Spy wrote
"Is Initiative Q real or fake? Short answer – we have absolutely no idea."
In contrast, Brendan Markey-Tower, economist at the University of Queensland, said on Stuff.co.nz in November 2018 that it was "not a scam" and that the scheme wouldn't "make you fabulously wealthy. It is, nonetheless, an interesting idea."
Cessation
In November 2021, Quahl's main site and app announced the pause of new subscriptions for now as the size of the community (10 million users) and its growth was not sufficient to launch a new currency. It said it was investigating possible ways to move forward in a way that would bring value to the community, and if it did not find a reasonable option, it would delete all user data. As of November 2022 the project is no longer live and all personal information has been permanently erased.
References
External links
Payment systems
Digital currencies
Multi-level marketing products
2018 est |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20presence%20detection | Human presence detection is a range of technologies and methods for detecting the presence of a human body in an area of interest (AOI), or verification that computer, smartphone (or other device controlled by software) is operated by human.
Software and hardware technologies are used for human presence detection. Unlike human sensing, that is dealing with human body only, human presence detection technologies are used to verify for safety, security or other reasons that human person, but not any other object is identified. Methods can be used for internet security authentication. These include software technologies such CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, as well as hardware technologies such as:
Radar technology
Image recognition of human shapes
Security switch
Fingerprint sensors
Infrared detectors
Acoustic sensors
Vibration sensors
Examples
reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed to establish that a computer user is human (normally in order to protect websites from bots) and, at the same time, assist in the digitization of books.
A sensor based on a piezoelectric film (EMFI sensor) is used to detect mechanical vibrations and the presence of a person seated on the rear bench of a vehicle. In order to distinguish between humans, heavy objects, and empty seats, signal processing techniques are used.
History
The first robot to successfully demonstrate a static motion detection capability was ROBART I, which was Everett's 1981 thesis project at the Naval Postgraduate School.
In 1997 CAPTCHA ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") was invented. This test is used to ensure that computer is operated by a human, preventing spam robots.
See also
References
Sensors
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia%20Weir | Sylvia Weir (1925–2018) was a paediatrician who worked on artificial intelligence. She pioneered the use of robotics in autism therapy.
Early life and education
Weir was born in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa. Her parents, Rachel Smith and Abraham Leiman, ran a shop. Weir studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, graduating with a degree in medicine in 1950. She was a resident in Coronation Hospital, specialising in internal medicine and paediatrics. She worked as a paediatrician in South Africa. She became an activist and protested against apartheid, and left South Africa for the UK.
Career
Weir was a medical resident in Scotland, joining the University of Edinburgh in 1974 as a researcher working on artificial intelligence. She moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 to work with Seymour Papert. Here she looked at initiatives to bring computers to education, particularly for exceptional children; the physically handicapped, autistic and those with specific learning disabilities. She was a pioneer in how robotics can be used for autism therapy. She demonstrated that the communication of a seven year old autistic child was catalysed by using a LOGO programmed remote control device. She worked with MIT and the Technical Education Research Centers. She looked at the Brookline LOGO Project, a computer based learning system for people with disabilities, and how children used it in elementary schools. From 1985 to 1986 she held weekly meetings to look at how young people could study fractions. She looked at how children with cerebral palsy could use computer based learning. One of the non-verbal students she helped went on to study at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was a member of the Cerebral Palsy project, looking at how to maximise spatial and linguistic skills.
She met Aaron Motsoaledi and discussed opening the Mathematics, Science and Technology Education College for South African teachers. Weir moved back to Pietersburg at the age of 76. She was present for the first graduation of teachers. She retired to East Sussex. Weir established the charity Friends of Mponegele AIDS Orphans (FOMAO).
References
1925 births
2018 deaths
University of the Witwatersrand alumni
South African paediatricians
Artificial intelligence researchers
South African emigrants to the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Kiguru | Catherine Kiguru is a Kenyan computer scientist, entrepreneur and corporate executive, who is the founder and chief executive officer of Ukall Limited, a Nairobi-based software applications company that she established in 2011.
Early life and education
Catherine Kiguru was born in Kenya, in a family of four siblings. By age 14, she had lost both her parents. She attended local primary schools, before she was admitted to Mary Hill High School, in Thika, Kiambu County, Kenya. She obtained her High School Diploma in 2004.
While in high school, she decided she wanted to study computer science after high school. The challenge was that she had decided not to carry physics and was weak in mathematics. With those odds stacked against her, she went and pleaded her case at the Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology. She was admitted on the condition that she would pass all her classes and tests in physics. She graduated in 2007 with a Diploma n Computer Studies.
Career
While completing her diploma course, she interned at the Kiambu Water & Sewerage Company, in the town of Kiambu, about , by road, north of the central business district of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. When she completed her diploma course, the town of Kiambu employed her full-time. While there, she automated the Kiambu Water & Sewerage Company's billing system, improving their efficiency in distributing and tracking customer water bills in Kiambu County.
After a stint as a "relationship counselor" at KenCall, a call centre in Nairobi, Catherine was hired by Tracom International, a software development company, working in their customer support department as a software developer. She worked there for two years.
In December 2010, she developed "Akida", a mobile software application that uses GPS data and biometric characteristics to verify a person's location. She pitched the application to a corporate client, who bought into the concept. In January 2011, Ukall Limited was launched. By June 2016, the company employed seven full-time staff members and had clients in seven countries, including Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda and the United Kingdom. Her investment partner in Ukall Limited is Paul Rees, a chartered accountant.
Other considerations
In 2013, Catherine Kiguru won the Best female entrepreneur ward at the GIST East Africa Startup camp.
References
External links
Website of Ukall Limited
Meet Ukall: providing HR Solutions for organisations that employ a large workforce As of 2 July 2012.
Living people
1987 births
Kenyan computer scientists
21st-century Kenyan businesswomen
21st-century Kenyan businesspeople
Kenyan chief executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFPT-FM | CFPT-FM (106.5 FM, 106.5 Elmnt FM) is an Indigenous radio station in Toronto, Ontario. Owned by First Peoples Radio, a subsidiary of Dadan Sivunivut, it broadcasts music and talk programming targeting the First Nations community, with the former focusing upon both contemporary and indigenous musicians. The station launched on October 24, 2018 as a replacement for the city's Voices Radio station.
History
In June 2017, the CRTC awarded licences for five new Indigenous radio stations in Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Toronto to replace the Voices Radio network (whose licenses were revoked in 2015 due to long-term compliance issues). The Ottawa (CFPO-FM) and Toronto licences were awarded to First Peoples Radio, a subsidiary of APTN, with the Toronto station inheriting Voices Radio's 106.5 FM frequency.
In June 2018, it was announced that the two First Peoples Radio stations would brand as Elmnt FM, and air a mixture of music and talk programming, including popular pop, rock, and R&B music. At least 25% of the music played by the station will be by indigenous Canadian musicians. Métis musician Janet Panic was announced as the Toronto station's evening host.
The station officially launched on October 24, 2018 as CFPT-FM.
In January 2022, broadcasters Mark Strong and Jemeni joined the station as cohosts of its morning show.
References
External links
FPT
Radio stations established in 2018
2018 establishments in Ontario
FPT
Indigenous peoples in Toronto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Enterprise%20Defense%20Infrastructure | The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract was a large United States Department of Defense cloud computing contract which has been reported as being worth $10 billion over ten years. JEDI was meant to be a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) implementation of existing technology, while providing economies of scale to DoD.
Controversy
Companies interested in the contract included Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle. After protests from Google employees, Google decided to drop out of contention for the contract because of conflict with its corporate values. The deal was considered "gift-wrapped for Amazon" until Oracle (co-chaired by Safra Catz) contested the contract, citing the National Defense Authorization Act over IDIQ contracts and the conflicts of interest from Deap Ubhi, who worked for Amazon both before and after his time in the Department of Defense. This led Eric G. Bruggink, senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, to place the contract award on hold.
In August 2019, weeks before the winner was expected to be announced, President Donald Trump ordered the contract placed on hold again for Defense Secretary Mark Esper to investigate complaints of favoritism towards Amazon. In October 2019, it was announced that the contract was awarded to Microsoft. Media has noted Trump's dislike towards Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, a newspaper critical of Trump. According to Bezos, Trump "used his power to 'screw Amazon' out of the JEDI Contract". The JEDI contract was awarded to Microsoft on October 25, 2019, the DoD announced, but AWS filed documents with the Court of Federal Claims on November 22, 2019 challenging the award; its legal strategy included calling Trump to testify.
A federal judge, Patricia Campbell-Smith, halted Microsoft's work on the project on February 13, 2020, a day before the system was scheduled to go live, awaiting a resolution in Amazon's suit. She said that Amazon's claims are reasonable and "is likely to succeed on the merits of its argument that the DOD improperly evaluated" Microsoft's offer. As a result, the DOD was forced by a federal judge to reopen bidding for the contract. In the wake of that reopening, Amazon has filed additional protests related to modifications which have been made to selected sections of the contract. Recent DOD legal filings have stated that the final award of the contract cannot take place until at least August 17, and may yet be delayed beyond that date as well. On September 4, 2020, the Department of Defense reaffirmed that Microsoft won the JEDI Cloud contract after the reevaluation of the proposal, stating that Microsoft's proposal continues to represent the best value to the government. DISA/CCPO (Defense Information Systems Agency/Cloud Computing Program Office) had not yet begun work, as of May 29, 2021, while Microsoft continued to mark time before an implementation. In the meantime the several departments (Army, Navy, Air |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personetics%20Technologies | Personetics Technologies is a financial technology (fintech) software company headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company's product uses artificial intelligence to analyze bank's customer transaction data in real-time and use this analysis to deliver financial management information.
History
Personetics was founded in 2011 by David Sosna and David Govrin. It offers services to big banks aiming to modernize their services, particularly in developing on-demand services. The company's AI-based engagement platform provides data-drive personalization, customer management, and money managements to these global financial institutions that are facing increasing competitions from neobanks, or online-only direct banks. It effectively operates through Consumer Data Right (CDR), an element in open banking that empowers consumers to get their banks share their personal data with fintechs.
In 2021, the company secured an $85-million funding, raising its valuation to more than $160 million.
References
Companies based in Tel Aviv
2011 establishments in Israel
Financial technology companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavukkadi%20Chandrakantha | Chavukkadi Chandrakantha () is a 1960 Indian Tamil language film directed by M. Radhakrishnan. The film stars T. S. Balaiah and Sowkar Janaki.
Plot
Cast
The following list is adapted from the database of Film News Anandan
Male cast
T. S. Balaiah
T. K. Ramachandran
Jagadheesan
Veerappa
Radhakrishnan
Female cast
Sowcar Janaki
Vanaja
Tambaram Lalitha
Production
The film was produced and directed by M. Radhakrishnan under the banner Aruna Films. The story was written by J. Rangaraj and A. L. Narayanan wrote the dialogues. Cinematography was done by N. Prabhakar while the editing was done by B. V. Manickam. Art direction was by C. Ramraj. A. K. Chopra, Chinni Sampath handled the choreography. Still photography was done by R. N. Rangaraja Rao.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by G. Ramanathan while the lyrics were penned by A. Maruthakasi, A. L. Narayanan, Udumalai Narayana Kavi, Ka. Mu. Sheriff and Ku. Ma. Balasubramaniam. Playback singers are P. Leela, A. G. Rathnamala, P. Susheela, K. Jamuna Rani, Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi, K. Rani, P. B. Srinivas and Thiruchi Loganathan.
References
External links
Indian black-and-white films
1960s Tamil-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingo%20Industries | Bingo Industries is an Australian waste management and recycling company founded by the Tartak family in 2005. With Headquarters in Sydney, Australia and network across Melbourne, Australia the Company operates residential and commercial waste services, recycling services and bin manufacturing through subsidiary company TORO Waste Equipment Its origins were formed in 2005 when Tony Tartak purchased a small skip bin company.
The company was floated on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2017, becoming a public company with a launch share price of $1.85, earning its founders around $452 million whilst retaining a 30 percent stake. Prior to its float, it held a 24 percent share in the building and demolition waste market.
In 2018, Bingo Industries acquired Dial A Dump for $578 million. The transaction was approved by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission in February 2019. In April 2021, Bingo Industries was purchased by Macquarie Group.
In October 2022 the former CEO of Bingo Industries, Daniel Tartak, pleaded guilty to criminal cartel offences over price fixing in Sydney in 2019.
References
External links
Australian companies established in 2005
Companies formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
Companies based in Sydney
Waste companies established in 2005
Waste management companies of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Peter%20Bull | Hans Peter Bull (born 17 October 1936) is a German constitutional lawyer and jurist. He served between 1978 and 1985 as West Germany's first Federal Commissioner for Data Protection. It was widely believed that he was appointed at the eleventh hour only after the anticipated appointee, Spiros Simitis, had turned the job down because previously agreed levels of resourcing were dramatically cut at the last minute. Bull took on the job in an atmosphere of continuing scepticism over the levels of government commitment to data protection and Information Technology legislation more generally.
Life
Bull was born at Lübben (Spreewald), a small town in the marshy countryside to the south of Berlin. Hans-Joachim Bull (1906–1977), his father, was a lawyer and a judge whom Bull has described (in print) as "a self-confident choleric man with rigid principles, most of which dated back to the days of the kaiser...". The family - Hans Peter Bull, his two-year-old sister, the parents and his grandmother - fled Lübben on 19 April 1945 as the Red army advanced from the east. Under Soviet Military Administration they were obliged to return to their point of departure, but two years later they made a successful escape attempt, now exchanging life in the Soviet occupation zone for the British occupation zone. By 1947 they had ended up in Hamburg which is where Bull attended secondary school. After successfully completing his school career he had difficulty deciding whether he should pursue a career in journalism or in the law. In the end he opted for the law, although he continued to be actively involved in journalism as well. Between 1956 and 1960 he studied Jurisprudence at Hamburg, Marburg and at the Free University of Berlin. He also spent some time as an intern with Die Zeit, a weekly national newspaper published in Hamburg. He received his doctorate of law in 1963 for a piece of work concerned with "Verwaltung durch Maschinen. Rechtsprobleme der Technisierung der Verwaltung" ("Administration using machines. Legal problems with the mechanisation of administration"). Data protection challenges obsessed him long before the subject became mainstream. In 1966 he passed his level 2 national law exams, which in principle opened the way to a career as a lawyer. Then, in 1972, Bull received his habilitation, a higher level academic qualification generally seen as a necessary prerequisite for a lifetime career as a university academic in Germany.
Bull joined the Social Democratic Party ("Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands" / SPD) in 1967. That was the year in which he took over as chairman of the Regional Arbitration Commission ("Landesschiedskommission") in Hamburg. He worked between 1973 and 1978 as a professor in Public Law at the University of Hamburg. Then, in 1978, he was offered and accepted a position as West Germany's first Federal Commissioner for Data Protection. Many of the concerns underlying the appointment were lit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20McCarthy | Lauren Lee McCarthy is a Chinese-American artist and computer programmer based in Los Angeles. McCarthy creates artworks that use a variety of media and techniques, including performance, artificial intelligence and programmed computer-based interaction. She created p5.js, an open-source and web-based version of the software Processing.
Education
McCarthy graduated from MIT with a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Art and Design. At MIT she studied technology's impact on physical interactions with her work Tools For Improved Social Interactions, where she made an Anti-Daydreaming Device, a Happiness Hat, and a Body Contact Training Suit out of a knitted, wearable material. The devices included sensors to monitor the wearer and evoke uncomfortable stimuli if the user is not doing what the piece is designed to achieve. For example, if the user does not smile big enough while wearing the Happiness Hat a spike would poke the back of their neck. For her thesis at MIT, McCarthy focused on the similarities between virtual and physical interactions by comparing gym culture and social networking culture.
McCarthy received her MFA degree from UCLA in 2011, where she has been an assistant professor since 2016.
Career
Artificial intelligence projects
McCarthy often creates works that humanize the roles that smart devices like Amazon Alexa or Google Home take on. The idea for most of these projects was rooted in McCarthy's social anxiety. Getting to know people, and the small talk necessary to build connections is something that is stressful for McCarthy. She stated that she felt jealous of how Amazon Alexa automatically has an intimate place in people's lives.
In 2017, for her work LAUREN, she installed cameras, microphones and speakers in her apartment, then interacted with visitors by performing the role of assistive technology, similar to Amazon Alexa. The roles were reversed in her project SOMEONE, where visitors had 24-hour access and control of McCarthy's home.
In her collaborative work, Waking Agents, visitors are prompted to lie down and use "smart" pillows that can have conversations, play music, ask the users name, tell stories and be an overall guiding intelligence. The users were unaware that the "smart" pillows they were conversing with were actually human performers with their voices disguised to sound like A.I. robots.
McCarthy collaborated with David Leonard, in the project I.A. Suzie, to evaluate how artificial intelligence is used as a care-taking device, and how the user creates a relationship with the device. For this project, McCarthy and Leonard acted as a smart home device in the home of Mary Ann, an 80-year-old woman living in North Carolina. For a week straight they had 24-hour watch over Mary Ann and had the ability to speak with her, control the lights and activate the appliances.
Social media projects
McCarthy explored projects regarding social media in an effort to connect with others and meet new people with the hel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Piche | Chris Piche is a Canadian computer scientist and technology entrepreneur who specializes in peer-to-peer networking, streaming, and computer vision technologies.
Piche pioneered the technology behind online multiplayer gaming and formed a joint venture with Stanley Ho and Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau (STDM) to create the first Internet-based, real-time casino platform. Piche then built Eyeball Chat – an early instant messaging, Voice over IP, and video telephony service with over 7 million active users in 2012.
Education
Chris Piche was born in Vancouver, Canada. He began programming computers at age 11, entered university at the age of 13, and later graduated in computer science from the University of British Columbia.
Career
Online multiplayer gaming
Beginning in 2000, Piche pioneered the technology behind online multiplayer gaming and formed a joint venture with Stanley Ho and Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau (STDM) to create the first Internet-based, real-time casino platform.
Piche and Ho later defeated patent trolls in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, where Piche was awarded US$1,361,418.79 in fees, costs, and damages.
Video telephony
Piche created Eyeball Chat, a popular instant messaging, Voice over IP, and video telephony service with over 7 million active users. Eyeball Chat was awarded as Best Communication Product of Internet World.
In a joint venture with Nifty, a Japanese ISP and Fujitsu subsidiary, Piche created Eyeball Lite and Eyeball Pro, video telephony services for the Japanese market.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Piche was Canada's representative to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Information and Communications Technology Forum in Shanghai in 2001.
Awards and recognition
Canada's Top Young Leader, The Globe and Mail, 2000
Top 40 under 40, Business in Vancouver, 2000
Best of Internet World, 2001
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award finalist, 2006
References
1973 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Beeching%20cuts%20service%20reopenings | The Beeching cuts were a reduction of route network and restructuring of British Rail in the 1960s. Since the mid-1990s there has been significant growth in passenger numbers on the railways and renewed government interest in the role of rail in UK transport. Some closed stations have reopened, and rail passenger services been restored on a few lines where they had been removed.
Some former British Rail lines have become heritage railways.
Completed reopenings
London
Snow Hill tunnel, south of Farringdon station, completely closed in the 1960s, was reopened for passengers in 1988 as part of Thameslink, providing a link between the Midland Main Line and the former Southern Railway via London Blackfriars station.
South East
The Chiltern Main Line was redoubled in two stages between 1998 and 2002, between Princes Risborough and Aynho Junction.
The Romsey to Eastleigh link, closed to regular passenger services in 1969, reopened in 2003 along with the intermediate station at Chandler's Ford in Hampshire.
Services on the London to Aylesbury Line were extended north along the former Great Central Main Line (closed in 1966) to a new station called Aylesbury Vale Parkway, which opened in December 2008.
The line from Oxford to Bicester reopened in 1987 after closing in 1968. As part of the East West Rail project, passenger services are to be restored to the section of line from Bicester to Bletchley.
South West
Stations reopened include Ashchurch, Cam and Dursley, Feniton, Pinhoe, Templecombe and Yate.
Service between Swindon and Trowbridge ceased in 1966 but two passenger trains each way were reinstated in 1985, along with the reopening of Melksham station. Passenger numbers rose rapidly, and the service – now increased in frequency and known as the TransWilts Line – was extended to Westbury.
Regular passenger services between Yeovil Junction and Yeovil Pen Mill were withdrawn in 1968; a limited service was reinstated in 2015.
A summer Sunday service ran from Exeter to Okehampton from 1997 to 2019, with a full daily service reinstated in 2021.
East Anglia/Lincolnshire
, closed in 1967, was reopened in 1971; , closed in 1965 was reopened in 2021; and , closed in 1968, was reopened in 1975.
Peterborough to Lincoln Line: the section between Peterborough and Spalding closed to passengers on 5 October 1970 and reopened on 7 June 1971.
East Midlands
The Robin Hood Line in Nottinghamshire, between Nottingham and Worksop via Mansfield, reopened in the early 1990s. Since closure in 1964 Mansfield had been the largest town in Britain without a rail link.
Stations at , and between Leicester and Loughborough closed in 1968 reopened in 1994.
The Kettering to Manton Jn Line via Corby closed to passengers on 18 April 1966. A shuttle service between Kettering and Corby was introduced in 1987, but the service was unreliable and lost funding support from the local council, leading to its closure in 1990. The line was then reopened on 23 February |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deji%20Akinwande | Deji Akinwande is a Nigerian-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with courtesy affiliation with Materials Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2016 from Barack Obama. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the African Academy of Sciences, the Materials Research Society (MRS), and the IEEE.
Early life and education
Akinwande was born in Washington, DC and moved to Nigeria in his early years. He grew up in Ikeja with his parents. His father was the financial controller of Guardian News and his mother worked at the Ministry of Education. He attended Federal Government College, Idoani and became interested in science and engineering. He returned to America in 1994, starting at Cuyahoga community college and eventually transferring to Case Western Reserve University to study electrical engineering and applied physics. During his master's degree he pioneered the design of near-field microwave tips for non-destructive imaging. He was accepted to Stanford University as a graduate student, working on the electronic properties of carbon-based materials. He was selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow during his PhD. He was also selected as a DARE (Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence) Fellow in 2008. He completed his PhD in 2009. He joined University of Texas at Austin in 2010 as an Assistant Professor in January 2010, and was awarded research grants from several agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), Army Research Office (ARO), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), DARPA, AFOSR, and Office of Naval Research, the latter focusing on high-frequency flexible 2D electronics.
Research and career
Akinwande collaborated with Aixtron on wafer-scale growth of graphene, characterization and integration The collaboration demonstrated scalable growth of polycrystalline graphene using chemical vapour deposition, creating the first 300 mm wafers. In 2011 he published the first textbook on Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Device Physics with Prof. Philip Wong of Stanford University. He was made a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013. He has made several advances in two dimensional graphene electronics. In 2015 he demonstrated the first two dimensional silicene transistor. Akinwande in collaboration with Alessandro Molle's group at CNR, Italy, achieved this by evaporating silicon onto a crystal of silver, monitoring the growth in real-time using scanning tunnelling microscopy. This research breakthrough was selected as one of the top science stories of 2015 by Discover magazine. The silicene work is the most cited Nature Nanotechnology publication of similar age.
He went on to demonstrate the thinnest most transparent electronic tattoo sensors made from graphene in 2017, which were less than 500 nm thick and 85% optically transparent. This research was in collabor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E2%20expressway%20%28Philippines%29 | Expressway 2 (E2) forms part of the Philippine expressway network. Its main route runs from Makati to Santo Tomas as South Luzon Expressway and from Santo Tomas to Batangas City as STAR Tollway. It also has spurs signed as E2 as well. South Luzon Expressway's section from Makati to Calamba, apparently as well as Skyway from Makati to Muntinlupa, is also part of AH26.
Route description
Main route
South Luzon Expressway
E2 starts at Magallanes Interchange in Makati as South Luzon Expressway. From Makati to Calamba, it is a part of Asian Highway 26 (AH26). It carries Skyway until it reaches Muntinlupa, where it ends as SLEX still continues. Differing in concession holders, its section between Magallanes and Alabang Exit is also known as Skyway At-Grade, while the rest of the section takes the South Luzon Expressway concession branding. It parallels Manila South Road (N1) from Muntinlupa to Calamba until it reaches Calamba Exit, a partial cloverleaf interchange in Calamba where N1 takes the AH26 concurrency. It continues until it reaches Santo Tomas, which ends and becomes the STAR Tollway although a spur of SLEX will continue but is currently unnumbered.
Skyway
The extent of E2/AH26 on the Skyway is unknown since the Department of Public Works and Highways's ArcGIS app does not show any route designation for the elevated tollway, although there were some E2/AH26 markers seen exclusively on Skyway Stages 1 and 2, between Buendia Exit in Makati and South Station (Alabang–Zapote) Exit in Muntinlupa, until they were dismantled together with the center barriers in 2020.
STAR Tollway
E2 continues as STAR Tollway at Santo Tomas Exit, an interchange with Maharlika Highway (N1) and SLEX in Santo Tomas, Batangas. It traverses from Santo Tomas to Batangas City, where it ends at a roundabout and four-way interchange with Jose P. Laurel Highway (N4) and Batangas Port Diversion Road (N434).
Spur routes
Muntinlupa–Cavite Expressway
Muntinlupa–Cavite Expressway is a expressway in Muntinlupa that connects SLEX and Daang Hari Road near Bacoor, Cavite. It is currently the shortest expressway in the Philippines.
C-5 Southlink Expressway
C-5 Southlink Expressway is a spur of E2 connecting Circumferential Road 5 (N11) in Taguig to its future end at Manila–Cavite Expressway (E3) in Parañaque, with a flyover crossing above E2's main section, especially the South Luzon Expressway.
Southeast Metro Manila Expressway
Southeast Metro Manila Expressway (SEMME), also known as Skyway Stage 4, is an under construction expressway in Metro Manila and Rizal, connecting Skyway near Arca South to the Batasang Pambansa Complex in Quezon City.
See also
South Luzon Expressway
STAR Tollway
References
Roads in Metro Manila
Roads in Laguna (province)
Roads in Batangas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%26G%20Alumni | The P&G Alumni Network is a nonprofit organization founded by alumni to help former P&G employees stay connected. The network includes 50,000 former P&G employees and is one of the founding corporate alumni networks that later became commonplace.
The P&G Alumni Network is not formally connected with P&G, but the company provides support, financial assistance and allows the use of the P&G name.
In November 2018, P&G Alumni entered into a formal agreement with SAP & EnterpriseAlumni for the delivery of a new enterprise platform to manage the global community.
Annual event
Since 2003, the P&G Alumni Network has held a Global Conference every 2 years.
2003 Cincinnati
2005 London, Great Britain
2007 Cincinnati (hosted by the NYC chapter)
2009 Rome, Italy (hosted by the Italy chapter)
2011 Toronto, Canada (hosted by the Canada chapter)
2013 Geneva, Switzerland (hosted by the Geneva chapter)
2015 Miami, Florida (hosted by Miami Chapter)
2017: Cincinnati, October 9-13, 3 day conference including guest speakers Meg Whitman, Scott Cook, Jim McNerney
P&G Alumni Foundation
The P&G Alumni Foundation is the charitable arm of the P&G Alumni Network. It partners with charitable organizations that are meaningfully and actively supported by P&G Alumni. Annual fund raising efforts and donations are distributed by the Foundation, P&G Alumni must be actively and meaningfully involved with the charitable organization receiving a grant request.
In 2017 $175,000 was awarded to 9 grant recipients from seven countries across four continents.
Founding
The P&G Alumni Network was founded in 2001 by Ed Tazzia
References
Alumni associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashiyana | Ashiyana (English: Beautiful Home) (Urdu : ﺁشيانه) is a 1997 Pakistani drama series which was aired on the Pakistan Television network in 1997. The Story is about orphan siblings and the challenges they face in their life. Despite all their struggles they manage to make their home into a house full of love and life.
The series also highlighted the struggle between those living in rural Pakistan who wish to emigrate abroad in the desire for a better life.
Cast
Qavi Khan as Wajid Khan
Irfan Khoosat as Chaudhary Rehmat
Waseem Abbas as Nouman
Seemi Zaidi as Sapna
Maria Wasti as Saima
Nighat Butt as Zarda
M. Zubair as Bhai Uncle
Javed Kodu as Babu
Kashif Mehmood as Saif
Shazib Mirza as Chaudhary Nazeer
Sanam Nazi as Babi Aunty
Aamna Ahmed as Narmeen
Mahazaib as Billo
Zia Khan as Sajid
Azhar Zaheer as Waqar Uncle
Amanat Chann as Chand
Chacha Tufail as Chacha Karmo
Atiq as Atiq
Tahir Noushad as Rafiq
Touqeer Ahmed as Dumb Man
Imran Islam as Aamir
Atif Mehmood as Bantoo
Semal Rehan as Gurya
Furqan Latif as Waleed
Nadia Saeed as Alia
Najma Wasti as Raheela
Abdulla as Jabbar Mechanic
Anita Kamfiar as Aya Amma
Rage music band
Salman
Ali
Cristopher
Ahmer
References
Pakistani drama television series
Urdu-language television shows
Pakistan Television Corporation original programming
Television shows set in Quetta
Pakistani action television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Identity%20Card%20%28Nepal%29 | National Identity Card of Nepal is a federal level Identity card with unique identity number for each person that can be obtained by citizens of Nepal, based on their biometric and demographic data. The data is collected by the National ID Card Management Centre (NIDMC), a statutory authority established in July 2011 by the government of Nepal, under the jurisdiction of Home ministry. The contract to process and deliver the cards was signed in 2018 with IDEMIA.
This card will feature a unique number, photo, personal Information and 10 fingerprints of the bearer. Upon full implementation, this card is to replace the current "Nepalese Citizenship" and it will be used for National Identity, personal identity, as Voter ID Card and as a Social Security Card through its unique number. This card will not replace other documents like Passport, Driver License.
On the first phase, government aims to distribute 110,000 cards in Rupandehi District of Province No. 5
See also
Nepalese passport
References
National identification numbers
Government of Nepal
2001 establishments in Nepal
Nepal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFSA%20Network | The IFSA Network, formerly known as the International Finance Students Association, is a global non-profit organization exclusively run by students. Based initially at the Rotterdam School of Management and founded in 2014.
History
The International Finance Student Association (IFSA Network) traces its roots back to 2014 in Rotterdam, specifically at the Rotterdam School of Management. The initial purpose of the network was to create a community for individuals studying Finance, fostering connections both amongst themselves and with established figures in the financial sector.
Structure
Chapters
The IFSA Network operates under a decentralized yet cohesive organizational structure designed to balance local autonomy with global coordination. Situated in educational institutions across the world, the individual chapters serve as semi-independent units, each governed by their own board comprising at least a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Treasurer, and General Secretary. These boards manage day-to-day operations and supervise regional activities tailored to meet the specific needs and interests of their local student bodies. Chapters also usually have specialized departments, such as Finance, Marketing, and Events, each headed by a department manager who oversees a team of analysts.
The Supervisory Board
Supervisory Board Members
Key Initiatives
Traders' Cup
The IFSA Trader’s Cup is the world’s largest student run trading challenge. All people studying in a recognised university are free to participate. The competition relies on securities trading, and aims to give students an opportunity to distinguish themselves from the competition. The competition is held once per academic year, starting in spring of 2016. For the second edition of the competition, students from more than 35 universities, located in 28 countries on 6 continents competed.
Global Case Competition at Harvard
The Global Case Competition at Harvard is the world’s most prestigious case competition organized by students.
During the first edition, a team from HEC Paris, a leading French university, won the challenge.
The second edition was won by the London Business School.
Local Venues
The various IFSA Network chapters try to offer their communities various local events to connect with the professional world. Often, an industry professional will come to the IFSA Network events and meet students. The purpose of those venues is to give students a taste of the professional world, share tips and knowledge, and give an opportunity to network.
Boston Consulting Group Case Competition
In 2018, the IFSA Network in cooperation with the Boston Consulting Group and InvestSoc, organised the first, three-week long International Cape Town Case Competition. The competition has a unique format where teams consisting of 2 to 4 participants, propose solutions for crises that are presented to them. In their solutions, participants are able to showcase their knowledge, creativity and problem-s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202007 | 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
2007 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiskit | Qiskit is an open-source software development kit (SDK) for working with quantum computers at the level of circuits, pulses, and algorithms. It provides tools for creating and manipulating quantum programs and running them on prototype quantum devices on IBM Quantum Platform or on simulators on a local computer. It follows the circuit model for universal quantum computation, and can be used for any quantum hardware (currently supports superconducting qubits and trapped ions) that follows this model.
Qiskit was founded by IBM Research to allow software development for their cloud quantum computing service, IBM Quantum Experience. Contributions are also made by external supporters, typically from academic institutions.
The primary version of Qiskit uses the Python programming language. Versions for Swift and JavaScript were initially explored, though the development for these versions have halted. Instead, a minimal re-implementation of basic features is available as MicroQiskit, which is made to be easy to port to alternative platforms.
A range of Jupyter notebooks are provided with examples of quantum computing being used. Examples include the source code behind scientific studies that use Qiskit, as well as a set of exercises to help people to learn the basics of quantum programming. An open source textbook based on Qiskit is available as a university-level quantum algorithms or quantum computation course supplement.
Components
Qiskit is made up of elements that work together to enable quantum computing. The central goal of Qiskit is to build a software stack that makes it easy for anyone to use quantum computers, regardless of their skill level or area of interest; Qiskit allows users to easily design experiments and applications and run them on real quantum computers and/or classical simulators. Qiskit provides the ability to develop quantum software both at the machine code level of OpenQASM, and at abstract levels suitable for end-users without quantum computing expertise. This functionality is provided by the following distinct components.
Qiskit Terra
The element Terra is the foundation on which the rest of Qiskit is built. Qiskit Terra provides tools to create quantum circuits at or close to the level of quantum machine code. It allows the processes that run on quantum hardware to be explicitly constructed in terms of quantum gates. It also provides tools to allow quantum circuits to be optimized for a particular device, as well as managing batches of jobs and running them on remote-access quantum devices and simulators.
The following shows a simple example of Qiskit Terra. In this, a quantum circuit is created for two qubits, which consists of the quantum gates required to create a Bell state. The quantum circuit then ends with quantum measurements, which extract a bit from each qubit.
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit
qc = QuantumCircuit(2, 2)
qc.h(0)
qc.cx(0, 1)
qc.measure([0,1], [0,1])
Qiskit Aer
The element Aer provides |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockshott | Cockshott is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Paul Cockshott (born 1952), British computer scientist and economist
George Cockshott (1875–1953), British naval architect
Gerald Cockshott (1915–1979), English composer, librettist, writer, and teacher
See also
Cockshutt (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strand%20sort | Strand sort is a recursive sorting algorithm that sorts items of a list into increasing order. It has O(n2) worst time complexity which occurs when the input list is reverse sorted. It has a best case time complexity of O(n) which occurs when the input is a list that is already sorted.
The algorithm first moves the first element of a list into a sub-list. It then compares the last element in the sub-list to each subsequent element in the original list. Once there is an element in the original list that is greater than the last element in the sub-list, the element is removed from the original list and added to the sub-list. This process continues until the last element in the sub-list is compared to the remaining elements in the original list. The sub-list is then merged into a new list. Repeat this process and merge all sub-lists until all elements are sorted. This algorithm is called strand sort because there are strands of sorted elements within the unsorted elements that are removed one at a time. This algorithm is also used in J Sort for fewer than 40 elements.
Example
This example is based on the description of the algorithm provided in the book, IT Enabled Practices and Emerging Management Paradigms.
Step 1: Start with a list of numbers: {5, 1, 4, 2, 0, 9, 6, 3, 8, 7 }
Step 2: Next move the first element of the list into a new sub-list: sub-list contains {5}
Step 3: Then iterate through the original list and compare each number to 5 until there is a number greater than 5.
1 < 5 so 1 is not added to the sub-list.
4 < 5 so 4 is not added to the sub-list.
2 < 5 so 2 is not added to the sub-list.
0 < 5 so 0 is not added to the sub-list.
9 > 5 so 9 is added to the sub-list and removed from the original list.
Step 4: Now compare 9 with the remaining elements in the original list until there is a number greater than 9.
6 < 9 so 6 is not added to the sub-list.
3 < 9 so 3 is not added to the sub-list.
8 < 9 so 8 is not added to the sub-list.
7 < 9 so 7 is not added to the sub-list.
Step 5: Now there are no more elements to compare 9 to so merge the sub-list into a new list, called solution-list.
After step 5, the original list contains {1, 4, 2, 0, 6, 3, 8, 7}
The sub-list is empty, and the solution list contains {5, 9}
Step 6: Move the first element of the original list into sub-list: sub-list contains {1}
Step 7: Iterate through the original list and compare each number to 1 until there is a number greater than 1.
4 > 1 so 4 is added to the sub-list and 4 is removed from the original list.
Step 8: Now compare 4 with the remaining elements in the original list until there is a number greater than 4.
2 < 4 so 2 is not added to the sub-list.
0 < 4 so 0 is not added to the sub-list.
6 > 4 so 6 is added to the sub-list and is removed from the original list.
Step 9: Now compare 6 with the remaining elements in the original list until there is a number greater than 6.
3 < 6 so 3 is not added to the sub-list.
8 > 6 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara%20Mia | Kara Mia is a 2019 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Barbie Forteza and Mika dela Cruz in the title role. It premiered on February 18, 2019 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Cain at Abel. The series concluded on June 28, 2019 with a total of 92 episodes. It was replaced by Sahaya in its timeslot.
The series is originally titled as Ang Dalawang Mukha ni Guadalupe. It is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Kara and Mia are two faces in a single body, with Kara in the front and Mia in the back. When they get older, they will discover a way on how to separate their face with its own body every night, while going back to their original form at morning.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Barbie Forteza as Guadalupe "Guada" Machado Lacson / Kara
Mika dela Cruz as Guadalupe "Lupe" Machado Lacson / Mia
Supporting cast
Jak Roberto as Bonifacio "Boni" Burgos
Paul Salas as Chino Burgos
Carmina Villarroel as Aya Machado-Lacson
John Estrada as Arthur Lacson
Glydel Mercado as Julia Garcia
Mike Tan as Iswal / Wally
Gina Pareño as Corazon
Alicia Alonzo as Asuncion Machado
Arthur Solinap as Alexandro "Lex" Lacson
Liezel Lopez as Ellie Garcia
Althea Ablan as Estrella "Star" Machado Lacson
April Gustilo as Betty Bahia
Karenina Haniel as Lerma Jane "LJ" Cariño
Cheska Iñigo as Madison
Lui Manansala as Divina
Madelaine Nicolas as Maria
Mari Kaimo as Leon
Guest cast
Rein Adriano as young Kara
Sofia Catabay as young Mia
Angelica Ulip as young Ellie
Khaine Dela Cruz as young Chino
Juan Miguel Tamayo as young Boni
Sheen Infante as young Lerma
Marx Topacio as Tobias
Ai-Ai delas Alas as Reynara
Bembol Roco as Sio
Rob Sy as Val
Prince Clemente as an engkanto
Accolades
References
External links
2019 Philippine television series debuts
2019 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Twiss | Francis Twiss (bapt. 1759 – 1827) was an English drama critic, known as the compiler of a concordance to William Shakespeare.
Life
He was the son of Francis Twiss, a merchant from Norwich, and was baptised in Rotterdam on 5 April 1759; Richard Twiss was his elder brother. He was admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1776, where he studied for a year.
In London during the early 1780s, Twiss took an interest in the stage, and wrote some criticism. He met John Philip Kemble, and took an interest in his sisters, marrying in the end Fanny. He also encountered Elizabeth Inchbald, giving her constructive help with her dramatic writing.
Twiss died at Cheltenham on 28 April 1827, aged 68.
Works
Twiss published in two volumes in 1805, A complete verbal Index to the Plays of Shakspeare, adapted to all the editions, with a dedication to John Philip Kemble. It gives the word only not the longer passage in which it occurs, as later concordances did. Of 750 copies printed of it, 542 were destroyed by fire in 1807. Praised by James Boaden two decades later, it was in its time more convenient than the comparable work of Samuel Ayscough.
Family
Twiss married on 1 May 1786 Frances Kemble (1759–1822), known as Fanny. She was the second daughter of Roger Kemble, the sister of Sarah Siddons, and had been courted unsuccessfully by George Steevens. An actor though not very successful, on marriage she retired from the stage, which gladdened her sister. Later, from 1807 she kept a fashionable girls' school at 24 Camden Place, Bath, Somerset.
Fanny Twiss predeceased her husband, dying at Bath on 1 October 1822. Their eldest son was Horace Twiss; another son, John Twiss, became a major-general in the army in 1864, and was governor of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. There were four daughters of the marriage, one of whom died young.
Notes
External links
Attribution
1827 deaths
British theatre critics
English writers
1759 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Ambulance%20Station%2C%20The%20Rocks | The Old Ambulance Station, The Rocks is a heritage-listed former ambulance station and public house and now the head quarters of The Argyle Network, a technology recruitment business located at 73 George Street in the inner city Sydney suburb of The Rocks in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1842 to 1843 and the front facade was designed in 1927-8 by Howie Moffot & Co. It is also known as the Former Central District Ambulance Station and Ken Duncan Gallery. The property is owned by Property NSW, an agency of the Government of New South Wales. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 10 May 2002.
History
The site was a part of the first hospital site. Lot 2 of Sydney City Section 85 was originally granted to William Carr and George John Rogers by Crown grant in October 1838. In February 1839, Frederic Wright Unwin became one of the owners of the Carr & Williams grant and on 26 February 1842 Unwin conveyed to Matthias Hooper lot 8 of Unwin's subdivision.
Hooper erected a public house on lot 8 in 1842-43 which was called the "Kings Head". The three storey building containing ten rooms was constructed with brick walls and a slated roof. The public house was described as having "every convenience". The building was 25 feet wide by 40 feet deep. Hooper was the publican of the "Kings Head" until he conveyed the property to William Carss in December 1849. Carss employed Edward Hancock to manage the public house during 1850. In March 1853, W. Carss and his wife conveyed the "Kings Head" to William Anthony Wright. Wright leased the hotel to George F Ewen, publican, who managed the inn from 1854 to 1859. During 1855 Wright erected stores to the rear of the lot, along the southern boundary against Mrs. Samson's Cottage. On 21 January 1856 W. A. Wright conveyed the public house to Thomas Goudie a confectioner of Sydney. During 1860-61 James Goudie managed the inn which was still known as the "Kings Head".
In September 1870, Goudie conveyed the property to Andrew Henry Julius Baass, accountant, who in the same month sold the property to Joseph George Raphael, merchant. Raphael changed the hotel's name to the "Great Pacific Hotel" in 1874 and in the stone perimeter walls were erected to the north and west boundaries of the allotment. In 1885, the Hotel's name was changed again to the "P & O Hotel" by the new licensee Mrs. Mary A. Ferguson who remained until 1891. In December 1900 the property was resumed by the NSW Government. The P&O; Hotel operated until at least 1909. The Salvation Army, Naval and Military Home was established in 1911 and remained the tenants until 1927 when the building was renovated.
In March 1927 Howie Moffot & Co. submitted plans for alterations to the building and in 1928, after the completion of the facade and internal works, the Circular Quay Depot of the Central District Ambulance Service began operations.
In 1950 the Housing Commission was responsi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madatapa%20Managed%20Reserve | Madatapa Managed Reserve () is a protected area in Ninotsminda Municipality in Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia. It protects Madatapa Lake situated in the south-eastern part of the volcanic Javakheti Plateau, at an altitude of 2108 m above sea level.
Madatapa Managed Reserve is part of Javakheti Protected Areas which also includes Javakheti National Park, Kartsakhi Managed Reserve, Sulda Managed Reserve, Khanchali Managed Reserve, Bugdasheni Managed Reserve.
Fauna
Madatapa Lake is one of the most important in Georgia for breeding and staging waterbirds such as the endangered Dalmatian pelican. Since 2020 the Lake has been designated as a protected Ramsar site.
See also
Javakheti National Park
References
Managed reserves of Georgia (country)
Ramsar sites in Georgia (country)
Protected areas established in 2011
Geography of Samtskhe–Javakheti
Tourist attractions in Samtskhe–Javakheti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%20Heroes | Rio Heroes is a Brazilian drama television series created by Fabio Danesi, Camila Raffanti and Alexandre Soares Silva, and produced by Mixer Films, NBCUniversal and Fox Networks Group: the 1st season premiered on Fox Premium on February 24, 2018, and the 2nd season premiered on May 10, 2019.
The series is based on a wrestling championship that actually existed between the years 2007 and 2009 and which became known for its extremely crude and violent nature. Starring Murilo Rosa in the lead role, Rio Heroes follows the story of Jorge Pereira, a jiu-jitsu athlete who did not conform to the increasing limitations imposed by wrestling federations that prevented the execution of certain blows and forced the use of gloves.
Premise
The series is based on the real story of the Brazilian wrestler Jorge Pereira, who decided to create a Vale tudo championship.
Cast
Murilo Rosa as Jorge Pereira
Juliana Araripe as Carol
Bruno Bellarmino as Jair Cabeçada
Roney Facchini as Rogério
Priscila Fantin as Claudinha Pitbull
Giovanni Gallo as Max Werneck
Luiz Guilherme as Mestre Galdino
Ronny Kriwat as Pipo
Rafael Losso as Eric
Miguel Nader as Goya
Duda Nagle as Rogerinho
André Ramiro as Basilio
References
External links
2018 Brazilian television series debuts
2010s Brazilian television series
Brazilian action television series
Brazilian drama television series
Portuguese-language television shows
Television series based on actual events |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Computer%20Literacy%20Day | World Computer Literacy Day was launched by Indian computer company NIIT to mark its 20th anniversary in 2001, in response to research which suggested that the majority of computer users around the world were men. It occurs annually on 2 December, and is intended to encourage the development of technological skills, particularly among children and women in India. In its own words, it aims to "create awareness and drive digital literacy in underserved communities worldwide". It was originally founded by the NIIT The day is also directed at improving the teaching of Information Technology, & more generally, the "celebration of computers".
References
Computer literacy
International observances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teus%20Hagen | Teus Hagen (* 6 October 1945 in Wijnjeterp) is a Dutch Internet pioneer.
Biography
Hagen started his career at the Computer Laboratory of the Mathematical Centre. Later, he initiated the Dutch and the European Unix User Groups NLUUG and EUUG (that became later EURopen). As chairman of EUUG, he started the European Unix Network (EUnet) in 1982 as the EUUG dial-up service. EUnet was the first public wide area network.
At the University of California, Berkeley, he started in 1983 working with TCP/IP. One of his team members, Daniel Karrenberg, is the author of the report in favor of TCP/IP for global networking in Europe.
From 1992 to 2008 Hagen was chairman and director at NLnet and helped it to become the first Dutch Internet Service Provider. NLnet funds free Internet research and development. In this position, Hagen became 2004 involved with the community-driven certificate authority CAcert.org and served as board member and in 2008 as president.
Awards and honors
Hagen was recognized by NLUUG and Usenix for his Open Source contributions and honoured as "Global Connector" in the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.
References
External links
Hagen at Internet Hall of Fame (7.11.2018)
Teus Hagen at NLnet (7.11.2018)
20th-century Dutch engineers
Living people
University of California alumni
University of California faculty
Dutch computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla%20Molteni | Carla Molteni (born February 1966) is an Italian Professor of Physics at King's College London. She works on computer simulations of materials and biomolecules.
Education and early career
Molteni studied physics at the University of Milan. She remained there for her graduate studies. She was originally interested in particle physics, but became more fascinated by material science as she became aware of its impact in designing materials of the future.
Research and career
Molteni joined Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research as a postdoctoral research fellow, working on crystalline glucose. She used the Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics method to study glucose.
Molteni joined the University of Cambridge in 1999 as an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Advanced Research Fellow. She was a fellow at New Hall, (now Murray Edwards College) Cambridge.
In 2003 Molteni was appointed a professor of soft matter physics at King's College London. Molteni is a member of the Thomas Young Centre and London Centre for Nanotechnology. She uses density functional theory and classical methods to understand systems such as grain boundaries, liquid crystals, polymers and proteins. She studied polyamorphism in nanocrystals of silicon. Her group have used computational methods to evaluate the interactions of green tea with cardiac muscle and the growth of hexagonal ice. They identified the excited states of biological chromophores using many-body perturbation theory. She studied the pressure-induced deformations of nanomaterials and how this impacted their optoelectronic properties. Understanding piezochromic effects is important to determine the potential of a material for applications such as stress sensors.
In 2018 she awarded the Italy Made Me prizes for young Italian researchers in the UK. She serves on the board of directors of the Association of Italian Scientists in the UK. She has taken part in Pint of Science.
References
21st-century Italian physicists
1966 births
Academics of King's College London
University of Milan alumni
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Economy | Data Economy is an international technology business news and opinion website, magazine and broadcaster founded in 2016. The media outlet is headquartered in London, UK and focuses on the business strategy and finance and investment within the IT infrastructure space, mainly data centres.
Broadmedia Communications, trading as BroadGroup and established in 2002, and a member company of FTSE 250 firm Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (LSE: ERM), is registered as Data Economy's publisher. The title is also a member of the Professional Publishers Association (PPA).
History
The Data Economy news website was created in September 2016 following a business dinner in Monaco between publisher and Broadmedia Communications CEO Philip Low and journalist João Marques Lima.
The publication acquired in November 2016, datacentres.com, created in 2005 and whose reporting focused on the development of data centres and cloud infrastructure across the globe. Before the end of the year, Data Economy also launched the Frontline video series, in which it interviews executive officers, technology entrepreneurs and government figures.
Data Economy became part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC portfolio in March 2017, when the organisation acquired Broadmedia Communications. The Daily Mail and General Trust (LSE: DMGT) is the majority shareholder of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC with 49% of the company's stake.
The news source released in June 2017 its first print magazine, with production amounting to six editions yearly. Data Economy also runs a special supplement for specific market regions on a monthly basis.
In late 2017, Data Economy launched its Live series of events made of forums and summits targeted at industry executives, especially investors, operational companies, government and regional investment authorities and law firms. Data Economy is also the official global media partner of all Broadmedia Communications events including the Datacloud and Edge Congress series.
In September 2018, the group revamped its slogan, changing from "Defining data centres and cloud 24/7" to "Invest Wisely", matching its finance and investment focused coverage of the IT infrastructure sector.
Readership and content
Data Economy is aimed at a worldwide elite of senior IT and operations professionals in the data centre, cloud and data spaces. The publication also targets executives in the finance and investment spectrum and legal ecosphere.
The publication's content is showcased across its website for soft and hard news stories and opinion, its magazine for in depth interviews and analysis, and its broadcasting services through video interviews and live streaming from Data Economy, Datacloud and Edge Congress editions worldwide.
Magazine
Data Economy launched its first print edition in Monaco 2017 during Datacloud Europe, attended by 1,800 delegates that year.
Data Economy produces six editions a year with unveilings at events in Europe, APAC, North |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shono | Shono may refer to:
People
Junzo Shono (庄野 潤三 1921–2009), Japanese novelist
Haruhiko Shono (庄野 晴彦, Shōno Haruhiko, born 1960), Japanese computer graphics artist
Yoriko Shono (笙野 頼子, Shōno Yoriko, born 1956), Japanese writer
Other
Shono (album) (Bengali: শোন! Śōna ; Listen!), Bengali-language pop album by Habib Wahid 2006
Shōno-juku (庄野宿, Shōno-juku), forty-fifth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō, located in former Ise Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambio%20Healthcare%20Systems | Cambio Healthcare Systems is a healthcare company based in Linköping. It has offices in Reading, Berkshire, Aarhus, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Motala. It provides computerised clinical decision support services.
It acquired Cayder, a British health technology company in 2017. It operates in Colombo, where its Research & Development center is located, as Cambio Software Engineering. 250 software engineers are employed there.
Cambio has a partnership agreement with Savience, based in Blisworth for the use of its clinical management systems. This lets patients check-in for hospital appointments remotely.
It entered into a five-year contract with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust to implement its patient flow management system in July 2018. Electronic touchscreens will be provided on every ward, so staff have an “at-a-glance view” of bed management and patient flow.
Cambio made a three-year agreement with Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust in 2018 to create what was described as "a disruptive clinical solution for community and mental health trusts". This involves an integrated platform for e-prescribing and medicines administration and clinical decision support systems designed for mental healthcare. It is funded by the Global Digital Exemplar programme. It will use FHIR standards, which would let other NHS trusts link any third-party applications for secure access to their patient records.
The company signed a deal with the Lincolnshire Sustainability and transformation plan for real-time dashboards, using the company's Patient Flow Manager product to help forecast capacity and demand in November 2018.
In 2022 the company acquired FRISQ Holding AB.
References
External links
Medical technology companies of Sweden
Companies based in Östergötland County
Health information technology companies
Private providers of NHS services
Software companies of Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNB%20Fridays%20Live | RNB Fridays Live is an annual concert series held in Australia. The series was co-founded by the Hit Radio Network and Frontier Touring in 2016. The event features several stages featuring musical artists from many genres of music, including R&B, hip hop, electronic dance music, and pop. The concert series are held in venues across major cities in Australia. The shows are hosted by Fatman Scoop, with DJ Horizon as the resident DJ.
Concert series by year
Box office score data
References
Rock festivals in Australia
Hip hop music festivals
Music festivals established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiang%20Li%20%28hacker%29 | Xiang Li () is a Chinese computer hacker. He is serving a twelve-year sentence in federal prison in the United States.
Early life
Li was born in Chengdu, China in 1979.
Career
From Chengdu, he operated "CRACK99", a website that sold stolen software globally from 2008 until his arrest by U.S. authorities in 2011. During that time, he sold over $100 million in industrial-grade software, the access controls of which had been circumvented by software cracking. The software had civilian and military applications, including aerospace and aviation simulation and design, communications systems design, electromagnetic simulation, explosives simulation, intelligence analysis, precision tooling, oil field management, and manufacturing plant design.
Operation, arrest and prosecution
Investigation
One of the software titles for sale on CRACK99 was "Satellite Tool Kit 8.0" ("STK"), now known as Systems Tool Kit, designed by Analytical Graphics Incorporated (AGI) to enable the U.S. military to simulate missile launches and flight trajectories of aircraft and satellites. AGI brought this fact to the attention of U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations in December 2009. A team of prosecutors and agents from the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service initiated an undercover investigation in 2010. As part of that investigation, federal agents purchased STK software from the CRACK99 website, as well as other advanced software used in spacecraft design and programmable logic devices.
Lurement and arrest in Saipan
U.S. undercover agents posed as criminals who were reselling software obtained from CRACK99. Li and the agents engaged in lengthy email and Skype conversations about increasing sales by expanding the U.S. market. Ultimately, Li agreed to meet the agents in Saipan to discuss future business opportunities. On June 6, 2011, Li met with undercover agents in Saipan. Li provided agents with 20 gigabytes of proprietary data hacked from a defense contractor.
"It's the database," explained Li, "I was thinking [it] would be difficult to pass through the custom." This data included military and civilian aircraft image models, a software module containing data associated with the International Space Station, and a high resolution, 3-dimensional imaging program.
Li further advised the undercover agents: "Don’' just sell it … randomly! … Only the familiar and reliable customers… The products…are pretty…um…like confidential. [Don’t]… go and tell other people."
The agents asked if Xiang Li could get software in addition to what he had listed on CRACK99. "I mean as long as [you] can tell me the name," Li said, "I could find a way to get it ...." Xiang Li asked the agents: "I want to ask a question. … Will [your] customers be able to find me? Will [they] be also contacting me? …. Will [the customers] be able to locate me?"
Shortly thereafter, Li was arrested, waived his right to remain silent, and confe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape%20conservation%20cooperatives | The Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC), established in 2009 in the United States, are a network of 22 regional conservation bodies covering the entire United States and adjacent areas. They are autonomous cooperatives sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior and aim to develop coordinated conservation strategies applicable to large areas of land. Partnerships are formed with government and non-government conservation organizations to achieve common goals of conservation. While fairly new as government supported entities, the LCCs are similar to initiatives that have been started or advocated in other countries.
Description
In response to rapid changes in large land and marine landscapes, uncertain environmental and social changes, conservation organizations need to overcome barriers to cooperation. These conservation organizations need to build governance structures, combine ecological, biological and physical sciences with social science insights, and the incorporation of new information to become capable of achieving the combined LCC goals. In some cases, LCCs cross borders and differing goals need to be accommodated by multiple LCCs and other conservation entities. Governance of the LCCs has been a barrier to their successful implementation in the United States. It has been suggested that the Adaptive Common Governance Framework, a social network supported by differing conservation stakeholders will provide the platform for building relationships, enhancing stakeholder engagement, allowing the potential partnering entities to create a working environment of adaptive co-governance. As an example, Rural credit cooperatives are a network of government and non-government protection organizations that promote the protection of rapidly changing social ecosystems by providing the structure and incentives for collaboration and shared learning.
Modern landscape planning and design coordinates the relationship between people and nature in the process of human development, social progress and natural evolution. Landscape planning research covers topics such as land development, land use, and environmental quality. Troll proposed the concept of "landscape ecology." The landscape was viewed as "the whole of the space and everything that the vision touches in the human living environment." Buchwald believes that the so-called landscape can be understood as a comprehensive feature of a certain space on the surface. Egler proposed the concept of total human ecosystem. Dansereau advocates the use of "human ecology" to study the impact of humans on the landscape. McHarg proposed to use the entire human ecosystem as a target for landscape ecology and landscape ecological planning. The process of landscape planning is to help people living in natural systems or using the resources in the system to find the most appropriate route (McHarg, 1969). It is a plan based on ecological theory and knowledge (Sedon, 1986, Leita and Ahern, 2002).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor%20Shaker | Noor Shaker () is a Syrian British entrepreneur and computer scientist who co-founded the AI for drug discovery start-up Glamorous AI. Glamorous AI was acquired by the US-based company X-Chem in Nov 2021. Before Glamorous AI, Noor founded the drug discovery start-up GTN Ltd and served as CEO for more than two years. She stepped down as CEO in August 2019. The company entered liquidation in March 2020. In 2018, she received a CogX UK Rising Star Award from Prime Minister Theresa May for "AI technology that will transform drug discovery to treat chronic diseases".
Career
Shaker studied for a bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Damascus, Syria, specialising early on in artificial intelligence studies. Her work there included the development of Arabic incorporation into the Speech Synthesis Markup Language for speech-to-text software. She moved to Belgium for her master's degree at KU Leuven, specialising in artificial intelligence. In 2009 she moved to Denmark to study a PhD and continue as a postdoc in machine learning at the IT University of Copenhagen. She remained in Copenhagen for several years, being appointed an assistant professor at Aalborg University in 2016. Her research focused on the use of machine learning in affective computing and video games. This extended to co-organising competitions to produce AIs which could tackle video games or generate new levels to fit the user, most notably using Super Mario. During her professorial career she co-wrote a textbook titled "Procedural Content Generation in Gaming" and authored over thirty academic publications.
In 2017 Shaker co-founded GTN Ltd (Generative Tensorial Networks), a startup aiming to combine quantum computing and AI for drug discovery. Shaker stepped down from her role as CEO of the company in August 2019. The company entered liquidation in March 2020. The company aimed to combine machine learning techniques and quantum physics simulations in order to predict better therapeutics for medical use. Combining artificial intelligence with quantum models of published molecular structures may prove a novel and effective method to predict binding partners to disease regulators.
In 2020, she started her third venture, the London based start-up Glamorous AI. The company is a continuation of the journey she started earlier aiming at developing innovative solutions in drug discovery. The company aims at integrating experts chemistry knowledge with advanced ML to enable rapid discovery of new chemical entities of desired properties. Shaker and Glamorous AI have established relationships within academia, such as Cardiff University to discover possible COVID-19 drugs using Glamorous AI's platform, RosalindAI. In Nov 2021, GlamorousAI was acquired by the US company X-Chem for an undisclosed amount to bring AI capabilities to preclinical drug discovery. Shaker currently serves as a Senior Vice President and General Manager of X-Chem's London office.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate%20triangle | Degenerate triangle or degenerate triangles may refer to:
Degeneracy (mathematics)#Triangle, a triangle with collinear vertices and zero area in mathematics
Glossary of computer graphics#Degenerate triangles, a type of triangle primitive in computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%20Badged%20Network | The Colorado Badged Network (CBN) is a Colorado business that focuses on connecting the Colorado cannabis industry. At one point, it was the largest Colorado cannabis industry organization, with over 6100 members as of November 2018, and journalist Spencer J. Ward claimed that could have been the largest network of licensed cannabis professionals in the world at its peak.
Purpose
On Colorado Badged Network, members find jobs, employees, legal advice, compliance updates, industry events, and friends. It's been called the "water cooler of the industry", and the goal is to keep is accessible to everyone with a Colorado Department of Revenue Occupational License, which is known as a "badge" in Colorado.
History
The group was first created as Colorado Badged Jobs in 2015, in order for Webb to find employees to work in his cannabis grow warehouse. He quickly brought in co-founders Maccarone and Witherell to help. The organization grew steadily for its first year, and it became used for more purposes than just job-searching, such as removing cannabis smell for clothing, what are the best trimming shears, how to best budtend, announcing new products, and venting about Metrc.
In early 2017, the three co-founders decided to rename the group to Colorado Badged Network to better reflect its new identity. This has been a volunteer position for them through 2018, without any financial compensation; they're cannabis industry members themselves.
Members
In June 2018, the group had over 5000 members. By November 2018, the Colorado Badged Network grew to more than 6100 members.
CBN is very active, being described as "robust". As of June 2018, there were about 40 posts per day.
Representatives from Mary’s Medicinals, Bronnor Corporation, the Cannabis Connoisseurs’ Coalition Committee have expressed that they find high value in the group.
Criticism
Some badge-holders have refused to join the group due to "privacy concerns", because the co-founders verify unique badge numbers. The State of Colorado keeps a database of every occupational license holder, which is searchable by both name and badge number. Witherell has made a statement about these privacy concerns, clarifying, "We only verify publicly accessible information to grant access to the network."
See also
National Cannabis Industry Association
Colorado Department of Revenue
Cannabis product testing
Budtender
References
External links
Facebook Group: CBN Official
Organizations established in 2015
Organizations based in Denver
Cannabis in Colorado
Cannabis companies
Cannabis culture
2015 in cannabis
Companies based in Denver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20engine%20privacy | Search engine privacy is a subset of internet privacy that deals with user data being collected by search engines. Both types of privacy fall under the umbrella of information privacy. Privacy concerns regarding search engines can take many forms, such as the ability for search engines to log individual search queries, browsing history, IP addresses, and cookies of users, and conducting user profiling in general. The collection of personally identifiable information (PII) of users by search engines is referred to as tracking.
This is controversial because search engines often claim to collect a user's data in order to better tailor results to that specific user and to provide the user with a better searching experience. However, search engines can also abuse and compromise its users' privacy by selling their data to advertisers for profit. In the absence of regulations, users must decide what is more important to their search engine experience: relevance and speed of results or their privacy, and choose a search engine accordingly.
The legal framework for protecting user privacy is not very solid. The most popular search engines collect personal information, but other search engines that are focused on privacy have cropped up recently. There have been several well publicized breaches of search engine user privacy that occurred with companies like AOL and Yahoo. For individuals interested in preserving their privacy, there are options available to them, such as using software like Tor which makes the user's location and personal information anonymous or using a privacy focused search engine.
Privacy policies
Search engines generally publish privacy policies to inform users about what data of theirs may be collected and what purposes it may be used for. While these policies may be an attempt at transparency by search engines, many people never read them and are therefore unaware of how much of their private information, like passwords and saved files, are collected from cookies and may be logged and kept by the search engine. This ties in with the phenomenon of notice and consent, which is how many privacy policies are structured.
Notice and consent policies essentially consist of a site showing the user a privacy policy and having them click to agree. This is intended to let the user freely decide whether or not to go ahead and use the website. This decision, however, may not actually be made so freely because the costs of opting out can be very high. Another big issue with putting the privacy policy in front of users and having them accept quickly is that they are often very hard to understand, even in the unlikely case that a user decides to read them. Privacy minded search engines, such as DuckDuckGo, state in their privacy policies that they collect much less data than search engines such as Google or Yahoo, and may not collect any. As of 2008, search engines were not in the business of selling user data to third parties, though they do n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Lysyanskaya | Anna A. Lysyanskaya is an American cryptographer known for her research on digital signatures and anonymous digital credentials. She is a professor of computer science at Brown University.
Early life and education
Lysyanskaya grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine,
and came to the US in 1993 to attend Smith College, where she graduated in 1997. She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2002. Her dissertation, Signature Schemes and Applications to Cryptographic Protocol Design, was supervised by Ron Rivest.
Career
After completing her doctorate, Lysyanskaya joined the Brown University faculty in 2002.
She is a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, first elected in 2012, and re-elected for two additional three-year terms in 2015 and 2018. She served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) through 2021.
See also
Signatures with efficient protocols
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Scientists from Kyiv
Ukrainian emigrants to the United States
American computer scientists
American cryptographers
Ukrainian women computer scientists
Ukrainian cryptographers
Public-key cryptographers
Smith College alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Brown University faculty
Women cryptographers
American women computer scientists
21st-century Ukrainian women scientists
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavan%20Disney | Gavan Francis Disney (27 May 1949 – 6 November 2018) was an Australian television producer.
Career
Disney was best known for being an executive producer of long-running Nine Network variety show Hey Hey It's Saturday and for being co-creator of Network Ten lifestyle program Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. The veteran television personality Bert Newton credited Disney with resurrecting his career in the 1990s by recruiting him to host Network Ten morning show Good Morning Australia.
In 2009, a jury found Disney not guilty of ten counts of indecent assault and two counts of rape, after he was charged in 2008 with assaulting a 17-year-old employee while he was a senior executive at Ballarat television station BTV6 in the 1980s. The jury had previously been directed by the judge to find Disney not guilty of an additional three counts of indecent assault due to a lack of evidence.
Disney died at the age of 69 in November 2018, following a long illness.
References
1949 births
2018 deaths
Australian television producers |
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